The Lady is a Stalker

At that time, when Princess Seravi ran amok, he intervened in the gap, deliberately injured himself, and then regarded her as royalty, intending to put her in prison. Whether she knew it or not, Princess Serabi cleverly avoided Raven’s tricks. Raven felt resentful when he recalled the incident from earlier. He bit his red lips so hard that they turned white, and spit out words as if chewing them through his teeth.

 

“Stop the disgusting lie. You bribed an attendant to mix my meal with aphrodisiac, and then sneaked into my palace at dawn like a thief and tried to attack me by force, saying that you wanted to have my child? It hasn’t even been a month yet.”

 

After hearing that, Princess Seravi finally muttered to herself with a contemplative expression on her face. She put one hand on her head with her astonished look on her face.

 

“No… what in the world would you do that… there’s no such thing as pride…”

 

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She would have thought that such a story was hidden behind the story of the prince hiding in the bedroom and being kicked out. Serabi was a woman who hit more goals than you think. Where the hell was she supposed to start doing this? It was not unreasonable for the prince to be suspicious of her. No, on the contrary, it was fortunate that food did not cause trauma. How in the world did Princess Seravi have been able to avoid going to prison?

 

She barely lifted her head, supporting her throbbing head with her arm. The prince was still staring at her with eyes filled with death. He didn’t seem to let go of his anger at all, probably because his previous trauma had resurfaced.

 

“…For a moment, I forgot.”

 

“What? There’s nothing else to forget, you really! haha, that’s it. What can I expect from you?”

 

As he said that, the prince brushed his hair with an annoyed face. In fact, while he was preparing the food, she had a slight expectation that she would be able to get to know the prince a little bit if he did well. However, the reason why the crown prince hated her, no Seravi, was very clear. Perhaps the crown prince had frequently experienced things like the one he just mentioned during his lifetime.

 

Princess Seravi’s obsession with the crown prince had already gone too far, and the prince’s hatred for Princess Serabi was more deeply rooted than she thought. And with common sense, how could you be friends with a woman who threatened your chastity 365 days a year! She couldn’t force him to eat something he didn’t want to eat anyway. Should she give up too? Ah, it’s not that she didn’t completely expect this to happen… but she couldn’t help but feel sad.

 

She sighed as if the floor collapsed and pulled a chair and sat down.

 

“Then, I’ll eat too…”

 

“What?”

 

It didn’t matter whether the prince ate the food she made or not, but the time and ingredients she put into cooking were just too wasteful. She lifted a spoon that felt toxic-heavy today.

 

‘Well, well.’

 

The prince and the other soldiers didn’t say anything as if they were embarrassed by her miserable appearance. The dining hall filled with the sound of her mechanically eating her food. The time when she was concentrating only on eating the food in front of her, as if she had lost her sense of taste due to the crunchy feeling of collapse.

 

Klopp.

 

The sound of someone swallowing came through the silence. The sound was especially loud because the place was quiet. She took the opportunity and said it.

 

“It’s okay to eat if you’re hungry.”

 

Of course, no one moved immediately after her words. Alone in the end she tried to focus on the food again, but the prince spoke in a sharp tone as if growling.

 

“Someone eats the food you make. You know what you put in the food, fearlessly. I don’t know what you’re up to, but there’s no one here who doesn’t know the evil you did.”

 

Seriously, what was she up to?

 

‘There are a lot of doubts’, so there was no choice but to treat him sensitively because there were things the prince had gone through. She said while eating a freshly baked, crunchy baguette.

 

“…If the food was poisoned, there’s no way I’d be eating like this. Why would I have to poison Your Highness and his men?”

 

If she said one word from a nobleman, the heads of all his subordinates would be blown off, even if the crown prince didn’t know. Of course, under the premise that the prince would not interfere with her. However, if she brought up this word, it would only prove the rumor that her personality was dirty, so she swallowed bitterly.

 

“So, do you think I will feed my precious men the food you made?”

 

She put down the baguette she was eating and looked around. Everyone was covered in mud and sweaty. It must have been right after the intense training. She let out an excited sigh and said.

