The Stand-In Empress’S Wedding Night [EN]: Chapter 251

251. Needlessly Conservative

His hand also came up to my thigh.

In that instant, the cold heat from his hand traveled up my thigh, all the way to my shoulder, cooling my neck before spreading to my face.

I brought my face closer to his, deliberately pressing his hand further onto my thigh.

I stole his increasingly rough breaths and captured his lips.

“Zel…da? Heu…eup…!”

“I heard things progress faster if you don’t talk….”

“Was it also written to keep the words short? To save time?”

Linelle asked, settling me onto his thigh.

I nodded.

Of course, that wasn’t written in the book.

“Okay, keep going. If I remember how Nellie acted, I’ll be able to speak informally smoothly.”

He looked up at me, subtly anticipating what I would say.

“Obstacles must be removed.”

I smiled, untying the strings of the gown he was wearing.

He simply watched the silk gown slip off his body.

As the smile spread across my face, desire ignited in his.

Linelle pulled me close, grabbing my waist.

“Huh? This wasn’t written down?”

“I know. But this is a body that needs to be careful with. If that book was for pregnant women, it would definitely be written.”

“Like this?”

“Yes. I’ll hold you, so go ahead.”

“I’ll do as I please today?”

Looking down at him and warning him,

“That’s what I wanted….”

He closed his eyes.

***

“Are you uncomfortable somewhere?”

Prince Norton asked, looking at Rosie, who kept twitching her shoulders as if something was broken, with a worried expression.

“……Ah, no.”

It was the moment when Rosie’s creaking shoulder movements were about to speed up.

Rosie lost her confidence and drooped her shoulders at Prince Norton’s expression, which looked like he was looking at a sick person.

It wasn’t that she was trying to mate like Moia and Moni said, but she felt like she had failed at something.

“Let’s sit down for a moment.”

Prince Norton gestured to the sofa.

“Yes, let’s sit.”

Rosie quickly walked to the sofa and sat down, feeling embarrassed.

“Uh… why….”

‘Are you coming to sit next to me?’

Before she could finish asking, Prince Norton sat right next to her and said.

“There’s something I want to do.”

Because the prince happened to be looking straight ahead, Rosie glanced at the books on the sofa table and asked.

“Ah, are you going to read a book?”

“Do you really think I came all the way here just to read a book?”

“I know. You came because you wanted to see Rams.”

“That’s also true, but I came because I wanted to see Rosie.”

“……Really?”

Prince Norton nodded briefly at Rosie’s shy question and then opened his mouth.

“We’re going to get married, but I haven’t even held your hand properly.”

Prince Norton held out his hand to her.

Rosie’s face flushed quickly, and she quickly placed her hand on Prince Norton’s palm as if she had been waiting for it.

Instead of gently placing it, she unknowingly slapped her palm against his with a loud smack.

Prince Norton’s shoulder, which had been defenselessly extended, dipped and then rose.

“I, I’m sorry! I sometimes can’t control my strength….”

“It’s okay. It’s my fault for not relaxing.”

Prince Norton smiled awkwardly.

Rosie’s face felt like it was going to explode with embarrassment.

“Madam.”

“Yes?”

“I’m going to kiss you now.”

“!”

Rosie blinked and looked at Prince Norton.

‘If you’re going to kiss, why bother saying it?’

Prince Norton seemed to read Rosie’s thoughts and added with a slight smile.

“Your lips shouldn’t collide as hard as your palms did a moment ago.”

“Ah…….”

Rosie’s face, which had been gradually regaining its color, turned red again.

“If we both lose our front teeth like Prince Tesler, we’ll probably laugh at each other for the rest of our lives, but I don’t want to make you laugh like that.”

“Puhuhuheup!”

While seriously listening to Prince Norton’s words, an unexpected person appeared in the conversation [referring to Prince Tesler].

Rosie naturally thought of Prince Tesler’s current state and couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

“So, Madam, please this time….”

“Yes, I’ll stay still!”

Rosie replied as if making a promise.

“Yes, Madam, please stay as you are. I’ll come to you. But….”

Prince Norton found her overly serious attitude quite cute and raised his hand to her cheek.

“It’s hot, enough for Moia to grill sausages.”

“Puhuhuhu…… Huh?!!”

Rosie burst into laughter again, and in that gap, Prince Norton kissed her.

The kiss, which had been lingering and savoring her lips, was soon turning into a deep kiss.

However, Prince Norton couldn’t concentrate because of the constant rustling sound and opened his eyes.

“What… are you doing, Madam?”

Rosie’s hands were busily moving behind her back, as if trying to take off her dress.

“I’m sorry, I’ve hardly ever taken off my dress by myself….”

What is she sorry about? And why is she trying to take off her dress?

Prince Norton couldn’t understand anything.

He tried not to show his bewilderment and asked politely.

“We were, uh, kissing?”

“Yes, so….”

