28. Reunion, Reunion.

“!!”

“!!”

Due to the sudden attack(?), the two women moved far apart, and two figures revealed themselves amidst the scattering dust.

“Hawa wawa….”

The knight, carried on the man’s back, was out of her mind,

“Hmm. I’ve arrived properly.”

It was Yu-eun, carrying her on his back.

“Master-nim!”

“You!”

The two women, who had moved away, wore different expressions.

Welcome and anger.

“Yo. I can roughly guess what’s going on, but calm down for now.”

Yu-eun extended both arms towards the two women, palms open.

“Calm down?? How can you say that after seeing this?!”

“I said calm down for now.”

While appeasing the furiously angry princess, the rest of the women arrived one after another.

Unlike Yu-eun, they landed gracefully, as if watching the Gyeonggong from martial arts novels in real life.

“Try to come properly, you human. Are you a missile?”

Sora gave a slight scolding and naturally stood behind Yu-eun.

“That’s right. I’ll teach you Gyeonggong later, so learn it.”

“Huh? No, I don’t really need….”

“I’ll help you too.”

When Yuna and Sonya even added a word each and went behind him, a subtly divided faction-like energy began to circulate.

A group led by Yu-eun, and a group led by the princess.

A situation as if opposing groups were confronting each other.

A strange tension flowed.

The knights, who had drawn their swords, swallowed hard and fiddled with the hilts, and the knight who had been embraced by Yu-eun shook her head as if trying to come to her senses, then walked towards the princess with a wince.

Ludmila took a deep breath.

Taking a deep breath made her feel that the anger that had reached the top of her head was subsiding a little.

And at the same time, reason dominated her brain.

‘It’s impossible to expect a sincere apology from these people anyway. I don’t have the power to force it.’

She wanted to make a fuss, criticizing Yu-eun’s cowardice and incompetence.

But she shouldn’t.

Even if the princess of a country does that, it becomes a big problem, but now she is not just a princess.

Thanks to yesterday’s events, where the royal family was almost wiped out, she is definitely going to be the next monarch.

In fact, she is the king who leads a country, even though she has not yet been enthroned.

Such a person cannot make a choice that greatly harms the national interest by being swayed by emotions.

‘It’s a relief that the woman is a maid. It would have been a disaster if she were his wife.’

She slapped Seo-hyun’s cheek with unbearable anger, but that was it. Going beyond that would mean crossing a point of no return in her relationship with Yu-eun.

The unknown object still floating in the sky. The gigantic object that Yu-eun’s women called the ‘Space Battleship’ has unimaginable combat power.

By launching just ‘drones’ among countless means of attack, they devastated the royal palace, where the best knights and magicians were gathered.

Perhaps Yu-eun and his women, and the combat power of that Space Battleship, far exceed the power of the entire kingdom.

Even if it’s humiliating, when dealing with such an opponent, you have to bend over to some extent.

‘But giving away the liver and gallbladder is a failure.’

Ludmila, having roughly finished her thoughts, opened her mouth with a rather cold face.

“I heard that yesterday’s incident was also caused by that woman?”

“Uh… that’s right.”

“Don’t you have anything to say to me?”

“…Sorry.”

Yu-eun scratched his head and replied.

He had already caused countless incidents and hardly felt the preciousness of human life, so his apology was for ‘making a beauty like Ludmila tired.’

Honestly, he didn’t feel sorry for the countless people who died.

Ludmila also felt it enough, but didn’t bother to point it out.

“If you really feel sorry, do something about that woman. Yesterday and today. Do I have to experience such incidents tomorrow too?”

Yu-eun turned his head to look at Seo-hyun for a moment.

Seo-hyun, receiving his gaze, flinched and lowered her head.

“Well… I also feel the need to control Seo-hyun, but I have something to say about today’s incident.”

“What is it?”

“Let’s see… yeah, there she is.”

Yu-eun pointed to the woman whose whole body was in tatters.

“That woman came to us and said that some marquis or count was inviting us to a party.”

“A party?”

“Yeah, a party. Isn’t it strange? Until yesterday, all the nobles were hostile to us. But suddenly they’re throwing a party and inviting me. Anyone can see it’s a trap.”

“So, are you saying that having such ‘suspicions’ justifies committing such atrocities? That woman massacred the knights and soldiers of the public peace department, the soldiers, and even people who went into the inn who were really not involved at all, for the sole purpose of ‘warning’. Can all of that be explained and justified by just one reason you mentioned?”

“I don’t think that far. I’m just saying that she didn’t just run wild without thinking.”

“Okay. I don’t know how accurate and plausible that suspicion was, but I admit that it was a suspicious situation enough, given yesterday’s events. But no matter how I think about it, you’ve gone too far. Killing unrelated soldiers and civilians is clearly wrong. You admit that, right?”

“…Yeah.”

Yu-eun felt something strange.

He inwardly expected the princess to rant and rave and hurl insults, but instead, she was calmly discussing the situation point by point and questioning him.

He preempted the princess before she could discuss punishment.

“Seo-hyun, I heard everything that happened in the modern era. What you did in China too.”

“…Yes.”

“Anyway, I’m grateful because you’re doing it for me, but from now on, report to me and act. I can’t know what you’re doing.”

“…I understand.”

Seo-hyun answered in a subdued voice, and the princess frowned.

“Is that it?”

She massacred over 100 people, or nearly 200 people considering the situation here.

Yet there is no talk of punishment at all, and all she gets is ‘Report to me and act from now on.’

