“Are you crazy? Don’t provoke him and just stay quiet. I’ll find out what’s going on.”
The Prince lowered his voice and urged her. When he first saw Prince Norton at the entrance of the main palace, he didn't recognize him. But when he looked closely, it was the mercenary knight who had run away with his sister in the middle of the night. Prince Tesla thought he was dead, but how is he still alive?
'You, then and now, have no plan.'
Prince Norton looked at Princess Resilia, who had come to his bedroom without warning, with an indifferent gaze.
“What brings you here, Princess Shattonil?”
The Prince asked coldly. Then she shook her body with a charming gesture and her eyes were moist like a deer that had been hit by rain.
“I missed you.”
“You’re still shameless.”
“You’re still cool. No, you’ve gotten even cooler!”
“What do you want to do?”
Prince Norton spoke to the Princess for the first time. Princess Resilia's heart suddenly started beating fast at that sight. He was a man who had never spoken to her even when they ran away and lived together. Of course, he was acting like that because he was angry at the betrayal, but he was strangely sexy at how he treated her so carelessly. Perhaps it felt even more so after finding out his identity. Princess Resilia, who had been standing far away, watched Prince Norton's expression and ran towards him, who was leaning against the window.
“Are you crazy?”
The Prince glared at her with contempt as she came up close to his chin.
“I was originally crazy about you. That’s why we ran away together!”
“Then I guess running away is your hobby. You ran away again, leaving Rams and me behind.”
“Rams... Our Rams... Is he healthy? How is he?”
Princess Resilia asked with sad eyes. He looked into her tearful eyes and said.
“Isn’t that something you should be asking?”
“I'm Rams mom, why not?”
“The day you abandoned your child and left, you were no longer a mother. What, without affection? How is Rams doing?”
Princess Resilia could hear the anger in his voice. It was okay. It was an anger she could handle.
“Why is there no affection? If there was no affection, I wouldn’t have run away with you to give birth to Rams!”
People tend to get more angry when they are pricked a lot.
“Let’s get this straight, Princess.”
Norton's eyes settled terribly on her pretty face.
“Before I heard about your marriage with Emperor Linel, Ymir didn’t even know you were pregnant. And you were told that if you gave birth to a child in the royal family, your status would decline.”
“That, that’s true. But I ran away for Rams’ safety.”
“No? You just wanted to go on a rampage. And who said that Emperor Linel was a troublemaker?”
Princess Resilia's face turned red and her mouth moved in response to his questioning.
“Rams, you had no choice but to give birth to him. It was too late to do anything about it. Right?”
“No, that’s not true! I really regretted it so much. I cried every night thinking about you and Rams...”
She let out an irritated voice without realizing it, but then quickly softened her voice and made a pitiful expression.
“Don’t worry about Rams from now on. Stop worrying.”
Her expression, which had been bowing her head at Prince Norton's words, slightly changed.
'Still alive...'
Princess Resilia clenched her molars without realizing it. When she heard that her son was alive, it felt like a burden.
“Tell me why you came here. It’s painful just to look at you like this.”
“Why? Why are you in pain?”
"What?"
“Do you still love me? Because you love me even though you hate me so much? Is that why you’re like that? Yes?”
She looked up at him, blinking her long eyelashes.
“That’s funny.”
Prince Norton turned away coldly, his expression indicating that he did not want to engage in any more conversation.
“I still love you!”
Princess Resilia hugged his waist from behind. He mercilessly pulled away the Princess's hand that was wrapped around his waist and looked back at her.
“Take it easy. My patience is running thin.”
“Really. I realized it the moment I saw you today. Can’t you forgive me? You used to do everything I wanted. Norton, please...”
“Why should I forgive you?”
“Oh, we have Rams! I’m his mom. Rams must have been looking for me a lot... Sob, sob sob sob.”
Princess Resilia took his hands in hers and rubbed them against her cheeks, shedding tears.
“I’m crying like this. You said that before, right? You said that the tears I shed were a waste. You said that your heart aches and you can’t bear it.”
That was true. Princess Resilia was a lovely woman even when she cried. Prince Norton's frown slightly softened.
'It's shaking!'
She looked at his face and shouted confidently inwardly. She had to use this opportunity to shake him up some more.
“I missed you so much every night, Norton...”
“!”
Princess Resilia lifted her heels, grabbed his shoulders with both hands and kissed him. She forced open Prince Norton's tightly closed lips.
Princess Resilia, who had been showering him with kisses for a long time, pulled away and hugged him as if she were clinging to him.
'Norton, if you do that, then so be it.'
As she had expected, he did not reject her. She briefly enjoyed the feeling of triumph, then looked at him with a pitiful expression.
