The Stand-In Empress’S Wedding Night [EN]: Chapter 308

308. What a Smart Kid

Why did she bring Rams here?

Moreover, it wasn’t even the servant who usually took care of Rams with Rosie.

The servant, holding Rams, entered the party hall and was startled to find Princess Resilia in the middle of the hall.

He stiffened, his eyes widened in surprise, and he slowly walked to the side, standing next to a pillar.

Rams, nestled quietly in the servant’s arms, smiled brightly at the dancers.

He even stretched out his arms and waved them, trying to reach Princess Resilia.

It was as if he knew that it was Moiya, not Princess Resilia, who was dancing right now.

The servant seemed to think it wasn’t the right time to step forward, so he stuck to the pillar, waiting for the dance to end.

I kept a close watch on Rams and Princess Resilia, who was dancing in the center of the hall, observing the situation.

“The dancing is getting more intense…….”

Moiya, inside Princess Resilia’s body, seemed to like the waltz music, as her shoulder dance became more exaggerated.

The court orchestra members, wanting to watch this rare sight for a long time, were playing even faster than the original waltz tempo, as if encouraging her.

I’m going crazy, really.

People were initially surprised by Princess Resilia and the young ladies’ dance, then they laughed like crazy, and eventually, some even playfully followed the shoulder dance, creating a very surprising phenomenon.

As Princess Resilia’s shoulder dance became more intense, the young ladies also moved their shoulders up and down with greater enthusiasm, as if competing with each other.

The three concubine candidates were gathered in the direction of Prince Norton, and the remaining young ladies positioned themselves in front of Linell, Grand Duke Martins, Hettor, Commander Macrome, and Count Ethan, respectively.

The young ladies seemed to know that this dance was a ‘courtship dance’ that wyverns perform when mating, and they seemed to be dancing with a target in mind.

I have to admit their passion.

I could understand how Moiya had bewitched those young ladies while teaching them the shoulder dance in Princess Resilia’s body.

Since most of them were men with partners, the gazes of the Rapion Empire’s concubines, including me, became fierce.

“Those things are completely out of their minds.”

Catherine was cutting down the young ladies one by one with her frosty gaze.

“Just let them flirt… Mother-in-law, please call some wyverns. There’s a bunch of them over there who should be thrown into the sea.”

Melanie whispered to me, clenching her teeth.

Everyone was growling and watching the young ladies.

I was no exception.

A young lady who was fixated on Linell was shaking her shoulders wildly at him, approaching him.

I knew his heart wouldn’t waver just because of that, but it was unpleasant to witness a woman trying to seduce my man right in front of my eyes.

“If you’re not going to call the wyverns as Melanie said, then use some fire. By the way, that bizarre dance definitely looks familiar?”

Catherine urged me to unleash fire and then tilted her head.

“Right? Where did we see it? Ah! Isn’t that the dance Rosie Mama used to dance while looking at Prince Norton at the party before?”

“Ah, that’s right! And she danced it during the handkerchief-spinning game at the hunting competition.”

Both times, Moiya had entered Rosie’s body and danced, but the concubines, who didn’t know that, thought the shoulder dance was Rosie’s exclusive dance.

Rosie scratched her neck and approached us, quietly asking me.

“Mama, doesn’t it seem like Moiya is in Princess Resilia’s body?”

“That’s right. It’s Moiya.”

I replied calmly.

“Heop-! Oh, what should we do?”

“What should we do? She’s just embarrassing herself. We can just watch the dance and eat cake.”

I handed Rosie a plate of grapefruit cake.

The moment Rosie received the plate of cake, Moni flew in with a fork.

“Just one bite for me. I couldn’t eat this cake, Moni~?”

“You eat it all.”

Rosie handed Moni the whole plate.

“Huh? Rosie, are you trying to lose weight? I’ll enjoy it.”

Moni, with a touched face, took a large bite of the grapefruit cake with a fork and munched on it, then shook the fork around and made harsh comments to the young ladies who were dancing the shoulder dance.

“Ehey. You shouldn’t shake your shoulders like that. You have to shake them seductively like this!”

Moni gave them a lesson by dancing the shoulder dance herself.

“Ah, Rosie. Rams is here.”

I saw Moni waving at Rams and said to Rosie, feeling belated.

