The Stand-In Empress’S Wedding Night [EN]: Chapter 242

242. It’s Because of the Sausage

“Do you know where the human kid is?”

“Yeah, the human kid likes me a lot. So, I sometimes go alone to show my face, Moni~.”

“Wow… you’re surprisingly nice!”

Moni poked Moiya’s side, praising her, and Moiya covered her mouth with her hand, giggling secretly.

“Oong? I went to wake him up from his sleep and make him cry for fun, you know?”

Besides, the sausage she stole from Raphael’s sister’s kitchen was delicious.

“But Rams is Norton’s kid, so why did Rosie raise him?”

“Norton asked Rosie to take care of him for a while, without even offering anything. Such a stingy guy.”

“Seriously, shouldn’t he at least give a sausage when asking for a favor like that? Like father, like son, so shameless, Moni~.”

“Anyway, that’s why Rams ended up secretly living in Rosie’s bedroom like me and Ao 씨 [Korean honorific title, similar to ‘Mr.’ or ‘Ms.’]. You could say Moiya raised Rams.”

Moiya said proudly.

“Not Rosie, but you raised him? Then that human kid is yours; you should bring him, Moni~?”

“Ew, don’t say such horrible things!”

Moiya jumped up, suddenly serious.

“Unless he can walk around and act like a human like Joseph, he’s just a pathetic kid who can’t even control his pee and poop, right?”

Then, her red eyes sparkled with mischief, and she grinned.

“Still, aren’t you curious who will end up with Rams, Moiya~?”

“Yeah! I’m curious too, Moni~!”

The two baby wyverns held hands and flew towards Raphael’s sister’s house.

***

The baby wyverns’ moving speed was the fastest, faster than the guilds moving quickly and nimbly, faster than the horses running through the wind without rest.

Arriving at the mansion where Raphael’s sister lived, the two baby wyverns landed in front of the window of the room where Rams mainly stayed.

The room was located in the middle of the second floor.

Rams was flailing his short arms and legs in a wooden crib.

“Oong? No one has stolen him yet?”

“I know. It’s not fun, Moni~.”

“Oh? Someone’s coming in.”

Moiya and Moni were about to open the window and enter the room when they saw the door opening and immediately lay flat to hide.

A woman who appeared to be a servant came in with a tray.

On the tray were a baby bottle and a plate of grilled sausages.

After the servant placed the tray on the table and left, Raphael’s sister entered the room a few minutes later.

“Rams-nim [Similar to ‘Master Rams’, showing respect]~ It’s time to eat your meal.”

Raphael’s sister picked up the baby bottle on the tray and was about to go to Rams when she stopped and carefully examined the bottle, shaking her head.

“Oh my? Emma did it again.”

The servant had been increasingly careless lately, often mixing up the baby bottles of the youngest child of the house, Petri, and Rams.

Although Rams and Petri ate different amounts, Raphael’s sister had been careful to ensure that the two babies’ bottles were not mixed up.

Once, she was too lazy to go back to the kitchen and fed Petri’s bottle to Rams, and he miraculously knew it wasn’t his and refused the formula.

Since then, she had only been feeding him with the bottles that Rams used.

“Why do you keep bringing Petri’s bottle here?”

Raphael’s sister complained about the servant who had brought the bottle earlier.

“Oh dear, why is this here too?”

Not only that, but Emma had also left the snack that her fourth daughter had requested earlier, grilled sausages, in Rams’ room.

“I should say something sternly today; this won’t do.”

Raphael’s sister sighed deeply, placing her hands on her waist.

“Rams-nim, I’ll quickly make your meal again and bring it back; wait a moment, okay?”

Raphael’s sister stroked Rams’ head with a loving voice and left the room again.

However, she herself forgot the plate with the grilled sausages, which was her fourth daughter’s snack.

Thanks to that, there was a life form that was excited.

“I love it!”

Moiya quickly opened the window with an excited face and rushed towards the sausage.

Rams waved his hands wildly, happy to see Moiya.

“Yeah, yeah. Your brother has been doing well.”

Moiya also waved her hand at Rams casually and picked up the sausage.

