Chapter 232

Heavy Shower (7)

T/N: Missing chappie coming tmrw~

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The view of the armed warriors departing was quite the spectacle.

Aristine glanced at this scene, then she started walking.

The court ladies were shocked by the sight of her stepping into the rain without hesitation and called out to her.

“Princess Consort.”

“I want to take a walk, alone.”

The court ladies froze at Aristine’s words.

A walk alone was not a problem.

But it was currently raining and Aristine did not have an umbrella.

Normally, they would have stopped her by saying she would catch a cold or trying to suggest that she take a walk in the greenhouse, but the atmosphere right now seemed wrong for that.

This was the first time they had seen Aristine like this since they started serving her. When she first arrived at Irugo, all sorts of people came out to ridicule her, but she didn’t even blink an eye.

But right now...

The court ladies didn’t know what else to do and followed behind Aristine.

Aristine came to a stop.

“I said I want to be alone.”

“At, at least take an umbrella...”

Aristine turned away.

“Don’t follow me.”

She moved away with long, fast strides.

Her cold rain descended sharply, threatening to freeze her whole body.

‘I am the worst.’

To think she was taking out her anger on the court ladies who were worried about her.

However, Aristine’s expression remained unchanged.

Silence descended over the two for a while.

Hamill looked at the water droplets that continued to form on Aristine’s face and eyes, despite holding the umbrella over her.

“It is raining heavily.”

At Hamill’s words, Aristine opened her stiff blue lips.

“It’s a shower.”

“A shower?”

“Yes, a heavy shower that briefly pours then stops.”

Hamill looked up at the sky.

It began raining even before the ceremony started, and it had been pouring down for about two hours.

The sky was lined with endless gray clouds, and it didn’t look like the rain was going to stop anytime soon.

But he nodded. “Yes, it is a shower. It will be over soon.”

Aristine looked at Hamill quietly.

She belatedly realized that his shoulders were drenched due to holding the umbrella over her from a fair distance.

His light platinum-blond was soaked with water and sank down heavily.

“Go back.”

When she said that, Hamill shook the umbrella gently.

“I’ll just cover you with the umbrella,” He smiled, “Won’t do anything else.”

Was it because he was drenched? Somehow his smile felt so feeble like it would soon dissolve in water.

“...”

Aristine was silent.

“Just that, so you don’t get rained on.”

Please let me do that at least.

His clear turquoise eyes glistened crystally.