The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 140
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Chapter 140
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The prison of Valdina Palace.
Thud thud thud. The noisy footsteps echoing through the prison seemed to have no intention of hiding their presence.
“Ah. You’ve finally come.”
Inside the filthy cell, Samon, who had been staring intently at something, raised his head.
“How dare a lowly commoner try to threaten me?”
Outside the bars stood the 4th Princess, glaring at him.
[Your Highness the 4th Princess, may I reveal to the world that it was actually Your Highness who was behind my releasing the wolves to attack Medeia at the hunting competition?]
This was the letter he had sent to the 4th Princess through Raju.
Samon shrugged his shoulders.
“If I hadn’t done that, you wouldn’t have come to see me at all, so what other choice did I have?”
He got up and approached the bars.
“How was it, Your Highness? What did you think of meeting my brother, whom you’ve dreamed of?”
He threw out the question mockingly. His expression was contemptuous, as if he already knew the result.
The 4th Princess immediately snapped with a fierce expression.
“Shut up. Unless you want that chattering mouth of yours torn apart.”
It was because he had hit the mark.
The Kazen delegation, which had hastily left the palace upon hearing news of the rebellion, had returned to Valdina Palace.
After leaving the palace, before they could even reach the border, they heard news that the rebellion had been suppressed and hurriedly returned.
“The King has returned! The King has appeared!”
More precisely, they had been forced to move due to the 4th Princess’s insistence after hearing news of Peleus.
Of course, by the time they arrived at the palace, the grand victory ceremony had already ended.
The 4th Princess stood before the King with an expectant heart.
Somehow, it felt refreshing, like discarding a shirt with wrongly fastened buttons and putting on a crisp, clean new shirt.
“The delegation from Kazen… I have heard the news.”
When the King’s gaze turned toward the Kazen delegation, the 4th Princess swallowed nervously.
Even though he was just looking at them indifferently, she somehow felt as tense as if she were standing on ice on her tiptoes.
‘How can a person look like that?’
She was momentarily entranced, staring at him.
Unbelievably, the King of Valdina had become much more magnificent than in the 4th Princess’s memory from a few years ago.
His lips and nose, hair that seemed scattered with moonlight, and sincere-looking blue eyes remained the same.
To his cold and restrained appearance, the robust build and killing intent characteristic of a warrior had been added.
Somehow her mouth went completely dry. She even worried that standing next to that man would make her look terribly shabby.
The impulse to pluck a beautiful rose coexisted with the fear that touching it would slice her flesh right off.
“King of Valdina, I congratulate you on your victory. May auspicious energy and the goddess’s will surround this country. I am Angelie-”
“The delegation’s purpose seems to have already been achieved. Duke Castulo conveyed Kazen’s sincerity very well, so wouldn’t it be better for you to return now?”
Of course, before she could even stammer through her prepared greeting, she had to face the noble and cold dismissal from the King of Valdina.
The way of slapping someone’s cheek with beautiful words was exactly alike between the siblings.
“No! We have nothing to do with the Duke. That was something he did on his own!”
But as if there was no need to argue further with them, Peleus coldly left his seat.
“I apologize, Your Highness. No further audience is possible.”
The 4th Princess, dismissed like that, was bewildered. No matter what, she was royalty of Kazen, yet she hadn’t expected to be shown no consideration at all.
The King of Valdina was like a sharp sword.
Even the Princess, who had been outwardly gentle and kind, seemed better in comparison.
Nevertheless, the fact that she couldn’t erase that beautiful face from her mind was now becoming infuriating.
As if he had expected such a reaction from the 4th Princess, Samon twisted up the corner of his mouth crookedly.
“Didn’t I tell you? My cousin brother would rather break than ever yield to Kazen.”
“You bastard, do you want your head to fly off before your execution? You still don’t seem to grasp the situation.”
At the 4th Princess’s threat, Samon shrugged his shoulders.
“Since I’m going to die anyway, what more is there to fear?”
“Just hurry up and tell me why you called me here.”
The 4th Princess frowned.
She only wanted to finish her business quickly and leave this filthy prison.
Eyes filled with contempt swept over Samon from his pale complexion to his body dirtied with dust and blood.
