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[Episode 33] – Promise with the princess (1)

I quickly ran to the main palace after hearing the ridiculous rumor that the princess had gone into seclusion. What on earth happened to the princess, so they say she’s locked herself in her room?

“Who on earth could I have learned such a mean thing from…!”

A dead suspect came to mind, but I couldn’t say anything to someone who was already dead, so I shook my head to get rid of the face that appeared in my mind.

In front of the princess’s room, which she arrived at at full speed, the maids and Vinchot were already trying to cajole her outside the tightly closed door with tired expressions on their faces.

My sides were pulling because I was running so hard that I was out of breath. As I rested my hand on my side and took a deep breath, Bangchot came to my side and began to explain the dizzying situation.

“Her Royal Highness… The princess will be living in seclusion.”

“Huh, huh, why on earth?”

“that is…”

Vinchot wiped his face with his palm as if he was truly exhausted, and looked at the maids kneeling on the floor. As I looked at the maids who were sobbing and raising their hands above their heads, I had a rough idea of what was happening.

“…Did the princess hear what the maids said about me?”

“Yes, the princess overheard Her Majesty the Queen saying that she was sorry to leave the palace. “What are you going to do with the maids?”

What should I do…?

In the first place, it was already known that maids were soft-spoken.

Some people even say that a true nobleman should be able to collect and use rumors through soft-spoken maids.

And, the maids didn’t swear at me, and they didn’t mean to say anything when they said they were sad that I was leaving the palace. Rather, doesn’t this mean that Vivian’s evaluation within the palace is getting better?

“You better be a little more careful with your mouth next time. Just put your hands down and go back to your room. “There will be no particular punishment.”

“Thank you…!”

Leaving the two maids who quickly returned to their rooms, I took a deep breath and approached the princess’s room. The maids had already gathered there and were busy trying to appease the princess.

One of them, a maid, had piled up a mountain of egg tarts and cakes in front of the tightly closed door and was waiting for the princess to come out. Those are definitely the princess’s favorite snacks, but…

“…Ha, everyone go back to your rooms. “I will take charge of the princess.”

After dispersing the maids who had gathered around like a Dottegi market, only then did the area in front of the princess’s room become quiet. I lifted the plate containing the egg tarts on the tray and knocked on the door.

“Princess, let’s talk for a moment.”

“……”

When I couldn’t hear anything, a nightmare-like memory of talking like crazy alone in front of the room where the king was secluded came to mind. For a moment, I thought that this family history was a secluded place, but…

I, who had already learned a lot from Her Majesty in the corner of the room, calmly put down the egg tarts in front of the door and whispered to the princess in a soft voice.

“Would you at least eat the egg tarts you brought? “I’m sure it won’t taste good once it cools down… I’ll put it in front of the door so I can take it later.”

How much time had passed since I put the plate down on the floor?

1 min? 2 minutes?

The door, which had been tightly closed, began to gently open. Through the small gap in the door, a red eye blinked and caught sight of the delicious egg tart placed in front of the door.

The princess, who found a sweet-looking egg tart in front of the door, was obviously planning to quickly reach out and take the snack into the room –

I didn’t miss that moment and quickly put my foot through the gap in the door.

chin!

The speed at which I put my foot through the door was faster than the speed at which the princess closed the door. The princess, unable to close the door due to my feet coming in so quickly, looked up at me through the slightly open door.

The princess raised her head, creaking like a machine, and made eye contact. Unable to close the door, the princess, whose face became meditative, did not know what to do.

First of all, I whined and pushed my foot outside to close the door, and I tried to close the door, but no matter how strong the six-year-old girl was, she couldn’t defeat an adult.

The princess, who realized that there was nothing she could do, looked up at me in tears as if asking me to get out of the way quickly. But there’s no way I’m going to let you close the door like this, right?

“Gotcha, you guy!”

“Hey!”

When the door was pulled open, the princess, who was holding on to the door, fell to the floor and was dragged out of the room.

I didn’t miss that moment and quickly tried to lift the princess who had fallen on the floor, but she quickly rolled her body into a ball, avoided my hands, and jumped up in a huff and jumped into her bed.

Then he covered his head with a blanket and completely hid himself.

“Tch…!”

The quickness of a child…!

Bang Show, who was watching the princess and me from behind, clapped and was impressed.

“You have become seasoned. “Her Majesty the Queen.”

“Now that you have praised me, you can come in. “I will take care of the princess.”

“Hehe, then please take good care of the princess.”

Leaving behind Bank Show heading to the office, I sighed and went into the princess’s room and locked the door to prevent anyone from entering. It was because I didn’t want to break the flow of the conversation for no reason.

As I approached the princess, who had wrapped herself in a blanket like a caterpillar and used it as her secret base, she wriggled around on the bed and tried to avoid me.

“princess…”

I gently sat down on the princess’s bed and gently swept her, who was curled up like a caterpillar. Then, as if she had started crying, I started to hear the sound of her writhing and sobbing inside the blanket.

…It’s not that I don’t understand the feelings of the princess who closed the door after hearing the news that I was leaving. The news that my real parents, who I wanted to be loved by, are dying, and that even I, the person I was close to, is leaving…

It must have left a bitter and painful impact on the princess.

I dragged the princess, who had wrapped her in a blanket, and held her on my lap. It looked like I was hugging a sack, but I gently found the exit of the blanket and dug the princess’s face out from under the blanket.

After digging up the blanket to some extent, the princess’s head, which had become a mess due to the blanket, popped out. Her face was a mess of tears, and it was wrinkled, probably because she got into the blanket without taking off her clothes.

The sight of the princess in my arms, with only her body rolled up in a blanket and her face sticking out, was the very sight of a baby wrapped in a swaddle. Does that princess not even want to make eye contact with me?

