The Inner Palace Tale of a Villainess Noble Girl

Kai, who ran away with a pot for hot water (he would deny it, but that's a rare escape), explored her signs and felt its presence near the mansion's kitchen. Although it was an excuse to escape, I guess it was also true that there was no more hot water left.

Since the kitchen showed no signs other than Deanna, Kai would not hide herself in particular, but would go straight in and approach Deanna. Deanna, who saw Kai, sighed after stiffening her expression for a moment.

"... I'll tell you what, really, to that extent, it's everyday tea in Crestor. Your brother's worried, so if he finds out the details, maybe he'll get angry."

"It may be a routine tea meal until the poacher, but the weapon you have wasn't a routine tea meal. I saw Stanza's latest gunpowder weapon for the first time yesterday, but seriously, it's super dangerous."

"It's dangerous, but... if I capture him before I pull the trigger and make him physically immobile, I guess he'll be fine. Also, it seems to be more powerful than the ones I've seen before, but it was a difficult structure to target for that matter, so even if I pulled the trigger, it would have been quinquennial."

"That's what I found out after researching the weapon, because it doesn't change that Dee, who got in without knowing the details, was reckless. Edward's sermon is to be spoiled."

"Uh-oh... Kai's messing with me"

"All this, unscrupulous Dee deserves it. If you're going to make fun of me, don't make fun of me knowing that you're going to be mad at me."

... The truth is, there are other parts of Kai that he learned to fear. Even when Deanna, who was attacked by assassins at the Evening Festival before, hid in the woods, she had considerable difficulty finding them. We entered this "Crester Forest", but at the end of the day, capturing Deanna's signs becomes difficult at the impossible level.

In an instant, I lose sight of an important being that I should have become familiar with. Things were already converging when I was finally able to rush, even though I was scared of it. - The plants were caught entangling poachers, surrounded by birds and beasts living in the woods. In order to protect Deanna, Kai's chest became noisy even if she didn't respond to the sight of Mori's willingness.

(Dee's "Spirit Power" is... much, much higher than we think)

That's one of the triggers, enough to wake up to the power of a miracle that gives life.

And I woke up, but at the end of the day, I'm sure Deanna will spare no effort to use that power and continue to reach out for salvation.

... it will surely only be the dawn of an endless and harsh destiny.

- Before Kai is pushing and killing his inner grid, Deanna, who is boiling new hot water, is throwing firewood into the firewood to strengthen the firefighting.

She sighed deeply as she watched the flames add and subtract.

"Everyone is overprotective. Even though your brother alone was a little too protective, I can't believe Kai and I even joined Shayla."

"That's all about Dee. I don't know anybody else, but I don't care. I'm not gonna be so upset."

"It's... I know, I'm gonna"

Dyed her cheeks and leaned down, Deanna is adorable. No matter what anyone says, Kai can confidently affirm that no one is cuter than Deanna.

Unexpectedly, Deanna looked up softly and unconsciously, her heart made one loud noise with Dokun.

"Dee?"

"... it"

"Hmm?"

"You call me, that call. I really thought I'd switch cleverly."

"... Oh, about that"

For Kai, Deanna has always been 'Dee'. It was at the beginning that Deanna was the shortened name she named Shayla to hide who she was, but before that, it became Deanna's "name" when she was completely unmasking the "Red Rose" in the rear palace.

It's really expressive, and the emotional swings are huge. Just kind and hobbyist, yet stubborn and mean, because I found out she was such a girl.

... Already, now even when I'm 'Red Rose' in the back palace, Kai only sees Deanna as' Dee '.

Only one, special... to the girl I love more than anyone else, I can think of no more.

- But I also know that if my emotions come to light, I could push Deanna into distress.

"I'm not Dee's subordinate, so I don't think I need to use reverence or honor. Exactly, I have trouble getting weirdly taken into account by using a nomenclature that nobody uses except Mr. Shayla in front of King Sama.... because he seems to be losing his mind, much more than I thought."

"I was just wondering, there's nothing nasty about it."

"In the first place, it's not even dishonorable to be looked at, Dee."

Though it is often forgotten that Deanna is now the "side room" - in front of the building, she is the king's wife. I don't make mistakes that would make my enemies understand how I feel about Deanna, but I don't know where and how this hand story twists and bends and becomes Deanna's flaw. Deanna's own feelings for Kai are lucid and dear, but more than Kai isn't, in case there are rumors about 'Red Rose's Wraith', they will be spoken with some authenticity.

