His Royal Highness's cats are very hairy.

It was a while ago.

About the day Adeline, who was havocally confused by her first mouth and was fleeing Rutvias, was finally captured by Rutvias.

As usual, Adeline took lunch to Shiva's stables in a brief dress and a front-length appearance on a triangle scarf. Gently open the door of the stables and give Rutvias the cage containing bread and soup and run out as a detachment with a right facing right. Three times before that, Adaline had succeeded in such a fugitive play. Rather than, Rutvias missed it for me. He had no choice but to do so for the fourth time, though he had missed Adeline with such a bitter smile. Rutvias grabbed Adeline's wrist, not the cage, and didn't let go. To the heat of Rutvias' hand, transmitted from his wrist, Adeline loses her temper to resist, blushing and dripping.

"So, Your Highness... hands."

"Rut."

"Huh?"

"Didn't they teach you by name when you call people?

I mean, he's telling me to call him by name. Though he will be a husband, he is too fearful, such as calling the royal family by name.

"So, but, Your Highness..."

"Le Tot"

Hard work. He claims his name. When this happens, there's no way to beat Adeline.

"... l... lt?

"Hmm?"

Reply satisfactorily, that smile is too dazzling.

Adeline leaned down in a panic. If I keep looking straight at it, my eyes will definitely melt.

"Rut. And let go of my hand..."

"I don't like it."

"Yeah?

Adeline raised her pitiful voice in despair, but Rutvias just smiled a little bitterly and wouldn't let go.

"If I let you go, you'd run, wouldn't you?

"... because I'm not running away"

"Can you promise?

"And I will..."

Please, I want you to let me go. If it stays like this, the wrist melts, too.

Rutvias looked down at Adeline suspiciously, but eventually let go of his hand. Where Adeline ran off, maybe she thought she could catch him right away.

"Sit down."

"... Yes"

Adaline sat back on the stepping stone she had always changed chairs. Be careful not to look directly at Rutvias even if you make a mistake.

When Rutvias placed the cage on the barrel, he began to colour the inside.

Actually, he always eats standing. Sometimes you're leaning against barrels and fences, and that doesn't look like a prince of a great power at all. But it's strange because it looks like a beautiful sight like a painting if you put it on him, until he stands up badly behaved. The painting is called "Lunch in the Stables".

Rutvias still stood and started drinking soup.

Oh, I want to put my money on and decorate it over my own fireplace. Even though I love watching in the morning and evening.

"You're totally a good cook. And I stopped cutting my hands."

Adeline's hands, which were filled with cuts by knives when she first started making meals, are now perfectly beautiful. I just feel dry because of the washing, so I decided to apply fragrance oil before going to bed.

Adeline rubbed her hands against her chest.

"But... I still don't judge the goats..."

"... why are you so obsessed there..."

Buru, and Shiva were gone.

Rutvias had been eating in silence for a while, but began to talk with a little mouthfeel.

"It's about the meal."

"Yes?"

His eyes, gazing at the amber soup, are directed toward Adeline.

"Finish your meal today."

"... Huh?

"It's the last one today."

Rutvias repeats, enlightened.

"... why..."

He was worried that cooking a meal would keep Adeline busy. But in the end, you were letting me do whatever Adeline wanted, why?

"... ah. Did you catch the killer?!?

If a poisonous mastermind has been caught in the meal, you certainly don't need to eat the crude meal that Adeline makes.

But Rutvias shook his head.

"No."

"Then..."

"It's over."

"But, Your Highness."

Rutvias' hand quickly reached out and pinched Adeline's nose up.

"Yes!? It hurts... my lord..."

"When you call people?

"Hey, I was taught by name! Rut!"

Threatened with a smile, Adeline responded to the request as frightened by the war.

"Okay."

As Rutvias let go of her hand, Adeline immediately checked her nose. I'm fine. I'm not stretching.

"In the future, I decided to eat a poisonous meal. I'll put a poison cook on you, too. Sorry to hear that, but don't say anything when I'm gone. It would have been cramped, wouldn't it?

"I can't believe I'm cramped!

Adeline hastily denied it.

"I never thought of that! But... why? They even told me not to eat..."

I wonder what made him so determined.

Rutvias, once again, dropped his eyes on the soup. Stir and sink the floating vegetables with a spoon.

"... what killed my mother with poison?

"... I know"

"Was it ever my mother's poisonous lady who was in the pot?

To Rutvias' words, Adeline takes a breath.

"... I didn't know..."

-... I knew the woman was... captured...

When Lady Leena was poisoned, Adeline also attended the funeral. No one told Adeline, who had just turned 11, the details of the incident, but she would still know some things if she turned a deaf ear to the whispers of the adults. The killer is a woman, and the woman is dead, and I heard it without asking.

If the woman was a toxin clerk, she can also be convinced that Rutvias hates the toxin clerk. It's harder to ask him to trust the poisoner.

But why, even more importantly, did he accept the poison cook?

"I... thought the only reason I didn't like poison watchers was because I couldn't believe them."

