No matter how much Shion and I wondered, it was useless.
There was no one to tell the truth to children like us.
At the end of winter, when spring was about to come, Alseid left his true nature once again.
'In my previous life, even though I was looking forward to emptying the castle like that, I didn't leave even once.'
I hugged Alseid's neck, hiding a strange resentment.
"You're coming soon, Dad?"
"Of course, baby."
After he kissed me on the forehead, I rushed to Garcia.
"Garcia, aren't you going straight to the north face?"
Garcia smiled coolly.
"No, baby. When I go there, I'll see the baby and tell you more interesting stories."
Standing in the cold garden, I waved at Alseid's neat group.
As the horses drifted away, Shion looked at Caliph as if he couldn't take it anymore.
"Big brother... Do we need another shaman in our castle?"
"What?"
Caliph laughed belatedly.
Then he scattered Shion's hair around.
"Shion, Father did not leave to bring the shaman to our castle."
"Yes? Since he met a shaman even while emptying the castle, I thought he was going to bring him to our castle..."
Caliph replied with a kind but firm face.
"My father left because he had something to ask the shaman. There is something we've been wondering about, and I think the shaman will know the answer."
Shion shook his head.
"Garcia doesn't know the answer?"
"Yes."
This time, Shion's eyes widened.
"Then the shaman's ability is better than Garcia's?"
Dorian burst into laughter beside him.
"Master Shion, aren't you cold? Please go in for now. If you bully the Older Master, go in and continue."
Dorian naturally hugged me, followed by Caliph and Shion.
I listened to Caliph's voice in the distance.
"The reason Garcia doesn't know the answer is that she's been in the mage tower all along. It's not because she lacks ability."
So, are you trying to ask what happened in the capital?
It happened close to the capital, and Alseid wanted to find out even as he emptied Halias...
My sixth sense, which is not wrong, said.
It's called Meridy's fire.
***
Somewhere in the royal city of Zantar.
There are many large trees around the small outbuilding farthest from the main palace, and it is always shaded in summer.
A flimsy girl sitting on the bed stood up at the sound of horses' hooves outside.
"Is it the day my brother comes?"
The maid lowered her head and noticed.
Since she was in charge of the weak Princess, she always had to be sensitive to her condition.
"Yes, Your t."
Then the girl, who looked weak, looked at the maid through the mirror.
"But what are you doing without changing your clothes?"
"...Would you like to change your dress, please?"
When the maid asked back, the Princess pulled the ribbon on the front of her dress as if she were going to tear it apart.
"I'll help you, Your Highness."
Another maid ran and grabbed the middle of the ribbon, but the Princess's dry hand slammed her cheek with a loud sound.
It was a hand that seemed to have no energy to lift a teacup, but it was quite fierce
"Who told you to take care of my clothes?"
"I'm sorry, Your Highness."
The maid who was slapped retreated, leaving only one maid and Princess Yesiel in the room again.
Yesiel changed into a new dress that he had chosen for the first time in the morning.
Then, before welcoming the Crown Prince, he chewed his lower lip and made it red.
"You're here, brother?"
The question, which sounded urgent for a greeting, was asked by Crown Prince Bioden leisurely.
"Well, how do you feel?"
"Very good."
However, he had already met a maid in the hallway with one cheek flushed.
Bioden laughed.
"It's not like you to stab your subordinates."
Yesiel retorted resentfully.
"In the morning, she dressed me in a dull dress. If you wear something like that, my complexion will look bad, and my brother will be disappointed again. And if you don't come to me for a month, how can I live?"
"Oh, Yesiel...."
Bioden gently brushed through Yesiel's blonde hair, which shimmered dazzlingly.
"Do you think your brother has been here for the first time in a long time?"
"...You came exactly a month later. That's too much. You won't even grant my request to bring Franz back."
"Franz is also busy with a lot of classes now."
"...Can't you send me a teacher here?"
As Yesiel said this, her golden eyes rolled, and Bioden smiled coolly.
