Chapter 178 – 178. Prince Kanin’s Perversion, but Is It a Problem? (One)
– One –
The Lion’s Cradle was unusually bustling.
“Nanny, don’t you think your clothes stand out too much? It’s too loud, so I don’t think Obama will like it very much.”
“It suits you well, Your Highness. Your Majesty will not dwell on such trifles.”
Clarence comforts Canin with an awkward smile.
But even to her, the clothes Kanin was wearing today seemed far from her dignified crown prince.
His costumes used too many colors and were made up of extremely contrasting complementary colors.
Even the pants are too tight,
Gulp… !
Canin’s chili peppers, which are not too big, are exposed along the thighs.
To be honest, he didn’t look like a prince, he looked like a clown or a tout.
Maybe it looked like a beautiful young prostitute.
‘How can the prince’s handmaids be so vulgar and naive… If you can’t solve the problem with me, how can you bring in His Highness and His Majesty as well… !’
It was the work of the handmaids who helped decorate Canin’s morning.
Only Palini stood by, and all but her maids-in-waiting, even her chief maid-in-waiting, joined in this madness that made Canin look ridiculous.
‘The man behind it must be Rasputin, no, the Regal Duke. To be retaliation for my non-participation, the level is too much. Even so, should I have ruined even the day when His Majesty enjoyed dinner with His Highness… !’
It was at this point that Clarence vented his anger.
The ladies-in-waiting are fully aware that they are morally wrong and have many legal problems.
Even if I openly pointed out that part right in front of my eyes, they wouldn’t accept it.
Admitting wrongdoing, apologizing to the victim, and not trying to correct wrongdoing.
‘Ugly people… Only humans… Things that have escaped from humans…’
Rather, they criticize those who point out their faults, and show their teeth to hide their shame.
Excuse, ignore, get angry, bite.
They refuse to accept the message and attack the messenger.
By doing so, the message becomes worthless.
As if only then would their wrongdoing go away, as if only then could their misfortune be buried under a veil.
‘Only those who have the slightest chance of being persuaded will sell.’
“…Mo? Clarence?”
Startle.
Clarence blinks her eyes in amazement.
She soon realizes that she was just standing there blankly in front of Canin.
Sararak.
“Your Highness. God Clarence apologizes. I was busy organizing future schedules for a while, so I didn’t hear what Your Highness said.”
“It’s okay! Today is a very busy day, so I can understand!”
Canin smiles brightly and forgives her.
Palini bows down once more to plead guilty, then straightens the collar of Canin’s shirt.
Sarak, Sarak.
Shuck, shuck
Even the ribbons tied around Canin’s head and neck are organized.
In fact, there are no apparent problems with Canin’s garments.
Clarence simply wanted to soothe the young lord’s heart, who was being abused and used in the political squabbles of his grown-ups.
Although he may not realize anything, this was the responsibility she had as her guardian.
It was then.
Knock, Knock, Knock.
“Come in!”
Sreuk, sweet.
Palini, a woman with lemon-colored hair neatly rolled up, enters Canin’s room.
She bowed her eyes to Clarence,
Gulp.
Swallowing her mouth, she bends over towards Canin.
Palini’s gaze was fixed between Canin’s crotch as she raised her bow to him.
“Your Highness. In a little while, it will be time for His Majesty to visit us. If we want to hold a welcome ceremony in time for His Majesty to enter the palace, we must head straight to the main gate of the palace.”
“Yea, I got it!”
Canin jumps up.
He waves at Clarence and smiles.
Palini watches with envy as Clarence and Canin share such informal intimacy.
Clarence understands her inaction, but at the same time he hates her unbearably.
“Since the dinner with Obama seems to be going on for quite a while, I think it’s okay to take a break today.”
“I understand, Your Highness. Thank you for your consideration.”
“What, thank you for something like this. Then I’ll be back, nanny!”
“I wish you a pleasant dinner.”
“Huh!”
Sreuk, sweet.
With that said, Canin leaves her room with Palini.
Clarence paces her room.
She is lost in her thoughts with her arms crossed.
‘Whoops… I don’t know how the one who looks on is more painful than the one who is beaten, selli. You don’t have the determination to run away, the courage to resist, the patience to endure, and even the will to accuse you, but you have a conscience at least, and you feel remorse. However, I can’t really praise it because it’s virtual…’
Clarence smiled bitterly.
At the scene of such a horrific crime, it is clear that even the bystander must be subject to moral condemnation.
However, in a situation where there were several main culprits, dozens of accomplices, and only one bystander, I had no choice but to be grateful that there was at least one bystander.
