“Ah… ….”
He was really surprised. The eyelids behind the blindfold fluttered for a while. Radan was distracted by the taste of the meat that melted softly in his mouth.
“Ah.”
As Radan chewed and swallowed the meat Leshak fed him, he gave a little exclamation sounds as it passed through his mouth.
According to Leshak, it was the same snake meat, it was just grilled and simmered in sauce. But it tasted completely different from what he had eaten before. There was even a blush on his cheek. While admiring the taste and texture of the food, another piece of meat was slipped into his slightly opened mouth.
“Don’t rest, eat.”
Radan took the meat and ate it withoutany thought. Radan licked his lips for quite some time. This was due to his habit of chewing the dried meat until it was soft in his mouth. Leshak’s gaze pierced his lips like a nail. If Radan could have seen this, he would have not understood why.
“Don’t spill it.”
Leshak wiped the oily sauce off Radan’s lips with his thumb. Radan shrugged at the touch on his lips. Meanwhile, Leshak cut the meat again and put it to his mouth.
“I, da, don’t……, I can eat al..lone,”
Radan pulled back, embarrassed. Leshak placed his other hand on Radan’s shoulder without breaking the hold on the fork. He operated as though he hadn’t just been told that he didn’t want his help, and wanted to eat alone. Radan’s body, which was slowly trying to move away, was held under Leshak’s hand.
“Eat more.”
“…….”
Radan seemed a little embarrassed but he opened his mouth again. The hunger that he had forgotten because of being nervous, exploded after eating a few pieces of this amazing meat.
“Is it delicious?”
“……Yes.”
There was no need to ask but Leshak wanted to hear him answer.
“Better than before?”
Dried snake meat was tasteless, tough, and it smelled fishy. It also took a long time to eat the whole piece. When he was hot or tired, he couldn’t chew it so he had to swallow it whole. Between dried or baked, there was no comparison.
“Yes.”
So the answer was not difficult. Leshak, who was watching Radan’s simple answer, suddenly reached out his hand and patted his head. Radan could not see him, but he was smiling. This delicious meat was the first good food that had ever been given to Radan.
“Then eat a lot of meat from now on.”
“Oh…… ”
Radan’s expression changed at those words, it is a difficult thing when he thought about it. Choosing to eat delicious food now, and continuing to eat the delicious food in the future, were two different things.
Leshak’s words reminded him of the situation that he had forgotten for a moment. This didn’t make sense, Radan had to kill Leshak, not eat the delicious meat he kept feeding him.
“Eat more.”
Leshak pushed the meat into his mouth but Radan carefully leaned back instead.
“No….. I can’t eat anymore…….”
“Why, aren’t you still hungry? It would not be possible to be satiated.”
It was obvious to Leshak that Radan hadn’t eaten a his fill yet. What he was eating now was not snake, but lamb’s thighs. Karum, for example had easily eaten five portions of the same meat. Radan had eaten less than half of one portion.
“No…… no more…… done.”
He didn’t say he wasn’t hungry, and he didn’t even notice the lie he had told about the lamb, what Radan said was ‘No’. Leshak’s expression cracked. Leshak narrowed his eyes as he thought, ‘why doesn’t this little prostitute like what he gives him’?
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t like it. Sidris.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Take it out and get another one. Tell them to make something more delicious.”
“Yes, my lord.”
Radan shook his head vigorously from side to side.
“Oh no…… that’s not…… Oh, no more…… No,”
“Radan.”
Leshak lightly held Radan’s by his shaking chin. Even his head was small. It was surprising that all the features were sitting so balanced on that small face. And somehow it felt strangely bad, not that face, but the feeling of seeing that face.
“What do you dislike?”
“I, my lord…….”
Radan tried to move his chin away, not out of fear, but in order to get away from his hand. It was obvious at a glance that Radan was trying to avoid him for some reason. Leshak’s strengthened his grip.
“You said it is delicious, so if it’s not that you don’t like the food, then are you saying that you don’t like me?
“…….”
At those words, Radan’s movements stopped. Leshak noticed that Radan had frozen but he didn’t relax his grip. It never occurred to Radan to make a sound of pain.
“Answer me.”
“…….”
“Answer me.”
“…….”
“Answer me, Radan.”
Just when Sidris thought that he had shut down, he heard a low slow reply.
“No…… not.”
“Then?”
“I,……d, don’t dislike you.”
“So, what do you dislike?”
The blindfold flickered, Leshak could easily imagine the broken eyes beneath it desperately searching for answers. Radan bit his lip before answering. It seemed like a very difficult answer.
