[Contest] I opened my eyes and the nightmare began again.
23 โข Quick wit



ํฉ์ , ๊นํํ
Did you travel safely?

_ Taehyung's gaze was directed at the documents and he asked a question.


๋ฐ ์ง ๋ฏผ
I confirmed that you left the palace.


๋ฐ ์ง ๋ฏผ
Plus, we even got our kids involved.


์ ์ ๊ตญ
What, is there something wrong?

_ The gaze that was directed at the documents soon turned straight ahead, and Taehyung's expression was one of confusion.


ํฉ์ , ๊นํํ
I told you not to worry about it, but it's true that something feels off.

The disappearance of the empress is not a story that can be passed over.


ํฉ์ , ๊นํํ
Have you looked up his whereabouts?


์ ์ ๊ตญ
I'm looking into it, but haven't found anything yet.


ํฉ์ , ๊นํํ
Just in case, place soldiers in front of the mansion.


ํฉ์ , ๊นํํ
Because they might harm Seo Yeo-ju.


๋ฐ ์ง ๋ฏผ
okay .


ํฉ์ , ๊นํํ
If you hurt Seo Yeo-ju, I won't let you go.


์ ์ ๊ตญ
...Aren't we worried?


ํฉ์ , ๊นํํ
Yeah, you look healthy so I don't think you need to worry.


๋ฐ ์ง ๋ฏผ
....at least say something.


์ ์ ๊ตญ
At least pretend to be worried.


ํฉ์ , ๊นํํ
Bland and dry - ) Be careful, it's dangerous.



๋ฐ ์ง ๋ฏผ
.... I'm a fool to expect you to worry.


Suddenly, -


์๋ , ์งํ๋ฆฌ
Wow, that's so gorgeous! ..


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
It's a new one, I don't want to go back to my old house...


์๋ , ์งํ๋ฆฌ
ah ...

_ Hye-ri understood the meaning of those words and did not continue speaking.


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
Just in case, for the time being, don't let anyone in except you and me.


์๋ , ์งํ๋ฆฌ
Ah.. I see what you mean, I'll do that.


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
..

Until the Empress is caught, I can't be at ease either.


Tak, -

_ A woman in a cloak got off her horse.

Swish, -


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
Father...

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
What happened? , the emperor... why did he die? .


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
I don't know the exact circumstances, but


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
It seems the Empress's food was poisoned, and that's what caused the rebellion...

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
Could you explain in more detail?


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
So, there was poison in the cake at the party, and the bottle containing the poison was found in the bed.

_ The protagonist's father seemed to be thinking deeply about something.


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
Father? ...


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
What are you thinking...

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
You said you were the empress?


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
Yes, father...

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
She's not your average girl....


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
What does it mean? .

_ Looking at the scenery behind him, the protagonist's father said.

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
He probably poisoned himself.


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
That's impossible, the Empress can't be that great of a person.


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
If she had been such a vicious woman, she would not have taken the emperor away from me.

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
Stupid thing.

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
The Empress never intended to take the Emperor away from you from the beginning.

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
"Because I wouldn't have loved you."


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
..so what do we do now?


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
I barely escaped from the palace, but if I go back... I'll probably die by their hands.

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
She's a very clever woman,

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
I think it would be better to hide for the time being.


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
Okay, Dad....

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
Mumble - ) I guess I have no choice but to rebel again...


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
Rebellion? ..

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
The Empress risked her life to get rid of the Emperor with her weak mind, otherwise you would have continued to be the Empress.

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
I have to become an empress.


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
..just a minute.


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
You're not asking me to seduce the prince, are you? ...

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
No way.

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
No matter how crazy I am with my lust for power, I have no such thoughts.


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
Then... what should I do...

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
We need to change the emperor.


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
Surprise - ) Are you planning a treason?! ..


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
If you do that wrong, your family will be wiped out. Are you serious about that?

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
Since it has come to this, it will either be death or destruction, so I have been searching for a suitable person to be the emperor.

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
You just have to like that guy.


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
..... but

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
Even though the Emperor liked it, can't you do something like that?


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
All right ..

์ฃผ์ฐ ์๋ฒ์ง
Let's hide for now, then follow me.


ํฉ๋น , ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ
Yes, father..


. . .


Glance, -


์๋ , ์งํ๋ฆฌ
Why have you been looking at the window all this time?


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
Because it feels like someone keeps staring at me.


์๋ , ์งํ๋ฆฌ
yes?! ...


์๋ , ์งํ๋ฆฌ
- ) Shall I inform Your Majesty by letter? ..


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
No, I have a rough idea who it is...


์๋ , ์งํ๋ฆฌ
yes? ...

_ The heroine turned to the window and opened it wide.

Iron fist, -


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
....what are you doing here?


๋ฐ ์ง ๋ฏผ
Hehehe... You're still quick-witted _


์ ์ ๊ตญ
That's why I told you not to hide here! ..

_ Looking at the two people who had fallen, he linked his arms and looked down at them.


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
Would you mind explaining why two of our next emperor's close associates are here?


๋ฐ ์ง ๋ฏผ
...I told you not to tell me.

Bam! , -


์ ์ ๊ตญ
You told me not to tell you, and yet you're telling me?


๋ฐ ์ง ๋ฏผ
Realize - ) Ah....



๋ฐ ์ง ๋ฏผ
Sunny - ) What should I do? .


์ ์ ๊ตญ
What the heck, it all went wrong.


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
Why do you keep changing the subject?


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
Speak up, even those who fall can get up.

_ Jimin and Jungkook got up together and said while dusting themselves off.


์ ์ ๊ตญ
.. It's a secret from Kim Taehyung.


์ ์ ๊ตญ
Actually, I think the incident of the Empress's disappearance is on my mind, so I asked her to protect the Yeoju just in case...


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
But isn't it too flimsy?


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
You caught me.


๋ฐ ์ง ๋ฏผ
Hey, you're quick-witted! ..


์ ์ ๊ตญ
Yeah, I wouldn't have known if it was someone else...


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
Packpok - ) How would a quick-witted person like me tail you? .


์ ์ ๊ตญ
Scratch - ) That's right...


๋ฐ ์ง ๋ฏผ
Sunny - ) Let's not follow those who are quick-witted! .


์ ์ ๊ตญ
Is that so?!

_ The female protagonist, who was watching the two people, sighed.


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
Ridiculous - ) No...


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
How can you know something that is so quick-witted and absent-minded just by looking at it?

Jeong - Jeok -


๋ฐ ์ง ๋ฏผ
That's true too....


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
Okay, come in for now.


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
I'll treat you to a meal.


๋ฐ ์ง ๋ฏผ
Wow! , Hey, they're giving me food!! ..


์ ์ ๊ตญ
If Kim Taehyung finds out, won't he kill us? ....


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
I'll keep it a secret _


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
Don't worry.


๋ฐ ์ง ๋ฏผ
Wow-) Wow!! , He is really a nice person! .


์ ์ ๊ตญ
Kyauk - ) That's right!! Hehe..


์ ์ฌ ์ฃผ .
Jirejire - )

Those innocent people, what kind of assassins are they?...


๋ฐ ์ง ๋ฏผ
Phew!! .. Hey hey let's go quickly!! .


์ ์ ๊ตญ
Wait! , Let's go together!! ..

Obligation to linger๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป , No lingeringโโโ , No staringโโโ


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