Episode 119. Rules of Newlywed Life (3)
He hesitated and answered loudly.
He thought that since I didn’t deserve respect, it didn’t matter what he did.
As if kicking a wall wasn’t a bad thing.
“Then what are you going to do?”
“Aren’t you embarrassed by what you just said?”
“I heard that the little Duke doesn’t even have a first night, so there’s no reason for us to treat such a woman as our mistress.”
A first night... A first night?
I felt like I had been hit in the head for a moment. But I quickly came to my senses. How could Derrickson cross the line so easily?
“What?”
At that moment, I heard Kydel’s teeth grind. When I turned around in surprise, his eyes were emitting a dangerous light that I had never seen before.
If we leave it like this, that human Derrickson won’t be able to leave this room in the same body he entered it in!
Why should I worry about that human’s safety? I shouted in irritation.
“How did you know about our bedroom situation?”
I grumbled and went up to Derrickson’s nose, placing my hands on both sides of my body and lifting my chin.
My small size was laughable in front of his large body, but I was not the type of person who would be pushed around if I wanted to.
I must have gotten permission from Prince Kydel to do whatever I wanted, and I absolutely could not be pushed around to save his face.
Fighting is all about momentum.
Derrickson snorted in my face as if he was trying to show me off, and Prince Kydel watched my actions with his molars slightly clenched to hold back his anger.
I spoke loudly so that everyone could hear.
“Let me ask. Do the vassals of the Kydel family usually spy on and mock their master’s bedroom situation like this? Do you think it’s normal to gather here and talk about it?”
“Ha.”
“Do you have no qualms about threatening an unarmed woman with your body as a knight?”
“Spying? Mocking! You should be careful what you say to me, accusing me of such a dishonorable thing.”
Derrickson glanced at Prince Kydel as if he was thinking, “Oh no!” The knights in the room who had been laughing at me until then also gradually hardened their faces.
They seemed to think that I would be embarrassed if they talked about annexation, but there was no way.
I snorted loudly and spoke to him fiercely.
“How can someone who secretly threatens his master’s wife be honorable? I was born as the illegitimate child of the third lion and was despised a lot, but I have never done anything as shameful as you!”
“Oh, how dare you!”
“How dare you? Spit it out. How dare you, a woman? How dare you, an illegitimate child?”
“You...!”
“If you can’t answer a single one of my questions, answer this. What crime does the Kydel family impose on a knight who insults his small mistress, Sir Derrickson?”
He let out a hollow laugh, but I pressed on without changing my stern expression at all. I just changed my tone again.
“You attended my wedding and saw the Duke of Kydel bless us, yet you still deny me. Is it because I don’t suit your eyes? The authority of the Duke’s decisions is the same as yours. Isn’t it?”
“That and that!”
He shouted with a stern face. But I took a step back and said with a sneer on my face.
“Sir Derrickson, you seem to want a master who suits your taste. Is that the loyalty you show to the Kydels?”
“That...!”
“That’s not it!”
Derrickson’s trembling mouth said that, but the words didn’t come out yet.
I looked around and saw that the knights were all avoiding my gaze.
Absolute loyalty and obedience. It was natural that those who broke the first rule of the knights would have difficulty finding words.
At that moment, Prince Kydel’s arm wrapped around my waist and pulled me to his chest.
“Is there anything wrong with what my wife said?”
“...!”
“If you still feel wronged, I’ll gladly take care of it. My wife’s honor is my responsibility. Derrickson.”
I couldn’t see Prince Kydel’s expression right now.
However, his voice was infinitely arrogant, and his chest, against which my back was leaning, felt as solid as a castle wall.
It was as clear as the sun in the sky that such a petty person could not stand up to him.
Derrickson eventually stumbled back. Then he said grimly,
“I, I seem to have made a mistake...”
“Did you not know that?”
“...Your Excellency.”
“You should ask my wife.”
Derrickson gritted his teeth and bowed his head to me.
I slowly looked at the astonished gazes of the knights around me, then fixed my cold gaze on him one last time.
“I made a big mistake, ma’am.”
I glared at him, then looked around the knights in the room and said loudly,
“Be careful in the future.”
