The Inner Palace Tale of a Villainess Noble Girl

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............... uh, what shall we do with this silence?

In the same place where she had a relaxing cup of tea with the three samurai, Deanna was now experiencing the most uncomfortable feeling of sitting.

Nobody - indoors where there's not even Rita, just someone sitting in front of Deanna, drinking tea silently.

"... so, yeah. Red Rose."

His Majesty the King, because he is the man.

- When I suddenly heard from the servant lady of the underwriter who was outside the hallway, "Your Majesty is here," I honestly wondered what I was going to do. I was surprised to see what it was like to visit.

but no way, we can shut down His Majesty the King, who is just that far away. In the meantime, he invited in, asked the three maids to prepare the hospitality, and when the desk was clean, the king suddenly said. - "I'm alone with Red Rose, and I want to talk".

Headed by Rita, the three ladies with red roses showed a difficult color, but they can't return "but no" to the king's wishes. Ultimately, Deanna sent the three of them outside saying, "It's okay," and this is how she got into a situation with the King Tyman.

Though, that didn't even make anything happen. Until just now, the king was just silently drinking tea, pinching tea sweets, and mumbling to try to talk about something. I finally got some sentence-like words out earlier, but it hasn't been going on since.

I don't know what I'm here for, so Deanna kept quiet for a moment about how things were going, but I'm wasting my time like this. Slightly out of her shoulder, Deanna put the cup back in the saucer.

"We apologize for the inconvenience caused to His Majesty and the Kingsguard knights."

"Mm-hmm? Oh, about yesterday's raid. That was it, but it's not about getting sick. It's the sins of those who attacked us."

"But didn't my escape make things easier?

"According to the stories of the rear palace guards, it was there that the Red Rose caught the eye of the enemy that they were able to buy time and rebuild their attitude. That as it is, perhaps someone among us would have lost his life. When they were saved, they kept their mouths shut."

... Exactly, they said that the rear palace Kingsguards who were there understood the situation so painfully. Even if we don't know what Deanna's aim is, we can feel the results have improved. Hopefully I have read it poorly and haven't found out anything extra.

"Though coincidental, I am honored to be able to save the lives of the precious Kingsguards serving His Majesty"

"Coincidence, huh?... Are you sure it's a 'coincidence'?

The conversation, which I thought had rolled out well, in that one word of the king, stopped abruptly again. Deanna can't read his sincerity, and the king is also letting his gaze get restless and lost in the way he's looking for what he wants to say.

Let's start by asking them to open all their cards. Deanna secretly changed her mind.

"With all due respect, Your Majesty, I don't know what your question means. Yesterday I was confused by fear and escaped from that spot, with a serious thing in" Red Rose ". If that was the result of saving everyone in the rear palace Kingsguard, it would be mere coincidence."

"Right. But really, if you escaped too much of the confusion, the matter of the rear palace Kingsguard is certainly a coincidence.... but did you really run away because you were scared?

Unlike before, his eyes, questioning him to find the truth only, were as clean as a swollen surface. I don't blame Deanna, I don't question her, I just want to know the truth, and she asks.

People can change - to that delightful fact, Deanna was smiling naturally.

"Your Majesty, do you think not?

"... you say?

"I ran away because I was afraid. Is that what you think there might have been another reason for this?"

To that inquiry, he nodded without hesitation for so long, after taking his gaze off a little.

"Ah. I heard from the Kingsguards last night because they were like that, too. I felt a little uncomfortable."

"May I ask why?

"... if I tell you, will you let me hear the truth?

While I thought it was cowardly to return the question with a question, Deanna tilted her neck lightly and indicated her willingness to affirm because she knew she was the one who should make the concession here.

"If Your Majesty's thoughts are satisfactory, let me also tell you my 'truth'. Though it's not enough to hide it."

"Then let's talk. - The story I heard was that you ran off into the woods, lost your way, and happened to be taken by a friendly traveler on the street, who came to the temple, right?

"Yes, sir, to your left."

"But... that's a little, isn't it strange?

"And you say?

"Not long before that, he was attacked by the strangers of his identity, the suspicious ones, and fled with too much confusion of fear. If that's true... no matter how kind you seem, would you be willing to trust someone you don't know?

I see, the King's reasoning goes through a single muscle. If you're a regular warrant lady, you're certainly right.

- But.

"- Your Majesty, for a long time, you have loosened your guard against me, haven't you?

"... what?

