At the sight of Leverticia fighting fiercely with the assassins, Kaius had no choice but to stare blankly.
The battle lasted less than ten minutes, but it was one-sided. It took ten minutes, and it was a life-or-death battle.
Nevertheless, Leverticia faced the assassins without showing any signs of exhaustion.
‘Strong.’
It was different from her usual.
Even he, who was on the same side of the life flowing out without restraint, made the hairs all over his body stand up.
That was then. “… Who is it!” “Ugh!”
Kaiers quickly opened the door of the carriage on the other side. Another
assassin sneaking up to him from behind, avoiding Leverticia, hit the wagon door and rolled back.
Kaiers quickly stopped trying to attack with the emergency dagger he was holding.
‘young.’
It was different from the other assassins Leverticia was dealing with.
At best, he seemed to be about the same age as himself. Even the assassin couldn’t even counterattack properly and begged with tears in his eyes.
“I, please take a look, Duke.”
“You secretly tried to attack me!”
“Oh, no! The Duke won’t hurt you! Hey, can’t you just come with me for a moment?”
“….”
“Or even me and my family might die. Please, please, I beg you….”
Kaius’s eyes began to shake at the sight of him looking really urgent and mournful.
Having been hit by adults all his life, he had few friends his age. Besides, that child also seemed to be being used by an adult, so I felt a sense of unity.
Kaius reached out to the trembling child on his face and held out his hand. “Come on, are you going with me?”
“no. That’s not allowed. I am not going.” “Well, then what about our family!?”
“First of all, I have a place to go. After that, I’ll find a way to save you and your family. Until then, first….”
“no! By then it’s too late You can just go with me!” “I’m sorry, but I can’t….”
“Don’t be funny, let’s go with me-!”
As soon as Kaius hesitated, he suddenly pulled out a bottle the assassin had hidden in his hand and ran towards him.
“Ugh!”
However, he could not even reach Kaius and collapsed.
Standing behind him was Leverticia, who had returned from killing all the other assassins.
“it’s okay? Where were you hurt?” “Bah, what just….”
“I had a bottle of sleeping powder. I must have thought of kidnapping you somehow.”
Leverticia clicked her tongue. To put such a small child on a mission, the opponent was so evil.
“Don’t worry, the child just fainted. Well, I don’t know what will happen to me after that.”
“….”
“The carriage is broken. The remaining distance will have to be traveled on horseback. Are you fine?”
“….”
“Kai?”
Leverticia turned to Kaiers. He muttered blankly, his eyes widened in shock.
“He tried to kill me.”
His shoulders slumped down.
“I was trying to help. I said I’d save my family, but the kid actually tried to throw sleeping powder at me. Now everyone will attack me. I am weak and young. Someday I will be beaten up in the blink of an eye!”
“it is not so.”
She grabbed his little shoulder.
It may still feel heartless to a child, but there will be more enemies and more trials for Kaius in the future.
You shouldn’t have eaten your weak heart already.
“Keep in mind. Enemies attack the weak ones first. So, if you jump on it, don’t measure it back and forth, but bite it. If someone threatens you, you should bark louder.”
“… Letty?”
“You are the head of the Baltail family, no matter what you say, and
everyone is looking for your place. Never let those who covet you live.” so that you can survive.
That way you can protect yourself.
At her heartfelt advice, Kaiers nodded slowly.
Leverticia mounted Kaius on a horse and drove it quickly.
A couple more assassins of the Duke appeared and blocked the way along the way.
But they all disappeared in the blink of an eye. It was all thanks to Leverticia, who didn’t even get off her horse and cut them all down. ‘Knight’ was an opportunity to remind Kaiers once again that he was originally referring to a warrior on horseback.
When she arrived at the wedding, her clothes were all covered in blood.
The priest, whom the emperor had hired in advance, was startled when he saw her appearance, put his hands together and muttered a prayer.
Leverticia had a white veil lying around her head.
It didn’t look holy at all when he had a white veil around his head, already in a mess with seven packs of blood. Rather, it was a feeling of immorality.
“Now I just listen to boring sermons and that’s it, right? I can’t even kiss you anyway.”
“Gee, what a boring sermon! This is the grace of the noble God, and the procedure of taking the sacred oath—”
“Sir. If you don’t do it quickly, this building could explode suddenly with a bomb.”
As soon as Rebertisha’s words fell, a thumping sound could be heard outside the wedding hall. The ceremonial hall was a sacred space, so it was impossible to destroy the building itself, and it seemed to attack the door, the only medium that communicates with the world.
bang! Quang!
The door shook more and more violently. “Come on.”
The priest flinched and quickly began reciting the vows and blessings. Meanwhile, Leverticia carefully grabbed the sword around her waist.
“Leverticia.”
Then, suddenly, Kaius grabbed her collar. “why? scared?”
“no. Come on… Bow down.”
