TAPGB - Chapter 95
The Abandoned Prince's Ghost Bride
"Haha... So what's going on here? What about Lucian?"
Leah stopped laughing for a long time and asked.
Dio, now in tatters, spoke in a weak voice.
"I want to be by your side today."
"Me? Why? Even if I went, it would only be within the imperial palace. There is nothing dangerous here."
If something dangerous happens, Lucian will turn the palace upside down. However, a crisis can occur even if it is not dangerous.
"Hmm... There is something like that."
Dio couldn't bear to say that Lucian had sent him to prevent her from meeting his fiancee. Before Dio could inquire further, he changed his tune.
"But what's going on here at this hour? I went to your room and looked for you because you weren't there."
"Caesar asked me to go see Lucian, so I just left. But in the meantime, on a whim, I came here."
When Dio glanced at Caesar with astonishment in his eyes, he smiled meaningfully.
"... Did you know?"
"Then you think I did it without knowing?"
'Would Lucian be angry If he found out?'
"The kid got angry."
Dio, who was conversing with Caesar for a moment with his eyes, barely suppressed a sigh that threatened to burst out.
If Leah had just gone to see Lucian without acting on her whim, the worst would have happened.
When Dio thought about Leah and Lilith clashing, his head started pounding.
"Wait a minute, was that really what you were aiming for?"
Caesar smiled sinisterly behind Leah. Dio's face turned pale.
"... Wait a minute, talk to me."
"Okay. "LI already wanted to ask you something."
Caesar willingly left the room with Dio for a moment.
Seeing the two people so far away that I couldn't hear their conversation, I tilted my head.
When I saw Dio wiping his face and asking Caesar something, I thought the lizard must have done something wrong.
"Ugh, when will that guy grow up?"
Except for being spoiled, Lucian has become much more mature than 5 years ago, but Caesar is now mature too..
'Wait a minute, he just turned 300 years old. So, roughly how many human years is it?'
18-19 years old?
At such a young age, my eyes became bitter and cold.
'It'll take a while for him to grow up.'
I instantly felt pity for Caesar's parents.
I, who was clicking my tongue and shaking my head, suddenly felt someone coming from behind. When I looked back, I saw a group approaching from not far away.
As they got closer. My eyes widened slightly.
"You are..."
A woman so youthful that it was hard to believe she was middle-aged opened her mouth.
It was Lucian's mother, Serena, whom I saw earlier.
I, who made eye contact with Serena, turned around and stared at her.
Hwii-ing...
A lukewarm summer breeze blew between the two.
***
"Ha. Please, bro. Please don't do that."
"What am I?"
When Caesar shrugged his shoulders and played it off. Dio burst into tears.
"What the hell! Brother tried to make Leah run into the Princess!"
"Princess? Ah, Lucian's fiancee?"
"You do such a reckless thing knowing what will happen!"
"Whatever happens, something interesting will happen. It must be fun..."
No, no, not this! If these two meet, a fight will inevitably break out! Doesn't he know how scary women's fights are?
And if something happens to Leah...
"Dio, the premise is wrong."
Dio paused at the calmly intercepted words. Caesar's eyes flashed with a still smiling expression.
"If anything happens. It will be on his fiancée and never on Leah. First of all, Leah is not someone that can easily defeat, and there is no way that Lucian or I will just sit still."
Although Dio was dumbfounded by Caesar's arrogant confidence. Dio had the feeling that his words were not bluff.
So Dio got goosebumps all over his body.
"I was just trying to see Leqh's true feelings. I must act so frustrated. Don't you get annoyed when you look at the two of them? They can't touch each other and go round and round."
"Ha, bro, really"
"I thought I had to at least make him jealous to know how Leah felt, but I didn't know that Lucian's relationship with his fiancee would be so bad. If she continued to see him like this, it seemed like she would only do good things for Lucian, so I stopped. I just hate things that aren't fun."
Dio has nothing to say. In Caesar's eyes, all of this seemed like entertainment.
"Do you think you know who I am now?"
As Caesar's eyes changed into reptile eyes, Dio felt an eerie feeling.
"I roughly heard about it from Lucian."
Dio thought it was strange that Caesar's appearance hadn't changed at all since Dio was young.
However, when Dio encountered a dragon named Age and heard Lucian's explanation that Caesar was also the same dragon, Dio was able to resolve his doubts about him.
'Compared to Age, I think he's very immature."
The intimidation coming from him was by no means at a level that could be ignored. Caesar's unique confident attitude and arrogant expression. It was truly the strongest race.
But, that's it.
"Anyway. Please be careful next time. I'm the only one caught in the middle and I'm in trouble."
"Oh, you're not that scared, are you? No matter how scared you are, you're less than Harry."
When he lamented to Harry that he had been roasted all day long, Caesar kept his mouth shut.