"... Yes"

"But maybe it wasn't. I was... scared someone would die for me. I got scared when someone tasted that thought..."

"Huh?"

Rutvias laughs troubled at Adeline with her neck hanging.

"Toxicologists... may have children. I may have a husband or wife, and I will have parents and brothers. If you take poison instead of me and the poisoner dies, they lose their loved ones. I will take away the parents, the children, the companions, who are impossible for them to change."

Feeling like he had been shot in the heart with an arrow, Adeline held him around his chest.

-... I... never thought of that...

Until now, Adeline has always thought that as long as Rutvias accepts the toxin clerk, things will be resolved. But it wasn't that easy.

-... don't worry because Ruto is not in danger of taking poison, I shouldn't even think about it. Because the poisoning clerk... might take poison instead of rut...

Someone who doesn't know his face or his name could die instead of Rutvias.

Rutvias seemed to notice a change in Adeline's expression and showed a bare gesture wondering whether to continue. But he still opened his mouth to me.

"... where I was... somewhat better in face shape than people, better in reading and writing, it's not like I can replace the 'someone' I took away. … so that your mother's replacement doesn't get stuck with anyone."

From someone, you could take someone dear. Rutvias is afraid of it because he knows the pain of being deprived of someone important.

-... maybe Aurio is right...

Rutvias is someone who understands people's pain. He's sweet. And the more he is, the heavier the burden of a king must be on Rutvias.

Where he has become king, Rutvias may just suffer heavy duty. I can't stand the weight and it could crumble.

-... but...

But I wanted him to be king, and Adeline sincerely thought. He's the one who understands the weight of the crown, and the king should deserve it.

"Still, I have to prioritize myself. That's the duty. The only time I'm allowed to die is when it's for the good of my country.... and in the end I may just be cute. But I guess I should be prepared to flip everything like that.... I was probably unconsciously scared to carry that readiness, and I avoided turning on the poisoner all the time."

Back to back with that serene tone, his expression seemed to have already swallowed up his sad readiness.

"... splendid"

"... don't"

Frowning, Rutvias turns away.

Rutvias really doesn't think he's good.

'Don't be demeaning,' I told Adeline, while Rutvias was the one who seemed somewhere demeaning to himself. I wonder why. Even though I'm sure he's nowhere near as beautiful and noble as he is.

My eyes are hot. I was about to cry, but I managed. I don't want Rutvias to see and worry about what tears I can't even explain myself.

How ready I would have been. Adeline skipped herself.

The day of our engagement. Heavy pressure as a queen I didn't feel at a young age. I've never thought of that weight as heavy as it's grown. Rutvias has been carrying such a heavy thing. And we're going to carry it.

"I... carry more than people... honestly, sometimes I think it's too heavy"

Rutvias shrugged as he distracted himself from Adeline.

"... Yes"

Adeline depresses the gavel.

Adeline remembered what Aurio said. "The King's Responsibility" "I don't think I can carry that alone without support". That's what Aurio said.

Rutvias can swim his gaze far. He seemed to be exploring his own mind.

"I don't want to do anything irresponsible like throw it away because it's heavy. I'm not ready to carry it, and I don't want him to give it to me cheaply because I want it."

"Yes."

"But... maybe I can't carry it alone. We need support to stand on their backs.... but I don't know who will support me. I can't tell who to trust."

Adeline stared into the eye of that beauty, who had not seen Adeline. This is the first time he has ever spoken to me in his heart. I don't want to take away even a fraction of his emotions that are put into words.

"Yes."

"... so for now I decided to lean out of reach"

"... I mean, Ruto... you're trying to believe me, aren't you?

When Adeline confirmed, Rutvias glanced at him.

"Stop saying that. My body's going to itch."

Adeline laughed at Rutvias like that.

"Say that again"

In front of your samurai and knights, Rutvias took off his cat once, but he ended up wearing it back. The samurai seem to have relieved Rutvias of his return to the righteous prince and forgotten about his rampage the other day.

But only in front of Aurio, Rutvias still keeps his cat covered. Yesterday we were talking to each other all we wanted, as if we were childhood fighting friends in the clerk's office, even though that was all so dangerous. Maybe that's why Rutvias was willing to believe it, too, because he's the toxicologist that Aurio arranges. Aurio is Rutvias' "for now."

If we could find someone to believe in by hand, but that's how we did it, Rutvias' need to wear a cat, would be gone someday. Of course, for Rutvias, who is vigilant, it shouldn't be easy. But he stepped out.

"... bad"

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Adeline was bewildered because Rutvias had apologized.

What the hell would an apology be for? Rutvias hesitated to say it, and he put his hand in his mouth.

"Previously. I poisoned your diet"

"Yes."

"I'm sorry."

"... Huh?

Now? And I honestly didn't think Adeline would.

But perhaps it was only because he realized why he hated poisonous viewers that Rutvias could have omitted what he once did. Or maybe I've been exploring opportunities to apologize. Considering that was the case, Adeline made Rutvias seem adorable.

"That's enough."

