37 – The princess who knew everything

“Raiden…?”

A familiar voice calling me from behind,

I turned my head and looked at the source of the sound.

“your majesty…?”

There, Millium stood among the grass in the garden.

He tilted his head and looked at me.

“What are you doing in the garden at night?”

I slightly bowed my head to him, expressed my respect, and replied.

“I couldn’t sleep, so I went out for a short walk.”

“……Did you have insomnia?”

“Yes…”

“Huh… I really don’t know what to say…”

Milliam looked at me with pitiful eyes and brushed his beard.

He seemed to think about something for a moment, then opened his mouth again.

“If it’s okay, why don’t you take a little walk first?”

“Oh, yes. Of course.”

I was about to go back to my room, but…

well, it doesn’t matter

Because I don’t think I’ll suddenly be able to fall asleep just because I’m going back now.

When I nodded, Milliam smiled slightly and started walking at a slow pace.

And I quietly followed him.

ㅡPrickle… Prickle…

The cries of grass insects echo in the quiet night garden.

Walking through the garden illuminated by the blue starlight was quite a taste.

“How is it, isn’t it wonderful?”

When I am walking around the garden in a daze,

Milliam, who was walking ahead, looked back slightly at me and asked.

“Yes… what a well-tended garden…”

“Ha ha ha! It’s one of the pride of this palace!”

Milium laughed heartily at my words and stopped in the middle of the garden.

Accordingly, I also stopped a few steps behind him.

ㅡ wheee…

The autumn night wind blew softly and hugged my body.

The petals rustled as the wind blew, spraying their scent in line with the movement.

Milliam stood among the flowers, looking up at the sky.

The countless stars embroidered in the dark sky were shining more beautifully than any other lights.

The night sky, smelling the delicate scent of flowers, was indescribably beautiful.

As I was staring blankly at the sky, Miriam suddenly started talking to me.

“Hey, do you know that?”

“Yes? What do you mean?”

“I don’t like the sun very much.”

“……Yes? What is that…”

As I tilted my head, meaning that I did not understand the meaning of the words,

Milliam smiled and said.

“It’s not a word with a specific hidden meaning. It’s just what it says.”

“But… the sun of the empire hates the sun…”

“Crunch… is it strange?”

Milliam let out his characteristic laugh a few more times,

He raised his index finger and pointed to the sky.

“As for the sun. It’s too bright.”

“…Isn’t that a good thing?”

Milliam shook his head at my question and continued talking.

“The shining sun swallows up all the other lights around it with its brilliant light. The light of the stars revolving around it, the cool night air, everything.”

Milliam’s calm words flow into my ears on the wind.

“But the moon is different. The moon shines softly and floats in the sky coexisting with the light of countless stars and the dark sky.”

Milliam paused for a moment, catching his breath.

“I want to resemble the moon. A person cannot live alone.”

ㅡLike the stars and the night sky floating in the sky, people need people to live with and appropriate darkness around them.

“Even if you become the sun that shines loftily, in the evening it will only disappear over the horizon alone.”

Milliam’s face as he said that, looked quite bitter.

Come to think of it, this man… In the past, I used to call him Jae-soo Wang, who lived on my own taste…

Did you say that he changed his attitude after the death of his wife, the empress?

Milliam smiled bitterly and told me.

“Take care of those around you, Raiden. You’ll have to fix everything you messed up.”

—-Because if it’s too late, it might become irreversible.

Milliam left those words behind, and smiled alone and walked forward again.

“Chuck… Maybe it’s because I’m old, I’ve been talking a lot. I’ll just go in. See you tomorrow.”

With a simple greeting to see you tomorrow.

I was in the center of the garden where Milliam disappeared, staring blankly in the direction he disappeared.

And then he muttered quietly.

“People can’t live alone…”

I had to ponder that statement.

For me, who was alone most of the time in my previous life,

It was a word that I could not sympathize with or understand.

But somehow, I felt that he was right.

“……”

I stood quietly under the night sky.

The quiet night air made me fall into deeper thoughts.

By the time the submerged consciousness is about to reach the bottom of the unconscious—

“Ha… ha… Raiden…”

—-Again, someone’s voice came from behind.

It was a familiar voice this time.

Even though it’s a little bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of.

If there was anything slightly different from usual, it was that he was out of breath.

I turned my head and looked at the owner of the voice that called me.

“……”

Looking back, the first thing I noticed was,

Beautiful flowing blonde hair,

Blue eyes shining blue,

And the pale skin that shines even more pale in the moonlight.

A woman with an unrealistic appearance that even gave off a dreamlike feeling was looking at me.

I called out to her in a soft voice.

“The princess…?”

“Haa… Raiden…”

Lucy was standing where I turned my head.

Breathing heavily, she was moving towards me.

Perhaps it was a run, Lucy’s collar was crumpled here and there.

“Princess…? Why is that?”

Confused by her sudden appearance, I asked her,

Lucy frowned slightly and glared at me.

The beautiful blue eyes turn to me.

When I made eye contact with it, I trembled and stepped back behind the repulsion mark.

Those blue eyes reminded me of the eyes of the girl I met on the carriage the other day.

“Raiden…”

Upon seeing my reaction, Lucy’s expression contorted.

No, is it correct to say that it is distorted?

It was a face full of tears.

what? Why are you like that all of a sudden?

