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For a long time, the Aman Empire in the north and the Laos Principality in the south had been warring over the fertile land in the center.

As there was a huge issue of territorial conflict, the war did not end easily.

As the war dragged on, the social atmosphere became harsh.

The Laos Principality took a gamble to end the war: the collection of taxes for a new knighthood.

Life became increasingly difficult, and the residents of the Laos Principality, suffering from discrimination and poverty, eventually revolted. The movement within Laos, protesting against tax collection and calling for the abolition of the knighthood, gradually eroded society.

The execution of the instigators of the rebellion seemed to resolve the situation.

However, the war, which had seemed endless for a long time, maintaining a precarious balance, was solidified into a defeat for Laos due to the advance of the Aman Empire’s new emperor, ‘Roman,’ and internal turmoil.

The reason could be understood without saying.

Stella, a young princess knight widely loved by the people for the victory of Laos, even went to the battlefield herself. She showed some activity in several battles.

However, she could not shake off the shadow of defeat that had already been cast.

Eventually, five years after the start of the war, all areas except the capital of Laos were occupied by Aman, and the war ended with Laos’ defeat.

What awaited Laos, the defeated nation, was a mountain of debt to be repaid in the future.

***

“Your Majesty, how on earth are we going to repay this debt?”

In the King’s office, which was mostly empty, only a few remaining aristocrats were gathered.

They were reading the conditions set by Aman’s emperor, ‘Roman.’

“First, pay all the costs to rebuild the areas damaged by the war. Second, send 500 cows and 500 horses as a token of obedience. Third, send Princess ‘Stella’ of the Laos Principality as a tribute.”

The contents of the letter were shocking. The financial aspect was expected.

However, what tore at the King’s heart was none other than the existence of the princess. Roman had demanded the beautiful Princess Stella.

“Your Majesty, I understand your heartache well. However, the Aman Empire side has said that even if the first two conditions are met, if the third condition is not met, there will be no surrender declaration. Inevitably…”

The nobleman, who was speaking, quietly looked at Stella, who was standing next to the King with a composed posture.

She was a princess whose bright blonde hair and blue eyes were exotic, resembling the queen who was beautiful to begin with. However, perhaps because of the current situation, she looked even more forlorn.

The King looked at the princess with a pitiful gaze.

There was no way. He tried to speak, but he couldn’t bring himself to say it.

At that moment, the princess quietly opened her mouth.

“Father, I will go to Aman. If it is for the sake of the nation and the people, I can endure anything.”

In the end, the princess chose to be offered to the emperor of Aman herself for the sake of the country’s survival.

“…I’m sorry. Stella, to place such a heavy burden on you.”

The King knew all too well. In the reluctantly concluded agreement, the treatment the princess would receive upon going to Aman was predetermined.

“No, this is the path I have chosen. Because everything is for the infinite glory of Laos.”

The King of Laos was deeply worried even while looking at such a figure of the princess. It was because he had heard so many rumors about the new emperor, Roman.

‘I heard that Roman brought the royal family of the country that conquered the empress. Perhaps, the purpose of demanding Stella is also that.’

Since the suicide of the woman who was Roman’s empress two years ago, the position of Aman’s empress has been officially vacant. The reason why the empress committed suicide was obvious.

Roman was famous for having very inhumane hobbies, even though he was an emperor.

As Stella’s father, he absolutely did not want to send her.

However, as the King of Laos, he had to send Stella. That was the only way to save the people.

Eventually, the King shed tears. He embraced Stella with eyes full of resentment.

“Princess, I will definitely…definitely…bring you back. No matter what it takes.”

***

The next day, when the sun was bright, Stella wore a pure white, thin dress, having taken off all her armor as Roman had demanded.

Until she got into the carriage going to Aman, the people of Laos gathered in the square to see the princess for the last time.

The princess knight Stella, who always wore silver armor, was no more.

There was only Stella, being dragged away as Roman’s bride.

As Stella got into the carriage, the carriage departed without even giving her time to talk to the people in the square.

While going to Aman, Stella was lost in deep thought.

In her closed eyes, she saw the battlefield she had always roamed.

“I am Stella, the princess knight of the Laos Principality!”

From the time she could walk, she immediately grabbed a sword. That was the kind of existence the princess knight of the Laos Principality was.

An existence that goes to every battlefield and commands the soldiers.

