Weeping Men: The Innocent Princess's Secret Delight - Chapter 1.13
“Your Highness… We’ll show you a game you’ll enjoy much more than playing in the water.”
Their gazes were filled with naked desire. Their eyes busily lingered on Judith’s face and chest.
Judith, who had been silently observing them, soon opened her mouth.
“I see you’ve finally finished arguing?”
The smile she always wore and her polite speech was nowhere to be seen.
Faced with the Princess sneering at them with a cold face, the three knights stammered in confusion.
“Y-Your Highness?”
However, Judith had no intention of returning to the appearance they were familiar with.
It wasn’t because she was angry about being kidnapped. She simply no longer needed to show them the carefully crafted image she had created.
“You let yourselves be ruled by what’s between your legs and rashly kidnapped me, then spent a while arguing about how to deal with the aftermath, right? The conclusion is as expected. You’re thinking of trying to impregnate me and aim for the position of royal consort?”
The more she sneered, the more their faces hardened with each passing moment.
The reason she decided there was no need to act anymore was simple.
‘No one will listen to those who have kidnapped a member of the royal family.’
These men would have their families exterminated for three generations for the crime of insulting a royal.
They had dared to dream a dream they should never have had,
‘And they committed the crime of being in front of me at the very moment I was pondering how to get my hands on Kaizen.’
She felt no particular sympathy.
‘Who told them to dare covet me?’
More precisely, she is inherently incapable of feeling sympathy. Because she completely lacks the ability to empathize.
Even if she had such a thing, it wouldn’t have been a feeling she’d harbor for these men.
Perhaps she would have felt more sorry about leaving Kaizen with a guilty conscience than the extinction of three families.
However, that too was not a consideration for Judith.
Rather, if a deep wound remained in his heart due to guilt, she would welcome it. If it became a trauma, she could make him cry prettily every time she poked at that wound.
“Yes. That’s what we decided. Will you cooperate? If you do, we’ll treat you like gentlemen.”
The knight from the Count’s family took a step closer and sneered.
“I wonder. Will things go as you wish?”
Their composed attitude shattered immediately at Judith’s words.
“If you claim to have taken me and impregnated me with a royal heir, His Majesty will consider two options.”
Judith held up two fingers, then folded one.
“One, make Counts, Viscounts, and Barons’ second sons, who barely have a single knighthood to their names, the consorts and concubines of his only Princess.”
Then she folded the remaining one.
“Two, separate your heads from your necks to silence you.”
“…!!”
“Which option do you think is easier? Even your minds should be able to figure that out.”
Looking at the three whose faces had turned completely ashen, Judith raised the corners of her mouth.
“From the moment you took me, His Majesty’s prime asset, your cards were all messed up. From now on, you won’t even be able to lay eyes on a single strand of my hair, let alone my ankle. While Kaizen sucks on everything from my chest to my thighs.”
“…Eek!”
Unable to ignore the provocation, the three rushed at her in a frenzy. But Judith didn’t cower and only looked at the door.
Because the noise she had been waiting for someone to make was now quite loud. Judith counted to three in her mind.
‘Three, two.’
One. As soon as the final count ended,
Bang!
The door flew open, and Kaizen burst in with a ghostly face.
While the three turned around in surprise to look at Kaizen, Judith quickly tore the chest part of her dress. The eyes that had been filled with cold and icy sneers were now brimming with tears.
“S-Sir Pentmian…”
As she called out with a sob, Kaizen’s gaze fell on Judith.
Kaizen’s eyes, which swept over her loosened bodice and tear-stained face before turning back to the three, were now soaked in an even deeper killing intent than before.
“W-Wait! Commander! This isn’t what we… Guhk!”
No further dialogue was necessary.
In just a few minutes, Kaizen silenced the three, rendered them incapable of fighting, bound their limbs, and threw them to the squad members waiting outside.
Then he approached Judith. His staggering gait seemed precarious.
‘I’m the one who almost suffered terribly. Yet his condition seems worse.’
Just as she was thinking this, she was pulled into an embrace. She could feel the trembling where their bodies touched.
“…Thank you… For being safe…”
Kaizen, at this moment, couldn’t maintain his public image any longer.
It’s different from that time. This body isn’t turning cold.
Kaizen pulled the female body closer and buried his face in her neck. The warmth remaining in this body felt like a blessing.
“…I’ll protect you. I will protect you…”
He could feel the moisture seeping from his eyes, but he had no presence of mind to compose himself. Kaizen just held the Princess and cried for a long while.
Judith, nestled in his arms as if buried, was floundering in ecstasy.
‘To think he would even cry… Ha… This is thrilling.’
Though she wasn’t particularly troubled, it felt like all her efforts were being rewarded.
Excitement coursed through her entire body several times, making the back of her head tingle. Judith relieved her excitement by tracing Kaizen’s spine.
“I was so scared… Sir…”
Of course, unlike her head and hands, her mouth continued to play a different game.
Judith pretended to shiver and nestled deeper into his embrace, burying her lips in his clothes.
‘You’re mine.’
To hide the laughter that was escaping in giggles.
***
The Princess’s kidnapping incident was dealt with severely.
The three families were labeled as having insulted the royal family and were exterminated up to their collateral lines. The businesses they operated were brought under royal control.
The three who had harmed the Princess were punished by the Emperor himself. But no one heard exactly how the punishment was carried out.
“Can you perhaps tell me… what happened to Sir Philian’s family?”
“Th-that… We don’t really know!”
Even when she stopped passing maids out of curiosity to ask, they all withheld the answer. It seems they received a punishment too cruel to tell the innocent Princess about.
‘Well… They probably gouged out their eyes or cut off their hands.’
Not knowing that the Princess’s mind was the cruelest of all.
Judith didn’t delve deeply into the recent situations of the three. Such things didn’t matter to her anyway.
‘There are other things important to me right now!’
She suddenly hunched her shoulders while taking a walk. Immediately, a mink shawl was draped over her shoulders.
Judith turned to look at the one who warmed her from the cold and smiled brightly.
“Thank you, Sir Pentmian.”
The only important thing was that Kaizen had fallen into her hands.
Kaizen’s position was decided at the last monthly meeting of the Imperial Knights.
The Emperor, seemingly feeling the need to manage Judith’s value as an asset, tried to assign most of the 4th Division to Judith’s guard.
“No. No, Your Majesty. That would make me feel too guilty…”
Confirming that Kaizen was missing from the list containing the Emperor’s intentions, Judith immediately appealed with tears.
