1 CHAPTER 01
CHAPTER 01 – I'll Do It with This Person
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ARNE : 'Why did I say I was getting married?'
Arne stared at the man standing in front of him. Arne's wedding was talkative and masked. The marriage partner was the man right in front of me.
KASSIAN : "Long time no see."
Kassian's shameless and smirky smiley face wasn't a good match. In the meantime, Arne was a little worried as he was relieved of his anger because he was handsome. The memories I had forgotten came to mind. Arne suffered.
KASSIAN : "Let's meet again like this."
With Kassian's thick smile, Arne turned back. The beginning of this tough relationship began on that very day.
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Three months ago, the lights from the party hall of the Western Empire shook. Arne, who successfully infiltrated the party building without the guards guarding the Imperial Palace, finished climbing the second-floor terrace and leaned on the railing.
ARNE : 'Uh. It hurts… …'
A hangover was coming, perhaps because of the liquor that was drunk like crazy with the same Knights family last night. It hasn't been long since I drank all night. Normally, I wouldn't even care if a party was held in the Imperial Palace or not, but today was different.
CREATOR(?) : "If you miss the party today, don't leave it! I know you'll really die!"
The voice of the Creator, whose chatter spontaneously cools down, buzzed in my head. The only person who can give a murder notice to the strongest sword master of the Western Empire will be the only mother. Arne checked the time. It's been a long time since the party has already started. It was a little late… …
ARNE : "I'm here anyway, so it won't matter."
Arne meant that the party wasn't over. The drunk stomach was looking for a sea chief.
Arne : 'I have to take a snow stamp for attendance and go to the sea.'
Arne's body, who had thought so simple, paused. Something came to the hearing of the Sword Master. The voices of young girls chatting the terrace.
YOUNG GIRL [1] : "Are you not here again today?"
YOUNG GIRL [2] : "The duke's wife was looking for it, so she was very angry."
YOUNG GIRL [3] : "I guess he didn't come again after he said he was coming."
YOUNG GIRL [4] : "What can I do, Arne-sama, will you really be in trouble this time?
(it didn't really state how many young girls are, so just bear with me.)
Suddenly, Arne thought, pressing gently on the greasy temple. It is not a good judgment to meet an angry mother. Express train to hell. Arne decided.
ARNE : 'Let's meet only the emperor quickly and secretly as much as possible and bounce.'
Arne naturally jumped to the third-floor terrace with a wonderful plan to make only someone to prove the she was at this party and run away. The intention is to find the emperor's position in the corridor on the 3rd floor, where you can see the entire party scene. Arne, who landed on the third-floor terrace railing like a sleek cat, almost squeezed her feet.
ARNE : 'Who's there?'
Of course. There was someone else on the third-floor terrace that I thought no one would be because I didn't feel popular.
ARNE : 'I can't make such a simple mistake.'
While Arne was confused, the man who felt popular looked back. In a moment, the blue eyes and mine met. His eyes were sore blue(?). Arne snapped out of it after being mesmerized at his eyes that resembled the winter.
ARNE : 'It's not the time for this.'
As Arne's expression changed, the look of the masked man also changed. His eyes turned blue (?). The moment the man just reached out widely. Arne ran away. The man looked down at my hand, holding nothing.
KASSIAN : 'I missed it?'
Suddenly, I felt an unfamiliar company behind me, so I looked back, and this kind of situation happened.
DRIVER : "What are you doing here, Your Majesty?"
The driver who appeared on the terrace belatedly asked the man. The man laughed lazily and pointed out where Arne had escaped. The boring times became a little fun.
KASSIAN : "I saw a very cute thieving cat."
The blue eyes became a little darker… …Arne, who successfully escaped without being caught, settled on another terrace. Arne, who thoroughly confirmed that there were no people this time, sighed of relief. Even though I escaped, the blue eyes that were not covered by the black mask remained strong in my mind.
ARNE : "Who was that person?"