Taste was bitter.
‘Considering the order of meals and the time required, there will be time until at least midnight.’
She was completely excluded from this dinner event.
Her role was usurped, not only at dinner events, but at receptions, tea parties, and all other occasions.
Including the four other ladies-in-waiting who were pushed back in the battle for rank and momentum, a total of five people were completely stripped of their significance in this event.
‘For about nine hours, I have to play hide and seek with them.’
That’s why, except for Clarence, the four maids must be very poisonous.
Four maids, including Clarence, must take responsibility for making Canin laugh.
There is no way to prove that they had no authority over the selection of Canin’s clothing.
If the emperor’s censure for the loss of the prince’s dignity falls, the girls’ necks could possibly run away.
‘Those left behind will solve all their anxiety on me. Perhaps the maid… She must have left the four with me for a situation like this.’
And this was also the punishment the head maid gave them.
In particular, it is a severe punishment only for Clarence.
‘Perhaps they kissed. I don’t have much responsibility for the remaining four, and I will emphasize that it’s all my fault.’
But Clarence didn’t care much.
Not only was it because he was accustomed to being tortured in the first place,
‘And this is an opportunity to contact them.’
In the meantime, it was because he was planning to avoid torture by contacting the imperial faction.
Perhaps the imperial faction had a prior rapport with the emperor.
It was self-evident that the golden opportunity for Clarence and the imperial faction to rendezvous could not be promised when it would come again after today.
They are capable
Therefore, it is quite possible that he made the same prediction as himself.
Whoops, whoops.
Square, shuck.
Clarence doesn’t leave the room, leaving small marks all over the room.
Leaving the mark promised in advance with the imperial faction, I quietly looked around the room.
I don’t know where to look, but one of the marks left in the room will surely be seen by someone from the imperial faction.
“Whoa…”
Clarence puts his hands on his chest and takes a long deep breath.
Pound, pound, pound, pound.
He calms his trembling chest.
Within,
Sreuk, sweet.
Open the door and leave the room.
Beat, beat, beat, beat.
She walks down her hallway, turning to her left, dead in her steps.
‘A place with many rooms and doorways. Even if it disappears, it’s a better place to mistakenly think that I’ve been bullied by using my wits rather than the existence of a secret passage.’
Clarence takes her steps.
Sabakin, Sabakin.
The faint sound of footsteps reached her ears.
I feel someone following me from afar.
It must have been one or more of the remaining maids.
They are disgusting enough to be embarrassed to use the word human, but take into account that they are also victims of Rasputin.
‘Distance is sufficient.’
Beat, beat, beat, beat.
The sound of her shoes echoes lightly through the hallway.
Bend the corner.
‘The hallways where the warehouses are gathered are the best.’
The mark she left behind must have been seen by McKellen, the Marquis of Caymus’ aide.
The sign system is concise, so only the time and direction are listed, but there is no major problem.
‘Even if you don’t specify exactly where it is, you will be able to infer the destination sufficiently. He, they are much more capable than me.’
As she repeats her belief in the Imperial faction, she tries to win her heart.
She is,
Sabak, Sabak, Jeobeok, Jeobeok.
He was afraid of the loud footsteps following him.
It is an innate instinct of living beings to want to avoid pain.
Even if you get used to it and learn how to endure it, it is never painful and fearless.
‘Turn right here…’
Traditionally, the imperial castle and its subordinate palaces do not have a concise structure of corridors.
There are many cases where there are various routes that can lead to the same destination, and there are many cases where they are twisted in the form of a maze.
For example, there were many structures where there was a dead end or a passage through a room to another hallway.
Even when viewed from inside the room, there were cases where there were more than five entrances.
It was a structure that focused on hiding and escaping those inside rather than preventing the invasion of assassins.
Kik, rattle.
Clarence entered the shabby warehouse.
There is a faint musty musty smell.
This is a room thoroughly excluded from management.
This is a calculated deception to hide its importance through deliberate neglect.
“Whoa…”
She lets out her sigh of relief.
If you’ve come this far, you’ve succeeded more than half.
‘Half dozen.’
It was the number of doorways connected to this room.
Of course, they all lead to different corridors.
‘Maximum four pursuers.’
Now we have to leave it to chance.
This room is a uniquely structured room.
Although there are an unusually large number of entrances and exits connected to this place, there are no secret passages that are actually connected.
All six entrances lead to separate corridors.
‘All connected secret passages are in contact with traps.’
Yes.
This room is a room for deception.
Although there are many entrances, they deceive intruders by pretending to be directly connected to secret passages.
