His Royal Highness's cats are very hairy.

If they find out I'm not around, they'll definitely make a fuss. You may be directly reprimanded by the Father King, and in the worst case scenario, you may be taken Shiva.

Since it was such an unauthorized outing in preparation, Rutvias was left flat, even if Aurio, who was royal in front of the stables, was in his eyes. Inside, I tried to relax, but it was within my assumptions that I would be greeted by him with a demonic face.

"I'm outside the royal palace by myself, etc! What are you thinking!

Without waiting for Rutvias to get off Shiva, Aurio's sermon began.

Until yesterday, I wore a cat and wrapped it in smoke with appropriate apologies, but against Aurio, I took off my cat during the day today, and I was about to kill him. Wearing a cat against him like that is now, and clearly, a pain in the ass.

Rutvias stunned, descending from Shiva's back to the ground. It's a strange floating sensation, and I can't walk right away. From the sky, it's always like this.

"Your Highness! Are you listening to me?!?

……

That's how loud you can't hear it. When Rutvias did his gaze with Giroli, Aurio glanced back at him instead of flinching.

"Give me your position. It is the dedicated knights who are held accountable when something happens, such as walking away without a confession. They're all blue and looking for you!

……

In anticipation of his feet clinging, Rutvias pulled the reins and led Shiva inside the stables.

Aurio, who comes right behind it, is usually more angry than he can imagine from his sedentary sobriety. He couldn't sit on his stomach long enough.

"I can think of enough people who have poisoned me to attack me directly!? Do you know what kind of danger I put myself in?!?

……

"Your Highness!!

Rutvias began to unwind the leather strings that anchored Shiva's horse fixtures on her back.

"Don't you have to go tell him I'm found?

Bump, and I heard the blood vessels cut off Aurio's head.

"- Yeah! Let's go! I want to reassure the unfortunate knights!

That's what Aurio turns his back on Rutvias. Without looking at its back, Rutvias said.

"... bad"

Aurio stops his leg. And I looked back.

But Rutvias was not an adult enough to look at that face and apologize.

Keep your eyes seated on the horse's equipment, raise your voice slightly, and repeat again.

"... worried, sorry"

……

"Then..."

Rutvias finally saw Aurio's face.

"… neck. I'm sorry. Are you okay?

"... it can't be okay, can it? It's a solid blue bruise."

Aurio pulls down his tall collar with his fingers to show Rutvias his neck. There, after Rutvias' hand, remained firmly.

You did it yourself, it's hard to look straight at it, and Rutvias distorts his face.

"... but I've said too much"

When Aurio fixed his neck, he turned straight to Rutvias, and bowed his head.

"I apologize for your disrespect. Forgive me."

…

Whatever the reason, they almost killed me, so give me something that doesn't seem like I can blame Rutvias more.

His appearance, which admits that he is not, is sincere and clean. The two overlap anyway, even though their faces and atmosphere are not at all similar to Adeline's. Is it because there is close blood? Or because they are my mentors?

Aurio, with his head up, already looks uncomfortable.

"So... have you been able to talk to Miss Adeline?

"... why..."

Rutvias noticed, even though he had a peach shoulder strap wrapped around his neck, trying to ask if he found out he had gone to Adeline's.

-... you forgot to give it back...

It is obvious that the shoulder strap is a woman. So I guess Aurio guessed that Rutvias' outing was the Marcelio family. Or maybe he originally knew that the shoulder patch was Adeline's possession.

"... I could talk"

"Good morning."

"... are you all right? Even if me and Adeline get married."

Never asked, but first of all, without a doubt, Aurio regards Adeline as a woman. How can you say 'good' and so on, when it would be like being sidelined by Rutvias for the princess you have cherished and protected if you tried him.

Aurio didn't break his sober expression. Like a work report, pale he tells.

"We know you're more of a queen than you were originally. And you don't have to worry, I'm already being swept away."

"... what?

"I suggested it to your daughter before. I threw away my country, my identity, my name, trying to escape. I said I was ready for that."

…

It's like a cheap romantic play in an alley theater, but did this guy say that?

When Rutvias was in trouble about what face to look like, Aurio finally put his emotions on the table for the first time there. I laughed a little mocking and clapped my shoulders.

"You didn't even mean it. I thought I was joking."

"... right"

The sight comes to my attention. With that seemingly harmless and devastating smile, Adeline must have utterly dismissed Aurio's confession. I'm sure she's never even imagined it, like her cousin thinks of herself. Rutvias felt sympathy from the bottom of his heart for the first time with an unfathomable secretary. I'm so sorry to hear that you can't make a broken heart.

But Aurio seems to have given up already. I ran out of words in a refreshing tone.

