'What is this woman's identity? Could it be a witch who bewitches people?'
Linel couldn't take his eyes off the woman sitting next to him, who shamelessly drank someone else's drink in one gulp.
At first, he thought his eyes were drawn to her absurd behavior.
However, he was caught up in a strange feeling that he couldn't explain in words.
The problem was that something was happening that he could explain with his body, even though it couldn't be explained in words, and this was even more absurd.
'Why are you doing this?'
Linel slightly lowered his head and looked down at his lower body.
That part was already as good as a dead function.
It had always been humble since the monastery a month ago.
What is this woman?
What on earth is this woman who gulps down someone else's drink...
Is hia dead function working?
He felt more than bewildered; he even felt empty.
He could already feel that she was an unusually crazy woman from the way she spoke.
Linel looked at his lower body and her side face alternately, seriously wondering which side was the problem.
The woman was in a strange delusion and kept talking nonsense, and the guy who had been humble all month was getting more and more excited for some reason.
Linel pulled his robe forward a bit more and pulled his hood down to hide his embarrassed body.
'If this hadn't been there, I would have been in big trouble up and down.'
No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't find the cause.
Linel's ego was the only thing that was hurting.
'Damn it, what am I doing now...'
An indescribable sense of self-loathing tormented him. He had come here to have just one drink before returning to the palace.
However, when he came to his senses, he found himself drinking a whole bottle of liquor. He couldn't stand up until the woman left.
His body, which had been freezing, was getting warmer.
It wasn't because of the alcohol. His body didn't get warmer even if he drank alcohol.
'So the cause is this woman...'
He fiddled with his robe, sighed softly, then frowned when he met the woman’s eyes.
Whenever she smiled, he couldn’t help but smile along, so he had to make a more serious face.
While they were talking about something insignificant, the woman suddenly got angry and said that she had a husband.
Linel looked at her with a look of “what do you want me to do?”, but his body, unable to come to his senses, kept leaning toward the “body with a husband.”
He felt very uncomfortable.
Wasn’t she a woman who had nothing to do with him, whether she had a husband or not?
It wasn’t like the woman’s misunderstanding earlier that he had held her hand because he had ill intentions. He was just trying to stop her because she was about to drink Raphael’s drink.
Of course, he should have stopped her with words, but his hand went out to stop her without realizing it.
Linel found out that the woman was married, and his mood was even more twisted.
So he also revealed his own marital status without thinking.
“There’s no reason for us to misunderstand each other.”
He had been married, but because the other person had completely disappeared from his mind, he spoke in the past tense, which was the cause of his trouble.
The woman asked him if he had gotten a divorce, and he ended up mentioning the fact that the marriage was invalid.
Then, without any hesitation or caution, the woman asked Linel,
“By the way, when did your wife leave home?”
The woman’s eyes, shining with curiosity, were extremely annoying, but he was more impressed by himself for answering that question sincerely.
“A month ago...”
Her lips stuck out at the end of the story.
“Your husband is really trash.”
Linel said firmly.
“The wife who tricked you and disappeared is no joke.”
The woman patted his shoulder as if comforting him.
He flinched.
Aside from the fact that his body had warmed up earlier, the blood flowing through his lower body had increased greatly just from the brief touch of the woman’s hand.
“Crazy...”
Linel muttered quietly as if talking to himself, and she accepted it.
“Yeah. My husband is crazy, and your wife is crazy too... Well, anyway.”
“Are you planning on getting revenge on your husband for remarrying another woman?”
Linel asked, looking at the woman’s fierce gaze.
“Should I secretly cut his throat or cut off his lower body? I’m thinking about it.”
She revealed her terrifying plan without any hesitation.
“!”
“Anyway, I want to get rid of one of them, but I haven’t made up my mind yet.”
Because she doesn’t remember her husband, she doesn’t get angry when she hears news of a remarriage.
It’s just that she feels a little uncomfortable.
The woman joked to him as if it were serious and continued to talk to herself.
“I hope you succeed.”
He cheered her on with sincerity.
