TAPGB - Chapter 82

TAPGB - Chapter 82

The Abandoned Prince's Ghost Bride

Suddenly,

"Hey, kid."

At that time, the door opened without knocking and Caesar came in. Harry, who was already sharp, opened his eyes sharply.

"No matter how close you are to His Majesty, please knock and come in!"

"What is this blood clot called?"

"Blood, gore!"

Harry held his back and foamed at his mouth. Dio comforted him and Lucian giggled and looked at Caesar.

"Leah woke up."

Lucian immediately stood up and left the office.

"Where are you running away, Y our Majesty!"

"I'll come and check on Leah for a moment! James! Send the doctor and some food to my room!"

There was no one to catch Lucian, who was flushed and excited.

"Aren't you going with his ?"

When Dio asked Caesar, Caesar let out a sinister smile.

At that moment, the three people inside trembled.

"Ugh.... You should try that guy too."

Caesar expected to have Lucian's head pulled out twice, no, ten times as much as he had suffered.

***

Again, back to Leah's room.

As soon as Lucian opened the door, he found Leah fallen on the floor and quickly approached her.

"Did you fall? Are you hurt anywhere?"

Lucian supported Leah. But soon he realized that Leah had no strength in her legs and picked her up.

As Leah was picked up so easily, she felt even more ashamed.

Lucian studied Leah's face as she covered her face with both hands.

"What's the matter? Did you hurt your forehead? I called the doctor, so let's get treatment right away. It won't be a big deal."

"No, that's not it...."

"Huh?" 

"... I'm so embarrassed."

Lucian blinked for a moment and burst out laughing.

“Ha ha ha ha ha! Ahahahaha!”

"Smile? Are you smiling now?"

"Sorry, sorry. I'm so happy to see Leah, hahahaha!"

I don't think it's just because he's happy.

I forgot how embarrassed I was and glared at Lucian. Lucian even had tears in his eyes.

"Ha... I don't know how long it's been since I last laughed." 

Lucian gently sat me down on the bed and raised his upper body.

"I heard everything from Caesar. You knew I had a body and you were thinking about getting my body back long ago, right?"

"You've already talked about it that far? That's right. I knew you had a body and planned it. How is it? Do you like my gift?"

Looking at the half-moon-shaped eyes, it seemed like he was hoping for a compliment.

I stretched out my hand when suddenly the image of Lucian I knew overlapped. I could feel his fluffy white hair under my fingertips.

Lucian reflexively closed his eyes.

Hoping for her to pet him...

'Huh??'

Lucian opened his eyes, feeling pain as if the top of his head would be ripped out.

I narrowed my eyes, my purple eyes shining menacingly.

"So you made the ghost anxious and were hiding this plan all by yourself, right?"

"Now it's not a ghost, it's a person."

"I thought you were making myself human by sacrificing a poor person for no reason. No, before that, I had an argument with you without even knowing that my body was in the basement, right?"

"That..."

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"I was going to say something. But then you didn't want to listen to me."

"But, we had many opportunities to talk before that."

Lucian didn't know what to do when he saw her with her head down and writhing in betrayal.

"Leah, I did everything wrong."

"..."

"I should have thought about your feelings too, but I was too selfish. I was wrong from beginning to end, so will you please forgive me?"

".... Okay, I forgive you."

Lucian smiled broadly. But he couldn't laugh anymore at what she said next.

"After my heart was completely relieved."

"... Huh?"

Leah put more pressure on the hand holding Lucian's head.

Lucian let out a silent scream and looked at Leah with a dumbfounded expression.

"You damn bastard! You're making the ghosts fall away!"

"Aaaah! Lee, Leah! Now people...!"

"You're noisy, you bastard! When did someone ask me to make me human?! If you had planned something like that, you would have told me the truth at least once during these five years!"

"Well, I wanted to give you a surprise... Argh! Oh, I see! It's my fault!"

"You should have used that time to write another letter! Do you know how long I've waited for you?! But you do such useless things...!"

Lucian, who had been forcefully headbanging while being held tightly by Leah, felt Leah's hand gradually weakening and her voice becoming watery.

Tears like chicken droppings fell from Leah's eyes.

Lucian's thoughts stopped for a moment because it was his first time seeing her cry.

"Huh, what is this? Why are there tears...."

Because I couldn't cry with my ghostly body, I couldn't control the emotions and tears that welled up against my will.

In the end, Leah let go of his head and cried.

Lucian's face suddenly became thoughtful and he hurriedly hugged her.

"Leah, I'm sorry. I really committed a deadly sin..."

"I, I... I thought you forgot about me. So I thought I would never see your face again..." 

"That can't be possible. I missed you so much." 

"Then why haven't you come here once?!"

"....The former Emperor stopped me from going."

Leah stopped arguing and looked at Lucian with her lips pursed. Lucian wiped the corners of Leah's eyes with an expression that made her feel even more pain.

"You don't know how many times I've tried to go see you. However, since I was acting as Leopold's double, I guess he thought I would run away if I went outside."

"At least mention it in the letter. I don't even know that...."

When I was about to accept the death-like end, I thought that I did not blame Lucian.

But, that wasn't the case.

I didn't want to go down the final road in an ugly way, so I just lied to myself that I didn't blame him.

