The Inner Palace Tale of a Villainess Noble Girl

It was late at night and the indoor lights went out, midnight.

In the given room of the Royal Palace of Elland, on its bedside, Exiga was having a sleepless time.

Every time you close your eyes and try to sleep, the sight of day passes behind your brain to keep your sleeper away.

(What. What the heck, that's -)

During the day, the courtyard was guided to visit by the Red Rose Princess. Outside the corridor, in that place with few people and never a large area.

The men and women who spoke as if to avoid the eyes looked like happy lovers, with each other's hearts in common.... even though such a thing is impossible.

(At that time, the princess)

The Red Rose Princess, who saw the sight at about the same time as Exiga, for a moment - it was only a moment, but her expression was frozen. But in the next moment, he approached them with a bright grin.

"Your Majesty, Master Shayla" - and while I call the two of you to intimacy.

... reminds me of two people who were in a hurry to see her emerge, and "something" boils deep down at the bottom of her belly.

(Um, the two of you. King Elland is......!

The king and the Princess of the Red Rose, who exchanges words with her daughter, who was speaking with the king, never ceased to grin in a peaceful and serene manner from beginning to end. "It's an odd encounter to see you in a place like this," he said by throwing himself, "during the administration, I had a little time, so I went to visit the backyard to join the prince's tea party, and I saw Miss Carrerdo alone. I was just asking what you were doing," and I didn't get angry at the king's argument, which was painful and about, "Well, you did. Dear Shayla, wasn't it surprising that His Majesty suddenly spoke to you?," and make my daughter...... even show her room to care for someone competing for the king's favor.

That, on the contrary.

"Your Highness. Since this is your opportunity, may I introduce you?

Don't let the exciga you were with get awkward, you let yourself and the side room meet each other for the first time and try to soften her up named Shayla Carrerdo. "You are a wonderful young lady who is very intelligent and spares no effort," he said.

(Why? Why, the princess -!)

Is it so bright, full of charity, and funny?... to a woman who shouldn't have hated and missed the heart of the man she loved, why?

The distance between the two before they could be heard by the Red Rose Princess was that of a man and a woman who, no matter how they looked at each other, loved each other. Though there was no obvious touch, the king's eyes staring at his daughter lit a definite flame of love. My daughter was also responding to the King's words with trust, respect, and deep affection on board.

If you look at that, everyone will understand. - that King Elland is who he truly loves.

Yet. Seeing the same sight as Exiga, she was frozen...... should have hurt deeply, she was.

"Oh, Master Shayla. This rune has a very unusual color."

"Well, that's true. Is it a new breed?

"In the process of mating, it may have been accidentally revealed. Runes can dye silk threads very nicely, so if you can artificially grow large quantities of petals of this color, you'll have a wider range of dyes."

"That's a great thing. Let's talk to Nasha soon."

He didn't even show his distress, he even enjoyed his conversation with his daughter.

(I know. The princess is like that. Always make the people, the king... caring for someone other than themselves, doing all they can for their happiness. Because she's such a princess, I...)

In the chest, the closed lid makes a noise and opens. "It" should have unconsciously restrained itself and pushed it into a deep, deep place. If you wish for friendship between the Stanza Empire and the Kingdom of Elland, emotions that should never have been...

It was.

(The princess. If you, the Red Rose, are not truly loved, there is no place for me to push myself to death, etc.)

That's right. The truth is, all the time.

Probably the first time I've seen her, since that moment.

(I wanted her to. Not only the body...... to the mind, everything)

Hurray at her wise and merciful, and be jealous enough to hold on to a king who is gaining such love for her.

However, if you acknowledge such emotions... if you are seen as being suspicious of the king's princess, the next righteous queen, etc., you will not fit in individually with each other. No matter how you scratch it, it leads to problems between countries and defects on the part of Stanza. I misled myself by replacing my jealousy as a man with my envy as a royalty - only envying King Elgrand, who obtained a wonderful righteous queen.

That way, the "lid" that has been unconsciously repressed and closed - now that we have the truth about King Elland, it opens up easily.

(I suppressed myself because I thought so when the princess loved the king more than her heart and the king also loved the princess. Such thoughts could only be severed as barren if they were deeply loved by their beloved man and believed that the princess was gaining happiness.... but I didn't know that the big premise would be overridden)

There is no doubt that King Elland has used her heavily as a 'red rose' and placed his trust in her. Perhaps, as a person, you prefer it, and you have feelings.

