Saving The Abandoned Empress

172 “Drunk Eleanora”

A week later~

“Cheers!!!”

“For our victory!!!”

After taking over the Scunthorpe Fort, the imperial army successfully influenced half of the Rua kingdom and moved their base camp.

Now now the west troops are in Demacia and the central troops moved in Scunthorpe with a larger base to go for an all out attack.

The capital of Rua is not that far from them now, so it would only be a matter of time for this war to end.

With the help of the medical team, most of the knights recovered and those who was greatly injured was sent back to the empire for advance treatment.

Where under the command of the crown princess and the emperor, the army successfully shifted Scunthorpe Fort comfortably.

To celebrate their previous victory, the emperor arranged a celebration party so that the knights won’t feel mentally exhausted.

.....

They bought alcohol and burnt meat after seasoning them, which made them feel relaxed like they was just camping.

The exhausted feel they had after this battle completely vanished because of the celebration.

“Your Majesty, The Rua’s want to exchange some of our knights, those who were caught as war prisoners during this battle.”

“Can it be a trap?”

“We don’t think so, they release our man and we release theirs... Maybe they are short of army!”

The officials laughed as they thought about that kind of possibility.

Even with 300 thousand soldiers, they ran away after seeing the emperor on the battlefield.

And even their king’s one eye got blinded by the emperor.

“Our man’s are our top priority, if they can be released then we don’t have any problem with that.”

The emperor spoke even if he had doubts about the Rua’s intention.

But he can’t let those knights stay there just because of his doubts.

Who knows what those people did to them?

“Brayden, send my words. We agree to exchange-”

Cathain paused on his words as he furrowed his brows.

‘What the hell is she doing now?!’

“You guys continue, Excuse me.”

He excused himself and walked towards a certain direction, which made the officials laugh again.

“No matter what, they are still young after all...”

They watched the emperor walkig towards the crown princess, who was giving everyone a toast in drunkness.

“You look handsome, so another toast for your handsomeness!!!!”

Eleanora giggled as she spoke and gave another toast to Sir Charles, who was an imperial knight.

Charles also gave her a toast as he didn’t dared to reject the crown princess and who also looked cute.

Unlike how serious and unapproachable she looks normally.

“Yaayyy!!!”

“Dame Dalton likes handsome guys for sure...”

Some other knights whispered as they also joined the fun with Eleanora and toasted each other.

At first they was surprised to see Eleanora drinking that much and didn’t knew what to do.

But as Eleanora started to toast them one by one, they also become comfortable and treated her normally.

“N-Next...”

Eleanora murmured as she blinked a few times to clear her blurry vision because of alcohol, to find whom she should give a toast next.

“Hey handsome... W-Where’s your glass?!”

“...”

“...”

The atmosphere turned cold and quite instantly as the knights gulped in fear, after seeing whom Eleanora was talking with.

‘The emperor... He is angry right?’

‘His face has become darker then the night sky...’

‘We won’t get scolded, right?’

The knights thought and they didn’t dared to make a sound, which bothered the drunk Eleanora.

“Why did you people got so quite?”

“...”

“...”

“And you- handsome man! Why are you looking at me so fiercely?

If you look at me like this- that red eyed beast will take out your eyes!”

“...”

“...”

This time, it become harder for the knights to keep quite and conceal their laughter.

‘Red eyed beast? She doesn’t mean the emperor right?!’

‘Dame Dalton is hilarious!!!’

‘Don’t laugh! Don’t laugh!’

Cathain closed his eyes and took a deep breath too calm himself down.

‘Control yourself, Cain...’

‘We are in public...’

‘But she is just too cute!!’

“Don’t drink anymore... You are drunk,”

“NO, AM NOT!”

Eleanora pouted as she spoke, after Cathain took away the wine glass from her hands.

Cathain’s face flushed red a little as he saw her pouting and clinging onto him to take the glass.

Which made him deliberately raise his hand higher so that she can’t reach the glass.

“Gimme my glass back!”

Eleanora spoke as she tiptoed an jumped a little to reach the glass, which made Cathain feel happy.

She has always been distant, nervous or fearful of him after he lost his memories.

He doesn’t know about how they was in private but after hearing everything from Brayden, he doesn’t think that they was this good like now;

Even before he lost his memories.

So, seeing her treating him normally without any fear and nervousness made Cathain feel happy.

‘How i wish you would treat me like this everyday,’

“I will give you a gift if you don’t drink anymore.”

Cathain spoke and Eleanora stopped jumping to reach the glass, as she was tempted by the surprise gift.

“What’s that? Gimme me!”

Eleanora spoke as her blue eyes brighten up for the mysterious gift.

“Not now, wait a little...”

Cathain spoke as he put down the glass and patted Eleamora’s head to comfort her.

Seeing them conversing together like this, the knights also started to feel comfortable around the emperor and the celebration returned to normal.

.....

But Eleanora sighed with unhappiness as she seated at a distance from the knights and kept eating.

“Why are you sighing? Want more meat?”

Cathain asked as he bought another three stick of chicken meat for Eleanora to eat, who was sitting like some abandoned kitten.

“You ruined the fun!”

“...”

Cathain was speechless because of her words and sat beside her as he passed the sticks to her.

“I was having fun with them...but they all are scared of me now since you appeared!”

“...How is it my fault? You want me to see you giving other guys toast and call them handsome?”

“...”

This time, Eleanora was the one to become speechless.

“You... What would you do if you see me going around giving pther ladies a toast and call them beautiful?”

Cathain asked as he hesitated a little and felt awkward after asking that, thinking she might just say that she don’t care.

“...Can i do anything beside seeing? Wouldn’t you think that am noisy and irritating... I don’t want to be hated more by you...”

Eleanora spoke as subconsciously, she thought about the past when she could just see him walking beside Jennifer.

At that time, he was everything to her.

The only light in her dark, lonely life.

He never liked her even before their marriage and their relationship worsen after their marriage.

Eleanora kept quite and endured as she was afraid of losing him, who had no friends or relatives to talk with.

Once she had everything one could dream off, a happy family full of parent’s love.

Then her mother died and father became distant, the love she was used to get vanished all of a sudden.

Which made her crave for love and affection.

When she failed to get that from her father, she found new hopes in the young crown prince.

And tried her best to hold onto that, till she realized how wrong and stupid she was to do that.

Which cost not only her own life but many other people’s.

Seeing her face dropping again, Cathain stared at her blankly as he didn’t knew what to say.

“...I will never think that. I would be happy if you get jealous or mad at me... I don’t hate you.”

Cathain spoke in a low voice as he was afraid to make her feel afraid of him again.

Eleanora’s lips curled up a little as she heard his words and looked at him with her blurred drunk vision.

“Do you love me then?”