In fact, I blame Lucian several times.

Why don't you come to see me?

Do you not want to see me anymore?

To you, I am someone you can quickly forget, etc.

At one time, I was living in a whirlpool of negative emotions, but I felt like my memories with Lucian would be diluted if I continued like this, so I quit.

If I had known that Lucian had this situation, I would have been happy to wait for him to come.

"It's bad you didn't tell me."

"Huh. I'm the bad guy."

I felt like Lucian was more mature than me because he accepted such a trivial complaint without ignoring it, so I scolded him for no reason.

I felt a sense of disconnect from Lucian when I last saw him.

"But even after you became Emperor, did you stop the previous Emperor from going to the mansion?"

Lucian's body trembled. Leah's eyes narrowed as she sensed his agitation.

“Hoo......?”

"That... Lia When I see your face, I feel like I'm going to hit everyone and run away....."

"So the last year was of your own choosing?"

"It's exactly half a year...."

Lucian noticed Leah's gaze. Leah's touching eyes had long since faded.

"Yaaaa! You call that a horse?!"

Lucian felt a hand holding his head again and was liberated.

Meanwhile, the imperial court, who had just arrived at the Emperor's bedroom, saw the Emperor caught by the hair inside the slightly open door and the woman holding the Emperor's head and going crazy, and his face became thoughtful.

"Boo, profane!"

No, more than the Buddhist scriptures, he was filled with fear that the Emperor might behead that woman.

Since she was brought in by the Emperor himself a few days ago, he thought she must be an unusual person, so he was planning to treat her with all my heart...

".... You're not going to kill me too, are you?"

Aren't there people in power who just kill innocent people for no reason?

There is no doubt that His Majesty is a saint to the people, but to the nobles and others, he is an extremely strict and scary person. 

Immediately after his accession to the throne, there was also a record of framing all the people who were in his way.

"Off... What should do....!"

"What are you doing here?"

"Ah! Age!"

The imperial palace doctor spotted Age and his face opened wide. Seeing that Lucian treated him with courtesy, most of the people in the imperial palace tended to see him as another powerful figure.

"Oh my, Age. Please stop them! I'm scared that I might see blood... !" 

Eiji glanced through the crack in the door and his eyes became cold.

It was obvious what the Emperor's misunderstanding was. No, in fact, there was enough room for misunderstanding even if it was not for him but for anyone else.

"I will take care of it, don't worry. The Emperor just needs to do what he needs to do."

"Really, is that true?"

Seeing Age's kindly smiling face, the imperial court felt a little relieved.

Are he laughing now?!

No, it felt like my lifespan was being shaved off by a year because of the voices coming from inside the room.

***

"Soo, there's nothing really wrong with you, Lady. However, you said she couldn't wake up for a long time, right?"

The imperial doctor, who had finished examining Leah, stammered and spoke after looking at the surroundings.

He was even more nervous because Lucian, Age, and a scary red-haired man were standing behind him.

But in contrast, the woman in front nodded absently.

"You haven't moved for a long time, so your muscles are very stiff. It will be difficult to walk properly until your muscles return to their original state."

"I'm not sick, am I?"

"Sure. There is no disease. If you work hard at rehabilitation, you will quickly return to normal, so you don't have to worry. Your stomach will also be very weak, so it is best to eat only soft foods that are not irritating. About a week."

The woman smiled brightly and nodded her thanks. The royal palace once again realized that the woman was a beautiful woman.

"I think you fell off the bed a while ago and hurt your forehead. Let me check."

The doctor's words trembled as he heard the Emperor's words coming from behind.

And then he took one look at the woman's smooth forehead, and then another look at the Emperor.

"You are not injured. Rather.... How would you like your Majesty to receive medical treatment?"

Because he had been bullied by Leah once, the Emperor's hair was sticking out here and there, and there were a few small scratches on his face.

Seeing the Emperor like that, Age clicked his tongue, and Caesar tried hard to suppress his laughter.

"I think this is okay."

“Your Majesty...”

"I just got what I deserved."

So what is the price?

As the imperial court looked confused, Leah blushed.

"Get a diagnosis quickly...!"

Realizing that Lucian was the Emperor and recognizing that there were eyes around her, Leh belatedly gave him the honorific.

Seeing her like that, Caesar eventually crawled over and Lucian also widened his eyes and then laughed.

"Good. Whoever is speaking, you should listen carefully." 

The imperial court was taken aback by the sight of Lucian immediately changing his words. Since the only way to treat the wound was to apply ointment to the wound, Lucian snatched the ointment from the imperial doctor and handed it to Leah.

"Apply it directly."

"What?"

"Hurry. Leah made me like this." 

"Ugh... Anyway, the child became weak because I didn't see him..."

As Leah grumbled and had no choice but to apply ointment to his face, Lucian looked at her lovingly eyes dripping with honey. After seeing this, the royal palace realized that it was not for nothing that the woman was brought by the Emperor himself.

Age pulled back the imperial doctor.

"Don't go somewhere else and talk about what happened today."

"Don't worry. That will never happen."

The royal palace doctor was someone who knew fractions. The imperial palace is a place where people's lives can be lost due to pointless curiosity, so don't do anything foolish.

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