“Thank you, I hope you find that lying wife and beat her up.”
The woman smiled brightly and patted his shoulder again.
Linel lowered his gaze and looked at the woman’s hand on his shoulder. He felt the warmth that started from his shoulder spread throughout his entire body. It was a feeling he had never felt before, no matter how much he abused the potion to increase his body temperature.
What was even stranger was his own body.
Linel’s evaluation of this woman and his body’s evaluation were completely different.
He tried to resist and ignore it, but in the end, his reason gave way to his instinct.
He mustered up the courage to speak.
“If you don’t have anything to do, that is... If you don’t have a husband waiting for you, well, what I mean is...”
Disorganized words came out.
He was surprised that he could say such things to a strange woman, even though he was aware of his current situation.
The real trash was not her husband, but himself.
However, for some reason, he didn’t regret it.
Although he briefly glimpsed the face of Princess Roxana, his future wife, he didn’t feel any guilt. He was just nervous about what kind of answer the woman in front of him would give.
The woman turned her pink eyes several times and opened her mouth.
“You want to leave here together?”
“You don’t want to?”
Linel asked.
The woman snorted, got up from her seat, and walked out the door of the tavern.
...I see.
I see, you got screwed.
He thought about the abuse of power, thinking, ‘If I had said Emperor, wouldn’t I have gotten screwed?’ and let out a hollow laugh.
Yes. It was a ridiculous suggestion to begin with.
However, since he was an Emperor who had never experienced such rejection before, he did not know how embarrassing and empty it would feel to be rejected.
Why did he make such a proposal?
Did they both feel a sense of kinship with the fact that they had been betrayed by their spouses?
'No, no.'
He shook his head.
Even though it was a nice insult, he decided to be honest.
It was true that it was easier to suggest going out together because her husband had broken up their marriage and remarried another woman.
But even if that wasn't the reason, he had always wanted to be with her.
"What are you doing? Aren't you coming out?"
He was just blankly staring at the woman's back when she opened the tavern door, turned around at him, and shouted in a slightly annoyed tone.
'Me?'
Linel couldn't ask in words, so he pointed at himself with his index finger and opened his eyes wide.
The woman smiled and nodded, indicating that she would go out first.
Linel hesitated, then quickly paid for his drinks and stood up from his chair.
Just as he was about to turn around, the bar owner hurriedly called him over.
"Sir, you should pay for the drinks of the person next to you!"
"...What?"
“Aren’t you a group? That customer just left without paying?”
“!”
Linel couldn't take his eyes off the woman sitting next to him, who shamelessly drank someone else's drink in one gulp.
At first, he thought his eyes were drawn to her absurd behavior.
However, he was caught up in a strange feeling that he couldn't explain in words.
The problem was that something was happening that he could explain with his body, even though it couldn't be explained in words, and this was even more absurd.
'Why are you doing this?'
Linel slightly lowered his head and looked down at his lower body.
That part was already as good as a dead function.
It had always been humble since the monastery a month ago.
What is this woman?
What on earth is this woman who gulps down someone else's drink...
Is hia dead function working?
He felt more than bewildered; he even felt empty.
He could already feel that she was an unusually crazy woman from the way she spoke.
Linel looked at his lower body and her side face alternately, seriously wondering which side was the problem.
The woman was in a strange delusion and kept talking nonsense, and the guy who had been humble all month was getting more and more excited for some reason.
Linel pulled his robe forward a bit more and pulled his hood down to hide his embarrassed body.
'If this hadn't been there, I would have been in big trouble up and down.'
No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't find the cause.
Linel's ego was the only thing that was hurting.
'Damn it, what am I doing now...'
An indescribable sense of self-loathing tormented him. He had come here to have just one drink before returning to the palace.
However, when he came to his senses, he found himself drinking a whole bottle of liquor. He couldn't stand up until the woman left.
His body, which had been freezing, was getting warmer.
It wasn't because of the alcohol. His body didn't get warmer even if he drank alcohol.
'So the cause is this woman...'