Leshak reflexively reached out and shoved his thumb in between Radan’s lips, fortunately, there were no new wounds on them. Radan, who was unwilling to bite the prince’s finger was forced to finally opened his mouth.
As he lowered his head, the movement of the cervical vertebrae was revealed under his thin white skin. Like Radan’s other movements, it was too sad to be called abject, and too refined to be wretched.
“Alright……will say it, I’m afraid, …… I hate……hate that.”
“…..What?”
Leshak’s eyebrows clenched at the unexpected answer.
“What do you hate?”
“No, it’s delicious….. warm too….. But, I’m afraid……to like it….cause it can’t be like….that.”
“……..”
“Then…..cause..it can’t…….”
Leshak saw Radan clench his fists. No matter how much effort he was giving, his words came so hard to him. Leshak grabbed Radan’s wrist and pulled him closer. While Radan was panicking as Leshak forced his fist open.
Cold sweat was welling up in his palms. It was an answer in and of itself. First of all, there must be something else that is even more difficult in order for him to try not to like the good things he was given.
“Damn it.”
Leshak spit out more abusive language. Once again, boundaries were blurring. Each time he learned something about Radan, it felt like he was walking into the unknown, and once he discovered it he couldn’t go back to where he was before.
Damn it! Leshak wiped his face with an unclear hand. He had to hate it, because he was too afraid to like it? What kind of bastard could stand still after hearing such a thing?
“Aye my lord…… what am I doing wrong……?”
The anxious voice made Leshak open his eyes again. Leshak let go of his wrist and stroked Radan’s cheek.
“No, you’ve done nothing wrong.”
“Then why…….”
“Now I got the gist of it, how will I deal with you?”
Radan seemed to have no idea what he was saying. Leshak grabbed Radan’s head and pulled him closer. The discomfort he felt in seeing him subsided a little. Perhaps this is what he wanted to do.
“Yes, like it please.”
“……Yes?”
Leshak’s lips hovered over the tip of Radan’s nose.
“You will no longer lack the things you love, I promise you in my name.”
“I, I……”
Radan was about to say something but it was unnecessary. Leshak pulled Radan’s face to his and placed their lips together. His surprised lips parted. And as if he were waiting for that, Leshek’s tongue dug into the gap and filled his mouth. The tangled saliva was sweet, delicious, warm, and incomparable to candy.
The meal that ended up shocking Radan and astonishing Sidris, managed to come to an end. In fact Sidris was so shocked to see Leshak kissing Radan that he bit his own tongue. Despite making quite a loud moan, Leshak didn’t stop kissing him.
Sidris managed to calm myself down and cleared the messy table. After that Leshak ordered him find something suitable for Radan to wear. Leshak’s men did their best to prepare clothes small enough for Radan to wear, but the results were less than than ideal.
Although there was no shortage of supplies, it was still a military camp.
“I don’t like it.” Leshak uttered as he was looking through the clothes. Abadd tilted his head.
“It will be impossible to find clothes smaller than this Your Majesty. Isn’t his body size too small?”
Again, this was a military camp.
It had been a long time since anyone, including Leshak, paid attention to fashion. Well fitted and stylish clothes may be as precious as life in the Imperial Palace, but no one paid any attention here. Leshak put his clothes down.
“There are stains.”
“…… Yes?”
“I’d rather bring my clothes. Isn’t there some new clothes somewhere?”
“Your Majesty…… It’s embarrassing to say, but your clothes are too big.”
Abadd wore an expression like he had a bad taste in his mouth.
“It would be better than this, though.”
Abadd was about to impatiently blurt out “but why my lord”, if Sidris hadn’t poked him in the side in time. Instead he said “Wow, that would be great.”
Leshak glanced at Abadd in a very strange way.
“It’s a battlefield. You can’t expect to find clothes that fit just right.”
On a battlefield no one should care about stains the size of a pea.
“Choose something light and soft because he has delicate skin.”
“My lord…” –“Are you really all right?” Was what he was about to continue on to say. Thankfully, Sidris poked him in the side again before he could finish. Abadd could barely nod his head.
“I see, my lord.”
Sidris quickly interjected.
“I know your things are better, so I will go with him. Is that all right, my lord?”
Leshak nodded his head with a look of indifference.
“Do as you will.”
“Thank you, my lord. Then we will go.”
Sidris and Abadd escaped the prince’s barracks
“Let’s go.”
Abadd grabbed his elbow and pulled it.