‘To move on to the next step, I have to take off my dress, right?’

Rosie recalled the order of progress as she had read in the book.

Of course, the book said to stay still to make the man impatient. But Prince Norton seemed to be engrossed in the kiss, so she was trying to take it off herself to save him the trouble.

However, Prince Norton’s expression was somehow strange.

‘Should I have stayed still as the book said?’

Rosie’s heart began to feel anxious.

“Madam, that’s it for today.”

Prince Norton said quite firmly, raising Rosie’s dress, which had slipped slightly below her shoulders, again.

“……Why?”

What is this? This unsettling feeling like being interrupted while studying!

Rosie unknowingly let out a grumble.

It felt like someone had snatched a book from her at the most exciting part.

“I’m not ready for that yet.”

Prince Norton said demurely, tidying up his clothes, which were not disheveled.

In fact, Prince Norton wanted to cherish Rosie until he officially welcomed her as his princess.

But she had no way of knowing his heart.

“I won’t be hasty.”

He was about to leave for the Partsha Empire soon, so he only needed to be patient for a little longer.

“You don’t have to be….”

‘You don’t have to cherish me!’

Rosie shouted inwardly.

She was anxious, but Prince Norton’s gaze became even more cautious.

“……You’re more conservative than I thought.”

Needlessly.

‘And you even have a child.’

Rosie glanced at the bed where Rams was sleeping and swallowed her words.

***

‘Why are they asking where I’m staying now?’

Aoshi felt uneasy.

If Moia or Moni told that wyvern leader that they were staying in the Rafion Imperial Palace, it felt like the wyvern pack would charge into the Imperial Palace and breathe fire right away.

“Miyaong……. (Don’t say the Imperial Palace. What if they attack…….)”

Aoshi whispered to Moia.

After listening, it made sense.

“It’s better than here. It’s not gloomy either.”

Moia boasted, scanning the dark cave.

“It’s definitely where humans live.”

At the wyvern leader’s words, Moia and Moni exchanged glances.

“Are you being held captive there?”

“You could say that. Everyone likes me.”

To Moia, the concept of being held captive seemed to have a slightly different meaning.

“Leader, no matter how I look at it, he seems lacking.”

A large wyvern spoke in a hushed voice, but even the whisper echoed loudly in the cave.

“Was that idiot talking about me just now?”

Moia openly asked Moni and Aoshi.

“Miyaoong. (Moia, I think it’s better to just keep your mouth shut.)”

Aoshi quietly cried, looking around at the wyverns’ murderous eyes.

He had never felt so wronged that he was the only one without wings in here.

Aoshi glanced out of the cave while the wyvern species were exchanging dismissive conversations.

Only the sound of rough waves could be heard in the pitch-black darkness.

He didn’t dare to jump at all. He slowly squeezed back between Moia and Moni.

He felt like he needed to secure a spot in advance so that the two of them could easily pick him up by the scruff of his neck and fly away.

The two of them kept fearlessly provoking the adult wyverns.

It felt like his life was being chipped away as time passed, but the two of them remained nonchalant from beginning to end.

“Even though they’re young, they’re too rude. We need to teach them a lesson, Leader.”

“You really can’t understand what I’m saying. Moni and I are elders, you kids! We’re over 300 years old, you know?”

Moia was frustrated at this point and patted his clothes.

“Didn’t you say you were born recently?”

“Ang! We didn’t come out of the egg until recently, Moni~.”

Still, Moni stomped one foot on the cave floor, saying that they should be treated like adults since they had lived consciously for 300 years.

However, the wyverns didn’t believe it at all because they had never heard of wyverns who had been in eggs for 300 years before waking up.

They thought they were eggs that some clumsy mother wyvern had lost, or that greedy humans had secretly stolen.

So they felt sorry for them…….

“You’ve only learned bad things from humans. You’re impudent. Pack life has order. If you don’t know, you have to learn. Why do you keep talking back?”

“Because you’re talking back and forth with frustrating words, Moia~?”

“Hey! You!”

When the wyverns’ leader raised his voice,

“Hey! You! Who are you calling ‘you’? You greenhorn?!!”

Moia got excited and shouted even louder.

“Can’t you feel how great our elders are at all?”

Instead of getting excited, Moni asked with a genuinely curious face.

The wyverns looked at Moni with half of them looking pitiful and the other half spinning their fingers around their ears, treating him like a crazy wyvern.

“Leader, we really can’t talk to these guys. I’ll beat them up and make them proper wyvern pups.”

A large wyvern flew closer to Moia and Moni.

His size alone was threatening enough.

Unlike Aoshi, who was terrified and had his fur standing on end, Moia and Moni only frowned and didn’t seem scared at all.

“Apologize to the leader and kneel down.”

“Then will you give me sausage?”

Moiya, who was getting hungry, rubbed his belly and asked.

“……What? What’s that sausage thing you keep talking about?”

