Chapter 32: The Lone Empress.

The comment was a joke

I won't ask her for the throne. What kind of persons goes into a random kingdom, and tries to take over it? That's pure evil.(Cough)

I will offer things like my amazing food, for things like their food! May not seem like much, but I did manage to make Oreos over those two long weeks. No one can hate oreos(and if you do, your weird. Not weird, but missing out.)

"Everyone. When I come back, I'll be bearing gifts! Until then.." I let the child down and went back over to my mini carrage. "Are you ready sir?" She asked me and I snickered. 'Damn it. I forgot to look at her. How the hell did I forget to look at her?!'

"Yeah, I'm ready." She nodded and started moving once more. I waved at the people as I left and they waved back. 'So..' I looked over at Jessica. 'She just hears jibberish doesn't she? It's like shes on a completely different world..'

I felt kind of bad. She was shaking in her boots as we passed by the people. Some had tails and ears, with others looking like normal humans, just tan in color. 'Damn it lady. Your lucky your important to me.' I placed my hand on her face and sighed.

"W-What are you doing?.." I closed my eyes and my hand became shrouded in purple aura. 'Your the first person I've ever done this on. Don't explode okay?' I talked to myself to calm myself.

I then implanted the language of Arabic in her. To be honest, I was surprised when I found out they spoke this language. I...don't want to really brag here, but I learned every language back on earth.

Damn. I sounds like I'm bragging huh? Well anyways, I'm still glad I read that language book. I can now even speak animal or monster per say I mean.

"Wha.." I moved my hand away and smiled. "What is happening?" She was speaking in Arabic now. "I used a power to help you learn the language here. You'll be my negotiator for the time being so this much is expected."

I then looked away and up at the giant, golden castle. 'That's probably worth more then the entirety of earth..' I then looked at the ground. There was a small tinge of gold there as well.

'This empress must be really rich or something if she can just make a castle of gold and have gold inside her grounds like this.' I then looked at the back of...Wait. W-What's her name?

"Excuse me. I never got your name." She kept running towards the castle. "Haru. Haru depth." She was slowly panting out as she said her name. "Haru huh?.."

A couple of letters off from my name.

"Hey. Can you tell me the kind of magic your ruler has?"

I asked a question out of the blue that may have seemed weird. "Gold Magic. She can manipulate it gold and attack with it."

Such words surprised me. 'Manipualte huh? They seemed so far back in history, but their knowledge is way more advanced than others. The humans think that magic is just them releasing powerc when in reality, they are doing that and manipulating it at the same time.'

"I see. That's pretty cool." I then went into thought.

'That's also pretty smart actually. Lacing the entire city in gold and even your castle is something. Heck, you'll never be defenseless, so I'm not complaining. I do wish I had something like that.

Wait a damn minute! I do have something like that!

I wonder if I could get that dark castle out of my head and recreate in my kingdom. It does help me grow stronger just by being near it.'

Thank you empress for the idea! I'll give you something in exchange for that idea!

"We're here." She said something but uh... Uh.. "What...Is that?" I pointed and she looked over. "Oh! That's our dungeon! Do you want to explore it some time?"

Dungeon, my ass. That's a whole ass pyramid, my boy. "Dungeon huh? What's uh...What's inside of it?" It was an odd question, but I wanted to see something. "Hm? What else would be in a dungeon besides Monsters?"

I nodded with a slight frown. "Ah yes. Monsters..." I then got out the mini carrage and jessica followed. "Please follow me." She bowed slightly and we nodded. The castle was open to the public I think. I say that as these huge doors were open. Not a trace of guards to be spotted too which was weird.

We walked through the open doors and saw a single lady sitting behind a desk. "Is that the man?" She was moving her fingers while looking down. "Yes, he is. Please inform the empress." They both then prayed to each other and we walked over to the left wall of the building.

Her voice became enchanted again as the wall folded on itself and slid to the left. A huge stair well was then seen. 'Stairs huh? Well its still advanced.' We started walking up the long stair well, causing me to sigh.

'If I ever do something that requires a person to go up, it'll be by an elevator.' I'm surprised that the act of using teleportation stones to make things easier haven't been used yet.

"Are your prepared to meet the empress? I can tell you now that she wasn't." She asked as we walked up the stairs. 'Show your damn face lady.' I kept trying to peak over, getting more irritated.

"Yeah.." I said while bucking my neck. "She said she saw you entering the desert, but she saw a dragon in you so she didn't want to act." She was talking, but I wasn't listneing. "Uhm excuse me."

I'm getting tired of this bullshit.

"Can you uh..Can you turn around for me."

