◈ 185. [Side Story] Falling flowers
10 minutes ago.
It’s a sudden word.
I hit a German Suplex.
In other words, a wrestling technique in which you grab an opponent’s waist with both hands, lift them back, and slash them from the head upside down.
I don’t know what this technique is called in this world, but I suffered it anyway.
The person who bet on me this technique was Princess Yoon.
“Uryaaaaa!”
She lifted me up with bearish strength and slammed me into the wooden chairs on the platform.
Kudangtangtang!
“Quack!”
The chairs were smashed and I was buried in the debris.
I have no feeling in my neck. I think my back is too weak.
As I sprawled out, Princess Yoon cast a healing magic on me with a bloody face.
No, give me a bottle and give me medicine. Rather, what is the princess class? Are you a Mutugaya priest?
“No one cheats in the North. Do you know why?”
After casting the German Suplex and the subsequent healing magic on me, Yoon looked down at me as I collapsed on the floor and wiped my hands.
“Because cheating people, regardless of social status, gender, or age, should be beaten.”
“sorry… do… .”
After announcing their engagement today, he suddenly dumped Princess Yoon and danced proudly with another woman.
There was an uproar among the envoys of the Northern Kingdom. It was a very big diplomatic rudeness.
The people of the Northern Kingdom, who were very angry, decided to ‘punish’ me in their own way, and this was the result. It is a very exciting country.
“Come on, I think this should have eased your mind a little.”
Clearing up the hideous atmosphere, Fernandez stepped forward. This kid has a refreshing face.
“It’s a pity to marry a foolish man like my younger sister, who has a bright future like Princess Yoon.”
“Actually, there was a lot of talk in our imperial family. I thought marriage talks with this mischievous guy would be a nuisance to the Aryan kingdom… … .”
Even Lark joined in. It’s a bit sad to be sold by the older brothers at the same time.
The two princes appeased the northern kingdom envoys and led them out of the grand banquet hall.
Arranged marriages have already passed, so the alliance must be strengthened in other ways.
Princess Yoon rolled her eyes at me for the last time and went outside. I waved my hand over her back.
“Did Prince Ash make an accident again?”
“Is it like that? As expected, the empire’s number one idiot… … .”
“So what? You didn’t want to marry the northern kingdom, so you called and danced like a beggar from your old fiancée, whom you wouldn’t normally look at?”
“Are you aware that you are causing harm to the imperial family?”
“Your Majesty must be really worried too… .”
I closed my eyes gently while monopolizing the evils of the remaining nobles in the party.
Still, thanks to the reputation he has built up as an idiot, I’m not that surprised, even though everyone curses at me.
‘This is how you added a page to the legend of Kim Ash’s madman… … .’
As soon as I decided to live as Ash, I did this. Maybe I have a talent for pretty crazy things?
At that time, Serenade finished the private meeting with the emperor and came out. I smiled and spoke to her.
“Did you solve it well?”
***
“Let’s break off our engagement.”
After hearing the report that the conversation between the Emperor and Serenade went well.
I jumped ahead at the serenade, which seemed to have something more to say to me.
“… .”
The serenade froze. I laughed bitterly.
Of course I know. As far as the fact that this lady has feelings for me.
However, breaking up the engagement with Serenade is something that I have been thinking about for a long time.
“There are many eyes to see.”
The party leader’s attention is on us on the platform. I took Serenade’s hand and led her towards the garden terrace.
“Let’s go over there and talk.”
The serenade followed powerlessly.
It was summer in full swing in the garden.
Even in the evening sunset, the recording was clear. The fresh summer scent filled the garden.
On the tree next to the terrace, the spring flowers that had been hanging till the end were dropping their petals one by one. It was a light blue petal.
“why… Are you?”
A wet voice was heard. I looked back.
“Why do you want to abandon me again?”
Tears trickled down my white cheeks.
Serenade was looking up at me with tears streaming down her silver eyes.
I remembered the day I first met Serenade. Even then, you looked up at me and cried.
“I don’t really know what’s going on with Mr. You treated me coldly for years, but for the past few days, you’ve treated me kindly, and now why? … Are you asking to break up?”
“… .”
“Why did you treat me so warmly when you were going to throw it away anyway? If you come to know the warmth like this… … I mean there’s no going back… … .”
“serenade.”
Approaching her weeping, I let out a small sigh.
“Our relationship was wrong from the start.”
The imperial family needed money and the merchant family needed a rise in status.
At the end of an understanding between the two, Ash and Serenade were engaged.
And the misunderstandings, speculations, and wrong actions that have accumulated over the past 10 years are mixed… … The relationship between the two broke up.
Ash became an idiot, harassed Serenade and extorted materially, and
Serenade only passively clung to it because it needed Ash’s lineage.
‘The relationship between people is like a Jenga puzzle.’
A wooden puzzle that builds a tower by removing the pillars in between.
Ash and Serenade’s relationship was a precarious Jenga puzzle on the verge of collapsing.
The pillars were thin and flimsy, so they were in a state where even the slightest shock would cause them to pour out.
Although he temporarily sutured his wounds and endured a bigger crisis, he could not build the next human relationship in this state.
Because the festering wounds will burst one day. After all, one day the tower will collapse.
So- I decided to build the tower again from zero base.
‘Because I decided to live as Ash.’
I will also operate on the relationship between the four Ashes.
So serenade.
