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[Episode 54] – A disturbance that is not a run away from home (4)

“Huh?”

Titania opened her eyes and looked blankly at the ceiling. A place full of spider webs all over the ceiling and piles of dust. Titania traced her hazy memories and remembered why she was here.

“Yes?”

No matter how much I tried to remember, I couldn’t remember why I was here. After rubbing her sleepy eyes, Titania looked around and saw that this was a warehouse-like room in the royal palace.

I thought it was strange and tried to wake up the angel hanging around its neck by slapping it, but the angel seemed to be sleeping and only made a groaning sound and did not wake up. Why on earth was he sleeping here?

‘Obviously, I was sleeping in my room…’

Titania tilted her head, shook the dust off her buttocks, stood up, opened the warehouse door, and headed outside. It must have been afternoon when I fell asleep, but before I knew it, it was pitch black outside the window.

Not knowing if it was night or dawn, Titania felt like she had to go back to her room quickly, so she started running down the hallway. Let’s walk towards the crowded hallway.

I could hear the maids murmuring inside the hallway. This was the first time the hallway was noisy at such a dark time, so Titania naturally headed towards the source of the sound.

“What are you all doing here-”

The moment Titania and the maids, who had walked towards the source of the sound without any suspicion, made eye contact, silence fell in the hallway. No, should I call this static? Surprise, surprise, bewilderment, etc.

The maids were left speechless due to a variety of emotions, and the silence was broken only when one of the maids, who had been gagging, burst into tears, and the maids started screaming. A sound mixed with confusion.

“princess! “Where on earth have you been…!”

“Yes…? “The warehouse over there…?”

“What on earth were you thinking leaving a note like that?! “How much is Her Majesty the Queen…!”

“What, a note…?”

Titania could not give a proper answer to the storm of questions. Somehow, while I was surrounded by maids and talking about where I had been all this time, I heard someone running from the end of the hallway.

“Her Royal Highness, here…!”

Before I knew it, one of the maids had gone to call Vivian, and the maid who had run in with Vivian was busy catching her breath. All the maids who had been asking Titania questions at a rapid pace had no choice but to silence themselves at Vivian’s appearance.

That’s right, because I saw Vivian’s face. The corners of the eyes were red from crying, and the eyes were sharp as if they could tear someone to pieces at any moment. His expression was so angry that he grunted and frowned.

“Hyung.”

Titania swallowed a hiccup as she looked at her as if she was going to scream at any moment. I’ve never seen my mother with such a scary face before.

Although she had no idea what the maids were talking about and why she was sleeping in a warehouse like that, Titania knew instinctively.

“You…!!!”

“Uh, mom…?”

First of all, you know you did something wrong.

Otherwise, there’s no way my mother would be that angry. thud. thud. Vivian’s steps became faster and faster. The sound of footsteps has become louder, so now anyone who hears it can say, ‘I’m angry.’ It was the sound of footsteps.

Titania closed her eyes tightly at the sight of Vivian approaching right in front of her. I flinched at the thought that I would hear a sound like lightning at any moment, but-

“…Are you a little more angry now? “You’re finally showing your face to me.”

What I heard was a sound of crying.

The wet voice was so full of water that it felt like she was crying even though she wasn’t shedding tears. The same emotion was conveyed to Titania, who was looking at Vivian’s bitterly smiling expression.

Vivian smiled and stroked Titania’s cheek. Titania felt the heat from Vivian’s hand touching her face, and her shoulders trembled in surprise.

“Did you hate me enough to leave a letter like that…?”

Vivian squatted down to make eye contact and hugged Titania. Then he let out a hot sigh and swallowed the tears that threatened to burst.

Titania was unable to say anything as Vivian’s emotions were clearly conveyed through their touching flesh. I just feel sorry and sorry for avoiding my mother all this time.

“S-sorry…”

She buried her face in Vivian’s shoulder and shed tears. I tried to calm down and hold back, but once the tears broke out, they didn’t easily stop. Even if I wiped it away, new teardrops overflowed and wet my cheeks.

Titania, who was holding Vivian’s clothes tightly, did not know what to do and shed tears as she could not control her overwhelming emotions. Vivian let out a small sigh at that sight, then slowly picked up Titania and held her in her arms.

Titania was hugging my neck and burying her face in my shoulder, so I could feel the back of my neck getting wet with tears. Vivian patted Titania’s back and smiled brightly as she looked at the maids standing next to her.

“Tell everyone, you found the princess. “Everyone has worked hard, so please tell them to get some rest.”

“Yes, Her Majesty the Queen.”

Vivian, holding Titania in her arms, quietly headed to her room. Vivian smiled brightly, looking at Titania who was still shedding tears.

When she found Titania, Vivian felt like she wanted to get angry right away. He wrote down a note telling people not to search for him and then disappeared, but he was so angry that he only showed up now…

Fortunately, when I looked at Titania, who was found without any injuries, those feelings faded and disappeared. The only emotions that remain are a feeling of happiness and a feeling of being upset for no reason.

‘Really, they say no parent can beat their child… That’s true.’

