The Cooking Princess - Chapter 120

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Claude clearly swung his sword aiming for Chloe.

However, Claude’s blade failed to cut its intended target.

Instead, it struck Shuel, who had stepped in front of her.

As the Crown Prince suddenly collapsed, the battlefield stirred with commotion.

“Shuel!!!!!”

Chloe forgot all etiquette and screamed loudly, embracing him as she pulled back. It was to secure at least minimal distance from Claude.

“No, don’t… don’t!”

She frantically tried to stop the bleeding around Shuel’s chest in her panic.

“I’m, fine. Chloe.”

“Don’t speak. Don’t speak, Shuel! If you talk, the blood… more blood comes out.”

Chloe desperately tried to stop Shuel from saying anything.

Every time he opened his mouth, his chest heaved and blood gushed from his wound.

Chloe’s pretty green eyes, which had been gentle until now, darkened ominously.

She shouted angrily at those around her who didn’t know what to do.

“What are you doing instead of punishing the criminal?”

Only after hearing those words did the soldiers finally hide their agitation and rush toward Claude.

However, Claude was skilled, and subduing him seemed far off.

And the tribesmen supporting him had just approached near Claude.

He was confident of his victory and mocked Chloe.

“How pathetic you’ve become trying to protect your fiancée, Your Highness.”

Claude added while glaring at Chloe with blazing eyes full of hatred.

“Even if you frame me as a rebel, I will never lose. Even if I fall, I plan to drag you two to hell with me.”

Chloe still couldn’t understand why Claude glared at her with such resentment.

Of course, she had no intention of finding out the reason now.

She simply glared at Claude with cold eyes, gritting her teeth as she ordered the attack.

Of course, Claude wasn’t concerned.

He already knew his allies had approached within close range.

“Have you gone mad with inferiority complex, Duke Claude?”

Chloe gritted her teeth desperately, but there was nothing she could do.

All she could do was hold onto Shuel to keep him conscious.

No, that’s how it appeared.

Until the tribesmen who appeared near Claude drew their swords… and attacked Claude.

Claude, who had been careless while fixing his gaze on Chloe, was momentarily flustered, and a chaotic battle ensued as Claude’s subordinates and the Imperial Army mixed together to attack him.

However, even in the sudden situation, the soldiers under Shuel’s command maintained their composure.

This was exactly Shuel’s strategy.

Chloe and the tribesmen had exchanged intentions by putting small letter fragments in food. This too was a plan Shuel had arranged.

If he doesn’t even care about his own mother, the Empress, dying, do you think he’ll keep promises with a small tribe?

Claude doesn’t ignore the power of the monsters you can command, so paradoxically, he will abandon you.

Chloe had spent time carefully persuading the tribesmen this way.

Since the tribesmen didn’t trust Claude but weren’t entirely favorable toward Chloe either, she negotiated in detail about guaranteeing their position after suppressing the rebellion and specifically what benefits she would provide.

After long persuasion, the tribesmen finally accepted Chloe’s proposal.

Chloe watched the tribesmen wearing red cloth and commanded the Imperial Army.

“The soldiers wearing red cloth are our allies, so attack excluding them!”

Everyone pointed their sword tips at each other, and what followed was chaos once again.

Chloe felt that her negotiation with the tribesmen had succeeded, but Shuel’s condition was more urgent.

She covered Shuel’s wound with her trembling hands as he was losing consciousness.

‘Shuel is the male protagonist.’

Even if he ended up with Chloe, the villainess, instead of Shurya, the original heroine…

Even if the original story’s flow had been broken countless times because of this, the fact that he was the male protagonist didn’t change.

So Shuel would somehow survive – trying to believe this, Chloe held Shuel’s trembling hand.

Shuel had already set up various traps to lure Claude.

However, Claude, being a Sword Master, mercilessly swung his sword trying to escape somehow.

Just when people’s hearts were filled with anxiety, wondering if they would lose like this.

“You’ll have to take responsibility for killing one of ours.”

Whoosh,

And.

