Book 9: Chapter 46
“Your Highness?!”
Echte looked at me, feeling dumbfounded… Ah, I shouldn’t be calling him Echte, since he’s my father-in-law now. He was, once again, in his Imperial Guard uniform. The elven Imperial Capital was under martial law now. You virtually couldn’t see a civilian on the streets. All you could see were Imperial Guards and soldiers tasked with defending the city. No anthropoid was sighted in the vicinity of the Imperial Capital, but martial law was raised to the highest level, nevertheless.
I looked at him and asked, “Where’s Her Highness?”
“Her Highness is in the conference chamber right now…”
“I’ll go see her now, then.”
I began to walk toward the inner section of the palace. Echte lingered for a moment before saying, “I think… mm… Her Highness… would not be too happy to see you…”
“Why?”
I chuckled. How could Vyvyan not be happy to see me? It would be considered uncommon for Vyvyan to not leap at me and kiss me when she sees me.
Echte shrugged his shoulders and replied, “Because we are at war. Her Highness has stated that she was glad that you were not here on more than one occasion. If you are here, I bet you would charge out as you did against the Earth Dragons. Further, according to what Her Highness said, you are more impulsive now than in the past. Her Highness really did not want you to return this time.”