Chapter 7: Her Voice Recovered
However, because of the proximity of your territory to the F6 district where you live, the F6 district will now be allocated to you, and you will be given another three thousand A-rank soldiers to guard your dukedom."
"Since you're still young, you don't have to participate in politics, and everything else remains the same."
Where would Carlotta mind?
The official position of a duke was paid money every month, and that money included the salary paid to the soldiers.
With money and power and people to use it, she couldn't be happier.
However, Carlotta also understood at once why the Empress wanted so many officials to receive her together, it turned out to be for the sake of making the reward she received due to her unlimited spiritual power and unlimited fertility value logical.
"Thank you Your Majesty, I'm very satisfied."
Carlotta smiled and gave the Empress a thank you salute, placing her hand on her chest and touching her heart area.
In the orc world, this represented supreme gratitude.
The Empress smiled with her eyebrows, and suddenly her words changed, "I'm in a hurry to receive you today, in addition to rewarding you, there's one more thing to say."
"My Nore Empire's position in the interstellar world has become supreme due to Abyss' presence, but the birth rate of newborns is much lower than other countries in the interstellar world."
"And it just so happens that your presence will be the hope of the Nore Empire. I believe that you, Duke Carlotta, should also be aware of the Nore Empire's regulations on mates, right?"
Carlotta of course knew the relevant regulations, and she raised her voice, "Your Majesty, I will abide by the regulations."
With those words, Carlotta still felt troubled.
Because that regulation was that an adult female who did not choose two males within two months of adulthood would be randomly shaken by the system in the couple applications under her account.
Most females wouldn't need that rule, but it was enough of a headache for Carlotta.
She had been an adult for 57 days, and there were three more days before the system would randomly choose. Abyss had already been marked, sort of taking up one of the male husband slots.
What to do about the other beast husband spot? There wasn't any emotional basis for a random selection, so it would be better to choose Henry.
With this thought, Carlotta couldn't help but quietly glance at Henry, and quickly retracted it again.
In her heart, she couldn't help but scold herself for going back on her word.
She had just refused to look at Henry's tail, and that was already equivalent to Henry's courtship. If she were to say she wanted to marry Henry again, wouldn't that be teasing?
Carlotta could only dismiss the thought that popped into her head for the moment, wondering if she could find another male like Abyss.
The kind of male that didn't mind offspring, had no desire for females other than needing to be appeased during rut, and was well suited for marriage by agreement.
Carlotta peeked at Henry's movements, and the Queen on her high seat saw it clearly.
The empress smiled slightly, she actually wanted to directly give Carlotta a marriage, but was afraid that this would be a mistake.
If both parties had no feelings for each other, then this was harming her son. It wasn't good for a male to be marked by a female who didn't love him.
"Since Duke Carlotta will abide by the rules, I am relieved. You've had quite a scare at Abyss's just after arriving in the empire, surely you'll want to get some rest."
"Henry, you take Duke Carlotta to her ducal residence and stay there temporarily for a month to help her adjust to life in the Imperial Capital along with Duke Carlotta's companion Abyss."
"I have things to talk about with the other courtiers, so I won't accompany Duke Carlotta, you guys go ahead."
The Queen had given her order, and Henry's eyebrows raised and the smile on his face deepened.
The fact that the Mother Emperor had allowed him to stay at the Duke's residence for a month was clearly giving him the opportunity to get close to Carlotta.
Abyss's expression wasn't as good.
What it meant to have males take care of females was obvious to anyone.
The Queen was trying to make Henry Carlotta's beast husband as well, just because of Carlotta's unlimited spiritual power and fertility value.
Obviously, he had said before that he didn't care about Carlotta taking a husband, but Abyss was a bit annoyed when he was actually confronted with this fact.
Thinking that he didn't want to fall into the cliché of male competition with his good brother, he blamed the mark again.
Carlotta also understood what the Queen meant.
But she had just turned Henry down!
She had been embarrassed before coming into the council chamber; would she have to be embarrassed like this for another month?
But the Queen had already ordered, Carlotta could only bow her head and responded yes, then took the lead and turned around wanting to leave the council chamber.
Just as she took two steps, Leo spoke again, "Child, at least let me have your contact information, okay?"
Carlotta shook her head, "No good."
She was the daughter who hadn't been taken care of by Leo, and having the right to refuse Leo's request wouldn't fall on deaf ears.
What's more, if you think about it with your toes, you can know that Leo must have another purpose for adding her.
