Miss Most Perfect Beauty
The Defense of the People
“WAIT A MINUTE!”
Xeon's loud voice echoed in the hall, all eyes simultaneously looking towards Xeon who was coming from the entrance of the hall. Xeon was holding Scarlesia half-conscious, her face deathly pale, and her body trembled incoherently. His gaze was faintly looking at the crowd of people in the announcement hall.
“That's Her Royal Highness Princess Scarlesia, it turns out she's present,”
“Why does he look like he's unwell?”
“His face is pale once,”
“What happened to him exactly?”
Seeing Scarlesia in such a frail and helpless condition, made the nobles feel pity. They had no idea what had befallen Scarlesia so that it had become like this.
“Why can that woman be here? Didn't I have poison gas in the north? He shouldn't have been able to deal with the matter sooner. Is it possible that the inhabitants of the northern regions have all died? Then yes good,” Inner Duchess Debora.
“Why Sia... no! Does Sia hurt?” ask Edward.
Xeon stepped slowly bringing Scarlesia even deeper, they paved the way for Xeon to Edward's place.
“Your Majesty, you must give the throne of the emperor to Sia,” Xeon said.
“WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? COME AND HAVE THE EMPEROR HAND OVER HIS THRONE TO HIM!”
“WHAT ABOUT THE NORTH AREA PROBLEM? WE HEARD THERE WAS A DEADLY DISEASE THERE,”
“WHAT ARE THE RESIDENTS OF THE NORTHERN REGION ALREADY DEAD? THAT'S WHY YOU CAN GO HOME,”
“IF CAN'T SAVE THEIR LIVES HOW WILL HE BECOME EMPEROR?”
Abigail's supporters fought back, they blasphemed Xeon who came to ask Edward to immediately give up the throne of the emperor to Scarlesia. The Xeon vines stiffened at their baseless rantings and contained a lot of nonsense.
“ENOUGH! ARE YOU GUYS BLIND? LOOK AT SIA NOW! HE SACRIFICED HIMSELF TO SAVE THE LIVES OF THE NORTHERN INHABITANTS! JUST SO YOU GUYS SAY SHIT ABOUT SIA!” yelled Xeon furiously.
They were silent, no one dared to refute Xeon's anger at that time. Eldrick standing by Edward's side could not bear to see the princess helpless anymore, he was also upset and fed up as the nobles continued to make bad comments about Sia. Likewise with Carlen and Aldert who were also in the hall, they held their hearts so as not to cause trouble.
“The throne of the emperor belongs to Sia. I will not hand it over to anyone, you must be fair Your Majesty. Since the beginning of the test Sia always won it, if you insist on making the trash woman as emperor then do not blame the gods and goddesses destroy this empire,” threatened Xeon gnashing her teeth.
“What is the entire population of the northern region safe? Lest they all die, that's why you guys could be here. I heard that deadly disease only appeared 3 days ago, indeed who can solve such a problem in just 3 days?” chirp Duchess Debora tried to take down Scarlesia.
Xeon grinned at Duchess Debora.
“Your Majesty and also all of you who are in this room, please come out soon. You will see the results of Sia's work for more than 1 month. I will silence your mouth and cut off your tongue if after this still dare to speak ill of Sia,”
Xeon walked out of the hall first, without thinking about the entire hall following Xeon from behind. No one knew what Xeon would show them outside the palace hall.
“Please open your eyes wide! See them!”
Outside the palace, precisely in front of the imperial palace was already filled by many people from the capital even the residents of the northern region also participated in the crowd. Edward was astonished to see so many ordinary people outside his palace.
“YOUR HONOR! PLEASE MAKE YOUR MAJESTY PRINCESS SCARLESIA THE NEXT EMPEROR!”
“WE SURVIVED TOXIC GAS THANKS TO HIM!”
“BELIAU DO NOT EAT AND REST TO SAVE OUR LIVES,”
“WE OWE HIM YOUR MAJESTY! HER HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS SAVED THE NORTHERN REGION. HE TAUGHT US VARIOUS SCIENCES THAT WE NEVER GOT FROM THE IMPERIAL SIDE,”
“IF HE IS NOT THE EMPEROR THEN WE THE INHABITANTS OF THE NORTHERN REGIONS WILL SEPARATE FROM EVARISTE!”
They urged Edward to immediately establish Scarlesia as the crown princess. This situation left Edward speechless, let alone Duchess Debora, Abigail, and Rashid who broke out in cold sweat watching many northern residents come to Scarlesia's defense. They were even more unaware that they were safe from the poisonous gas.
“Wait! You calm down first,” said Edward to calm the people and angry with him.
“WHAT CALM IS YOUR HIGHNESS? I SWEAR 3 DAYS AGO I SAW SOME PEOPLE GOING INTO THE NORTH SPREADING POISON GAS THERE. THEY SAID THEY WERE TOLD BY SOMEONE,”
“THE MEDICINES YOU SENT FOR US TURNED OUT TO BE POISONOUS TOO! WERE IT NOT FOR HER MAJESTY PRINCESS SCARLESIA WE WOULD NOT HAVE SURVIVED,”
“HOW WILL YOU HANDLE THIS MATTER YOUR HIGHNESS?”
Radiated by the residents of the northern region, Edward could not assuage their anger.
“Xeon, put me down,” pinta Scarlesia can't let this matter go much longer.
“But your body is still weak,” said Xeon.
“It's okay, I can still hold it,” Scarlesia assured Xeon.
“Alright, don't push yourself too far,”
“Oke,”
Xeon took Scarlesia down from her sling, Scarlesia stood staggering before the people.
“My voice will not reach them, what should I do?” scarlesia muttered thought.
“Kak, sister need this right?”
Archie thrust Scarlesia into a microphone, he turned to his right side and there were already Archie, Andreas, Zenon, Oliver, Louis, and Elios. Scarlesia instantly received the microphone given by Archie.
“Can you guys listen to me for a minute?”
Scarlesia's voice finally reached all of their hearing, they were silent as they saw Scarlesia trying to speak to them.
“Medicine problems to the poisonous gas that befell you, leave it to me let me finish it. You don't have to come here and waste your time just saying this to the emperor. Now you go home! The northern problem is over. Go home and use your time to garden, farm, study, or play. Do what you have never done before,” said Scarlesia.
Both of his shoulders were hugged by Xeon to hold her body from sticking to the side or back.
“Hikss Your Highness, how can you say that to us?”
“I heard you say that our lives are more important than being emperors. You can't be like this to us Your Majesty,”
“You must become emperor because we need a leader like you,”
“RULY! YOU MUST BE THE GLORIOUS EMPEROR!”
“WE DON'T NEED ANYONE ELSE BUT WE NEED YOU!”