His Royal Highness's cats are very hairy.

It was like time flowed slowly.

Adeline opens her eyes to surprise.

"... l... t..."

For a name-called blue eye, his anger is taken for granted as he looks at it.

"... get your... dirty hands off me!!

The figure reminded me of a roaring lion.

The lion leaps or pokes one of the men with the sword he had in his hand. Even its appearance in return blood looked noble to Adeline.

"Oh, a prince! Kill him!"

Even as Mellows tried to pull out his sword, his fingers were cut off and screamed by the sword Rutvias quickly waved down.

You said you didn't like swordsmanship, but you're not lost or disturbed by Rutvias' sword muscles. Rutvias kicked Mellows, who was on top of Adeline, with dirty leather shoes in the mud.

"Adeline!"

Adeline, who was crawling, is helped up so that Rutvias can hold her, and she is held tight as she is.

I smelled rain, not the usual Rutvian scent.

"... l..."

My voice is plundering, I can't call his name. Rutvias' hair and coat were slightly wet, but her body temperature was felt over her wet clothes and she didn't think it was cold.

"Damn, damn it!

Find the sword the man was falling behind Rutvias. It's dangerous, I want to scream, but I don't have a voice. I can't even move my body to shelter myself.

-... Oh, no!

The splash of blood after blinking, though, did not belong to Rutvias.

He gets stabbed in the blade from behind, and the man falls to the floor without a voice and stops moving.

Behind it stood the Knights Commander.

"Your Highness!"

"Don't come in!

Rutvias screamed.

"... don't come in"

Rutvias' arm embracing Adeline is trembling in small pieces. Is it cold? Then I need to warm you up right away, and Adeline turns her hand around Rutvias' back, but that own hand is trembling more than Rutvias.

A knight captain watching it lowered his head gently, as he perceived something.

"I'll call you when the carriage picks you up"

…

Rutvias just nodded cocklessly.

When the Knights Commander commands, several knights pull the men gasping with insect breath and the mellows whirling around out of the room. Beyond the closed door, there was the voice of Deo and the knights of the third unit who could be heard. As promised, they came to help Adeline.

"I..."

My voice was clearly confused. I was wondering if I could ask, but I couldn't help but be sure.

"... did I make it?

Adeline understood what Rutvias was hearing in the dark. Scratch the torn dress together with both hands.

"... tongue."

"Huh?"

"Trying to bite off..."

"Do something stupid!

Adeline nods powerlessly, even though Rutvias tells her like she's angry.

"Right, you're an idiot. But... if it's enough for someone other than you to touch me... before that... I thought..."

If it was enough to be touched by a man other than Rutvias, it would have been better to die. There was no stray. Had it been a little too late for Rutvias to jump in, Adeline wouldn't have been alive right now.

"... sorry. I'm the one who's stupid."

Rutvias held Adeline softly in her arms, as if doing so with a kitten. Adeline looks up to him with only her eyes. Bea's eyes strongly embraced that blurred gaze. Tremors subside, little by little.

"... you're breathing. Respond to my voice. That's why I made it."

Yes, you made it. Thanks for coming to help.

Adeline's consciousness sank into darkness without knowing if gratitude had become a word.

Subsequently, Adaline was later informed by Millet.

Adeline says the battered cheeks swelled purple, suffered internal bleeding with cuts on her arms and sharp marks of sheath on her belly and back, which was just a full-blown creation. She also had a high fever because of the mental shock.

"Adeline... eh"

"Adeline. Poor..."

I remember blurring that the Chancellor stroked my head or that Madame Chancellor and Millet cried to see me.

King Richard and Mrs. Riohersh also visited me. They say, but I don't remember.

Because of the fever, it was just a nasty dream Adeline sees.

I screamed and called for help when I dreamed of people who thought they were friends, things that made me mock my appearance, or in a locked up room, with my ankle grabbed by thin dirty hands.

"Rut!! Help!! Rut... eh"

"I'm here! It's okay, Adeline!

Rutvias held me tight to Adeline, who was rattled and trembling.

"It's all right now. Adeline."

Rutvias gently strokes Adeline's back.

Whenever Adeline woke up crying in a nightmare, Rutvias did so for me for a long time until Adeline settled down. With his hands warm, and over Rutvias' shoulder, he finds himself worried about his mother and Millet, and Adeline safely closes her eyes again.

But the dreams I had since were even worse.

Rutvias is turning his back on Adeline.

I want to call Rutvias, but I don't have a voice.

My chest is bitter as it crumbles, and my eyes are overflowing with tears.

"Wait. Rut, wait. '

Out of the whimpering, desperately squeezing out the words, but Rutvias doesn't turn around.

Adaline wakes up with tears streaming down her cheeks, feeling something gently wiping her.

There was Rutvias peeking worryingly at Adeline.

"... rut..."

"Hmm?"

Rutvias responds with a gentle laugh.

"Bad. I didn't mean to wake you..."

With a soft cloth, Rutvias wiped tears from Adaline's eyes.

The tent remains raised for medical attention, and a thinner, brighter room can be seen. I think Adeline is blurry that it's almost dawn. I don't see my mother or Millet.

"You want something? You want me to call Millet?

Rutvias secretly asks Adeline, who leads her eyes astray.

In a gentle tone that spoiled her, Adaline did not answer with her mouth, but smashed her neck.

When I got my hand out of the top hanging, Rutvias' beautiful hand wrapped it around me.

Kind, warm hands.

When I close my eyes, the tears pushed out on my eyelids are zeroed again, and I tell them to my ears.

"…… ki"

"Huh?"

-... I like it...

Adeline opened her eyes. Rutvias is leaning his neck like he's in trouble.

"What did you just say? What do you want? Water?"

………

To Adeline, who did not answer, she embarked on her body as Rutvias had paralysed her. I'm listening to Adeline's mouth and trying to pick up Adeline's whine.

"Adeline?"

……

My eyelids are getting heavy. Consciousness is fuzzy. I'm sleepy and sleepy.

-... the next time I wake up...

I wonder who I am then. Is he still Rutvias' fiancée? If that's the case, we need to get the engagement dissolved properly. I have to give him back to Bianca as soon as possible.

But I didn't want to let go of my hand.

Only now, until the next time she wakes up, Adeline makes excuses to herself and holds Rutvias' hand.

Rutvias' grip back on it left Adeline out of her body.

Eventually, to the appearance of Adeline, who began to groan, Rutvias trimmed the cloth and again shrugged its length, dropping his lips on Adeline's lid.

"Go to sleep. It's okay. No more bad dreams."

……

As the saying goes, then Adaline could sleep well without dreaming.