"I'm Countess Crester, right? Not long ago, Your Majesty... I suspected that I had pulled a thread behind the carriage and that I had escaped because of it."

"That's...!

Even at the time of departure, he came to make sure that Deanna was not more arrogant than she had to be for being 'deputy to the Queen'. At least at that point, still in him, the formula for "Red Rose" equals "Countess Crester" equals "Weighting of Evil" should have been deeply rooted.

That's what brings me here today and all of a sudden, treating Deanna like a very ordinary noble lady. Deanna unfortunately doesn't congratulate you enough not to feel uncomfortable with this.

"Dare I say it? I am the daughter of the Earl of Crestor, and therefore I do not share very common nerves."

"… then it would be even more unnatural. It's not a normal nerve. Well, to the extent that the carriage was attacked, it disrupts, escapes, etc."

"Assuming that I left the carriage with some intent. What does Your Majesty think of that reason?

"If that was the real 'bad girl'. He also tried to gain my heart by deliberately attacking the carriage and worrying everyone away from the queue. Yeah, I guess we should deduce."

Saying, his expression is sober. There was no fever at all in the words either, and it was clear that he did not believe in this' reasoning '.

"Aren't you going to judge me as a 'bad girl'?

"I've made a lot of mistakes just judging by the rumors and the way they looked.... Yes, all from the beginning, maybe I was wrong"

... Hi, the clouds of the story are suspicious. Close up all the samurai, and think about it, without even bringing Alford, I wonder what the hell the king has come this far to talk about.

I didn't know what he meant, and to Deanna, who shut up, it was Juke himself who cut in.

"Right. From the beginning, this is what I should have asked. - Red rose. Is that really, like the rumors of the world, a bad woman?

- My heart made a noise I didn't quite understand and jumped in the direction of the day after tomorrow.

He entered the palace in the summer and continued to be hated and made his enemies. The opponent, who even gave up building a good relationship once, has a desperate eye to see 'Deanna'. I also skipped the damage account and everything, just trying to find out the truth.

That, I'm sure. I totally meant to give up, I was hoping somewhere in my heart, it was my eyes.

"Am I the 'bad girl' or not? It is those who have been associated with me, not myself, who determine it.... Has Your Majesty thought of me as not a 'bad girl'?

"Yes... I guess it will"

"May I ask why?

Deanna also responds to Juke's innocent eyes with honest eyes. I didn't mean to falsify myself more than I did originally, but Deanna would never think to roll him into smoke with halfway deception right now.

"Reason, huh? In retrospect, there's a lot going on... but most of all, it would still be 'arr'"

"What is that?

"... well, during this journey, at night, I would surely have gone down to town with patience and joined the people's festival"

Unexpected content suddenly popped up, and Deanna often cruised over what to answer. While in town, Deanna almost returned to the vegetables, confident that she was not proud but enjoying the festival from the bottom of her heart. Even though I felt some gaze, I didn't even care that the costume was' lady enjoying the town festival with patience 'at that time, so I guess it's seen in rarity.

... one of those gazes, maybe.

"I'm also curious to know what a people's festival is. I was asking Alford to see as much of the town festival as possible."

"… so you were discovering me, who was equally impatient"

"Don't be like that."

It was far-fetched. He is a serious king, so he would not have taken off his feathers on a trip for divinity. Alford is Alford, too, King. I'm in trouble if you don't tell me about your patience plan early.

Deanna at night wagged all she wanted, as if to clear up the depression of the day when she couldn't move freely.... suppose they were watching me.

"... Well, look at me then, you don't seem a bit like 'Princess Ice Flame in Bloom'"

"When I confessed, at first I thought it was someone else with a very similar face.... I'm not even a nobleman's maid in the first place to even pile up all-you-can-serve ice confectionery and break it from the basics of advice"

"Okay, but you're gonna want to try and see how far you can load it when you get there, right?

"I think the subject of ice candy is just eating, huh?

From the flashy bouncing of my first day, they were watching me in the first place. Deanna wanted to be a little obstinate.

"Your Majesty is a bad person, too. If you were watching, you could have called me."

"I was a little lost. But it seemed like too much fun, so I thought I'd give you some water."

"What kind of punitive game is it that exposes my face before I know it to only me when I'm playing 'Red Rose' in the back palace? I still choose when and when, don't I, Wagamama?

"Seems so. So I thought. - I wonder if a daughter like this is really, like the world says, a 'bad girl'. At least from my eyes, I didn't think that was a bad guy."

