The Dragon'S Blue Gem
(S3) Chapter 136 [Secretary Brother]

Everyone was grateful that the prince and princess had come to their senses and recovered from their wounds. The party can be re-done.

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Softer music than before began to be played through the violin, piano, Lyra and other musical instruments. If in the order of the party, then this section is the time for the final dance as the party closing.

As expected, the young masters began to invite their misses to dance. No exception to the princes and princesses who have awakened. As for the members of the imperial family, even though their bodies were too tired or too sick, it was appropriate for them to follow the ethics properly.

Of course there are some people who do not dance and just choose to watch. Most of them were nobles without a partner. There are also women without fiancees who refuse dance invitations from anyone, Ashlan included in it.

Although there are hundreds of pairs of nobles dancing now. All views are on someone.

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Aqua approached the seat where Ruby had been sitting before. The gentle smile that he had so rarely let out was now perfectly painted on his face. It was actually difficult for him to smile freely at anyone. However Aqua outsmarted him, she imagined Ruby and Mika were the same person. Although they are basically the same.

But it was still impolite to think of another woman while in front of her fiance.

"Miss Rubylia, would you give me a chance to be your dance partner?" aqua asked as she reached out and knelt down in front of Ruby with one leg.

Ruby was a little uncomfortable with the reaction of other ladies who saw her. They were screaming hysterically as if they were looking directly at the scene in the fairy tale world.

"...... Sure, Your Majesty."

Ruby received Aqua's hand. Simultaneously, Aqua got up and walked side by side with Ruby to the dance area. After giving formal greetings to each other, then the dance can begin.

It was incredible.

Their dance was so perfect and elegant that it stunned the audience even though the two had hardly practiced dance before. Their steps were so harmonious and no one stepped on each other. They do not make unnecessary movements so that their dance feels light but charismatic.

Ruby's red eyes looked at Aqua's face who was smiling gently at her.

"Your Majesty, why are you behaving like this to me?"

"!"

Hearing that, Aqua thought for a moment. It was hard to explain the real reason to this girl.

"Isn't this the normal course of action of a fiancee?"

"But I think you're too good to me. When accepting an engagement at that time, you do not need to do it because it is not in your favor. And now you also help me even if it's of no benefit to you. Why?"

Actually Ruby felt unworthy to say that because she was the one who had implicated Aqua without giving her any advantage.

"Hmm. It's good that you realize that. Right, I'm helping you even if it's of no benefit to me" Aqua replied.

"I'd guess. Aqua's character shouldn't be like this. He was a man who would not do anything unfortunate unless it was concerned with his loved ones, "inner Ruby.

"But it's different now."

"!"

Aqua suddenly surprised Ruby with that one sentence.

"What's different?" ask Ruby.

Right after Ruby asked that, the warm expression Aqua let out faded. His eyes looked sad as well as cold. It felt like Ruby had asked something that she should not have asked.

"There is 1 thing you can do for me if you really want to return the favor" said Aqua.

"Tell me what it is!" exciting Ruby.

"Aqua can pull me out of this hell. If there's anything I can do to help her, I will! It was only after this debt was over that I could wander around looking for big brother!"

Aqua was slightly surprised by Ruby's enthusiasm. Her feelings are jumbled between wanting Ruby to help her and not wanting to involve Ruby. But this time, she really needs Ruby's help, only Ruby is a. Even if it had to force her and make her hate Aqua.

"....... There's someone I want you to help."

The scarred tone made Ruby's feeling strange.

Someone Aqua wanted to help her until she let out such an expression?

"Is he hurt? Then you should have taken her to Saintess or a high-level healer," confused Ruby.

"He was injured, but it wasn't a physical injury. That's......"

" ....... You better see it for yourself. It seems you will understand right away if you see it directly."

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Aqua said a puzzling thing after quite a long pause. Now Ruby's head is full of questions. But he put it all aside for later.

"Well, once the problem here is over, I'll see. And if I can, I'll help him" replied Ruby confidently.

"Thank you.." Aqua's smile.

