☆Isekai Husbands!☆

Chapter Twenty Seven: The Queen of Greed

Reese was missing his Family. Hyde promised Reese that he would send one letter each week, and the letter was supposed to arrive approximately four to five day after he sent it. In other words, it was supposed to arrive tomorrow.

"Too long!!" yelled Reese out of the blue.

His colleagues was surprised with the sudden shout and when they saw Reese's trademarked pout which was especially longer than his usual pout, they just looked the other way. If they asked him what's wrong, Reese would probably went on and on about his beloved Hyde or his new worry, his Jiwa, Hikaru. It wasn't like they didn't want to listen, but Reese had been repeating his words for more than five times since a few days ago.

"Stop whining and do your job, Reese!" scolded Faust.

Reese pursed his lips and exhaled a sharp breath. "Yes, Young Master..." he replied weakly.

Reese couldn't help it. He felt restless when he heard that there was movements from The Underworld King near where his Family resided. He knew that Hyde was capable of protecting Hikaru and his grandparents if something happened. Also, Noon could protect himself with no problem, even though he was weaker in physical strength.

Reese had already sent a letter to Hyde a few days ago, telling to be alert if something bad happened, so he hoped that the letter would arrive before anything ever happened. He couldn't shake of the bad feeling he got when he was going to leave them last week.

"Take this list and bring me all of the books that's on the list," ordered the 10-year-old young heir before shooing the redhead away.

Upon arriving at the Ethelwolf library, Reese directly went to the bookshelves to find what his Young Master needed. He swiftly picked a few books and put them on the table nearby. He double checked the list and noticed that he had only one book that he hadn't found. The title stood out from the rest because it was on a different category than the other book.

[The Legend of The Greedy Queen].

Or some called it [The Queen of Greed].

"I thought Young Master only read boring books, and not fictions," uttered Reese, confused.

[The Legend of The Greedy Queen] was a story about one of The Ancient Ruler, whom people called The Greedy Queen. It had a lighter and simpler version that was adapted into children's storybook and was well-known to almost everyone in the whole world.

The story took place in the ancient times where there were five rulers who were responsible in ruling the world. It was said that long ago, the world was smaller and had only one continent. There were five rulers who had different values. If the five worked together, they would complete each other, thus making the world reach its balance and peace.

Unfortunately, among them, there was a queen who was infested with greed. He wanted to be the sole ruler of the world. He betrayed his fellow Kings and Queen, and killed them all except for one king, The Kind-hearted King.

The Kind-hearted King tried to stop The Greedy Queen, but the queen refused to listen. So, The Kind-hearted King prayed and prayed for help until his last breath. A witch appeared and cursed The Greedy Queen and the world was saved.

Hyde used to read this story to Reese back when they were a child. It was when Reese turned into a bratty and selfish kid who refused to listen to anyone. Hyde and Noon started to use the witch in the story to scare Reese. However, the one thing that bugged Reese even since that day was, what was the curse that the witch gave The Greedy Queen?

Until this day, he never found that out.

And... until this day, Noon had never found out where Reese had hid that particular storybook after the younger boy was so terrified of the witch's drawing in the book.