On the other side, in the kingdom of Kot, the king had received a letter from the kingdom whose conflict he was having. A long and disastrous contest that had killed his naval army in less than a month.
The king had to admit it: the war had become excruciating. His wife told him to put an end to this war since there would be no winners and no losers.
"A letter for you, my king!" a man said in the corridors. The king rested comfortably on the throne flanked by his wife and waited for the doors to open, receiving the man he had been targeting all the time in the sights of the castle of Kot.
"Calm down, sir," the queen said to her, making a gesture with her hands to breathe for the first time in her entire mad rush. The letter was given to one of the king's advisors and asked to read it.
"My king, the kingdom of the Lapin Islands wants a truce," the councilor said, raising his voice as much as possible so the king could hear him. Her wife smiled at this letter, her eyes lighting up, hoping that her husband would accept it.
"Without even a gift in return? What mean people," the man said, getting angry. The wife kicked him in the leg making him move from his seat, "That hurt, Jennie" the king said touching his leg in pain. His wife looked at him from head to toe with hatred, "You deserve it, Liso. How dare you call mean, a people who find themselves asking for peace so as not to destroy poor victims?" the queen asked, making the king reason.
"But I would still need a gift to make peace" the man said rationally, silencing his wife who now understood the reason for her husband's disagreement. The kingdom of Kot was faithful to its rules and laws.
What could the king and queen possibly want for peace to end? "Father! Minji challenged Sir Choi!" a girl shouted, forcefully and anxiously opening the doors of the room. The queen stood up as if she had seen a dead man before her, "What has he done!?" she said in a monstrously loud and furious voice, making her voice resonate throughout the room.
The queen walked down the royal stairs approaching the girl, "Haerin, you had to keep her at bay" she said as she walked towards the corridors not wanting to hear her husband's screams anymore.
"Mother, I tried to stop her but..." the girl tried to explain but her voice became faint as the mother descended the last stairs encountering a crowd of knights surrounding her daughter and Sir Choi, one of the royal knights of the king's court.
He was a good knight, good with the sword and of perfect composure, as well as having absolute loyalty to the king and queen. The herd of knights broke into two parts making the queen enter the circle only glimpsed two seconds later that Sir Choi was on the ground with a wound in his arm while her daughter mocked the poor wounded man.
No one could challenge Minji in a duel because it was known that the young girl would win since she was born a prodigy at wielding a sword. After all, there was no one who didn't want to try to hit the heir to the throne, Prince Kim Minji.
Yes, the young girl was presented as a boy for the sake of the kingdom and her own future. Kim Minji at her birth had been raised by her father's gods and announced as a male making him hidden from the royal court and his advisors for the good of the castle.
He had tried in every way to give birth to a child after Minji's birth but he had a girl again. So she gave up that possibility, starting to raise Minji as a boy by training her with the best swordsmen and delivering her to the best humanistic and political studies so that she could be an excellence in all fields.
She was made like a boy in everyone's eyes and for this reason Minji was bold in front of everyone, since being a boy she could challenge anyone without being rejected.
Women could not challenge knights to a duel, it was against the royal code. Her long hair was camouflaged by a male ponytail that fell over her shoulders while her feminine clothes were simply replaced with tights and white shirts.
“Kim Minji, throw that sword on the ground right now!” the queen shouted, making the knights around her tremble. Minji looked at her with a challenging air almost as if she wanted to have a duel with her mother too, "If I throw away the sword, I will have lost the duel" said the girl holding the sword tightly to her hand.
The woman looked her up and down with a cocky smile on her lips "It's an order given by your queen" the woman said.
Kim Minji could only sigh and throw the sword onto the ground along with the other knights' swords. Kim Minji's pride was so immense that not even her mother could stop it, but the queen could and had the right.
She grabbed the girl's arm roughly, forcing her to go into the throne room to face her father, but Minji didn't seem ready to enter.
"No way!" the girl said, stopping with her feet on the ground, trying to be stronger than her mother's murderous gaze. Haerin stood behind them with his hands behind his back and his head bowed for having destroyed the promise he made with her mother, but amused to see her sister get into trouble.
"Come on, don't make me angry, your father wants to see you" the woman said through clenched teeth, making the doors of the room open and pushing the girl through the guards.
The mother returned to her place and called Haerin to her side since the girl had nothing to do with this whole situation. Kim Minji was placed on the huge red carpet in front of the two thrones in the hall.
Staring at the ground full of anger, she waited for her father to speak and chase her away as she always had but she didn't seem in the mood to talk today.
The king stared at her as one would keep an eye on a cat that might escape at any moment. She put her hand under her chin thinking about what to do with her daughter.
“How will you keep this kingdom going if you allow yourself to be distracted by these pointless and vicious duels?” her father asked with a sense of defeat in her words, rightly thinking that this behavior was due to her bad education transmitted by the other knights.
He should not have treated his daughter like a son but it was the duty of a king to make the right decision. “How are you going to get a wife with your childish attitude?” she asked again in a deeper and more serious voice than usual.
The king looked at her once more before glancing at the letter from the kingdom of the Lapin Isles. Only then did he ask one of the counselors to come near him, "Take the pen and inkwell" said the man, raising his finger to show his superiority in front of his daughter who was still bent over on the ground waiting for the latter to let her go and return. to his antics.
"I, king of the kingdom of Kot, grant the truce requested by the kingdom of the Lapin Islands, if I grant the hand of their most splendid daughter to my heir" he concluded by clapping his hands asking to remove his daughter from the red carpet.
Kim Minji stood up from the ground and pointed her towards the king, "Father, what are you going to claim without the lawful consent of your heir?" Kim Minji asked in protest.
The king looked at her with sour eyes, not even wanting to listen to her, "I am the king and I am your father. When I once again have command over your life, you will do what I tell you" the man replied in turn dismissing the girl, but the latter did not seem interested in leaving.
"You can't marry me off to a stranger, father! I am a joke to you?" the girl said but the man didn't respond, making her guards drag her out and order them to take the swords out of his hands so she wouldn't get into trouble with her.
She remained there in her room for a long time as the hatred for her father had always been perennial.
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The Royal Wedding
FanfictionA long time ago, the world Novus was divided into different kingdoms, forming aggressive and long-lasting disputes between them every year, resulting in perennial hatred between populations due to the desire for dominance over entire empires. One o...
