Chapter 52 of the side story. Aidan, let’s run away!
2023.02.11.
Jorgen’s lord castle.
The man who reigned as a king in his own kingdom was now trembling with his body on his stomach with an ugly look.
The cause was the existence of two young men and women in front of him.
The lord’s face turned white after he had just learned the terrible truth.
“Hwa-hwa-hwa-!”
It was before I could even complete the words, groping pitifully.
The woman sitting cross-legged in the seat of honor gently put her index finger in front of her lips.
“Shh.”
It meant that if I spoke any more, I would see a terrible sight.
It’s just ‘shhh’, but there’s no way he didn’t know that that much meaning was implied.
The lord looked like a devil with an angelic face and a pretty smile.
Isn’t it said that beautiful things are usually poisonous?
‘Why is the emperor here!!’
As for the emperor’s prestige, he himself, the owner of Soyoungji, who barely maintained the baronial position, was aware of it.
The only thing I’ve seen of the emperor’s face is a glimpse at the end of an official imperial event, but I’ve heard so many rumors that it stings my ears.
The most influential being on the continent who rose to the throne at the youngest age throughout the entire continent and grew up to become the center of power and change.
It was to the extent that the emperor could not finish talking all day about how many achievements he had accomplished.
Among them, institutional reform for the people was overwhelming, so the people’s support for the emperor was blind.
The lord of Jorgen has used the people’s psychology to satisfy his own self-interest.
It was the same this time too.
Miners were recruited cheaply or in lieu of servitude and gathered in the lord’s castle, but I thought the emperor would be there.
No matter what the heck he did, the emperor, who quickly found the lord’s castle’s accounting data, robbed him completely.
‘I’m sure he was in the plaza, but when the hell did he search the office?’
So now.
That was the situation with the lord of Jorgen lying on his stomach in the drawing room.
He lifted his head slightly and looked at the emperor. If the beautiful person with light pink hair is the emperor.
If so, that red-eyed man looking down at him from behind the emperor with sad eyes must be the imperial bureaucracy Grand Duke Aserad.
Obviously, one person is smiling and the other person is making a terrifyingly expressionless face. Is it a similar atmosphere?
‘I heard couples look alike.’
They were truly a demonic couple.
Mabel tapped her toes and rested her chin on her chin. Even with that small movement, the lord’s body, which was so tense, shook greatly.
“Release your expression, friend.”
“Hey…!”
“You said you were favored by Jim? Jim is especially lenient with his favourites.”
It was clearly a meek voice, but every word he spat out seemed to hit him like a blunt weapon.
What would happen to him who dared to use the emperor’s name?
he pleaded desperately.
“That’s not what I meant, Your Majesty. All of this is to efficiently govern the people of the territory…!”
“I never gave permission to use Jim’s name.”
“I’m sorry. I will make sure that this never happens again…!”
At the lord’s apology, Mabel tilted her head and answered firmly.
“It doesn’t matter.”
Does it matter? What is the name of the emperor?
Could it be that you just forgive me like this?
When the lord was full of hope, Mabel hardened her expression coldly.
“Rather than that.”
‘ah.’
“I can’t just get over taking my people’s money, right?”
‘ruined.’
On that day, Jorgen’s owner changed.
***
However, that was just the beginning.
Even after that, the imperial couple robbed and robbed like a threshing machine in every estate where the train stopped.
It was an unavoidable situation due to Mabel’s personality, who is by nature unable to leave bad guys alone.
‘I should have stopped moving by train as well.’
Although Aidan regretted it, there was no way he could stop Mabel, the runaway locomotive who had gone mad from the rush now.
‘…Actually, I have no intention of stopping it.’
At first, Mabel, who was delighted to say that she was an emperor of stealth, became sincerely resentful of the behavior of the lords who persecuted the people of the territories as the number of territories she visited increased.
After destroying more than ten territories like that, they arrived at their destination.
Because of the delay, Mabel and Aidan arrived at the final destination of their honeymoon three or more days later than expected.
The place Aidan decided was a modest mansion on a low hill with a wide green field.
Having visited many seaside villas, it reflected Mabel’s desire to live a country life in a place surrounded by mountains and fields.
