The Fiancee Who Betrayed Me Is Obsessed With Me

17 – Joining (6)

My time as an apprentice engineer passed quickly.

Even if you become a knight, you still live in a group, but when you were an apprentice knight, you had to live in a camp in a much worse facility.

It was no different for Leah, a woman, and she also had to live among men.

From her perspective, if there was a fortunate thing, it was that I was among the apprentice knights who shared the same lifestyle as her.

I didn’t want to see a woman being harassed by many men right in front of my eyes, so I protected her from behind.

It wasn’t a choice I made with her in mind.

For some reason, I didn’t want to see her, who was truly a knight, giving up on being a knight because of such insignificant men, and I didn’t want to see promiscuous incidents happening in the room where I lived.

With her skills, she would have been able to protect herself to a large extent.

There were more evil people than she expected, so when there was a threat she didn’t know about, she stepped forward to stop it.

Of course, as long as she doesn’t notice.

“Hey Beryl! Leah! “Are you two together again?”

“Anyway, good-looking guys do it more.”

“… “Shut up.”

The total apprenticeship period is 1 year.

As time passed, those who were not qualified were naturally discharged from the Order, and by the end of their apprenticeship, those who had the minimum qualifications remained.

It wasn’t something I particularly loved, but I couldn’t help but become close to them as we lived together.

Did you say that humans are social animals?

As we overcame various obstacles together as trainee engineers, I couldn’t help but feel attached to them without realizing it.

And for some reason, I think it was especially so with Lia, who always stuck around.

Thanks to this, I could not avoid receiving dark misunderstandings from my colleagues.

Since it wasn’t true anyway, I mostly ignored it.

“So when are you planning on holding the ceremony, Beryl?”

“… “Shut up.”

Of course, I had no affection for this guy at all.

Haas, who thought he would soon fall out, was persistently attached to the Knights to complete the entire year.

Now I have stopped respecting him. To be honest, I really wanted to turn away whether he was a noble or something.

Regardless of social status, it was natural for people to stop talking when they apprenticed together, but for Haas, it was for different reasons.

“Do you know that the most common thing Beryl says is to shut up? To put it mildly, in our dormitory, Beryl is called the Shut Up Knight… ”

“… ”

Since we had been together since the entrance exam, the three of us were often together.

Rather than sticking around, Haas always dragged me to see Lia.

“It’s already been a year, Beryl.”

“… That’s right. “The apprenticeship is finally over.”

“Did Beryl say she wanted to join the Guard Knights?”

“… yes. “Because I want to escort the royal family.”

Once you pass the final exam as an apprentice knight, you will be appointed as an official knight and join the knighthood.

There are a total of four knights in the Kingdom of Helia, and they are called the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd knights and the guard knights, respectively.

The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Knights are ordinary knights, and the Guard Knights are a knighthood dedicated to protecting the royal family.

Since the Guard Knights had the important task of protecting the royal family, most of the knights with the most outstanding skills joined.

In addition, there were often cases where the knights caught the attention of the royal family and were transferred from the regular knights to the guard knights.

“Is there a royal family you particularly want to escort? Surely she’s not the rumored 4th princess? I heard that your father is so evil that it makes you click your tongue… ”

“that’s right. 4Princess.”

“okay. also… “Well, what did you say?”

“He said he would escort the 4th princess.”

“Uh, why?”

Lia was also reluctant to meet Yuna.

In the first place, her goal was to become a knight commander, so she would not become a guard knight.

Nevertheless, Yuuna was a wicked woman to the extent that even she knew it.

“… I’ve been wanting it for a long time. “Guarding the 4th princess.”

“ah… ? Well, what does that mean… “

“Literally. “It is because of him that I joined the Knights.”

I had many concerns for a year, but the best solution was to become her escort.

As she is a well-known evil woman, the competition for her position as an escort driver will be low.

Just as she was the most precious person to me and then betrayed me, I would also cause her the same pain.

I plan to take her heart and give her back the same pain I went through when she completely trusted and valued me.

her kingdom. her family. her love. Everything she has.

I will go deep into the royal family through her and completely destroy every single thing by her side.

And in the end, even her.

As much as I have come to hate myself, I will also destroy her to the point of abandoning myself.

My life was already focused on her.

It was for the sake of my family and kingdom that were unfairly lost.