“By the way, where is our Rams now...?”
“It’s not far from the imperial palace.”
Prince Norton responded obediently, and in the same gentle voice as before.
“Hey, here in the Lapion Empire?!”
“Yes, so don’t worry. Our son is healthy and well.”
He spoke in a much calmer voice. Princess Resilia was greatly embarrassed by the fact that Rams was in the Lapion Empire, but quickly buried her face in his chest.
'Thank goodness, Resilia. That you are still the same.'
The Prince patted her on the back and raised a corner of his mouth.
“Hug me. Right now.”
Princess Resilia raised her head again and flirted, grabbing Prince Norton's hand and dragging him to the bed.
The Prince lowered his voice and urged her. When he first saw Prince Norton at the entrance of the main palace, he didn't recognize him. But when he looked closely, it was the mercenary knight who had run away with his sister in the middle of the night. Prince Tesla thought he was dead, but how is he still alive?
If he had known, he would have ordered him to be beheaded and thrown off the cliff. Norton, whose name was simply Norton, and Norton with the surname 'Asalman' attached to his name, were completely different. Things were going to get messed up, but they were going to get messed up.
'If something is too tangled, it can't be untangled.'
It would have been better to just cut it off.
“I have to open Norton’s heart again, which he closed to me. I have to melt his heart again.”
Princess Resilia spoke as if talking to herself, strengthening her resolve.
"What?"
Prince Tesla, who had been lost in thought for a moment, suddenly raised his head at his sister's nonsense.
“That way, nothing will get in my way.”
Princess Resilia smiled brightly as she recalled Linel's face, which had made her heart race the moment she first saw it.
“Please, Resilia! I told you to stay still and not provoke him unnecessarily!”
If a fool persists, there is no answer. Prince Tesla was about to say something more, but he hit his chest with his fist and shut his mouth again.
“No, I know him well!”
The Princess also did not give up and raised her voice.
“If I please him again, he will definitely do something for me.”
Norton loved me. He couldn't help but love me. She still believed that.
“What on earth do you think he’ll do for you?”
Prince Tesla, who had been nervously brushing his hair back several times, stopped and asked.
“If it were you, would you push the woman you ran away within the middle of the night and had a child with to remarry another man? And to Emperor Lapion at that?”
“Do you think I’m stupid? You even reveal all those facts.”
“Then what are you going to do?”
“First, I’ll let him approach Zelda.”
"...So?"
“I must do something that will tarnish the honor of the Empress.”
“Do you trust him? Will he do whatever you want?”
Prince Tesla listened to the Princess for a moment, then laughed at her again.
“He was a man who would even pretend to die if I told him to! I’m going to meet Norton. I have questions for him.”
“What are you talking about? Are you talking about a child?”
“Yeah, Rams... is being raised by the Parsha Imperial Family?”
Prince Tesla's eyebrows twitched.
'Do I have to tell you everything now?'
There was a moment of conflict. His sister didn't know what had happened to Norton and the child. What she did know was that 'the Royal Knights had let Norton go that day, and he had left the kingdom of Shattonil with the child.'
'Ram's face...'
Princess Resilia thought of her son after a long time. But surprisingly, the face of the small and pretty child had already become hazy. In fact, the child she remembered was just a troublesome being who whined and cried. The biggest reason she followed the Royal Knights again was the stress of raising a child.
“Brother, I’ll go see Norton. Something has changed... I keep getting distracted by that look in his eyes.”
Her brother is not completely oblivious. The Prince snorted involuntarily.
“Resiliw, what if you fail to win Emperor Linel’s heart?”
He doesn't think that's possible. No, it shouldn't be possible.
“Then, without any hesitation, I should follow Norton to the Parsha Empire.”
Princess Resilia answered with a refreshing face. The problem was that her head was also refreshing.
“Ha, are you serious?”
“It’s not as good as being an Empress, but being a Princess is fine. When Norton’s brother ascends to the throne, he’ll become the Grand Duke and I’ll become the Grand Duchess, but that’s not bad either.”
“You are so positive, little sister.”
Prince Tesla nodded at her calculating attitude. But the chances of Norton accepting her were... very low.
“After all, the royal family is the royal family.”
Princess Resilia continued to chatter with a face soaked in fantasy.
“And you know what? My son might become Emperor. No, Norton might become Emperor before that.”
“Norton, give up.”
“Why...?”
Prince Tesla confessed the truth about 'that day' to the Princess who asked slowly. If Prince Norton could not be removed from the Lapion Palace right away, the Princess had to know the truth about that day.
“The day you came back to the palace, that bastard fell off the cliff. And the child too.”