“But shouldn’t one of us stay and monitor him? It seems like His Majesty is being too lenient, even in regards to monitoring the prostitute.”
“Then you stay. I do not like this.”
Sidris moved quickly. Abadd hurried to his feet and stuck close behind Sidris’ back.
“Why don’t you like it?”
“Because there won’t be anyone to poke me in the side.”
“Well?”
While Abadd tilted his head, Sidris went far ahead.
“Damn it.”
Abadd hastily caught up with him.
“Why are you walking so fast? And what does that mean?”
“What’s about to happen in His Majesty’s barracks will not be so pleasant. Why are you acting so stupid?”
“Isn’t it just fun then…?”
Abadd furrowed his brow.
“No it isn’t.”
Sidris intensified Abadd’s suspicions by walking faster.
“It means that His Majesty, the Crown Prince of the Ibeden Empire, is determined to carry out the will of nature with that prostitute.”
“What… What the fuck is that about……? Oh, that was a mistake. My lord, please forgive me. It was not intentional.”
Abadd, who was almost blasphemed against the Crown Prince, quickly caught himself. Sidris looked at him pitifully.
“Who was it that said Leshek wasn’t that kind of male? Come now?”
“That’s just something I heard. Damn it, does any of this make sense? A ‘lover’ in Prince Leshak barracks, who’s also a prostitute from a brothel, and a man?”
Sidris shook his head.
“It’s all been said already.”
“So for the moment, are you saying there’s nothing wrong with this?”
“I didn’t say that, because there is a problem! So for His Majesty’s sake let’s not lower our vigilance, everything else has already been said.”
“Damn it, that’s it! What I said back then was based on the assumption that the prostitute was the ‘unknown assassin’. But what if… shall we leave it like this?”
Yet again, Sidris looked at Abadd with a pitiful expression.
“Don’t be stupid”
Abadd wrinkled his handsome brow.
“Hey isn’t that going too far….giving an insult instead of an answer?”
“You’re an idiot for asking in the first place. Try to hold on to the good sense the maker bestowed apon you, and reflect on your words before you speak them.”
Abadd stood speechless with his mouth agape. It was partly because he knew that when Sidris used such aggressive remarks, things were really bad. But nonetheless, his statements were quite far from the truth. Sidris, who was said to be the wisest of Leshak’s Guardian Knights already knew what Abadd would say next.
“I told you in advance, don’t say nonsense.”
“….. Did you notice?”
“Maybe, who knows.”
“……”
After a while, Abadd licked his lips after brushing off his embarrassment.
“Don’t cut someone else’s words without the guts to look at them. And you didn’t answer.”
“I’m saying you’re stupid for asking a question that doesn’t need an answer. What kind of talent do we have to have in order to carry out his Highness’s commands? Is it strange that the imperial family would have ‘lover’ with them? If it is, I don’t know.”
“…… Damn it. That’s how I see it. Yes, that’s right. His Majesty Leshak has been behaving strange since he met him.”
“His Supreme Majesty that we all know, said out of him own mouth that he would take a prostitute. What do you really think we can do anything about it?”
Unfortunately, Sidris was right. If Leshak said he would take a prostitute there was only one reason, it meant that he wanted the prostitute.
“……No, we can’t do anything about it.” Sidris begrudgingly admited.
“Okay, so in this situation, all we can do is watch.”
“You are right.”
Their pace continued quickly even as they talked.
Abadd sighed as he muttered toward the edge of the darkened sky.
“Please, I just hope that the prostitute is not the unknown assassin.”
Abadd recalled the first memory of Radan, when he leap into Prince Leshak’s arms. Even then, Leshak said the same thing, “If you want, I will let you live as a citizen of the Empire”. Radan turned down Leshek’s offer because of his family, and fled too fast.
Coincidentally, it was also the day Earl Custer was assassinated in a brothel. He wished it wasn’t so, but he couldn’t just blindly believe his pathetic words. Finally, they reached the front of the barracks where their luggage was kept. As they were walking towards it, a question suddenly occurred to Abadd.
“Is the pimp still alive?”
“…..Maybe, I heard that he was, why do you ask?.”
“The pimp knows the prostitute’s family. How about finding out where they live? Let’s see if that’s true. And of course, don’t tell his Majesty yet.”
There was a brief moment of surprise acrossed Sidris’ face. Abadd spoke quickly, not missing it.
“Then, I think you should take back the word stupid.”
“Tsk.”
Instead of wasting time responding to such nonsense, Sidris entered the barracks.
