The Princess' Bedroom Doll

Raha could barely raise her trembling legs. It was too much strain. The full moon was shining brightly outside the window. She tried to get off the bed quietly, looking at Shed, who was sleeping next to her.

His face was brazenly peaceful and handsome, even though he had tormented her body for hours without rest. Her body shuddered thinking about it. Was he satisfied? He wasn’t even tired. How relentless he was not letting her sleep….

Still …….

She had tasted most of the joys that life could offer. It was possible purely because of this man.

Raha couldn’t kiss Shed on the cheek because she was afraid he would wake up. She just stared down at him cautiously. This witty man might have noticed the movement from the moment she woke up…

Raha left the bed casually. It would appear that she was just going to the bathroom. Raha was good at deceiving people. That was a long time ago.

* * *

“You should all step back now.”

The guards retreated after checking the document with Blake’s handwriting and Karzen’s signature. This was the least Severo had to do in order for Raha to enter quietly into the rear garden. The rear garden was where the most important relic in the empire, the Mark of the Blue Sky, was kept.

Severo had already been granted access to this patronage by Karzen a long time ago. He had asked for permission to check before going to the desert, and it was a job well done. Severo entered the rear garden in a great hurry.

It had been a long time since he had been in and out of the sealed garden, and it was still in all its splendor.

It was a patronage protected by the power of the wise men and the holy power of the Holy Land. Numerous flocks of lights were drifting in the air.

It was the power that protected the insignia that had been passed down for a thousand years. The swarms of light known to the world as such were truly beautiful. It looked like white fireflies formed a crystal ball, not hanging from a pillar, but was floating around, emitting light.

Severo Crassus looked up at the night sky filled with countless stars.

How much time had passed?

There came the sound of small footsteps.

Raha was entering through the entrance.

It was impossible not to know. Because the numerous flocks of lights in the rear garden were moving toward Raha. They were like butterflies enchanted by flowers, moving like soldiers trying to stop their enemies….

Raha seemed to be very annoyed by the way the swarms of light moved to attach themselves to her constantly. She waved her hands around with irritation and walked over to the insignia.

When Karzen entered this patronage one day, there was nothing like that. For the emperor, who did not have the blue eyes of the heir, the energy of this place was simply different.

 Once again, Severo thought it was fortunate that Raha did not enter with Karzen.

Besides……

For Raha, who had the eyes of the heir, it seemed that the power of light recognized her.

“Severo?”

Raha looked at him exactly where he was and called his name. Severo stepped out of the shadows, hiding his confusion.

“Did you see where I was?”

“Roughly …… strangely enough, I can pinpoint it. Is it because of these lights?”

It seemed that Raha wobbled a bit when she walked. At first he thought it was because she was nervous. The physiological fear of a life form about to die. But Severo was mistaken. The closer Raha got to him, the more vividly he could see it.

It was the sensual heat that lingered like a trace on her face. She came with a shawl over her thin nightgown, and there were red marks all over her exposed collarbone.

Only then did Severo intuitively understand why Raha’s legs were trembling.

She had just spent the night with the royal lord. It was so much that she staggered like that. Perhaps the Princess and her fiancé had continuous s*x for several hours.

Severo could not take his eyes off the strange immorality of having a secret meeting with a woman who had spent the night with another man. Even in such a situation, Raha’s thoroughly f*cked appearance, stimulated his sexual senses excessively.

Raha stopped in front of Severo and asked.

“Have you come to see me off?”

 “…… Yes, Your Royal Highness.”

“Liar.”

Raha chuckled. She held out the holy relic that looked like she had been holding it in her hand.

“If I die, you who gave this to me will be in trouble….. You came to retrieve it in advance.”

Severo did not answer. Because it was true. The wise men had officially recognized Karzen as emperor, but they would never condone Raha’s death.

They would do everything in their power to track down the last holy relic in her hands. That was why Severo had to destroy that holy relic immediately the moment it ran out of its usefulness.

It was something that had to be handled with care and could not dare to be taken by others.

Raha did not look at Severo for a long time. She had already heard how to use the holy relic. She walked to the insignia, as she had done all her life, without showing the slightest regret.

