39 – My lord

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Just like that, after a night filled with cries, morning came.

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ㅡTtarreung Ttarreung

It is placed by the bedside and the alarm rings loudly.

A sharp noise pierced my ears and shook my brain awake.

I woke up with that loud alarm,

He straightened up and straightened his body.

“Ugh…”

I look at my watch while holding my slightly playful hair.

The clock next to the bed pointed to 8:00 in the morning.

“How long do you sleep…”

I looked at the clock with blank eyes and counted the amount of time I had slept.

It was 3:00 in the morning when I returned to my room after comforting Lucy, who was crying sadly yesterday.

The last time I saw you while lying in bed was around 6:00…

“I really couldn’t sleep…”

I scratched my head nervously and murmured.

Damn insomnia, please put me to sleep…

Should I look for sleeping pills?

I’m really going crazy…

The insomnia that had plagued me in my previous life did not let go of me in this life either.

I sighed deeply and pressed my tired eyelids together.

“Haa… I’m sure you slept comfortably that day…”

So… two days ago.

The day I cried unseemly in front of Rachel.

Strangely, I slept well that day without thinking about anything else.

I didn’t even have a nightmare.

“What could have been…”

It was the same bed as usual.

Lying down, tossing and turning a little, crying a little, closing my eyes a little melancholy,

ordinary dragonfly.

However, if there was one thing different from usual,

I wonder if Rachel stayed by my side until I fell asleep…

“…Rachel is always having a hard time.”

I have to meet the ugly boy and even wait on the boy who is weaving like a child…

Before Rachel suffers any more, I need to get some sleeping pills soon.

“ha……”

I sighed deeply and got out of bed.

The soft feeling disappears from the body, and the feeling of the hard floor is felt on the tip of the foot.

“Uh… I’m sorry…”

I, who stumbled for a while under the sudden gravity,

Soon, I braced myself and walked towards the bathroom.

ㅡShoot aaa

Sprinkle cold water on the body to capture the fierce spirit.

The brain that had been swimming in the unconscious wakes up,

The focus of the blurry eyes returns.

“Whoa…”

After taking a shower, I come out and wipe off the water from my cold body.

Shivering from the chilling energy, she reaches for the hanger placed in front of the bathroom.

A neatly washed academy uniform hung neatly on the hanger.

Yesterday, Bella took the blood-stained school uniform to wash.

It looked like it had already been washed and brought in.

“I have to go back to the academy…”

I muttered that and slowly began to change my clothes.

I don’t feel like I’m leaving too soon after arriving at the imperial palace yesterday, but

In the first place, I decided to stay because it was only for one day.

Well, I could stay a few more days if I wanted to, but…

I want to go back to the dormitory and see Ariel and Rachel like a chimney.

I haven’t seen you for just a day, but I can feel the vacancy…

“It’s empty…”

More than I thought, I might think of the two of them quite a lot.

I put on a slightly vague smile and put a tie over my shirt.

So, when I was done changing, someone knocked on the door.

ㅡ smart smart

“Princess Raiden, the carriage is ready.”

The voice that came from outside the door was the imperial maid, Bella, who guided her inside the palace.

I responded to her call and moved on.

“Oh, yes. I’m leaving now.”

I opened the door, fiddling with the awkwardly tied necktie.

At the door, Bella was waiting for me, angular.

She looked at me for a moment as she came out the door and said.

“The tie again…”

“Oh, it’s okay this time too.”

Bella looked at the tie that was tied strangely somewhere,

He nodded at my firm answer.

“Yes, then I will guide you.”

I walked behind Bella.

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“Oh, you’re here.”

“Raiden!”

Where the carriage was prepared, Lucy and Milliam were out.

“Your Majesty…? And the princess…?”

I asked, slightly surprised by the appearance of the two people I could never have imagined.

“How could you two come at this early hour…”

“Hmmmm, of course, isn’t it to see you off as you return?”

“Yes! Of course it is!”

Lucy replies vigorously.

Milliam looked at Lucy happily and stroked her hair.

Milliam said to me with a characteristic laugh.

“Kkkeul… Judging from Lucy’s reaction, it seems that things went well?”

“Ah, yes…”

“You did as I said, yes…”

“Yes…? As you said, what is that…”

The time when he tilted his head and questioned Milliam’s meaningful words.

A few lines of conversation with Milliam in the garden last night flashed through my mind.

ㅡTake good care of those around you, Raiden.

—-The things you messed up all along, you’ll have to fix everything.

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

“…Could it be that you knew about it?”

“It’s obvious, isn’t it? I was the one who told Lucy about you.”

Milliam nodded with a sinister smile.

I slightly bent my brows at him.

Come to think of it, it was this nobleman who was talking about me carelessly.

“You’re quite confident for talking behind someone’s back, but…?”

“Cluck… I said it at the time, but I’m the emperor, so who will say anything?”

“……”

“Could it be that you’re going to confront the Emperor of the Empire by talking about ‘merely’ private things?”

