Answer Me, My Prince

#43.

It was a good time.

Of course, it was limited to us who were locked up in the palace.

The War of the Mad Emperor of Roitlingen stretched beyond northern Windsorton to Valeria and al-Dar below, and the people of southern Winderton were also mobilized to do so, but we didn't know that.

It was a time when the aftermath of the war did not reach the heart of Roitlingen. The palace was still excited by the daily victory news and ball games, and was always busy and luxurious.

In the midst of it, the people of our Byulgung were busy playing princesses.

Every morning, the woman in her turn wears the princess's undressed clothes, veils, and wears a handful of old Windsortonian plaques. And it helps the princess who wakes up early in the morning to wear a maid's uniform.

"I can do it.”

Our princess never leaves anything to others. That's my personality, so I think I could have played this role now. But back then, we all thought it would be a big deal if we didn't help the princess.

"Sit down, I said.

I succeed in forcing the princess to sit down because of the privilege of my old childhood friend. Now, it's time for all of our ladies to put all their efforts into hiding the beauty of the princess in her gown.

To hide the beauty of red hair, you can even braid your temples and dress them in as old and shabby clothes as possible, and Prince Liner arrives. Whenever I open my lips, I get a polite way of talking.

"It's Edwina. Your hair looks like a baby and cute."

"Rainer, you're prettier.

If the princess answers in a casual tone as usual, the prince's face heats up like a girl.

Hilda's grandmother giggles, pretends to be on the table, and a girl sits and pretends to be a princess, pretends to be a princess and eats hard.

Even if you were a prince, Hilda, and Tilbert, who was guarding the gate of the palace, we continued to play roles because of the listening ears and the mouths that tell us everywhere in the empire. The Mad Emperor didn't know when he would return to the palace, and every time he returned, one or two people died.

We didn't want to play the role of beheading victims of little things, so we were careful about everything. Even the prince sneaked in with more careful steps than the kitten when he brought food.

But thanks to my nervousness, the peaceful times we had felt only sweeter.

After the meal, Prince Liner pushes his head in like a cat whining to his master.

"Didn't you like what I brought you, Edwina?" Hurry up and compliment me. Will you read me a book?"

No one would say no to that.

The princess also seems to be blunt, but she has a kind heart. When the princess' recitation begins, the prince slowly leans on her shoulder.

Maybe he's trying to steal an illustration, sometimes he puts his head on the princess' small shoulder and tilts his head, sometimes his posture collapses and lies down on her lap. When you are in a good mood, the princess also allows you to act like a cat.

I'm afraid of familiarity. Drenched in drizzle, Prince Rainer slipped into our daily lives, and before I knew it, the princess' knees became his every day.

My princess, you said you don't even have time to do love, but how nice you are to behave. If I were Prince Liner, I wouldn't have tortured you like this.

No matter how much you think of him as a dog and a little brother, you've even kissed him one day. Yes, I can't leave this out.

It happened when our princess told us the story of Arthur Gillan and Queen Guinevere.

"So, Edwina, did the knight Arthur Gillan really wait 100 days in front of Queen Guinevere's castle? You don't eat or sleep?"

"Yes, the founding king Lancelot said. If you wait 100 days in front of him, I'll give you the queen."

"What's all this nonsense? Queen, isn't that Lancelot's wife? Does it make sense to give your wife to a friend?"

"Ginevere knew the knight Arthur Gillan before he married King Lancelot and became queen. They've been friends since they were very young. Knight Arthur Gillan's first love was Ginevere, and Ginevere loved Arthur Gillan, too. Lancelot knew it but wanted the guinevere. He never proposed the king's name to his friend's lover, and he managed to make her his wife."

"That's a nasty thing. No, Edwina, I don't want to speak ill of your forefathers, but you're a damn bastard."

"It's all right, Liner. I swear at your dad, too. King Lancelot was like your father."

While I was checking the crack in the door, the two of them burst into laughter. When the laughter died down, Prince Liner urged the story again.

"Yes, it's Edwina. But why did your damn ancestors offer to give that wife to a friend?”

"It was a forced marriage, so there was no trust between the husband and wife and daughter. Ginevere was faithful to his wife's role, but Lancelot was always anxious to see if she still cared about Arthur Gillan. On the day of the victory, a banquet was held at Arli Palace in Windsorton as usual. Whenever we did any eye contact is that kind of Arthur Gillen, an article and ginebieo, ginebieo was beaten to death. I never had a white face to bruise."

"It's, it's...It's just like my father."

"Yeah, I was so nervous and jealous, but Lancelot had no guts to punish Arthur Gillan. No matter what they say, Arthur was the first meritorious subject to defeat the League of Nine tribes and make it a kingdom. So he always kept his ugly jealousy in his mind, and then one night when he was drunk, he pretended to be okay and asked his friend. "Do you still love Queen Guinevere?" “

"That's dirty. So what did Arthur Gillan say?”

