The Fiancee Who Betrayed Me Is Obsessed With Me

27 – Grumpy Princess (3)

After returning to the room, Yuna immediately threw herself on the bed.

It was quite an arduous journey as I had never left the kingdom before.

Since I attended the banquet from the first day without being able to rest, I was probably tired.

-Princess. I will go away.

Beryl. I hear him leaving.

It was natural. In the first place, since he had come along as an attendant, he could not escort her until night.

Feeling regretful about that fact, Yuuna looked for a pillow.

“why… ”

Why do I feel this way? I didn’t know why I was feeling this way when all I could do was the escort driver leaving.

regret. Yuuna thought that would never be the case. If I had to define it, would it be something like emptiness?

I remember what I said to him in the garden before entering the room.

Actually, I didn’t mean to say those words, but those harsh words just came out on purpose.

Maybe it was because I had forgotten how to thank someone for 10 years.

-Crackling

A lady’s laughter is heard outside the window.

He was probably having a secret affair with someone he had met at the banquet.

Normally, she wouldn’t have bothered me at all, but she would have screamed at me for being noisy, but for some reason, I couldn’t do that today.

For some reason, my heart ached for a time that I could call my lost youth.

“Benny… ”

Yuuna missed Benny. The only trace of Ben left to her.

If it weren’t for the moon squirrel he left behind, Yuuna wouldn’t have been able to survive like this.

Living as a villainess for 10 years killed a lot of her emotions, but when her feelings for Ben occasionally surfaced, he was the only one who healed her.

My eyes began to slowly close.

The schedule was too difficult to say that I was tossing and turning in my sleep in an unfamiliar place. It was a wonder he was still awake.

Since Beryl served as my night guard, I have never had a nightmare.

It had been a long time since I had slept without him outside the door.

I was afraid that the nightmare would creep in through this gap again.

It was a fear that had been dulled for 10 years, but after he appeared, the fear reared its head again, as if calluses had been removed.

Rustle-

Should I call him? She was worried, but soon buried her head in the bed.

On the way to the empire, I was escorted without being able to rest properly, and if I cannot rest today, there may be a major setback in my schedule in the future.

I wasn’t particularly worried about him, but I would be in trouble if my only escort couldn’t use it.

In any case, his skills were certain.

Yuna blew out the candle and closed her eyes.

“Kuh… hahahahaha… !”

The nightmare came without fail.

Because it was the first nightmare I had in a long time, the sight of Ben’s melting face was even more terrifying.

The fact that I couldn’t wake up from my dream at will was also the same.

“hemp cloth… Beryl… ”

Her mouth, lost in a nightmare, called that name without realizing it.

It may not have been because I missed him instead of Ben.

Perhaps it was because he knew that he was the only one who could get him out of this dream.

“ugh… Sis, I didn’t like it… !”

Ben, melting in his dream, approaches.

She still missed him, but at the same time, he was also an object of fear for Yuna.

That’s why I couldn’t let him go, I couldn’t escape from him.

I wish someone had freed me from this bondage, but I don’t want to forget Ben forever.

With the two emotions coexisting, Yuuna had to spend a terrible night every night.

Until someone really leads her as she pleases.

Wow-

Something grabs Yuuna’s hand.

A grip so strong that it cannot be easily shaken off. However, that hardness became the strength that supported Yuna in the nightmare.

Hot flames coming towards Yuna. Ben’s hideous appearance of melting away. Memories with him.

It felt like she was going to collapse at the sight of all those terrible scenes, but Yuna was supported by her strength.

“eww… Ugh… ”

The dream is ending. It was the same ending as always. And when she woke up from her dream, an eerie silence and the knowledge that Ben was no longer there would be waiting for her.

Still, it had been a long time since I had seen the ending of a dream. There have been more cases of waking up in the middle of the night because of fear.

“eww… ha… ah… ?”

“… “Are you awake, princess?”

“ha… ah… ”

I open my eyes in a half-asleep state.

