"Eh... I'm sorry, Her Highness Princess Tiara II. I have something for you today, so please excuse me on this occasion. I apologize for leaving the invitation in the corner unattended.

............... who...?

"Shut up... Shut up... Shut up... Shut up..."

... Is this... me...?

"Fuck you... I'm not... I'm not...

I don't remember......... Why am I moaning so much...?

Why is my chest so painful? Why did you lie to her?

"... Dear Cedric... Did I do something wrong...? Before I know it, I'll hurt you."

"Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The princess of the tower is an unknown child! You can tell the Queen now.

Why do you proclaim all these lies and lies? Why do you throw up all those terrible words about your beloved Tiara? Why would you want to destroy your engagement? If you do that, I...

I really lose everything.

I can't even defend the kingdom of Sursis by reclaiming your brother's country.

Making her fall in love and killing her would be my purpose. Then if you throw up words like this, they'll hate you. She said she did everything she could to make me love her.

Every day, I whispered every word of love I knew.

Every day, he showed a sign of love and made me laugh.

I have given her more than she asked for and have dyed that adorable face red many times.

We loved flowers together, listened to the stories of her beloved books, and sometimes told each other about her family.

She touched my hand. He turned his grin like the light of the sun over and over again. Sometimes he even showed me the shadow to give away from loneliness. He laughed as if he didn't have to whisper his sweet words. He also listened to my country many times. You've seen me not only how I look, but how many times I've seen myself. When I was gentle, when I was unexpectedly childish, I laughed at things I didn't know, enjoyed telling stories I didn't know, and wondered if there was anything to worry about. Just a little bit more, I think. In a few moments she will surely love me...............................................................................

...... Woohoo, yeah. She's not.

I'm the one who loved you.

If I had noticed, I would have been much more attracted to her.

Every time I talked to her, touched her, and touched that smile...... my heart melted slightly. I'm starting to think it's good to believe in people's affection.

What do you mean, I got engaged to kill her and left my brother to come all the way to the kingdom of Friesia?

"Dear Cedric...,... then why do you look so sad...?

She graciously holds my hand with both hands.

Soft, that's all your chest tightens in your little hand. Having shown all my false love, I said I had no right to be touched by her.

I want to pay my hand off, I don't want to let go.

I want to kill you fast, I don't want to kill you.

I want to hate you, I want to hug you

I want to be loved, to love.

I want to save my brother and his brother, I don't want her in my hands.

Conflicting hopes keep tearing the body from the inside out.

What do I do...? My brother, my brother... Tiara doesn't want to lose one thing...

Ripped by thoughts, my chest hurts. Without breathing, she leans down and accidentally scratches her hair and leaks her voice. Eat and bind your teeth, and try to keep only the tears inside.... I don't know why anymore and it's going crazy.

"... Dear Cedric, you may hate me. But please... please don't suffer alone.

Why would she say such a sweet word to me? Stop it, I'm not the kind of person you can whisper those words to.

"Besides,... I knew I couldn't dislike you. Because I already know that Master Cedric is kind.

No, I can't resist.

I don't want to keep lying to my dear girlfriend any more. I don't want to tarnish her so sober and dear anymore because of me.

"... eh... Cedric, it is.

"Huh...?

Grab her hand from me.

With this mouth, which I have taken many times before and whispered love as it were, … I recite a penance that cannot be deluded anymore.

"Cedric and... call me that.... I don't even need a salute. Because in a person you can call me that, I don't...

Clogging her throat, wishing on her.

Please, if you keep saying it, she nodded in confusion. Thank you, and I'll tell her the cruel truth. I squeal my throat, I can't even look at each other, and still desperately turn only my tongue, spitting out the queen's bond with me.

I was going to kill you, and I still have that promise, and that's why I'm still in Freesia with you that I should have picked you up like this.

"I know... it is obvious that even if you do that, you will be rebuffed with your promise...! But... still, I wish I could..."

Keeping her mouth down with both hands and breathing incredibly, she gradually moistened her wide open golden eyes.... Again, I was despised. Naturally, there's no way I can despise a man who went against the path of someone like this.

"Ever...... eh.... were you suffering alone...?

A light, more gentle voice shook at me like a bell.

Doubting her ears, once she raised her leaning face again, she could not even feel signs of contempt from her eyes moistened with tears.

I can't believe I'm losing my word, and she's been softly opening her hands and holding me tight.... first time, a hug from her.

