CH 20

(3rd Person POV)

“Why would the Princess come here before marriage?”

Lot looked up at Terrence with a slightly disappointed look.

“I’m thinking of making a model as a wedding present and I don’t know if Her Highness the Princess will like it. I wanted to show it to her once she visited the mansion.”

The word ‘gift’ suddenly reminded him of the holy flower that he had received during the day.

The flower was still lying on the desk in the office.

After checking the note, it became useless, but for some reason he didn’t want to throw it away.

“It’s a gift you put a lot of effort into, even the Princess will definitely love it.”

Whether she liked it or not, I could just tell Lot that the Princess liked it.

“Yes, I wish the Princess would come here soon.”

Lot smiled bashfully, but Terrence had a hard time maintaining his smile.

“Okay, let’s play the game again later. It’s already late, so you should go to sleep.”

Terrence patted his younger brother on the back and tenderly comforted him.

“We’re gonna play again later!”

“Okay.”

Terrence followed his younger brother’s back with his eyes, as he turned around.

Camion looked at him and smiled low.

“His Grace becomes a completely different person when he is with the young master.”

Camion spit out a playful joke, then threw down his card, and got up.

The break is over, it’s time to go back to work.

When he got up from his seat to return back to the office, he didn’t receive a response from Terrence, making him pause..

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When he turns around with a puzzled look on his face, Terrence remains seated, looking intently at the two remaining cards in his hand.

“Your Grace? What’s wrong?”

Terrence looked into the card case and set it down on the table.

“….. No, it’s nothing.”

Two cards were placed side by side in front of him.

Heart and a clover.

It was a card of red and black seven.

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(3rd Person POV)

The scenery of the city that was covered with snow could be seen through a window framed by white ice.

Terrence looked out the window at the white landscape.

The snow that had fallen for a few days had colored the vast islands pure white.

From the plaza of the capital to the roof of the Great Hall on the top of the hill, it is covered with white snow as if a white veil was draped over it.

‘She said that it would be today.’

It was five days ago, when his fiancee, Her Highness the Princess asked him to confirm her foresight. According to her, there will be a solar eclipse this morning.

Terrence was waiting for it. This is the moment when that woman’s ability is proven right before his eyes.

The door opened with a short knock. It was Camion.

“Your Grace.”

Came into the office, walked over to the desk and bowed his head.

“Did you find out anything?”

“Yes. As you said, I went to the Great Hall, the Academy, and the astronomical observatory to find clues.”

At Terrence’s order to learn about astronomical changes, Camion went to the Academy and the Great Hall early this morning to meet the astronomer and the priest.

“Everyone was convinced that there would be no change in astronomy in the near future. They even said that there would be no solar or lunar eclipses.”

All three were convinced that there would be no special changes in astronomy.

Even an astronomical professor at the academy gave a lengthy explanation of why a solar eclipse could not occur for a while, bringing in unknown data depicting the constellations and orbits.

Camion barely escaped while listening to the endless lecture.

Camion didn’t understand why Terrence suddenly ordered this.

‘Does the Grand Duke become interested in astronomy?’

After hearing his report, Terrence suddenly changed the direction of his question.

“What about the Emperor?”

“The Imperial Knights Commander, Sir Gailen, is not showing any suspicious movements.”

Camion cleared his voice and answered in a confident tone.

“It seems that they are rather quiet. The Emperor was out on the battlefield, and the Knight Commander seemed very comfortable. But nothing was suspicious.”

Terrence did not take his eyes off the window as he listened to the report.

It was quiet and serene in the office. The white morning light was seeping into the office.

Camion, who had been waiting for a while, asked Terrence.

“….. Your Grace, what are you looking at?”

But no matter how long he waited, no answer came back.

Camion, who couldn’t wait, came to the window to see what the hell he was looking at.

Carefully approaching Terrence’s side, he could see the snow-covered scenery of the capital city through the window. However, there was nothing special.

“Is there anything worth seeing…..”