But - that's never, ever the love of loving her as one woman.

(Shayla, I wouldn't have noticed if I'd known the king looking at that side room like that...)

King Elland is a man of deep emotion in the first place. That's why I didn't suspect a man's love of his eyes full of love pouring on the Red Rose Princess, and I believed in the two of them.

But...... if you look into the king's eyes looking at Shayla, the difference is too pronounced. Once upon a time, the king has not turned his eyes to the princess with so much heat.

From the beginning, King Juke's heart was not in the Red Rose Princess.

(So... what happens to the Red Rose Princess, no, Miss Deanna -?)

I heard that it was almost a matter of decision for her to be the next righteous queen of the Kingdom of Elland. Probably, that would be the truth. There are few women who deserve to be righteous queens, both in their abilities and in their character. King Elland must be weighing her down as a 'red rose' because he expects to be the righteous queen in the future.

Push the burden of being the righteous queen and the slander of the domestic nobles against that sweet girl. The woman you love surrounds you as a side room, hides you, protects you.... that that's the soul gall of that man?

Love from the man you love is not returned, but because of that love, you cannot throw out the responsibilities you have been given -!

(such...... then too, isn't Princess Deanna pitiful!

The sleeper disappeared a long time ago. When Mukuri gets up, Exiga puts her foot in her indoor shoes, rubs the match and lights the tabletop lamp.

I guess I guessed the indoor air moved. Not between, Samba showed herself from the next room.

"Your Highness."

"Samba."

"... can't sleep"

"Ah.... you too, just like me"

A daytime act also naturally witnessed Samba, who was in action with Exiga. I got too much information and dared not bring it up on the subject for the night - though.

"... Your Highness still cares, doesn't he? In the daytime, King Elland and the sideroom."

"Naturally.... For your information, what did you think when you saw the king and the sideroom?

"Look at those two. There won't be anyone who isn't sure they're good friends with men and women. It's also a sense of distance, but above all, the air that was flowing between you two is peculiar to love."

"Yeah, right."

Samba, who is brilliant in other people's relationships, affirms. After all, I guess there's no mistake in the fact that it's that side room that the king truly loves.

To Exiga's appearance, Samba switches his expression to that of a competent aide.

"I thought Your Highness would care, and since then, I've done a little research on Baroness Shayla Carrerdo. The rumor that the king loves her is something that's been out there a couple of times before."

"... Hmm?

"But before the rumors spread in full, there was all kinds of noise inside and outside the rear palace, and the nobles' interests moved over there, and it seemed to disappear at some point."

"... the extraction of Princess Deanna"

"Probably."

She would. That princess, who is very capable and more gentle in heart than anyone else, would let her show that much skill to protect her beloved king and her lover. In the present situation, where the king has no righteous queen or heir, the reality that the king is fond of the side chamber can only be a source of power struggle, and if he is bad, the life of the side chamber itself is not even threatened.

The country, the king - the true princess. She uses herself as a shield to protect everything.

"Why, I can get that far...! Normally, you'll resent, you'll hate!

"I can't speculate to the inside of the princess... but at least from the red rose during the day, I didn't feel like resenting or hating the princess. On the contrary, you are accepting her presence very favourably"

"... I mean it, you think?

"Well... Master Red Rose is like a noble woman, keep her skill in the art of hiding her heart. Therefore, I can't tell if my fondness for your pet princess is just an appearance or a true one. Just..."

"Just?"

"I'm sure you haven't resented or hated your princess."

... Yes. Exige, too, was thinly guessing that. She doesn't hate a pet princess named Shayla. I took the heart of the man I love, the woman.

"... I didn't know such a woman existed"

"In Stanza's rear palace (Harem), it's unthinkable."

"In each emperor's reign, and also in the rear palace (Halem) the air will change… at least under the reign of the present emperor, it will never be seen"

The current emperor of the Stanza Empire - Exiga's father - is said to be a rare colored man. Even now, lightly past the age of sixty, his vigour did not diminish, and the rear palace (Halem) was constantly filled with young side chambers, and he was loved.

But because one woman after another is replenished, the emperor's love does not last long. Furthermore, even once bored, it may still be remembered at random and adored again, so the strife between the side chambers of the rear house (Harem) has always been harsh and fierce. I guess it would still be better if the emperor hated those feuds and let the officials manage them properly, but the ladies competing for favor are gorgeous, beautiful, and sometimes flash-loving emperors prefer such a beautiful rear palace (Halem), almost wild. Side chambers, no matter how many princesses die, the emperor will not be heartbroken by the fact.... since the five queens have successively and suspiciously died in the past, have they ever declared that they will not receive a new queen, nor will they make the side chambers queens? He was involved in the rear palace.

