The Abandoned Prince’s Ghost Bride - Chapter 140

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The Abandoned Prince’s Ghost Bride — Episode 140

“Damn it… there are too many guards.”
“We can’t suppress them with just the three of us.”
Harry, Dio, and James crouched behind the building, surveying the Knight Training Ground visible in the distance.
It was where the Black Magicians had gathered everyone from within the Imperial Palace.
Those who resisted fiercely were killed, while those who surrendered were herded here. Among them were the late Emperor and Empress.
“……Sir Albert.”
Behind the Black Magicians standing guard, Albert appeared, bearing severe wounds. A few knights who served under him stood nearby as well.
Though he had gathered knights on their advice, he had lacked the skill to overcome the Black Magicians.
“Thanks to Lord Age, we managed to avoid capture, but the three of us alone can’t save all of them.”
Harry swallowed hard and shook his head in frustration. Dio clenched his fists, unable to contain his anger.
‘If only we hadn’t been wounded…’
Then at least they could have scattered the enemy’s attention and rescued these people.
“If only Kaiser were here…”
“You called?”
Someone answered James’s murmur. The three men’s eyes went wide as they spun around.
Kaiser had pushed his face between them.
“Ah…!”
Dio, startled out of his wits, was about to cry out, but James and Harry quickly clamped their hands over his mouth.
Still, the sound had already escaped, and some of the Black Magicians glanced in their direction.
“Brother!”
Despite the danger, Dio was overjoyed at Kaiser’s arrival and didn’t know what to do with himself. Seeing his hopeful eyes, Kaiser let out a derisive snort.
“So you’d really like me to rescue those people, eh?”
“Yes! Once we save them, dealing with those Black Magician bastards will go much faster.”
“Wait here. I’ll take care of it and be back.”
Kaiser patted Harry on the shoulder and entered the enemy position with nothing but his bare hands. Harry stared after him, his chest heaving with overwhelming emotion.
“……I always thought he was just a lay-about.”
“Well, he’s a Dragon after all—when it matters, he gets things done. By the way, the few times he sparred with me, I never even saw his shadow.”
Ahhhhhhhhh!
Stop him! Stop him now!
Against such a Kaiser, the Black Magicians were utterly helpless. In less than five minutes, the entrance was cleared.
Dio, Harry, and James stared at Kaiser with dazed expressions on their faces. Kaiser was already waving his hand, urging them to come. They approached him uncertainly.
Ugh!
At the sight of several Black Magicians lying grotesquely dead, Harry struggled to suppress the nausea rising in his throat, and Dio swallowed hard.
“I’m going to check on Lucian, so I’m leaving this to you three.”
“Thank you, brother.”
Just as Kaiser was about to leave—
“Wait, please!”
Albert staggered to his feet and called out to stop him.
When Kaiser turned, the people who had watched him fight the Black Magicians from start to finish were gazing at him with eyes full of both anxiety and hope.
It seemed they wanted Kaiser to remain here.
“You seem to be an extraordinarily skilled warrior. If I may ask, would you be willing to protect the late Emperor and Empress?”
Kaiser’s brow twitched.
“I humbly ask this of you. With enemy remnants possibly still at large, I cannot leave them in danger.”
“There’s no need. I’m about to go check on Leopold’s condition right now.”
“That is unacceptable, Your Highness! That would be far too dangerous!”
“But that same danger may have reached Leopold! I must go and confirm his safety at once! He’s only just awakened…!”
Despite Albert’s attempts to dissuade her, Ruber was adamant, and Serena seconded her from beside her.
“Your name is Kaiser, if I recall correctly. If you wouldn’t mind, lend us your strength.”
Having already witnessed Kaiser’s power, she granted him some measure of respect, though the arrogance inherent to Imperial bloodline still colored her tone.
Kaiser, dumbfounded by it, let out a hollow laugh.
“This is exactly why I hate humans.”
Kaiser’s voice dropped sharply. The atmosphere shifted, and a palpable threat hung in the air—enough to make Serena flinch.
“The first one matters to you, and the second doesn’t, does it?”
Serena clamped her mouth shut. But her eyes were already wavering.
They kept calling Lucian by the name ‘Leopold’ because of how people perceived them.
Yet the Leopold they had just mentioned hardly seemed to refer to Lucian at all.
“Do you even realize who caused this whole catastrophe?”
“Mind your tongue! How dare you speak thus…!”
“And you—do you even know who you’re facing, standing there with your head held so high?”
Albert sputtered in indignation and challenged him, but Kaiser’s pupils had already shifted, reptilian and cold.
Thrum-thrum-thrum-thrum!
The ground trembled finely, and a crushing gravity coupled with a killing intent pressed down on everything. Every human behind Kaiser—except Harry and Dio—fell to their knees, unable to lift their heads.
“What is this…”
Ruber gasped in shock, barely managing to lift his sagging head. Then his eyes bulged wide.
Behind Kaiser, vast crimson wings unfurled.
“……A Red Dragon.”
The Red Dragon that appeared even in the Empire’s founding myth.
With the Red Dragon depicted on the national flag, they loved Red Dragons above all other Dragons.
Yet they had believed such beings existed only in legend. When the real creature manifested before their eyes, Ruber and the others were struck with shock.
“If you weren’t Lucian’s birth parents, you’d have been torn to shreds in my claws long ago. So what? You want my help finding Leopold—not Lucian?”
“Ah… ah…”
Serena, paralyzed by terror, collapsed flat against the floor.
“Leopold started this disaster. Lucian went to stop it. And yet you dare open your mouth and babble like this? Should I silence that mouth forever?”
Crimson scales bristled across Kaiser’s face, and an unrelenting Dragon Fear poured forth.
As he lowered his upper body, fixing his gaze on Ruber and Serena crouched on the ground, Serena looked as though she might faint at any moment.
“Brother!”
Kaiser’s eyes, which had been fixed forward, swiveled backward. Dio stood tense, shielding a trembling Harry behind him.
“Not now. We have to save Lucian and Lia quickly.”
“……”
Thrum-thrum-thrum…
As Kaiser withdrew his fierce gaze, the trembling of the earth subsided, and the crushing force that had weighed down on everyone dissipated.
Only then did Ruber and Serena release their held breath. Lifting their heads, they found Kaiser already far away.
“Dio, if those bastards speak nonsense even once more, tell me. Then I really will tear them apart.”
“……Haha.”
Dio could only manage an awkward laugh. Kaiser spread wings from his back and vanished in an instant toward where Lucian was.
After he disappeared, people stirred and climbed back to their feet.
“……Lord Dio.”
Dio, who had been staring at where Kaiser vanished, squeezed his eyes shut at the voice that reached him from nearby. He swallowed hard and turned his head.
Ruber and Serena were regarding him with bewildered eyes.
“How does Lucian… have a connection to a Red Dragon?”
“And what did he mean, Leopold caused this disaster?”
The three exchanged troubled glances. But with the situation now so dire, continuing to hide the truth was impossible.
“There’s much to explain. Could we discuss it elsewhere?”
Ruber and Serena nodded, their faces grim.