“Princess…?”

“……”

Lucy didn’t answer my call.

He was just staring at me, catching his rough breath.

she was shaking

The corners of his mouth were twitching slightly,

The eyes were shaking, barely capturing my image.

Those swaying eyes seemed to be holding moist moisture somewhere.

ㅡTabak…

Lucy, who had been staring at me, began to approach me.

She mumbled in a slightly wet voice.

“Raiden… this… this…”

“Yes…?”

Lucy mumbles incomprehensible words.

She stood close in front of me, clenching her fists. And then-

“this person…”

“Princess…?”

“This… you idiot…!!”

—-Bah!

“It’s big?!”

—-Jump towards me and cast a torso headbutt.

no crazy

what is it all of a sudden

I muttered to myself as I collapsed as if attacked by Lucy.

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a few hours ago.

After the talk in the audience room, Lucy, who had been lying in her room, was lying on the bed and tossing and turning.

Unlike her body, which was resting comfortably, her mind was in the midst of a war.

She murmured, holding her head pounding with complicated thoughts.

“What the hell… what did that mean…?”

In Lucy’s head, the conversation between Millium and Raiden that she had heard in the throne room a few hours ago was playing.

ㅡWhat is it? The feeling of taking off the mask.

—- It wasn’t as refreshing as I thought. It seems to be hated quite a lot…

—-You can’t believe it, are you still not completely healed?

ㅡIt’s getting better. I don’t know if it’s more messed up.

—-This……

Lucy slightly frowned at the incomprehensible content of the conversation between the two.

So… According to the conversation,

All the crazy things Raiden did were acting…

Raiden’s mental state is unstable…?

That’s to the point where you have to smoke ‘Shimmacho’, which is rumored to have terrible side effects…?

why…?

Raiden…?

In Lucy’s head, not knowing the stories about Raiden,

The more thoughts were repeated, the more they became messy instead of being organized.

“Ugh…!”

Lucy, unable to overcome her complex mind, jumps up.

She got out of bed and muttered as she stepped on the floor.

“I can’t… I’ll have to ask my dad directly…”

Eventually, she gave up her dizzy thoughts,

I decided to ask Milliam directly about it.

As soon as she made up her mind, she immediately moved to Milliam’s room.

ㅡ smart smart

“Who is it?”

“Dad, it’s me.”

“Hmm? Lucy? Come in.”

At Lucy’s sudden visit, Milium took her into the room, slightly embarrassed.

“What brought you here at this hour, my daughter?”

“I have something to ask you…”

“Hmm? Are you going to ask?”

“In the audience room earlier…”

Lucy began to unravel the questions she had in her head to Milliam one by one.

Milliam quietly closed his mouth and listened to her story.

“So… why did such a story come and go…”

“…Yes, that’s what I was curious about.”

Milliam brushed his beard for a moment and rolled his eyes at Lucy’s question.

said with a deep sigh.

“Haa… Originally, this is a story that the person concerned has to tell…”

“……”

“Well… I don’t think Raiden will tell you first…”

Milliam was silent for a moment, as if pondering, then nodded.

“Yes… let me tell you. From the story Raiden was hiding, to what state he is now.”

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“haha…”

Lucy ran.

After hearing Milliam’s story, it seems that he kept running.

He ran around the inside of the palace, looking for Raiden.

“Princess! If you run around…!”

“Cheaches…!”

In between, the voices of the maids could be heard, but Lucy ignored them and moved her feet.

What was important to her now was not the old-fashioned things like the body.

Raiden.

Raiden had to be found.

I went to his room, but he wasn’t there.

Lucy bit her lip hard.

I had a lot to say to him.

There was a lot to be said,

There were many things to ask.

Why did you do such a stupid thing?

Why did I have to be so lonely

Why didn’t you say anything to yourself?

Lucy chewed on the words and questions that swirled inside her.

“Raiden…”

Lucy muttered his name over and over and wandered around the palace.

And when she reached the garden located at the back of the palace.

She was finally able to find Raiden’s figure.

He was looking up at the dark blue night sky in the night garden.

His black hair, scattered in the autumn night wind, was clearly engraved into her vision.

“Ha… ha… Raiden…”

“Princess…?”

At Lucy’s call, he looked back.

Lucy caught her rough breath and stared blankly at him.

“haha…”

“Princess…? Why is that?”

Raiden asked what was going on.

Lucy slightly frowned at his reaction.

He doesn’t even know that someone has been running around for a long time to find him…

Lucy moved her blue eyes to meet Raiden’s black eyes.

Then, Raiden shuddered and stepped back slightly.

“……”

Lucy felt her head melt coldly at the sight of Raiden.

My lips quiver and my heart throbs.

When their eyes met, Raiden shivered and withdrew,

In the eyes of Lucy, who knew all about his situation, it was so sad and pitiful.

Lucy felt her eyes moisten as she approached him.

What should I say first?

I definitely had a lot to say.

The only words that came out of his mouth were the stupid muttering of ‘Raiden…’.

Numerous sentences formed in Lucy’s mouth and then scattered again.

The sentences in my head collided, connected, broke, and separated again, repeating.

In the end, she couldn’t say anything.

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Just, towards Raiden, who was looking at him with a questioning face—

“This… you idiot…!”

—-Crying, he just ran.