019 Why are you here (1)
“Prince?”
What is this?
“·················ogue.”
Where did it go wrong?
“I’m sorry for coming all the way to the confessional. I had no choice but to avoid people’s eyes.”
Something went wrong. also very seriously.
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Otherwise, there would be no way things would flow like this.
What did I do wrong? when?
“I don’t have much time, so I’ll just briefly tell you about my mother.”
Even though my body was fine, somehow my eyes felt tight.
At the thought that I had finally met ‘her’, my heart pounded and my palms became wet.
It was never exciting.
“…are you Princess Cristel de Sarnez?”
“yes? Yes. I was in a hurry, so I forgot to introduce myself… Excuse me. My name is Kristel Olivier de Sarnez.”
My shattered hope was shattered in front of my eyes.
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Of course, everything that made up Christel made it impossible to mistake her for someone else.
Indeed, the main character was the main character.
She was a beautiful woman with vibrant cheeks and long eyelashes, even in a rather dim confession room, and her gestures were also something that caught people’s attention.
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Overall, it was very similar to the cover of ＜I Resigned and a Princess from Another World>, but it was different.
It was from the big eyes looking at me.
Not the bright sky blue I remember, but a blue-gray iris with seriousness.
no······. Wait a minute. I don’t think it was serious.
“Princess Kristel, is ‘Olivier’ your middle name?”
“Ah, huh.”
She let out a very Korean sigh. I clenched my teeth for facial expression control.
It’s been a while since I possessed it, and it seems like I haven’t been able to understand the ‘rules’ of this place yet.
“The middle name is only known to loved ones, so I’ll pretend I didn’t hear it.”
“······thank you.”
As I spit out my teeth, she answered with a sigh as she combed her hair with her hands.
I was dying to die as well.
Why do I need to know the main character’s middle name already?
Isn’t the pace too fast?
This situation was too much for me, who had no intention of going out on Jindo itself.
“If you are not here to confess, please leave. We will make this meeting like nothing ever happened.”
I tightened my chin and looked straight ahead. You must eat your heart out.
Jesse Penetian of the original work, unlike Prince Cedric, said to Kristel that he was always a kind and warm man.
This is the reason why Eun-seo abandoned the prince and supported him, and why Kristel was shaken by the sub male over and over again.
Then I had to do the opposite.
I wondered if there was anyone in the world who wanted to be hated by others, and that was me.
I’m out of her eyes, so I didn’t have to get caught up in that crazy love triangle.
To live.
“Prince, just a moment. It’s no different in our family…”
“I hate to hear it.”
“My mother wants a confession. Let’s meet separately, not at the temple. because······.”
“I can’t help it. I’m calling the guards.”
“Wait!”
– Chalang
There was a sound of water. I reflexively looked at the picnic basket to the left.
The glass jar full of peppermint tea did not move even a little. I got goosebumps.
– chalang, chalang
“·················ogue.”
The sound was heard from the next room, beyond the wooden window on the right. I turned my head very slowly.
My whole body creaked like a tin woodman who forgot to oil it.
“Because of this.”
A drop of water the size of an apple was floating on Kristel’s small hand.
The water-blue sphere reminiscent of her eyes moved in small waves.
I was stunned and watched it.
I had no idea how to understand this scene and this development.
“no······.”
“There is no longer the ‘blessing of Changhae’, a sacred object that our family protects.”
I opened my eyes wide. So many things rushed through my mind in an instant.
The blessing of the blue sea, the Duchy of Sarnez, the divine beast, and the orange-eyed boy.
“What do you mean?”
“It is literally. Changhae’s blessing has been absorbed into my body and no longer exists.”
Even after hearing the explanation, my brain couldn’t digest it quickly.
I repeated opening and closing my mouth several times.
No such thing is possible. Changhae’s Blessing was an item that appeared on the cover of ‘Toegye Gong’.
A blue gem that at first glance looked like a sapphire.
It was difficult to comprehend the fact that the god that seemed to play an important role between Kristel and the prince had disappeared from the grassroots.
However······.
-Challang…
The lily of the valley, spinning like a tease on Kristel’s palm, was definitely the power of the water attribute.
And, as the name and color suggest, the blessing of Changhae was also a god of water.
A crystal that uses ether.
Eunseo had never heard of her using her supernatural powers, nor had she even lightly heard it.
A story of two men and women who start out with the cliché of marriage and go from an antagonism to a lover.
To summarize the contents of Toegye Gong in one line, that was all. It must have been
“…you’d better go find Cardinal Bootier than me.”
I spit out the most rational answer I could come up with right now.
I couldn’t think of any other way to deal with the situation.
“It would be a political act to visit His Majesty the Cardinal. At least your mother thinks so. To the prince who came from the new kingdom, he said that he wanted to make a confession with an unblemished heart.”
“Princess Kristel, I am…”
“There are also stories about gods that disappeared from the Temple of the Border.”
“I beg your pardon?”
– Dumpling!
Along with a heavy ringing, the sound of the front door opening was heard.
It seemed that ‘real’ confessors were coming in.
Kristel sighed and put the robe back on her head.
As she clenched her fist, the beads made of water popped in the air and disappeared.
