Toxic Empress

Important Meeting

The news of Luisa had spread throughout the entire Charise Empire, it was spread by the servants of the Xander residence. Working together to bring down Luisa, Xena and Xander have explained to the servants beforehand what they did to Luisa. Their actions drew support from the servants, apparently they had long harbored anger at Luisa. Then today Xena came to help them vent their pent-up anger.

The atmosphere of the capital immediately heated up as soon as the news managed to reach everyone's listeners. Xena laughed in satisfaction as she managed to take Luisa down, her feelings now being overpowered by a sense of peerless victory. Though he only defeated one bully, but somehow he was happy to witness the misery of the woman who dared to tease Xander and blatantly wanted to snatch the man from him.

After making an uproar, Luisa returned to her residence with a sense of fear in her. Sure enough, as per his premonition, Marquess Andros had been waiting for Luisa's arrival in the front room of the mansion. All eyes were on him, now he was walking alone towards the center of the terrible view. Marquess Andros held a rattan for her to use as a whip into Luisa's body.

“Luisa, what did you do to make Charise so upset with your story of sleeping with a waiter? Are you tired of living? I've told you many times that you have to make Xander yours. But, what the hell is this, Luisa? You even made the family name smudged,” said Marquess Andros in a cold tone.

Luisa was just downcast and speechless, she did not put up any resistance to what Marquess Andros had accused her of. Luisa was afraid that she would be beaten to death by her father, she could only submit herself to the angel of death. He also has no desire to live.

“Sorry, Dad, I didn't mean to embarrass our family, but the woman found out about my plan and set me up—”

BRUAKKS

Marquess Andros broke the table, unwilling to hear an honest explanation from her daughter. He only wanted a suitable result, not one like this, he did not like Luisa's plan that always ended up failing.

“DIAM! SHUT YOUR MOUTH!” sergeant Marquess Andros.

Luisa immediately silenced her mouth, she did not want to provoke the anger of Marquess Andros, but even though she did not provoke him, the Father was already at the peak of overwhelming anger.

“From you! Let me give a useless child like you a valuable lesson!”

Marquess Andros dragged Luisa forcibly towards a room under the stairs. The small space was used usually by Marquess Andros to torture Luisa.

“Dad, I beg .. please forgive me, do not beat me again .. I beg you, Father, it hurts me too much ..”

Luisa begged for mercy with a roar of tears rolling down her cheeks, she did not want to get any more pain from Marquess Andros' punch. During this time Luisa had been suffering by the torment given by Marquess Andros. He had struggled to survive in this hell, now again he had to face an even more cruel hell.

“Ampun? Don't expect you to get forgiveness from me!”

...***...

At the same time at Duke Geraldo's residence, Xena with Xavier and Xander were enjoying leisure time on the balcony of the mansion. They chatted casually about many things, their chat was accompanied by a cup of warm tea with various types of chocolate snacks. Seeing the sighting of the snack, Xena became excited, even it felt like she wanted to devour all the snacks.

“Eat slowly, no one will snatch all the snacks from you,” said Xander as he wiped the crumbs from Xena's mouth.

Xavier also enjoyed it, his taste was exactly like Xena who liked chocolate. Xena glanced at Xavier, for some reason she felt the same flow of feelings as before when she saw Xavier. He only found out about Xavier who likes chocolate, just like him, the longer he was seen the more similarity between the two.

“Hey, it's not good for your body to eat too much chocolate,” tells Xander to see Xavier has spent a lot of chocolate snacks

“Hah? Just let him eat it. Why did you forbid Xavier to eat chocolate? He's already grown up. You mustn't ban Xavier, just let him enjoy a healthy time to devour the chocolates,” oceh Xena.

“But, he is still in his infancy, Xavier has to eat a lot of vegetables so that his body is healthier.” Xander won't lose to Xena.

“Sayur is boring and not as good as chocolate, you should not forbid someone to enjoy a bad meal.”

Finally, there was a debate between the two just because of worrying Xavier who ate too much chocolate. Xander forbade it, while Xena allowed Xavier to devour all the chocolate. Xavier smiled watching the quarrel of his parents, it had been a long time since Xavier had enjoyed such a warm moment like this.

‘Dad and Mother did not change, they always debated small issues. Although in the end Dad still lost to Mom, but after arguing they will return to make out. Even though I get angry every time I try to tease her, I still like her. My beautiful mother, may life this time we can be happy together like a family in general,’ inner Xavier.

After joking together, Xena said back to the palace because there were still some things she wanted to do later tonight. Arriving at the palace, Xena is immediately interrogated by Derryl because he disappeared for one full night. Now the palace situation is still unstable, and Derryl got the news that there was one more empire that was overthrown by revolutionary forces.

Xena did not care much about Derryl's chattering, she just nodded and fought back a little Derryl said. His body was tired after returning from the Xander mansion, he only wanted to take a short break to recover his strength. Once in the room, Xena immediately laid down on the bed. Xena was waiting for the night to come because something important was waiting for her tonight.

...***...

The Shofin Kingdom at night is attended by busyness because tonight there will be an important meeting there. Those who live in the higanbana headquarters prepare everything for the smooth meeting that occurs later. All of Xena's janitors and subordinates were pacing in all directions to make sure everything was perfectly prepared.

One by one the invited people had arrived, they were people from various empires. They held meetings in a very spacious hall room and arranged neatly many chairs and long tables for the convenience of meetings that will soon be held.

“Will the leader come today?” ask a man.

“He is definitely coming, please be patient for a moment,” Laiv replied.

A few minutes later, a black-robed woman entered the meeting room. Instantly the atmosphere of space turned tense, even to breathe their distress. The woman then opened the veil of the face cover, draped with bright blonde hair and silver beads that radiated a radiance of beauty. All eyes were stunned to see the figure of a woman they had never seen before.

“Halo, members of the revolutionary forces. Maybe this is the first time you've seen me in person because we've only been communicating by mail. Introduce, I am Xena Alister, leader of the revolutionary forces.”