Chapter 77 – Reaching the Hideout
Not as much as Kang Ji-ah, but Gongju-in doesn’t like to dream.
Because she hates being stuck in the past.
He always thought that a dream is usually a materialization of lingering lingering feelings or wishes buried on the other side of the unconscious.
In fact, he rarely dreams.
After a daily workout, take a warm shower and go to sleep, you will always have a refreshing morning.
I fall asleep when I want, regardless of time and place.
People often say that Nucksal is good, but it is a great ability.
Isn’t it the power to always maintain a healthy mental state?
In that sense, the state of the princess these days was not normal.
Ever since he met the white-haired woman, he has been having the same dream every day and having an unpleasant time.
He tried hard to pretend he wasn’t, but he couldn’t fool himself.
Even though I had a good time with the duel with ‘Dancing with Wolves’ or making suggestions to Shin Eun-seo, I would feel vague anxiety while lying in bed.
It was the same today.
The princess lying next to ‘Dancing with Wolves’, lying naked, reflecting on the sweetness of defeat.
He turns over
The princess was dreaming.
It’s a memory from when he was still young.
These were the things that a 16-year-old princess had experienced ten years ago.
The slave city of Rome is burning.
The sound of buildings collapsing, the sharp sound of metal colliding with metal, and voices mixed with screams of elation and despair fill the city.
The notorious ‘Gate to Hell’, said to have never allowed a single escape, has completely collapsed, leaving a huge hole in the wall surrounding the entire city.
Thousands of slaves pour out of the hole, shouting joy and singing a song of freedom.
Intoxicated with the joy of regaining freedom, no one of them pays attention to the man sitting on the sidewalk.
A man with a black mask covering his entire face is sitting on the floor hugging a woman.
The culprit who caused all these things, the princess.
The woman in his arms was covered in blood all over.
In particular, a large amount of blood flowed from the stomach, staining the entire cloth red.
“Calm down. You can’t let go of your consciousness.
You can live
I won’t let you die.”
“Young master…
I’m already wrong.
Leave it as it is and leave this place as soon as possible.”
“Do you think I would?
If you die, I will die here too.”
“Young master…!”
Lia, a woman lying on the ground hugged by a princess, is his childhood friend and maid.
A relationship that led to such a deep relationship that he followed the princess who ran out of the house without hesitation.
He was as precious as family.
She is dying from a fatal wound that can never be recovered.
It was her attack that couldn’t have hurt her.
The princess gritted her teeth.
“It’s clear there was a traitor.
It must be that the slaves did not trust us and sold us!
Otherwise, there’s no way the aristocrat would have been away today.
Especially on a huge auction day like today!”
“I can’t do it if you say things like that…
You have to trust your colleagues… Cough!”
“Leah! Don’t tell me.
Just stay still
I’ll take you to a place where you can be healed.”
Her blood oozes from Leah’s lips.
It is proof that her wounds reached her intestines.
The princess was not a doctor, but she knew very clearly that she was about to die.
By the color of her face, you could tell she was even a child.
The princess’ expression twisted miserably.
“To think that you got hurt like this by missing a noble and even falling into a trap.
It’s a failure… Everything has failed.”
“It is not so.”
Leah says firmly.
Her princess loses her words as her incredibly clear voice emerges from her pressing her wounds with her painful expression.
Leah points to the runaway slaves, she continues.
“Look at them, Bocchan…
Who regained their freedom.
The Bocchan did what he thought was right, and he succeeded.
It doesn’t matter if I didn’t catch the noble or if it’s just me.
It’s never a failure.”
“Don’t tell me. It’s bleeding…
Lia, don’t say more.”
“…Young master.
To see something wrong and not do anything.
If there’s a failure… That’s all.
Did you learn that from your mother?
So we didn’t fail… No.”
“Lea, don’t say more. Please.”
“Even if I die.
Don’t waste your time on feelings… Like anger or vengeance.
Bocchan… Isn’t that kind of person…”
“Leah! Please shut up!”
The princess’s tone is almost pleading.
He is unable to lift Lia’s body and is fidgety, only holding her in place.
Because she knows that her wounds are so deep that if she carelessly lifts her body up, her condition will deteriorate in an instant.
She couldn’t even take away the few minutes she had left…
“What the fuck.”
The princess wakes up muttering.
It had been less than an hour since she had fallen asleep.
But how could she sleep when those memories throbbed her head?
The dream was annoyingly picking out only the scenes where the swear words came out, and reminded me of them.
“Master, what are you doing?”
When he comes out of the tent to get some fresh air, Kang Ji-ah, who was on watch with Shin Eun-seo, turns her head away.
She came out quietly in her own way, but again her ears couldn’t be fooled.
“The dream seat is wild, so I’m going to get some fresh air.”
“You took a pleasant bath with me earlier.
The princesses approach Jia Kang and Shin Eun-seo and sit down by her bonfire.
Ji-ah Kang, who seems to have tried to get as far away from her god Seo as possible, sits across from her and her around her bonfire.
It seems that the sudden attack was quite a shock.
The place where the princess sat was right in the middle of them.
“We’re the only ones at the moment, so talk to me, brother.
Why did you do that then?”
“At that time?”
“That he hesitated before attacking her.
Oppa, you’re not the kind of person to get punched in the face of a fight.
If it was wrong, it wouldn’t be strange if he died then.
Why did you do that? Is there anything you can’t tell me?”
Eunseo Shin asks indifferently.
But the content is to the point.
As expected of Jo Won, who has been working with him for several years, he has a good understanding of Gongju-in.
