#542. answer me
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“Do you really need more?”
“I already ate to my stomach.”
“Umm, but Limor is still in his growth phase, right? Even if you eat, you must be old enough to eat.”
I’m sorry
It’s time to scratch your cheeks while watching Jeanne d’Arc offer another one full of steamed potatoes.
Limon finally found a suitable excuse.
“Because I am Pharaoh’s concubine. I also have to pay attention to weight management.”
“Ah…”
Is it because of that awkward smile?
Or was it because he remembered what he had seen before escaping from Hasneti’s barracks as if he were running away from their first meeting?
The gaze swims through the air.
I even blushed a little for a moment.
Joan of Arc suddenly closed her eyes.
And after taking a deep breath, he faced Limon again with a calm face.
“Is that something you wanted yourself to do?”
“What?”
“Limore became her concubine. Are you not forced to do so for some reason?”
“…”
“If that’s the case, I’ll help you.”
Did you sell your body for money?
whether it was threatened.
It doesn’t matter.
If you want to run away, I will protect you.
If it’s because you’re in debt, I’ll pay off the debt instead and give you freedom.
Limon, who had been silent because of being caught off guard and hearing words he had never imagined, opened his mouth after a long time.
“why?”
Even if you’re not Limon.
No, that’s why, from Jeanne d’Arc’s point of view, he is a strange boy whom he has only met for a few days.
There would be no reason to help the concubine of the Red Dragon Princess who was hostile to each other.
It’s not enough to keep doing favors, so why are you going to do that?
Looking at Limon asking why.
Joan of Arc tilted her head.
“Isn’t it natural to help someone in need?”
“…”
“More than anything else, Limor is my younger brother.”
“…I remember rejecting the offer to be your younger brother.”
“Oh, I heard you. I was trying to agree on this.”
It’s as if he’s ashamed that his ulterior motive was discovered.
At the end of staring at Joan of Arc, whose cheeks were blushing.
Limon chuckled.
“Thank you for your consideration, but you don’t have to worry about me. I must have wanted to become Pharaoh’s concubine.”
“Really?”
“Really. Besides, it’s easy to misunderstand because he’s cold on the outside, but if you get to know the pharaoh, he’s kind and kind.”
“Your heart is weak…? Are you the Red Dragon Princess?”
“yes.”
“Umm, if Limor says that, I can’t help it.”
It’s like I don’t believe it at all.
Even while shaking my head.
Seeing Limon’s unwavering eyes, Joan of Arc finally agreed.
And smiled brightly.
“If there is anything you need my help with, just let me know. I will be sure to help.”
“…Thank you, pretty sister.”
“Huh, say something.”
say goodbye like that
After Joan of Arc left the place.
Left alone, Limon let out a heavy sigh after being silent for a long time.
‘It’s hard.’
It was tiring just to continue playing a play that didn’t suit me when I was already tired.
However, it wasn’t the lack of sleep, fatigue, or acting that really bothered Limon.
It was Joan of Arc’s kind smile.
[Um, I’m saying it because I don’t know. Will becoming a sword master help save France?]
Hundreds of years ago.
Even when he became his disciple.
[There was a strange crop among the gifts sent to you from the Continent of Spirits. Did you see it? You can eat the roots!]
Training in the Sword Tower.
Even when I was caught trying to grow potatoes secretly in my spare time.
[Hehe, I heard that the teacher gave me the title of Sword Master himself.]
Finally, I became a sword master.
Even when he was happy to hear the title given to him.
And…
[…You’re really strong, sir.]
After two days of desperate struggle.
Even when I was cut to death by myself.
That smile, which had always been beautiful and gentle, was exhausting Limon, forcibly bringing back memories of the past.
slowly.
holding up one hand
Spread your palms out.
It’s too heavy even when you’re not holding anything.
Looking at the bloody hands that are not stained with anything.
He closed his eyes.
I don’t regret it.
He was the protector of mankind.
Before she was Limon’s first disciple, she was an enemy of mankind who went mad and tried to exterminate all the people of the British Empire.
But if.
really one in a while.
If only I could convince her.
No, if I could change my mind even now…
‘…a useless thought.’
holding hands tightly
Limon shook his head.
If I could have stopped it with just a few words, I wouldn’t have cut it in the first place.
However, I was shaken by the fact that I had talked a little about this already dangerous situation, received a favor, and seen some fragments of my old self.
Did he become so weak before he knew it?
after letting out a heavy sigh.
he turned away
Either hasten or redefine the plan.
I was so exhausted and tired today that I thought I needed to rest a bit more.
But after returning to the barracks.
Instead of taking a break, Limon had no choice but to put on a puzzled expression.
It was because an unexpected passenger had come to his barracks, which had been empty the whole time because he had shared a bed with Hasneti for the past few days.
“Are you here now?”
Sit cross-legged on the bed.
A beauty in a military uniform who was smoking a cigarette.
Looking at Hasneti, Limon asked timidly.
“Pharaoh? What are you doing here?”
“Can’t I be there?”
“There’s no reason why it shouldn’t be there, but…”
Limon swallowed a moan at Hasneti’s uncharacteristically calm response, who had been able to blink her eyes even if he disappeared for a moment these days.