"Then there's one more thing"

"Do you still have something?

Adaline finds herself comfortable. I don't remember being so apologetic.

"Yes. Basically, there are more and more apologies to you every day."

"Yes!?

"I apologize for the impending matter for now because I can't get on with it. As a matter of fact... there are rumours that the 3rd Squad is irrelevant but resembles the Chancellor's Lady."

"... Yep!?

It's odd to say so yourself, even though I only looked like a daughter from the countryside, no matter where she came from. Only once, but maybe it was a bad idea to even go to the office in this outfit. Or did the woman also see her face when she used a back well shared with other troops?

Anyway, the prince's fiancée has too bad an outside story such as your end job. That's why he said he was careful not to be noticed anything else.

When Adaline stood up in a hurry, she bowed her head in momentum.

"Sorry! I didn't pay attention!

"No, I'm not blaming you. But... troublesome thing is, the royal family has a face to protect..."

"Yes! I know! Never mind, I'll quit right away!

I have trouble spreading rumors. I didn't start it because I wanted to get Rutvias in trouble.

"... sorry"

"Not at all! I'm the bad one..."

"Not... cooking"

"Huh?"

"... Fine, you'd have enjoyed it, wouldn't you?

It was so awkward that Adaline couldn't get back to me right away.

"Things went well today without a scorch, or what we're going to make tomorrow... we'd have talked happily about it, wouldn't we? Yet... I can't let you do one of the things I want to do because of something so boring, like being in a position or something."

Sounds sorry, Rutvias is dropping his shoulder.

I loved that figure for free, and Adeline smiled.

"No. Rut."

"Huh?"

"I did enjoy cooking. At first, it took me a while to skin it. I can peel it fast... and I can use the firestone. It's still a pleasure to be able to do what I couldn't. It was also a pleasure for the knights to say it was delicious. But if I looked like I was having fun, the main reason for that was because I was glad it was helping Ruto."

Rutvias blinked.

"... mine?

"Yes."

Adeline nods small and over again.

"I can't find the poison killer. I can't even help you with your affairs. All I could do was prepare a meal… but I was glad to think it was helping."

Adeline lay her eyes down.

Really, I've had a lot of fun this past month. I was busy and I was about to turn my eyes, but it was full.

"So don't apologize as if you took something from me.... something. Also, I'll find something that might help. There may be something I can do…"

"You really think so?

Adeline raised her eyes.

Rutvias has stared straight at Adeline. Backwards, teeth twitch.

"... rut?

"You're useless to me? Silly. I thought you said you were doing too much for me. Have you forgotten?

"Huh? Ah... yes, no. But..."

"But not"

Placing the vessel and the spoon on the barrel, Rutvias took Adeline's hand without hesitation. And with his other hand, he draws Adaline's head to his own shoulder.

You can't even escape the natural motions that flow, and Adeline stays. I buried my face on Rutvias' shoulder, and with the tension and shame and the thought of Rutvias so overflowing from then on, I was still going to faint.

"... rut..."

"Enough. You're just there, you're just laughing, that's enough for me."

Adeline trembled at Rutvias' sweet voice, which stroked her brain directly. Like a temple bell, I don't want Rutvias to hear the noise of a beating heart. Move his arm, which remains hanging beside his torso, and push Rutvias' shoulder with all his might to escape the sweet restraint. In fact, though, Adeline's fingers were gripping Rutvias' long coat. Don't let go, as if it represents a deep desire in Adeline's heart.

"... one. Can you do me a favor?

I want you to stop talking in your ear. From the neck to the spine, I get paralyzed.

"... what is it?

When Adeline squeezed out her response desperately, Rutvias let herself go just a little. I still have Rutvias' lips so close that I'm likely to mouth them on Adeline's forehead. Adeline's eyes were captured by Rutvias' eyes, as gentle as a leaking day.

"Make me some onion soup again someday"

That's the soup that Adeline put into Rutvias the first day she started cooking meals.

From now on, the flavoring was subtle, and the size of the utensils was very variable. But I couldn't wait for Adeline to be happy and happy that Rutvias wanted me to drink it.

"Yes, sir."

Looking at Adeline smiling and acknowledging, Rutvias looked in trouble.

"... you, you didn't look like that when you were serving the knights..."

"… No one in charge of cooking should wear makeup or medication, so it's a decision…"

"... I'm not talking about makeup"

Rutvias said flashly.

And again, I pulled Adeline in and locked her in my arm.

"... I don't want to show it to another man"

Speaking of which, on dinner night, Rutvias said the same thing.

"... you look that bad?

Exactly hurts, and when Adeline squirmed, Rutvias chuckled in his ear.

"No. I don't want to show it to another guy because he's so cute."

……

-... say that, in that voice, and in your ear, don't say it... ugh!

No way, did you say that in the same sense before? If so, Rutvias' eyes must be suffering from a rather severe eye disease. Adeline, whose lower back was too crushed in Yangtian for what I think she would have liked if she hadn't advised her eye specialist to see her sooner, was the best she could have done just to avoid losing consciousness.