Toxic Empress

The arrival of Xena

Xena's two perfectly rounded eyes watched her twin brother's body lie stiff on the moist, cold ground. Xena's body slumped, her trembling hands trying to grab the body of Alina – her twin sister. Xena's heart ached immediately, tears slowly came down wetting both cheeks. How devastated Xena was when she found Alina, the only family left to die a moment ago.

“Alina, open your eyes. Please don't leave me like this, don't you promise to survive for me? Please answer me, Alina,” Oozing Xena next to Alina's body.

Laiv looked at Xena's pity, knowing that the leader loved Alina very much. Every time he sends a letter just to find out about Alina, he also puts a spy around Alina. However, Alina learns that Xena put a spy on her and asks Xena to pull the spy back. Who would have thought he would be fooled like this despite trying to take care of Alina as best as possible.

“It's my fault, I'm sorry I left you alone, I'm really sorry.” Xena's chest tightened to make it difficult to breathe, Xena's mind momentarily frowned and increasingly raged.

Xena bestows the death of pure Alina as her fault for neglecting to look after Alina. Xena lives a different life with Alina, Xena tends to plunge herself into dangerous problems, while Aline lives as an Empress of Charise Empire. They have been separated from the age of 10 years until now they are both 20 years old. During that time, they had only met twice and continued to exchange letters frequently.

Xena's crying voice broke the beauty of the moonlight, her beating heart as if it was being showered by thousands of sharp blades. Alina's face became more and more paled, her body grew cold and stiff, Xena was really forced to recant Alina's death.

“Hahh? Whatisthis? Alina is pregnant?” Xena's cry came to a halt as she touched Alina's stomach, feeling that there was another life in Alina's body, but that life had dimmed and disappeared completely with Alina.

“Nona, please pay attention to this. Miss Alina's hand was filled with unusual bruises,” Laiv said seeing Alina's hand there were bruises everywhere.

“What really happened to Alina?” Xena immediately revealed Alina's clothes, apparently all over her body there were bruises at some sensitive points. Xena smothered her mouth when she saw it, plus Alina was killed using a dead syringe.

The subordinates of Xena who also took a look were concerned about what happened to Alina. The sadness in the heart turned into uncontrollable anger. Both Xena's hands clenched tightly, her molars churning, even her neck veins stiffened for a moment. Laiv patted Xena on the shoulder, lowering Xena's anger was already one of his important tasks.

“It seems like something is wrong with Charise Empire, don't you think so too, Laiv?”

Laiv nodded his head, from the beginning they both felt that there was an awkwardness behind the rumors that said that Empress Charise was being bullied at the palace. The Emperor's affection was not obtained by the Empress, the Emperor always ignored the Empress and only concerned her concubine. However, the rumor dimmed and was swallowed by the big problems that were happening.

When Xena asked Alina about the matter, she always replied that she had been living happily and well in the palace. Every time Xena sent a spy, Alina would know about it, she did have an incredible sensitivity, so Xena could not send a spy there and only heard the rumors. However, Xena begins to believe that the rumors are true, Alina never lived happily with her status as Empress.

“Miss boss, why don't we just ask these three about the mastermind behind Miss Alina's murder?” one of Xena's subordinates.

“OK, wake them,” Xena command.

The three assassins were forcibly awakened by splashing water on their faces. Their faces were confused as they watched the many people swarming around them.

“Who are you? Why is this woman alive again? Ehh no way! Why are two women the same?”

Xena kicked the faces of the three of them accompanied by a fiery emotion in the look in her eyes. Xena's kick was so powerful that it removed the teeth of the assassins, here Xena showed no mercy to those people.

“Hey, tell me now, who ordered you to kill my sister?” xena tried to suppress the three.

The bodies of the assassins trembled in fear, Xena was far more sinister than the people in the empire.

Xena's anger exploded after hearing that, she thought Alina was really happy for her marriage to the Emperor, so that's why she didn't go into too much detail. His work which is classified as very heavy is also the reason behind Xena less attention to the rumors circulating.

“Say! Who killed Alina?” xena asked, clutching the collar of one of the assassins.

“T-no, s-i—”

“Nona, stay away from them!” Laiv pulls Xena's body back, an oddity begins to occur in the bodies of the three killers. They lurched in pain, roars and screeches helplessly leaning to the ears. Moments later, the bodies of the three men exploded and were crushed unceremoniously.

“The person put a spell of destruction from the body of the three slaves earlier, it seems this is not a simple opponent,” said Xena.

Destruction spells were spells that were usually installed in the bodies of slaves when giving the slaves secret orders. If suspicious intentions arise, the spell will automatically react and explode the victim's body.

“What will you do next, Miss?” ask Laiv.

“I will go to the palace in place of Alina, I want to find out who is the mastermind of Alina's killer, then I make her life miserable mercilessly! Whoever hurt Alina, I make sure that person dies in a horrible way.”

...***...

On the next day, the Charise Empire was having a meeting between the Emperor and the nobles. Usually they gather in a fairly spacious throne room discussing some problems that are considered quite important. Charise Empire itself is one of the empires with a vast territory, abundant in natural resources, and has many talented knights.

The nobles came with their respective slaves, at the feet of the slaves fitted with bracelets used to control the slaves. In this world, the buying and selling of humans was commonplace, even people who did not have any slaves of their lives would be made fun of by others. Then on the throne seat sat a dark blue-haired man with sapphire green eyes, the man looked handsome as well as cold. Then on the lap of the man sat a beautiful black-haired woman, her netra hazel did not stop staring at the flirtatious man.

“You are getting handsome, Your Majesty,” flatter Brisia – beloved concubine of Emperor Derryl Charise.

“Really? Then you must accompany me to sleep tonight,” reply Derryl kissed Brisia's lips in front of the many nobles present.

“Your Majesty, how about the Empress? Didn't he disappear for a few days? Did you not rally people to look for it?” brisia asked acting pretentious, even though she was the one who expected the most to lose Alina.

“Cih, why are you talking about it? I don't like that woman at all. Just let him disappear, want him dead I don't care.” Derryl was discouraged, his warm expression that only he showed Brisia turned back cold upon hearing Alina's name.

Braakkk

The leaves of the entrance of the throne room shattered suddenly, everyone's gaze reflexively fixed towards the door. The knights immediately moved to ensure the attack that had just occurred, they were worried that there was an attack at that time.

“Yeah, what are you guys doing here? Are you partying without me? Then look at His Majesty the Emperor, how affectionate he is with his beloved concubine.”