I Raised Snow White!

20. Dance Dance Dance (1)

[Episode 20] – Dance Dance Dance (1)

Breakfast time at the villa.

The lady-in-waiting, who has been working at the detached palace for almost 10 years, looked at her restaurant with a puzzled look at the situation at the detached palace, which she had never experienced in the past 10 years.

It was usually so quiet that you couldn’t hear a single clinking tableware, but today was different. The princess whimpered while carrying a heavy adult fork and knife while she was busy slicing food.

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She is using the dining etiquette she somehow learned, but the princess’s weak grip made the forks and knives heavy and made the sound of plates and cutlery clashing.

Deulgeureok- Deulgeureok-

And then, Her Highness the Queen Mother stopped knife sharpening as she looked at that figure. Eagerly lifting her salad with a fork, the princess opened her mouth wide and brought her salad to her mouth.

Took-

“Ah.”

The salad, which was shaking dangerously on the fork, eventually fell onto the princess’s skirt. As the princess looked at the salad that had fallen on her skirt, her face turned red.

Only then did the Queen Mother move her tableware, which she lifted again, let out a small sigh, cut the salad on her own plate into very small pieces, and placed it on her princess’s plate.

“…I guess I should prepare light tableware at the royal villa.”

“I will prepare it within today.”

The lady-in-waiting who served her meals bowed her head at the queen’s words, and she walked out of the dining room. As soon as the restaurant door closed, I heard the sound of running, so it seemed that the lady-in-waiting was sprinting her way.

The princess nodded and thanked the Queen Mother for slicing her salad, and then got busy stabbing the salad with a heavy fork again. But, she said, no matter how small the salad was sliced.

In the end, the problem was the tableware, which was heavy for the princess to carry.

Perhaps it is difficult to take light salads with heavy tableware, the princess tried diligently tossing the salads with her fork, but in the end more salads landed on her lap than went to her mouth.

By the time the princess’s lap was overgrown with salad, the princess’s eyes grew redder and redder, as if the embarrassment, shame, and various emotions she had endured would explode.

And the queen consort just looking at it.

I couldn’t sigh outwardly, so I let out a long sigh, then poked the salad with my fork and brought it to the princess’s mouth.

The princess was shy, but in the end she opened her mouth and accepted the salad I gave her. Every time I put a salad in the princess’s mouth, I stared at the queen as if to show off her appearance.

In the end, the Queen Mother, who was looking at the scene, clicked her tongue in displeasure and opened her mouth.

“Princess, do you have no hands?”

“Why are you doing this to the princess? Isn’t it inevitable because the fork is heavy? If this situation is someone’s fault, it must be someone’s fault that she didn’t keep children’s utensils in the villa, even though she had a granddaughter.”

“Huh, is this all my fault?”

“I didn’t say that much. Majesty.”

Seeing me putting the salad in the princess’s mouth, the Queen Mother let out a sigh of relief. The princess was torn between me and her queen, she was busy eating her salad like a baby bird.

“Feel free to tell me if you want something other than salad.”

“Oh, no… I think a salad would suffice…”

As the salad cut on the plate began to show the bottom, the impatient queen finally let out her sigh and glared at me. She then got up from her chair and motioned for me to get out of the way.

At that gesture, I giggled and got up from the chair and headed to another seat.

“Princess.”

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“Yes, yes… Her Highness the Queen Mother…”

“Ah, let’s do it.”

“Ah, ah…?”

When the princess opened her mouth wide, the queen mother dipped the salad on the plate and put it into the princess’s mouth like a mother bird. When the princess accepted and ate her food, the queen mother made a ‘family-like’ expression for the first time.

“How about it, isn’t it more delicious than the one the queen gave me?”

“Yes? Ah, yes… But I’m full now…”

“What makes you full after eating only vegetables? Try some of this too. There are not many dishes that the chef is good at, but this fish dish is amazing.”

“Ah, ugh…”

The princess must have remembered yesterday’s food hell, and her complexion began to turn blue. I glanced at her handmaids and her maids, who turned her head to see the figure of her queen mother.

I wonder if this is really the first time I’ve seen it, some of them opened their eyes wide as if they were surprised, and some of them were smiling faintly as if they were warm.

I also smiled faintly as I looked at the queen and princess. How do you like it when you express it even a little like this? I’ll have to see you more often in the future.

“It’s nice to see you eating well. Try eating this once.”

“Woo-wook…”

The hearty meal continued until the princess shook her head, and eventually the princess, tired of eating, had to take a rest in the guest room once again.

*

While the princess went to rest in her guest room.

