The Inner Palace Tale of a Villainess Noble Girl

Fallen, there is a word.

It has nothing to do with my own will, I'm just pushed by impulses and flirted with irresistible swirls of emotion.

You can't stop and you can't control it.

It's already too late when you realize, you can't go back by the time you didn't know.

So when I understood it was too late to call it 'falling' -.

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Kai doesn't know his origins. By the time I got my mind on it, I was already rocked on the back of my current 'father' and living my life traveling all over the kingdom.

I know many fathers who 'work' everywhere, and Kai very naturally guessed from the conversations around him that he was picked up and raised by his father at the abandonment of his son, that his father's work was of a kind that would never come out in the sun. Still, he's nothing, he's never been pessimistic about his life.

My father, known by his work colleagues and clients as the 'Black Lion', was a clumsy but gentle father. His venerable Father, who is fast, strong, but never, combines senseless power with unwavering wisdom. Kai knows that he was always loving and watching over himself.

Admiring such a father, as he grew up, he began to imitate his father, bear arms, and help him with his work. At the same time the kind Father is also a tough master on this, "Be prepared to bear arms," put on an unforgiving archery.

Thanks to that special training, or was it originally qualitative, Kai glared and raised his arms. From simple combat, to gathering information in the dark, down to the town where people live, to the intelligence technique of exploring targets while living there for a while, we acquired a degree of technology that was roughly no problem to live as a "back" person.

From the time Kai became accustomed to his work, not only to his father, but also to him, the 'back' job began to set in. The competent "Black Lion" was famous in the "back" world, where requests for work were never interrupted, but the lives of the two could not be described as easy.

- The reason for this is clear.

'Look, Ky. No matter how fruitful the job, don't ever take anything that involves the' Count Crestor family ''

This was my father's cliché and the only 'tie' he was imposing on himself.

While working with my father, I didn't even care about that preference, but when I move more on my own, I quickly see how difficult that is. Somehow, a being that supports the entire world of "back" from the "table" and serves as a receptacle for times of need, that is the "Count of Crestor". Few things aren't connected to them at work coming around from the "back," and anything that doesn't involve the "Krester family" at the request of the "table" smells like kina somehow.

"Why doesn't Dad like the Crestors so much?

I asked because I had wasted a lot of time choosing a job. With the reputation of "Black Lion" and his arms, we could work more efficiently.

After falling in love for a moment, the questioned father had such a complex look, somewhere painful, then reminiscent of a nostalgic old time.

'It's not like I don't like it. I just can't face them. "

"Can't you face it?

'Once upon a time... I did something I would never be forgiven for. Though I didn't know... considering what I did, I can't do it very much, such as show my face in front of those people'

'But the' Crestor family 'people, that's...'

I can tell from time to time that they have no evil feelings for 'Black Lion' if they cross quite a bit 'back'. My father returned a soft grin to his son, who told him otherwise that he didn't care too much.

I know. Those people don't care. Are you sure it's noble? To the extent that I'm tempted to doubt that, 'the Crestors' are deeply nostalgic. '

"If it were..."

But... I can't forgive myself for being so sweet with their warmth. "

- So I'm not involved with the Crestors.

Having said all that, my father poured a warm glance on Kai.

'But you're getting old enough to care about that, too, Kai. You let me hang out with you until now, but if it's your job of choice, you're not gonna fit me in from now on, are you?

- Would you stop saying that now? These days, I'm your father's son, and they call me "The Lion." Now if I get a job with the Crestors, I'm gonna lose the barrel in a straight line to my dad. "

Between my father and the Crestors, I don't know what happened. However, if the esteemed and dear father were so prepared to 'stay out of it', he had no intention of imitating his determination to betray it.

... but I didn't.

"Black lion, huh? I've heard of it. With no less arms than Sirius, one of the heaviest towns in the backworld, right?

"I don't know if it's Heavy Town. I hear you're famous there."

Now following Kai is Deanna, the youngest daughter of the Crestor family, who should have decided never to get involved. Cut long eyes on the nasal muscles that pass all the time, a beauty with arcs and no complaints with red lips, but her face doesn't look like a 'good man' in flattery. He seems to be up to something when he's faceless, and if he smiles, he just seems to have come up with some wickedness, a really brilliant 'bad guy face'. Although my father had previously asked me about the face of the Crestor family, I can only laugh through my emotions that this looks wonderful and evil.

"Sirius would be surprised to hear that Kai was the son of Mr. Black Lion."

"Mr. Sirius, it felt like you knew. And I'm not your father's real child."

"What are you talking about? If Mr. Black Lion thinks you're his son and you think he's his father, then you're the undisputed parents and children."