Kang Jia must have been curious about that too, so she was staring at him.
“…”
The princess quickly shook her head.
She was contemplating how far she should keep talking to them.
It’s not that I don’t believe in Kang Ji-ah and Shin Eun-seo.
It’s just a story I don’t really want to talk about.
White-haired woman.
To talk about Rudy, we must inevitably also talk about the princess’s past.
I had just dreamed of her from that time, and I was about to take her to bed, and it was terrible to have to go back to that memory again.
It was a story without any lessons.
Lia said that what they did was not a failure, but the princess had a different idea.
The nobleman who hid himself that day came back as if nothing had happened when the incident was over and rebuilt the slave city.
Most of the runaway slaves are living a difficult life without regaining their status as free people.
Above all, Lia’s life does not come back.
That too was a failure.
“It was someone I knew.
They don’t know my face or name.
As you all have seen, he is memorable because of his unusual appearance.”
“Well, it was pretty. It looked a bit lacking.
Where the hell did you meet that person so you were so surprised?
Am I familiar with the person you met?”
“No, remember the years we’ve been apart?
I met you then.
If you haven’t changed your name, it’s Rudy.”
“Hmm… That’s enough.
You don’t have to if you don’t want to talk.”
Shin Eun-seo quickly understands the princess’s heart.
When she came out like that, she rather seemed to put her mind at ease.
The princess smiles and says.
“He was a slave.
He was ten years old at the time, but he was used in some kind of experiment, and his hair was white and his whole body was covered with wounds.
At that time, I was still innocent, so I was quite shocked.
After seeing him, I made up my mind that there should be no slaves in this world.”
“Yes? Master, no way…”
“Right now, it’s my creed to do whatever I feel like doing.
When I lived, I was this kind of person.
Nobility is not in my constitution.”
Jiah Kang swallows her words.
She completes an inference by back-calculating the age of the princess and her age.
If that reasoning is true, then the princess is a truly staggering big criminal.
As for her enemy’s spy, Jia Kang seems so cute…
“Huh? Yes?
Was she just feeling sorry for her?
I’m also… We’re not very close.
Next time we meet, can’t you look at me with pity?”
On the other hand, Shin Eun-seo does not think about such a fact.
Ten years ago she had always been attached to her brother, and at that time she had no idea that the princess was doing anything else in another place.
The princess doesn’t answer her words.
There was another mistake in Shin Eunseo’s words.
It is true that the princess felt sorry for Rudy when she met again, but that was not the only feeling he felt then.
However, the princess did not bother to correct that point.
Because she wasn’t the one who had to say those words.
Since then, she hasn’t said much.
In the end, the princess stayed up all night without going back to sleep.
As long as she slept for an hour or two anyway, she had no problems with her activities.
The strength of a strong body.
The sun rises and the day dawns.
However, ‘Dances with Wolves’, which fell into a deep and deep sleep due to the suggestion, is still unable to open its eyes.
While Ji-ah Kang was preparing her breakfast, the princess who went in to wake her up did not hesitate to touch her here and there or pull her cheek hard.
The princess let out a sigh and picked up her handgun, which had fallen to the floor, and drew a sharp iron.
Clap!
“Who, who are you?!”
At the same time as the sharp sound of metal, ‘dancing with wolves’ raises the body.
It was her correct answer, thinking that if she was her seasoned gunslinger, she would surely respond to this sound.
“Let’s eat.”
“Wh… What are you thinking?!”
When the princess says, ‘dance with the wolves’ comes to mind and steps back from her.
Her princess asks, returning her pistol to her.
“What?”
“The duel is already over!
But why don’t you control me?
I don’t remember exactly what happened last night, but I know roughly what you did to me.
I also have the awareness that a duel with you is not normal.
But why…”
“Because I don’t have to do that anymore.
Okay, let’s get this and go eat.”
‘Dancing with the Wolves’, where the princess gave the pistol back.
Of course, she still couldn’t pull the trigger on him.
Just because the memory remains intact doesn’t seem to mean that the hanging suggestion disappears.
Thinking about something that doesn’t work will only make your head hurt.
Soon after, she gave up shooting the princess and put on a proper outfit for the first time in a long time.
For the past few days, she has only been wearing prostitute-like clothes that don’t even look like clothes.
Meals were also mediocre.
The princess and her women must have been eating the same food as her.
I couldn’t figure out why his demeanor had suddenly softened, and I was rather uneasy.
When asked what her intentions were, the princess said that there was no need for that now.
What do you mean you don’t have to?
‘Dancing with the wolves’, which had been pondering over and over even after riding on the horse with the princess, suddenly lifted its head.
The surrounding landscape was familiar to the eye.
Before they knew it, they had reached a place not far from the hiding place.
She turned around and said to the princess.
“Now we are almost there.
The hideout for the rest of the members is over that hill.”
“Oh, we’ve finally arrived.”
“Wait for a sec.”
It was Kang Ji-ah who intervened in the conversation.
She tilts her head and flaps her ears under her hat.
“Is it really the hideout over there?
I think you’re mistaken?”
“No way.
How much did you struggle to build a shelter in this barren place?
You’ll never see anything wrong.”
When ‘Dancing with wolves’ answered firmly, Kang Ji-ah’s expression hardened.
I felt ominous.
She pulls the reins to stop her steed.
Everyone’s eyes are on Kang Ji-ah.
She said.
“There are countless beasts just beyond this hill.”
The eyes of ‘Dances with Wolves’ widened.