“Such an unexpected encounter is so exciting, Moiya~.”

The sausage was much thicker than the sausages mainly eaten in the Imperial Palace.

“Is this where I should live?”

Moiya took a bite of the sausage, which was as big as her forearm, and shouted with a voice filled with emotion.

“Is it that delicious? He looks tasty too with his chubby cheeks. Hey, let go.”

Moni went inside the crib bumper to see Rams’ face closely and had one of her fingers grabbed.

Rams brought Moni’s finger to his mouth and sucked on it like a baby bottle.

“Moni, just sacrifice your finger. Otherwise, he’ll cry and make a fuss. I’ll leave you some sausage.”

Moiya took out the smallest sausage from the plate for Moni’s share and said.

Moni sat down next to Rams and glared at the window.

“Oh? Are they finally here to steal him? I feel a strange energy outside the window? It’s getting closer! We have to hide!”

Moiya also felt something strange and quickly looked around the room.

“There’s no good place to hide in this room.”

The only furniture was a crib and a table, and there was a mink carpet on the floor for Rams to crawl and play safely, and a shelf displaying dolls and toys on one wall.

“I can’t just leave him here.”

Moiya said firmly.

Moni, looking down at the mumbling Rams, was slightly touched by Moiya’s determination.

‘Ah, she has a sense of loyalty because she spent time with Rams.’

She looked at Moiya with that thought.

“……I can’t believe it, Moni~.”

Moni muttered in a disappointed tone.

Moiya was talking about the sausage.

What she couldn’t leave behind wasn’t Rams, but the sausage in her hand.

“I don’t know who it is, but they’re almost here. What do we do now?”

Moni crossed her arms and spun around in the air.

“Moni, you go sit among those dolls over there. You have to pretend to be a doll, so don’t even blink.”

“What about you?”

Moni asked as soon as Moiya finished speaking, squeezing into the middle of the shelf where the dolls were displayed.

“This great wyvern will…….”

She was also about to go next to Moni and sit down.

She thought she would sit and secretly eat sausage while watching, but then…

The window opened carefully with a creak.

‘Ugh, this is embarrassing.’

It was too far to fly to the shelf where Moni was sitting like a doll.

With no choice, Moiya flew to the bed next to her with the sausage and entered Rams’ body.

***

“I will go to block the fastest route to the Southern Continent from the Imperial City!”

Commander Marcrom said to me as soon as we crossed the drawbridge of the Imperial Palace.

“Marcrom, I’m counting on you.”

“Yes, please take care just in case.”

“I will.”

Commander Marcrom and the knights he led divided their forces and scattered to block all roads from the Imperial City to the Partsha Empire.

I rode with Grand Duke Martins to Raphael’s sister’s house.

As a result of riding without rest, we were able to catch up with the carriage carrying Prince Norton and Rosie.

“Stop the carriage, Prince Norton!”

At Grand Duke Martins’ shout, the carriage carrying the two slowly stopped in the middle of the road.

“Grand Duke Martins?”

Prince Norton leaned out of the carriage window.

“Even Her Majesty the Empress…… What’s going on?”

Rosie, who was sitting in front of him, was also surprised to see me next to the carriage.

Prince Norton and Rosie looked at me and Grand Duke Martins alternately with puzzled expressions.

“Something terrible has happened. Princess Resilia hired a guild to kidnap Rams. I am sorry to say, but it is likely that they have already taken Rams-nim.”

“What? Is that…… true?!”

“Yes, but don’t worry too much. Commander Marcrom and the knights will block all routes to the Partsha Empire.”

“……Could it be that Resilia is trying to take Rams to the Partsha Imperial Family?”

“I heard it directly from the princess, so it must be true. She said she was planning to hire guilds to go to the prince’s home country.”

Grand Duke Martins, who was conveying the message, also had a troubled expression.

Prince Norton didn’t seem to have accepted reality yet.

The prince stared at Grand Duke Martins for a moment before getting out of the carriage urgently.

“Commander Marcrom said he would block all roads to the Southern Continent, so they will soon be caught.”