As your five senses slowly return, the first thing you feel is something holding your hand tightly and your heartbeat beating vigorously.

Contrary to what she expected, what awaited Yuna was neither a cold room nor an eerie silence.

It was the warm hand of a man holding my hand and his grave voice.

“you… “What are you doing?”

“It was a road that passed in front of the princess’s room. And since I could hear the princess screaming inside just like that time, I committed rudeness.”

“What shamelessness is this?” It’s insidious… ? “Are you crazy to arbitrarily enter a room where a royal family member, especially a young lady, is sleeping alone?”

“It’s natural for you to reprimand me. No wonder you look at me with impure eyes. However, I must protect the princess. However, I swear that I have no unclean thoughts towards the princess.”

A strange man was sitting in front of his bed, holding his hand as he slept.

It may have been a creepy situation, but Yuna strangely felt relieved by that fact.

His dull and empty expression actually made me feel reassured.

“This matter will be formally punished when we return to the kingdom. “Don’t you know how dangerous it is to just come into a lady’s room on your own?”

However, the words coming out of Yuna’s mouth were still disingenuous. Maybe Yuna herself wasn’t aware of it yet.

In fact, if he left the room, another terrible night would begin again, but Yuna now only knew how to say it.

I have been living with resentment toward someone for 10 years.

“I will gladly accept it. Instead, I will stay here tonight.”

“yes… ? “What did you just say?”

“I said I would stay by the princess’ side all night. “If I leave, the princess will have another nightmare.”

“under… ?”

However, more than Yuna’s lack of honesty, the author Beryl was even more outside of common sense.

I will watch the lady sleep all night long. That was what was being said.

“Do you know what you are talking about?”

“I will never do anything that would harm the princess. I will not look at the princess’s body in a lewd way, nor will I covet it. I just want to protect the princess. “I think that way, the princess will be able to sleep peacefully.”

Yuuna could not continue speaking due to his confident declaration.

At least it’s sincere. Because Yuna was able to figure it out right away.

But I couldn’t figure out why he was doing this.

“Didn’t you hear the rumor? “If I want, I can order you to be beheaded right now.”

“Even so, I will stay by the princess’s side.”

“Are you thinking about your future schedule? “How are you going to escort me without proper rest?”

“There is nothing that cannot protect the princess even if you are a little tired. “In the first place, you worked as a night guard every day in the kingdom, but you kept the princess safe, didn’t you?”

“that… ”

Yuuna was the one who ordered night escort without even bothering to sleep, so I couldn’t refute his words.

And above all, his will seemed very strong. So much so that I can’t understand it.

“… Why are you doing this?”

Only then did Yuuna bring out the question deep in her heart.

She is such an evil person that she is even known on the continent, so why? How can I stay by her side like this without even blinking?

How can you dare say something that offends you, knowing that you could die? Is it possible to act arbitrarily like this?

And why do you want to protect her? Why are you trying to protect the girl that no one likes?

“Because I swore to do so.”

It wasn’t an answer that solved all those questions. In the first place, he didn’t have that answer either.

“I am the princess’s knight, aren’t I?”

But the question was truthful without needing to be answered. His eyes answer like that.

The eyes were so empty that it was difficult to find any emotion, but because they were so empty, the eyes contained the image of Yuna and herself entirely.

His eyes, which could only watch Yuna and herself because they contained nothing, gave her a strange confidence.

“Would you please allow it? “My master.”

He still cockily didn’t let go of Yuna’s hand.

Although my hands were already sweaty, I didn’t feel any discomfort.

“… “I will punish you properly when I return to the kingdom, so please know that.”

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

Yuna said that and lay down again and covered herself with the blanket.

He still didn’t let go of the hand he was holding.

Maybe I couldn’t let go because if this hand left, the nightmare would come again.

thud… thud…

My heart has been beating continuously since I woke up from the nightmare earlier.

“Sleep well.”

Now I couldn’t tell if my heart was racing because of the nightmare or because of him holding my hand.

The only thing that was certain was that the nightmare would not come back this time.