Tamed the Monster Prince - Chapter 10.1

“Let me show you how. Ah―” As soon as Irena said that, Cesar quickly followed her movements.

“Good job.”

“Yeah.”

As she watched him hesitantly put the sauce on his lips, it felt like she was watching a five-year-old child rather than her husband. Cesar quickly licked the sauce off his lips and glanced at the table.

‘Oh, wait. That wasn’t a child.’

‘It was more like a big dog.’

It was probably better for her mental health to think of it that way.

” Cesar.”

She called his name firmly. His eyes immediately fixed on her.

“I’m Irena.”

“……I, rena.”

He slowly said her name as if he understood what she said.

“Irena, Irena, Irena.”

He repeated it several times.

“Irena, or call me Ren.”

“Ren.”

He put her nickname in his mouth as soon as she said that. Ren, Ren. He repeated it several times and then laughed. His pure laughter was so clear and cute.

“We are now a married couple.”

“Married couple?”

“Yeah, married couple.”

It was already a very cramped environment. Nobody thought she’d make it through such a terrible marriage. The court ladies uttered various oaths and incantations as if she were about to pass away. This lowly Obsidian Place would be their new home, and even the Empress, who despised her, would move in. Within the walls of this palace, there were not many people on whom she could rely.

Indeed, there was only one person she could rely entirely on on a crisis like this.

“I’m on your side.”

“Side?”

“Yeah, we’re on the same side.”

“Same.”

But even beyond that, she couldn’t just let people treat Cesar as they pleased. No matter how much he was considered cursed.

“So if they do that again, tell me.”

“…Okay.”

Taking a deep breath, she shook his head from side to side. Even just thinking about the situation made him feel bad.

“No.”

The negative expression “No” was pronounced more clearly than other words. It was not difficult to guess how it happened.

“… …”

He lowered his head and sighed. There was a need for significant improvements in the way people treated Cesar.

“If they do that again, tell me.”

“…Okay.”

She didn’t know what power she could be, but how could she fill someone with things like a harness and a chain? Such was a message that he was not even treated as a human.

“Really?”

She lifted his little finger and brought it to him. Of course, Cesar just looked at it vaguely.

“This is a promise.”

So she forced him to tie his little finger.

“Promise…”

She couldn’t even tell if her words were working. At that moment, Cesar slowly closed his eyes. It seemed that his eyes were conveying some meaning to her.

“Got it?”

“Yeah.”

And then he smiled again without any malice. Was he understanding?

Then a knock sounded, and the door opened soon.

“Your Majesty!”

It was a middle-aged woman who looked like a servant. When she nodded, she came to them with a slightly moved face.

“Your Majesty…”

“Who are you?”

“Oh, I’m sorry. I’m Mercedes Aronchora, who serves His Majesty, Cesar.”

Then Cesar looked at her with a gentle face.

“Do you know her?”

“Meche.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

Mercedes quickly wiped away her tears with her sleeve.

“I heard that Your Majesty moved to the Obsidian Place, so I came here in a hurry.”

Mercedes was a nurse to Cesar.

Irena was able to listen to her various explanations.

“I was originally a lady-in-waiting of Her Majesty Queen Adelaida.”

Thus, after Queen Adelaida, Cesar’s biological mother passed away, Queen Cornelya ordered all of Adelaida’s servants to leave the palace.

However, Mercedes could stay here until this point because she was Cesar’s wet nurse. Such was the only reason. Only she had been Cesar’s focus up to this point in their pursuit of each other.

Even though Cesar was eighteen and still receiving care from a wet nurse, Mercedes had no choice but to continue providing it for him because of the specific circumstances. Therefore, she was the sole attendant standing by his side.

“Your Majesty has recently become very…sensitive…”

Recently, Cesar was said to be so out of control that no one could even touch him. Eventually, he even started taking medicine and restraining his body.

“No, until it came to that…”

Just as Irena was about to ask what she had done, Irena saw her hands. Her hands were full of deep scars and broken lines.

Irena knew what her hands were saying: these were the hands of hard labor. That was what her palace life had been like.

Mercedes, who had been a lady-in-waiting of the former Queen Adelaida, moved to the Empire after her husband died in the war and became the prince’s wet nurse.