 

“…To His Highness the Great Commander-in-Chief of Distian, the crown prince, I am sorry that I dare to say such a thing as I am a stranger to tactics and strategy…”

 

The prince stared at her with his arms crossed and waited for her to say something behind his back. He would trample on any logic that’s lighter than his feathers, so he looked like he was asking her to talk freely. Feeling burdened by that malevolent gaze, she said, trying not to look at Prince, who was focusing on the leftovers.

 

“…As a ruler, the most important thing is to have subordinates.”

 

Hearing her words, the prince frowned. It was a voice that seemed like he was talking about something so obvious.

 

“I care for my subordinates more than anyone else. If you want to make a pointless pun, chose something else.”

 

She met the prince’s eyes. She paused for a moment before moving on to the next one.

 

“I’ve heard that the military training of Distian, a special operations unit under the direct control of the crown prince, is about 10 times stronger than that of ordinary soldiers.”

 

“…”

 

As soon as she finished her words, the prince glared at her with a murderous expression. The wise prince seemed to have already noticed what she wanted to say with just this one word. He seemed to want to slit her throat right now. It was incredibly powerful, befitting the bloody title of the first human dragon slayer. She even felt the illusion that her whole body was tingling because she was alive.

 

She continued, barely breathing.

 

“Besides, I know you still have a lot of afternoon training left. Moreover, tonight is the day of the infamous early morning training. I heard that on the day of early morning training, you skip dinner and go on a forced march. If you don’t eat well now, someone will surely collapse.”

 

She couldn’t handle his life, so she deliberately turned her gaze to other places and tried to let go of his life. She tried to speak calmly, pretending nothing was wrong, but she couldn’t stop the trembling in her voice.

 

“…Even if I start preparing food from now on, I have used up all the ingredients for today, and even if I go to a restaurant outside, it will take quite a while to prepare a meal for such a large number of people. That might ruin today’s training schedule.”

 

As soon as she finished her words, the prince clicked his tongue with a furious expression.

 

“Ha, that’s what you meant. Are you threatening me with something like that? You’re probably trying to demand something from me to satisfy your perverted desires in return. It’s so obvious.”

 

She stiffened her body abruptly at the words of the prince who seemed tired. Her perverted desires? What did Princess Serabi usually ask for from the crown prince…? It was as if she had stepped on a mine that would explode the trauma of the crown prince again without even realizing it. No, to be precise, between the crown prince and Serabi, all keywords were landmines.

 

‘No, no! Please listen to me as it is, majesty.’

 

A perverted desire, she didn’t have that kind of desire. She didn’t even think about the person who would give them rice cakes, but wasn’t he expecting it secretly? Please stop eating kimchi soup!

 

The word… jumped out of her throat. She barely swallowed the words. If she were to hear these words, the crown prince would surely be blushing and full of shame, and would cut her throat right away, just like at the end of the novel. She said it with the most regretful expression on her face.

 

“It’s not a threat. No. How dare I threaten you. I’m saying this because I’m sincerely worried about my colleagues.”

 

“Comrade? Are you going to insult my men this time?”

 

It seemed that the prince hated her so much that he had a filter that made everything she said sound like curse words. Otherwise, she would not have been able to communicate this far. She got up from her seat and looked into the prince’s eyes and said,

 

“…I am sorry to inform you, but as a lowly subject, I am speaking to you. It doesn’t matter whether you hate me or not, but even Your Highness’s subordinates are suffering because of Your Highness’ private feelings. There is no deceit. I did what I had to do as one of the soldiers belonging to Distian, ignoring my feelings for Your Highness. That’s all. If you are a person who stands above others, shouldn’t you be more calm than anyone else? It’s not you who get hurt by being emotional, it’s your minions. Doesn’t His Highness, the future ruler of this country, not know what I know as a child?”

 

She didn’t mean to get angry, but as she spoke, her breathing became more and more rough. She sat down, caught her breath, and raised the tableware again.

 

“Even if you think I said too much and throw me in jail for blasphemy, I don’t have any more ingredients, so I’ll eat all of this.”

 

Her stomach was full of this, but she decided to come and put the food into her mouth.

 

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