115 – A miserable life
There is no other way than to be patient.
He survived a life worse than a slave, believing that Lian would come to rescue him.
The food they ate was leftovers, and the only place to sleep was in a cold prison cell, barely covering their eyes with a thin blanket.
I endured another day like that.
“Huum… .”
Wearing a piece of cloth that barely covers her genitals, she raises herself up again.
No, to be honest, it’s covered, but it’s impossible to hide yourself with something like this when you’re still or when you’re dancing.
But I can’t help it.
The only clothes to wear are this one. The other day, I secretly asked a woman other than the crown prince for a favor, and even this clothes was taken away, and I walked around the palace naked for a week.
Fortunately, the crown prince, who has a strong desire for monopoly, kicked out all the male knights… Being naked alone in a situation where everyone else was fully clothed caused indescribable shame.
After that, it’s been a long time since I gave up asking for something.
If you ask for it, more punishment will come down.
“ha… .”
Still, there is hope, so I can endure.
I look at the name engraved on the prison wall for a while and get up.
He seems to have gotten used to sleeping on this hard floor. Even just a few months ago, my joints hurt every time I moved, and it took me a year to get up.
“Ceres, come quickly.”
“yes!!”
I glued the pieces of cloth to my body as much as possible so that they wouldn’t scatter, and I oiled my body, which creaked a little when the maid called me outside.
I wouldn’t have done this before… I thought about it a few times, but after realizing that it was useless, I didn’t even think about it.
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Just do it when told to do it
I believe that if I persevere, hope will come to me someday.
I was thrown at everything from the chore of the new maid to the heavy labor of the butlers. The reason is because I am the most comfortable.
“Ceres, do this quickly.”
“Ceres! I told you to do the laundry!!”
“under… Are you not doing your job properly?”
He bowed his head while being seduced by the maids.
When she raised her head slightly, the maid’s face showed her eyes sparkling and her hands raised high, as if she were having fun rather than an expression of stern pressure.
slap!!
“eww… .”
I raise my hand to the taste of blood that I feel inside my mouth, but before that, I am caught by the collar and in an instant run into the maid’s pink eyes.
“Don’t forget that a bitch like you can be here because of the prince’s orders. The four years of not being able to work should have fallen behind right away.”
“yes… yes… .”
I nodded while wiping the blood from my mouth, and then the maid slapped me on the cheek a few times as if satisfied.
“Let’s do our best.”
Looking at the maid with a natural smile, she gave a small answer.
“yes… .”
As soon as the satisfied maid left, the apprentice maids who were waiting behind me laughed and passed by.
Children who must have been 10 years old now look at me, point fingers, and ridicule me. My situation right now is just this.
“… no. Ryan will save me.”
Hold on to the spirit that will fall into negativity for a moment.
All you need is Lian.
From now on, I won’t listen to people like the Crown Prince. I’m sure I’ll be happy enough just living with Ryan in the countryside.
So I quietly get up and go to the laundromat next door.
I have to do everything before night falls.
*****
“Prince.”
“Ceres Reinhardt has come.”
When I finished all the work and stood in front of the huge door I came to, two meads delivered the news of my arrival to the room, and the door opened.
“Are you late today?”
“sorry.”
Kneeling and praying to the prince, he looks up at the prince.
Although he has blonde hair and golden eyes similar to Lian, he is the crown prince, but no matter how many times he looks at him, it is impossible to project Lian. It is natural that the atmosphere they exude is different, but looking at those mean eyes, it was impossible to compare them with Lian.
“Well, okay. Because I prepared a special present for you today.”
The prince lifted my chin and met my gaze.
Looking at the face of the prince laughing meanly made him feel like he would turn his head away even though he knew he shouldn’t be like that.
“Bring it.”
Two knights threw something at the prince’s command.
Looking at the luggage tightly wrapped in cloth, a feeling of displeasure welled up for some reason.
Is it because it’s something the prince gave me?
“Ceres Reinhardt.”
When the prince called his name, his head naturally turned to the prince.
And when he saw the ring in front of him, he couldn’t help but tilt his head.
The prince gave me a present?