"I'm sorry, Cedric..."

I was gently turned around my arm, to its warmth...... to its kindness. The tears continue to overflow.

If you noticed, you'd spin your arms at her from me, holding her as tight as you could. I still couldn't contain this urge, wondering if her thin body would break over the dress.

I killed my voice and kept crying her to my chest.

Her tender reception of me melts the ice in my heart once again.

Am I deceiving such a sweet woman all the time?

How can I save her?

"Ahaha!... Looking good? Cedric."

I was seen...

……

"⁉ The Pride…………………………………………………………………………………"

Thirty-third day after the decision to postpone the stay of one person in the Kingdom of Friesia, away from the United Kingdom of Hanazoo.

After breakfast, as usual. Prince Stayle himself visited my room as he stared out the window.

Since his transfer to the tower of separation, Pride had heard of enthusiastic instruction and re-education from the upper echelons, but otherwise it had always been unclear. Strolling around the castle did not hear any credible rumors, and silence persisted for a while.

The complexion of Prince Steele, who had seen his face for a long time, was cloudy as mud, and even his eyes, which were glowing in pitch black, were now showing no light whatsoever. Most importantly, that expression, which could not even make a laugh, was close to nothingness. Even in the annihilation war, he said he'd never looked so terrible.

At the top of the opening, when asked how Prince Steele was feeling more than on business, Prince Steele gave me an incredible circular to block him.

As a "sick man," Pride was judged incapable of testifying.

"... so the testimony that His Royal Highness Prince Cedric is officially a suspect can now be judged as false. Now you can return home without any problems.

He said he was sorry he stopped you for so long.

My inquiry also vain and pale to Prince Steele, I will stuffing again.

"Please wait... What the hell happened to Pride... No way, what is it again..."

"I'm so sorry, I can't speak from my mouth any more.... and I just want to say.

Prince Steele, who cut my words once clearly, dropped his gaze to the floor once.

"I have one favor to ask of you," he said in a slightly trembling voice to me. When I returned my words to Prince Steele without hesitation, he held his fist and turned again to me with a slightly more powerful face between his eyebrows.

"... now, tell me something to talk about.... Could you pass it on in confidence, word for word? And this circumstance. I am deeply aware of such wishes to His Royal Highness Brother Wang. So instead, …….

...... I'll tell you. and at the end of the day Prince Steele was told just the movement of his mouth.

I get it, and when I returned the word, he looked around my room. Then after squeezing his lips once, he was told in a voice where he could only hear a slight breath. I concentrate my eyes more on the movement of his mouth than on listening to a plundering thin voice that I can't hear, even if I try to keep my ear to the door. Prince Stayle's story was too unrealistic and, more importantly, shocking. "It didn't even come true for that one," he asked, diving his voice to the extreme, and only a short response came back.

I doubted my eyes on Prince Steele's story, which went on further, and even if I wanted to be sure, my mouth didn't move. The facial expression muscles did not pull and cramp like they had cramps, and the pulsating sound of the heart echoed in the body far louder than Prince Steele's voice.

No way,... pride.

I don't even move my mouth, even if I want to put it into words to disobey reality.

While talking, Prince Steele was always staring straight into my face as if his expression had died. And finally, after all the explanations.... Prince Stayle didn't say a word to me, but to the person I should be speaking to from now on. The words were terribly cold to me and, above all, incomprehensible. Unexpectedly after I heard it, I asked him, "What's that..." But Prince Stayle told me, "That's all I have to say," and I bowed my head. I immediately mumbled at his will not to explain.

Above all, Prince Steele's eyes, which seemed too sad, shook and even held the precipitation to such an extent that he thought it should not be easily touched.

"... so, His Royal Highness Prince Cedric. What will you do when you return? It's possible even today, and my country doesn't mind after we're well prepared.

A thankful Prince Steele proceeds with the conversation.

I will also officially prepare a letter of apology for the United Kingdom of Hanazoo, and I have turned my grin to the dust and the impossible grin that I can understand.

"We also keep the carriage, is it by land or by sea from the kingdom of Anemone? If necessary, apply to the Kingdom of Anemone here as well. Or let the carriage only be carried to the people of our country as planned, and Prince Cedric, like His Majesty the King, with my special abilities."

"No, I'm not leaving yet.

It is decided.

Now Prince Steele stopped the words I broke so I could apply them.

