Became the Escort Knight That the Princesses Were Obsessed With

100. Emperor’s Lunchbox (3)

“Phew – it’s done.”

A girl with pigtails wearing an apron.

She wiped her forehead with the back of her hand and wrapped the lunch box in silk.

“Put it on the wagon. “It tastes better when it’s hot.”

“I understand, Her Highness!”

The rugged knights of the East held crisp lunch boxes.

And then, he carefully headed to the carriage as if he was carrying a royal seal.

“Hmm-.”

Lydia, who had some free time, crossed her arms alone.

She then glanced at Irina’s lunch box, which was completed around the same time.

She packed two identical lunch boxes.

One was in her carriage to be sent north, and the other she kept for herself.

“… ?”

The Third Princess, who was watching, frowned.

However, the second princess did not bother to ask who she would give the remaining lunch box to.

Lunch boxes are carried in their respective carriages.

Wagons with leopards and wolves on them departed for the north all at once.

Rattle–!

Wagons leaving the city and traveling on a quiet road.

As expected from the royal family’s carriages, all the other carriages and citizens they encountered were busy retreating.

But.

An important road heading to the north.

Even the imperial family’s carriage had no choice but to stop in front of him.

Knights wearing white uniforms.

Because the imperial knights blocked the way.

“Please stop for a moment, there will be an inspection.”

Imperial Knights, Vice-Captain Camilla.

With her short golden hair flowing, she calmly approached the carriage.

Then, she faced the coachman and the eastern knight in the passenger seat.

“Are you daring to take a look at the royal family’s carriage?”

The tanned-skinned man asked with cold eyes.

“No one can break His Majesty’s decree. Even if it’s the princess.”

The Eastern Knight gave a disapproving look.

However, now that the emperor had fallen, the highest ranking person was the crown prince, so he could not ignore his orders.

“It’s just a special inspection for the festival, so don’t worry too much.”

Camilla spoke with a cruel expression.

“As long as there are no problems with the contents.”

The vice-captain raised the corner of her mouth.

News that the 2nd and 3rd princesses had a secret meeting at a quiet restaurant.

She even made a suspicious lunch box and sent it to the Northern Subangsa Temple at the same time.

All of this information has already been given to me by the crown prince.

The princesses’ behavior recently was strange.

From arresting Hakim, who is on the same side as the crown prince, to frequenting Subangsa Temple, and now even sending him lunch boxes.

The crown prince, who was inferior, ordered the investigation of the lunch box, which was extremely suspicious.

And, the name was surprisingly close to success.

‘Now, what can you guys do?’

Camilla raised her fist at the feat before her.

Then, the carriage door was flung open as if to show off.

“Hmm.”

She entered inside her with her bloody expressionless expression.

She grabbed the basket of her 3rd princess with greedy hands.

‘What on earth is in here?’

The East is famous for its powerful and evil magic.

Is there an incredible artifact from those shamans inside?

You may be able to see the spirit that you have only heard about.

Thinking like that, her sword master’s heart began to pound.

“….”

Camilla swallowed deeply.

Then, she carefully opened the lid of the box, as if she was unearthing a strange artifact.

That moment.

A powerful scent begins to fill the interior of the carriage.

“… !”

She flinched at that scent.

She hastily covered her nose with the back of her hand.

Because the evil smell can cause internal injuries.

“Uh… ?”

But.

She soon lowered her sleeves.

Because the scent she smelled was not evil, but fragrant and delicious.

“Bird, shrimp… ?”

She picked up a shrimp stuck in the fried rice with her leather gloved hands.

She frowned and stared blankly at the plump flesh.

No matter how you look at it, the shrimp was not an evil spirit.

“….”

The scarlet eyes that were burning with ambition became blurred.

She was speechless and carefully picked up the shrimp and put it into her mouth.

Delicious texture that melts smoothly.

Sweet and savory gravy.

“Delicious.”

After tasting delicious home-cooked food for the first time in a long time, the vice-captain quietly closed his eyes.

And then, the moment it reappeared.

She was embarrassed to see her subordinates looking at her indifferently.

“Hmm….”

In the end, she realized that the 3rd princess’ lunch box was a real lunch box.

As she tasted her food again, she looked disappointed.

But.

There is still one more lunch box left.

Immediately, the carriage of the second princess followed behind.

She, like Lydia, is quite an irritant to the crown prince.

She has grown her power enormously in just a few months.

Currently, her growth rate is so rapid that she is called a divinity among the royal family.

Camilla also opened Irina’s carriage.

And, the moment you open the lunch box.

“It’s meat stew…” ?”

The area under her eyes began to flutter.

All she encountered was, of course, ordinary beef stew and round bread.

The woman with short golden hair picked up the bread and looked down blankly.

“Ha….”

Camilla slowly got off the carriage with a confused expression.

The only thing she held in her hand was a fluffy bread.

