I Won’t Pick Up The T*ash I Threw Away Again - Chapter 225

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#225

Fillen thought everything was over since Kalian had taken Leilah away.

“His Majesty the Emperor still hasn’t returned to the Rahalbah Outpost?”

That’s what he thought, but he received unexpected news from a spy he had planted at the Rahalbah Outpost.

“Is that really true?”

“Yes. His Majesty the Emperor suddenly disappeared, and everyone is extremely worried.”

The soldier delivering the news to Fillen wasn’t someone who had betrayed the Empire like Fillen had.

He simply never dreamed that Fillen, the Empire’s commander-in-chief and duke, had betrayed the Empire, so he was just sharing various information.

“By the way, Your Grace, how long will you be carrying out the secret mission His Majesty the Emperor assigned you?”

Fillen had asked the soldier to keep their meetings secret, telling him that he had received special orders from His Majesty the Emperor and had confidential matters to handle.

He had said that pretending to be missing was also part of his secret mission.

At the soldier’s question, Fillen openly showed his displeasure.

“Do I have an obligation to tell you every little detail about such things?”

“I’m, I’m sorry. I just thought it would be more helpful in recapturing Rahalbah if Your Grace returned…”

“Enough. Go back now. And keep our meeting secret.”

“Yes, yes.”

Fillen parted ways with the soldier and thought about Kalian as he returned to the hideout where the Stella Kingdom Army was hiding.

Considering Kalian’s reaction, it seemed like he already knew that Fillen had betrayed the Empire.

But why hadn’t he announced that fact?

And if he hadn’t returned to the Rahalbah Outpost, where on earth had he gone?

Various questions arose, but one thing was certain.

He still had a chance to turn everything around.

“They say the Empire’s emperor still hasn’t returned to the Rahalbah Outpost.”

Returning to the hideout, Fillen spread out a map marking the area around Rahalbah and showed it to the Stella Kingdom Army.

This map was also something Fillen had obtained using his position as commander-in-chief.

“The fact that he hasn’t returned to the Rahalbah Outpost even half a day after leaving the mine means he must be in a situation where he can’t.”

Fillen dipped a quill pen in red ink and marked several spots on the map.

“From now on, search the areas I’ve marked.”

This was the last chance heaven had given him. He would absolutely not let this opportunity slip away. Fillen gritted his teeth and made this vow again and again.

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Every time I regained consciousness, I felt terrible abdominal pain, making me afraid to come to my senses.

I even thought I wanted to stay unconscious until my body was completely healed.

Perhaps God understood my feelings, because when I regained consciousness again, the abdominal pain had somehow disappeared.

What a relief. As I opened my eyes with great relief, I saw an old ceiling instead of the rough mine.

Where am I?

Judging by the strong smell of medicinal herbs, it seemed Fillen had brought me to a doctor.

Then was seeing Kalian before I last lost consciousness just my imagination?

Had I briefly hallucinated because I missed him so much?

That fact felt even sadder. As I swallowed my tears inwardly and casually turned my head, I saw a familiar face.

“Your, Your Majesty?”

It was Kalian. Stunned by this unexpected sight, I stared at him blankly and slowly reached out my hand.

His clean forehead and thick eyebrows, his straight nose and thin red lips.

It wasn’t a hallucination. It really was Kalian. He had come to rescue me.

At that realization, the tears I had been holding back burst forth.

“Your Majesty, Your Majesty…”

As I shed tears so profusely that my vision became blurry while touching Kalian’s face, I heard a clicking sound.

“It’s embarrassing to watch, so stop your romantic display.”

The rough dialect was unfamiliar. It was a voice I’d never heard before.

Could it be an enemy? The tears that had been wetting my cheeks dried up instantly.

When I turned around tensely, I saw a man with a bushy beard. His large build and the long scar drawn across his cheek were somewhat intimidating.

No matter how I looked at him, he didn’t seem like a doctor. Just from his appearance, he looked like a bandit.

“Who, who are you?”

The man chuckled and added firewood to the campfire.

“Just like a noble young lady to speak informally to someone she’s meeting for the first time. And to her lifesaver, no less.”

This man was my lifesaver?

“Then you’re the one who saved my and Kal’s lives?”

If this man really was the lifesaver who had rescued me and Kalian, it seemed right to be respectful, so I spoke more politely.

And since the man didn’t seem to know that Kalian was the Empire’s emperor, I called him Kal instead of using the title Your Majesty.

“Well? Who else do you think would have saved you two?”

I noticed now that beside the man were finely crushed medicinal herbs with their juice extracted, and a mortar. I could also see a basin and wet cloths.

It seemed he wasn’t an enemy, but I couldn’t be completely at ease.

I sat up groggily without lowering my guard. Perhaps due to the aftereffects of the terrible abdominal pain, my lower abdomen ached slightly.

