Miscellaneous Matters

Miscellaneous Matters, March 31.

Avalon, Silver and Tin Palace.

Yulia was intently tinkering with something in her room, wearing a monocle specially designed for focusing and magnification.

Just then, a light knock suddenly came from her door.

...Who could it be at this hour?

Her brows furrowed slightly. She set aside the tool in her hand and paused her work. "Come in."

Yulia pressed a button, deactivating the alchemical lens hanging over her left eye and making it automatically flip up.

If she had been at home, Yulia definitely would have ignored them. But this was the Silver and Tin Palace... Who knew whether some important figure or urgent matter had come looking for her?

"Yulia~"

Just then, an incomparably familiar voice came from the doorway.

Yulia's body immediately stiffened, and she abruptly looked up at the door.

Eihwaz opened the door with a smile, leaning against it with half his body still outside. "Did you miss me?"

She instinctively took a step forward... but after only one step, she came to her senses.

"...Your Majesty, are you that bored?"

Yulia puffed out her cheeks and said sulkily.

For a brief moment, she had thought Eihwaz had truly returned! But Eihwaz usually called her Yuli, and he would not knock so softly.

Besides, Eihwaz had no time to come back right now...

"What's wrong with that? I'm Eihwaz too, aren't I?"

Isabel removed the mask from her face and casually tossed it into the void, where it vanished into nothingness.

She skipped lightly inside, remembering to shut the door behind her.

Then Isabel plopped down in the chair beside Yulia, hugged her, and began fake crying. "Little Yulia has grown distant. You've started calling me Your Majesty, sob sob sob..."

Yulia sighed helplessly and simply sat down on Isabel's lap,