All that the crown prince had given me were emotions that could never be called positive, such as feelings of betrayal, shame, and humiliation.
But are you really trying to knock it out with one ring?
“What are you doing? Are you sure you don’t want to receive it?”
“no… .”
I checked with my eyes to see if there was any special magic, but there was no magic to see if even that was wrong.
When I held the common silver ring with a pumpkin in my hand, the prince brought a large bundle in front of me.
“Whoa… I honestly thought it wouldn’t work, so I ordered it, but I managed to save it.”
What the hell have you been looking for?
The moment he thought so, the prince opened the bundle and showed the items inside.
“Skull?”
What was in there was a skeleton.
Seeing that there was not a single piece of flesh attached to the corpse, it seems to be a fairly old corpse… Why are you showing it to me?
While examining the skull, as soon as he saw that there was a jewel in his hand with the same amber as the ring he had received from the prince, he threw the ring he was holding out the window.
It was a conclusion that the body moved before the head could understand it because there had been rumors that a curse was put on the ring that did not disappear from the hand of the corpse for generations.
“ah… .”
After doing so, his face turned blue from what he had done. When I carefully turned my head to examine the color of the prince’s face, the prince was smiling.
uh?
I wondered if I was hallucinating, but when I looked again, the prince was smiling.
As if the current situation was very interesting, the smiling face made me anxious for no reason.
“Hey… This is a masterpiece.”
Having said that, the prince poured out the bundle upside down, and white bones tumbled to the floor.
The prince continued to stare at me, but what kind of reaction was he supposed to react to me when he saw a skull like this?
I don’t feel it.
“… what the. Being Lee Ji-kyung makes me sympathize with Lian Primal.”
When he looked at the crown prince with empty eyes, asking what he was talking about when Lian’s name suddenly jumped out, the crown prince lifted the corpse’s skull as if to see if it would react only then.
“Ceres Reinhardt. It’s not once or twice that I’ve done such crap.”
I know that.
Even when I was the prince’s toy, dozens of women mingled with the prince, and the other men became prey to the monsters. Unless you’re a strong person like Lian, it’s normal to get hit by a bunch of monsters… Later, women who lost their men came back to the prince.
The prince’s position was too high to take revenge, so he chose to fawn under him.
“I’ve dealt with stupid bitches like you a few times, but… Everyone in this situation will hold on to this bone and burst into tears, but a bitch like you is the first time in my life.”
Grab a bone and burst into tears?
As the prince’s words increased one by one, anxiety surged.
No, it can’t be. How could Rian not be a monster trained by the demon lord, but be defeated by a group of ordinary monsters brought by the crown prince from the wild… .
“A bitch who doesn’t blink an eye at the ashes of her husband.”
“… What?”
Unbelievable words came out of the prince’s mouth.
Rihanna is dead?
And this bone is Lian’s ashes?
“Originally, to be honest, I thought it would be difficult to kill myself, but Lian Primal defended the villagers. It’s been a long time since I’ve held a sword, but I couldn’t even properly wield a sword. The sight of him not killing a single villager made even me applaud.”
As I listened to the prince’s words, I gradually felt reality approaching me.
This bone is the real Lian’s bone.
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Just saying that he lost to the monster, Lian would deny that he was not that weak. However, it is said that Lian died while protecting people.
I thought that if it was Lian, I could do that.
“How pitiful. If I had dated my sister or a woman from another family instead of a bitch like you, this kind of hero would not have faced tragedy.”
With those words, the prince put his hand on my shoulder.
“I even prepared a ring for you… How did you do that?”
“!!”
As soon as I heard the prince’s words, I put my head out the window, but it’s on a high floor like a prince’s room, so I had to go down the stairs to find it… .
f*ck!
“uh?”
The pain in his back and his vision flipped at the same time.
“Now I enjoy it as much as I enjoy it.”
bye. Former duke family toy.
Wooo!!!!
I urgently tried to use magic at the sound of the wind that seemed to tear my ears apart, but I remembered that my blood was clogged and I reached out to grab the wall… .
Kwajik!!
That’s how Ceres Reinhardt’s life ended.
Born as a daughter of a duke’s family, her ending was a miserable ending of being disposed of as a toy.