The Grand Duchess Is Defeated Again Today

The princess hugs

The Crown Prince, Mikhail Schelgart, was now in a very frantic state.

That’s because an assassination attempt took place in the Imperial Palace, which should be the safest place in the world.

Fortunately, the Princess of Valencia, who was fighting to the end over the fallen fiancée, made it possible for him to arrive on time.

I don’t know why the saint who was supposed to arrive today arrived at the imperial garden yesterday, but anyway, thanks to the saint who was there just in time, there were no casualties.

“Damn, here’s the paperwork.”

“Leave it there.”

However, the fact that there were no casualties does not mean that the strict imperial guard was not penetrated.

It was only natural that his work, which is now being taken over by the emperor, increased.

His father, the current emperor, had long since passed on the emperor’s work to him, who had a coming-of-age ceremony to have fun with his mother.

It was right that he had to deal with this as well.

“Alber Xernias…”

The name of the person who was attacked by the assassins was ‘Alber Xernias’.

It was a neatly dressed man who met him in the hallway of the imperial palace before the imperial banquet began in earnest.

In fact, the Count Xernias family is nothing special except for the fact that they are engaged to the Duke of Valencia, so it was difficult to see that the assassins were targeting Albert.

Under the circumstances, someone who learned that the saint had arrived at the imperial palace a day earlier had sent him to assassinate the saint, but it could be said that the target of the assassination was incorrectly specified.

In fact, didn’t the Princess of Valencia also testify that the assassins were initially targeting her, not her fiancée?

“·······Whew.”

So his head hurt even more.

It was not a material matter such as compensation.

It was a matter of paying a considerable amount of consolation to the Dukes of Valencia and the Counts of Zernias, who were directly affected, and the Crown Prince himself bowing his head and apologizing.

It was true that the Crown Prince bowed his head, which hurts his pride, but in this case, it is the imperial family’s fault that they can’t take it or leave it.

Mikhail, in charge, was right to apologize.

What made his head hurt was ‘why?’

Why was Princess Valencia and Prince Xernias attacked?

Although it was pierced, the imperial guard was never complacent.

It was absurd that assassins skilled enough to penetrate the strict imperial guard could not properly identify their own assassination goals.

How the hell did you get the target of assassination, so you didn’t aim for the saint alone, but the two people who were together?

Mikhail was very curious about it, but had no way of knowing at the moment.

The assassins who failed to assassinate had long since committed suicide with the poison they had prepared in advance, and there was no way to get more information from the assassins when they died.

The case was gradually falling into a labyrinth.

No matter how much I thought about it, it didn’t seem like it would make any progress.

He sighed again and stood up slowly.

“Where are you going?”

“I should go to Confucius Xernias.”

The destination is the Imperial Palace’s drawing room, which was built for the guests of the Imperial Family to stay.

Confucius Xernias, who passed out after experiencing the incident yesterday, was then transferred there.

To inquire about the incident if Albert was awake, or to ask the imperial physician what his condition was if he did not.

Mikhail walked towards the drawing room.

And, when Mikhail opened the door to the drawing room that Albert was staying.

“····.”

“····.”

He hardened like a stone.

Because Albert Xernias was already awake, and his fiancee, Princess Valencia, was holding him tightly.

He unintentionally became a hindrance who interfered with the passionate love affair of two men and women.

“·······I’m sorry. Let’s come back a little later.”

He closed the door to the drawing room, leaving a sincere apology.

“Jiha, why are you doing this after you’ve been here at the most?”

Beside him, the ignorant imperial physician he brought with him was making an expression that he did not understand.

“What do you know about youth? So, I don’t have a wife until I’m over 40.”

“····.”

It wasn’t that difficult for Mikhail, the outstanding Crown Prince, to dismiss that expression.

***

A room with warm sunlight coming in through a slightly opened window.

The room I woke up to was such a room.

If you look around, you will find that the room is decorated so splendidly that it cannot be compared with Count Xernias.

“Ugh…”

Pain was felt in the area where the arrow was hit.