"This stupid founding contributor was also a man who could never lie. Arthur couldn't say, 'No, I don't love you.' He just shut up. Lancelot, who was heavily intoxicated with the northern savages wiped out and bloodstained, said excitedly. "Will I give you my wife?"

"So? So what happened?”

"Rainer, that's what happened in that Arthur Gillian story you brought. Lancelot said. Wait for 100 days in front of the queen's castle. If you do that, you can have a guinevere."

"Do you agree with Queen Ginevere?"

Prince Liner jumped up from his knees in excitement, and was shaken for a moment to see if he was dizzy. Princess Edwina smiled, held Prince Liner's face with both hands, and broke her head like a pet dog.

"No, you guys are. It's up to you."

When I thought of their story, I suddenly burst into a rage, and I felt the power in Princess Edwina's hands, who held Prince Liner's head.

"Oh, it hurts, Edwina. I won't do that to you. Why don't you just keep talking?"

"Oh, sorry. Yeah, knight Arthur Gillan and Lancelot started making their own bets without the consent of Ginevere. Arthur Gillan waited in front of Queen Guinevere's castle without a hitch. I didn't eat, I didn't drink water."

"Does that make sense?”

"It doesn't make sense. It's just a legend. Actually, I would have had water and rice. But whether it's sleeping or eating, it's only true that you didn't leave the place, whether it was raining or snowing.”

"That's going to kill me."

"Yeah, standing like that for 100 days must have been tough anyway. After 90 days, Arthur Gillan really couldn't do anything. It was so painful that I only shed tears, but I really couldn't eat and drink water. All he could do was sit down and look at the guinevere on the balcony and cry.”

"You're such a stupid... "

"Yes, but the foolish man was still much better than King Lancelot. 99 days later, he left with only one day left."

"Why the hell?"

"Well, there's a lot of controversy. There is a story that if he waited for 100 days and got a guinevere, he would have left because he could not incur the wrath of King Lancelot."

"Then you couldn't have left in the first place. You wouldn't have waited 100 days from the beginning."

"Yes, so I believe in a different theory. The story of Arthur Gillan, the foolish knight, left 99 days later, realizing that winning a queen was meaningless, as if it were a reward given to those who waited for 100 days.”

"That's a late realization."

"But it's better than I didn't realize. I think that's what Queen Guinevere thought."

"What's that about?”

"The queen, she's waiting for 99 days. He went after Arthur Gillan, the knight who left him.”

"That's good of you to leave King Lancelot. I'm sure they met again, right?

"I don't know. All we know is that both of them disappeared into the woods and were never found. Not long after that, King Lancelot went off like your father, and he was killed at the hands of his son."

"That's good to hear."

"If you say that in front of the Windsorton, you'll never be safe, Liner Selene von Roitlingen?"

"Who was the one who just cursed the Emperor of Roitlingen, Edwin or Windsorton?"

Now that she was used to the princess, she smiled at the liner, who was talking back to her.

"Yes, you're right. Anyway, that's how the fight between the stupid and the less stupid ended up in the first Winserton dynasty. ”

"But Edwina, maybe Arthur Gillan was just trying to wait 99 days from the beginning."

"What does that mean?"

"Wasn't Arthur Gillan a knight who was righteous and brave and ran hundreds of hours to save the life of a crying child?"

"Yes, everyone in Winderton loves knight Arthur Gillan."

"Did he really have to wait 100 days to get Queen Guinevere? He would have known. You would have known how hard it was for Queen Ginevere next to King Lancelot, and you would have known that the royal castle was like a prison for her."

Princess Edwina's green eyes, which were indifferent to the quiet tone of the liner Hwang Ja-in, who constantly preaches her thoughts as usual, began to shine.

"Then? Then wait 100 days and get the queen out. Why do you wait 99 days before you leave?

"Well, if I were Arthur Gillan, I wouldn't have waited 100 days and got a guinevere. I'll wait 99 days and then I'll leave. He left this place in the name of following me and following me; he would have watched the queen from afar, giving everyone an excuse to understand the queen leaving the king.”

"Why are you watching?”

"So it's dangerous for a woman to walk alone..."

"You prick. What's the risk?I'll just watch because it's good. Anyway, you're the one who can't believe you'reling. “

That's what I say, but my princess, I wonder if you liked the story so much that your voice is as sweet as ever.

"Yes, it is. But that's love, isn't it? Trying to give me a chance to leave alone, and then... I can't leave him alone, so I'm watching him from afar."

"What do you know about love?”

"He's twice as big as you, Edwinaya."

It was when I was laughing and giggling watching the two quarreling. The princess pulled the liner's cheek as if it were cute, and now she kisses the chin that reveals quite a manly line.

What, what are you doing?”

