Schuler’s face delivering the news was as dark as it could be.
“…… So, Lady Elaina, you must leave the imperial palace with me right now. Do you understand what I mean?”
It was too shocking a piece of news. The emperor was dead? And just like that, overnight.
I had no idea what was happening at all. Of course, I thought Hister wouldn’t sit still, but to directly kill his father like this.
But there was another point that concerned me more.
“Then Sinclair is……”
Elaina, who had turned pale, muttered softly and trailed off.
‘It’s a false charge.’
Hister’s rotten thoughts were obvious.
If he kills the emperor, he, as the crown prince, can immediately take the throne. And he will pin it all on Sinclair.
‘He wouldn’t have started this without any preparation.’
In other words, to put it differently, it meant that he had more than enough fabricated and manipulated evidence to prove Sinclair was the culprit.
Once, when the emperor was attacked by a lion.
Just as Sinclair had very meticulously and thoroughly pinned it on Hister.
‘Is there even a way out of this situation……?’
This would definitely be a crisis for Sinclair. In the worst case, he would be executed by Hister without even having time to counterattack.
Sinclair knows that too, so is that why he’s trying to get me out of the palace like this?
For a moment, Elaina’s face turned deathly pale.
“…… Rex will be by Sir Sinclair’s side. I will escort Lady Elaina and head to the empress’s villa with Judith, Anna, and the guards.”
“……”
“You remember, right? The villa you went to with Sir Sinclair last time.”
Schuler’s words that continued to follow made sense in my head, but strangely, they echoed in my ears like a lingering sound. As if I was dreaming.
Elaina, too, was not unaware that she was full of contradictions.
After cursing Sinclair like that. After wanting to hurt him even more. In the end, even though she said she would leave his side and asked him to let her go……
Elaina bit her lips weakly.
“We must depart quickly. There’s no time.”
“Is there really a chance of winning?”
“……Pardon?”
Schuler, who was carefully trying to lead Elaina, stopped and stood in place for a moment.
“I mean, can he survive?”
“……”
“It’s not that there’s no possibility at all, so you’re sending me away like this?”
Schuler was silent for a while. He stood there with a slightly troubled expression, then began to speak very cautiously.
“…… Sir Sinclair told me to tell you.”
Just as Schuler was about to go to the room where Elaina was after hearing from Sinclair.
After wandering briefly, Schuler eventually turned his steps back.
Back to Sinclair.
…… His face looked so bitter, as if it was grabbing my ankles.
“No matter what happens……”
And to Schuler, who had come back like that, Sinclair said with a weak smile.
“Lady Elaina will be safe.”
[Be sure to tell her. No matter how things turn out, Elaina’s safety will be guaranteed for certain.]“So don’t worry about anything……”
[So tell her she doesn’t need to worry about anything.]“Schuler, what I’m asking now isn’t about my safety.”
Elaina moved her dry lips with a miserably cracking voice.
“I’m asking about Sinclair’s safety.”
“……”
“Whether he can really survive. Whether there’s a way this time too.”
[I’m sorry, but is there a way?]Schuler also asked the same to Sinclair.
[I’m more meticulous than I look, so I always have a way, but I don’t know how it will turn out.] [I see……] [My safety is my own business to take care of.] [Lady Elaina will be worried too. Certainly. So please don’t just say that……] [Well, I’m not sure.]Schuler still clearly remembered the face of Sinclair as he answered with a weak smile.
That expression that looked so lonely and desolate.
That atmosphere that seemed as if he had fallen alone at the end of the world.
[…… You don’t need to worry about that either. Anyway, I will tenaciously survive on my own as I always have. Whether that’s what Elaina wants or not.]“He said…… not to worry.”
“What……”
“And, also……”
[Do you have any other message for Lady Elaina?]And.
[Please tell me anything. I will surely go and convey it.]And……
Elaina looked at Schuler, who kept repeating the same words like a fool, with anxious eyes.
