Chapter 84 – Chapter 84 – The Second Princess, Lucia Silve
“Hunchback. So, do you have any more questions?”
“Who lives in there?”
“Curious? There is a small hole in the iron grate, so go and have a look.”
She was walking around the dark confined space with the liver chief, listening to explanations. Then, unlike other prisons, he found a uniquely shaped Jade Room. Glancing inside her, I saw a woman with one arm and one leg bound in chains. Very… It was beautiful.
“Lucia Silve.”
“Sylves? If it’s Silv… Isn’t that the royal family name?”
“The hunchback knows that. As you said, she was originally a princess. She is now imprisoned here for a crime.”
“If it’s a sin… ?”
“The sin of colluding with the demons. The crime of attempting to assassinate the prince and the princess. She literally did what a witch, no, a wicked woman would do.”
The warden clicked her tongue and beckoned her to step away from me.
“But she escaped the death penalty just because she was a princess. Instead, she will be blinded in both of her eyes and locked up here until her death. She backs off They say she could die just by approaching it, I hear.”
She’s a princess, but if she’s greedy, she’s done something she shouldn’t.
So, in the end, you meet such an end.
That was it.
But sooner or later, I was able to realize that the princess wasn’t the villainess. I, who had always been paying attention to others, could rather feel a sense of identity with Lucia.
I was wrongly framed and became a hunchback with melted flesh, so it was very similar to me. Because I’ve been through… Lucia could see that she had been accused of a crime she hadn’t committed. So, I remember that she paid more attention to Lucia because of her sympathy.
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The demon king invaded, and I participated in the war as an ordinary soldier of the Gaia Empire. Although the skin melted from the burns, and it was also a hunchback… To earn money, I participated in the war for my hometown. Is not it? Now that I think about it, I think I just wanted to throw my body into the limbs. I wanted to roll my already ruined body.
Endless war. Ironically, he survived because he struggled to avoid dying pointlessly. Had some luck too.
In the meantime, I was seriously injured in the middle. I had to recuperate for several months. But I refused to step down from the front. Thinking about it now, it’s pretty stupid. I believed that only when I endured here would the people in my hometown receive rations. Anyway, my superiors put me in a decent place for a while. That is, the prison guard of the Gaia Empire’s dungeon. He was told to take care of his injuries for a while, and at least serve as a jailer there. He was not pushed back in battle with ordinary people, and he was hunchbacked and even suffered burns at the same time, so he had a terrifying appearance. It must have been perfect for creating a sense of fear.
So, in the end, I ended up being a dungeon warden for about six months. There, he met Lucia for the first time, and they fell in love with each other.
“Don’t hold the knife too close. It’s a little scary.”
If I rebel here, I could really be misunderstood, so I was easily taken by the female knight. Thanks to this, I was able to approach Lucia who was walking in the garden.
“Keril. Who is this?”
The voice I heard until I got tired of it in the previous episode. Hearing the beautiful face and soothing voice, it must be Lucia Silve.
“This person secretly came into the garden and was watching over the princess.”
“I sincerely apologize for entering the garden without permission.”
I casually pushed the knife aimed at my neck and bowed.
“My name is Baron Dran. Soon after he became a baron, he wandered around, not knowing the buildings inside the palace.”
“Baron Dran?”
“Yes.”
Lucia slowly approached me.
“Your Highness the Princess!”
“Are you okay.”
Knights who prevent Lucia from approaching me. But Lucia came close to her, and she studied my face carefully. … Lucia’s eye color was this color. Lucia’s eyes she couldn’t even look up close as they kissed. She felt the most brilliant in the world.
“You are beautiful.”
Ah.
This automatically comes out of your mouth.
“… Yes?”
Lucia blushed at her embarrassed voice.
“You bastard!”
“Are you okay.”
Stopping the knight who was about to hit me, Lucia muttered:
“Baron Dran… Ira. Daron… What is Daron D?”
The story goes faster if you already know about me. I caught Lucia’s small voice and quickly identified myself as him.
“Ah. You already know my name.”
“Yes?”
“My name is Darron.”
“… Are you really Daron Dran?”
“Yes.”
A man directly appointed by the first princess, Asabel. It’s probably an interesting topic to talk about even within the imperial palace.
“As you have heard, Her Highness Princess Asabel recently appointed me as a baron.”
“Are you my sister?”
At those words, Lucia’s beautiful eyes narrowed.
Oops.
