DYBAR - Chapter 176 < A Perfect Happy Ending > < END >
Do Your Best And Regret
Darkness fell on Vikander Castle.
In the past four weeks, Olivia had lost track of time and was struck by the darkness falling beyond the window.
“Obviously, my wife and I would have finished today’s schedule and even had dinner. However...”
Meanwhile, Edwin's scary voice came from behind. Olivia glanced behind her and smiled.
Winster, who was smiling when their eyes met, immediately lowered his eyes at Edwin's glance. But he couldn't avoid the vicious force that pricked his skin.
In this case, there was only one way. Winster said in a low voice.
"Your Highness. Her Highness is watching.”
“...Today’s work is over, so why are you all here in our bedroom?”
He knew it. Winster suppressed his laughter as his voice suddenly became softer. Edwin still looked at the people standing in the Prince and his wife's bedroom with disapproving eyes.
Even if she returned to her position as a wizard, Bethanny would be the one who was Olivia's chief maid. From Howard to Winster to Dean.
Howard calmly raised his hand when asked to say something. His arms were full of documents that had not yet been reviewed.
“For the operation to restore the southeastern region you mentioned..”
“Dismissed. Next."
Sharp eyes turned to Dean. Even as he flinched and trembled, Dean calmly explained the reason why he remained in this bedroom.
“As your first escort, I will escort you until the time of your immersion.”
“That too was dismissed. Next."
It was Winster's turn.
Winster began speaking with a solemn face as he was met with a harsh gaze that told him that he would not let anyone talk nonsense.
“I just want to see His Highness the Prince and Her Highness, whom I respect greatly, for a little longer.”
“Dismissed.”
"Your Highness! Wait a minute!”
Bethanny hastily raised her palms. There was a well-timed knock on the door.
It was Hannah. She let out a quick breath as if she had rushed over, but handed the tray she was carrying to Bethanny with care.
“Bethanny. This is the medicine you mentioned.”
“What kind of medicine is that? No way...”
Edwin's eyes narrowed. Bethanny said grumpily, snorting her hum.
“I know what you’re thinking, but please take care of the matter of your Majesty the King.”
“You’re mean, Bethany.”
Or not.
Edwin smiled brightly and looked at Olivia. Olivia, whose cheeks quickly turned red, was not very pretty as he glared at her with her round eyes pointedly folded.
While Edwin looked at Olivia with a lazy smile, Bethanny placed a tray in front of Olivia.
Olivia's eyes narrowed slightly at the bitter smell. Steam was rising from a bowl containing a dark moss-colored decoction, and a red candy was placed next to it.
“This is a decoction for improving the stamina of our non-high Majesty. Drink it all in one go while it’s hot.”
“It looks really hot. It needs to cool down a bit before I can eat it. Isn’t that right, Bethanny?”
A pretty girl. Bethanny, who had no choice but to give up on Olivia, who had now become her true darling, suddenly looked at the doorway with her dim eyes.
“They say you need to take it consistently to gain stamina. Even though I brought the bowl inside every time for the past four weeks, it wouldn't be emptied. Eat while I’m watching, Your Highness.”
Now that she think about it, it seemed like something was sitting on the table by the door. Olivia smiled sheepishly and lifted the bowl.
“I’ll drink it right now. Bethanny.”
She frowned with each sip of the warm decoction, and even as she placed the finished bowl on the tray, Olivia squinted at the corners of her eyes. The bitter taste that remained on her tongue did not go away.
Meanwhile, Edwin peeled the candy and held it to her mouth.
"Ah-."
Bethanny smiled happily at the sight of Olivia naturally taking the candy and eating it. Only Hannah muttered with a puzzled look on her face.
“Your Highness... You don’t like candy or anything like that.”
In fact, Edwin was the only one who heard Hannah's voice over the sound of the candy rolling around in her mouth.
Bang-.
As the door closed firmly, Howard raised the document he was holding with an expressionless face.
Even if His Highness sees him tomorrow, he has to be fully prepared today. That is...