The insignia was in the form of a huge tombstone. It was as large as the miniature kept in the Emperor’s bedchamber, magnified several hundred times. Raha looked up at the insignia that was taller than she was. It would be destroyed and she would die…

Raha sighed as she tried to bleed her fingers. She was a fine princess who had grown up in luxury, so cutting her finger was not something she was used to seeing. Severo could understand. The ladies-in-waiting in the palace were always anxious, fearing that 

Raha would get even a scratch on her body.

She naturally extended her hand to Severo. She gestured lightly, as if asking him to change a cup of tea.

It was an attitude befitting the royal family, who had been served by others all her life. Severo, who had also served the royal family all his life, approached Raha without hesitation.

He took out a dagger and cut her finger. A few drops of blood dripped from her open skin.

Raha went straight to the insignia and placed her hand on top of it.

The moment the red blood was on the hard surface, a tremendous roar rang in her ears. At the same time, a swarm of numerous lights soaring into the sky. It was a dreamy sight that she could not take her eyes off.

Even Raha looked up slightly enchanted, then bit her lip. Her heart tingled inside her chest.

She removed her hand from the tombstone and bent down. She covered her mouth with both hands and coughed, and something hot rose to the top of her neck. Rach spread her hands out.

“…….”

Her eyes widened slightly. Her palms were full of the blood she had just vomited.

Raha looked up at the tombstone.

If she kept her hand on it for a long time, she would definitely die. The holy relic that Severo placed in her hand had that effect.

For now, Raha took her hand away and coughed up blood.

The tombstone, stained with Raha’s blood, flashed incessantly, like a creature breathing in and out. Catching her breath, she slowly got up. In the midst of all this, Severo was eerily quiet. Raha thought he would have urged her to die quickly in this situation, but he just stared at her with trembling eyes.

Not once did she say it aloud, but Raha always found the expression on Severo’s face amusing.

On one hand, he guarded silently like he was with Karzen, and on the other hand, he worshiped Raha as if she were an ideal figure out of a painting. 

A strange look with a smile on his face…….Severo’s eyes as he stared at Raha was always a mixture of cold and hot heat alternating.

Soon, it was nothing.

Raha staggered to her feet and sat down on the floor. She finally recovered. Wiping the blood from her mouth with the tip of her shawl, Raha said in a muffled voice.

“Severo.”

“Yes, Princess.”

“I’m sorry, I’m still ……. I don’t want to die.”

For a moment, Severo did not immediately understand Raha’s words.

She didn’t want to die?

Anyone could say such a thing, but definitely Raha del Harsa. It was something she would never say.

Raha del Harsa was not so sensible an Imperial member that she would throw away a useful tool for revenge with her own hands. She had no such warmth left in her.

She shouldn’t stay…

Raha’s eyes towards Severo were sadly wet. Her pale face was drained of blood. Her lips quivered.

“Just …… I’ll quietly leave for Hildes….Please convince Karzen.”

“What ……?”

Severo, who unconsciously asked, finally realized after a very brief frozen moment, the trap that this imperial princess had set for him. Biting his tongue, he took a step back, but in just a few seconds, a person’s life or death could be reversed.

Just like now.

“Princess.”

“……!”

Severo’s body completely froze instantly.

 Duke Esther, no idea how long he had been here, was staring at him with a blue face.

Severo was not a knight. He couldn’t have detected the presence of a man who was holding his breath. How long had he been there? Where the hell were all the guards…?

Severo gritted his teeth. The Kingsguard guarding the rear garden was sent away by him after showing them the document signed by Karzen and Blake.

At that moment, Raha coughed again. Each time she coughed, red blood splattered. Duke Esther wasn’t the type to be surprised if Raha vomited blood or not. However, his expression gradually began to harden.

“Did His Majesty really tell you to kill the Princess?”

The answer came from the other side.

“How could His Majesty do such a thing?”

The moment he heard that voice, Severo had a gut feeling that it was all over. He was convinced that he had been completely caught in a trap. Severo slowly turned around. The Duke of Winston was striding along with a red face.

“After all, he is a man who cares for the Princess terribly.”

Duke Winston looked at Severo with angry eyes.

“It must be someone acting arbitrarily. Someone dared to use His Majesty’s name. How could you dare to commit such an act when the national wedding is right around the corner?”

Behind Duke Winston, who was gritting his teeth, the pale-faced wise men were seen.

Severo felt a chill in his chest. It felt like when he noticed the ground he was standing on was actually thin ice.

In no time at all, he was sinking beneath the surface of icy water. (*the sentence is a metaphor for he’s done for)