episode_0083

“Hahahaha! Ugh! Ugh! Hahahaha!”

Hohae held his stomach and laughed.

I was rolling around, crying, spitting and laughing.

A shallow laugh without even the slightest hint of dignity.

Hohae stamped his feet and laughed for a while before finally stopping.

“Haa…haa…haa…”

Hohae calmed his rough breathing.

Wiping away the tears from his eyes, Hohae got up and approached Yeochi.

“Yayochi.”

Hohae stroked Yeochi’s cheek lovingly.

“You are my treasure.”

Hohae said with an excited expression.

“That is too much to say, Your Majesty.”

Yeochi answered, lowering her head as if she were embarrassed.

“No, I’m serious. Hey katydid. You are my most precious person.”

Hohae’s face turned red.

Yeochi stared at her face.

Yeochi knew that expression.

Breathing becomes faster and complexion becomes darker. Sweat discharge becomes smoother and the pulse becomes faster.

‘A state of sexual excitement.’

Yeochi read Hohae’s dark desire for her.

However, there was no desire to respond to that desire.

‘My body belongs to my companion.’

Yeochi secretly touched her aching heart as she remembered Yugye’s face.

Hohae was very happy, as if he recognized Yeochi’s reaction as love for him.

“If it weren’t for you, how could I have realized their treason? How was it possible to suppress their rebellion early? You are a loyal subject for eternity!”

Hohae held Yeochi’s hand tightly.

“You even sacrificed your family for Jim. Your loyalty will last forever.”

Yeochi thought for a moment about what Hohae said.

‘Oh, you’re talking about that.’

Yeochi was able to realize the meaning of Hohae’s words belatedly.

Yeochi lost her only family in suppressing this rebellion.

Her father and mother died from poisonous smoke sprayed by a witch doctor.

This is because the plan was not communicated to them in advance.

In order to make this a complete success, Yeochi limited those who knew the plan to a minimum, which led to this tragedy.

‘…’

However, the katydid was not particularly impressed.

‘Because I don’t need it anymore.’

For Yeochi, who entered the imperial palace, family was an unnecessary existence.

Both her mother and her father are nothing more than chess pieces to her. They did their best by supporting her until she achieved her goal.

“Thank you very, very much. Hey katydid. No, Empress!”

Hohae trembled and cried.

Yeochi could understand Hohae’s feelings, but could not sympathize with him.

What is needed now is cool-headedness.

Two of Ho Hae’s closest associates rebelled and plotted his assassination, but you don’t even feel a sense of crisis?

Are you just whimpering and not even dealing with the business?

‘…dip.’

Yeochi sighed inwardly.

“Oh, that’s right. Hey katydid! A gift is ready!”

Hohae smiled brightly and said, not knowing what the girl was thinking.

“The joy of serving Your Majesty is the greatest gift to me. No other gifts needed.”

Yeochi politely said so.

“Hehe, every word you say is beautiful. But do not refuse. The gift I will give you is one that does not diminish your humility.”

As Hohae clapped his hands, the shaman waiting nearby moved.

A huge object placed next to the golden throne. The shaman approached it, which was covered in black cloth, and took off the black cloth.

“…”

Yeochi looked at the object that had appeared in silence.

“This is…”

Hearing Yeochi’s words, Hohae opened his mouth with a proud expression on his face.

“Are you happy, katydid? This is the gift that Jim prepared for you.”

What Hohae prepared was a throne.

Although it was slightly smaller and less decorated than Huhai’s, it was full of majesty.

Yeochi could easily guess that Hohae had been secretly preparing for this even before this incident.

It was a very luxurious item to make hastily.

“Katydid.”

Hohae spoke in a low voice.

“Be by my side and lead this empire together.”

Hohae courted me for the first time in my life.

She looked at the katydid in a sorrowful voice and longed for her love.

“Jim, the only person I can trust now is you. Even Jo Go, who promised to always be by my side, abandoned his burden. All the schemers in the palace are not even worth mentioning. Yechi, you are the only thing left for me. You are my salvation.”

A tear fell from the corner of Hohae’s eye.

“Let’s have a wedding. Then, let’s find some reasonably good seeds, plant the baby in my belly, and raise it together. The child we raised. That child will become the cornerstone of an empire that will last a thousand years.”

Even as Hohae said that, his tears did not stop.

Her voice kept shaking.

‘I see.’

Yechi was able to read the cause of Hohae’s distortion.

‘This person must have been terribly lonely.’

An imperial family far from the right of succession to the throne.

She had no talent or popularity.

That’s why she was always in the background.

The only people who flocked to her were petty plotters.

She was not loved and could not love.

She was so used to solitude that she couldn’t even feel lonely.

That past twisted her temperament.

Because he could not trust people and could not see them as human beings, Hohae went on a rampage, revealing his cruelty without a doubt.

But Hohae was about to change.

Because I met someone like her.

Being with Yeochi, Hohae realized that he was not alone.

I realized that there are people in the world who deserve respect.

The katydid gave her the love that neither her father, Emperor Shi Huangdi, nor her lover, Jo Go, could give her.

Hohae wanted to change with her.

