Game of Thrones: The Wrath of the Sleeping Dragon

The Iron Islands are occupied by her uncle Euron Greyjoy, who is worried about not having eliminated his two brothers' heirs. As a result, Asha can no longer go home and can only idly stay in King's Landing, helping to train the navy when she has nothing to do.

The Kraken's daughter is an expert in naval warfare. She was once the captain of the Blackwind and commanded large fleets in battle. She is experienced, quick-witted, and has no other ties among the Seven Kingdoms except for her brother Theon.

Therefore, when Viserys proposed Asha as a candidate, the senior ministers of the Council present looked at each other in bewilderment and had no other opinions.

...

And in the gardens of the Red Castle.

Missandei was playing with her two older brothers, while their cousin Miraz sat upright in the reception room, waiting for His Majesty the King to have a chance to see them.

A boy with blond hair, fair skin, and green eyes also came to the garden. He was Joffrey, who had been stripped of his surname and title of prince and reduced to a bastard.

Although Joffrey has been stripped of everything, he has not yet been given the opportunity to leave the Red Keep. He is too young and is still under house arrest in the Red Keep to prevent him from being used by people with ulterior motives.

Joffrey's mother, former Queen Cersei, now works as a handmaid in the laundry room at the Red Keep.

The mother, her two children, and their mother still lived in the Virgin Residence, having drawn a small circle as their activity area.

He could not leave this garden at all, so this small garden in the corner of the corridor was Joffrey's most frequented place and his only spiritual sustenance.

Because of the Virgin's Abode's special location, no one usually passes by. So when Joffrey comes here alone, he still imagines himself as a prince. He commands the plants and trees, imagining himself directing them to catch the old black cat that once scratched his face.

Today, however, several uninvited guests have appeared in Joffrey's secret little garden; at least in Joffrey's eyes, they are intruders on his territory.

Because they were all children like him, and the two boys in the lead looked only a few years younger than him.

But Joffrey was much taller and stronger than them. The three Nash Island children looked malnourished; they weren't exactly skin and bones, but they were close enough to be, dark-skinned and thin, like three little monkeys.

"Are they...foreigners?"

Joffrey, with his rear end sticking out, hid in the shadows and observed three dark-skinned children from Nash Island playing. Because of the heavy blows he had suffered one after another, Joffrey's personality, which had once been so arrogant and cruel, was now as self-conscious as it had become.

His father was dethroned, and he was reduced from a prince to a bastard, a son born of his mother's affair with his uncle...

These heavy blows twisted Joffrey's mind, making him extremely insecure. That's why he often hid in this deserted little garden to play by himself. If he saw someone passing by, he would quickly hide, just like he does now, for fear of being seen.

Because those mocking, ridiculing, and even pitying looks pierced his soul like knives, he was afraid of being looked at like that, and thus became extremely self-conscious.

However, Joffrey, who was also hiding in the shadows, saw several younger, dark-skinned, thin and weak foreigners encroaching on his territory and tending to the flowers and plants that rightfully belonged to him.

That was his 'General Ye's Dagger'...

stop!

asshole!

The blond boy couldn't help but roar inwardly, his handsome face contorting as he clenched his fists.

"Damn barbarians!"

Although he dared not provoke others, could he not afford to offend a few barbarians?

The pent-up frustration and anger that had been building up inside Joffrey over the past few years suddenly erupted in an instant, without any hindrance.

Perhaps everyone has moments of anger and rage, but Joffrey is slightly different from the average person.

He has difficulty controlling his emotions, almost to the point of being pathological. He becomes agitated at the slightest provocation and tends to be violent towards the weak, while showing extreme weakness towards the strong.

This is an extremely abnormal state, either insanely cruel or insanely weak.

However, once his anger was ignited, no one could stop him.

"Stop! You piece of shit, you bastard!"

Joffrey roared and charged out from behind the tree like an enraged young bull, his fair cheeks flushed red, as if he were about to devour someone.

The three children from Nas, who were playing in the garden, were completely terrified. They never expected that someone would suddenly attack them in the king's palace.

Missandei's brother, Misander, hadn't even had time to react before Joffrey punched him in the cheek, sending him sprawling to the ground.

Her older brother, Misanthro, reacted quickly when he saw his younger sister fall. He spread his arms to protect her behind him and shouted in Valyrian language for his sister to run away quickly.

Missandei seemed frozen in place, tears welling in her eyes, her feet barely moving. Helpless, Missandei could only barely fight back against Joffrey, who was much taller than her.

"Go to hell!"

Joffrey swung his fist at Missandre again, but the small, dark-skinned man nimbly dodged it. Then Joffrey pounced once more…

Chapter 623 Asha

A fight broke out among the children in the garden in a corner of the Red Castle, but it has not yet been noticed by anyone, or perhaps even if it has, no one has taken it seriously.

After all, it was just a bastard fighting with a foreign child. The people of Westeros were very arrogant, or rather, xenophobic. The foreigners on Nath were just as disrespected as the bastards. They were the noble Andals, the aristocrats, while the Nath were just barbarians.