It was the kind of eyes I saw for the first time. If there was someone, I knew had that kind of gaze, I'd bowed down to them.
ARNE : 'Oh, it's heartbreaking… …'
Arne shook her head, regretting that she had fallen for a while. Not at this time, but I have to find the emperor.
ARNE : "Today's party is a masquerade."
Somehow that man was wearing a black mask. Arne, who exited the hallway, secretly picked up a masked of a nobleman resting in the room and put it on her face with a peculiar movement. Now all I have to do is find the emperor. Arne's gaze was busy trying to find Ciklion IV, the supreme emperor of the Western Empire and her boss.
ARNE : 'There he is.'
Fortunately, the emperor was not that far away. He wasn't difficult to find because he was the supreme emperor, so there were limited places to be there. Arne, who was greeted quickly, stamped attendance, made witness, and tried to run away, hurriedly stopped her step downstairs.
ARNE'S MOTHER: "Oh, it's been a while. Millian. Have you seen our daughter?"
Arne quickly turned back at the voice of her familiar mother who would notice even when she was sleeping. Arne's mother, the Duchess of Brillhit, went around the party and asked where Arne was.
ARNE'S MOTHER: "Ho-ho, have you ever seen our Arne? She said she would die if she couldn't come today, but still…"
SOMEBODY(?) : "Oh, Duchess. Arne came to the party, but if you go, isn't it that you can't find her because it's a ball?"
ARNE'S MOTHER: "Oh, what kind of sad sound. If the party goes tonight, she doesn't even know it's a ball? Ho ho ho."
A delicate yet strong voice that can be heard clearly. At the voice of her mother, Arne went straight back up to the hallway on the third-floor
ARNE : "Ruined."
Arne strongly foreshadowed the promised way of destruction. I heard it as if passing by for a moment, but the anger contained in my mother's voice seemed like an active volcano on the verge of exploding. It wasn't a good idea to go straight to the emperor like this. It seemed that the operation had to be changed.
ARNE : 'To hide somewhere and say hello to the time when the emperor leave…'
The insides that couldn't be hacked were still painful, but it was more urgent to avoid her mother's anger. Even the Sword Master can't hold up with her mother's annoyance. It is not my place to fight with someone who I cannot win against. The moment Arne made up her mind, her mother's voice heard from the second-floor came closer. Suddenly, my mother was coming up towards the third-floor with the other ladies.
ARNE : 'What is with this situation!'
As her mother's voice got closer, Arne moved in a haste to hide.
ARNE'S MOTHER: "So, what the hell is she thinking… …what?"
I was hiding, but it seemed like she saw me. I didn't feel good.
ARNE : 'Please just go by. Just go by.'
SOMEBODY(?) : "What are you doing, Ma'am?"
ARNE'S MOTHER: "Did I see wrong? Hmm. Wait I think I have to go over there…"
Arne bit her lips at the words of her mother. Ruined.
ARNE : 'If it's like this, I'll be caught.'
Rapid footsteps, Arne went into another hallway. Soon, a corridor with private lounges arranged for the nobles who are tired of long parties to rest unfolded. She hid at the corner of the corridor, hiding herself invisible as much as possible, but she couldn't be relieved at all. Even though her mother didn't have the senses of the Sword Master, there was something called the 'Duchess' Perception', which she had been cultivating for a long time. The sound of her mother's footsteps coming into the hallway, without difficulty, got closer and closer. One footstep, two footsteps. The moment when I was nervous at the sound of her footstep getting closer, even her breathing was killing.
KASSIAN : "Shh."
A black cloak was struck before her eye. It wasn't until her vision was obscured that Arne felt a great presence behind her. Arne raised her head and saw blue eyes in her gaze. The only arrogant blue eyes revealed in the black mask, looking at Arne, gently bent.
KASSIAN : "My thieving cat was here."
Arne was amazed at the way he had found her.
ARNE : "How… …?
