Dealing with the Empress

Catheryne frowned and said: "What the hell are you talking about? I said… You should tell me a little about the marks inside this armour."

Lathel tilted his head to look at her, but when he saw her eyes, which seemed to tear him into a million pieces, he was immediately afraid.

'Weird... Just now, I clearly heard her say something about 'raping her', or something like that.'

'Could it be... because I have done it so much that I have hallucinations or misheard?'

'Surely that's probably the case; how could an empress like her say such vulgar words?'

Lathel tried to calm his thoughts; he bowed his head and said: "Sorry, Empress, I... I just misheard."

Seeing Lathel confirm that he heard wrong, Catheryne breathed a sigh of relief: 'How lucky... I was too hasty; I thought Lathel would turn into a wolf here.'

'AAA!! Catheryne, calm down a bit. You are the Empress; you are the Empress...'