112 – Storm – 6
Even smiling brightly is an act that requires quite a bit of effort. Hestia carefully touched her cheek muscles, which seemed to be pulling slightly as she forced herself into a smile. She then laughed bitterly at her own thoughts, which had turned cynical before she knew it.
She had never thought before that she had a hard time laughing. Is not it? Haven’t you ever laughed well before? What is certain is that forced laughter like this is a new skill that Mikhail has learned since he changed his mind. Because he likes his smile. For that reason alone, he was the type to always maintain a subtle smile even in situations where he would not normally smile.
I was at least aware that when Mikhail got involved, he became a little emotional. No, not a little, but a lot. Both in a good sense and in a bad sense. There were quite a few times when I was startled by radical thoughts or actions that I would not have done before.
Just now. Hestia caught sight of Mikhail flirting with Cordelia over there in front of the princess. Good people too What the hell is that spunky little boy being so kind about because he’s pretty? The cause of Hestia’s forced smile was right there.
Yuria Reinhardt. According to the world, a princess with talent. Even though Hestia didn’t know talent, she couldn’t agree on color. It wasn’t really that she was better, but rather seriously, she thought that if there were people who looked at such a little boy and thought that he was beautiful rather than cute, then she needed to be confined to the capital’s dungeon. A bud that has potential, but has yet to bloom. The fact that flower buds that have not fully bloomed by this age usually do not fully bloom, I needn’t even mention.
Anyway, the public evaluation was like that. However, in Hestia’s eyes, the princess was just a sluggish and underdeveloped girl. Of course, Hestia wasn’t a person with a broken personality, and she didn’t have such hostile thoughts toward the princess from the beginning.
When she was seen from afar, when she was a stranger, she showed interest in her actions and cheered her on. She felt even more so after learning that the Crown Prince had achieved the Triple Crown with the criminal trait of being a violent psychopath. Originally, the enemy of an enemy is not a friend. But after she had a personal relationship with her, her story was different. She says that the enemy of an enemy is a comrade, but it is only natural that emotions rise when that comrade behaves like a belt.
Becoming a party to a more direct conflict with the crown prince can be understood after making a hundred concessions. Mikhail tried hard to hide it, but Hestia is not stupid either. After all, it is clear to her that the Crown Prince and Mikhail cannot live under the same sky. There was another reason why she didn’t like her princess so much.
“Don’t put too much effort on your arms, you have to swing with your whole body, not your arms.”
“Hey!”
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Mikhail pointed out the posture of her princess and naturally took a step closer to her. Then, as if the princess had seen something she hadn’t seen before, she made a strange noise and moved to her side.
Hestia inadvertently gritted her teeth. Seol-ah, who was staring blankly at Mikhail next to her, stood up in amazement. She asked as she looked around her.
“Hestia?”
“… Yes? Why?”
“Didn’t you hear something just now?”
“No, I haven’t heard.”
“What…. I must have heard wrong.”
Seol-ah tilted her head and sat back down. Surprisingly, Hestia was the same. She gritted her teeth so loudly that the person next to her could hear her, even if it was an act that came out of her unconscious, wasn’t it a radical act that she would never have thought of if she were her former self?
Hestia tried to calm herself down and looked at Mikhail again. He was caressing the nape of her neck with a dejected expression, perhaps ashamed of the princess’ attitude. He managed to calm down what was about to flare up again in an instant. This was the reason Hestia felt uncomfortable with her princess lately.
If you’re going to hate him like that, don’t approach him in the first place, I came first and tried to convince him to be on the same side, and later, watching Mikhail make strange noises like hee, ugh, and hee at every move, I felt like my insides were twisted. . She doesn’t even want to be liked. I don’t even want that. It was just that it was very unbearable for someone I liked to be treated like that by someone.
Hestia, who had been quietly drinking tea with her tantrum, opened her mouth.
“Miss Lily.”
“Yes?”
“Hey, Her Highness the Princess….”
“Yes.”
Hestia swallowed the words she wanted to say that filled her chin with superhuman patience. In her mind, she wanted to talk about why that crazy b*tch was doing that, she wanted to beat her up, or something, but the triangle in her chest still remained sharp.
“Ugh, nothing.”
“… ?”
‘This is gossip!’
She shook her head vigorously at her half-witted expression. No matter how much she hates someone, she shouldn’t be like this. What you can’t say in front of you, you shouldn’t say in your back. Thanks to that, Seol Ah Man tilted her head, wondering what the hell she was doing.
After a while, this time, Seol-ah spoke to Hestia.
“Ms. Hestia.”
“Yes?”
“Why does Her Highness the Princess hate Mikhail so much?”
“Cool!”
Hestia almost spit out her tea. She barely spit out the tea, but she got choked up and had to cough violently several times. If this is the case, what is the meaning of the words she had endured so much?
“Cool!”
“Hestia! Are you okay?”
“Yes, it’s okay… Cool! Oh.”
