“Lilica said that she felt a little dizzy. Quickly check on her!” Kazuya quickly replied as he held her hand worriedly. Were they in the bath for too long? Will this somehow affect the baby?

The doctor quickly felt Lilica’s pulse. However, Lilica pulse was beating normally, as if nothing was wrong.

“What happened that made her feel dizzy?” The doctor asked.

“We were in the bath together just now and she suddenly felt dizzy.” Kazuya replied honestly.

“Hmm… She was probably in the bath for too long. Her pulse is normal but just in case, let her lie down for a while until she’s not dizzy anymore.” The doctor said with a serious face.

“Okay.” Kazuya nodded seriously as he looked at Lilica worriedly.

As she was just feigning illness, Lilica felt incredibly guilty. Afraid that the perceptive Kazuya would catch her guilty expression, Lilica quickly closed her eyes and said, “I’ll sleep now then. It’s quite late now anyway.”

“Alright. Sleep tight. I still have some work to do so you can just sleep first.” Kazuya replied as he tucked her in.

The doctor then excused herself and Kazuya went to the study to do some work.

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At a certain place in the human world

“How many puppets have we got now?” the man sitting on the chair asked his subordinate.

“Boss, as you have instructed Ms. Ellie to distribute the tea and vitamin, we were able to control quite a number of people. All of the nobles that secretly oppose the current monarch is already in our hands. We also managed to control the princes’ friend, Mr. Ron.” the subordinate reported.

“What about the ministers and general?” the man continued asking as he picked up a knife to play with.

Seeing that his boss was fiddling with a knife, the subordinate became slightly intimidated as he answered, “80% of the ministers that wants to change the monarch has agreed to work with us. As for the ministers that are on the current monarch’s side, most of them had refused to cooperate with us but we’ve managed to control 50% of them thanks to Miss Ellie being controllable. We were able to trick them into lowering their guard to drink the tea since Miss Ellie seems unlikely to be an enemy.”

“How about the royal family members?” the man asked nonchalantly, admiring his reflection on the knife.

“That is…” the subordinate didn’t dare answer. This was because they had failed to control even one of the royal family members. Not only that, according to the spy reports, there have been sightings of the king’s personal research team experimenting on the “gifts” that they got. Some spies also heard that they had managed to create an antidote for the drug already.

“What is it? Speak!” The man’s patience was running low. Just having to question this slow-witted subordinate for answers was already taxing.

“W-We didn’t manage to control any of them! A-and… it seems like they have gotten too many samples of our drug that they have started making an antidote for it…” the subordinate stuttered in fear, He could tell that his boss was feeling especially irritated these days since the royal family was doing a thorough investigation to locate their headquarters.

“Useless!” the man shouted as he threw the knife at the subordinate’s feet angrily.

The subordinate became frozen from fear.

“Why are you still standing there? Get out!” the man shouted angrily, trying to think up a new scheme.

“W-Well, as Miss Ellie had consumed a little too much of the drug, it seems like she could no longer control herself and she is almost like a puppet right now. If this goes on, people close to her may know that she has been drugged. We are currently controlling her every action for 24 hours, but we can’t go on like this.” The subordinate replied as he cautiously took a step back afraid that he would be strangled if he was too near to the boss.

“What a useless daughter…” the man muttered annoyingly. He had never found his daughter endearing at all, especially when her face was so similar to the selfish woman he despised, her mother. All his daughter meant to him was a nuisance. That was why he had left her alone in the demon world and only communicating with her to make use of her. However, he couldn’t dispose of her now. Not when she was engaged to the princes’ friend and was an important chess piece.

“Sigh… Bring her to our research lab to get rid of 80% of the drug. I still have some uses left for her.” The man demanded as he sat back tiredly. As he was the only one in the organization thinking up plans, he was tired of his brainless subordinates and daughter. However, he couldn’t overtake the royal family by himself. Staying with the organization would be better since he would have endless resources to use.