188 – Should I take responsibility?
“Please stop taking it down now….”
Angela asked Keas to drop her off.
Unlike when I took the order earlier, I spoke in a trembling voice.
“Can you walk?”
“Gwae, it’s okay…”
Angela, who had been swaying for a moment as she carefully put her down, opened her mouth.
“Well, that’s your majesty…”
“How dare you ask the emperor of the empire that way?”
“I’m sorry! I was rude! So please don’t just execute me!”
When Gilbert pointed out the title, Angela immediately put her head on the floor and bowed.
“…Gilbert.”
“No, I didn’t say something wrong, right?”
When I looked at my friend with cold eyes, he slyly walked away.
‘This guy, who is now an adult, is doing the same things as a child.’
Kaias sighed and took out a rolled up piece of paper from his arms.
-Jjjiik.
And then he tore it up in front of her.
“With this, you are now free.”
It was her slave contract that she took after killing the owner of the store along with the man.
“Ah…”
Angela stares blankly at the flying pieces of paper.
Sigh.
She raised her hand and caught one of the falling pieces.
‘It disappeared so easily.’
I couldn’t really feel it. The shackles that had bound her for half her life were lifted.
Keas, who was looking at the scene silently, opened her mouth.
“From now on, live your life doing whatever you want.”
With those words, he turned his back and left.
Tall.
To be exact, it was trying to float. If it weren’t for the small hand holding the hem of his clothes.
“…Nothing.”
“What…?”
“So, I have nowhere to go right now!”
I was freed from slavery, but I lost my job and my place to stay.
Angela starves to death but is executed, but it is said that she was gutted because that was it.
“You definitely said you owe me!”
“No, isn’t that because you don’t receive gold coins? And if it’s a debt, you didn’t just pay it off…”
“Then conversely, I owe something to Your Majesty?”
“Such unreasonableness….”
Angela said she could not live with debt and demanded that she be given responsibility and a job.
“Oh my, this is another unexpected situation.”
And Gilbert watches the two with an amused expression.
“…What’s so fun?”
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At that time, Keas was lacking in many ways.
***
In the end, Keas, unable to overcome her persistent demands, settled the matter by allowing her to work as her attendant in the imperial palace.
However.
“Over there…”
“Uh, is there anything you’re uncomfortable with…?”
The priest who was removing her stigma asked in a very nervous tone.
“…Why are you so nice to me?”
The eyes of her servants, including her maid Chang, turned to her.
“Your Majesty brought you directly, so all we can do is treat him appropriately.”
The maid explained politely and politely.
‘Why do you give an honorific title to a new employee who just joined you?’ .’
Keias just gave her her job without thinking much about it, but her actions so far have caused her to misunderstand.
Because it was not unusual for an emperor with integrity and innocence to directly insert greetings.
Many opinions were exchanged among the subjects.
Some say that he was brought here to serve as a servant, and some say that he was working to launder his identity and bring him in as a pet.
-Well, when I saw it….
Crucially, Gilbert’s tip sparked their speculation, and as a result, it was concluded that he had brought in the woman he liked.
“You may become the hostess of the imperial family in the future, so you need to get used to it.”
Angela’s expression distorted after hearing the maid’s story.
“You brought me here for that purpose…?”
So, from her first day at work, she started learning something else instead of taking care of her housework.
***
After completing a huge amount of work for the day, Keas realized that it was already past time to go to bed.
He headed to bed, calculating how many hours he would be able to sleep.
As he was about to lift the blanket and lie down, something caught his eye.
“Hmm…”
Angela breaks into the emperor’s bedroom and sleeps without the world knowing.
“….”
I lost my composure for a moment at that absurd sight.
‘Did I fall asleep while trying to warm up the blanket…? .’
But I was soon able to find a good reason. He said he was the one who missed his bedtime.
That moment when I was trying to get her to sleep in a corner so she wouldn’t wake up, saying it might be because it was an unfamiliar environment.
“Umm…”
She woke up with her ghostly timing.
‘This is a scolding…’ .’
When she realized she had fallen asleep, she cried so loudly.
It was nice to see her asking not to be executed, saying she had committed a deadly crime.
But there was something strange about her reaction.
With her eyes tightly closed, she seemed to be shivering and waiting for something.
“…What are you doing now?”
