Be Indulged - Chapter 9-2

Chapter 9 – Part 5

Amelia looked at the man tied up through the bars. It was Durante. He was shackled in a painful position. She gulped as she saw the terrible sight. And Carlos, who was standing behind her, placed a hand on her shoulder.

“Why did you ask me to come here?”

“Because I wanted you to come.”

At Amelia’s words, Carlos nodded. Eventually, Durante came to his senses and walked towards her, wriggling his body towards her.

“A very welcome face has appeared.”

She felt terrible in Durante’s smiling face. Still, Amelia realized that the more cruel and terrifying his appearance was, the more this man could do no harm to her.

“It’s good to think of the time I spent with you. It feels like the dick that isn’t there is standing.”

He pointed between his legs.

“I had your first. Teaching pleasure to an ignorant girl was quite exhilarating. I often miss you.”

“…….”

“Ah, I should have tasted your flesh again back then. It was the last time I could go all out before it disappeared. What a waste.”

“…….”

“I was going to make your woman my wife.”

At the sudden words, Amelia put on a puzzled expression.

“Because there has never been a woman as satisfying as you.”

Carlos, who had been listening quietly, finally couldn’t stand it and hit the bars. Still, Durante giggled and laughed. Amelia stared at the bars, and she smiled. It was a smile, it felt out of place with the grim, dirty, dark prison.

“Was sleeping with me the best for you? It was the worst for me.”

“…….”

“Every moment I slept with you was terrible and dirty. You are a filthy human who drugged me because you couldn’t satisfy a single woman.”

“What?”

“Now that I think about it, why did you put a blindfold over me and make Carl or my fiancé do that? Because you were too tired, right? It was no longer able to stand there.”

Carlos looked at Amelia with a blank expression.

“This bitch!”

Red veins stood on Durante’s face, who was always relaxed. He seemed to have been stabbed right on the mark.

“Thank Carl for that. The part between your legs is the most useless part of you.”

“You dirty slut!”

“Be careful with your words. I am not dirty. I’m a person, not a mop. Just because you’re dirty doesn’t mean I’m dirty, too.”

“…….”

Carlos looked at Amelia, who had returned to her former self. Having regained the light in her eyes, she no longer defiled herself. She was still beautiful. Durante looked at her and smiled.

He tried to say something, but Amelia turned her head away. She was here to see what the ugly man’s end will be like. Now that man won’t show up in her nightmare anymore. Because no one but Carlos made it that way.

Amelia took Carlos’s hand and climbed the stairs of the dungeon.

“Carl.”

“…….”

“Please don’t give that man a comfortable death until the very end.”

She was always the warm Amelia, but she had no warmth for Durante. Rather, she showed a deep hatred that had been silent for several years. Carlos liked this side. It was because Amelia, who had once given up on things, finally expressed her feelings. Moreover, she completely entrusted Carlos with the right to judge the person who had done terrible things to Amelia. Didn’t this mean that Amelia believes in him?

For some reason, he felt like he was on cloud nine. Carlos took Amelia’s hand and nodded his head.

“Whatever Amelia wants.”

* * * 

Count Butler, standing on the execution table, glared at Carlos with bloodshot eyes.

“So, the crime of endangering my fiancée, who will become the Empress of the country. I hereby punish you for blasphemy against the imperial family and rightfully execute you.”

“Can someone you have not even married yet be called a member of the imperial family?”

“I never referred to ‘her’ as a member of the imperial family. Wouldn’t that be an insult to me if you let a very important person for me, my fiancé, fall into the hands of such a vicious bastard?”

Count Butler gritted his teeth. The Empress Dowager was imprisoned, and even Claude was on Carlos’s side from the beginning. In addition, Durante had admitted that he tried to assault her, aggravating the crime. Count Butler couldn’t feign innocence anymore.

The Count clenched his teeth and looked at Amelia, who was standing next to Carlos.

“Are you going to throw me aside just to protect that dirty bitch!”

The nobles standing around exchanged glances of agreement. Amelia was a famous ‘dirty lady’. In order to save her life, she opened herself up to the enemy’s chief, and the coquettish voice she cried out while sleeping with Durante continued in the castle, as they said. And her previous fiancé committed suicide out of that contempt, so she could be considered the perfect flawless woman.

“She is not a dirty woman.”

“What are you talking about!”

“Dirty refers to those who have been hiding facts. Those humans who sacrificed one woman and buried everything…”

Carlos said, grinding his teeth in disgust.

“You said Elliot Butler died because of her?”

Carlos burst out laughing.

“Your son died because of you who did not properly defend the border. You’ve given up on your duty and always snuck around in the middle, so those barbarians managed to invade your territory.”

“Your, Your Majesty!”

“What did you do to Ms. Laszlo, who came there and suffered because you weren’t enough? She has been humiliated as the woman who killed her fiancé. To avoid pointing the finger at your mistake.”

“That… That! It is true that that girl opened herself up to the enemy chief.”

“Yes, it is true. It is an obvious fact. But can you say that it is dirty?”

“What are you talking about! That is, of course, dirty!”

Carlos looked at Amelia. Amelia nodded her head. Seeing this, Carlos said to Count Butler.

“How long are you going to pretend you don’t know, Count Butler? Should I say it with my mouth?”

“Your Majesty, no way!”

“I was also in the scene of that disgrace.”

At that time, there was the Emperor in Count Butler’s dominion? People whispered.

“At that time, I was travelling around the borders under the command of my predecessor, His Majesty the previous Emperor. And I happened to be there.”

“…….”

“I will never forget your weak barriers. One day after the invasion, the castle was occupied. So the barbarians invaded, and with the exception of a few, the barbarians who tried to kill all the men in the castle who saved me and hid my identity. Why do you think it was?”

The Count did not respond to Carlos’s words. Because he knew the answer.

“Yes, because she sacrificed herself to the enemy chief in return. She willingly threw herself down to save the boy she had been with for less than a month. Even she had no idea that I was a member of the imperial family.”

“…….”

“Your son? What did your son do? He begged for his life, offering a reward. He didn’t even care about my life. And that’s not it. Rather, he blamed Miss Laszlo for giving herself up for me.”

“…….”

“Who could have saved me there? The Count who was still in the capital at that time? Your incompetent son caught trying to run away? Or the dead knights?”

“…….”

“Look straight at me. I am right in front of you. I almost died because of your negligence. The one who saved me is the one you call dirty, Amelia Laszlo.”

“…….”

“Who would call her dirty here? Who can call her dirty when she sacrificed her body to save one boy! Count Butler! Especially you, how do you deserve to call her dirty!”

Count Butler bit his mouth at Carlos’ furious remarks. He knew why Amelia had sacrificed herself to the enemy chief. And he knew why his son committed suicide. But rather than blaming himself for the mistake, he blamed Amelia. Because that was the easiest way.

“Thanks to her. As long as I am alive, no one will ever call her dirty!”

Carlos shouted as if glaring at the nobles. Amelia looked at the nobles who avoided their eyes. Carlos said, placing his hand on Amelia’s shoulder.

“So I will execute you, cowardly man. You, who would not admit your transgressions and committed fatal mistakes, do not deserve to live as my vassal in this empire.”

No one could refute that statement. The truth about Amelia Laszlo, who is stigmatized as the ‘dirty lady’, was finally revealed.

Why did the emperor accept Amelia Laszlo as his empress? Why did he try to protect her? The nobles knew it was necessary. Some nobles even came close to being impressed. Now no one would be able to protest against Amelia becoming the empress, and no one would be able to blame her again. Six years after that happened, the filth was washed away.

A few days later, Count Butler vanished with the dew of the execution grounds.