━━━━━━ ◦ ❖ ◦ ━━━━━━
"...Who's calling?”
Tack - a small fricative broke out to shake his hand that was holding me by the wrist. My eyes fluttering like waves were embarrassed by my voice and empty.
His dry hands, with their bluish veins, were curled weakly in the shape of holding my wrist. I continued nonchalantly, pressing the tremors all over my body.
"I don't know who it is, but I'm busy right now, so I don't have time to delay. Let's just say we heard your apology for the inconvenience. Then let's call it a day..”
He bowed slightly to him with his surprised lips wide open and pressed the hood again. Far away I could see Nicholas looking around for me. I'm about to walk again.
"Now, wait. Don't go!"
He grabbed me near my wrist again and turned to me, and caught me with a ringing that stood out even in this noisy market barrel.
It was when I didn't think he'd come back like this, and I looked at him without even thinking about shaking his hand with surprised eyes.
"He's... he's...….”
"In a place like this…"!”
Looking at me with straight eyes, he calmly opened the button to support the hood with the other hand, not the hand holding my wrist.
As soon as the thick hood covering his hair flowed down, "Gasp" sounds were heard from all around him.
"It's me, Lady Reina. Don't you recognize me?"
There is not a single person in the empire, or the entire continent, who cannot recognize him by his silver hair shining in the sun. The only non-emperor of the splendid silver-colored men who were passed down to the royal family, called the blood of God.
"I…… see the Empire's little sun!"
The raucous marketplace quickly calmed down like a library. People around me bowed at the same time and pressed their heads.
His sharp nose, which stands out from the head of the people and stands out, evoked a sense of wonder.
Despite all this, he was the only one who remained calm. Maybe he didn't notice what all the fuss was about.
Originally, he didn't care about this kind of support around him at all, and he's been looking at me for a while.
"……hand."
"What?"
"Let it go, Your Grace."
"……Oh! I'm sorry."
As soon as my cold voice rang in silence, he let go of me in an exaggerated way, startled.
Soon there was silence with awkward air. I didn't know that the Prince of Iron Blood, who is famous for being cold and smart, actually looked like this.
The commoners and traders would have thought so, and a small number of low pastoral nobles would have been quite embarrassed by the unfamiliar appearance of the Crown Prince.
I was also embarrassed by this situation. I'm just trying not to show up.
"Why did you call me?”
"Oh, that's, like, the reason, that's...….”
He was restless and flustered at my question. Without him knowing, he was nibbling his lips. Surprised and embarrassed and funny at the same time.
He showed off his high arrogance with his high self-esteem, and now he's lost face in front of so many people.
"If you don't have anything else to say, I'll be on my way now, Your Grace."
As soon as I finished, I heard a small murmur in silence.
Yes, with the Crown Prince right in front of me, I have not even been baptized, and my remarks just now were quite cheeky. But perhaps even more surprising to them.
"……I call milady to stand."
“…….”
"Do you need another reason?”
He doesn't show any interest in my tone and behavior, but rather uses formal honorifics to me. It would also be the attitude of the Crown Prince, who is anxious to keep me.
His eyes blinked as if they were hurt by my attitude to push him away.
I want my answer.
It was convex, like a thick ball on his manly stretching neckline. It overlaps so clearly with the moment when I waited anxiously for his answer to my love.
The other is just the position. Me, who gives cold eyes and insensitive eyes, barely chokes his throat with dry saliva.
If I kiss him now, he'll never refuse. No, I didn't know he'd kiss me first the moment I approached.
His wild beast, which I wanted to feel even once, can now be obtained immediately if I want to. At any time, his thirst will never push me away.
Hana, I'm gonna get away from him now.
It was this morning that he decided to enjoy a new life that did not belong to him.
You have to suppress the urge to shiver all over your body. It's natural that shaking will naturally abate when the wind leaves the side.
"……Then I know you don't have anything else to say, so I'll get going."
"……what……."
"May the glory of Bichelon reached you."
Embarrassed by what I said, he stiffened his eyes with round eyes. After bowing to him properly, I rewrote the hood one more time and took a step.
"Nicholas, come on."
"Oh, yes sister...…! May the glory of Bichelon reached you."
Nicholas, who was rolling his eyes next to me and looking awkward, hurriedly bowed to the crown prince at my call a few steps ahead and followed.
The mayor's barrel, which was filled with awkward air, soon regained its original vitality.
"Nicholas, you said there was one more thing left, right?"
"……Oh, yes! Well, I mean, it's...….”
