Weird Stories: Gothic Lolita Begins

"Ralph! You shouldn't be here!" The pale-faced blonde princess grabbed the collar of the handsome, tall, brown-haired young man in front of her, and tried to push him out of the stone chamber. "If the goddess knew that you came to see me privately..."

The blonde princess didn't continue, but increased the strength of her hand a little.

Looking at the princess's always clear and pure lake blue eyes full of anxiety and worry, Ralph's feet seemed to be rooted and motionless, and his face with clear lines was extremely gloomy, as if he was trying his best to suppress something.

After a long while, he opened his mouth, but in the end, he said nothing. He just raised his hand and held the hand of the former first princess of the kingdom, which was no longer delicate, and whispered as if to promise:

"Your Highness Miriam, I will always be your knight."

Hearing this, the blonde princess - Miriam was severely frightened, like a little animal that was suddenly frightened and stressed, and hurriedly explained: "Not anymore!!!"

As soon as the words came out, before Ralph did anything, Miriam was frightened again by the overly sharp tone and volume.

After all, she was the first heir to the Kane Kingdom. Miriam quickly realized her loss of composure. She took a shallow breath and pulled out a bitter self-deprecating expression:

"I'm sorry for letting you see me lose composure like this... You really should leave."

Ralph's thin lips with beautiful lines slightly opened, but once again, he said nothing.

After a short silence, Ralph, the knight who once belonged to the princess and now the "third hero", lowered his head obediently, took out a cloth bag of the same color from under his cloak, stuffed it into the princess's arms without saying anything, and said in a stammering voice:

"Okay... I brought you some fresh food."

Milliam was stunned.

Soon, she took the cloth bag that was still warm, and said softly as if sighing: "Thank you, Ralph... But don't do this again."

Fearing that she would cause the other party to misunderstand, Miriam immediately gave an explanation, speaking at a rather fast pace:

"Rather than simply dying, the goddess would rather I live to witness her glory, so I won't really starve to death... But if she knows that you secretly helped me..."

Milliam didn't say the rest of the words, but she believed that Ralph understood.

Her knight was just honest, not stupid.

Ralph did understand.

With the moonlight shining in from the unobstructed tower window, Ralph stared at his princess deeply, as if he wanted to engrave her face in his heart forever.

How he wanted to abandon everything and take his princess to the end of the world!

However, he couldn't.

Because his princess would not abandon the people of the kingdom.

...

After all, he didn't dare to stay for long. Ralph quickly said goodbye to Miriam and quietly climbed over the wall from an unnoticed window just like when he came.

- This is almost impossible to do at ordinary times, but tonight is an exception, because almost everyone, including the tower guards and soldiers patrolling nearby, relaxed their vigilance because of the atmosphere of carnival among the countries.

...

Outside the palace hall, in a side hall for guests to rest temporarily.

"Have you really made up your mind?" The "First Brave" who didn't look very good held a small and exquisite wine bottle carved from white jade in one hand, looked at Ralph deeply, and asked again as if admonishing.

"Yes, I have made up my mind." The "Third Brave Man" Ralph said firmly and slowly, "I am the most suitable one."