Chapter 68. Add Mabel’s Slave2020.09.26.
Mabel tilted her head innocently.
“What? don’t you know? This is what Oscar did when he was six.”
“Six years old? Huh…”
Franz didn’t believe Mabel’s words. It was obvious that this was the usual bullshit of children. Because at that age, they inflate it by giving the biggest number they know.
‘I wonder how I can accurately name the theory, but it must be a coincidence.’
Franz laughed, thinking it was just a coincidence.
“your majesty. No matter how much you hate studying picture books, you shouldn’t lie. Worst of all is more vicious than stupid.”
“It’s not a joke. The real Oscar is Marie. And I know I’m neither stupid nor vicious.”
Franz was so stupid that he didn’t even notice that Mabel was talking again at one point.
“The theory can be understood only by at least the high school students of the academy. You have to be pretty smart, too.”
“Then Oscar is a genius.”
As Mabel continued to insist, Franz, who had nothing to say, silently opened the picture book. He suddenly felt pitiful for himself arguing with a child.
“Let’s start class. Look here, Your Majesty.”
“Painting. fun book. Learn that there are letters, sipper. Don’t you read the history books?”
Mabel’s attitude upset Franz.
“I heard that you haven’t even mastered the letters yet, so how can you read a history book?”
“letter? Once you see it, you can memorize it all!”
Franz was stunned. Why the hell is this damn imperial family saying such nonsense because they raised the emperor so well? This is why he didn’t like the children of the imperial family or high-ranking nobles.
‘Everything is arbitrary!’
A fever rose in Franz’s head, who was born into a Korean American family and had an inferiority complex towards the children of high-ranking families.
“How do you memorize all the letters by looking at them once?”
“I can do it.”
“Lying is bad.”
“What would you do if I could memorize it?”
Mabel looked at Franz with innocent eyes. He naturally took Mabel’s words as bluffing. I have already heard the explanation of the emperor’s educational status from the emperor’s aide. The emperor was unable to read a single word.
‘It’s not like I didn’t have a chance to meet you.’
If you attend regular meetings, you will naturally put the documents in front of you, but you didn’t wake up the letters? Based on that, of course, what Mabel was saying now was bluffing.
“Hmm. great. If Your Majesty reads the letters once and memorizes them all, I will grant you one wish.”
“Wow really?”
Mabel clapped her hands in delight. Franz nodded and raised the corner of his mouth slightly. If something goes, something comes. His real purpose was different.
“Instead, if you can’t memorize it, Your Majesty will have to listen to one thing I ask for.”
“huh!”
Mabel responded cheerfully without thinking for a second. Franz rejoiced inwardly that the naive Emperor had fallen for his tricks.
‘I can sit on a cushion of money!’
Even though he is young, his status is not that of an emperor. The range of wishes that can be granted will be endless. Franz wrote the consonants and vowels in order on a piece of paper while contemplating what to wish for with a pounding heart.
“Well, how much time can I give you?”
“Slightly?”
“I’ll give you one minute.”
“huh!”
At that moment, Franz only knew that he had won. He didn’t know that Mabel’s eyes were twinkling as she quietly lowered her head. Exactly one minute passed. Mabel handed the paper to Franz with a sad face.
“ruler. Take it all.”
“Is that so?”
“yes. Where can I use it?”
“You can write it here.”
Mabel’s strangely calm demeanor was odd, but of course Franz was sure that Mabel couldn’t memorize it.
“It’s all used up.”
Not even a minute had passed until I saw the letters written in crooked handwriting.
“…”
“It’s all used up.”
“Have you seen and written-.”
“Master keeps what Master wrote, that’s right.”
“…”
Mabel was right. Mabel could never see the sample paper he had, as he was holding it invisibly.
‘Hwa sure is a genius is a genius.’
Franz neatly admitted his defeat. It was the person who was ugly to bite and hang on to.
“Hmm. So, what is your wish, Your Majesty?”
