Chapter 955 – 955. Blood Curse (4)
“Lenny. That…”
“It’s okay if you don’t give me the answer right now.”
Lenny didn’t listen to Lexus’ answer.
I smiled and distanced myself from Lexus behind the iron bars, and spoke to him in a confident voice.
“I-I will help you.”
“W-what way… No! No!”
Lexus urgently tried to stop Lennie, but Lennie, who had already made up his mind, shook his head and said,
“This is the best I can do for you. “It’s okay to answer at that time.”
“Lenny! No! Dangerous!”
Despite Lexus’s dissuasion, Lenny left him alone and left the prison.
First of all, getting Lexus out of jail is the top priority.
I had to think about what happened next.
If his answer had been rejection, would he have been able to accept that rejection?
He wasn’t confident.
He is the prince of this country.
Even if he falls for his younger brothers’ tricks and is falsely accused of treason and is imprisoned, he is useful just by existing, as he is of royal blood.
Even if he were imprisoned, his status as prince would not be revoked.
So what choice will Lexus make with himself and his status as a prince in front of him?
If he is placed at a crossroads where he must choose one side or abandon the other.
Would he really give up his status as a prince and everything to choose him?
‘… I don’t know.’
The gap that exists between himself and Lexus is so large that it cannot be explained.
Even if they were lovers who loved each other, there was no way it would be easy to overcome the difference in their status as a magician from a humble commoner and a prince of a country.
‘But it’s okay.’
Even if it didn’t choose him, Lenny had no intention of blaming Lexus.
It was inevitable, she told herself.
And she didn’t hesitate to save him.
It was okay for her not to choose her.
Even if it is the best and favor that cannot be repaid, love is not a feeling that relies on and sends such things.
I wanted to do something and give.
‘I want you to be happy.’
I hoped that his efforts to not give up even in unreasonable situations and do his best for the well-being of the country and people would bear fruit.
He should not have met such an unreasonable end here.
That’s why Lennie moved.
‘Still…’
Imagine a time when you were freed from the false accusation and his answer was not rejection, but acceptance.
I felt like I was unbearably happy.
While he hoped that his efforts would come to fruition, Lenny felt that Lexus no longer needed to shoulder the burden of royal responsibility.
A contradiction that simultaneously harbors conflicting emotions that cannot coexist.
Her own mind, as a woman, was truly complex.
Because Lennie didn’t need Lexus, the prince, only Lexus.
Nothing else was needed.
Even if he couldn’t do anything, all he had to do was feed himself.
‘For now…’
After escaping from prison, Lenny tried to find a way to clear Lexus’ name and free himself from prison.
‘If you’re the person who can take out the Lexus…’
The situation has already gone beyond the two princes who framed him for treason.
The charge of treason against the kingdom was a serious matter.
‘… There is only him.’
The person that came to Lennie’s mind was the King.
His father, whom Laxus hated and loathed so much.
No matter how much he thought about it, the only person who could solve Lexus’ problem was the King, who had personally ordered Lexus to be imprisoned.
Even if he had asked the king directly, there was no way he would grant his request, but even if he did, how would Lexus accept that fact?
Even if Lennie were to prove his innocence by bowing his head and bowing down to the king whom he despises and despises so much, would Lexus really be able to accept that fact?
‘… ‘The first priority is to save the Lexus.’
Showing pride was only possible if one was still alive.
Lennie knew that reality painfully well.
It was a judgment based on her experience gained from her many years as an adventurer.
If you die, everything is useless.
Because it means that everything he worked hard to build, including the noble pride he maintained for a long time, will disappear.
Leni decided to ask the king directly.
But even that was a difficult situation.
King Lucadia said that Lenny wanted to meet him, but he was not someone who could be met carelessly.
He was the king, the center and owner of this country, and he was a lowly, low-ranking court wizard under him.
‘… Let’s try it first.’
However, with no other option, Lenny attacked head-on.
What was absurd was the king’s reaction.
Even though it was the action of a low-level court magician without any sense who dared to request an audience with the King without any formalities, the King accepted the request for an audience.
“You can follow me.”
It was unexpected to be able to have an informal audience through a secret passage, following the chamberlain who looked after the king.
“Your majesty. Im here.”
“Come on in.”
At the sound of the King’s voice coming from inside, the Chamberlain politely opened the door and bowed his head towards Leni.
Lennie bowed his head in greeting to the chamberlain who beckoned him inside and went inside.
The room I entered with an expression full of tension was a dark room with no light coming in.
The only thing that illuminated the interior was the candles placed on the lamps.
Eventually, he smelled a strange scent floating on the tip of his nose and frowned.
“… Tsk.”
Leni immediately recognized the identity of that unpleasant scent.
‘Spring herb’ or a type of narcotic that has the effect of stimulating a person’s sexual desire.
And as if to prove that it was a weak thing, three naked women were lying on the huge bed installed in the exact center of the dark room as if they had collapsed.