Of course, it’s not that she didn’t expect this situation. Rather, she even thought it was natural.

But even so, he should at least mention it.

“I’m sorry, but I won’t punish you. It’s not like you killed someone inside the palace, and as you probably expected, we don’t have a sense of guilt about killing. Of course, there will be exceptions. But at least there weren’t any yesterday or today.”

“…That’s not something an emperor should say. No matter how crude and underdeveloped an organization is, there are at least laws and punishments regarding ‘murder’, but you don’t have any?”

“Because murder among palace people within the palace can’t happen.”

“….”

“Especially Seo-hyun. Even if she does one thing, she does it only for me, so there’s no way she would kill or harm my maids.”

“Well, she wouldn’t kill beauties. But surely your organization doesn’t only have beauties, right? Is it okay to kill men?”

“There aren’t any?”

“Huh?”

“There aren’t any men.”

“….”

“I’m the only man. For your information, all the members of the organization are basically my maids.”

“….”

Yu-eun smiled slyly at Ludmila’s dumbfounded face.

“Now you roughly get it, right? Why there’s no need to have something like a murder law.”

The princess bit her lip and glared at him.

“Anyway, there’s no punishment. Of course, that doesn’t mean I’m not taking responsibility. Anyway, the reason she ran wild is because I didn’t manage her, so I’ll take responsibility.”

“Huh? You?”

“M-master-nim!”

Seo-hyun called him urgently, surprised.

Yu-eun was going to take responsibility for what she had done.

Her mind went completely blank.

“Why are you so alarmed? Do you think I’m going to go to a place like prison? Don’t worry. Would I go in?”

“Ah….”

“After sorting out the Northern situation, if there’s anything you think we need our help with, tell me. I’ll solve it for you. For example, ‘Please devastate the neighboring country,’ etc. There are many, right?”

“….”

Ludmila stared at Yu-eun blankly.

Instead of providing national or perhaps Ludmila’s personal benefits, this incident is just a typical villain’s negotiation that is infinitely far from justice.

But she had no choice but to accept it. No, the anger from this incident was sent far away by Yu-eun’s one word.

“Okay. I’ll tell you now.”

“Huh? Now?”

“Because I don’t know when you’ll go back on your word.”

“Please trust me a little.”

“You and all your wives came from another world, right?”

“Yeah.”

“And that thing floating in the sky allows you to go to that world.”

“Probably.”

She nodded.

“Then let’s have an exchange. Between your world and me.”

“Are you talking about trade or something?”

“Trade, technology development, studying abroad, everything. However, whether it’s you or anyone from that world, exchanges with this world can only be done through the organization I head. In other words, I ‘monopolize’ the door to your world. In this world.”

“Oh-ho. Indeed… I understand. If it’s that, it’s not difficult.”

Yu-eun nodded and held out his hand.

“Then this incident is over with this. Got it?”

“….”

The princess held out her hand with a stiff face.

And at that moment, something caught Yu-eun’s intuition.

If he just proceeds with this as it is, he has a feeling that he will be severely scolded by someone like Yuna or Yuna or Yuna.

‘Wait a minute. If it’s not just monopolizing trade, but monopolizing the door to the modern era itself, isn’t this absolutely huge? Isn’t it too big of a benefit to give as a condition for burying an incident where only about 200 people died?’

Even Yu-eun, who is stupid and foolish, can know if he thinks a little.

This world where Ludmila is, although there are things like magic and swordsmanship based on mana, it is an incomparably backward area compared to the modern era.

To put it simply, even if she, as the soon-to-be queen of the Lyzer Kingdom, picks smart people and sends them to study abroad in the modern era, the difference that will arise with other countries due to them in the future will be clear.

To give an easy example,

The modern industrial system is highly developed. In particular, the production structure of small-variety mass production and multi-variety mass production due to factories is a shock in itself to the people of this world. It is fully possible to jump the production capacity of the Lyzer Kingdom as a whole.

The theories of classical economists such as ‘Ricardo’, ‘Malthus’, and ‘Adam Smith’, classical philosophers such as ‘Socrates’, ‘Plato’, and ‘Aristotle’, and mathematicians such as ‘Pythagoras’, ‘Fermat’, and ‘Riemann’ are so enormous that they can plunge humanity itself into a whirlwind or cause a revolution.

Physics such as ‘Newton’, ‘Einstein’, ‘Clark’, and ‘Niels Bohr’ may change even the magic that is already being used into an insurmountable power beyond science and technology.

Modern medicine goes without saying.

Besides, there are countless small things.

If all of this goes through Ludmila?

No matter how flying and crawling countries there are in this world, the future situation will flow as the Lyzer Kingdom, centered on Ludmila, intends.

Naturally, it is an excessively huge profit to be gained with just about 200 people, or even thousands of sacrifices including yesterday’s incident.

“Ah, wait a minute.”

Just as their hands were about to touch, Yu-eun pulled his hand away.

“…?”

“Thinking about it, this is too much of a benefit for you. No matter how sorry I am, this isn’t right.”

“….”

Ludmila’s expression narrowed slightly, and Yuna and Sonya, who were behind Yu-eun, made faces that said, ‘What’s going on?’ while also looking admirable.

“Veronica.”

“…Yes?”

“And… um… yeah, hand over 10 noble maidens to me. I’ll make them my maids. Then I’ll finalize this negotiationㅡ,”

“You fucking idiot!!”

Ppeo-eok!

Yuna’s intense spike struck the back of his head.