It was not long after the Lord's funeral that Yen left Archim's mansion, which he had become accustomed to for a little while.

Until the day before, the old man remained wide open, and Yen even acted as the opponent of on-board play.

Archim drank the right amount of booze as usual, called his favorite wife to bed, and didn't wake up the next morning.

"Didn't you force your father to? How are you going to atone for that sin!

When the funeral was over, Yen was summoned to Khalifa, Archim's son, to reprimand him. Behind him, the Knights captain is watching for harrassment and accomplishment. Khalifa stares at Yen with hatred.

... Whatever you say will be useless.

At last, I only want to deceive my father's death. Yen sighed in his heart, repeatedly bowing his head saying that he had no intention of doing so, he was sorry.

Khalifa further distorted her face, which could be described as ugly. It's a pleasure to float there.

Let Yen apologize as he wishes, and he's exalted. I punch him in the head and throw up at him at will.

"There's a civilian flair! You're always so tall."

(... I wasn't a civilian)

"You're a bastard like no one else! You think it's a mix of dragons? It's a lot like that."

(... My father is the head of the Dragon Clan. not a lie)

"Always look at people."

I want to beat myself back and make excuses... Yen, shrugged. Hold your fingers tight.

I was royal.

He was the son of the head of the Dragon clan.

I thought I'd thrown away such a past, but I finally realized it when Bad Lord told me.

I was wondering if I was the one most committed to blood muscles and birth.

What do you think will remain if you mourn it?

Soon fading colours and mediocre contents that I can't even say I cared about a woman I fell in love with.

A sword move would do some good, but something is missing to be the best.

It's not enough for me.

Something.

Decisively.

Khalifa is a natural enemy to Yen... but he is a delicate, smart, and brilliant man. You must have noticed Yen's distortion (snoring). That's why I feel sensitive. arrogance toward him and insult him.

Even though it was myself who threw it away without knowing the value of what was in my hands, I am now sparing it.

Yen plucked blood from his cut mouth.

Sui or Shen, I'm sure you knew. Stupid little kid. That you can't live alone in a tough outside world. That's why I was so worried... I regret dying now, not realizing it and looking funny.

Oh, my God, no.

Khalifa seemed to have lowered his drink retention to Yen, who was depressed. When I sat in the chair, I had Yen's jaw raised with his shoe toe. He looks down with a winning look.

"Well, fine! I forgive you, Father. I forgive you only once."

……

"If you drop your head and beg my sincere forgiveness. If you want forgiveness, kneel down and lick your shoes."

……

Yen looked up. Lose your expression and ask for Khalifa. In the cold glance of beauty unlikely to man, Khalifa, frightened for a moment, punched Yen in the face again with a fist he shook up. Yen shook his shoulder and eventually, looking up at the sky like he could play it, laughed impatiently.

"Huh! Ha! Ha ha!... hehe, haha!

"Hey......!

The Knights leader, who had refrained behind Khalifa, stops Yen. Yen laughed and stood up, pulling the dagger out of his chest... a surprised Knight Commander put his hand on the pattern of the long sword..., he threw it in front of Khalifa.

"I'd rather die than lick the back of your dirty shoes. Raw hate and my tongue are a luxury. I haven't been able to lick such crude stuff."

"You! How dare you!"

"Please, Master Khalifa. If you're angry, you can take that dagger and take care of me. You have that right, and I will not resist."

As I said, the truth, I felt like I didn't care what happened.

Stupid. I feel like I could die light enough to lick the legs of such a dirty little man and live. It's not enough life to spare anyway. Foolishly. The truth, I thought so.

"However, you will get a bad reputation for trying to make people lick your shoes just because you don't like them, and killing your rejected men. If that's okay with you, go ahead."

"... you!

Khalifa is blushing and trembling.

It would be difficult for this lord to be overly aware of people's eyes and care about their reputation. The surrounding audience...... especially the woman is turning her sympathetic gaze to Yen. It wasn't Yen or him that Khalifa was frightened for a moment and moved into that gap.

"... you rude bastard."

"... Ts!

"An ungrateful disrespectful man has often spoken like that!

He was the Knight Commander.

He beat Yen down without adding or subtracting, kicked him in the foot when he almost stopped moving, and looked up at Khalifa in an unspoken tone of absence.

"My lord, with the blood of such a fool, you will not tarnish this mansion! My lack of guidance, my impudence. …, I will dispose of it under my responsibility, how about"

Khalifa shrugged her shoulder, somewhat poisoned by the rage of the captain's fiery fire.

"Okay, whatever you want"

◆ ◆ ◆

"... didn't anyone tell you not to make your life crude?

In prison Yen woke up with pain.

When he opened his eyes in a frightened tone, the captain was looking down at Yen. Apparently, he saved Yen's life by striking him out of hand.

... Yen silenced and thought. My parents originally felt that everyone around them neglected that he existed somewhere.

"... I think they said it wasn't enough to take care of..."

When he felt terribly miserable about himself insisting that he was a weak voice, the captain let down a great deal of sigh.

"Sui too?

……

Sui, Shen......

The two of them would be sad and angry if Yen had caused him to abandon himself. I might be disappointed if I feel sorry for you. Just imagine that, I'm disgusted.

"I don't know what happens to a stubborn hungry ghost like you... My daughter had Dr. Sui cure her illness before. In return, I will help you, son of Sui. I'm packing up, so run during the night."

"... I am not the son of Sui"

The captain flaunted his shoulders.

"I think like a son"

"Huh?"

When he opened his mouth, the captain continued.

"I feel like my son, so he asked me to help him if anything happened... because I got my head straight off from Sui. This is the best I can do. And Khalifa."

