Chapter 12 – 12th Birthday Prom (1)
12th birthday party (1)
Time passed, and it was Yuno’s 12th birthday.
The breakfast prepared by Empress Yuria, who came into the kitchen and ordered various things, was incredibly extravagant, unlike usual.
Yuria had a frugal personality and did not like fancy meals, but she did not spend her children’s birthdays like that, and especially since it was the birthday of her beloved son, she had no choice but to be extravagant.
“Our Yuno ~ Happy birthday to her ~ It’s a breakfast that mom prepared really hard, so you should enjoy it? The actual birthday party will be held at the banquet hall, but mom really wanted to prepare a birthday table for her son.”
In the Balkan countries, from the age of 12, people are treated as grown-up teenagers, and from then on, they can appear on the social stage, so the 12th birthday was a very important event.
“I prepared a nice birthday present for mom and son, so look forward to it? I’ll give it to you after breakfast!”
When Yuria gave Yuno a light kiss on the cheek, she saw it and even Isabella and Marie rushed to her.
“I’ll give you a birthday present too~ My birthday present is your affectionate kiss~ Chuu”
“I’ll give you a kiss too, oppa~ Chuu~”
“Sister Isabella! Marie! There’s no need for such a birthday present, right?”
Yuno happily received her mother’s kisses, but was busy pushing away her older and younger sisters who were kissing her cheeks.
However, Isabella and Marie ignored Yuno’s resistance and kept kissing her as they held her in their arms. Yuno, who thought that her older sister and her younger sister might get hurt if she pushed them away with sincerity, ended up having to receive their kisses.
Yuno, who lightly kissed her sister and her sister on the forehead in return, looked at Eliza standing next to her.
“Why? Why are you looking at me like that? Should I kiss you too?”
“… No, I was asking if you didn’t have a gift… But that’s okay.”
Having said that, after her breakfast, Eliza caught Juno going to get her mother’s birthday present and handed her something.
“Here! Here! You gave me a present for my 12th birthday last month, right? I thought I didn’t even prepare a present for you?”
Yuno looked at Eliza blankly at the unexpected gift.
“Don’t sit still and unwrap it quickly. It’s a gift I prepared with great care.”
At Eliza’s torch, Juno opened the gift box and inside was a pair of shining bracelets.
“This bracelet…?”
Hehe, a few days ago, you had to go out of the palace for a short time at the invitation of your intelligence chief, right? I bought one then. When I said I wanted to stop by a magic tool store, the driver who was escorting me said it would be okay for a short time and went with me.”
“Magic tool?”
“It’s a bracelet with a weight control magic. If you shout ‘weight control’ and say the weight you want, you can adjust it from 1 kg to 200 kg. It wouldn’t sell because not many people would use it, but the store owner said it was expensive. Driver. Otherwise, I would have been ripped off… Wow!!”
“Eliza!! Thank you!!! It was a really, really helpful gift!! I love you! Eliza!!”
Yuno was so grateful that she hugged Eliza tightly and even told her that she loved her. Of course, what Yuno meant by loving her was that she loved her as a family, but from Eliza’s perspective, that wasn’t what she meant, so Eliza’s face turned bright red.
“N. You… What does that mean…”
“Oh my! My mom is waiting for me, so I have to go. I will treasure this so much~ Even though being at the knights’ training center wasn’t enough stimulation, wow~!”
Eliza looked in the direction where Juno disappeared with her blank face.
‘Uuuuuck!! I love you! It’s against the rules to say that with that face on her face!! Bad guy…’
Of course, Eliza knew that when Yuno said that she loved him, she meant that she was very grateful.
However, the destructive power of Yuno’s handsome face saying ‘I love you’ was greater than she expected, so Eliza held on to her pounding heart for a while.
Then she fiddled with the necklace that Yuno had given her on her 12th birthday, the necklace that had never been removed from her neck since it was given to her.
“Mom~ I’m here~”
“Juno, go over there. Hoho Madeleine? Please take her Yuno and change her clothes.”
When Yuno entered the empress’ room, Yuria was waiting with her many maids.
“Huh? Mom? Over there? Huh.? Huh?”
“Your Majesty, this way”
Juno, who had been forcibly taken away by Madeleine, the empress’s maid-in-law, and her many maids, looked at her tailcoat in front of her.
“Madeleine… What is this?”
“Today is Your Majesty’s 12th birthday. Wouldn’t you like to participate in the ball starting today? This is the dress that the Empress Dowager invited the best designer in the empire and created after much effort.”
“Ha~ These clothes are uncomfortable…”
Despite her sighs, Yuno could not refuse the clothes her mother had prepared for her birthday, so Yuno wore her tailcoat while being waited on by her maids.
“Huh? It’s more comfortable than I thought?”
The tailcoat Yuria prepared looked very sophisticated, but she was able to wear it quite comfortably.
“The Empress ordered us to use fabric mixed with rubber, a new material developed this time, to accurately fit Her Majesty’s body size, so we made it, so she could wear it comfortably.”