He fiddled with his robe, sighed softly, then frowned when he met the woman’s eyes.
Whenever she smiled, he couldn’t help but smile along, so he had to make a more serious face.
While they were talking about something insignificant, the woman suddenly got angry and said that she had a husband.
Linel looked at her with a look of “what do you want me to do?”, but his body, unable to come to his senses, kept leaning toward the “body with a husband.”
He felt very uncomfortable.
Wasn’t she a woman who had nothing to do with him, whether she had a husband or not?
It wasn’t like the woman’s misunderstanding earlier that he had held her hand because he had ill intentions. He was just trying to stop her because she was about to drink Raphael’s drink.
Of course, he should have stopped her with words, but his hand went out to stop her without realizing it.
Linel found out that the woman was married, and his mood was even more twisted.
So he also revealed his own marital status without thinking.
“There’s no reason for us to misunderstand each other.”
He had been married, but because the other person had completely disappeared from his mind, he spoke in the past tense, which was the cause of his trouble.
The woman asked him if he had gotten a divorce, and he ended up mentioning the fact that the marriage was invalid.
Then, without any hesitation or caution, the woman asked Linel,
“By the way, when did your wife leave home?”
The woman’s eyes, shining with curiosity, were extremely annoying, but he was more impressed by himself for answering that question sincerely.
“A month ago...”
It was really strange. Half of the things the woman asked were ridiculous, but Linel had no choice but to answer when she asked him questions. Because of that, that day, which he had tried to avoid, began to come back to him.
***
A month ago, at the monastery. Just 50 meters from the monastery entrance, the corpses of dead Galacos were piled up. Instead of directly attacking the guests, the allied forces of Tanya Island’s pirates and the Principality of Aklatto displayed the corpses of the Galacos they had killed on their way from the Elanji Forest in front of the monastery.
The allied forces’ intention was very successful. The guests, who already knew of Galaco's power, were all shocked by the sight. In addition, the Allied Forces had captured about ten Galaco and confined them in three iron cages. The meaning of the cages in which Galaco was confined was clear. It was like an unspoken threat that anyone could be put in there.
The pirates of Tanya Island caught a large number of relatively small animals from Aklatto Island.
Just before arriving on the continent, they fed poisoned food to the small animals and killed them.
The poisoned and dead animals were used as bait to lure the Galacos into the Elanji Forest.
While marching to the monastery, they occasionally wounded the bodies of the dead animals and threw them into the sky.
Then, the Galacos lurking in various places in the forest smelled the blood and jumped into the sky and bit the bait.
The Galacos who ate the dead animals also became poisoned.
Most of the Galacos who did not die immediately but lost their energy and fell to the ground were killed by the Allied Forces, and some were put in iron cages and detoxified.
The detoxified Galacos had separate food.
They negotiated through dialogue for now. However, if they were arrogant or uncooperative, they would be punished without mercy by putting them in iron cages with Galacos.
Hetor had planned this before he crossed the continent.
At that moment, tension was running high between the VIPs standing at the entrance of the monastery and the Allied Forces standing 50 meters apart.
During the Continental Hunting Competition, one VIP who had always been vocal and complained fearlessly stepped forward and shouted at the Allied Forces.
“You who have been living on an island dare to interfere in the hunting competition where the royal family and nobles of the continent are participating and cause trouble!”
He was one of the old ministers of the Ekiya Empire on the northern continent.
The old minister, who had no idea what was going on, pointed out Hetor, who seemed to be the leader of the Allied Forces at a glance, and swore at him.
The eyes of the Tanya Island pirates were all focused on Hetor.
Hetor calmly spoke to the minister without changing his expression.
“You are talking too much before you start causing trouble.”
The minister of the Ekiya Empire seemed relieved when he heard a rather polite voice coming from Hetor’s large body and wild appearance, and he walked forward and raised his voice again.
“Be polite and greet the Emperors of the continent first! You ignorant pirates!”
What Hetor despised the most was the arrogance of the continental people.
Among the nobles who lived their whole lives without caring about what others thought, there were cases where they did not feel a sense of crisis and would face death.
