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[Episode 44] – Now is the time to break up (2)

“I really hate it!!!”

Suddenly, Fran’s wrist, which the princess had thrown away, flew up. Fran took it again casually, put it on his wrist again, and looked at the princess who was hiding behind my legs.

Really… it’s a franc-like farewell, but…

“Come on, Titania. “Fran doesn’t play around for more than a day or two, right?”

“……”

I didn’t think the greeting would end if I continued like this, so I picked up the princess who was hiding behind me and put her down in front of Fran. The princess pouted her lips and was busy avoiding Fran’s gaze.

Every time Fran looked at the princess to make eye contact, the princess turned her head to meet Fran’s opposite gaze. As their heads turned a few times, the princess swayed in place as if dizzy.

When there was no sign of the conversation starting, Fran looked at me blankly.

“Is it okay if I talk to you alone for a moment, princess?”

“…Okay, I’ll be at the door, so let me know when you’re done talking. Ainsel, you too come back with my earrings.”

-Yes, got it. See you later, princess.

Even when I turned my head and tried to leave the room, the princess didn’t say anything, just kept her head down and clutched her skirt tightly. If he really hated Fran, he would have immediately run to me and told me not to go.

Isn’t what the princess really hates about being ‘separated’ from Fran?

Although it was only a short time, about a month, it seemed that Princess Fran and the Princess had become more attached to each other than I expected. They spent a long time learning how to dance, and Fran, who was very playful, was busy teasing the princess every time.

It’s just my opinion, but…

The princess had already experienced many separations at a young age. So, wouldn’t it be painful to break up with Fran, whom you’ve grown attached to?

I slowly opened the door and went out of the room. Through the slowly closing door, Fran was seen wiping away the princess’ tears that had begun to flow.

When I saw that, I thought there was no need to worry anymore.

*

Fran wiped Titania’s tears, which were dripping down her cheeks, with his fingers. Fran, who was squatting in front of Titania, gently raised his head and looked at Titania holding back tears.

“princess.”

Despite Fran’s call, Titania only whimpered and shed tears. Fran, who was looking at that scene, stroked Titania’s head and smiled with the corners of his mouth raised.

“Do you remember the story I told you last time? “I said that I dream of harmony between fairies and humans.”

Titania nodded gently. I remembered the time when I ran away from a very harsh class, and we made a secret base in the room and hid there and talked together.

“The words were so grandiose, but in reality, it wasn’t such a grandiose dream. I just-”

Fran’s hand, which had been gently stroking Titania’s head, gradually came down to stroke Titania’s cheek. At that gesture, Titania gently raised her head and looked up at Fran.

“I wanted to be friends with humans. “When I was a fairy, I was a ‘house fairy’ who lived in hiding in people’s houses and helped them.”

Fran began to tell a story about the time when she was a fairy before becoming human. Titania began to quietly listen to Fran’s story, swallowing back the tears that were falling.

“A house fairy is a fairy who lives in an old house and helps the humans who live there. Wearing a pure white silk dress, she tries to be helpful to the humans she lives with by doing housework and running errands. “To become family or friends with them.”

Fran flaunted her maid uniform and showed it off to Titania. She waved her skirt gently and spun around once, then stopped in place and gave a graceful greeting.

“But no matter how hard I tried and how hard I helped them, they did not consider me family. That’s because I couldn’t be seen in their eyes.”

Dedication without reward and effort without reward.

Fran looked bitter as he recalled his days as a house elf.

“So, I wanted to become human. I really wanted to become a ‘family’ with them. I wanted to be a ‘friend’. So I asked. To my father, ‘Victor Frankenstein.’”

Fran grabbed Titania’s hand and placed it against his heart. Kongdak, Kongdak. Titania looked at Fran, feeling Fran’s heartbeat beating no different from that of a real ‘human’.

“But even if I had a human body, it was difficult to become friends with humans. Actually, I have never been friends with another human being before. Is it because ‘humans and fairies’ are both half-penny? “Everyone hated me.”

“Other witches…?”

“They have a ‘business’ relationship with me. Treat a fairy and get paid. I am the ‘doctor’ of the fairies. It’s very difficult to call them friends. “At most, I would be a ‘work colleague.’”

After saying that everyone was afraid of him, Fran pulled out his wrist and waved it at Titania. As Titania looked at her with a frown, Fran put her wrist back together again.

Fran placed his inserted wrist on Titania’s head and smiled as he slowly stroked Titania’s head. Titania slightly puffed out her cheeks as she looked at Fran, who was increasingly treated like a child.

“So… the princess is my first friend.”