Kaiers gestured. Leverticia tilted her head, but bowed her back to meet him at eye level.
Kaius’ small hand touched her cheek. Did you get anything on your face? As I blinked, a soft touch lightly touched her round forehead and fell.
While Leverticia was silent for a moment, Kaius muttered in a voice that looked like it was going to crawl into a mouse hole.
“… Oh, I can’t do anything, but for now, be patient.” “ah.”
She then came to her senses.
He kissed her small forehead. Even after I did it, he dyed his face red. I
could see all of them coughing in vain with their eyes open in a triangular shape trying to pretend they weren’t shy.
‘You’re cute.’
At the right time, the priest’s declaration of marriage concluded the final sentence.
“-This declares before the name of God that the two of them have entered into a marriage vow.”
Whispering – Quang!
As soon as the declaration of marriage was over, the door to the wedding hall was broken open, revealing the people outside.
Leverticia slowly straightened her bowed back. “You are one step late.”
“… You, you dare.”
This time the Duke of Everett came in person.
He looked more tired than usual because he had used the secret of his family.
“We are already married. I just got a cute kiss.” “Hey, don’t even say that!”
“It’s not even funny!”
Following Kaius’s cry, Duke Everett sharpened his teeth.
It’s been a long time since I threw away the mask I usually wear, probably because the plan I’ve been working on completely collapsed.
A cruel voice came out of the peacock’s mouth.
“To lure a girl 13 years younger than me to do this kind of thing, you too must be disgusting.”
“That’s what you’re talking about, right? Besides, I’m not using a child like you, I’m just helping each other. right?”
With her words, his gaze naturally shifted to Kaius. Kaiers flinched at the full gaze of his naked foe.
Duke Everett growled low in a crackling voice.
“I must have told you to stay still, but how dare you do something like this… That’s why I get abandoned by my father.”
cook.
These were words that without hesitation stabbed the most painful part of Kaius.
“Perhaps the reason he abandoned even your mother is because of you!” He didn’t stop, and he continued to rant.
As Leverticia, who could not stand it, was about to go forward in a rage, Kaius caught her.
“I don’t know if my father abandoned me or not, but at least I wouldn’t listen to a human like you.”
Kaiers sighed coldly at the peacock.
“what? human like you? How dare you crawl towards me!”
“How is it? Are we on equal footing?”
While implicitly pretending that Duke Everett was in the position of teaching Kaiers, in reality the two were now in the same position as the Duke.
It meant that Kaius was not in a position where he had to be patient even after hearing one-sided venom.
“I don’t have the courtesy to give you any more. I am neither your child nor your dog.”
Kaius raised his eyes straight and looked at him. Surprisingly, it was the Duke Everett’s side that moved his eyes first.
“Uh, how could you… How many times have I taught you…!”
“It wasn’t taught, it was brainwashed to manipulate it to your liking.” Leverticia said so, slightly blocking in front of Kaius.
“Then we are alone. As you can see, they are newlyweds who just got married, so we have to go and see them. They are just overflowing with love for each other.”
“Wow, huh, what….”
“… Why are you upset?”
After saluting Duke Everett with a slightly exaggerated gesture, Leverticia dragged the frozen Kaius out of the ceremonial hall in embarrassment.
*
From the next day, news of the marriage between the young peacock and the mad dog spread like wings.
It was definitely a special feeling.
The marriage of two people was the hottest topic in the empire. It was also 13 years old, and the groom was only eight years old. To snatch it up in one day without even notifying the public!
At this point, it was strange that it did not become a topic of discussion.
In fact, the parties have been living in the Duke Valtail mansion for a few days and not appearing outside, so people’s curiosity has only grown.
Unlike the people on the outside, who were curious and anxious, the inside of the duke was peaceful and quiet.
Leverticia stretched out as she lay down in the bright morning light coming in from the curtains.
‘ah. After all, expensive beds, expensive blankets, and expensive pillows are good.’
It was like sleeping in a cloud.
After waking up, she rubbed her back and forth a few times before turning her head to the sound of the door being opened.
The person who opened the door was none other than Kaius. When his eyes met her, he didn’t come in, but stood there blankly, as if nailed to the spot.
After a while, Leverticia finally spoke up. “hi.”
“… hi? Aren’t you-?”
Kaius drooped as if looking at a crazy person. He was so upset that he couldn’t even say a word.
In response to his unusual reaction, Leverticia shook her head and recalled the memory of just before falling asleep.
After the declaration of marriage was over, he returned to the Duchess of Baltail and received a warm welcome.
Washing, changing clothes, and getting her room assigned. While admiring the soft bed… fell asleep
If it wasn’t for her sudden onset of sleepwalking, which she hadn’t had in 21 years, I don’t remember having any particular problems with it.
As she rolled her eyes as if she had no idea what the problem was, Kaius exclaimed briefly.
“Did you know that you slept like you were dead for the third day?”
