Chapter 98. Court whispers (3)
[Get it! Win the love!]
[Hey, I heard Prince Faris gave Ino a bouquet of flowers when he returned from Antandros after a long absence. Ino boasted about it for three days and three nights.]
[Do you think Paris will tremble like you in front of Oinone?]
“Oh, no…”
[Then what are you doing now!!]
[that’s right! Seize the princess!]
[They said that Creusa contacted them first! Are you going to keep swinging?]
f*ck.
The coming sage time.
What the heck is going on among the fairies?
no, more than that.
Because of their secret love affair, Priam asked, “Do I have to put my son’s blood on my hands…” Do you mean I was doing this in the forest at night, agonizing day and night?
Then, the princess of Troy would not have been liaising with foreign powers, and the ladies-in-waiting would enthusiastically support the princess regardless of her family, and even the fairies were mobilized…
The story that the princess of Troy (falling in love) was having an affair (secret love) with a foreign power (Dardanos).
···yes. There was no way to decipher the clumsy love letters of young people when they tried to decode them with Hattusha or other forces in mind from the beginning.
If this was the case, it was only natural that the ladies-in-waiting did not tell the family. Of course, it would have been meaningless for me to investigate the families of the handmaidens one by one while spreading out the spy network.
There is no way that fairies who are crazy about ‘this kind of thing’ will not step out. Didn’t Aeneas have a deep relationship with the fairies? Aeneas might have asked first, or the fairies might have stepped up.
Yes, now everything is explained. The tangled skein of thread is woven in an instant and unraveled, so my insides feel refreshed…
ha ha…
I couldn’t stand the momentary stress rising up, so I banged on the trunks of trees around me, and the fairies who were still holding me laughed happily.
[Contrary to what I heard, is there a radical side?]
[I hear you play constellations with Ino?]
[Did you really say something like “that constellation is yours” to Ino?]
sh*t kick start.
“Be quiet… be quiet.”
no wonder.
It was not uncommon for fairies to make such a fuss.
You can look at them like frail, worn-out old people who went through everything from the Japanese government, the Korean War, and military dictatorship.
They’ve been worn out for hundreds of years, and they only meet people they meet every day… or fairies, and they have only one leisure life left.
human sight.
Yes. It’s like sitting in the living room and meaninglessly flipping through the drama channels.
When I met Ino, I could easily face the weird smiles of fairies making a fuss and the excited state of suspected drug use.
Even while I was barely holding on to my confused mind, the ‘event preparation’ in that empty lot seemed to be progressing.
[Hey, human maid. When is the princess coming?]
“Well, it’s really coming soon…”
[Why are you doing this in the middle of the night?]
[Because it’s more thrilling to meet secretly in the family.]
[If you have time to ask such a question, Aeneas is making up!]
The fairies busily moved Aeneas by putting something like powder on his face, fixing his clothes, or putting a crown on his head.
It was literally shattering my soul. To the extent that they argued non-stop for about five minutes over the location of the brooch Aeneas was wearing.
In the meantime, of course, Betanam Aeneas was being swayed here and there by the arms of the elves.
Soon, after a solemn and earnest discussion, a conclusion was reached about where Aeneas would kneel, the direction of Aeneas’ gaze, the angle at which the petals would be scattered, and the timing of this and that.
“Fa, Paris-sama… wouldn’t you really be trembling?”
[of course! You must have confessed three times as loudly as this?]
no.
I never did.
Among the nymphs chattering wildly, Aeneas gradually takes a stand and clears his throat with determined eyes.
[The princess is coming!]
And finally, ‘that moment’ comes.
“I… I’m ready.”
[Hurry here!]
[Everyone go to the location!!]
Immediately, the fireflies gather on the other side and disappear, and the light that shimmers on each leaf goes out as if the power went out for a while.
The lady-in-waiting is also led by the fairies and hidden among the bushes.
So, right next to me.
I awkwardly greeted her.
“…”
“…”
“Is it because you came out every night… to prepare for ‘this’?”
“…”
“…”
“···yes.”
“What about the letter?”
“We wrote it after thinking about it together, but if you are curious about the contents, I can tell you.”
“no. If it’s not me, I’m allergic to it.”
“What are your allergies?”
“Let’s look at that first.”
That was all there was to the conversation.
There was no time to talk any more. The story wasn’t even important. We rustle through the bushes and focus our attention on Aeneas.
Aeneas’ face turns blue, turns red as the princess’s silhouette approaches, then turns blue and red again, repeating.
That awkward posture, nervous face.
Ah… I can understand why the fairies are acting like this.
I feel like I’m going crazy from frustration.
Soon after, a woman breaks through the bush under the guidance of the fairies and goes out into the clearing.
A familiar face, a blurry impression that I haven’t seen for a long time, becomes clear again in front of my eyes.
A face with a bright and lively smile, both hands twitching their fingers with their arms behind their backs as if to hide their nervousness.
