Who Stole The Empress - Chapter 173

Chapter 173. Side story 2 – Death in the Dark

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Tamon recalled the past.

 

“Isn’t the imperial family beheaded or hanged at best?”

 

Dark morning.

 

Tamon stared at Gillotti and Natasha, who were struggling with their tough lives in the dark, with indifferent eyes.

“At best……?”

 

Hearing Tamon’s words, Gillotti asked with a voice like a rat in the gutter.

 

“Yeah. At best.”

 

Tamon muttered as he stared coldly at Gillotti, who already looked like dead.

 

He (Tamon) was a man without generosity like Asha.

 

Asha was beautiful and intelligent, but overly generous. Of course, he respected and loved Asha for that as well.

 

Although that didn’t mean he was going to follow her gentle way.

 

“The death of those who risked hundreds and thousands of lives for their own desires is to be hanged… Isn’t that a death that is too generous to say the least?”

 

Gillotti looked up, startled by the eerie voice of Tamon that echoed through the dark prison.

 

Anyway, it was just the eyes of a miserable failure with few days left to die.

 

Tamon casually unlocked the lock and entered the cell.

 

Then he squatted down in front of Gillotti and held out two objects.

“This medicine will melt all the internal organs under your skin. But the pain is not long. They say it’s about ten minutes at the shortest, and twenty minutes at the longest.”

Gillotti flinched and looked down at the medicine.

 

A well-forged dagger was placed next to it.

 

“If you choose this knife, I will personally slice your flesh and throw it into your dirty mouth. I will slice it very thinly and delicately. If you scream, I’ll be annoyed, so I’ll pull out your tongue first.”

 

Fear filled Gillotti’s eyes as the eerie low voice.

 

Tamon smiled kindly as if he had given him a generous treatment, and presented two options in front of Gillotti.

 

“Pick one. Whatever you choose, you will regret it.”

 

 “Hey, you crazy madman.”

 

“There’s no better opponent than a madman to deal with the devil-like emperor.”

 

Gillotti retreated with a shudder, shouting ‘Get away from me!’.

Tamon clicked his tongue pitifully and picked up the sharp dagger.

 

“Well, if you don’t want to choose, I can choose for you. Personally, I like this knife that I can touch with my hands.”

“Crazy b*stard! Get away, get away! Guards! Guards! There’s an intruder! An intruder!”

 

Gillotti shouted evilly, but only Tamon and Natasha in the prison could hear his voice.

 

Then, Natasha, who was watching them, opened her mouth first.

 

“…what do you want?” (Natasha)

 

Tamon turned and looked at Natasha.

 

“Just say what you want.” (Natasha)

 

With her empty eyes, Natasha, who had resigned from everything, held on to the bars and spoke.

 

Tamon muttered in a voiceless voice.

 

“Pain.”

 

“……pain?”

 

“A terrible pain that you would rather die. I want you to experience it.”

 

It was the same pain Asha felt.

 

Natasha bit her dry chapped lips. She reached out her trembling hand to Tamon.

 

“… . I will take the medicine.”

 

In front of Natasha, who asked for medicine, Tamon held out both the medicine and the dagger.

 

She horribly looked down at the dagger, then slowly, very slowly, lifted the medicine.

 

“Natasha!”

 

Gillotti shouted her name in surprise, but she turned away from him in the end.

 

gulp.

 

Natasha gulped down the medicine pill, the size of her thumb, without water.

Natasha’s eyes widened the moment the medicine ran down her esophagus.

 

Soon she was able to understand why Tamon had even put the dagger down in front of her.

 

The duration of the pain of 10 minutes at the shortest and 20 minutes at the longest was so terrifying that even 10 seconds could not be tolerated.

 

“Kaaaa, Kek!Kak! Arghhhhh…!”

 

Is this the end of pain?

 

Natasha rolled her eyes and scratched the floor with her hands. Her fingernails quickly came off, and blood soaked the floor.

 

“Natasha…!”

 

The pain was so unbearable that she couldn’t stand it and crawled towards the dagger and stabbed herself in the mouth.

 

“….!”

 

In front of that horrific sight, Gillotti stopped screaming.

 

10 minutes?

 

It was an unpredictable time.

 

Natasha succumbed to her struggles in pain and died after not making it past three minutes.

 

Her face looked more comfortable after she cut off her tongue.

Tamon turned and looked at Gillotti.

 

Gulp.

