3. Dragon’s Eye, Human Mind (70)
When the princess bowed her head, I was the one who got into trouble.
This was a dormitory, and of course, there were many students living except me. And now, the place where the princess had her head down was the hallway.
If left as it is, someone might witness this horror.
And unfortunately, if the witness was a loyalist of an empire that would never exist again, it was over. To think that the royal family, who inherited dragon blood, took such a humiliating stance in front of the second son of a viscount in the countryside.
It wouldn’t be strange if his blood pressure rose and he died.
I was rather glad that was the case. If even rumors spread, the princess and I would be in trouble. Of course, since I’m already in trouble, it might not matter much.
Thinking so made my head a little cold.
I peeked out and looked both sides of the hallway. Fortunately, it was night, so no one was seen walking down the aisle.
It was the moment when I let out a sigh of relief.
My hand grabbed the princess’ arm at once and raised her up. The princess dragged me into the room with a bewildered expression, and I pulled the doorknob.
With a bang, the princess and I were isolated from the outside space.
Two hot-blooded men and women are alone in a locked room.
It was a situation sufficient to arouse suspicion, but any suspicion would be better than witnessing the princess kneeling.
It seemed that the princess had finally noticed that fact.
Oh, she made a surprised expression, but then she lowered her head and quietly looked at me. It was embarrassingly low-key.
“Sorry, sorry… … .”
At the princess’s timid apology, I shook my head while trying to swallow a laugh.
Still, it was not polite to say bad words to the person who came to visit on purpose. Even more so, the princess and I crossed the boundary between life and death together.
Even though I was in a unilateral position to save the princess.
I decided to take the role of breaking the silence in place of the hesitant princess.
“Your Highness, why are you in such a shabby place at night… … .”
“You don’t have to be so polite!”
It was a natural courtesy that nobility should have when dealing with the imperial family, but the princess shook her hands in surprise.
There was even a hint of desperation in those light gray eyes.
“That, so… Sir Lee Ahn is also the owner of the dragon blood letter.”
That bastard’s ‘dragon blood text’ was a bit sick of it now.
It was because the dragon-blood letter was about to bring me into trouble. Come to think of it, the cause could have been the princess.
After making all sorts of fuss to save the princess, wasn’t the dragon blood message eventually caught?
However, that was not the princess’s fault.
Broadly speaking, it was to save the world, and it was also the path I chose.
There were too many bloodstains on the road he had walked so far to blame anyone.
“Dragon blood letters don’t really matter. There are a few circumstances, but anyway, I’m just the second son of a rural viscount… … .”
“… … Even if he doesn’t!”
The princess interrupted my words so urgently.
“Even if he doesn’t, Sir Ian is my hero… Also, he is also an academy senior.”
As she continued to speak, the face of the princess was close to crying.
If I continued to be polite like this, even tears would drip.
In the end, a long sigh leaked out of my mouth, not confident to make the girl cry.
It was a sign of surrender.
“… … I understand, Shien.”
‘Xian’, as soon as he heard that word, his face brightened noticeably.
But my face was still shaky.
The Percus family were the nobility of the empire. Of course, I, a member of the group, was speaking bad words to the imperial family, but there was no way I was comfortable.
It was because he had been educated on the hierarchical relationship between the nobility and the imperial family since childhood.
Although my values have loosened recently, I couldn’t help but feel a bit of hesitation.
However, the princess seemed to have interpreted my expression in a slightly different way.
She hesitated with a bewildered look, but soon hit her head again on the ground.
“Sin, sorry! that… W, it caused a lot of trouble in various ways… … .”
“No, it’s okay… no it’s okay. So you can get up.”
I was about to use an honorific again in an instant, but I quickly corrected my tone.
Of course, the princess didn’t seem to care about this at all. She trembled and apologized to me over and over again.
“The fact that he didn’t know Sir Ian’s intentions and recklessly incited people to cause harm… And I know that it caused trouble to Sir Lee Ahn’s acquaintances and family, and that many other things are unforgivable sins.”
“No, the unforgivable sin… … .”
“… … Ha, but!”
Once again, my expression cut off even more.
Does this woman have any intention of listening to my story?
However, the words that came out of the princess’s mouth all contained sincerity.
“Even if it can’t be undone, I will do my best to wash away that sin as much as possible… The rudeness before that, the wrong I did. I sincerely apologize.”
I was about to say something to get up, but I shut my mouth.
The princess’ body trembling with tension was enough to arouse sympathy.
No, before that, I could see the appearance of a lonely girl at first glance.
A girl who was once hated by everyone.
What kind of heart did the girl, who was strangled by her mother and passed the risk of death, live in this world?
Then the tongue, which had been moving without thinking, stopped.
Perhaps it was an unfamiliar experience for the princess.
It occurred to me that this obvious story of someone willing to sacrifice herself to save her might have been everything the princess had hoped for.
That’s why I’m afraid to lose even more.
The princess’s obsession with me and her excessive low-key attitude represented that fear. My heart was not that hard to disparage that effort.
In the end, the words that spilled out between my lips, which barely fell, were only very short fragments.
“… … yes.”
It was a voice mixed with a sigh.
Actually, it wasn’t the princess’s fault. She had good cause for misunderstanding, and therefore, as I said, there was nothing unpardonable.
However, even if I did forgive it, it would be meaningless if the princess couldn’t forgive herself.
I don’t know how far it will go, but it was right to let the princess do as much as she wanted. It was such a heartfelt answer.
I didn’t know if my sincerity was conveyed.
However, I was satisfied with the fact that the slight tremors in the princess’s body had subsided. A sigh of relief from her tickled his ear.
Nevertheless, it was still true that the appearance of the princess bowing her head was burdensome, so I carefully decided to dissuade her.
“Okay, okay, get up now… … .”
“Oh, not yet!”
The princess’s voice was still wet with thirst.
I thought it was enough, but apparently she had a different opinion.
It wasn’t long before I gave permission to do whatever I wanted. In the end, I decided to watch what the princess would do with a half-worried, half-curious feeling.
After hesitating for a moment, the princess exclaimed as if she remembered something she was planning.
“Still, it’s not enough. that, so… right!”
and the next moment.
side, a voice was heard.
My thinking stopped. It was because he couldn’t understand what the princess had done for a while.
The princess, who was bowing her head, approached me as if she were crawling. That alone was accompanied by considerable shame, but she did not stop there.
It was like kissing the tip of my foot.
It was the lips of a noble royal family, capable of accomplishing countless things with just one word.
Until now, he must have put a lot of effort into keeping it clean.
Needless to say what it meant for those snow-white lips to allow first contact to the tip of a dirty shoe.
My mind immediately went blank. No, I couldn’t help but jump up on the spot.
“Um, what are you doing? Her Highness the Princess!”
It was to the extent that even the honorific that I had decided to stop came back.
At my violent reaction, the princess opened her eyes wide as if she was surprised.
Then, hesitantly, he stood up and spoke to me with an embarrassing laugh.
“Th-I remembered the memory of asking Sir Ian to kiss my toe… Ehehe, with that apology… … .”
Of course, the proposal was somewhat rude, but it was an example a nobleman could take to the imperial family. It was one of the best examples of a servant showing loyalty to the emperor.
However, it was not the attitude the imperial family would take toward the second son of a rural viscount.
In the end, I had no choice but to wipe the skin off my face once more.
What kind of existence am I imprinted on the princess?
It seemed that it would take quite a long time for the girl’s heart to melt.
C’mon author. You know she kissed the wrong part of the body.