I Raised Snow White!

17. The King’s Mother (2)

[Episode 17] – The King’s Mother (2)

The princess and I took the lead and followed the queen mother walking down the aisle. We kept some distance, but the queen turned around and looked at the princess as if to make sure we were following.

Turn around and make eye contact with the princess and walk again.

I turn around and make eye contact with the princess, and walk again.

The queen mother acted as if she looked back from time to time, worrying whether the princess was following her well or whether she did not fall. Looking at her, she thought, too, that she was good at bringing the princess.

Look at the hand of the queen mother who is hesitant and restless. She wants to hold her hand with the princess, but she must think that she shouldn’t be fooled by her princess as her title is hers.

The Queen Mother is such a person.

She is a person who cannot properly express love.

Those kinds of people are generally good at taking care of themselves, as long as someone creates an opportunity for them. Just like parents who say, ‘If you bring me a puppy, I will throw it away!’ And love you more than anyone else when you bring it.

I lowered my head and looked at the princess walking beside her. The princess, perhaps still afraid of the queen, was so nervous that she could see her walking awkwardly.

‘…Maybe it would be nice.’

She is strict on the outside, but in fact she wants to love her grandmother right away, and the granddaughter who is afraid of such a strict grandmother. In this case, she was forced to sacrifice her granddaughter slightly.

In order to somehow create a trigger, I tapped the back of the princess I was walking with and lowered her head slightly to whisper in a very small voice that only the princess could hear.

“Princess, do you see Her Highness’s hand over there?”

“Yes, yes… I can see it.”

The princess looked at the queen mother’s hands as she fidgeted and opened and closed them, and gently nodded her head. I smiled, cupped my cheek with one hand and whispered as if acting.

“Your Highness, the reason you’re doing that is because your hands are cold. That’s why I’d like to catch you and keep you warm, but… His Highness hates me, so it’s a big deal.”

I glanced at the princess with a deep sigh, as if it were a serious matter. Then, the princess looked up at me as if she didn’t know what to do.

“So… Won’t the princess, whose hands are warmer than mine, go and hold Her Highness’s hand tightly? Then, I’m sure Her Highness the Queen Mother will like it too.”

“That, but… His Highness hates me too…?”

“Who said that? His Highness hates you.”

“Uh, uh… Uh, but… He always put on a scary expression when I approached him…”

When I patted the back of the princess with her head down, the princess was busy wandering around, not knowing what to do. I gently pushed the princess on the back and talked.

“It’s not like that at all, so go ahead. If you get scolded by His Highness, I’ll scold you instead.”

“Really? Really..? Hey, is that a promise…?”

Looking at the anxious princess’ face, he nodded her head slightly. Then, as if she had the slightest courage, the princess clenched her fists and started running towards the queen.

A gun gun, the princess who jumped with big steps came! He held the queen’s hand with both hands. Then, the princess could not hide her eyes in surprise at the touch of her palm, which was really cold and rough as ice.

The Queen Mother looked down at her princess, who frowned and held her own hand. The wrinkled forehead with the years was enough to frighten the young princess.

“Princess, what are you doing?”

Hearing the voice that was as cold as ice, the terrified princess began to make some excuses. Feeling her coldness in her queen’s hand as if it were piercing her own body.

“Ah, that, that, wow, Her Highness… Her Highness The Queen’s hand… Would be cold… It would be nice to hold… That… That, so… That’s it. ..”

“The Queen?”

Wriggle, the moment she heard those words, the queen’s eyebrows twitched.

The Queen Mother looked at me with the expression, ‘What the hell are you talking about?’, But I just gently waved her hand at the Queen Mother. She scares her as she won’t even refuse my favor anyway.

“I’m sorry… I’ll let go of her soon…”

When the princess, stricken by her fear, tried to let go of her hand, the Queen Mother grabbed her hand tightly as if not wanting to let go.

The princess looked at the queen mother like that, and she blinked her eyes as if she didn’t know what the hell was going on. The queen mother squeezed the princess’s warm hand, and she glared at me.

“Hmph, as the queen said, her hands are cold, so I guess I’ll have to borrow yours. Because I don’t want to borrow that witch’s hand.”

“Uh, yes..?”

“Let’s go quickly. The food seems to be getting cold.”

The princess was taken aback and dragged away like a queen, but I saw it clearly. When she turned her head away from me, the corner of the queen’s mouth that sneaked up.

‘…Is this enough to push you on the back?’

*

From the moment she arrived at the banquet hall, the Queen Mother acted almost as if her reins had been let go. Doesn’t she sit the princess in the empty seat next to her, don’t she feed her herself?

The princess felt burdened by such a queen, but she couldn’t refuse it, and she had no choice but to accept it. No matter how much she ate, her princess’ stomach swelled like a tadpole.

I wanted to stop eating, so I put my fork down, but there was still a mountain of food on the princess’s plate. If the plate showed the bottom even a little, it was because of the Queen Mother who reduced the food.

“Woo-wook…”

“What the hell did you eat at the main palace that made you so small? Anyway, I guess I should stop by the main palace and meet the chef. You have to eat well from a young age to grow tall and healthy.”

With her nagging voice, the queen mother again began piling her food on her princess’s plate like a mountain. The princess let out a ‘Woo-wook’ sound as she saw the food raised to the height of her chest.

I was sorry to see that, so when I put the food piled up on the princess’s plate onto my plate, the queen mother glared at me with a fiery gaze. As if she was telling her to take her hands off the princess’s food.