He turned his head and avoided my gaze.

And what’s even more shocking is-

“liar.”

“Are you a liar?”

“They say people who lie about snacks are the worst people in the world. I no longer believe what Her Majesty the Queen says. “Because he’s a liar and a bad person.”

“Well, that’s…”

When I saw the princess crying and calling me a liar, I felt a pang of guilt pricking my heart. Just when I was wondering if I should at least bring a snack from outside…

The princess cried and screamed at me.

“I told you not to come in! I told you not to let anyone in! “I said I wouldn’t leave here!”

“Oh, princess…”

The princess took both hands out from under the blanket and started pushing my body. The princess’s hand, clenching her small fist and hitting my body, was full of sadness.

“Why is no one listening to me! Even the maids! Eli too! Bang show too! Her Majesty the Queen! And, and…”

Drop, drop.

Big teardrops accumulated in the princess’s eyes. It flowed down onto my cheek. The princess, who was wiping away her tears with the blanket wrapped around her body, continued speaking in a sobbing voice.

“Mom…and Dad…”

The sobs soon turned into sad sobs.

The princess, who buried her face and cried bitterly, cried out in a hoarse voice for her mother and father. All I could do in that situation was to quietly hug the princess.

“mom and dad…”

“……”

When the princess’s shoulders subsided after sobbing for a while, I was able to take out a handkerchief and wipe her face. His red eyes looked sore from wiping his face with the blanket.

…How should I tell the princess?

Should I tell you it doesn’t go until you’re an adult? In the end, leaving the princess’s side is the same, right? If I say that, wouldn’t it cause even greater harm to the princess now?

but……

“Princess, look at me.”

For now, I just wish the princess would stop being sad.

As the saying goes, there is a white lie in the world, and now I felt like I had to lie, even for the sake of the princess. No matter how much later this lie is discovered and you dislike me and hate me.

Now I had no doubt that this would be the right thing to do.

I wiped away the tears from her eyes with my fingers and tried to make eye contact with her. The princess didn’t even try to make eye contact with me, as if she didn’t like me yet.

“The maids are mistaken. Where do you say I’m going? “Just as the princess’s house is here, my house is also here.”

“……”

“…How can I get the princess to believe me…? Should I at least make a promise?”

When told that she had to make a promise, the princess nodded. When she glared at me with eyes like a stray cat telling me she wouldn’t trust me anymore, I smiled and patted the princess’s head.

“Princess, who am I?”

“Her Majesty the Queen…”

“No, who did you say I was before?”

The princess was thinking deeply and opened her mouth as if something had occurred to her.

“kind? “It’s a witch…”

“okay. white witch. You know that? Witches cannot break their ‘promise’ if they do this.”

I held out my little finger to the princess. The princess looked at the little finger I held out, then tilted her head and looked at me as if she had no idea.

Is there no pinky promise here? Thinking that it was actually good, I asked the princess to hold out her little finger in the same way and made her finger the same as mine.

“Do you know why a witch can’t break her promise? “That’s because if you break a promise you made with your little finger, you will be punished very harshly.”

“Bee, bee…?”

When I spoke in a slightly intimidating way, the princess’s shoulders started shaking. I had to scare them at this level so they would believe I wouldn’t break my promise, so there was nothing I could do.

“Okay, if you go this far and break your promise-”

“Uh, if you break it…”

“As punishment, you have to swallow a thousand needles.”

When the princess was told that if she broke her promise, she would have to swallow a thousand needles, her expression spread into shock. Although it was an idiomatic expression, the princess looked at me with a thoughtful look on her face, as if she believed it to be true.

“Princess, do you want to swallow a thousand needles?”

The princess shook her head.

“Me too. “If I break my promise and swallow a thousand needles, it will hurt a lot, right?”

The princess nodded her head.

The princess’s violent reaction was so cute that I couldn’t help but laugh. When I held out my little finger to the princess, the princess must have been shocked to hear that she would have to swallow a thousand needles, so she tried to fold her little finger again, but-

“Okay, promise. ‘I will always be by the princess’ side!’ “Can you trust me now?”

I forcefully hooked my little finger around the princess’s little finger and shook it up and down. The princess was shocked and quickly tried to remove her little finger, but the entangled little finger did not come off easily.

“Yeah, but if you break it… you’ll get a thousand needles…”

The princess looked at me as if she was really worried. The princess, fearing that I might swallow a thousand needles, forgot how much she had cried earlier and began to worry about me.

“As long as you don’t break your promise, right? Now, your thumb too.”

When I forcibly stamped the princess’s thumb, she seemed at a loss and was busy looking at my face and her fingers intertwined with mine. Then, immediately, tears filled her eyes, as if she was about to cry again.

“…Are you really not going anywhere…?”

“…Then, you even made a promise, right? “A terrible witch’s promise that if you break it you will have to swallow a thousand needles.”

With those words, the princess buried her face in my chest and hugged me tightly. Isn’t this the first time the princess has hugged me like this? I patted the back of the princess in my arms.

…As I looked at the princess sobbing in my arms, I felt guilt pricking my heart like a needle. But still, I had no choice but to tell this lie.

If I were to tell the truth here and say that she had no choice but to leave the palace… the princess might have truly fallen apart.

So, even if this lie is revealed one day and the princess calls me a liar, hates me, hates me, hates me.

I won’t regret telling the princess a ‘white lie’. Because I decided to do that.

I hugged the princess in my arms and smiled bitterly.

As I was hugging the princess like that, the growling sound coming from the princess’ stomach that was touching me echoed through my stomach. The princess was buried in my chest, unable to raise her head, perhaps because she was embarrassed that she had made a growling noise.

He stroked the head of the embarrassed princess, then smiled and made an offer to her.

“It’s late, but shall we have a snack together?”