“Ah… ….”
He was really surprised. The eyelids behind the blindfold fluttered for a while. Radan was distracted by the taste of the meat that melted softly in his mouth.
“Ah.”
As Radan chewed and swallowed the meat Leshak fed him, he gave a little exclamation sounds as it passed through his mouth.
According to Leshak, it was the same snake meat, it was just grilled and simmered in sauce. But it tasted completely different from what he had eaten before. There was even a blush on his cheek. While admiring the taste and texture of the food, another piece of meat was slipped into his slightly opened mouth.
“Don’t rest, eat.”
Radan took the meat and ate it withoutany thought. Radan licked his lips for quite some time. This was due to his habit of chewing the dried meat until it was soft in his mouth. Leshak’s gaze pierced his lips like a nail. If Radan could have seen this, he would have not understood why.
“Don’t spill it.”
Leshak wiped the oily sauce off Radan’s lips with his thumb. Radan shrugged at the touch on his lips. Meanwhile, Leshak cut the meat again and put it to his mouth.
“I, da, don’t……, I can eat al..lone,”
Radan pulled back, embarrassed. Leshak placed his other hand on Radan’s shoulder without breaking the hold on the fork. He operated as though he hadn’t just been told that he didn’t want his help, and wanted to eat alone. Radan’s body, which was slowly trying to move away, was held under Leshak’s hand.
“Eat more.”
“…….”
Radan seemed a little embarrassed but he opened his mouth again. The hunger that he had forgotten because of being nervous, exploded after eating a few pieces of this amazing meat.
“Is it delicious?”
“……Yes.”
There was no need to ask but Leshak wanted to hear him answer.
“Better than before?”
Dried snake meat was tasteless, tough, and it smelled fishy. It also took a long time to eat the whole piece. When he was hot or tired, he couldn’t chew it so he had to swallow it whole. Between dried or baked, there was no comparison.
“Yes.”
So the answer was not difficult. Leshak, who was watching Radan’s simple answer, suddenly reached out his hand and patted his head. Radan could not see him, but he was smiling. This delicious meat was the first good food that had ever been given to Radan.
“Then eat a lot of meat from now on.”
“Oh…… ”
Radan’s expression changed at those words, it is a difficult thing when he thought about it. Choosing to eat delicious food now, and continuing to eat the delicious food in the future, were two different things.
Leshak’s words reminded him of the situation that he had forgotten for a moment. This didn’t make sense, Radan had to kill Leshak, not eat the delicious meat he kept feeding him.
“Eat more.”
Leshak pushed the meat into his mouth but Radan carefully leaned back instead.
“No….. I can’t eat anymore…….”
“Why, aren’t you still hungry? It would not be possible to be satiated.”
It was obvious to Leshak that Radan hadn’t eaten a his fill yet. What he was eating now was not snake, but lamb’s thighs. Karum, for example had easily eaten five portions of the same meat. Radan had eaten less than half of one portion.
“No…… no more…… done.”
He didn’t say he wasn’t hungry, and he didn’t even notice the lie he had told about the lamb, what Radan said was ‘No’. Leshak’s expression cracked. Leshak narrowed his eyes as he thought, ‘why doesn’t this little prostitute like what he gives him’?
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t like it. Sidris.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Take it out and get another one. Tell them to make something more delicious.”
“Yes, my lord.”
Radan shook his head vigorously from side to side.
“Oh no…… that’s not…… Oh, no more…… No,”
“Radan.”
Leshak lightly held Radan’s by his shaking chin. Even his head was small. It was surprising that all the features were sitting so balanced on that small face. And somehow it felt strangely bad, not that face, but the feeling of seeing that face.
“What do you dislike?”
“I, my lord…….”
Radan tried to move his chin away, not out of fear, but in order to get away from his hand. It was obvious at a glance that Radan was trying to avoid him for some reason. Leshak’s strengthened his grip.
“You said it is delicious, so if it’s not that you don’t like the food, then are you saying that you don’t like me?
“…….”
At those words, Radan’s movements stopped. Leshak noticed that Radan had frozen but he didn’t relax his grip. It never occurred to Radan to make a sound of pain.
“Answer me.”
“…….”
“Answer me.”
“…….”
“Answer me, Radan.”
Just when Sidris thought that he had shut down, he heard a low slow reply.
“No…… not.”
“Then?”
“I,……d, don’t dislike you.”
“So, what do you dislike?”
The blindfold flickered, Leshak could easily imagine the broken eyes beneath it desperately searching for answers. Radan bit his lip before answering. It seemed like a very difficult answer.