However, the real use of this room is as a crossroads to escape to another hallway.
‘Dirty deceivers… But I will show you that deception is not your exclusive possession.’
This is the escape route that only Clarence was informed of by the imperial family.
It was the only passage through which they informed Canin and Clarence in case they were chased by foreign enemies or assassins.
The imperial family informed each person of an emergency escape route, so that even if someone living in the lion’s cradle was captured and tortured by the enemy, they would not create a situation in which they would confess to the escape route chosen by others.
Today, she is visiting her own private escape route for the first time.
Took, seureung.
Clarence kicks the brick between the wall and the floor.
Each and every
Part of the wall right next to it splits and rotates counterclockwise.
There is a gap that one person can barely fit into.
“…”
Clarence looks at the floor.
He carefully inspects the brick door to see if it left any traces of dust as it was swept away by the revolving barrel of the brick door.
“Phew…”
I was worried when I heard the sound of stones rubbing against each other as the door opened, but fortunately there were no traces left.
Look back.
“…!”
Beyond the door she entered, her vibrations and shouts are faintly audible.
She bites her lip hard.
That’s that, that’s that!
When she runs to the other side of her,
Took, seureung.
Press the lower wall with your foot to open the door.
Sarah, Sarah.
After untying the knot on her apron and holding it together in one hand,
Whirik, flutter!
She quickly tosses it through the crack in the secret passageway.
Sreureung, took.
The door closes.
A quick scan of the floor.
There are no traces left.
That’s that, that’s that!
Run towards the secret passage you opened first.
Let’s throw ourselves into the secret passage,
Every bit!
Sreureung, took.
The revolving brick door closes.
“Sigh…!”
Fault!
She stops her steps, tries not to put her weight on her brick door, and turns her ears toward the outside of her aisle.
And hold her breath
Click, click, click, click.
The sound of the door opening rang four times in succession.
“…No? Here…”
“… Too! Another…”
“…Hal! Grab it and cut it in half…”
“…Kan!”
Silence comes suddenly.
Pound, pound, pound, pound!
Clarence’s heart throbs.
Took…
Took.
Took!
The sound of hitting bricks on the wall gets louder and louder.
Doo-kung-du-kung! Doo-kung-du-kung!
The sound of Clarence’s heart also grows louder.
From the hair that hung down her temples,
Pop.
Beads of sweat form and fall on her chest.
Tutter trumpet tuck!
Someone bangs hard on the wall.
“Look here! It’s empty inside, there’s no dull sound!”
“There are scratches on the ceiling too!”
Clarence bites her lip.
It seemed that there was a sound of grinding bricks, leaving traces on the ceiling, not the floor.
“Did I get in here?”
“There is no guarantee that there is only one secret passage here.”
“Didn’t you intentionally leave traces in order to run away while searching the room?”
“하긴. 쥐새끼 같은 년이 눈치는 더럽게 빨라서, 그런 짓거리를 안 할 거라는 보장이 없지.”
“Bitch bitch. Get out of the way. I’ll look for the button.”
Doo-kung-du-kung! Doo-kung-du-kung!
Clarence’s heart begins to tremble.
Is it because her heart is beating?
The trembling of her body was unusual.
“For a moment.”
“Why?”
“Don’t you think you left a mark too openly?”
“Huh? Come to think of it, it seems like that. Considering that she’s usually clever, I don’t think she’s this lax.”
“You think so too?”
“Then what should I do? Find another secret passage? Or follow me through the door?”
Doo-kung-du-kung, doo-kung-du-kung!
Clarence, knowing that she was going to die, wanted to turn her around and run to the other end of the passageway where she was now hiding.
If I stayed here, I felt like I would definitely get caught by them.
“You two go out to the other passage and go after that bitch. The two of us will look around this room to see if there is another passage.”
Thump thump thump thump thump!
“Okay, let’s do that. Even if you go into this passage, I wonder if it would be better to enter it at the end. It’s too suspicious to leave a trace like that openly. Dying, just imagining it, is terrifying.”
Doo-kung-du-kung-du-kung!
“That’s right. Anyway, stop chatting and run after me.”
“Okay.”
“Be careful, you guys too.”
Sreuk, sweet.
Sreuk, sweet.
The two ladies-in-waiting must have gone out through the door they had not entered.
“There’s no time to delay. They might be running away right now, so let’s search them quickly.”
“Okay. I’ll look over there.”
Took!
Took…
Tuk-tuk.
Took.
You can hear banging on the walls all over the room.
Getting caught is only a matter of time.
