# Chapter 73
Chapter 73
When Cayena opened her eyes, it was the next morning.
The sun shone and birds flew past the window.
It was the most peaceful morning she had spent alone since returning to this world.
“By now, Heinrich must have heard that I am staying in this temple.”
A little behind this temple were the slums.
At the entrance to the slum there was a small inn which was also the hired house of Archduke Heinrich.
“Not many people would do something as crazy as break into the temple, but Yester would.”
Cayena also had no intention of returning to the imperial palace today.
She still had work to do.
“By all means, put me in danger.”
She slowly raised her body.
Even now, she had a slight headache, but it was ignorable.
As soon as she pulled the bell rope, there was a knock.
“Come in.
The door opened and Jan entered and bowed.
Cayena gave her orders.
“Draw a bath.
When I'm done, I'll have breakfast.
While waiting for the hot water to fill the bathtub, Cayena took off her shirt, revealing her naked, white body.
She gathered her voluminous golden hair in front of her, went to the mirror and looked at her back.
His back was perfectly smooth and white.
But if she used magic, the image of a black rose would bloom on those pale backs.
As she had done yesterday, Cayena tapped into her new energy.
“I think it’s called mana.”
Her body felt slightly floating, and immediately, she felt soft and clear mana.
Cayena instinctively knew what her ability was.
She lifted the dress she took off yesterday into the air.
The cloth hovered for a bit before falling to the ground.
Plop.
“How terrible.
She thought that with magic, she would be able to shoot fireballs or make blizzards.
Instead, she had telekinesis.
The skill was a little disappointing.
"Well, I don't want the power to cause natural disasters.
I just need to manipulate a few things."
Cayena shrugged off her dissatisfaction.
Because she used magic, a vivid image of a black rose appeared on her back.
In this world, roses signal “danger”.
Some novels used the color purple or rain to indicate crises.
Here, the object that represented danger and crisis was the rose.
Cayena was always compared to a rose, and Bayel was the owner of the Black Rose Garden.
Both were involved in the death of the heroine, Olivia.
“With this, have I become perfectly dangerous?”
As Cayena changed into simple clothes and waited, she heard a knock.
It looked like his bath was ready.
She washed her head and roughly wrapped her wet hair in a dry towel.
It couldn't be avoided; There was no maid around to dry the hair.
“It’s been a while since I’ve done something alone, without maids.”
Breakfast was served in the room.
It was his first meal since falling asleep without eating anything the day before.
After eating, Cayena was left alone again to practice her magic.
How much practice did it take for a baby to stand on its legs and take its first steps?
Magical training was like that.
Before long, several objects within the room began to float in the air.
The dress that Cayena took off lifted up as if someone was wearing it.
She began to spin like a woman holding her dance partner's hand.
“You are already becoming skilled in handling your power.
A man's voice spoke from behind her.
Cayena just turned her head slightly to look at the speaker.
“Did you come to see me practice magic?
That's kind of you.
Bayel stood straight in the sunlight streaming through the window.
Cayena twirled her dress and spun around until she was in front of Bayel.
She curtsied in her dress as if greeting a dance partner.
Bayel looked at the dress that pretended to be a person and said: — It's not easy to visualize something like that.
Magic was about visualization, so the better imagination one had, the more advantageous it was.
Cayena learned many things through various media in the other world, so something like this was easy to imagine.
Annoyed, Bayel pushed back her dress and sat down at Cayena's table.
He was thinking about what to say when he saw Cayena's outfit and asked, "If you're a princess, why are your clothes like that?"
It was the same yesterday.
Her clothes were too humble to belong to the imperial princess.
“It's because a princess's normal clothes are too complicated to take off without maids.
Cayena had prepared a blouse and a long skirtas extra costume.
The shape of the clothes was simple and didn't have many fasteners, so they were easy to put on and take off, even alone.
“Or would you like to wait for me?
Think of it as learning the groom's lesson early.
“Why should I…!?
“I'm joking.
Bayel was so dumbfounded that his jaw dropped.
Cayena didn't care about that, however.
“My escort must be outside.
Is it okay to scream like that?
You might be able to get away with magic, but I'd be quite embarrassed.
“Don't worry.
I made it impossible for anyone on the outside to hear us.
