The Stand-In Empress’S Wedding Night [EN]: Chapter 295

295. Missed it, Moiya~?

2023.11.01.

Emperor Adrian was surrounded by Hector’s soldiers and his own escort knights.

All swords and spear tips were pointed at us.

Silver Garfish [Emperor Adrian, possessed by Philke] was sitting on a chair with his legs crossed in a very relaxed and arrogant posture.

You fool.

He seemed to firmly believe that Hector’s soldiers would protect him.

“How dare you!”

As Linelle raised his sword, Emperor Adrian quickly raised his hand and said to him.

“Whoa, whoa, don’t come any closer, let’s talk from there.”

“Your Majesty, the Grand Duke will be safe. Trust me and calm down.”

Bellos whispered to him in a calm tone.

He barely suppressed his anger and stopped walking.

“Send Joseph back when I tell you to.”

“Ha, geez. Even if I give you a warning, you don’t listen because you’re the Emperor.”

Linelle took another step forward at Silver Garfish’s provocation.

Emperor Adrian’s tone sounded much lighter than usual.

As if it were Philke’s original tone.

“Your Majesty, Your Majesty…”

Grand Duke Joseph came out with a sorrowful voice and called him.

Before I knew it, the curse ice was rising to Grand Duke Joseph’s knees.

I felt like all my organs were sinking.

If I feel like this, how must Linelle feel?

I didn’t dare ask.

As he flinched again, Bellos whispered again.

“Zelda can remove the ice curse sufficiently. Of course, I can do it too.”

“Really?”

“Yes. So, we must bring the Grand Duke back safely without provoking Philke.”

Bellos was right.

It is important to break the ice curse right away, but it is more important to bring Grand Duke Joseph safely to our side.

“Bellos is right. You have to calm down for the Grand Duke’s sake.”

I grabbed Linelle’s hand and stopped him.

He showed patience with his lips tightly closed.

“What do you want.”

I wanted to roast Emperor Adrian right away, but I tried to talk first.

“Would it seem too cheesy if I said, ‘You’?”

Emperor Adrian smirked and teased.

“…….”

I shouldn’t explode right away after calming Linelle down, right?

I almost threw the Avatar Sword at Emperor Adrian’s mouth without realizing it.

I became impatient as I saw Grand Duke Joseph becoming increasingly pale.

“I, I can handle it. So don’t worry!”

Thankfully, the Grand Duke was enduring it steadfastly.

But it was clearly a scary thing for a child to handle.

“Yes. Just hang in there.”

Linelle’s calm voice contained deep affection for his brother.

I spoke to Emperor Adrian again.

“Your goal is to eliminate me, the Wyvern Lord, but you have sacrificed too many innocent people unnecessarily.”

“There seems to be a misunderstanding. I’m not trying to eliminate Zelda.”

Emperor Adrian waved his hands and put on a clumsy act.

“If not eliminate, then use.”

“I’m just trying to get some help.”

“That help is to unite the continent by using me, right?”

When I touched on Emperor Adrian’s desire and asked, his voice immediately perked up.

“Yes! If we join forces, we can have this world under our feet. Don’t let your precious body bleed against so many swords, and come over here!”

Emperor Adrian held out his palm to me and moved it.

As if calling a dog.

It was about time to roast the Silver Garfish.

“Surrender and kneel now. Then you can keep your life until you arrive in the Lapion Empire. If you’re bored, I can kill you in the Partsha Empire.”

“That won’t do. Zelda.”

Linelle shook his head and opposed my words.

“What will Prince Calvin think of us if we ask for the execution of the emperor of the neighboring country as soon as we hold the imperial coronation? We also have to think about diplomatic relations with the Partsha Empire.”

“Hahaha, with the Tanya Island army surrounding us like this, you should be modest with your bravado, Your Majesty?”

Emperor Adrian pointed his finger at him and said mockingly.

“Why only do the bravado of a body that’s inside someone else’s body? Philke, I should have just thrown you into the Valley of Death three years ago, but I couldn’t because I was too soft-hearted.”

“Yes, Your Majesty was so soft-hearted that he only threw my right arm into the sea.”

The smile disappeared from Emperor Adrian’s face as well.

“But it’s best not to expect mercy today.”

“I will put you in the ice with Grand Duke Joseph today.”

Emperor Adrian said as he stood up from his chair.

“I’ll blind your eyes before that.”

At that moment, Commander Makrom raised his sword first and blocked Linelle and me, then shouted at Silver Garfish.

Then Linelle tapped the commander’s back as if displeased.

“Where are you cutting in line? You step back.”

“I have been waiting for this day as well. Your Majesty.”

“Commander Makrom, wait your turn. I’ll freeze Emperor Linelle first, and today I’ll make sure you can’t use your tongue after your eyes.”