“No way, Beryl. 4Loving the princess is… ”

“… love? Sigh. “You could say that.”

I bet my whole life on her.

Although the fundamentals were different, perhaps this took the same form as love.

Of course, my first feeling toward her was love.

It was a feeling that was now too worn out and faded.

“Let’s go back now. “It’s roll call time soon.”

“Ahh… I get it. That’s right… ”

There is still a long way to go.

I have only just become a knight, and it will take a long time to get deep into Helia.

Besides, I haven’t met them again yet.

I felt like I had regained the color I had briefly lost while working as an apprentice engineer.

Now the time had come to hide colors and emotions again.

***

A room in the royal castle of Helia.

There were a total of 5 people there, but it was quiet, as if not a single ant was passing by.

The room was luxuriously decorated as expected from a royal castle, but the atmosphere was dark, as if it were a basement with insufficient lighting.

Even though there were not many dark colors in the interior, the lighting was also brightly lit by chandeliers.

-… What?

A cute crying sound echoes in the quiet room, even if only for a moment.

For a moment, the atmosphere seemed to brighten as if a light burst from a corner of the room, but when she opened her eyes, the air calmed down again.

Her hair was originally a brown color with a unique royal warmth, but one day it began to fade and lose its vitality.

It was turning white, like the hair of an old man with age, but its original brown color was still giving it some vitality.

The plump cheeks that had not easily disappeared since childhood had already dried up.

It was the result of not eating properly since one day.

No, maybe it was because of excessive stress.

“… Princess. “It is said that the Lady of Duke Ceramide will be visiting soon.”

One of the four people except her spoke up.

He was one of the royal servants. Of course, she didn’t respond to what he said.

The other three were also glancing at her toes with eyes full of anxiety, but there was no response from her.

In fact, they had already entered her room a long time ago but were unable to get out.

One of them was the maid who brought the documents at her command, and the other two were the maids who prepared the refreshments.

In addition, there was one servant who had just come to deliver news of the visit of the Lady of Duke Ceramide.

Neither of them could leave the room because she did not give them an order.

In fact, the business had already been completed, but if he opened and closed the door without her permission, his life might be in danger.

It was meant literally.

There were already more than one person who had offended her and lost their heads. Even if it is an escort knight from a noble family.

Waiting on the sensitive Four Princesses, who never knew what might happen at any time, was like walking on a sharp knife.

Suddenly-

What broke the silence that lasted for several more minutes was the door being opened without knocking.

“… “Get out.”

The employees quickly left the room after hearing the words of the woman who opened the door on her own.

Although she was not considered normal, this moment was salvation for them.

“… Is it starting again? “I don’t know how many more people I have to kill to feel relieved.”

“… what’s the matter. Syria.”

Syria slowly walked into the room, looking at her with an expression filled with emotion.

Disgust, pathetic, disgust, annoyance, irritation.

There was nothing positive about Syria’s expression as he looked at her.

“This time, they are hiring a new escort driver. And the knight you beheaded just now is a noble from a collateral line of our family.”

“… under. ha ha ha. “I have no interest in men from that kind of family.”

“Originally, I wasn’t interested, but now that they’re messing with our family lineage, I thought they might purge us as well. You are a cruel b*tch. So much so that I even killed my fiancé.”

“… !!”

Sigh-

She didn’t even move or look at her until she came in, but as soon as she heard those words, she jumped up and slapped Syria on the cheek.

Her expression, painted black enough to darken the room, burned red with emotions of anger and regret as soon as he spoke.

“under… ! Disgusting b*tch. “Did I say something wrong?”

However, that color also quickly disappears into blackness again.

No matter how much she suffered, it had already happened and it was true.

Black was the color of the abyss that swallowed up all colors.

“it’s you… Do you think you are different? It was your disgusting family that led the sale of the kingdom in the first place, and without Ceramide, that would have been impossible in the first place. You are the one who is disgusting. “You traitorous b*tch.”

“shut up! Me, I… “I didn’t know about it!”

“Do not lie. “How could you not know when you betrayed all the nobles in the kingdom without the royal family knowing!”

“You are the one who laughed disgustingly, pretending to be Ben’s fiancé even though you knew he was going to die!”

The fall of the Kingdom of Regius. And Ben’s death. Now, 10 years have passed since that incident.

They were still frozen in time.

The black swamp was so deep that there was no way out.