“Oh my, why is Rams here? Is he sick somewhere?”

Rosie muttered, turning to look at Rams, following my gaze.

“……That’s not Misha? Who is holding Rams?!”

Rosie, realizing that the person holding Rams was not her servant but a stranger, glared at the servant with wary eyes.

“Let’s go.”

Then you’ll know.

I said, leading Rosie.

Rosie hurried her steps and strode towards the servant holding Rams.

The servant recognized Rosie, looked frightened, and suddenly started running towards the center of the hall, avoiding us.

“Princess-!”

The servant called out to Princess Resilia, who was lost in a trance and dancing with Rams in her arms.

As expected, it was Princess Resilia who had the servant bring Rams to the party hall.

Princess Resilia, or rather… Moiya, who was moving her shoulders up and down as if competing with Raphael, turned her head and looked at Rams.

“Oh? The human brat is here? Nice to see you!”

She raised her hand and pretended to know Rams.

People who didn’t know that Moiya had transformed into Princess Resilia were appalled by what the princess said.

It was quite strange for a long-lost mother to wave at her child and say that.

Not ‘My baby is here,’ but ‘The human brat is here.’

The wording itself was definitely not something you would say to your long-lost child.

Princess Resilia went to the servant while dancing and clumsily picked up Rams.

“Shouldn’t we stop her?”

Rosie asked me in an anxious voice.

“Don’t worry. Rams will be safe.”

Moiya wouldn’t hurt Rams, so it seemed better to watch for now.

If Rosie stepped in here and snatched Rams from Princess Resilia’s arms, the situation would become even stranger.

Moiya put her hands under Rams’ armpits and continued the shoulder dance.

The real problem was what came next.

Moiya, in the form of Princess Resilia, suddenly held Rams and vigorously moved him from side to side as if rocking him in a cradle.

It wasn’t a cradle, but a sailboat that was swaying violently up and down in the waves.

Rams’ pupils seemed to be spinning around from dizziness.

Even though she was his mother, people were complaining from all directions, saying that she shouldn’t be shaking such a precious body while intoxicated with excitement.

Rams was about to burst into tears, but instead, he was clapping his hands and enjoying the situation.

The ministers and nobles who were watching the scene were all appalled.

It was a different kind of shock than when they were watching the shoulder dance.

“Oh my, how dizzy he must be!”

“Shouldn’t someone stop her?”

“Is that what a mother should be doing?”

“I’ve never seen a parent soothe their child like that in my life!”

“His mother wasn’t in her right mind….”

In particular, the noble ladies pitied Rams, saying that there was a reason why Princess Resilia was abandoned by Prince Norton.

Princess Resilia, who was dancing the shoulder dance with Rams, made eye contact with Moni.

“Isn’t it really fun, Moiya~?”

Princess Resilia, or rather, Moiya inside her body, caused an irreversible accident.

Kyaaak-!

Hueok-!!

People screamed all at once.

Princess Resilia passed Rams to Moni, who flew in from the side.

No, in fact, rather than passing…….

The expression ‘passing the ball’ would be more appropriate.

Fortunately, Moni naturally caught Rams.

Looking at the three of them working together, it seemed that this wasn’t the first time they had exchanged and moved each other.

“Those things are doing it again with Rams…!”

Rosie breathed a sigh of relief and then snorted in anger.

Judging from that, it was clear that Moiya and Moni usually played with Rams like passing a ball.

Fortunately, Rams was also taking it as a game.

He wasn’t crying at all, and his expression was just innocent without any sign of surprise.

However, the ministers and nobles had completely different thoughts.

“Why are they suddenly giving Rams to the wyvern? What if she didn’t catch him?”

“How can they do such a heinous thing without going crazy?”

“Oh my, look at them smiling after doing such a thing. It’s creepy…….”

A mother who handles her child carelessly and recklessly.

People’s perception was fixed like that.

Then, people were busy praising Moni, who had safely received Rams.

Even praise for me, who had been standing still, came out.

Some said that Moni had saved Rams’ life, that I, the Wyvern Lord, had ordered Moni to catch Rams, and that wyverns were better than humans.

Moni, who was quick-witted, was about to throw Rams back to Moiya, but after hearing people praising her, she looked down at Rams with affectionate eyes and repeatedly said ‘peek-a-boo,’ starting to take care of Rams.

