I Married the Terminally Ill Emperor - Chapter 136

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I Married a Terminally Ill Emperor

 

Chapter 136

 

“Please take off your shirt.”

 

“…What?”

 

I was prepared to hear anything, but I was momentarily flustered since it was something I never imagined.

 

Dahlia frantically waved both hands and added her words.

 

“Please don’t misunderstand.”

 

Seeing her face gradually turning red, Emperor Gray’s eyes sparkled with mischief.

 

“You made me sit on the bed and even told me to take off my clothes. You’re more aggressive than I thought.”

 

“It’s not like that!”

 

Emperor Gray couldn’t take his eyes off her as she fanned her flushed face. Everything about her was lovely.

 

After cooling her face for a while, Dahlia looked at him cautiously and spoke carefully.

 

“Your Majesty’s back. I want to see it.”

 

His expression hardened for a moment.

 

“My back?”

 

“Yes. There’s something I want to confirm.”

 

“Is there something about my back written in that Sacred Scripture?”

 

“That’s not it, but I had a dream.”

 

Dahlia met his gaze with trembling eyes.

 

Looking at his black eyes, the large and beautiful black wings naturally came to mind.

 

“Did you see the future again?”

 

“…Yes.”

 

Dahlia forced the corners of her mouth up and nodded.

 

Please, let him not notice my lie.

 

She had no intention of telling the Emperor that she had regressed.

 

She could easily accept it since she had memories of the past, but she didn’t want to confuse him who remembered nothing.

 

He observed her expression carefully and nodded slightly as if he understood.

 

“I’ve never shown it to anyone.”

 

“It’s an honor.”

 

Dahlia deliberately responded playfully to lighten the mood.

 

Perhaps her intention worked, as he chuckled and slowly took off his shirt and turned around.

 

A large black mark that covered almost his entire back.

 

“Ah….”

 

Her gaze fixed on his back trembled slightly.

 

Before her regression, she had never seen this mark directly, and after returning, she had only glimpsed it briefly.

 

Looking at the mark right in front of her eyes, she could tell for certain.

 

The black mark was in the shape of black wings. Wings would sprout from his back in exactly this shape.

 

Why on earth did he have such a thing?

 

What wrong had the Ruusephon Imperial Family done to receive such a curse?

 

Dahlia gently touched his back with sad eyes. Warm heat was transmitted through her palm. Perhaps surprised by the sudden contact, she could feel the muscles in his back twitch.

 

“Does it hurt?”

 

“No….”

 

Tears welled up at his calm voice. Even if there was no pain, how agonizing must it have been to have such a thing growing on his back since childhood.

 

Dahlia gently stroked his back to comfort him.

 

“I’m glad it didn’t hurt.”

 

When Dahlia removed her hand, he put his shirt back on and looked at her.

 

“Now that you’ve seen my back, can you tell me?”

 

Meeting his black eyes, Dahlia pressed her lips tightly together.

 

Wings will sprout from your back. And you will tear the sky, causing the world’s destruction.

 

How could she say such things?

 

Even if the curse of the Imperial Family facing death could be hidden until now, sprouting wings couldn’t have been concealed.

 

That meant only this man could sprout wings and tear the sky.

 

Wings had sprouted from his back when he lost his reason due to my death.

 

“Your Majesty. You must never, under any circumstances, lose your reason.”

 

Dahlia looked straight into his eyes to make him promise.

 

He gazed at Dahlia with puzzled eyes.

 

“…Even if I were to die.”

 

“What do you mean by that? Don’t tell me you saw your own death in the future?”

 

He stared at her persistently as if reading her thoughts.

 

“It’s just a hypothetical. I was talking about a hypothetical situation.”

 

Dahlia avoided his gaze and evaded answering.

 

“Dahlia, tell me honestly. Did you see your own death in the dream?”

 

Emperor Gray immediately used Truth Detection seeing her attitude.

 

She smiled with a face that said not to worry and shook her head.

 

“No.”

 

‘False.’

 

Emperor Gray froze completely.

 

It was the first time he had been so afraid of the truth ringing in his head.

