The Tyrant Won’t Let Me Go

The Tyrant Won't Let Me Go Chapter 5

Translated by Niks
Edited by KBJ

Holding hands on a regular basis meant that I would continue to meet this guy in the future.

‘Continue? with this little tyrant?’

It shouldn’t have been that way.

“Your Grace…”

Somehow I opened my mouth to say something to prevent such unfortunate mishaps, but the emperor was not listening to me.

“Oh, hold at least 20 minutes on the day you have a class. If you don’t mind, you could hold it more.”

“Your Majesty, no matter how I… how could I do that of His Majesty the Crown Prince…”

Crack.

There was a creepy sound as if a tree was breaking, and the Emperor looked like a Cerberus, who came from hell, and asked.

“Do you have any objections?”

I gulped and swallowed my saliva.

If I say that there was an objection, he had a look that he would also break me like that broken quill, and I wondered why he asked for such a thing.

“I think the Crown Prince likes you as well.”

What?

What are you saying? The prince likes what?

Come to think of it, it was weird.

Despite the fact that the Emperor had said it just now, Cedric was not pulling out his hand.

As soon as I looked around in surprise, I met two clear eyes full of moisture.

He looked like his father and had the same blood-colored eyes, but unlike the Emperor, he was pure and unstained.

“Your Highness…?”

The crown prince, who met my eyes, was surprised and his cheeks blushed, and turned his head around.

His ears were also red.

‘No…’

Up until now, you were standing like a wooden stone without an expression, but why are you suddenly acting shy?

No matter how much I didn’t know about dating stuff, I definitely know this reaction.

He seemed to have a crush on me.

‘It would be difficult if it goes on like this…’

Without knowing how I felt, the Emperor muttered grimly.

“Then there’s no problem.”

No, there were a lot of problems.

In about 10 years, that cute kid would become a sub-lead, a tyrant who wipes out the continent and causes bloodbath to the Empire.

And how could it not be a problem that the tyrant lost the war and the people around him were choked by the opposing forces led by the original male lead, who won the war?

“As you may have heard earlier, there was an oracle that a person would appear to help the Crown Prince in controlling his mana.”

The voice of the Emperor, who was not shaken at all, resonated in the room.

‘Is this because I absorbed Caliberne?’

In the original, it was only stated that the heroine who absorbed Caliberne, would never be defeated with her swordsmanship no matter who she fights, and there was no description that she could help others to unlock their magical powers.

“When I see the prince’s sword shining after he holds your hand, I’m sure that you are the child from the oracle.”

“Yes? A child from the oracle?”

When I asked with round eyes to an unknown story, the Emperor blinked his red eyes without saying a word.

“It was said in the oracle. The child who handles blue light would fill the prince’s lack of magic and open up his power. Hearing the story, it was said that the blue light emitted from your hand.”

“Ah.”

Only then did I know why the Imperial people suddenly brought me to the Palace.

When I confronted the director, they saw the blue light from my hand and realized that I was a child from the oracle.

“Unless the magic power was released, the sword’s magic stone does not react. In addition, the magic transfers are usually done through physical contact.”

“That means…”

The Emperor, who stopped talking for a while and looked down at me, replied in a low voice.

“The fact that the Prince’s sword, which has never shined until now, reacted, means that you filled the prince’s lack of magic and opened up the prince’s magical power.”

In short, it meant that I must have been the child of the oracle.

The Emperor put his hands together and said.

“I need your help.”

The Deamant Empire was a country of famous knights on the continent.

A society where swords are respected by the knights who use them, and magic swordsmen wielding swords enchanted with magic are also treated as respected individuals.

In such a place, the prince who couldn’t even wake his magical sword had a fatal shortcoming in retaining power in the future.

I don’t know in detail, but as I heard it, the Emperor must have brought me to the Imperial Palace to get rid of the shortcomings that could take place in the future.

“Your Majesty, however, I don’t have enough knowledge to teach his Majesty the Prince how to control his magic.”

“I heard Paul earlier that you’re good at using the blue light magic for that kind of thing. And it doesn’t matter if you say you’re not good at class. If it’s really hard, you just need to hold the prince’s hand.”

“Your Majesty, how can a commoner like me touch his highness–“

The Emperor’s eyes flashed at that moment.

“Do you dare disobey my orders?”

In an instant, I swallowed the words I wanted to say.

“Oh, no..”

I had no choice but to cry and eat words.

As he squinted at me, he opened his mouth in a dry voice.

“Of course, I’m not suggesting it without a price.”

The price. It seemed to be a trick to make me agree with money

If the Emperor forced me to do so, he wouldn’t get a proper result, rather he would try to persuade me to obey him with a good heart.

“100 million kerta per year.”

The moment I heard the amount, I looked up without realizing it.

“I’ll pay you that much as an annual salary.”

The Emperor spoke in a languid voice.

“And now you have nowhere to live, right? As you have to meet the Crown Prince regularly, I would arrange a place for you to stay in the Palace. I would also attach some servants to help you live in the Palace.”

“…”

“If you need to attend a class, I would supply all the tools for the class. I’d ask the blacksmith directly under the Imperial Family for a sword.”

All of this for an imperial class?

‘No, no. What would I do if I got the 100 million kerta and played with it? If I become a member of the Imperial Palace, I might die 10 years later from rolling in the war and being cut off by the original male lead.’

I shook my head and muttered to myself.

“Oh, by the way, the contract would last until the crown prince becomes an adult and takes over the throne.”

But I wasn’t listening to the emperor.

In order to protect my precious neck, I shouldn’t fall for that materialism.

‘Are you trying to buy a child who was only twelve years old with money-‘

“And if you give the prince a class practice, I’ll pay 200 million kerta a year.”

It was too much money to say…

Taking a quiet breath, I stepped forward in front of the Emperor.

Then I knelt down and said.

“Yes, Your Majesty. Do you want me to take classes five times a week, an hour?”

With a fresh capitalist smile on my face.

* * *

The annual salary negotiations, not tutoring fees, ended successfully.

In addition, the Emperor gladly accepted the request to provide good housing for the children of the Herseli Orphanage, who would not have a place to go right away.

The remaining children would now be adopted in a good place or left to a much more reliable childcare facility.

Both hand-holding and classes to activate the prince’s power release would begin next Monday at my request.

There was an opinion from the subordinate that it would be possible to hold hands from today, but I told him that it would be possible to see a greater effect when proper classes and hand-holding are combined together.

Eventually, the Emperor ruled in my favor.

‘It’s okay because the contract period was only until Cedric took over the throne. As soon as Cedric becomes emperor, he wouldn’t start a war.”

Then the first key was to hide the fact that I absorbed Caliberne.

“Hey…!”

At that time, I was startled by the voice I heard from behind my back.

Looking back, Cedric was looking at me with red and clear transparent eyes.

“Yo- Your Highness!”

Cedric’s eyes widened for a moment after hearing my voice.

In fact, his big eyes were wet and sparkled.

“I, I have something to say.”

Cedric turned his gaze sideways and held both his hands together.

He looked quite nervous as he rubbed his hands against each other anxiously and twisted his body.

“Ah.”

I took a step closer and stood in front of him.

‘Yes, we’ll be together quite a lot in the future, but it would be better to get close to each other little by little.’

However, teachers and students.

The Imperial family and the commoners.

To the extent that it does not cross that line.

So I smiled and asked in a sweet voice.

“What do you want to say, Your Majesty?”