As I grimaced and made a groaning sound, the man stirred the firewood with kindling and said indifferently.

“If you’re in pain, don’t overdo it. It’s not good for your body or the child in your belly.”

“…What?”

What… what did this man just say?

A baby? There’s a baby in my belly?

“You’re saying there’s a baby in my belly?”

“Seems like you didn’t know.”

Of course I didn’t know. No, it would be more accurate to say I never even dreamed of it.

Come to think of it, it had been over a month and a half since I left the capital, and I hadn’t had my period.

Sometimes when I was under severe stress, I would skip it, so I thought it was just that this time, but to think I was pregnant.

“A baby…”

I gently cupped my lower abdomen.

Inside here was Kalian’s and my child.

To think I had been rough with my body without knowing. I’m not qualified to be a mother.

My vision became blurry for a different reason than before.

“Is the child, is the child safe?”

“Well. I’m not a doctor so I don’t know for sure, but since there’s no bleeding, it seems to be safe.”

“I see…”

It wasn’t a definitive answer, but I felt somewhat relieved.

More than that, even though we had been talking loudly this whole time, Kalian continued sleeping without moving at all.

Normally, he would react sensitively to even a little noise and wake up immediately, but this was strange.

Was he hurt somewhere? But his expression looked peaceful for that to be the case.

Just in case, I checked for fever, but he had none. His breathing was also normal.

“Kal.”

It seemed I needed to wake him up, so I shook his shoulder.

But Kalian didn’t respond. His tightly closed eyes showed no sign of opening.

This was far too strange.

“Kal, Kal. Kalian!”

Rising anxiety made me dare to call his name as I shook his shoulder hard.

I even clenched my fist and hit him, but Kalian still wouldn’t open his eyes.

If not for his chest rising and falling regularly and the breath he was exhaling, I would have thought he was dead.

“Kalian, Kalian!”

“It’s no use.”

As I was desperately trying to wake Kalian, the man spoke bluntly.

“That man is in a coma right now. You can never wake him up with ordinary methods.”

“Coma state? You mean unconsciousness?”

“It’s slightly different but almost the same. Anyway, he won’t wake up with methods like that, so you’d better give up.”

“How do you know that? Weren’t you just an ordinary person?”

“I am an ordinary person.”

The man chuckled softly as he put down the kindling and stood up.

“An ordinary hunter, too.”

No matter how I looked at him, he didn’t seem ordinary at all.

As I watched the man with suspicious eyes, he approached Kalian and hoisted him onto his back.

“What, what are you doing!”

I jumped up from my seat and shouted, making the man laugh heartily.

“You’ve got good energy. I was worried you might not have the strength to go down the mountain, but that’s a relief. No matter how strong I am, I don’t have the confidence to carry two people down the mountain.”

“Where are you trying to go?”

“To the doctor in the village, of course. Even if this man is fine, you need more treatment. What I did was just a temporary measure, so it won’t be effective for very long.”

I see. It was strange that this man knew my body better than I did.

“Besides, some guys have been searching the mountain for the past 2 hours.”

At those words, Fillen came to mind and my spine went cold.

I wrapped my arms around myself as goosebumps rose and trembled.

“From the looks of it, it seems you and this man are the ones those guys are looking for.”

“…Are you going to hand us over to those people?”

The man chuckled softly.

“If I was planning to do that, I would have done it while you were unconscious.”

“…”

“Don’t worry, miss.”

When I couldn’t easily dispel my suspicions, the man winked at me.

“Although I only live in the mountains and am ignorant of worldly affairs, I know well that this country’s emperor has blue eyes and blue hair.”

So he knows that Kalian is the emperor.

That means he also knows I’m an aristocrat, yet he speaks so casually to me without any concern.

He was a curious man in many ways.

“Let’s go then. If we’re any later, it’ll be too dark to go down the mountain.”

The man hoisted Kalian onto his shoulder and strode out of the cabin.

My suspicions about the man weren’t completely resolved, but right now there was no better option than to do as he suggested.

I had no choice but to follow the man.

Desperately hoping that the man wouldn’t betray us.

The outside world was completely red. A red sunset was setting behind the mountain peaks.

“Wait, let’s go together!”

Even with Kalian on his shoulder, he went down so fast that it was hard to keep up.

When I shouted while panting, the man clicked his tongue as if annoyed.

“If you dawdle, you’ll get caught by those guys?”

“Still…”

“Over there!”

The man’s eyes widened as he pointed behind me.

I was startled and turned around, then the man laughed heartily.

“Just kidding.”

“…”

That man, really. I was staring at him in disbelief when the man’s eyes widened again.

“Watch out!”

As if I’d fall for it twice after being fooled once.

This time I snorted and didn’t turn around, but I heard a sharp swooshing sound of something cutting through the air.

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