Answer Me, My Prince

#25.

Dear Lady Cordelia, who must be pining over our prince's letter by now.

Hello, I'm Sergeant Vader. How have you been doing?

The first thing I was worried about was Lady Cordelia after her organ stay in the monastery was decided.

No, to be exact, I'm really worried about Prince Arch, who is addicted to the letter I share with Lady Cordelia.

When I saw the prince going to Arli Palace saying that it would take about a week at most, I thought I had to call it "addiction."

Furthermore, the prince was even more impressive after coming back from Arli to get a book locker. He held the box tightly in his hands and kicked in the door of my writing room, and he said he would tear up all the books he had just made if he dropped or destroyed it with a scary expression like Princess Cecilia. What a terrible thing to do!

Is Lady Cordelia a little tired of our prince's obsession by now?

But now you are running over there and playing well with Noel and the Duke of Florian, and you are beautiful like an angel, so please forgive our prince. You should stop being fooled by that pretty face.

Noel and the Duke of Florian became closer while Prince Archie left for Arli Palace for a while.

That's what he should be, because he first encountered an adult woman except for Princess Cecilia.

Yes, Lady Cordelia.

The old fox noticed right away.

The fact that the Duke of Florian is actually a woman.

In fact, at first, I was not sure.

Her face and appearance must be all female, but I wondered if someone as smart as Prince Archie wouldn't know that.

But the way I felt about this was never wrong, and before Princess Cecilia left for the tower, I asked her a hint. She wasn't surprised and answered me right away.

"Bedder, can you see it right away?"

"Yes, Princess. Anyone who sees that little cheek would think so."

"He's pathetic, Archie."

"...I think the Prince of Archie knows it, but he's pretending not to know it?"

"No. She doesn't know. She seems to have caught on, but she's the only one who doesn't know."

"How... can you do that? So Prince Archie, uh, he knows women, so, uh, maybe he's got a bad head.No, you're smart.”

When I stammered in embarrassment, Princess Cecilia just shook her head.

"Just shut up, Vader. Let's see when that pathetic bastard notices. “

That's what Princess Cecilia said, and she left on a horse.

But I thought maybe my prince didn't notice that, so I quickly went to him and asked him about the Duke of Florian. However, my prince only said this with an innocent face.

"Florian, he has a secret. I'm worried because I can't catch what it is. I think my keen Coco has already noticed."

"Lady Cordelia noticed?”

"Yeah, that's great, isn't it? You know everything by looking at the letter?"

And then he was excited and bragged about you for about an hour.

After all this, I realized that even you had noticed that the Duke was a woman.

Then I suddenly felt sad. My prince, who I cared about like a son, was a little different from what I thought. I started to wonder if it was not enough.

Anyway, I'm still a hard worker fighting these doubts. Thanks to the paper you gave me last time, it was easy to finish, and now I'm a little free, so it's the best time to bring up the old story.

I told you about Princess Edwina's return to Windsorton after three years of being held hostage in Roitlingen, right? That's when I left this library in front of me in this monastery.

As the princess said, I kept this bookcase preciously on one side of the first scripture room and wiped it every day to sit down and dust. But I never thought about opening it up and cleaning it.

I thought about what would happen if I touched it for no reason, and when the princess showed me for the first time, I checked that there was nothing but a bracelet with three rings inside, so I didn't have any curiosity about the inside.

I kept it that way, but I didn't know the princess would come back to find it. The princess always throws my treasure in the monastery and never comes looking for it. On one side of the 1st Scripture is Princess Edwina's doll, and there's a box of jewelry, books and so on.

Oh, I'm talking about the princess, and I keep talking to her. Please forgive me generously and don't rush me too much, considering that this is all because I reminded an old man of his memories. Now I'm going to tell you the exact story you really wanted to hear.

Lady Cordelia,

What I'm going to tell you now is a secret that this old man has kept for a long time alone.

The story may contain profane words that may be captured and killed immediately after being insulted the royal family.

So please, don't show this letter to anyone, and if you're not safe, please read it and drive it right away.

Now, let's start with a long story.

After Princess Edwina left to find the knight Arthur Gillan, the king went all over the place looking for his one remaining child, but there was little profit.

There were rumors that the Empire had taken the princess back as a hostage.

If that's true, it would have to wage another war to get the princess back, but the king could never do that.

It wasn't just because it was obvious that I would lose. The real power of the kingdom was already under the control of the Duke of Charles Wellesley, and there was no way he would allow a war in the name of finding a princess in the aristocracy.

It was natural in a way that this happened. The war with the Empire was a reckless act of the king, and many people in Windsorton were sacrificed.

After Prince Edwin's death, the king abandoned the royal castle and fled south, but Prince Charles Wellesley and his army stayed to defend the palace. And at the end of the war, King Alfred had to accept defeat by kneeling down and banging his head against the emperor of Roitlingen, and the dignity of the King Winserton was shattered.

It was ridiculous that Windsorton's name, which has been around for more than 100 years, was suddenly erased and someone else ascended the throne, but King Seon collapsed too much to establish the authority of the king.

