Chapter 140 – The Princess Who Wants a Friend (3)
Theorard didn’t answer. He just stared at Benelia, stunned.
Then, suddenly, he put his hand on Benelia’s forehead her. Venelia glered at him, but Theorard didn’t care.
Theorard, who had been quiet for a while, withdrew his hand with a puzzled face.
“You don’t have a fever…….”
“What.”
Theorard’s words sounded rather arrogant.
“Are you trying to tell me I’m not crazy?”
“I’m sorry, but I had no choice but to be suspicious because I did n’t know Her Highness’s exclusive butler her.”
“Okay. It looks like he’s not insane.”
“Ah. As expected, the aftereffects left after the incident…….”
Can’t you hear me? Benelia looked at Theorard, her eyes half-open.
“Not me, but you.”
“Majesty?”
Because of Theo Rad’s expression of unfairness, his head hurts. Benelia put her small, dainty hand her between her own forehead her and organized her thoughts her.
‘Theorad, who was next to me when Salsu hallucinated, must have been involved as well.’
Since the distance was close, there was a high probability that it was placed within the hallucination range.
The problem is that ‘Theo Rad, trapped in hallucinations’, has forgotten what kind of existence he was originally.
As if in a dream he didn’t know it was a dream, Theorard, who didn’t recognize that the present world was an illusion, seemed to firmly believe that he was ‘the exclusive butler of Her Highness’.
He didn’t want to get involved in anything serious. I let out a sigh for some reason.
‘It seems like I accidentally shared an unwanted memory.’
Of course, when he was released from the hallucination, Theo Rad, who had only been caught up in the sidelines, would forget most of what happened here, but he still couldn’t shake off the unpleasant feeling.
Benelia licked her lips again, sighed and pulled back the covers. When she saw the skirt of her favorite dress as a child, it seemed that the time of day was not morning.
“Viscount Theorard…… No, butler.”
Theorard’s face lit up when I told him of his assigned role in his in the hallucination.
“Yes. Her Highness the Princess. Xiamen please.”
“…… Okay.”
Theorard, who smiled brightly, was very burdensome and awkward, but Benelia did not show it. Theorard also probably isn’t doing this because he wanted to.
“What do you mean by ‘after the incident’ you mentioned earlier?”
“Majesty? Don’t you remember?”
“Don’t ask.”
Theorard nodded her head in silence as Benelia narrowed her eyes sharply. Even for her young Benellia, the momentum was quite ferocious.
“Prince Leonhard has been terribly harassing Her Highness her. At that time, the Royal Guard urgently rescued Her Highness her. After returning to her palace her, Her Highness washed her body her, lay down on her bed, and fell asleep exhausted from crying.”
“Is it.”
It is enough to understand what kind of memories Salsu created as trauma.
‘It’s the time when my second brother tried to kill me.’
For the sole reason of humiliating her ministers her, Leonhard attempted to strangle her Benelia. If the patrolling guards hadn’t spotted her in time, Benelia would indeed have died.
Indeed, as it is one of the memories that are still recalled as nightmares, the choice of the killer can be said to be excellent.
‘Soon the emperor will call me to the conference hall.’
I already felt sick to my stomach at the thought of the terrible memories being replayed.
As her stressed Benelia was biting her lips, Theorard lightly grabbed her Benelia’s little hand her.
“Majesty. I have prepared the finest refreshments for Your Highness. You must be deeply concerned, but how about eating something sweet and getting rid of the gloomy mood?”
In his soft, languid voice his, it was clear that he was trying to comfort the other person. Benelia turned her gaze and stared at Theorad with clear gold eyes, and then, hey! She said and turned her head.
“It happened. What is the use of eating food in a world that is nothing more than an illusion? Eat a lot.”
“…… Are you really only eating me?”
“Okay. I am not interested.”
After thinking about it for a while, Theorard stood up as if he understood. He walked straight to the table by the window, sat down on a chair, and elegantly raised the cup and drank.
Slurp-
Originally, you shouldn’t make any noise when drinking tea. Benelia looked at her with displeasure, but Theorard didn’t notice and set the teacup down.
“Hey……. After all, luxury goods are different. It can’t be this good to pass the neck.”
Self-talk is spectacle. As I watched, Theo Rad, who had picked up the croissant this time, opened his mouth wide and took a bite.
Crispy-
“Um…… !”
Theorad, who rubbed his shoulder with an ecstatic face, exhaled in admiration.
“It’s really delicious. Crispy on the outside and moist on the inside, it feels like eating a cloud. It’s still so delicious, but what kind of taste would it have if you dipped it in cream…….”
Now that I see it, I wasn’t talking to myself. It’s like a plot to lure a pouting child. Benelia didn’t like that very much.
‘Cheeky…… !’
Even though she is a child on the outside, Benelia is an adult who has gone through the coming-of-age ceremony. In addition to that, she was an undisputed soldier who seized the military power and accomplished feats in the Orc conquest war.
‘I, who have gone through a series of battles throughout the war and overcame numerous secret struggles and schemes to survive in political strife, do you think I will fall for your nefarious tricks?’
Try it as many times as you like. As Benelia crossed her arms and glared at her, Theo Rad smeared her croissant with cream and squeezed it into her mouth her.
“Um…… !”
A louder exclamation than before flowed out of Theorard’s mouth, whose cheeks were puffy. It was a bonus that he looked incredibly happy.
