The Stand-In Empress’S Wedding Night [EN]: Chapter 161

161. I Killed Him

2022.07.20.

Bonnie sat on the floor, scooting backward.

‘What do I do? What do I do?!’

I didn’t mean to kill Prince Tesler.

I was just going to threaten him with the dagger, push him away, and run.

But the moment Prince Tesler’s lips covered mine, my body reacted first.

I stabbed someone…….

And the prince of the Shato Neil Kingdom.

But that bastard is a bad seed. He deserved to die!

No, but how could I kill someone!

She grabbed her head with both hands, tormented, then looked at the blood flowing from Prince Tesler’s side.

‘Bonnie, my daughter.’

It was as if she could hear her father’s voice from somewhere.

I have to see my father… I couldn’t show my daughter, whom I hadn’t seen in a long time, as a murderer.

‘Think. Get a grip and figure out what to do!’

Bonnie wiped away the flowing tears with her hands and relentlessly struck the side of her head with her palm.

The first thing that came to mind was to get out of here.

The hallway was dim, and there were only two people in the drawing-room.

No one saw her and Prince Tesler.

If I leave here and go up to my room, that’s it.

The fact that Prince Tesler died will not be known until dawn or tomorrow morning.

It was perfect because there were no witnesses.

“It was self-defense.”

Bonnie said, standing up on her trembling legs, as if hypnotizing herself.

“Besides, I even lost my pinky because of that bastard. So… it’s okay. It’s not my fault.”

Actually, it wasn’t okay.

Cutting off a pinky with a sword and stabbing someone to death were completely different things.

Even in a moment of crisis, I shouldn’t have done that.

But Bonnie tried hard to glare.

Soon, she took her eyes off Prince Tesler, turned around, opened the door, and came out.

She ran down the hallway and went up the stairs in one breath.

She looked up the stairs, wary of anyone coming down, and climbed up two steps at a time, breathless.

When Bonnie reached the floor where her room was, she grabbed the wall with her hand because she was out of breath and turned the corner.

When she saw her door, her energy rapidly drained as if she was about to faint.

She walked with all her might, but before she reached her room, another door opened.

“Lady Bonnie? It looks like you’re coming back from somewhere.”

It was Commander Macrum.

“Ah, yes. I went to get some water from the first floor.”

However, Bonnie’s hands were empty.

Commander Macrum asked her, narrowing his eyes at Bonnie’s trembling voice.

“Is something wrong?”

Bonnie shook her head from side to side without saying a word.

Commander Macrum wore a worried expression, as if he had seen her nodding.

The energy felt from Bonnie was very uneasy.

The commander said, as if out of concern.

“You carry the dagger I gave you with you, right? There won’t be much use for it, but sometimes it may be needed in the forest. So always keep the dagger……”

“Ah!”

Bonnie covered her mouth with her hand as she listened to Commander Macrum’s advice.

‘I didn’t bring that dagger!’

She belatedly realized that she had left the dagger in Prince Tesler’s side like a fool.

Even if I was out of my mind, I should have brought that dagger.

“What’s wrong?”

Commander Macrum asked seriously, raising one eyebrow.

“Commander… what do I do now?”

Commander Macrum sensed that something big had happened at Bonnie’s words asking, ‘What do I do now?’ out of the blue.

“Tell me what’s going on. I’ll take care of it.”

How are you going to solve it? I killed someone!

And the prince of the Shato Neil Kingdom!

Bonnie shouted inwardly at Commander Macrum, who was looking at her with a firm expression.

But it was strange.

For some reason, Commander Macrum’s words became a source of strength.

Bonnie grabbed Commander Macrum’s arm as if grabbing a rope at the edge of a cliff and whispered.

“It was an accident. Prince Tesler tried to rape me, so I unknowingly used that, that dagger……”

Commander Macrum, who realized why Bonnie’s energy was so uneasy, asked seriously.