“Are you going to work again, First Aid?”
... Because it is the job of the first aide to the ‘soon-to-be King’ Prince.
The corners of Howard's mouth slightly turned up at Winster's playful words. After Bethanny and Hannah, who laughed and said they knew that would happen, also headed toward the stairs, Winster stretched out and shook his head.
“So you’re saying that receiving a title or something will only cause such stress?”
“What are you saying, Sir Calter? You're the person who will soon be appointed as the second aide.”
"What...!”
Winster was frightened and trembled. Dean shrugged his shoulders as if he didn't know.
“There was a rumor going around. Lord Howard said Lord Calter would rise to the rank of aide-de-camp before the blackening under his eyes got even darker.”
“Never do that.”
“Then Lord Calter will never have the chance to be His Highness’s bodyguard in his lifetime?”
“Is that a bit harsh?”
Winster narrowed his eyes, pretending to be serious. Another voice broke into the playful conversation.
“Um, Lord Calter.”
A maid held out a large box with an embarrassed look on her face.
“I got another gift for you.”
‘Again.’
At that one word, Winster shrugged his shoulders and looked at the box. Inside the box decorated with light green jewels were a scarf and handkerchief from Heperti.
What? Dean, who was looking closely at the familiar object, made a sad face.
It was one of the gifts he saw in Jade Madeleine's room when he was entrusted to the Madeleine duchy.
He looked at Winster with the thought, “No way,” and he nodded his head, unimpressed.
"That's right. I think he bought it every time he moved to a battlefield. I bought it and saved it faithfully.”
...It was already too late to give.
“Keep it with the items from last time.”
The maid seemed familiar with Winster's words and headed somewhere. Dean stuck out his tongue.
“Now I wonder why I’m doing this. Does he still have hope that it will be accepted someday? I think that family has withdrawn now.”
“It’s hope...”
Winster laughed.
“That would be punishment for me.”
He remembered the King's eerie-sounding voice.
Jade Madelaine might have been punishing himself.
Just like on the wedding day, when he couldn't even dare to approach even though he was close, at best, all he could send was a gift whose sender's name couldn't even be revealed.
In the end, those gifts would have been in the basement of Vikander's castle for much longer than the time they were locked in Jade Madeleine's room.
Maybe, forever.
The sound of burning firewood permeated the silence of the bedroom.
Above the large bed, wet sounds rang regularly. Edwin, who was patting Olivia's back while repeatedly kissing her small face, chuckled.
Every time her long eyelashes fluttered, her sleepy, pretty eyes appeared and disappeared. This is why he doesn't want to let his wife sleep. Edwin quietly whispered, calming his greed.
“Why is my young lady holding on like this today?”
Plump lips murmured. Edwin, who was listening to a very small sound, muttered.
"Diary?"
Olivia nodded her head slowly. She was so happy that she couldn't write in her diary for four weeks, so she couldn't stop writing until today. She needs to make sure that the happy memories from the wedding remain forever.
Contrary to her mind, her body seemed to gradually melt into the comfortable bed.
Boom, will she come to her senses if she turns her head? It was time to do the trick.
“Then, would you like to sleep for a bit and let me wake you up later?”
"Without waking me up.”
Olivia laughed bitterly.
The past when she opened her eyes to start her day before dawn seemed to have disappeared, and now Olivia slept as she wanted.
And Edwin, who had not been able to wake Olivia for the past four weeks, just watched until Bethanny came in today and woke her up.
"no. I have something I want, so why won’t you wake me up?”
“.. Yes?"
“I just tried to be nice ‘this time’, and ‘next time’ I’ll wake you up...”
Olivia thinks she heard something similar once.
Olivia, who was looking back on her memories with barely closed eyes, chuckled.
This is what Edwin said the day he fell asleep in the carriage, when he, despite his embarrassment, asked her to wake him up next time.
The next thing to say is probably...
“You said I could do whatever I wanted next time.”
No way. Olivia shook her head.
“From what I remember, I think I definitely said no at the time.”