Think of Sui's gentle face and bite his lips.

... pitiful, I wanted to die this time.

"There's nothing Khalifa can do about it. When I look at you, I really remember my mother, your lover. And like that death.... Why did Master Archim, who had always been underprivileged to children, suddenly get Master Khalifa? And the reason around it. I'm keeping your letter of introduction that you wrote before Archim died... and with it, it would be possible for some official to do so. I'm guessing Archim predicted this would happen."

I don't know if I can see the desert with that wound, but the captain tells me to do it with a master.

I thought it was unreasonable, but Yen nodded.

Either way, stay here and you die. I thought that would be fine for self-immolation, but once I'm saved, I spare my life.

When I dropped my half to say it hurts, I noticed a little woman outside the cell. She speaks a word or two with the captain, and comes to prison alone.

It was Asena.

She looked inexplicably at Yen, then behaved badly and crouched beside him.

"You're an idiot with no thoughts, no multiplication. If you're going to save your life, lick your shoes with joy. I knew you were a prince, didn't I?

"... so in Prince"

"His Royal Highness Yenjay"

To Yen, who denies it, Assem whispers low and sharp.

When the Abandoned Prince looked at the woman as she had been played, Asena narrowed her blue eyes.

"Arkim-sama's references, like the will she left for you, are fake. I wrote it."

"What?"

"There's no way that Archim, the greedy one, could write a letter of introduction just for you, right? I admitted it the morning Archim died and threw him in the study. I'm good at imitating other people's handwriting."

I lose my word about being called by my real name, and there is a dumb voice about being confessed all the time.

"Duh,... duh,... huh?

"Why? Why, you? What?"

Yen snorts too much.

The woman chuckled.

"I owe you one. So I'll double it for you, Prince."

"... borrowed?

Asena narrowed her eyes like a cat. Comb glossy blonde hair with your fingers to show off.

"Hey, I... you look like Vaza with blue eyes on your blonde hair, don't you? My mother was a fancy whore in the capital of Cardina, wasn't she? He took me to the royal palace, where I grew up. I wonder who it was, even the royal daughter, who was one of the guests, insisted and tried to impose. I don't know if it's true or not."

……

"So they killed you, didn't they?

Yen lost his word.

But deceiving the royalty is a great sin. It is not an impossible procedure. Yes, but...

"I almost got killed, too, but I saw a gap and I tried to escape. I crawled out of the barn and fled to the temple in the royal palace."

There, Yen said, was there.

Yen, who had prayed to the altar without knowing anything, found a frightened and crying assem in his worn clothes and asked the guard who had followed her what was going on.

She told them she was a sinner. When she unbuttoned her own gold button and gave it to them, she said she told them to sigh mixed.

'I don't know what her sins are, but miss them. Vaza's soldiers shouldn't be free enough to kill a child like this.'

The guards said, laughing.

"If Your Highness will give me the rest of the buttons, I will."

"... I remember, indeed"

Something like that happened. It was a little after ten. But what happened after that...

Asem snorted.

"I wondered how lucky I am. Brown skin, golden hair, golden eyes. A beautiful prince, like a dragon incarnate in mythology, I've never seen, helped me dying, oh, thank God! What... but you, you remember what you did to me after that?

"No..."

"I guess. You looked at me like a trash, and you sold me to the goddamn temple."

Yen shook his head silently.

Sell it? You can't do that. Asem laughed.

"No, I sold it. 'You should help this girl. Pathetically,' just have pity on me, leave it with the clergyman. And then, that's it. Cardina's clergyman taught me all sorts of things... about how difficult her profession is."

Yen had to be silent like an idiot again.

The priest, who scorned Asem, soon tired of her, called a merchant to trade her for a few gems.

And she was sold west again and became a slave to Archim......

"Poor, stupid, prince. I feel good to look down on you and help you. You look like you've seen all the beautiful stuff. It was quite a sight for you to go with a gradual twist. Hey...... how does it feel to be overlooked and pitied by a civilian woman who pitied you all over the mud? - Poor Lord Yenjay. My heartfelt sympathy. All right."

……

When we met (though that was a reunion to be exact), Yen finally said he was adept at the needle-like malice he felt from Asem and had no choice but to be flabbergasted. They hate me.

"... If I'm the one who put you in this situation, why would I help you..."

Asem laughed and stood up with a sunny look. Then point the exit to the high-speed vehicle.

"Well, I saw hell because of you, but it's also true that you helped me. That's what I owe you, right? All you have to do is die."

Asem looked at Yen again with his hate-burning eyes.

"He's loud on gold, his hands are fast, he stinks of alcohol. She was a shitty woman, but she was the only family I had. You vazas killed it. - I'll never forget it."

"I'm not Vaza. No more."

"No, you're Vaza. Prince. Arrogant, stupid naked king."

A woman's finger wipes Yen's lips without blood.

Exhale approaches, of a soft woman. That presses.

After suppressing the urge to bite, Yen was left to do so, and eventually the two flirted.

"... what are you going to do now, female wolf (assem)"

"It's been decided. Call Khalifa and become the mistress of this land."

Then Asem left, and the fine dust didn't look back either.

Yen stood up cursorily.

Until I can't see the back of a woman with a good posture, I look at her like she's beautiful, and the truth is, I think I'm an irredeemable fool.

By dawn, before Khalifa changed her mind, she needed to get out of here. The only way to escape is to sneak into the stables and take the horses.

If the chaser comes, he dies. If you can't cross the desert, you die.

You've come a long way.

One shrugs, but of course there is no answer.

That was kind of hilarious... Yen stepped out onto the dark road laughing.