“Did you stab him?”

“I killed him.”

Silence flowed at the end of Bonnie’s answer.

Commander Macrum, who had been dazed for a moment, swallowed once and asked again in a low voice.

“Where is Prince Tesler now?”

“He’s in the drawing-room on the first floor. No one saw it, but… I left that dagger behind. It’s still stuck in Prince Tesler’s side. What should I do?!”

Bonnie burst into tears.

“I have to find it. Lady Bonnie, go into your room.”

Bonnie shook her head at Commander Macrum’s determined expression.

“No, I’ll go with you.”

“It’s okay. Go in. I’ll……”

At that time, a urgent voice echoed throughout the mansion from the first floor.

“Prince Tesler is collapsed on the first floor! Call the doctor!!”

“Commander, what do I do!”

Bonnie couldn’t breathe properly.

Soon people will flock here, right?

And everyone will see Commander Macrum’s dagger stuck in Prince Tesler’s side.

***

“Call the doctor!!”

I was lying on the bed, getting a back massage from Rinell, when someone’s shout came from afar.

No, why does something happen every night at the mansion where we’re staying?

“Did you hear that?”

I turned my head and asked Rinell.

“What’s going on today?”

He sighed, rubbed my back for the last time as if whipping it, and got out of bed.

As I got up at the same time, he pointed at me with one finger and shot me a look to stay still.

“Why?”

“Why? You’re hurt.”

I took a sip of the lemon tea that I hadn’t drunk yet on the table and turned my back.

“Hmm?”

The lemon tea tasted a bit strange.

It wasn’t the taste I’ve always had.

The kitchen servants should know how to make lemon tea, so why does it taste like this?

“What’s wrong?”

Rinell took the glass when he saw me looking into the lemon tea and tasted it himself.

“Did that servant make it earlier?”

“Yes.”

“Didn’t you say it was lemon tea? There’s almost no lemon flavor and it’s like they just put a lot of honey in the water? Didn’t you tell them to bring honey water?”

“Ah, I guess so. Nancy must have forgotten and said it was lemon tea. So I was confused for a moment too.”

I just agreed with Rinell and moved on.

Nancy went down to the restaurant with Bonnie, so it could have been switched with Bonnie’s.

“You’re going to follow me even if I tell you to stay, right?”

He put down the lemon tea and asked in a resigned voice.

When I smiled shyly and nodded, he took my robe, put it on my shoulders, and walked to the door.

“Aren’t you holding hands tonight?”

I followed him, reaching out my hand.

“What’s so pretty about you.”

He said bluntly and opened the door.

I smiled and followed him out the door. But Rinell suddenly bent over in front of the door, straightened up, and looked back at me.

“Why is this here?”

“What is it?”

In his hand was my magic potion bottle.

“It was here, next to the door.”

“……Huh?”

Why is that outside the door?

I received the potion bottle from him and examined it closely.

It was definitely the magic potion bottle I was taking.

“Zelda, you didn’t leave it… no, that can’t be. When did you take out the potion bottle?”

“Yes, I took it out because my fever suddenly rose and I was going to drink it if it got worse… Ah, actually, I went to the Magic Tower Master with Rosie earlier.”

“So you went to see Rosie. You even met the Magic Tower Master.”

Rinell seemed a little angry, but he didn’t say anything in particular because I went to see the Magic Tower Master because of the fever.

“What did the Magic Tower Master say?”

“He said it would be better to watch the condition until tomorrow morning and then drink it. I thought the same thing too. It wasn’t that the fever continued, but it suddenly rose and then went down.”

“So the fever completely disappeared after you took a bath earlier?”

“Yes.”

“Ah, so that’s why you were so excited that you danced and fell?”

“……Yes.”

Rinell chuckled at my answer and continued.

“You wouldn’t have left it outside the door on the way back from meeting the Magic Tower Master.”