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Ashlan was enjoying high-end wine in her fancy glass while watching her student dance.

He himself was not interested in such human dancing. So even though many of the upper classes were asking her to dance, she did not respond to them and just looked coldly until no one else asked her to dance.

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"Standing in a corner like this, you really don't want to give up your single status huh," one woman sneered.

As Ashlan guessed from his voice. She was the Imperial Empress, Kaleena Fern de Levana.

"What do you want Lena? You just dance with the Emperor there!"

"Do you have to be this cold to your old friend, Ashlan?"

Ashlan did not glance at the Empress in the slightest and just turned her glass.

"Old friends, too, we haven't seen each other in a long time. But once you meet again you are married to a human. It's funny!"

"The emperor.. You don't love him, do you?"

The Empress did not say anything to answer Ashlan. But his smile answered everything.

"Who is your disciple? Amethyst or Sapphire?"

"Jala*g shit, change the conversation just like that," Ashlan annoyed.

But despite saying so, Ashlan still answered him.

"He's Sapphire's son."

"Ohh, so he's the niece of the current Queen Elf. It's amazing he can be a prince with mixed blood."

"Well, the boy never stopped surprising me."

The Empress's eyes were slightly widened at Ashlan's smile as she said that.

"You really like it, yeah."

"Of course, he's a student I can be proud of!"

It was rare to see Ashlan so proud of someone. For the Empress, this was a rare sight.

Empress Kaleena took the same wine as Ashlan's at a nearby table.

"I never thought that you, who had become a teacher, would be very similar to Master."

"......."

Ashlan stopped drinking the moment she heard that.

"Why are you taking the Master now?"

"Why? Of course, because we're both alone now. No need to hide it. You said I was an overprotective Agate friend, but you didn't say the most important thing to that kid."

Empress Kaleena poured the wine into Ashlan's glass because the woman's glass was empty.

"That we are brothers."

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Ashlan returned the wine to the Empress's glass.

"You've been such a bitch for a long time, Lena. I told you it doesn't need to be discussed anymore. Master Charrlain died over 1000 years ago. There's no point in bringing it up again now."

As can be expected from the conversation between the two of them. Ashlan and Kaleena are brothers. They were both disciples of the Great Witch, Charrlain who had died over 1000 years ago.

But wait, something seems strange. The Great Witch died more than 1000 years ago, but why is 600-year-old Ashlan more able to become his student?

"Oh Ashlan, there is no harm in remembering the past while being together like this. Hiks, when you were a kid you were so cute. Always follow me wherever I go while saying 'Sister' that way.." joked the Empress.

Ashlan's face immediately flushed in embarrassment.

"How long has it been since it happened!! Forget about that!!!"

"Ahahahaha, even though 1 millennium has passed, it seems that the Tsundere part in you has not changed, yes."

The empress laughed a little loudly at Ashlan's reaction.

"1 Millennium, have you not been an elder. At that age marrying a man 1000 years younger than you is no longer a shotacon."

Ashlan's mocking smile made the ever-smiling Empress emit a sinister aura.

"Who are you calling an elder, dammit!?" pissed Empress.

"Not that different from me."

"Where it is, I'm only 600 years old." - Elak Ashlan.

The Empress was about to reply to Ashlan's ridicule with another mockery. But he could not do it, considering the events of 600 years ago. Suddenly his face displayed a guilt so vivid that it made Ashlan feel annoyed.

"If you think about it, forget it. It's been a long time, there's no point thinking about that."

Although Ashlan said so, it was not easy to eliminate the guilt in the empress' heart.

"Are you really not thinking about that anymore, Ashlan? No. let kuralat. Are you really not thinking about that anymore, Mio?"

Ashlan's ever-controlled and calm aura instantly burst out creepily. His expression seemed capable of killing anyone around him.

"Don't you dare say that name again if you still love your life! Even if it's you Lena, I won't forgive you if you say it again!"

Empress Kaleena was stunned for a moment before she regained her composure quickly.

"It seems you have not forgotten the incident at all."

"I'm sorry..."

"I'm really sorry... Mio's."