His Royal Highness's cats are very hairy.

A familiar ceiling and a honey-colored tent appeared in his eyes when he opened his eyes. This is the room that Adeline is giving to the royal palace.

-... me...

Even though I do remember being helped out by Rutvias, it felt like a dream, and Adeline became anxious.

-... and the rut...?

Looking for Rutvias' figure and turning his gaze, he immediately found him, on the opposite side of what Adeline had been looking at.

I can't see the expression because I keep my forehead in both hands that I gripped together. It's like a priest praying on an altar.

Is he asleep? I don't wander around.

Wanting to touch his hair like a thread, Adeline reached out.

-... if I touch it... I might wake up...

Rutvias' eyes, not. When Adaline herself wakes up from her dreams and wonders if she's alone in that dark, cold room again, she's terrified and her hands stop.

Still, I couldn't resist the desire to touch that hair that glowed dull. Softly rubbing her hair with her fingertips, Rutvias lifts her face so that it begins.

"... Adeline? Hey, what's up?

For a moment, when I saw where my eyes didn't focus, they were still asleep. Rutvias' eyes are congested, and beneath his eyes there is even a neighborhood. The tired appearance was strangely glossy.

………

Weird. I thought I'd wake up from a dream, but I'm not even going to wake up.

"... reality...?

When asked, Rutvias laughed.

"It's not a dream. You're here. To the royal palace... beside me."

"... good..."

Relax, stroke your chest down. The warmth and softness of the upper hanging finally began to take on reality. Then Adaline starts complaining of pain all over her body and puts on her face.

Rutvias' long fingers gently wrapped Adeline's cheek. The battered cheek has a damp cloth. Rutvias' face was distorted as if to endure his own pain.

"... Does it hurt?

Adeline shakes her head small.

"It's okay..."

Being lean and patient will surely be torn apart by Rutvias. But I didn't want to worry Rutvias any more, and Adeline lied.

Rutvias' hand moves to Adeline's forehead. That hand, a little cold, feels soothing.

"... you still have a slight fever..."

Like one word, Rutvias said.

"I'm sorry... to bother you"

When Adeline apologized, Rutvias shook his head.

"It's not your fault"

"... lt"

"Hmm?"

"... engaged... dissolved me?

Rutvias' expression hardens.

-... quick... we have to...

I'm not sure it's been a few days since Adeline was abducted, but anyway, I need to dissolve my engagement quickly and go through the process of welcoming Bianca to the Marcelio family adoption. If we don't hurry, we won't make it to the wedding.

"... do you really want to dissolve it?

Adeline nodded at Rutvias' voice as she squeezed it out.

"Please..."

Something cried in my heart, but Adeline ignored it.

-... it's up to me.

That's all right. Now Rutvias and Bianca can get married. I can't wholeheartedly congratulate the two of you on your happy appearance, let's go somewhere far away.

"... well..."

Rutvias, staring quietly at Adeline, suddenly, stood up as if thoughtfully.

"Rut?"

"I need to ask you something"

"Huh?"

Now, what the hell do you want me to ask?

Regardless of Adeline, who was frightened by what she was asked, Rutvias simply walked across the bunk to the shelf on the other side and took something.

"... sounds like you, I can't believe I'm keeping this stuff"

Rutvias' mouth breaks gently

-... about what?

Adeline looked at Rutvias at hand.

What he had in his hands was a book with a red cover. The day they kidnapped me, I dropped it on the floor and it stayed that way, that book.

"... it"

"I hear Millet picked it up for me"

Adeline hastily embraced the book in her arms.

-... the embossed flowers of Kim Young-hwa...

As a precious and precious secret treasure, it was something I was going to keep secretly holding along with my feelings for Rutvias.

Adeline was heartily relieved that it was back in her chest.

"Thanks..."

Rutvias sat down on the sleeping table and said slightly abruptly.

"Drop the letter if you can. It makes me sad that I couldn't write about 'it was blooming in the garden' or something that I felt a little more comfortable with while I was there."

"No..."

Adeline laughed small.

This is the first and last letter from Rutvias. I'm old enough to finish my life and decide to take it to the bottom of the graveyard.

"... of its flowers..."