“hmm. What do you do?”
Mabel smiled and fell into trouble. Franz thought nothing of the wish.
‘A doll or a pretty accessory at most.’
I have to pay the emperor, so my pockets will be lighter, but I can’t help it. Thinking deeply, Mabel jumped up and went to the door.
“Aidan!”
When the name of the escort knight was called, he immediately came inside. Mabel lifted her tiptoe and whispered something in the boy’s ear.
“All right.”
The boy nodded and went out on the road and returned shortly after. With a piece of paper in your hand. Mabel took the paper and put it in front of Franz.
“Now, sign it.”
“yes?”
“signature.”
At Mabel’s request, Franz looked at the paper with a blank face. There was no text written on the paper, only the signature box at the bottom.
“Explain what this is…”
“Master, you can’t… are you talking about lies? They said they would reveal their wishes…”
How could that be? Mabel covered her mouth with both hands. Then, at some point, Aidan, standing behind Mabel, glared at Franz with cold eyes.
“Hee!”
Franz, a weak scholar with an incredibly bloody spirit, trembled. Aidan’s energy began to creep up on Franz’s feet.
“Your Majesty…!”
“why?”
Mabel innocently tilted her head, not knowing what the escort driver behind her was doing. Franz was sure.
‘If I don’t sign, that boy will kill me!’
It’s an unknown contract, but wouldn’t it be better than dying? Franz quickly wrote his name.
“I wrote it.”
“Joe.”
Mabel looked down at the paper and smiled contentedly. Since it was signed anyway, it can’t be undone, but Franz asked for no reason.
“So… what is that piece of paper?”
“yes? this?”
“Yes.”
“A slave contract.”
“…?”
As Mabel fluttered the paper and wrote her name next to it, to her surprise, the letters slowly began to appear on the blank paper.
“Welcome back to my slave, Master.”
Mabel smiled brightly. Hmmm, Franz stopped breathing. It was an angelic smile, unlike someone who cheated with a blank contract.
***
‘Obtain a slave!’
I hummed a song. Unexpectedly, we got a lot of talent. I tried to get an education quietly, but it was Franz who first scratched his temper and offered to grant me a wish, so I did nothing wrong.
“I’ll give you money, too.”
The source of the enchanted slave contract was none other than the Myteron Auction House. As a mass-producer of all sorts of crimes, I tried it once, and the effect was certain. In fact, it was a slave contract only in name, but in reality it was the same as a lifetime labor contract.
“Because Master says he is good at math… Shall we do accounting?”
“yes. Then we will arrange them that way.”
“The salary is Mani Joe. It’s good to spend money.”
“All right.”
Still, I had a conscience, but I had no intention of working without pay. Even if it wasn’t, it was a good thing since the guild said there was a lack of accounting-related personnel. During the week, I act as my teacher, and on the weekends, I go to the guild to do accounting work. Instead, a lot of money. After finishing the business related to Franz, I confidently grabbed the pen. Now that I had a teacher, it was not strange to know the letters.
“Big steering.”
I wrote a letter, intoxicated with myself writing. The handwriting was dirtier than Oscar could help, but I can read it, so it’s okay.
“It’s all used up.”
The recipient of my first glorious official letter was none other than Enrique. The ban on entry was also lifted, so it was said to come and play as much as you like. It was less than an hour after I sent the letter to Enrique. Oscar came running after a month of training.
“How can Mabel do that?”
“Where are you going?”
“…letter.”
“letter? ah!”
I tilted my head and suddenly realized. He must have heard that I wrote a letter to Enrique.
“I can write now. Oscar doesn’t help, Jodo too!”
“…!”
“Thank you so far.”
In the meantime, Oscar would have been bothered by the fact that he was writing and reading my letters instead. I greeted him with sincere gratitude, but Oscar distorted his face.
“I hate Mabel…”
and then run out of the bedroom! Abandoned suddenly, I stood up awkwardly.
