255 – 75-2. First love and current love.
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I started to realize that I had come to the past.
The scenery of the garden glistening with sunlight reflecting so much that it hurts the eyes.
In place of pure white hair, I see Fine with straight black hair.
“White roses represent innocence and youth. Brother.”
“I see. Then, by any chance, does a withered white rose have a flower language?”
Instead of the insipid expression she had when first seen at her academy.
“I swear eternity with you. I know..!”
Because he was walking around the garden with me, explaining various things about roses.
She never dreamed that she would spend a peaceful time like this.
“I sew all the roses in this garden..!”
“You are amazing.”
“Ehehehehe.. I was praised..”
The flower language of a rose changes not only in its number and color, but also in its withered state.
Maybe this is why Fine liked blue roses the most.
“Do you like roses too?”
“Wow! Panting.”
At some point, Kkamang came to Fine with a red rose in his mouth.
It is said that spirits are affected by people’s emotions.
Maybe she wants to show her cute charms, but her black body has become incredibly small.
“Your Highness the Princess. Does a single rose have a meaning?”
“… One song..?”
I handed her a question to her, smiling brightly as I accepted her rose flower brought by my her spirit.
Then, her eyes widened again.
“Yes, just a moment ago, depending on the number, the language of flowers can change—”
“Oh, I can’t tell you such shameless things!”
Fine even cut me off while she was shouting.
Cheeks flushed as if they were about to explode.
She is covering her face with both hands, ashamed.
“Your brother.. Is a bad wolf..!!”
Besides, the title that calls me is older brother.
When I tried to call her brother, she shook her head vigorously and refused.
She has to keep her dignity as the princess of the Grancia Empire.
Even when she secretly looks at me, when I make eye contact with her, she turns her head away with a swish.
‘Is there something missing?’
I already made the mistake of showing her face to Fine in the past.
Like the time paradox, I had to be as careful as possible to prevent the future from getting twisted.
No. Still, she’s wrong when she says she’s an uncle.
“Sorry for the rude question. Her Highness the Princess.”
“Then.. Tell me your older brother’s name instead..!”
Suddenly, Fine’s footsteps stopped.
Until now, I was escorting her through the garden.
“I cannot tell you.”
“Why? I really want to know….”
As a child, Fine sometimes asked me strange questions.
From the minute questions about where she lives and what her favorite food is.
She says awkwardly when she asks if there’s a dessert shop she knows well, but it’s raining today.
She even asked if there was a person she had a crush on, a word whose meaning was unknown.
“To recommend my brother to her father as a member of the Imperial Guard…. She needs a name…”
On the first day I saw her, Fine seemed impatient to recruit her into the SS.
Well, if Emperor Locke sees me now, I wonder if he will try to kill me.
You might want to cut off her head because you approached her daughter.
“Didn’t His Majesty say that he went to subdue the remnants of the Brave Cult?”
“Right..! Still, she got a letter saying that she would be back soon… I really want to introduce you to my brother!”
She is Fine with a bright smile as if she doesn’t know anything.
Where does this pure heart come from?
“What do you believe in me and do it this far? Her Highness the Princess.”
No matter what, we just met for the first time.
Even if I knew her future girl, the current Fine Grancia wouldn’t know me.
This kind of unconditional trust rather felt different.
“The face..!”
“You mean my ugly face?”
I wonder if it was sympathy?
Did she look pitiful when she saw me when she was young?
“Where on earth is my older brother so ugly..! Chung, dignified enough.. Ah, not this..!”
As I swallowed her bitter feelings, she waved her hand and began to correct her words.
She must have been very startled, so Fine started to hiccup again.
“Hyuk, I knew it from the look in her eyes. Saying that you would protect me was real.”
“……”
She talked to me softly, her golden wolf eyes shining.
“Something.. I can’t say it.. But I also feel nostalgic.. Hike.”
Maybe Fine has been quick-witted since she was little.
Because I skipped time and came to see Fine Grancia from the past.
When Fine sees me and feels a strange longing for her, it’s probably because she knows the girl of her future.
“Anyway..! Burn marks are rather like medals for the Inrang tribe, so don’t worry about it.”
I expressed my concern by even holding my hands together.
With a bright smile on his face, a nostalgic look overlapped.
What was wrong with her like this, that she had everything of her stolen by the devil?
“…… My name is Suhyun Lee. Her Highness the Princess.”
Seeing that, I couldn’t help but chew her lower lip and say her name.
Because her future changed because of her choice, she didn’t care if she and I didn’t meet.