Still, King Edwin must have thought that things would be better if Princess Edwina returned from her ball and her succession was completed, but Princess Edwina, who returned, was as cold as a stone to the king.

Why did I do that to my father, whom I haven't seen in a long time?

Well, it's obvious.

When Prince Edwin was alive, he didn't care about the princess at all.

After meeting the second queen, she even made a divorce law that she was not in love with, and eventually gave her a successor education only to Prince Edwin, who was born between the second queen, and her mother completely ignored it.

Yes, the reason our princess was able to withstand the mosquitoes in Roitlingen so well was probably because she wasn't so beloved by Windsorton in the first place. She's like... In a bad way, he was neglected, and in a good way, he grew up free.

But would it work if you went to the princess and told her that you had to help her lay the foundation for the House of Windsorton and marry Charles Wellesley?

A daughter with a bigger head after a hard time in Roitlingen, now a toothless tiger, will you listen to her father?

The feud between the princess and the king intensified. Just before the knight Arthur Gillan appeared in Arli, the princess had already declared that she would not marry Sir Charles Wellesley, but she had a big fight with her predecessor.

"I understand the king's words, 'Get out of here.'" "I came out alone without a single wife and came to the Lette monastery. A few days later, I was called back to Arli Palace as if I were being dragged away."

Now that it has happened, who would join the late father's regrets if he said he would fight for the princess and now? If you insist, you'll be kicked out of the throne in a shabby manner.

Knowing that the situation was like this, I thought that maybe the princess left not because of the article, but because she just wanted to leave Arli.

My idea was not completely wrong, but it didn't really fit.

As I said last time, Princess Edwina visited the monastery of Lete, half a year after she disappeared.

The princess who came to see me looked different from before.

The bright green eyes were deeper than ever before, and there was less talk than before.

But the biggest difference was the color of my face. The small face had a bright light of hope that made even the viewer's heart flutter.

"Princess, are you so happy to be out of Arli?”

I think I asked like this at first. The princess shook her head.

"Sometimes I remember. It's funny, even my father, who didn't want to be seen."

"Then why did you leave, Princess? I thought the princess left because she was sick of Arli. He really followed Arthur Gillan, like everyone else said."

"Maybe."

"Do you love him?"

"No."

"But why, Princess? Why did you leave everything behind? “

When I asked her like that, she hesitated and stuttered.

"He waited 99 days in front of my castle. At the end, I couldn't eat, sleep, or close my eyes. It was very painful to stand there for so long. But he waited 99 days and left me with one day left. I was just curious. Why did you do that?"

I just left because I was curious. It was like a princess, so I stopped laughing. I thought maybe the knight Arthur Gillan understood our princess well. Princess Edwina was very unique and intelligent from an early age, and as many smart people were curious.

Anyway, I was happy to see my princess look happy, so I thought I'd be happy.

This reverent Pilgrim thought that even if the princess didn't go back to Arli, she would just be happy.

"Princess, did you find Arthur Gillan and solve your curiosity?”

The princess shook her head. He says he hasn't found a footprint yet.

I asked the princess again.

"But why do you look so happy, Princess?"

"I came up with a way to find it."

Yes, Lady Cordelia. A wise man like you would have guessed right here.

The only way to find it was in a bookstore.

Maybe it's a bracelet in the bookcase.

The same bracelet that the princess gave me when I came back from the mosquito.

I quickly entered the 1st Scripture and brought back the bookshelf I had kept.

It's been a while since I heard it, and it's quite heavy. And as I rustled, I heard something inside. I quickly opened it to see if the princess would be surprised if a butterfly sneaked in last summer was dead.

But as soon as I opened the box, the paper fell to the bottom of the excellent water like a summer fruit that burst when I touched it. Without realizing it, I screamed and exclaimed. Surprised by the sound, Princess Edwina entered the First Scripture, and she...

The princess didn't yell.

But the big green eyes were bigger than usual, and he couldn't say a word and opened his mouth, and he was looking at the sheets of paper in the box.

The princess sat on the floor. And they gave me some paper.

Lady Cordelia, you know that. This locker isn't that big, but it's still big enough to hold two or three books, so a piece of paper can fit more than a ceiling. But there was so much paper that the box would burst. All the papers were filled up.

It wasn't until a long time later that I knew it was a letter.

Those are letters that someone sent to our princess.

Perhaps the princess didn't think it would be in here.

It was just a bracelet that the princess came to pick up, and she didn't even think about taking the bookcase.

Princess Edwina read each letter, sitting on the floor like an enchanted person. I couldn't even ask what it was about.

It's been an hour or two.

Since the princess didn't move, time went on and on while I was standing there.

White snow began to fall gently over the penises of winter sunlight.

There was a savory smell about whether they were getting ready for dinner.

But I couldn't go to dinner. The letter is not over even if you read it.

That day, I first saw Princess Edwina's tears.