“But I’ve already been nice to Liv many times, and I’ve woken Liv up many times...”
Edwin's speech became longer as if he was pampering her.
“Are you sure you can’t?”
“...What do you want?”
"Well. What about this first?”
Unlike his voice, which stretched out the end of his sentences as if he was acting foolishly, the kiss he poured on her lips was deep. Olivia blinked her eyes in a daze as a feeling of heat quickly rose up.
Then she slowly nodded her head. Soon her sweet voice became more and more distant.
“So go to sleep quickly. I’ll wake you up later.”
“.... Live?"
The hand stroking her eyes was gentle.
Olivia blinked her eyes slowly, tickled by the feeling of something wet in her. A soft voice came from beyond her blurred vision.
“...Why are you doing this?”
The voice complaining that he was the best on the continent when it came to teasing people was painfully familiar.
Olivia smiled and muttered. Perhaps because she had just had her dream, everything felt blank.
“...I had a happy dream.”
“But why were you crying?”
“I have to wake up from a dream.”
Oh. Edwin made a teasing noise, saying that makes sense.
Olivia giggled. The red corners of her mouth were so pretty that Edwin touched them with his index finger.
“Why are you smiling so happily again this time?”
Unlike his playful voice, the hand pat on the back was cautious. His firm chest rose and fell slowly with each breath he took as he held Olivia close to him.
“I must have woken up from a dream, but reality is the same as the dream.”
There is Edwin here too, and there is Edwin in her dreams too.
Ah... At that moment, Edwin took a short breath.
If her heart beats too much, she might die. Her cheeks heated up as she thought foolishly. Her heat spread dizzyingly before her eyes. It was so good that he felt like something was happening to his head.
“It’s a big deal.”
“Let me go now. I need to write a diary...”
Olivia, who was laughing slowly, blinked her eyes. She was clearly standing up...
“Obviously, my wife and I would have finished today’s schedule and even had dinner. However...”
Meanwhile, Edwin's scary voice came from behind. Olivia glanced behind her and smiled.
Winster, who was smiling when their eyes met, immediately lowered his eyes at Edwin's glance. But he couldn't avoid the vicious force that pricked his skin.
In this case, there was only one way. Winster said in a low voice.
"Your Highness. Her Highness is watching.”
“...Today’s work is over, so why are you all here in our bedroom?”
He knew it. Winster suppressed his laughter as his voice suddenly became softer. Edwin still looked at the people standing in the Prince and his wife's bedroom with disapproving eyes.
Even if she returned to her position as a wizard, Bethanny would be the one who was Olivia's chief maid. From Howard to Winster to Dean.
Howard calmly raised his hand when asked to say something. His arms were full of documents that had not yet been reviewed.
“For the operation to restore the southeastern region you mentioned..”
“Dismissed. Next."
Sharp eyes turned to Dean. Even as he flinched and trembled, Dean calmly explained the reason why he remained in this bedroom.
“As your first escort, I will escort you until the time of your immersion.”
“That too was dismissed. Next."
It was Winster's turn.
Winster began speaking with a solemn face as he was met with a harsh gaze that told him that he would not let anyone talk nonsense.
“I just want to see His Highness the Prince and Her Highness, whom I respect greatly, for a little longer.”
“Dismissed.”
"Your Highness! Wait a minute!”
Bethanny hastily raised her palms. There was a well-timed knock on the door.
It was Hannah. She let out a quick breath as if she had rushed over, but handed the tray she was carrying to Bethanny with care.
“Bethanny. This is the medicine you mentioned.”
“What kind of medicine is that? No way...”
Edwin's eyes narrowed. Bethanny said grumpily, snorting her hum.
“I know what you’re thinking, but please take care of the matter of your Majesty the King.”
“You’re mean, Bethany.”
Or not.
Edwin smiled brightly and looked at Olivia. Olivia, whose cheeks quickly turned red, was not very pretty as he glared at her with her round eyes pointedly folded.
While Edwin looked at Olivia with a lazy smile, Bethanny placed a tray in front of Olivia.