Rutvias' voice was shaking slightly. It's as if you're nervous.

"Do you know what Kim Young-hwa says?

Adeline is surprised and looks back at Rutvias' face.

Rutvias stared at Adeline with a face as tense as his voice.

"... flowers... words?

"That's right. What are the flower words for Kim Young-hwa..."

Adeline watched Rutvias' lips spin words with incredible thoughts.

When she was given flowers, Adeline just thought that Rutvias had given herself these flowers without knowing the flower language. But I also thought you might actually know when it was.

"-..." Unextinguished Thoughts ""

I can't breathe well, and Adeline holds my chest down.

-... I knew, I knew it.

Knowing the flower language, Rutvias gave Adeline the Golden Young Flower.

To tell Adeline that I can't forget Bianca...

"... yes..."

Adeline's lips trembled.

"I knew..."

"After all?"

"You can't forget Master Bianca, can you?

"... how does that happen? Didn't I tell you? Bianca and I said it was nothing anymore. The Queen said you were alone."

"... I heard... but..."

But wasn't that meant to make amends to Adeline? As I read in Adeline's mind, Rutvias said.

"You think I said it out of guilt? Or sympathy or... a sense of duty?

"... no?

"... no"

Rutvias groans and leans like despair. I put my hand on my forehead and squealed about something with a blur.

"... you really didn't think Aurio was right..."

"Huh?"

When Adeline asks back, Rutvias looks up in a self-abandoning manner.

"I didn't think it was coming through, I said. You know how I feel, and on top of that... you don't respond to me, so I thought,"

"Wow, I...?

"... when I learned the flower words of Kim Young-hwa. I wondered what a feminine flower word... but I also thought I deserved it.... even if you don't think of me, still... because my feelings for you won't go away"

"... thoughts on me...?

Now it sounds as if Rutvias had one thought for Adeline. This is the one I was thinking about. How much I think I cried. I flickered my mouth, but Adaline couldn't say anything anymore. Because Rutvias' eyes were so, so painfully true.

"You were... perfect as a lady. So I... thought I could ask for more than that. Because it is my self who seeks... I wish you would stay with me as my queen."

………

"Seek no more". Did Adeline not think the same thing? Rutvias takes care of Adeline. Treats me like a lover. Sometimes, he took precedence over national interests and obligations. If that's enough, you don't want to be loved.

Were you thinking the same thing? Were you right next door, and you two thought the same thing, but separately?

"... rut..."

"... but lately... I was expecting it. Because your eyes are so... chasing me.... I was telling myself that my place in you... is not the same as mere 'political marriage opponent'... I should not"

Rutvias drops his gaze. With long lashes, Adeline could be seen.

I want this guy, and how much I would have suffered. In the same way, did he suffer for me? Think of Adeline, have you ever scratched your chest?

Rutvias' eyes captured Adeline again. Rutvias' right hand overlaps Adeline's hand embracing the book.

Adeline sipped and watched how Rutvias' lips would move next.

"-... I love you"

To the sound of it, Adaline's whole body trembles.

You thought Adeline missed it, Rutvias said again.

"Adeline. I love you."

Joy pushed me to my heart.

Meanwhile, a cowardly girl screams in Adeline, 'It's a lie'. Don't believe me. Hurt again, he said.

Adeline nodded at the girl. Don't believe me. I don't like to get hurt anymore.

"... lying"

"Adeline?"

"Because... I saw it. Bianca and you... met in Aurio's room."

Rutvias' expression hardens.

"... were you watching?

"You can't really forget about Master Bianca, can you? But you're gonna stay with me because I'm pathetic, aren't you? I don't need that sympathy! I don't care if you stay by my side like that... I'm not happy! It's just hard!

"Is that why you told me you were dissolving your engagement?

In the hand of Rutvias, who holds Adeline's hand, is strength. Adeline shook it off with all her strength.

"Yes! Because..."

"I apologized to Bianca!

"... Oh, he said he apologized..."

Rutvias leans down.

"I... I miss you... I'm weak... so I wanted someone to stay by my side. I wanted someone to be beside me... and I used him to think of me."

"... what are you talking about?

I thought I heard an incredible word. That can't be right. That can't be right.

