Stuck In The Middle Ages
15| Forest

That morning the emperor asked Austin to go to his family-in-law's residence considering they had never visited Hellen's parents at all.

Unfortunately Austin resists emphatically, the reason being that he still has jobs piling up.

      "Your job is gonna leave it to Alex so you just go!"

Austin growled, while Hellen smiled happily.

     "Enough dad! Father had forced me to marry this shameless girl and now forced me to go see her parents as well. I was against this marriage from the beginning. So don't expect me to be well prepared, even if you're my father, I won't obey!"

      "Austin!"

      "Emperor!"

The two shouted at each other, then the atmosphere became increasingly tense. The queen, Victoria, Alex and his wife.

      "What's this?" ask the empress who is trying to read the atmosphere.

      "Even if you threaten to stop me as a future emperor, I'm not afraid. I wouldn't have to step foot into this cunning woman's house and stop forcing my will. I'm not a little kid anymore to be organized, stop meddling in my affairs!"

Austin then left, completely fed up and in need of Natasha now, while Lilian seemed to smile with satisfaction at Hellen's annoyed face.

Victoria approached her father and said. "Stop interfering with their household problems, dad. I should have regretted marrying my sister to someone she didn't love."

The Empress just exhaled her tired breath.

      "Did such a father want to quickly abandon his responsibilities as emperor and put such a heavy burden on Austin? What was dad thinking? Dad is still not old, the body is also healthy. So why rush?"

The emperor seemed silent at the words of his youngest son.

     "Here you go, you were always selfish. I can't think about the feelings of my children. If I were Austin's sister, then I'd get as far away from here as I can."

Victoria finally left the place. The guts began to speak up.

       "For the coronation of a new emperor would be postponed until the next few years and stop meddling in Austin's affairs."

Lilian finally invited Alex to leave instead of having to listen to them fight.

Hellen panicked, especially after the conversation. If the coronation of the future emperor is delayed, it means he could have been divorced by Austin.

On the other hand, Austin is already in Beverly's palace. He is currently enjoying his time with Natasha.

      "If my coronation to be emperor was still a long time, I would have divorced him!" he said by looking at the face of ayu Natasha from below.

Austin's position is now resting his head on Natasha's thigh. Gadia gently stroked Austin's hair and smiled.

      "Did the emperor agree?"

He then grunted in annoyance.

      "Agree it or not, I'll do it. I don't care about any threats from my father, I'm sick of Natasha. I can't bear to have a bond as a husband and wife with him. I hate that!"

Natasha still maintained her smile. In his little heart, he shouted happily.

     "Do whatever you want Austin to do. That's your right, you have the right to refuse and accept."

      "It's not my fault I didn't do anything about Austin and the cunning woman getting divorced."

Natasha looked up smilingly at Austin.

The man looked so calm when he was near Natasha. The closeness of both was also felt by his grandparents.

At this time Natasha's grandmother and grandfather were looking at the two from the top window. They were sitting in the main park.

     "I think the prince is more comfortable near Natasha, especially if only our grandchildren were willing to talk to him" said the grandmother and replied to a nod from her husband.

      "I've heard from Azalea, that there is a commotion in the empire, so the prince came here!"

When Natasha was sharing her heart, Azalea came. This time the two were shocked together.

     "Queen, there's important information. It's also about the eastern border."

      "What's that?" tanyanya.

      "Many villagers heard strange noises from the forest there. Marquess Alpha has checked, but has not returned. Soon one of his soldiers will come to report the matter."

Natasha was surprised to hear that, and so was Austin. He immediately got up and confirmed his sitting position.

Come one of Alpha's soldiers.

     "Respect the queen. I came to give you information!"

      "I already know. Then are you still looking for the whereabouts of Alpha marquess?" ask Natasha to the soldier.

      "Some of our soldiers were looking for him, but they did not come out of the forest again. Let me hurry up here to tell the Queen."

      "Have you evacuated the people there yet?"

      "The queen. One of the residents also said that every night there must be a noise outside their home. Some of the children in the village also disappeared when the afternoon came!"

Hearing this, Natasha could no longer remain silent.

      "Azalea, tell the chief soldier that we will go to the eastern border and bring some of it. Austin, you go home. If I don't come back later, Azalea will report it to you."

Austin was indeed very worried, he was afraid that Natasha would not return as well. However, the girl also did not want to incriminate herself.

According to Natasha, Austin also had a flurry of his own in the empire.

     "I'm going to change my clothes. Azalea, you'll just wait outside the forest with the Alpha marquess."

      "Good queen."

After all the preparations were done, Natasha did not have time to explain it to her family.

     "Rose, please tell grandfather that I will go to the eastern border again. Maybe I won't be back soon, but you guys don't worry. Take care of Lucas, Grandma and grandfather for me!"

Not yet Rose spoke, Natasha had already left.

The soldiers had walked ahead according to Natasha's direction, because she would just fly using her wind magic.