Olivia's eyes narrowed slightly at the bitter smell. Steam was rising from a bowl containing a dark moss-colored decoction, and a red candy was placed next to it.
“This is a decoction for improving the stamina of our non-high Majesty. Drink it all in one go while it’s hot.”
“It looks really hot. It needs to cool down a bit before I can eat it. Isn’t that right, Bethanny?”
A pretty girl. Bethanny, who had no choice but to give up on Olivia, who had now become her true darling, suddenly looked at the doorway with her dim eyes.
“They say you need to take it consistently to gain stamina. Even though I brought the bowl inside every time for the past four weeks, it wouldn't be emptied. Eat while I’m watching, Your Highness.”
Now that she think about it, it seemed like something was sitting on the table by the door. Olivia smiled sheepishly and lifted the bowl.
“I’ll drink it right now. Bethanny.”
She frowned with each sip of the warm decoction, and even as she placed the finished bowl on the tray, Olivia squinted at the corners of her eyes. The bitter taste that remained on her tongue did not go away.
Meanwhile, Edwin peeled the candy and held it to her mouth.
"Ah-."
Bethanny smiled happily at the sight of Olivia naturally taking the candy and eating it. Only Hannah muttered with a puzzled look on her face.
“Your Highness... You don’t like candy or anything like that.”
In fact, Edwin was the only one who heard Hannah's voice over the sound of the candy rolling around in her mouth.
...It did. When she was at the Grand Ducal residence, the corners of his handsome mouth turned up lazily as Olivia brought up the dessert plate that she had not even touched.
It wasn't just the taste that changed.
"Your Highness, I guess you like really neat things, no, just neat things. She only wanted neutral colors for the rugs and blankets, and she even said she wouldn’t mind not putting flowers in a vase.”
When it comes to Olivia, Hannah, who had prepared only the best items for Olivia, had to put away everything she had prepared with a sullen expression on her face.
But now it's different. Edwin glanced around the bedroom. Warm-colored vases, cute decorations, sparkling jewels, and even a letterbox encrusted with jewels that the owner of the room loves.
Olivia Lowell Vikander liked to decorate her room neatly and cutely. She dried the flowers her husband had given her and put them on one of her walls, and every time he looked at her, the corners of her mouth curled up and she smiled.
All the moments when he looked back at her, shining under the sunlight shining down, were all pretty, so he hugged her and kissed her like a habit every time.
Even now, Edwin naturally lifted Olivia's chin.
It was then that Olivia, who had obediently raised her head, suddenly turned her head. Edwin, who was puzzled by the unusual gesture, frowned at the sudden scream he heard.
“Well, I didn’t see anything!”
Unlike Hannah, who was shocked and shouted and covered her eyes, the other retainers were grinning.
They are also newlyweds.
Winster even raised his thumbs up. The Prince and they communicated just by looking at each other, even without speaking.
“Okay, then all the urgent fires have been extinguished, right?”
In the end, they slowly walked away as soon as the Prince smiled gracefully. To the retainers who were walking sideways like crabs, the Prince gave a congratulatory command in a kind voice.
“Everyone get out. Right now."
Yikes. Winster, who reacted most sensitively to the intimidating feeling, was the first to approach the door.
“Well then, I’ll see you tomorrow. Charged, non-charged. Have a good night.”
Of course, as a knight who gave his oath to Vikander, he did not forget the rules of etiquette.
It wasn't just the taste that changed.
"Your Highness, I guess you like really neat things, no, just neat things. She only wanted neutral colors for the rugs and blankets, and she even said she wouldn’t mind not putting flowers in a vase.”
When it comes to Olivia, Hannah, who had prepared only the best items for Olivia, had to put away everything she had prepared with a sullen expression on her face.
But now it's different. Edwin glanced around the bedroom. Warm-colored vases, cute decorations, sparkling jewels, and even a letterbox encrusted with jewels that the owner of the room loves.
Olivia Lowell Vikander liked to decorate her room neatly and cutely. She dried the flowers her husband had given her and put them on one of her walls, and every time he looked at her, the corners of her mouth curled up and she smiled.