“...What, what does that mean?!”
“But by some miracle, he's still alive? Haa, I don’t know how he survived... Damn it.”
Prince Tesla suppressed his anger and spoke quietly.
“That kid would want revenge on you, wouldn’t he?”
Princess Resilia, who had learned the whole truth, sat down on her chair with a complicated expression on her face.
“...Hey, Rams is dead, right?”
Those were her first words. As if it would be more of a headache if the child were alive.
“Now we have to find out.”
Prince Tesla's eyes deepened even further.
“You don’t want to get back together with him, do you?”
"But..."
“Wouldn’t it be better for you to be an Empress rather than a Princess to a man who wants to kill you?”
“That, that’s right”
Princess Resilia nodded in agreement with her brother's words as she saw Linel's face, which was much more beautiful than she had imagined.
“Listen carefully. If Norton gets in our way or gets in the way of our work, we need to get him out of the way. And if the child is alive, that too.”
"...Yes?"
Prince Tesla added strength to his voice at her blank question.
“Otherwise you and I will die!”
The Princess frowned at Prince Tesla's words. Norton loved Rams very much. If a child like that had died on the cliff... Then she thought that Norton might really kill her.
“The chances of not becoming the Empress of the Lapion Empire are much higher than the chances of not becoming the Princess of the Parsha Empire! Do you understand?”
“When you say you’re going to get rid of it in front of your eyes... you don’t necessarily mean you’re going to kill it, right? Norton is not allowed.”
Princess Resilia asked with a confused face. Does that mean the child is okay? Prince Tesla looked at her with a confused face as well and opened his mouth.
“Whether we kill them and clear them away or keep them alive and move them to another place, let’s think about that later. For now, we need to make sure they don’t become obstacles.”
“I’ll find out.”
"What?"
“Is Rams safe? And if he’s alive, where is he now?”
In fact, in this situation, finding out through Resilia was the most accurate and easiest way. The Princess prince hesitated for a moment and nodded.
“Yes, it’s okay to approach him to get information. But if that doesn’t work, we’ll have to take action right away. Is that okay, Resilia?”
Prince Tesla asked, examining the Princess's complexion. Norton knew that she would be shocked to learn that her own child had fallen from a cliff. But.
“If he's dead, there’s nothing I can do.”
Princess Resilia replied, shaking her hands and rising from her chair.
“I can have another child. As long as Norton lives, it’s fine.”
“!”
Prince Tesla was surprised to find out that his sister was more vicious than he had thought. However, he was even more surprised to find out that she still had feelings for Prince Norton, but was quite fond of Emperor Linel.
“I should just change my dress and go to Norton.”
Princess Resilia disappeared into the dressing room with her attendants again, with a cheerful face.
'If something is too tangled, it can't be untangled.'
It would have been better to just cut it off.
“I have to open Norton’s heart again, which he closed to me. I have to melt his heart again.”
Princess Resilia spoke as if talking to herself, strengthening her resolve.
"What?"
Prince Tesla, who had been lost in thought for a moment, suddenly raised his head at his sister's nonsense.
“That way, nothing will get in my way.”
Princess Resilia smiled brightly as she recalled Linel's face, which had made her heart race the moment she first saw it.
“Please, Resilia! I told you to stay still and not provoke him unnecessarily!”
If a fool persists, there is no answer. Prince Tesla was about to say something more, but he hit his chest with his fist and shut his mouth again.
“No, I know him well!”
The Princess also did not give up and raised her voice.
“If I please him again, he will definitely do something for me.”
Norton loved me. He couldn't help but love me. She still believed that.
“What on earth do you think he’ll do for you?”
Prince Tesla, who had been nervously brushing his hair back several times, stopped and asked.
“If it were you, would you push the woman you ran away within the middle of the night and had a child with to remarry another man? And to Emperor Lapion at that?”
“Do you think I’m stupid? You even reveal all those facts.”
“Then what are you going to do?”
“First, I’ll let him approach Zelda.”
"...So?"
“I must do something that will tarnish the honor of the Empress.”
“Do you trust him? Will he do whatever you want?”
Prince Tesla listened to the Princess for a moment, then laughed at her again.
“He was a man who would even pretend to die if I told him to! I’m going to meet Norton. I have questions for him.”
“What are you talking about? Are you talking about a child?”
“Yeah, Rams... is being raised by the Parsha Imperial Family?”
Prince Tesla's eyebrows twitched.
'Do I have to tell you everything now?'
There was a moment of conflict. His sister didn't know what had happened to Norton and the child. What she did know was that 'the Royal Knights had let Norton go that day, and he had left the kingdom of Shattonil with the child.'
