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[Episode 52] – A disturbance that is not a run away from home (2)

-princess…! princess! Wake up! princess!

Titania, who was wandering in her dream with her body curled up, forcibly covered her ears when she heard a voice calling her in her sleep, but gently opened her eyes when she heard Ainsel’s voice continuing to shout.

“little bit more…”

-Princess… This is not the time! Wake up quickly and look around!!

“How far is it…”

I must have slept with a blanket all over my head, but when I opened my eyes and woke up, an unfamiliar wooden ceiling came into view. Titania blinked dazedly in her sleep, then turned her head and looked around.

“…? “What is it?”

Titania, who could not turn her head due to drowsiness, scratched her head and looked around once again. A small house that seems to be made entirely of wood. The small house was filled with the faint smell of medicinal herbs.

There was a carpet made of animal skin of unknown origin on the floor, and a lot of dried things, whether medicinal herbs or just grass, were hanging on the walls.

Titania suddenly had this thought when she saw that rough furniture that seemed to be made entirely of wood had been placed in various places in the small house next to where she was lying.

‘It’s like a cabin in the woods from a picture book.’

As I was looking around the house in my sleep, I heard a humming sound coming through the small crack in the door. Titania stood up and stuck her head out through the crack in the door.

I saw something bubbling in a pot in the fireplace and a little girl humming and wiggling her butt in front of it. A little girl cooking by stirring a ladle in a pot.

The girl, who swallowed a mouthful of something in the pot and jumped up in place, began to move busily. ‘I’m busy, I’m busy,’ I said to myself over and over again and was diligently preparing for something.

As she stared at that scene blankly, Titania’s head began to spin rapidly as she began to wake up. It felt like I was in a picture book and I thought it was all a dream, but it wasn’t.

“uh? Where are you…? hut? “You were definitely sleeping in my room…?”

-I don’t know… Even if I try to move to another mirror to inform Vivian of this situation, I can’t… These cases are extremely rare…

Titania patted the helpless Ainsel and looked out the window to see where this was. No matter which window you look out from, all you see is a forest covered in thick fog.

The exact location could not be determined. Titania could only tell that this was a ‘cabin’ in a forest covered in thick fog. A small cabin with only an unknown young girl in it.

Should I open the window, go outside, and run away? No, even ten-year-old Titania knew very well that entering that forest alone was tantamount to suicide.

As Titania was spinning around the room, not knowing what to do, she jumped! The wooden door opened with a sound and a ‘young girl’ came in, kicking the door with all her might.

As their eyes met, the young girl blinked, then walked towards Titania with a wide smile. A young girl with brown hair like dirt and green eyes like sprouts sprouting from it.

He circled around Titania, looking her up and down as if observing her, sniffed her, and then smiled brightly and grabbed both of Titania’s hands.

Titania was startled and tried to pull her hand away, but the little girl laughed and refused to let go of Titania’s hand. As I was confused and didn’t know what to do, the young girl introduced herself and smiled.

-Welcome to our ‘cabin’! princess! I’m a brownie!

“B-brownie?”

-yes! I’m Brownie, the house elf who manages this ‘cabin’!

*

Time when the sun is setting.

The faces of all the soldiers and maids who had still not found Titania began to turn pale. I opened and searched every room in the palace, but there was no news yet that the princess had been found.

I searched the room I had already checked several times again, but as expected, the princess was nowhere to be seen. Everyone thought they would be able to find it by evening, but nervousness began to appear on their faces.

As opinions increasingly leaked that he had been kidnapped, Bank Chaut and other ministers unanimously refuted those opinions. Does ‘kidnapping’ make sense inside the royal palace, which has the highest security?

Everyone gathered their strength and started looking for the princess while talking nonsense like that. He searched for the princess, even going as far as searching the delegation’s rooms and dusting off unused palaces.

However, even as the sun set and the night deepened, there was no news that the princess had been found. In the royal palace, everyone’s voices echoing all night long as they search for the princess called ‘Princess Titania’.

As the night went on, Vivian became more and more anxious and didn’t know what to do. Contrary to everyone’s thoughts, the thought that Titania may have been kidnapped began to creep into Vivian’s mind.

Because Vivian, unlike others, knew the existence of ‘witches’.

What if a fairy or witch intervened and kidnapped Titania? What if the ‘witch’ who turned Aurora into a ‘fairy’ is targeting Titania this time? What if that’s the reason Ainsel can’t contact you?

Vivian’s complexion gradually turned blue, and her breathing began to become increasingly difficult, as if a blue-black fear suddenly overtook her entire body. As fear enveloped her entire body, Vivian touched the ‘invitation’ in her hand.

Should I call Fran right now and ask him to find Titania? I thought that Franc would definitely be of great help in finding Titania. The moment you open the ‘invitation’-

smart-

“…Who is it?”

“This is Queen Vivian, Princess Fiona Silverworth. I was worried about Her Majesty the Queen, so I came to talk to her for a moment. “Is it okay if I come in?”

Kugit.

Vivian’s expression was very crumpled.