“Oh Oscar!”
Larimar and Xavier, who were passing by looking at me, said one word at a time.
“Your Majesty is wrong.”
“I know. It is entirely your fault.”
I held on to the hems of Larimar and Xavier’s clothes while crying.
“Did I not know well? Let me know…”
It was the first time Oscar said he hated me, so it was actually a bit shocking. I’ve never said anything like that before…. The corners of my mouth drooped in frustration. Then Larimar and Xavier threw away their jobs and stuck right next to me to explain.
“Now, I’m only going to explain it once, so listen carefully.”
“huh.”
I went into schoolboy mode and took a posture to listen to them seriously.
“There are two reasons why Her Highness hates you.”
As I tilted my head at Larimar’s words, Xavier helped.
“His Highness Oscar loves Her Majesty so much that he would have loved to read and write letters for you, but now he can’t do that, so he’s upset.”
“I’m sorry, but I’m sorry.”
“It’s for His Majesty, so it won’t be bothersome.”
Come to think of it, Oscar always smiled and wrote letters for me. I thought it was because he was just a nice and kind brother, but he wasn’t. Larimar explained the second reason.
“The second is that the first person Your Majesty sent a letter to was none other than Prince Enrique.”
“Yes? Then why not?”
“Because it’s the first letter I wrote, so it has a different meaning.”
“Ugh. Let me know first.”
In fact, the one who received my first letter (?) was Gustaf, who discovered the fake documents for the mine purchase case. But it’s not important, so I passed it for now. First of all, it was important to free Oscar’s heart. In the evening when Oscar’s training was over, I went to Oscar’s bedroom with a snack.
“Oscar. Is this?”
I knocked and entered, but Oscar was nowhere to be seen. Looking around the room, I found a teacup still steaming. And the balcony door was open and the curtains fluttered in the sky.
‘You’re avoiding me.’
It seems that Oscar is more angry with me than I thought. Returning to my room, I seriously looked for a solution.
“How can I release my anger?”
Xavier gave an answer to my question after thinking about it.
“How about giving a gift that is as meaningful as the first letter you wrote?”
“How about a gift like that?”
“Well…”
Xavier and I put our heads together and thought over and over again, but we couldn’t come up with a great gift.
***
The carriage ran smoothly down the avenue. I looked out the window and sighed deeply.
‘I couldn’t remember it after all.’
A gift worthy of relieving Oscar’s anger. I was on my way to Ricavelli Street with an escort the next day, hoping that there would be no conclusion to it by contemplating it in my bedroom. Larimar, who came out with me, chattered excitedly about going out after a long time.
“Shall we stop by the dressing room as well, Your Majesty? There’s a new clothing store, and they say the dresses there are so pretty!”
“Arseo.”
We soon arrived at Ricavelli Street and went around all sorts of shops. Following Xavier’s advice, he tried to find a gift with special meaning, but it was not easy.
“Unknowingly. Will Oscar be shy?”
“Your Majesty will like anything you give me!”
“Aside from that, Marie wants to give you something really precious.”
It was a time when I was wandering the streets without any income. A familiar sound was heard among the people walking on the side of the road.
“This sound is…”
A thump. It was clearly the sound of someone being hit.
‘Commoners wouldn’t be walking on this street.’
Are there any disputes among users? I turned my steps in the direction from which I heard the sound. The escorts followed me without knowing where I was going. Eventually, we arrived near where the sound came from. puck. I frowned at the sound of hitting again.
‘It’s something I hate to hear at any time.’
It’s a familiar sound because it hits often. A terrible sound that makes you want to cover your ears. The sound came from the alley between shops.
“Who is being beaten?”
“Shhh.”
Having made Larimar quiet, I quietly moved toward the alley. And there was a face that was all too familiar.
“Useless bastard. Can’t even do a single thing right?!”
The intimidating Duke Javier and the swollen face in front of him…
“…Enrique?”