All of the women were addicted to the drug’s ingredients and were unable to come to their senses with blank expressions on their faces.
Lennie noticed what was happening in this dark room.
Realizing that she had been engaging in promiscuity in bed with three women, she looked at the king with a disdainful expression.
The King didn’t pay any attention to Lennie’s gaze.
“Is there something you want to say?”
The King asked Lennie.
From the moment he accepted his request for an audience and secretly brought him to this room, the King must have known about Leni’s business.
But to Lennie, pretending not to know and asking what his business was, was just an annoying bad taste for Lennie.
Leni opened her mouth, feeling disgusted by the effects of her medicine hovering at the tip of her nose.
“… Please prove Prince Lexus’ innocence.”
“You mean the high traitor who tried to start a rebellion? Not guilty? “What is the evidence?”
“Your Majesty knows. That the prince is innocent. “I fell into a trap created by two other princes working together.”
“It must have been a mistake to foolishly fall into that trap.”
The king’s reaction was cynical.
Instead of showing affection and love for his son, who is his bloodline, he has an insensitive attitude towards stupid and dull people.
Leni held back and persuaded the king.
“Prince Laxus is a saint who will rule this country in the future, succeeding His Majesty. If you abandon Prince Lexus like this, it will be a great loss for the Kingdom of Lucadia…”
“Seong-gun? Him? Under.”
The King laughed as if he was dumbfounded.
“나에게 있어서는 주제도 모르고 제 아비에게 대드는 개새끼일 뿐이야.”
“… !”
Lennie was momentarily speechless and could not say anything.
I had often heard rumors within the royal family that the King disliked Prince Lexus, but this was the first time I had heard him express such passionate irritation directly.
“Who gave him the status of prince? It’s me. If he hadn’t been born in my blood, instead of becoming the prince of this country, he might have lived a life like a scum, perhaps dying on the streets somewhere. “But what about him?”
The King picked up the glass on the table, took a gulp of water, and continued speaking.
“You don’t know what to do except confront me about everything! This shouldn’t be happening! It shouldn’t be like that! If he is a king who will lead a country, he must look after his people and suffer to lead the country’s reign! As if he were already a king! How dare you try to teach me, the king of this country!”
Clink!
As if to express that he was unable to contain all his anger and was overflowing, the king threw away his cup.
Even though the glass shattered and a loud sound echoed through the room, Lennie did not move.
Seeing her like that, her king continued her words.
“But how is he doing now? “Kkkk.”
The King said with a wry smile.
“The guy who taught me and acted like he was the king has now become a worthless human being who was imprisoned and lost everything because of my words.”
It was only after he realized that he had the power to take over the life and death of the man who thought of him as pitiful and ignored him that the king realized that he was superior to Lexus and felt satisfied.
“Did he send you to preach his innocence and get him out of prison?”
“That’s not true! Lexus… !”
“Okay. That guy is like that. “He would rather be dead. He would never bow down and bow down to me.”
Lexus is a man with firm beliefs about his own ideals.
He resists to the end what he considers unreasonable and unfair and does not give up his beliefs.
That is why, while he is noble and just, he is also extremely helpless.
“… Ah.”
Only then did Leni realize the king’s intentions.
He wants to see Lexus bend his beliefs.
In the end he wants to prove that he was right.
Lexus comes in with his head down, and he wants to see him begging for help, saying he did something wrong.
“… “Tsk.”
Lennie’s expression crumpled as if the emotions he had been suppressing for so long were spilling out.
His tightly clenched fist trembled and he glared at the king.
What a mean, ugly, and shallow person he is.
That he, Lexus, and this country called the Kingdom of Lucadia could be controlled by the words uttered by such a person.
It was unbearably humiliating.
The King met Lennie’s gaze as she glared at him and laughed at her.
“You have the same face as that guy.”
The expression of someone who despises and loathes themselves as if they were bugs.
However, because Lexus’s safety is at stake with his every word, he feels helpless and unable to do anything.
“Okay. “I think that would be good too.”
Eventually, the king had an idea.
“… Yes?”
What brings her intolerable humiliation as she despises and loathes her, yet feels helpless to do anything in this absurd reality.
And what kind of expression will Lexus make when it finds out?
The King imagined Lexus’ face at that time and proposed it to Lenny.
“If you accept my terms, I will consider releasing Lexus.”
“… “What is it like?”
“One week. For a week from today, make me happy. Using your body. “If you satisfy me, I will release Lexus.”
It was an offer that Lennie, who had a lover and cared for Lexus, could not accept.
But Lennie accepted the king’s offer.
Even though she would betray her lover, and even though she would cause him great heartache, Lenny wanted Lexus to live.
Lennie squeezed her eyes shut.
She slowly unbuttoned the robe around her body and took off her clothes.
Her pure white naked body, which she had not yet shown to her lover Lexus, was revealed.
