Leishe, who followed Theodore out into the hallway, goes straight up the stairs.
They were originally inns. There's no sign of anything but us in this building.
It looks like Theodore went further up, not one upstairs fourth floor.
I found the door to the roof open, and Liesche went outside.
Once on this rooftop, the laundry of the inn must have been dried. The sight of a lot of sheets hanging out must have been a roll.
Now quiet back, in that place with the starry sky spreading above, Theodore stood up.
"His Highness Theodore"
My childlike back trembles like a twilight on the way.
When Theodore turned this way, he looked at the leachet and bent his crease as if he were obstinate.
"Next on how to tie it up, I guess I'm also going to be a guide on how to escape." I should have gone outside, rather than on a rooftop with no escape "or something?
"... you didn't intend to run away."
If you were really going to shake off the leashes, that would have been the one out there.
To that point, Theodore exhaled all the time.
"That's right. If this happens, I want to have a chat with you alone. I don't even want to act ugly in front of my brother."
As Theodore walked to the edge of the roof, he looked back and deposited his back on the railing.
The eyes are filled with sincere colors. It does not belong to a boy who has behaved in a floating manner so far, in a disingenuous manner.
"My brother did. I try to keep the good changes in this country out of the picture as much as I can."
That's what he says, narrowing his temperamental eyes and laughing.
"Exactly. The big policy has spread even to the people because of what my brother did. Something else meticulous about reform is somewhat laying the drafters down. Or they make it look like your father made it up."
The wind that blew into the roof mixed his soft looking hair.
"Conversely, there are unnaturally widespread rumors about my brother. You know what it is?"
"... you mean the 'atrocious' behavior that His Highness Arnold did in the war?
"Exactly. Even you from a foreign country, you must have heard about it. Why do you think the bad reviews about the victorious Crown Prince spread to other countries?
If asked that way, the answer that Liesche is asking for is obvious.
"Did His Royal Highness Arnold mean to spread the word?"
"I agree. - Hide your accomplishments and try to spread bad reviews instead. I don't think the people who do that are going to be doing national politics all the time."
Theodore slowly closed his eyes.
"Other than that, I sometimes feel fuzzy watching my brother." This man is not obsessed with his current position. You're moving so you can disappear at all times'. I've been watching you, so I know. "
……
"I don't know what my older brother is going to do. But you can't let that happen when such a wonderful person disappears. You think so, don't you?
Theodore doesn't know about the future Arnold chooses.
I don't even know that my brother is going to start killing in the middle of it instead of getting off the surface stage.
But the sense of crisis that Theodore is feeling will be linked to that future.
"What I did was mostly imitation of my brother. If my brother is going to leave this country with me, why don't I just disappear first? Then my brother won't be able to do anything stupid."
My brother's blue eyes look at the leachet.
"This is the only way I can help my brother."
Theodore laughed calmly.
There's so much Leishe wants to say to him. And then there's what I want to hear.
"Why did you tell me about it?"
"Earlier, you said you were scared of the same thing as me, right? If my thoughts are being read, then you are afraid that your brother will disappear. Then you deserve to be scared, don't you? If anything happens to my husband, my position as a wife will be jeopardized."
Actually, it's a different reason, but Liesche doesn't point that out.
I couldn't have told you that your brother would be my cause of death in five years.
"So. Listen to me, I thought it would be worth talking about if your fears were to become even more realistic."
Theodore gets a slightly mean look there.
"I guess that'll make you feel more scared."
……
I hear a lot of distorted motives, and the leashes get sloppy.
Brother, I want you to stop wanting to be funny about shaking people's emotions.
"What that face. They took my favorite brother, so this is how good it is, right? Well, I've never been my older brother. [M] If you're scared of the future that's coming, and you're desperate that you can't stop your brother in the future, maybe you can drop that drink."
"Your word, sir."
A strong wind blows. Leishe held it down with her hands so that Arnold's jacket hung on her shoulder would not be skipped.