“The day after tomorrow, the spring ball, when the bell rings at 9 pm. Please exit through the balcony at the far right of the Struda Palace. Please, please, Prince Jesse.”
She didn’t even listen to my answer and quickly went to confession.
Every sentence stuck in the eardrum was embarrassing.
As I was contemplating whether to hold on to Kristel or not,
– Boowook!
“This shit.”
Her small swear words were heard along with the sound of long rips of fabric.
It looked like he accidentally stepped on the dress and broke it.
‘He’s very adaptable and sassy, but there are some sloppy corners.’
It was her personality that Eunseo liked.
“her······.”
While I was being bruised in the tsunami-like situation, her presence moved away from the back of the temple with the sound of fast shoes.
At the same time, the careful footsteps of the faithful could be heard from the front door.
I tried to somehow manage my unsettling head.
What the hell is going on?
*
After Kristel left, I canceled the afternoon confession and returned to Juliet Palace.
In order to sort things out, he finally used the excuse that he was sick.
I didn’t mean to use it like this, damn it…
“The Duchess Isabelle de Sarnez is the stepmother of Princess Christel. The man whom the Duke of Simon de Sarnaise had lost his wife and remarried.”
Benjamin stood in front of the table and explained.
It was a fact I already knew, but I blinked to tell him to keep talking.
Then Canael followed.
“The Duchess is very social and seldom comes out of the Duchy. So, there are few rumors about it. Some people say that she is a typical stepmother, while others praise her for having a beautiful and elegant personality… Few nobles know the truth deep enough to confirm.”
I shook my head and looked down at the April 1st issue of ＜Biweekly Lister> spread out on the table.
The headline ‘The Treasure of Sarnez Awakens’ was huge.
It was a special report about Kristel waking up from three years of sleep.
“…even under these circumstances, it seems that Duchess Isabelle de Sarnez did not give up hope. According to a source passing through the duke’s house, she expressed a strong will, saying, ‘I will get my daughter back at any cost.'”
“It is said that immediately after Princess Kristel woke up, the Duke and Duchess couldn’t stop crying for a while. In particular, Duchess Isabelle cried out, ‘My sin is great.’ Luxury housekeepers agree that, as a mother, she blamed herself for not being nice to the princess.”
I even applied for a subscription to ＜Biweekly Lister>, so it was an article I had already read before.
However, after experiencing a shocking encounter with Christel, all the sentences began to look unfamiliar.
The Duchess declared, ‘I will get my daughter back at any cost’.
The lost god, ‘Blessing of Changhae’.
Christel wakes up.
The duchess screams, ‘My sin is great.’
It’s a bit daunting, but if you try to put the puzzle together, a picture like this came out.
There was a high possibility that the order of events was not this, but for now, it was most plausible.
So, the Duchess consumed the family’s treasures for her daughter, who was unlikely to survive.
Putting aside the question of ‘how’… She absorbed the sickness into her daughter’s body.
Then, Kristel got up from her bed, and the princess revealed the attributes of the divine as ether.
If all my hypotheses up to this point are correct, then why is the Duchess trying to confess to me?
“Would it be a great sin if I used the holy things privately?”
At my sudden question, Canael’s eyes widened.
It looked like it would spill when touched.
“Isn’t it natural? Because the gods are the treasures that God has sent directly to the continent.”
“Is there a law to punish such a person?”
“Maybe there is no law. However······.”
Hearing my words, Benjamin’s voice became softer.
“The people of the family that protects the gods, regardless of the empire or the new country, have high pride. This is because they believe that they are taking the lead in supporting the will of the Lord. These are the ones who risk their lives to protect the gods from those who are greedy.”
“If someone uses the divine, they will not stand still.”
“I will. But even if no one comes forward, I believe that the Lord will show his will first.”
I pondered Benjamin’s words.
In such circumstances, it seemed that the Duchess might wish to send out and ask for forgiveness from the priest.
There are too many pieces that I put together, but I’m not sure…
It seemed certain that Changhae’s blessing had disappeared, and I had a reason for that.
“That god. If not for the Duchy of Sarnez, where would they have gone?”
Even after crossing the border of the ecliptic and entering Sarnez, the three red pandas were unable to detect the sickness.
And one little boy who was leading them.
If Changhae’s blessing had not already been destroyed at that point, it was only natural that Sadie and the new beasts were lost.
Even though I turned the topic to the wrong place, Benjamin did not panic and gave an answer.
“If it’s not Sarnez… The second closest sacred object to the Imperial Palace is the ‘Hwaseong Wisdom’ in the estate of the Marquis Duhem.”
“How long does it take to go through a horse without going through the portal?”
“If you run without a break, it will take two days, and if you hold it for a long time, it will take about four days.”
I bit my lip. four days. It was like the period when Sadie and the Red Panda disappeared.
To see it as a mere coincidence, the angles were strangely matched.
Then, Sadie took her group of red pandas and headed to the Marquis of Duem.
“Bengjamin, Canael.”
I called them both carefully.
Perhaps they noticed that the atmosphere had changed, and their expressions became more calm.
I need more help now. Because the main character fell out of the sky.