It has been one week since Mika has enterned this ancient place living in the empress's body. Day by day he was learning more and more about the palace and the people inside. Also ruining empress's name with more rumors of being insane. Most shocked as well as confushed out of all was, Su Mei, empress's attendent.
'What has gone wrong with the empress, don't tell me she seriously lost her mind. If that's true then what will happen to me. God, please at least pity me and return her to her previous state.' thought Su Mei prying to god while looking at her master the empress, who was lying down with her stomach facing the ground, that too straight on ground without any cusion between. Surrounded by mountain of books from differnet subject and theams, which made Su Mei once again think 'Has she turned into a idiot or genius, because it looks the other way to me. Maybe she is just turning pages not actually reading. Ugh! What is true? It's making me more and more confushed.'
"So, Mr. pea sized brain is trying to turn his brain into watermelon ,huh?" came a voice suddenly in contect with their ears. Mika didn't turned to the source of the voice as he don't need much thoughts to identify it's owner, which was none other then the fourth prince, who was standind at the entrance of empress's chamber with his dear nephew.
Looking at Mika who was so concentrated in the books or more like ignoring them, they reached to the middle of the room when Chi Han Zhi once again commented "Did you compromise with your ears to make place for your brain."
"You..." retourted Mika angrily coming out of book.
"So you didnt" it came like a statement from Chi Han Zhi.
"Do you really understand this?" said Chi Long Xin picking a book from the pile, drawing attention of both bickering adults.
"What did you say, brat?"
"Didn't you hear me?"
"Auh!" Mika growned frustratadly cause he was really tired as he has been reading books to know more about this place as well as inspecting whole palace, like an archaeologist, which earned him every passer by's weired, shocked and sympathetic look, which he didn't understand why. And at the top of that those two uncle-nephew came at least once a day to torture him. And here they came once again to him as if he is their faviorate toy to play.
"Why are you guys here again?" asked Mika annoyangly.
"Why are you asking that? Obviously we came to meet you, dear sister-in-law. Don't tell me, you don't welcome us here?" asked Han Zhi dramatically.
"I don't welcome you." said Mika directly which was completely ignored by later. Instead of being offended Han Zhi ordered servents to bring tea with refresments for them, which they imediately brought, and made himself comfortable as if he was in his own courtyard.
"Hey don't act like you own the place."
"Hmmm, It's delicious, try it dear nephew." Han Zhi passed the sweet to his nephew which he accepted and began to eat. "Hey, don't ignore me, Hey!" Mika roared as he pounced on Han Zhi. Both began to fight right after that and draged Long Xin as well.
Three were busy in their regular bender, igonring fourth person in the room, leaving Su Mei alone to be buried with pile of thoughts. She was screaming inside with 'What the hell has been going on here all this while. When did their relation got so much better. This whole past week these three are giving headach all day. Has emress lost her mind or is it me? I must be working past my limits, I seriously do need a break.'
"His majesty, the emperor has arrived" suddenly the anouncemnt come bringing everyone's attention to the entrance, breaking their thoughts and bender.
"This empress greets to your majesty, the emperor."
"Crown prince greets to your majesty, the emperor."
"Your majesty, the fourth prince greets you."
""Please accept this servents's greetings, your majesty, the emperor." Greeted all of them almost togather to the figure who has just now entered the room."
The figure was tall, handsome man with jet black hairs reaching his thighs. slightly brown eyes. Perfectly fine body, with good build. Model like figure that attracts everyone's attention. Wearing robs that represents emperor the ruler of nation. All in all he looked breathtaking.
"I accept your greetings." Everyon gets ease up from their greeting position. I came to know that you weren't felling well so I came here to know about your health. Are you felling alright empress?" Emperor asks to the empress.
"Thank you for your concern, your majesty. I am alright now." She replies to the emperor as she was eating buns. Su Mei thought' Woah, what is she doing? She know it very well that one can't ingage in anything alse when in pressence of the emperor. They have to be attentive of emperor. Then why is she eating buns when emperor himself came to ask about her health.'
'I can't unnderstand if she is bold or simply idiot. Ah! , I can't stop any longer from laughing out loud but I am also felling sympathy for her since she doesn't know rules of this era and now have to pay for her own ignorence. I should short out what kind of fellings is appropriate for a situation like this. But it's simpaly amusing. My decision of sticking to her was right, life is much refreshing now.' Han Zhi thoughts as he was trying to figure out whether he should laugh or take pity on her.
'Once a idiot, always a idiot. What is she reading in those books when she doesn't even know common courtesies.' Long Xin scowls.
'What? Am I really seeing this? Why is she eating while I am present and talking to her. Are the rumoars correct of her gone lunetic?'
Emperor was thinking, suddenly empress's voice startle him and he looks at her.
"Why are you stll standing here? Do you need something?" Mika asks with innocent look in his eyea , everyone else frozes then looks at him in amazement and shock at what he said.
"Do I need a reason to stay in this place?" Emperor asks in slightly angry voice and thinks 'she really needs royal phicisian as soon as possible.'
"Well, you don't need a reason since you are salary earning husband but if you don't have any work to do that doesn't means that others also don't have any and your pressence is disturbing my concentration. Besides you are an emperor, you must have some work unlike these two here." Mika points at Han Zhi and Long Xin.
Everyone in the room froze in shook once again. Mika looks up from his bun tray to see everyone's blank expression towards him. Than Su Mei loooks at him as if he signed a death contract with grim reaper. Han Zhi looked as if he is going to burst out laughing any moment now and Long Xin had an expression that said 'World's greatest idiot.' And lastly emperor was so much in shock that he couldn't short out what he should be feeling, anger, confusion or surprize.
"Why is eveyone looking like that at me? Do thay want buns?" Mika thinks but didn't realise that he spoke it out loud. "Oh damn! I forgot about era and stuff, idiot me." he once again thinks out loud. " AH, umm, Your majesty, what I said now wasn't what I said. You were just hallucinating." Mika tries to clear his way out of what he has just done.
Everyone becomes more shoke because the empress just now put all the blame on emperor and also called him a mentle patient as he as hellusinating, for what she said unawarly
Mika looks at everyone's faces and realises he once again has done it. "W-What I m-mean is that my friend collapsed." everyone looks at him thinking what is this about?
Mika sees everyone looking confused, he says "I mean h-he died, Yeah he died just now and I have to go see him at his funeral, grent me permision , your majesty."
"What are you alking about and how come your friend came in this discussion we were having?" Emperor was more confused then ever before.
" What do you mean where did he came from? He has died and now is a ghost he can go anywhere. Anyway forget about permision, I should hurry before his soul descends to heaven or hell, I mean I couldn't see him in his last moments but I should still send his soul off, right?" Mika says with overly dramatic expression and body language. "Now I should hurry, your majesty. BBBBBYYYYEEEEE...." Mika runs away faster then Usain Bolt.
"Um, your majesty I should also go, since I have to attend her majesty." Su Mei also runs after her master.
"Ye-Yeah, h-he is also o-our fr-friend. We should a-also go." Han Zhi somehow mannages to say in between his laughter fits. He drags Long Xin along with him.
"Hey, whoever he is, he is not my friend. So don't drag me.' Long Xin tries to protest but Han Zhi doesn't listens. In the end Long Xin also was running, more was like dragged by his uncle after the idiot empress.
"What was that?" Emperor was left alone by his empress, brother and his own son. It was first time in his life that he was treated this bad.