"... thank you very much for that"

I may be praised, but I don't feel as if I'm being praised. It's ice candy. If you were witnessing a collapse, would you have seen a bit of a shooting stall knockout or a brawl at a throwing pie match?... This is not to say that I am not comfortable living.

Juke finally laughed at Deanna, who was half chilled and half full of rot.

"I did, but I've been wondering if maybe you're a different person from the rumors, to tell the truth, for quite some time now"

"Yes, is it?

It was an unexpected word. At the time of the former Chief of Staff replacement case, he had found a wise solution without murdering Deanna, but at least before that, he believed Deanna to be a bad girl and had no doubt about it. The collision before the park.

"For me," the answer "was prepared from the beginning, and I never had any suspicion about it in the first place." Countess Crester is a bad man, "the answer comes first, and if you think the answer and reality are not aligned, you twist the real one.... I haven't been trying to see myself properly in a long time without realizing that I'm just running away with ease"

"That's the weakness that every human being has for granted. You will never be more humiliated than you need to be."

"But it would have been an unforgivable failure as a 'king'."

To Juke's laughter, self-derision mixes. I've never been relative to him like this, and Deanna was seriously worried about how to handle it.

"In retrospect, discomfort came from the beginning. On my first night, I wish I had listened properly to what you said without looking at it the way I wore it. At the start of the season at the night club, I would have thought harder about what you wanted to say to me.... I got all those unreasonable eights before the park games. Well, if you still swallow everything and look straight at how you're doing your job. - It was much, much quicker to come to this conclusion"

"It's inexplicable, Your Majesty. It's important to look back and reflect on the past, but regret creates nothing"

"But... I guess I was wrong, wasn't I?

Believing Deanna as a bad girl and not lending any ear to her words, it may be a mistake to speak of her previous words and deeds.

...... but.

"Anyone can make a mistake. Especially when it comes to my character, almost everyone in this country's privileged class is mistaken, rather than mistaken."

"... in town, see that. I laughed happily from the bottom of my heart. I couldn't help but think of myself as a bad guy. What if" The Answer "is more wrong, and I've been doing the wrong justice... for the first time, facing the possibility from the front,"

I wanted to strangle myself from the past.

In a repressed and murderous voice, she made such a horrible confession that Deanna finally gave up worrying.

"You know, how many times can you tell? Regretting the past won't do you any good"

"But considering what I said,"

"It's done, all of it"

Totally, totally, totally. Juke looks back at Deanna with a face as if he had heard it even in a phantom hearing.... Why should I be surprised so far when I say the obvious?

"Me and His Majesty's meeting, the night club at the start of the season, and then the horticulture. It's all, it's all over now. You can't go back in time if you regret it, and you can't start over."

"That's... sure, but"

"Reflection is necessary, isn't it? If you are honest reflection, I have mountains too. Especially since I came to the rear palace. It's just the first time and I've been confused, and I've made a lot of mistakes."

"... did you?

"Yes."

There must have been a better way to stand around, both as a 'red rose' and as a way to protect Shayla. If I hadn't bothered badly and had been honest with myself about how I wanted to protect what was important, there would have been a different way to stand now.

But it's already past time. I just imagined the 'what if' of the past, and things are still the same now. - Then.

"If you've noticed a mistake, you'll have to make that a new beginning. Make the next use of the reflections of the past to avoid repeating the same mistakes this time. That way we can make that 'mistake' into the 'past' that we needed for a better future"

"A lot of things I've done wrong have gone wrong."

"I won't deny it. That's just the story of His Majesty's" start. "

In the first place, it can also be said that the very existence of the "Back House" is the fault of a juke that could not be seen under his ministry. At the head of Liliane, Deanna was sent to the rear palace as the runoff of a conservative courtier and the fact that it had spilled over to the politics of the table and a strange currency that greatly changed the situation, for better or worse. Not yet, either, Juke doesn't know. - And that's his starting line.

"The only thing we can do is accept it all and start there.... although I'm sure it's a very scary thing"

"Oh...... that's scary. From now on, I'm going to bump into the fools of the past, whether they respond or not."

"That's Holla, Your Majesty, not alone."

Master Al is running for office with Piong Piong's hands up. I'm sure that was an encouragement, but at those moments, for some reason, Juke has looked back at Deanna with tremendous speed.

"Help me, will you?

"... what?

"That's all I did, and I did terrible things. Honestly, I didn't think you'd forgive me."