‘I must have been crazy. To think that bastard was similar to the King, even for a moment.’
Even when dressed up splendidly, he was barely tolerable to look at, but in his current shabby state, he couldn’t compare to the King at all.
It felt as if filth had gotten on her body.
Just as she was thinking she would need to scrub herself clean in the bath as soon as she returned, Samon opened his mouth.
“Your Highness, please help our family. Wouldn’t it be possible for Your Highness?”
In the end, it didn’t deviate even an inch from her expectations.
The 4th Princess snorted and crossed her arms.
“Hmph, why should I? To you, who joined hands with Jason and screwed me over?”
She glanced at Samon’s strangely twisted arm with disgust. During the last rebellion, he had been injured with a broken arm while blocking an Agema’s sword, but had not yet received treatment.
“Are you truly saying you’ll abandon me like this?”
“Was there ever anything between you and me? You were just a towel I used to wipe my feet for a while. You’re not qualified to act so presumptuously as if you were something more.”
The 4th Princess not only immediately rejected his request but even gave him crude insults.
The smile that Samon had been wearing on his lips, even if only for courtesy, completely disappeared from his face.
“You’ll regret this.”
“Ha! Regret? The only thing I regret is getting involved with filth like you!”
The 4th Princess couldn’t contain herself and stamped her feet.
For a moment, perhaps because her anger had risen too much, she felt dizzy and swayed.
“Your Highness!”
“It’s fine, I’m okay.”
When the maid supported the 4th Princess, she waved her hand and looked down at Samon.
“You really want to live, don’t you? You probably thought you could grab a lifeline by saying we slept together or whatever, but unfortunately, you’re not the first idiot to throw yourself at me like that.”
She spat. Samon wiped the sticky liquid flowing down his temple.
“…”
When eyes full of humiliation looked up at her, the 4th Princess finally felt a bit relieved.
“You’re not even worth being an ant for me to step on and kill. Well then, farewell. Be grateful that I came to see your final state. I’ll hear about how it felt to have your head cut off on the guillotine after I die.”
Samon bit the inside of his cheek hard.
He wanted to grab that arrogant princess right now, pin her down, and shut her mouth, but Samon didn’t forget that she was the one with absolute advantage right now.
His and his family’s lives hung in the princess’s hands. He spoke in a gentle voice.
“You should be… careful, Your Highness. Since you’re not alone.”
“What?”
The 4th Princess flinched and turned her head while holding her forehead.
Through the bars, she saw Samon’s sinister wolf-like face grinning wickedly.
“Didn’t you know? That the fruit of our love is living and breathing in Your Highness’s body?”
“What nonsense are you spouting?”
The 4th Princess knew well her position and the benefits and importance gained through marriage.
Ultimately, her husband had to be a man with a solid background who could strategically support and encourage her ambitions, not just some pretty boy.
Therefore, even when she indulged in wild nights of pleasure with men, the 4th Princess never forgot contraception. Samon was no exception.
“Let me say it again. Haven’t you felt any abnormalities in your body recently?”
“There’s no… such thing!”
When the 4th Princess spoke as if certain, Samon snorted.
“How can you be so confident? As much as Your Highness desperately tries to avoid carrying the seed of men like me, why don’t you think there might be those who would use Your Highness’s womb to target the imperial family?”
“You filthy bastard-”
The 4th Princess, unaware that Raju had bribed her close associates, thought Samon had tampered with her contraceptives.
“Those trivial contraceptives couldn’t stop my love for the 4th Princess.”
“Shut up! Stop talking nonsense! Do you think I’d fall for your petty schemes?”
“You will soon learn the truth.”
He said triumphantly.
“I’ve already sent word to Kazen as well, so by now His Majesty must have received the news. Since it’s the first imperial grandson, His Majesty must surely be delighted.”
What? The 4th Princess asked back as if doubting her ears.
“You, you informed the Late Emperor?”
“Yes, and not just the Kazen Royal Family—I also announced the joyous birth to the Temple. Our passionate love that transcends the borders of both Valdina and Kazen.”
“You crazy bastard!”
The 4th Princess screamed.
Samon had already created all the irrefutable evidence to prevent the 4th Princess from even thinking about getting rid of the child.
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