When The Mad Emperor Suddenly Becomes Sweet

Even though he went through all the trouble in the war, no one from the palace came to congratulate him. She thought if you were born as a royal it would be a flowery path, but it didn’t seem like it.

He almost died too.

She remembered the day Lucius fell while bleeding. It was more often than she thought. But she eventually shook her head.

‘They said worrying about the nobles is the most useless thing in the world.”

Herro was a Grand Wizard Gemini was a great knight so there was no need to worry.

I have the biggest problem out of all of them.

She didn’t even know what was going to happen tomorrow.

Freya held on to the curtain and hesitated but then someone opened the curtain. Because of that she lost her balance and leaned forward.

“Uh, uh…..”

Someone’s solid hand grabbed her waist and hands as she was about to stumble forward. Freya lifted her head and awkwardly met Lucius’s eyes.

“It’s a bad habit to eavesdrop.”

“I didn’t mean to.”

She stood up straight, and blushed as she listed out her excuse. How could I not hear it when you’re speaking so loudly right beside me?

“Freya, you were there?”

Herro waved his hands cheerfully at her.

“H, hello.”

Freya was embarrassed as she was caught eavesdropping so she couldn’t lift her head and stammered. Then she realized that Lucius was still holding her wrist.

“Your Majesty, my hand….”

But for some reason, Lucius held onto it tighter.

“Freya, hush. I’m going to say something important now.”

As she just woke up, she just nodded at his words. Lucius waved the hand he was holding and smiled.

“I’m dating the daughter of the Count’s family from the del Mundo region with marriage in mind.”

“….. What?”

Herro’s voice was so loud that it would pierce through the tent. For him as Lucius’s closest personnel to hear this for the first time!

He wouldn’t let a woman get close to him.

But to be dating someone came as a shock. Especially Del Mundo was too weak of a region to give him proper support.

“Who is that lady?”

Even Gemini, who was normally quiet, spoke in surprise. Herro gathered his mind and then asked again.

“What about Selena? No, first, when did you start seeing this person?”

“Why is everyone so curious?”

Lucius pushed Freya to the front instead of answering. Her brown and pretty long hair touched the shoulders, and her questioning green eyes were full of fear.

“I’ll introduce you to her. It’s Freya de Bua.”

“…. Pardon?”

Lucius was the only one not surprised at this. Everyone covered their mouth and kept blinking, and a heavy silence followed. Freya, while pointing at herself, stammered.

“Your Majesty, you don’t mean me as that Freya right?”

“You’re pretty smart.”

Lucius looked very satisfied and Herro quickly intervened.

“Your Majesty! Freya isn’t noble.”

“She is starting today.”

Lucius took out a document and showed it to them. He was no longer a small boy that was scared of assassination attempts.

***

After the sudden engagement announcement, Gemini and Herro left to take care of urgent work, and only two of them were left in the tent. Freya couldn’t think for a while about such a shocking event.

What is going on? Who is de Bua, and why am I a noble?

She thought over and over again but couldn’t come up with anything.

And del Mundo, she never heard of this place.

She kept quiet for a long time and then spoke.

“Your Majesty, I really don’t know.”

“About what?”

“How I can be a noble and that I’m dat-?”

Freya murmured as she couldn’t put say such a word. Not just dating, but dating for engagement.

Lucius, who looked relaxed, gave her a glass of water.

“You look like you’re going to faint.”

Freya felt like she was going to faint but was also very annoyed at the Crown Prince, who looked relaxed.

“How can I not be surprised by something like this?”

Freya drank and wiped her mouth, then Lucius spoke seriously.

“You remember what we talked about before. How long our contract….”

“Yes.”

But what does that have to do with this?

As Freya frowned, he took out a paper from his drawer and showed her.

“This is a copy so read it.”

Her head was spinning from looking at all the letters on the document. As Freya just rolled her eyes, he took the document.

“I’ll read the important part for you.”

Lucius slowly read the violation of the contract.

“Unless the death of the contractor, the duration of the contract must be fulfilled.”

“….. Ugh.”