"I've known for a long time that your daughter has only seen you."

Rutvias felt bitter and raised the edge of his mouth.

What Adeline was looking at was the cat, not Rutvias.

"No. What he devotes to me is a sense of duty, not love. He's serious."

Adeline's response to Rutvias, who said 'You are the only Lady', was' I do not hate '.

-... you also said, 'I want to help you as a queen'.

Only she responded to 'As Lady', Rutvias.

Rutvias wasn't the response I wanted, but it's not a bad thing as an assessment of who I'm dealing with for a political marriage. I knew Adeline didn't see Rutvias as heterosexual, so even if I could just confirm that he didn't hate me and was avoided, it should be okay.

Aurio looked surprised.

"A sense of duty?... Didn't you say we could talk?

"I told you?

"What did you talk about?

I wonder why you ask that. Rutvias raises an eyebrow, wondering. It happens to have the same look as Aurio.

"... go away... it's not like you don't like me"

"Don't you hate it?

Aurio frowned like angry and frowned. To its strange force, Rutvias glances slightly.

"What's going on? You."

"Anything else?

"... you asked me if I was lying about not taking the side room."

"... Your Highness is telling the lady, isn't he?

I didn't ask what. From the way the story goes, I guess it's about how Rutvias feels.

"Yes."

"Excuse me, what?

"... is that all you ask?

"I hate to ask, but it's a confirmation requirement to sort things out."

It's like a battle situation report for an armed costume, Rutvias thought.

"... I said I wouldn't take the side room. The Queen said she was alone in Adeline."

"... unfortunately... probably not passed on to your lady"

Aurio said with a sigh, but Rutvias shook his head and denied it.

"Is that why?"

I won't take the side room, there's only one queen. How can I misinterpret it to be anything other than an expression of affection?

-... if you can't pass it on with me, how can I pass it on? "I like you" but "I love you"?

I didn't forget the basics of anti-Adeline diplomacy that this one is lit and doesn't convey anything I want to tell you, but imagining myself saying it, Rutvias felt somewhere chilly.

"Then let's say it's passed on. So how does the lady feel?

"So you said you didn't hate me, did you?

………

"... what the fuck. What about that stunned face?

"You don't hate me, do you?

"So?"

I don't hate it, so that doesn't mean I like it. There is about as much separation between the seabed and the mountains.

Aurio closed his eyes with a finger on his temple, even if he had a headache.

"... it's obvious from the sight of us... but I didn't know we were making it easy on ourselves..."

"Did I say something?

"... as my cousin..."

Aurio grabbed Rutvias with a steady gaze up. Those eyes were quiet and rational.

"I told you during the day... if you're not aware that you're waving your daughter around, if you can't take care of her, it's better for her to let go."

……

Softly, Rutvias squeezed the shoulder strap that Adeline wrapped around her neck. I smell her slightly.

-... just... maybe that was too much.

I really wanted to touch it.

I really didn't reject it or felt like trying it.

The overlapping lips were tense, stiff, and trembling. Still, that soft feeling filled Rutvias, and Adeline, who turns bright red and ashamed, was so adorable.

Maybe Adeline won't talk to me for a while. If it's a couple of days, let's spoil it and follow it. But I'm not willing to let you get away with it any more.

Rutvias looked straight back at Aurio.

"... I won't let go. Take care of it."

……

Aurio, who was silently taking Rutvias' gaze, eventually nodded with a blink.

"In the meantime... get out in front of the poor knights and do it. Then I have some paperwork I'd like you to look through before you go on holiday."

Rutvias looked down at Aurio, who had begun to adjust his plans.

Aurio doesn't seem to have delivered Rutvias' unauthorized outing to his father's king's ear. I felt unexpected. Either that or you looked delighted as if you had taken the demonic neck of Rutvias' demise. Neither does Rutvias' cat thing seem to be his intention to preach around. Instead, he looked like he was stopping at knights and samurai.

-... Speaking of which, it's your first time...

Even Adeline looked up to Rutvias, who took off her cat, but Aurio didn't even cower. I've never been stared back at before.

A man who will eventually succeed Marcelio in his name and take up a key position as a sidekick to Rutvias.

"Your Highness, would you listen to me?

"... a meal from tomorrow."

"Yes?"

"Take it in the room"

He couldn't grasp the intent of Rutvias' statement. I've tilted my neck and asked.

"... and say?

"Eat something poisonous"

I heard Aurio take a breath.

"... it's..."

"Place Adeline's dedicated poison cook, too. I'll take care of the candidates."

"... to me?

Rarely does Aurio confuse me. Rutvias himself, was in a strange mood.

