NOVEL WEB c96
Princess wiping away tears with the cuffs of her top quality dress, trying her best to hold back her cries somehow.
'Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ......'
“......”
After all this time, this current situation must be quite bad. The princess, a member of the royal family, is crying while suppressing her voice right in front of me, an nobleman. ......
I regret my decision to wait until she calmed down, thinking of what would happen if a third party were to witness this scene.
Or rather, regret is not enough.
Even if the king and the prime minister were on my side, strange rumors would surely circulate!
And the damn hero who heard the rumors and interacted with the princess will probably come out of the closet at the academy.
It's troublesome!
It can't be helped.
I have no idea how to make a crying girl stop crying, but I have to ask her why first.
"It seems there's something going on, if you don't mind me refusing the princess's proposal, but would you like to talk about it?”
I was not used to doing this, and my words sounded a little weird, mixed with a line I had read in a book somewhere.
'You're sure you want to ...... after all the trouble I've caused you?'
"Yes, as a nobleman of the kingdom, it's only natural.”
I've been getting in trouble of creating the possibility of strange rumors in the present.
It is only natural to move quickly to calm things down.
' His Majesty ...... father told me.
He was going to make me the ruler , he had the highest expectations for me out of all his children, and ......
I was so disappointed, and ......”
While listening to the princess, whose tears have stopped a little because she is concentrating on speaking, I summon Silas nearby to keep an eye on things.
I realized that it was not a good story to leak out so much when the king was mentioned in the content and decided to raise the level of caution even higher.
“I was stunned, and my father said to me, ‘You rescued him, you must take care of the descendants of the heroes". He said.
If I could control him completely, he would name me the next ruler of the kingdom, and this would be my last chance.”
I could see what was happening.
At the same time, I felt a little sympathy for the princess in front of me.
I knew from the case of the Duke of Ewell that the king and the prime minister like to create a thin hope in the face of certain doom, and they might take a gamble with the princess.
No, how do they expect her to do it?
In the first place, I have no desire to cooperate with the princess, who has no future until she goes against the king and prime minister's will, and I want to leave this place as soon as possible.
I talked to Leon a little after the party, but it was impossible to control him with the idea that I was right about everything.
"There are only a handful of people in this country who are strong enough to hold Leon back, and there are no strong fighters in my faction.
So I had no choice but to give him a job, bind him with the weakness and corruption of his position, and tolerate him to a certain extent. ......"
So that's why she let me hear that proposal, which is straight to that ruin.
As the princess said, it is extremely difficult to achieve the conditions specified by the king, and anyone who moves for his own sake, which he believes to be justice, will not grow up even if you put a collar on him.
"In the first place, I saved Leon's life on the scene as a way of thanking him for saving my life.
In hindsight, I wish I didn't have to save him right then and there, and I never thought this would ...... happen.”
That's pathetic. ......
“I had been planning all along to become the ruler and to implement a policy of building roads throughout the country and hiring guards in the country to be sent to towns and villages. ......
Such a large-scale policy, which is filled with the princess's thoughts and feelings for the country and its people, will not be carried out because she cannot become its ruler.
Even if she were to become ruler , she would not be able to gain the cooperation of the nobility due to the heavy burden placed on her by descendant of a hero.
If only the descendants of a hero could be made into a slave bound by a magical contract, all would be well.
The princess who cried in front of me would have become ruler , and the country would have developed further with policies to which the princess devoted her life.
Well, such a future will never happen.
"That's unfortunate. ......"
'Oh, I have never felt so much regret as I do now that my relationship with my father has been destroyed. ......
There were times when I made mistakes and almost caused damage because of my immaturity, but I never lost the ability to talk to father like this time.
Now he ignores me when I greet him. ......”
The tears had stopped as she spoke, and the princess turned her face to me, looking tired and exhausted.
'I really appreciate you taking the time, thank you.'
'No, I'm glad I could make you feel a little better, Princess.'
My conversation with Princess Merdena turned out to be a little better than I had expected, as I had been craving information.
Just when I thought this was getting into the flow of the dismissal, exhaustion hit me all at once.
I turned to the princess to say goodbye.
'It's late at night, shouldn't we disband soon?'
'Yes, I suppose so.
I've been thinking about the Marquis of Dickaman for some time now, and you seems strange. You should be right in front of me, but I feel as if you are looking down at me from somewhere else.”
Did she know I was feeling sorry for her inwardly?
I don't expect the princess to see through my acting, but she may have been exposed by something that has been passed down in the royal family, just as the Dicaman family inherited the talent for potions.
'I did not mean it that way, I am sorry, did I offend you?
/It's the other way around. I don't mean to be rude, but it was easier to talk to you because you didn't seem like human being.?
Next time I'll ask the king if there is any inherited power in his bloodline.
"I really appreciate you listening to me, and as an apology, I'll escort you to your carriage."
'Thank you.”
I felt as if the distance between us had been narrowed somewhat.