Chapter 1. Kill the Empress
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The herd of deer also sensed the presence, and, with their happiness behind them, they raised their horns.
The sound of several footsteps rushed by in a flash.
It was a while after that.
A familiar face appeared right in front of Tamon.
“Captain!”
The first person he saw was Jorge, who seemed to have run from the front of the pack.
Jorge had his mouth and nose covered, but not so much that Tamon couldn’t recognize him.
“Jorge?”
When Jorge saw Tamon, he gave a big sigh of relief.
The rest of the group soon appeared behind him.
It was Aranrosia, with her hair tied up in a high knot, with 12 knights of the Order.
“…… why is Asha?”
Tamon was surprised, but as soon as he saw Asha, his face hardened.
Of course, the expression on his face was cold, and so was Asha’s.
“I told you it wasn’t safe here, Asha.”
However Asha just walked toward him coldly.
“I told you the same thing.”
She didn’t run, but the momentum of her approach was fiercer than ever.
Asha crossed the creek, and the deer siblings, whose eyes widened in surprise, but she did not even see them, because she was only looking at Tamon.
“I don’t seem to remember.”
“…….”
Tamon almost flinched and took a step backward at Asha’s terrifying momentum.
He was a demon of war, a beast, a monarch of blood…….
A man who carried all sorts of terrible rumors was almost bitten by a woman’s momentum.
Tamon stood motionless, facing a terribly angry Asha.
“Jorge.”
Asha glared at Tamon and called Jorge. Jorge who had been staring blankly, answered in astonishment.
“Yes, yes?”
“Can you close your eyes for a moment? And the other knights, too, please.”
“What? Oh, yes…yes…..”
Jorge instructed the knights to close their eyes as he looked at Tamon.
Tamon looked at her with eyes that wondered what in the world Asha was up to.
When all the eyes were closed, Asha’s hand raised up and struck Tamon’s face.
Slap!
A startle, slapping sound rang out with everyone around.
Tamon, who was taken aback, gently grabbed his crooked cheek and blinked his eyes, as if he had no idea what just had happened to him.
‘”You lunatic!”
It was the first terrible swear word to come out of Asha’s mouth.
Perhaps it would also be the only bad word she spoke in her life.
Adding surprise to surprise, Tamon looked at Asha with a bewildered face.
But Tamon’s surprise did not stop there.
For Asha’s eyes, which had always shone brightly and intelligently, were wet with moisture.
As soon as Tamon saw Asha’s eyes, which contained round drops, he froze.
He really froze.
The beating heart, the even breathing, and the taut head, all stopped.
“I told you to wait for me just one day.”
A harsh voice leaked from between Asha’s clenched teeth.
It was a voice that couldn’t stand the surge of emotions.
Her eyes reached Tamon’s bright red blood-stained right shoulder, arms, legs, and armored crooked chest.
Her frowning eyes were shaking as if they were about to burst into tears.
It was truly strange.
He was the one who had been beaten, but she seemed to be in more pain, more agony.
“Why ……”
He wanted to ask why her eyes looked so distressed, why did she look even more painful than he did?
But he couldn’t continue to speak any further because Asha reached out and hugged his neck.
Then she smashed her lips against his torn lips as hard as she could.
“……!”
She was always gentle, always making him thirsty and greedy.
Her little tongue, always hiding in shame, came inside his mouth without hesitation, wrapped around his tongue and led him.
In Tamon’s life, there was never a moment more surprising than this moment.
He could guarantee that this would be the first and only time in his life.
The fact that she had just slapped him on the cheek was erased from his memory.
In bewilderment, his hands covered her waist.
The broken ribs were slightly tingling, but none bothered him.
He only worried that Asha would move away from him while he pretended to be freaked out.
The overlapping lips became stronger and each other’s saliva became thicker.
Everyone around them panicked because of Asha, whose emotions became extreme, and Tamon, who forgot about the situation and just lost himself in her.
“Look away. Eyes!”
Jorge, who first came to his senses, suddenly screamed at the knights whose eyes wide open.
The knights, who were watching their captain’s strange sight with their eyes wide open in rapture, turned around in a hurry.
But there were also two young deer watching the scene in a daze, unable to back away.
“Oh, brother….”
“Shhhh.”
She didn’t know exactly what that act was, but Lucentia, whose ears turned red, secretly grabbed Mirah’s collar.
Mirah’s equally reddened face quickly turned around and covered Lucentia’s eyes.
The silver antlered deer, who had been on alert, somehow relaxed and looked at their companions, shaking their heads.