“Huk, you don’t know sausage. I don’t want to be the leader of such ignorant guys, Moia~!”

No one said they would make him the leader.

He spoke as if he had the authority to do so.

The wyverns, who had initially wondered what he was babbling about, understood Moia’s words and were so dumbfounded that they flapped their wings.

The flapping of their wings caused Aoshi’s body to heave.

If they flapped their wings a little more vigorously, they could have blown Aoshi out of the cave.

If Moni hadn’t been stepping on Aoshi’s tail, he might have already flown away.

“Miyaaong! (Thank you for holding me, Moni!)”

Moni, who had suddenly become Aoshi’s savior, muttered to himself in confusion.

“I was stepping on your fur because my feet were cold, Moni~.”

Meanwhile, the large wyvern grabbed Moia by the scruff of his neck and lifted him up.

“How can you be so rude after living with such an ignorant human?”

“Our orange hair reads so many books, how can you call him ignorant!”

“That’s right. And you guys, we’re going to tell our master!”

Moia and Moni shouted in turn.

“Are you serving humans like puppies? It’s a disgrace to the wyverns!”

The wyverns’ leader sighed, and sighs were heard from other wyverns as well.

“The only master our wyverns follow is the Goddess of Fire who wields the Incarnation and the Incarnation Sword. You pathetic things.”

“Oong? Are you talking about our master?”

“Ang? Is that so?”

Moia and Moni tilted their heads and simultaneously thought of Zelda.

“Look at these guys? Where are you chattering when an adult is talking? This won’t do, hey!”

The large wyvern punched Moia in the eye with a thud.

“Ack! Ouch, ouch, I’m dying!”

Stars flashed in his eyes, and soon pain rushed in.

Moia covered his face with both hands and fell to the floor.

“It must hurt a lot, Moni~?”

“Miyaong?! (Are you okay?!!)”

Moni and Aoshi barely caught Moia, who was falling to the floor.

“How is it, kid? Does it wake you up? But, judging by your mental state, you’ll probably have to taste hot fire to come to your senses properly. Kwaaaak-!”

Fire spewed from the large wyvern’s mouth.

At that moment, Moni, who was supporting Moia, fired back.

“Kwaaaak-!!”

“Ugh…… It’s hot!”

A fierce flame spewed from his small body.

The flame that the large wyvern had spewed was pushed back by Moni’s flame.

Moreover, it had a slightly different color than the flames that the wyverns spewed.

“We have to run now, Moia~!”

While the wyverns were buzzing about the fire that Moni had spewed, Moia and Moni grabbed Aoshi by the scruff of his neck and flew out of the cave like an arrow.

“Th, th, those guys!”

“Leader, shall we catch them?”

“It’s no use. They’ve already gone up the canyon and into the forest.”

Judging by the flames they spewed, their flight speed must have been tremendous.

“Ahem…… Are they really things that have been in eggs for 300 years?”

The wyvern leader frowned and pondered.

It was impossible for a young wyvern to block an adult’s flames.

Everyone saw it clearly.

A streak of red light was mixed in with the flames that were spewed.

And that was a sign of a great wyvern that would appear only once in a thousand years.

***

Moia and Moni returned to the Imperial Palace, dropped Aoshi off in front of Rosie’s bedroom terrace, and headed straight to Zelda’s residence.

The two opened Zelda’s bedroom window and went inside, hugging Zelda and Linelle, respectively, as if they had promised to do so.

They weren’t scared, but they felt more and more resentful when they thought about being mistreated by the young wyverns.

“Master~!”

“Your Majesty~!”

Zelda and Linelle, who had just made love and were about to fall asleep, sat up, hugging the two young wyverns who were crying in their arms like children, as if to soothe them.

“Why are you crying? What’s wrong?”

Zelda patted Moia’s back as he sobbed.

“Did you two fight?”

Linelle also comforted Moni and tried to talk to him.

Moia and Moni, who had been crying sadly for a while, stopped crying at the same time.

“Moia, let’s stop crying. My throat hurts, Moni~.”

“Yeah. You must hurt more because you even spewed fire.”

Moni and Moia were fine as if they had never cried, but they continued to hug Zelda and Linelle like children.

“What’s wrong that you’re even crying? Oh my! Moia, what’s wrong with your eye?!!”

Zelda stroked Moia’s head, looked closely at his face, and was startled.

“Why? What’s wrong with my eye, Master?”

“Your eye…… is black? Who did this, huh?”

“……Oong? Really?”

There was no such thing as insubordination.

To dare to make the eyes of this great wyvern, who is over 300 years old, like this.

It’s already so dark that bruises aren’t easily visible, but if the master knows…….

Moia, who was pursing his lips, burst into tears again.

“Eu, euaang! I’m going to go back and burn them all, Moia~!”

“Ang! I’m going to get revenge!”

“Where…… did you two go?”

Zelda asked, placing her hand on her heart as if suppressing the vibrations she felt in her heart.