"No, forgive me or not, because I don't care that much"

I've never personally had any emotions so much as I've been moved by Juke's words and actions in the first place. Though I was keeping an eye on his words and actions because I have trouble growing up as a king.

"That started earlier when I noticed a mistake, I said so.... Me and you, can we start again now?

"I'll ask you just in case, but that's just a friendship story, right?

"Naturally. What else do we have?"

"... let me advise you from the bottom of my heart, because now His Majesty's words sound like confessions of love, in time and in some cases, don't they?

You natural idiot couple, and you get inside. Shayla also used to say, "Hey, if that wasn't between the girls, we'd be out indefinitely!" She keeps her remarks to herself, but her opponent is also with me. They are the two who are compassionate ahead.

Speaking of those who got stuck in there, he was blushing, "No, I didn't mean that," he said. This, too, needs attention because when you look at it with a girl in love, it looks like a picture of a man being poked at a star and in a hurry, and what a chase, your poor king might not be able to recover for a while.

"You don't have to be so hasty. I am also familiar with His Majesty's presence at Shayla's side."

"Well... shall I? Right. By the way, Red Rose, I'd like to ask you one thing."

"What is it?

"Do you want the love of my... 'King'?

"No, if I can, I just want to put an end to all this nonsense and ask the righteous about the seat of the 'Red Rose' and leave the backhouse."

The juke flashed again.... Now, well, I don't know, but I don't.

In the first place, since the first day she entered the palace, Deanna had set up an operation on how she should escape from the rear palace, but she was informed that the situation in the royal palace, including the rear palace, was more difficult than expected and that she could not escape a bit softly. In time, getting along with Shayla and letting Rya and the others go through their minds made it difficult to leave to not see their happiness.

but that only raised the level of difficulty of escape, and the very goal of 'escaping peacefully from the rear palace' remains the same.... Actually, although I've been giving up a little lately, Kai and I promised last night, 'Let's go see the town lined up with houses with shouji'. In order to live up to that promise, yes or no, but we have to get out of the rear palace and go back from "Red Rose" to just "Deanna".

"In that regard, I think I can put up a joint front with His Majesty, don't you? Your Majesty would like Shayla to be the Red Rose, if possible?

"Well, that's true.... then isn't that too convenient for me? Oh, my God, are you sure about that?

So I'm going back to the first question.

For the first time, Deanna let a bare smile peek in front of her juke.

"Yesterday I left the carriage, not because I was certainly afraid. Their aim… I don't know if it was' Red Rose 'or myself, but it was my life anyway"

"-!... Again, yeah"

"Did you notice?

"Those who attacked the king's carriage were too unwilling. I also talked to Alford about the likelihood of positive activity."

His Majesty the King and his neighbors have noticed the unnatural nature of the thieves since just after the raid.

"Yeah, the real aim was me. I realized that… I fled to the woods."

"I was there, to protect the rear palace Kingsguards?

"The war situation was obvious, because this one was unfavourable. If only I could buy some time by running away."

"You got your aim nicely fitted.... but it's too dangerous"

"But for me, it was safer than in the carriage."

Kusuri laughs, Deanna seeds to keep.

"I was born and raised in the Lordship Hall of Crestor Territory. It was a place where 80% of the property was buried in the woods, and I grew up in the woods as a playground."

"The noble lady, yet?

"Because neither my father nor my mother asked me for common sense in such a place. - So the woods, for me, are a place of peace of mind above all else."

The sound of water pulsing through the trees, the breath of the beasts, the voice of the wind across the forest. To the whisper of fallen leaves, guide the worms on their way.

Familiar since childhood, they always protected Deanna, where she was in danger.

"At the root, it's a wild child, me. What a narrow place to be in the rear palace is out of place in the first place. Would it rather be a wish or a fulfillment to give the 'Red Rose' to His Majesty's beloved and leave the rear palace"

"I did, but if that's the kind of daughter you have. Sure you can think that way..."

"Well, there's Shayla's will at the heart, and most importantly, she's not in a state where she's about to decide to be the Queen. Clean up the problem one by one, and then we'll talk about it first."

"It's comforting not to mention that you were on my side of the Red Rose.... so far, I'm so sorry"

With words, I was lowered my head deeply.... Could he have wanted to do this today? I have a tocoton clumsy personality.

"As I said earlier, I don't care. I'm very comfortable with Your Majesty's understanding."

Could it be better from here?

- Deanna's chest slammed in slight anticipation.