Then Prince Kydel held out his arm to me and said,
“Then shall we go, madam?”
“Yes, Prince.”
We left the room together.
As soon as I entered our bedroom, I staggered and leaned against the wall. All of a sudden, all my limbs were shaking so much that I could barely stand.
I half-sobbed and said,
“Sob! I don’t know what I should do! If you openly take my side, the servants will think you are out of your mind! What if they rebel... Ugh!”
Prince Kydel pushed me against the wall and... That’s it. His kissing skills improved by leaps and bounds every time, and my already weak mind went blank.
I struggled in his arms for a while before finally hitting him on the back weakly.
“Right now, is this the time? The atmosphere in the house is in shambles right now!”
“Ha. Why? It’s good! You don’t like it?”
“It’s good! It’s good... Ah, I don’t know!”
I collapsed to the spot where I was standing and started sobbing. Then he clicked his tongue and lifted my body up and sat me down on the sofa.
I sobbed because I hated him, but I was also grateful for that.
“Why are you crying? Are you crying because of the kiss?”
“No! Why am I crying because of that?”
“They say you cry when you’re too good?”
“So let’s see the face of the instructor who says that!”
“You don’t remember. We greeted each other on our wedding day.”
Oh no.
Prince Kydel shrugged his shoulders and loosened the collar of his shirt with a pleasant expression.
Then he leaned his head against the back of the chair and looked back at me, his body hanging loose.
What a languid and contented gaze.
“I like my wife because she’s brave. You don’t feel intimidated at all in the room filled with my knights... Is it because you have the blood of a lion? When you do that, it turns me on.”
I was so dumbfounded that I stopped crying.
“Now the vassals will truly despise you. You are crazy for being obsessed with women.”
I added the words I had left out.
“And you are a total pervert!”
“No.”
Prince Kydel was so firm that I wiped away my tears and looked at him.
“Do you think I was treated like a vassal by them from the beginning?”
“...?”
It was completely beyond my imagination that he had fought with the vassals.
“Those who wield swords have a tendency to look down on and trample on their opponents until they see their true strength. It would have taken you at least five years to overcome that gently.”
“...”
“We didn’t have time to waste like that, and you willingly took the risk for me. Once again.”
“...”
Is that how it is?
But I didn’t feel better just because he was embellishing my actions.
The words ‘herd of beasts’ that Lord Rond had mentioned were always embedded somewhere in my memory.
I had to somehow make my presence known and gain respect in front of the angry knights a little while ago, and the only weapon left for me, who didn’t know how to hold a sword, was verbal abuse.
I still didn’t want to be the swearing kid living in Mount Tunbar, but I started my life in Kydel by swearing at his vassal and openly fighting with him.
If I had been a respected young lady like Misha, this wouldn’t have happened in the first place...
My mood was heavy. But then he said sweetly, without even noticing,
“Thank you, ma’am.”
“I don’t know!”
I banged the back of my head against the back of the sofa with a pouty face.
“You showed them today that you are not someone they can just ignore. It’s not the traditional way for a hostess, but you don’t have to worry anymore.”
“What will the Duke think of me if he hears this?”
“It’s okay. If you give him one grandchild, he’ll forgive you if you burn down the mansion.”
“Your Excellency!”
I was about to cry, wondering if it was the right time to make a joke, but his eyes started to turn strange.
'This pervert!'
I jumped onto the bed without realizing it. I heard him giggling.
"I always forget to ask, but what's that?"
He asked, looking at the locked box on the dresser. It was the box containing the teacups that the maid had used to prank me.
"Don't tell me!"
Despite my curt answer, Prince Kydel took off his outer garment, climbed onto the bed next to me, and lay down.
“That’s why the maids are talking nonsense.”
“...”
“Since there’s no trace on our bed, this guy and that guy are talking nonsense.”
...What traces!
I wrapped the blanket tightly around me like a giant mole, covered myself with it, and curled up.
I wanted to cry and go home. But now I had nowhere to go. The Count probably wouldn’t accept me. I wanted to cry more.
Then I felt Prince Kydel’s hand groping the blanket I had covered.
At first, I thought it was an illusion, but I could definitely feel his fingertips moving around my arms.