I don’t know if it’s because of the cold night or some other reason, but both cheeks are as bright as roses.
Seeing her like that, Aeneas stood still as if frozen. The fairies next to me were nervous and biting their nails.
An empty lot where countless people and fairies watch, but all but the two of them move away.
A moment of silence flows in the empty lot. Even the birds of the forest did not cry. Just then the wind stopped.
“Oh, long time no see.”
It was Aeneas who called out, but it was Creusa who spoke first.
“Ah… ah, that’s right.”
“I don’t know how long it will take to see you again. Since he went to Dardanos, there was no sign of him coming back, so I sent a letter…”
“ah···.”
‘Ah’, Randa. That one syllable is everything in a statement that is no different from a confession.
Creusa continues to speak as she unknowingly taps her forehead.
“I wanted to see you again. I didn’t expect you to respond so diligently to my letters because you seem to always be interested in someone else… You can even create passwords yourself.”
okay. As expected, it was a self-made password. I suffered for a long time because of that useless thoroughness and passion.
For a moment, I thought of Aeneas, who would have stayed up all night in a corner of Dardanos’s court to write cipher texts.
“It must have been difficult for you to leave Dardanos alone like this…”
“Ji, I told the family that I would be out hunting for a few days. So you can rest assured. The weather was nice. So when I said I was going hunting, I don’t think he had any doubts. Even when I came, the weather was nice and there was not a single cloud, and oh, and the weather was nice again…”
weather. weather. weather.
Gradually, the fairies next to me were eating their fingernails as well as their fingers in their nervousness. Before I knew it, I was chewing on my thumb as I thought I would go crazy with that dense darkness.
My finger seems to be bleeding, but I don’t care.
After pouring out tongues for a long time, Aeneas shuts his mouth, perhaps realizing that something is going wrong.
“…”
“…”
And again don’t say anything.
Gradually, Creusa’s expression goes beyond bewilderment to bewilderment.
I, the fairies, and the handmaid who followed me felt stuffy and seemed to suffocate.
Could it have been an awkward silence for a minute?
“…Hey, rumor has it that you like a certain fairy.”
“…”
“Are you here to reject me?”
Creusa’s face is slightly saddened. No, it seems to be nested.
that’s the best
No one has ever covered the distance that would take more than three days to make one rejection. Creusa, of course, would know that.
It’s just ‘what are you doing in front of me now? If you do this, I’ll just go.’
Of course, Aeneas, who did not understand the implications, blushed and stuttered.
The lower fairies turn their heads with expressions as if to say, ‘We’ve done enough’. The lady-in-waiting also buried her face in her hands, and I too sighed.
Just as Creusa was about to turn her head…
“Creusa?”
Aeneas opened his mouth.
When Creusa turns her gaze back to Aeneas, Aeneas lifts both hands lightly and whispers.
“Look at me… look at me.”
And when Aeneas spreads his palms, the petals scatter like rain.
No… the breeze that just happened to blow gently blows the petals towards Creusa.
As pink dots appear on Creusa’s clothes, as a signal, thousands of fireflies fly up from Aeneas’ back and light them all at once.
As Creusa’s eyes widen, Aeneas grabs both of Creusa’s hands and pulls them toward him.
As the two face each other up close, fireflies orbit around them, creating a wavering band of light.
Aeneas takes Creusa’s hand and brings it to Creusa’s eyes. Covering Creusa’s wide-open eyes with her palms, she whispered again.
“Wait a minute… Close your eyes for me.
Float now.”
When Creusa opened her eyes again, I could see the sights around her.
Stars on the tips of thousands of leaves gently waved along the breeze.
It is a gentle but majestic, huge yet delicate and beautiful scene.
“Ah, that, that…”
This time Creusa stutters at a loss of speech, so Aeneas takes a step towards Creusa.
“Everything was prepared for you, so please look at it.”
Then get down on one knee.
Now is the time for the most important words to come out.
“Joe, it’s okay…”
Yes, just one word.
“Good, good, good… no, good…”
f*ck.
sh*t.
This time, even a lament seems to be heard from between the bushes. I think I’m doing well, but then I wake up with colic again.
Aeneas lowers his head in shame.
“Cook, cook…”
And laughter is heard.
I examined Creusa’s closed-mouthed face.
It seems like I’m doing my best not to laugh and hold it back.
she says with a trembling voice.
“Wake up.”
“yes?”
“…quickly!”
When Aeneas jumps up, Creusa hugs Aeneas tightly.
And whisper in your ear
“i like you.”
Since the two were hugging each other, I couldn’t see Aeneas’ entire face, but…
I didn’t know that human ears could turn red like that.
***
“Paris? You’re all right!”
“Go back to the palace right now. I will report… Sander-miya.”
I hurried toward the palace. It was already just before sunrise when they hurriedly returned to Priam’s face.
“Paris.”
Priam’s expression darkened. I thought about why, and just remembered how far I had reported it.