"I'm not going to keep scaring the future."
"... eh"
Theodore's eyes get round.
Leishe remembered at that time the feeling of her feet being inadvertently distorted.
Your meds are running out.
The medication I took to mislead my malaise, but it's finally not working. But we're just a few minutes away.
"Your brother, I'm sure, is going to do something uninterrupted up ahead. So I'll do everything I can to stop it by whatever means I can."
Take a deep breath and stand firm. Look forward not to shake, spinning words one by one.
"I will spend everything I can and I will borrow all the help I can borrow. Because I don't think I can beat such an outrageous person by choosing means. And naturally, Your Highness, Theodore."
Liesche looked straight at him.
"I need your help too."
"... me...?
Theodore rounds his eyes like a surprise.
But he quickly changes his expression and smiles mocking himself somewhere.
"That's my brother's wife, you're so confident. But I don't think I can stop him. There's no way you can get my word to that guy. All I can do is get in the way of him like this."
"Still, you've been acting all these years, haven't you? Push your position to the point of danger, even imitating your hands dirty. But if you want to help, brother, you have to be happy yourself."
"... what are you talking about?
Theodore really didn't know what the word meant.
"Why should I be happy? That has nothing to do with my brother's future."
"It's been decided that it matters. His Royal Highness Arnold can't possibly take the future he will gain by making you unhappy."
"So why..."
To the confused boy, Liesche tells.
"You must be his, the only brother in the world"
――
Theodore looked at Leishe as if to see something incredible.
"Why do you think His Royal Highness Arnold left for this place alone in the middle of the night?"
"... such a thing, to help you. It's settled."
"No, Your Highness knows that I have not been captured by adults. You knew you didn't have to help me."
Then again, I'm sure I knew that Theodore would never imitate Leishe intact.
"If this were the call of others, I'm sure His Highness Arnold would have been here. Even if it was an occasion when you had to move as a crown prince, you couldn't possibly make any choices alone. My brother asked for it from you."
"... don't. I don't need those words."
Theodore looks bitter, squeezing out his voice.
"I don't want to have that hope that I might be loved"
"His Highness Theodore..."
"I can't even be in that guy's sight. There is no way that a person like his father ignores him is respected by his brother. But that's fine."
Theodore laughed after exhaling one.
"I've been helped by my brother before. That's why I wanted to help my brother one day. My brother won't even remember that day."
That's what I say, I look back, I look out the railing.
"It's up to me to decide what I use."
……
"I really should have done this sooner, not yet planning something snug.... Damn, that's a big mistake."
- No way.
I was relieved.
Because I came here and finally understood what Theodore was going to do. Theodore, sitting on the railing as if to play, leaned out fluttering.
"No, Your Highness!
Liesche rushes out to him. At the same time my vision shook and my legs fell in down.
(Oh, at a time like this...!
I can't get into my body trying to get up. A terrible headache rocked my skull like an alarm and I can't breathe.
Looking down at the fallen leachet, Theodore looked satisfied.
"Thank you sister-in-law. I was unconsciously glad you said you needed me."
"Wait......!
Even if you reach out desperately, you can't reach Theodore a few meters away.
"No!"
Almost screamed and screamed, that was when.
One shadow rushes through the side of the leachet.
The person grabbed Theodore's arm with his eyes round. Then forcefully, pull back to this side of the railing.
Seeing that look, Theodore breathed.
"Brother...!?
I look up at Arnold, who helped me, as if to see something incredible.
I don't see what Arnold on the other side looks like a leachet being turned around.
But Leishe was also surprised by the action he took in the next moment.
Arnold strained his cheek when he grabbed Theodore's chest, which he had pulled down.
"-"
"What are you thinking, you!
I've never heard Arnold so loud, Liesche.
Theodore, with his cheeks under control, looks up at his brother's face flashly.
"... because..."
Theodore spinned his voice to squeeze it out.
"Because I can't. This is the only way I can help my brother. [M] I can't be anything of value to my brother...!
