I Married the Terminally Ill Emperor - Chapter 125
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I Married a Terminally Ill Emperor
Chapter 125
“A strange mass?”
When Dahlia asked with a puzzled look, Princess Tiara frowned as if the mere thought disgusted her.
“It was a round white mass, lying on the ground. Just looking at it filled me with revulsion.”
Dahlia’s eyes widened as much as they could as she listened to the story, and she asked urgently.
“Where is it?”
“It was in the corner of the orphanage backyard?”
“Please, please guide me there. Quickly!”
When Dahlia urged with a pale face, Princess Tiara’s expression changed.
“What’s wrong?”
“Demon beast eggs look like that. I’ve seen one before. I need to check it.”
“What? Then we need to run away quickly!”
“If we run away, who will protect the children at the orphanage?”
Dahlia thought of the adorable children she had just seen.
She absolutely could not abandon those children and flee.
Princess Tiara quietly met her eyes and then quickly took the lead.
“Let’s hope that’s not what it is.”
“Yes.”
Dahlia pressed down on her anxious heart and followed Princess Tiara.
Fortunately, if it could be called that, Roand and Cole were still in the backyard.
Cole smiled when he saw Dahlia.
“Princess, I’ve finished everything. I think we can depart now.”
He proudly tapped the repaired chair with a satisfied face.
“It would be better to leave before it gets darker.”
When Roand followed up, Dahlia awkwardly forced a smile with her pale face.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
“Princess, is something wrong?”
Cole, noticing her poor complexion, approached quickly with a worried expression.
Just as Dahlia was about to explain the situation, Princess Tiara spoke first.
“I saw it over there.”
The orphanage backyard was connected to a small hill, and Princess Tiara pointed in that direction.
“I understand.”
Dahlia nodded and explained to Cole and Roand what the Princess had seen.
“A demon beast egg…”
Roand’s blue eyes shook with shock.
He had faced demon beasts several times, but had never thought they could lay eggs.
“I’ll go check it out, so please stay here, Princess. I’ve seen those eggs before too.”
Cole drew his sword with a tense expression.
Roand, who had quickly composed himself from the shock, looked at him with eyes asking if he’d be alright alone.
“Captain, please protect the Princess here.”
Cole smiled faintly and asked Roand.
“Cole! It’s dangerous alone. Go with Sir Roand.”
Dahlia hurriedly stopped him as if asking what he was talking about.
But Cole shook his head slightly and smiled as if everything was fine to reassure the Princess.
“We’ve been in the backyard this whole time. So it shouldn’t be dangerous.”
“Earlier it was bright, but now it’s getting dark. I can’t let you go alone. Captain, please. Go with Cole.”
Dahlia asked Roand with an anxious face.
As Roand looked down at Dahlia and hesitated, Princess Tiara, who had been watching, clicked her tongue and shouted an activation word.
“Shield.”
All three people looked at Princess Tiara simultaneously.
“I’ll protect Dahlia, so you two hurry up and check it out.”
Only then did Dahlia’s expression brighten.
“You heard her? Go quickly and come back!”
Roand struck the shield hard with his sword, unable to erase his suspicious look.
The transparent wall blocking Dahlia and Princess Tiara deflected his sword completely.
Dahlia looked even more proud seeing this.
“This wall even blocked Lady Yofron’s bomb before.”
At her words, Roand nodded slightly as if he understood and signaled to Cole with his eyes.
Cole then said to the Princess.
“We’ll be back quickly.”
Watching them move away, Dahlia looked at Princess Tiara with admiration.
“Princess, you’re truly amazing!”
“Hmph, of course.”
Even while snorting, the corners of Princess Tiara’s lips curved up slightly.
“Cole, I’ll take the lead.”
Roand stopped Cole who was walking ahead.
“Captain, have you ever seen a demon beast egg?”
Cole asked with a determined expression, gripping his sword tightly.
“No.”
A demon beast egg. This was the first time he’d learned that demon beasts could lay eggs.
“I have seen one. So I need to check it. And Captain, you are more important than my life.”
He firmly grabbed Cole’s shoulder as he tried to move again.
“No. Your life is more important than mine, Cole.”
Cole looked at Roand with bewildered eyes.
He had recognized his elder brother who grew up with him at the orphanage, but since he treated him like a stranger, Cole thought there must be circumstances and didn’t act familiar.
But for the first time, Roand spoke informally and warmly. Cole sighed and voiced his complaint like a joke.
“Elder Brother. You know it’s worse to act familiar at a moment like this, right? It’s like we’re talking before I die.”
“Don’t talk crazy.”
When Roand frowned and spoke, Cole burst into laughter instead.
He could see his elder brother’s childhood appearance when he was rough and prickly.
“Elder Brother, I’m fine, so protect our Princess-”
“I’ll protect both the Princess and you. So get behind me.”
When Roand infused his sword with aura, the golden aura brilliantly illuminated the darkening surroundings like a torch.
Cole looked at that magnificent sight with admiring eyes. Thinking about how much effort his brother must have put in almost made him emotional.
Roand walked forward carefully while surveying the surroundings.
A white mass, they said.
It was something he hadn’t discovered when he looked around before fixing the furniture.
Could it have been transparent then?
He had received reports that demon beasts could become transparent and then reveal themselves.
Even so, with the Princess here, he had missed something dangerous.
Roand clenched his teeth so hard his jaw muscles bulged and took a step forward.
He would protect the Princess. And Cole too- no, he would protect everyone here with his own hands.
“Damn it.”
At that moment, when Roand turned around at the low curse heard from behind, Cole’s gaze was fixed somewhere.
Following his line of sight, they saw a round white mass they had never seen before in their lives. Inside, something like a black tadpole was wriggling.
“Elder Brother, that egg being here means there’s a demon beast nearby. Quickly go to the Princess!”
“What about you?”
“I’ll destroy the egg and follow.”
Cole’s eyes, prepared for death, were resolute.
Roand turned his head to gauge the location where Princess Dahlia and Princess Tiara were.
“No. We do it together.”
He immediately shot aura filled with divine power at the egg.
Seeing this, Cole also thrust his sword into the egg.
Kiiiiiek-!
As a painful scream flowed from the egg, the lush tree leaves on the hillside rustled.
When both men simultaneously looked up, they saw the demon beast.
The demon beast hanging from the tree had a monkey-like appearance, but only its upper body was visible while its lower body was transparent, making it look as if its body had been cut in half.
Krrrrrk.
The demon beast let out a strange cry as it flew toward them, wildly swinging both its blade-sharp claws.
“Dodge!”
Roand pushed Cole aside and picked up the egg.
The egg, with its sticky mucous texture, was pulsating warmly. Even after being struck by sword and aura, it still wasn’t dead.
When Roand ran in another direction carrying the egg, Cole immediately ran in the opposite direction toward where the Princess was.
He couldn’t waste the time his elder brother had bought for him.
“Princess! A demon beast has appeared! You must flee!!”
At Cole’s urgent voice heard from afar, Dahlia and Princess Tiara simultaneously looked at each other.
Princess Tiara’s sharp gaze read Dahlia’s intentions.
“Don’t tell me you’re not planning to run away?”
“If we run away now, the children will be in danger.”
“Then how exactly do you plan to deal with the demon beast?”
Princess Tiara asked with an incredulous expression.
Dahlia cast her gaze behind Cole who was running toward them.
As the surroundings had grown dim, only the golden aura was sparkling like a beacon.
The Holy Knight Commander was a Sword Master and was strong. They just needed to hold out until reinforcements arrived from the Imperial Palace.
“I’ll try to buy us some time.”
Dahlia’s eyes shone with determination.
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