13. Iris El Devhardt – 03
“…close your eyes and turn around. hurry.”
After the dreamlike time with the princess ended, that was the first thing that came out of the princess’s mouth.
“…turning back, what is that…”
“Cain, it seems that you can’t understand it properly after you say it once. As expected, it seems more suitable for you to learn it with your own body than to explain it in words. Yes, just like when I made you learn ‘Flowing Star’.”
Saying that, the princess slapped the upper part of my eye with the palm of her hand and hit me. It didn’t hurt that much, but it was clear that it was a blow that somehow made my heart ache.
“Hasn’t the dress that I’ve been wearing for the first time in a while been so disheveled and wrinkled from having sex with you? I’m not a girl in the red light district, so there’s no way I can stand out in front of others like this. I meant to tell you to turn around because you want your clothes to be tidy.”
There was one fact that I couldn’t understand as I tried to watch the princess, who was rolling her eyes at me with a tingling sensation.
“Then why do I have to turn my back? So far anyway-”
He was about to say, “I’ve seen everything I’ve seen and haven’t seen, but now I’m not embarrassed about this,” but I had no choice but to keep my mouth shut as I saw the princess so blatantly murderous that it couldn’t be compared to just before.
“…You seem to be ignorant of true women’s hearts. To the point where I feel a little sympathy for Bianca del Castana, I mean.”
“…..”
I’m not sure why Bianca’s name appears here.
“I’d rather not say anything. So shut up and turn around. If I throw up again, I’m going to hit your nasty mouth next time.”
“…All right.”
As the princess said, it is true that I am ignorant of women’s hearts, but I haven’t learned anything about women’s hearts while working with Bianca and Aria. That is, when women speak harshly at me like that, I should never throw up. If you add a word just because you don’t understand it, the story that should end with one word may swell into ten or twenty words.
As I close my eyes and turn around, I hear the rustling of clothes behind my back. It was a very small sound that I couldn’t hear unless I paid close attention, but with my back turned and my eyes closed, I felt that the sound was very loud.
“…you made a very messy dress. The frills were all disheveled because I buried my face in my chest, and the hem was crumpled like paper. This is it, it’s like advertising that you’ve been hanging out with a man while wearing a dress.”
There is a clicking sound and the sound of water sticking to the flesh. Only then did I understand why the princess asked me to turn around.
“…Ha, especially the inside of the dress is made very spectacle. Yes. If you return to the banquet hall in this state, it will be obvious what words will be exchanged the next day. Perhaps, by tomorrow, rumors will spread throughout the system that the next heir to the Empire is due to be born in about ten months.”
“…..”
“I can’t help it. Even if it’s cumbersome, I have no choice but to go back to my room and change clothes. I want romantic rumors with you, I don’t like soggy rumors. Even if you look at it like this, I am the princess of the empire. The appearance I show in front of everyone is the very majesty of the imperial family. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to show others such a disheveled appearance?”
The sound of the princess’s giggling laughter echoes in my ears. And at the same time, with my back turned away from the princess and my eyes closed, someone tightly hugs me. On my back, I felt a voluptuous touch that was so easy to identify.
“Well, don’t be so downcast. I didn’t mean to mean that my time with you was not good. No, should I say that these results came about because I was too passionate? It was a pretty satisfying time for me.”
The princess’s drowsy voice whispered in my ear.
“No, I am also reflecting. Still, it’s my first relationship, but I’ve come to think that having a relationship with a low-ranking person outdoors is a little ungrateful act without anything special.”
As I said that with a wry smile as if reflecting, the princess who was holding me behind my back at those words burrowed into my arms more than before. The two arms that were holding me get even stronger.
“…That’s not true, Cain. Never. In the first place, I never wanted anything special or noble.”
“…Lowering…?”
I stiffened my body at the words of the princess, who seemed to be confessing something to me.
“Did you just say this? As it is the first relationship between a man and a woman, wouldn’t it have been nice to have it filled with a little more specialness? I also agree with that statement. I am also a woman. Traditionally, women are creatures that feed on dreams. Having the only special time in the world with the man you love must be the supreme time that any woman in the world would not hesitate to do.”
“…But, let me tell you. It’s good to be special, but I also think it’s okay to feel that I’ve committed a deviation after being swept away by the atmosphere with a fever in my head. I don’t think it’s bad to look at each other and share affection while lying on an elegant and soft bed in a room decorated with splendid decorations worthy of the dignity of the imperial family, but I also like the act of sharing love with each other without being elegant and stylish. I think.”
