Episode 234
Episode 89. Rugal Raisin (1)
Catherine Jacques, a woman with red hair hanging out of the window and a sad expression.
After becoming Rugal’s concubine, she walked around the unfamiliar imperial castle day by day, hiding her tears. At times, he screamed in spite of himself because he was resentful of the giant wave that hit his fate.
‘How am I supposed to get out of here?
Damn I can’t reveal my identity. Are the others alive? I miss you so much… If Yuma were still alive, would she not give up and look for me?’
If you reveal your identity, there is a high probability that you will be used as a prisoner. Besides, if the fact that she became Rugal’s concubine even reached her father’s ears, it would be the end.
Catherine was more concerned about Yuma’s safety than the war between the West and the East.
Certainly, all nobles in the west would blame Yuma for becoming Rugal’s concubine.
‘Father who started a war without permission by running amok with Yuma, the cause of the war. It’s a perfect picture for the power of the Zach family and Yuma to shrink.
Ha it’s frustrating driving me crazy.’
Catherine was also inside a slave convoy when she came to her senses.
Another slave ship passing through the passage near Azif’s Light found her among the wreckage of Omir’s ship, which was sunk by a huge wave.
The slave ship headed for Eltainer Port via Balipoa, and Catherine, classified as a special product from the moment it was first discovered, was immediately put on a special auction table.
The special auction was held only for Rugal. On days when special auctions were held, the nobles and wealthy people of Cantra would visit Eltainer Harbor and select slaves to offer as tribute to Rugal.
One of the nobles bought Catherine at the highest price ever and gave it to Rugal.
In some ways, Catherine was very lucky. She was spared one of the common and terrible procedures that female slaves were subjected to.
However, that fact did not provide much consolation to Catherine.
“Red hair.”
“ah! It’s a surprise!”
Hearing Rugal’s voice, Catherine looked back in horror. There was no sign of popularity, and the gate of the annex where he was staying was tightly closed.
Catherine glared at Rugal and bit her lower lip. That damn human always came out of nowhere this way.
In some strange way, like magic, I always stand right behind or next to it.
Catherine couldn’t help but think that it was some kind of illusion magic or Rugal’s special ability.
Even when killing the woman who asked for silk clothes for the first time, Rugal directed a grotesque scene of strangling her a few steps away from the spot.
None of the magic Katherine knew was like that.
“Are you going to appear like this every time?
Are you going to kill the damn thing with a heart attack?”
“I came to ask your name.”
“I told you last time, but you will never know my name.”
“Say your name.”
“If you release me from here, I’ll let you know by letter.”
“You cannot leave the Eltainer Imperial Castle.”
“I hate this place.”
“You will like it.”
“Never will that ever happen. Let me go.”
“Red hair. You often use expressions such as forever and never.”
Catherine let out a long sigh.
“I don’t feel like playing with words. I don’t intend to tell you your name, so could you please stop?”
“Don’t let that happen.”
Flash.
Katherine unconsciously closed and opened her eyes, and when she saw that Rugal had disappeared, she felt goosebumps rising.
Even when he turned his head and looked everywhere, he couldn’t find even a trace of Rugal’s presence.
At first, I thought he was just a capricious, cruel ruler with a few screws missing. However, there was something about Rugal that was difficult to explain.
‘What the hell is that kind of human… are you really human?’
The day after becoming a concubine, Rugal went straight to Catherine’s bed. Catherine took out the hairpin she had prepared in advance and threatened to kill herself if she violated her.
Then, Rugal briefly replied, ‘I see,’ and disappeared as before. Since then, it has been like this every day.
Rugal had been visiting Catherine without missing a day, asking her name.
The next day, Rugal visited Catherine again.
“You are the emperor, but you have nothing to do? Isn’t it normal to be busy all the time? Why do you come to visit me and waste your time like this every time?”
“You got it right. To waste time.”
“Ha… what are you? Why are you doing this to me?”
“Say your name.”
“Yeah, good. rosin. Rosin is my name.”
“That is not your name.”
“No, my name is Rosin.”
“Let’s take a walk in the garden.”
“no, I do not want.”
“You will walk.”
“I don’t think so. It goes off.”
Three days later, Catherine had no choice but to walk in the garden of the Eltainer Imperial Castle with Rugal.
For all three days Rugal had always visited Catherine at the same time and said, ‘Let’s take a walk in the garden’.
I felt like I was going to go crazy if I continued meaningless wrestling with him.
Katherine stepped on the stone-walled path in the garden, dazed and overcome with a strange sense of defeat.
“Now is it? Did you walk the garden as you said? So stop looking for it. “Leave me alone,” said Catherine, almost crying.
“You are the weakest and most stupid human being I have ever seen. There is a god like you.”
Catherine didn’t answer, only looked at her feet. I wanted to say something else.
“There is a god who resembles you.”
“A god who resembles you…
“Ah, who is that?”
“Zile.”
“your majesty!”
A man ran across the garden and got down on one knee at Rugal. Rugal looked down at him with an expressionless face.
He was the captain of Rugal’s first line of personal guard, the ‘White Sword’.
“Speak.”
“The blue sword failed to capture the princess of Lhasa alive. And Princess Lhasa… just came to the imperial castle on her own.”