Many questions were implied in the short while. How did you come here, how did you find me, how did you find out… …Even now, aren't you wearing a mask? However, the man pointed ahead rather than answering Arne's question, and Arne reflexively shut her mouth. The situation wasn't over yet. The sound of footsteps stopped.
ARNE'S MOTHER: "Would you like to be here!"
The duchess, who was ambitious to walk the hallway, was surprised to see a stranger, not Arne.
ARNE'S MOTHER: "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know there were people in a place like this."
KASSIAN : "It's okay, Ma'am."
The man replied with a charming smile to the Duchess, who skillfully apologized. The duchess' gaze turned over to the man's cloak.
ARNE'S MOTHER: "Is there any chance..."
KASSIAN : "Because my partner is shy."
ARNE'S MOTHER: "Aha."
The duchess nodded and stepped back, as if to understand.
ARNE'S MOTHER: "Ho Ho. Have a good time~."
Arne's expression became mysterious at the words of the Duchess, who didn't even dream that the one hidden behind the cloak was her daughter. I'm glad, but I don't feel happy. By the way, what the hell is this guy thinking?
ARNE : 'Partner? Shy?'
It was ridiculous to hear what I first heard in my life, but I was more concerned about other things than that.
ARNE : "Why did you help me in the first place?"
KASSIAN : "Did you find what you want?"
ARNE : "What I want… …?"
KASSIAN : "Because you're like an uninvited guest."
Arne crumpled her face at the man's words. She wasn't in the right entrance, but neither was she an uninvited guest. Surely, she is a member of the Royal family and one of the best sword masters in the Western Empire. Arne just hated that the party was noisy because of herself(?).
ARNE : 'But it's cumbersome to explain one by one.'
ARNE : "Why don't you just leave it alone even though you know I'm an uninvited guest?"
KASSIAN : "It's interesting."
Blue eyes flashed dazzlingly. Something unknown in his dark mask seemed to hold Arne in motion. Now I know for sure.
ARNE : 'This is the first man, I see.'
Someone I've never seen before. Arne suddenly became curious about the man's identity.
ARNE : "You, what are you?"
KASSIAN : "First of all, let's say that I'm interested in a thieving cat."
ARNE : "A the thieving cat… …"
Arne's face was wrinkled nicely. From earlier on, it was what cat taryeong(?) was, but it seemed to be talking to himself.
ARNE : 'Is it so called because of the railing?"
The smile on the man's mouth grew thicker at Arne's openly unpleasant appearance. I thought it was just a boring time to remind myself of a boring time… …It was much more interesting than he expected. While the man observed Arne, Arne was struggling to find out the man's identity.
ARNE : 'Is he a foreign aristocrat?'
The gestures on his body were absolutely aristocratic, but he did not hide his arrogance. Usually, these relaxed, arrogant gestures belong to those who are since birth. In addition, he spoke a natural calligraphy language, but the accents of some of the pronunciations were strangely different.
ARNE : 'I didn't hear anyone from abroad. Who is it?'
As they were searching each other silently, their eyes suddenly intertwined in the air. The blue eyes that seemed to contain the cold winter, darkened. Looking at his eyes as if looking into the dark deep sea, Arne suddenly felt that she couldn't escape. When Arne stepped back, the man strunged up. An unfamiliar feeling came in. Arne tried to turn away from his gaze from his clearly felt presence, but she couldn't avoid it. Little by little, a man came up, who seemed to not allow him to run away. My breath stopped and I felt him approaching. The moment when their surroundings is erased from their senses and there are only the two of them left.
ARNE : "Wow… …"
Arne's upper body was shaken due to the hangover.
ARNE : 'Ah, I think I'm going to vomit.'
I barely topped vomiting, but I was still feeling sick.
ARNE : 'I can't. Let's live first.'
I had to get out of here as soon as possible. Arne moved quickly. First of all, the least courtesy of the person who helped.
