Chapter 241 – The Hero Met the Mercenary Empress.
“Hazel.”
I called Hazel’s name her with an embarrassed expression.
It was only a few hours before she blended with her body.
It was inevitable that Hazel’s eyes were n’t nice when she confirmed that I coveted another woman.
Contrary to expectations, however, Hazel stood still and watched her princess with an expression that something was about to happen.
Although the princess also made an embarrassing expression on her face, she did not react as if she had been caught doing such an outrageous thing in Daejeon the day before her coronation ceremony of her.
“You won’t see it like that. The hero isn’t mine anyway.”
I suddenly wanted to say something, but the target Hazel was talking about was Mary.
There seemed to be a close look between the two, and I read the strange dissatisfaction in Hazel’s tone of her, so it was best to just keep my mouth shut.
“By the way, the clothes…”
“I ordered someone to bring the clothes, so could you wait a moment?”
To Mary’s words of her, Hazel answered with her sharp tone and glanced at me.
Because I mixed her body with mine several times, it seemed that she noticed that I took the princess in a rather violent way.
And as soon as she had finished her words, the door to Daejeon opened and Mary came in with clothes for her to wear.
‘Uh?’
And I couldn’t hide my embarrassed expression as I saw the woman entering Daejeon.
Red hair that resembles Camara, and scars all over her body except for her face her.
Excluding those scars, she had an appearance that could be called a beauty, but perhaps because of her hard expression her, her beauty her was somewhat hidden.
“I brought the clothes as you commanded.”
Entering the palace, the woman bowed to the princess Mary and delivered her clothes to Hazel.
“Thanks for your efforts. Please be on guard in front of Daejeon for a moment?”
“All right.”
Hazel let her go soon after, but I couldn’t take my eyes off her back as she left the battlefield.
“… I know, right. It’s nobody’s.”
I heard Mary speak in a sad voice, but I couldn’t pay attention to it.
‘What the hell, why is that woman?’
I pressed my lips together as I recalled the woman who had just left Daejeon.
It was also because she was never a person who would belong to the imperial family now.
“Warrior. Is it okay if I ask what you think?”
I came to my senses at Hazel’s voice of her, and then I realized that she and her Mary were looking at me with their strange eyes.
There was an unfair side, but that wasn’t what was important now.
“Who was he just now?”
Of course, I did n’t ask because I did n’t know her identity of her.
Because she was the mercenary empress Nebula, whose traces were unknown until now.
So the point of my question was whether Hazel knew her true identity of her.
Although the name of her mercenary empress was by no means light, few knew her properly.
Despite being her mercenary her, Nebula never revealed herself, rather she lived in complete hiding of her true identity of her.
She even introduced her fake mercenary empress under someone else, and while her name was widely spread, testimonies about her differed from one another.
It was because of the characteristics of her mercenary nation her, and her mercenary nation her, which was united around her, was highly likely to transform into her group of bandits the moment Nebula disappeared, so Nebula herself put her own safety her first. Because I thought so.
However, having experienced the future, or more precisely, the previous life, I clearly remembered the real Nebula.
‘Because she learned her treasure her from her.’
In the previous round, the continent was unilaterally pushed by Baal and the Demon King’s army, and in the end even Nebu, who had been hiding his identity his, revealed his identity his and joined my party.
However, it was true that as far as I can remember, it was her previous life her, and her identity her was still hidden in secret.
“… He is the one who saved the citizens of the Empire from Astaroth’s invasion this time. I picked her because she was so talented.”
Hazel looked at me with an expression that she didn’t know what the problem was and she answered like that.
No, on the contrary, he was looking at me with suspicious eyes, even showing a little wariness.
Of course, those eyes made me feel unfair again, but I decided to move on for now.
The important thing was why the mercenary empress had infiltrated the empire hiding her true identity.
‘Nebula, Nebula…’
I frowned slightly and recalled her memories of her.
Perhaps it was only then that they felt that my reaction was strange, and Hazel and Mary also kept their mouths shut and waited for my next words.
**
‘What if I had met you first?’
Nebula once said something like that to me.
Of course, I didn’t say it in a serious place, it was just a passing word.
That would be the case, and Nebula and I didn’t have a good relationship.
No, it was more true that no one in my party at the time was in fact on good terms with me.
Everyone was united for the purpose of fighting the demon lord army, and there was no consciousness of being friends.
In addition, Nebula secretly stole her own home appliance technology and got angry at my behavior that she had learned, and even if it wasn’t that, she often bumped into me because of her outspoken personality of her.
At the time she said it, I also passed it lightly, but it was not until long after that day that I learned the true meaning of the word.
‘It is right for you to disappear, even for the sake of the Crown Prince, or even for His Majesty the Emperor.’
Nebula told me that while leading the soldiers of Aaron, who had become the crown prince, no, the emperor.
Of course, it didn’t happen that she killed me.
In the first place, the incident itself was just Aaron’s work to drive me into a corner, and Nebula just followed Aaron’s words without knowing anything.
After actually killing the demon king, I lost my immortality and almost lost my life to Nebula’s sword.
And the one who saved me was none other than Aaron.
Aaron wanted to show his generosity by saving me, a hero, and rather drove Nebula to persecute me, a hero of the continent, with excessive loyalty even though he was the one who ordered everything.
Naturally, Nebula’s position her was also shaken, but she did not resent Aaron.
‘Anyway, I’m satisfied if I’m helpful to him.’
When I saw Nebula imprisoned, she said that to me.
So, she had a close relationship with Aaron from the time she joined my group in the first place.
Nebula loved Aaron with all her heart her, and she would have given her life for him.
And Aaron executed Nebula as if showing off, and the mercenary empress lost her life while being used by Aaron like that.
It was a foolish act to the extent that her name her, Mercenary Empress, was a waste, but I couldn’t laugh at her heart her.
‘Nebula? Could it be that I have something to do with her? Allen, I am a man who sees only the best in the world and embraces only the best. It has nothing to do with such an abomination.’
Aaron, who freed me, said that about Nebula even though I didn’t ask.
It was unknown whether Aaron actually had a relationship with Nebula, but I assumed Aaron’s words his were true.
Of course, Nebula’s appearance of her was not inferior, but the numerous scars left on her body of her would have been enough to make her look hideous in Aaron’s eyes.
**
‘Is that Aaron?’
I was certain that Nebula’s approach to Hazel’s side was due to Aaron’s influence on her.
Although he’s been a mystery since Kamara messed up the empire’s ecliptic, I was pretty sure he wasn’t dead.
I don’t know about other abilities, but Aaron was an excellent guy when it came to protecting my life.
No, if he had lost his ability in the first place, there would be no way that Aaron would end up winning the empire in his previous life.
“Is there something wrong with her?”
As I put on a serious expression, Hazel asked in her cautious voice her.
Even so, it seems that he has not forgotten that there is Nebula outside to look at the outside.
In any case, despite the lack of manpower in her empire, it was Hazel who appointed her without properly verifying her identity her.
Of course, originally, there would be no problem, and it wasn’t that Hazel gave her a great position.
The problem is that Nebula is Aaron’s person.
It was obviously a big problem that Aaron’s people had infiltrated the imperial palace right before Mary ascended to the throne of the empire.
I gestured to Hazel to be quiet, then made her come closer.
“Probably Aaron, it has something to do with him.”
I answered like that to Mary and Hazel, who were looking at me with curious expressions.
I thought there was no need to hide that fact from Hazel and Mary.
After all, they had no reason to betray me, and they weren’t foolish enough to show their feelings awkwardly.
For a moment, Hazel’s face was colored with shock, and Mary had a serious expression as well.