Her mother was similar to her. Her last memory was of her saying she would lead the soldiers and recapture the eastern castle.

She missed her mother especially today.

“If I go to Aman, will I have the ceremony immediately?”

Stella asked the person sitting in the front of the carriage. But the answer that came back was only ridicule.

“A ceremony, something similar, I suppose.”

Stella took her hand to her waist at the tone mixed with ridicule.

It’s not there.

The sword that she was always familiar with was no longer on her waist. That fact pierced her heart mercilessly.

“To think that a woman who came like she was sold off would become an empress? How amusing.”

Stella burst out in anger at the insulting words.

“Although I am going as a hostage, I am still a princess of the principality, what outrageous words are you saying!”

“What are you talking about? A slave.”

Slap.

Stella’s cheek turned to the left. She had been injured on the battlefield before, but she had never felt such humiliation.

But she was also a skilled knight.

‘I have to get used to it. There will be more of this humiliation in the future.’

‘I will never give in. Because I am the princess knight of Laos.’

She knows better than anyone that arguing here is not a good idea. There is no need to waste energy in vain.

After that, no words came out while riding in the carriage.

After a while, they arrived at the gate of the Aman Empire with the coachman’s voice. After passing through the gate, a long square was visible. The carriage stopped in the center of the square.

“Get off.”

He spoke in an informal tone until the end.

‘There’s no need to argue.’

Stella grabbed her dress and got out of the carriage. The curves of her body, which were usually hidden by silver armor, were revealed.

A firm, lean muscular body perfected through long training, full breasts that seemed out of place with such a body, and a face so beautiful that it captivated those who saw it.

As she got off, there was a commotion in the square.

“Finally, she has arrived. Princess Stella of Laos.”

The voice of the soldier standing next to the carriage overwhelmed the square. Stella’s body is pulled by the soldier’s rough hand.

The crowd in the square watched her being dragged like a baggage.

They looked at her with all sorts of expressions, such as expressions of coming to see what was going on, expressions of not being particularly interested, expressions of excitement, and expressions of enjoying the entertainment.

‘Is he trying to humiliate me? I was prepared for it.’

At that moment, the eyes of the crowd in the square turned to the side. Stella also naturally turned to the side. At that time, a very shocking sight greeted her.

A line of people walking from a very distant distance was visible.

That alone would not have attracted attention. The line was none other than a line of naked women. They walked in a line, wearing wooden restraints that restricted movement around their necks and hands, and chains connected to their legs in a row.

Of course, as their entire bodies were naked, their breasts and genitals were also exposed to everyone. The remaining muscles and various scars on their bodies told that they were knights.

Stella felt something stirring as she looked at the dangling breasts of the naked women. Suddenly, she felt like her body was getting hot.

But as the line of women came closer, she felt all those feelings disappear like bubbles.

The women who came close were faces she clearly knew.

‘The Knights…?’

The crowd in the square whispered, looking at the women’s naked bodies without hesitation.

“Those bitches, they were the knights who protected the princess.”

“What? Are you talking about that princess now?”

“Probably so. The princess came as a bride, but the knights who protected the princess are naked and in that state.”

“What will happen to those knight ladies? Will they be executed?”

“Hey, they wouldn’t waste them so wastefully. They will probably be dragged away as slaves to the imperial palace.”

Suddenly, nausea rises.

She thought she knew very well what kind of place Aman was because she had heard about it before.

But when she saw everything she had only heard about in words, the shock she felt was vivid.

The fear and shock of whether she would be subjected to that as well.

Roman, the emperor of Aman, walked out in front of Stella, who was imagining all sorts of things.

He was the one she tried to capture somehow, but failed. And she was dragged here.

“Roman…”

Stella glared at Roman, gritting her teeth.

“Finally, you’ve come.”

Roman licked his lips.

“Let’s go have a meal first. You must be very hungry.”

It wasn’t wrong. She hadn’t even had a sip of water from the morning until she came here.

It was when she was about to slowly follow Roman’s lead. Roman grabbed Stella’s wrist.

Stella’s wrist was also trained with muscles, but Roman’s wrist seemed to be twice as thick as Stella’s.

Stella glared at the sudden force.

“Let’s do a personal search before enjoying the feast.”

She could understand a personal search. But the next words she heard were unacceptable.

“Doesn’t a woman’s body have holes where you can hide various things?”