The Princess' Bedroom Doll

Chapter 67

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“Don’t act cocky because there is a young master I hold in my heart.” (Raha told Karzen that that was what she told Shed)

Was that young master perhaps that slave? Karzen chuckled. He did not intend to keep the slave alive for long anyway. Toys are toys because they break. How much would it bother him if that slave continued to guard Raha’s side? Karzen had never kept anything that bothered him alive. Except for Raha del Harsa.

There’s no way his smart twin sister couldn’t have guessed this…..If there was a problem with the wizard’s magic branding, why did the slave didn’t show any signs of dying? 

But run away? 

So she can run away with the slave afterwards?

That half slave pretended to be lowly but was well behaved. All records in the Holy Land had been lost. But he must be in the blue blood of the exiled country. Karzen had already guessed this before.

If the slave came from a high ranking family, there would have been quite a bit of money hidden there. 

Did he (the slave-Shed) whisper to Raha that he would help her get out of here? 

It might be the other way around. 

Thoughtful, Karzen tapped the desk.

The overwhelming forces of the Delo Empire had never failed to capture the kingdom they had marked. Furthermore, Karzen was a cruel monarch.

How many times have he seen the knights change their minds in fear of death? Knights who abandoned their master and knelt to save their life. Knights who threw their swords and fled. All of them splattered blood on the floor to meet the finale, but the knight’s loyalty wasn’t as great as he thought.

The slave, who had lost his country and became a test subject, must have fallen for the noble body of the Princess.

All other assumptions could be wrong. Maybe Raha was telling the truth that she really had someone in her heart. Or perhaps she was talking nonsense because she was in pain.The odds were low.

But at least, Karzen’s one assumption would not be wrong. That slave must have affection for Raha. Just looking at the insolent behavior of daring to insert the pure gold rose into the Princess’s collar.

Karzen stood up.

‘Keep working on the sign of the heir, Lasis. You will have to produce results within a year. I don’t have any more time. There are a lot of old people urging me to marry.”

“I’ll try my best, Your Majesty.”

The limit that Karzen could touch as a twin was Raha’s hands, arms, shoulders, and face. He thought he should have twist that slave’s neck quickly and kill him. After making the wizard leave, Karzen called for the captain of the Kingsguard, who was waiting outside.

“Blake. Release Raha’s surveillance leisurely for the time being. Slowly, to the point where Raha doesn’t notice.”

“Yes, Your Majesty. How much should it be?”

“Even if someone from outside the palace approaches and tells her to run away secretly, it will be enough that they will not notice.” 

He may be secretly monitoring from behind, but Raha was born into the royal family of Del Harsa. She was naive, but she was cautious and smart. It took a lot of effort to deceive Raha. 

“The whereabouts of the slave is unknown. They’re being careful.”

Karzen did not know those emotionless and cold eyes of Raha, who was looking down at the slave in the competition. Because her face just looked like his face when he looked at his swords. Swords were his tools, and the slave was the tool for the beautiful twin.

If there was only one obstacle in all this …….

Raha was very heartbroken. Because of her pale and waxy complexion, now Jamela Winston was living in the Imperial Palace. It was because he needed someone to take care of the domestic affairs. Duke Winston, with his ambition, would never pass up this opportunity.

“Send some medicine to Raha.”

Karzen sincerely hoped that Raha would regain her health before the summer passed. If the damn lowly slave comes back and whispers to her to run away from here. Whether it’s heavy rain or heavy snow, Raha would want to leave anyway.

At that time, the slave had to be torn to death in front of Raha’s eyes. That way, no one would dare to hold her in their hearts again.

But before that, it was a priority to put the twin back together, who seemed to die at any moment.

Because of Raha, who was heartbroken and very ill, Kalzen built a completely new palace. In addition to being larger and more gorgeous than the place where Raha had originally stayed, the garden was landscaped so widely that it was almost overgrown like forest. Even the soil was dug up and built into a river stream.

Artificially relocating the waterway was a difficult task, and they had to solidify a new site on the outer edge of the inner palace, but it didn’t matter. Karzen generously presented Raha a place that seemed to be isolated from the world at first glance.

It was not like Karzen, who always had both eyes shining at the thought of Raha’s escape.

He didn’t shove many slaves to Raha like before. Just showing seven or eight people in front of Raha was all it took.

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“Princess, I heard that you saved two slaves?”

