217 217. 64. Empty but full (2) (1/2)

I'm confused by the rest of the situation, which I didn't expect, and the king holds me even harder.

I can't do this or do this, and I just squirm my hand.

Then I slipped my body.

This is a force majeure.

I can't sow the hand of the returned king with my limbs still.

That was it. Really.

It was only so that the awkwardly stretched arms were swung up.

The king will be awkward if I stay so calm.

I scratched my hand as I lifted it.

A vivid scent dug out the tip of my nose.

A medicinal scent that can't be masked by the dry body odor and dirt that is unique to the North.

Ugh.

Immediately, the king retreated with his hands on his shoulders.

“Well done. You've done really well. ”

No sudden hugs, no cold talk. It was all an act that I would not have done if I had been the usual king.

I looked at the king with my eyes wide open because I didn't know where it was.

Queen's postmortem white counted hair, wrinkles that have doubled in just a few years.

His eyes were bright, but even his complexion was not good enough for me now.

Knng, knng.

I sniffed with my nose.

Beyond the smell of medicine, there has been a faint odor.

“Ah...”

I stiffened as I was.

“Lungs…”

“Your Majesty.”

Someone called me, trying to put a full question in my head.

Earl Schuhilde Schutgart, the court knight commander who served as king to the Empire.

He shook his head quietly.

Not now.

The sunken eyes were telling me so.

“Let's go inside. ”

Then the king grabbed my hand.

“I salute His Majesty the King who has finally returned safely from the expedition! ”

“His Majesty the King and the Eastern Legion salute the victory! ”

I just followed the king as the Maximilians and the nobles of the kingdom heard the shouts of knights and soldiers.

* *

“I need to take a break. ”

The king passed the royal boulevard and went straight to the residence as an excuse to enter the royal palace.

Maximilian, Marshal, and Siorin.

No one questioned the king's actions.

I noticed that the king who had returned from the long expedition only felt solidity.

“Now that His Majesty is back, the negotiations with Tutton will be over soon. ”

“I don't know how pleased you are to be back. ”

When I heard the conversation between Marquis Villefeld and Siorin, I retreated.

“Brother...? ”

Maximilian recognizes my departure as a ghost and calls me, but I turn my back instead.

Then he went straight to the king's precipitation.

“Your Majesty is exhausted by the long expedition, and has just taken to the water. ”

The Court Knights are blocking me.

“Get out of my way. I have a message for you. ”

The court knights had a hard face, but there was no color to open the way.

“Your Majesty has ordered no one to enter... Your Majesty! ”

As the court knight roars, I mobilize to Mana, piercing through the paper and opening the door of the precipitation.

Inside, there was a king sitting on the bed.

The king who betrayed the top. A body with a white bandage wrapped around it.

As I watched him quietly, the court's reasoning surprised me.

“Your Majesty...! ”

I ignored the fish and walked straight to the maid next to me.

(chuckles)

And I grabbed the basket she was holding in her right hand.

I opened the cover.

Aggravation.

The smell stabbed me in the nose.

It was the smell that I smelled in front of the gate.

But what was important now was not the smell.

There was a bandage full of dead blood and pus in the basket.

“Explain.”

I turned my head.

“What is this bandage and what is this pus and dead blood? ”

A bored white fisherman stares at me and lungs at me.

“What are you going to do because you harass fishermen? ”

Then the king's voice was heard.

Unlike what I heard in front of the gate, it was a very hard and exhausting voice.

And a king, as exhausted as his voice, shook his hand.

“Everybody back off. ”

At that point, the fisherman hurriedly lowered his head and left the position as if he were fleeing. The court knights who stood at the door and couldn't help but close the door disappeared.

Until then, I was still looking at the bandage wrapped around the king's body.

“Why didn't you enter the middle of the enemy's territory and take care of your wounds? That's enough of the sea. ”

Seeing me like that, the king said ferociously.

“Did you wish you had been conscious enough? ”

“You look surprised to see me like this. ”

The king smiled softly, not according to the situation.

“The wound was somewhat severe, but it's getting better, so don't worry about it. ”

A lie that even a child wouldn't believe.

I saw it with my own eyes.

A bandage of black blood and pus could never be buried in a healing wound.

Black blood and pus were rotten hallucinations.

“Your Majesty...”

“Soon there will be no trace of these wounds. ”

“Your Majesty.”

“So you have nothing to be afraid of. ”

“Your Majesty!”

A new voice that I don't know has risen. But the king did not scratch a single eyebrow.

“Many died. How can they close their eyes because the writer, the king, is stricken with a small wound? ”

Looking at that brutal face, a thousand fires came up from the inside.

“It's not a small wound! ”

I couldn't take it anymore and shouted.

“Now that I'm alive, I'm ready. Now that you're back here, that's enough. ”

What became, what was enough, and I was just as desperate.

“Your Majesty...”

“That's tough. I need to take a break, so get out. ”

Then the king lay on his bed and closed his eyes.

And soon he began to exhale.

I stayed there for a while. Then he left the king's cottage without strength.

“Your Majesty.”