When the inferior emperor asked, Angela answered with a trembling voice.
“Go on, I’ve made up my mind, so it’s okay…”
“Resolution? What do you mean?”
“I heard you came here to hug me…!”
For a moment, Keias felt a shock as if he had been hit in the back of the head with a hammer.
“If it’s Hwang Myeong, there’s nothing we can do…”
Kaias is dumbfounded at the sight, even tears appearing before he knows it.
“What kind of nonsense is that… Who on earth would say something like that…?”
“Oh, no?”
“There’s no way I could force myself to take someone, right?”
He tells a story about his mother and makes it clear that she hates the job the most.
“Your Majesty has such a situation…”
“So stop talking nonsense and get out of the room…”
Warm.
Angela got up halfway out of her bed and cradled his head in her own arms.
“What on earth…?!”
“I’m so pitiful.”
She quietly stroked his head.
“I thought that was a miserable enough life, but I never thought there would be someone worse than me…”
Her actions left Kayas speechless.
No matter what the past was like, he was the emperor now.
Excluding special places such as the Magic Tower and the Holy Kingdom, he could easily be called a person who had the continent under his feet.
But he feels sorry for himself.
It was truly absurd.
“….”
But I couldn’t push her away because I felt like I was missing her somewhere.
-Right, right. My son is eating well too!
Did it make me keep thinking about the only happiness of my childhood that is now fleeting?
He calmly accepted the touch.
After a while, Angela finished petting.
“Uh… Am I going to be executed now?”
Perhaps he realized too late that he had also committed an unholy act, his expression began to darken rapidly.
‘How dare you pity the emperor of the empire?’
First of all, it was clear that it was going to be death.
He quietly looked at the person in front of him.
She seemed to have created an untainted purity in her world and treated herself without prejudice as she had everything.
Will I ever meet someone like that again in my life?
‘Probably not.’
Sigh.
Keias gently grasped her hand.
“I didn’t like slavery that much, so I tried to get rid of it, but I was blocked by opposition due to a lack of justification.”
But even he couldn’t help feeling embarrassed.
“But if I, the emperor, marry you, a former slave, I will be able to give strength to my remarks.”
That’s why words that were different from what I wanted came out.
“Could you please help me?”
It was a confession so bad that it was hard to open your eyes and look at it.
However.
“Well… If it’s okay with me…”
Angela accepted the emperor’s request.
That day, the emperor embraced his woman.
And soon I was full.
A few months later.
“He even proposed that way.”
“I’m sorry….”
Now, the situation has reached a point where the emperor, who had been devoured by Angela, accepts her complaints.
“By the way, I had a dream yesterday.”
“What did you dream about that made you so happy?”
“It’s a dream in which the sharp crescent moon turns black and turns into a full moon. According to the book, the dream where the full moon appears is about a girl.”
She smiled as she stroked her swollen belly.
“It’s definitely a pretty girl that looks like you.”
Keas also covered her own hand over her hand with her happy face.
“Is it okay if it’s not your son?”
“How important is gender when ruling an empire?”
Angela looked a little touched by those words.
“Meeting you is the luckiest thing in my life.”
“Me too.”
There was a sweet atmosphere for a while.
“I’ve decided on the child’s name.”
“Can you tell me what that is?”
Angela opened her mouth, looking at her own swollen belly.
“Aria.”
***
‘What I said is not right. ‘He grew up really beautifully to resemble you.’
Around the time I gave birth to Aria and weaned her.
Her illness worsened, and her eyes grew hot as she saw her leaving her dead wife behind.
She couldn’t even think of her son anymore.
“Okay. Is there anything uncomfortable?”
Unlike usual, the emperor asks kindly.
To be honest, it wasn’t just one or two things.
Because the woman’s body was dissatisfying in every way.
“…It’s okay.”
But she couldn’t make Aria worry by saying it out loud.
“That’s a good thing.”
“Yes…?”
Bewilderment appeared on Aria’s face at the emperor’s calmer attitude than expected.
“Ian.”
The emperor named the cause of all these situations.
“…Yes, Your Majesty.”
Then Ian, who was hiding at the back, walked out looking nervous.
Every man must take responsibility for what he has done.
“I heard that Aria ended up like this while trying to save you. Is that true?”
It was time to hold him accountable, as he had done himself.