“Let’s start over.”
The serenade, who had been crying and giggling, looked up at me with open eyes. I smiled.
poor girl
You poor man who came all the way here to rescue me, standing barefoot with his short hair disheveled, his dress torn, his stockings torn.
We are on the same side.
you can’t throw it away
“The circumstances of the imperial family and your family’s long-cherished wishes are no doubt good. Let’s start over from the beginning, purely between the two of us, regardless of anyone else.”
“… .”
“first… Because of the relationship between the commander of the southern front and the upper tier to deal with. As a good business partner.”
No longer dependent on someone else, but
equally able to walk at the same eye level looking at each other.
“All over again. it’s a fresh start how is it?”
The serenade who was wiping away tears with the back of her hand murmured softly.
“… Even a dance partner.”
“huh?”
“Will your dance partner continue?”
I burst into laughter as I watched the serenade with nose-maeng-maeng sounds.
“of course. partner.”
The evening wind blew. The last remnants of spring petals spilled from the branches that swayed above our heads.
Suddenly, a verse came to mind.
One day when the flower petals fall while waving their delicate hands… … .
“… .”
Spring ends and summer comes.
We become a little more adults.
Like I said in that poem, there are relationships that mature only when there is a breakup.
therefore… .
I said with a smile.
“Let’s break up.”
I said softly as I met my two silver eyes filled with serenade tears.
“Let’s go together from the beginning. serenade.”
From the immature spring to the mature summer.
together.
“… .”
Serenade didn’t cry anymore.
Serenade, who wiped away the tears with the back of her hand, tidied up her face, and bowed down while bowing to me first.
It was a neat and beautiful movement.
“It was a good time. Husband.”
It was a greeting after the dance.
Smiling brightly, I slowly bowed in front of her while bowing.
“I enjoyed the serenade too.”
shoot it… … .
After the greeting is over, the wind has stopped and the rain of flowers has stopped.
“… excuse me. My dear… … No, Your Highness the Prince.”
Serenade corrected her title and smiled thinly.
“I know it’s really ugly to say things like this after a breakup.”
Your voice trembles. eyes are red She is truly a woman with many tears.
“Can you grant me one wish?”
“What? say it.”
“only once… Can I give you a hug?”
It was a voice that seemed to have squeezed out all its will.
I smiled and spread my arms.
Serenade was carefully placed in my arms. I hugged her tightly.
“Hard. suffocate Tight enough to crush… … .”
I gently grasped her slender shoulders, which would break if I held her tighter.
The serenade in my arms sobbed.
So we broke up.
This is how we parted.
***
Three days have passed.
The victory party was over, the discussion with the guardians was over, the Wintersilver family was saved, and the southern front’s independence route was guaranteed.
It seemed like everything was going well, but it wasn’t.
First of all, about half of the promised sponsors withdrew because of kicking Princess Yoon at the end of the party.
It was the reason why such a light man could not be trusted.
‘It’s not just because it’s a waste of money… … ?’
Still, about half of them actually came to the palace and gave donations.
I want to know where this is, but why are they all my big fans… … let in Every time I received sponsorship, I was a little scared.
It’s normal to try to salivate while shaking hands, asking for an autograph on some ass, letting me lick my eyeballs, asking for some kind of reaction, no, crazy man, why so many… … ?
Even so, with his many years of experience as a streamer, he managed to entertain patrons without difficulty.
Bastards who cross the Donero line just hit the van and that’s it.
The negotiations with the guardians seemed to have ended well, but after that, he had to be called to the imperial palace every day for additional meetings.
It was mainly about the production of magic stones and how much stock to send to the ecliptic.
Of course, the ecliptic demanded the full amount, and I tried my best to cover up the amount I earned and send only half of the actual amount.
Honestly, even half of it is a shame, but I still have to spend enough to avoid human sacrifice in this scary town.
If you think you can save people, you can send more than half of them. Anyway, after the middle, there are still magic stones left over.
Envoys from the Northern Aryan kingdom also came to visit me once. Unexpectedly, Princess Yoon had a refreshing face.
“Thanks to you, I’m glad I didn’t get married!”
He said he had come to see me one last time after preparing to return to the North.
The signing of the alliance seems to have ended well somehow. Did Fernandez do some numbers?
I’m a little sorry that this is like trolling, but you shouldn’t try to use someone else as a marriage of convenience in the first place.
“Oh, I’m going to tell my country that I’m dumped by the prince. Are you okay?”
“Do whatever you want.”
That much I am willing to do. Go ahead and say you’re very full. He brags that he also has a German Suplex.
“See you then, Your Highness the Prince. Next time, put some more muscle on it. Because it seems to be my taste.”
Having said that, before leaving, Yoon said, Oh my! Then, suddenly, he pulled up his shirt.
Me, Yun’s men, and Alberto, who was clearing the teacup, were frightened. what?!
Beneath Yoon’s top, his abs were shining proudly.
“How is it?”
Then he smiled and left.
no… It’s cool. What’s the point of me showing you that?
I spend a few days like that.
“Oh, Pitta.”
With no more guests, I sigh in relief and start preparing to head south.
“Your Highness has a new guest.”
“huh?”
Someone came with Alberto’s guidance.
I smiled wide at the welcome face.
“Hey! He was alive!”
“… .”
A prosecutor wearing a maid’s uniform with a swordsman on his back.
It was Elise.