Seol-ah’s worry Amid her young eyes, Hestia wiped her mouth with her handkerchief. She pondered over how she would answer Seol-ah’s question. Should I be admonished that this kind of talk is not good? But isn’t it a bit like talking like teaching among her friends? Besides, she just couldn’t hold back her anger and tried to say something bad about her princess. She is like this, what does she have the right to say to others? Hestia’s mind became dizzy.
“I don’t mean to gossip or anything like that, um… , what to say Some sort of academic curiosity? Should I say, don’t you honestly wonder why you hate it so much? You have to know how to solve it.”
“Um….”
Seola belatedly added her explanation. It was only then that Hestia thought of listening to Seol-Ah’s story. She was certainly curious. Even considering the bean pods on my eyes, the princess’s attitude was hard to understand.
It’s not like Mikhail has any major flaws. I’ve never even had a conversation to the point where I had to question whether the two of us were compatible or not. That said, he never made a big mistake with her princess. It’s just covering it one-sidedly and hating it. Sometimes there are people who don’t like it without giving anything, but when the two first met, there was no sign of dislike. In a short time, for reasons nobody but the person involved knew, he had come to dislike it.
“I will. Why do you hate it so much?”
“If you ask me directly….”
“Will you not answer?”
“Yes.”
Hestia crossed her arms and put her hand to her chin. This was her usual attitude when thinking about difficult problems. Thanks to her folded arms, her broad mind was even more prominent.
The two stopped talking and looked at the embarrassing princess and Michael in trouble. Hestia jumped up from her seat. Seol-ah was also surprised and stood up. She grabbed Hestia’s wrist.
“Miss Hestia? I know you’re angry, but if you use magic on that little body….”
“Yes?”
“You didn’t stand up to shoot something because you were angry?”
“I won’t do that!”
“Whew.”
Seol-ah sat down again as if relieved. Hestia was dumbfounded and wondered if she looked like such a violent person. Although she has attacked people using magic. Once with the attacking gangsters, and again with the kidnappers. Not even lightly, but with pretty full force.
Well, maybe. Hestia was a little convinced. Although it was an unavoidable situation, he could not deny the fact that it would have been a shocking scene.
Anyway, Seol-Ah didn’t mean to use magic to punish the princess because she couldn’t stand it. Shouldn’t she solve it in a cultured way, like a cultured person?
“Why don’t you help us get to know Mikhail better?”
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A thorn cushion literally means an uncomfortable and uncomfortable seat to sit on. Because sitting on a cushion with thorns is painful and uncomfortable. As if sitting on such a cushion, the uncomfortable seat is the cushion of thorns. And that’s exactly where I’m sitting now.
Lunch time came before I knew it. We stopped what we were doing to satisfy our hunger and headed to the seats Hestia and Seol-ah had prepared. Apart from the extremely aggressive reaction the princess showed toward me, her daily swordsmanship experience itself showed a fairly positive reaction. I sat next to Hestia.
“Aren’t you bored?”
“Yes, I was talking to Miss Lily.”
She and Seol-ah glanced at each other and laughed. What this smile meant, I didn’t know at the time.
After a while, Hestia suddenly started giving me compliments. Starting at the level of a general virtue, no, is this a compliment? Even the trivial things that I wanted to do, he brought me out one by one and brought me up.
“How nice Mikhail is to me. Late….”
“Oh, yes.”
It was a bit sudden at first, but it felt good. After all, no one will feel bad after hearing a compliment. But to some extent, as I kept listening to good stories without any context, I started to feel a little bit ashamed. Even more so when there was one person in the room who was obviously not interested in the story. The princess mechanically repeated only the soulless answer of yes, yes, with a sullen expression on her face.
“Ah, he does a good massage again…”
“Yes, yes.”
What is this? Is it a hidden camera? Why are you doing this to me all of a sudden? I slumped my burning face on the floor and quietly munched on my sandwich. It’s funny that I step out and tell him to stop, so I can’t even stop him and he’s just blushing.
Otherwise, Hestia’s ignorant praise didn’t seem to end. She even interrupted Seol-Ah and she started to hit her hard.
“That’s right. Me too…”
Taking her one step further, even Cordelia, who couldn’t adapt to this sudden flow, jumped into her praise relay with her elementary school-like expression. And as this relay continued, the faces of the princess and I became even more distorted.
“What is this? Should i do it too? Well, Mikhail is uh… , Be nice!”
It was because of the shame and shame I couldn’t stand, and I don’t know about the princess. Seeing that the eyes looking at me have become even colder, it seems that the compliments are having a tremendous reverse effect.
Are you conducting a social experiment that shows that praise can kill people? Eventually I couldn’t stand it any longer and tried to divert the topic elsewhere.
“That, everyone is talking about something different now….”
“Stay still.”
There was no way. Why are you talking about me without me? This is bullying After a while, the two of them stopped talking, wondering if my inner scream had been worked, or if they finally realized that this ignorant relay of compliments had no effect whatsoever. And then, something went wrong between them.
“It doesn’t work… same… Yo. This?”
“Everything… Operations… too much… Let’s go.”
Something doesn’t work. What else is the operation
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