Koutarou and Elfaria were looking at the various exhibits, but she suddenly stopped in front of one of them.
This is...?
There was something among the artifacts that had caught her eye. It was a slab some dozen centimeters long on all sides with some kind of pattern carved into the surface. Elfaria felt like she had seen that pattern somewhere before.
It looks similar to one of Forthorthe's family crests... but what family was it now again? Uhm...
This slab had caught her interest because the pattern carved on it resembled a Forthorthe family crest. However, it wasn't completely in Forthorthe-style as it looked like the design had a more collapsed feeling overall. As a result, she couldn't clearly recall what family crest it reminded her of.
“What is it?”
“No... it's nothing. I think it was just my imagination”
In the end, Elfaria decided that it was probably just her imagination. It just happened to be that a slab excavated from ruins 10,000 years ago had a similar pattern to a Forthorthe family crest. Thinking about it normally, it was just a coincidence.
“Fufu”
Koutarou giggled a little at Elfaria. Confused, she looked up at him and tilted her head. She had now completely forgotten about the slab.
“What's wrong?”
“It's just that when you're thinking, you have the face of an empress, Elle”
While Koutarou's answer surprised Elfaria for a moment, she soon smiled.
“It's not a face I'd like to show you though, Reios-sama”
“Maybe so. Being empress just barely doesn't suit you and Theia”
“If you are aware of that, then I think I you could be a fine emperor”
Koutarou thought to himself as he looked at Elfaria smile.
Realistically speaking, being an empress didn't suit Elfaria and Theia. Kindness and hesitation existed in their hearts. As empress they sometimes had to push those feelings aside and make a decision.
“Don't push that kind of responsibility onto me”
”Oh? I became empress when I was around your age. Fufufu”
But he also felt like it was the opposite. The qualities an empress needed were not suited for an empress. When making a decision would hurt a person's dignity, the love within Elfaria and Theia would surely minimize that wound.