You have to avoid it.... such a thing, absolutely.

Only in Deanna's way, absolutely, dead, can't be.

Deanna seemed very surprised at the words with such determination, for some reason, that she looked back at this one with her eyes wide open.

"... what is it?

"Yeah...... I was just surprised when they said something a little unexpected"

"Unexpected? What neighborhood?

"What Kai just said, in short, is that it's dishonorable to be misunderstood as deeply related to a man who's not really deeply close, right? I'm not proud of the rumors, but I've had enough octopuses in my ears since I was a debutant."

Lightly said, Kai's eyes will now be round.... Speaking of which, although I totally forgot, Deanna's reputation in the aristocratic society was' Princess Ice Flame in Bloom '- a hell of a bad girl who would be more than happy with someone else's misfortune and throw it away if she was tired of it.

"... How dare you? Well, that's what got the rumors so far from the real thing, isn't it? You know, playing with Dee on fire, even though it's the most remote."

"Really, right? I know the extent to which I would do it as a preference for a noble woman, but honestly I don't believe in that kind of cot, someone I don't know very well and the nerves I can do it. Even making contact with your body in a normal dance, even though if you suck, your opponent's lower heart will feel sick in Miemier."

"Uh... I get it, do you?

"Somehow. Well, since I was a debutant, I've had better bodies than kids my age. So I have no idea why it's going to be equals anymore.

... the area is probably due to an array of 'women's breasts grow up rubbing', familiar with men's lewdness. It somehow makes sense that the same man would have worked the inferior thought of good development, that is, because he is raised by a man. By the way, Arre is a complete theory, in fact, where a man has appropriately rubbed her, and she never grows a woman's breasts.

(I don't care what you're noble about. Even if you step back, fundamentally, guys are all alike...)

Kai pulled the firewood out of Deanna's hand and put it on the fire.

"... that's the kind of rumor you got, wasn't it hard?

"... Well, once before the debutant, Aunt Fifi and her brother told me that there would be bad rumors, not to mention what direction. At first, I used to be stubborn because they just say it in a very bad way, and I don't socialize anymore. Looks like they even anticipated it."

"Sarasu is the Krester family..."

"To be honest, I might have given up 80% of the way looking for my understanders in aristocratic society until I entered the backhouse. They only receive it like it's bad where I said it, and then it's better not to expect it anymore.... From now on, I've been stubborn since I was a debutant. If you didn't give up, you would have realized that Rya and Yolanda had been watching me properly since then. Yet I assumed that until I entered the rear palace, the only thing you two were sneering at was the upper side. They're called" Flowers of Society, "so you have to be nice to a reputable maid like me."

"... I don't think I can do it, because I was exposed to all that malice."

"Yeah, that's different.... No, I went into the back house and finally figured it out. Because I can only throw malice from others, I can't treat others with malice either. There was no such thing as a good reason to hold onto your shell and scorn until someone was kind enough to give it to you."

"Dee......"

When this is the case, I feel it. The glare of Deanna's soul. The - Rin and waver in the sludge, the beauty.

No matter how hurt or tormented she is, Deanna doesn't resent others. I try to be nice to others everywhere, just for what I hurt, just for what I suffered.

No matter how many times I've been betrayed, I've tried to be hit with malice. With that betrayal, malice, it never distorts the mind. Try to keep faith in the world, straight, clean, everywhere.

Every time I feel it, I fall into the depths of deep, bottomless thoughts again... and I just want to protect it, that's all I think about.

- Chubby, and the fire powder exploded heavily, and Kai returned to me haha.

(So... on the day I accidentally called you "Dee," I don't know how far my thoughts would leak)

People surprise me, but Kai has never asked anyone to think this far but Deanna. Even this is all confusing to the first emotions born.

Deanna, peeking into the pan, groaned swallowingly, "Could it be any more?"

While smiling bitterly, mix the inside properly again to make the fire stronger.

"Speaking of which... out of the question, is Dee going to call me 'Dee' or maybe I don't like it?

"Not too much now, that question? If I didn't like it, I'd have stopped it a long time ago."

"Right. I thought so, too, because it seemed like Dee cared how I called him."

"... one way or another, though. Kai had better be called 'Deanna' because he didn't come. Do you think it feels like someone else's behavior?"