ANRE : "First… …Thanks for your help. Ooup, I'll repay your favor when you come to see me later. Take this. It's my badge(?)." (in the original translation its 20 000, but they keep referring to as "badge" afterwards so I'll just...)
Arne, who roughly took off the badge on her clothes, quickly left the spot. The man made a strange expression as he saw Arne's body staggering from a hangover. So, Arne disappeared, and the man quietly looked down at the badge in his hand.
ALAN : "Kassian."
A man who came to Kassian belatedly appeared. I was surprised that no one was supposed to be on the terrace, but I think I will be in such a place. Alan came to see the black mask and was surprised to see Kassian fiddling with a badge he never seen before.
ALAN : "What is that?"
KASSIAN : "Well… …?"
A light smile grazed on Kassian's mouth.
KASSIAN : "It's like a cat's reward."
ALAN : "Reward… …?"
Alan, who did not understand, tilted his head. However, Kassian laughed alone as if had no intention of explaining more. Alan made a stupid look with an extraordinarily bright smile. It was my first time seeing such a Kassian.
ALAN : 'What in the world did you feel so good about?'
When Alan was in shock, Kassian smiled and looked back at him.
KASSIAN : "So, what's going on?"
ALAN : "Oh, that is the Western Emperor called."
The words of the Emperor of the Western Empire were strangely regrettable in Kassian's Eyes. I felt like I wanted to follow the thieving cat who ran away with only one badge, but it was time for him to do what he had to do. Cassian, holding the badge, nodded.
KASSIAN : "I'll go."
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The Western Empire was rich and wealthy in everything compared to the Northern Empire from which Kassian came. There was a conflict in all the border areas that bordered (/protects…I guess) the Western Empire, but the capital was peaceful, as if it nothing mattered at all. Watching the nobles who squeezed the high blood of the Imperial people and enjoyed luxurious daily life, Kassian was ridiculed. Despite these incompetent humans, the West Empire was still strong. It is only one existence that all these miracles are possible.
KASSIAN : 'The Sword Master who protects the Empire."
A Sword Master who is said to have far surpassed humanity. However, there are only a hundred humans who have reached the level of Sword Masters in history. Most of them are from the Western Empire
KASSIAN : 'The sinister red-eyed slayer. The Executioner of Lewell's test.'
Sword Masters from Lewell Gorge always appeared appropriately and saved the Western Empire from destruction. Even in this generation, thanks to the Sword Master, the Western Empire was able to win the war against the Eastern Kingdoms Union and became the victors of history.
KASSIAN : 'Good luck.'
It was interesting to know that there is only one country that will not be strange even if it perishes. While coming to the Western Empire of Lee Wang, Kassian, who wanted to meet such a great Sword Master in person, did not have such luck, unfortunately.
CIKLION IV : "Haha. Sword Master? That guy doesn't even speak out even when Jim calls."
Ciklion IV, Emperor of the Western Empire, laughed loudly when he said that. It was interesting that the Emperor, who casually said the enormous words that Hwangmyeong(?) is easily violated, was interest. Even though it was a big deal, equal to the great crime, the Emperor couldn't help but click his tongue, I could see how great the dignity of the Sword Master was,
CIKLION IV : "How would I not what to show off, It's an Imperial Treasure (referring to the Sword Master). But that guy… …Anyway, yes."
Ciklion IV shook his head.
CIKLION IV : 'Because of Duchess Brillhit will fry (I think he's saying that she'll complain,), saying, 'If rumors go around, my daughter's marriage will be blocked.'
So, people who knows Arne are known to be the Sword Master, but externally, the Sword Master is known to be a male. Since no one believed that such a strong Sword Master wasn't' a man, it was useless to correct it. Kassian, who wanted to see it once and take him to the Northern Empire, nodded with concealed regret. The Emperor's place was a large balcony on the second floor with the throne. Since the hall was well overlooked, Kassian looked down unintentionally and smiled.