I didn’t get along well with Lucia and Asabel. She has been compared a lot since before, and it is known that Asabel often suppressed her Lucia so that she could not grow her power. Looking at the expressions of the maids and knights around the princess, it seemed that she had come to hate me. It was a problem that I was suspicious, but it seems that I was very displeased that my superior was the first princess.
It shouldn’t be like this.
“Ah. However, I am not the faithful servant of Her Highness Asabel. Somehow, she made a big contribution to the [Monster Suppression Operation] In which Her Highness the Princess participated. She was given a title as a reward for that.”
“What do you want to gain from me by doing that?”
“Yes?”
“It sounds like you are making excuses to look good to me. Or are you going to go that far and hide it so that you and my sister don’t get involved?”
People around me seem to think so too. It seemed that he was considered a frivolous person. First impressions aren’t good.
“It could be. That Daron never lies.”
“Not as Baron Dran, but as Daron… You mean?”
“Majesty! You should go and ask right now. Don’t you know what else they’re up to?”
She shouted, “You can’t leave me alone.” It was clear that there was a big rift between the two sisters.
“Go.”
“Majesty!”
“Thank you.”
I bowed my head and expressed my gratitude. It was too nice to get rid of it. If I were Lucia who didn’t know anything, she would have investigated me right away and demanded an apology at the same time. Even if I couldn’t directly challenge Asabel because I was weak, he would have humiliated me. But Lucia neatly let me go.
“Your Highness, the beautiful princess. See you later.”
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Daron left, and the female knight, Kerril, was still dissatisfied. It was the choice of her own lord, the princess, but she had the feeling that she let go too easily.
“Majesty. That bastard, was looking over Her Highness with very dirty eyes.”
“Don’t call me a baby.”
“Yes?”
Keryl was taken aback. It wasn’t nice to see her swearing in front of the princess, but she couldn’t separate her swearing from Keril, who was of a lowly status. Recognized for her potential, her use of swearing decreased after she became a knight protecting her by entrusting her favor to Lucia. But no one stopped swearing at a time like this. By speaking so harshly for her princess, she even pierced the stuffy stomachs of those who served Lucia. Lucia herself did not restrain Keril like that.
“Majesty. Why?”
“Me?”
And forbidding her to call her cub a cub… , Lucia’s face now.
‘Fuck? No way?’
“How am I?”
“Oh, no.”
Kerrill looked bewildered and looked in the direction the pup had disappeared. And she checks on Lucia again. Lucia was staring in the direction where the bastard had disappeared with an expression full of regret.
It’s good that Lucia, who had no interest in men at all, was attracted to her opposite sex. However… The problem was that the target was the man who did such a revealing thing. Lucia Silve, who was wise and pure, showed this expression not only to Keril, but also to all the people around her.
“Keril.”
“Yes.”
“Investigate the man named Daron Dran.”
‘Phew. I must have been mistaken.’
But that was an illusion, Kerril thought. Judging from her investigation, she doesn’t seem to want to let it go. Anyone can see that it was a suspicious bastard, so you should investigate it at least once.
“From the past to the recent past. Oh, and also research the people around you.”
“Yes.”
“And… What do you like Also check if there is a girl you like. It would be nice to find out what your tastes are like.”
“… Yes?”
“I’ll just go in then. Good job Keryl.”
Lucia left her garden, leaving a bewildered Keril. One by one, her maids follow Lucia. Lucia, who entered her room, sent her maids out saying that she wanted to be alone. She put her hand over her own chest, her pounding heart not calming down.
“I finally met you.”
She muttered the name secretly.
“Daron.”
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“Sir hair. No matter how you think about it, this is the worst first impression.”
It is a long-awaited reunion. Lucia will be seeing me for the first time, but she was a moment I missed so much. She’s glad Lucia is so nice and believes in me, but in reality she will still have doubts.
Lucia Silve… I’m the only woman I can’t treat carelessly. Oh, if you include my mother, it’s second.
I don’t want to go forcibly or approach with a dark mind. Like the previous episode, I want to be genuinely liked, but doing this would be a headache.
“Anyway, it’s finally here.”
After wandering around for a few more minutes asking people, I arrived at Asabel Silve’s palace. I went inside after being identified by the soldier guarding the entrance. Head straight to Asabel’s office.
“Baron Dran. Welcome.”
“Are you inside?”
“You are inside. Majesty! Baron Dran has arrived!”
Soon I heard a voice from inside the room telling me to come in. The door opens, and I enter the office I came to a few days ago. And I soon met them.
“Darron?”
“Oh. Do you know each other?”
The red-haired warrior, Charlotte. Then there was her boyfriend Jed and her colleague Elinne.