I look back unexpectedly and see Deanna's face. Deanna tilted her neck with a face that, as she said, had not come close.

"I'm not talking about other people's behavior or anything, but what are you talking about when you're originally someone else?... Maybe I, much more than I thought I would, like Kai to call me 'Dee'. I've always admired your father and mother for calling each other by their nicknames."

That's it, then Deanna hacks and looks at Kai.

"Do, uh, I wasn't admiring anything about a relationship or anything! I just thought it would be nice for people close to each other to call each other special names!

"You don't have to be in such a hurry to know. Well, in my case, it's that because the name is too short to even have to be nicknamed. I also want to call Dee more Dee than I normally do by name, so if you like it, I'm glad you like it."

"Sooo... Huh"

Deanna dyes her cheeks with love overflowing.

He stood up, weighed himself in wanting to hold him, and held his hand softly. Smile softly at Deanna for holding back modestly.

"This is now, too. Me, I'm pretty reluctant to touch Dee, but don't you hate it? I told you I don't really like making contact with men."

"Why not? That's just a bunch of junior Miemies, and I've never felt bad about being in touch with Kai."

"... Really? Don't you feel anything?

"I don't know..."

Saying, Deanna steps closer to this one and gently deposits her head in Kai's chest. Turning her hand around her back with almost a reflex wondering if she had even stood up, she felt Deanna laughing.

"Yeah, I knew it. From Kai, all I feel is the thought of being very warm, kind and... comfortable. There's no such thing as disgusting elements."

"Totally......"

Only when this one is desperately restraining herself, Deanna unconsciously steps over that boundary.

Pulling the hand he was holding, he put just a little force into the arm he turned on his back, and Kai held Deanna tight.

"Really, it's no match for Dee."

"... I'll say it often. It's always me who keeps losing to you."

"That's the unconscious triumph, Dee. I can't always beat Dee."

"Is it so easy for a 'lion', known by its name in the back-running world, to declare defeat?

"This is all the truth in the world, so he can't help it."

Love is always the loss of those who fall in love more deeply. Even if the day came when Deanna would like Kai as a man ahead, it wouldn't be enough for Kai to think of Deanna. Honestly, when I look at myself objectively right now, I feel like you're obsessed with Deanna on a criminal level if you take one wrong step. That's what I hadn't even imagined until a year ago, such as the presence of such a "fever" in me.

(Is there going to be a day when I can put my thoughts into words... I don't know about that)

Still, only this standing that protects Deanna closest can give way to anyone for the rest of their lives.... Whatever happens to Deanna in the future, no matter what happens.

(Whatever happens, I'll protect Dee. That's all, unshakeable)

With determination, Kai muttered in his heart, only once more, and put his strength into his arms to cuddle -.

■ ■ ■ ■ ■

(... One of you beside me, guys, is too kind)

Deanna closed her eyes quietly, wrapped in the warmth of Kai.

If you turn to your consciousness, you will hear another "voice", different from the sound that makes your eardrum tremble.

Deanna, aren't you coming back?

Deanna, are you talking about Deanna over there?

[Ed, you look so hard. You don't have to worry about that. Deanna knows everything.]

[Why don't you say it right? Deanna said it's okay because we're here.

[Hey Deanna...]

(Thanks, guys. Because I'll be back when the water boils)

Answered quietly, Deanna regained consciousness and sank into her thoughts.

- The Crester Forest is a chat. Although I don't know if it was originally due to the land pattern that has had generations of "Princess of the Woods," everyone here talks a lot more about different things than humans think and is also interested in humans. There are many "lives" in the land that are indifferent to humans and do not understand human language, but everyone here understood to some extent what people were talking about. … Living longer than old, that's what makes a tree thousands of years old. Knowing more about humans than humans, knowing more about history - the more you know about the spirituals of the past (Spiricia).

(Though your father hid the continuation of "Spiriel Heritage" to protect me... you didn't think that all of Crestors were so familiar with human history either)

If Deanna cares about it. Seriously, if you want to know the "past".

Crestor Forest has been there for a long time. The "lives" respond to Deanna's wishes. Long ago, from the time of the "Beginning Witch Princess", who was first invited to the "Forest", what bonds between the historical "Princess" and the "Forest" have lived -.

Everything from the beginning to the end.

"... Dee?

Kai calls the silent Deanna, bewildered.

Keeping her forehead in his possession, Deanna slowly shook her neck to the side.