‘I was too complacent…’
Clarence quietly bites her thumb nail.
I feel like a cat driven to a completely dead end.
‘What if…’
Doo-kung, doo-kung-du-kung, doo-kung, doo-kung-du-kung!
As Clarence frets, she carefully looks around her.
As far as she knows, there are no other passages inside this passage leading to the outside.
“…I got it! W…”
“… I knew it…”
It seemed that the ladies-in-waiting had found another passage.
Doo-kung-du-kung-du-kung!
… Srureung, tok…
The sound of the secret passage opening on the other side echoed through the walls.
“…Go see…”
“…There is a demon…”
“…Ningabo…”
… Srureung, tok…
Thump thump, thump thump!
Clarence was screaming so violently that she wondered if her heart was about to burst.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Her breath is rough.
“Only here is left. I’ll have to check here too.”
“Well. If you threw an apron in the aisle and rolled your hair enough to camouflage it, this one might have twisted it on purpose.”
Klopp.
Clarence swallows her dry saliva.
Tok, tok, tok, tok, tok.
I hear the maids looking for buttons outside.
‘If you get caught like this, you don’t know when the opportunity will come again… !’
Tears form in Clarence’s eyes.
She was to the point of resenting the goddess.
No, before she resented the goddess, she was resentful of herself for being complacent.
Clarence closes her eyes.
Rurrrr
Sereung.
‘Ahhh…’
Spoiled!
“Sigh…!”
Someone grabbed both of her armpits from above her head.
She looks up at her with her terrified eyes.
Whiririk!
Rurrrr
Sreung, Tuk.
“Huh? It’s not here either.”
“Um… For a while…”
Thump thump thump thump thump!
Clarence had to struggle to hold her breath as she heard the sound beneath her feet.
She also had to bite her mouth desperately to keep from screaming as she looked at her man, who was restraining himself with his whole body, with his mouth shut.
“It looks like it came in and out here too. I see footprints near the revolving door. I guess I didn’t go deeper. The footprints stay here, I can’t see them heading inward.”
“Whoa! That Clarence, what a wild bitch.”
“Hmm, how far will you have to run? If you get caught, I’ll tell you what proper education is like today.”
“That’s right. Because of that bitch, what are we? We are deprived of the opportunity to impress the emperor, and the opportunity to admire her handsome, chubby figure by His Highness’ side.”
“I see. It’s not often that you wear pants that stick together like that, so I was wondering if I’d see you at a time like this or not…”
“I’m going crazy wanting to change it with the bitches who dress up in the morning or the bitches who serve in the bath.”
“I know yeah.”
Clarence tries to calm his tremors.
She carefully raises her eyes and looks at the person who is covering her mouth.
A familiar hood appeared in her eyes.
‘Ah… !’
It was McKellen who pulled her up to the ceiling.
Tears well in Clarence’s eyes.
“Let’s split up and go after the other kids. I think we went that way.”
“Sister eight years old. Really, just take it today. I’m going to burn your pussy with an iron.”
“I’m gonna fuck two fists in your bitch’s herbal cunt.”
“If possible, stick it in his ass and then fuck him in his pussy without washing his hands.”
“Yeah, I will anyway.”
I hear the maids leaving.
Click, click…
Woo woo.
McKellen and Clarence breathe a sigh of relief at the same time.
“It was dangerous, Mrs. Dylan.”
“Thanks for the help…”
They were sitting in a narrow aisle, unable to straighten their backs.
This seemed to be part of the ventilation of the secret passage in the lion’s cradle.
“I’m glad I was able to join like this without going through a rough patch.”
“Because of my complacency, even if it was just a little late to help, today’s meeting would have been ruined.”
“No. I never even imagined that they would come out so recklessly.”
The two looked at each other and smiled bitterly.
McKellen watched her as she talked, making sure she was stable.
“It’s not like this here, it’s better to go to the place for the talks. You never know when they’ll be back.”
“Yes. I don’t know this passage at all, so I’d like you to take the lead.”
“All right.”
Sasak, sasak, sasak, sasak.
Saruk, Sarak, Saruk, Sarak.
A man and a woman crawl through a narrow aisle.
The dust that has accumulated over the years of staying over and over again is smeared on the knees, shins, and palms of the two people.
But they didn’t care about getting their bodies dirty.
It was because he didn’t mind getting his clothes dirty, if it was to protect the imperial family, no, his loyalty to the crown prince and the emperor.
“It’s all here.”
“Okay.
They were able to arrive at the conference room looking no different from chimney sweepers.
At that time, Canin was enjoying a late afternoon tea with the Emperor.
