the princess asks
Dorothy.
A maid who has worked as a maid for the Duke of Valencia for a long time.
From an early age, she worked as a maid for Princess Rebecca, the only daughter of the Duke of Valencia.
Princess Rebecca, who is always tickling but cherishes her people, and the Valencia family, who are suspiciously serious about the welfare of their employees, were the best jobs for her.
‘After all, our young lady is the best.’
For this reason, she was more loyal to her maiden Rebecca and the Duke of Valencia family than anyone else.
But.
“The Duchess-!!”
For today alone, it seemed that she had to give up her loyalty to the young lady for a while.
At first, I had no idea.
“Lady? May I go in to clean up?”
As usual, she went to the lady’s room to clean up as usual.
smart-
“Miss Rebecca?”
But no matter how much I knock and call out her name.
There was no response from the room.
“Are you sleeping?”
Knowing that her maiden Rebecca was sometimes taking afternoon naps, she thought she might be sleeping and opened the door quietly.
And it could be said that this decision was the most right decision in her life.
There was someone other than her in the lady’s room.
‘······· Prince Albert?’
The person’s identity was Confucius Albert Xernias, the girl’s fiancée.
Because Dorothy also knew that Confucius would sometimes come to the duke’s house to meet her maiden.
Until then, I had no idea.
Until her maiden strides towards her fiancée, blushing slightly.
It’s like something out of a romance novel she read yesterday.
‘aah!’
Dorothy covered her mouth completely with her hand and screamed inwardly.
‘I knew the two of you were good friends, but the young lady was the first to be brave!’
Already, the relationship between Rebecca and Albert was quite famous among the users of the Duke of Valencia.
– welcome! Prince Albert!
– Was it Dorothy…? nice to meet you.
Prince Albert visited the Duke’s residence of Valencia so many times that he even knew her name as a mere maid.
Whenever I visit, I always spend time alone with her lady.
No matter how ignorant people were, it was absurd that they could not notice this.
Unlike ordinary nobles’ political engagement, Lady Rebecca and Prince Albert are engaged in love.
– ······I? with that person? Are you kidding me?
Of course, when she jokedly asked about the relationship between the two of them, the young lady was disgusted and said no.
Everyone in the Dukes of Valencia knew that it was an embarrassing reaction.
Users of other dukes, including Dorothy, even the Duchess and Duchess of Valencia.
So Dorothy was even more thrilled now.
‘The young lady who always denied it… The first time she approached Confucius…’
If she had a talent for drawing well, she would want to paint that moment for the rest of her life.
Even up to that point, she was satisfied with the behavior of the young lady who had grown up.
Her little girl, with a determined expression on her face, drew closer and closer to Prince Albert.
‘no way······.’
Dorothy had hoped.
Because I thought it would be difficult for her shy girl to express that kind of affection yet.
But Dorothy’s expectations were completely wrong.
side-
What Dorothy witnessed was a red-hot Lady Rebecca kissing Prince Albert.
‘Ahhhh!’
She muttered something that was no longer a scream.
Because the scene just before that was shocking.
How can a young lady who was always shy and hid her feelings openly express her feelings like that?
I am so moved and proud of her growth.
– Dorothy…?
She didn’t even notice that her maiden was looking at her with trembling eyes.
– Where… from… saw…
Dorothy uttered nothing in panic at the thought of becoming a maid spying on her expression of affection.
– I… I didn’t see anything! I didn’t see the lady kissing Prince Albert!!
after exhaling like that.
“I’m sorry!!!”
She chose to leave the place quickly.
“The Duchess!! Where are you?!”
In order to quickly tell the Duchess what he had seen, his master.
Another maid who saw Dorothy running that day testified that it was the first time she knew she was such a fast child.
***
silence.
Could there be a colder silence than this?
It was Rebecca’s room, which had a strange atmosphere just a little while ago.
Now, only a cool wind was blowing.
“····.”
Contrasting the chilly atmosphere, Rebecca’s face had turned redder than her hair color, as if she was on the verge of an explosion.
It looked like it was covered with her hands, but Rebecca’s small hands couldn’t completely cover her blushing face.
‘…why is Dorothy over there…’
I also looked at Rebecca like that and couldn’t speak easily.
Because I never expected that anyone would find out about it.
There’s no way Dorothy, Rebecca’s faithful maid, would have swung the door open without knocking.
Maybe it was because Rebecca and I were so focused on the previous situation that we didn’t hear it.
“…a princess?”
“····.”
Even after calling in a small voice to confirm Rebecca’s condition, the only thing that returned was endless silence.
And the awkward atmosphere that follows.
I had to feel like I was doing something wrong when I lifted one finger.
Of course, it was my fault for saying something like a cheek kiss as a wish.
However, it was not for humans to continue to persevere in this awkward atmosphere.
“Princess Rebecca.”
I decided to go out a little tougher.
I’m calling you by name
“Why are you calling me?”
Then Rebecca removed her hands that were covering her blushing face and looked at me.
Although his face was still stained red, it reminded him of a freshly ripe apple.
It seemed much better than before.
“Are you okay?”
“Does this look good to you?”
Rebecca pointed at her face, saying, “Are you asking because you really don’t know?”
Rebecca, who worked hard to express that she was not okay at all, was sad but also cute at the same time.
“Don’t be too shy.”
“How can you not be ashamed of this…?”
Rebecca immediately shoots at me saying that I shouldn’t be too embarrassed.
Rebecca’s face looked really sad.
I decided to kindly explain why I don’t have to be shy for Rebecca like that.
“As I said before, Young-sik and young girls in other engaged relationships don’t mind this.”
“····.”
“Rather, if I tell other people this, the princess and I, who haven’t done anything for three years, will be treated strangely.”
I didn’t know that Young-sik and young girls in an engaged relationship really thought this way.
It was only natural for me to not know what other people my age were like, who had never properly entered the social world yet.
But one thing was certain.
Rebecca and I, who had been engaged for 3 years, did nothing and just fought every day, that it was not normal.
You mean that whenever a certain fiancée or fiancee of the Empire meets, they are only thinking about how to defeat them?
‘······If you think like this, you are really crazy.’
Despite the sudden introspection, I decided not to deny it.
Even if I thought about it, I was a person who couldn’t be described as normal.
“······still.”
Rebecca still didn’t seem convinced.
That expression, mixed with a hint of hesitation, still seemed ashamed of being caught by Dorothy.
“So… were you okay?”
“yes?”
“I asked if you felt good when you kissed me.”
“I-I-I-I-I-I-I must have felt good about that situation!”
The princess immediately turns her face red and denies when I tell her if she’s in a good mood.
He even shook his head violently as if it wasn’t really true.
Rebecca, taking a strong negative stance, I nodded.
“Okay then.”
“What the hell happened before…”
“If the princess was okay, wouldn’t it matter if Dorothy saw it?”
“····.”
Rebecca looked like she was speechless.
Perhaps you are thinking like this in your mind.
‘is it? Why am I being shy when I’m just okay?’, ‘If I don’t care, it wouldn’t matter if Dorothy saw it?’, ‘No. Still, as a princess, I was ashamed of myself, so it doesn’t matter…’
After thinking about it for a while, the princess looked straight at me and said,
“Then you?”
“Yes?”
Let me react as if I didn’t understand the question.
“·······You were good? When I… did that.”
Where did the gaze that had just looked straight into my eyes go?
Rebecca was speaking with her head slightly turned.