Transmigrating from a zombie world to become the mecha kings wife
Chapter 452: Change the emperor’s mind.

Chapter 452: Change the emperor’s mind.

He found Scarlet giving Justin a bath in their bathroom.

"I came as quickly as I could." He said hurriedly as he knelt down beside the bathtub. "What’s wrong with him?"

"He has a cough and a fever. Apparently its going around in school. Can you finish up with his bath while I make some porridge for him?"

Esong took hold of Justin immediately and wrapped him in a towel.

Justin whimpered, and Esong hugged him, cradling him to his broad chest as one would an infant.

"Sorry buddy." he said softly.

Walking slowly, he went to the bedroom and dressed Justin up first. After that, he went to the kitchen and found Scarlet pouring porridge in a bowl.

"He is about to sleep off." he told her.

Justin was dozing in Esong’s arms. Scarlet had already given him a pill to relieve his fever and some cough syrup mixed with crystal water.

"He needs to eat something." she said with a frown.

Her mother always said that medicine needed fuel to work and food was that fuel.

She carried the porridge to the living room and sat down. He followed her and set himself in the right position, angling Justin right to ensure that she could feed him with ease.

This was not their first time doing this after all. The two could be considered pros by now.

She brought the first spoonful to his mouth and Justin willingly opened up.

"Good boy." she praised.

They continued on this way until the bowl was scraped clean. Finally, she allowed to sleep, putting him in their bed. She left the brown cat behind to watch him.

"He is sleeping." she told Esong when she rejoined him on the sofa.

"That’s great." he answered.

He pulled her over to sit as close to himself as possible. With one arm wrapped around her neck, he sighed.

It seemed, her had been thinking about a lot of things.

"I don’t know what I would have done if you were not here." he said.

She smiled as she thought about something. Then, she looked at him and said, "You would have put him in a med bed."

Esong chuckled, realizing that she was probably right. Before Scarlet came along, the first go to for every sickness was a med bed. It didn’t matter if the med bed could treat the condition or not.

"Everyone here is addicted to med beds." she added.

"Because they work, ninety percent of the time." he told her.

"And the other ten?" she asked.

His eyebrows frowned inwards as he thought. What did they do if an illness was not fixable by a med bed?

"It probably becomes categorized as an unknown illness." he said.

He stretched his hand out and the tv remote came flying.

"Do you want to watch something?"

She shook her head, not really in the mood to watch anything.

He turned it on anyway, leaving it on a channel showing a documentary on the evolution of space ships.

He had no intention to watch it whatsoever, it seemed as he turned his attention to her. "What’s on your mind? Are you worried about our son?"

Her thoughts seemed to be very far away, not with him as far as he could tell.

She removed herself from his partial embrace and changed her sitting position. Facing him, she looked him in the eyes and said, "I am thinking about how to convince you to get the emperor to change his mind about this trip to Solana."

Esong smiled smugly and tapped the tip of her nose with his index finger.

"Looks like someone is worried about me." he said happily.

She slapped the finger away as if it was nothing more than an annoyance.

"Stop dreaming. I am worried because I received some credible information from a friend in the Lunar federation about the situation in their empire.

According to her, the rebels have gained ground and the ruling family of Lunar is about to be overthrown. Their emperor has been scrambling for a way to hold on to his throne and he figured we would do his dirty work for him.

By holding the third princess prisoner or killing her and pretending the rebels did it, the soon to be ousted Lunar emperor will see to it that we get involved in the fight for the throne in his empire."

For a while, Esong said nothing but simply stared at her, studying her face as if she had something written on it.

Scarlet did not squirm under his inquisitive gaze but looked back at him nonchalantly.

"That is some detailed information your friend has, to know an emperor’s plan would mean that she or he has been inside the palace and close to the Lunar emperor." he looked at her, holding back the question he wanted to ask.

"And?" she said.

"Is it a male or female friend?" he asked.

She rolled her eyes and laughed. Was this really the time for him to bring out jealousy and possessiveness?

"Female." she answered anyway.

Technically, Maddox was now female.

That seemed to make him ease up and he became curious about other things.

"Does she work in the palace?"

Scarlet was not sure, so she shrugged.

"Is she credible?" he asked.

She nodded her head. Maddox had no reason to lie about this. Also, she was probably the one who was supporting the rebels behind the scenes and providing them with information about the royal family.

She was a grim reaper so she could go in and out of the palace unseen.

"Is she the emperor’s mistress?" he asked.

Scarlet snorted and laughed, loudly. Maddox would probably have bashed Esong’s head in if she was here for daring to suggest such an outrageous thing.

"No way, she would slit his throat long before his wrinkly old hand touched her."

He shrugged, "I am just guessing. This is some pretty intimate knowledge after all. Is it a member of the royal family?"

Scarlet shook her head. Not according to what she knew but then again, she had no clue about the identity of the body Maddox was inhabiting.

Esong put his hands together in a triangular form and tapped his fingers slowly together.

"You said that she is credible, right?" he asked her again.

Scarlet nodded her head. "I would trust her with my life." she assured him.