Even in his childhood, when the queen was abandoned by her predecessor and brought her to the Leete Abbey,

"When you come here for a summer outing and fall on a stone and bleed,

And when he came back from the heavy muzzle,

The crying of a princess I've never seen before.

Lady Cordelia, have you ever seen anything like that?

People who don't cry like this. Once you cry, you really cry loudly.

If you can't control your emotions, you'll swallow your tears, and when these people can't help themselves, you'll end up crying terribly loud.

The princess cried that the world collapsed like that.

I was stuck waiting for the end of the cry.

It was only when the snow that fell out of the writing room died down, and it became dark all over, and now there was no sign of crying, that the princess' endless tears were collected.

The princess searched the bookcase for the bracelet, collected the papers on the bottom of the island, put them in the package as if they were a precious treasure, and immediately left.

I grabbed the princess who was leaving without saying goodbye and asked her.

"Wouldn't you take the bookcase with you?"

I ask you to leave after night,

I beg you not to go,

Where are you headed?

I know it won't work, so I think I just said that.

The princess looked at me and said,

"I have it.”

And I thought for a moment, and I added,

"I don't know when I'll say hello."

It was foolish to know what that meant after a month. I opened the box after cleaning the library and found some paper in it again.

And there was a short message in unfamiliar handwriting.

Yes, it was a letter from Princess Edwina.

Don't get me wrong. Lady Cordelia, I am just an old man who is not as intelligent as you, and there was no letter between me and Prince Archie as friendly as you are.

The letter said to find the knight Arthur Gillan and to be relieved that he is living well, and to deliver all the letters he arrives afterwards to a princess who thinks she is the only friend. She was the first lady and best friend of the princess who followed the ball mosquitoes in Roitlingen.

I wrote a short letter just in case I could reach the princess.

It was a really short letter with the question of whether it was necessary to convey it to King Seon.

The princess sent me two answers a few days later to see if my guess was right.

No, don't tell me. Don't say anything to anyone.

You're the only one who knows I'm doing fine. ]

The next page was a little scary.

Tell me and I'll kill you. Do you understand?

If you look right, you'll do your best to Tyler.

And don't write to me again.

You like everything, but talking too much is a flaw. ]

..did I tell you? She's as kind as Prince Archie, but she's usually as sweet as Princess Cecil, who never says empty words. So how could this powerless old man be anything? I have no choice but to speak less.

And after a month or so, Princess Edwina wrote again.

I secretly informed Princess Edwina of this fact.

She was married to a high woman at the time and was not in an easy position to enter the monastery, but she visited our monastery almost every month under the pretext of ordering a new one.

He sometimes told me about the princess.

The princess said she had found a house to live with the knight Arthur Gillan, and that she had her own wedding.

He said he made strawberry juice for the first time and that he would not make peach jam again because it takes too long.

When asked what to do when he was stung by a nettle, I brought him some medicine instead of the princess, and when he said what to do when a child suddenly gets a fever, the two of us told him how to look through the book and get out of the cold tea, and how to make chicken soup.

But even this stopped when it was more than two years later.

The princess said in her letter that one day she said:

I won't write to you anymore if I live really well.]

She kept asking me to write to her, but as always, does Princess Edwin listen to anyone?

When I lost contact like a lie, I just wished.

Only if the princess meets the knight Arthur Gillan and lives happily ever after.

I never thought you two would have died.

I never imagined that the princess had a son, or a daughter.

...it's a long story. This must be why you shouldn't ask an old man carelessly.

Well, that's all I know about the bookstore. I decided to forget about this box after the princess' letter stopped coming, and I just put it away.

Of course I didn't throw it away. However, the writing was small, and the number of books that we owned in our scriptures increased. Over time, new ink, reeds, pens, and goose bumps piled up, and the paper stretched. The bookstores were pushed into a corner by those things like that. But Prince Arch, you son of a... No, I didn't expect him to take it. Who would have guessed?

Lady Cordelia, I don't know why you have half the bookcase. But I'm sure the princess will be pleased to know that Prince Archie is exchanging letters with you.

If you still laugh in the sky, good job, Vader. It's a good thing I left you in the locker.

You may be talking. Of course, of course.

On the dying night of the eleventh month, the Pilgrim Sergeant Vader Langolim.

* * *

Dear Vader,

I was almost late reading your letter before I came to work.

Can I ask you a short question, leaving behind your long letter?

Isn't the anonymous princess' name Adelaide?

I send love to all of the monastery of Lete, Cordelia.

a review of one's

Dear readers who must have had a hard time reading the long text.

I promised you one series per day, but please forgive me for splitting it into two because it's 15,000 characters. I'll take a day off tomorrow instead. Vedder, you talkative old man. I'm sorry.

P.S. The readers who write comments in letters to the simplified novel are so cute. Other than that, I think all the comments are much more interesting than mine, so I open my eyes to read them every morning! I will organize the questions that I can answer and post them on the notice. Joara doesn't have the comment function enabled! (It's probably have people like me.)

P.S. 2: Thank you so much for the recommendation and selection. I can't believe it's over 6000...ㅠㅠ Black.