(What if... Princess Deanna was the queen, or she wanted it in the high side room. My mother has never been abused and I wonder if she is still well)

Exiga doesn't know her mother, but she has heard from those who knew her mother and were pitiful and secretly helping her with her condition.... but said she was a beautiful, modest, carefree, sophisticated daughter. He said he never wanted the Emperor's favor or anything else, was not interested in power, and was a warm-hearted bearer, like leading the family and the future of the child in his belly until the end of the period. - That's why there was no way to survive in the rear palace (Halem) of the Stanza Empire.

My mother, who I only know in the story, overlaps the figure of the princess that Exiga has witnessed. My mother is given birth to a boy she doesn't even love, and the difference is that the princess is not loved by the man she loves, but neither of them resents anyone in the harsh reality, and it is the same that she cares about others and rubs herself down.

"I wonder if I can save you."

The whining, almost unconsciously. Instead of pointing it towards Samba, it dropped zero as I asked myself. Samba widens her eyes just a little.

"Does that... mean Red Rose?

"... oh yeah. As it is now, the princess is too pitiful to watch"

"… King Elland does not seem to have the affection of a man or a woman for the Red Rose, but he will have the affection of a man. This situation, loved and desired by the man you love, is not generally pitiful."

"Samba, it's not even like you. Doesn't that mean, in short, that King Elland makes good use of the princess's affection? I don't think that such a wise and affectionate person understands that reality.... I can't stand my mind if I look at reality, so I'm just pretending not to see it"

Samba, who quietly took Exiga's words, counted a few beats of silence before...

"… I was afraid His Highness would say so"

I breathed out one big breath, deep.

"Your Highness has noticed your own heart."

"My heart," he said?

"His Royal Highness, to the Red Rose - one way or another, to be the righteous queen of the kingdom of Elland, you have feelings as a man. Love as a man, not love as a person."

I assure you, I can't find the words to give back to Samba, and Exiga turned away. Although the "lid" I just opened earlier, the emotions overflowing from it are not already delusional... if I just reopen it by myself and admit it, I still can't be fat enough to let someone reveal the length of my thoughts.

Because.

"Whether King Elland loves it or not, he will love it, but he will not waver that the Red Rose is His Highness the future righteous queen. Love has nothing to do with King Elland's marriage. As with Stanza's choice of queen, political tactics and personal aptitude are all. I don't think King Elland will let go of the Red Rose, who is the direct princess of the prestigious Ancient Ginseng aristocracy who has long supported the Royal Family of Elland and is brilliant and competent, caring and loving of the country and the people, and even perfectly accomplished as deputy to His Highness the Queen, but... Still, His Highness has been made aware of his feelings for the princess?

Yes, as Samba puts it, however heartless King Elland may have been, the reality that she is the Queen and the future Queen of Elland remains unchanged.... merely that the future king and his wife, who thought they were bound by trust and affection, were in fact the pattern between exploiting one affection and the other even.

But that's the story of the royal family elsewhere. It's each person's way of being a couple, etc., so if we're convinced of each other, it's a matter of others being able to talk...

(... Convinced, if you are?

"- Samba"

Once again, Exiga called out to a side full of deep sorrow. I'll look at him quietly, looking straight back at him.

"You're absolutely right. Love is irrelevant to royal marriage, and everything is determined by family and aptitude. Whether King Elland didn't love her or continued to love a woman beside her all her life, there's no way for her to escape from it. … only after Princess Deanna has officially become the Queen."

"Your Royal Highness... but it is that the Red Rose is also prepared. As far as I can see, the Red Rose seemed to accept all of it after being correctly understood."

"Right. I guess it can only be so if you are placed in an environment where only the Kingdom of Elland knows and is not forgiven for loving anyone but the King"

Looking strongly at the proximity in front of him, Exiga spins words.

"If the princess, for example, is noticed that the world is wider. If it was felt that the Kingdom of Elland was not the only thing in the world, but that there were other lands that would embrace and mercy the princess. The man is not only King Elland - suppose he finds out that there are others who love the princess wholeheartedly, and they start to think of him. Do you think you'll be obsessed with a woman who can't give her the pleasure of being a woman for life?