When I think of Adeline, Aurio is nothing but a blind eye. If I just flew to the region, I'd be relieved, and by noon, I really wanted to kill him.

But now Rutvias thinks it's a shame to do so. He said it would be a shame to keep him away or kill him.

"... you disagree with me becoming king?

Aurio shut up. He shrugged, slightly flabbering his mouth.

"... I don't think you can rule people if you don't believe them"

"... right"

Aurio is right.

Rutvias has rejected all the hands he has ever reached out to. Because I knew that once I rubbed it, I wouldn't be able to stand alone.

But Rutvias carries more things not far away. As Aurio said, when you fall without carrying it, it is not Rutvias alone who falls. with the country, and -...

Chestnut hair reminds me that it was dull and glossy, illuminated by the moon.

White cheeks.

Nocturnal eyes.

You can't take me on the road.

Reminds me of the dawn colored dress.

"Your Highness, this country will be a fine queen to be proud of." - That determination does not matter at this time, whether it is out of loyalty to the royal family or from a sense of duty as a queen. To reward thoughts directed straight from Adeline, you must be the 'king' who deserves it. If she is prepared to be beside me as the Queen, I shall be the King she can boast of.

To this end, Rutvias must not be swayed. I need a strut.

Will the man in front of me be the pillar of it? Will you support me?

To say just one word was harder for Rutvias than to swallow. To live, I just learned to doubt. I kept reading behind people's faces. I didn't know it took so much courage to do the opposite.

-... believe it.

The strut is the strut of leaning back.

If Rutvias does not believe first, Aurio will not dedicate his loyalty or anything to Rutvias. Everyone does. No one will give their lives to a man who doesn't believe in himself.

Until a while ago, Rutvias never even thought about that. I thought it was a futile act, such as believing in people. That's what fools do. I need to be.

But as I watched Adeline, I began to feel that maybe not necessarily.

I wonder why. Even though Adeline has never taught Rutvias anything great. I just feel like she's around and the color of the world looks different.

In his involvement with Adeline, Rutvias was aware that change was beginning to take place within him.

I'm sure that's not a bad thing. But for Rutvias, who has so far been distant from others, it is also terrible and difficult.

Still, we have to step out.

"... I'll leave the candidate to you. I believe in your eyes."

Rutvias told me to bite.

Aurio bowed his head deeply after it was slightly.

"I accept."

The next morning.

Taking care of Shiva and en route to the office, Rutvias found the flower.

I don't have a hobby for loving flowers in Rutvias, but I honestly thought that flower, which overlaps many white and red orange flickering petals, was just beautiful. I want to show it to Adeline, too.

But I've never sent flowers to a woman. I'm trying to do something that's not even in the pattern. A prince of any country, such as giving flowers the next day by mouthing them for the first time yesterday.... No, I am a prince without hesitation.

To be clear, I'm embarrassed. It's embarrassing, but...

-... I'm sure, I'll be happy...

With Adaline's face floating with a smile on her face, Rutvias made up his mind. He turned to the samurai who was following him behind, and mouthed his request.

"I'd like to give this to Adeline."

"Yes, I did. We'll get you a gardener."

If Adeline is happy, throw her into a ditch such as her own trivial shame.

The gardener, who appeared after a while with the samurai, bowed his head as many times as he feared.

"This... Your Royal Highness..."

"I want these flowers, do you mind?

"Of course it is. Yes, immediately..."

The gardener began to pick flowers with his hands full of flowers that were lowered to his hips.

"... what is the name of the flower?

I need to remember about the name of the flower to give.

"It's" Kim Young-hwa ". This is a rare variety of octahedral blooms."

smile and the gardener answered.

-... Kim Young-hwa...

Repeat the name of the flower in your mouth. I've never even heard of it. It's about the little rice flowers my mother liked, such as the flowers Rutvias knew in the first place.

"Do you know the flower language?

"Flower words?"

"Yes. What are the flower words of Kim Young-hwa..."

Asked the gardener about it, Rutvias was puzzled.

-... feminine...

What a feminine flower word.

Do you send such flower-word flowers to Adeline yourself? The shame I should have thrown in the ditch came back at some point. I knew we'd stop. But...

"Adeline, lady will be delighted."

The young samurai, younger than Rutvias, said so with a non-malicious smile.

"... right..."

"Why don't you accompany me with a letter?

……

Feeling blocked the escape route, Rutvias drips inside.

Let's get hungry. I'm sure Adeline will be delighted. Isn't that okay?

I just hope Adeline doesn't know the flower language.

-... and a flower word worthy of me.

I only wrote 'It was blooming in the garden' in a letter accompanied by a bouquet of flowers worried about my troubles.