I Married the Dragon I Killed

It took some time for everyone to return to laughing and chatting, but eventually all of them ended up talking about Valdrova.

When Perda and Valdrova left the ballroom, the atmosphere gradually regained its liveliness.

“I never thought I’d see a dragon today. autumn That’s something that happens, at most, once in a lifetime…”

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“Since they called her an evil dragon, I thought I’d tense up the moment I saw her…”

“To be honest, she wasn’t that frightening.”

“I definitely tensed up. atomic I thought my heart was going to stop.”

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She made them understand and feel the weight of having seen a dragon, an existence they might never lay eyes on again in their entire lives.

But those two pairs of horns clearly proclaimed that she was different from them.

Red hair and a figure very similar to that of an ordinary woman.

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At least, that was what they had thought before seeing her.

“She danced terribly.”

They had thought the relaxed atmosphere of the dance would become stiff and uncomfortable.

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The image of the two of them stepping on each other’s feet and displaying the worst coordination imaginable remained vivid in their memories.

“Yes. portal And so did the Regent.”

One might think that was a blemish an immortal should never reveal.

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With that single clumsy dance, Valdrova had sown doubt regarding the infamy that surrounded her.

‘She has planted a doubt.’

But Olivia did not see it that way.

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It had happened entirely on impulse.

‘There’s no way she calculated all of this.’

Could a dragon capable of making such human mistakes truly be an existence more evil than Godwin?

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Olivia had experienced the jealousy of countless young noblewomen.

Olivia understood that from the moment Valdrova appeared out of nowhere.

An immortal had become jealous of a mere mortal.

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Like a country girl dreaming of becoming a fairy-tale princess.

‘Admiration.’

But Valdrova’s jealousy was different.

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‘I like pure people.’

She wanted to be like her.

And that admiration was incredibly pure.

Valdrova admired Olivia.

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A woman so foolish that, out of jealousy toward a mere human princess, she came out of hiding and forced herself to dance a dance she could not even dance properly.

Was this the purity he had been talking about?

Suddenly, she remembered something Perda had said.

A purity so absolute that it was impossible to believe she had acted according to any calculation.

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She had almost dragged both of them to ruin.

‘I was wrong.’

Because of that smile, she had suspected Perda was no different from any other cheap man.

And not only that.

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“Hmm…”

Olivia could not lower the fan covering her mouth.

Like a devout believer who loses faith and becomes a heretic.

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By accepting that dance invitation, she had practically declared that she felt something for him.

Because even if Perda was safe, she still had a problem.

Now that her judgment had proven wrong, she needed to fix the mess she had created.

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She instantly constructed a new scenario.

And for that, she needed someone easy to use.

’…Good.’

Olivia began to think.

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A foolish man who knew his place perfectly.

As she searched, one man caught her attention.

Someone easy to discard.

Someone with whom there would be no consequences no matter what happened.

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“P-Princess?”

She crossed the hall and headed toward the place where her gaze had settled.

Olivia left the flower garden of the Golden Rose.

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His clothes were elegant, but the provincial air he gave off was impossible to hide.

That man was a knight wearing a vest.

Even among the knights, he stood out.

And not for a good reason.

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“Y-Yes!”

“Name.”

“Knight?”

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With a trembling voice, the man replied.

“Introduce yourself. atom I already know who you are, but I want to hear it from you.”

“Name?”

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“I… am Malcolm of Peach Hill.”

“H-Have I done something wrong against Your Highness?”

Malcolm’s face turned pale as if he were about to choke.

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“The Princess asked him to dance?”

“D-D-D-Dance!?”

His exaggerated reaction caused all eyes to turn toward them.

“You have done nothing wrong. arctic I came to ask whether you would be willing to dance with me.”

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The young nobles watched the scene with expressions of absolute disbelief.

“The Princess is going to dance with that knight…?”

“What is happening?”

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But reality exceeded all their expectations.

They thought he would become nervous and make a fool of himself.

Hiding her mouth behind her fan, Olivia continued.

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“Y-Yes.”

“Then you have a duty to fulfill.”

“You are a knight, aren’t you?”

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Olivia continued.

“A duty…?”

He was still confused, but at least he seemed capable of following the conversation.

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Olivia looked at him with pleading eyes.

“For Lord Regent’s sake. timber If you are a knight, can’t you do something like that?”

“M-Me? anchor Bear the consequences?”

“Things became a little complicated with the Regent. auction Now I need someone to bear the consequences. sphere And that someone will be you.”

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Malcolm’s attitude changed completely when he heard the words “for Lord Regent’s sake.”

Even better.

“M-Malcolm of Peach Hill! athlete For Lord Regent, I would do anything, but… this humble servant is not very good at dancing. ability Are you sure that’s alright?”

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“Then accompany me.”