... but the only thing that looks bad is the appearance. The more we talk about it this way, the more obvious it is, the more interesting she looks and contents, the better she eats.

'Tell me about you,' Kai told me, for now, that he has been picked up, raised and worked with by a man he calls the 'Black Lion'. I dare to lay low because apparently she doesn't know that 'Black Lion' is avoiding the Crestor family.

- My father was still the cause of the 'Crestor family' that my father avoided and that I was to bump into with or without. My father, who had been fine so far and did not catch a single cold as far as Kai knew, suddenly collapsed around this summer.

When I rushed to see a doctor I was familiar with, I found out that he had apparently suffered from a very rare disease. What is needed is tranquillity and sanitary care, and, although it is rare to hear that it is a very rare herb that can be picked in a desert country beyond the mountains, Kai darkened in front of him.

They had even chosen a job and preferred it, almost a life they once lived in. There can't be any storage, and naturally, there's no money to buy such medicinal herbs. The doctor reluctantly said, 'Shall I contact the Crestors' offer also, 'Black Lion' politely but categorically declined.

"As it is, we will not survive this winter"

Kai, told by the doctor with a difficult face, decided to break his promise to his father.

- I'll make you some money. I want you to heal him. "

I can't afford to pick a job. Depositing his father with the doctor, Kai made his way to Wang Capital on his feet and jumped unquestioned for the most rewarding job. - Was that, more than anything else, the content of turning the Krester family into 'enemies', the reward of running away from them so far?

Collected in his mansion, he heard more about his work from a man who looked great - knowing that the target was Deanna, the courtier of the Count of Crester family who entered the "Between the Red Roses" of the rear palace, the "back" bastards who were gathering left the front without a single thing or two. With the vice of 'aren't these idiots trying to turn the Krester family against their enemies'.

Among other things, the familiar seniors have advised Kai, who declared that he would remain alone, with a blue face.

"Are you an idiot too!? Turn the Krester family against the enemy, there's no way you're safe. That's all you know, right?

'Mm-hmm, I hear a lot about it. Actually, I don't know how to be scared. "

"You've never lived in this world before and been involved with the Crestors?

"Yeah."

Seriously, they've been staring back at Kai.

'... awesome. Quite a miraculous chance, it'.

'Really? I'm still young. "

'You're not inexperienced because you're young.... I'm not saying anything bad, don't do it'

'Are you worried about me? Thanks.... but a little urgent, you need money'

"Until you turn the Krester family against your enemies, is that the gold you need?

"If it wasn't, I'd run away, too."

They sighed deeply at Kai, unwilling to pull in light condition.

"... for once, I gave you my advice."

'Yeah, I know. I'll try my best not to touch the Crestor family's scales. "

Saying goodbye to people's favorite peers, Kai was single and boarded into the rear palace.

The 'employer' we met there was the worst category Kai has ever been involved in. Only the face is cute, but really just the face.

"Explore the weaknesses of the Red Rose!

"Why didn't His Majesty come to me?" Make sure your majesty sees you!

"The Red Rose must be after your life. Protect me!

I change orders by now in the mood of the day and yell and scatter when I don't care. But that's only in the private room, if you step outside the room, a daughter who is admired by a noble woman and plays the poor girl who 'wants to protect you'.

"Between Peony," sideroom, Liliane Landrose - she was the direct employer to whom Kai was directed. I also think of Kai, who lives in the 'back', as the same person. I'm willing to throw it away whenever I know I can't use it.

In his first contract, he managed to make him promise to pay only on a weekly basis, and because it was fulfilled for the first time, Kai was only quiet on the outside and obeyed the orders of "Dear Peony". Nevertheless, there was a constant escort in the 'Red Rose' room (serving the Crestor family from generation to generation, it was predictable that it was a group called 'Darkness'), it was impossible to base the King's attention on 'Peony' (he is in the middle of his first love at any rate), and since 'Red Rose' was not otherwise trying to do harm to 'Peony', Ky's job was mainly to purchase information that seemed beneficial (and to such an extent as not to touch the Crestor family's upside) while choking the rear palace, and was squeezed into immediately reporting to 'Peony'. Nobles who are only pride in vain should satisfy their self-esteem with words and attitudes for now, so they can be golden there for a long time if they don't even respond incorrectly.

... but it was also certain that her frustration would not be resolved without some information being circulated about 'The Red Rose'. Or, 'The Red Rose isn't actually that bad of a person, and she seems to be crushing her heart just for the stability of the rear palace, so I don't think you'd even piss her off if you didn't imitate it too prominently' can't be true. If I did that, at the end of the day, I'd be surrounded by all the 'darkness' in the Crestor family.