“First friend…”

“Yes, my first friend. “I have lived as both a fairy and a human for a long time, and the only ‘human’ who called me a friend was the princess.”

When she was called her ‘first friend’, Titania slightly raised the corners of her mouth and smiled, feeling as if her heart was being tickled. Without missing the opportunity, Fran massaged the princess’s cheek and lifted the corner of her mouth with a finger.

Fran looked at Titania’s ugly face and laughed.

Bright, bright.

“It was written in a book I read that when friends break up, they let their partner go with a smile. So, don’t cry. “Even if it’s not an invitation, I’ll come see you again.”

“…really?”

“Yes, then I will bring lots of delicious food and toys from where I live. There are also a lot of unusual items received from other witches in return. therefore-”

Fran gently hugged and patted Titania. Then, as if she was about to burst out crying, which she had barely been holding back, Titania’s eyes turned red and tears began to well up.

“Next time we meet, please be sure to smile and welcome us. Titania.”

“huh…!”

Titania, who buried her face in Fran’s shoulder, smiled while crying.

“You must keep your promise to come see us…!”

*

“Is it really okay if I don’t receive anything? “I want to give you something in return for treating Ainsel…”

“it’s okay. “Because that’s not what I’m hoping for.”

Fran shook his head at my words and slowly opened the closet door. When I asked why on earth the closet door was a passage, I was told that this was a ‘fairy’s side road’ and a ‘path’ that ordinary witches used to move around.

Since there is such a convenient thing, everyone can meet even if they are in a distant area… I thought that if I could learn that ‘side road’, I could sneak out of this palace, so I asked them to teach me…

‘The fairy road is truly complicated and difficult. If you take one wrong step, you could wander down the fairy alleys forever. Since it is such a difficult method, I recommend that you gain more knowledge and learn as a witch later.’

Fran shook his head and said he couldn’t tell me yet.

Fran, who had put his feet up on the closet, turned his head and looked down at the princess. As if she still felt bad about parting ways, the princess pursed her lips and glanced at Fran.

Fran, who was looking at that scene, held out his hand to say hello one last time. The princess, who was anxious that her wrist would be ripped off again, gently grabbed Fran’s hand and shook it up and down.

“Hehe, later I’ll think of a Franjoque that will surprise Titania.”

“…I do not need.”

Franc raised the corners of his mouth and smiled at the princess’s clear voice. When Fran and the princess’s hands fell, Fran went up inside the closet and looked at me.

“Vivian, Ainsel. See you next time.”

“…Okay, you have to stay healthy until then.”

-Thank you so much for treating me. See you next time. Frankenstein.

With that final greeting, the closet door closed. When I opened the closet again, the Franc that had been in the closet had disappeared everywhere.

“…It really is a fairy alley.”

*

For about three days after Fran left, it was really hard to see the princess. Franc’s vacancy must have been quite large, and Ainsel tried to comfort the princess who was drooping and unable to do anything.

Was it sad that I quickly broke up with my new friend? The princess even asked me to give her the Franzoc that she hated so much.

Since I couldn’t do something like pulling out my wrist and spitting out screws, I showed her something like a finger trick… but perhaps that clumsy prank made her miss Fran even more, and the princess sighed.

But, did they say time is medicine? No, maybe she was just getting used to it, but the princess gradually began to fill the empty space left by Fran with memories of Ainsel and me.

As time passed, the princess began to smile more and more, and although she missed Fran, she no longer cried and missed him like she had at first.

I don’t know what the two talked about, but when the princess was asked if she always missed Fran, she answered: He said it was okay since he ‘promised’ to come and meet him.

When I saw the princess growing up both physically and mentally, I was so happy that I couldn’t help it. Is this how parents view their children growing up? Sometimes, I was so happy that it was difficult.

In this way, the princess turned seven and the ‘main event’ of spring came to an end.

I can’t say it’s perfect, but I still thought it was a successful ‘declaration’.

Everyone present at the party looked at the seven-year-old princess, and everyone in the kingdom clearly knew her name.

The princess’s name is ‘Titania Snow White’.

As she spent more and more time with the princess, the timid princess gradually disappeared and returned to her original bright and lively appearance, just like the original.

Sometimes he was so playful that everyone got into trouble.

Just like that, three hectic years passed quickly.

“Princess Titania, what kind of hair do you want me to have today?”

“I want to cut my shoulder-length hair… but I guess my mother won’t let me, right? “What do you think Ellie?”

“Hehe, if you were the Queen, you would grant all of the princess’s requests, right?”

“Hehe, I think so too.”

Titania, who was seven years old, turned ten, and I, who was twenty, turned twenty-three.

The princess’s spring has passed and summer has arrived.