I Married the Terminally Ill Emperor - Chapter 110
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I Married a Terminally Ill Emperor
Chapter 110
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Royal Guard Infirmary.
As Emperor Gray and Ethan entered the infirmary, the royal physician and knights who had been gathered near the bed quickly bowed their heads to him.
“We greet Your Majesty the Emperor.”
“How is his condition?”
The royal physician answered with a somber expression.
“He’s currently been given painkillers. The shock of losing his arm must be considerable.”
Emperor Gray looked down at Arban, who had his eyes closed.
“Your Majesty, I want to become an Imperial Guard knight and serve by your side. That is my dream.”
He remembered how Arban would always look at him with admiring eyes whenever they met, and how he had shyly spoken of his dream.
“Yes. I support you.”
He also remembered the face that had smiled as if he owned the world at his brief words of encouragement.
But as of today, the young man’s dream of becoming an Imperial Guard knight had vanished.
Just then, Arban’s eyelids, which had been furrowed, slowly opened. His hazy gaze looked around and gradually became clearer.
Where am I? Ah, the infirmary.
He recalled the royal physician who had been treating him. And he had been given painkillers. Is that why it doesn’t hurt?
Arban looked down at his right arm with trembling eyes. Below his forearm wrapped in white bandages was completely empty.
He unconsciously tried to move his right hand, but the body part that had already disappeared had no sensation.
The moment he raised his gaze with vacant eyes, he saw the Emperor.
Startled, Arban hurriedly sat up.
“Y-Your Majesty the Emperor, I greet you.”
“Arban…”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Arban bowed his head with a frightened expression.
He had disobeyed orders and forcibly followed the Imperial Guard, only to have an accident. Emperor Gray might punish him.
“You’ve been through a lot.”
At the Emperor’s blunt words of comfort, Arban became emotional and clenched his teeth so hard that his jaw muscles bulged.
He had lost his arm. He had lost his dream.
But he hadn’t expected to hear such words from the Emperor.
Just then, the door burst open.
“Arban!”
The Marchioness pushed through the knights and rushed in.
Her hair, which was always perfectly arranged, was disheveled. She must have come here in great haste.
“Mother….”
The Marchioness approached the bed directly and looked her son up and down with a dazed expression.
Soon her gaze was fixed on his empty right arm.
Slap!
Her hand trembled finely after striking her son’s cheek hard. Her black eyes flashed with anger.
“What on earth is this! Are you in your right mind?!”
Arban slowly turned his head, which had turned from the slap, and looked up at his mother with a shocked expression.
Her black eyes were blazing fiercely. Seeing this, Arban couldn’t bring himself to say anything.
“….”
“I clearly told you. Don’t do anything. Don’t even think about joining the Imperial Guard! But you cause this kind of accident? How could you do this to me! Imperial Family! An Imperial Family member loses an arm? Do you know what that means?!”
Mary trembled all over as she poured out her rage. She didn’t even notice her son’s sad face.
Just a little more endurance was needed. The Emperor’s death wasn’t far away. Her son had ruined everything.
Could someone with one arm missing sit on that sacred throne of Emperor?
It was a position she had wanted and endured for her entire life. Yet her son had dared to kick it away himself. When she had told him to wait!
She would have placed him on the highest throne! What was some Imperial Guard knight!
“Worthless fool!”
Mary raised her hand again to strike her son’s cheek, but the Emperor’s voice interrupted.
“Marchioness. That’s enough.”
Mary, who suddenly came to her senses, quickly lowered her hand and turned her gaze toward the Emperor.
She had lost her reason to the point of not noticing the Emperor was present.
Mary pushed her disheveled hair back and bowed to the Emperor.
“…I greet Your Majesty the Emperor.”
“Unexpected.”
Mary bowed her head deeper to hide her flustered face.
In front of the Emperor, she had always shown only a caring and warm appearance. But she had lost her mind over the fact that her son lost his arm and made a mistake.
“I was so upset that I showed an unseemly side.”
Mary quickly put on a sad voice.
“Arban only had an accident. Don’t blame him any further.”
“I have one question. I heard that a monster never seen before appeared and attacked my son. Is this true?”
Mary slowly raised her gaze to observe the Emperor’s expression.
She had forgotten an important fact in her shock over Arban losing his arm.
The Emperor before her was strong enough to have no rival in the Empire. And he was robust enough to have never fallen ill once.
So she had always wondered. How would he die?
“Yes.”
“How do you plan to deal with those things? Your Majesty, there must be no more people getting hurt like my son.”
At this time when the Emperor’s death wasn’t far away, monsters had appeared. It was said that even dozens of knights rushing at them could barely handle them.
Would the Emperor die fighting monsters? If so, she needed to make him stand at the front lines where he would die fastest.
“I will eliminate them. I’ll give you two some space.”
When the Emperor left, everyone in the infirmary followed behind him.
Only Mary and Arban remained in the infirmary.
Mary, who had regained her sanity after meeting the Emperor, stared at her son’s face. The wounds in his heart were clearly visible on his dark face filled with loss.
“Arban. My poor son….”
Mary looked at her son with pitying eyes.
Foolish thing.
“Now you won’t even be able to achieve that dream you wanted so much.”
Mary spoke to her son in a sad voice as if comforting him.
She should have made him follow her words even if it meant giving him medicine. She should have completely erased such trivial dreams from his mind.
Arban slowly raised his gaze and stared directly at her.
“I won’t be able to do what Mother wants anymore either.”
“…What?”
“Since I, Mother’s puppet, am broken like this, I’m no longer useful, am I?”
Arban pointed to his empty arm socket and smiled dryly.
What Mother wants. He vaguely suspects it, but it’s something so disloyal he can’t bring himself to speak of it.
Since his arm is gone, she can no longer want that.
“Arban….”
“So give up. I won’t become Mother’s puppet.”
Mary quietly stared at her son’s resolute expression.
An emperor was someone who always had to make the right choices, and she had hoped her son would develop the qualities himself.
That’s why she hadn’t used hypnosis. But to think he would rebel like this?
Mary chuckled and cupped her son’s face with one hand.
“From the moment you were born as my son, you should have followed my words.”
Arban, his eyes full of defiance, pulled his head back and rejected her touch.
“Do you know why I was hurt like this?”
“Because of the monster.”
“No! It was because of Mother! It was to prove that I had freed myself from Mother’s hands.”
“Tsk. You did something pointless….”
At her dry, indifferent gaze, as if she regretted that a product had been damaged, Arban’s heart collapsed.
Mother’s cold gaze pierced his heart more than losing one arm.
“Why do you treat me like this? Why!”
Tears burst from his eyes, though he hadn’t cried even when he lost his arm. His chest felt completely empty.
“Arban. It’s all for your sake. I will give you the most precious thing in your hands.”
Her red lips curved into a picture-perfect smile.
“…”
Arban was left speechless by his mother’s mad obsession.
“Yes, though you lost one arm, things will eventually go as I want.”
Arban squeezed his eyes shut.
It was the first time Mary’s white hands approaching to embrace him felt so terrifying.
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