“In my life, the special is already overflowing. So this time, I also want to become an ordinary woman in front of a man and stay by his side. Sometimes it’s tea and chat with him, sometimes it’s a walk with him, sometimes it’s a meal together, and it’s a normal relationship like talking about the day.”
Her arms, holding me tight behind my back, fall away from me. As soon as I stood in a daze, not knowing what to do, the princess started walking towards the door of the terrace, leaving behind only her own subtle scent. He must have been going back to his room to change his clothes, as he just said.
“Then, let’s meet again at the banquet hall. If the two of us enter together, the expressions on the nobles’ faces will be worth seeing. However, I even made a surprise announcement today with the nobles gathered, but I don’t want to throw gossip at them anymore.”
As she said that, seeing the back of the princess as she opened the terrace door and tried to leave, I unknowingly asked the question I had in my heart.
“…Wait a minute, please wait a moment. There is a fact I want to ask you, if it doesn’t disrespect you, would it be all right if I ask you?”
“However much.”
“…Didn’t your lord just ask you to call him by his first name? Even the way you speak has changed.”
“Yes, it was.”
“But, um… why…”
As soon as they had sex, the princess sighed and smiled at my question, which included the question of whether her tone of voice had returned to normal as if it were a lie. As if these questions of mine were genuinely funny.
“Cain, it seems you really need to study women’s hearts. To make a woman say such a thing directly, you must be a man like a two-headed man.”
The princess looked at me and smiled slightly, then turned around and approached me, whispering in my ear in a very small voice.
“Any woman wants to appear weak in bed. Especially since you’ve never broken me down. So, at least for the night, I have to yield to you.”
“If you’re my man, even if you lose to me during the day, shouldn’t you beat me at night?”
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So, leaving only meaningful words behind, the princess exited the terrace. Only the faint scent of violets that lingered everywhere was clear evidence that she had been here just before.
…It’s like having a dream. Even just a moment ago, he hadn’t expected to mix with the princess, but how could he have fallen into a position where he ended up going with her like this?
“It’s just my presumptuous thought, but I don’t think Cain-nim is too constrained. Even if it was the case with Bianca del Castana, isn’t this an inexcusable affair itself?”
“…I’m not saying it’s wrong, but it’s a bit of an affair…”
Just as I was about to reply, “Isn’t it?”, I experienced a chill running down my spine. Where the hell is this voice coming from? There must have been no one on this terrace other than me and the princess, right?
“I’m here, Cain.”
Squeak-
Along with a voice directed at me, the refracting layer of the air itself shakes and the figure of a person hiding on the other side comes into my field of vision. The identity of In-young was a woman I knew very well.
“…aria?”
At my words, which even felt desolate, Aria simply nodded her head in silence.
“how?”
“I was watching Cain. Just in case of any unforeseen circumstances.”
Seeing Arya looking at me with a slight but reprimanding look, saying, “It seems like everything has already happened,” I felt a slight urge to die. Could it be that I’ve been caught doing all that with the princess in front of Aria?
“Uh, from where?”
Indeed, it was a bottomless and endless question, but Aria answered without hesitation, as if she understood the meaning of my question well.
“Not really. Probably from around the time Cain put his tongue in each other’s mouths with that woman.”
“…..”
In the end, it was said that he intuited everything from start to finish.
Indeed, let’s make a devastated expression on this feeling that can’t be expressed in words, Aria sighs very lightly as she sees me like that. As if I really don’t like myself.
“I’m sorry. Cain-nim told me to stay calm in the room, but just in case, I searched around the palace looking for Cain-nim’s whereabouts. It was never intentional to peek into Cain-nim’s private life.”
…Well, of course it wasn’t Arya’s will. It must be the original sin of the princess and me that we did such a thing outdoors in the first place.
“First of all, I apologize for inadvertently eavesdropping on a private conversation. It must have been really bad manners.”
Aria bowed her head politely as she said that. No matter how much I thought about it, Arya must have been too gentle and nice-
“But Cain, apart from that, there is one thing I want to ask you. Without prejudice, could you allow me to post a question to Cain?”
There was an unknown spirit in Arya’s eyes as she said that. At that momentum, I involuntarily nodded.
“…What, what is it?”
When I agree with Arya’s words, Arya’s bright purple eyes stare at me. I had a strange thought that there seemed to be strong resentment and rebuke toward me in those eyes.
“Just now, Lord Cain whispered to the princess that he loved her. Was it really sincere? Does Cain really love the princess? Like she said, do you really intend to become the princess’s?”
“…..”
…This, as Aria said, seemed unquestionably karma towards me for going around teasing women with my lower body. yeah maybe