The Lady is a Stalker

The next day, after deciding to pack three days’ worth of usable food and supplement the rest with food found in the forest, the punitive force finally entered the forest. The forest where there were different races of people had a somewhat eerie feeling. As she was looking around with an unusually anxious expression, a soldier next to her started talking to her.

 

“What’s wrong? You look in a bad mood?”

 

“…Actually, this race is a bit different.”

 

At that time, she felt something wrapping around her ankle. The feel of it sticking to her leg gave her goosebumps all over her body. 

 

‘No way, no way…’

 

She was so frozen that she couldn’t even scream. While looking around with a thoughtful expression, she accidentally made eye contact with the crown prince.

 

“…?”

 

The crown prince, who made eye contact with her, made a strange expression. He seemed to sense that something was strange as she, who had never even blinked at most things, was frozen like this. This texture must definitely belong to a different race that she read about in novels. This species had a habit of dragging prey to its nest and then killing it… She bit her lip to keep from screaming in preparation for the shock that was to come.

 

“…”

 

The moment the crown prince opened his mouth to say something to her, the tentacles that were touching his ankles pulled her back. She opened her eyes to someone’s hand shaking her body roughly. When she opened her eyes, fortunately, what she saw was not a foreigner’s face, but the face of the crown prince. No, wasn’t that fortunate? It might have been better to be of a different race. 

 

When she came to her senses, the crown prince, who was looking at her with an angry expression, scolded her in a growling voice.

 

“You idiot! If something happened, you should have screamed! Why are you just letting this happen? You were so expressionless that I didn’t even know you were being captured!”

 

The prince’s angry voice rang loudly. Was this a cave? It seemed like there were a lot of Distian soldiers around, but before she knew it, the crown prince and her were the only ones left. As she blinked her eyes blankly, the crown prince grabbed both of her shoulders as if to make her come to her senses.

 

“Ahh!”

 

At the sudden stabbing pain, she screamed and reflexively slapped the prince’s hand away. The prince was more surprised by her reaction. He looked down at his downed hands, then quickly came to his senses and quickly asked her.

 

“What? Are you hurt? Show me. It’s not as strong as that of a priest, but if it’s divine power, I can use it too.”

 

“Oh, no, it’s okay.”

 

The crown prince stretched out his hand toward her. She pretended like nothing was wrong and quietly backed away from his approaching hand, wrapping it around her shoulder. When she expressed her refusal with her whole body, the crown prince looked a little lost. It was as if he couldn’t believe that it had really happened that she had avoided the crown prince’s touch in the first place.

 

The wound on my shoulder was caused not by a foreign race, but by the crown prince. She wondered if the crown prince had grabbed her shoulder so hard the other day that it had hurt her shoulder, but as expected, she herself didn’t know it yet. Or maybe he didn’t expect that someone would get hurt just by grabbing their shoulder. But that was because the crown prince had underestimated his own grip strength. The crown prince was only 14 years old, and the only people around him were dark-skinned military men, so did he not know that he should be more gentle with women? Whatever the reason, the crown prince had no doubt whatsoever that the wound on her shoulder was caused by a member of a different race. So he looked at her with an expression of complete incomprehension as she slowly backed away, hiding her shoulders. When he took one step closer, she took two more steps back.

 

No matter what happened, she couldn’t just show her wounds to the crown prince. So that evening, when she returned home and looked in the bathroom mirror, she realized that the wound was worse than she thought. At first, there was just a bruise on the shoulder that looked like the handprint of the crown prince’s hand, but before she knew it, the entire shoulder had changed to such a disgusting state that it looked pale blue. It was better for the crown prince not to know. If he knew that this was his own wound, and that she lost the use of one of her arms because of him, she wouldn’t know how much that bastard’s personality would annoy her. Due to his personality, which was full of responsibility, if someone was injured because of him, he would try to take responsibility by providing lifelong rehabilitation or providing compensation for the injuries. It’s okay to accept the latter, but it would be difficult if the crown prince behaved like the former. Of course, the crown prince probably still hated her so much that he wanted to kill her, but considering the prince’s personality of being broad-minded and extremely reluctant to harm others, she couldn’t conclude that it was completely impossible.

 

“Gwae, it’s okay. Don’t touch it.”

