The Hero is Standing in My Way - Chapter 2

To be honest, I couldn’t remember the contents of the novel well. All I remember was its rough plot.

 

How do you remember in detail the novel you read in your previous life?

 

Seeing the male lead’s face, I’m clearly interested.

 

In fact, the content of the novel wasn’t my taste.

 

I liked novels with the keyword romance in the middle of a war, but in retrospect, it was a little boring. I don’t even remember reading it properly.

 

Anyway, the rough plot was like this.

 

As a child, Siegfried escapes from the Imperial Palace, avoiding the Crown Prince who threatens his life. The Crown Prince, Eisa, was anxious because he couldn’t kill Siegfried.

 

There were two reasons why Eisa hated him terribly.

 

First, Siegfried was his only enemy prince born from the empress.

 

Eisa was the first to be born and became the crown prince, however, he got pushed back due to his blood lineage.

 

Second, Siegfried possessed the unique abilities of the royal family that Eisa did not have.

 

It was said that the emperor of the first empire was blessed by God and exerted amazing power.

 

These abilities were varied and passed down to his descendants, the royal family.

 

The reason why the present empire maintained the system of absolute monarchy was all thanks to the imperial family who had escaped such human limitations.

 

However, as time passed, the blood of the royal family faded, and naturally their abilities almost disappeared, and they avoided it again.

 

Siegfried was born in such a time. He also has purple eyes that only the blood of the first emperor had.

 

So, for Eisa, born from a concubine, Siegfried was nothing but a thorny existence in his life.

 

In fact, Siegfried’s position was very strong.

 

The nobles claimed that a true successor worthy of the Emperor’s seat appeared, therefore they insisted the Crown Prince to step down of his position.

 

The nobility of the empire was divided in half.

 

Those who accuse him of attempting to drag down the Crown Prince with unidentified abilities, and those who claim that the crown prince’s post belonged to Siegfried from the beginning.

 

However, in the midst of this war, the situation was completely reversed.

 

The Empress, who gave birth to Siegfried, passed away at a young age.

 

It happened when Siegfried was less than 10 years old. Since his age is 15 this year, it was already 5 years ago.

 

On the day of the empress’s death, the palace was engulfed in a fire of unknown cause.

 

The fire, which grew out of control, engulfed the palace as it was. At the time, no one knew that Eisa’s forces held Siegfried in check. Even though everyone didn’t say anything, they thought Eisa was involved in the fire.

 

Even now, there were many rumors about the Empress’s death, but no one could speak.

 

Since then, Eisa and his mother have stretched their shoulders proudly.

 

The reason for that was the emperor.

 

As usual with political marriages, the emperor did not love the empress.

 

On the other hand, Eisa’s mother was loved and cherished by the emperor so much.

 

The emperor dismissed all the cries of Siegfried’s allies, eventually making Eisa’s mother be the empress as if he was waiting for the right timing.

 

As a result, resentment of Siegfried’s allies grew day by day.

 

However, in an empire where the imperial power exerts overwhelming power, there was no one who could dare to uncover the truth first.

 

It was also a natural procedure that the moment he returned to the imperial palace, a wind of blood would blow.

 

“By the way, it’s true that I’ll be the Crown Prince’s fiancée in the future.”

 

I sighed heavily.

 

I absolutely hated that I was going to be the villain’s wife.

 

Fortunately, I haven’t even seen Eisa’s face yet, let alone being engaged. There was no complicated power.

 

Even the Duke Blanche, who has now become the family of the former empress, decided that it would be better to lie down and watch the situation.

 

Even if he was only a Duke in the empire, the truth was the current emperor will disappear in the history the next day if he was forced to move his hand.

 

(T/N: hand = allies, underlings)

 

It was natural that Siegfried, who went through this growth process, wanted to be the Emperor himself.

 

It was just disgusting to get involved in a war.

 

What happened to me in the novel?

 

I can’t remember up to that. Anyway, I had no desire to be engaged to the Crown Prince as what said in the novel.

 

I’m living the second episode of my life, and even though the memories of my previous life were vague like a veil, I didn’t like the annoyances.

 

In that sense, I cannot erase the memory that Siegfried glared at me incredibly.

 

I saved the man I was chasing at best and brought him to the mansion, but all he did as soon as we came here was to glare at me like that.

 

I only became anxious because I wondered if I even set up a dead flag without even knowing it.

 

I only saved his life, but also put him in a headlock…….

