episode_0087

The princess speaks in an excited voice while looking at herself.

At this, Zeros remained silent and began to show his wariness again as he looked at her in front of him.

Aside from saving her life just now, I was worried that this wayward princess might find fault with her and make a fuss about it.

“Tsk… ”

Meanwhile, looking at Zeros, who was visibly tense as he looked at her like that, the princess realized that she had been too forceful, closed her mouth for a moment, and then looked at the clothes covering her abdomen.

‘Is this… that kid doing this? To save me?..’

Since the bleeding had simply been stopped by force, the pain was still severe, and it was obvious that if he stood up in this condition, the bleeding would start again.

However, despite this, the princess began to feel a strange emotion she had never felt before in response to Zeros’ clumsy kindness.

‘That guy… Even though I’m a princess, there was no reason for him to save me in that situation… I’m still his enemy now and I’m sure I’ll be his enemy in the future.’

Feeling confused by this fact, Maev asked the young boy in front of him in a slightly softened but still firm voice.

“Say it.. This is an order. An order as the princess of Jaeguk.”

“… ”

“Why did you save me? If that was the situation just now, it would have been the perfect opportunity to get rid of me, who has been bothering you and your master all this time?”

However, seeing Zeros remain silent until the end, Maev asked him with a slightly pitiful feeling.

Although she lacked the insight to read the big picture, Maeb was still a princess who knew the harshness of this world better than anyone else.

A world where the truth is that you bow your head to the powerful and trample the weak without hesitation.

Even if they were a benefactor who had helped you, or a master who had bowed his head and sworn loyalty until yesterday, if they lost their strength and became weak, it was the law of this world that you could easily cut off their head.

By her standards, knowing such logic, if she and her enemy were in danger of dying right before her eyes, she would immediately draw her sword and cut off its head.

But, despite that, this boy in front of my eyes.

Katrena’s servant named Zeros chose to save himself instead.

This was in a situation where an opponent that even Maeb couldn’t defeat was pointing his staff right in front of his eyes.

A situation that is absolutely impossible and incomprehensible from Maev’s perspective.

Maev asked again, feeling deep doubt and confusion about that fact.

In response to this, Zeros began to worry in return.

‘This… no matter how I look at it, it seems like it would be difficult to consistently pretend not to know…’

Although it was true that Zeros had negative feelings toward her and was wary of her, apart from that, Zeros did not have extreme feelings toward the princess to the point of thinking that she was an enemy that needed to be destroyed.

Although the overall situation was quite distorted compared to the original, Zeros, as a reader who knew information about the life of Princess Maeb before his eyes, had a somewhat objective viewpoint.

Considering her background and circumstances, it wasn’t that hard to understand what kind of person she was, why she was obsessed with Elios, and why she always had such greedy eyes for herself and Katlena.

Although she had no right to succession, Maeb, as the princess who was greatly loved by the Padishah, had almost everything she wanted and was raised to believe that it was right.

For her, it was perhaps natural that she was particularly obsessed with Elios, who was beyond her grasp, and with herself, whom she had failed to obtain.

Of course, he couldn’t think positively of it in and of itself, separate from understanding it, but at least if he put that aside, Zeros knew that Princess Maeb wasn’t inherently a bad person.

When he saw that person dying right before his eyes while protecting them for whatever reason, Zeros clicked his tongue, but he naturally felt the urge to save him.

‘But… there’s no way I can tell you the inside story.’

If you start off by telling the wrong story, you could end up being questioned about the source of the information, and depending on the situation, it could actually make the story more complicated.

At this, Zeros looked a little embarrassed and began to tell the truth only about superficial aspects.

“Well. There was no special reason. Just, anyway, you helped us get out of the auction house a little while ago. I did it to repay the favor.”

Zeros, who literally gives the most honest answers.

However, Maev frowned even more at his words and raised his voice.

“What a lame excuse. Are you saying that you spared the life of someone who could become your master’s enemy for that reason? No, there must be another reason. Tell me. What is your real intention?”

“No.. This is real..”

“Don’t lie! You’re probably trying to get me into trouble or get into debt with this. If you’re thinking of getting me into trouble later, you’d better give up.”

The princess who refuses to believe Zeros’ words at all.

Seeing her like this, Zeros couldn’t help but understand…

Aside from that, I was starting to wonder if I should have just left this annoying woman to die.

‘No. Can’t you understand that a 10-year-old kid saved a dying person just because he felt sorry for them? Even if he was someone who had been worn down since birth in the dirty and deadly world of imperial politics, if someone shows you a kindness out of pure kindness, you should accept it with a little more purity!’

A situation where you save a person who is drowning, but then hear the person asking you to explain in detail why you saved him.

At this, Zeros, who was already tired, felt slightly annoyed and blurted out a word to the princess.

“Didn’t you say you liked me before? I remembered what happened back then and saved you without realizing it! Did that answer your question?”

“!..”

Princess Maeb’s expression instantly hardened at those words.

Only then, as he looked at the princess who had finally become quiet, Zeros felt his head start to throbbing and leaned back on the sofa next to him.

‘I really… There are people who have to bring up such nonsense to be quiet. Anyway, I don’t like the princess.’

With that thought in his mind, Zeros closed his eyes, feeling a deep sense of fatigue.

Although the princess’s appearance was to his taste, he began to think that if he were to serve his master, Katlena would be a hundred times better.

A beautiful person who gives and trusts him completely no matter what happens.

At the same time, a person who planted deep feelings of affection in his heart.

Thinking of her face, Zeros turned his back on the princess, wishing to return to his master as soon as possible, rather than this woman who was only flashy on the outside.

Meanwhile, seeing Zeros like that, the princess was unable to say anything more, just as Zeros had intended.

However, her silence was for a slightly different reason than Zeros had thought.

‘That’s why you saved me? Because I told you that I liked you?’

In a normal case, Maeb would have accepted this as an excuse to hide the truth.

Since she thought such romantic stories were unbelievable, she might have taken this as an insult to herself.

But, for some reason, at this moment, what Zeros said to him…

To Maev, it felt like it was the truth.

It was such a strange feeling that I even realized it and began to question it.

‘What? It’s clearly a ridiculous reason, but why… why… I don’t want to ask any more.’

So, giving up on pursuing this matter any further, Maev turned his head slightly, feeling his face flush for the first time since he was born.