Clearly, those eyes are still.
His voice is also very calm.
For some reason, I felt a strange atmosphere.
It was strange that she, who used to call for Limon when needed in the first place, came to her barracks herself.
‘…Did you see me talking to the swordsmith?’
‘If I did, I think I would’ve been angry right away on the spot.’
‘Maybe I heard it from someone later…’
What is the reason for this strange atmosphere?
Limon, who finished his judgment in an instant, finally opened his mouth with a sigh after a short hesitation.
“I’m sorry, Pharaoh.”
“Why are you apologizing to me?”
“I happened to meet a swordsmith in front of you a while ago.”
It is not intentional by any means.
They just met by chance, and the story just got a little longer because they acted in order not to be suspected.
To Limon, who voluntarily paid the tax in order to reduce the punishment he would receive anyway.
Hasneti asked.
“Is that all?”
“I even got some potatoes.”
“…”
“I called her older sister, but she clearly declined the offer to be my younger sister.”
Limon said it proudly, even on purpose.
At a time like this, if I showed signs of being stabbed for no reason, it only gave me more useless doubts.
There wasn’t really any stabbing.
“Right.”
However, Hasneti did not doubt Limon.
At the end of silently watching Limon.
After a while, he nodded his head.
I just muttered quietly.
“Have you been fooling me like that all this time?”
“what?”
bang!
What does that mean?
Before Limon even asked.
Hasneti kicked the box at his feet.
And the moment he saw the wide open box in front of him after rolling several times on the floor.
Limon’s face hardened.
[Eup Eup Eup!]
Was the box itself an item?
Something I hadn’t felt before, even as a sword master.
In other words, it wasn’t because he saw the figure of the blue bird wriggling in the box with the flame item stolen and tied tightly to the rope.
Look at the things that are put together next to it.
Because I finally realized.
Also that everything is messed up.
It’s not that Hasneti isn’t angry, but that his anger is so great that he just seems calm.
It is as if the sky before a storm or a volcano before an eruption looks rather calm.
“He did this without my knowledge.”
“…”
“Including the previous ones, how many are all prepared?”
“….”
“Answer me, Limor.”
It seems that silence will not be tolerated.
Listen to Hasneti’s command, inhaling smoke.
Limon closed his eyes.
“872.”
Maybe it’s because I didn’t know that I’d finished preparing as much as I did in such a short period of time.
Take a moment to close your mouth and be silent.
Hasneti asked again.
“Did you enjoy it?”
“…”
“I’m asking if it was fun pretending to be fooled by me and deceiving me.”
“Pharaoh, that must be wrong. I…”
“Misunderstanding?”
Limon’s answer.
Hasneta didn’t bother to listen.
He chewed on the cigarette in his mouth.
As if the quiet eyes from a while ago were a lie, he just stared at Limon with burning eyes.
“Are you going to say it was all a misunderstanding when you tried to escape from my concubine status by completing the contract by completing 1000 pieces?”
The one I heard with Yuna-kyung.
In other words, looking at Hasneti pointing to the sculpture she secretly made and hid through Yuna-kyung.
Limon had no excuses.
Because he knew that his words were meaningless as long as the evidence came out.
More than anything, because I knew there was something else I had to say now.
“sorry.”
By a soft apology.
Secretly make 1000 pieces.
He admitted that he tried to free himself from his bondage by fulfilling the promise that served as the justification for making Limon his concubine.
Hasneti did not even interrogate further.
after getting up.
He slowly approached Limon and
roughly tugged at the clothes.
Chow!
“I don’t need an apology.”
Tear thin fabric.
Broken and torn necklace.
So, looking at Limon, who showed off his brown skin just like that day.
Hasneti spoke in a growling voice like a wounded beast that was incomparably more ferocious than that day.
“You have to pay the price for cheating on me with your body.”
It was a mistake to hesitate in the first place.
If he doesn’t give you his heart, all you have to do is take his body first and then forcibly take away his heart as well.
I tried to give you everything
Feeling betrayed for trying to deceive yourself and run away.
And Hasneti, who was staring at him with bloody eyes entwined with accumulated lust, hunger and anger, grabbed Limon’s neck as it was.
No, I was trying to grab it.
Chow!
penetrating the strong barracks.
A single petal seeps in.
If only I hadn’t stopped her hand.
“I thought it would be insufficient, so I made a potato salad that says you can eat full while dieting….”
As the Red Dragon Princess, she is one of the absolute ones who can not only stop her actions, but also threaten her life.
faded blonde hair.
A flower-patterned sword in his hand.
Even a nun’s uniform that clings to the body.
The bewitching beauty with a characteristic appearance that cannot be recognized without looking at it casually put down the salad bowl she was holding in her other hand.
“Hey, Red Lizard.”
with a smiley face.
But with eyes without a smile.
Looking straight at Hasneti, who exudes ferocious momentum as if he would tear himself to death at any moment.
The first Sword Master produced by the Sword Tower.
Limon’s first disciple.
The swordswoman Joan of Arc aimed the sharp blade at Hasneti’s heart and asked coldly.
“What are you doing to my brother?”
