The Tyrant Wants To Live Honestly

“The Job that I have confidence in? Carrying stuff! Especially the water bottle!”

Joy was confident that she could move the marble table over there by herself to the first floor.

So far, Joy made a lot of money from that kind of work, mainly fetching and carrying water.
Thanks to the skills she developed while doing the job she was able to carry the sack of potatoes all the way here.

“There was even a time when I made 1 blanc a day by carrying water!”

Joey spoke like a daily worker to appeal to her employer for her abilities.

Joy is proud of her earnings because she works all day long.
So, That’s why joy came all the way here for 10 blanc.

“I’ll have to think about what I’m going to make you do.”

The worlds of Joy and me were very different, so it seemed that a little more thought was needed.

“For now, you will be staying here.
You have to come out whenever I call.”

“Then what about my brother?”

“Your brother doesn’t go to the mines.
Don’t worry, he will be fine at home.”

Now that we’re done talking with Duncan, neither Joy nor her brother are going to the mines.

But Joy made a worried expression and opened her mouth again.

“Can’t I just come and go from home? Instead, if the princess sleeps, I go home, and I will come back before the princess wakes up!”

“What?”

“I keep my word.
I will not be late or run away!”

Joey said with her characteristic, grumpy eyes.

But I frowned.

“You mean going back and forth from there, which is two hours one way to here?”

“Yes, I can.”

Joy answered without even thinking about it, and I bit my lip.

‘Oh my God, it seems like you don’t have any fear of hurting your body.’

“What does your mother do?”

“My mother has been out of the house for a long time.”

Alongside her father, a gambler, her mother disappeared like smoke one day.

She disappeared without saying a word, but Joy accepted that her mother had run away after three days of waiting for her mother.

The process of convincing her younger brother was long, but her younger brother is quite used to it now.

‘I don’t have a mother and my father is a gambler.’

“Then bring your brother along.
Your room will be large enough.”

Then, Joy’s mouth opened wide in a half-moon shape as if it was about to tear.

“Damn it! Can my brother come here and stay? In a rich house like this?”

“I told you not to curse.”

“Ah…”

Joy patted her lips.

“Anyway, thank you, Princess!”

No matter how much Joy thought about that, it was tens of thousands of times better than living in that damn house with her father.

‘First of all, there are no mice that bite our toes, right?’

There won’t be a drunken scary man, and Joy won’t have to worry about her house flooding when it rains!

‘I was worried about how to spend the winter again, but it turned out well.’

“But not your father.
never.
Only your younger brother.”

I added to the excited Joy.

If you bring in a man called Father, I might cut off his neck.
I decided to live a good life, So in the beginning, it was impossible to commit murder.

At my warning, Joy shook her head as if it was about to break, but couldn’t control her mouth that had a wide smile.

“The Princess is a good person.
Really.
I think meeting the princess is the luckiest thing in the world.”

“….”

I paused, but Joy looked at me with a wide smile.

“It remains to be seen whether this will be bad or lucky.”

“It’s luck! It’s luck even for worms!”

Joy expresses her happiness by punching the ceiling.

“Thank you for taking me, Princess!”

‘Stupid.
She is happy to be a slave.’

I also burst into laughter at that stupid look.

“Then I’ll go pick up my brother!”

Joy jumped up from her seat and tried to leave the room.

“Wait!”

At my words, Joy stood tall like a soldier listening to orders.

“I’d rather go with you.”

“What? With the princess?”

Joy and Clara were surprised at the same time.

“It’s because of your father, I don’t think he’ll let you go.”

“I can sneak out! Because he wouldn’t be interested in us anyway.
He would have gone to gamble again.
Besides, it’s not a place that the princess would come to.”

Joy waved her hand hard.

It sounds like a big deal to a princess to come into a black Village!

“There are a lot of scary men out there, so I don’t know if they will catch the princess.
Your pocket will be robbed.”

Joy knew very well what would happen if rich people came to the Black Village.
The people of the Black Village didn’t let go of them if they had some money.
For pickpockets, for robbers with knives, for beggars who grab hold of their pants and don’t let go until they get money.

“It’s okay.
Because Stefan is going too.”

I turned to Stefan.
Stefan nodded quietly.

* * *

“You still look like a princess!”

Joey saw me as we rode the carriage and said that.

I purposely tied my hair up and wore old clothes.

“The princess has eyes, nose, and mouth all like a princess.”

A white and beautiful face that has a good growth look.