Looking up at the mansion from the bottom of the hill, Mabel exclaimed.
“Wow.”
“Do you like it?”
“huh. It’s really good…”
There were so many people around Mabel. From the time I opened my eyes to the time I closed them, I always had to deal with people.
Personal time was only a fraction of it, so I didn’t have enough time alone.
Because Mabel was like that, I couldn’t help but like this leisurely scene.
After planting dandelion seeds in the field, Mabel looked back at Aidan with a wide smile.
Aidan looked at him somewhat blankly.
“Then let’s go in now.”
“…yes.”
Aidan followed Mabel, who was walking ahead.
I fall for Mabel every day, but today was no exception.
I fell in love with you today too. to Mabel.
Fortunately, this time the reddened tips of the ears were not noticed.
Mabel, who had just stepped into the mansion, pulled her head back and cast her gaze to the side.
“Is there another mansion next door?”
“At the time of the purchase of the mansion, I was told by the agent that the mansion had no owner.”
“Then it will be quieter!”
“yes.”
Unlike Mabel, who was innocently happy, Aidan’s heart was filled with dark feelings.
‘It would be perfect without people.’
To the extent that if Mabel looked into it, she would have been terrified, saying that she was the world’s strongest pervert.
***
I lay down on Aidan’s knee on the sofa and spent a lot of time quietly.
Talking nonsensical things, swapping the books we are reading, and sometimes playing with our hands.
As a result, I felt hungry all of a sudden.
“Shall we eat an omelet?”
Of course, I got up thinking about cooking, putting my brain together, but Aidan was faster.
Aidan got up from the sofa and brought a cushion and put it under my head.
“I will do it.”
“…huh?”
“Please rest.”
“No, Aidan. I-.”
“I am.”
Without giving me a chance to protest, Aidan even brought a small blanket over me and left for the kitchen.
‘If you see that he’s going to do it like that, you must be confident…?’
It was a time when I looked down at the book I was rereading, believing that Aidan would do well, though I was a little anxious.
bang!!!
“…?!”
A tremendous roar reverberated through the mansion.
Running to the kitchen within a month, I opened my mouth at the situation unfolding before my eyes.
Blood was flowing from Aidan’s hand.
“evil! Aidan!”
I hurriedly grabbed his hand, but of course Aidan’s wounds had already healed.
Stunned for a moment, I began to reason about the situation.
The clue is a carrot on a cutting board and a bloody knife next to it. The cutting board is split in half.
Putting it all together… the culprit is inside!
I pushed the culprit back and shouted urgently.
“I’ll just do it!”
“it’s okay.”
Are you okay? On the topic of cutting off my finger with just one knife…!
“…Am I not trustworthy?”
Gearco Aidan started attacking me with his face. As if looking at me sadly, I took a step back without even realizing it.
Aidan’s beauty was too much for me to push my will.
“believe. I believe…”
“I’ll finish it soon.”
Standing in front of the counter again, Aidan activated the magic furnace this time. I was watching from the side, wondering if he was going to start with an omelet.
But…
he was touching the fire with his bare hands.
“fire! Aidan Bull!”
“ah. it’s okay.”
“What is good! Not at all okay!”
Why is he pushing his hand into the fire with a calm face as if it’s not even hot?
Eventually I managed to get Aidan out of the kitchen.
Tak tok tok. While chopping vegetables, he nagged Aidan, who was sitting behind him.
“no. I need to cut a carrot. What if I cut Aidan’s finger?”
“…”
Chiiik. The well-mixed egg water cooked deliciously in the pan.
“Fire too. When cooking, you have to be very careful with the fire. How painful are the burns?”
“….”
Aidan, who didn’t answer, turned his head away with the spatula in his hand, worried that he might have gone mad again.
I met eyes with Aidan who was watching me cook.
“It’s because I’m worried. know?”
“Get on.”
“huh? ride?”
“…it’s riding.”
I thought Aidan was trying to turn the horse, but he was really riding.
“My rice!”
“….”
“….”
So we had to eat scrambled egg stir-fry, let alone omelet.
***
It was evening when the sun was slowly setting. The two of them were still hanging around and passing the time.
Then someone knocked on the door of the mansion.
smart.