“I’m sorry……”

Seeing Milliam’s secretly haunting smile, I finally looked away and murmured.

“…It’s a shame.”

“If you twist it, you will become an emperor too.”

As Milliam and I were having such a childish conversation,

The coachman who was sitting in front of the carriage spoke in this direction.

“Ready to depart.”

“Well, I guess it’s time to go.”

Milliam said that and waved a small hand towards me.

“Be careful, Raiden. I hope to see you again later.”

“Yes, Your Majesty. When I come later, I’ll pack a gift and bring it back.”

I greeted them by saying that I would bring proof of the ‘denominational sect’ as a gift.

Milliam must have understood what he said right away, so he narrowed his eyes and smiled.

“Crunchy… I hope it’s a gift that can satisfy this body. I don’t think it’s going to be hard to be satisfied with anything.”

In my words, Milliam told me to bring more clear evidence that I can’t even take away from it.

‘No… On the subject of sitting still and accepting and eating…’

When I looked at him with a puzzled look, he grinned again.

“I’ll say it again, if you twist it, you’ll become an emperor too.”

“……”

I put on a rotten expression, lowered my head slightly, and turned my head toward the carriage.

“Then, bye.”

So, the moment I was about to get on the carriage,

“Hey, there… Raiden…!!”

Lucy, who was silently standing next to Milliam, called me.

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“Then, bye.”

Saying that, Raiden lowered his head and turned to face the carriage.

Lucy, who had been bruised for a moment from nervousness, finally came to her senses and belatedly shouted at Raiden.

“Hey, there… Raiden…!!”

Maybe because he was nervous, his voice trembled.

That voice carried the wind and grabbed Raiden’s wrist as he was about to get on the carriage.

“Yes? What are you doing? Princess.”

Raiden reacted by slowly turning his head.

His obsidian-like eyes turned to Lucy.

Upon meeting his eyes, Lucy trembled slightly and blushed.

It was because he remembered what had happened in the garden last night.

At the age of eighteen, shedding ugly tears in front of others was enough to shame her.

Furthermore, as the first princess of the empire, she always adhered to a gentle and mature image, so the reaction felt stronger.

“……”

“Princess…?”

“Ugh…”

Lucy let out a little saliva and took a deep breath.

Then, when his stomach calmed down, he quietly opened his mouth.

“That… thank you…”

“Yes…? What do you mean?”

Raiden looked at her with a fierce expression, as if he really didn’t know.

“Ugh… so… during the raid a few days ago, you protected me…”

“ah…”

“…I think I haven’t said anything yet.”

Lucy added that, and Raiden’s expression, which had been making a fierce expression, changed strangely.

It was a complicated expression, like a surprised expression, a laughing expression, or a sad expression.

Lucy couldn’t understand the full meaning of that look, but she did know one thing.

It was that he was quite happy.

Lucy saw Raiden making that expression and smiled cautiously.

Because the image of him in front of my eyes overlapped with the image of him I used to play with as a child.

Also, it hasn’t changed.

At that time, you, at that time, remained the same.

Lucy muttered that to herself and laughed.

“Puh…”

“…? Why are you laughing…?”

“No, nothing.”

When Raiden asked about the meaning of laughter, Lucy shook her head.

Then I thanked him again.

Taking a little example this time.

“I’ll say it again. Thanks for saving me.”

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Just like the time in the past when he and she promised a knight and lord relationship.

“My knight.”

Saying that, Lucy smiled mischievously.

Seeing this, Raiden bruised for a moment, then laughed along with her.

He pulled his left arm back slightly, put his right hand on his left chest, and bowed his head in salute.

Then he said.

“I just did what I was supposed to do as a knight, my lord.”

ㅡ wheee

The autumn wind passes the two of them along with his words.

Amid the flowing black and blonde hair, Lucy stopped breathing for a moment as she looked at Raiden’s smile.

It was always a nice smile.

He was cool before, but now he looks even better because he’s lost weight.

On top of that great smile, the smile he showed me a while ago is superimposed.

—-Both of you don’t seem to be fully occupied. Fortunately, the.

After saving himself from the attack, the smile he gave to his tattered body.

ㅡThumb…

As the smile flickered across Raiden’s face, Lucy’s heart beat weakly.

“……?”

Of course, she doesn’t seem to realize it, but

Deep in her heart, certain feelings for Raiden were emerging.

When Lucy tilts her head, puzzled by her strangely beating heart,

“Then, let’s go for real now.”

Raiden greeted them and got on the carriage.

Lucy nodded at him and waved her hand.

“Yeah…! See you at the academy.”

“Here!”

ㅡHee hee hee!

The wagon begins to move with the powerful neighing of the horse.

Lucy smiled once more as she watched the carriage pull away.

The knot the two untied yesterday

He gently embraced the two and intertwined their hands once more.

This time, it is not a knot called ‘hate’,

A knot named ‘bond’ between the knight and the lord.

Lucy felt the threads of the kite entwining her, and quietly turned around.