I Don’t Want to Be a Lady

I didn’t expect this at all?

I was honestly surprised. Because I never thought that the cruel emperor who had no blood or tears and the culprit who caused the continent’s riotous war was a woman. But for some reason, Charter wasn’t surprised.

How on earth?

In fact, Charter was able to infer the gender of the emperor from the words he used while cursing the emperor during the last conversation between Paku and Dondon.

Crazy x. At that time, Dondon clearly said ‘bitch’ instead of ‘bastard.’

Of course, there was no surprise except that she was a smaller and younger woman than he expected. The reason Charter didn’t bother to tell Arianne was because it wasn’t a big deal. He thought she wouldn’t make a big deal out of it even if the emperor was a woman. However, it wasn’t really like that at all.

A woman who sat crookedly in front of Paku, who politely knelt down, revealed her troublesome nature as it is. The emperor of the Kelteman Empire was a young woman who was just over forty.

Living as the ninth wife of the Kelteman king, she spent days that were maddeningly boring between the lax king, who only revealed his incompetence, and the wives, who were speechless and shouted loudly. The king had no plans or aspirations even though he had mighty arms, and his wives only cared about adornment and bearing children. Truly, they were more useless than camels.

One day, the king rebuked her. (You seem to be mistaken as if you were something because you gave birth to a son, but you’re nothing more than a pig that gives birth to my baby.)

At that moment of shame, the king’s wives all laughed at her. And that night, the king and his wives all died. She killed not only her blood but also the king’s blood and followers. The number reached hundreds, and it happened in just one day.

After killing the king, she proclaimed herself as the emperor and declared that the Kelteman Kingdom would be an empire. All who opposed her throne were immediately killed. She continued to kill until there were no more nobles to kill, and in the end all that was left was herself and the children of the former king.

The emperor embraced them, saying she would grant equal qualifications to her non-blooded children. At the mercy of the emperor who mercilessly killed her own lineage, her children swore blind loyalty and willingly offered themselves as a war hero. It was to survive. That was the secret story related to the throne of the current Kelteman Emperor.

The emperor was now deeply displeased. As if it wasn’t enough to disturb her pleasant time, she wondered what she should she do with the servant who dared to return after violating her orders.

(Speak.)

(…)

(If you can’t use your mouth, I’ll rip it off right away.)

It means she wouldn’t let him go if he didn’t make any excuses right away.

(I have brought the commander-in-chief and commander of the Harpion Empire.)

Only then did the emperor’s eyes reach Charter and Arianne.

Arianne trembled unconsciously with goosebumps that sprang up at the moment. The insensitive gaze, which felt no emotions, was creepy as she looked at passing bugs.

(Why did you bring them here?) The emperor’s eyes turned to Paku again. What she ordered wasn’t to take someone as hostage. All he had to do was push, destroy, and take away.

Paku had no answer.

(I said this for the last time.)

The emperor spoke in a suppressed voice, drawing out the last of her patience. It was the last chance given to him, who turned away every time. However… this guy seemed to be trying to disappoint her again.

(Let’s have a conversation with them…)

(Paku.)

Paku could no longer speak. It was because he realized that the emperor’s patience had already run out with just one word of calling his name.

(You disappoint me until the end. Leave now. There’s no more place for you in this Kelteman Empire.)

She didn’t know what he was going to do with his siblings, but it was none of her business now. What she needed wasn’t blood but a blind servant who would surely carry out her orders. She didn’t need an untamed dog that bit the leash around her neck to the end.

(Mother.)

At that time, Paku quietly called his mother, not the emperor. The cold-blooded emperor’s eyes instantly flashed into his mind. Since she usurped the throne, he was the son who had never called her as mother. What kind of change of heart is it? Is he afraid of being abandoned?

The emperor’s eyes remained as if they were nailing Paku’s lips.

(I want you to listen to them just once.)

How can he be so pathetic? The emperor was repeatedly disappointed at his foolish appearance, to the point where she wondered if he was a child born by her womb.

The emperor closed her eyes quietly, opened her eyes, lifted the bell next to her, and shook it.

Five sturdy men rushed in from behind the tent as soon as the bell rang. The emperor opened her mouth with her eyes fixed on Paku.

(Toss them as food for wild dogs right away, cut off Paku’s tongue, and chase him away.)

The men didn’t even blink an eye at the order to cut off the prince’s tongue and chase him away. It was because the emperor’s absolute order shouldn’t raise any questions.

“It’s my illusion that the situation doesn’t look good, right?””