It was a very small sound, but Aidan didn’t miss it.
And also that the signs outside the mansion were very vague.
‘He’s talented.’
It was an opponent with considerable skill if he did not notice the existence until he approached right in front of the mansion.
Two people.
“I’ll come down for a while.”
“huh. go.”
Aidan, who kissed Mabel’s forehead as he waved, came down the stairs and approached the front door.
Before Mabel knew it, Aidan opened the door, determined to solve it quickly, and as soon as he saw the two men standing in front of him, his face wrinkled.
“It’s a neighbor.”
The handsome man who was so familiar spoke succinctly.
“He is the neighbor’s son.”
A look-alike man standing brazenly next to him added:
“…go away.”
Kwaaang!
Aidan nervously shut the door.
.
.
.
Oscar and Esteban had long foreseen the disappearance of the emperor couple.
because you already knew
However, it was a situation where they could not fully grasp their movement route, but there was no need to figure it out.
“A person whose existence cannot be revealed has passed away…”
“This time, it is said that he revealed the lord’s absurdity and sent him to the capital.”
“If you reveal your identity, I won’t let you go…”
It was because the route could be grasped only by reports from Mabel’s behavior, which captured the territory as if breaking a seal on each route.
Hearing the report that Mabel had done something today, the Ermano father and son laughed out loud.
“Doesn’t this sound like a protest to be known?”
“I think so too.”
“Why are you hiding your identity? It doesn’t make any sense.”
“Isn’t it cunning and cute in its own way?”
“It’s so so so so cute.”
The two of them had an in-depth discussion about Mabel’s cuteness, casually ignoring the ban because it was cute that Mabel wasn’t there.
Esteban laughed heartily as he pondered the report that Mabel had scolded the lords.
“Anyway, it’s good that you’re brave. She is also my daughter.”
Not to be outdone, Oscar responded with a proud nod.
“It’s because he’s my younger brother.”
“On the subject of my half-brother.”
“…Isn’t that father only half blood?”
great logic. Esteban admired the tremendous immoral remark.
“You’ve grown a lot, my son.”
“It seems that the emperor has shrunk a little.”
“Haha this guy.”
While arguing, the rich man waited impatiently for Mabel to arrive at the shelter he had obtained right next to the lodging where Mabel would arrive.
And after a while, Mabel finally arrived at the empty inn…
“It’s a neighbor.”
“He is the neighbor’s son.”
He visited the mansion with the fruit he bought from the market.
***
Aidan glared coldly at the closed door.
‘I can’t believe they’re chasing me all the way here.’
I hadn’t felt a watchful eye on me all the way here, so I was careless.
I should have kept in mind that they were more tenacious than I expected.
Startled by the sound of the door slamming shut, Mabel wrapped herself in a blanket and came down the stairs.
“Aidan?”
“….”
“Dad and Oscar?”
I didn’t answer because I didn’t want to know until the end, but Mabel was quicker to notice.
Mabel sighed as she looked at the knock on the door again.
“Wait Aidan.”
It was when Mabel passed Aidan and reached for the doorknob.
Aidan took Mabel’s hand.
“…can’t we go out?”
Power went into his hands.
I didn’t want to send Mabel.
Aidan was well aware that this was just my stubbornness and greed. However, the desire to monopolize Mabel was not something that could be reaped easily.
His lover, loved by everyone.
The institution of marriage held him by his side, but he did not think this was the perfect way.
The worst case scenario was that Mabel could leave at any time.
Because he is more suited to freedom than to be tied down. Because I’m the kind of person who would rather take an adventure than settle down.
She was well aware of how special Esteban and Oscar were to Mabel.
Also the fact that he couldn’t take a single step inside the wall of those solid three people.
So Aidan didn’t ask for much.
At least for now, I hope you won’t leave my side.
Because we decided to spend it alone…
I grabbed Mabel with such earnest desire, but she was kind and cruel.
“I’ll be back soon.”
Mabel, who had touched his hand as if to soothe him, gently withdrew it. Aidan lowered his head, feeling the sensation in his hand that suddenly felt empty.
It felt like a cold wind was blowing in my chest.
After going outside, Mabel looked back and forth between Esteban and Oscar, who were holding fruit baskets.
