“There’s a woman who helped me here. I want to save her.”
Michael looked at Priscilla with disapproving eyes, snatched her wrist, and dragged her out of the cabin again.
It was a total mess outside.
Michael called the Knight Commander.
“Did you call me?”
“How is the situation?”
“As you commanded, we are capturing all of them alive.”
“It’s okay to kill those who resist, so let’s get this sorted out as soon as possible.”
“Uh, Your Majesty, but what about those who have been taken away by slave traders?”
Michael’s eyes turned as the Knight Commander pointed to the people he had rescued.
Priscilla also looked there.
There were women, including Siena, hugging each other and shaking with fear.
Priscilla shook off Michael’s hand and ran to her.
“Siena!”
Siena opened her eyes wide when she saw Priscilla.
She didn’t recognize her after the change.
“Siena, are you all right?”
“Who are you?”
Priscilla realized that Siena didn’t recognize her.
“It’s Rien.”
“Rien?”
Siena looked embarrassed, but Priscilla was looking at Siena’s safety.
“Are you hurt?”
“Yes, I’m fine because they saved me.”
When Siena pointed to the knights in golden armor, Priscilla consoled her.
“That’s a relief.”
“Yes.”
She was just glad Siena was safe, but suddenly someone pulled her arm.
It was Michael.
“What are you doing here?”
Michael looked at Priscilla with a face of disapproval.
“Siena comforted me a lot here.”
Priscilla hurriedly introduced Siena to Michael.
Michael’s indifferent gaze was directed at her.
But that was it.
“Let’s go.”
Michael dragged Priscilla away.
Priscilla was puzzled.
‘The hand you need to hold is not my hand!’
He must fall in love with Siena at first sight when he sees Siena, but what is that attitude?
“You have to say hello to Siena. We can’t leave like this.”
She tried to drag on as much time as she could.
It was to make Michael and her face each other a little more.
But.
“I don’t need a greeting. Because you won’t see each other again.”
“You can’t do that. She’s a benefactor to me.”
“A benefactor?”
Michael’s lips twisted.
“I’m the benefactor to you. What would you have done if it wasn’t for me today?”
Priscilla shut up.
If Michael hadn’t appeared, she would have been sold to someone and lived with that person as her master.
“Don’t forget. I am the benefactor who saved you today. And I think we should talk about sneaking out of the palace.”
Michael led Priscilla away and put her in a carriage in front of the port when he was ready.
And ordered his knights to thoroughly guard it.
“Guard her well, if you don’t, there’s no life for you.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Michael locked Priscilla in the carriage and headed back to the ship. There was work to be done.
Looking at the situation, it seemed that things were being sorted out.
Then a woman appeared in front of Michael.
It was a beautiful blonde woman. It was the woman who helped Priscilla.
“Thank you for saving me.”
Michael stared at her.
She also looked at Michael. And Michael turned away from her first.
Siena tilted her head, and moved on.
Then a knight approached and spoke to her.
“If you get on that carriage, I’ll take you safely.”
“Thank you.”
Siena’s dazzling smile made the knight’s face redden.
“Oh, no.”
“I hope the knight will always be blessed.”
“Thank you.”
Siena gave him a beautiful smile and headed for the carriage.
Michael saw nobles and slave traders being held on board.
Michael decapitated the slave traders without mercy.
And left only one slave trader.
“Take him and put him in the dungeon. I will interrogate him myself.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Michael looked at the slave trader being dragged away with a cruel smile.
Then he saw the nobles in front of him with cold faces.
They were all unmasked by the knights. There were quite a few familiar faces.
“Oh no, I didn’t expect Count Harmon to be here.”
“Y, Your Majesty, forgive me.”
He was the first to shout out to buy Priscilla.
“You must have known that slave auctions were forbidden.”
Count Harmon trembled.
“So you should be punished, too.”
“Your Majesty! Please forgive me once. I won’t do that again.”
Count Hamon bowed his head deeply.
Michael looked at him with a cold expression.
“Raise your head.”
Count Harmon raised his head.
Michael raised his chin and looked into his eyes.
“These two eyes are always a problem. They are easily swayed by temptation.”
“Y, Your Majesty…”
Michael let go of his hand roughly.