I begged the queen, unable to see her.

“Your Highness, it seems that the princess is very full.”

“How much have you eaten and are you already full?”

“……You must have eaten more than usual.”

I bowed her head, and the Queen Mother clicked her tongue and turned her head away. The princess was busy stroking her swollen stomach and struggling to somehow speed up digestion.

Looking at the princess like that, the queen sighed and waved her hand at the princess. This meant that it was okay to leave her seat.

“I want to rest in the next room for a while. I have something to say to the queen for a while.”

“Yes, yes… Oh, the fact that you let me join you for dinner tonight-“

“Okay, stop going.”

After she cut off her princess’s greeting and waved her hand again, the princess took her handmaid’s hand with her sullen expression and slipped out of her banquet hall.

The maid who assisted her meal and the lady-in-waiting next to the queen had left the banquet hall, leaving only the queen and me in the large banquet hall.

Thanks to the princess, the bright atmosphere had subsided, and it seemed as if winter had arrived in the banquet hall.

‘First, I’ll have to say hello first.’

Tap, tap the table with your finger. Before the knocking queen could open her mouth, I bowed her head and greeted her. As she bowed her head, the queen looked at me with her eyebrows twitching.

“Thank you for inviting me to such a wonderful dinner. Majesty.”

“Hmph, you refused the dinner invitation, so I tried to pay more attention this time, but I’m glad you like it.”

…How many times did Vivian reject the Queen Mother’s invitation, so that the Queen Mother hates her so much? I smiled and looked at the queen.

“…From now on, I have no intention of rejecting Your Highness’s invitation. How could I refuse the call of the one who ‘helped’ me behind the scenes?”

At the end of my words, the Queen Mother frowned and glared at me. She then gave a dumbfounded laugh, resting her chin on her chin as she looked at me. As if she wants to talk more.

“Me? You? When did I help you?”

“…At the meeting held in the palace, didn’t you side with me instead of the Marquis?”

Huh! The Queen Mother burst into laughter mixed with admiration.

A meeting was held at the Imperial Palace to become the princess’ ‘in charge of education’. In the first place, it was a question of how Vivian, who had the notoriety of being a ‘witch’, was able to defeat her marquis, who raised her first queen.

While I was calmly recalling the knowledge of the game, I was able to think of one thing. That the minister in charge of the royal household was just a ‘scarecrow’.

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And behind that, there is the ‘Queen Dowager’ who controls the royal family.

Perhaps the reason I was able to win at the meeting of the palace ministry was beyond the simple rumors of the marquise’s wife, and it must have been because the ‘Queen Dowager’ breathed in the palace meeting.

“…Since when did you know? That I am reaching out to the palace.”

“In the first place, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is the administrative department in charge of the ‘royal family’. It wouldn’t be strange if there was a ‘royal family’ behind it… I just guessed that based on the results of the meeting.”

“Hmm… that’s right.”

The Queen Mother clenched her chin and looked at me with a funny smile. I can’t say I found out while playing the game, so this answer was the best.

“This is an insufficient answer, but for the first time today, I like you.”

“Thank you.”

I was able to put my mind at ease with that answer. It felt good to feel that I had even a little taste of the fruits of my efforts to reduce Vivian’s notoriety.

The Queen Mother smiled and continued her story.

“Anyway, the reason I invited you today is that there are endless ‘rumors’ about you in the main palace, so I called to confirm. They say you act like you’ve changed people since the funeral, so that’s true.”

“hahahaha…”

I never imagined that such rumors would spread to the ears of the queen.

The reason I thought I should meet the Queen Mother in the first place was because I wanted to thank her for helping me during the palace meeting. I wondered what happened because the queen suddenly called first, but…

‘It must have been a complete oversight.’

The moment she put her mind at ease, the queen mother began to tell another story in front of herself, as if telling her not to relax. The queen, who inhaled the wine placed in front of her, looked at me intently.

“…Today, I watched you and the princess walking through the garden of the villa. They seem to have become close enough to carry the princess in their arms.”

“Wow, not as much as Her Highness, the Queen Mother, thinks…”

I had no choice but to turn my head away from the queen’s gaze as she looked at me with envy. Then the Queen Mother looked at the hand that touched her princess earlier and seemed to recall her earlier memories.

“…It’s still quite small.”

“Because I am still six years old.”

“Yes, I am only six now, but in three months I will be seven.”

The Queen Mother looked at me, clasping her hand that she had been looking at. As soon as it was announced that the princess would soon be seven years old, the atmosphere in the queen mother started to turn cold as before.

“You know that too. What does a child born into a royal family do when he turns seven?”

I nodded at the queen’s words.

The ‘main event’ of spring.

Every member of the royal family throws a splendid birthday party the year they turn seven. You might think it’s just a birthday party, but the royal family’s 7th birthday party has a different meaning.

An event to ‘declare’ to the people of the kingdom that this child is the ‘future leader who will lead this country’. This was the ‘main event’ of spring, the royal family’s 7th birthday party.

Uh-

The Queen Mother gritted her teeth and looked annoyed at the wine glass in her hand. The queen’s annoyance was understandable. Well, the current princess…

“It’s the princess’s birthday soon, and the man named His Majesty doesn’t come out of the room and doesn’t even give the princess a name, so I don’t know what my son, His Majesty, is going to do.”

Because there is no ‘name’ to make a ‘declaration’ yet.