“Of course, I brought it in and put it on the dressing table for a while and forgot and went straight into the bathroom.”

“Are you sure you put it on the dressing table?”

He looked down at the magic potion and asked.

Since the potion bottle was found in an unexpected place, my memory was not clear.

“I don’t know. No, I’m sure I put it on the dressing table.”

Unless my mind was messed up by the fever, there was no way I would have left the potion bottle next to the door.

“Then who put it there…? Wasn’t it that servant earlier?”

“Nancy? But that can’t be. And if she was going to take it, she would have taken it, why would she have put it here.”

“That’s true, but the feeling is a bit……”

Rinell tilted his head and thought hard about something.

At that time, Bellos and the wizard Big were seen walking quickly towards the stairs from the opposite side of the hallway.

“Did they both come out after hearing the sound?”

“Yes, Your Majesty. It seems that an accident happened on the first floor.”

“We were about to go down anyway.”

I said, putting the magic potion bottle in my robe pocket.

At that time, doors were opening here and there.

Not only Raphael and Stian, but also Duke Martins and Princess Resilia, probably because the structure of the mansion where we were staying tonight was such that the rooms where the VIPs of the Shato Neil Kingdom were staying were close to the stairs, they must have heard the shout from the first floor.

“What’s going on?”

“Who’s shouting?”

Duke Martins seemed a little drunk, and Princess Resilia had just woken up from sleep.

“We’ll know if we go down.”

Bellos went down the stairs first, and everyone followed him.

“Who’s hurt? Where are you!”

Bellos, who came down to the first floor, shouted towards the hallway.

Since I didn’t know exactly which room the sound was coming from, it was faster to shout and ask like that than to go around looking for it.

“Here, the drawing-room!”

The group standing in the middle of the hallway turned towards the place where the voice was heard.

“It sounds like Prince Calvin’s voice?”

“I think so.”

I whispered to Rinell, and he nodded.

Everyone froze as they entered the drawing-room.

Prince Tesler was lying on the floor, bleeding from his side and unconscious, and Prince Calvin and Commander Macrum were stopping the bleeding next to him.

Besides, Bonnie was standing next to those two, and her face was pale.

What the hell is going on?

“Brother!!”

Princess Resilia pushed me hard to the side from behind and ran forward to Prince Tesler.

“Why did this happen to my brother? Huh? Why is he bleeding!”

Princess Resilia asked Prince Calvin in a very excited voice.

“I came down to find something I left in the drawing-room, and I found the prince, so I don’t know the details either. But it seems that he was attacked by someone.”

Prince Calvin pointed to the floor and said.

A dagger with Prince Tesler’s blood all over it was placed on the floor.

“Your Majesty! Someone tried to assassinate my brother! Please save my brother, sob sob……”

Princess Resilia clung to Rinell’s pants, wailing.

“Princess, calm down. Big, quickly check Prince Tesler’s condition.”

Rinell patted Princess Resilia’s back, took her hand off his pants, and gestured to the wizard Big.

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

The wizard Big immediately examined Prince Tesler’s wound and looked up at his teacher, Bellos.

Then Bellos knelt down, closed his eyes, and placed his hands over Prince Tesler’s wound.

“D, did he die?”

After a few seconds, Princess Resilia asked, trembling her lips.

Bellos opened his eyes and lowered his hand.

“No. He lost consciousness due to shock from excessive bleeding. But it seems that the blade went in deeply, so treatment should be rushed.”

Unfortunately, Prince Tesler did not die.

I didn’t expect him to die, but when I heard that he was alive, the first thought that came to my mind was, ‘Bad guys have long lifespans.’

“Macrum, have the knights move the prince to his room on a stretcher.”

“……Yes, Your Majesty.”

“Wait!”

Prince Calvin pointed at Commander Macrum and said to Rinell.

“Your Majesty, you should have someone else do it instead of Commander Macrum!”

“Is there a reason why I should?”