Are you worthy of saving the world?

Because it took an hour to walk, it was completely dark when I got home.

The corridor was incredibly quiet. If it weren't for the dust floating in the air, it would even give people an eerie feeling that time had stopped at this moment.

"?"

Yuli suddenly felt something was wrong, but he couldn't tell why. He only regretted not slipping a note under the door like Light Yagami did when he went out.

By the way, that idiot Stella also lives here, so it’s useless to stuff her in.

After changing into slippers, Yuli tiptoed into the living room.

I looked around the room shrouded in darkness with fear, but didn't see anything suspicious.

Yuri finally breathed a sigh of relief and turned to the bathroom.

But as soon as he turned around, his whole body became stiff and he couldn't move.

Red hat, red lips, red dress, red suspender stockings.

There was a woman whose entire body seemed to be painted red, standing quietly at the door of the bathroom.

In the dim light, her skin was even paler than the witch's.

The face beneath the wide-brimmed hat was eerily beautiful, sending a chill straight to the soul on this cold night.

"What? It's Rosaria-sama. Don't scare me."

Yuli held down his heart which was about to explode.

"Didn't you just return to the capital the day before yesterday? Why are you here again?

How did you get here? It's not that fast even by train. Does Cecilia know that you're coming to the Vatican again?"

Questions popped up in Yuli's mind one after another, and of course the most curious thing was why she came to his house.

Rosalia knew Yuli's address but had never visited it before.

Although they have become allies now, it does not mean that they have really become lovers.

Auntie, I think it’s not a good idea for you to go to a boy’s house so late at night.

Just as Yuli was daydreaming, Rosalia took two steps forward silently and then pressed towards the boy.

"Auntie! Oh no...I can't do that!"

Yuri thought that Rosalia could no longer hold back her lust and was planning to kill him right there and then.

And when he was ready to protect his chastity until his death——

Rosalia fell directly into Yuli's arms.

The soft and plump body was extremely weak, and the pale and delicate cheeks were bloodless.

Even the two lumps piled heavily on the boy's face could only feel a very weak heartbeat.

Yuli quickly straightened her body.

"Your Highness?"

The boy shook her shoulders nervously.

"Rosalia?"

"Empress?"

"The child's mother?"

"Aunt Rosa?"

However, no matter how Yuli shouted, the Grand Duchess kept her eyes closed, and only her eyebrows seemed to twitch when she was called "the old woman with red suspenders".

The palms that were supporting my waist and ribs felt hot and damp.

Yuli looked down.

Rosalia's slender waist was actually wrapped in bandages, and deep red was seeping through the strips of cloth.

Then look inside the bathroom.

The blood-stained bandages on the white porcelain floor looked like blooming roses of death.

"..."

Yuli didn't hesitate, he carried the unconscious woman in his arms back to the bedroom and threw her on the bed.

028 Accomplice?

So bright...

Rosalia thought so in her hazy consciousness.

The air was cold in the middle of the night, and for the first time in her life, she felt that her body did not belong to her.

Compared to the pain all over the body, the feeling of powerlessness brought by losing control of the body is more painful, but.

The warm white light that filled her vision made Rosalia feel a little relieved.

"Little... Yuri...?"

When the light dimmed a little, I noticed a delicate face.

The black-haired boy was beside Rosaria, and had been using low-level healing magic continuously since a while ago.

As he did not master advanced healing techniques, he could only use this clumsy method to make up for quality with quantity.

The young man's calm golden eyes seemed dim, perhaps due to overdrawn spiritual power, and his breathing was also disordered.

A closer look revealed that his white shirt had been stained red and solidified with Rosalia's blood, becoming extremely dirty.

"……What are you doing?"

Rosalia asked with difficulty.

Although she wanted to sit up, she couldn't move even a finger and could only let the boy do whatever he wanted.

"Are you asking me why? Didn't you run into someone else's house without permission? You look half dead... I say, you didn't bring the pursuers here, did you?"

Ulysses did not even raise his head, but continued to complain as if blaming others, while at the same time he did not stop the treatment he was doing.

"You actually let me heal you, you don't really think my healing skills are that great.

Alas, we are accomplices! Just lie down quietly, you will be fine soon. "

White light filled with spiritual energy continued to overflow from the boy's palm and enveloped Rosalia's body.

"Idiot... wu... who asked you to... save me..."

Rosalia said in a very speechless, beautiful voice.

"I want you to...send me to the Blue Cosmos..."

"..."

Yuli slowly raised his head with a stupid expression as if asking, “Ah? So that’s how it is?”

Among Rosalia's subordinates throughout the lower city, there are many high-ranking clergymen above the fourth level. Yuli's healing effect may not be comparable to even a finger of theirs.

If you think about it carefully, there is no reason for her to ask me for help.

At that time, I just felt that Rosalia trusted me so much, and I kept her in my excitement, and completely forgot about this matter.

Yuli said stubbornly, "Do you think I don't know? Forget it, if you don't want me to treat you, then forget it. I'll send you there now."

Having said this, the young man hugged the woman's soft body and tried to lift her up from the bed.

However, two fingers gently pinched his cuffs.

Rosalia's beautiful eyes flickered, and she shook her head with the last bit of her strength.

"Let me...stay here..."

After leaving only these words, she closed her eyes weakly.

In the distant and hazy consciousness, the boy's voice reached his ears clearly.

"Just lie down, auntie."

Rosalia's lips inadvertently curled up into a faint smile.

"……Um."

……

……

……

When Rosalia opened her eyes again, it was already five o'clock in the morning of the next day.

She propped up her upper body with her elbows and first checked her injuries. She found that the bandage on her waist had been changed at least twice, and the brand new white cloth strips indicated that the bleeding had completely stopped.

Then, Rosalia looked around the unfamiliar indoor environment to confirm that there was no danger.

Finally, she turned her gaze to the black-haired boy lying quietly on the bed.

Ulysse Falchion, the only accomplice in the world who knows his secret and keeps each other's secrets.

The mysterious boy, whose true face even the Empress could not see, now revealed his defenseless and adorable sleeping face like a child.

Last night, he had almost exhausted all his spiritual power and energy in order to treat Rosalia.

Come to think of it...why did I run away here last night?

The memory has become blurred.

On the verge of death, Rosalia did not flee back to the imperial capital, nor did she flee back to the Grand Duchy.

Instead of going to look for her daughter or her subordinates, she subconsciously came to Yuli's house, a house she had never visited before.

If the initial break-in into Yuli's house could still be explained as unconsciousness due to excessive blood loss.

Then when Yuli later suggested sending her to receive better treatment, Rosalia insisted on staying, which was completely inexplicable.

If we have to find a reasonable explanation, it is that the pure white light that enveloped me at that time was very warm.

At the same time, Yuri looked at himself with a hint of heartache...

"Haha, this is incredible..."