I Raised Snow White!

130. Escape (2)

[Episode 130] – Escape (2)

Rustling- Rustling-

Slowly, carefully. I walked slowly, one step at a time, being careful not to make the sound of stepping on leaves. I wanted to go to the main castle quickly, but I almost felt like I was going to die after entering the artificial forest barefoot.

I couldn’t see it because it was covered with fallen leaves, but every time I stepped on something like pebbles on the ground, acorns that had fallen on the ground, or sharp tree branches, the soles of my feet hurt to the point where I wondered if I had done it for no reason.

I wanted to walk on the cleared road, but there were many guards patrolling, so I had no choice but to travel through the artificial forest hidden by trees. We can’t get caught when we haven’t even arrived at the main castle yet.

I didn’t even walk very far, but I felt like the soles of my feet were swollen. I regretted that I should have at least brought shoes, but it was already too late. I endured the pain and contemplated leaving the annex.

I could see the front door of the annex where I was trapped beyond the bushes. Two guards constantly guarded the main gate, and the surrounding area was blocked by a fence, so it was impossible to leave except through the main gate.

‘Are there any holes or anything like that?’

I looked around the fence and started looking for a hole to escape to. If you worked hard, you could climb over the fence, but it was too high, and the pointed spear on top was scary.

I walked around the fallen leaves around the fence with my feet. Occasionally, I could see small burrows used by animals such as squirrels and rabbits, but I couldn’t see any holes big enough for a person to get out.

However, I had to work hard to find the dog hole without giving up. Obviously, it wouldn’t be surprising if Titania, who had confirmed that I wasn’t in the room by now, would release the guards to look for me.

‘When I lived in Bonseong, there was a rumor that young maids secretly went out to meet men who lived in other castles. There are holes in nature, so there must be places like this.’

Park! Pop!

After roughly digging through the fallen leaves, I was finally able to find a small hole that could barely fit a person through. As expected, thinking that something like this exists in every castle, I bent down in front of the dog hole.

‘I don’t know who made it, but I’ll use it well…!’

I quickly put my head into the dog hole and started crawling in a prone position. Fortunately, there didn’t seem to be anyone on the other side of the fence, so I thought I wouldn’t be noticed if I passed quickly.

The moment I passed through the dog hole, I felt like something was stabbing me in the back. Perhaps, as I was crawling, I hit the end of the fence, but it felt like a tingling pain.

After crawling on all fours like a dog and passing through the hole, I was finally able to get out of the annex. My face and pajamas were covered in mud from crawling through the dog hole, but I didn’t care at all.

I smiled involuntarily at the feeling of being free. Escape was so easy that I felt stupid for not having thought of it earlier.

However, the joy of successfully escaping was short-lived.

“Mom, did you enjoy playing in the dirt?”

“Hi…!”

Titania, who had been watching for some time, walked out from the bushes. When she saw Titania’s face, her hair suddenly turned white and she could not say anything. She had to make an excuse, but…

“Uh, well, that means… Titania…?”

It was not a situation where I could make excuses.

Titania is leaning against a tree, crossing her arms and looking at me intently. I thought she would immediately get angry and say, ‘You ran away again?’, But Titania just smiled and slowly approached me.

“I won’t be angry, so go back. “When I get back, first of all, I’ll have to get ready to wash up.”

“Yeah, right…”

Titania said nothing more as she turned her back on me and headed towards her annex. She wanted to ask how she found me, but she wasn’t in the mood, so I had no choice but to quietly follow Titania back to her annex.

‘Really, it’s not easy…’

*

“Now, wait a minute…! I… I can do it alone… I will do it alone…! Huh?! Titania!”

“…Stop whining and take it off, quickly. “I also need to treat the wound on the sole of her foot.”

“If you give me the medicine, ho, I’ll do it alone…! Or to the other maids…!”

“All the maids here were sent back to their hometown. Because her mother didn’t notice that she had run away. So, who told you to run?”

When I returned to the annex, I couldn’t run away from Titania, who was pulling my clothes. Her whole body was covered in dirt and she needed to be washed, but no matter what, she couldn’t serve Titania.