Emperor Adrian slipped into the conversation between the two and bluffed.

“Isn’t what you want most me? So you have to negotiate with me, right?”

This time, I pushed the two aside and appealed to Silver Garfish.

I took more than three steps forward, like a snake slithering over a wall.

Emperor Adrian was not at all nervous even when we went close openly, thinking that he was being protected by his knights and at least a hundred soldiers.

“Philke. If you want to die humanely even at the end, release Grand Duke Joseph’s curse and surrender now!”

This time, Bellos blocked my path and shouted.

What is this, not even a string of sausages…

Linelle, Commander Makrom, and Bellos were all competing to get closer to Emperor Adrian.

Grand Duke Joseph burst into laughter as if the sight was funny.

“Ehehe.”

…Well, it’s better than crying.

“Bellos, please step aside a little.”

“But I’m greedy too.”

Bellos said that he wanted to correct it now, saying that this mess happened because he taught his disciple wrong.

But Bellos’s story was too weak compared to Linelle and Commander Makrom.

“I’m nominally the Wyvern Lord and have the Avatar, so I’m going to show off my strength in commemoration of being exposed to people.”

I pushed Bellos away and took another step.

‘Yes, Zelda. This is when you use your abilities.’

The Avatar also sent support.

When I held up the Avatar Sword, Silver Garfish’s pupils shook and he began to order the soldiers.

“What are you doing! Stab those things with spears and make them all fish food! Ah, that bitch must be caught alive!”

Emperor Adrian was spouting nonsense with his mouth open, but Hector’s soldiers didn’t budge.

“Hey, Silver Garfish.”

Emperor Adrian looked around with a flustered face, wondering who I was calling.

“Where are you looking? You, I mean. You!”

“Yes. It’s you, you! You 개……. Joseph, cover your ears.”

Linelle tried to swear at Emperor Adrian, but ordered Grand Duke Joseph.

“I want to, but my hands are too cold, so my ears will get cold.”

His young brother deliberately acted nonchalantly.

Then someone pushed through the soldiers and walked silently to cover Grand Duke Joseph’s ears instead.

It was Hector.

“Your Majesty, let’s do it now.”

“He, Hector?! No, no… how did you get out!”

Emperor Adrian stared at Hector with his mouth wide open as if he had seen a ghost.

I thought this was the time and gathered the heat in my body to heat up the Avatar Sword.

‘Let’s focus.’

I threw the Avatar Sword as if plunging it down towards the cursed ice that was gradually increasing in volume around Grand Duke Joseph’s feet.

The tip of the sword heated by the Avatar melted away in an instant as soon as it touched the cursed ice.

Grand Duke Joseph carefully moved his feet and ran straight to me and hugged me.

I thought he would cry in surprise, but the Grand Duke smiled brightly instead.

Linelle, who had opened his arms knowing that he would hug him, was embarrassed and casually crossed his arms as if nothing had happened.

“Receive it, Zelda!”

Hector threw the Avatar Sword back to me and ordered his soldiers.

“Kneel that guy down.”

“Yes, Great King!”

Two soldiers kicked Emperor Adrian’s knees with their feet, making him kneel politely.

“Ugh. What, what is this!”

“Revenge. My arm still hurts from being hit by your knight.”

Hector kicked Emperor Adrian’s right arm.

Seeing the Silver Garfish falling forward unsightly, his knights drew their swords.

But the knights, already surrounded by Hector’s soldiers, could do nothing due to their numerical inferiority.

“You will be grilled front and back today and thrown into the sea.”

As I predicted Emperor Adrian’s future, Bellos quietly intervened.

He was a guy who couldn’t be left alone no matter what, even if there was a trial.

“Zelda, you must not completely cut off his breath. You can use Philke’s magic to break the curse before killing him.”

“…Why are you talking about that now? I almost killed him.”

I stopped blowing heat into the Avatar Sword blade.

“He is maintaining this appearance with black magic, so the amount of magic he has is not that much anyway. But in order to break the curse, the magic of the person who cursed it is essential, so you must not kill him. I can add my magic to break His Majesty’s hypothermia curse and restore Commander Makrom’s eyesight.”

“Is that… true?”

Not only me, but Linelle and Commander Makrom’s eyes widened at the same time.

“Then please break Grand Duke Joseph’s curse first.”

Commander Makrom said to Bellos, suppressing his excitement.

“Grand Duke Joseph’s curse is enough with Zelda’s fire ability. So, let’s use Philke’s magic to break the two of your curses.”

“…Thank you, Magic Tower Lord.”

“Thank you.”

Linelle and Commander Makrom said to Bellos at the same time.

Bellos shook his head and replied quietly.

“If I can repay the sins I have committed by doing this, I can give up all my magic…”

“Your sin?”