"... a wise and knowledgeable princess. At a time when they find other possibilities in life, they will at least be aware of the voidness of being tied to love for King Elland and spending their whole lives."

"That's right. That brainy princess can't possibly be unaware of the irrationality of the forced future. However, because you don't know other paths, … even if you did, you wouldn't think about it because it's unlikely to happen."

"... Your Highness, what are you thinking?

The seldom serious expressive samba probably reads Exige's thoughts eighty percent way. That's why it's this face.

To the side of trust, Exiga tells. - My own ruse and determination.

"If the princess doesn't know the rest of the raw. Even if you know it, give it up. Come on, you just have to present it. It's not like the kingdom of Elland, the existence of the Stanza Empire. - That a man who loves the princess is here, even if he doesn't cling to King Elland."

"So, when the heart of the Red Rose moves immediately?

"It's going to be hard right away. But if we can separate ourselves from King Elland and show you the Stanza Empire up close, let's free ourselves of the princess of intellectual curiosity, all of them. If you keep whispering love by your side, you will surely understand the barren nature of continuing to love a man who does not return his love"

"... you're serious"

"If you keep looking at your hands like this, saving the princess will no longer come true. The princess is still barely in the side room, and now is a great time to meet her."

Take the criticism that you are losing your cool over personal matters, spoil it. Still, Exiger cannot tolerate a future in which she - Deanna - is used up and decaying by kings and nations as she is.

(Isn't it too vain, such as a world where cunning cowards successfully cross the world and gentle and loving people sacrifice themselves)

Exiga is only a scholar and not an exchanger... but as a bent royal family, if there is even a small amount of power in this hand that can be used, let him crush about one unreasonable thing in front of him.

- Moving the room, he calmed his hips to the concierge, and Exiga took out the paper and the writing fixtures.

"Samba. Are you getting ready to go home?

"... Yes, Your Highness. We have contacted Stanza's home country as instructed and have obtained permission to return home"

At the time of the policy shift from this visit to true goodwill diplomacy, instructions had been issued to inform the upper levels of the Stanza Empire that they would return home as soon as possible in view of the need to provide a direct explanation of the situation to the Emperor. It appears that the clerks faithfully executed their lives and attached their national permits. The early failures were quite recoverable, and this one will be the trigger.

"With the permission of His Majesty the Emperor, we will leave the negotiations with the Elland side behind."

"If it were, there was no reason for the Elland side to reject our troublesome guest, who said we wanted to go home, so we shouldn't have had to negotiate."

"We have to assume that it will take a little while... but this should also be done with tangled hands. Instead of nominating Princess Deanna directly,"

"It's not like an apology. Will it work well?

"… no means have been chosen at this time. I heard the princess has many enemies. Depending on the method, available"

"I see. I understand."

"... you don't disagree anymore?

When he asked Samba, who responded smoothly, he laughed plainly and bitterly.

"The strength of Your Highness's will is well known. You won't be able to bend your mind as much as I disagree more than this has happened. … and if I may give you my personal opinion"

"... personal, opinion?

"I don't think anything, even if they don't pick a woman as challenging as that. Lord Red Rose himself is a very wonderful man. As Your Highness's Queen, I know the best of women."

"... yeah, right"

Samba is the man Exiger trusts most. dating is not that long, but its dense. That he was able to affirm his feelings like that, that he was on his side, stabilized the spirit of Exaga more than he had ever thought possible.

"Let me acknowledge the book of pleadings to His Majesty the Emperor. - We would like to welcome guests from the Kingdom of Elland to the Stanza Empire."

"I understand. Arrange for it to reach the court directly and promptly."

"Oh, please. … we will discuss the details of the negotiations with the Elland side again at dawn."

"By morning, I'll make a beating stand for you. Because it would still be easier to keep a secret now that His Highness is admired for the Red Rose and is therefore about to welcome you to Stanza. While blurring the details, I will try to devise measures to involve senior officials."

"Helpful. I'm always sorry, Samba. - Thank you."

"It's awe-inspiring, like thank you.... I received a" light "from His Highness. It is only natural to devote yourself to Your Highness."

Dropping off Samba, who smiles like a soldier and leaves the room, Exiga heads to her desk again and runs a writing fixture on the paper.

(Be sure, I'll try to save you. I will cut the thread of the cruel world -!!)

... until the eastern sky is white, a little more.