Certainly, unlike other humans, there is an atmosphere in which that person cannot be treated carelessly.
"If we had had an accident this time, brother would have been scolded by Harry more than Lucian."
"Ugh, I don't like that."
Caesar trembled as he imagined that Harry, who usually breathes fire at Lucian and Dio, would also breathe fire at him. Dio, who thought he had persuaded Caesar to some extent, let out a sigh of relief.
"What exactly did you receive orders from Lucian? Protecting Leah's side?"
"That too...The main goal is to avoid encountering the Princess or the former Emperor and his wife.
"Umm... But why is that?"
Caesar gestured behind Dio with his chin. Dio, puzzled, turned back.
And in an instant, his face turned pale. Caesar spoke to him who opened his mouth wide.
"Are you trying to prevent situations like that?"
"Ugh! Brother! If you knew, you should have told me sooner!"
"It wasn't a particularly dangerous situation, so I just stayed quiet."
"Really! I can't speak!"
Caesar, who was suddenly cursed, blinked. He looked at Dio with a bewildered expression, but he was already running towards where Leah and Serena were in the distance.
"Why on earth are you doing this to me?"
The same goes for Leah and Lucian.
Caesar was a dragon who increasingly felt that humans were belittling him.
***
"..."
"..."
Serena and Leah made eye contact for a minute.
Leah was amazed to see Lucian's image little by little on Serena's face.
Serena was nervous about meeting her second son's woman, who was cold to them.
When no one opens their mouth like that.
"Keuhum!"
One of the maids following Serena groaned in discomfort.
Leah realized she was staring at her.
'Are you telling me to bow my head first?'
Why me to a pale, young child?
The thought suddenly occurred to me, but I soon realized that in their eyes, I looked like Lucian's age.
Besides, I is definitely a guest, and Serena is the owner of this place.
After thinking, I slightly held the hem of my skirt and lowered my head with an indifferent expression.
It was an aristocratic etiquette that Harry had taught me earlier.
Serena, who had not expected to be greeted by me, trembled.
"Meet the Empress Dowager."
"So the name is..."
"Please call me Leah."
"Yes, Miss Leah. I see you come here often at this time."
"I was just getting some air with a friend."
Serena spotted two men talking in the distance.
One of them was a man whom Lucian had introduced as his friend along with Leah.
Serena felt impatient when she realized that Dio was by her side. If Dio sees her, he will definitely try to separate her from Leah.
"Can I talk to you for a moment?"
"Umm..."
As Leah rolled her eyes and looked worried, Serena's maid screamed.
"How dare you not follow Empress Dowager's orders straight away! It's blasphemous!"
Leah was dumbfounded when an argument suddenly broke out. The maid's face turned red and blue at her reaction.
"No matter how much you're His Majesty's guest, you cannot be this rudel! Are you ignoring Empress Dowager now?!"
"Wait a minute, calm down."
"Your Majesty!"
Serena tried to stop her maid, but she still couldn't overcome her anger and fumed. Leah, who was watching her, spoke quietly.
"It seems like the maid here ignores her master's orders."
The purple eyes sank coldly.
Serena felt an unapproachable aura from Leah. But it wasn't her maid who had lost her mind.
"What did you just say!"
"If the maid does not represent Your Majesty's feelings, please tell me. Otherwise, I think I'll have some misunderstanding."
Leah completely ignored the maid's yelling and only stared at Serena.
Serena looked back and forth between her maid and Leah, then shook her head.
"That's not it."
"Then I understand."
"Are you ignoring me!"
In response to Leah's attitude of still treating her like a ghost, the maid stepped forward and grabbed her arm, and Leah looked down at her with a cold face.
The maid trembled at the momentary outpouring of life.
"How can a mere maid step in on her own when the master doesn't even step up?"
"W-what now...!"
"Are you sure you don't know that your actions are tarnishing the master's face?"
The maid blushed. She also recognized that she had overacted.
However, because she knew that Serena, whom she had served for a long time, was upset because of His Majesty and this woman, she deliberately raised her voice to raise her spirits in the early morning.
Since Leah didn't have a last name, it seemed like Leah wasn't a nobleman. But how...
'Do I sense the spirit of a loser from this woman?'
To her pride, the maid realized that she had been overwhelmed by Leah.
"Yes, as you said. I am Your Majesty's honored guest. What are you trying to subdue me like this? I wonder if His Majesty will leave you alone in the palace even if he finds out about this."
The maid trembled at the realistic threat and let go of her hand holding Leah.
"Behave properly. If it were anyone else, they would have regarded your actions as Empress Dowager's will."
With those words, Leah passed the maid.
Then Serena, who was behind her, looked at Leah with a mysterious expression.
"Would you like to talk alone, away from other people?"
Serena's eyes widened as Leah spoke kindly, without considering the maid's business.
Soon, Serena pushed back all the nearby maids.
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