"Your health is the priority, Yesiel. Don't you know how worried your parents are?"
"...I want to see my mother. If my father really has a hard time being away, why don't you go to see him once?"
"Let me tell you."
Yesiel finally offered tea to the Crown Prince with a relieved expression.
"Is it time for you to go back to the academy, brother?"
After hesitating for a moment, Bioden smiled faintly.
"Yes, the last school day."
Crown Prince Bioden soon left the Princess's small palace.
He nodded slightly, and the swollen maid followed quietly.
***
It was only when he reached the narrow, dark landing that he turned back to the maid.
"...What about medication?"
The maid turned around as if she wanted to hide one of her red cheeks.
"Yesterday and today, she spilled medicine many times..."
"That's how Yesiel is, isn't she..."
Bioden responded slowly and leisurely, but the maid knelt at her feet and tightened her head as if she were falling.
"Please forgive me, Your Highness... another way, I'll find another way, please..."
"What other ways can you find it?"
"Gi, give it to the chef and mix it when you make chocolate..."
"Then won't the chef know about medicine? Then Cherny..."
Bioden bent down and grabbed the head of the kneeling maid.
"The strong bond between the two of us will disappear. Then your worth will also..."
"I'll make it into powder and mix it with sugar and sprinkle it! Well, I can do that much, and I'll... again."
Bioden clicked his tongue slightly
"Cherny, you don't have to tell me how to do it."
The maid closed her eyes tightly as the Crown Prince stroked her cheek.
"However, after seeing it today... Yesiel counted the exact date of my visit. She even cares about the opening of the academy."
He whispered affectionately.
"Please put your heart into her for me. She can't even go to school, and she's trapped in a small villa, waiting only for her brother."
At first glance, it sounded thoughtful, but it was a terrible word.
He hopes that his younger sister, a sixteen-year-old Princess, will become a fool who can't even count the dates.
Cherny understood all these words, and her jaw trembled.
"... If you powder it and spray it, there will be a lot of waste and there will be a shortage of chemicals, Your Highness."
Bioden grinned.
"Send someone to me anytime, cute Cherny."
As he stood up as if leaving, Cherny hurriedly grabbed his arm.
After a moment of confusion, Bioden finally smiled.
"Do you have anything left to say?"
"That, that... Oh, if it is wrong..."
She didn't mention the target properly, but she was clearly referring to Yeslel.
Bioden pressed his palm sensitively on the back of Cherny's hand, which was holding his arm.
"It's not a very dangerous medicine, Cherny."
Then he put it to her ear and sternly tilted it.
"A dangerous magical power has grown in Yesiel, who is weak, even if I am trying to suppress it as an older brother."
His voice was lowered slightly.
"If my father knows, she will be imprisoned in a monastery with a healer, but does she want to endure such a thing?"
The Crown Prince lightly pressed his lips to the nape of Cherny's neck under her ear before fully standing up.
"I believe in you."
Cherny blushed for a moment, but then shed tears as she turned to look at his back.
She liked to receive a gaze that she shouldn't have dreamed of, so she foolishly chose this path.
However, the tasks given by the Crown Prince became more and more difficult day by day.
Moreover, the Princess was not dull.
Her gentle temper, which was like a spring, only became violent due to her weak energy, but she did not become stupid.
It was enough to distinguish who was on her side or not.
Even if it is not a dangerous medicine that can harm life, if the Princess finds out that she has secretly given the medicine, she will not stand still.
'If that's the case, the Crown Prince will give me more precipitation.'
Crown Prince Bioden gained the trust of the King and his wife before their younger siblings were all grown.
In the royal family that has been inherited by sons from generation to generation, the weak Princess has no backup at all, and the Second Prince is ridiculously young.
Cherny quickly stood up.
In this case, Princess Yesiel must act according to the Crown Prince's wishes.
And she has to give the Princess a dose of medicine and make her breathe in a daze without knowing that the years have passed.
She has already been on the same boat as the Crown Prince.
Therefore, following him was the only way for her and the Princess to survive.
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