“Because I really can do it on my own, huh? “Can you please let me go…?”

“No.”

“You really…!”

No matter how much I screamed and got angry, it was no use.

I couldn’t escape Titania’s grasp as she tried to tear off my dirt-stained pajamas. The moment I twisted my body to run away, a boom came from my back! The sound of her pajamas being torn was heard.

“Now, wait a minute! “Your clothes are torn!!”

“So, please be quiet. Look at this. There was a wound on my back. “You can’t even touch a place like this, so how can you apply medicine by yourself?”

“Well, that’s… Huh…!”

Titania gently brushed the wound on the bone of her wing with her fingertips. She must have hurt her while crawling through her asshole earlier, and when Titania’s fingertips brushed against her wound, she let out a moan from the pain.

I looked up at Titania in tears.

Titania looked down at me, holding my wrist tightly, as if she still had no intention of letting me go. When I tried to shake her off, she tightened her grip on my wrist, so in the end I had no choice but to give up.

“…Because I understand. “First of all, I will take off my clothes myself, so please stay out until I call you.”

Titania sighed as if she had no choice, let go of my wrist and walked out of her bathroom. Really, when you grow up, you become stronger. Now I couldn’t defeat Titania with my own strength.

After sighing deeply, I finally took off my torn pajamas and underwear and headed to the large marble bathtub filled with warm water. I slowly wiped the dirt off my body with water and then soaked in the bathtub.

“Ah, come on…!”

When I soaked in the bathtub, the wounds on my back and soles of my feet became sore as they touched the water. However, the warmth of the warm water felt better than the stinging pain, so I soaked myself in the bathtub up to my shoulders.

The moment I close my eyes from such fatigue.

“Mom, I’m going in.”

“…Okay.”

The bathroom door suddenly opened, and Titania, who had brought me a change of clothes and ointment to apply to my wound, smiled and looked down at me in the bathtub. What are you staring at so intently?

She came up to me and Titania sat next to her bathtub, holding her soap and she held out her hand to me. She’s going to wipe it, so I guess that means putting her arm out here. Now, I didn’t like the way the queen, who was serving me like a maid…

“Ha, really. “There’s no need for you to do this…”

“I do it because I like it. “Don’t feel too pressured.”

“It’s not a burden… It’s done. “No matter what I say, you won’t listen anyway.”

I took her arm out of the bathtub and placed my arm on Titania’s outstretched hand.

Titania soaps every inch of my body, starting from my forearms to my fingers, with rose-scented soap. She was happy to think that she was receiving filial piety from her daughter, but she was confused when she heard that a girl called the Queen would do this.

“Now wake up. “I’ll clean your back first.”

“…Ha.”

With mixed feelings, I got up and sat down in the bathtub, turned my back to Titania and made her sigh. It felt good to feel Titania’s hands gently rubbing my back with her palms full of soap. She may be even more so because she hasn’t had a bath like this in two years.

“Ugh…”

As the soft touch spread all over my back, a low moan escaped me without my knowledge. As the fatigue from the warm water and my tense body began to relax, I felt like I was falling asleep. Just for a moment, I felt like it would be okay to leave my body in Titania’s hands.

“…Well, it’s complicated. “I think your touch feels better than the maid’s…”

“Really? “That’s… fortunate.”

Titania continued her soaping process, gently massaging my shoulders. I felt Titania’s breath on my shoulder as she came close to my back. As the feel of her slippery skin rubbed against my bare skin, I felt heat spreading throughout her body.

Honestly, I didn’t hate it. No, it was so good. It had been a long time since she had taken a bath like this, and she loved the scent of roses that filled her bathroom, tickling her nose. So much so that I want to leave my tired body to her with this feeling. Feeling tired, I quietly leaned back against Titania.

“Huh…”

As if she had finished soaping her back, Titania’s hand slowly moved towards the front. As her soapy hands slid down her sides and touched her breasts, her body shook violently without realizing it, startled by her strange stimulation. Her tired mood disappeared in an instant and her eyes opened wide.

No matter what, you can’t go forward!

“Thank you. “I’ll take care of the rest now, so stop.”

