I Married the Terminally Ill Emperor - Chapter 82
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I Married a Terminally Ill Emperor
Chapter 82
At that moment, Lady Yofron, her head covered with a black veil, approached them directly.
Whether she hadn’t slept well, her skin looked rough, her eyes were bloodshot red, and her lips were chapped with scabs.
“I greet Princess.”
Lady Yofron, standing in front of the table, greeted the Princess.
“What brings you here again?”
Tiara glared at her with displeasure.
Lady Yofron ignored the Princess and turned her gaze directly to Dahlia.
“Princess. I’m truly sorry.”
Lady Yofron approached Dahlia and dropped to her knees with a thud.
Startled, Dahlia looked down at Lady Yofron.
“Lady?”
“I kept thinking about how I should apologize to you. I’m truly sorry, Princess.”
Lady Yofron’s face was completely stained with tears as she raised her head.
Dahlia looked at her while suppressing a sigh.
Were those tears genuine, or crocodile tears?
“Please stand up, Lady.”
“Please accept my apology.”
As Lady Yofron bowed her head deeply once more, Dahlia asked quietly.
“Is this an apology for lying? Or for trying to attack me?”
Lady Yofron bit her lips and spoke slowly.
“Both. Both were terrible things I did.”
“I understand. I’ll accept your apology, but I don’t want to see you anymore, Lady. Do you understand what I mean?”
“…Yes. Then would you at least accept this?”
Lady Yofron opened a box and held it out. It was the diamond bracelet she had seen before.
“Lady. As I said before, I cannot accept this.”
“Princess. Since you’ve accepted my apology, please wear it just once, just once.”
“I cannot do that.”
Although it was only for three months, she was soon to become Empress. She couldn’t accept such bribes from nobility.
The moment rumors spread that she had accepted this, all kinds of gifts would pour in like a flood.
To prevent that, Dahlia firmly refused.
“You don’t like it…”
Lady Yofron muttered low as if talking to herself.
She had been keeping her head down, but now she raised her face with anxious eyes while chewing her lips nervously.
“Can’t you wear it just once?”
“Lady Yofron. Why are you being so persistent? What’s so special about that bracelet?”
At the Princess’s words from the side, fire ignited in Lady Yofron’s dead-looking eyes.
Lady Yofron suddenly stood up and put on the bracelet she had just been begging about, grinning wickedly.
“It’s actually better with the Princess here too. Yes, everything worked out well. I just need to finish it.”
She muttered to herself as if she had lost her mind.
“What?”
“I can deal with two women I hated at once.”
A bright smile bloomed on Lady Yofron’s face. Her bloodshot eyes turned toward Dahlia, filled with resentment.
“If I can’t have it, then no one else can either.”
“Lady…”
Lady Yofron still seemed to need treatment.
Then, the hand wearing the bracelet was extended toward Dahlia. The transparent diamond bracelet was revealed under the sunlight.
“Die.”
A voice dripping with chilling resentment fell drop by drop.
At that moment, Tiara’s eyes widened as much as possible as she examined the bracelet closely. That magic formula was?
“Bomb…!”
Beep beep!
“Bloody Hell.”
“Shield!”
Lady Yofron and Tiara shouted activation words simultaneously.
BOOM!!
The diamond bracelet exploded with a thunderous roar.
Dahlia blinked slowly at the enormous sound that made her ears ring.
She felt the warmth of someone embracing her head.
Looking up, she saw Annie holding her and trembling violently, with Cole embracing both of them.
Seeing the three people huddled together, Tiara looked at Annie and Cole with admiring eyes. It was loyalty that didn’t fear even death.
“It’s over.”
At Tiara’s words, Cole stepped back while staying alert of the surroundings. Annie still held Dahlia with an anxious face, looking around.
A transparent wall surrounded them. They could see fierce wind from somewhere swirling behind the transparent wall.
Annie looked at the Princess with trembling eyes.
“Why?”
Annie separated herself from Dahlia, approached the Princess, and bowed deeply at the waist.
“Thank you for saving Princess.”
At her sincere greeting, the corners of the Princess’s lips slightly rose.
