Taming Her Highness the Princess

49 – Judgment for whom? Her open wounds heal and the blood begins to stop.

For a few minutes, like a child held by her parents, Radne drank little by little in Jenial’s arms. Eventually, when her wounds were all healed, she retracted her fangs from Jenial’s throat.

“Haa… ….”

Radne swallowed her cries and let her warm breath flow. Radne, who had been absent-minded for a while, licked her blood-stained lips.

“…… Are you okay? Aren’t you sick?”

She is the first vampire she ever tried. It was also vampirism done to Jeniel, who was like a benefactor. It was only natural for her to be worried that she might get sick.

“This is my first time… ….”

Maybe she drank more blood than she needed. As I was hesitating in strange anxiety, Jeniel let out a low laugh.

“It’s just blood sucked. How is it different from donating blood?”

“Really? I’m glad if that’s the case…….”

“Does it take time?”

“Huh? What?”

“The time it takes to move.”

She just lost a lot of blood. No matter how vampiric she was, she didn’t seem to be able to move right away, so those were the words she uttered.

Actually Radne didn’t have enough strength in her legs. Radne, who moved her body several times to stand up, gave up.

“As you said, I think it will take some time. Vampirism does not seem to improve the body right away.”

“I see. Then let’s spend some time here. Once your mana is restored, make sure to hide your horns first. If possible, it would be better to hide the fangs as well.”

Radne nods and Jenny Earl rises from her seat. Jenial walked towards the door and looked outside.

If Radne fails to hide all of his horns and fangs, and the guards attack, both will be in trouble, so watch out.

That detailed consideration causes big and small ripples in Radne’s heart. Even though I am grateful for Jenial’s dedication, small questions come to my mind.

“Jenial. If it’s okay, can I ask one question?”

“What is it?”

Jeniel was still answering with his back shown. Radne looked at Jenny Earl’s back and asked the question he had in mind.

“It really is my life…… Do you think you are worth more than the countless risks you will face?”

Because he was vampiric, now demonic energy flows through Jeniel’s body. The fact that demonic energy is flowing means that he has become no different from a heretic designated by the Holy Land.

Of course, only a handful of clerics could sense the demonic energy unless they openly revealed it, but the very fact that they were walking around the empire with the demonic energy in their bodies was a great danger to Jeniel.

Nevertheless, Jeniel saved him. Out of simple sympathy? No, no matter how you think about it, he seemed to have a purpose beyond that.

“I said it was the Red Moon. The name of the group you’re after…….”

Ladne remembered the name of the organization that Jeniel had casually spilled while interrogating her. If you combine that with Jeniel’s obsession with blood magic, the answer is surprisingly simple.

“So you’re using blood magic. An organization called Jeokwolseong…….”

Even a human could use blood magic as long as he signed a contract with a high-ranking demon. Jeniel could also use blood magic, but that was just an imitation.

To understand the nature of blood magic, you must become a demon. Perhaps that calculation had a significant impact on saving Radne.

Even so, Jeniel’s good intentions were not diluted. There will be no fool who decides to live as a demon in the Empire for the sole purpose of understanding the nature of blood magic.

Radne was just curious. Why is Jeniel, a young boy from a prestigious family who has nothing, so obsessed with an organization called Jeokwolseong?

“…… Can I ask what they did to you?”

Jeniel’s hands trembled as he was holding his hands behind his back. Horrible past memories he doesn’t want to remember come to mind.

Jeniel opened his mouth, then closed it again. Even if we talk about the sacrifices and deaths of countless people and the destruction that lies at the end, they won’t help each other.

However, paradoxically, that silence was more than an answer to Radne. Radne nods his head as if he understands, catches his breath and moves his legs.

“Heh, ugh… ….”

It was accompanied by pain, but my senses were slowly returning. Sensing Radne trying to get up from behind, Jennie Earl quietly opened his mouth.

“Can I ask a question too?”

It was a quiet tone, but even that silence could be heard loudly in the empty abandoned house. Curious about Jenial’s question, Radne answered while trying to raise his body.

“I wonder what.”

After hearing Ladne’s permission, Jeniel paused for a while and said.

“Why did you come to the Empire?”

Radne’s shoulders trembled. Radne, who had been silent for a while not knowing the intention of his question, cautiously opened his mouth.

“…… You said To keep her promise to her father and become an imperial citizen.”

“Are promises, not compulsions?”

A word of insight makes Radne shut up.

“You were willing to give up your life too easily to become a citizen of the Empire. You can find out there It means that you have no intention of becoming an imperial citizen.”

“… ….”

“But it doesn’t seem like there’s anywhere else I can go back to. Because people who have a place to go back to don’t give up on life as easily as you do.”

The huge horns growing on both sides of his head indicate that Rad Ne is a noble lineage in the demon realm. Quite a few high-ranking demons had to give up in front of Radne.

Even so, Radne can’t return to the Demon Realm. He was living in the Empire, holding on to his promise to his father.

The clues became a puzzle and were creating a picture of a person named Radne. Jenny Earl, who wanted to solve the last puzzle in the picture, turned his body halfway and looked down at Radne.

“Radne Merharin, who are you?”

I don’t know why the voice asking for my identity is warm. That was not a question asked out of suspicion, but more like a question to get to know the other person.