All the moments when he looked back at her, shining under the sunlight shining down, were all pretty, so he hugged her and kissed her like a habit every time.
Even now, Edwin naturally lifted Olivia's chin.
It was then that Olivia, who had obediently raised her head, suddenly turned her head. Edwin, who was puzzled by the unusual gesture, frowned at the sudden scream he heard.
“Well, I didn’t see anything!”
Unlike Hannah, who was shocked and shouted and covered her eyes, the other retainers were grinning.
They are also newlyweds.
Winster even raised his thumbs up. The Prince and they communicated just by looking at each other, even without speaking.
“Okay, then all the urgent fires have been extinguished, right?”
In the end, they slowly walked away as soon as the Prince smiled gracefully. To the retainers who were walking sideways like crabs, the Prince gave a congratulatory command in a kind voice.
“Everyone get out. Right now."
Yikes. Winster, who reacted most sensitively to the intimidating feeling, was the first to approach the door.
“Well then, I’ll see you tomorrow. Charged, non-charged. Have a good night.”
Of course, as a knight who gave his oath to Vikander, he did not forget the rules of etiquette.
***
Bang-.
As the door closed firmly, Howard raised the document he was holding with an expressionless face.
Even if His Highness sees him tomorrow, he has to be fully prepared today. That is...
“Are you going to work again, First Aid?”
... Because it is the job of the first aide to the ‘soon-to-be King’ Prince.
The corners of Howard's mouth slightly turned up at Winster's playful words. After Bethanny and Hannah, who laughed and said they knew that would happen, also headed toward the stairs, Winster stretched out and shook his head.
“So you’re saying that receiving a title or something will only cause such stress?”
“What are you saying, Sir Calter? You're the person who will soon be appointed as the second aide.”
"What...!”
Winster was frightened and trembled. Dean shrugged his shoulders as if he didn't know.
“There was a rumor going around. Lord Howard said Lord Calter would rise to the rank of aide-de-camp before the blackening under his eyes got even darker.”
“Never do that.”
“Then Lord Calter will never have the chance to be His Highness’s bodyguard in his lifetime?”
“Is that a bit harsh?”
Winster narrowed his eyes, pretending to be serious. Another voice broke into the playful conversation.
“Um, Lord Calter.”
A maid held out a large box with an embarrassed look on her face.
“I got another gift for you.”
‘Again.’
At that one word, Winster shrugged his shoulders and looked at the box. Inside the box decorated with light green jewels were a scarf and handkerchief from Heperti.
What? Dean, who was looking closely at the familiar object, made a sad face.
It was one of the gifts he saw in Jade Madeleine's room when he was entrusted to the Madeleine duchy.
He looked at Winster with the thought, “No way,” and he nodded his head, unimpressed.
"That's right. I think he bought it every time he moved to a battlefield. I bought it and saved it faithfully.”
...It was already too late to give.
“Keep it with the items from last time.”
The maid seemed familiar with Winster's words and headed somewhere. Dean stuck out his tongue.
“Now I wonder why I’m doing this. Does he still have hope that it will be accepted someday? I think that family has withdrawn now.”
“It’s hope...”
Winster laughed.
“That would be punishment for me.”
He remembered the King's eerie-sounding voice.
Jade Madelaine might have been punishing himself.
Just like on the wedding day, when he couldn't even dare to approach even though he was close, at best, all he could send was a gift whose sender's name couldn't even be revealed.
In the end, those gifts would have been in the basement of Vikander's castle for much longer than the time they were locked in Jade Madeleine's room.
Maybe, forever.
***
The sound of burning firewood permeated the silence of the bedroom.
Above the large bed, wet sounds rang regularly. Edwin, who was patting Olivia's back while repeatedly kissing her small face, chuckled.
Every time her long eyelashes fluttered, her sleepy, pretty eyes appeared and disappeared. This is why he doesn't want to let his wife sleep. Edwin quietly whispered, calming his greed.