Theorard, who swallowed the croissant in his mouth, lifted the last remaining croissant. This time, instead of eating it right away, he gently tore the middle of the croissant to show the savory cross-section.
“Awesome. How delicious it will be again this time.”
“…….”
“Can you really not eat it?”
A mischievous smile spreads on Theorard’s lips as he looks at Venelia. It felt as if they were threatening me that if I refused now, I would never taste this delicious croissant again.
“If you don’t eat…….”
My mouth fills with saliva without even realizing it. The moment Theo Rad put her last croissant into her mouth her, Benelia, her impatience her, screamed in a fit of rage.
“I will eat!”
It was natural to wonder what it tasted like, since it was so delicious. Benelia, bowing her pride her, got down from her bed and strode towards Theo Rad.
Then Theorard smeared one side of the croissant with cream and handed it into Venelia’s hand her. As if he knew this would happen, a relaxed smile was a bonus.
“Here it is. Her Highness the Princess.”
Benelia, who was handed the croissant with both her hands, bit her corner.
“Um…….”
It was delicious, but not so good that it made a fuss. Benelia, realizing then that she had been tricked, looked up in disbelief in her gold her, but Theorard only smiled haha.
“Won’t you have to eat to be strong?”
“You are cheeky. How dare you trick me.”
“It’s actually delicious, so I’m not cheating.”
The butler doesn’t want to lose a word. Still, that didn’t come too bad.
‘When I was young…….’
All the other attendants treated Benelia in a businesslike manner.
Rumors spread that she was an out-of-wedlock child, so there was no need to attach affection to her, and she intentionally distanced herself from her since life in the imperial palace would be difficult if Prince Leonhard caught sight of her for doing a good job.
So, of course, Benelia couldn’t have a butler like Theorad.
In her young days, Benelia lived surrounded by many people in a luxurious imperial palace, but paradoxically, she had never felt human affection.
“Okay. It is delicious.”
Benelia smiled faintly and took another bite of her croissant.
I wished this time had lasted a little longer, but to Benelia of her young days, her peace was not something she could hope for.
Giik-
Beyond the door that suddenly opened, a lady-in-waiting with a gloomy expression bowed her head guiltily.
“Your Highness, Princess. She is called by His Majesty the Emperor.”
It was the beginning of a nightmare.
*
Guided by her lady-in-waiting, Benelia stepped into her cabinet room with Theorard in silence.
Her muffled voice fades as Benelia enters. At the edge of the table, which looked terribly high, figures resembling those of the imperial family were sitting in a dignified manner.
At that time, Benelia had her head down, so perhaps there was an error in her memory, and the faces of her ministers her as well as the emperor were cast in shadows.
“Benelia.”
The emperor, who had been sitting arrogantly in the center of the table, leaned forward. Benelia, who stood there like a sinner, she looks straight into the face of such an emperor.
“Yes. Father.”
“Do you know what you did wrong?”
Wrong. It was Leonhard who strangled him, it was Leonhard who threw him over the water, and it was also Leonhard who pushed him to the threshold of death.
Still, the father was asking her daughter what was wrong. Benelia found it disgusting. The feeling of her intestines twisting her made her vomit.
“Are you saying it’s my fault?”
Even more repulsive was everyone silent in the hall. Even though everyone knew that the emperor was telling lies, everyone kept their mouths shut, tabooing the truth.
Her suffocating silence makes Benelia recoil. She may have gotten used to it now that she’s been beaten so many times, but her hands her tremble and her breathing her becomes rough when she’s always in this position.
It is because she came to her sadly even though her current situation was her, where she felt that there was no one of her own her in the imperial palace, was disgusting.
Her teeth her gnashed involuntarily and her fists clenched.
“Benelia!”
The emperor, not liking her Benelia’s behavior her, roared.
“Everyone here knows that you ambush Leonhard because you couldn’t overcome your jealousy! Are you going to deny that you committed evil deeds out of a sense of entitlement?”
Lie. A word coined so as not to tarnish Leonhard’s honor.
The emperor intended to place the child, who was only six years old, on a pathetic and petty crime.
Even though I know that it is an illusion created by the water, my teeth tremble.
However, she knew that after this period she would be able to get out of the hallucination, so Benelia decided to obediently comply with the emperor’s request her.
“I couldn’t overcome my jealousy…….”
Anyway, there is no side of her own her here. Thinking that way made her feel more at ease.
“I dared to do something the devil would do…….”
The color fades from Venelia’s pupils her. Emotionally, she just pursed her lips like a machine.
“Acknowledging that I ambushed Prince Leonhard-“
“You can’t admit it!”
Then, the voice behind her made Benelia’s shoulders tremble.
When I looked behind her, wondering what she was doing, Theo Rad was staring at me with stern eyes.
“It’s not Her Highness’s fault, is it?”
Tabak’s tone sounds sweet to the world. While the bewildered Benelia was speechless, Theorard, who strode forward, faced the emperor and shouted resolutely.
“Your majesty! Why are you asking Her Highness of her, the princess, who has done nothing wrong, to discuss her mistakes of her! Why are you violating the precepts given by the god of light!”
Reckless and foolish It was ugly and stupid.
‘I should have kept my hands behind my back…….’
Benelia internally scolded Theo Rad, but she couldn’t hide the smile on her lips.
Because he didn’t hate Theorard, who was obsessed with the role of butler. Like a ray of light in her nightmare Her, the back of Theo Rad, who blocked her, could be seen infinitely wide.
‘Theorad Deharm.’
You are the only one on my side here.