 

Emperor Gray tightly grasped her hand, afraid that she might disappear from before his eyes at any moment.

 

He could feel her puzzled gaze.

 

“Dahlia…. Why? Why do you die? Why?”

 

“I told you it’s not true.”

 

“The Ruusephon Imperial Family received both a curse and a blessing. The curse is on my back, and the blessing is the ability to know the truth once a day.”

 

Her violet eyes widened greatly.

 

“Wh-where is such a thing-”

 

“I know you just lied to me. You saw yourself dying in the dream, didn’t you?”

 

Emperor Gray felt his heart tear apart just from mentioning her death.

 

But he didn’t avoid her eyes.

 

Since he couldn’t use Truth Detection anymore, he had to confirm with his eyes whether she was lying.

 

She who had been stammering nodded with a sigh.

 

“Why? What happens? Who makes you like that?”

 

His eyes burned pitch black with rage.

 

“Your Majesty, you know that just because I saw the future doesn’t mean everything actually happens. We should be able to change the future.”

 

Dahlia spoke with conviction to calm him who looked precarious.

 

When he stared at her as if asking whether that was true, Dahlia confidently met his gaze.

 

She would not watch him die from the curse. And she would not watch him cause the world’s destruction due to her death.

 

“Haah…. Right.”

 

He answered with a deep sigh.

 

Lemon said our wedding was important. Whether by coincidence or not, the wedding day from the past and the wedding day now after returning were the same.

 

Then, as Heidi said, wouldn’t it be a solution to move up the wedding even faster before the Pope arrives at the Empire?

 

“I’d like us to hurry up our wedding.”

 

“…You die on the wedding day. Right?”

 

Dahlia’s eyes widened in surprise.

 

“I didn’t say anything, so how do you know everything?”

 

“I’m the Emperor. Reading someone’s intentions from conversation is something I can do with my eyes closed.”

 

“But your eyes aren’t closed right now?”

 

When Dahlia tilted her head and looked at him, the Emperor relaxed his stern expression as if he couldn’t help himself.

 

“I’ll have the wedding preparations moved up.”

 

“Yes!”

 

Dahlia nodded with a bright smile.

 

* * *

 

Roand left the Imperial Palace and entered a small house on the outskirts.

 

It was Hallen’s secret safe house within the Ruusephon Empire.

 

The Holy Knight inside bowed his head.

 

“Welcome.”

 

“His Holiness the Pope?”

 

“He has arrived.”

 

Opening the back door of the safe house led to a small hill.

 

Following the Holy Knight, a small cave soon appeared.

 

As the Holy Knight stood guard in front of the cave, Roand quietly entered inside.

 

In the interior lit by candles, he could see the Pope quietly lost in thought.

 

“I greet His Holiness the Pope.”

 

The Pope who noticed him smiled kindly.

 

“It’s been a while, Roand. I hear the Saint has gone missing?”

 

“Yes. No matter how much we searched, we couldn’t find her.”

 

“It must be the Emperor’s doing. But it’s strange. Why didn’t the Emperor capture you when he imprisoned the Saint somewhere?”

 

The Pope looked at Roand with suspicious eyes.

 

Roand silently met his gaze with an expressionless face.

 

The Pope didn’t seem to particularly want an answer either, as he continued speaking.

 

“Well. Actually, that child isn’t very important. As long as we can get our hands on the Princess.”

 

“The Princess is currently unable to wake up.”

 

According to what he had learned through Cole, she had suddenly fallen into a deep sleep and couldn’t wake up.

 

They had even sent a high-ranking priest, but couldn’t wake her from her slumber.

 

“Tsk. These things happen when she’s in a place like this. If she had been in Hallen, this wouldn’t have occurred. She probably suddenly awakened tremendous Divine Power and her body couldn’t handle it.”

 

His anxious heart over her not waking for several days wavered at the Pope’s single statement. Could that really be true?

 

“Then what should we do?”

 

Urgency naturally seeped into Roand’s voice.

 

“What else can we do? We need to bring that child to Hallen.”

 

The Pope’s eyes gleamed as he revealed his greed for her.

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