I wanted to change and rule the empire properly.

“…You were lonely.”

Yeochi could read her mind.

Not a word was exchanged, but I could tell just by looking at her eyes.

How weak she is and how much she wants to change.

“You’ve had a hard time, Your Majesty.”

At Yeochi’s words, Hohae burst into tears.

Just one word.

Hohae was weakened to the point where it could be destroyed by just that.

The fact that she was betrayed by those she trusted. I tried to smile as if nothing had happened, but it was too big an incident to ignore.

“I was lonely… It was hard… No one… No one was by my side…”

Hohae just collapsed.

She sobbed while clinging to the katydid.

“I wanted to be together. I wanted to love like everyone else… I… I…”

“Right, right.”

Yeochi patted Hohae on the back and carefully hugged her.

“Ugh… Ugh… Ugh!”

Hohae cried loudly.

“I want to change. I want to change! I don’t want to kill anymore people! Me too… I know it’s bad. But… but it’s the only way I know. That’s the only way I can interact with people…”

Hohae’s confession.

Yeochi looked at her with warm eyes.

“Your Majesty can change.”

“…Really?”

“Of course.”

Yeochi smiled softly.

“I can help you.”

“…”

Hohae let out a whimper and got off of Yeochi.

I wanted to hug her more, but I couldn’t help it because I felt like I would just collapse if the hug lasted any longer.

“Hehe, your good majesty.”

Yeochi stroked Hohae’s head.

“I can help you change.”

“…Yes, yes. Thank you… Thank you…”

“I wouldn’t do something like that.”

“…Huh?”

Yechi’s cold words.

Because the change was so sudden, Hohae’s reaction was delayed.

“…huh?”

It was hot.

My lower abdomen was crazy hot.

“…Why is this… huh?”

Hohae looked at the dagger stuck in his lower abdomen.

The dagger, stuck at a strange angle, slowly swung along with Hohae’s movements.

“…Ah.”

Hohae’s legs lost strength and he sat down.

“…Why?”

Yeochi did not answer.

“This guy! What are you doing!”

Instead, she threw a dagger at the shaman who ran towards her in horror.

“Wow!”

The shaman fell, clutching his neck.

Blood continued to gush from the shaman’s neck.

“…Why… Why…”

Ho-hae mumbles like a person in a daze.

Yeochi walked behind her and hugged her tightly.

“I don’t regret it.”

“…”

The words of the katydid that I cannot understand.

Hohae felt fear for the first time.

“If you regret, you are not a dragon.”

Yeochi was still making incomprehensible sounds and carefully patted Hohae’s head.

“Anyone who is not a dragon should not be in the sky.”

Yeochi pulled out the dagger stuck in Hohae’s stomach.

“Anyone who is not a dragon cannot be my companion.”

Yechi said.

“Kaaak!”

Hohae screamed at the top of his lungs.

But Yechi’s hand did not stop.

Sigh! Sigh! Sigh!

Yeochi cut into Hohae’s lower abdomen, who was writhing in fear.

“Ugh!”

Hohae screams.

Yeochi looked down at the blood pouring out of her body with cold eyes.

“I was planning to keep an eye on it just in case. That’s why I saved him… but this… is below my expectations.”

Hohae grabbed his stomach.

“I have to embrace the baby…but…become a mother…and give…the love…that I didn’t receive…◦# ◦

Hohae’s short-lived voice.

Yeochi tilted her head.

“Well. I don’t think I can do that.”

“…Why…I…loved…you…with…you…”

“You are not qualified.”

Yeochi grabbed Hohae’s hair and raised her head. Yeochi pointed the dagger at Hohae’s neck.

“The golden throne belongs to my companion.”

The corner of the katydid’s mouth twitched.

“Because I have lived for that.”

Sigh-!

Hohae’s neck was cracked.

Blood spurted out like a fountain.

Yeochi kicked Hohae’s crumbling body.

“Kaaa….”

Yeochi turned her head.

The shaman was running away, crawling like a bug.

“You’re persistent.”

Yeochi sighed and approached the shaman.

At that moment, the shaman’s body moved like a flash.

A shaman who changed direction in an instant. In his hand was a dagger that was supposed to be stuck in his neck.

It was truly a fatal blow that drained all of his strength.

However, the katydid jumped lightly and dodged the attack.

“Troublesome.”

Yeochi chuckled and looked at the shaman.

The shaman pointed to the katydid with a trembling hand.

“Curse…Hippopotamus…”

A mouth filled with blood, a throat leaking air. Rolling his tongue, the shaman spewed out a curse that could not be pronounced properly.

“Hmm.”

“Use all my… magical powers… I curse you…”

Those were the shaman’s last words.

Yeochi knew the strange magic used by the sorcerer, and knew that the curse the sorcerer cast at the end was not in vain.

Therefore, she was not surprised at all even though the gloomy evil energy surrounded her.

The katydid was just fun.

Because she was finally able to deliver the throne to her chosen companion.

She walked happily, enjoying the cursed energy surrounding her.

‘It’s all for you, sir.’

Yeochi put her hand on her chest, remembering Yugye’s face.

She smiled innocently, like a pure girl in her first love.