The Lady is a Stalker

Regardless of time or place, it was natural to want to look good to people you like. Let’s look at the crown prince with those eyes. The crown prince, who understood the meaning of her words, trembled.

 

…She didn’t even expect him to like her, but when he heard what she said, his complexion suddenly hardened. For some reason, he was embarrassed, as if he had heard something he shouldn’t have heard. It seemed that Serabi used to harass the crown prince a lot. How could he turn such a bright blue complexion even when she simply said that he wanted to look good to him? However, it was not unreasonable for the crown prince to be suspicious of her pure feelings of wanting to impress him. Princess Serabi’s feelings for the crown prince were closer to obsession rather than general love. Because rather than wanting to impress her crush, she only thought about how she could have more partners. So the result was like this. A deformed relationship where one person hated the other person to death and loved the other person to death.

 

After hesitating for a while, he spoke with difficulty, his face as pale as if he were about to die.

 

“Don’t say anything. All you want is my body and the power I have.”

 

“Huh? No.”

 

She shook her head and immediately answered the crown prince’s words. Then the crown prince’s face slightly distorted after hearing her answer. There was a part in the crown prince’s words that needed to be corrected. To be precise, she did not want the crown prince’s heart, nor did she want his body or power. She said no in that sense, but the crown prince seemed to have understood her words in a different sense. The crown prince misunderstood what she said and his face turned bright red, as if he felt he had been harassed. It seemed that the crown prince thought that she had come to want something other than his own body and power. It’s okay to be mistaken, but she scratched her cheek awkwardly at his reaction. She didn’t want to be in a romantic relationship with the crown prince, but she wanted to return this worse relationship to normal. In order to do that, she first had to clear up the crown prince’s misunderstanding that she liked him.

 

“Anyway, my actions don’t have the dirty intentions that Raven thinks they have. Besides… I think I will actually be of help to Raven.”

 

“What?”

 

Hearing her confident words that she would be of help to him, the crown prince reflexively let out an incredulous sigh. To the crown prince, she was someone who would rather help without having anything. The idea that she would be of help to him must have sounded like a baseless, conceited story. Because of this, it seemed like the crown prince was dismissing her words as lies to attract attention. She cautiously opened her mouth while carefully observing the prince’s expression.

 

“Hmm… Your Majesty hates nobles, doesn’t he?”

 

“…”

 

The crown prince looked at her with his cold eyes as if reading her heart, his face frozen. The nobles of this era were often depicted as being extravagant, profligate, and vicious, harassing commoners. They looked noble on the outside, but behind the scenes, they did a lot of dirty things and did not work, so their extravagance was the worst. Of course, the crown prince hated such noble families. So much so that he wanted to get rid of it all right now. The reason he was holding back was because his body had not yet matured and he was young and lacked political power. The crown prince was not on good terms with the nobles. There were many people who wanted to connect with him to gain power as the crown prince, but he was not shrewd enough to compromise with his enemies for his own purposes. At the end of the novel, the crown prince purged all the erring nobles and returned their property to the commoners. He then earns the title King of the Lowly.

 

The Prineus family, of which she was a member, would be the crown prince’s most difficult enemy. Moreover, although it had not happened yet, the dukedom rebelled against the crown prince’s decision. Of course, the rebellion failed, and what happened to the Duke family afterward was not described, but it would be better not to see it because it would be a mental health issue.

 

“…Raven, when you become Emperor, you plan to eliminate all nobles, right?”

 

“…”

 

At her words, the crown prince smiled a twisted smile with cold eyes. It was a look with a pitiful meaning, ‘If you do that, it’s like that.’ Somehow he seemed relieved. He spoke with a relieved look on his face, as if his frustration was finally relieved.

 

“…Right. That’s what you were aiming for when you fasted. Are you willing to show me well from now on and preserve your life alone? I don’t know where you got wind of my plan, but I have no intention of compromising with the nobles.”

 

“No, I just told you that I will definitely be of help to you, Raven.”

 

The crown prince frowned at her words as if he had heard a strange story. He asked with a suspicious look in his eyes.

 

“Do you… know what you’re talking about?”

 

“Yes, I know for sure. I will betray my family and stand on Raven’s side.”

