TAPGB - Chapter 136
The Abandoned Prince's Ghost Bride
“If you wanted to kiss me, you shouldn’t have told me. I would have been happy to do it.”
“I will kill you! How dare you... !”
“Well, whether we kill him or not remains to be seen later.”
For a moment, Leah's eyes shook.
Leon's new form, smiling wryly, appeared in two overlapping each other, and the entire background trembled.
Feeling that her mind was gradually fading away, she tried to somehow regain her consciousness, but she could not get her way.
"Shit...”
Eventually, darkness came in and she fell in front of him. Leon hugged Leah dearly and stood up from his seat.
He carefully stroked her hair, which had finally become obedient. Then he gently kissed Leah's cheek.
As if just from excitement, Leon's cheeks flushed and he looked like a boy in love.
However, the knights who were watching his situation felt that Leon's behavior was bizarre.
It certainly looked like Leah was attacking the Emperor, but they had a hunch that it was actually quite the opposite.
‘Besides, the two are lovers.’
Anyone working in the imperial palace knows that the Emperor has abandoned his long-time fiancée in favor of a new mistress.
So now that the excitement had calmed down, this situation seemed very foreign.
As the knights hesitated to look at Leon, he opened his closed eyes and opened his mouth.
“Take care of it.”
“... Yes?"
The knights were puzzled by the sudden remark, but they could no longer continue their thoughts.
This is because their eyes gradually fell downward and their bodies appeared upside down. They died without even realizing what had happened.
Behind where they were standing were warlocks wearing priestly uniforms.
“What do you plan to do, Your Majesty?”
Peter, the leader of the warlocks, followed behind Leon, who was carrying Leah.
Peter glanced at Leah, who was fast asleep.
“I would have definitely said that. As long as I can get Aria, everything else doesn’t matter.”
A few days ago, when Peter held Leopold's hand under the pretext of praying. The two shared a brief conversation with each other.
Although he was relieved that it was Leon, the bombshell he made confused Peter for a moment.
‘I will make Aria mine. If you're going to put me on the throne quickly, you'd better help me have her.'
It was customary for Leon to ascend the throne as soon as he took over the body of his descendant and protect the warlocks.
It was quite a shock to see him threaten to take the throne hostage.
Yes, the process of getting a girl won't take very long, so he's willing to cooperate.
But looking at Leon now, Peter felt an unknown sense of anxiety.
Moreover, didn't he suddenly lead all the warlocks to the imperial palace without caring at all about other people's opinions?
The attitude was that as long as there was Aria, nothing else mattered.
“...Do you have any intention of becoming Emperor anymore?”
Peter, who had vaguely asked, thought it was unlikely, but his heart sank when Leon grinned.
“In the first place, I lived until now to see Aria again. I intend to spend the rest of my life with her in privacy.”
“Then what do you plan to do with the empty throne?”
“Well, well. Do you want to be Emperor?”
“...Yes?"
“I am no longer interested in the position of Emperor, and there is no one else worthy of ascending to the throne. This is how things have happened anyway, and if you don't deal with the remaining royal family members, you will be the first to suffer. In that case, wouldn’t it be better for you to become the Emperor of this country?”
Peter was so shocked that he stopped, but Leon passed him by and headed somewhere with Aria.
“Oh, by the way, let’s put a strong barrier around the entire imperial palace. It would be difficult if an uninvited guest came in from outside.”
And just like that, Leon left. Peter, who was left alone, sighed and turned around.
“As your Majesty said, spread the barrier to prevent invasion.”
“...Do he really intend to give up the throne, His Majesty?”
"Well. It’s always been difficult to understand his intentions, but this time it doesn’t seem like a joke.”
He couldn't possibly predict what would happen next. There is nothing more unsettling than not knowing the future.
Meanwhile, the actual leader of the old faction and warlocks in the temple was Leon.
At first, it was clearly a relationship made for symbiosis with the warlock.
Caligo, the first warlock head, first suggested to the despondent Leon that he should become a warlock and seek revenge.
‘In the end, His Majesty became a warlock.’
With that power, he killed his twin brother, who was not recorded in history, and tried to forcefully take the woman he loved, but ultimately failed and was sealed so that he could not be touched.
If you look at the warlock's journal from the early days of the empire, there is a record that Leon sacrificed many people to break Aria's seal and captured the witch to find clues.
In the end, no way could solve the problem, so Leon stole the body of his descendant right before his death, and it has continued to this day.
During those 300 years, novice warlocks reached areas that even Peter today cannot reach.
Leon is not just a shield for the warlock, but his very existence is the history of the warlock and the ideal that all warlocks ultimately desire.
Peter had reached this point thanks to Leon's guidance, but he couldn't even imagine what would happen if his position became vacant.
***
Lucian opened his eyes with a tired look.
That moment...
Phew!
“Kwaaaak!”
A black spear flew from somewhere and pierced Lucian’s body.
He had already been attacked several times and his entire body should have turned into a beehive.
But when the window disappeared, as if nothing had happened, there was no problem with his body. That means this is not a physical attack.
