The Stand-In Empress’S Wedding Night [EN]: Chapter 270

270. Moiya’s Theory of Mating

The water in the tub surged violently, reflecting his passionate arousal.

The tub water crashed over my face like a wave.

I wiped the water streaming down my face and looked up at him.

“Look!”

Rinel shouted again.

Since he told me to look, I looked.

“…Yes, you’re all wet.”

I said, looking at his black uniform pants soaked with water.

“Ah, I forgot I was wearing clothes.”

Unlike the imposing figure he cut when he stood up, he carefully sat back down in the tub.

Soon, his hands moved busily in the tub, and the bubbles floating on the water began to sway back and forth.

“Your Majesty… what are you doing?”

“I need to wash too, don’t I?”

Rinel retorted, lifting his uniform pants like seaweed in the tub.

As soon as he tossed his uniform pants onto the bathroom floor, he became even busier.

“It’s better to wash quickly and go to bed. I’ll let you thoroughly exploit me there.”

He said, washing his body and shooting passionate glances.

He looked very much forward to being exploited.

“Anyway, you worked hard today. Even if you are the Lord of the Wyverns, you must have been nervous at the first meeting.”

“Yes, but it was reassuring to have Velos with me.”

“What did the Master of the Magic Tower do besides use teleportation? It must have been reassuring to have Moiya and Moni.”

Rinel grumbled again for no reason.

“That’s true. Seeing as they haven’t come yet, they must have gone to Rosie’s chambers today.”

I said, trying to appease him appropriately.

“Wouldn’t they know that their master needs to cool down all night today, so they’re not coming?”

“Yes, they sometimes have such admirable thoughts.”

I answered, bursting into laughter.

He laughed along, took my foot, placed it on his chest, and massaged it.

“Rinel… this is too much and disrespectful.”

“Doesn’t it feel good?”

I was overcome with mischief as I watched him earnestly massage my foot with a serious expression.

“It’s only natural that it feels cool since you’re putting your foot on a cold body, Moni~?”

As I imitated Moni’s *mal-tu* [manner of speaking],

“Could it be… are you Moni?”

He stopped massaging my foot with both hands.

He stared at me with suspicious eyes and asked.

I deliberately confused him even more because his flustered appearance was amusing.

“I’m Zelda, right, Moni~?”

“Surely not, is it?”

He continued to stare at me intently with doubtful eyes.

I made a playful expression and began to shrug my shoulders alternately, dancing.

Then, Rinel’s hardened expression relaxed, and he shook his head.

“You’re my wife.”

I was a little disappointed that he recognized me so quickly.

“How did you know?”

“Moni shrugs her shoulders twice.”

“…There was such a detail?”

“And she doesn’t dance this sexy.”

Rinel nodded, gently caressed my shoulders, and then spurred himself on to bathe, saying this wasn’t the time.

I entrusted myself entirely to him from the bathroom, and in the blink of an eye, I was moved to the bed.

“How’s your fever?”

“There was a huge ice cube sitting in the tub, so the fever is completely gone.”

“So that doesn’t mean you want me to disappear to the main palace now, does it?”

“Of course not, I want you now. Not because of the fever…”

I wrapped my arms around his neck and lay down on the bed.

Rinel moved as I led him.

“I love you.”

Unlike his low, deep voice, his eyes looked somewhat impatient.

“I can’t believe it just by hearing it? Prove it.”

More action than words.

I tilted my chin slightly and urged him on.

“That doubting attitude is very desirable. Doubt and doubt again. That way, I’ll prove it all night long.”

My eyes closed at his gentle touch caressing me.

A coolness spread from head to toe.

I knew he was looking at my face now.

So, I smiled with my eyes closed and whispered pleadingly.

“Your Majesty… Rinel… honey…”

“Yeah?”

“Prove it quickly…”

How much you love me.

“Zelda, I’ll prove it in order. The first person to prove it is Your Majesty.”

Then Rinel, and finally, my husband will prove his love.

“Wife, you won’t be bored. Your Majesty, Rinel, and honey all have different styles.”

He had given different personalities to the three titles I called him.

“Oh my, it seems like I’ve taken in several concubines like someone else.”

“Triple the anticipation too?”

He buried his face in my neck with a majestic voice befitting an emperor.

“Yes, Your Majesty…”

***

Following the sound of Galaco’s cries near the fortress walls, Moni landed on the spire roof at the edge of the fortress.

“You’re here, Moni~?”

“Let’s go in quickly.”

The two baby wyverns held hands and went inside through the spire roof.

Under the roof, a large bell was hanging.

In front of the bell, there was a long corridor, and one wall was entirely a prison made of iron bars.

Galacos were locked up in five divided prison cells.

There were a total of ten Galacos, with two in each cell.

Since each torso had two heads, it looked like twenty rather than ten at first glance.

“Ugh, they really have two snake heads on one body, Moni~?”

Moni frowned, looking at the Galacos who were threatening her with their snake tongues between the iron bars.

“Huh? What are those with only one head?”

“Seeing the ones with two heads rushing at each other, the one with one head must be the female!”

As Moiya guessed, the female Galaco, a monster, had only one head.

The male Galacos with two heads were much fiercer than the females. And although they shared one body, the two heads were distinctly different beings with their own egos.

So, not only when eating but also in the fight to win the female, the competition was very fierce.

Mating was only possible when the female allowed it, so the competition among the males was bound to be even more intense.