This was exactly one of those cases.
“I will tell you what happens if you are intelligent but have no power. Palto!”
Hetor said something meaningful to Minister Ekiya and then called his subordinate.
“Serve that noble gentleman according to the etiquette of the island nation.”
“Yes! Your Majesty.”
Palto ordered his subordinates to grab the minister’s two arms and mercilessly throw the minister into the iron cage where Galacos was imprisoned.
The excited cries of the starving Galaco and the minister’s screams mixed together and echoed around the monastery building.
The other guests were shocked when they saw the horrific scene unfolding before their eyes.
No one helped the minister.
It happened so quickly that there was no time to stop him, and even if he had been able to, it was not the right time to act rashly.
“I will go into the monastery to hear about the matter of your visit to the continent .”
Linel stepped forward and spoke to Hetor, who was unable to speak up.
“Let’s do that.”
Hetor nodded to the Emperor of the Lapion Empire and got off his horse.
And that evening, Princess Roxana arrived at the monastery much earlier than Linel had expected.
“Hey, are you listening to me?”
Linel was snapped out of his thoughts by the woman tapping his arm.
“What?”
“I asked if I could have a drink of this.”
The woman was already holding the flask and pouring her own glass.
“What kind of case is it that you ask when you are already pouring?”
“It’s a case of dead manners.”
The woman shrugged her shoulders and answered shamelessly.
“But how many times have I asked you and you haven’t answered?”
“If you don’t answer, do you think it’s okay to touch someone else’s property?”
When Linel asked in a rather serious tone, the woman responded lightly this time as well.
“Yeah, I think it’s okay as long as you don’t get caught.”
“!”
The woman glanced at Linel’s dumbfounded expression and smiled as if she was aiming for that exact expression.
“Even if things are like that, people shouldn’t covet other people’s things...”
The woman muttered as if talking to herself and downed the liquor in one gulp.
As soon as she put down her empty glass, she picked up the liquor bottle again and filled her glass.
This time, she didn’t even ask the owner of the liquor bottle.
Linel was about to say something, but changed his mind when he saw her expression that had become quite serious.
When he closed his mouth, the woman opened her mouth.
“Hey, can I ask you something?”
“No questions.”
“Really? Then just listen.”
When Linel raised a hand to refuse, the woman lightly ignored him and continued talking.
“I’m asking because you’re divorced, what do you think about remarriage?”
He didn’t answer the woman’s question.
She didn’t seem to want an answer either, so she immediately moved on to another question.
“Then, what do you think about remarriage by stealing someone who already has a partner?”
The woman changed the question slightly, but it was still about remarriage.
Linel thought about it in terms of his own situation.
He really had no thoughts or feelings about his imminent remarriage.
“My husband is remarrying.”
The woman who had just said she had a husband suddenly made a confession.
He stared at the woman’s face.
“So you’re divorced... too?”
“Maybe.”
Linel tilted his head at the woman’s ambiguous answer, but he didn’t bother to ask.
Instead, one corner of his mouth went up.
The woman blurted out again.
“I think it's like cheating.”
“What does it mean by 'like...'?”
“I didn’t hear it directly. But from what I roughly heard, it seems like some woman tried to seduce my husband into leaving me.”
The pirates of Tanya Island caught a large number of relatively small animals from Aklatto Island.
Just before arriving on the continent, they fed poisoned food to the small animals and killed them.
The poisoned and dead animals were used as bait to lure the Galacos into the Elanji Forest.
While marching to the monastery, they occasionally wounded the bodies of the dead animals and threw them into the sky.
Then, the Galacos lurking in various places in the forest smelled the blood and jumped into the sky and bit the bait.
The Galacos who ate the dead animals also became poisoned.
Most of the Galacos who did not die immediately but lost their energy and fell to the ground were killed by the Allied Forces, and some were put in iron cages and detoxified.
The detoxified Galacos had separate food.
They negotiated through dialogue for now. However, if they were arrogant or uncooperative, they would be punished without mercy by putting them in iron cages with Galacos.
