Chapter 25: 016. Imperial Prince is Really Toiling Away -1 (Part One)
“Spare her? It’s not as if I was trying to kill her or anything. I just slapped her around a bit and pushed down on her head.”
I rubbed my forehead upon hearing this.
Arghhhh, goddammit. I made the wrong choice, didn’t I? Why did I have to go and choose this clique out of all the others?
I stood up from my spot to leave. It seed like Heis didn’t seem to care about soone like from the get-go, judging from how he continued to spin his yarn. “I was so damn aroused by her futile resistance, you know? So, like, I tore up her skirt like this~! But then, f*ck, those stupid student council idiots had to show up and ruin that wonderful opportunity... Eh-whew, what a sad fate my life is. Those assholes, acting as if a girl doing lowly chores around the Academy was soone important and then handing this punishnt and all... Mm, by the way...”
Heis shifted his gaze in a certain direction – at a girl working diligently with a group of villagers at the distance. Specifically, at a girl with silver hair and red eyes – yup, it was none other than Charlotte.
She might’ve been only 16 years old, but her calm deanor made her seem much more mature than her age.
Heis stared at her in an entranced daze.
Before long, he snickered and called out to her. “Heeey, girlie over there? Why don’t you give one too?”
He spoke in an arrogant tone and beckoned her with his finger.
Charlotte must’ve heard his voice because she made her way to him. She presented him with a still-warm sweet potato and bowed her head as a greeting. However, Heis didn’t seem to care about things like so sweet potatoes, and simply stared at her intently before stuttering a bit. “Mm, ah, well... Uh, Young m-miss, how old?”
...What the hell? You ain’t even a drunken boor, you know? I didn’t expect to hear such a la pick-up line by soone so young and eager.
Charlotte didn’t answer and simply stood there in silence.
Heis seed to be mindful of the surrounding gazes as he urgently spoke up again, “Hiya~, you’re really pretty, aren’t you? It’s almost to the point where it’s a sha to let you stay as a lowly commoner.”
“...”
“How about we talk so more after you finish work? I’ll treat you to a warm cup of tea...”
“Please work hard, sirs.”
Even before Heis could say anything else, she lightly bowed her head and turned around to leave. The Priests began chuckling after he got so wonderfully shot down.
Maybe he got ticked off by their mocking laughter, because he suddenly reached out and grabbed Charlotte’s hand with a heavy scowl on his face. She wordlessly stared at Heis’s hand, and then glanced at .
Her eyes were actually trembling. Although there weren’t any changes in her expression, I could kind of tell that she felt rather perplexed by this developnt.
What’s this? You want to help you?
I scratched my head while thinking.
Oh well... although I wasn’t really a fan of getting involved in headache-inducing matters, she’s from the sa monastery as so I should probably help her out. Also, that Mister Termin*tor Paladin wouldn’t mi...
Even before I could step up, though, Heis’s hand was crushed.
“...Eh?”
I ended up muttering out a stupid-sounding gasp after witnessing that sight.
“It hurrrrrrts!!”
A small and frail-looking hand was gradually and oh-so slowly crushing a much larger and thicker hand.
“It hurts! It f*cking hurts!! Arrrrgh!!”
Heis went down on his knees. The surrounding Priests couldn’t understand what was going on and tilted their heads. Obviously, none of them were thinking that such a slender girl was really crushing a much larger hand than hers.
Charlotte let go of Heis and then, rubbed her hand against her clothes – as if she touched sothing unclean just now.
“Please excuse .”
She bowed her head again and tried to distance herself. However, Heis quickly held his crushed hand and roared out at her, “Stop right there, you commoner!”
Charlotte’s steps ca to a stop.
“Sh*t! How dare you, you lowly commoner... How dare you ignore ? You monster-like b*tch!!”
She glanced at him. Her cold, crimson eyes landed on Heis, and he froze up instantly.
“T-that, uh... what was it again. Y-you aren’t even a man in a drag, so how co... W-well, aren’t you a rather strong girl! Hah, how absurd! Are all lowborns strong like you? I, the eldest son of a Count, Sir Heis deigned to show you a passing interest, so you should’ve taken it as an honour! How dare you insult this way?! Goddammit!”