"... just a little more. Just let me stay a little longer."

We can't go back yet. Outside, Deanna's loved ones are still desperately trying to protect Deanna.

The thought, painfully.... which side can I go back down as I try to attribute all of my gentle thoughts to nothing.

Kai's arm, which was loosening, was reinvigorated.

"That's... I don't mind. What's up, Dee?"

"Nothing, nothing. It's no big deal.... I'm sorry, Ky"

"There's nothing Dee can apologize for."

"Yeah.... I'm really, really sorry"

Harsh fate, descended upon the 'princesses' of history. Fate did not miss them, no matter how much they were protected by the 'Lost Forest' or how firmly the 'Forest People' protected them.... I didn't miss it, didn't give it to me.

("Give life, the power of miracles. … but as the reason of the world, the exercise of a power that is just a man must necessarily be" compensated ")

I think the "princess" of history would have been happy. "Loved by the woods, loved by the people of the woods.... I would have liked to have done all that raw, serene if I could.

But many of them are short-lived. The 'wise men' who kept looking into the cause for generations learn the brutal truth at one point or another.

When "Princess of the Forest" gives "life" to others, it is not "spiritual power" that is used.

- That it is the very backbone of the soul, the 'nucleus'.

(He who exercises the miracle of giving life in his own soul… that is the Princess of the Woods)

Unlike 'spiritual power', which recovers if used but rested, 'nucleus' is basically, if broken, not returned. Every time you give someone a "life", the "nucleus" of the "princess" is shredded little by little... eventually you become so brittle that you can't save your "spiritual power," you can't keep your soul, and you will die.

The "wise men" of the past who learned of it managed to perpetuate their lives by minimizing the exercise of the power of the "Princess of the Forest". But for whatever reason, fate unreasonably "calls" them.

At one point, a country nearly destroyed by an infectious disease.

At one point, the mountains were burned out by an unstoppable flame.

In some cases, the earth is made thin by the great drought.

... The 'princesses' have always saved themselves, of their own free will.

(I'm sure... if this power is completely awake, so am I.)

"I guess it's called.... what's the only thing, destiny.

The truth about the "princess" is that generations of "sage" have been connected by oral passages, saying it is a forbidden secret. No one yet exercises "spiritual art" except "Princess of the Forest", which sharpens the "nucleus". If the truth comes to light, more and more, the 'princess' will be exposed to the eyes of curiosity as a peculiar being among the spiritual powers, and targeted at the body. It is the judgment of the 'wise men' who guided it.

However, it is easy to interrupt "oral communication" that is not left on paper. Two hundred and fifty years have passed lightly since the last "princess" died, and now the truth about "princess" is no longer known to Dualis. In the first place, in an era when even the presence of the spiritual power is considered a gag in the inheritance, it is a big deal that the anecdote of "Princess of the Forest" survives… The Great Tree of Crestor, who told me the old story, "said it" as impressed.

(But maybe... both your father and brother are guessing something)

Even if oral communication is interrupted, the fate traced by the historical "Princess of the Woods" remains as literature. Read that and you'll soon find out that they were short-lived, etc. Reason is unclear, but it should be easy for both of us to predict that Deanna would follow the same fate if she were fully awake.

That's why Dualis hid The Spiriel Heritage from Deanna. To exist in this day and age, the 'force', which in every sense is extremely dangerous, says not to wake up.

... and now Edward, who loaded the literature of "Princess of the Forest," has made the same decision as Dualis, and is desperate to defend "Deanna" more than "Brother" as the next "Wise Man" and more than "Princess of the Forest" of our time.

-... now, with gentle arms, even one who is wrapping Deanna around me.

(It's nothing, until it distracts me.... cherished, truly "I" care about me)

Everyone must be thinking and wishing.

"Let no more of Deanna's power awaken." so that the future that Deanna uses to give life will never come "-.

(... sorry, dude. everyone's wishes, I betray)

"Return home" to Crester and talk to the old familiar tree when he settled down.

... on the night I found out all the truth, what I swore.

(If I have the power to give life.... I can use that power, and I will never let you take anyone's life again, right in front of me)

I don't want to hear any more of the cruel sound of someone's life interrupting carelessly.

Booms backwards, and the sound of water. I can't even say goodbye to my loved ones, and the tone of my broken soul decaying.

Enough already. That's enough.