“I am going to save you….”
“Oh, our Pine. What are you doing there?”
The moment I tried to reveal that I came from the future.
A woman with a familiar face appeared in front of the two of us.
“Mother..? I thought she was in the imperial palace!”
“Whoops, our cute Pine is missing, so of course we came out to find it.”
Her head-to-toe black appearance, like Fine, who has become a demon.
She has opposite golden eyes and soft expression.
‘Belin Grancia.’
The Empress of the Grancia Empire.
The wife of Roque Grancia, and the mother of Fine.
“So, who is the black knight next to you..?”
She was looking at me strangely.
***
The voice saying that there is no way out is probably referring to a situation like this.
A place filled with splendid chandeliers and splendid paintings everywhere.
“I had no intention of breaking into the imperial palace. While chasing the demon king, she fell into the secret garden of the imperial palace….”
“Yes, that’s right. Empress Belin.”
A villa next to the garden.
Immediately there, I knelt down to the empress and began to make excuses.
He must have a similar personality to Emperor Locke. I absolutely have to bow down and go in.
From her point of view, it would look like someone who was aiming for her young daughter who didn’t know anything.
“Mother, there is nothing wrong with my older brother..!”
“Pine, wait.”
Pine.
Fine.
Calling Fine by the cute nickname Pine, she maintained her composure.
“He hasn’t finished talking yet.”
On the contrary, it’s an attitude of asking me to talk more while looking at me.
I thought it would come out forcefully.
“That puppy over there is your spirit, right?”
“Oh, yes. Yes, but….”
She felt like a bug caught in a spider’s web.
Looking at Kkamangi by Fine’s side, he seems to have noticed something.
“Pine, I’m going out with that spirit for a while.”
“Mother..!”
“It’s okay. I have something to tell you, so that’s why.”
The empress promptly invites Fine to leave for a while.
She spoke while gently stroking her daughter’s hair.
──It’s a click.
As the sound of the door closing resounded, now only Empress Belin and I were left in this room.
At the moment I was worried that my head might be cut off like this.
“Are you from the future?”
“…… ?!”
Empress Bellin looked down at me with a huhu, just like her.
How the hell did you know?
How did you know that the nameless saint, Fine, sent her back to the past?
“……”
“Wake up. My knees hurt.”
After I was silent for a moment, she saw me and gestured for me to get up.
Contrary to Emperor Locke, the empress even seems to be kind to me.
“Perhaps… Our Pine’s boyfriend from the distant future?”
She was also able to see through other information I was hiding.
“Wait a minute. Your Majesty Bellin.”
“No. It would be more like a companion than that.”
My face went white.
Even though I’ve heard that Empress Bellin is a genius when it comes to magic.
Isn’t this part close to the devil who knows everything?
“On what basis do you judge me that way?”
“If I told you it was a persimmon, you wouldn’t believe it.”
She started talking while looking at the pictures hanging on the wall.
Fine and Lupus playing together.
And pictures of Empress Bellin and Emperor Locke together.
“When you look at these pictures, what do you think?”
The empress asks me for my opinion while looking at items that are close to family albums.
“… You look harmonious.”
“Whoops, it feels strange to hear such a story from a future son-in-law.”
Fine’s laugh sounded like her mother’s.
Seemingly satisfied with my answer, Belin Grancia raised the corner of her mouth slightly.
“I have eyes to see the relationship between people and things. For example….”
The Empress is moving the order of her paintings like a puzzle.
“Should I say that I can see something else, like this red thread connected between the pictures?”
The paintings continue as one long picture with a rattling sound, like a panorama.
“The pictures on this side are when my family went on a trip to the sea….”
At first, the pictures, which were completely randomly arranged, were being completed as a story in her hands.
“These are pictures from when we made a garden for our pine.”
“The Empress…Is the one who made that garden.”
From the construction work to build from scratch in the garden.
Fine is happy while watering the roses.
Finé smiles brightly while being handed a blue rose.
“… That’s a very rigid name. Just call me mother-in-law.”
When Empress Belin spoke to me with a bright smile, I politely bowed my head and greeted her again.
“With that ability… did you know the relationship between me and Fine?”
“To what extent? Actually, more than that….”
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Bellin, who received that greeting, put on a satisfied expression.
Is Fine’s eyes to see the truth inherited from both sides? When I’m guessing.
“The magic circuit is very twisted. Like a person who has gone against time and space several times.”
As she unfolded her magic circle, she told me why she noticed I was from the future.