I Became a Tyrant’s Maid - Chapter 49

“It’s not insubordination, but flattery, Your Highness.”

“Do you really have a death wish?”

The male lead, as if frustrated, grabbed both my shoulders and finally pulled me into his arms.

“Absolutely not,”

That’s when it happened.

A large shadow loomed over my head, and the male lead and I stupidly looked up at the sky.

The enormous mouth of the Leviathan was clearly visible.

The male lead immediately hugged me and rolled to the side.

“Kyaaak!”

The male lead quickly grasped his sword and took a stance.

I looked at my knee, which suddenly seemed to hurt.

It was bleeding.

Right. It’s a miracle that our limbs are intact after encountering a 2-meter ant and a sea dragon straight out of a movie.

“Your Highness!”

In an instant, the Leviathan’s tail approached us like a wave.

The male lead raised his sword to block the tail, and the Leviathan let out a pained cry, probably due to the wound from the sharp blade.

The male lead’s muscles bulged as if they might burst.

“Run! Damn it, go now!”

I felt like I would die if we continued like this.

Finally, I clutched the diary tightly to my chest and shouted.

“L-Let’s resolve this through dialogue!”

I didn’t know how to communicate with a Leviathan either.

But I could tell that my strategy had worked.

Because the Leviathan’s movements stopped for a moment.

The male lead looked at me with a strange expression, as if he couldn’t comprehend.

For now, we just needed to survive, so I grabbed his hand and pushed him behind me.

『What are you?』

I swallowed hard and looked at the Leviathan.

The large dragon’s head tilted and opened its mouth, and I shuddered at the strange sensation.

I could clearly communicate with the Leviathan.

But the method of transmission was strange.

What it emitted was neither sound nor language.

Should I say it’s like an image-based telepathy? Telepathy?

Anyway, that wasn’t important right now.

“I am the human who woke you up!”

The color drained from the male lead’s face.

It was the same for me. Because I was just blurting out whatever came to mind.

『Why did you wake me?』

Fortunately, a normal question came out.

At least it’s not saying it’ll kill us outright.

Come to think of it, isn’t this better than the male lead…?

I breathed a sigh of relief for now.

I had to think carefully. How could I give an answer that wouldn’t offend this creature?

『You foolish human. Do you think you can kill me-!』

Startled by the booming voice, I exclaimed in shock at the Leviathan’s words.

“I-I have no intention of killing you!”

『…Is that so?』

And then silence fell.

It had been ready to kill us with its iron-like tail while half out of the water, but now it curled its tail back and slipped into the lake.

『Right? If you wanted to kill me, why would you wake me up? You could have just sneaked into my lair and stolen the treasures.』

The Leviathan, with just its head peeking out, opened and closed its large mouth.

“That’s right, that’s right, I have no intention of killing you! Hahaha!”

As I agreed with its words, its snake-like golden pupils contracted sharply, and the Leviathan’s head suddenly came closer to me.

The male lead urgently tried to push me behind him, but I held my ground.

Because I didn’t know what the male lead’s main character’s energy might do.

『Hmm….. Then did Bibi send you?』

Bibi? At the Leviathan’s puzzling words, I bit my lip and looked at the male lead.

The male lead frowned fiercely and mouthed the words.

‘What nonsense?’

Not helpful, not at all.

『But Bibi is in my lair?』

The Leviathan mumbled as if grumbling. Soon, as if pondering something, it rolled its cold eyes around and then stared at us again.

『Ah! That’s right. Since Bibi can’t come here, she sent you?』

I didn’t know who Bibi was, but I nodded vigorously anyway.

Confused by my reaction, the male lead nudged my elbow. I deliberately ignored him and stared at the Leviathan.

『Then bring my Bibi here immediately.』

The Leviathan growled at us.

It felt like my brain was overloading.

Honestly, I couldn’t understand a word of what it was saying right now.

“Th-There are too many monsters on the way, it’s impossible to reach your lair!”

Anyway, this is what that strange Leviathan was saying.

It said there was something or someone called ‘Bibi’ in its lair here.