At the very least, I want to get close to a distance where I can clearly see her face and voice. Behind the ceiling, the opportunity came unexpectedly early to Kai, who was so grumpy.

It was held at the Royal Palace, in the middle of a night club. A little noise broke out and the 'Darkness' escort left her side. If we miss this, the next time, we don't know when we can get close to her.

Kai used the back of the ceiling and hidden passages to chase 'The Red Rose'. Reached is a corner of the royal palace. He witnesses unexpected occasions there.

'... how did you do it?

"The Red Rose" - Deanna Crester - cares about "The Petite Princess" across the corner with a soothing, whispering woman's voice and a worrying look. Careful not to be noticed as being herself, but nevertheless with a sincere light in her eyes, she was seriously guiding and encouraging 'The Pet Princess' from the bottom of her heart.

There he was, not "The Red Rose," which reigned at the apex of the rear palace, nor "Princess Ice Flame Rose," which takes the famous nobleman by the hand. I thought I looked worried, laughing like I was relieved by the grin overflowing with 'Princess Petite'. Confused or troubled by people saying unexpected things. - An equal size, just a girl, 'Dee,' was there.

"... Kai? What's the matter, man?

"Huh? Oh, what was that?

Soon, they were sinking into a vortex of thought. Not unlike the first time she saw it, Dee gives an honest look, in front of Kai.

"Something, because he looked difficult. Are you okay?"

"I'm fine. It's time to get to the cabin, but Dee's the one who's okay with the body?

No matter how many substandard ladies she is, this should be the first time she's just run down the mountain road in a dress. Dee accidentally grabbed me by the hem of my clothes, thinking back that I would have walked faster.

"Yes, I wanted to hear that too. 'Dee', its name…"

"... ah,"

... Shit. Because I was in a hurry, or in the name of someone familiar with me, I've been calling you since just now. He was more upset about losing her in the woods than he thought himself.

After the night club, the rear palace rushed to Russia. Because "The Red Rose" has begun to work with other "Named Men" to create a new hidden faction to protect the side chambers of weak positions. At the same time, in the 'Peony', information flew about the side chambers contacted by the king during the night club, and Kai's position was that he could no longer remain silent any longer. I talked about Miss Shayla Carrerdo in a bitter choice, because one thing I thought it was only a matter of time before I found out where I was silent, and the other was because I knew better than anyone that 'The Red Rose' liked 'The Princess'.

It was realistically almost impossible to explore "The Red Rose" in "Between the Red Roses". Just once or twice, I had approached him by sewing a gap between shifts of escorts, but he would soon be found and driven away. Kai stood around to the extent that the 'darkness' was acceptable, as it was a real fall when he was badly sticking and being targeted. Inevitably, Kai's observable 'Red Rose' is limited when she is outside the room, and that is also when she is intentionally walking alone. - That was, in a significant proportion, when she, as' Dee ', was talking to Shayla.

Encouraging Shayla to cheer up and be positive, she's not like when she's usually a 'red rose'. Do honest emotions show up on your face for not showing up and acting with your voice alone? Laugh, be angry, be depressed. I never get tired of looking at the twirling, changing expression.

Before that happened, Kai realized she was' vegan 'when she was' Dee '. She says she calls herself' Dee 'because she just wants to talk to Shayla as herself, not' Red Rose '.

Seeing only one point of covering up her normal self with the mask of 'Red Rose' shouldn't make a difference between her and Liliane, but the impression she gets is so different.

From the beginning - and still is.

Kai fluttered over Dee's hand grabbing the hem of his clothes to avoid surprise.

"That's Deanna's name when" Dee "is" Vegan "in the back palace, isn't it?

"I'm not wrong... but Shayla's the only one who knows that name, right?

"Huh... Actually, when you two first met in the corner of the hallway, did you sneak a peek or something?

Eh, and I'll laugh and deceive you. If you said so, they expected the answer. I glanced at him with a serious eye.

"Not at all... no alarm, no gap."

"Angry?

"You're the Peony's secret, I'm not angry with you."

"Make no mistake, it was a secret 'it was'. Not anymore."

Yes, from that moment on - the first time I faced her from the front. I, somewhere in my mind, had stopped being a 'peony' secret.

Shayla was taken away by the 'Red Rose' and the exasperated Liliane turned to Kai when she returned to her room and said, 'Kill the Red Rose!' I shouted. I followed that first because I thought I wouldn't have ears to listen to where I just opined, and it was time to talk to Deanna Crester in person.