Vivian, who was patting Titania’s sobbing back, let out a small sigh. Vivian was just grateful that Titania was found without incident, and gently gave strength and held Titania in her arms.

“Let’s sleep together today. “There must be a lot of talk accumulated over the past two months.”

*

The princess, whose eyes were red from crying, looked at me and shouted, puffing out her cheeks. He said he couldn’t believe me and even patted my chest with both fists.

“That note really wasn’t written by me?!”

“Yes, yes. “Let’s do something like that.”

“profit!!”

I giggled as I saw the princess bickering in my arms again. Yes, I guess it’s because I’m embarrassed. It was discovered less than a day after I wrote that note, so there’s no way I wouldn’t be embarrassed.

“Yes, this mom knows everything~ So, let’s go to sleep now. “It’s already past dawn.”

“It’s true… I didn’t write it…”

He poked the princess’ puffy cheeks and urged her to go to sleep, and the princess puffed out her cheeks even more. When I stretched out my arm at that sight, the princess naturally laid down on my arm.

Then he hugged me with both hands and buried his face in my chest. It meant that he didn’t want to see my face. When I patted the princess on the back, she lifted her head and looked at me.

With very bright and clear eyes.

“…Can’t you sleep?”

The princess smiled and nodded. I was so tired that I felt like I would fall asleep instantly the moment I closed my eyes… This tomboy princess looked at me, saying she couldn’t sleep, probably because she had been sleeping in the storage room where she was hiding.

I glanced at the Ainsel hanging on the wall with tired eyes. I was planning on handing this energetic princess over to Ainsel, but… as soon as I saw Ainsel sleeping deeply and making a noise, I burst into tears and got angry.

That damn mirror.

Someday I’ll have to really scold you.

I patted the princess’s back and told her to go to sleep, and I looked down at her. The princess looked at me with sparkling eyes, as if she had no intention of falling asleep, and seemed to be asking me for something.

“If it’s a fairy tale, you’re past the age to read it…”

“I always enjoy listening to the fairy tales my mom tells me.”

Was it a mistake to tell them the various fairy tales I had known since I was young? From the time I started sleeping with the princess, I told her many fairy tales that I remembered.

Starting from Cinderella, there is nothing more to read, to folk fairy tales. There were no fairy tales like this here, so I lied and said I made them up…

Now that I had told all the fairy tales I remembered, there were no more fairy tales to tell to the princess. After sighing softly, I lowered my head and looked at the princess.

He placed a small kiss on the princess’s forehead and slowly began to read the fairy tale that came to mind. It was a fairy tale I had heard countless times, starting with Cinderella, but the princess listened intently and focused on my story.

“Once upon a time, in a certain country-”

When I saw the princess listening to my story, I smiled without knowing. Saying that it was nice to be back like old times again, I patted the princess’s back gently and continued the story.

*

Eventually, the morning of the day the delegation from the Silver Word Kingdom departed dawned. What on earth was Princess Fiona back then? What happened with Vivian before?

…No matter how much I thought about it, there was nothing I could figure out. There was no particular reason why I just slapped Princess Fiona and moved on.

It was as if the way he was cursing me was somehow desperately pleading for something. The way she cursed at me so cruelly made me criticize her no more.

I thought that something must have happened to her with Vivian, and I didn’t even feel like getting angry anymore.

An event to send off the delegation. As the ministers were talking with the delegations, Princess Fiona looked at me and smiled.

I told you not to let me see you again, but you’ll be fine the last time I leave. I also smiled and saw Princess Fiona off.

There was no greeting to see each other off.

Princess Fiona just quietly boarded the carriage heading to the Kingdom of Silverword and left without saying a word. As if I was going to keep my word to never be seen again.

The princess, who was looking at me blankly while holding my hand, asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs who was standing next to me.

“What kind of person is the second queen of the Silverword Kingdom?”

The Minister of Foreign Affairs widened his eyes at the princess’s unexpected question, let out a small drool, and let out a hollow laugh.

“Hehe, it looks like the princess is mistaken. “There is no second queen in the Silver Word Kingdom.”

“huh? But obviously Princess Fiona…”

“The king and queen over there are so good at gold thread, their line of succession is about five days. “Even the officials over there can’t even talk to the king about his second wife.”

“Yes?”

The princess tilted her head as if she didn’t understand and a question mark appeared on her head. I also suddenly wondered what was going on, so I chuckled and picked up the princess and headed toward the royal castle.

“Let’s go in now. “Now that the big work is over… shouldn’t we now prepare for what’s to come in the fall?”

“Autumn?”

“okay. “It’s almost time for the princess to debut.”

The princess tilted her head when she heard the word fall. The Minister of Foreign Affairs looked at the princess with a smile, saying that the time had finally come, but the princess still seemed not to know what he was talking about.

I looked at the princess, smiled, and answered. Now that the princess has turned ten, it is time to meet other young noble ladies.

Invitations were already pouring in to invite the princess to the party they were holding. Now it seemed like the time had come.

“I’m making my debut on the children’s social scene in the fall.”