“Vice-captain, can we try it too?”

“Don’t be crazy. “It’s the princess’s food.”

The prosecutor who was burning with ambition just a little while ago has long since disappeared.

He seemed at a loss as to what to report about this situation to His Highness the Crown Prince.

“I miss the front lines today…”

「――――――.」

Meanwhile, after sending her carriage, Irina quietly headed to the central imperial palace alone.

An imperial palace whose roof is so pointed that it touches the clouds.

Irina climbed the spacious and ornate central staircase and headed to the Heavenly Palace where the emperor was staying.

“….”

A solemn atmosphere as the emperor is said to be in a coma.

The second floor hallway was poorly lit, and the servants and knights passing by had expressionless expressions.

Especially the members of the Imperial Knights.

His entourage, following the Crown Prince, secretly looked at Irina as she walked down the hall.

Among them, there was a guard captain who was suspicious of the princess’s actions and approached her.

“Her Royal Highness, please excuse me for a moment.”

One of the crown prince’s closest associates.

He looked very suspiciously at the lunch box Irina brought.

“I’m sorry, but no matter how much you are the princess, bringing in outside food is prohibited.”

Overwhelming appearance and intense eyes.

The middle-aged man tried to overwhelm the twenty-year-old princess with his atmosphere.

“Guard Captain, this is just a lunch box I made myself.”

However, Irina was not afraid at all.

“Are you now doubting the lunch box I made with the hope of my father’s recovery?”

Instead, he looked up straight at him, his green eyes flashing.

“Still, we have to check the contents as part of the procedure.”

“Okay, if you suspect that much, why don’t you check it yourself?”

The guard captain carefully opened the lunch box he received.

Then….

The smell of fragrant stew and steaming bread began to waft into the hallway.

There is no sense of secret messages or mana at all.

It was truly an ordinary lunch box.

“So, did you find the poison or dagger you wanted?”

Irina looked up at the guard captain with bloody eyes.

“….”

The man kept his mouth shut in response to her question and steadily observed the stew.

However, no matter how much I stirred, I couldn’t find any suspicious items.

“Hmm.”

The smell of food fills the hallway.

The ministers frowned at that smell.

A scolding look in his eyes, asking why a cooking utensil that looks fine at first glance smells so bad.

At this, the guard commander cleared his throat and tried to pick up the bread.

Then, at that moment.

“You are truly careless!”

Irina grabbed one of the two breads first and….

She bit into it proudly and ate half of it.

“You have to check everything inside like this.”

The princess mumbled and showed me the morning bread that had been cut in half.

“….”

The guard captain looked down at the bread that had been split in half.

The inside looks delicious and steamy.

There was nothing particularly strange.

“No problem. Has confirmed….”

The imperial ministers frowned at Irina’s loud voice.

They glared coldly at the guard captain who dared to cause a disturbance in front of the emperor’s residence.

“It’s good that security is thorough, but you’re suspicious of me…. “This is unpleasant, Captain of the Guard.”

“I’m sorry, princess.”

The middle-aged driver ended up returning the lunch box.

“Don’t worry, I will be examined again by the Prime Minister in front of my father’s residence anyway.”

Irina mercifully forgave her knight.

And then, she left the imperial guards behind and headed to her father’s bedroom.

A middle-aged man watching with distaste from behind.

He pursed his lips as if disapproving.

A huge iron gate located in the center of the second floor.

The princess faced the imperial prime minister, Mo Xian, who was standing in front of the iron gate.

“Her Highness the Princess.”

“Mister.”

The two looked at each other with familiar eyes.

Then, I quickly looked around to make sure no one was there.

“What’s going on here?”

The prime minister who protected the comatose emperor.

He quietly asked Irina, who suddenly came to visit.

“If you come here carelessly, you will arouse the crown prince’s suspicions… !”

“I came to give this to my father.”

The princess carefully handed over the lunch box she had brought with both hands.

“Woe to your majesty?”

It is known that he is currently unconscious.

You packed a lunch box for such an emperor….

The Prime Minister looked at the daughter of the King of Conquerors with curious eyes.

“Your Majesty is now in a coma….”

“I know. But, you never know, right? “Will you wake up today?”

Irina looked up at him with eyes as serious as an emperor.

Then, she naturally turned around and said.

“When you wake up, please tell me. “Please.”

The Second Princess left the Heavenly Palace leisurely, leaving those words behind.

“….”

Mossian swallowed deeply.

And then, she looked down at the lunch box that Irina had left behind.

“How did Her Majesty the Princess know…? ?”

The middle-aged man with gray hair frowned.

Then she picked up the lunch box and carefully placed her hand on the iron door.

A large artifact that can only be opened when the palm of a given person touches it.

「Heavenly Gate.」

As soon as the Prime Minister’s hand touched it, it began to slowly open little by little.

A thick iron door that closes automatically when you go inside.