“Sir Sinclair said……”
[Elaina won’t wonder about it.] [No, that can’t be! Please don’t say that, and tell me one more thing. Lady Elaina will surely be worried sick.]Is that so?
Could that be possible?
Sinclair, who had been looking out the window only in the direction of the room where Elaina was staying with a broken expression, finally conveyed his last words to Schuler.
[If Elaina worries about me or asks about my well-being…… tell her.]“He told me to tell you.”
[Even after all that happened, I still love you.]“That he still loves Lady Elaina.”
[Since that’s the one thing I can do best, that fact will never change no matter the situation.]“Since there’s nothing else Sir Sinclair can do better than that, that fact won’t change no matter what situation arises.”
[So please don’t mind someone like me, and prioritize your own safety above all else.]“…… He said to tell you to prioritize your own safety above all else.”
As he conveyed Sinclair’s words, Schuler instinctively looked at Elaina’s face.
Elaina, who had heard the whole story, was……
wearing the same expression as Sinclair had just moments ago.
A face full of longing, sadness, and only concern for the other person.
For a moment, Schuler briefly hesitated.
“……”
Elaina’s hand, which had been lying weakly between her long sleeves, trembled slightly. She lowered her head slightly with an expression that seemed somewhat shattered for some reason.
And she realized a very obvious fact on her own.
They thought their relationship had completely fallen apart, and they also thought they had shattered it.
They thought it was inevitable, and that there was no answer other than this kind of end.
But it was ridiculous. Even though she had let go of Sinclair completely and said she wanted him to suffer just like her……
She was worried about Sinclair.
Even more than her own safety.
Putting aside all the betrayal and disappointment she had felt towards him so far.
“…… Have the rest of the conversation directly with Sir Sinclair when you return to the palace.”
Schuler, who easily noticed Elaina’s feelings, spoke as if to comfort her, looking at Elaina with kind eyes.
“Did you hear? Sir Sinclair prioritizes Lady Elaina’s safety above all else. Just as you are doing right now.”
Elaina couldn’t refute anything. She only clenched her trembling fists tightly.
“Let’s depart. You must stay safe, even for Sir Sinclair’s sake. I will protect you with my life, so don’t worry about anything.”
Those were Schuler’s last words. Elaina nodded weakly, and as soon as she gave her permission, Schuler opened the door.
Then he nodded to Judith and Anna, who had already finished preparing to leave and had terrified faces, and they began to take Elaina out of the crown prince’s palace with the guards who had been on standby.
“……”
Like that, Elaina, who stood in front of the carriage Schuler had prepared in advance, suddenly looked up at the sky.
The night sky, which had been as dark as Elaina’s heart, was already filled with a dim light. The sun would rise within an hour at the latest, and morning would come like that.
“Please get in, Lady Elaina.”
Even as she limped and got into the carriage at Schuler’s urging. And even after she had gotten into the carriage with difficulty, Elaina’s gaze was directed only at one place.
The drawing room where Sinclair would be staying.
“……”
Elaina stared in the direction he was in endlessly, just as Sinclair had done in front of Schuler earlier. With a very anxious face.
And she thought.
No matter how unforgivable Sinclair was.
And even if there was no way to completely erase the hatred towards him……
She didn’t want an end like this at all.
Such a thing should never happen.
“I apologize for the cramped carriage, but please bear with it for a bit, Lady Elaina. It’s to avoid standing out as much as possible.”
Schuler approached the window and spoke in a slightly urgent voice.
“Then I will depart now.”
Before long, the sound of Schuler commanding the guards was heard.
The carriage that had been still like that gradually picked up speed and began to run, and cold morning air flowed in through the slightly open window crack.
But Elaina sat there motionless, as if nailed in place.
[He said to tell you that he still loves Lady Elaina.]Only ruminating on those words Sinclair had conveyed through Schuler.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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