"I… I'm just something like…" Zilu said, lowering her hands and starting to fidget with her fingers nervously as her face grew even redder. "Something like a concubine… or something similar to a lover… according to the harem hierarchy that Miss Ely made…"
"…"
"…"
"HUH?!"
The queen's reaction echoed through the entire empty hallway, and in that instant her mind plunged into chaos.
At first, when she had met all those women, Emilia couldn't help but wonder if they all had some kind of relationship with her "husband." However, she had pushed that thought aside almost immediately since it seemed far too improbable to be true.
'I thought only one of them was his partner and the others were simply his combat companions. That would have made sense… and would also have been much more manageable.'
Because the plan she had desperately devised after being left alone in her chambers was based on something fairly simple.
Trap him.