The Palace in Deep Summer. Jamela, Duke Winston’s daughter smiled softly as she visited Raha.

“I have heard that they are cool and beautiful men, well suited to a palace such as this.”

These were not empty words. The completed Raha’s palace was very elegant and beautiful. It was a lush greenery, and even a large garden with a winding river that’s hard to see in the palace. Thanks to this, Raha’s palace looked like a rich and idyllic mansion in the countryside.

“Yes. His Majesty has shown me mercy.”

Mercy.

One thing was certain: it was because Karzen could not be able to present Raha with slaves for a while.

It was officially decided that Karzen would have a national wedding next spring. He even knew the date perfectly well, as he was preparing hard for the wedding.

As he was about to marry a woman from the eminent family of the Duke of Winston, if he caused a problem by starting a war without any reason, Karzen’s prestige would be greatly damaged.

That was why Blake Duke, the captain of the Kingsguard, was risking his life to stop it. Please, he said, let there be no war until at least after the next spring.

Raha said sarcastically in her mind, “It’s good to have so many loyal subjects.”

Anyway, after he’s married, he had to make a successor……. Duke Winston was also more persistent than he thought. It was clear that he would tell Jamela to make all sorts of excuses and advise Karzen not to go to war until she gave birth.

Raha didn’t like Karzen being in the palace, but it was better than to be presented with many slaves.

Raha had become quite tolerant of Jamela, who was useful to her in many ways. When she suddenly smiled, Jamela asked with a slightly flustered expression. 

“You seem to be in a good mood, Princess. Is it because the slaves are such outstanding beauties?”

“Would you like to see them?”

“…… can I do that?”

“What is there that you can’t do?”

With a cool hand gesture, Raha called the maid.

“Bring the two of them.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

The maid entered the inner palace and Raha leaned back on her chair. The sun shone beneath the branches of the overgrown trees. Jamela glanced sideways at Raha, who was looking at the clear, flowing waves. Suddenly Karzen’s words came to her mind.

Three days ago, after their regular dinner together to establish an engaged relationship, Karzen raised an eyebrow and said,

“Raha is getting thinner and thinner. Is it really that popular in social circles these days to be so thin, Young Lady?”

It can’t be.

He meant that she should pay more attention to Raha, and the more it was known to the outside world that she was in a close friendship with the Princess, the more advantageous it was for Jamela. So Jamela dared to ask to visit Raha’s palace. And since she was in the palace, she suggested having tea with Raha and she had some questions about the progress of the national wedding.

Raha did not refuse.

Facing each other in private for the first time in a long time, Raha had indeed lost a lot of weight. Wearing a light summer dress, Jamela could see the change more vividly.

In addition, when they had tea time and looked at it properly, Raha finished drinking a sip of tea but didn’t eat anything. It seemed to be an unconscious act. After more than a full season of illness, something really changed a lot about the Empress. Jamela couldn’t say exactly what had changed.

The fact that Raha would show her slaves to others without hesitation was unlike her.  She didn’t seem to mind taking the slaves outside anymore. She just acted as if she was treating beautiful dolls.

“Princess.”

The two men brought by the maid knelt down in front of Raha without hesitation.

“Lift your head.”

Raha said in a friendly voice at first glance. Although the basic atmosphere was cold and it didn’t do much good. Anyway, the slaves raised their heads obediently. Jamela fluttered her jeweled fan lightly. They certainly had a striking appearance.

Though, they were not as good as that insolent doll who had put the golden flower on the Princess’s collar at the combat competition.

“What do you think?”

“Princess has excellent eyes. Do they have a name?

“I call them 193 and 194.” (*Shed was called 192)

“Oh…….”

Jamela was vaguely aware of the fact that the Princess had previously called that beautiful doll number 192. By all accounts, it was a number derived from that slave. Moreover, they had bright silver hair color.

“They have similar hair color to that doll before. Is that why the Princess saved these two?”

Raha answered, lifting an elegant tea cup with a gold leaf pattern on it.

“It just happened so.”

The answer was vague and insincere. But anyone could have guessed. The fact that the Princess had saved these slaves for that reason. 

Even Karzen thought so. ……. Actually, they were wrong.

It didn’t matter what color their hair was. Raha has had an appreciation for silver hair since Karzen stabbed the silver fox in the eye and put it in Raha’s arms.

So Raha chose them for a different reason.

A reason that no one has any idea of.

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