The Commoner Consort: The Country’s Respected Empress - Chapter 123
Everyone’s eyes were now on the owner of the voice.
Maya smirks ‘Finally. Someone took the bait and here my chance of creating…a drama!’.
Xavier creases his eyebrows seriously and speaks staring at her “I can’t allow this to happen, My Lady. He should be imprisoned for his crime!”.
Maya smiles warmly at Xavier “I know he should be but not before I ask him a reason for his statement”.
Xavier speaks with a meaningful gaze on his face “You can’t ask the reasons for the hatred from everyone, My Lady. You don’t have to”.
Maya could sense his voice deepened at the last sentence as if he is speaking to her intimately. She smiles faintly “But I insist, Your Highness”.
Before Xavier could speak something, Kalki announces “You can proceed”.
Maya looks at Kalki with a slight bow “I am grateful for His Highness’s kindness”.
She hides her smirk and looks at the man who was held by the soldiers of the Imperial Court. She asks “Can you justify your statement, Sir?”.
The man blinks dumbfounded “..” Sir?! Me?!
Xavier cluthes his fist tight at the usage of her words and sits displeased.
‘He just humiliated you in front of the court! And you are treating him with respect?! Just where in the heavens are you from?!’.
The man hisses in a mocking tone “Just go away, Lady! You can’t answer our questions! Go and hide behind your husband! After all, he is here to protect you! We can’t go against Our Crown Prince!”.
Maya shrugs innocently “If you don’t want to ask your questions then rot in the prison, Sir”.
She steps forward and speaks looking at the crowd behind the Royal people’s row “Since this proceeding is about seizing the Madam Title from me, I deny to allow that. If I hear a reason which is valuable, I will return the Title myself”.
“You don’t deserve to be a Queen!!”.
Another voice from the crowd came booming in the Court.
Maya tilts her head in confusion “Why can’t anyone hear me? How can you people order around without reasoning anything? I asked for a reason. Not a judgement”.
Kalki frowns at her sentence and we can say his eyes oozing coldness. Because he knew. That she was mentioning him indirectly by that sentence.
May be he misunderstood..perhaps Maya was not intentional…really..
Xavier gulps looking at Maya as he is not a child to not understand her hidden meaning behind that statement.
Maya asks seeing the silent crowd “Instead of blaming blindly, is anyone capable of justifying their stand?”.
A voice comes from the crowd timidly “Only if you don’t punish us for the questions!”.
Maya could only smile at the sentence and speaks with a chuckle “Now you are confusing me, Gentleman. If you think I don’t deserve to be a Queen and you think you have a right reason to conclude so, then why are you scared of punishment? His Highness wouldn’t punish you for asking a question, would he?”.
Xavier sucks his breath sharply in shock and looks at Kalki’s face already turned stern.
‘What is she trying to do? She can’t do this to Xander in front of the people!’.
He is about to stop Maya but Kalki’s announcement made everyone to go speechless.
“If a woman needs My presence everytime to save herself and her face then she doesn’t even deserve to be near by my shadow! If the Court proves Her Highness’s incapability to answer your questions, then the Court would send Her Highness back to her country! No one would be punished for asking a question which doesn’t damage the Imperial Court’s dignity”.
Maya listened everything Kalki said and blinks in confusion.
‘I don’t understand his statement. At first, his words meant that I would be exiled…But his last sentence..makes me think otherwise. Perhaps he is really trying to save The Imperial Court’s dignity. Why would he care for mine while he himself want me to go back with humiliation?! Like I would allow that to happen!’.
She scoffs at that last thought.
Xavier was quite happy with Kalki’s announcement. He smiles at Kalki assuringly.
‘Now people would think twice before asking any inappropriate questions. Is she aware of her words?! Not everyone would ask dignified questions! Some filthy people would always wait for a chance to tarnish Our pride! Even though they would be proved wrong and imprisoned, the words couldn’t be undone! Once they utter something truly humiliating in front of whole people, the dignity of The Imperial Court is gone! The damage would be already done!’.
He is sitting with a serious frown on his face as if he was preparing himself for the worst.
A man steps out from the crowd slowly and speaks hesitantly “H-How can you marry Our Prince?! You are not even a Princess! We want a lady from Our country to be Our Queen!”.
Maya sighs and raises her eyebrows “Then you should be too embarrassed that you are a commoner”.
The man stutters in shock “N-No! I am not!”.
Maya speaks surprised “Then you should be burning in jealousy and resentment. Why would a commoner doesn’t want a commoner as his Queen? I don’t understand”.
The man asks stubbornly “But you don’t belong here! How can you think of ruling us?!”.
Maya looks at the man blankly as if he reminded her a long forgotten thing on her mind! The thought that she didn’t belong here sounded very distant and unreal now for her.
‘If I heard his question before a week, I could have agreed and would have even left! But I can’t be defeated just because I am from a different country!’.
She asks with a smirk “By your statement, I think you just questioned The Emperor and his hard work in building this Realm!”.
‘Information is really powerful! I should be grateful for Sarah’s efforts in educating me with This Realm’s history! Ignorance is really fatal’.