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[Episode 39] – My child’s birthday (1)

In order to somehow avoid the death sentence that the queen queen’s maid had told me about, and to avoid being caught in the slightest, I dressed up as best I could, packed a gift, and headed to the palace where the queen queen was.

As I headed to the place the maid showed me, I felt cold seeping into my entire body even though it wasn’t winter yet. In a dizzying illusion, I knocked on the tightly closed door and heard a voice as cold as winter.

“Tsk, come in.”

As if she already knew who the person outside the door was, the queen clicked her tongue and allowed the visit. As I gently turned the doorknob and entered, the queen queen glared at me with a frown.

“It’s really late. “Was the promise you made to me really funny?”

“S-sorry… it wasn’t like that. majesty.”

“Huh… Are you going to make an excuse here? “Let’s hear that lame excuse.”

The Queen Mother must have been very angry, and her voice was full of anger. I tried my best to think of an excuse that would somehow ease the Queen Mother’s frozen heart even a little.

“It wasn’t that easy to come up with a name for a princess to use throughout her life. No matter how much I worry about it, it never ends, so I sincerely apologize for being late.”

“done. So, after thinking about it, did you come up with a good name?”

“Yes, a few things came to mind.”

I slowly approached the Queen Mother and began to write down some of the princess’s names that I had thought of on a piece of paper. There are three princess names that came to mind.

Although I had already made up my mind a long time ago, I quietly submitted it to the Queen Mother as proof that ‘the reason I was late was because I had been thinking hard about it until now.’

The Queen Mother looked closely at the three possible names for the princess in front of her, then frowned and looked up at me. Do you not like it? I told you to decide…!

The Queen Mother asked, looking at ‘the name I chose’ among the three candidates.

“Do you know what this name means and are using it as the princess’s name?”

“I know. And, I think it’s a very fitting name for a princess. “Isn’t this a fitting name for a ‘future princess’?”

“Of course, if you only look at the meaning, then…”

The Queen Mother looked at the name and sighed as if she was thinking about it. I knew very well why the Queen Mother was worried. However, I decided that there was no other name suitable for a princess other than this one.

I wonder if the Queen Mother had the same thoughts as me, so she compared it with other names several times. However, in the end, the name stuck in the Queen Mother’s heart.

The Queen Mother let out a deep sigh and looked at me, twitching her eyebrows.

“The name and meaning are good. However, there is no precedent for using this name in previous royal families. Do you know what the reason is?”

“I know.”

“You know this, but you still want to give this name to the princess?”

The Queen Mother asked me as if she wanted to check again. I smiled at that question and instead asked the Queen Mother. He said he didn’t like it.

“Didn’t Her Majesty the Queen like it?”

“Yeah… I like it, but…”

Tsk, the queen clicked her tongue and looked up at me as if she were disgusted. The Queen Mother, who was complaining that she had ordered me to name her for no reason, stared intently at the paper on which I had written my name.

“Tsk, I’m sure there will be people saying something. Just like the previous meeting, there will be people who will discuss the history of the royal family and other things. “Is that still okay?”

“Yes, it’s okay. and…”

…Because I no longer have low self-esteem.

The moment I decided to give the princess a name, I decided to think of myself as her “parent.”

Regardless of whether we are related by blood or what others say, I plan to raise the princess as my ‘child’ from now on.

“No matter what anyone says, I am the royal family of this country and the princess’s parents. “Parents say they are going to name their children, but people who ask what name are strange are strange.”

“ha ha ha!”

The Queen Mother burst into laughter at the declaration of my parents. The Queen Mother smiled and looked at me, perhaps because she liked the contrast from before.

“Yes, that’s right. Those who say something when parents say they are going to give their children a name are strange people. “Yes, as the princess’s parents, do whatever you want.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

The Queen Mother, who still couldn’t stop laughing, covered her mouth and waved her hand to tell them to leave. I bowed my head, turned and headed toward the door.

The moment I was about to turn the doorknob, the Queen Mother spoke to me.

“The name of the princess you have chosen will resonate throughout the kingdom that day. Now everyone in the kingdom will know the princess’s name. “The name of the princess you chose.”

“…It will definitely be an extremely happy day.”

“Yes, definitely so.”

After that conversation, I turned the doorknob and came out of the room. The queen’s maid, who was waiting outside the room, widened her eyes in surprise when she heard the queen’s loud laughter.

The princess’s name was approved, and there was less than a week left until the princess’s birthday party. It was definitely the main event of the spring that the game didn’t have much interest in, but this time it was different.

As the princess’s birthday approached, my heart began to beat loudly and I became extremely nervous.

As if that day was the most important day of my life.

*

Time passes quickly again-

It was already the day before the princess’s birthday party. A week before the princess’s party, the palace was busy preparing for the princess’s birthday party. How on earth has a day like this come?