Leshak reflexively reached out and shoved his thumb in between Radan’s lips, fortunately, there were no new wounds on them. Radan, who was unwilling to bite the prince’s finger was forced to finally opened his mouth.
As he lowered his head, the movement of the cervical vertebrae was revealed under his thin white skin. Like Radan’s other movements, it was too sad to be called abject, and too refined to be wretched.
“Alright……will say it, I’m afraid, …… I hate……hate that.”
“…..What?”
Leshak’s eyebrows clenched at the unexpected answer.
“What do you hate?”
“No, it’s delicious….. warm too….. But, I’m afraid……to like it….cause it can’t be like….that.”
“……..”
“Then…..cause..it can’t…….”
Leshak saw Radan clench his fists. No matter how much effort he was giving, his words came so hard to him. Leshak grabbed Radan’s wrist and pulled him closer. While Radan was panicking as Leshak forced his fist open.
Cold sweat was welling up in his palms. It was an answer in and of itself. First of all, there must be something else that is even more difficult in order for him to try not to like the good things he was given.
“Damn it.”
Leshak spit out more abusive language. Once again, boundaries were blurring. Each time he learned something about Radan, it felt like he was walking into the unknown, and once he discovered it he couldn’t go back to where he was before.
Damn it! Leshak wiped his face with an unclear hand. He had to hate it, because he was too afraid to like it? What kind of bastard could stand still after hearing such a thing?
“Aye my lord…… what am I doing wrong……?”
The anxious voice made Leshak open his eyes again. Leshak let go of his wrist and stroked Radan’s cheek.
“No, you’ve done nothing wrong.”
“Then why…….”
“Now I got the gist of it, how will I deal with you?”
Radan seemed to have no idea what he was saying. Leshak grabbed Radan’s head and pulled him closer. The discomfort he felt in seeing him subsided a little. Perhaps this is what he wanted to do.
“Yes, like it please.”
“……Yes?”
Leshak’s lips hovered over the tip of Radan’s nose.
“You will no longer lack the things you love, I promise you in my name.”
“I, I……”
Radan was about to say something but it was unnecessary. Leshak pulled Radan’s face to his and placed their lips together. His surprised lips parted. And as if he were waiting for that, Leshek’s tongue dug into the gap and filled his mouth. The tangled saliva was sweet, delicious, warm, and incomparable to candy.
The meal that ended up shocking Radan and astonishing Sidris, managed to come to an end. In fact Sidris was so shocked to see Leshak kissing Radan that he bit his own tongue. Despite making quite a loud moan, Leshak didn’t stop kissing him.
Sidris managed to calm myself down and cleared the messy table. After that Leshak ordered him find something suitable for Radan to wear. Leshak’s men did their best to prepare clothes small enough for Radan to wear, but the results were less than than ideal.
Although there was no shortage of supplies, it was still a military camp.
“I don’t like it.” Leshak uttered as he was looking through the clothes. Abadd tilted his head.
“It will be impossible to find clothes smaller than this Your Majesty. Isn’t his body size too small?”
Again, this was a military camp.
It had been a long time since anyone, including Leshak, paid attention to fashion. Well fitted and stylish clothes may be as precious as life in the Imperial Palace, but no one paid any attention here. Leshak put his clothes down.
“There are stains.”
“…… Yes?”
“I’d rather bring my clothes. Isn’t there some new clothes somewhere?”
“Your Majesty…… It’s embarrassing to say, but your clothes are too big.”
Abadd wore an expression like he had a bad taste in his mouth.
“It would be better than this, though.”
Abadd was about to impatiently blurt out “but why my lord”, if Sidris hadn’t poked him in the side in time. Instead he said “Wow, that would be great.”
Leshak glanced at Abadd in a very strange way.
“It’s a battlefield. You can’t expect to find clothes that fit just right.”
On a battlefield no one should care about stains the size of a pea.
“Choose something light and soft because he has delicate skin.”
“My lord…” –“Are you really all right?” Was what he was about to continue on to say. Thankfully, Sidris poked him in the side again before he could finish. Abadd could barely nod his head.
“I see, my lord.”
Sidris quickly interjected.
“I know your things are better, so I will go with him. Is that all right, my lord?”
Leshak nodded his head with a look of indifference.
“Do as you will.”
“Thank you, my lord. Then we will go.”
Sidris and Abadd escaped the prince’s barracks
“Let’s go.”
Abadd grabbed his elbow and pulled it.