“is it.”
“I led the party in the name of escort, but it seems that Rong Doge was framed.”
The captain began to explain in detail what had happened outside.
Even after hearing about the violence at the inn and the public opinion in Lhasa, Rugal’s expression did not change.
“Let Rasa and his party go into the audience room.”
“What should I do with the escort who hurt the Blue Sword members?”
“Let them take it together.”
“All right.”
When the captain of the white sword disappeared, Rugal put a hand on Catherine’s shoulder.
“We will have to put off our walk until tomorrow.”
* * * As the audience room got closer, Rasa couldn’t hide her nervousness.
It wasn’t just Lhasa. Except for Yuma, everyone else in the party had hard expressions on their faces.
I never thought I’d meet the lord of the East so suddenly.
No matter how strong Yuma was, it was obviously reckless to come to the imperial castle to negotiate with Rugal without any preparation.
Hwangseong. the emperor’s residence.
Whether in the West or the East, the moment they set foot in the imperial castle, the right to take life and death naturally passed to the emperor.
However, no matter how reckless it was, it was Yuma’s own duty and a shortcut to world peace to save Catherine as soon as possible.
‘I’m the best of the east, but would you choose to go to war with the west because you feel sorry for one of your concubines? I don’t think Rugal has the same personality as my mentor or Captain Hugo.’
Once you’ve had an audience, reveal your identity to him and ask him to return Catherine.
Let’s use the swarm, so to speak.
As the Baron of Kyle, try asking for diplomatic damages for the Blue Sword attack, and if that doesn’t work, sell the names of Tekken Asuka Rose and Duran Jacques Ougusle Layer Kriesha.
Other than that, Yuma couldn’t think of anything else. As the situation flowed rapidly, he did not have the time to maneuver or make precise movements.
In the first place, extracting the concubine of an Eastern emperor was absolutely impossible to achieve through common sense methods.
What kind of mad emperor would give his woman to someone else? In the yard, all the peppers of the closest servants were cut in case there would be such an unfortunate incident.
“Baron Drake. If Pajama spares us, and as you said, if I survive and seize power someday. I will definitely repay you.”
“After today, rumors about the princess will spread like crazy. As the princess’s personal escort, I destroyed the SS in the middle of the city, so the ripple effect must be considerable. Even if it’s because of public opinion about the existence of the princess, I won’t be able to kill her carelessly.”
“well. I think His Majesty these days can do that enough.”
Other aristocrats walking down the hallway stared blatantly at Princess Lhasa and Yuma’s party. On Igor’s shoulder was a bloodied loong dog.
Because of that, it looked as if Rasa was going to ask Rugal about a problem with Lung Doge.
“Let’s just take it lightly that the nephew is on his way to clear up misunderstandings with his uncle.”
“How can you be so bold in a situation like this?”
“When I was in the West, there were many more embarrassing moments than now.”
The door to the audience room was wide open.
As Yuma and his party approached, the members of the Red Swords of the 2nd Guards Guard guarding the throne room raised their swords high.
“Disarm.”
Yuma released the Ascalon from her waist and held it out to the bodyguards.
Cogg and Ballinan had to unpack the entire bag.
Even after passing the chainsword, Natalie had to put down the weapons she had hidden all over her body for a long time.
By the time Natalie released more than 20 memorized words, even the bodyguards were dumbfounded.
“…You mean you were carrying all of these while passing through the imperial castle?”
“You’d better touch carefully.
If you don’t want to go to the nether road. All blades are poisoned.”
“Go in. His Majesty is waiting for you.”
As expected, no one recognized that the pattern engraved on Yuma’s arm was the demonic sword Amoulah.
‘There must be plenty of escorts inside the throne room. In case of emergency, I’ll have to summon Amula and take Rugal hostage.’
That, of course, shouldn’t have happened.
Lhasa walked past the bodyguards and stopped to look back at them.
“bodyguard. words are short I came to have an audience with Your Majesty as a princess.”
“I’m sorry, Princess. Please go in.”
Rasa jerked back to the group, and Yuma gave her a thumbs up.
As the party entered, the thick gate of the audience room closed.
Contrary to Yuma’s expectations, there were no escorts inside the audience room. Only Rugal, who was sitting on the throne, could be seen.
Rugal watched the party approaching with his chin on his face.
“It’s been a while, Rasa.”
“The girl is just very moved by your acceptance of His Majesty’s audience.”
“I didn’t know you were interested in power. Were you influenced by your new friends?”
“Since my surname is Raijin, just struggling to save my life seems to be greedy for power.”
While Rasa and Rugal were talking, the rest of the party was on one knee with the fainted Lung Doge on the floor.
And it was difficult for Yuma to control his embarrassment.
‘Somehow, there was no escort. Rugal Raijin… that’s not a human, it’s a dragon!?’
During the Dragon Horse War before returning, Yuma saw countless dragons that transformed into humans. After returning, I saw Kriesha in human form at Inzbikan.
When a dragon transformed into a human, there was one characteristic that always appeared. A part of the dragon heart must be revealed on the forehead or chest.
It’s like being encrusted with jewels.
On Rugal’s forehead, a black dragon heart similar to the jewel in Jeka’s chest shone softly.
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