"So I apologized to Bianca. That it made Bianca's life a mess. That I can't atone for anything.... because I can only apologize."

Rutvias, look up.

"I don't love Bianca. Not now... not ever."

…

I lied, it didn't look like I was telling you.

But a timid girl blocks Adeline's ear.

"... Shh. 'Cause... I heard you call Bianca's name...' Bibi 'sounds lonely..."

Rutvias frowned.

"... when? Where?"

"... after the dinner party. The day you strangled Aurio..."

…

On Rutvias' face I'm thinking about, it says I can't remember at all. I really can't remember him.

Was it a mistake to ask? No, that can't be right. But it was so trivial that Rutvias forgot. On that trivial note, I became ridiculous about myself, to which I had been preoccupied, and Adeline wanted to laugh out loud. Yet tears spilled out of my eyes.

"... I thought you wanted to see your lover..." So I asked Millet to find Master Bianca... "

"What?"

You're angry, Rutvias' voice gets slightly rough.

"You, do such an unsolicited thing..."

"Because! That's all I thought I could do! That's about all I can do for you. 'Cause that's what I thought!

"You're the one I love!

Rutvias yelled.

With a face that seemed to cry even now, he said it again so as to endure the pain.

"... you. Adeline."

A timid girl raised her face to that uncut voice. Put down the hand that was blocking my ear.

Rutvias kept his eyes closed for a while and his breathing was ready.

And as I have decided, I give you my eyelid.

"... I wielded you and hurt you. It's only natural that you can't believe my words. I'm not asking you to believe me. Still... I keep saying. He loves you. Until you believe it."

Straight that gaze hurts. Always his bluff shoots through Adeline's mind.

"Even if it takes a lifetime, I'll make you believe it"

In strong words, Adeline was stunned.

There is a fever in Bea's eyes.

-... since when...

Since when? It was in Rutvias eyes looking at Adeline that I began to feel this fever.

-... back then...

In his hand embracing the red book, Adeline put her strength into it.

"Unextinguished Thoughts".

That's how he feels about Adeline, not Bianca, he says. In time, he gave me Kim Young-hwa.

The flowers were given the day after the first mouthful. By then, had Rutvias already had a fever in his eyes? No, I just didn't realize Adeline, maybe, for a long time...

The days I kept secretly thinking deep down in my heart.

Thoughts on Rutvias who thought Rutvias loved Bianca, hurt, wished her engagement dissolved, and still didn't disappear.

It was hard. Just having that thought was hard, painful... Such heartache becomes the past as it melts.

Adeline managed to move her palsy lips.

"... I knew it"

"Huh?"

"Flower Words"

Rutvias was slightly surprised.

"You knew?

Adeline nodded.

"I just thought you... gave it to me without knowing. But... I always thought it was the flower I deserved..."

Adeline was desperate for tears that began to accumulate in her eyes again. I didn't want to cry. I want to see Rutvias' beautiful face, straight, clear, now.

"Even if you thought of Bianca... my thoughts would not go away..."

Back of a nightmare that never turned me around. Ahead of that back staring, maybe it was Adeline.

"Adeline..."

I like you.

Rutvias distorted his face like he was angry for some reason.

"... What did you just say?

Adeline pronounced it slowly, as she told the child.

"... I like you"

"... Again"

"... rut"

Painful cheeks, but smile naturally.

"I love you."

"............"

Adeline was spoken to to take it away. Over and over again, mouth apart, mouth apart repeatedly.

-... it's like we've always been.

Drowning in a sweet, deep mouthfeel, Adeline thought. I made a mistake if I thought my heart was close, and I repeated my differences if I thought I was close again.

-... but already...

"... finally got it..."

The biting Rutvias voice I heard in my ear floods me with the tears I had endured. I was held tight in pain and wondered if my bones would break. I don't mind breaking it, okay?

"... adeline"

Rutvias wakes himself up. I wrapped my hands around both cheeks of Adeline and peered into my black eyes like I couldn't see anything else.

"Rut?"

"Marry me."

A strong voice brings tears together.

I never thought this day would come. The answer is from a very young age.

"Happy..."

For every answer, Adeline's lips were swallowed by Rutvias.