Come on, what will Your Majesty say when he hears me? Close your eyes and think with a damned mix.
You look as if you hadn't heard anything, and if you were going to work for the country, would you just say a suggestion that you wouldn't put Shed and Evan to death?
Or do you naturally affirm it and order me to be a puppet without even being evil?
Will you deny my story in the face of a hypocrite?... how easy it will be for them to tell His Majesty, so at dawn when they do that, I will curse them with lies.
I didn't have a bad scratch in the direction of commuting my sentence because Shed and Evan are the species I invited.
'Cause even if you say that, if they say it was their will that committed the crime directly, the conversation is over. His Majesty may know that in the first place. Even if I did not know, I believe that I should live as a puppet of His Majesty so that there will be no more evil scratches or trouble for anyone, rather than showing extra weakness and giving His Majesty a gap to enter.
If you don't want to bother anyone, you shouldn't have any friends. My obedience to His Majesty is in exchange for your life, Shed and Evan. I don't know how I'm going to live and let them live to keep me from killing them. I don't want to get everyone involved.
If I had received Nica's marriage, I would have felt comfortable going down to His Majesty, and His Majesty would have been a good subordinate relationship without such objection from me.
I wonder what Nica thinks when she sees me as a loser who couldn't resist her fate and couldn't change anything after all. Are you disappointed that you missed your expectations? Will you comfort me that I worked hard again?
Nica said to His Majesty one day that you could do it. Maybe that meant a marriage to tie me up. I'm sure Nica didn't hear everything from His Majesty. But by the time you got to that mansion, you must have guessed His Majesty's thoughts. I suppose Nica's proposal to me at that time would have been the happiest thing for Nica, but the rails she had prepared for Her Majesty since the beginning.
Nevertheless, there is no response from His Majesty.
I thought it was hard, but I just want you to give me the guidance as soon as possible because it's just going to be useless to find out what more.
I opened my eyes and looked at His Majesty. It was at the same time that His Majesty opened his mouth.
"Complete defeat."
I was just surprised to see His Majesty say that. I wonder what you're talking about. Cheers? It all went the way you wanted. To this situation and your own exploitation? No way, there's no such thing as a complete failure. I couldn't beat this one.
To me watching His Majesty in silence, His Majesty slowly goes on to explain to the child with a tender face.
"Don't you see? By the time you figure it all out, this battle is your win."
……
I had no idea why, and I kept staring at His Majesty silently wondering if he was making fun of me.
Because where I perceived everything, His Majesty's victory is unwavering. I'm in a position where Shed and Evan are being held hostage. I have no power to disobey His Majesty, even though I cannot be abandoned.
"I don't know when I'm going to be betrayed and made a weakness in my country to keep you in my hands with bad feelings."
Really, I was just confused by His Majesty speaking with ease as if he were talking about blooming flowers in the garden.
Your Majesty could do such a trivial thing. I am sure that I can be used well to work most effectively.
"Your Majesty, are you making fun of me?
His Majesty makes a troubled face to me when I hear him with no emotion on his words in his face.
"No, no, no, how can this be a foolish story to have a minister with bad feelings for the king? I betray it as a delight when it comes to important occasions, critical work, and this is the time. I can't sleep satisfactorily just being alone. I love sleep."
That sounds like a reason. I just think I'm making excuses like that.
'Cause if it's just that I feel like giving up just knowing the truth, I'm talking about why I imitated turning my hands from behind like this in the first place.
While suspicion never disappears, a wave of memory passes on my head. Remember when His Majesty used to invite me for a nap and I slept with him confused but later His Majesty was mad at the minister and the two of us laughed face-to-face. Memories I miss, gentle, but don't care to remember now.
"I don't care if you hate me or kill me, but you can't hate me as far as the country is concerned.... Phee's wish was to commute the sentences of Evan Douglas and Shed Swallows. As you said in the first place, I also did not deliberately prevent the sins that I could have prevented in my judgment. Now what do we do?"
Leaving me completely unconvinced by the flow of the story, His Majesty's story goes on.
I alternate between what's going on and the two neighboring escorts asking for help even though I'm not on my side. The escorts did not break their serious face and posture without expression, they just seemed to be faithfully ripe for the job they were given.
"Hey, hey. What is this? Could it be that Elle was involved here?
When I ask the tame-mouthed escort, who is easy to talk to whisper one way or the other, I look at you because the respectful language escort showed more signs of wandering around.
"We are holy people who do not like to be involved in such a muddy relationship. Please don't blame El for your misidentification."
It seems Elle has nothing to do with it after all.
Or my misidentification? So after this, I'm still making some kind of mistake? In the eyes of the respectful escort, you see what the current development has done as much as possible...?
"Oh, yeah, how about a barter for Phee to help a little when something important happens to the country? The commutation of sentence is not guilty of strict caution."
His Majesty laughs gently. I mean, that's forgiveness that I can live as a civilian.
It is too convenient for me to talk too much. It's supposed to be delightful, but I can't break my guard, rather I feel more terrified than when I thought I still knew His Majesty's sincerity until just now.
"It's a conversation I heard somewhere."
"You also know what it's like to try to make Seth the next king over Master Nicholas. It's too sweet for a king."
"In the end, so Elle says he likes the king, too, so why don't you?
"Yes, as it turns out, everything is going well. Besides, it's much better than a slaughtered country. I don't really like blood."
"It's rounded up compared to the old days, you"
"It's each other."