 

But Siegfried didn’t even appear to be stuck in the room all week as if he didn’t care about my anxiety and worries.

 

Sometimes I snoop around the hallway. I saw a doctor exiting his room.

 

Hearing over the maids’ chatter, they said that Siegfried skips his meal sleeping all day.

 

It was getting harder and harder to know what the hell he had come to do.

 

If you wanted to sleep, you should go back to your Prince’s estate at the Imperial Palace.

 

In the end, I was nervous of finally meeting the male lead and I was gradually losing my mind.

 

“Tsk.”

 

I lightly kicked my tongue.

 

It felt like I was sitting on a thorn cushion all week. Siegfried doesn’t even know my heart like this, and he only sleeps all day.

 

“Lady! Aiyoo, look at this room. Please go out first so I can clean your room.”

 

I was lying on my bed and trying to spend time thinking about the contents of the novel, but a maid appeared and almost drove me away.

 

I can’t help but let her clean today.

 

I left the room while listening to the maid’s nagging that I shouldn’t come in until the evening.

 

I came out, but I had nowhere to go. I didn’t want to waste energy while wandering around the mansion.

 

So I decided to go to the back of the mansion with a book on my side.

 

There was a quiet vacant lot there, so it was perfect to lie down and enjoy reading. I stopped and stuffed myself between the bushes.

 

Just look. This is a place that people don’t find very well. In such a place, I will meet Siegfried in one week or so.

 

Jaenggang!

 

“Ugh, sh*t. D*mn you Eisa…”

 

His dark hair fluttered in the softly blowing wind.

 

Siegfried sat with his back against a tree and grabbed his wrist.

 

Did he get hurt?

 

He distorted his face. Curious, I immediately tried to reach him.

 

Wait a minute. Did he just said the Crown Prince’s name?

 

Seeing from Siegfried’s harsh mood, it seemed that my timing was wrong.

 

…I’d better just go back?

 

Crumbling.

 

However, the low-profile branches got caught in my hem.

 

Siegfried, feeling my presence, raised his head.

 

Even though I’ve only seen him again after a week or so, his new face made me excited and refreshed.

 

As soon as our eyes met, Siegfried frowned.

 

Seeing it, I was convinced. It was clear that Siegfried hates me.

 

“Greetings, Your Highness the Prince.”

 

He didn’t say anything back. At this point, it is unfair. I haven’t done anything yet.

 

However, it was a bit like what I had already noticed and quickly went away from there.

 

I approached him and pulled out the handkerchief and held it out.

 

Siegfried pretended not to even see the handkerchief. Somehow there was a mess and I squatted next to him.

 

“Because I think you’re in pain.”

 

“It’s not a big deal, so I don’t care.”

 

Oh, I see. But until a while ago, it seemed very painful.

 

“But your wrist…”

 

“You have nothing to worry about.”

 

When I looked closely, I could see Siegfried’s wrist swollen red.

 

He had his shirt sleeves rolled up halfway, and the exposed skin was also tinged. It was completely different from a blemished face.

 

Now I can see why he had been wearing a hood that covered his whole body from the time I first met him.

 

If your skin was like that, you won’t be able to reveal it. Was the doctor going in and out to check his condition?

 

Come to think of it, even when dealing with men, he seemed difficult to move. So I had to take care of almost everything.

 

With that thought, I looked down and observed Siegfried’s hand.

 

It was something I felt before, but unlike a nice face, his big hands were unexpectedly rough and crude.

 

Then it turned out that there was a setting that Siegfried was a genius of swordsmanship. So I remembered he returned as a hero of the war.

 

I was thinking that far when he stood up and staggered.

 

He held the wooden sword next to him and went straight forward. The sound of something falling earlier seems to have been that wooden sword.

 

By the way, he’s trying to replace it with a wrist like that.

 

I sat still and watched him.

 

Siegfried sharply wielded a wooden sword as if cutting through the wind.

 

Once. Twice. And it was when he reached the third time.

 

I propped up my hands, putting my chin over and tilted my head slightly.

 

Something was a little weird.

 

Am I mistaken? Not once and not three times either.

 

No, he’s a swordsmanship genius? And that there was no one who can compete with him?

 

Nonetheless, Siegfried at this moment……

“…… Wasn’t very unkempt.”

 

My inner heart, which was close to unconsciousness, jumped up at will.

 

It was because he looked at me who was tilted in a mess.

 

“… What?”