Vinchot said that he never imagined that he would be able to participate in the royal family’s seventh birthday party again while he was alive, and he was so moved that he held the princess’s hand and cried.

The maids, butlers, and nobles working at the palace all excitedly prepared for the princess’s birthday party. Not only the palace, but the entire kingdom was like that.

A week ago, festival-like days had already continued in the capital, and fireworks were lit every night. The Queen Mother even issued a large pardon in honor of the royal family’s seventh birthday.

Except for those whose crimes were very serious, all were released through amnesty, and the joy was shared with the people. As such, the meaning of the royal family’s seventh birthday was very special.

However, for some reason, the protagonist of this happy day looked even more gloomy today. Sometimes he seemed nervous, sometimes he seemed anxious.

The princess, who had decided to go to bed early for tomorrow, entered her room with an anxious expression on her face, but for some reason, that expression stuck with me like a fish thorn stuck in her throat.

Should I go to the princess? However, the princess had to wake up early tomorrow morning and get dressed. If you go to bed late and feel tired tomorrow…

No, but it was sad to see him anxious and worried. At the very least, I need to be by my side to comfort me, otherwise I won’t be able to sleep at all.

As I couldn’t stay still and thought about this and that, I was spinning around the room, and the angel hanging on the wall sighed deeply and whispered to me to calm down.

-calm down. I know the princess is worried… but it’s already late at night? Wouldn’t it be better for you to go to sleep early too? It’s not just princesses who get dressed up.

“Yes, but… I’m still worried.”

-I’m worried about the princess, but I’m also worried about you… So, lie down and sleep quickly.

Just when I was wondering what to do, someone knocked on the door. Surely everyone would think I was asleep. I wonder who it is and ask them to come in.

“Wow, Her Royal Highness… aren’t you sleeping yet?”

“princess? “Why at a time like this…”

The princess stuck her head out through the slightly open door and looked at me with bright deer-like eyes. The princess, dressed in pajamas and hugging a pillow, walked towards me.

“Can’t you sleep?”

The princess hugged her pillow and nodded.

Am I really anxious as expected? I should have gone to see her myself before the princess came. Thinking about that, I smiled bitterly, picked the princess up in my arms, and laid her on the bed.

“Then we can sleep together. “I couldn’t sleep either.”

“Your Majesty the Queen…?”

The princess looked at me curiously. I covered the princess’ shoulders with a blanket, lay down next to her, and patted her belly.

“Well, I can’t sleep thinking about what happens tomorrow.”

“Hehe, me too…”

That’s what I said, but when I started patting her belly, the princess seemed to fall asleep quickly, and her voice gradually became blurred. I looked at the princess and waited for her to fall asleep, but…

The princess blinked her sleepy eyes and asked me.

“Your Majesty… What should I do tomorrow?”

“What do you mean?”

The princess, who had a sullen expression on her face as if she was worried, stretched out her hands and asked me to hug her. The sudden increase in cuteness is probably because I’m really anxious.

I went between the princess’s outstretched hands, stroked her black hair, and hugged her tightly. Then the princess also hugged me, snuggling into my arms and burying her face.

“Are you very anxious?”

The princess nodded.

“You practiced your dance a lot and prepared your greeting perfectly. I also prepared the prettiest dress. Tomorrow, the most beautiful person in this world will definitely be a princess. “What is the princess so worried about?”

I comforted the princess who was in my arms by slowly stroking her head. The princess shook her head in my arms and muttered in a voice so low that only I could hear.

“But… everyone said my birthday was a really special day… so… I had to prepare perfectly… but now… have I really prepared it perfectly? “Wouldn’t it be enough?”

The princess who said that gradually snuggled into my arms. People’s expectations of perfectly preparing for the huge event of the royal family’s seventh birthday seemed to put even more pressure on the princess.

I patted the princess on the back and tried to comfort her as much as possible. And the pressure the princess feels is not only the pressure of the event.

Although he didn’t tell me, it was clearly anxiety that included worry about his own ‘name’.

I wondered if I should tell the princess that I had given her a name, but I decided to hold off for now.

I was planning on saying the princess’s name tomorrow in a more extravagant way, in front of everyone.

This was one of the schedules of events that the Queen Mother also approved. He told me to keep it a secret from the princess until then.

“It’s not enough at all, so don’t worry. I know you prepared really well. “Even if her feet were hurt or her knees were scraped from falling while dancing, the princess didn’t give up, right?”

“……”

“There is no way that what such a princess has prepared is not perfect. So don’t worry and go to sleep. And, show it to me tomorrow. “The things you worked so hard to prepare.”

I held the princess in my arms and rubbed her back. The princess sniffled slightly and fell asleep peacefully in my arms. I looked at the princess like that and closed my eyes to fall asleep.

Finally tomorrow.

A princess’s birthday party is held.

The day has come to let everyone know.

My child’s name and existence.