I'm going to make sure Prince Style asks for the truth of the words. I'll go on.

"I'm already half human in this country. If pride means being laid down by a disease, we are not going to return home until there is prospect of recovery.

"But I can't see you anymore, sister. I don't even know when my sister will be back,... or if she will.

I know about that. I already got all the minutes that I get from literature and books, both in its related medical books and in its knowledge of medicine.... I also know that there are many who have sickened their hearts, never returned to sanity, and sunk into the shadows of history. But still.

"... I don't mind. Please, I'd like to ask you to stay as long as possible. If I have to go home, I promise you a prompt eviction. Besides, … they will visit again.

My last voice crept low just to remember.

They, Prince Steele, were made to look bad without explaining it to the word. As soon as he does, he feels a nagging black sign and relieves himself of the fact that he still has feelings for him with the horror. As if he were liding his emotions, he also seemed desperate to strike down and kill something.

"Ok......... Let's ask your mother and see.

I beg your pardon, Prince Steele left the room with only a formal greeting.

It's like he's moving his body only with consciousness, like he's someone else from the time of defense. There was some inference from me that I would have liked to tell him about the Leopard Weird of Pride, but... at least he wasn't in such a state that he could have been made to hear my paranoia and such.

I keep thinking about the dozens of detailed events and conversations over and over this past month at Birthday, and I feel I've arrived slightly, because just scratching my chest doesn't lead to any resolution.

After I saw Prince Stayle's walking away back and the door to be closed, I took a quiet deep breath only once.

Since I extended my stay and my pride was transferred to the tower of separation, my range of permissible actions has also been extended.

I can't keep pulling myself into the room all the time, except reading and fishing for library books. I strolled on this leg with the carriage one by one, except around the palace and around the tower, which is also away from this castle. The size of the castle, which could not cover everything in a single day, was vast enough to know. For twenty-nine days, it took me a little while to finally grasp all the range and the buildings in the castle and also the inside.... other than a remote tower with pride. If my charges were to remain officially clear and allowed to stay, I wonder if I could now be traced down this foot from the outer moat of the castle as well.

The more I went around the castle, the more disturbances were swirling.

There's a mantra about pride, but when it was transferred to the tower of separation, he couldn't help noticing anyone on the boulder. Many samurai and guard hands were needed for mobility work of such magnitude that it caught the human eye of many castles. Many of the wrongdoers also rumored that pride had laid him down in a severe disease, and that perhaps he knew the truth, everyone kept his mouth shut heavily.

"… please arrange a carriage"

Speak to the guard in front of the room and ask for a carriage. Now first, we have to deliver Prince Stayle's message.

Why did you entrust it to me? Using his special abilities, he said there was no such thing as making it through his mouth.

He talked about not making his special abilities public, but keeping secrets from some even in the castle? No, but the people who are going to...

Besides, there will be as many people as there are who are more trustworthy than me and others. Even if you can't ask Tiara to lie down in the room without wanting to see anyone after what happened to Pride, there are many others on his side and so on.

Surrounded by many visitors at the ceremony and having friendly relations with the royal nobility at home and abroad, he looked admired by many even in the castle. He also seemed to have an intimate relationship with the samurai and guards, not just those in the upper echelons. Must be a lot more intimate than me and some old associates. Or...

Do you think he has a limited number of people who are truly trustworthy?

Like I used to have only a brother or a brother.

Even circling that thought, he was called out from outside the room that the carriage was ready. I'll get back to you and I'll leave the room as soon as I can.

What I want to think is like a mountain. But now I just have to do what I can. I haven't even swallowed up the pride story earlier.... There is no way I can swallow it out. The more I try to accept it, the more I can only assume it is the work of the Radian Empire as if to cling to it. In my memory, they definitely made an unknown move, and even more so because they have motive to target Freesia for being interrupted by the invasion of my Hanazoo kingdom.

Tell him where to go and get in the carriage. It's a place I visited once when I strolled around the castle. There was a view of the castle that had already become familiar if you looked out the window, remembering how many more minutes you would arrive. Looking a little further into the scenery, a relatively low and thin tower peered through the shadows of the building, among the towers in several castles.

".................. Pride.

Mumbling her name, she was struck by a terrible heartbeat and accidentally bit into her mouth.

Even as I seek salvation,... she's the one I want to save. And also the one who needs salvation the most.

To her, it must have been.