That ‘Bibi’ seemed unable to come to the lake where it was for some reason.

Moreover, judging by its reaction, it seemed that some monster hunters had already come looking to steal the Leviathan’s treasures.

『Humans are indeed weak.』

Suddenly, the Leviathan’s head disappeared into the lake with a gurgling sound.

I collapsed on the spot, my legs giving out, and the male lead caught me with both hands.

“What just happened?”

“I’m not sure either, Your Highness.”

I wanted to cry.

To think that the dragon the diary warned about was this one.

I started to seriously consider it.

At this rate, sticking with the male lead wouldn’t save my life; I might end up dying young.

It might be better to be caught by the Duke and quickly dealt with by an assassin.

Ah, maybe that’s going too far?

Anyway.

“It seems we’ve saved our lives for now, but……”

The male lead seemed to agree with my words as he kept his mouth shut.

『Human.』

“Oh my god!”

The terrifying head of the Leviathan suddenly pushed in behind me. I recoiled in horror, clutching my pounding heart.

『Take this.』

Because it spat out a strange blue jewel onto the male lead’s head with a ‘blech’ sound.

“Ugh, Your Highness……”

The male lead closed his eyes tightly and remained silent as if suppressing his anger.

The Leviathan’s saliva was sticking to the male lead’s clothes.

『With this, insignificant monsters won’t be able to approach you.』

“Th-Thank you!”

I stammered in confusion and tried to brush off the saliva on the male lead’s clothes, but it was too slippery to clean up.

『Bring Bibi.』

Its bulging eyes turned towards me.

It seemed like something terrible would happen if we didn’t bring Bibi.

“Of course……”

As soon as I answered, it let out a cry like an ultrasound and disappeared into the lake.

I covered my mouth with both hands and belatedly turned my eyes to the male lead.

“Are you alright, Your Highness?”

I refrained from saying more, feeling like I might meet my end from the male lead before the Leviathan if I spoke once more.

The male lead, seemingly feverish, took a few labored deep breaths before suddenly turning his head towards me, glaring as if he was about to kill me, and opened his mouth.

“Are you insane? Don’t you value your life? A private audience with a Leviathan?”

The male lead’s voice was low as if suppressing his anger.

Taken aback by the male lead’s sudden aggressive attitude, I kept my mouth shut tight and just opened my eyes wide.

“After all the trouble of stopping it, it seems I can’t use this.”

He roughly took off his clothes.

Surprised by the sudden removal of his top, I quickly covered my eyes.

“If you’re going to peek through your fingers, why bother covering your eyes at all?”

“Your Highness, as the old saying goes-“

“Stop with the strange talk and just give me your pajamas, will you?”

The male lead’s expression twisted as if displeased.

“But Your Highness, it’s the clothes I wore…”

“Are you saying I should keep wearing these sticky clothes?”

“No, Your Highness.”

Faced with the male lead’s authoritative attitude, I immediately took out the pajamas I had worn yesterday.

Oh man, I was saving those.

The male lead changed into the clothes regardless of whether I was lamenting the parting with my pajamas or not.

Indeed, since Aaron and the male lead had similar builds, the size fit quite well.

“It’s a crystal formed by intentionally extracting and solidifying magic that had been in the body for hundreds of years.”

The male lead said as he picked up the fist-sized blue stone from among the saliva that had poured onto his head. The blue light was shimmering mysteriously.

“If it’s a crystal from a Leviathan-class monster, most monsters won’t be able to approach due to the overwhelming difference in mana texture.”

The male lead’s face turned serious.

He stared at the crystal in his hand for a long time.

Then, as if he couldn’t understand, he said,

“Even though a Leviathan’s intelligence is slightly lower than a human’s, it’s very rare for an intelligent monster to create a crystal. Because extracting mana from the body is dangerous.”

The male lead showed me the crystal as he continued speaking.

“The fact that it gave us a crystal of this size means it must have been making it for hundreds of years……”

The male lead’s gaze turned towards the lake.

“Why would a monster of the Leviathan’s caliber make something like this?”