‘Are you really doing this for the maids to see?’
He hesitated and answered loudly.
He thought that since I didn’t deserve respect, it didn’t matter what he did.
As if kicking a wall wasn’t a bad thing.
“Then what are you going to do?”
“Aren’t you embarrassed by what you just said?”
“I heard that the little Duke doesn’t even have a first night, so there’s no reason for us to treat such a woman as our mistress.”
A first night... A first night?
I felt like I had been hit in the head for a moment. But I quickly came to my senses. How could Derrickson cross the line so easily?
“What?”
At that moment, I heard Kydel’s teeth grind. When I turned around in surprise, his eyes were emitting a dangerous light that I had never seen before.
If we leave it like this, that human Derrickson won’t be able to leave this room in the same body he entered it in!
Why should I worry about that human’s safety? I shouted in irritation.
“How did you know about our bedroom situation?”
I grumbled and went up to Derrickson’s nose, placing my hands on both sides of my body and lifting my chin.
My small size was laughable in front of his large body, but I was not the type of person who would be pushed around if I wanted to.
I must have gotten permission from Prince Kydel to do whatever I wanted, and I absolutely could not be pushed around to save his face.
Fighting is all about momentum.
Derrickson snorted in my face as if he was trying to show me off, and Prince Kydel watched my actions with his molars slightly clenched to hold back his anger.
I spoke loudly so that everyone could hear.
“Let me ask. Do the vassals of the Kydel family usually spy on and mock their master’s bedroom situation like this? Do you think it’s normal to gather here and talk about it?”
“Ha.”
“Do you have no qualms about threatening an unarmed woman with your body as a knight?”
“Spying? Mocking! You should be careful what you say to me, accusing me of such a dishonorable thing.”
Derrickson glanced at Prince Kydel as if he was thinking, “Oh no!” The knights in the room who had been laughing at me until then also gradually hardened their faces.
They seemed to think that I would be embarrassed if they talked about annexation, but there was no way.
I snorted loudly and spoke to him fiercely.
“How can someone who secretly threatens his master’s wife be honorable? I was born as the illegitimate child of the third lion and was despised a lot, but I have never done anything as shameful as you!”
“Oh, how dare you!”
“How dare you? Spit it out. How dare you, a woman? How dare you, an illegitimate child?”
“You...!”
“If you can’t answer a single one of my questions, answer this. What crime does the Kydel family impose on a knight who insults his small mistress, Sir Derrickson?”
He let out a hollow laugh, but I pressed on without changing my stern expression at all. I just changed my tone again.
“You attended my wedding and saw the Duke of Kydel bless us, yet you still deny me. Is it because I don’t suit your eyes? The authority of the Duke’s decisions is the same as yours. Isn’t it?”
“That and that!”
He shouted with a stern face. But I took a step back and said with a sneer on my face.
“Sir Derrickson, you seem to want a master who suits your taste. Is that the loyalty you show to the Kydels?”
“That...!”
“That’s not it!”
Derrickson’s trembling mouth said that, but the words didn’t come out yet.
I looked around and saw that the knights were all avoiding my gaze.
Absolute loyalty and obedience. It was natural that those who broke the first rule of the knights would have difficulty finding words.
At that moment, Prince Kydel’s arm wrapped around my waist and pulled me to his chest.
“Is there anything wrong with what my wife said?”
“...!”
“If you still feel wronged, I’ll gladly take care of it. My wife’s honor is my responsibility. Derrickson.”
I couldn’t see Prince Kydel’s expression right now.
However, his voice was infinitely arrogant, and his chest, against which my back was leaning, felt as solid as a castle wall.
It was as clear as the sun in the sky that such a petty person could not stand up to him.
Derrickson eventually stumbled back. Then he said grimly,
“I, I seem to have made a mistake...”
“Did you not know that?”
“...Your Excellency.”
“You should ask my wife.”
Derrickson gritted his teeth and bowed his head to me.
I slowly looked at the astonished gazes of the knights around me, then fixed my cold gaze on him one last time.
“I made a big mistake, ma’am.”
I glared at him, then looked around the knights in the room and said loudly,
“Be careful in the future.”
Then Prince Kydel held out his arm to me and said,
“Then shall we go, madam?”