Attracted by her coziness, Radne tried to tell Jenny Earl that she was the princess of the Demon Realm, but she soon regained her senses and shook her head.

Didn’t she promise her father that she wouldn’t reveal her true identity to anyone? Jenny Earl was certainly a trustworthy and nice person, but he wasn’t good enough to tell me the secrets that lay deep inside.

“I am everything you know. Knowing who I am will not change our relationship. If you still want to know my identity-“

“If there is nothing to change, there is no need to say anything.”

Everybody has a secret they want to hide. Jeniel knew better than anyone else that the moment he tried to dig it out by force, it would end in violence.

No matter how much it is, I was a bit dumbfounded when he said he didn’t have to answer after asking because he was curious. The absurdity soon made a weak smile appear on Radne’s lips.

“You are so selfish. The same goes for saving me from dying.”

“What are you talking about? It was you who swore to live.”

“That’s what it means to be arbitrary.”

This insensitive man didn’t really seem to know why he was determined to live. It’s almost laughable that he doesn’t know me when he showed up like a prince on a white horse and saved me.

He didn’t hate it though. Since he spared me, it was many times better to treat people indifferently than to insist on giving away his bundle.

“Young master! Prince Jenial—!”

In the meantime, I hear a voice looking for Jeniel nearby. Radne quickly hid his horns and fangs so that the guards wouldn’t find out he was a demon.

Radne took a deep breath and slowly stood up from her seat while holding on to the wall. Radne, feeling that his body was almost restored, looked at Jenny Earl and nodded his head. It was a sign that it was time to leave.

After seeing that Radne has fully recovered his body, Jennie Earl’s lungs go out. Dersal, who has been looking for Jenial, approaches in a flash of light.

“Oh! Do you know how worried I was when Young master suddenly disappeared? I’m glad you didn’t see anything wrong. But the assistant’s search…….”

“There is no need to search. Because I found it.”

“Did you find the car?”

You searched all over the forest and couldn’t find a trace? While Dersal was wondering, Radne walked out of the abandoned house.

Looking at the clothes around his waist stained with blood, it seemed that Jeniel’s assistant was right. I don’t know what it was, but he was glad he found an assistant.

“It looks better than I thought, so I feel relieved. However… ….”

Dersal glances back. There was a Heretic Judge who was being dragged by the guards tied to a rope.

“What will he do? That’s a pretty big deal for us to keep.”

“Nothing to worry about. It will be necessary to proceed according to the procedure and implement it to the Police Agency.”

“You mean the police department?”

Handing it over to the Police Agency was no different than asking the Heretic Judge to commit a crime. No matter how much it is, he is a person who came out of the Holy Land after receiving an order from the Holy See, but is that a reasonable thing to do?

Dersal asked just in case, but Jeniel had no intention of retracting his opinion. In fact, Nartine was charged with housebreaking and kidnapping, so it was not difficult to prosecute him.

“I will take full responsibility, so follow my orders.”

“Oh, I see.”

Dersal nodded his head, puzzled. In the meantime, Nartine, who had been trudging along, stopped in front of Jenial.

The bewildered guards tried to drag Nartine away, but they were too stubborn to get her to move easily.

“Ah…… ! Prince Jenial!”

A smile spreads across Nartine’s lips. Even though he didn’t look like a horse because he had rolled on the floor, his smile was terribly bright.

“I can feel it. I can feel it! You committed a sin to save that insignificant devil. Do you know or know what you’ve done? I can’t understand why you turn the Holy Kingdom into an enemy!”

Jenial responded insensitively to Nartine’s sarcasm.

“Is that the end?”

“Yes? What now…….”

“Drag and go.”

The guards nodded at Jeniel’s command and grabbed Nartine’s wrist and pulled her. Nartine, who had been looking at Jeniel somewhat in vain, had no choice but to follow the guards’ lead.

“Hmmm! Then, it seems that the work is roughly finished, so I will return now!”

Dersal also bowed his head to Jeniel and joined the group that was escorting Nartine. He wanted to run away because something else would happen if he stayed with Jenny Earl.

‘Did she say that the saintess would come to the empire soon…? ….’

Recalling what Nartine had said, Jenial stood still and watched the guards leave. Radne comes to Jenial’s side.

“Now what are you going to do?”

She had a job, so she had to clean up. Jenny Earl, who had been briefly pondering over that very obvious question, raised his head.

I can feel the sun beating down under the sky where the dark clouds have disappeared before I know it. It must be proof that spring is slowly passing away and summer is approaching.

“Now… ….”

Feeling the wind blowing, Jenial muttered lowly as she closed her eyes.

“I must have been overworked, so I will have to go back to the mansion and work overtime.”

For a moment, he thought he had heard something wrong. Are you going to work even on a day like today? Radne, who had blinked a few times, looked up at Jenial, not hiding her embarrassment.

“Are you serious?”

“I have never been sincere in everything.”

It was only then that Ladne realized that Jeniel was a terrible worker. That wasn’t too different from the fact that the teaching assistant himself would also be buried in work.

Ladne let out her drool and closed her eyes following Jenny Earl. The darkness in front of her seemed somehow to be no different from her own future…….