Predatory Marriage (Web Novel)

Chapter 319 – Isha (19)

Translator: Atlas / Editor: Regan

Though the divided Kurkan tribes were united under their new King after their long civil war finally ended, there was no perfect peace.

Ishakan decided they needed an external enemy to unify them, and Estia was the obvious target. For the warlike Kurkans, there was no better subject, and his people willingly turned their attention to conquest of that country.

His first order was to collect information. He did not intend any unnecessary bloodshed. To protect the common people of Estia, he meant to destroy the country from the ground up. He would ally with certain Estian nobles, and alter the system of rule by the royal family.

After sending a small team of Kurkans ahead of him, Ishakan went to Estia personally. It was as he expected. The royal family of Estia had not even realized how deeply his people were infiltrating the country.

Estia was a sinking ship. Even if the Kurkans did nothing, the royal family was likely to collapse on its own. And all he wanted was to get the Princess out of there.

But as he began to slip into the palace to observe her himself, it was impossible not to notice that the Princess had changed a great deal from the girl he remembered.

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Had she always been so…subdued?

He remembered an expressive girl, filled with passion, her purple eyes alive with fire. All of that was gone. When she spoke, there was no vivacity in her voice, no expression in her face, and never more than the suggestion of a smile.

Her eyes had lost their sparkle.

It had only been a few years, and the girl he remembered was…gone. Ishakan disliked seeing how much someone so splendid had faded.

One day, Haban came to offer still more disturbing information.

“The princess is looking for a pr0stitute…” He told Ishakan hesitantly.

Ishakan couldnt believe his ears.

“A male pr0stitute?” He asked ferociously.

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“Yes…I think it is for herself…”