The young ladies who were dancing the shoulder dance in line with Princess Resilia moved away from her as soon as they saw Princess Resilia spinning Rams over her head.

Just in time, Misha, Rosie’s servant who takes care of Rams, ran into the party hall.

“Rosie Mama! It’s a disaster. Rams-nim [term of endearment]…… Huh? That, that’s the servant! That servant secretly took Rams-nim while he was sleeping!”

Misha rushed in, panting, and was about to inform Rosie that Rams had disappeared when she pointed to the servant who had run away with Rams.

“He’s a servant from the Empress Palace. He’s one of the servants I temporarily sent to Princess Resilia.”

Empress Jasper informed Prince Norton of the servant’s identity, glaring at Princess Resilia and the servant.

“Drag the princess out immediately!”

Prince Norton raised his voice, not hiding his anger, and ordered the knights.

‘The prince is acting a bit too, isn’t he?’

I exchanged glances with Linell, who was next to Prince Norton, and smiled slightly.

I witnessed Linell whispering something to Prince Norton in the midst of the commotion a little while ago.

He probably told him that Moiya was in Princess Resilia’s body.

So Prince Norton watched the situation without even trying to stop it.

As soon as the order was given, two of the royal knights in the party hall quickly grabbed Princess Resilia’s arms from both sides.

Then Princess Resilia trembled as she was held by the knights.

“What? Why are you dragging me away?”

Princess Resilia raised her head abruptly.

Judging from her tone and expression, it seemed that Moiya had just left the princess’s body.

Since there were no bugs or insects around, it seemed that she had entered someone else’s body in the party hall.

“What are you doing? Do you know who I am to treat me so carelessly!”

Princess Resilia, who had regained her sanity, was bewildered as to why she was suddenly being held by the knights.

Of course.

The princess’s last memory was of being surrounded by young ladies, receiving sympathetic glances from people, and smiling kindly.

She also noticed that the gazes of the people looking at her had turned sharp and cold.

Throughout her dragging out of the party hall, contemptuous gazes followed Princess Resilia.

“Prince Norton. What is going on? What did I do wrong?! Prince!”

Princess Resilia looked back at Prince Norton and cried out.

She cried sadly, but no one pitied her.

Princess Resilia, who was being dragged away by the knights, found Rams in Rosie’s arms and struggled with all her might.

“Rams? Oh, my baby… Let go of me, get out of the way!”

Princess Resilia shouted as if she was desperate, becoming emboldened after seeing Rams, and the knights flinched and let her go.

“Rams, come here!”

Princess Resilia ran towards Rams, who was in Rosie’s arms, with her arms wide open.

“Shouldn’t we trip her or something?”

Melanie asked me urgently, fidgeting.

“Leave her alone. Nothing will happen.”

Moni was guarding next to Rosie.

If Princess Resilia tried to harm him, Moni would stop her, so there was no need to worry.

And since the people in the party hall had already watched Princess Resilia’s previous actions, they wouldn’t like the sight of her forcibly taking Rams from Rosie.

“It’s not enough that you took my man, but you’re trying to take my son too! You can’t have Rams!”

Princess Resilia raised her voice to Rosie, being conscious of her surroundings, and hugged Rams.

“Princess, please calm down, Rams is getting scared!”

Rosie begged, putting her hands together as if praying earnestly, after Rams was taken away.

The ministers and nobles seemed to be more empathetic to Rosie’s feelings.

Moreover, as soon as Rams went into Princess Resilia’s arms, he began to cry sadly.

Rams had clapped and enjoyed himself when Moiya was in Princess Resilia’s body, but when Moiya left, he was very unfamiliar with his mother, the princess.

In addition, Rams cleverly wiggled his arms and legs towards Rosie.

People were saddened by the sight of him desperately trying to go to Rosie.

“My son, why are you doing this? You can’t stay still in your mother’s arms! Rams, do you know how much your mother missed you? Sob sob sob…….”

Princess Resilia spoke to Rams in a resentful tone, then pressed her cheek against Rams’ cheek and squeezed out tears, being conscious of the surrounding gaze.

“Uwaaaang!!”

However, Rams began to wail, reaching out his small hand pitifully towards Rosie.

What a smart kid.