I traced it with my hand, and although it had a hard bandage wrapped around it, it seemed that the arrow hit me with no light armor or anything like that was worse than I expected.

After all, what kind of madman would have thought of being hit with a poisoned arrow in his body instead.

It was a punishment for a reckless challenge, so it was right to accept and accept it.

With that in mind, I looked around to get a rough idea of where this place was.

“·······Rebecca?”

I could find the princess lying on her stomach near my legs, which were covered with a blanket.

It also slept very hard, as if I had guarded the bed where I was lying for quite some time.

When I saw it, I was honestly a little moved.

Rebecca, who insisted on fighting me every time she ran into me to get revenge on me, looks like just yesterday.

If you only look at the present state of the princess, it is that of a fiancee who was taking care of her beloved fiancé.

Of course, that’s just how it looks, and in reality, I may be mistaken.

Anyway, it was a new feeling to see the princess for the first time.

So, instead of waking up Rebecca, I looked at the sleeping princess’s face for a while.

Because the princess was sleeping too well to wake up immediately, and there was a playful sense of wanting to tease her.

It’s been a long time.

He was staring intently at Rebecca, who was sleeping soundly.

I remember the last time the Duchess of Valencia forced me to share the same room with the princess.

Even then, Rebecca awoke while watching her sleeping like this up close and pulled me with her strength…

Hwaak-

As the sensations and memories I had forgotten for a while came back to me, my face became hot.

Even though a lot of time has passed, I can still feel the touch of that time.

I touched my lips a few times at the memory of that time that came to mind, and I moved a little further away from the lying princess.

Because no one knew if the same thing would happen twice.

That doesn’t mean he hates kissing Rebecca.

Rather, I liked it.

Although I did it because I was dragged by Rebecca, not by myself, the sweetness of that time was not a feeling that is easily forgotten.

Even so, I kept some distance from the sleeping princess.

‘········The kiss that only I can remember.’

Because Rebecca, one of the parties, has no memory of that time.

It was my first kiss that only I can remember. I didn’t want to go through that again.

At least when both me and the princess were sane and confirmed each other’s feelings.

At least that’s when I wanted to kiss.

I was looking at the princess from a little distance away like that.

As if signaling that the princess would soon wake up, she moved her face little by little.

I kept staring at him, thinking he was looking at a cute baby who was twitching as much as he could.

“····.”

“…are you awake?”

Finally, Rebecca slowly opened her eyes.

It wasn’t the first time I’d looked at Rebecca’s red, transparent eyes that contained only me, but it was true that I felt better every time I looked at it.

“····.”

As soon as Rebecca opened her eyes, she saw me awake and her eyes were wide open.

“You look so stupid right now.”

Having a bad habit of making fun of my beautiful fiancee, I was always trying to tease the princess.

“You always have a blank face, but you look really stupid when you put on that expression…”

Warak-

Until Rebecca suddenly gets up and locks me in her arms.

In Rebecca’s embrace with all her might, as if she would never miss it again.

“····.”

Also, my mind went blank and I couldn’t think of anything.

The princess’s arms were so warm.

thump- thump-

The sound of Rebecca’s heart pounding slowly was telling her how she was feeling right now.

The princess’ ears, which she could barely see, were also red, so she could tell what the princess’s feelings were.

Maybe I’m in a similar situation.

Although I don’t have a mirror right now so I can’t check my face and expressions.

Looking at the heat felt on my skin, I could roughly guess how red my face would be.

It was my idea that more than a princess was more, never less.

Rebecca kept hugging me.

Without a single conversation like this, Rebecca’s warm embrace seemed to continue.

As everyone already knows.

Drooling-

“····.”

“····.”

It was interrupted by an interrupter (?) who suddenly appeared.

“·······I’m sorry. Let’s come back a little later.”

Our quick-witted protagonist grasped the situation and closed the door and left.

“······ah.”

Rebecca’s face turned red as if she was about to explode, realizing that someone else had discovered this.

It was a pity, but it was a natural story to spread the distance while letting go of the hug he had been giving me.