Afterwards, Mosian faced a marble floor as wide as a playground and a huge bed placed in the center.

The Prime Minister bows his head towards the bed.

He opened his mouth cautiously.

“Your Majesty, this is Mosian.”

The current second-in-command of the empire bowing his head.

He waited silently for an answer.

“Come in.”

Only then did the Prime Minister raise his face.

He slowly walked to the side of the emperor, who was known to the world to be in a coma.

As we got closer, we finally began to see his dragon eyes.

This is the moment when we meet the conquering emperor who conquered the vast continent of Arc.

“Yes, Mosian. “You said you were quitting, but why did you come back?”

A white-haired man lying down on a huge bed.

His shoulders were as wide as three heads of a man’s head.

The face was like that of a charismatic middle-aged male god, like a statue from a myth.

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It was far from the rumor that he was suffering due to old age.

“Her Highness Irina brought a lunch box for Her Majesty.”

“Lunchbox?”

The emperor’s thick, white eyebrows twitched.

“I’m sure the child thought I was unconscious.”

“That’s right. Maybe… I guess he made it with a special wish for you to wake up soon….”

The Prime Minister raised the corners of his mouth like an uncle looking at his nephew.

And, before delivering it to the emperor, he opened the lunch box himself.

“Is it stew?”

The delicious smell of steam rising.

The emperor looked at the stew with satisfaction.

“This is bread.”

The Conqueror stared at the morning bread placed in the compartment next to the stew.

But.

He soon noticed something strange.

2 Breads in total.

But the other one had signs that someone had intentionally cut it in half.

“The security team did a quick check.”

“It seems so. “At that moment, I heard a loud noise coming from the hallway.”

The emperor picked up an intact loaf of bread.

And then, this guy looked at me suspiciously as to why he didn’t inspect the inside.

“There’s something inside.”

The emperor’s blue eyes flashed.

Then he broke the bread and found a note hidden inside.

“Oh my… How in bread… ?”

“He probably got into a fight and gambled. “The second one is pretty good too.”

The Conqueror smiled and read the secret letter.

However, his laughter gradually subsided as he read the words.

Eventually, the corners of the emperor’s mouth lowered.

He muttered with a dull expression.

“Beware of the crown prince…. And, be careful about the First Empress’s food.”

First Empress, Rosanna’s food.

Her cooking was inherently delicious and her skills were excellent, so she often served dinner instead of the chef.

However, no poison was found in it.

After seeing Irina’s secret message that risked her life, the emperor took a deep breath and fell into thought.

“Mosian.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“I will soon announce that I have awakened.”

“I understand, Your Majesty.”

The Prime Minister bowed his head politely.

“To commemorate my awakening, I will have a dinner with my first wife. Of course, leave the cooking to her.”

The emperor placed a note on the tip of his finger.

And….

A white flame rose up and burned the paper.

The small flame was so strong that not even a handful of ash remained.

“After leaving the dinner in charge, please bring in the shamans from your wife’s home country separately.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

Even after the emperor woke up for the first time in a long time, his head started pounding as bad events continued to occur.

He sighed and laid his body back on the bed.

“Is there any other news? .”

The melancholy voice of the leader lion.

Mo Xian looked at the emperor with pity.

“I… In fact, these days, all the princesses are obsessed with cooking.”

“Yes, Irina’s cooking is also of a very high standard. Even though I couldn’t taste it….”

His body was weakened and he couldn’t taste his daughter’s stew, so he looked sad.

“It’s truly amazing that you learned to cook for me. So when do you say you’ll send it to me?”

The emperor asked with a gentle smile.

“Well, that’s actually…” “He sent all the dishes he made to the north.”

“To the north… ?”

The emperor asked, closing his thick eyelids as if he were tired.

“Yes, all three of you have a talent you are currently looking at, and we probably sent them to you.”

The talent that all three princesses are aiming for.

At those words, the emperor opened his tightly closed eyes.

“Are you a man?”

“Yes… ?”

The emperor raises his head.

The Prime Minister was frightened by his appearance.

However, he also could not keep his mouth shut here.

It would be icing on the cake if the talent he supports even has connections to the emperor.

“I asked if that talented person was a man.”

“Well, that’s right…” .”

A black shadow appeared under the emperor’s eyebrows.

Like a ferocious male lion targeting a relative who has violated his family.

“No matter how precious a talent is… Now, you’re eating my daughters’ cooking before me?”

I haven’t been able to taste it yet because I’m sick.

The news that the man who lives outside the house eats first.

“What is his name?”

Hearing that news, the emperor gained strength that he had never had before.

Thanks to this, his fading white mana and his spirit surged again.

However, the cough soon broke out again.

He took a deep breath and spoke.

“Right now…bring him to me….”

Mo Xian obeyed the imperial command.

Then, I passed the wall displaying huge golden windows and went out the main gate.