Carlotta's refusal made Leo's expression look bad.
But Leo couldn't say anything more and could only watch Carlotta leave.
Walking out of the council chamber, Carlotta immediately opened her mouth, "Your Royal Highness, I would like to go to the F6 district to pick up my grandmother to go to the dukedom with me."
Henry smiled faintly, "I had guessed that you would say that, let's go, take my Phoenix to pick up my grandmother."
The Phoenix hovercar?
Carlotta knew this brand of hover car, it was developed by the scientists of the Nore Empire, and its status was equivalent to the limited edition Rolls Royce of her original world.
It was said that there were only 3 of these hover cars in the entire interstellar world, one was with the Empress, one belonged to Henry, and the other was auctioned off by another country.
Since the name "Phoenix", in addition to its beautiful appearance, the speed of the Phoenix is also super fast.
It takes 10 hours to travel from the Imperial Capital to the F6 district by ordinary hovercar, but by taking the Phoenix, it only takes 1 hour to get there.
With its speed, it naturally had some price, its fuel was a rare energy ore, and the price of the ore could be astronomical.
"Thank you."
Carlotta was touched by Henry's thoughtfulness, her beautiful blue eyes shining brightly.
She wanted to see her grandmother quickly, so she didn't reject Henry.
The two of them were talking and were about to enter into the flying machine together, completely forgetting the presence of Abyss behind them.
Abyss was dissatisfied in his heart.
With Henry following all the time, he didn't have a chance to give Carlotta the agreement he had just drawn up in the flying machine.
"Carlotta, I have something to say to you." Abyss instantly voiced, "You and I will ride in a flying machine."
Carlotta was stunned and looked back at Abyss.
After thinking about it, she nodded her head and agreed to Abyss' request. After all, she still had something to say about their markings as well.
Originally, Carlotta thought that she would just get on the flying machine herself, her hand already gripping the handle of the flying machine ready to step on the steps.
Who knew that her waist was held by a pair of big hands, and her whole body was directly pinched and carried to the vehicle.
"Females are just slow." Abyss's icy voice carried annoyance.
Carlotta felt the large, blazing hands on her waist pause for a moment before slowly releasing them as she stood still.
Through the thin skirt, the rubbing-like slow motion made Carlotta weak at the waist.
Carlotta, speechless at her current body, tried to tell Abyss not to touch her out of the blue, turning around but her lips accidentally brushed past Abyss' chest.
During that time it seemed to touch the buttons of Abyss' dress inside.
The hard button met the delicate lips, touching the wound Abyss had bitten out on the inside of the lip, causing Carlotta to frown in pain.
Carlotta pursed her lips and looked at Abyss suspiciously.
Abyss's clothes were azure-colored civilian clothes that he changed into later, and the bulge did look like it had a button.
Noticing Carlotta's line of sight, Abyss, whose body stiffened, pinched Carlotta's waist and held Carlotta down forcefully in her seat.
"What are you looking at? Sit still!"
Finishing in a stern voice, Abyss' sharp, high ponytail whipped into a grumpy arc in mid-air and crossed her legs sideways.
Carlotta was a bit ferocious by Abyss and said accusingly, "It's the buttons in your shirt that hit me so hard ..."
What was clearly an accusation became like a pout because of the sweetness of the voice.
Carlotta got angrier at her own weird voice and touched her lips, averting her face not wanting to speak.
Abyss ignored Carlotta and tapped the screen to turn on privacy mode for the craft, and out of the corner of his eye he saw Carlotta touching his lips, which immediately colored the tips of his ears scarlet.
In fact, he was only wearing a bottomed shirt underneath, and the buttons of his shirt wouldn't do for his chest.
Carlotta's soft red lips were touching his ...
And surprisingly, he reacted in a way he shouldn't have the moment he was bumped into.
Abyss' body tensed, filled with chagrin.
He clearly detested females, how could he be like this because of Carlotta's unintentional touch?
The space in the craft was too small, and Abyss half-heartedly suppressed the heat in his body.
He could only lean his back against the backrest of the chair to make his crossed legs look natural.
It was a long time before Abyss did anything else.
He transmitted the drawn up agreement to Carlotta's smart bracelet.
"Carlotta, prenuptial agreement, read and sign."
Carlotta, who was sulking, heard the word prenuptial agreement and her eyes lit up.
She actually chose to ride with Abyss for the prenuptial agreement, after all, they weren't going to be a married couple, and there were some things that had to be made clear before actually registering.