He asked back with a puzzled expression.

I felt like I knew why Bellos said that.

He must have been talking about the deal he made with Roxana.

The act of making and handing over the potion that makes you lose your memory.

Linelle, who still didn’t know that fact, looked at Bellos and then turned his gaze to me and asked.

“You seem to know something?”

“I’ll tell you later.”

I grabbed his arm and stepped back together, giving Bellos space.

When Bellos drew a magic circle in the air, golden streaks wrapped around Emperor Adrian’s body.

But soon the golden streaks wrapped around Emperor Adrian’s body turned black.

And as a black aura formed around his body, a painful groan that seemed to stop his breath burst out of his babbling mouth.

“Heoeok, heok!”

It was visible to the eye that magic was leaking from his heart.

As the black magic that had escaped to the outside tried to scatter in all directions, the golden streaks gathered the black magic as if collecting it, creating a concave bowl shape and putting it inside.

“Ah… what should I do?”

Bellos suddenly made a sorry face and then,

“Philke’s remaining magic is less than I thought.”

He said in a difficult voice.

“So. How little is it?”

Linelle asked, urging.

“It’s enough to break only one person’s curse.”

What the heck?

What are we supposed to do if you say that now?

“!”

“!”

Linelle and Commander Makrom looked at each other.

Is the battle of wits starting?

“Of course, Your Majesty should break it.”

Commander Makrom stepped back, yielding first.

Then Linelle pushed Commander Makrom’s back towards Bellos with his hand and said.

“You take it.”

“Your Majesty, are you trying to look cool?”

Commander Makrom asked, grumbling, but the corners of his mouth were already raised.

“I don’t have to break the curse.”

“What do you mean?”

“I have Zelda.”

Linelle hugged me from behind and said to Commander Makrom.

Commander Makrom’s face was hesitant whether he could just be moved by his remarks.

“It’s right for you, who is lonely and lonely, to break the curse. And won’t your loyalty increase even more?”

“But…”

Commander Makrom trailed off and turned his head slightly towards me.

The gaze that looks at me is always accurate, unlike a person who has lost his sight.

Commander Makrom seemed curious about my opinion.

“Do that. I’ll take care of His Majesty.”

“Have you decided on Commander Makrom? We must hurry.”

Bellos said that Adrian’s magic was weak and he couldn’t hold it for long.

In the end, Commander Makrom reluctantly accepted the Emperor’s will.

Following Bellos’s gesture, the magic from Adrian’s body and Bellos’s magic covered Commander Makrom’s eyes all at once.

As the mixed magic disappeared as if absorbed into Commander Makrom’s eyes, the commander began to look around quickly.

He blinked his eyes repeatedly as if they were dazzling, and first made eye contact with Linelle, who had shown the virtue of concession.

“You are the same as three years ago. Your Majesty.”

“What are you talking about? Your face is better than then. Can you see it right?”

Linelle asked indifferently.

“Nice to meet you for the first time. Zelda.”

Commander Makrom’s gaze shifted to me and frowned severely.

“Yes, am I a bit dazzling?”

“…Yes? Ah, yes. You are more beautiful than I thought.”

“Yes. Your eyesight is very normal.”

Commander Makrom’s eyesight seemed to have returned properly, fortunately.

“Magic Tower Lord, was the curse lifted right away? If I had known that, I wouldn’t have given up so easily.”

Linelle chuckled and muttered regretfully.

“I break Your Majesty’s curse every night.”

I nudged his side with my elbow and whispered.

“Ah, that’s right.”

He found his smile again at my sincere comfort.

“Your Majesty, how about keeping Adrian and Roxana imprisoned here until we arrive in the Partsha Empire? It will be easier to manage because this ship has imprisonment facilities.”

Hector looked down at Adrian, who had exhausted his magic and collapsed on the floor, and asked him.

“That would be better.”

The moment Linelle’s permission fell.

Kieeeeng-!

Suddenly, Galaco’s cry was heard from the sky, and then,

“Huh?! Ugh! Keueok…!”

The Silver Garfish in front of me disappeared.

There was no time to be surprised.

Galaco swooped down like lightning and took Adrian away with his terrifying claws, as if picking up meat with a fork.

After a few seconds.

“Kyaaak! Save me!!”

At the same time as another Galaco’s cry was heard, Roxana’s scream, who was being monitored on the Lapion Empire’s ship, echoed.

…What on earth is going on?

Everyone was stunned by the sudden events and only looked up at the sky.

It was then.

Moiya and Moni appeared in the dark sky, sparkling with red eyes, holding hands.

Both of them hesitated as if they had something to say.

Then Moiya started by saying, ‘Master, those Galacos just now…’.

“I was playing with it and dropped it from my hand, Moiya~?”

“Yeah. I accidentally dropped it too, Moni~?”