"That's foolishness. Where are the life-threatening fools for the sake of only one human being who has never done what seems like a brother"
Arnold's voice is very cold.
Still, Liesche was convinced. Arnold keeps Theodore away, after all, with his brother in mind.
"You don't have to do that for me"
"... eh"
Theodore shuts his mouth. Perhaps he was about to give up telling his brother.
Liesche recalls earlier Theodore laughing sadly and saying so.
'There's no way you can get my word to that guy,' he said. Theodore's giving up and Arnold's pushing have been piling up ever since.
"... brother, your choice may not have been the right thing to do"
Liesche told him so as he woke up desperate.
Arnold looks back slowly. Looking straight at him, and putting up with the headache, Liesche complained.
"Still, the underlying thoughts are not wrong. My brother, there is no foolishness in wishing to help you. [M]... Isn't it? His Highness Theodore."
Calling his name with a breath on his shoulder, Theodore clenched his fist all the way in.
"Sister-in-law, you're right."
"What..."
Arnold looks out for Theodore, and he can't see the look on his face again from Liesche.
Instead, Theodore's face looked good.
He has a strong willed look instead of the face he had earlier, somewhere along the way.
"I hope so many times. I want to help my brother, and I want to be useful. If I can help you, I'll do anything."
His eyes, unlike his brother's, stared directly at Arnold.
"You're the only brother in the world, and I admire you."
……
What did Arnold look like?
Reeshe, unable to see it, watches the two in a prayerful manner.
Eventually Arnold took his hand off Theodore's chest barn and slowly away.
"Golden Wheel, stop doing extra things"
"... eh"
Theodore distorts his face to that word that he thrusts again.
Leishe's chest was sore. But what Arnold continued to say was unexpected.
"I told you. - Never try to imitate your life again."
At that moment, Theodore rounds his eyes.
"Did you remember that time?
Arnold answers the voice he asks with a trembling voice.
"Naturally."
"... eh"
In the meantime, a clear Shizuku fell from Theodore's large eyes.
"... sorry"
The voice is shaking.
Theodore repeated over and over again, blurting and tearing away.
"I'm sorry, brother. I'm sorry, sister-in-law. Dear......"
Arnold says in a slightly troubled voice before his brother, who cries like a young child.
"Okay, don't cry"
"Oh, because...!!
Seeing both of those, Liesche breathed relief.
(Good. If you can cry with that face, it's okay now......)
Theodore's crying face is that when a little kid has the courage to make up.
Arnold eventually rose, this time kneeling before the leachet.
Are you hurt?
"You've come, Your Highness"
'Cause you say weird things that bother you.'
Did I ever warn you that Theodore might be gone? It may have sounded threatening, but if you try to make it leachet, it's half true.
"Good. We can make up."
……
Arnold stood silently, offering Leishe his right hand, fitted with black gloves.
Liesche smiles and takes Arnold's hand. Then strangely, I felt comfortable loosening the thread of tension.
"Really, good..."
"... Liesche?
I can't help it.
At the same time, the consciousness that has been maintained with energy has been far removed.
"Sister-in-law!?
Seeing Liesche suddenly fall, Theodore raised his voice unexpectedly.
My brother stops her body from slowly losing its power. Theodore stood up in a panic and ran over with tears wiped with his cuffs.
"What the hell is wrong with you!? Sure, just now, my leg seemed fallen..."
For a moment, was the initial news that 'ill and fell' a fact, not an act?
Realizing the possibility, Theodore blues.
"What shall I do? My sister-in-law..."
"No."
A strangely sober brother looks down at the leachet in his arms and crumbles.
"I'm just sleeping"
"To"
Pouring at unexpected words.
If you look closely, surely Leishe is resting soundly.
"You're lying..."
In this situation, do you sleep or not?
Unlike Theodore, who shrugged, his brother was laughing a little. Look at that, oh, I think.
This is also the look on my brother's face I saw for the first time.