As expected of the master of the Black Garden.
“That is great.
As for me, I can use my telekinesis in exchange for half my life.
“Normally, she shouldn’t be able to move so many things so quickly.”
It was relatively simple to lift objects in groups and make them move in one direction.
However, moving each object independently like Cayena was doing showed great aptitude.
In particular, the dress that bothered him moved subtly, like a real person.
Bayel thought she was a very strange princess.
It was strange for a member of the imperial family to act so relaxed.
Even though Cayena knew a lot about him, the master of the Black Garden, she should be upset about his carefree treatment of a princess.
She could even take the temple hostage and try to make him kneel.
Of course, it was impossible for humans to capture him, a transcendental being.
“No one could say anything if she burned down the temple because it is a place that hid a magician.”
This was the attitude the average ruling class person would have, but Cayena was different.
“I don’t think she cares no matter what I do.”
She pretended to be calm, but she looked pitiful.
It was unnerving.
Cayena, who lowered her long eyelashes and let down her wet hair, had an unusual atmosphere.
“Is everyone in the imperial family born like this?”
Bayel mentally traced her smooth, white skin, without any makeup marks, and a beautiful red mouth with eyes.
Bayel clicked his tongue at Cayena's addictive beauty.
Beautiful women like this didn't usually have happy endings.
“That’s why she wanted the power of the Black Garden.”
“How is your body?
Cayena seemed to have heard something unexpected and gave her usual smile.
“He is well.
No way.
Even though life expectancy was shortened by just 10 years, there were extremely serious cases where a person had to deal with minor illnesses for the rest of their life.
Cayena's lifespan was cut in half.
A single drop of Elixir could not recover all the damage his body had received.
“His life was cut in half in an instant.
This doesn't just mean you live half a life less.
Be it immunity or energy, it must have decreased a little.
A body that was weakened by a severe blow would have to recover properly over a long period of time.
Just because she felt a little better now didn't mean she was actually okay.
“You are worrying a lot, but I receive all kinds of precious things in the imperial palace.
I will live much healthier than others.
She ignored it as if it were insignificant.
Cayena's thoughts remained unchanged.
“I can’t protect myself unless I have magic.”
It was a cold and rational judgment.
Bayel noticed the coldness in Cayena's words.
Strangely, he had been worried about Cayena since yesterday.
He couldn't erase the image of her by forcing herself to keep consciousness from his mind.
“Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but…”
She looked like a person driven to the edge of a cliff.
“You seem to be in a difficult situation.
But if it's someone like you, wouldn't you have plenty of people who could help you?
Someone to help her?
Raphael came to mind.
She smiled bitterly as she remembered the man who had comforted her upon breaking the news of Madame Elivan's death and how he had sought her out, once again.
Cayena was no different from someone who had a time limit.
She didn't know how long she had left to live.
She couldn't drag Raphael, who had a prosperous future ahead of him.
Furthermore, she decided to take the throne.
She couldn't involve him in this mess.
“Who knows?
Cayena avoided answering making her dress bother Bayel again.
Bayel tried to pull her dress down with a displeased expression.
Telekinesis was a low-level magical talent, so it could be interrupted.omdom with a little power.
Still, the dress didn't move.
This continued to bother him.
"What is that?"
Bayel was confused.
He tried to block the telekinesis.
Telekinesis was, in simple terms, the ability to lift objects as if controlling a puppet with an invisible hand.
If the energy was blocked, the dress shouldn't move.
Yes, it shouldn't.
But it still swayed gently.
“Isn’t it telekinesis?”
If it wasn't telekinesis, how could everything in this room be floating right now?
As if the area was being controlled…!
Bayel's eyes widened and he quickly turned to look at Cayena.
“Is it domain control magic?”
That was absurd.
It was not an ability that a human could possess.
“If you can utilize domain control to the fullest, you can even stop time.”
For example, you can edit the domain by cutting and pasting it.
Bayel reached out to find out Cayena's exact ability.
The moment Cayena looked back curiously, Bayel felt a strange presence and looked towards the door.
“…someone is coming.
Bayel disappeared like smoke, without telling Cayena what he wanted to say.
She blinked in bewilderment when she heard it.
Knock Knock.
As Bayel said, someone knocked outside.