The Lady is a Stalker

Nod, nod.

 

She glanced at the prince, who was sleeping with a face as beautiful as an angel, and poked his pure white cheek, which still had some milk left on it. e just frowned slightly and showed no sign of getting up.

 

“…”

 

Looking at his sleeping face, breathing evenly and calmly like a child, she let out a deep sigh. She forgot. Because using the power of a dragon puts a tremendous strain on the human body, even in the original novel, the crown prince almost fainted after his rampage. She was finally able to move her body, but this time the crown prince was unable to move. No matter how tired he was, did he usually fall asleep in front of a woman who was targeting his chastity? Later, if she had the chance, she felt that she should give the crown prince a lecture about how dangerous his appearance was. Unless he was a woman like her who didn’t have the slightest interest in the crown prince, an ordinary person would feel a surge of darkness that wasn’t there when she saw the beautiful face of the prince sleeping defenseless like now.

 

Leaving the prince sleeping for a while, she went out of the cave and saw that the sky was slowly getting dark. She wanted to leave the crown prince alone and return to where the second-in-command was, but she passed out on the way and she didn’t even know where she was taken. Also, not even ten lives would be enough to move at night in the Ather Forest, which was infested with other races. In particular, she hated going out hastily and encountering people of a different race than dying. Even if you were asleep, there was no safer place in this world than next to the crown prince.

 

After finishing the calculation, she picked up the twigs and leaves that had fallen around the cave and returned to the cave. Although it was warm inside the cave, it could still get cold at night. She brought matches to start a fire in case of emergency. She never thought she would actually use it.

 

She set fire to the twigs she had gathered. Fallen leaves were laid out on the ground to keep warm. When she sat down, it felt quite comfortable. She felt like she could comfortably spend the night like this. She put the two potatoes she had brought as emergency food into the blazing campfire and waited for them to be cooked.

 

As she was trying to zone out, her eyes fell on the crown prince, who was still leaning uncomfortably against the wall in the corner.

 

“…”

 

She didn’t particularly have any good feelings toward the crown prince, but she owed him a debt for saving her from a different race earlier, and as an adult, she didn’t feel comfortable sleeping alone in a comfortable place and having a child sleep on the hard floor. In fact, Princess Serabi and the Crown Prince were only two years apart, but their actual mental ages were quite different, so she decided to move the Crown Prince onto the leaf bed she had made. However, if both hands had been intact, she would have moved the crown prince in another way, but her shoulder was damaged by the crown prince, so she could only use her left hand.

 

After apologizing inaudibly in her heart, she dragged the crown prince with one hand and placed him on a bed of fallen leaves.

 

“Whoa…”

 

Even though he was young, he was quite heavy, and carrying him with only one hand, even though it was a short distance, required a lot of physical strength. Before she knew it, her whole body was covered in sweat. She looked down at the crown prince, who was still sleeping soundly, panting.

 

No, no matter how she did this, he wouldn’t wake up. The crown prince literally fell asleep without even knowing he was getting carried. The reputation of being the strongest in the world would make him cry. With this, he was so defenseless that he had nothing to say even if he was stabbed to death by an assassin who appeared as an extra instead of catching a dragon.

 

“…umm.”

 

The crown prince, who was tossing and turning slightly in his sleep, seemed to be cold for some reason. She guessed there’s nothing to cover it up with. She looked through the small bag and found nothing that looked particularly useful.

 

Umm. After thinking about it for a while, she decided that even though it was cold, she should take off the outer clothes he was wearing. If it had been her personality, she would have let him shiver from the cold unless he was freezing to death, but she owed him a debt for putting everything aside to come and save her.

 

She smiled contentedly to herself and tried to take off his outerwear without hesitation… At that time, she made eye contact with the crown prince, who had just woken up.

 

Creep clatter.

 

He blinked as if he was still half asleep, but when he realized the situation, his face suddenly turned bright red.

 

“…”

 

Coincidentally, she was standing in front of the crown prince. Her face was red, she was sweating, and her breathing was becoming heavy due to the difficulty of carrying the crown prince with only one hand. She felt like she could sense a rough, wild nature in her hands as she tried to undo the buttons on her uniform. It felt like she was on the verge of losing her mind and running towards the crown prince.

 

When she made eye contact with the crown prince, she swallowed her saliva out of nervousness. The sound rang particularly loudly in the quiet cave. Then the crown prince’s eyes became filled with astonishment. When she met those eyes, she realized. If the second-in-command or the crown prince’s servant had acted like this, the crown prince would have immediately realized that it was a misunderstanding, but what if the other person was Serabi, who had constantly threatened his chastity until now? And in this situation, she was breathing heavily and wildly unbuttoning her clothes in front of him while he was sleeping. Princess Seravi even had a record of sneaking into his bedroom just a month ago.

