Between Father and Daughter

"Father! Father!"

In the bedroom, made incomparably lavish with gold, silver, and silk, a girl's anxious cries rang out.

Ignoring the attendants' attempts to stop her at the door, Mordred casually flung five or six sturdy Imperial Guards aside with a wave of her hand and barged straight into the empire's most exalted chamber.

She had heard from Merlin that her father had returned to the imperial palace. Worried about Scathach, she immediately shook Merlin off and rushed toward Leon's bedchamber, wanting only to ask after Teacher Scathach's safety.

Passing through layers of curtains, Mordred ventured deep into the bedchamber at last and finally saw her father's imposing figure seated on the bed...