 

“What? If someone sees you, you’re reacting as if I’m going to eat you. I’ve been seeing your naked body since I was young, so it’s nothing new now. Show your scars quickly.”

 

He seemed to think she was embarrassed. Why couldn’t he think that it’s because she really hated it? Was it because Princess Serabi has been too bold until now? As she continued to back away from the crown prince, his patience finally exploded and he ruffled his hair and spoke in an irritated voice.

 

“Hey! I don’t really want to see your bare skin, ok? I need to check how deep the wound is! You’ve grown so well that you don’t know how serious this is, but if it hurts to even touch it, you might have broken a bone! If you don’t want to lose the use of your arms for the rest of your life, come here now!”

 

It didn’t hurt just by touching it, it actually hurt because the crown prince touched it. After receiving treatment from a doctor who was helpful, her shoulder had now recovered to the point where she was able to carry out her daily life. However, if the crown prince grabs her shoulder again like last time, she would definitely be incapacitated this time. Since the crown prince didn’t realize how strong his grip was, her arm could have completely fallen off.

 

While she was thinking those thoughts, the crown prince came quickly in front of her.

 

“Whoa…”

 

Ah, that face was something that only came out when he was really angry. Since she had been constantly messing with his temper, she had seen his angry face several times, but she had never seen him as angry as he was now. The crown prince was barely able to exhale to calm his anger. He looked down at her with a twisted smile and vicious, murderous eyes.

 

“Shall I take it off?”

 

His words about taking off her clothes were not at all sweet, unlike Princess Serabi’s imagination. Rather, to her ears it sounded like ‘I will kill you.’ She couldn’t help it. It was pointless to hold out any longer in front of the crown prince who was so strong-willed.  So she swallowed dry saliva out of nervousness, turned her back on the prince, and lowered her jacket to her shoulders.

 

“What is this… a handprint?”

 

“…”

 

“What is all this…”

 

He was frozen and silent for a while as he checked the wound that had spread beyond her shoulder and onto her back. There may be a reason why her wounds were more serious than he thought. There was no way that marks like this would be left behind by being attacked by a different species that they saw earlier. Even the crown prince would have realized that it was done by a person. She couldn’t help it that it happened like this. It’s a judgment call.

 

‘Let’s confidently ask for treatment expenses. Then I won’t hold him responsible…’

 

She was thinking about an expected answer to what would happen in the future.

 

“…?!”

 

Suddenly, goosebumps appeared all over her body. It felt cool, as if the warm temperature of the cave had suddenly changed to midwinter with heavy snowfall. There was only one cause that could be guessed. She could feel the crown prince spewing out tremendous murderous energy from behind her.

 

‘What, what is it? Why is the crown prince suddenly spewing murderous energy towards people’s backs?’

 

Could it be that the Crown Prince had reached the point where he could read people’s minds, and had read that she was planning to rip him off for treatment? Wasn’t it true that if she looked back, she would be murdered?

 

‘After hesitating, let’s take a quick look back.’

 

She ended up making direct eye contact with the crown prince, who was behaving in a way that was incomparable to anything she had experienced so far. She thought she had gradually gotten used to the Crown Prince being angry at her, but now the force was different from usual. His golden eyes, which always had a warm glow, were now a vicious red color, like blood. when she met his red eyes, she was startled and quickly turned her head away.

 

Red eyes…

 

The prince was in a state of explosion that only appeared once in the novel. Judging by the sudden appearance of his evil eye, she could tell that he was madly angry… but why? The abnormally large magical power he possesses was originally dark, having been absorbed after killing a dragon. His magical powers usually seemed to obey him calmly, but when he lost his temper or his head became filled with anger, his true ferocious side was revealed.

 

The power was so enormous and ferocious that it was impossible to control, and it would not stop raging until it destroyed everything. The crown prince knew this too, so no matter what happened, he refused to let go of reason and has never let go until now. Prince Raven, who had a naturally gentle nature, rarely even got angry, but even in the novel, the prince went berserk only once. When the elf queen he loved was kidnapped by her half-breeds and was on the verge of death.

 

When she read the novel, she thought it was a shocking development of words, but if you think about it in reverse, it means that the crown prince did not go crazy unless something was that shocking. But what part of her touched his heart and made him so excited? There was no way she could pinpoint it.

 

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