For that reason, Galaco mating had a low probability of success, and even if mating was successful, the probability of the female laying eggs was very low.

Fortunately, it was difficult to increase the number of Galacos.

The reason for putting one male and one female Galaco in each cell was for that reason.

“But the Galacos we saw in the Elangi Forest back then all had two heads, isn’t that strange, Moiya~?”

“Maybe they only released the males back then.”

“Ah. Ooh? They’re fighting.”

As the female cried stickily and sent a signal, the two male heads that had been threatening Moiya and Moni suddenly shook their snake heads up and down and danced.

“They dance their courtship dance so slyly, Moiya~?”

“That’s right. They can’t dance as gently as our wyverns. Right?”

Moni shrugged her shoulders and watched the snake dance of the male Galacos.

As the female Galaco slowly approached, the males who had been dancing began to bare their teeth at each other and fight.

In short, it was a sight of two males fighting over one female.

The sight of those with one body fighting was bizarre and funny, so Moiya and Moni held their stomachs and laughed as they watched in amazement.

“Guys, you can’t fight! But Moni, stopping the fight… isn’t that causing an accident?”

Moiya asked Moni, recalling Zelda and the Master of the Magic Tower’s words not to cause accidents.

“Ah, that’s right!”

“Ooh? Then I’m good, so I should stop the fight, Moiya~?”

Moiya said solemnly, putting her hands on her hips.

“What are you going to do?”

“Even though we’re beasts, we have to do 1 male, 1 mating like humans.”

Moiya said, unfolding her own theory of mating.

“But the male Galaco has two heads?”

“So we have to blow one head away. That way, they won’t fight, Moiya~?”

Moni clapped her hands at Moiya’s clear answer.

“Wow, you’re really, really smart! But which of the two heads are you going to blow away?”

“That… I’ll decide very fairly.”

“How?”

“Watch carefully.”

Moiya, whose shoulders were raised by Moni’s praise, pointed her finger alternately at the two male snake heads and concentrated for a careful selection.

“Which head shall I choose~ Let’s guess~ Ding-dong-daeng- gang!”

“?”

“The left head wins. Kwaaak-!”

Moiya quickly spewed fire at the head on the left of the two snake heads.

Kie-eeeng-!!

The body flapped its wings to put out the fire, but the other head on the right moved its head far away to the other side so that the fire would not spread to it, creating distance from the left head.

Eventually, the Galaco head on the left writhed in pain and burned to death.

“Now there’s one female and one male, so they can get along well, Moiya~?”

Moiya said admonishingly and moved to the next cell.

In the same way, Moiya made all the two snake heads of the male Galacos into one.

Moni also helped by spewing fire together, and Moiya’s solution for peaceful mating was quickly prepared.

“Let’s go back now. The master will be worried.”

“We did a good deed today, so we should go and ask Sharon for a lot of sausage, Moiya~?”

“But are you just going to leave them all alive? You said you were going to have a showdown.”

“They’re locked up. Fighting in this state is not fair.”

Moiya glanced at the Galacos with only one head left and turned away coolly.

***

“What is it that you two have to do that you came here?”

Roxana asked Melanie again with a sneer.

“What I couldn’t finish with Hector last night…”

At that moment, Hector interrupted Melanie and stood up from his chair.

“Empress, let’s go now.”

If he didn’t intervene, she was about to tell Roxana exactly what happened last night.

“What is it that you’re stopping me from saying?”

Roxana also stood up following Hector and said with a curious expression.

“Swordsmanship training. We stopped doing it in the middle of the night last night.”

You’re scared.

Melanie glanced at Hector’s nervous face and snorted.

“Swordsmanship? Melanie, you’re learning swordsmanship from Hector?”

“Yes, a woman should be able to protect herself.”

“Hoh hoh hoh. I wonder if there’s a need to learn swordsmanship to protect a body that no one touches.”

Roxana said sarcastically, tapped her shoulder, and left the room.

“Ha…”

Melanie glared at the door Roxana had left through.

After a while, Hector, who had gone out to see Roxana off, returned to the room.

“Why did the Empress come to my palace?”

“You heard it earlier. She said she came to discuss something.”

“So what is that?”

“You don’t need to know.”

Hector replied with a complicated expression.

“Is it such a secret conversation that you can’t tell me?”

“Even if it’s not a secret conversation, I don’t think there’s any reason to tell you all of our conversations, is there?”

“…Our?”

Melanie bit her lower lip tightly with a very upset face.

“Hmm, why did you come?”

Hector asked, averting his gaze from her face.

“I just came to see you. And ‘we’ have something to talk about too.”

“What talk?”

“About the kiss yesterday…”

“Yesterday… was a mistake.”

Hector said coldly.

Yesterday, he clearly thought he was drunk on the atmosphere and tried to pull himself together.

He really didn’t intend to kiss so roughly that he would lose his mind.

“Me too.”

Melanie said as if she had been waiting.

“…What?”

Hector was slightly taken aback.

He said it first, but when the same words came out of Melanie’s mouth, he felt a little sad.

“I said it was a mistake too. It was night and a secluded place, so we were both drunk on the atmosphere.”

Hector’s mood became strange at Melanie’s words, but he pretended not to be and said nonchalantly.

“It’s a relief you know.”

“So, about that…”

Melanie dragged out her words with a troubled expression and then started with a profound voice.

“Let’s do it one more time.”

“What?!”

“Actually, I don’t think I’ll know if it was a real mistake unless we do it again!”

Melanie raised her toes to the tip.