Reunion with Two Men (1)
“I think you’d better go in now. I don’t think you have to watch it.”
“No, I have to watch it. Do you know how disappointing it was when I just finished it with a snitch?”
At that time, she was nervous just to keep him alive without killing him. Even if she thinks about it now, her teeth are breaking.
In front of the prison, they quarreled with each other and tried to enter first. She didn’t feel good, and she wanted to see it finish because she started it.
“He is already insane.”
“He should be, otherwise I wouldn’t have left him alone?”
If he hadn’t looked away in the first place and hadn’t been around without greed, the end would have been better than this.
“There are a lot of people watching. The letter is here, so you’d better check it out.”
“What letter?”
“It’s a letter that your Majesty may have been waiting for so long.”
The forehead narrowed down at Sein’s words. She was the one who eventually gave up due to him holding out.
She believed that Sein would take care of it properly, but it was a little uncomfortable to leave it in the hands of others.
She slowly moved to the room.
The last time she saw Arthur’s face came to mind. As she walked through the quiet hallway, Arthur’s castle in Viblant overlapped. The chilly atmosphere and the unknown atmosphere of the castle.
And Arthur, who looked pretty good in it.
She thought he was dead, and Nox may have taken him with Viblant when he disappeared.
“You don’t keep your promise until the end.”
She never even forgave him. Because she didn’t even have a chance to forgive him. As a dying person, she no longer had to struggle in the fear of death.
She was angry because she felt like she was tied to the past alone. She thought she’d forgotten it now, but she didn’t either, and she couldn’t let go of anything in the end.
When she returned to the room, she saw a letter on the table.
“Grand Duke Arthur Douglas.”
She could feel the tremors on her fingertips, and she couldn’t have the courage to open it. Even if she closed her eyes slowly and opened them again, the correspondence was still there.
She sat down and stared at the letter for a long time.
<I have come to die at your hands.>
There was only one sentence.
When she looked out the window, she saw a stranger. She knows that familiar appearance and that shady gaze staring at her in the dark.
She left the room and headed straight to the garden. Her heart began to fluctuate. The steps that she had been maintaining while walking without running gradually grew as she came out.
He was alive.
Nevertheless, he finally appeared in front of her.
With a slightly emaciated face, he stood there. Her face was terribly distorted when she saw his expression smiling at her.
In time, standing in front of him, she slapped Arthur’s cheek as it was.
Phat-
She looked at Arthur’s turned head and chose to breathe.
“I feel like I have come back because I’m so welcomed.”
“I think you wanted to die thinking about not coming back.”
She warned Arthur in a low voice, but he didn’t care. He just smiled deeply as he saw the sword in her hand.
“It’s better to see you angry.”
She grabbed Arthur’s chin and looked at him. It looked a little emaciated.
Her whole body was stiff. Something hot rose deep in her heart. Yes, she completely lost the bet with him.
She didn’t want to admit it, but Arthur, who was deeply established in her heart, could not be pushed out.
It’s her heart that she can’t control, but she’s been hurt too much by him. There is no easy way to forgive, and she didn’t like herself being confused with this kind of mind.
So now this is her heart she has to endure.
She took her hand off Arthur’s face and took a couple of steps away.
“Arthur Douglas, I will discuss the punishment for disobedience to orders tomorrow.”
“I’ll follow your order.”
She turned around and closed her eyes.
“It’s been a while since I saw you, can’t you show me a little more?” (he’s asking to see her face)
Arthur, who approached her before she knew it, grabbed her arm.
“Why did you withhold your engagement with me without breaking it?”
“I just missed the timing. There’s no other reason.… Nox, he won’t be around anymore.”
“The power is sealed, not completely gone.”
There were more than one or two things she wanted to ask what he did when Viblant disappeared, and she pressed the bursting question and knocked him out of the arm.
“It’s late at night, so let’s talk about what happened tomorrow.”
Arthur no longer held her at her strong tone.
***
As the day came, Sein hurriedly knocked on the door and found her.
“Your, your Majesty.”
“Is there something urgent that makes you stutter in the morning?”
After preparing relaxedly, she glanced at Sein with a reminded expression. Sein, who was gasping, breathed heavily and soon chose to breathe.
“Did you know?”
“If what you’re asking is about Grand Duke Arthur Douglas.”
Sein shook her head with an admiring look. When she heard that he asked her to see him, she told him to bring him to the Audience.
“Oh, before that.”
“I hope you don’t ask me to bring you the decapitated head and check it out.”
“…… Let’s go.”
Honestly, she thought maybe because she wanted to check with her own eyes. If she had said it out loud, she would have had to hear Sein nagging for more than an hour.….
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