It is presumed that Creusa is colluding with foreign powers.
He failed to interrogate the handmaid.
I caught the situation where the fairies joined.
It’s a sign of ruin.
“I told Theo to be prepared. He’s the most trustworthy guy.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Didn’t you say it was like Creusa’s individual dogma?
.
Mogol becomes soft.
I exclaim urgently.
“You don’t have to worry. It wasn’t even a matter of seeing anyone’s blood.”
“Is that so? Whoa, that’s good. Fortunately, it could end at the level of sending exile somewhere.
It seems that Creusa did not deliberately betray the family. However, to have such flaws in the royal family…”
“You don’t have to think about that!”
“What did you mean by that?”
“It is literally. Creusa…”
“Don’t be nervous!”
At the unexpected voice, both Priam and I look through the tightly closed door of the audience room.
It’s Creusada.
“You’re the one I’ve seen since I was little!”
“Yeah, but it’s the first time I’ve seen you like this, like this.”
“Obviously, this is the first time. look at me Can you do it for me?”
“…”
oh.
When the tightly closed door opened, I saw Creusa and Aeneas holding hands tightly.
“I… Priam-sama, long time no see…”
When Aeneas bowed and bowed, he raised his head and met my eyes.
The pretty eyes of Aphrodite’s son tremble at the moment.
“Ah, uh, par, Mr. Paris, isn’t it?”
– aaa.
The way you hold your hand so tightly that you can hear it.
When Creusa tightens her grip on Aeneas’ hand, Aeneas wakes up and raises his body.
And all the skits were played live in front of the King and Prince of Troy.
Priam is a wise man.
His pupils shook like an earthquake for about three seconds.
After that, a small sigh of relief escaped my lips.
A soft smile spreads across Priam’s lips. Her eyes are curved like a crescent moon, giving off a soft glow.
“Have you come? I was waiting for you.”
His eyes were filled with affection for his daughter and her new son-in-law.
***
“Paris?”
“Uh, ah, uh… congratulations. It’s quite a momentum to catch it while you put it until the wedding date. But what about your father?”
At my question, Aeneas scratched his back as if embarrassed.
I guess so. It seems like yesterday when I was whining in front of Ino…
anyway.
“I… I’m actually bad at lying.”
This is a well-known fact.
“I told you that I was going hunting, but my father’s expression was strange. My father is also a quick-witted man…”
That too is a well-known fact.
Anchises is a human who even enjoyed a relationship with Aphrodite, no, is enjoying a relationship in the present progressive form.
Considering that excessive romanticism, I couldn’t have noticed that my son was showing off this, uh, pink vibe.
I turned my head to face Creusa this time.
“Your second brother? Congratulations!”
We haven’t seen each other very often, and we’re not that close (of course. Priam’s sons and daughters could make two or three or four soccer teams together), but unexpectedly, they greet each other with a friendly smile.
“Congratulations. It’s really… it’s really beautiful, isn’t it?”
When I answer in amazement, Creusa giggles and takes me to the next room, leaving Aeneas behind.
Creusa closed the door silently and gave me a curious look with her arms crossed.
“Did you watch?”
I knew what I was watching without even asking.
“···okay. Did you hear from the lady-in-waiting?”
“no. Didn’t you know that one side of the bush was trembling?”
“this. Did Aeneas notice?”
“no. He’s a dull man again. Besides, you must have seen my older brother, but he shivered tremendously, right? Like catching a cold on a very cold day.”
After saying that, Creusa covered her mouth with her hand and giggled. Seeing that, my suspicions grew, and Creusa also spoke to him again, perhaps noticing him.
“Does it seem surprising to me that I dated Aeneas-sama?”
“yes? A little… because he was interested in other things.”
“Are you my brother’s lover now?”
cough.
After coughing nonstop for about two minutes, I was able to face Creusa again. Creusa laughs happily and continues.
“I was really in a hurry. I was so nervous that someone else would snatch that cute guy! Everyone was looking for it! So, when everyone else had given up their minds for a while… I approached the time when Aeneas returned to Dardanos!”
Now I know why the name Creusa was familiar.
In the first part of the Aeneid, Aeneas ran in all directions to find a wife in burning Troia.
From there came Creusa.
I felt a gaze for some reason and looked toward the door. Then, I secretly glanced this way and met eyes with Aeneas, who hurriedly averted his gaze.
I lowered my voice and whispered.
“…There were many women who were targeting Aeneas?”
“Then did you write it down?
A handsome man who runs away in a corner crying when someone talks to him, and when he is alone, suddenly looks out the window to the south and wanders about like a dream? That handsome man is moistening his eyes as if he would cry if someone touched him?”
ah.
It seems to stimulate quite a shady desire.
I shook my head trying to understand.
Yeah, well, that’s good.
A hero named Aeneas is a very, very important figure in the war, so if you tie him to the Trojan royal family like this…
···sh*t.
Why is the world so grim?