“…I understand. “I’ll do it next time, okay?”

“Is there a next time?”

As I lapped at the water in the bathtub in annoyance, Titania smiled and answered.

“You don’t know that.”

*

After the bath, I, naked and wearing a bathrobe, sat on the bed as Titania said. Titania took her ointment and knelt down in front of me on one knee, and she began to apply her ointment to the soles of my feet.

“There is no need to go this far. “I have the ointment on my own…”

“It’s just that I want to do it for you.”

Yes, you don’t even listen to what I say. I sighed and looked down at Titania, lowering her head. Titania began to gently apply her ointment to the wounds on the soles of my feet with her hands.

Titania, who was applying her ointment, suddenly asked me.

“Mother, what were you thinking when you ran away through the terrace? “Have you ever thought that you could fall and die?”

“Ah… Well, that is…”

“Even if this place isn’t that high, if you make a mistake, you could really die. Does this mean that you hate being here, by my side, more than dying?”

“Well, it’s not like that. I just… Felt like you were so excited… That we needed some time apart. So, just… in the capital…”

Titania’s palms were shaking slightly as she applied her ointment to the soles of my feet. Was I being too complacent? Even so, she did it because she thought she wouldn’t be imprisoned here.

However, it wasn’t something he did because he didn’t like being around Titania. It seemed like Titania, who was excited, needed some time to think, so she went out on her own. Therefore…

“…I never meant that I didn’t like being around you. I just needed some time to think. You and me too. A little far away…”

“You’ve been away from me for five years, and you’re going to leave me again?”

“Oh, no, that’s not it…”

“… I think I was considerate enough to her mother. Even though her mother couldn’t leave this place, she was allowed to move around here as much as she wanted. “So that she would not be bored, she prepared all kinds of entertainment, and ordered her maids to prepare all the food they wanted to eat upon request.”

Titania smiled bitterly and gently grabbed my ankle. Titania’s hand holding my ankle began to tremble slightly. Shouldn’t she have run away on her own? Should I have waited a little longer for Titania? Rather, wasn’t it me who was nervous?

I…

“But, my mother kicked my consideration away and ran away again. Do you remember what I said? “I told you that if you run away from here one more time, I will never forgive you, right?”

Titania’s voice trembled slightly with anger.

The moment I lowered my head to pat Titania’s head to comfort her, who seemed to be crying, I couldn’t help but be shocked to see ‘something’ that Titania pulled out from under her bed.

“So, this is a punishment. “Punishment for kicking my consideration away.”

“Wait a minute…!”

Along with the sound of a rattling chain, I heard something wrapped around my ankle and a clanking sound. Surprised by the shackles that instantly wrapped around my ankles, I could only purse my lips and glare at Titania.

“You, you! “What is this…!”

The shackles tied to the ankles were not made of iron, but leather. I couldn’t help but burst into laughter at the shackles that seemed to be out of consideration for the person being tied up.

“Are you crazy?!”

“I told you, right? “Don’t run away from me.”

The long chain attached to the shackles was connected to the post of my bed. I tried to untie it with my hands, but the shackles were so tightly bound that I had no intention of loosening them, so I turned my head to gauge the length of the chain.

The chain connected to the shackles seemed longer than expected. Probably long enough to freely move around this large room. It was just that long.

I glared at Titania with an angry expression, but Titania just smiled and swept my face away. I looked at Titania and shouted.

“What on earth are you thinking…?!”

“What are you thinking, mother? I begged him not to go, I asked him not to run away, but less than three days later, he ran away again. “Are my words that funny?”

Titania didn’t pay any attention to my shouting, she just touched my face. Her hand that was stroking her face slowly moved down, and Titania smiled wryly and tapped the back of her neck with her fingertips.

“Try running away again. Next is the leash.”

The hand that was patting the back of her neck soon wrapped around my neck.

“If you don’t want to be tied up like a dog crawling through a hole…”

Titania wrapped her neck around my neck with just one hand, and she glanced at my neck as if imagining me being put on her leash. She then begged me with tears in her eyes.

“Now please, don’t run away from me.”