“And that knight is so big that he stands out.”

Joy pointed to Stefan on horseback following the carriage.

Stefan was also wearing old clothes, but he couldn’t hide his unusual atmosphere.

Tall enough to pierce through the ceilings of houses in the Black Village and incredibly strong muscles!

“That’s how reliable he is.”

“Shit.
I don’t know.
Even if the princess is in trouble.”

Joy sighed in despair.
At the same time, she thought it was a relief inside.

‘Even if I meet my father, if the princess and that bear-like knight are there, it will be fine.’

If Joy brings Po by herself and meets the man, it won’t come out well.
Her father has been in a bad mood the whole time since he got a bad debt reminder from Count Duncan yesterday.

Dorothea is a princess, so Joy thought Dorothea would take care of it, so Joy stopped grumbling and looked outside the carriage.

* * *

The second carriage ride after Joy’s last ride was still wandering.

Joy felt like she was a rich lady.

“looked there, Princess.”

Joy, who enjoyed the feeling of riding in a carriage, opened her mouth again.

“why?”

“Have you ever eaten apple pie?”

I raised my eyebrows at the pointless question.

If it’s Joy, we’ll talk about potatoes.
Why all of a sudden is she talking about that?

“Apple pie is not baked with apples glued to a lump of flour, but rather a piece of bread with butter, layer by layer, and sparkling with butter and sugar on the outside.”

Joy diligently explained the apple pie, even pretending to stack it with her hands.

Seeing Joy pouring out her passion to explain the word ‘apple pie’, I wondered if there was a mysterious apple pie I didn’t know about.

“I’ve tried any apple pie I know.”

“As expected, I thought the princess would have eaten it.
You like apple pie, right?”

“Yes… But why?”

“I’m going to give it to you later.”

Joy chuckled.

“Apple pie? why?”

If it’s Joy, she will give me a potato.

“Because that’s the best food in the world.”

Joy laughed out loud.

Is Apple pie the best food in the world?

“Who said that?”

“I’ve tried it, and there was nothing more delicious than that.
That tastes better than meat, Since you’ve tried it, you admit it, right?”

Joy said that about two years ago, she accidentally got half of an apple pie from a noble and ate it, and she cried because it was so delicious.

There was nothing in the world that was so sweet and chewy, smooth and fragrant.

“My younger brother also said it was the most delicious in the world.”

The happiness Joy felt when she hid the Apple pie so that it wouldn’t be taken away by others and brought it home and gave it to her younger brother was indescribable.

Joy and her brother said that they barely ate an apple pie with her front teeth and kept it in a corner of the house, but the next day a mouse bit it and they cried.

“Was it that good?”

“Yes.
Even in my dreams sometimes That day, I searched through the small house all day, but couldn’t find an apple pie, but only caught three or four mice.”

“….”

“Anyway, I will also give you an apple pie when I repay your kindness later.
By then, I will be old enough to buy you an apple pie.”

* * *

The carriage dropped off me and Joey a little away from Black Village.
Stefan also got off his horse and followed closely behind me.

The Black Village was desolate from the entrance.

All the trees were dried out or cut down because they were being used as firewood, and there was filth all over the place.

There were bugs flying in the air and there was a stinky, unpleasant smell mixed with all kinds of smells.

The man coming out of the Black Village was tired and his shoulders were bent.

I tried not to frown.

It was a pity for Joy, and it was hard to believe that people lived in such a place.

“That’s why I told you not to come…”

Joy muttered.

“I think it was a good thing we came together.”

“You will change your mind once you enter the village.”

Joy’s steps became more and more cautious.

“Well, just in case, you can’t come forward here no matter what happens.”

This is not a village where elegant nobles like the princess live.

Joy added.

“Okay.”

I nodded my head.

Soon, the village could be seen over the desolate and dirty road.
Rather than calling it a village, it looked like piles of boards were gathered together.

In the Black Village, houses could not be built with bricks or clay.
Because if you put bricks, someone will take them off the next day.
When a house was built with dirt, the lump of dirt was also removed.

During a really difficult time, the wooden planks on the ceiling of the house were also removed.

All the roofs were lower than Stefan’s shoulder height.
Those who were a little taller could see their heads above the roofs, and chat over them.

Traces of the dirty water were left in the middle of the densely adjoining houses.

“What the fuck you bastard!”

I was startled by the swearing coming from the entrance.
On one side, there were people in shabby clothes.

I didn’t know what they were doing, but the atmosphere didn’t look very good.