If she's says no, I'll force her to. "Sure. I don't see a problem with that." She then turned around and...

I've...I've been catfished? I was confused because they looked like a boy, but a girl at the same time. Also, their eyes were closed so basically..

I'm at another lost.

"Bro. What are you? A guy? Girl?...Both?..." I should have been asked this. It just seemed rude at the time but fuck that.

"Oh? That's quite rude to ask isn't it?" They slightly smiled. "Come on man.. I'm itching here. Can't you see?" They laughed at that and kept walking. "We are almost there." We started walking once more

'I'm invested now. I...I will find your true gender. And when I do...Hehe...You'll see..' The perfect mix between a guy and girl. Perfectly balanced.

After a couple of seconds of walking, we got up to a wall. The wall slid back and a golden room was in our sights. 'Damn its shiny'. I covered my face slightly.

"Wel...come.." I looked over and saw someone sitting on a golden bed. "I'm jura. Its...nice to meet you." Her speech was slow as she talked to the floor. "Lady jura! I have brought in the person and his accomplice!" He, no she, no he, kneeled.

"Thank...you. You...may leave now.." They nodded and went back up to the wall. It then opened up, and they left for good. "Uh. Is it okay for you to be alone with me in this room?" Now that I think about it, this place seems empty.

Even the lobby seemed dead. "Its...okay.." She slowly sat up, keeping her head down still. "So? What brings you here?.." She slowly walked up to a table. "I've come to buy things actually. If you didn't know, I plan on making my own kingdom behind this one and I needed some supplies for that."

She slowly nodded as she placed her hands on the golden small table. A cup then formed from the gold and she picked up a container. "I see.." She poured something into the cup. "Do you want to...establish relationships?"

That easy?

"Y-Yes actually. That would be perfect."

She slowly reached into her pocket and took out these small things that looked like pills. She then took that and took a sip from the cup. "Okay. What...Do you want? Anything's fine.."

This...This Is too easy. It's not even fun anymore. "I just want a simple No Aggression Treaty. That's all for now." She then sat the cup down and sighed. "That...can be arranged."

A small podium made out of gold then came up from the ground. It had a piece of paper on it with a feather and ink. "Please read the contract.." She then came up to me. She was kind of short, but I think I was just tall.

"Okay then." I picked the feather up and read it. "Excuse me." Jessica spoke out to the woman in Egyptian clothing. "Yes?.." The dead eyes she wore layed themselves on her.

"I-I can't help but notice that your doing this all yourself. Why is that?"

Good Jessica. Ask those questions for me.

"I'm the emperor. I do what I want..." I kept pretending like I was reading the document when I already used psychometrey on it.

"We have a king here... He lives close to the dungeon though... The other royals do as well.."

So she lives over here alone? That's kind of sad.

"Okay. I read it the contract and agree to everything on here." She then came beside me and looked up at me. "Hey.." I waved my hand over her face.

"Your blind aren't you?"

There was no reflection in her eyes. They were void of all things. "Yes. I..was born like this."

God damn! These people always have something wrong with them. Although, being blind is cool. My favorite hero was blind.

"That's cool. And you use your gold to see?" She probably uses something like seismic waves to see. "Yes, that's true.." I barely heard her as she was boosted up to reach the podium by gold.

She then stamped something on the paper, making me smile slightly. "It was...quick and easy...but fun! Nice to meet you little lady!" I took her hand and shook it.

"I'm Haruto! What's your name!?" Her body was small and light so she shook like paper blowing in the wind.

"I said it was jura..."

"I know! I just wanted to hear it again!" I then let go and smiled.

"Hey... Can I have your eyes?"

Hm? My what now? I think she said eyes, but I'm probably just hearing things.

"Your eyes.. I can see out of them myself.."

"W-What? You can see out of them? These...these aren't real gold eyes though.."

I felt sweat run down my face. "I just..want to see.." She put her head down slightly. 'This isn't fair.'

"No. Maybe when we're closer as friends. But not now." I felt for the disabled, but we just met two seconds ago. We aren't that close yet.

"Okay.."

We then talked for a while and decided to go out and explore the city. "I want to come. I haven't.." Her voice got lower. "I haven't..." She stammered a bit and went towards the floor.

"H-Hey." I caught her with a chain and slowly layed her on the floor. 'What the hell is wrong with her?' I looked over at Jessica and as wher in a daze.

"Jessica! Heal her now!" I then ran to that wall. My body then twitched and I became Haru I said in their voice and the door opened up.

"Get up here! Your empress has fallen!" I yelled down the stairs as myself.

'Damn. She better not be dead!'

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