Hetor had planned this before he crossed the continent.
At that moment, tension was running high between the VIPs standing at the entrance of the monastery and the Allied Forces standing 50 meters apart.
During the Continental Hunting Competition, one VIP who had always been vocal and complained fearlessly stepped forward and shouted at the Allied Forces.
“You who have been living on an island dare to interfere in the hunting competition where the royal family and nobles of the continent are participating and cause trouble!”
He was one of the old ministers of the Ekiya Empire on the northern continent.
The old minister, who had no idea what was going on, pointed out Hetor, who seemed to be the leader of the Allied Forces at a glance, and swore at him.
The eyes of the Tanya Island pirates were all focused on Hetor.
Hetor calmly spoke to the minister without changing his expression.
“You are talking too much before you start causing trouble.”
The minister of the Ekiya Empire seemed relieved when he heard a rather polite voice coming from Hetor’s large body and wild appearance, and he walked forward and raised his voice again.
“Be polite and greet the Emperors of the continent first! You ignorant pirates!”
What Hetor despised the most was the arrogance of the continental people.
Among the nobles who lived their whole lives without caring about what others thought, there were cases where they did not feel a sense of crisis and would face death.
This was exactly one of those cases.
“I will tell you what happens if you are intelligent but have no power. Palto!”
Hetor said something meaningful to Minister Ekiya and then called his subordinate.
“Serve that noble gentleman according to the etiquette of the island nation.”
“Yes! Your Majesty.”
Palto ordered his subordinates to grab the minister’s two arms and mercilessly throw the minister into the iron cage where Galacos was imprisoned.
The excited cries of the starving Galaco and the minister’s screams mixed together and echoed around the monastery building.
The other guests were shocked when they saw the horrific scene unfolding before their eyes.
No one helped the minister.
It happened so quickly that there was no time to stop him, and even if he had been able to, it was not the right time to act rashly.
“I will go into the monastery to hear about the matter of your visit to the continent .”
Linel stepped forward and spoke to Hetor, who was unable to speak up.
“Let’s do that.”
Hetor nodded to the Emperor of the Lapion Empire and got off his horse.
And that evening, Princess Roxana arrived at the monastery much earlier than Linel had expected.
***
“Hey, are you listening to me?”
Linel was snapped out of his thoughts by the woman tapping his arm.
“What?”
“I asked if I could have a drink of this.”
The woman was already holding the flask and pouring her own glass.
“What kind of case is it that you ask when you are already pouring?”
“It’s a case of dead manners.”
The woman shrugged her shoulders and answered shamelessly.
“But how many times have I asked you and you haven’t answered?”
“If you don’t answer, do you think it’s okay to touch someone else’s property?”
When Linel asked in a rather serious tone, the woman responded lightly this time as well.
“Yeah, I think it’s okay as long as you don’t get caught.”
“!”
The woman glanced at Linel’s dumbfounded expression and smiled as if she was aiming for that exact expression.
“Even if things are like that, people shouldn’t covet other people’s things...”
The woman muttered as if talking to herself and downed the liquor in one gulp.
As soon as she put down her empty glass, she picked up the liquor bottle again and filled her glass.
This time, she didn’t even ask the owner of the liquor bottle.
Linel was about to say something, but changed his mind when he saw her expression that had become quite serious.
When he closed his mouth, the woman opened her mouth.
“Hey, can I ask you something?”
“No questions.”
“Really? Then just listen.”
When Linel raised a hand to refuse, the woman lightly ignored him and continued talking.
“I’m asking because you’re divorced, what do you think about remarriage?”
He didn’t answer the woman’s question.
She didn’t seem to want an answer either, so she immediately moved on to another question.
“Then, what do you think about remarriage by stealing someone who already has a partner?”
The woman changed the question slightly, but it was still about remarriage.
Linel thought about it in terms of his own situation.
He really had no thoughts or feelings about his imminent remarriage.
“My husband is remarrying.”
The woman who had just said she had a husband suddenly made a confession.