'Ram's face...'
Princess Resilia thought of her son after a long time. But surprisingly, the face of the small and pretty child had already become hazy. In fact, the child she remembered was just a troublesome being who whined and cried. The biggest reason she followed the Royal Knights again was the stress of raising a child.
“Brother, I’ll go see Norton. Something has changed... I keep getting distracted by that look in his eyes.”
Her brother is not completely oblivious. The Prince snorted involuntarily.
“Resiliw, what if you fail to win Emperor Linel’s heart?”
He doesn't think that's possible. No, it shouldn't be possible.
“Then, without any hesitation, I should follow Norton to the Parsha Empire.”
Princess Resilia answered with a refreshing face. The problem was that her head was also refreshing.
“Ha, are you serious?”
“It’s not as good as being an Empress, but being a Princess is fine. When Norton’s brother ascends to the throne, he’ll become the Grand Duke and I’ll become the Grand Duchess, but that’s not bad either.”
“You are so positive, little sister.”
Prince Tesla nodded at her calculating attitude. But the chances of Norton accepting her were... very low.
“After all, the royal family is the royal family.”
Princess Resilia continued to chatter with a face soaked in fantasy.
“And you know what? My son might become Emperor. No, Norton might become Emperor before that.”
“Norton, give up.”
“Why...?”
Prince Tesla confessed the truth about 'that day' to the Princess who asked slowly. If Prince Norton could not be removed from the Lapion Palace right away, the Princess had to know the truth about that day.
“The day you came back to the palace, that bastard fell off the cliff. And the child too.”
“...What, what does that mean?!”
“But by some miracle, he's still alive? Haa, I don’t know how he survived... Damn it.”
Prince Tesla suppressed his anger and spoke quietly.
“That kid would want revenge on you, wouldn’t he?”
Princess Resilia, who had learned the whole truth, sat down on her chair with a complicated expression on her face.
“...Hey, Rams is dead, right?”
Those were her first words. As if it would be more of a headache if the child were alive.
“Now we have to find out.”
Prince Tesla's eyes deepened even further.
“You don’t want to get back together with him, do you?”
"But..."
“Wouldn’t it be better for you to be an Empress rather than a Princess to a man who wants to kill you?”
“That, that’s right”
Princess Resilia nodded in agreement with her brother's words as she saw Linel's face, which was much more beautiful than she had imagined.
“Listen carefully. If Norton gets in our way or gets in the way of our work, we need to get him out of the way. And if the child is alive, that too.”
"...Yes?"
Prince Tesla added strength to his voice at her blank question.
“Otherwise you and I will die!”
The Princess frowned at Prince Tesla's words. Norton loved Rams very much. If a child like that had died on the cliff... Then she thought that Norton might really kill her.
“The chances of not becoming the Empress of the Lapion Empire are much higher than the chances of not becoming the Princess of the Parsha Empire! Do you understand?”
“When you say you’re going to get rid of it in front of your eyes... you don’t necessarily mean you’re going to kill it, right? Norton is not allowed.”
Princess Resilia asked with a confused face. Does that mean the child is okay? Prince Tesla looked at her with a confused face as well and opened his mouth.
“Whether we kill them and clear them away or keep them alive and move them to another place, let’s think about that later. For now, we need to make sure they don’t become obstacles.”
“I’ll find out.”
"What?"
“Is Rams safe? And if he’s alive, where is he now?”
In fact, in this situation, finding out through Resilia was the most accurate and easiest way. The Princess prince hesitated for a moment and nodded.
“Yes, it’s okay to approach him to get information. But if that doesn’t work, we’ll have to take action right away. Is that okay, Resilia?”
Prince Tesla asked, examining the Princess's complexion. Norton knew that she would be shocked to learn that her own child had fallen from a cliff. But.
“If he's dead, there’s nothing I can do.”
Princess Resilia replied, shaking her hands and rising from her chair.
“I can have another child. As long as Norton lives, it’s fine.”
“!”
Prince Tesla was surprised to find out that his sister was more vicious than he had thought. However, he was even more surprised to find out that she still had feelings for Prince Norton, but was quite fond of Emperor Linel.
“I should just change my dress and go to Norton.”
Princess Resilia disappeared into the dressing room with her attendants again, with a cheerful face.
***
'You, then and now, have no plan.'
Prince Norton looked at Princess Resilia, who had come to his bedroom without warning, with an indifferent gaze.
“What brings you here, Princess Shattonil?”
The Prince asked coldly. Then she shook her body with a charming gesture and her eyes were moist like a deer that had been hit by rain.
“I missed you.”
“You’re still shameless.”