I didn’t understand a single word, but I, who is good at grasping the situation, felt an unusual atmosphere and asked. In response, Charter directly informed me without adding or subtracting.

“Throw us as wild dogs food and cut off the tongue of Prince Paku.”

“…I didn’t expect it to be like that.”

Every time Paku and Dondon heat up about the emperor’s personality, I didn’t think it would be to this extent. I thought… she was more of a human being than them. Although it was already too late.

“What should we do?”

“I think it would be better to be dragged out for now. While I’m trying to get their attention, you…”

“Two for me, three for you.”

“…What?”

I slightly rolled my eyes at Charter’s question. “Realistically, three is impossible for me.”

“No. That’s not what I meant—”

Charter hurriedly grabbed my wrist as I gently untied the rope around my wrist and lit up my eyes.

“First of all, moving out of this place would be better. The knights aren’t easy opponents. Let’s aim for their backs.”

I tilted my head to the left, looking at the five men approaching me. Their forearm, which was clearly revealed to show off, was like a woman’s thigh.

When I thought about it again, thinking he had a point, I nodded.

“Yes. Let’s play from behind. Two for me, three for you.”

“Well thought out.”

Charter sighed in relief as he worried I might lose my temper and attack them.

Fortunately, two of the five came to Paku, and the other three came to Charter and me. One of them grabbed the end of the rope to which Charter and I were tied and pulled.

“The plan has been revised. One for me, two for you.”

Charter quietly smiled and was dragged away. I looked back before being dragged out. Just as I turned my head, my eyes met Paku’s. Paku’s eyes shook in confusion.

Didn’t he know it would come this way? I wasn’t shocked as I had given up my expectations in the first place. But I was in a bad mood.

I glared at the emperor, twitching my lips in disapproval.

At that moment, the soldiers standing in front of Paku violently grabbed his arm and raised him up.

* * *

As soon as we were dragged out of the emperor’s residence, I came to Charter. “It’s right now. I think we should tell that emperor what conversation is.”

The further it gets, the harder it gets to return, so it has to be now to do something. Charter felt the same way.

“I’ll hit it right now. I think we should tell that emperor what the conversation is.”

“I’ll count to three. One, two, th—”

Before I could do anything, three men who were ahead fell to the ground.

“?”

“?”

And someone showed up. It was Dondon and her subordinates who disappeared a while ago because they had something to do.

“Dis~ Dis! Is that a face saying yu’re going to die of joy?”

“Even if it wasn’t you, I can take care of it on my own.”

When I replied, Dondon just said, “Yes, yes,” then continued with a chuckle. “With dat hot temper, yu must be having a hard time.”

Charter almost nodded at Dondon’s words.

“It’s going to be a mess. If yu’re lucky, the war with Harpion may end as yu wish.”

Questions cast over my face.

“What if I’m unlucky?”

Dondon said with a shrug. “What’s more than all gone? Get moving. Yu just need to folow my subordinate over there.”  

When Dondon, who said so, passed by me without regret, I, who turned toward her, asked. “Why are you helping us?”

Dondon stopped, turned her head, and said, “Whim.”

Right. What else is it if it’s not a whim?

Due to Dondon’s personality, it bothered her to think more deeply. It’s just that she feels like she wants to let it slide, so she’s just let it slide.

I didn’t think deeply either. What more reason do I need for her to feel that way? It was right to leave before she changed her mind again. I turned back cooly and left my seat without looking back again, without saying thank you.

Dondon looked at the back of Arianne and thought.

Seeing them again makes her want to kill them.

Walking along with Dondon’s subordinates, I saw the soldiers pouring water into the long coffin outside the second tent of the emperor.

I shook my head as if I was fed up and walked after Dondon’s subordinates. As I walked, the soldiers of the Kelteman Empire came out here and there and went missing. Maybe they’re on the way to Dondon.

My feet came to a stop. “Do you think something will happen?”

In response to my question, Charter said what he thought. “I think it might be a rebellion.”

“As expected.”

I made eye contact with Charter. Charter noticed immediately what I was thinking right now.

“What is the most exciting thing in the world?”

When asked by me, Charter answered. “Are you going to call it watching someone fight?”

“That’s right. Among them, the best was the political fight and then a family fight.”

You’re gonna miss that fun thing?

Charter has already given up stopping me.

“And if Dondon’s rebellion succeeds, we can achieve our goal, right?”

Charter held my hand without saying a word, with the intention of being with her wherever she went.

Charter and I turned back abruptly and retraced our path, gently stepping on the fallen Kelteman soldiers. Of course, I didn’t forget to take a piston from the waist of the fallen soldiers on the way.