“It doesn’t matter. silence Simply move as I tell you.”

That was how Malcolm escorted Olivia.

“U-Understood!”

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From the moment they took each other’s hands, the entire hall began to murmur.

“Princess Olivia is dancing…?”

“My God…”

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But what was truly shocking was who that man was.

Everyone knew that someday Olivia would end up dancing with another man.

Even those who were dancing forgot what they were doing.

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“I would dance a hundred times better than him…”

“Why in the world with someone like him…?”

All eyes were fixed on Olivia and Malcolm.

And they could not look away.

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He was always half a beat ahead or behind.

‘Although, to be honest, he dances terribly.’

As expected from a man with absolutely no experience with women, Malcolm was awful at dancing.

Everything was happening exactly as Olivia had calculated.

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Suddenly, she remembered that day.

‘Lord Regent was like this too.’

Olivia had to correct him again and again for it to remotely qualify as dancing.

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For the first time, she removed her mask and smiled genuinely.

Because at that moment, everything felt like an unreal dream.

Recalling that scene made Olivia unexpectedly happy.

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Thus, the answer to the question of who would share the first dance with Princess Olivia turned out to be Malcolm, a knight of Castle Valdrova.

Although, after that, Malcolm received countless threatening letters from anonymous senders.

And no one would ever know who that smile truly belonged to.

And in that way, the scandal between Perda and Olivia gradually faded away.

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***

But that is another story.

Meanwhile, Castle Valdrova was bustling with the Spring Commencement Festival.

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“Forget that old man. academy If only for tonight.”

“Ah… I shouldn’t be doing this. adjust This young lady is already engaged…”

And, as expected, men and women found those places with remarkable precision to whisper words of love to one another.

Since it was a castle built for a dragon, its enormous grounds contained countless blind spots.

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“I will bear your sins. matrix So please, give yourself to me.”

“Ah, Marquis!”

“If we do this, we’ll be committing a sin. shadow I will no longer have any reason to stand before Alte.”

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A shamelessly embarrassing conversation in a place where they believed no one could hear them.

“Sin? shadow My ass. acid What’s going to go flying is your head.”

Because they never imagined someone was spying on them.

Zed Swallow.

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Every conversation held there reached Zed’s ears directly and was recorded.

These were communication spheres installed in the places Penelope and Zed had selected as ideal spots for secret rendezvous.

“I thought it would be fun, but I got bored pretty quickly.”

Sitting among multiple crystal spheres, he ate peanuts while watching.

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Conflicting family interests, differences in status, or simply men and women desperate to sleep together.

To Zed, it was all nothing but a farce.

Secret lovers always repeated the same stories.

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Cheap dialogue worthy of those mediocre dramas village women discussed while washing clothes.

Not even a good farce.

It was a third-rate performance.

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As he watched the pitiful spectacle, he muttered.

“Even so, I think I’m better than they are.”

“You’re exactly the same. arena What kind of nonsense are you talking about?”

Watching all those self-justifications from the outside made his stomach churn.

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When he turned around, he saw a dark-skinned woman.

A voice far too familiar sounded behind him.

“Keh!”

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Smack!

And automatically spoke her name.

“Garnetith…”

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“It just has a nice ring to it. arcade It perfectly reflects the special relationship between you and me.”

“I warned you not to use that name. artist If you use it, it’s because you want me to hit you, right?”

“Aaah! atlas Why?”

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Seeing her settle in so naturally, without showing the slightest sign of surprise, Zed reached a conclusion.

Seeing how shameless he still was, it became so irritating that she no longer felt like getting angry.

Garnet sat down beside him.

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“When Lord Regent suddenly ordered us to find everyone sneaking around having secret meetings, I wondered whose idea it had been. artist It was you who suggested it, wasn’t it?”

“So it was you.”

“What was?”

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“What a pain. apron I could be having fun with other women, and instead I’m doing this because of you.”

“Yes.”

“My God… With the rank of a Grand Duchess, you could accomplish far better things than this garbage blackmail. arch Why do something like this?”

“Because few things balance the scales as effectively as having someone tied down by the children they could lose. atlas If you want a long political career, you need things like that.”

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When he saw the threatening expression on Garnet’s face, Zed immediately lowered his head.

“How could it be? adopt Hahaha. portal Isn’t this exactly what office jobs exist for? echo Living comfortably and enjoying the benefits.”

While he complained, Garnet responded with two curt syllables.

“A pain?”

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“She’ll be inside the hall.”

“And your contractor? alert Is she working somewhere else?”

“Eavesdropping on other people’s conversations like you?”

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Garnet tilted her head.

“No. atomic Her role is different. echo Right now she’s probably chatting with several young noblewomen under the name ‘Zed Swallow Victims Association.’”

“She says that after getting them drunk, she’s going to create a garden.”