In fact, relative, she was as intelligent as she expected and more innocent than she could have imagined. Despite being targeted for life, carefully string Kai's words and read what he wanted. 'If anything happens,' she said, 'I can always help you.

To be honest, I don't intend to rely on the Crestor family, then or now, in Kai. However, that would have been nice if Kai had been told by that contact that he was not harmful to the Crestors. Because if the Crestors don't even certify me as an 'enemy', I can hide in the clouds anywhere if I have to.

Still, the breadth, strength, and straightness of the nostrils dazzle me to the point of 'helping' the opponent who attacked me. If you got involved so far anyway, a strange whim worked to try to get involved more deeply. The result is "double secrecy."

On the face of it, he remained employed by "Peony" as before, and Kai actively circulated information to "Red Rose". Be a little modest at first...... in time, forget about that suppression, too. The closer I got, the more dangerous Dee looked and couldn't leave me alone.

Running to the stability of the rear palace as "The Red Rose," she is, from Kai's point of view, an impossibly reckless on-parade. The capacity of a seventeen-year-old girl has been completely exceeded. An event such as a gardening party has broken in, and I have had a rough time dealing with an uncooperative female officer. I felt fierce frustration at her for carrying everything in her back and being impotent.

(Why do you do that? to Dee herself, even though it doesn't do her any good)

I'm sure it was layered unnoticed. Took away a child with no edge or itch, worked and raised, fell without saying a word about being sick to mention - all you like and can't do, with his father.

The frustration reached its pinnacle at a park tournament, the moment she cried down. As if the tenacious thread were going to cut, Kai could only look at her with tears in her mother's eyes, with frustration and helplessness in her chest. I'm angry with myself.

(I knew... I didn't do anything)

I didn't want to make you cry. He likes' Dee 'who changes his expression when he twirls, and if he laughed happily at all times, anyone could have given him that smile.

That smile - more than anyone else, if I could protect it closest.

(- I don't want to give in)

Kai was surprised at himself for thinking so. It's taboo to have personal feelings about the subject of your job, and yet the thoughts you grew up with at some point are too late to realize and you're sitting inside yourself.

Ignoring this emotion is something I can't do.

- Hands together, he proceeded to walk, and Kai led Dee to a mountain hut where he could look down at the village at the foot. It is one of the bases of the "back" people. It is prepared if it is as simple as changing clothes.... but there are just no women.

Kai looked back at Dee as he took out a set of traveler-inspired costumes.

"I'll run alone and get Dee's clothes."

"Are you going alone?

"Exactly. You stand out in those clothes. When we get dressed, why don't we both go down to the village and get ready for tomorrow?

Pompous stroking Dee's head as he sat down, Kai quickly changed his costume as he went outside and went down to the village at the foot. This country is now in the middle of one of the busiest festivals of the year and the lights never go out at night. There is only a large village there, and there are plenty of shops to open.

When I went back to the cabin with some moveable clothes, Dee was doing some mess in the dark.

"... what are you doing?

"Hih! Surprised. Don't turn it off."

"I didn't mean to turn it off."

If it was a regular Dee, I'd have heard as much as the door opened. Again, I'm quite tired. Looks like you should take an inn in the village today.

"So, what were you doing?

"Oh, my clothes, but I thought you made me pay... I was looking for something I might be able to redeem"

The girl in the luxurious dress drops her shoulders soggy.

"Gems and clothes, because they're expensive there after all. It seems difficult to redeem without being suspicious...... Sorry? I'll give you this jewelry, so when I get back to King's Capital, I'll be at the Nolan Chamber of Commerce."

"Well, that's fine."

If I listen in silence, I'm going to be stripped and pressed. Forcefully blocking Dee's words, Kai pressed a set of clothes he had purchased.

"It's not in such a rare shape, I think I can wear it alone"

"That's probably okay...... but Kai,"

"Look, we're running out of time to sleep. Get dressed quickly. I'm outside."

Without waiting for a reply, Kai left the cabin. Exploring the signs inside, after slightly placing between them, the garment sounds rubbing. Exhaled loudly, Kai grinned bitterly.

(Really... I'm a weird lady)

Because of her complete detachment from the face of the royal palace, she is now not even wearing the mask of 'nobility'. You trust Kai, the look on his face is younger than usual, and he's seventeen years old.

I know it's a pleasure to have you believe me, but being too defenseless makes me want to inadvertently reach out. She is noble and 'Red Rose', not within Kai's reach.

"Kai? I changed."

"Size, okay?

"Yeah, I'm fine. Huh, it's a lot easier to move."

After a long stretch, she grabbed hold of Kai the next moment and pressed the jewels in her hand.