In this urgent situation, there was no time to appear nice to Princess Fiona. Just as I was putting it on to tell her to come back tomorrow, the door burst open and Princess Fiona stuck her head out.

“Would it be okay?”

“…Please come in.”

Vivian gritted her teeth, smiled, and told Princess Fiona to come in. What can I do? Before I can refuse, he already opens the door and asks me to let him in.

‘If I wasn’t a princess from another country, I would have sworn at her and told her to go away right away…’

Vivian sighed between her lips so much that Princess Fiona couldn’t hear, and asked Princess Fiona with a grin. Why on earth did you come here at this late hour?

“What’s going on, Princess Fiona? As you know, I am very busy right now.”

“I want to talk to Her Majesty Queen Vivian for a moment.”

“…Is that really all it is?”

Vivian looks at Princess Fiona with a bewildered expression. Princess Fiona just smiled at that expression. Vivian sighed irritably and answered, crossing her arms.

“…I wonder what you want to talk about. Let’s listen.”

“It’s not much of a story. just…”

Princess Fiona smiled brightly and said to Vivian.

“It seems like you’re having a hard time pretending to be sad, so I just wanted to tell you that you don’t have to do that in front of me, Your Majesty. “If you act for a long time, aren’t you bound to get tired?”

“what?”

Vivian asked back, wondering if she had heard wrong. What I just heard was so absurd that I couldn’t give a proper answer. Just when I was about to think I had clearly heard wrong, Princess Fiona nailed it.

“I know you well. You’re not the type of person to feel sad that a child you’re not related to by blood has run away from home, right? “Are you pretending to be sad in front of others to manage your image as queen?”

“…Princess Fiona, are you crazy?”

“…You don’t have to act in front of me? You’re not that kind of person, are you? “I know your true feelings, so I’m giving you advice to help you?”

Clumsy, clumsy.

Vivian’s expression began to become more and more wrinkled. As an expression of disgust beyond absurdity began to appear on her face, Princess Fiona shrugged her shoulders and asked Vivian as if she did not understand.

“I know your past. What did you do to the other ladies to marry the king? You, who has exploited all kinds of weaknesses and pushed people to commit suicide, suddenly develops maternal love? And to the child of the woman you hate? Hehehe, there are degrees of jokes.”

Vivian, who was listening to the story, thought quietly. ‘Ah, Princess Fiona is someone who knows the old ‘Vivian’.’ And he hates the old Vivian like he’s dying.

Otherwise, it made no sense to shoot so sharply. It was impossible for a princess from a foreign country, a princess who participated in a mission, to speak like this to the ‘queen’ of one country without extreme ‘disgust’.

Vivian was finally able to understand the identity of the discomfort she felt every time she saw Princess Fiona. Princess Fiona, who was smiling but giving off an unpleasant vibe, was instinctively uncomfortable.

Vivian sighed softly and raised her head to look at Princess Fiona. He could feel the twisted emotions pouring out of him as he saw Princess Fiona still smiling with the corners of her mouth raised.

“…Please don’t tell disgusting jokes. I know your inner thoughts, right? “Aren’t you the one who is happiest now that that child is gone?”

“…what?”

“The child who resembled ‘that woman’ you hated disappeared right before your eyes, right? If that’s not something to be happy about, then what is? Oh, did you say ‘I hate you’ to that child because you wanted it to be like this? It’s really dense-”

Sigh-!!!

With the sound of something being torn, Vivian’s palm hit Princess Fiona’s face. Princess Fiona, whose head turned to the side, widened her eyes and turned to look at Vivian.

Drop, drop. Incongruous tears began to flow down Vivian’s face. Princess Fiona, looking at the flowing tears, narrowed her eyes and frowned. As if he really didn’t want to see it.

‘It’s the same.’

It was the same. I felt like I was going to die. Was this woman capable of making an expression like this? Was this woman capable of dealing with people with these emotions? If only this woman could do this.

‘Why me? ‘Why are you treating me like that?’

I can’t believe that you, the person who ‘accidentally’ killed my father and raised me as a ‘witch,’ could do this. No, I don’t believe it. Do you think I don’t know what’s inside you?

“…Princess Fiona.”

Vivian suddenly stood up, frowned, and looked at Princess Fiona. Princess Fiona looked at Vivian with a casual smile, as if she was familiar with that expression.

“I forgive you for all the disrespect you have done to me so far. But not twice. “It would be better to remember it properly with a weak head.”

“……”

“Stay out of my sight until the delegation leaves, and then quietly return.”

bang!

With those last words, Vivian ran out of the room. Princess Fiona, who was left alone in the room, leaned back on the sofa and smiled, stroking her cheek where she had been hit.

“Haha… it hurts.”

Even though I said that, it didn’t hurt that much. Thanks to the consideration put into my hand, my hand lost strength before being hit and it didn’t hurt. The proof was that there was no torn lip or the taste of blood in the mouth.

“Originally, I would hit you until your lips are torn and the inside of your mouth is sore…”

Princess Fiona covered her eyes with her arm and burst into laughter. Princess Fiona, who had laughed once and twice, suddenly stopped laughing and muttered to herself in a cold voice.

“…disgusting.”