"Just. Liner von Roitlingen, I like your interpretation."

It's not a kiss between lovers, it's a gentle gesture like a balladang under the knee, a little cat with a belly open.

But Prince Liner's face is red in a flash. When I see that, I want to pick him up a little more. My princess, this time on the prince's forehead, and a kiss on the cheek.

But Prince Rainer, who was embarrassed and knew he would faint, remained as pitiful as a little priest, quietly offering my cheek to Princess Edwina.

It was then that Princess Edwina's funny eyes made her angry.

The princess who stopped kissing asks.

"Rainer."

"Huh?"

"You're not even nervous, are you?"

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"Hey, you crazy."

Then Princess Edwina leaps up and shouts. But Prince Rainer doesn't panic and just looks up at the princess like a child being scolded.

"You fool, how can you do this again and again?”

Then I realize. That the prince had just received the kiss and had to take it again, a minute ago, a minute ago, and then a minute ago.

Princess Edwina knew right away what this insensitive Josephine didn't feel. As the Prince Liner once said, people who have learned that time can go this way, with just a tiny clue, can grasp the time that has been turned and take all the memories in the time that has been repeated.

"No, I don't know."

"Poor bastard, how can you not know that?”

"I mean, it's so good that I don't even know it."

While Prince Liner is making excuses that don't work that way, the memories of kissing come back to my head once, twice, and three times. As if I did it without realizing it, the kiss went back as soon as it was over, and this time it goes back to before the story of the knight Arthur Gillan, and even when the day begins. I try to stop Princess Edwina, with the sudden rush of memories making my head swim.

"Princess, what's the matter? It's a happy time, it was a perfect day. Why don't you repeat it three times?"

"You said you wouldn't turn it around again, you idiot."

The princess growls at Prince Liner without listening to me. The prince quickly raises his arms to block my head as if the princess were going to hit me. There is something poor about being drunk by those who have been beaten a lot, and the princess' anger soon abates.

"Would you hit me?”

"Who's going to hit you?"

"It's okay, hit me, hit me."

"…when did you see me hit you?”

"It's all right, Edwina. I get along very well. Getting hit is a skill, too.”

The princess walks to Prince Liner, who says so in a crumpled voice. And unlike the posture of blocking the head, the long arms that are now quite manly are held roughly by Princess Edwina's little hands.

"Fool, I'm not going to hit you, so untie your arms."

"Chinma-al?"

"Rainer, I understand that I was happy to compliment you. But I can give you that compliment even if you don't turn back time. So don't waste your talent on that."

"Chi, compliments? When did you compliment me? You've been grumpy and grumpy.

"You said you liked your interpretation. That's a huge compliment."

"Yeah, but, Edwina, I liked your kiss, not your compliment. Will you do that for me again?"

"What kind of kiss is a kiss? I won't do that again. So don't turn it around."

In the end, Prince Liner ends up in tears after being baptized into the night.

"Didn't you just say you didn't hit me?”

For the maid-in-law, who was crowded with loud noises, the princess eventually tells the story again. If you're tired of hearing what you've heard four times, Prince Rainer still listened carefully and asked at the end.

"Did Queen Ginevere meet with the knight Arthur Gillan, Edwina?"

"I don't know. What do you think, Liner?"

"Well, as I said before, if I were a knight Arthur Gillan, I would have pretended to be leaving far away, watched Queen Ginevere, and as soon as she left, she would have appeared with a big heart. And..."

"And?"

"If Lancelot had been like my father, he would have put someone up to trace the queen and killed them both the moment they met.”

"If Arthur Gillan had waited calmly in front of the queen's castle until the 100th night, would Lancelot really give her Queen Ginevere without saying anything?”

"Well, come to think of it, I wish it were my father.I would have killed the queen and cut her throat and given it to Gilan."

After telling such a terrible story, Prince Rainer smiles like an angel. So my princess has no choice but to shake her head.

"So you think you're scared of your father and live well. Don't do anything useless. Got it?"

"Yeah, I see. I'll just listen to you. As you said, I'll do everything."

"Listening. He doesn't even listen to what I told him not to turn it around. Well, you're the one who'll move forward in less than 10 days, let alone 100 days. You disgusting little thing."

"It's Edwina. Where else can you be so hard on a scary guy?”

He didn't give up on our princess, Prince Liner, who put his head in Murphak and lay down. But he only patted the prince's soft hair with a friendly gesture.

When I saw that, I thought about it. It must have been a perfect day for you, too, to repeat it three times.

a review of one's

Dear readers.

Is he alive?

…it's obvious.

I'm sorry for being late.

You're okay?

You didn't wait at all?

You forgot?

But I love you...

Monday after the holiday is over, but it's not a perfect day.

I hope Edwina and Liner, who came at the end of the day, will take a little rest from the fatigue accumulated in your daily lives.

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