Inside the Royal Council chamber of the Red Keep, the rest of the courtiers had been dismissed, and Viserys summoned Asha Greyjoy, the Kraken's daughter, who was idly idling around.

However, when Viserys explained why he had summoned her, the woman, who wore black leather armor, had a slender figure, long legs, and short black hair, agreed without hesitation.

"Your Majesty, do you wish for me to go to the outside world?"

"Yes! I'm willing to go!"

Asha's quick agreement even surprised Viserys slightly. After all, the ability to foresee the future is not omniscient; he only occasionally glimpses fragments of the future. He hadn't expected Asha to agree so readily.

"Don't you need to think about it more?"

“Asha, I must tell you, this trip won’t be back for a while. You’re not young anymore, and it might delay your wedding.”

Asha and Viserys were the same age, but Viserys already had a daughter. In this era, Asha was considered to be marrying a little late, unless she was a lady of noble blood who was being sold for a high price.

Moreover, it will probably be several years before she returns from Nas Island, by which time she will truly be an old maid.

"Humph--"

However, the woman wearing black leather armor with a sea monster emblem on her chest merely snorted at Viserys's words, followed by a disdainful sneer.

"During this period, some men did propose to me, but these men were either too ugly or too weak in combat."

"They can't even conquer me in bed, so why should I marry them?"

Asha Greyjoy is free-spirited and proud, and it's difficult for ordinary men to catch her eye.

She only has two conditions for finding a man: either he must be really handsome, so handsome that just one glance could make her feel hot all over, and she could reluctantly 'marry' him; or he must be able to beat her.

"I ran into... in King's Landing a while ago..."

"A woman."

Asha sat at the table in the Royal Council Chamber, grabbed a dried fruit from the table and threw it into her mouth. She seemed to remember something and then spoke.

Viserys sat in his chair watching the woman. Asha knew she wouldn't get angry over such a trivial matter, which was why she acted this way.

However, Viserys is indeed easygoing, and he rarely gets angry over matters that are not of principle.

"woman?"

Viserys noticed the hesitation in her tone. A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. Why the hesitation?

Asha didn't keep him in suspense and continued speaking.

"She was tall, the tallest woman I had ever seen. She had broad shoulders but a flat chest, a round and rough face covered with freckles, a row of buck teeth, and a horribly wide mouth with lips as thick as caterpillars."

"But her eyes are very beautiful, I really mean it—"

"Big and blue, innocent and straightforward, and confident."

As Viserys listened to Asha's description, the image of a female knight immediately came to mind.

"Tass".

"Countess Brienne Tass".

Viserys leaned back in his chair and spoke, and this time it was Asha who was slightly surprised. She didn't expect that a king as high and mighty as Viserys would notice such an ugly woman.

"You actually know her?"

"In fact, I invited her to King's Landing."

Viserys shook his head and said that Brienne's father died on the battlefield of the Green Fork, fighting against the White Walkers. After that, the island of Tars lost its male heir, and the subsequent conscriptions by Renly or Stannis did not involve this beautiful island much. Therefore, it escaped the calamity and was spared the post-war reckoning. Brienne became the new Countess.

Viserys had the Military Academy send a letter to Brienne, inviting her to study in King's Landing, and Brienne gladly accepted the invitation.

It was under these circumstances that Asha and Brienne met and had a conflict. Asha was at a disadvantage in the fight with Brienne and was even beaten up.

Viserys later heard about this, and it spread like wildfire throughout King's Landing. Some claimed that the two women were fighting in a tavern and almost destroyed it, while others said that a female giant living in the Kingswood outside King's Landing had escaped.

However, unexpectedly, Asha became interested in Brienne after their initial conflict.

"We've gone off-topic."

Viserys then shook his head and said that they had originally been discussing the issue of sending troops to Nas Island, but Asha had steered the conversation away from it with just a few words. Viserys then brought the topic back on track.

"You might not be able to come back for a while. Have you thought this through?"

"Yes, I've thought it through!"

When Asha saw that Viserys had stopped joking, her face also became slightly serious.

"I don't have anything to do in King's Landing, so I might as well take this opportunity to go out and make a name for myself."

Viserys promised her that upon her return, he would grant her a castle, bestow upon her the title of Countess, and grant her independence from the Iron Islands. This was the main reason Asha was willing to go.

"Actually, I've wanted to command my own warships to travel around the trading city-states for a long time, but I've never had the chance."

"You know what your mission is, and the Iron Throne won't give you much in terms of supplies."

Viserys reminded him.

"I know!"

"You have to do everything yourself."

Asha said nonchalantly that sailing around the world to plunder is definitely every Ironborn's dream, but Asha was born at the wrong time and didn't catch a good one, plus she has a very powerful uncle.

"However... my only concern is Theon, Your Majesty."

When Asha started talking about her younger brother, the smile on her face disappeared.

"I can only entrust Theon to His Majesty. I hope you can take good care of him and prevent him from going astray."

"You still don't trust Lord Eddard Stark on this point?"

“Even if Eddard puts on black, Lady Catelyn will still discipline Theon.”

Viserys nodded and began to speak.