 

Swallowing dry saliva, Gillotti looked at the two objects in front of him in horror.

 

“There is no time. Go ahead and choose.”

 

As if waiting for Gillotti was boring, Tamon urged.

 

Gillotti, looking at the two objects with shaking eyes, asked with trembling lips.

 

“I, I want to ask something!”

It was the last straw. Maybe it’s a struggle to live a little longer.

“The Empress, uh, how was she alive? Is that also your power? What made her leg better…!”

 

There was a cold murderous energy in Tamon’s red eyes.

 

His eyes, which did not waver no matter how filthy, were shaking like a deep swamp at the word ‘Empress’ that came out of Gillotti’s mouth.

 

“Who.”

 

A large, rough hand grabbed Gillotti’s head.

 

“….!”

 

Without hesitation, Tamon grabbed Gillotti’s chin and pulled his tongue out.

 

“…You mean the Empress? Didn’t you kill your Empress with your own hands?”

 

A voice colder than ice and darker than death sweetly pierced Gillotti’s ears.

 

“Uh, uh, uh uh huh!”

Tamon put the pill on Gillotti’s struggling and rebellious tongue and forced him to shut his mouth and swallow it. 

 

“That’s right. I saved her with my blood and flesh. Her leg that you broke…..”

 

Gillotti struggled not to swallow the pill even if he died, but he could not defeat Tamon, who grabbed the root of his tongue.

 

Tamon smiled and shoved the pill down his throat.

 

“I brought her back to life. So swallow it.”

 

“…..!”

 

 “And die, Gillotti Tanatos. Very painful and humiliating.”

 

The pill passed Gillotti’s throat, which was strongly suppressed.

 

Tamon bound Gillotti’s arms so that Gillotti could not take his own life like Natasha.

 

“Argggghhhh!”

 

Could this be the cry of demons and monsters? A scream that could not even be called a human voice echoed through the prison. It was hours before Gillotti and Natasha’s bodies were found.

 

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“…Asha.”

 

A low-pitched voice flowed into Asha’s ear, who was deeply asleep, and shook her consciousness.

 

It was a hazy voice that created ripples like water drops on a still water surface.

 

Too deep to be sweet, too soft to be bitter.

 

Asha knew this voice.

 

She smiled languidly, opened her eyes and looked to the owner of the voice.

 

As Asha’s sleepy purple eyes stared at him dimly, Tamon smiled and kissed her forehead.

 

“Did you sleep well?”

 

How could he make such a sweet voice with a face like that?

 

He had intense red eyes and features that seemed to be made of sharp, rough lines, and when he spoke to her, he was softer and warmer than ever.

 

It was all this man’s affection for her.

 

Even if he didn’t have to say the word love, Asha was drenched in the affection he poured out.

 

Something hot suddenly pierced her chest.

 

Asha took a deep breath, reached out her hand and hugged him tightly.

Tamon burst out laughing at her sudden touch.

 

“You’ve gotten a lot better at being childish. It’s a very good phenomenon.” 

 

Tamon, who was whispering with satisfaction, licked incessantly on her earlobe and neckline.

 

“How long did I sleep?”

 

Without answering, Tamon glanced at the carriage window.

 

As she followed him and looked out the window of the carriage, Asha burst into laughter.

 

“Oh my gosh. I slept until the sun went down?”

 

She thought it was just past noon, but the sun was setting.

 

A look of embarrassment was evident on Asha’s red face.

 

Tamon said playfully, kissing the tip of her nose.

 

“Did you sleep well while snoring?”

 

Lie.

 

This was definitely a lie.

 

She swears she’d never snored since she was born!

 

… maybe.

 

“I’m telling you. I swear to God. You snored beautifully. It was lovelier than any other bird’s chirping.”

Tamon said with an innocent face, raising his hand as if to swear.

 

That expression was so serious that it made Asha even more embarrassed.

 

Asha’s cheeks rarely turned red. She apologized quietly, pecking her lips in embarrassment as she looked for words to say.

 

“I see. Excuse me………”

 

The way she stuttered apologizing was so insanely cute that Tamon had to bite the inside of his mouth to hold back his laughter.

 

“Don’t apologize. It can happen. I liked it because it was so cute.” 

“… stop it. It’s not cute at all.”

 “It’s because you didn’t hear it. It was really cute.”

Who can hear themselves snoring?

 

Even if there was such a way, Asha did not want to hear it.

 

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*My gosh, I got diabetes with these two 😍🥰😭