The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 195

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Part 2, Chapter 42

“M-Master, your wound….”

“Shut up! Close that mouth of yours!”

Red droplets of blood dripped down from the torn wound at his temple as he screamed frantically.

From throwing so many objects around, it seemed broken and shattered fragments remained between the floor cracks despite cleaning.

“I’ll kill them all, these vermin-like bastards-!”

With his face covered in blood from the torn wound and a vicious expression, he looked like a demon reincarnated from hell.

When no one dared approach Samon out of terror, one woman walked toward him.

“Lean on me.”

She wiped his face dirty with blood and dust and helped him up with all her strength.

“Before I tear your face apart- …Mariyu?”

Samon, who had been screaming, hesitated.

He blinked his eyes. As if he couldn’t believe the identity of the woman who suddenly appeared.

The woman smiled brightly.

“That’s right, darling. It’s me.”

“Is it really you? Why are you here….”

While Samon’s rampage temporarily stopped due to his surprise at Mariyu’s sudden appearance.

“Let’s talk about it later. Here, please help me!”

Only when she requested help did the servants finally approach.

“Get lost! What are you doing! Remove this girl from my sight right now!”

However, as if he had never been surprised, Samon pushed Mariyu away and went into another frenzy.

To think he was showing his crippled state completely to his former lover whom he had discarded like an old shoe – Samon felt so ashamed he could go mad.

He didn’t care that blood was dripping from his torn wound.

“Master!”

The Divine Healer who examined his leg condition made a serious expression.

“If this continues, the wound will fester and recovery will be delayed. We need to use sleeping medicine to stop his rampage.”

“Yes, I’ll do everything as you say, physician. Please don’t leave and help me with this.”

When Mariyu nodded and conversed on his behalf, Samon thrashed even more. He tore at his clothes and threw anything within reach.

‘What is that! How dare that worthless girl deceive me!’

“Can’t you hear me! Make that woman disappear from my sight-! Now these vermin see me as a cripple-“

“Yes, yes. We’ll do that, so please stay still.”

Even after Mariyu was dragged away by the servants and disappeared from sight, Samon didn’t stop his labored breathing.

“These rotten bastards! How dare you bring that girl before my eyes? Do you want me to die of anger? I’ll hang you all.”

“M-Master… we were just-“

“When I speak, shut up and just do as I command. Are you looking down on me because I became a leg cripple?!”

As he rampaged, blood burst again from the wound that had briefly stopped bleeding.

“Shall I check if I can tear you all apart one by one?! Huh?!”

The terrified servant quickly covered Samon’s mouth with cotton soaked in sleeping medicine.

Samon’s eyelids slowly closed under the powerful drug’s effect.

That evening when Samon had driven Mariyu away like that.

As the dim night arrived, maids hurried past Samon’s room.

“Strange, it’s too quiet.”

“It has to be. Master got too excited so we barely managed to put him to sleep with sleeping medicine.”

“Still, by now it should be time for him to wake up….”

“The medicine probably hasn’t worn off yet. Sigh, why worry about it? Even if he wakes up, all he’ll do is find fault and throw a fit.”

The quiet night with hardly any sound of their master’s rage lowered the servants’ guard.

The maid turned her head left and right to confirm no one was around, then pursed her lips.

“He only catches us lowly ones like catching mice. When it comes to Valdina royalty, he can’t even open his mouth once….”

“What can we do? Now that he can’t even dream of becoming Emperor, he has to scrape by somehow.”

The servants of this manor were cunning and shrewd like their master.

So now that their master had become crippled and further advancement was hopeless, he wasn’t as threatening as before.

“If things go wrong, we can just abandon this place and go elsewhere. Right? As Master said, who would want to stick with a leg cripple?”

“Right. Let’s not go in and get beaten for nothing, let’s hurry. We were busy today.”

The whispering maids hurried away.

Samon’s room remained quiet.

“Ugh. Uugh….”

He was still wandering through nightmares.

Bright red flames licked before his eyes, and stone wall fragments poured down over his head.

He was trapped in that day’s nightmare.

“Please, no, it can’t….”

He couldn’t move, caught in the debris. His crushed right leg felt nothing beyond pain now.

‘Help me, save me!’

He screamed desperately but his tongue was tied and no sound came out. Samon shed tears and groaned.

‘I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die, please, please….’

When his fear of death reached its peak, gentle hands touched him.

Warm warmth touched his rigid body and carefully wiped away the sweat beading on his forehead.

Pat. Pat. Gentle hands soothed Samon’s chest.

“Darling, please be comfortable. Don’t be in pain. Okay?”

A voice full of worry, choking with tears.

He felt his screaming body become surprisingly calm.

His body trapped between collapsed stone walls was gradually freed. The nightmare also retreated, licking its lips as if it had never been there.

Samon opened his hazy eyes.

To confirm who had ended his persistent nightmare.

“…Mariyu, why are you still… here?”

However, when he discovered the red-haired beauty sitting beside him, Samon frowned.

“Darling, you need help.”

Samon roughly pushed away the white hand reaching over the bandages.

He bit his lips hard. Thinking that even his humiliating appearance struggling with nightmares had been witnessed, anger boiled inside him.

“I want to help you.”

“Get lost! You’re laughing at me, aren’t you? Think I don’t know you’re gloating that this is punishment for abandoning you?”

Mariyu shook her head. Her large eyes were full of moisture yet resolute.

“I just couldn’t stand watching you suffer. Even now… you seem to be in such agony from nightmares….”

“….”

“There’s no one by your side anyway. Where is the 4th Princess? Where is your family? They all just fear you and no one understands your pain. How tormented and agonizing it is for you… That’s why I’m stepping forward.”

Samon hesitated.

He couldn’t deny Mariyu’s words.

Before losing his leg, there were still those who came and went from the manor. Based on calculations that Samon could replace Peleus and aim for the throne.

But now that Samon had completely lost his possibility as a successor, there had been no contact even from the Emperor of Kazen.

He had been abandoned.

He had never felt so keenly the saying that people’s hearts are different when they come and when they go.

Samon, whose sore spot had been hit, glared at Mariyu.

As if that would let him gauge the truth, her sincerity.

“Shut up. Someone like you! Just because I’ve become like this, do you think you match my level?! I don’t need any of it! Stop being pathetic and get lost!”

“I hate myself like this too. I still resent you, but when I heard you were hurt… I couldn’t just stay still.”

Mariyu shed tears.

“Just don’t say anything. I understand what you mean, so just let me stay by your side.”

Samon raised his arm to cover his eyes. Heavy darkness engulfed him.

“Just sleep. Don’t think about anything… I’ll be here….”

“…When I open my eyes, if I see you again, I won’t let you live then.”

Though Samon tried to threaten her, his previous murderous intent had long since faded.

“Darling, go to sleep now. This time you’ll only have good dreams.”

Warm hands patted him gently.

And just as she said, that night the nightmares did not come for him again.

The next day, Samon stirred awake from the sunlight streaming through the window.

And he discovered Mariyu sleeping while keeping watch by his side.

“….”

“Oh my goodness. How did this girl get here… I’ll chase her out right away.”

It was when the servant who had come to Samon’s bedroom rolled up his sleeves and approached to grab Mariyu by the hair.

“Leave her be.”

“Pardon?”

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