… do you repeat regrets that have been enough for just one time, twice or even three times?

Protect yourself, abandon someone. Living like that is unlikely to end up with Deanna. Because there's no way you can imitate the world you love to get dirty on your own.

So Deanna is. Pretend you don't know it all, pretend you're unconscious about your powers, and... decide that nature and power have "woken up".

I swore I would get the power of The Princess of the Woods.

"-Dee."

Kai's palm, whose arm was accidentally untied and much bigger and more fractured than it looked, was accompanied by Deanna's cheek.

Kai's eyes, raised in natural flow and sheltered in a quiet light, stare at each other at close range.

Silently, in the kitchen, where only the sound of fire exploding, often Kai stares at Deanna.

"Do you realize? Unexpectedly stubborn Dee doesn't honestly apologize unless he thinks he's really bad."

"What, that. Bad mouth?"

"Too bad, just a fact.... Why did you apologize?

"Nothing... Kai said it too, because I'm a real wagamama. I don't care what anyone says, what I want to do, I'll never bend. Sometimes I don't like it, but I still can't give it away."

Betraying everyone's tender thoughts, Deanna knocks herself on the door of a brutal fate.

I'm sure I want more of that than anyone else in this world, and I'm selfish.

Kai, who took Deanna's words quietly,... slowly, slowly, laugh.

"... ok"

One word, when I squealed like that, I came together with my forehead.

"I can't believe Dee's a wagga mom, and that's not what started right now. I know who said what and if I decided to, I would never give in."

"Kai......"

"Do what you want, do what you want. What if that's dangerous for Dee, … even if it could have shrunk his life, even if it was his worst choice. Because I'm gonna shatter all the disasters that will befall Dee."

"... eh"

This, one.

What the hell, how far, look ahead.

"My vows will remain the same until I die. Whatever happens, whatever happens. I'll protect everything Dee wants so Dee can be happy. The body - the mind, all of it"

"How... how can Kai be so, so sweet? Gentle, is that it?

"How could you... really, Dee doesn't know who he is"

Kai's exhalation touches her lips. His words poured into Deanna, as soft warmth descended.

"Me too, but everyone tries to take care of Dee and protect him because Dee has always tried to protect everyone, just like he did. Dee always spares no effort for someone with a kind wish, a straight eye, a warm heart. What I've given you that way is just coming back to Dee in everyone's minds. There's nothing strange about it."

"... me, to everyone, were you giving?

"It's in its current form, and I've been giving it to you.... I don't know what more I'm willing to give you."

"Kai......, I,"

- You don't have to tell me.

Then Kai's fingers stroked Deanna's hair.

"I've been ready ever since the day I swore I'd protect Dee. - It's okay. If Dee chooses to go that way, I'll be sure to protect Dee, even from Dee himself.

"Ka, i...... eh"

"So Dee doesn't have to worry. - You don't have to apologize. Take the grand road you want to go, always laugh like Dee. Because that's what I want."

... Yes, it was. Only one person in this world, the one who spotted the deepest hope Deanna hadn't even noticed and put me on the palm of her hand. That's what Kai is.

Even what I didn't know was easy for Kai to spot. He couldn't possibly have foreseen the vows that Deanna had consciously taken when she tried to hide them.

Take it, being affirmed, you're wrapped up in more relief than you thought.

If she spoke up, she was going to cry, and Deanna snorted one, silently, after a step away.

Ky, who doesn't distract from Deanna, snorts as well.

"I think it sounds like Dee. I'm glad you came after me. On the contrary, I've got a stomach."

I dare you to say that to me in a light manner, to make it brown.

Deanna could finally smile, too, into the beautiful purple blue eyes that kept her hands in touch and stared at this one.

"... I've been thinking for a long time that Kai is good at spoiling me"

"Really? I don't mean to spoil you, but if Dee feels that way, maybe he does."

"I'm usually more annoyed than my brother... and this is the one I hear rumors about: candy and whip?

"That annoying Mr. Edward is waiting for you. - The water's boiling, and it's time to go back?

"... I'm going to the woods, Kai, can you bring me some hot water?

"It was a shame, because I wouldn't spoil it there.... you really don't like it around choosing the woods for the getaway, Edward's sermon"

"Anyway, I don't like it because it's a long time and I'm going to seal the objection with rationality..."

Beating lightly at each other, Deanna engraved the happiness of this calm time into her chest.