...You ain’t even a little kid, so what gives? I’m aware that you’re a boy going through puberty, but that way of talking isn’t cool even if you’re scared, dude.
The other Priests also slowly shook their heads on the side. A series of laughter soon followed after, and Heis’s complexion reddened even further.
I saw how he chose not to blindly rush forward and guessed that he was indeed scared by Charlotte and her strength that easily crushed his hand. With this, I didn’t have to step forward anymore.
If Mister Eldest Son of a Count decided to get smart at a later date, I should just call up that uptight Paladin and say a few things to him. I an, the Holy Emperor’s grandson was lending his support to soone, so which son of a count would dare to raise his fist at the person in question?
Charlotte must’ve known this too, and that was probably why she didn’t bother to confront Heis here. If she did, then the matter would have blown out of proportions later.
Yup, I should get back to work now.
I raised my shovel after thinking of this. anwhile, Charlotte ignored Heis and began walking away once more.
The latter anxiously bit his lower lip and shouted out again, “Hey, you! Both your mother and father are lowborns, aren’t they?”
It was then that her steps ca to a sudden halt, her fists tightly clenched. Her glare had gotten so much sharper now.
I ignored what was happening between those two and scanned my surroundings.
I really needed to get back to work, but sohow couldn’t see a nice enough spot to dig.
“Ahaha! That’s right! You’re just a lowborn, and that’s why you will never amount to anything! Hah! I guess that’s why you lowborns stick around this accursed Land of the Dead Spirits.”
Charlotte quietly squeezed her eyes shut. She seed to have cald herself down because she ignored Heis again.
That was a wise decision on her part. You avoided sh*t not because you were scared of it, but because it was dirty.
But this action of hers only served to trigger Heis even further. “I can already tell, they won’t live for long before getting killed off by the undead! Ahaha! I hear that half of those who die in the Land of the Dead Spirits turn into zombies. With just one word from , and the gravekeeper of your village, plus the resident Priests, will all shut their mouths up. And you’ll beco an orphan, all alone in this cold and harsh land!”
...Wowsers, he sure has a grating voice, doesn’t he?
Sothing he said also reminded of the mories from my past life too. I slung the shovel on my shoulder and rubbed my neck.
“Why don’t you co here and flirt with instead? I’ll hire you as my personal maidservant. With how your lowly life is right now, I can certainly improve it, at least by...”
Heis reached out and grabbed her arm again.
With her physical strength, he wouldn’t be able to stop her no matter how hard he tried. She knew that very well. Charlotte could have simply ignored him and walked away but this ti, she chose to look back at Heis and say sothing.
“I’m already an orphan.”
Charlotte’s curt and cold reply caused his expression to harden.
Besides all that, I really gotta start digging out a burial pit for my job, but, mm... Ah, that’s a pretty good spot. Over there should do, right?
I slamd down on Heis’s foot with my shovel. His leather boot got crushed.
“...!”
Both Charlotte and Heis froze where they stood. The latter dazedly looked down at his toes before raising his head back up again to look straight in my face. He seed rather dumbfounded at the mont.
What’s this? It didn’t hurt?
I hit you at that spot so that you’d feel so pain, but I guess it wasn’t as effective as I hoped.
But that won’t do! I an, I stomped on you to hurt you...
I raised my shovel again and slamd it back down.
Heis’s complexion was increasingly getting paler by the second. As a matter of fact, cold sweat began trickling down his face now.
Ohh! Finally, so reaction!
Ti to say sothing appropriate then.
“Oopsie. My mistake.”
I covered the mouth portion of the beak mask with one hand, and with the other, ruthlessly cranked the handle of the shovel currently crushing the sucker’s toes.
Eventually...
“Uwaaaaaahk!!”
Just as he scread loudly and reflexively stood upright, I swung my shovel and smacked him dead in the face. Mister Priest staggered unsteadily on his feet before falling rather laly into the pit next to him.
“Oops, my hands seed to have slipped a bit. Are you alright there, buddy?”
“Uwaaahk?! W-what is the aning of...!”
“Don’t get in the way of my work and just quietly lie down there, will ya. If you’re going to act like a corpse, why don’t you do a proper job?”
I fixed my mask back in place and began shoveling dirt on top of Heis or whatever his na was.
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