“Your Majesty, please take my hand.”

“Ah, yes.”

Juan, who had transferred his spirit into Ivy’s body, grabbed the hand Lenly had extended toward him without much thought. Then, Lenly politely and gently pulled Juan up the stairs that were higher than even his knees.

While Juan didn’t feel weird about this situation at all, Sina and Haild seemed to think otherwise.

“That kind of looks like…”

“Um, yeah… you think so too, right?”

The way that Lenly took care of Ivy was different from the typical escort that Sina and Haild had seen before.

‘If anyone thinks that’s normal, I bet they have read way too much romance.’

Lenly’s every move as he took care of Ivy was meticulous, and filled with caution and consideration—he did not neglect her for even a single moment.

But the problem was that it was the emperor who was inside Ivy’s body right now. Sina felt strange just thinking about the fact that inside this delicate and slender woman’s body was the spirit of the emperor who shook the entire empire. Lenly Loen treating such a woman with such caution and consideration as if she was a tiny and delicate hamster made this situation all the more strange.

“Do you think that the Saintess and the Captain of the Imperial Guards are an item?” Haild asked Sina cautiously.

“An item? That’s something only a child would say… If you’re asking me if I think that they are in a relationship, then I can only...