A powerful fire magic attack came from right behind Claude.

Claude blocked the magical attacks focused on him several times, but eventually.

“Ugh…!”

With his increasingly exhausted body, he couldn’t defeat the Merchant Prince and was caught by a binding spell.

Unlike swordsmanship that could only attack relatively short distances, magic had a much wider attack range.

Eshir succeeded in capturing Claude by cleverly using that distance gap when Claude showed an opening due to exhaustion.

After confirming that the binding spell he had cast by surprise was working well, Eshir snorted dismissively.

“Who told you to challenge magic with disadvantageous swordsmanship?”

As soon as Claude was subdued, Shurya hurriedly brought priests and began treating Shuel’s wound.

“It’s okay, Chloe. Prince Shuel will somehow survive.”

The priest faction led by Shurya arrived and treated Shuel,

And Eshir, who had made a great military contribution to capturing Claude, checked Shuel’s condition with magic with a somewhat complicated expression and carefully guarded the surroundings in case of any betrayal.

Chloe’s heart was moved that her friends hadn’t forgotten her and had rushed over to help her somehow. Barely wiping away the tears that kept welling up, she expressed her gratitude to them in a subdued voice.

“…Thank you so much, everyone.”

And after the priests used all their strength to heal him.

Shuel safely woke up the next day.

“Shuel!”

“Cough, cough… Mmm, Chloe.”

He smiled faintly as soon as he regained consciousness.

Color returned to Chloe’s face as she had been constantly watching over Shuel.

She held Shuel’s hand tightly and whispered affectionately.

“You worked so hard, Shuel. Now, you can ascend to the throne… And.”

Chloe hesitated for a moment before adding.

“We can also get married.”

For Chloe to directly mention marriage. And right after he woke up.

Shuel’s golden eyes sparkled with joy before falling into contemplation.

He hesitated for a moment before asking.

“If people are pushing you into this… it’s okay to wait a little longer until you want to,”

However, Shuel’s concern couldn’t reach its conclusion.

“Now that you’re excluded, I’m the highest authority, so who would dare force marriage on me.”

Chloe deliberately used informal speech and smiled mischievously before telling him about the day’s accumulated events.

She said the Garnet family members were relatively safe, and they were gradually cleaning up the remaining Northern Continent forces that had been with Claude.

She mentioned that Eshir, the Merchant Prince, had been particularly helpful in cleaning up the remnants, and the priests had used up much healing magic to save Shuel. So they should think about rewarding them too, Chloe said with a bright smile.

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After Shuel recovered, his coronation and wedding ceremony approached.

Since the country was damaged, having a lavish wedding would invite ridicule for being extravagant.

But being too modest could also invite mockery.

The two pondered with their heads together and decided to hold their wedding ceremony right after Shuel’s coronation as Emperor.

So the two continued putting their heads together to decide how to organize the wedding attire and splendid coronation ceremony.

In less than a week, Shuel wore the crown on his head and became a legitimate Emperor.

After that, their wedding ceremony followed naturally.

Everyone welcomed and celebrated their marriage.

“Do you both swear to love only each other under the sacred religion?”

Though her tone was somewhat formal, Shurya’s face wore a happy smile as she officiated their wedding as Pope.

“Yes, I swear.”

“I swear.”

Shuel and Chloe wore overwhelming smiles until the ceremony ended.

Grania Garnet, Count, Chloe’s father, secretly wiped his eyes with a handkerchief.

Chloe’s nose also tingled when she happened to see this.

‘The coronation and the wedding—I managed to finish both safely.’

Claude was still imprisoned awaiting his official trial…

Not only had he lusted after the throne, entered into an illegal marriage, and incited rebellion,

but his crimes of assassinating the Emperor and attempting to kill the Prince who would succeed him would certainly not be taken lightly.

Since the original story was completely ruined, even Chloe didn’t know whether the path ahead would be entirely a happy ending or not.

However, surely, if they moved forward together holding this hand…

Whatever future awaited them at the end would be fine, Chloe thought as she smiled brightly.

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