 

If she were really Princess Serabi, she would have thought that the situation where the crown prince was sleeping was the best situation to do something. The prince’s thoughts seemed to have flowed similarly to her at the same time. However, what the crown prince was thinking was a complete misunderstanding. The crown prince’s misunderstanding must be resolved as soon as possible.

 

With her thoughts reaching that point, she waved her hand and tried to approach the crown prince.

 

“Oh, this is…”

 

“You’re targeting my body again, you, you…”

 

“First, let me tell you…”

 

“You took advantage of the brief moment of relief I had…!”

 

Ah, she was in trouble. For some reason, she thought he had fallen into a deep sleep. But that wasn’t what was important now. The crown prince was approaching her with an angry expression. There was an illusion that a blue energy was flowing from behind the crown prince.

 

‘Oh, what should I do?’ she thought while slowly taking a step back.

 

“Ah. It’s really a misunderstanding.”

 

“Don’t lie. Why are you hiding so rough? Why are you taking off your clothes?”

 

“No, I was just trying to cover you up. I was worried that you might catch a cold. And the reason I’m breathing so hard is because I’m tired from carrying Raven from there to here…”

 

“Ha, you want me to believe that?”

 

He seemed really angry to the core as he approached her, gritting his teeth. She was telling only the truth, but the crown prince did not believe a word of what she said.

 

“I even left my men alone and came to save your life, but this is how you pay for? How many times do you have to let me down, bitch…!”

 

What was that emotion on the crown prince’s face as he looked at her with resentment? Feeling betrayed? Futility? Of course it must be her mistake to see it that way. There was no way the crown prince had any expectations from Serabi in the first place. However, she couldn’t leave the misunderstanding that she was trying to rape him like this.

 

‘Think quickly about how to resolve his misunderstanding.’

 

She spoke to the crown prince with my eyes filled with as much sincerity as she could show.

 

“It’s really unfair. I don’t have any selfish interest in your life in the first place.”

 

“…what?”

 

At those words, the crown prince stopped walking towards her. At her firm words, the crown prince made an expression as if he had heard the most absurd thing in the world. The crown prince stopped walking towards her and was silent for a long time. The surroundings suddenly became quiet, as if being hit by cold water. The prince’s spirit, who was glaring at her as if he was going to kill her at any moment, was greatly diminished.

 

“…”

 

She wondered if her life was saved… She breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. The crown prince was still staring at her without saying a word, as if trying to figure out her inner thoughts. But why was he looking at her with such a shocked expression? The crown prince’s golden eyes were shaking uneasily, and it seemed as if he was hurt or greatly disappointed about something.

 

“Are you okay?”

 

The crown prince was in such a panic that she asked him if he was okay without even realizing it. The crown prince looked startled at her question, and he unconsciously took a step back from her.

 

“…?”

 

She looked at the prince with a puzzled expression. For a while they stood in a standoff state without saying a word. At one point, the crown prince suddenly spoke to her with an angry expression.

 

“You… if you just say so…”

 

“Yes?”

 

“Okay, why do you even lie like that?”

 

Was she lying? Besides, she said no several times, but why didn’t he believe her?

 

As he was staring at her with an expression demanding an explanation, the crown prince finished speaking and looked at her with an expression that seemed to say, ‘That’s right if you say so.’ She added quickly before the misunderstanding deepened further.

 

“So, I said it was a misunderstanding from the beginning…”

 

“You can’t tell a lie even once.”

 

After she finished speaking, the crown prince turned his head away as if he did not want to talk to her anymore. What was this reaction? It looked like he’s angry, but instead of showing off his anger like before, he seemed to be feeling ashamed for some reason… No way. It must be her mistake.

 

What she said earlier was a spur-of-the-moment remark, but it wasn’t a lie. It was easy, but the crown prince had no doubt that she was lying. Well, if you think about it, based on common sense, it didn’t make sense for him to believe that the woman who had been chasing him for 14 years actually said she didn’t like him. Rather, it might be reasonable to think that she would take advantage of the opportunity to let his guard down and do something.

 

Although it was impossible to read the prince’s mind, it seemed like some unknown positive circuit was at work. No, in this case, it should be called a negative circuit. What on earth was he thinking…

 

It hasn’t been long since she got to know him, but there were times, like now, when she felt the urge to create a look inside his head.

 

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