I Didn’t Save You To Get Proposed To - Chapter 62

 

Of course, that wasn’t the only thing I didn’t like.

 

“Aren’t you curious if the Prince …… was really injured, Your Majesty?”

 

“He’s like a monster that’s fine even on the battlefield, so of course he’ll be fine. Lady and I are the problem.”

 

Of course, the wounded Ixion was stronger than the two of us, but I was still annoyed by that statement.

 

It was because I remembered the wounds I had seen while treating his back in the cave of another world.

 

Of course, even as a human, I don’t think he’s been injured countless time until now, and he’s a ‘monster that’s fine even on the battlefield’.

 

“Your Majesty.”

 

I said carefully.

 

“The Prince has come directly for His Majesty.”

 

“That’s a given.”

 

The Emperor grunted and said.

 

“Without me, Ixion will have a bigger problem.”

 

“…… What are you talking about?”

 

“Does it look like the Empress would stand still without me? So, first of all, I have to be safe.”

 

It was a strangely logical statement. I kept quiet.

 

“Okay, when are you planning to hold the wedding?”

 

“Yes?”

 

“Doesn’t the fact that you came up to the capital together mean that you accepted Ixion’s proposal?”

 

“Uh……. It’s not true.”

 

I hesitated to answer, and the Emperor tilted his head and asked.

 

“Then did you break up?”

 

‘No, we never dated before, so how did we break up……

 

“No, it’s not like that, talking about marriage, we don’t know each other well, so we’ve just agreed to stay close.”

 

It was best to answer this way.

 

The Emperor snorted at my words.

 

“Stay close?”

 

“…… Yes. Close friends.”

 

“What do you mean friends? This Ixion, dating bears no results.”

 

“…..”

 

“The first thing he asked me was the Lady’s freedom.”

 

I knew it because I had seen it in the stream earlier.

 

“At that time, he was making a desperate expression I had never seen before ……. What? Friend? Really. What a waste of a face that looks like me.”

 

“….”

 

“When he turned the capital upside down to propose to Lady, I thought he was half crazy, but now you said you don’t know each other well? Was that only the result of going down to the Evgeny estate?”

 

“Perhaps…….”

 

I responded coldly to the reaction.

 

“If we had had a little more time together, we might have deepened our relationship. But when my heart was about to open, the Emperor called, so I couldn’t help it.”

 

It wasn’t because Ixion wasn’t good enough, it was just a hint that he called at the wrong time.

 

“But Lady doesn’t quite understand either. It’s my son, so it must be hard to find a better man than Ixion. What are you doing without holding onto him?”

 

‘What’s wrong with you acknowledging Ixion like that and not giving him an estate?’

 

Because he was the Emperor, I couldn’t fight any more and just smiled clumsily.

 

I was contemplating on how to come up with a polite, yet poignant word, but Isis abruptly stopped.

 

“Huh? Isis, what happened?”

 

Isis actually stopped quietly, but the horse the Emperor was riding on suddenly raised its front legs and made a riot.

 

Whinnneeee!

 

“Carl, what’s wrong? Karl!”

 

The Emperor managed to jump off his horse before falling off, and I too carefully got off the horse to raise him up.

 

“Your Majesty, what happened……”

 

As I reached out my hand to the Emperor, his blue eyes widened in astonishment.

 

“Lady.”

 

“Yes?”

 

Hearing something hard to believe, I turned my back.

 

“Your Majesty…….”

 

Feeling his voice trembling, I corrected his words.

 

“They are bears.”

 

Three bears, which Ixion had mentioned that it would be difficult to bump into, were approaching us, prowling around.

 

“Wouldn’t it be better to run away, Isis? Or should we pretend to be dead?”

 

“We’d better run.”

 

Isis made a dissatisfied whine.

 

When I turned my head, to make matters worse, four wolves were standing behind me.

 

‘Ah.’

 

There was no retreat, no fighting power, and nowhere to turn for help.

 

‘I’ll die like this before I become a monster. You really don’t know one inch ahead in life.’

 

I hugged White and took a deep breath.

 

“Ah, ah, no……. Why are the beasts suddenly…… ”

 

“It’s called Zetopo scent……… I used incense to attract wild beasts. This seems to be the most concentrated place.”

 

“Why did you use that crazy scent?”

 

Thinking that death was imminent, there was no time to show manners. The Emperor stuttered in response to my words.

 

“At that time, there were many Lords who were good at hunting.”

 

The Emperor sighed and stepped back.

 

I was trying to respond with something absurd, but the Emperor’s words continued.

 

“Lady, if you ever survive alone…… ”

 

“It won’t be.”

 

“Still, just if.”

 

Without even thinking of pulling out his sword, the Emperor continued gibberish.

 

“My will is on the top of the little box under my bed. Make sure to pass it along. Don’t forget that it’s also good for Ixion.”

 

“To the prince?”

 

I asked puzzledly.

 

Looking at him, I was once more startled. Tears were dripping from his blue eyes.

 

“To Ixion…… sniff, I’m sorry…… please give it to him.”

 

Although the facial features were similar to Ixion in a middle-age and beautiful, I could see why people said they were weak to the Emperor.