The kissing continued for a long time.
When Tamon tried to let go, Asha held him tightly by the neck, and when Asha tried to pull away, Tamon grabbed her waist and pulled her closer.
Naturally, the longer the kiss went on, the faster the injuries on Tamon’s body healed.
Even his numb ribs didn’t hurt at all, as if they had somehow returned to their original position.
“Haaa…..”
The kiss, which had been going on for such a long time, stopped with a gasp of breath.
“Listen carefully, Tamon Krasis.”
With clear eyes that were somehow filled with tears, Asha said to Tamon through gritted teeth.
“The silver deer and their children are very important to me. But….”
Their lips tingled as if they were still scratching each other’s lips.
Tamon listened to her as he stared at her with greedy eyes that wouldn’t go away.
“…… you are just as important to me as they are.”
“……..”
“A lot …….much, much more than you think.”
She said, her eyes like blazing embers.
‘You are just as important.’
‘You are more important to me than you think.’
If it had been yesterday, this might have been enough for Tamon.
But today, this was not enough.
Asha looked at him with intense anger and concern and shaking eyes.
Is he just “important” to her with eyes like these?
For the first time since he had met her, Tamon could be sure.
There was a difference.
That was definitely not all of it.
For this woman, if his existence was worth only this much, she would not have slapped him as if she was about to break, nor would she have shed those hot tears.
“Am I just important?”
“…….”
“Tell me, Asha. Is that all?”
Asha bit her lip again in anger. But Tamon understood.
Now she would not reply with her usual silence.
“Very important…..”
It was one word, like a pained groan.
Tamon urged her on, holding close to his chest as she became immersed in rapture.
“What, what did you say, Asha?”
“…. you.”
Would the desert rain be more delightful than this?
Can it be more fascinating than this?
He had become precious to her.
His heart raced.
Tamon hugged her, unable to hide his smile.
Then he quickly caught Asha, who tried to avoid him with a flustered and reddened face, and finally kissed her.
Smooch, smooch, smooch……..
At the constant shower of kisses, Asha resisted and pushed him away.
If it hadn’t been for the reinforcements, they would fall to the ground from the hard kisses.
Kihin!
Tamon looked at the deer cub poking him in the shin with small antlers that grew only one finger’s length.
“What is with this guy?”
Tamon pushed the deer cub away with his foot in the middle of a busy joy, looking annoyed.
Then the bigger deer wrapped around the baby deer and blew its snout.
It looked as if it was telling Tamon that if he touched its own child, it wouldn’t leave him alone.
Tamon twisted his head in disbelief.
“He was the one who interrupted me.”
“Hmph!”
As if it didn’t matter, the big deer threatened to stick out its horns.
Tamon, too, was determined not to lose, so he picked up his sword again.
In the end, there was only one person who could stop them.
“What on earth are you doing now?”
Asha pushed Tamon away with a serious face to take advantage of the opportunity, then backed up a few steps away from him.
Tamon repeatedly clenched his fists in regret that Asha got away from his hands. He repeated the stretching.
As much as it was a shame that he had missed Asha, the murderous energy in his eyes as he aimed at the silver deer could be seen clearly.
“Ha…”
Asha looked at such Tamon as if she were speechless, and turned her head to the popularity she felt behind her back.
She finally spotted the familiar faces standing idly by the creek.
Her widened eyes were filled with joy and happiness.
“Mir! Tia!”
Without hesitation, Asha jumped into the water and hugged Mirah and Lucentia.
“You were safe. You were safe…….”
Even then, Mirah and Lucentia had their doubts that this person was really their “empress”.
Of course, no one would have dared to imitate the young lady with silver hair as beautiful as a silver deer or purple eyes as bright as the dim evening sky.
And yet, and yet….
They never imagined that the “Empress” that that wicked emperor had killed would live to embrace them in this way.
“…… Are you really the Empress?”
Lucentia trembled with courage.
Said Asha, eye-to-eye contact, hugging the brother and sister, who were now as big as she was.
“Does anyone besides me call you Mir and Tia?”
In response to Asha’s soft question, Mirah shook his head with a face that started to cry.
“No, no one, no one.”
Mirah and Lucentia, who were in tears, finally hugged Asha.
“Why are you so late? Why!”
“You said you would protect me and keep me safe. AHHH! I really think you’re dead, but you don’t know how much we………!”
“I missed you. I missed you.”
Even though Mirah’s and Lucentia’s bodies had grown as large as Asha’s, they were also children who could still wail like children.
Asha hugged the shoulders of the sobbing siblings and smiled with relief.