The conversation between the two escorts, who would pinch me and whisper, did not suit the face of that serious work mode, and was a mindless thing like talking while sleeping in my room.
"Um, maybe..."
I speak to both of them.
I still don't see why His Majesty suddenly mentioned something so sweet. But.
"Me, don't you have to think desperately anymore? Does this really mean that I can continue to live as a civilian? Can you be happy...?
I don't know what His Majesty meant. But if your majesty protects it from me now, I feel I can be much happier than I envisioned in the future.
Because my best wishes come true.
No response from the escorts. Anxious and looking next to each other, the two faceless faces collapsed...... they were laughing for some reason.
I've never seen these two people honestly laugh out loud before, and I'm pompous. I'm two people who look ten years older than I am now, but I don't care what it feels like to be more childish than I thought I'd just see faces laughing that way.
"Well, I'm not convinced that's why."
His Majesty doesn't get angry, he just keeps talking to me like I'm in trouble.
"To get Fee, those two eyes are horrible too. I don't want to die yet."
When I heard His Majesty's shuddering words and looked next to them again with his eyes black and white, the two of them were back faceless as if it was an illusion of my eyes laughing until just now.
"What do you say, Your Majesty? We don't care what you do to Lady Rose, do we?
"Well, what kind of preference do you have for our Lady Rose, if it was attacked at the end of the road, would I help you?
"Hmm. Are you out of your mind, I think you've heard the same dialogue a long time ago? After all, you guys sure you defended the person you said that to with your life?
Intuitively, I thought we were talking about El.
Speaking of which, he also said that he heard about Tameguchi's escort somewhere earlier. Was that about Elle, too?
"Did that happen? It's not your fault?
"Yeah, it's my fault. Definitely."
"Ha, yes or no"
The escorts returning adult laughter to His Majesty were also supposed to be adults, but they just seemed like kids they didn't want to admit they liked in front of their parents.
A little jealousy scorches my chest in a corner that makes me smile at it, even though I was like a father and son before.
Yeah, but I guess that means I can live as a civilian only because of the silent appeals of the escorts. Were I liked by them, even if not by Elle? The first time I talked to Tamemouth's escort, they must have killed me anyway, and I don't remember doing anything particularly likeable. How did that happen?
"Tsukaka, we don't have time for this anymore. This is your time. I had to make it open."
"If you have one last thing to say to Lady Rose, it's now. It's about you anyway, so you're not gonna call me unless it's really important, are you?
"The cabot lineage isn't all honest. Even if it were Nicholas, you would have told me sooner."
"Shit. Even though you haven't heard anything but the King and Lady Rose, you shouldn't speak ill of the Royal Family for once. Take care of yourself."
"Heh, keep it just in your heart."
It's like this place is my home. I can't stand the two escorts. I wonder why these people are allowed to go so far. Because that's all you're strong? Or is His Majesty holding any weakness by them?
When His Majesty merely smiled at all the escorts he could say, he opened his mouth in silence to look at me and think a little.
"Sometimes, Phee, what do you consider your best?
I got a quick answer to a question that didn't even clap. I know that.
However, I remember many of the injuries I have suffered so far, and I was unable to give a prompt response with a broken tooth.
"…… It's acting."
"As good as it gets, it's certainly one of your brilliant, genius stunts."
That was like saying another answer was right. I tried to wonder if anything else would have been that good to me, but I can't think of anything at all.
When I looked at His Majesty, I was smiling gently. He had such tender eyes that his chest ached.
"But I believe that you are best placed to attract people."
To the exact answer, a lot of people's faces came up in my head faster than I would take that word.
- Everyone took my side. He taught me everything. You pushed my back. Without them, I wouldn't be standing here. We can't even win the civilians.
Maybe they liked me more than I thought.
The best part about me is that people like me and turn me towards real feelings, not where I can solidify lies and make me believe falsehoods.
I was glad to think so and was taken by nature and words.
"Be happy."
His Majesty's face, who smiled so, was certainly the same kind and caring thing I had seen since I was a young man.
If you were to read the meaning of the word in depth, it would not have been a very good means for His Majesty, who sincerely thinks of the country, to let me work with evil feelings in his hands, knowing everything. If you're saying I have hopes, there are certainly key figures around me who are responsible for the next generation of the country. It is troublesome when a conspiracy is made. I can't help but be anxious.
But... but...
I nearly shed my tears and rushed out to the door with my back to His Majesty to rush out of the royal family in a ruthless hurry.
"To me, you admired your father more than your real father."
No matter the tears, I tell His Majesty with my back turned so I could hear it so absolutely, I jump out into the hallway.
His Majesty, of course, did not come after the escorts.
His Majesty has been watching me gently ever since I came into this room. It's not that I didn't see behind His Majesty's smile. I'm not lying... I'm sure he was really nice to me.
If I hadn't been able to spot one, if I had happily descended upon His Majesty without knowing anything... I'm sure His Majesty would have used me in exchange for a commutation of his sentence to Shed and Evan by carrying a sin only in his own heart for the sake of the country.
But if my best is the personality that attracts people. Suppose that's true.
Maybe His Majesty thought he liked me, too. While he wanted my abilities for his country as king, he might have adored me as much as I admired him as a father.
His Majesty ghosted his heart and acted for his country, trying to set me free from the start if I realized it all.
I really don't know if I am. It could be my convenient assumption.
But I thought I wasn't so bad with my happy assumptions.