He stared at the woman’s face.
“So you’re divorced... too?”
“Maybe.”
Linel tilted his head at the woman’s ambiguous answer, but he didn’t bother to ask.
Instead, one corner of his mouth went up.
The woman blurted out again.
“I think it's like cheating.”
“What does it mean by 'like...'?”
“I didn’t hear it directly. But from what I roughly heard, it seems like some woman tried to seduce my husband into leaving me.”
Her lips stuck out at the end of the story.
“Your husband is really trash.”
Linel said firmly.
“The wife who tricked you and disappeared is no joke.”
The woman patted his shoulder as if comforting him.
He flinched.
Aside from the fact that his body had warmed up earlier, the blood flowing through his lower body had increased greatly just from the brief touch of the woman’s hand.
“Crazy...”
Linel muttered quietly as if talking to himself, and she accepted it.
“Yeah. My husband is crazy, and your wife is crazy too... Well, anyway.”
“Are you planning on getting revenge on your husband for remarrying another woman?”
Linel asked, looking at the woman’s fierce gaze.
“Should I secretly cut his throat or cut off his lower body? I’m thinking about it.”
She revealed her terrifying plan without any hesitation.
“!”
“Anyway, I want to get rid of one of them, but I haven’t made up my mind yet.”
Because she doesn’t remember her husband, she doesn’t get angry when she hears news of a remarriage.
It’s just that she feels a little uncomfortable.
The woman joked to him as if it were serious and continued to talk to herself.
“I hope you succeed.”
He cheered her on with sincerity.
“Thank you, I hope you find that lying wife and beat her up.”
The woman smiled brightly and patted his shoulder again.
Linel lowered his gaze and looked at the woman’s hand on his shoulder. He felt the warmth that started from his shoulder spread throughout his entire body. It was a feeling he had never felt before, no matter how much he abused the potion to increase his body temperature.
What was even stranger was his own body.
Linel’s evaluation of this woman and his body’s evaluation were completely different.
He tried to resist and ignore it, but in the end, his reason gave way to his instinct.
He mustered up the courage to speak.
“If you don’t have anything to do, that is... If you don’t have a husband waiting for you, well, what I mean is...”
Disorganized words came out.
He was surprised that he could say such things to a strange woman, even though he was aware of his current situation.
The real trash was not her husband, but himself.
However, for some reason, he didn’t regret it.
Although he briefly glimpsed the face of Princess Roxana, his future wife, he didn’t feel any guilt. He was just nervous about what kind of answer the woman in front of him would give.
The woman turned her pink eyes several times and opened her mouth.
“You want to leave here together?”
“You don’t want to?”
Linel asked.
The woman snorted, got up from her seat, and walked out the door of the tavern.
...I see.
I see, you got screwed.
He thought about the abuse of power, thinking, ‘If I had said Emperor, wouldn’t I have gotten screwed?’ and let out a hollow laugh.
Yes. It was a ridiculous suggestion to begin with.
However, since he was an Emperor who had never experienced such rejection before, he did not know how embarrassing and empty it would feel to be rejected.
Why did he make such a proposal?
Did they both feel a sense of kinship with the fact that they had been betrayed by their spouses?
'No, no.'
He shook his head.
Even though it was a nice insult, he decided to be honest.
It was true that it was easier to suggest going out together because her husband had broken up their marriage and remarried another woman.
But even if that wasn't the reason, he had always wanted to be with her.
"What are you doing? Aren't you coming out?"
He was just blankly staring at the woman's back when she opened the tavern door, turned around at him, and shouted in a slightly annoyed tone.
'Me?'
Linel couldn't ask in words, so he pointed at himself with his index finger and opened his eyes wide.
The woman smiled and nodded, indicating that she would go out first.
Linel hesitated, then quickly paid for his drinks and stood up from his chair.
Just as he was about to turn around, the bar owner hurriedly called him over.
"Sir, you should pay for the drinks of the person next to you!"
"...What?"
“Aren’t you a group? That customer just left without paying?”
“!”
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