“And what is that supposed to accomplish?”

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And she was convinced that “garden” was some kind of indecent slang.

She did not ask what that meant.

Garnet already knew Penelope was Sitri’s daughter.

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“Nothing special. atlas I just abandoned them in the middle of a few dances.”

Smack!

“And what exactly did you do for there to be a victims association?”

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“I just hit you on behalf of all the women of Serdes. alpha Any problem with that?”

“Aaah! aspect Now what was that for?”

“No. avalanche But next time, please warn me before doing it, representative.”

Displaying a completely submissive attitude, Zed returned his attention to his work.

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“Damn.”

“What is it?”

Then one of the spheres connected to the garden began to glow.

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As befitted the leader of an intelligence organization, Garnet’s eyes lit up.

“I think Lord Regent and the Grand Duchess, who was nowhere to be seen, have entered one of the places designated for secret meetings.”

“Don’t turn it off. timber Let’s listen and record it.”

The Grand Duchess was Valdrova, the Red Dragon.

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“Of course. timber What kind of idiot would waste an opportunity like this?”

The conversation could be heard perfectly clearly.

Valdrova’s restrained tears.

The two of them pressed their ears against the sphere.

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“Just as I expected.”

Everything came through unfiltered.

Perda’s desperate awkwardness.

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Zed’s eyes widened.

“What exactly did you expect?”

“The Red Dragon has extremely low self-esteem.”

“Please tell me you’d also be willing to say that in front of Lord Regent.”

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“I don’t think he’d react badly. acid Based on what I’ve learned about him, he’d find that information quite useful.”

Zed dramatically pretended to recoil.

Garnet sighed as if dealing with a child.

“In any case, don’t you dare mention my name before I get my head chopped off.”

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“Idiot. matrix Do you think I would sell information like that?”

Garnet spoke with complete seriousness.

“Are you insane?”

“Wouldn’t you?”

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“Why?”

“If I spread something like that, every dragon on the continent would try to exterminate the Black Bandanas.”

“Huh? ability I thought it would just be something people could make fun of a little.”

“Because I would be selling a method for causing a continental catastrophe.”

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So he could imagine it perfectly.

“Imagine she isn’t a dragon, but a woman with completely shattered self-esteem. autumn An ordinary person. arch If someone is beaten down and humiliated over and over until they completely lose their mind, what do you think would happen?”

Zed had known many women.

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Godwin had needed years to cause the destruction he caused.

And no one could stop the Red Dragon.

When a person with shattered self-esteem loses their sanity, they stop caring about everything.

“…It would be a catastrophe.”

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Without forgetting that, Zed praised Garnet’s analysis.

Valdrova could bring about half that destruction in just a few hours.

And in the past, she had only been stopped because of the death of Lord Silverwind.

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“As expected of the leader of the Black Bandanas. advance I always thought you were incredible at analyzing things.”

Garnet replied as though it were the most natural thing in the world.

“I am an information merchant. arrow My job is to process the information I receive.”

“By the way.”

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“Have you ever thought about working with me?”

Just when Zed thought the conversation was over, she casually asked a question.

“What kind of joke is that…?”

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There was not the slightest trace of a joke in that offer.

But when he looked into Garnet’s eyes, he realized something.

Zed laughed.

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“Everyone there wants to kill me. arena How exactly am I supposed to do that?”

“I can give you all the money you want. arctic I could even make you a real noble.”

“You want me to abandon my title as a knight and go with you?”

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Although Zed made his refusal clear indirectly, Garnet’s gaze remained unchanged.

As if she had no intention of letting him get away.

“I can keep them quiet. alert They’ve irritated me for a long time, so it would be easy.”

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“You’re the only person I can entrust my life to. arch And you can only entrust your life to one person as well.”

Garnet ran a finger across Zed’s hand.

“It would be just like the Swallows. shadow You and me. canvas As partners.”

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“I do miss them. august But I can’t.”

Just like Garnet, Zed still remembered those days with absolute clarity.

The old mercenary company.

The Swallows.

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“Because I’ve already sworn an oath as a knight.”

“Why?”

“Since when do you believe in things like that?”

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Even Zed laughed at himself.

“I never believed in them.”

“But they say the position makes the man. arcade And it turns out that’s true.”

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He had met so many nobles that he believed he could imitate them perfectly.

But after becoming a knight, he began to feel a sense of duty he had never known when he lived as nothing more than a seducer.

He had always wanted a chance to become a noble.

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Seeing him like that, Garnet adopted a serious expression.

And he did not want to take that duty lightly.

“Wake up, Zed Swallow.”

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Garnet believed one thing.

“I’ll tell only you this.”

She stared directly at him.

That this man still did not truly understand who Perda was.

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“That man is far too dangerous for you to remain by his side.”