“But shouldn’t one of us stay and monitor him? It seems like His Majesty is being too lenient, even in regards to monitoring the prostitute.”
“Then you stay. I do not like this.”
Sidris moved quickly. Abadd hurried to his feet and stuck close behind Sidris’ back.
“Why don’t you like it?”
“Because there won’t be anyone to poke me in the side.”
“Well?”
While Abadd tilted his head, Sidris went far ahead.
“Damn it.”
Abadd hastily caught up with him.
“Why are you walking so fast? And what does that mean?”
“What’s about to happen in His Majesty’s barracks will not be so pleasant. Why are you acting so stupid?”
“Isn’t it just fun then…?”
Abadd furrowed his brow.
“No it isn’t.”
Sidris intensified Abadd’s suspicions by walking faster.
“It means that His Majesty, the Crown Prince of the Ibeden Empire, is determined to carry out the will of nature with that prostitute.”
“What… What the fuck is that about……? Oh, that was a mistake. My lord, please forgive me. It was not intentional.”
Abadd, who was almost blasphemed against the Crown Prince, quickly caught himself. Sidris looked at him pitifully.
“Who was it that said Leshek wasn’t that kind of male? Come now?”
“That’s just something I heard. Damn it, does any of this make sense? A ‘lover’ in Prince Leshak barracks, who’s also a prostitute from a brothel, and a man?”
Sidris shook his head.
“It’s all been said already.”
“So for the moment, are you saying there’s nothing wrong with this?”
“I didn’t say that, because there is a problem! So for His Majesty’s sake let’s not lower our vigilance, everything else has already been said.”
“Damn it, that’s it! What I said back then was based on the assumption that the prostitute was the ‘unknown assassin’. But what if… shall we leave it like this?”
Yet again, Sidris looked at Abadd with a pitiful expression.
“Don’t be stupid”
Abadd wrinkled his handsome brow.
“Hey isn’t that going too far….giving an insult instead of an answer?”
“You’re an idiot for asking in the first place. Try to hold on to the good sense the maker bestowed apon you, and reflect on your words before you speak them.”
Abadd stood speechless with his mouth agape. It was partly because he knew that when Sidris used such aggressive remarks, things were really bad. But nonetheless, his statements were quite far from the truth. Sidris, who was said to be the wisest of Leshak’s Guardian Knights already knew what Abadd would say next.
“I told you in advance, don’t say nonsense.”
“….. Did you notice?”
“Maybe, who knows.”
“……”
After a while, Abadd licked his lips after brushing off his embarrassment.
“Don’t cut someone else’s words without the guts to look at them. And you didn’t answer.”
“I’m saying you’re stupid for asking a question that doesn’t need an answer. What kind of talent do we have to have in order to carry out his Highness’s commands? Is it strange that the imperial family would have ‘lover’ with them? If it is, I don’t know.”
“…… Damn it. That’s how I see it. Yes, that’s right. His Majesty Leshak has been behaving strange since he met him.”
“His Supreme Majesty that we all know, said out of him own mouth that he would take a prostitute. What do you really think we can do anything about it?”
Unfortunately, Sidris was right. If Leshak said he would take a prostitute there was only one reason, it meant that he wanted the prostitute.
“……No, we can’t do anything about it.” Sidris begrudgingly admited.
“Okay, so in this situation, all we can do is watch.”
“You are right.”
Their pace continued quickly even as they talked.
Abadd sighed as he muttered toward the edge of the darkened sky.
“Please, I just hope that the prostitute is not the unknown assassin.”
Abadd recalled the first memory of Radan, when he leap into Prince Leshak’s arms. Even then, Leshak said the same thing, “If you want, I will let you live as a citizen of the Empire”. Radan turned down Leshek’s offer because of his family, and fled too fast.
Coincidentally, it was also the day Earl Custer was assassinated in a brothel. He wished it wasn’t so, but he couldn’t just blindly believe his pathetic words. Finally, they reached the front of the barracks where their luggage was kept. As they were walking towards it, a question suddenly occurred to Abadd.
“Is the pimp still alive?”
“…..Maybe, I heard that he was, why do you ask?.”
“The pimp knows the prostitute’s family. How about finding out where they live? Let’s see if that’s true. And of course, don’t tell his Majesty yet.”
There was a brief moment of surprise acrossed Sidris’ face. Abadd spoke quickly, not missing it.
“Then, I think you should take back the word stupid.”
“Tsk.”
Instead of wasting time responding to such nonsense, Sidris entered the barracks.
