It was a tunnel that I felt like I had seen it somewhere, but it was so subtle that I couldn’t tell who it was.
Elena narrowed her eyes and looked back at her memories.
“Do you not remember this body?”
Yeah, I’m sorry, but I don’t remember… … .
The man’s expression distorted as he looked at Elena’s expression, as if he was very hurt.
‘Let me see.’
The man standing at the front of the group was wearing a green satin evening gown decorated with purple tassels.
Judging by the fact that his clothes were more flashy than those of the people one step behind him, the man seemed to be a nobleman, and the rest of the group were servants belonging to him.
This was the end of the facts that Elena could deduce after desperately racking her brain.
‘I really don’t know who it is.’
It’s a face I feel like I’ve seen before, but I don’t know where.
In any case, it was clear that he was not the person who left a great impression on Elena.
“Uh, I’m sorry, but I really don’t know who you are.”
Elena tilted her head once more.
Seeing Elena like that, the man’s face turned red and he snorted fiercely.
The sight of four loyal-looking knights standing right behind the angry man looked a little menacing.
Of course, Elena wasn’t that scared.
‘If it gets really dangerous, Klaus will come out.’
Seeing as Klaus is quiet, it seems like it’s time to dig up information.
The man’s face turned even redder as he saw Elena lost in other thoughts.
Did you ever feel like you were ignored?
Finally, the man could not stand it anymore and shouted loudly.
“I am the eldest son of Marquis Geltrang! My name is…!”
“Ah! That poor marquis’ son!”
It was only after hearing that name that I was able to remember the man’s identity.
In the past, wasn’t this a man who was overheard by Rinoa and Klaus while trying to start a noble social fight with her at the Duke of Cisena’s salon? Elena’s reaction must have been unexpected, as the man stuttered with a look on his face as if he had chewed his tongue.
“More, less?”
“It’s been a while since I last saw you! How has your life been? I heard that the Marquis of Geltrang is having a lot of trouble because of you. Be nice to your father.”
Yeongsik, the Marquis of Geltrang, was extremely embarrassed, but Elena was purely happy.
During the restoration from the war, I visited the local area with Klaus, so I didn’t have to encounter any nobles.
After the restoration was completed, so many invitations came to us that we felt overwhelmed, so Klaus tore them all up by hand.
Therefore, Elena had barely seen most of the nobles she had met at the salon.
That’s why I was happy to see the person I met at the salon again.
Although it was a bad relationship, I didn’t even remember it until I heard that he was the Marquis of Geltrang.
“Anyway, what’s going on?”
“greatness…….”
Yeongsik, the Marquis of Geltrang, who was momentarily dazzled by the grand reception, soon came to his senses.
He had come here with an important goal, so he couldn’t help but laugh at Elena’s every reaction.
Yeongsik, the Marquis of Geltrang, looked right up at Elena and said.
“Elena Seves Young. I didn’t want to talk about it in a place like this, but please understand that it is a matter.”
“Did we have something to talk about?”
All I remember is you getting kicked out by Rinoa… … .
Elena looked at Yeongsik, the Marquis of Geltrang, with blurry eyes.
However, the tactless man gained confidence from that gaze and raised his voice.
How long have you been waiting for this moment since you heard that Elena would become empress?
After looking back at the family servants who had prepared for this day, Yeongsik, the Marquis of Geltrang, opened his mouth with a sad look in his eyes.
“Lady Elena Seves. I adore you.”
The sound of the dog barking rang out very clearly.
“yes?”
Elena let out a noise, and Belle, who was standing next to her, turned pale.
Meanwhile, only Gelt and Marquis Yeongsik couldn’t read the mood and laughed heartily.
“Haha! I’m speechless at the love of this body. You know it’s an honor.”
“Oh, no, why….”
“Why are you asking me to tell you now? Actually, I was going to talk to you yesterday, but yesterday you had to avoid talking to that scary-looking gorilla.”
I see There was a guy who got shot in the head.
Elena opened her mouth.
It was the moment when it was revealed that the person who followed her was not an assassin or an old nobleman plotting a secret plot in the palace, but an idiot who was shot in the head and confessed for the first time in a year.
“No, hey, is it right for you to confess to me?”
“Yes. I’ve been thinking about you constantly for the past year. Every time I think of you, my heart beats so fast that at first I thought I was having a myocardial infarction, but now I realized it was love.”
“Oh, no…”
I think it’s a myocardial infarction?
‘Or maybe it’s just that whenever he thinks of me, his heart trembles because he’s angry at the humiliation he felt back then?’
It was a situation that Elena could not understand. No, it would have been a situation that anyone with common sense could not understand.
Confessing to the empress-to-be who had severely insulted her at the salon a year ago?
Elena decided to send this man without common sense away for now.
“Hey, have you cut yourself off from the world for a year?”
“Yes? What are you talking about?”
“I am engaged to His Highness Klaus.”
“Yes. Why is that?”
Why is that?
Why is that?
Me and Klaus got engaged?
“Isn’t this an engagement that you had no choice but to do because of power? I know everything.”
“No, I don’t think you know anything.”
“You don’t have to give everything to a loveless marriage.”
“I love you, His Highness Klaus?”