"I won't take it, because I'm the one who says so."

"Hey, Dee"

"I don't know your circumstances in detail, but I can imagine that you probably need a lot of money urgently. Stay away from Liliane, set me up, and I don't want your purpose to go away."

Straight eyes, unchanged since we met, shoot through Kai.

"I'm going to get out, but Master Liliane is going to get out, but money is money. Take it weirdly and unwillingly."

"... Dee,"

"... or from the 'Krester family' that I hate, I still don't want to receive it?

Reason blew away at the words echoed in my ears and at the pitiful glances. Grab a hand with each gem offered and narrow the distance.

"I don't hate you.... you noticed?

"It's impossible for someone living in the back world not to be involved with the 'coincidence' Crestor family. I thought you were avoiding my house for some reason.... Isn't it because you hate it?

"I don't pick a job for that simple reason.... I don't know what's really going on either."

Sweet scent burns the chest, drifting from Dee's hair. The urge to zero the distance and Kai fought desperately - slowly letting go of his body while holding his hand.

"Thanks, Dee. I'll take this."

"Yeah, that's how it is"

Laughing relieved, she looked cuter to Kai than anyone else. Dee makes an adult face, but the look on her face when she gets mundane is adorable. Kai thinks the adjective that suits her would be cuter than beautiful.

"Well. Shall we go to the village?"

"Yeah.... yeah, where is this place?

"I guess Toko deviated considerably east from the carriage path of the Royal Palace. From now on, it's faster to go for the Temple of Mist."

"I knew it would happen, right? Well, I guess I should have thought it was a good idea for the day I lost my journey in the carriage"

"I didn't like the carriage, did I?

He grinned and inquired, and Dee honestly distorted his face.

"No, I didn't want to! I can't go where I want to go myself, I can't get distracted because there are people out there, and I can't believe I have to 'Red Rose' quietly for a break! You don't have to be invisible until you're outside the rear palace."

They say, "There's ears on the wall, there's eyes on the shoji."

"I've never heard of it. What do you mean?"

Kai, too, has never heard anyone use it but his father. It seems to be the land where he was born and raised.

"I don't know where and who's asking me, so I have to be careful what I say and do, did that mean something like that?

"Oh... there's someone like you."

"If you're gonna say that, the 'darkness' of the Crestor family, right?

"Well, it is. Nevertheless…"

Dee, furthermore, tilted his neck to the side.

"I have ears on the wall, I know somehow... what's a shoji?

"Even doors made of paper and wood. Dad said."

"Doors made of paper and wood......? That's not gonna break any time soon. The paper melts when it rains. It won't be a door."

"I've never even seen the real thing, I don't know. Though it seems not uncommon for buildings on the east side. I'm sure that's why I got into it."

Explain the hearing from the father as is.

- At that moment, Dee's expression changed dramatically. As if you had photographed the starry sky, your pale eyes sparkle.

"In the eastern country, you have that. Shoji... I wonder what it's like"

"... you want to see it?

"Because something I can't imagine. A door made of paper and wood and a house with it, right? And the town it lined up in...... I'm thrilled to see a world I don't know."

... make, it's the wrong lady to be a nobleman. It is a dialogue of adventurers full of unknown worlds, such as wanting to tempt their hearts and see the world for themselves. If you're going to brighten your eyes so far with a word of "Shoji," how brilliant is she going to be when she actually pops out into a world you don't know?

"Well then... Let's go sometime."

"Huh?"

"To see 'Shoji' and the house that used it and its township. If you can't even imagine it, it's actually quicker to look at it, right?

Dee stopped abruptly. Looking back and peeking into Kai, his eyes are filled with unseen curiosity, exploration, and hope for the future.

"Really? Really, will you come with me?

"... yeah. Let's go."

Brilliant eyes photograph the joy, and a cloudless smile blooms as if the bright sunflower shined in the sun. Kai stood up momentarily, forgetting to breathe too, to the flowers of a large circle that suddenly opened in front of him.

"Absolutely. - It's a promise!

She laughs. I don't even know if it's going to happen, to just one promise, so happy.

It's not like you don't know the distortions of the world. It's not like people weren't scratched by their ugliness.

Placing herself in a dreary world, she chose, of her own free will, to be upright. I chose to be pure. I chose to be nice.

It is, how honorable, how supple, how loving, how strong.

I feel strongly that I want to protect you. He wants to protect her, who is closer than anyone, never leaves, laughs happily ever after.

Not to cloud that smile, so that she may be like him.

For that, I'm sure I can do anything.

Kai renewed his resolve as he took Dee's hand and headed to the village where the lights swayed.