“Death to sinner!”
“Cursed to the traitor!”
On the fifth day of the eleventh month in 964 by the imperial calendar, the sky was unusually blue unlike the sky in early winter, as if it knew what was going to happen today.
In contrast to the cold atmosphere in the air, the atmosphere of the largest plaza in the aristocratic district in the capital was heated by a crowd of screaming people.
The sound of the clouds of feet stepping out of anger and chanting in unison in line after the person in charge of the song echoed throughout the wide plaza.
“Death to traitors!”
“Vita’s curse to those who tried to harm the child of God’s prophecy!”
Rubbing her ears at the deafening sound, The madness of blood filling the square, the smell of death. Tia frowned. It was like that back then, she felt the same way the day she was beheaded in the past
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“Death to a rare villain who tried to assassinate the Emperor!”
“God’s curse to the empress who pretends to be a child of God’s prophecy!
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The voices of the people who were filled with hatred, their curses on her, called her villain woman, all kinds of humiliation and stoning, and the emperor who looked at her coldly. Suddenly, she remembered Jieun who turned around at the last moment of her life and Ruve who embraced her.
“What happened to Jieun?”
Tia swallowed a sigh. Since there is no news that she committed suicide, is it possible that Jieun was among the criminals who came to the execution site?
“Tia?”
“… Pardon?”
“Are you alright ? I have told you not to come here.”
Ruve sitting next to her and asked carefully, wrapped her pale-looking hand, looking at the her with worried light. Tia took a deep breath, looked at his eyes and she’s feeling much better now.
“I’m fine. It’s nothing else. It’s about executing a traitor. Moreover, you have announced the national marriage, so I must come to this place.”
“But you look very pale now.”
Tia smiled a little at him, who looked at her sympathetically. As she wriggled his tightly held hand, his warmth melted her frozen heart. The feeling made her feel good, and the corners of his eyes bent gently. Only then Tia have a smile on her lips.
Wow!
Suddenly their screams, now twice as loud as before, were heard through the square. Tia turned her head reflexively and looked down at the podium. The sound came from a certain place in the plaza. It seemed that a carriage arrived to escort the sinners.
“Death to the sinner!”
“Death to the traitor!”
One by one, sinners with their arms tied behind their back appeared together.
Tia put her hands on her pounding chest and quickly looked into their faces. However, Jieun was not seen until the last person got off and the carriage door was closed.
“Ahhh…” When she sighed, Ruve looking back at her as if he was confused. “What’s wrong with you?”
“Well, I didn’t see Lady Jenna.”
“Oh, I just got a message about her. Last night…”
“WOOOOOOOO~”
Ruve’s voice was buried by the screams of the eager crowd.
The capital’s defense guards desperately tried to defend the line, and the royal knights around the platform were on guard.
While a huge commotion against the criminals occurred, they could barely break into the screaming crowd and move to the place of execution. Dozens of stones thrown by the crowd barely hit the criminals.
Ppooh!Ppooh!
Their annoying sounds were muted when they heard someone blew the horn. The eyes of the expectant crowd gathered on the execution’s podium.
A protocol officer, who had been waiting a long time, stood up straight and stepped forward.After unrolling the length, the officer in a long robe began to read it in a serious voice.
“Glory to the great empire! With the radiant glow of the sun…….”
When the officer was reading, Ruve’s hold Tia’s hand tightly.
Is it because he hold me, or because I don’t need to see Jieun dying before my eyes?
Tia felt much more comfortable than before. She looked down at the sinners with a calm expression. A man with his head down, a man who mutters something endlessly as if he is out of his mind, and a man who glances at the podium with hateful eyes.
At the moment when Duke Jenna’s purple eyes that were burning with hatred stared at her, Ruve stretched out his grip on her hand before releasing it, then stood up.
“Glory to the empire! My beloved people of the empire, I cannot help but express sadness today. Only six months after Emperor Mirkan lu Shana Castina died in the arms of Vita. Even now, we can all feel the brilliance of the late emperor’s emperor, but the gang of evil traitors committed the crime of rebellion against the empire and the imperial family before the warmth of his body faded. And they tried to hurt my fiancée, the First Lady of the empire, the child of God’s that had set for me, a number of times. Accordingly, I want to show them the strictness and fairness of the imperial law.”
“Death to criminals!”
“Cursed traitors!”
The ground resounded with the sound of the crowd stepping on their feet at once.
Once he looked around with a solemn face, Ruve raised his right hand, and the red flag, which signaled the start of the execution fluttered up and down. The executioners who examined the ax of the sun’s rays stood behind them.
As the sunlight reflecting on the blades scattered as they raised their axes high in the air, the angry eyes of Duke Jenna’s anger turned towards Ruve and her.
The mouth of an old man filled with hatred became fierce. “You bitch and wretch bastard! Even in hell I won’t …! “
Pooooooh!
Red blood shot up, gushed from his head.
For a moment, a feeling of chill brushed past her neck, but instead of turning her head, Tia fixed her eyes to the bloodied execution table. Then she looked down, watching him fall on the chair and exhaled her blocked breath.
It’s really over now. My bond with Jenna’s family finally ended.
Although she could understand why Jenna’s family was so hostile to her family for a long time, he went too far. Not satisfied with trying to kill the emperor, he tried to end the Monique family line by poisoning her, a cousin who shared ancestral blood with him.
Not only did he approach the emperor because of his greed for the throne, but he also used Jieun twice, and in the past he even succeeded in poisoning Ruve and eliminating me.
Maybe this was one of the reasons why God sent me back. To save the lives of many innocent people who were being sacrificed because of Duke Jena’s greed.
Of course, how can she guess the will of God, who was watching two different situations?
Tia looked back at the corpses of the criminals being carried away like luggage.
“Tia, Let’s go back.” Ruve took her hand and they climbed onto the carriage. They heard the crowd repeatedly shout for the safety of the imperial and imperial family.
Now that she had cleared up the past, it’s time to prepare for the coming future.
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After that day, her daily routine was filled with a tight schedule. It is the same with many women who assist her in leading the affairs of the palace.
Day after day Tia had to take a nap from fatigue for several hours then started working.
She don’t know how fast the time passes every day because she’s so busy preparing for a wedding. She ended this tiring job just one day before the wedding ceremony. Even though everyone is still busy, Tia have free time as a bride before her wedding. She feel refreshed and energized after a deep sleep.
By.Piooky 