“You’re still cool. No, you’ve gotten even cooler!”
“What do you want to do?”
Prince Norton spoke to the Princess for the first time. Princess Resilia's heart suddenly started beating fast at that sight. He was a man who had never spoken to her even when they ran away and lived together. Of course, he was acting like that because he was angry at the betrayal, but he was strangely sexy at how he treated her so carelessly. Perhaps it felt even more so after finding out his identity. Princess Resilia, who had been standing far away, watched Prince Norton's expression and ran towards him, who was leaning against the window.
“Are you crazy?”
The Prince glared at her with contempt as she came up close to his chin.
“I was originally crazy about you. That’s why we ran away together!”
“Then I guess running away is your hobby. You ran away again, leaving Rams and me behind.”
“Rams... Our Rams... Is he healthy? How is he?”
Princess Resilia asked with sad eyes. He looked into her tearful eyes and said.
“Isn’t that something you should be asking?”
“I'm Rams mom, why not?”
“The day you abandoned your child and left, you were no longer a mother. What, without affection? How is Rams doing?”
Princess Resilia could hear the anger in his voice. It was okay. It was an anger she could handle.
“Why is there no affection? If there was no affection, I wouldn’t have run away with you to give birth to Rams!”
People tend to get more angry when they are pricked a lot.
“Let’s get this straight, Princess.”
Norton's eyes settled terribly on her pretty face.
“Before I heard about your marriage with Emperor Linel, Ymir didn’t even know you were pregnant. And you were told that if you gave birth to a child in the royal family, your status would decline.”
“That, that’s true. But I ran away for Rams’ safety.”
“No? You just wanted to go on a rampage. And who said that Emperor Linel was a troublemaker?”
Princess Resilia's face turned red and her mouth moved in response to his questioning.
“Rams, you had no choice but to give birth to him. It was too late to do anything about it. Right?”
“No, that’s not true! I really regretted it so much. I cried every night thinking about you and Rams...”
She let out an irritated voice without realizing it, but then quickly softened her voice and made a pitiful expression.
“Don’t worry about Rams from now on. Stop worrying.”
Her expression, which had been bowing her head at Prince Norton's words, slightly changed.
'Still alive...'
Princess Resilia clenched her molars without realizing it. When she heard that her son was alive, it felt like a burden.
“Tell me why you came here. It’s painful just to look at you like this.”
“Why? Why are you in pain?”
"What?"
“Do you still love me? Because you love me even though you hate me so much? Is that why you’re like that? Yes?”
She looked up at him, blinking her long eyelashes.
“That’s funny.”
Prince Norton turned away coldly, his expression indicating that he did not want to engage in any more conversation.
“I still love you!”
Princess Resilia hugged his waist from behind. He mercilessly pulled away the Princess's hand that was wrapped around his waist and looked back at her.
“Take it easy. My patience is running thin.”
“Really. I realized it the moment I saw you today. Can’t you forgive me? You used to do everything I wanted. Norton, please...”
“Why should I forgive you?”
“Oh, we have Rams! I’m his mom. Rams must have been looking for me a lot... Sob, sob sob sob.”
Princess Resilia took his hands in hers and rubbed them against her cheeks, shedding tears.
“I’m crying like this. You said that before, right? You said that the tears I shed were a waste. You said that your heart aches and you can’t bear it.”
That was true. Princess Resilia was a lovely woman even when she cried. Prince Norton's frown slightly softened.
'It's shaking!'
She looked at his face and shouted confidently inwardly. She had to use this opportunity to shake him up some more.
“I missed you so much every night, Norton...”
“!”
Princess Resilia lifted her heels, grabbed his shoulders with both hands and kissed him. She forced open Prince Norton's tightly closed lips.
Princess Resilia, who had been showering him with kisses for a long time, pulled away and hugged him as if she were clinging to him.
'Norton, if you do that, then so be it.'
As she had expected, he did not reject her. She briefly enjoyed the feeling of triumph, then looked at him with a pitiful expression.
“By the way, where is our Rams now...?”
“It’s not far from the imperial palace.”
Prince Norton responded obediently, and in the same gentle voice as before.
“Hey, here in the Lapion Empire?!”
“Yes, so don’t worry. Our son is healthy and well.”
He spoke in a much calmer voice. Princess Resilia was greatly embarrassed by the fact that Rams was in the Lapion Empire, but quickly buried her face in his chest.
'Thank goodness, Resilia. That you are still the same.'
The Prince patted her on the back and raised a corner of his mouth.
“Hug me. Right now.”
Princess Resilia raised her head again and flirted, grabbing Prince Norton's hand and dragging him to the bed.
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