I decided to have tea time with the Queen Mother in her garden.

I told her not to go to the main palace yet, saying she had something to tell me.

The Queen Mother raised her teacup and opened her mouth, savoring the scent of her tea.

“…As I said yesterday, there are only about three months until the princess’s seventh birthday. So, the Royal Household Ministry started preparing for the princess’s birthday party last month.”

“You mean… already?”

“Already? Don’t you know that basically half a year is prepared for the birthday party of the royal family? Even starting from last month is far too late at the latest.”

Tsk tsk, the Queen Mother with her tongue sipped, sipped her tea and looked at me with eyes like, ‘I don’t like her either.’ Embarrassed by her gaze, I raised the teacup and drank her tea in one breath.

“I don’t know if the party will really go on, but shouldn’t we prepare first?”

“……”

The Queen Mother’s words were heard that she would consider canceling her party if the King did not name the princess within three months. It’s a situation that can’t be helped, but…

“I ordered a dress for the princess yesterday. So, when the dressmaker goes to the main palace, prepare yourself.”

“Yesterday…you mean?”

“Tsk, what the hell are you doing? She pretended to be the princess’s ‘teacher’, and the princess didn’t even prepare a dress for her at her birthday party. You don’t know what the most important thing is right now, right?”

“……”

I was speechless at the words of the queen mother-in-law who continued to nag her. No, her mother-in-law is right..? I could only bow my head as I listened to her mother-in-law’s nagging.

“Sorry. We will pay more attention in the future.”

“I’ll see if that happens.”

The Queen Mother glared at me with her suspicious eyes, she let out a small sigh and began to tell me step by step what the princess would need for the next three months.

“First of all, the most important thing is party etiquette. And since it’s fine even if it’s short, it’s better to prepare at least one greeting for the nobles. And, the next most important thing is dancing.”

“Dancing…”

“Your Majesty should originally be the princess’ first dance partner… But we can’t expect that right now, so let’s put off teaching the princess dance last.”

“…Yes, Your Highness.”

“And…”

I listened attentively to what the Queen Mother was saying, as if writing notes in her head. It seemed like he could understand why the royal family’s birthday party took half a year to prepare.

There were so many things to teach the princess that I felt that three months was too short a time to prepare everything perfectly. And most of it was something I had no idea about.

As I nodded and listened to the story, Ainsel whispered.

-Other things I can teach you. However, since I can’t teach you a dance that uses your body, why don’t you teach the princess?

…..??

I don’t know anything about dancing…? All the dances I learned were the ones I danced in groups with my classmates during my school days. So I’m teaching the princess to dance?

It seems impossible…?

-Don’t worry about dancing. There is a saying ‘the body remembers’, right? Because Vivian danced so well that she was called the flower of society. Maybe Vivian’s body remembers.

Is that really so..?

…There was no use in doubting Ainsel now. For now, it was time to listen to the story of the queen who was telling me about the princess in front of me.

In this way, I was able to finish the tea time with the queen and escape from the villa with the princess before lunch. The queen felt bitter as if she was sorry, but she couldn’t help it.

The princess, who said that if she had another meal at the detached palace, her stomach might really burst, she trembled on the way to the main palace.

And on the way to the main palace, the princess even muttered in a low voice that she would not come to the detached palace for the time being. He sighed as if he was really, really tired.

*

After that, the princess was immersed in preparing for the ‘party’ for the time being.

Party etiquette and greetings to nobles were prepared with Ainsel, and I prepared a dressmaker and princess’s party dress sent by the queen.

Time flies like that…

A month has passed.

For a month, me, the princess, and Ainsel were all busy.

During the day, she spent time practicing dancing with the princess and taking classes on fairies. At night, she was busy practicing dancing while looking at the mirror, Ainsel, and taking classes to become an ‘apprentice witch’.

I spent a dense amount of time, to the point that I never slept more than three hours a day for a month. Really, really, I felt like I had never been so busy in my life.

I had such a dense time, but…

Party, pair, pair.

“One two three. One, two, three. One two three to the beat.”

“One two three, one two three…”

The princess started to take basic steps to the beat of the sound I made, but she couldn’t keep the beat to the point that she looked sloppy.

You have to step according to the basic beat, but the princess was busy wobbling around like a doll with unraveled threads. In the end, the princess was entangled in her swaying legs and collapsed on the spot.

As if tired from dancing, I approached the princess who was sitting on the floor taking her breath, and I comforted her by patting her on the shoulder with a sad expression.

“Princess…”

“…”

“You really can’t dance..?”