It had been some time after the Xannathaithen hair situation (which he still felt terrible about, despite him being the emperor) when he entered the Reyalle throne room, which he generally stayed in when he didn't have loads of work to do.
He is not often dealing with the public eye now; he didn't have to tolerate it. Since he had banned social media in this dimension (his reason? Look what it did to the humans; there is no way I am ever letting that corrupt media reach us.)
Or I shall personally smother them with my hair: aka one of the more ruthless executioner methods in Asterianara and surrounding worlds like Dsasyreice Glazing Poison. After he did this, he decided to check up on rythennia and see how she was doing after the whole hair situation.
Despite him feeling guilty about his hair with rythennia, he was a proportionalism-based ruler; he did what had to be done, and when it was done, it was his own decision.
The room was cold and dreary, a bit like a hospital that had been abandoned for centuries, while being half exploded, glass shards were everywhere, and Xannathaithen had to be quite quick to avoid cutting or injuring himself. After all, it is not great for royals to be injured when they are required for a meeting later that day.
You could physically feel the tension, just the fact of how cold and icy and frosty and snowy it was, it was practically hypothermia fuel. The way the icicles formed around the medical devices was concerning, as it did not help when he tried to fix them (they broke instantly)
Xannathaithen groaned in sheer annoyance. He just hated it when accoutrements went this wrong; it would be fortuitous (luck/lucky) if he could just get something to go right. Sure, he had thousands of minions who did his bidding for the timezones and the paperwork and the rest. Goodness, he really was bored.
Except for overthinking the hair situation, despite it having been a couple of months now, and she had recovered, he still felt slightly on edge, paranoid it would happen again. he always avoided situations that may lead to it, meaning he has, of course, employed more people for jobs within his empire.
Despite this, he didn't seem to have any issues, since for the most part, the empire was going around it's schedule as per normal, which was almost suspicious, because it usually took a couple of hours before everything settled for the day. When it took a few hours, people had time to get ready and slow down before the day started.
Well, this time they did not. The day had started earlier than usual, and now people were rushing to work on time and get things done, because of the craziness they called home. They only had half of the time that they usually did, which, of course, caused issues for the rulers like Emperor Xannathaithen and thaithen the III, who had actual routines and things to get done before they started their work.
it had been some more time since then, and everything had returned to normal and rythennia was now fully recovered, thaithen the III (III is 3 in roman numeral) was now on vacation the next couple of months, this had been planned for some time now, which was nice to know, it wasnt just a spontaneous "i wanna go here" it was the "i have planned this well and i'll be able to relax" kind of feeling, you feel comfortable when it occurs.
Xannathaithen allowed the vacation to everybodies surprise, he was usually the more ruthless one out of all of them, thaithen the III's vacation went ahead as planned and this felt quite nice for most involved, it gave a sense of flow and relaxation compared to the usual tension and fear, nothing was stopping him now, and Xannathaithen's rulership (ruler+ship) was increased, this time more out of trust than villainy, which was pleasant.
Now as the high Railiesielle (about 5 ranks higher than emperor) allowed xannathaithen to change his name, but he had to think of what to change it to next though. (although this implies he has done so before)