Reborn as a Mind-Reading Empress
Chapter 72: Calming Tea

Chapter 72: Calming Tea

"This is exactly what I needed," Arabella sighed deeply after a sip of her tea.

[Me too.]

Her three companions internally agreed and sighed at the same time.

’Right. Everyone was enraged earlier. It wasn’t just me.’

She took another sip of her tea. It tasted so good and it was effective in calming her nerves. It smelled nice too. She had never tasted it before.

"Alwin, this tea is excellent."

[Of course. It’s tea from calming Ofelia flowers from Estrella that I especially grew for His Majesty. He had been highly irritable since we came to the human world so I studied different kinds of tea to help my lord feel at ease.]

’Oh, my. Tea from Estrella. No wonder I never had it before even though we produce all sorts of tea in Lobelius. And here I thought in my forty years of life in the past, I had tasted all the bests tea there is.’

"I’m glad you like it, Your Majesty."

"How did you have the time to make this when we were so busy? Or could you just make it with magic?" Arabella tilted her head.

[Is she saying I wasted my time making tea while she was fretting over the boy and his mother earlier? I’m not that heartless. I was also displeased by the events earlier.]

It was just an honest question though.

Arabella didn’t know much about magic so she was assuming Alwin could just do everything with it.

Her knowledge about magic was mostly what she heard from Dimo and read from his books.

’Maybe I should also read books about magic so I could maximize Alwin’s abilities. I also want to find Dimo and recruit him to my side as early as possible.’

She wondered if there were books about magic in the Imperial Library.

"I had my assistant make it in the magic tower. I just retrieved it with magic."

’How? Just like teleportation? He just materialized it in front of us without vanishing for a second. And he had an assistant? Is his assistant also an elf?!’

Now she was curious about his assistant as well.

"I see. I’d love to meet your assistant someday. He makes such a good tea," she smiled trying to take her chance. She’d love to see another elf.

"Hmph. It’s only good since I cultivated this myself."

’He won’t let me meet his assistant? So stingy. I won’t seduce his assistant if that’s what he was worried about. Sheesh.’

"Oh my. Then can you share with me some of this tea? I have taken a liking to it. We cultivate and export all sorts of tea in Lobelius but this is the first time I got to taste this."

Alwin frowned at her.

’So he won’t even share some?’

[I only cultivated this for His Majesty. Why is she trying to get her hands on it? Today’s just an exception since everyone got irked. We needed this tea.]

Right. This was Alwin. But the tea was really superb. She wanted to be able to drink it again after a tiring day. Once she begins her work as the Empress, she would need this.

’Should I ask Ferdinand for it?’

Alwin suddenly flinched as if he read her mind.

"Fine. I’ll have some of this delivered to Your Majesty," Alwin suddenly relented.

"Oh my. Thank you. I really like this," she beamed.

[This wench! It was clear on her face she just thought of asking His Majesty for this. He would punish me if he thinks I was being stingy with his wife. I can already imagine him saying it again that his wife can have everything she wanted.]

’Ferdinand said something like that? How sweet of him. Now Alwin cannot be stingy.’

[Since when did Alwin and Her Majesty get this close? I thought Alwin was wary of the Empress. Look at him sucking up to her. She even calls him by his name now. Is he actually trying to get close to her before I do? I’m glad he learned his lesson but I can’t let him get much closer to His Majesty through the Empress. I knew he had always been aiming for my spot.]

Raymond was misunderstanding things.

"Your Majesty, I’m glad you have finally calmed down. Please do continue to call me by my name unless we are in official events," Raymond said and Arabella tilted her head.

"Call you by your name? When did I ever-" her eyes widened when she realized she just did earlier. She even ordered them around.

"Oh my goodness! I’m so sorry, Prime Minister. Please forgive my rudeness! I was so furious earlier that I didn’t know what came over me. I didn’t mean to disrespect you or order you around."

’What have I done?!! I just called everyone by their names and ordered them around! I even said words that shouldn’t come out from an Empress or a princess’ mouth. They wouldn’t be suspicious of me now, would they?’

Calling Alwin by name was fine since Alwin had told her to address him directly since Ferdinand might not like it if she was addressing his mage so respectfully.

Rendell was fine too since he said he preferred just his name to his title.

But Raymond was the Prime Minister. As of the moment, he was so much more powerful than she was even if her status was higher. She cannot just order him around or call him by his name without permission.

"It’s alright, Your Majesty. It wasn’t disrespectful at all. Your Majesty has a higher status than me. And please feel free to call me Raymond just as you address Alwin and Rendell by name."

[Haha. Her Majesty is blushing madly. She must have truly been so emotional earlier if she acted without knowing what she did.]

"Don’t fret about it, Your Majesty. It’s good that you can also give your subordinates an order like that. It’s necessary for an Empress," Raymond assured her.

"Is it really alright?" she glanced at Rendell and he smiled at her.