Natasha's feelings are mixed up about this. He arrived faster and saw the village was already very quiet.

Natasha herself deliberately went down there to just look around. He went around, then heard the voice in question.

Near the border there is a forest. The forest is almost never touched by the naughty hands of humans so there could be wild animals or monsters that inhabit the place.

As she was about to leave, Natasha felt like something was watching her. When he turned around, he found silence.

      "Queen, are you going in? If yes, we can come!"

      "no need. You just wait there until the reinforcements come and explain the details to the squad leader. I'm leaving!"

Azalea, who was standing on one of the branches of the tree, observed Natasha who was entering the forest. He was asked by the girl to just watch.

Natasha could smell something pretty rotten. After a while, he felt that someone was following him.

Before actually going any further, he took out a sword and scratched a single branch. A few minutes later, the scratch closed on its own.

     "The forest is alive!" said it.

Natasha gently touched the tree and could feel that something was flowing in her hand.

      "I have to be quick before anything happens to anything else!"

Natasha quickened her pace, occasionally she would look back. The hunch said that there had indeed been people following him since he entered this forest.

When she heard the sound of a branch breaking, Natasha spontaneously looked back and found nothing, but she felt the energy.

Finally Natasha chose to use her wind magic alone, she immediately flew up and hid behind a tree branch to peek at who the perpetrator had been following her since.

Brilliant!

A man in shabby clothes looks for Natasha's whereabouts. He also looks confused by scratching his neck that does not itch.

Suddenly a sword pointed straight at him and plunged into the ground next to him. The man immediately donates and finds Natasha jumping from the top and directly facing each other.

Wanting to run, Natasha first pulled her shirt and threatened her.

     "If you run again, I'll burn this forest and burn you with black fire!"

Natasha turned on the black flame in her left hand until the man did not rebel anymore.

     "Who are you and why are you here?"

The man seemed reluctant to speak, he also seemed to avoid eye contact with Natasha.

     "You answer or ka-"

     "I don't know. I don't have a name, I've lived here a long time!" he said it surprised Natasha.

      "Huh, are you serious? This forest is almost never entered by humans, how can you survive here alone?"

      "Who said? There's a village in this forest, and now they're doing something to summon a big creature."

Natasha frowning.

      "Large creature you say? Where is the village?"

      "There's in the middle of this forest. Oh, some of the people who come here are also in brackets. Said the elder in the village, they will be made an offering to the creature!"

Sontak Natasha immediately released the grip of her hand on the man in front of her and took back her sword.

      "Dam. I can't waste any more time."

When he was leaving, his hand was in a cross.

      "What else? I have to save them!"

      "They'll be angry if a stranger like you enters the village."

      "I don't care. For now, my people should I protect!"

The man tilted his head.

      "Protect?" tanyakanya.

      "There's no time to explain. You wait here, I'll go alone!"

Natasha finally left by compressing the wind and riding it. A second later was seen a grin on the man's lips.

On the other hand, the Empire was being electrified by Austin who finally opened his voice regarding his wishes, especially after the empress told him that his coronation as emperor would be postponed for the next few years.

      "I'm going to divorce him, right now. If you still want to get in my way, then just marry her!"

The entire family was in the meeting room, shocked by Austin's remarks. Hellen can't seem to do anything, because he's a fool.

      "Given that at the moment father is still emperor for the next few years so I will divorce you. Immediately carry out the process, I want to quickly get away from this woman!"

News of the breakup between Austin and Hellen has been heard by the public, including the girl's own family.

They hurriedly came to the emperor's family and asked for an explanation. There was a look of disbelief at the Hellen family.

     "Emperor, how can you agree to the wishes of the prince? Then, what about my daughter's fate?"

Austin spoke up.

      "Listen, I don't want to coexist with a two-faced woman. Back when my face was still not what it is now, your daughter was the one who most excitedly insulted me, but after my face healed she was also the one who was more eager to marry me. Do you have no shame?"

After that incident, many nobles and some villagers came to witness that the two had officially separated.

Hellen clenched his hands as they were declared not husband and wife anymore.

      "I'm finally free of that goddamn demon!"

As it was late in the afternoon, Austin was looking at the sky from his bedroom window. She was curious now that Natasha was doing what, her feelings had also become uneasy.

As she watched Victoria, Austin saw someone talking to her. Before something finally hits the guy in front of Victoria, Austin is surprised instead of playing and looking for the culprit.

      "Natasha?"

Austin could see the look on Natasha's face. The girl flew towards Victoria and took her sister Austin away.

Austin came down to approach them. On the other hand, Victoria looked deathly pale with her heart beating twice as fast.

      "You okay?" natasha asked by starting to calm Victoria down.

      "So my body was moving not to my will and the p-man was suddenly in front of me."

Austin approached them and began to ask why the younger brother looked pale.

     "Take Victoria in and tell the emperor that one of his enemies has arrived!"

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