“dad. how did you come How do you know?”
“There is a way to know everything.”
“what is that? I will not tell you?”
Mabel took Esteban’s hand and shook it back and forth, and Esteban replied with a big smile.
“Hmm. That’s it. Shinsoo told me in advance.”
“iced coffee. Sheep-?”
Mabel stretched out her horse’s tail and smiled.
‘So the sheep got revenge for not allowing this bastard to enter the room.’
Yangi’s name was written in the Death Note in Mabel’s heart.
Esteban gently stroked Mabel’s hair and instructed her softly.
“Now that we’ve played this much, let’s go back to the capital.”
“hmm. Is that so?”
As Mabel’s reaction was positive, Oscar’s expression brightened.
“Go upstairs and go to Mabel’s favorite dessert shop.”
“Yep.”
“Would you like to see the opera you said you wanted to see before?”
“Not bad.”
Mabel seemed to readily agree to Oscar’s offer to hang out with them during their honeymoon.
“Then let’s leave right now.”
At Esteban’s urging to leave for the capital immediately, Mabel looked at the mansion for a moment and said troubledly.
“I left something inside me.”
“Get it quickly.”
Mabel left the two of them and returned to the mansion. There was Aidan, who had been listening to the conversation of the three people all along.
Aidan, of course, knew that Mabel would return to the capital.
But it wasn’t.
Mabel hurriedly reached out to Aidan.
“Let’s go Aidan!”
“…yes?”
Aidan looked down at the hand, but did not hold it.
“hurry!”
“…”
“I have to run away. You can’t get caught!”
As soon as Aidan grabbed his hand, Mabel grabbed the yellium. Before long, the light enveloped them.
“Mabel…!”
Oskar, noticing something strange, opened the mansion door, and all that was left was a thick blanket lying on the floor.
Oscar laughed softly as he lifted up the blanket, which was covered with the scent of Mabel and his body heat.
“Emperor. I was beaten by Mabel.”
“Mabel… Mabel abandoned this father…! How could this happen…”
Esteban was shocked as if it was nonsense, but Oscar faced reality.
Isn’t it time to admit it?
‘That Mabel’s priorities have changed.’
Of course, Oscar himself only acknowledged it with his head, but his heart still can’t accept it.
***
Because they moved with a vague idea of their destination, the place they arrived at was the cliff edge of a seaside villa they had visited before.
“It’s the sea again…”
Mabel, who wanted to feel the mountains and fields this time, murmured dejectedly.
Then, out of nowhere, she noticed something was off with Aidan.
“Aidan. what’s the matter?”
“…I thought I would return to the capital like this.”
“What are you talking about. The honeymoon isn’t even over.”
Aidan, who was silent at those words, hesitated and asked a question.
“Why did you leave?”
“It’s strange. I didn’t feel any stares watching me while I was on my way to my destination, but when I arrived, they suddenly came looking for me.”
It was possible because I already knew that it would come there.
“So I went out to find out how they found out the destination.”
“…I didn’t know.”
“Was your trust in me just this much?”
“….”
“It’s our honeymoon, but it’s a bit like having uninvited guests.”
Mabel looked up at Aidan.
Even when they became lovers, when they proposed, and even now, when they were married, Aidan was afraid of something.
‘Why don’t you know? I like Aidan this much.’
Again, actions speak louder than words.
Mabel raised her heels and grasped Aidan’s collar with both hands. Naturally, Aidan’s upper body lowered.
side!
Aidan’s eyes widened slightly.
I was a little surprised. It was Aidan who was always in contact. We held hands and hugged each other, but Mabel was the first to kiss me and I could count on one hand.
Aidan kissed Mabel gently by the nape of her neck, who was about to fall away as if she was shy after briefly touching her.
“…no way-!”
The words didn’t come through.
Breathing that he did not know whether it was his own or the other’s was mixed.
It was Mabel who reached him first, so Aidan’s greed was enough of an excuse.
After a while, their lips parted and their passionate eyes met.
The two looked at each other and laughed at the same time.
“Where would you like to go now?”
“Shall we go wherever our feet take us?”
As long as we are together, anywhere will be fine.
Their honeymoon isn’t over yet.
