The Queen of Death Return
Karman Hart

The three would-be heads of the family lead the way. Passing through the long hallway with minimal lighting, there are no windows at all because the hallway is in the middle.

Rose continued to be on standby with all the possibilities that occurred. His attention was on Danny Hart. Rose knew very well about the people who had fake smiles, and this person was one of them. Verena and Maximus still show their respect for Alissa.

After walking for a while, there was a large door at the end of the hallway.

That must be the place, Duke Karman Hart is there.

Rose felt a strong aura that gave her goosebumps. An aura that an ordinary human could not possibly possess, more precisely the aura of a ferocious monster.

Before that, getting closer to the door, there were several paintings of figures hanging on the wall. A painting that looks real, because it doesn't look like a painting. The details of the skin, as well as other parts of the body are very clear.

Is this made of magic? I've heard of magic that can see a person's memories. But I'm still confused by the way they used to apply it like this.

"They were the previous head of the family, and some influential people in the Hart Family." Verena explained because she saw Rose who had been watching the painting.

Men and women, same eye color and hair color. If this family had already formed before the Empire, there should have been a huge change to their descendants. However, Miss Verena's face really resembled that of the women in the painting. However, men have different faces.

Rose still did not understand the real condition. He chose not to think about it too deeply which could interfere with his current duties.

They finally reached the end of the hall. Maximus pushed the big door with both hands. If you pay attention again, the door looks made of metal, but the color and design is like a wooden door.

A room that is quite spacious and luxurious. The design is inversely proportional to those in other parts of the house. In the middle of the room there is a long table covered in white and yellow cloth at the edges.

Is this the living room? Or maybe a dining room?

Because it is quite spacious, this room looks like a multi-purpose room.

"Please come in, Miss Alissa." Danny led the way to the cramp sitting at the end of the table.

The table was quite long, about six meters in the middle of the room. With one seat at each end. And also, on the table was presented food that looks luxurious, with drinks using gold cups.

As soon as they entered the room, the atmosphere in the room changed. Rose felt a very strong pressure, away from Hart's third behind him.

Everyone stopped stepping.

Slowly Rose looked towards her right side, as sweat slowly poured from her forehead.

A man was at the end of the room staring at a large painting hanging on the wall. Painting of a woman who has characteristics like Hart women in general. But, it was seen that the position of the person in the painting was higher than the others. Considering they put it in a special place.

On the other hand, the man's face was invisible as he turned his back on everyone. However, Rose came to the conclusion that she was ....

Karman Hart's.

The strongest person in the Empire. The information of his strength only mentioned that this fellow sword aura user had already reached the swordmaster stage, even higher. This is the first time Rose saw it, but she found it strange.

The man turned towards them, his face clearly visible at this moment. Red eyes, short hair with a yellow color that began to fade, with a slight frown on his face.

"Welcome to my residence, Miss Alissa," said the man in a slightly heavy voice. "This is our first meeting, isn't it? My name is Karman Hart."

"It's an honor for me to see Duke Karman Hart, who is famous all over the continent. I'm Alissa Hart, Prime Minister of the Maphas Witch Kingdom." Alissa lowered her head slightly.

"There's no need to talk to me formally. I feel ashamed if a strong person does that" Karman said with a grinning smile.

His three children were shocked, yet still kept his expression.

"Well, if that's what you want, I don't mind."

"Yahaha! All right, let's go to the main event." Karman was in his chair.

Alissa walked towards the chair on the other side, and sat down shortly afterwards. Rose stood by his side, as did Karman's three children, as there were no chairs provided around the table.

"Actually, I want to pay a visit to the Maphas Mage Kingdom. But, since there's an opportunity like this, I think welcoming you is the best."

"It's a pity, I will definitely make a special welcome for you, Mr. Karman," Alissa replied as she looked at the food on her desk.

A plate of meat with a suitable ripeness color. The smell is smelled to make anyone tempted and curious about the taste, not least Rose.

"Allow Me." Rose grabbed a knife and fork to cut the meat on the table. Analysing it.

"Huh?" Rose was surprised by the extremely tender meat. This was the second time he had found meat of the highest quality other than in the Maphas Mage Kingdom.

Alissa began to pierce a piece of meat that Rose had cut, she put the meat into her mouth, and ....

The woman's expression changed, she was seen enjoying the meat and chewing it slowly.

The three Karman children smiled faintly at Alissa Hart who was enjoying her food.

Of course, the quality of agriculture as well as the Hart region's farms is the best. None of this will be found in your kingdom.

Danny highly upholds the excellence of the Hart Family from all aspects. As it was written, the people in the Hart Family had many abilities and talents, this kind of thing was no hindrance to geniuses like them.

Some time later, the two had finished their meal. On the other hand, Karman was a little surprised by Alissa's appetite.

It's the first time I've seen a woman eat that food, her eating ethics are not wrong, she spends it regardless of others. One thing that made me curious.

Karman kept trying to see the magic energy from Alissa, but her ability was impenetrable. The man could not feel anything at all from the woman.

It's getting interesting.

After finishing her meal, Alissa's expression returned to its original state, a flat expression, an expression that was hard to guess.

"Mr Karman, I want to get straight to the point, what is your real purpose?" ask Alissa.

All three of Karman's children direct their bullying on Alissa, even Rose did not escape the target. In the end only Rose put in a great effort against the powerful aura of the three.

"Yahaha! You're just like me! Alright, I frankly want to invite you to join our faction," Karman replied casually.

The answer left the two women shocked.

He finally showed his intention.

Rose's conjecture of the existence of opposition threatening the Empire turned out to be true.

"May I know why?"

"As you can see, we have abundant resources compared to the Empire who simply cannot process their resources properly."

"That's true."

Rose was immediately shocked to hear Alissa's reply, her hand spontaneously wanting to touch the woman's shoulder, but stopped as Alissa continued her words.

"I'm more interested in leaders who can rise up on their own merits. In a sense, he does not use a conspicuous dirty way to achieve his goals, even for his country once."

Karman Hart narrowed his eyes. "You mean, we're doing the dirty work for the success we've achieved?"

Alissa just kept quiet and didn't respond.

"Indeed, there must be dirty actions to achieve the goals that want to be achieved, I can not deny it. Seeing the young Emperor who was still innocent was pretending to be the perfect Emperor in the eyes of his people, up to the bitter reality that he would accept in the future," continued Karman.

"That's the interesting part. Because of his innocence, they will depend on us. But we didn't help him completely. Like you said, I'd rather see the process from a flower to a beautiful petal. Her dream isn't bullshit."

Rose smiled when she heard Alissa's words. A statement that exceeds his expectations.

Karman sighed. "You're very hard to persuade. While clearing your mind, do you want to watch the show in the arena that we have?"

"Arena?"

Rose remembered something.

The Hart family has a unique way of recruiting their soldiers. A match that is opened once a month. A fighting contest that brings together fighters of all kinds. Later they would screen out potential men and make him Hart's official soldier.

Alissa agreed.

"Good, maybe we can discuss it casually this time."

Once again, Rose's bad feeling reappeared.

Connect ....