Even if you see it, it doesn't make you feel as deliberate as it was earlier. I wonder at that change of heart.
"Theodore."
My brother suddenly called me by my name, and I was annoyed.
"Is the carriage ready somewhere"
"Come on, it's settled."
Because I'm unfamiliar with being spoken to by my brother, I get a somewhat inappropriate way of saying it.
"I'm putting him on standby a little further away. If you want to carry my sister-in-law, I'll call you right away."
"Oh. I asked for it"
My brother says so, then lightly hugs the leachet.
"Let this guy rest in the room downstairs until the carriage arrives"
"... ok"
Theodore nods, then wipes the tears of his eyes again.
It's a hell of a thing for that older brother to give a princess a hug, etc.
"-" I asked for it ". My brother told me..."
My brother's tense cheeks hurt a little.
Still, the back of my chest was terribly warm.
(Come on. I can't be blurry)
Whatever it is, it's the first time that brother's ever relied on me.
Theodore got up and started walking downstairs.
When Leishe slowly opened her eyes, it was in the sun.
To be exact, it's on a sleeping platform with sunlight in it.
A fuzzy futon in a sara sheet, wrapped in something like that, was just the space of my dreams.
Besides, I've heard a comfortable pen since earlier.
Listening to it, my consciousness seemed to sink again into a thick drowsiness.
(Pen sounds?
So I finally wonder and wake up my body.
Then he headed to his desk, a little far away, and saw Arnold running a pen on the paperwork.
"Huh."
"Oh, my God, it's already happened"
Arnold stopped that hand and laughed when he saw the leachet.
"Ah, Your Highness Arnold!?
"I don't mind if you're still asleep. Anyway, it's only been half a day since then."
"Half a day, what..."
I don't care what you think, this is a leachet room in the outhouse. Arnold explains to the head of a state that doesn't know what it is.
"When I thought you had suddenly fallen, I started to sleep asleep on the roof. I took him home in my stupid brother's carriage, but he wouldn't even be able to leave the fallen man alone in his room. Not to mention I can't let a samurai who doesn't know what's going on take care of her."
"Is that why Your Highness stayed awake...?
"I needed to clear my job, so I didn't have time to sleep anyway."
"Sorry!!
I rush to the front seat on the sleeping table, and Liesche bows his head. At that time, I realized that the dress I was wearing was a simple one for sleeping and faded.
(Hey, why!?
"Don't worry. It was your maid named Else who made me change."
Though I have a feeling I've been prefetched thinking, I'm relieved for one second.
Slowly looking up, Arnold rose out of his chair and stood in front of the leachet, asking:
"How are you feeling?"
It's a gentle voice. I feel strangely restless looking down on my neat face.
"... it's all right now. Sorry for the inconvenience."
"If you've recovered."
Arnold then removed a single envelope from his nostalgia.
If you take it and open it inside, the white paper with the four fold marks is spelled out with the brush you saw one day.
"To my sister-in-law"
Apparently this is a letter from Theodore.
'I'm sorry for all the terrible things I've done. I have a lot to say, but scratch it. - First of all, I'll make sure I pay my debts to you. If that's what you want, I'll lend it to the people in the Glades. You can always count on us if you need someone in the back. "
Liesche laughed bitterly inside.
(... although the offer itself is very comforting)
If possible, that's what I don't want to get into.
'Thank you at best. - And then, thank you.'
I'll gently stroke your fingertips to thank you for your candor because it's a letter.
"... you talked to His Highness Theodore."
When I said so, Arnold frowned slightly.
"Why would you think that?"
"Otherwise, you wouldn't imitate depositing a letter in the first place, would you?
Arnold did not answer, but that was also a testament to the affirmation.
Whatever it is, it's a relief.
Has this made a slight difference to your life so far?
Besides, it looks like my brothers' distance has shrunk.
When that smiled happily, Arnold asked.
Why are you laughing like that?
"Of course that's because I'm happy. My husband's family ties are good, but I've never crossed them."