You bastard, listen to me!
However, Yeongsik, the Marquis of Geltrang, had the stubbornness to be ranked first as the person who made the Marquis of Geltrang’s last years the most tiring.
“The idea is to have at least one lover to have secret relationships with. You don’t know the trends of the empire.”
“You don’t have to know about such trends for the rest of your life.”
“Once you have a lover, you will be completely absorbed in the fun.”
“No, I won’t.”
He was a man with whom I could not communicate.
Elena’s patience gradually reached its limit.
Yes, that’s right. I remembered. This guy didn’t even know when to leave the salon, so he got a bloodshot wound in his neck and got scolded by Klaus.
Elena, both at the salon and now, did not have much patience, and was the type to get straight to the point once she lost interest.
And at this very moment, Elena decided to end this conversation.
“hey.”
“Please speak.”
Yeongsik, the Marquis of Geltrang, who did not anticipate the swamp of factual assault that would soon pour in, proudly raised his chin.
Elena took a long breath and immediately poured out her sincerity without even taking a breath.
“If I was going to have a lover in the first place, I would have a man who is more handsome, taller, has a better body, and is more capable than me. Oh, but that kind of man is the person I’m marrying? But why am I seeing you?”
“W-what?”
“Maybe he’s handsomer than Klaus, maybe he has more money than Klaus, maybe he’s higher in status than Klaus, maybe he’s more talented than Klaus. I don’t think he has anything.”
As she said that, Elena’s gaze swept Marquis Yeongsik of Geltrang up and down.
Gelt and Yeongsik wheezed and shouted, their faces turning red.
“Oh my! I didn’t see it that way, but the Lady was also a woman blinded by power!”
No, what are you saying? Of all the words, why do I only hear that?
For Elena, it was extremely unfair.
I just said I would return it because it was defective in every way, so why are you acting like I was insulted like that?
It would have been better if I had just walked away the first time I refused.
However, Yeongsik, the Marquis of Geltrang, was a man with more unresponsive answers than Elena thought.
“Now that it’s like this, I have no choice but to take him by force!”
“and.”
Elena widened her eyes. It was clear that this guy had been shot in the head.
‘Could it be that this person also came from another world?’
Getting shot in the head… … While Elena was lost in thought, Yeongsik, the Marquis of Geltrang, gave orders to the knights standing behind him.
“Take that woman away now!”
However, the remarks of the Marquis of Geltrang, Yeongsik, were not implemented.
“……Let’s see, we’ll see, we’re going as far as we can go.”
A cold voice followed.
Hwiik. I heard the sound of the wind blowing, and then Klaus’s appearance appeared under the moonlight.
The sharp jawline shined like a bright blue blade in the moonlight.
Her tightly closed lips and sharp red eyes sparkled like elaborately crafted jewels.
Klaus slowly opened his eyes and stood with his sword pointed precisely at the neck of Yeongsik, the Marquis of Geltrang.
This was before the four knights who were there to protect Marquis of Geltrang Yeongsik could react.
Yeongsik, the Marquis of Geltrang, sweated coldly and checked the face of the man standing next to him.
When he faced Klaus’ cold smile, he immediately became thoughtful.
“Your Majesty.”
“To insinuate a kidnapping in the sacred imperial palace, that is too cunning.”
“Well, that’s not what I meant.”
“Yes. These guys also have mental intelligence, so I guess they’ll just stay quiet for now.”
As he said that, Klaus smiled coldly. As he said, the four knights stood quietly without approaching Elena.
Even if he is a knight, he is a knight of the family.
They also realized that if they followed the words of the Marquis of Geltrang, Yeongsik, they might not be able to survive.
Whiing. A cold wind passed between them.
“What are you going to do, Elena?”
Elena shrugged her shoulders in response to Klaus’ question.
“Well, it’s okay. Gelt and the Marquis always bother me, but let’s just say I’ve figured out one weakness.”
“Is that really going to work?”
“Your Majesty, your eyes look like they could kill someone, so I’ll say it’s enough.”
“I saw it correctly.”
“Are you going to fight Gelt and the Marquis now?”
In response to Elena’s dissuasion, Klaus pursed his lips with a dissatisfied look on his face.
“Elena. Are you on my side or this bastard’s side? Why are you taking this bastard’s side in front of me?”
“Your Highness is a child? Are you going to take sides?”
“I want to be everyone in front of you, from children to old people.”
“Leave the child aside. If you talk nonsense one more time, I will go alone.”
At those words, Klaus clicked his tongue and smiled. Yeongsik, the Marquis of Geltrang, lost strength in his legs and sat down.
Without even looking at the Marquis of Geltrang, Klaus walked up to Elena’s side.
“You’re going too far.”
“You will soon become emperor, and I don’t want to make you sound like a tyrant.”
“I don’t care.”
“I care. Let’s go.”
Elena said and crossed Klaus’ arms.
Klaus reluctantly left the place with Elena and said a word to Yeongsik, Marquis of Geltrang.
“If something like this happens one more time, I won’t stay silent.”
Hearing the cold voice, Yeongsik, the Marquis of Geltrang, felt like his life was disappearing.
But none of them knew.
That this won’t end like this… … .