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“Lucian!”
“……Kaiser?”
Upon reaching Lucian’s location, Kaiser found a formidable Magical Barrier and Lucian battered beyond recognition.
The tips of Lucian’s fingers were charred black, scorch marks covered his body, and blood—likely from his nose—stained his philtrum and lips darkly.
Kaiser clicked his tongue and used Dragon Language on him.
Heal.
Light enveloped Lucian, and his condition improved. As his breathing eased, Lucian gasped for air.
“Thanks.”
“What’s the situation?”
“Lia is beyond this. I’ve been trying to dispel the Barrier, but… it won’t come off.”
Any attempt to dispel it triggered a backlash that attacked the one attempting the dispelling instead.
That was why Lucian’s condition had been so dire.
“Let me see.”
Kaiser traded places with Lucian and examined the Magical Barrier’s sigil. But even for Kaiser, a Dragon, this was high-difficulty magic that confounded him.
“First, you can’t touch here and here. And this spot is a trap too.”
Lucian pointed out the traps he had discovered, offering his advice. Kaiser absorbed his guidance and wracked his brain.
“Hmm……”
After studying the sigil for a minute, Kaiser finally moved.
Following the path of his hands, the arrangement of the sigil shifted, and one by one, it began to unravel.
Dragons truly were different in some fundamental way. Just when it seemed it would soon be dispelled—
Crackle!
The sigil turned red and the dispelling failed. A violent electrical current surged through Kaiser’s entire body in backlash, and he groaned.
“……How did you endure this so many times?”
He couldn’t fathom that Lucian had suffered this pain repeatedly, not when even Kaiser, a Dragon, found it nearly unbearable.
‘Is he that desperate?’
Lucian’s pale face came into view. Kaiser steeled himself—he couldn’t falter here either.
And when his second attempt at dispelling also failed, Kaiser breathed fire from his mouth.
“If it’s come to this, I’ll just transform and tear the whole thing down—!”
—Stop. You’ll injure Aria inside as well.
Suddenly, a third voice spoke. Since no presence had been felt, both Kaiser and Lucian spun around with wide eyes.
“Ah! You…!”
“……Carserin?”
Kaiser cried out in surprise and pointed, while Lucian unthinkingly spoke the name.
What had appeared behind them was Carserin’s afterimage. The Dragon Heart in Kaiser’s pocket was glowing.
Their eyes met briefly.
“Perfect! You try breaking this open!”
—Tsk. That’s another incarnation of mine.
But at Kaiser’s words, both their gazes broke apart, and Carserin clicked his tongue and stepped forward.
—Well then. Old habits die hard, don’t they.
Carserin smirked with amusement and disdain, swiftly working to dispel the Barrier.
He moved far faster than Kaiser had. Kaiser felt an inexplicable sense of losing and watched him for a moment with narrow eyes.
Click—
“It’s open.”
With the sound of a lock disengaging, the vast Magical Barrier that had sealed the Diamond Hall slowly vanished.
Lucian and Kaiser stared at Carserin in astonishment.
—Don’t be shocked by this. Now the real thing begins.
He was right. This was only the beginning. Now that they were entering—
Creeeeeak—
A final opponent awaited within.
Through the door that swung open, Lia and Leon came into view.
For some reason, Lia sat upon the imperial throne, dressed in a pristine white Dress and wearing a crown.
And Leon, sitting at her side, rose with a twisted expression and turned his head.
“So you managed to break through it.”
Lucian and Kaiser, along with Carserin in his translucent form, the three of them entered the Hall side by side.
Bang!
Immediately the door shut behind them, leaving only quiet silence in the corridor.

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