 

It was actually the crown prince who was embarrassed by her explicit words. He looked at her with confused eyes. She wondered if she was being too foolish, but perhaps if Princess Seravi had known of the prince’s plans in advance, she would have said the same thing as her now.

 

“How can I believe that?”

 

The crown prince looked at her with suspicious eyes. His eyes were filled with distrust, not even 1% of trust in her. She was worried. No matter how much she thought about it, there was no reason why the crown prince should trust her. Wasn’t he the prince who had already criticized her several times? It was surprising in itself that someone would ask her something like this. After thinking about it, she gave a half-hearted answer.

 

“Hmm… There’s no way I would betray Lord Raven, right?”

 

As soon as she said those words, she immediately regretted them less than a second later. Even from what she heard, the evidence was extremely shoddy. However, the Crown Prince, who she thought would be angry, had a very complicated response to her words. She seemed to have convinced him that there was no way she would betray him. No matter how much Princess Serabi had tormented him until now, her affection was at the root of it all, and the truth was that she was infatuated with the prince himself. Right now, the crown prince’s favorability towards her was less than that of a rag rolling around on the street. No, it would have been fortunate if it were just rags. Because it would pass by without any interest. Now that she knew that what Princess Serabi did was at a higher level than she knew, she thought that if she committed at least this much, the relationship would at least improve. The best scenario for now was for the crown prince to use her as his food and then to throw her away cleanly after all her sweetness had been drained.

 

The transaction with the crown prince that day failed completely. After hearing what she said, the crown prince’s expression hardened and left, leaving only the words, ‘I’ll pretend I didn’t hear you.’ In the end, she earned nothing. Moreover, it seemed like his favorability towards her had only gone down. In any case, there were still six years left until the crown prince would purge the nobles, so all she had to do was persuade him slowly.

 

Anyway, time passed by without any results. The first day was bearable. She wasn’t the type with a big appetite to begin with, but thinking that she couldn’t eat made her feel even hungrier. Still, it wasn’t to the point where she couldn’t bear it.

 

On the second day, she was so hungry that she couldn’t sleep all night.

 

On the third day, while making a meal at the base as usual, she fainted from the temptation of the river of food. She couldn’t win so she stopped…

 

‘Ah, it’s unfair. Why is my body so weak?’

 

When she opened her eyes again, she saw the beautiful face of the crown prince. He was looking down at her with a stern expression. The crown prince was younger than her and looked fresh even after starving for a week. Somehow it didn’t feel real, so she just blinked and he sighed and said.

 

“There are so many different ways to insult me. Are you fainting from malnutrition within the army I command?”

 

Although the crown prince’s words were full of thorns, the venom he had harbored when they last met had calmed down further. In fact, she knew that she would soon meet the crown prince again. As the Deputy Commander said, he was very good with people. Regardless of Moog’s dislike of her, he was not a wicked person who could be indifferent to someone who had fallen.

 

“…meal.”

 

When her words came out in a weak voice, he spoke to her as if persuading her, even though he had an annoyed expression on his face.

 

“I really don’t get tired of it. Even if I starve for a month, it won’t cause any harm to my body. And when I’m hungry, I’ll figure out how to eat. I’m not a child, so why bother worrying me so much… There is no need to.”

 

The crown prince seemed strangely uncomfortable saying the word ‘worry’. She looked at the ceiling of the hospital room with indifferent eyes and spoke in a calm voice.

 

“Raven, it may be okay to starve for a month… but if I starve for that long, I might really die.”

 

“What are you talking about?”

 

“Raven, you may not know this because you have almost reached the level of an outsider, but I have a weak body. I was born with it… and an ordinary person would die if he didn’t eat food for a week.”

 

He was silent for a while. The crown prince, who had been pondering the meaning of what she said in a daze, jumped up and grabbed her shoulder. He was holding her shoulders so hard that his fingertips turned white. His hands were shaking from anger.

 

“There’s no way I’m asking because I don’t know that! Are you threatening me with your life now? What on earth do you gain by doing that? Why are you going to me so suddenly?!”

 

He must have accumulated a lot of things of his own, so he grabbed her shoulder, the patient, and shook her violently and said so. He looked very confused. He even seemed distressed at first glance. He spoke in a voice filled with resentment, as if he was pouring out his anger at her. It looked like something very unfair.

 

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