Camion couldn’t finish the question. As soon as he spoke, a shadow began to slowly fall over the stone wall of the mansion.

As he raised his head in surprise, a black shadow appeared in the sky.

The white sun was slowly disappearing through the clouds.

A pitch black shadow swallowed up the sun’s light very slowly.

The round glow slowly disappeared beyond the shadows.

It was a solar eclipse.

“Solar eclipse…..”

Camion was startled, he muttered intensely while taking a deep breath.

In an instant, more than half of the sunlight disappeared.

The blue sky had become as dark as the night sky.

Camion looked up in the sky curiously, as he muttered while watching.

“After seeing this, I wonder why they are giving such huge amounts of money to the Academy or the Great Hall. They can’t even guess what will happen in a few hours.”

“…….”

Terrence stared at the sky without saying a word.

The sun completely disappeared behind the shadows.

The clear winter sky was immersed in darkness similar to the midnight sky.

Terrence, who was still looking up the sky, suddenly turned without hesitation.

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“Your Grace?”

“Prepare to go out quietly and unnoticed.”

“Pardon?”

Terrence, who had a perplexed look on his face, hurriedly went out of the office without looking back at Camion who was following him.

“We’re going to the Great Hall right now.”

The sun, which had begun to emerge from the shadows again, quietly cast sunlight in the empty office room.

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(Eve’s POV)

After the eclipse passed by, the clear sky lost its light and began to turn gray.

I looked up at the sky through the window.

The eclipse was already over, but there was still no news from the Grand Duke’s side.

Now there are 35 days left.

In front of me was an embroidery frame on which a thin white silk was fixed.

A pure white cloth that is thin and light enough to see through.

The delicately embroidered silver petals gleamed softly in the morning sun.

It is the design of the bridal veil used at the wedding.

It was customary here for the new bride to embroider her own veil, but Eve’s embroidery skills were poor, so the maids embroidered it instead.

She was very fortunate to have them because she really didn’t know how to do embroidery at all.

Looking at the half-finished white veil, I had a realization once again.

That my precious time is passing again.

There was nothing that I could do as long as the Grand Duke had yet to reach out to me.

I might get a call today.

*Knock, knock.

I sighed, while I was fiddling with the frame when I heard a knock outside.

“Come on in.”

A maid who looked about the same age as Nell came into the room with a trolley.

A three-tier tray of desserts and a tea set with hot tea were placed on the trolley.

“Princess, I brought you some refreshments.”

“Oh, okay.”

The maid set the teacups and bowls on the table in front of me.

“Thank you.”

As I tried to smile as sweetly and tenderly as possible, I picked up a pink dacquoise from the plate and held it in the maid’s hand.

“This is delicious, try one. Oh, this too.”

I held the maid’s hand and held two more dacquoises in different flavors.

“Oh my, thank you. Princess.”

The maid wrapped her three dacquoise with an emotional look on her face, bowed her head and went outside.

I followed her back with my eyes and let out a small sigh.

‘I still can’t see anything.’

‘How many times did it fail?’

For the past three days after visiting the temple, I have held the hands of everyone around me, but I have only seen one that seemed to be a foresight.

It was a scene in which a maid was chatting with another maid and dropped the bowl that she was holding in the hallway.

‘Just like what my foresight shows, it happened the next day.’

But that was the only foresight that I received.

I wanted to try holding something other than the hand, so I straightened the maid’s hair when it was messed up, and even patted the maid’s shoulder, who was cleaning, saying it was dusty.

I’ve tried that about 30 to 40 times over the past 5 days, but foresight has only appeared on three occasions: once for the Duchess, another one from the Grand Duke, and lastly about the broken bowl.

3 wins and 27 losses.

Even if I take a multiple choice test with my eyes closed, I will get a higher percentage of correct answers than this.

‘With this, the probability is lower than I thought.’

As I drank bitter black tea and sighed, a knock was heard once again.

The maid, who opened the door, came in, as she bowed her head politely and said.

“The chief priest has sent an invitation to Her Highness the Princess.”