"... that's a strange one"
Looking down at this one, Arnold lays his eyes down.
That look is somewhat softer than usual.
But Arnold said this after he looked like he'd come up with a fudge.
"I forgot. Think again soon about one thing you want."
"What do you want, is it?
Are you talking about buying me? Surprised without knowing why, Arnold goes on like this.
"I broke my vow not to touch you again."
"Permission was given if it was over gloves during the night club, but that constraint was not respected either"
Would that have happened?
I can't remember and twist my neck.
As much as I can remember of Liesche, I always thought Arnold was wearing black gloves these days.
For example, it still is.
"... ah"
At that moment, I think of it.
About a week ago, I was talking about what happened in the chapel.
Arnold wore gloves even then, but it wasn't his hands that touched him.
(It's not my hand, it tickles...)
Shortly after, Leishe felt her face get hot all at once.
"Yes, I don't want anything!!
He hurries to raise his voice and grabs the sheet to hide his face. Arnold looked at the condition and grinned badly.
"Or rather than that, why did you do that..."
"You want to hear it?
"I don't want to hear it!!
I really wanted to pursue it, but I accidentally refuse to do everything in my power. But when I first met Arnold last night, I was really nervous about it.
My body stiffened as soon as I saw Arnold's face, even though I had to talk to Theodore.
That's why I thought he was supposed to treat me as normal and not in Arnold.
(I knew there was some intention!? Or not!? I don't know what it is anymore, that's why I was trying not to think...!
"Liesche"
"Oh, now what!
Covering her hot face with sheets, she stares at Arnold with only her eyes out.
Arnold laughed small and then said this in a soft voice.
"... my brother took care of me"
That was, undoubtedly, my brother's word.
A sense of responsibility to my brother, including labor, that's the word.
I wanted Theodore to hear it too. Though he thinks that way, Liesche shakes his neck sideways saying no.
"For me, you're my brother-in-law."
Arnold looked a little surprised and then laughed again.
"... right"
"Yes."
The light on my face is healing, but it's kind of still hot in the back of my chest.
I had a little trouble with that, and Liesche leaned down.
About the evening.
Alnort's squire, Oliver, had a sore head after hearing an explanation about his master's absence from office.
"Ultimately, His Highness Theodore is on your side, Lieche. … In summary, it will be."
"Is there a problem?
"You know what I'm saying."
Oliver wings over the novel as Arnold turns to the concierge.
"My brother, you are not an ordinary prince. You're the one who leads the crime scene, the one in the back, right?
"Sounds like it."
"As you know, my young ladies of this castle totally admire you, Leishe. … followed by the Aria Chamber of Commerce, which has received attention from various countries in recent years. His Royal Highness the Second Prince and the inhabitants of the back society he leads"
Oliver counts fingerfolds. The connection she gained just a few weeks after coming to this country to be the Crown Princess.
"Don't you think your pawns are expanding?
This is a sort of threat, to say the least.
But Arnold didn't seem to care.
"What's wrong with that? How better than a man who becomes a wife being isolated and helpless."
"My you..."
Perhaps this master has intentionally left this situation unattended.
I could see that, and Oliver sighed a great deal.
"I understand, all as my lord wills. And that's a further delivery for you, my lord."
Oliver gives a single letter. Arnold frowned when he saw the engraving pressed against that wax.
When the master receives the envelope reluctantly, he opens the letter inside and looks through.
Then he smashed his tongue small and sent the letter to Oliver.
Oliver bows his respects and receives the letter.
"This is..."
There, by important figures from a certain country, such contents had been made.
First of all, words celebrating the engagement of Crown Prince Arnold.
However, due to circumstances, it is difficult to celebrate in the matrimonial ritual approximately two months later.
It is accompanied by a statement that he wishes to visit the country of Garchhein with a celebratory object before the matrimonial ritual takes place.
(Somehow, again...)
Oliver held his forehead down with his hands on that offer, which seemed to be a mess.