TAPGB - Chapter 150

TAPGB - Chapter 150 

 The Abandoned Prince's Ghost Bride

 

One hour before Lucian's title ceremony began.

Leah left the imperial palace with Caesar in the morning and came to the ghost mansion.

Although she only stayed there for a few days, Leah's feelings were a little different.

Because now she is thinking of saying goodbye to the past forever.

Leah started looking around her, starting from the outskirts of her mansion.

It's a place that's familiar enough to her that she can go anywhere with her eyes closed, but it hits her a little differently now that she's got all her memories back.

Because now she knows that Odell is the mansion, built with the imagination of her marrying him.

“I couldn’t even cook at the time.”

Now she can cook various dishes for Lucian, but when she was Arya, she couldn't do anything that could be called cooking other than simple cooking.

So when she traveled with Carcerine, Odell, and Leon, the cook was none other than Odell.

The kitchen was probably designed for Odell's own use.

“I guess that’s why the countertop was subtly higher.”

When she was a ghost, it was perfect because she was floating in the air, but now it was subtly high.

Besides that, Leah looked around the various rooms and entered Lucian's room.

Before Lucian came in, it was the largest room with a bed, and when humans lived here, most people used it as a bedroom.

It made her feel strange to think that she might have slept and woken up in this room with Odell and not Lucian.

She somehow doesn't want to imagine it.

“I’m sorry if you’re disappointed, Odell. But now the person I love is Lucian.”

However, this does not mean that her love for Odell has faded.

It's just that the present has become more important than the past.

In fact, the only afterimage that could be felt in this room was Lucian.

Not only the wonderful lover he is now, but also the mischievous and cute side of my 8-year-old enemy, to the stormy and angry days when he was 15, and the 18-year-old Lucian she had an argument with just before we broke up. His various appearances came to mind one after another.

Without realizing it, Leah moved to the next location with a smile on her face.

“Wow, dust.”

As soon as she opened her door, Leah frowned at the sight of a cloud of dust rising up.

In the end, she used magic to blow away the dust and looked around the narrow room.

“This is it. I don’t know why I chose to use this as my room, leaving alone the large room that was meant for me.”

The place she enters is the room where she gathered all her belongings during her ghost days.

It's a really small room where you only need to move five steps. No, it's a warehouse.

Instead, as narrow as it was, it was surrounded on all sides by bookshelves, and there were things she had collected little by little, starting with her diary.

Dolls that are now worn out, beads that have lost their shine, trivial miscellaneous items, etc.

If she discovered something new or caught her eye, she kept it in her room and treasured it.

“At the time, I spent my days with these things.”

Now it's just trivial things, but in the past, thanks to these things, she was able to gain strength and get through the day.

Things she was grateful for were now in the past, so as Leah cleaned her room, she was also able to sort out her past.

Before she knew it, she had looked around both the first and second floors.

There was only one place left that she had not explored. Right in the basement.

As she looked at the entrance to the basement, she remembered how she had felt when she entered this place before she was sealed.

“...At that time, I mistook Leon for Odell.”

He may have used black magic to subtly change his appearance to look like Odell, but at the time she was so excited that Odell was going to propose to her that she didn't notice anything strange.

Leah took one deep breath and went down underneath her.

She illuminated her surroundings with her magic, and she could see Carcerine's barrier where she had been sealed, the sacrificial room where many innocent lives had been taken, and the underground tunnel where Leon had come and gone.

But the original purpose of this basement was...

“My laboratory.”

Young witch. 300 years ago, Arya was an orphan.

Until she was ten years old, she lived with her mother, a witch, but she lost her life in the epidemic of the time, leaving Arya alone.

She used her witchcraft skills to survive, occasionally feeding her mouth with glue.

When she met Odell and Leon, it was okay because they were now grown enough to take care of themselves, but was it because they grew up in a poor environment when they were young? Or maybe it's the memories of her time in her mother's lab?

She always wanted to have her own laboratory.

“Hmm, since I was young, I said it was a laboratory in the basement for no reason.”

Odell confessed first, but Arya also had feelings for him. She said that when she and he were talking about this and that, she wanted to look cool for something, so she said that if she had a lab, she would like to put it in the basement.

“I didn’t know you would actually make it.”

Although the purpose of the basement was greatly distorted now, she was able to fully feel Odell's feelings for her.

Leah! Where are you! I have to go now!

He heard Caesar calling out to her from above. Leah came back up with her eyes set on the basement once again.

“Sorry, shall we go now?”

Leah went out into the living room and approached Caesar, saying she was sorry. But her eyes were fixed on one place.

“...I put this here.”

“Because this is the house Odell built.”

What she was looking at was a painting of Odelle and Arya by Henri Reifle.

“I was worried about Lucian at first, but he said he wasn’t the type of person to be jealous about things like this and told me to do as I pleased.”

Maybe this is possible because he does not deny the love between Odell and Arya, who were his former lives.

“This painting finally makes me feel like the mansion is complete.”

Odell's house was built to raise a family with Arya. A portrait of a beautiful couple is placed there.

Even though it was her own painting, Leah smiled happily as if she was looking at someone else's painting.

“Still, it’s probably the fate.”

"Huh?"