“Yes, Prince.”
We left the room together.
***
As soon as I entered our bedroom, I staggered and leaned against the wall. All of a sudden, all my limbs were shaking so much that I could barely stand.
I half-sobbed and said,
“Sob! I don’t know what I should do! If you openly take my side, the servants will think you are out of your mind! What if they rebel... Ugh!”
Prince Kydel pushed me against the wall and... That’s it. His kissing skills improved by leaps and bounds every time, and my already weak mind went blank.
I struggled in his arms for a while before finally hitting him on the back weakly.
“Right now, is this the time? The atmosphere in the house is in shambles right now!”
“Ha. Why? It’s good! You don’t like it?”
“It’s good! It’s good... Ah, I don’t know!”
I collapsed to the spot where I was standing and started sobbing. Then he clicked his tongue and lifted my body up and sat me down on the sofa.
I sobbed because I hated him, but I was also grateful for that.
“Why are you crying? Are you crying because of the kiss?”
“No! Why am I crying because of that?”
“They say you cry when you’re too good?”
“So let’s see the face of the instructor who says that!”
“You don’t remember. We greeted each other on our wedding day.”
Oh no.
Prince Kydel shrugged his shoulders and loosened the collar of his shirt with a pleasant expression.
Then he leaned his head against the back of the chair and looked back at me, his body hanging loose.
What a languid and contented gaze.
“I like my wife because she’s brave. You don’t feel intimidated at all in the room filled with my knights... Is it because you have the blood of a lion? When you do that, it turns me on.”
I was so dumbfounded that I stopped crying.
“Now the vassals will truly despise you. You are crazy for being obsessed with women.”
I added the words I had left out.
“And you are a total pervert!”
“No.”
Prince Kydel was so firm that I wiped away my tears and looked at him.
“Do you think I was treated like a vassal by them from the beginning?”
“...?”
It was completely beyond my imagination that he had fought with the vassals.
“Those who wield swords have a tendency to look down on and trample on their opponents until they see their true strength. It would have taken you at least five years to overcome that gently.”
“...”
“We didn’t have time to waste like that, and you willingly took the risk for me. Once again.”
“...”
Is that how it is?
But I didn’t feel better just because he was embellishing my actions.
The words ‘herd of beasts’ that Lord Rond had mentioned were always embedded somewhere in my memory.
I had to somehow make my presence known and gain respect in front of the angry knights a little while ago, and the only weapon left for me, who didn’t know how to hold a sword, was verbal abuse.
I still didn’t want to be the swearing kid living in Mount Tunbar, but I started my life in Kydel by swearing at his vassal and openly fighting with him.
If I had been a respected young lady like Misha, this wouldn’t have happened in the first place...
My mood was heavy. But then he said sweetly, without even noticing,
“Thank you, ma’am.”
“I don’t know!”
I banged the back of my head against the back of the sofa with a pouty face.
“You showed them today that you are not someone they can just ignore. It’s not the traditional way for a hostess, but you don’t have to worry anymore.”
“What will the Duke think of me if he hears this?”
“It’s okay. If you give him one grandchild, he’ll forgive you if you burn down the mansion.”
“Your Excellency!”
I was about to cry, wondering if it was the right time to make a joke, but his eyes started to turn strange.
'This pervert!'
I jumped onto the bed without realizing it. I heard him giggling.
"I always forget to ask, but what's that?"
He asked, looking at the locked box on the dresser. It was the box containing the teacups that the maid had used to prank me.
"Don't tell me!"
Despite my curt answer, Prince Kydel took off his outer garment, climbed onto the bed next to me, and lay down.
“That’s why the maids are talking nonsense.”
“...”
“Since there’s no trace on our bed, this guy and that guy are talking nonsense.”
...What traces!
I wrapped the blanket tightly around me like a giant mole, covered myself with it, and curled up.
I wanted to cry and go home. But now I had nowhere to go. The Count probably wouldn’t accept me. I wanted to cry more.
Then I felt Prince Kydel’s hand groping the blanket I had covered.
At first, I thought it was an illusion, but I could definitely feel his fingertips moving around my arms.
‘Are you really doing this for the maids to see?’
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