I Married the Terminally Ill Emperor - Chapter 66

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I Married a Terminally Ill Emperor

Chapter 66

“…Annie. Thank you for believing in me.”

“I believe you, but other people won’t be able to. We can only say that you and Your Majesty suddenly fell in love and got married.”

Fell in love with the Emperor?

Dahlia’s face instantly turned red. Just imagining it felt strange somehow. Even though she knew it was a lie, her heart beat strangely.

Just then, there was a knock.

“Come in.”

“Princess. His Majesty says he will visit in an hour?”

Hart, who entered the room, looked at Dahlia still on the bed and gave an awkward smile.

“Princess, let’s start with washing up!”

Annie said firmly.

“I’ll prepare the bath water right away!”

Hart immediately rushed out, and Annie went into the dressing room to choose a dress.

Only Dahlia shrugged her shoulders and flopped back down on the bed.

* * *

Thanks to the two’s efforts, Dahlia was able to finish preparing on time and greet the Emperor in the reception room.

“Welcome, Your Majesty.”

“You haven’t been going out much lately.”

At that, Dahlia glared at Hart standing behind her. Did you tell him?

Hart, meeting her eyes, shook her head slightly as if to say she wasn’t the one who told.

“It wasn’t Hart. I’m just saying this because the Princess who I used to run into outside all the time hasn’t been around.”

“Well, just because.”

Dahlia held back what she wanted to say – ‘I can’t go out because I’m worried about you’ – and changed the subject.

“Today there’s somewhere I want to go with you.”

“Where?”

“It’s a secret. Let’s go first.”

When the Emperor got up first, Dahlia followed behind.

Annie and Cole also tried to move with them, but the Emperor turned around and stopped them.

“You two don’t need to follow.”

“I am the Princess’s guard knight.”

Cole looked at the Emperor with a tense expression.

“Right. But today I’ll be the Princess’s temporary guard knight.”

The Emperor was a Sword Master. Since he was volunteering to be her guard knight, the Princess would be safer than with anyone else.

When Cole made a sullen face, Dahlia stepped forward.

“It seems we’re going somewhere you two can’t enter, like His Majesty’s garden. I’ll return safely, so don’t worry about me.”

“Yes. Please be careful.”

Annie stepped forward with a look that said she would comfort Cole herself and answered.

“Right, both of you rest.”

* * *

The two people who got off the carriage were standing in the middle of a forest.

Dahlia looked at the large cave in front of her and turned pale. Wild boars wouldn’t come streaming out of here too, would they?

“You want us to go in there?”

“Do you dislike dark places?”

“No. It’s not that.”

“Then let’s go.”

The Emperor led the way and Dahlia followed behind.

The cave was quite deep, but the luminous stones embedded in the walls softly illuminated the surroundings, so it wasn’t as dark as expected.

The Emperor, who had been leading for a while, stopped in place.

When Dahlia, standing behind, stuck her head to the side and looked forward, she saw a large iron door.

An iron door in a cave?

It seemed like some kind of secret place, but she didn’t understand why he had brought her to such a location.

When the Emperor knocked on the iron door, it opened from inside.

Captain of the Guard Ethan was inside.

She had wondered why he, who was always attached to the Emperor’s side, wasn’t visible today – apparently he had been waiting for the Emperor here.

Ethan discovered her and opened his eyes wide in surprise, then silently bowed.

Dahlia also slightly lowered her head in response.

“Let’s go in.”

“Yes.”

Upon entering through the iron door, stairs leading downward came into view. Dahlia cast suspicious glances at the increasingly dubious space.

“Are you afraid of stairs?”

“No.”

The atmosphere was rather bleak and a little scary, but she deliberately acted brave.

“Then ladies first.”

“No. I cannot lead ahead of Your Majesty. Please go first.”

When Dahlia declined in surprise, he chuckled and went down the stairs first.

Dahlia looked down at the stairs with an anxious expression.

The stairs also had luminous stones embedded in them so they weren’t dark, but if she happened to miss a step, she would roll down the fairly deep-looking stairs. Then even the breakfall technique Cole had taught her would be useless.

Ethan, who was standing behind waiting for her to go down, asked bluntly.

“Princess, shall I hold your hand?”

“Would you do that?”

Dahlia asked with a bright face.

The stairs were wide enough for two people to go down together.

Just then, the Emperor who had been leading the way down suddenly stopped and came back up the stairs with his long legs taking large strides.

“Why are you coming back up?”

“It seems I need to build up immunity.”

“Suddenly?”

Dahlia looked at him with a bewildered expression.

“When have you ever built immunity with my permission?”

When he confidently held out his hand, Dahlia overlapped her hand with his with an expression wondering why this person was acting this way.

“Let’s go.”

“Yes.”

She slowly went down the stairs holding hands with the Emperor.

Feeling that the Emperor was being mindful of his stride, Dahlia secretly smiled at his thoughtfulness.

When they reached the end of the stairs, a wide open space appeared, and another iron door was visible. And two knights were guarding in front of it.

“You two go up above.”

“Yes.”

The Emperor held out a handkerchief to her.

“Why this?”

“You’ll need it.”

When the Emperor slowly opened the iron door, a putrid smell sharply pierced her nose.

Dahlia quickly covered her nose with the handkerchief the Emperor had given her.

Was this a place for processing animals? Why had he brought her to such a place?

The Emperor entered first, then turned his head toward her.

“Come in.”

“Do I really have to go in?”

“There’s something the Princess needs to see.”

Dahlia firmly covered her nose with the handkerchief and went inside.

She heard the sound of the Emperor closing the iron door behind them.

Looking straight ahead, she was so startled that she dropped the hand holding the handkerchief.

A black monster.

The black monster she had seen in her dream was hanging dead inside the room.

“…Why is this here?”

“Is this the monster you saw in your dream?”

The Emperor asked in a low voice.

“Yes, it’s the monster I saw in my dream…”

Why was that monster here? Had the world’s destruction already begun? Because the Emperor hadn’t married?

No. I was too late. I should have resolved this sooner.

Dahlia trembled all over as if struck by chills and pressed her ears shut. The screams she had heard in her dream rang like tinnitus.

Everyone will die. All people will die.

Dahlia collapsed to the floor and covered her ears even harder.

“I was too late, everyone will die…”

Again, she couldn’t save anyone. She had already known. She had seen it in her dream.

Tears flowed down her face endlessly.

She was sorry. She felt guilty for not being able to save the dying people.

“…Princess. …Dahlia…”

Someone seemed to be calling her, but it was hard to hear over the screams.

“Princess Dahlia. Look at me.”

Gray knelt on one knee in front of her and carefully removed her hands that were covering her ears.

Her unfocused, vacant violet eyes were frozen with terror. Tears flowed endlessly from her eyes.

The Princess had fallen into panic.

Gray stared at her with a shocked expression. He hadn’t anticipated that she would suffer like this. He had simply wanted to confirm if it was the same creature as the monster from her dream.

Didn’t she know nothing about the transparent monsters? He had suspected that perhaps the monster from her dream was a different species.

If he had known she would suffer like this, he wouldn’t have brought her.

Seeing her cry made his breath catch. His chest ached as if cut by a sword.

He didn’t even know how to comfort a crying woman.

He knew nothing at all.

Watching her tremble as if struck by chills, he carefully embraced her. And he gently patted her back.

“Princess. It’s okay, it will be okay. Princess Dahlia. I’ll protect you. Focus on my voice. Please…”

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