“Why is my young lady holding on like this today?”
Plump lips murmured. Edwin, who was listening to a very small sound, muttered.
"Diary?"
Olivia nodded her head slowly. She was so happy that she couldn't write in her diary for four weeks, so she couldn't stop writing until today. She needs to make sure that the happy memories from the wedding remain forever.
Contrary to her mind, her body seemed to gradually melt into the comfortable bed.
Boom, will she come to her senses if she turns her head? It was time to do the trick.
“Then, would you like to sleep for a bit and let me wake you up later?”
"Without waking me up.”
Olivia laughed bitterly.
The past when she opened her eyes to start her day before dawn seemed to have disappeared, and now Olivia slept as she wanted.
And Edwin, who had not been able to wake Olivia for the past four weeks, just watched until Bethanny came in today and woke her up.
"no. I have something I want, so why won’t you wake me up?”
“.. Yes?"
“I just tried to be nice ‘this time’, and ‘next time’ I’ll wake you up...”
Olivia thinks she heard something similar once.
Olivia, who was looking back on her memories with barely closed eyes, chuckled.
This is what Edwin said the day he fell asleep in the carriage, when he, despite his embarrassment, asked her to wake him up next time.
The next thing to say is probably...
“You said I could do whatever I wanted next time.”
No way. Olivia shook her head.
“From what I remember, I think I definitely said no at the time.”
“But I’ve already been nice to Liv many times, and I’ve woken Liv up many times...”
Edwin's speech became longer as if he was pampering her.
“Are you sure you can’t?”
“...What do you want?”
"Well. What about this first?”
Unlike his voice, which stretched out the end of his sentences as if he was acting foolishly, the kiss he poured on her lips was deep. Olivia blinked her eyes in a daze as a feeling of heat quickly rose up.
Then she slowly nodded her head. Soon her sweet voice became more and more distant.
“So go to sleep quickly. I’ll wake you up later.”
***
“.... Live?"
The hand stroking her eyes was gentle.
Olivia blinked her eyes slowly, tickled by the feeling of something wet in her. A soft voice came from beyond her blurred vision.
“...Why are you doing this?”
The voice complaining that he was the best on the continent when it came to teasing people was painfully familiar.
Olivia smiled and muttered. Perhaps because she had just had her dream, everything felt blank.
“...I had a happy dream.”
“But why were you crying?”
“I have to wake up from a dream.”
Oh. Edwin made a teasing noise, saying that makes sense.
Olivia giggled. The red corners of her mouth were so pretty that Edwin touched them with his index finger.
“Why are you smiling so happily again this time?”
Unlike his playful voice, the hand pat on the back was cautious. His firm chest rose and fell slowly with each breath he took as he held Olivia close to him.
“I must have woken up from a dream, but reality is the same as the dream.”
There is Edwin here too, and there is Edwin in her dreams too.
Ah... At that moment, Edwin took a short breath.
If her heart beats too much, she might die. Her cheeks heated up as she thought foolishly. Her heat spread dizzyingly before her eyes. It was so good that he felt like something was happening to his head.
“It’s a big deal.”
“Let me go now. I need to write a diary...”
Olivia, who was laughing slowly, blinked her eyes. She was clearly standing up...
The moment I was puzzled by the unknown situation, Edwin smiled beautifully.
“I’m sorry, but I come first.”
Unlike his sweet voice, his eyes were thirsty. Olivia smiled brightly at his sweet sign that she wanted him completely and she hugged him tightly.
The diary wasn't urgent at all. Happiness that will last forever will always be in front of Olivia, whether she opens her eyes or closes them.
It was a perfect happy ending.
“I’m sorry, but I come first.”
Unlike his sweet voice, his eyes were thirsty. Olivia smiled brightly at his sweet sign that she wanted him completely and she hugged him tightly.
The diary wasn't urgent at all. Happiness that will last forever will always be in front of Olivia, whether she opens her eyes or closes them.
It was a perfect happy ending.
Ty so much for the translations! It was such a good story đź’•
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