Leah turned her head at Caesar's words.

“Have you ever wondered why only I and Lucian can see you, a ghost?”

"Come to think of it...”

Now that she has her body back, she's so used to it that she's forgotten it.

At first, didn't she test several times to see if other people could see her too?

“That’s because of my order.”

“...What?"

“Right before sealing, I separated your soul from your body in case Leon might reach out to your soul.”

In the process, Carserine placed a spell containing his wishes toward her departing soul.

“I truly care for you and hope that you can finally be free when the person you love appears.”

That was the phrase written on the barrier where Arya was sealed.

But the spell also affected Arya's soul.

Only Lucian and Caesar, the reincarnations of Odell and Carcerine, who loved her with all their heart, were allowed to see her.

Leah's eyes widened as she learned the new truth. She smiled faintly at their love that was felt until the very end.

“Don’t tell Lucian about this.”

"I will not. That guy doesn’t like talking about his past life. I know how you feel, so there’s no need to talk about it.”

The two people made eye contact and laughed playfully. They looked at the picture of Odell and Arya for a moment and then walked away without hesitation.

“Now then, shall we go overturn the empire?”

“Let’s see how people’s faces become distorted!”

After coming out, Caesar released his polymorph and returned to his original form.

Leah smiled brightly at the handsome appearance of the dragon and climbed on his back.

***

Come back again.

Everyone in the imperial palace froze at the sound of cries that tore through the air and looked around to see what had happened.

“Uh, uh...! Above...!”

Then, someone pointed to the sky. At the same time, something red covered the clear sky.

“Well, it’s a dragon...!”

Wow!

The nobles were shocked to see a dragon for the first time in their lives. It was the same for the royal family.

“Lucian! What are you doing! We must run away quickly!”

Leopold grabbed his arm, but only Lucian tilted his head with a puzzled look in his eyes.

“Caesar?”

“...What?"

Leopold was struck on the head by the familiar name. Before they knew it, a red dragon so large that it covered the sky had safely landed in the empty spot as the nobles had fled.

Ujijik-Kwajik-!

Of course, the chair and table were unable to withstand his weight and broke.

"Foolish humans, how dare you not look so good at my partner Lucian's title awarding ceremony."

Caesar's loud cries reached those who fled in all directions.

"Not long ago, Lucian earnestly asked me to deal with the warlock threatening this place. But what right do you, who have done nothing, have to say anything about awarding Lucian a title?"

Caesar's harsh gaze was focused on the nobles.

Lucian chuckled as he realized what Caesar was thinking when he did this.

“I really... When on earth did you prepare this deal?”

“Myths are covered with new myths.”

Leopold, who was nearby, muttered.

Caesar was willing to reveal his current existence, and at the same time, he was trying to cover the ominous tales of the nobles with a new shock.

And his calculations were exactly right.

When the dragon, which was thought to be only a mythical creature, actually existed before their eyes, the nobles' spines tingled and their entire bodies trembled.

Lucian Odelion is the first person to receive dragon protection in 300 years.

The nobles clasped their hands as if they were fascinated by Caesar's next words, taking his words to heart.

Caesar, who thought he was somewhat settled, snorted at him. Then, something appeared above his head.

“Lucian! Let's go!"

It was Leah. As Leah stretched out her hand with a bright face, Lucian couldn't help the smile and turned to where she was.

Lucian climbed onto Caesar's back using his wings as a stepping stone and was able to escape the breathtaking title ceremony thanks to Caesar flying straight into the sky.

“Caesar! You didn’t forget to take a walk around the empire, right?”

"Of course!"

Caesar grinned at Leah's words and glided freely through the sky.

The cold wind caressed his cheeks, and the small people and buildings were visible below. All of this felt unrealistic and fantasy-like.

“Now there will be no one to argue with you.”

Lucian, who was staring at the scenery blankly, turned his head when he heard Leah's words coming from next to him.

For some reason, she felt like tears were leaking out. However, Lucian burst out laughing.

"Ha ha ha ha ha!"

His cheerful laughter echoed through the sky. Caesar and Leah looked at this with satisfaction.

Lucian calmed down to some extent and stopped laughing, putting his hands in his pockets with a smile on his face.

“Leah.”

Dalkak-

The small box opened and a brilliant diamond sparkled in the sunlight.

“Will you please marry me?”

Leah's eyes slowly grew bigger. While she was dazed, Lucian carefully put the ring on her left hand.

It was like he had it custom-made and it fit without a single error.

Leah looked back and forth between the ring on her hand and Lucian. The moment she saw his smile, everything that had happened with her so far unfolded like a panorama.

Leah hugged Lucian's neck, tears streaming down her eyes.

“Yes, good!”

"What? What! Did you propose on my back?! Are these crazy!”

Before the couple, who promised each other a future, could be overcome with emotion, a tactless dragon intervened.

But since it always happened, Lucian and Leah burst out laughing as they looked at each other's faces.

Caesar huffed and regretted not being able to see the proposal properly, but soon his laughter was contagious and he burst into laughter.

The happy laughter of a relationship that has been going on for 300 years was scattered across the vast sky.

 

 

The Ghost Bride of the Abandoned Prince [Complete]