As he took a quiet step, he talked to Nicholas, and he took out a note in a clumsy move.
Nicholas, you must be quite surprised now. In all the circumstances just before.
"I'm sorry, Nicholas."
"What?"
"I want to go back and rest today...….”
"Sister!"
The strength of my legs, which had been stuttering at the same time as I spoke out, was loosened and my body tilted, and Nicholas, who was watching me, supported me in surprise. There was a shock like the whole world was turning upside down.
The last thing I saw in my vision, which was being buried in a black cave, was a frightened purple eyes.
"I heard there was a commotion in the Mileno market today……?”
At the moment, I felt the air freezing slightly. Nicholas, with an anxious look on his face, looked at me with a shaky look.
Yes, knowing that we went to the Milano market, Brother Alec would ask why, which could have led to Nicholas's mistake.
Once I swallowed the stew with a spoon in my mouth, pretending to be nonchalant, and replied to him.
"Oh, I guess the rumor has already spread to my brother. It's just a brief encounter with the Crown Prince, and it's none of course.”
In the aftermath, I stayed in bed and slept until Brother Alec came back to the mansion for dinner after work.
"Reina."
"What?"
"I'm worried about you."
His low-pitched voice caught me by a moment. Brother Alec's blue eyes stared calmly at me. He continued, looking at me stiffly stiff.
"I decided not to ask you in detail what happened with the Crown Prince...….”
“…….”
"But something happened without my knowledge. Or if someone gives you a hard time...….”
After a short pause, he blinked slowly and opened his mouth again.
"You have to tell your brother.”
I didn't hate Brother Alec, who warms my heart by referring to himself as my brother. I was rather grateful.
"Okay?
He smiles lightly and asks for my consent. Yes, I have a family that loves and cares for me like this.
"Yes, I will."
I also relaxed my stiff body and curled the ends of my eyes. Nicholas, who was swallowing vongole pasta while looking at the two of us, leaned back on the back of the chair, which had stretched out as if he had finally felt at ease.
But that comfort didn't last long.
"By the way.”
“……?”
"Why was my baby and my brother in the market where he had never been before?"
Hiccups. Nicholas straightened his back.
* * *
"Reina."
"Yes……."
A cold sweat came out. I mean, brother, this is...….
"I would never have taught you to lie."
"Well... I'm not lying...….”
"Didn't you go all the way to the market together to hide Nicholas' mistake from me?"
That's... that's right. I have no word to say in excuse.
I bowed my head.
At dinner just a moment ago, Brother Alec's peevish question eventually led Nicholas to confess his wrongdoing.
As expected, Brother Alec was angry that the two of us planned and tried to deceive Nicholas, rather than the "mistake" itself, and Nicholas was now carrying out his punishment.
Run 200 times with a smoke gun. Writing about reflection along with what you felt while running.
And I, like this, came into Alec's room and got in trouble.
"Lies are bad. Even if it's not a bad intention."
That's what Brother Alec always emphasized. He was always burdened by the responsibility of raising Nicholas and me without my father and mother, along with the heavy position of the Scherne family's governor.
Even if it's scary at times like this, I know it's all from the heart for us.
"Fooling other people completely...… Reina……?"
Brother Alec, who was talking quietly in a low, suddenly stopped talking and looked at me blankly.
Oh, I was smiling in spite of myself.
I'm so happy to hear his warm nagging, and I like the feeling that I'm loved. I wasn't in a situation to laugh right now.
"I'm listening..."
"Wrong!"
It was urgent to say that it might lead to further situations. I was wrong.
"I won't do it again."
As my brother said, I will never lie again.
"I acted too hastily. Nicholas looked so pitiful, so I wanted to help him a little bit...….”
Brother Alec, who seemed embarrassed by my fast-paced speech, was also paying attention to what I said. His blue eyes stared at me as if to continue.
I mean, that's what I'm saying.
"Please give me a break."
“…….”
"Over…… No."
From the bowing head, only the eyes looked up at him in a winsome way. I met him with round eyes, now.
"Brother Dearest."
Suddenly the air in the room hardened at the sound of my voice.
Well, maybe it's time to say this. Brother Alec could have been angrier at me for trying to get away with it. Oh, I'm screwed.
As if it wasn't this, he slightly frowned at his attention, and Brother Alec, who had been stiff for a while, opened his mouth.
"Reina."
Oh, what else should I say? Will I get in big trouble? Even if all his words toward me contained love, I didn't want to be scolded by him anyway.
Well, actually, even that moment couldn't be more precious to me.
0 Comments:
Post a Comment