 

He was like having a whining child.

 

Meanwhile, three bears in front and four wolves in the back were slowly approaching us.

 

White cried loudly when it thought it was going to be eaten soon.

 

“Ah!”

 

“White!”

 

In an instant, White jumped out of my arms.

 

‘Yes, you, run away!’

 

But White did not run away and suddenly rolled over the ground once. Just like I did when I removed the thorns from the cave of another world.

 

“White?”

 

Its body did not change like a hedgehog again, but white and thick thorns appeared where White rolled.

 

“Most monsters have poison, but not with animals.”

 

I was at loss.

 

I picked up the thorn White had made and took a deep breath.

 

White’s blue eyes were looking at me.

 

‘That’s right, White.’

 

I threw my thorns at the biggest bear without hesitation.

 

‘I’m good at darts!’

 

White’s thorns weren’t that big compared to the bear’s large size and tough skin, but according to Ixion, it would still be toxic.

 

The biggest bear hit by White’s thorn on the shoulder thumped and fell.

 

“La, Lady?”

 

Behind me, the Emperor shrieked and muttered blankly.

 

Without even having time to answer, I calmly threw thorns at the other two bears and hit them all. It was a much bigger target than the dart board.

 

“Behind! Behind!”

 

“I know!”

 

After I finished the four wolves that were running behind me, there were only seven corpses of large beasts around me.

 

It was a crisis situation where I was prepared for death, but it was dealt with more quickly than expected, so the Emperor and I held our breath for a while and kept silent.

 

“Lady? What is this? Did Artize develop such an attack method?”

 

“…I am now Evgeny. I am an Imperial citizen.”

 

The Emperor hurriedly took his handkerchief from his chest, wiped his tears and blew his nose.

 

In an instant, he adjusted his expression and closed his mouth to change into the face of a stern and heavy Emperor.

 

“Anyway, thanks to Lady, my life is saved.”

 

“Yes, that’s right.”

 

“I wish you all the best in the future.”

 

“…..”

 

“If there is anything you want, of course I will listen to it. You saved the Emperor.”

 

“Actually, it wasn’t me who wanted to go to the hunting grounds because of worry for His Majesty, but it was Prince Ixion.”

 

I answered calmly.

 

“I wonder what is written in the will. Why is it good for Prince Ixion?”

 

The Emperor sighed with a complicated face.

 

I added hurriedly.

 

“You said you were sorry to the prince. It really doesn’t seem like you’re just recklessly beating the prince.”

 

“That…. As expected, the Lady couldn’t bear to see it either.”

 

The Emperor’s horse, Carl, was still trembling, and it seemed that he would not be able to leave immediately anyway.

 

I raised my chin as if to talk to him.

 

“Lady, my position as Emperor was given to me by the Empress.”

 

“……”

 

“But, the Crown Prince, Ramon is so incompetent because he resembles me. Still, he;s not a bad child, so he’s going to lead the empire well. But in such a situation, if Ixion is too outstanding….”

 

The Emperor avoided my gaze and muttered.

 

“The Empress will destroy Ixion. Because she can do that.”

 

“So, why haven’t you done anything up until now? Why did you order this and that?”

 

“Otherwise, I fear that he will become a nuisance like the second prince, Gert. Still, it’s my bloodline, but it’s a waste of ability.”

 

The 2nd prince, Gert, was really ‘doing nothing’ and was addicted to alcohol and pleasure.

 

“But the Prince really didn’t have any ambitions.”

 

“That’s Ixion’s opinion, but the nobles think that if Ramon succeeds to the throne safely… the Empress will also slow down her vigilance a little, and at that time, I can give him anything.”

 

“……”

 

“It’s not that I didn’t have any thoughts either, Lady, but Ixion has a share in the will. Although it was on the outline, I was planning to give him territories and a Duke title. But not when Ramon is Crown Prince. The Empress is already a sensitive person.”

 

When I heard the story, it seemed that he was a person with a sense of conscience.

 

He was consistently not forgetting that he had ascended to the throne thanks to the Empress, and constantly kept an eye on her.

 

‘If that’s the case, you’d rather be faithful only to the Empress in the first place……’

 

“Especially if helping Ramon, will let the Empress let go of her guard a little.”

 

“Then it’s not that you didn’t have any feelings for Prince Ixion in the first place……”

 

I asked because I don’t understand.

 

“Why didn’t you show it at all?”

 

The Emperor I saw in the stream was too cold to Ixion.

 

Reminding me of how he cut off my words as if he didn’t want me to ask anything, I asked again.

 

“Why did you tell him that he should only volunteer for the Empire?”

 

“That’s……”

 

The Emperor hesitated and answered. Seeing that his gaze was directed towards the thorns still in my hand, I thought that he was not in a situation to say anything.

 

“… There’s nothing I can do for him right now anyway, so there’s no point in trying to comfort him with words.”

 

“What do you mean comforting with words.”

 

I took a deep breath.

 

I felt bad when I remembered the face of little Ixion, who couldn’t hide his excited expression at the compliment that he was good at swordsmanship.