‘Keep your head straight! We have to get out of here to save Dio and Leah!’
Even during mind-numbing pain, Lucian tried to maintain his senses as best as he could.
However, when trying to destroy unidentified black magic.
Phew!
“Ugh!”
Without a doubt, the spear flew out and pierced Lucian.
Lucian, again distracted, grabbed his side where the spear had pierced through. There were no injuries, but the pain was real.
“...If you think I’m going to give up, you’re wrong.”
But Lucian's heart did not break. This time, two spears flew out and stuck in Lucian's body. Lucian could only moan, but he did not stop destroying black magic.
"Found it!”
Lucian, who finally figured out the method of destruction, gritted his teeth and tried to get rid of the black magic. Then, perhaps due to a sense of crisis, the pattern of attacking Lucian became more blatant.
Lucian, who endured the pain by biting his lip even as spears were pierced one by one in each limb, closed his eyes tightly when he saw the spear flying from the front.
Just as he was about to endure the terrible pain that was about to come, he felt the surroundings become brighter beyond his closed eyes.
He slowly opened his eyes and saw the black magic surrounding him turn into ash and disappear.
“...This?"
Lucian looked around him and realized that there was someone nearby.
The man with his back to him looked familiar as if he had seen him before. Just then the man turned his head.
Lucian, who widened his eyes at the sight of him, soon calmed his mind.
“Leon... No.”
A man with brown hair and golden eyes whom Henri Reifle had drawn under Leon's orders appeared before his eyes.
At first, he thought he was Leon's alter ego, but when he saw his soft-looking appearance and the gently lowered corners of his eyes, he realized it was someone else.
“Odell, right?”
The man laughed silently.
Soon he approached Lucian and lifted him up from the floor.
He was a little lower than himself. But for some reason, he felt strange looking at Odell.
His face was completely different from his own, and Leopold was not across from him, but it felt like he was looking in a mirror.
“You must have died 300 years ago.”
“...Just before I died, my brother took my powers away. It was probably necessary to deceive Aria. Thanks to that, a little bit of my will remains to this day.”
He was definitely the complete opposite of Leon. It's exactly as Leah said.
“There is something I really want to show you.”
When Odell stretched out his hand, a portal appeared and what appeared to be the imperial palace was visible beyond it.
“Would you mind giving me a moment? It won’t take long.”
It would have been right to refuse his offer now that every minute was precious, but for some reason, he couldn't refuse. Lucian seemed to be possessed, holding Odell's hand and passing through the portal with him.
What unfolded in front of the two was the past from over 300 years ago, seen from Odell's perspective.
***
‘I like you!’
Odell was in the heat and confessed with all his might. Aria in front of him just blinked.
‘Please engage with me seriously!’
Odell held out the bouquet with trembling hands. It was so shaken that the petals fell off. Aria, who was looking at this blankly, chuckled.
‘I was wondering why you’ve been so strange these days, and I guess you did it to confess.’
Aria took the bouquet and examined it. Odell looked at her and rolled his eyes. He said with a soft smile as Aria smelled the scent of the bouquet.
‘I accept.’
‘Really...?’
‘What, did you confess to be a child?’
'That's not right!'
‘Then you should be happy, why are you looking so dazed?’
Odell's expression changed moment by moment as he belatedly realized that Aria had accepted his confession. When he finally closed his mouth and cried, Aria was even more embarrassed.
'Why are you crying?'
'But... I didn't know if you would accept me. If you refuse, I'll think about what to do next...’
Aria burst into laughter without realizing it at the pitiful sight of him crying like chicken shit.
A man who cries when his confession is accepted, and a woman who bursts into laughter after receiving his confession. Although they looked funny, they were a very good pair.
Lucian watched this with disapproving eyes.
“Did you just show it to me to show off?”
"No way."
Odell giggled. Soon the scene changed and they reached a different place.
'Aria! My brother is finally here!’
‘I heard they even conquered the surrounding Kingdoms, so I guess they weren’t hurt.’
‘It’ll be okay because there’s Carcerine. He promised me. He decided to protect my brother.’
Excited at the thought of his brother returning, Odell could not contain his excitement. Aria found this cute and stroked Odell's cheek.
‘Are you going to tell Leon?’
‘Yes, I should say it. Wouldn’t he be surprised?’
‘Carcerine will scoff and ask if we were dating while they were working hard, and Leon... I don’t know how it will come out.’
‘My brother would definitely congratulate me. I want to surprise him quickly. And I want to be congratulated!’
‘Then I have to prepare for a surprise.’
The two were excited to surprise Leon and Carcerine soon.
However, Lucian, who knew what kind of disaster would happen in the future, could not look at the current scene positively.
As expected, Odell had a bitter expression on his face.
“... I didn’t know my brother liked Aria.”
“...”
“If I had known, I wouldn’t have thought that.”
Lucian's eyebrows twitched at the meaningful words.
“Does that mean you don’t even think about confessing to Leah? Are you going to give up your love and hand it over to Leon?”
Odell could not answer any of his questions. The scene simply changed again after silence.
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