I quickly added to calm Prince Norton, who was burning with anger.

“I will go to Raphael’s sister’s house. It may be that the guilds have not yet taken Rams.”

Prince Norton made one of the knights get off his horse and immediately got on the horse.

The moment the prince grabbed the reins and was about to run, Rolf, the escort knight of Grand Duke Martins, appeared.

Before leaving the detached palace, Grand Duke Martins had instructed Rolf to follow Princess Resilia.

The fact that Rolf, who was following the princess, had come to find us meant…….

“What happened!”

Grand Duke Martins asked Rolf.

“Princess Resilia has been captured in the Kashas Forest!”

“Our Rams, is Rams safe?”

Even after hearing that Princess Resilia had been captured, Prince Norton still asked with a face that did not let go of his tension.

“Yes, Your Highness. However, the princess is using Rams-nim as a hostage…… threatening us not to come closer, so we are facing off against the knights on the bridge crossing the valley…….”

“Damn Resilia!”

Prince Norton couldn’t suppress the rising anger and burst out.

“How can she take her own son hostage?”

Rosie also bit her lower lip tightly and swallowed her resentment.

Not only me, but everyone in the group frowned and muttered curses.

“Is the Kashas Forest the fastest route to the Partsha Empire?”

I calmed down and asked Grand Duke Martins.

“Yes, that’s right. It is a place that must be passed through to go to the Southern Continent from the Imperial City. She went quite far in a short time.”

“Then were the guilds who kidnapped Rams all caught by Commander Marcrom?”

I asked Rolf, letting out a sigh of relief.

“Yes, Commander Marcrom left only one person from the guild who accompanied the princess and dealt with the rest.”

Yes, we need to keep one guild alive to testify to this.

“Let’s go quickly. I don’t know what rash things the princess will do. Rolf, take us to that Kashas Forest right away!”

“Yes, Zelda Mama!”

As I turned my horse and shouted, the group also prepared to run.

“I won’t let it go if anything happens to Rams…….”

Prince Norton muttered to himself and followed Rolf, rushing madly towards the Kashas Forest.

***

“Stian-nim!”

Sharon ran non-stop up the central staircase of the main palace, dashing fiercely through the hallway on the floor where the office was located.

“Sharon, why are you running like this?”

Stian barely caught Sharon, who was passing by the office because she couldn’t control her running speed.

“Huk, huk, huk…… Stian-nim. Hah, Hah…….”

Stian calmed her down as Sharon was out of breath and couldn’t speak properly.

“Breathe slowly. You’re out of breath because you’re running so fast.”

“It’s not that, I have to see His Majesty, His Majesty! It’s urgent!”

“His Majesty is currently in an important private meeting, so I think you’ll have to wait?”

Raphael, who was coming out of the office at that moment, asked Sharon.

Linell was having a close conversation with Marquis Astor, Pesilini’s father, about the trial of Prince Tesler.

“It’s about Her Majesty the Empress, no, Zelda Mama!”

Then the story changes.

Our Majesty is the most important person to Zelda Mama.

Raphael did not hesitate and quickly entered the office.

Before Sharon could catch her breath, Marquis Astor came out of the office.

Raphael saw the Marquis off and then gestured to Sharon to open the office door and come in.

“What’s going on, Sharon? Did something happen to Zelda?”

Linell walked to the door of the office and asked Sharon.

“It’s about Rams-nim, to be exact.”

“Rams?”

“Yes, after hearing the plan that Princess Resilia was going to hire a guild to kidnap Rams-nim, she hurriedly rode out of the Imperial Palace with Grand Duke Martins!”

“What?!”

Linell’s blue eyes darkened at once.

“I know Norton and Rosie have already left for Raphael’s sister’s house?”

“Yes, Your Majesty. But after hearing that the two of them were riding in a carriage…….”

“Zelda…… rode a horse to catch up with them and hurriedly left to tell them that fact?”

“That is so…….”

“Haa!”

Linell sighed, holding his forehead with his hand.

He left the office with a worried expression and ordered Raphael.

“Leave the Imperial Palace right now!”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”