The Reserved Daughter Of a Duke And The Cold-Headed Emperor

Surrounded by the knights she held on tightly to the shivering alexia. She was never afraid of the demonic beasts, But the same can’t be said for humans. Their dirty, disdainful stare stabbed her like a knife.

Still, She desperately tried to protect Alexei from the knights.

「The demonic beast should have been annihilated by the holy light, so why is this one still alive!」

One of the younger knights exclaimed this. The voice frightened Alexei so much that she had pulled him closer in her arms.

Then a middle-aged knight with a beard approaches them and Inspects her top to bottom.

「What kind of Demonic beast can’t be killed by a holy light?」

When he muttered that, the knight drew his sword and swung it down twice.

The next moment.

Her green arms fell in a blur. The sword was wielded in a way as to not hurt Alexia who wrapped around those arms.

She had fallen. The Knights immediately surrounded her.

「Your Highness, I’m here to receive you.」

Alexei shouted, unable to keep up with the bizarre scene which played out before him.

「You, what are you doing to my Pie!」

The Mature Knight looked puzzled at Alexia’s remark.

「Your Highness. Did you name the demonic beast? Did you make a pact with that demonic beast?」

「What are you saying? Pie’s human! She was the one who helped me and raised me! Why are you doing this?」

Alexei cried out.

「Your Highness, Even if it wasn’t a beast, it couldn’t be human with that kind of hideous appearance.」

Alexei exploded in fury at the sight of her blood flowing at the feet of the knights surrounding her.

「Noooo don’t hurt my Pie!」

Alexei released all the magic sealed within his body causing it to out of control.

Then he blasted the knights around him with his runaway magic and rushed to where she had fallen.

「Pie! Pie! Please don’t die!」

He clung to her chest as she laid down bleeding out.

「……Ham…..Don’t cry……..Ah, I want to hug you one last time.」

「Noooo Please don’t Die!」

「Ham…….Ham…….Thank you!」

She lost both of her arms and bled heavily as she died.

「Ahhhh!　Pie! Pie! Pie……!」

She died with a smile on her face.

Alexei prayed hard. He wanted her to be brought back to life.

If the power that brought him back to life could save her, he wanted to save her.

Then Alexei felt the sensation of the immortality blessing given to him by his mother being transferred to her. But she did not come back to life.

「I will give you my life. I’ll give you all of it. Please, come back to life!」

Clinging to her body and refusing to leave, Alexei’s magic power went even further out of control, ripping down the trees of the forest, making it impossible for anyone to get close to her for a while.

After a tenth of the demon forest was destroyed by Alexei’s magic, he continued to call her name until his magic power ran out and he lost consciousness.

「Pie, Pie, Pie, Pie……」

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The next time Alexei woke up, it wasn’t in the cave in the demon forest where he had spent time with her, it was on his bed.

「How do you feel? Your Highness.」

A round-faced, middle-aged man with a clean bald head approached Alexei.

「Pie? Where’s Pie?」

Alexei spoke in a small, whispery voice. His body was as heavy as a rock, and he could barely speak.

「…… Your Highness. This is the castle in the Imperial City. Do you remember me? your Highness rubbed me on the head when you were little.」

Alexei remembered the glowing head and gave a small nod.

「My name is George Bazarov. I have been entrusted with the position of Prime Minister.」

Alexei turned his gaze this way and that without replying to Georgi. There were about ten adults in the room. One of them was the knight who had kneeled to Alexei in the Demon Forest.

「Where is she? Where is Pie?」

Although he was very tired and unable to get up, his gaze was locked on to the knight.

「Your Highness, the Commander of the Imperial Black Knights. Commander Abalkin, is he aware of the ‘pie’ your Highness keeps talking about? There was no particular report raised to me. What does this mean, Sir Donato Abalkin?」

The knight, whom the Prime Minister called Donato Abalkin, answered the Prime Minister with a raised eyebrow.

「Your Excellency the Prime Minister. I have decided that it is not necessary to report it.」

「That is not for you to judge. I’m in charge of this one.」

「This……pie was an impersonal being. it had His Highness in its clutches, so we killed it.」

Hearing those words, Alexei’s motionless body shook and tears streamed down his face.