“Everyone who participates in the slave auction has their eyes gouged out, so they can never see anything again.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
At that word, all the nobles were devastated.
~~~~
Inside the returning carriage.
A heavy silence fell.
It was because Michael on the other side was holding a lot of weight and glaring at Priscilla.
“How the hell did you get out of the palace?”
“In disguise.”
“Amazing, the guards in the palace couldn’t see through your disguise.”
He looked as if he would call in the guards at any moment.
“Why did you run away from home?”
“I don’t want to be the queen of Your Majesty.”
“Other women are anxious to be, but why do you hate it so much?”
Priscilla asked proudly.
“Your Majesty, do you love me?”
“No.”
“I don’t either.”
In an instant, a vein formed on Michael’s forehead.
“You don’t even love me, but you’re trying to use me for the first time.”
“You have no freedom now that you have entered the palace. I mean, everything about you belongs to me. Regardless of your will.”
Priscilla pouted at the words.
She wanted to refute the Emperor’s words, but she had nothing to say because Priscilla was in such a situation.
“And you owe me. I bought you for 100,000 gold.”
“Since you caught the slave trader, you didn’t really pay for me.”
“Regardless of the situation, are you sure I didn’t pay?”
“So, what? Pay you back?”
“Do you have the ability to repay me?”
“Of course not.”
Michael smiled as he looked at Priscilla, who looked like she was about to burst out in anger.
“Then, you’ll have no choice but to pay me back with your body.”
“How despicable!”
He was really cheap and despicable.
She might die out of misery.
When Priscilla sulked and turned her head, Michael laughed.
She didn’t know what was so funny.
“When we get back, you will not be able to take a step out of the palace.”
She didn’t answer because she was already prepared.
“Why are you getting angry at me for doing well?”
“I haven’t done anything wrong.”
“You didn’t do anything wrong?”
“Yes.”
Looking at Priscilla, who proudly says that she was not at fault, Michael thought she was a really strange woman.
“It is a great sin to break the rules of the Concubine Palace and leave the Concubine Palace recklessly.”
“Isn’t Your Majesty guilty of forcibly making me Queen? That’s the reason I ran away.”
It is far better to run away and find light than to die withering next to a man who owns it.
‘By the way, what’s going on with Siena?’
She didn’t think of Siena because she was arguing with the Emperor.
‘What’s going to happen?’
The original was getting twisted.
Originally, the Emperor should meet Siena at a ball.
Then Siena was taken away by a slave trader.
Michael first met Siena in the process of catching slave traders.
The original story was wrong.
It’s gonna be okay. The two met anyway.
Clearly, the two must have liked each other.
Priscilla looked at Michael with one hand on her chin.
Now that Siena has appeared, she wondered how she would connect with Michael in the future.
In the process, she found herself in trouble as she was becoming the Queen.
Her own goal was to get her freedom and leave the palace.
She had no intention of showing her nose to the Emperor just because she was used several times.
Power?
Give it to a dog.
Priscilla was enduring with only one goal: to take the money and leave the Imperial Palace to live freely.
“Why are you staring at me like that?”
“It’s just, ‘cause you’re handsome.”
Michael was at a loss for words.
He didn’t know she would say he was handsome.
Michael turned his head, embarrassed.
Silence fell again in the carriage.
~~~~
When they came back to the palace, Rien and Lili came running crying.
“Lady Priscilla, where the hell have you been?”
“Yeah. Do you know how long we’ve been looking for you?”
“I’m sorry.”
Priscilla hugged Rien and Lili and apologized.
“Do you know how much I’ve been heartbroken?”
Rien’s scolding made her realize that Priscilla was back.
“I was going to take a good rest for a few days, but…”
She didn’t say that she came home so quickly because she met a slave trader.
It would just make them worry for nothing.
“Where the hell have you been?”
“I just got some fresh air.”
“Where?”
“Yes, but.”
Rien and Lili persistently inquired, but Priscilla did not reply.
“Let’s go in. I want to wash up and rest.”
“Yes, let’s go.”
Priscilla took a bath to relieve her fatigue, and had a good time eating with Rien and Lili.
As Michael dropped her off in front of the palace and threatened for her not to take a step forward, Priscilla had to stay locked in the palace for a while.
And the next day Priscilla met Eren under the stone wall.
