Heavenly Castle

[In the Castle and Dining Room in the Sky]

"Yummy!"

"Oh, look, Mair. Eat slowly. But it's really delicious, too, this"

As we were all having breakfast in that conversation, uh, Rant opened his mouth.

"Speaking of which, is Lady Eira the one with an edge on the royal family of the kingdom of Atul?

To such a word, everyone's eyes turn to Eira.

Eira's face, who was delighted to report to me that she had been able to skin the potatoes well, changed to a frozen look with a word of rant.

A moment of silence ensues and Schnae rushes to open his mouth.

"Look, Rant... no, I was talking about maybe because Eira's hair was with the red hair of the Atool Royal Characteristics that I used to hear about. However, it's different in intensity, but I also see red hair."

As Schnae explained that while holding Rant's head in one hand, Eira inadvertently stood up holding her mouth in her hand.

"Oh, I'm sorry......!

Eira pops out of the cafeteria with a quick word of apology. The face was as earthy as the blood caught in an instant.

The sound of running down the aisle is going away, and A1, who was at the entrance to the dining room, is pointing only his face at Ella's back.

"... I'm going to go look for you for a moment"

When I said that, Trane and the others stood up in a panic.

"We're coming too."

"Oh, no, if you're still upset, it's me. So, you guys take your time eating."

Slowly turning down Trane and the others' offer with a bitter smile, he heads in the direction of Eira's run.

The elevator. On the way to the run, I heard a rant angry in the rear, so I looked back, and A1 was coming this way slowly on a big strand walk.

I rode the elevator and picked the first floor. I was lost for a moment, but I probably felt like heading outside.

"You're worried, A1."

That was all I said and then I became silent and jumped out to the floor at the same time as the elevator opened.

As expected, the main entrance was in the process of opening, with the appearance of Eira running from the gap through which each person could pass to the outside.

"Eira!"

Follow them loud and famous. Eira, who flew out, stopped in front of a slope heading for the tree-lined road.

The hill looks pretty good because it's folding back on the way, but the left and right just have walls as high as the hips, and if you jump over it, you won't be spared major injuries.

I imagined the sight of Eira injuring herself in front of me, with a cold sweat running down her back.

"Ella... well, I don't care about anything, so I don't ask anything, so why don't we go back to the castle together? Trane and the others are worried, aren't they?

When I say that gently, Eira turns this way. My mouth was shut tight as my eyes overflowed with tears and kept me from crying.

I give my hand softly to Ella, who weeps as she looks at this one.

But there was no sign of Eira coming inside to see what she was hesitant to do.

and suddenly A1, who was standing next to him, walks out. No way, you decided that was an instruction because of what I said about going back.

Suddenly the reaction is delayed to the A1 that has moved out, and in the meantime, the A1 should be getting closer and closer to Eira.

"Oh, come on, don't come..."

Eira leaked her voice as she retreated aggressively towards the approach of A1.

"Shah......!?

Just a few moments before A1's reach, Eira's buttocks hit the walls of the ramp, making her look like she was dressed upside down.

Danger!

The moment I said that and tried to run out, A1 was reaching out to me at an unstoppable speed.

Fluffy supports Eira, who was about to fall, and holds her straight into her arms.

A1, who secured Eira in her princess's arms, came back here silently as if nothing had happened.

"... boulders are A1"

He shrugs like that with his weakness and looks at Eira's face, which makes his eyes black and white.

In the end, all the delicious places were taken to A1, but I had no choice.

"Welcome home."

Saying that to the two of them, Eira leaned down with her eyebrows in the letter (c) uncomfortably.

"Oh, I'm sorry..."

Smile at Eira, who says so in a likely vanishing voice, and face A1.

"Put him down"

Eira, freed from the princess hug of A1, opened her mouth with a serious expression.

"... can you listen to me?

I snorted quietly at the words.

Eira opened her mouth as she looked down a tree-lined path lined with large trees from the top of the hill.

"... I am, Princess of the Kingdom of Atul, My real name is Retizia Eira Attool."

"... she was really a princess. Sure, I was a little uncomfortable with the town girl part."

Answer Eira's shocking remarks that way, convinced in a way. 'Cause I'm a town girl, and I can't do my chores.

As I nodded, Eira looked back and bowed her head deeply.

"I'm so sorry I lied...... sweetened by the kindness of Lord Tyke and the warmth of the days we spend together. And on the contrary, all the fear grew when the lies were found out..."

"That's why I couldn't tell you. Is there a reason why royalty can't be spoken of? Well, I would have been in a hurry if suddenly she told me she was a princess."

Answering that with a bitter smile, Eira shook her neck left and right.

"... I'm a sinner. It is also a great sinner who will never be forgiven..."

Groaning so in a plundered voice, Eira looked at the sky visible across the tree-lined path.

"... I planned to marry one of the Princes of the Blau Empire. For the kingdom to make a covenant to become the empire's kingdom. But... I escaped on my way to be escorted by the Imperial soldiers..."

"... you don't like princes?

When I ask that, Ayla starts crying again.

"... I didn't like it. The other person is only fifty, so you must be young. But I hear half of the wives with fifteen are already dead. It's just a rumor... it seems that the deceased had a truly tragic way of dying..."

Apparently, the prince is a lousy guy. If you're married to a daughter who brings you royalty from another country, like Eira, you'll find out if you do die. Anyway, even if it doesn't usually go as far as emperor information, you must have exchanges such as letters with quite a bit of information.

If that exchange of letters is gone, or if we go to the Empire and we don't see each other, it will be natural to think that something has happened.

My guess like that seemed right, and Eira shook her shoulder and pulled her jaw.

"Some of the surviving wives can exchange letters but can no longer actually face each other... Rumor has it that the hands and feet, yes, one or two, hey, they're missing..."

He reached out unexpectedly to Eira, who rattled and shook his body. But Eira turns this way tangling her own two fingers in front of her chest. The face was shagging with tears.

"... I'm scared. I was scared and scared and I cried every day...... but I am the princess of the kingdom of Atul. If I had a daughter-in-law under that prince, the kingdom would be... but... I...!

The whimpers started mixing up and at the end of the day I couldn't speak well anymore.

But the extra bitter grid passed on.

How heavy is a sixteen-year-old girl carrying something like this? Does it feel like going to the torture chamber myself?

Though I can't think in the true sense of Eira's position, I can sincerely sympathize with the circumstances in which she was placed.

"... Ella, if it's all right, why don't you stay here forever? I'll lose the princess's life, but it's easy and fun."

With that said, Eira shakes her head as she holds her mouth down with her hands.

"Oh, no... I, the kingdom of Atul, of... let it be, the king, and the people of the king, before the emperor, and, and die... cuz, if you don't expose your neck... the kingdom of Atul, my country...!

I couldn't stand that cry of sad Eira anymore, and I turned my hand around Eira's shoulder and hugged her.

"It's okay. I'll take care of it. So pull out your shoulders."

The moment she said that, Eira cried out loud as a lie what she had endured so far. I stroke Eira's head with my other hand as she sees and continues to cry, looking up at A1.

I felt A1's eyes looking out into the sky shed light.