Dahlia also stood next to Annie and bowed her head.
“Thank you for saving us.”
“Hmph, now you know how amazing I am, right? But where did she get something like that? Bloody Hell.”
Tiara’s gaze turned toward the garden that was hollowed out like ruins.
“What is that?”
Dahlia still looked beyond the transparent wall with fearful eyes.
Where Lady Yofron had been, only charred pieces of veil remained along with flames rising in the wind.
Chirp chirp.
Lemon approached Dahlia as if asking if she was okay.
Dahlia gave Lemon a grateful eye greeting while avoiding people’s attention. The fierce wind that blew behind the Princess’s magic was surely Lemon’s doing.
After confirming Dahlia was safe, Lemon finally seemed relieved and flew up to perch on her head.
Dahlia looked at where Lady Yofron had been with stunned eyes.
The bomb must have been so powerful that the person disappeared without a trace.
“It’s a suicide bomb. The person who says the activation word can’t be more than a certain distance from the bomb.”
If she hadn’t noticed the magic formula carved inside when the transparent diamond caught the sunlight, everyone in this garden would have become a handful of ashes. Just like Lady Yofron who had now disappeared without a trace.
“To think such a thing was brought into the Imperial Palace. This is why countries that don’t know magic are dangerous. Tsk tsk.”
Though the Princess spoke arrogantly, everyone agreed with her words at this moment.
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BOOM!!
During the ministers’ meeting, a tremendous roar echoed. It was a sound that should never be heard in the Imperial Palace.
The ministers looked startled and restless. They wanted to check what had happened, but they couldn’t run out with the Emperor present.
Emperor Gray narrowed his eyes and tried to gauge the direction of the sound, then frowned.
Could it be? An ominous premonition crept up his back.
When the Emperor suddenly rose from his seat, the ministers also quickly followed suit.
“Let’s wrap up for today.”
“Yes! We shall do so!”
As the Emperor hurriedly left his seat, the ministers gathered in small groups and whispered among themselves.
“What on earth is this about?”
“I had my aide look into it.”
Gray, who had rushed out of the Conference Hall, spotted smoke rising from the direction of Crystal Palace and began running.
His heart pounded wildly with surging anxiety.
Unlike Ethan, who closely followed behind the Emperor, Oreon ultimately lost track of the Emperor.
“Please take me with you, Your Majesty…”
Ignoring Oreon’s desperate plea, he headed straight for Crystal Palace when he saw Hart running toward him.
“I greet Your Majesty. At Crystal Palace—”
“Where is Dahlia?”
The Emperor urgently cut off her words.
“She is safe. I will explain the situation on the way.”
Gray relaxed his tense expression and nodded.
In front of Crystal Palace, maids and servants had gathered, murmuring among themselves.
Leaving them behind, Gray went straight into the palace and headed for Dahlia’s room.
Hart stepped forward to knock on the door, and Cole opened it from inside.
“I greet Emperor Gray.”
Gray acknowledged the greeting with a nod and entered.
Annie, who had been sitting by the bedside, rose from her seat.
“I greet Emperor Gray.”
“Where is Dahlia?”
“She was startled and just fell asleep.”
“I see.”
Dahlia’s face was hidden behind Annie.
Reading the Emperor’s anxious gaze, Annie stepped aside.
His steps naturally moved toward her.
Looking down at her peacefully sleeping face, his wildly beating heart gradually found its place.
Annie exchanged glances with Cole and they left the room together.
Only he and the sleeping woman remained in the room.
“I have no face to show you.”
He had promised to protect her, yet bad things kept happening to her. It seemed as if the world was constantly tormenting her.
With that thought, an inexplicable fear washed over him again.
He could see her small, white hand extending beyond the sheets.
Gray carefully took her hand and forcibly suppressed his anxiety.
Though his own life would end with a terminal illness, he was doing his best to leave Viviana a peaceful era.
But at this moment, he had gained another goal.
Dahlia—he would definitely protect her, even if it cost him his life.
Gray knelt on one knee and placed a kiss of oath on her hand.
For a long time after that, Gray gazed only at her, losing track of time.
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