KASSIAN : 'You got caught in the end.'
From a distance, it was easy to see a thieving cat that was caught by the Duchess, who was trying to avoid her, covering her ears and suffering. With one ear, she heard the Duchess' nagging, and looked at the thieving cat shed(?) with the other, with an expression of just wanting to leave.
KASSIAN : 'I thought it would have run away well, but it's surprising to get caught right away.'
CIKLION IV : "So, about the National Marriage… …Hmmm, Grand Duke?"
At the voice of the Emperor calling for him, Kassian saw the Emperor belatedly. Ciklion IV was surprised, but didn't show (that he was surprised.). It was polite, but the attitude that was thorough without a chance for a single wind to enter became a little loose.
CIKLION IV : "You look exceptionally happy today." (The original translation was "good", but I want to change it as "happy" since he is referring to his mood.
KASSIAN : "I saw a cute cat."
CIKLION IV : "Cat…? …Yes, cats are cute."
Ciklion IV nodded, thinking how cute a cat made him laugh. Now, it was time to get to the point.
CIKLION IV : "So, did you find someone you became fond with?"
The eyes of the two changed. The party that took place these days. Everyone seemingly knew that it was a party specially by the Emperor, but the reality was different. Until know, all parties have been looking for a marriage partner for Kassian. A national marriage that promotes harmony between the Western and Northern Empires for a long time. Ciklion IV, who really wanted to achieve this national marriage, was nervous and waited for Kassian's response.
CIKLION IV : "Any lady is fine, so let's say is comfortably."
KASSIAN : "I don't know."
Kassian smiled with a profound smile as he presented an ambiguous answer. It wasn't just Ciklion IV that wanted to achieve this National Marriage. Kassian must also have this marriage.
KASSIAN : 'If the conditions are right, it doesn't matter whoever… …'
If this is the case, an interesting person would be good. Unfortunately, there was only one person, an interesting, person. Kassian's gaze turned Bae Bae(?) in his hand.
ANRE : "First… …Thanks for your help. Ooup, if you come to me later, I will repay you favor."
KASSIAN : 'You will repay the grace... ...'
A nasty smile caught on Cassian's mouth. Widely. Kassian puts down the badge. The sun where two swords intersect.
KASSIAN : "I'll do it with this one."
CIKLION IV : "… …?"
The expression of Ciklion IV, who immediately noticed whose badge it was, hardened.
CIKLION IV : 'This… …Arne's?'
Ciklion IV's eyes widened in surprise.
CIKLION IV : 'Did I hear it wrong? Are you sane?'
His unbelievable gaze turned to Kassian.
KASSIAN : "I will do it with this person."
Faced with a confused gaze, Kassian nailed it. An extraordinarily bright smile caught his mouth.
[SINCE I CANNOT POST THE ILLUSTARTION THAT PIG CAKE(THE ARTIST) MADE, HERE IS A LINK:] (LEADS TO THE ILLUSTRATION...)
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SORRY FOR THE BAD TRANSLATION, SOME OF THE WORDS CAN'T BE TRANSLATED BY G.TRANSLATE, AND I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THEY MEANT.
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ASSOCIATED NAMES : 칼끝에 입술
TYPE : Web Novel (KR)
GENRE : Adventure; Comedy; Drama; Fantasy; Josei; Romance; Shoujo
TAGS : Aristocracy; Arranged Marriage; Beautiful Female Lead; Comedic Undertone; Devoted Love Interests; Doting Love Interests; Enemies Become Lovers; European Ambience; Female Protagonist; Handsome Male Lead; Kind Love Interests; Knights; Male Yandere; Misunderstandings; Power Couple; Sword And Magic; Sword Wielder; Tomboyish Female Lead
LANGUAGE : Korean (translated to English)
AUTHOR(S) : 윤슬
ARTIST(S) : Pig Cake; 돼지케이크
ORIGINAL PUBLISHER : Naver
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