The solid-colored tailcoat with gold embroidery thread patterns, excluding unnecessary jewelry, went well with Yuno’s blonde hair, giving Yuno a stylish combination of age-old charisma and childlike cuteness.
When Juno put on her tailcoat and went out, Isabella, Marie, and Eliza all came in, and they were all shocked at Juno’s outfit.
“Oh my god, are you Yuno? I knew my younger brother was handsome, but this is…”
“My brother won’t be able to go to the dance for a year. Wait until Marie turns 12… All kinds of firefoxes will rush to seduce her brother. Should I wait until Marie can protect me?”
Taak
“Mari, do you want to keep talking nonsense to your brother? If you keep doing that, your mom will scold you! It’s good if you have a lot of girls! Don’t you think that way Yuno will be able to choose a true woman?”
“Siing~ My brother shouldn’t get married! Marie is going to be her brother’s bride!!”
Taak
“Marie! You scolded your mom, didn’t you? And she always told you to be careful about what you say, right?”
As Mari was scolding Yuria, Yuno stopped her by hugging Yuria.
“Mom. This is a gift I really like. I thought I would never be able to wear these clothes because they were uncomfortable… Hehe, thank you so much, Mom.”
Yuno smiled brightly as she expressed her gratitude to Yuria. At the same time, Yuria’s heart was pounding.
When her son, who had long since grown taller than her own, smiled with that handsome face and hugged her tightly against her large chest, Yuria instinctively felt her womb tremble and felt like a woman in her body who had been dead for more than 10 years.
I felt myself waking up.
‘Ugh… Am I really excited because I was hugged by Yuno? It’s crazy! It’s crazy! Probably not… Even if it’s true, it shouldn’t be… Yuno is my most precious son.’
Yuria, who denied herself, fell from Yuno’s arms and praised her as if she was nothing.
She said that she suits Yuno so well.
“What if my son is so handsome that he becomes very popular with the noble ladies at the ball today? Hehe”
“Her eldest daughter Isabella will protect her son, so don’t worry, Mom. Ahem!”
“Tch… Mari will stick close to her brother from next year onwards.”
While Yuria, Isabella, and Marie were in a daze, Eliza also looked at Yuno with blank eyes for a while, then came to her senses and looked away.
But her heart continued to pound, and she glanced at Yuno with an angry expression.
‘You look so cool dressed up like that. Bad guy … Dog … I heard my heart all the time and put it on it all the time.
However, since Yuno could not know Eliza’s heart, Eliza had to shed tears inwardly at her young heartbreak.
That evening. Yuno headed to the banquet hall of the main palace with a somewhat excited heart.
As it was customary for Yuno, the star of today’s party, to arrive slightly later and enter with cheers, she arrived slightly later than the starting time and walked down the corridors of the imperial palace.
Even though it had been a while since the banquet began, many nobles and ladies were waiting to enter the hallway. When they were slightly surprised and bowed to Yuno, Yuno, who was a little nervous, hardened her expression.
‘Whew~ I shouldn’t make a mistake and cause embarrassment to my mom…’
Yuno’s steps toward the waiting room, receiving greetings from the nobles, were stopped by someone’s voice coming from behind her.
“Yunoni? Oh, my! When did you grow so tall? It’s been a while since I last saw you, so you look completely different? Hehe”
When Yuno turned her head, her first princess Diane was there.
In normal times, it was her Diane who rarely entered her own palace and did not marry her, making her a spinster, but as she was the best alchemist leading the alchemy of her empire, her emperor I couldn’t even get her married at will.
“Ah… Sister Diane? It’s been a while since I saw you.”
“Ugh, you told me to take it easy on you? I’m really sad that our cute Yuno is so hard on me. Hehe.”
‘How can I be comfortable with my sister who is older than my mother~!!’
Haha… I want to treat you comfortably, but… I’m scared of Brother Heinrich…”
“What? Brother? Don’t worry, Yuno. If your sister meets Heinrich, she will kill you halfway, so Yuno doesn’t have to worry about that. All you have to do is rest comfortably in your arms. Hehe.”
Meanwhile, Diane hugged Yuno and lowered her face, rubbing it against her own large breasts.
“Ububububbunni! Ubububbubbubbubbubbubuuuuup… I’m suffocating”
Hehe, it’s okay, it’s okay. Do you want my sister to give me some fat? If Yuno wants, I can develop an elixir to make milk come out and feed Yuno some fat.”
‘Oh, that’s a bit… No, no… I’m single-mindedly focused on being a mom.’
Yuno was a little attracted to her, but she endured it out of consideration for her mother and forced herself out of Diane’s arms, opened the door to her waiting room, and went in.
Diane touched the door where Juno disappeared, and she whispered softly.
“Our Yuno is all grown up? Haha… In just a few years, Yuno can be mine… Ah… A bad boy who fell in love with my sister from the first time I saw him… Let’s spend eternity in my sister’s arms someday. Kuna, Yuno, hehe”
If Yuno had heard, she would have been scared and run away, but unfortunately or fortunately, Yuno didn’t hear her little monologue.
*Diane Erica Maywood von Balkan 1st Princess Illustration
