The one who knocked on the carriage door was none other than Roe Scheherazade’s attendant.

The attendant relayed that the queen strongly wanted to meet Valhalla’s representative privately and asked if he could come to see her without anyone finding out.

Deciding to accept this request, Seol Jihu turned back while pretending to go back to Eva, even going as far as using Ethereal Shift to sneak into the city.

According to the attendant, the queen was waiting inside the royal palace’s private back garden. After jumping over the rear wall, Seol Jihu knelt down and collected his breath.

‘Damn, using it consecutively isn’t easy.’

Even with his mana being at High (High), using a high-rank skill consecutively was taking a huge toll on his mana.

Hoping that this meeting would be worth the trouble, Seol Jihu put down the attendant.

“Which way is to the back garden?”

He asked while dusting off his clothes, but the attendant with disheveled hair didn’t say anything and only covered her mouth with her hands.

Then, when their eyes met, she shot up as though she was frightened out of her wits and then ran for her life. Seol Jihu’s speed seemed to have scarred her for life.

“…Was it that scary?”

Seol Jihu tilted his head and started walking.

Perhaps because the queen had taken appropriate measures, or because this was a private back garden, there wasn’t anyone in sight.

After a bit of walking, Seol Jihu arrived at a petite garden decorated with trees and flowers.

Finding the queen wasn’t difficult. A slender woman dressed in a white robe with long, faded-blonde hair was watering the flowers in front of a flower bed.

It was Roe Scheherazade.

“Ah.”

She turned around, perhaps having heard his footsteps. She put down the watering can and smiled brightly.

“You came.”

Seol Jihu stopped about two meters in front...