CH 204

He clasped both hands.

“They were all lost.”

“. . . ?”

“Ah, it’s the Kingdom language.”

Immediately, BB spoke to her in the Kingdom language, “They all lost their sanity.”

“What do you mean?”

“Since the Princess borrowed money from the empire, the King has learned ‘a little luxury’. He learned how to buy happiness with money.”

“But, the money was to be sent where it was needed. I know that too, that’s why I’m here . . .”

“Right. But the King wanted to spend it right now to suit his mood. So everyone opposed it.”

Simultaneously with those words, BB stoked his neck with his hand.

“. . . It must have been more than one or two people.”

Rieta bowed her head.

“Yes, surprisingly, it wasn’t just one or two people.”

“And surprisingly, everyone was . . . killed?”

“Some don’t seem to be. Liz also has a family with a long history. No matter how it was, the King, he can’t do anything recklessly.”

BB smiled softly.

He seemed to be referring to, for example, the Maureen family, who had been close to the King for a long time.

“I wonder sometimes. What are the surviving servants thinking?”

Rieta rubbed the back of his hand for nothing.

A long time ago, the warmth that had touched the back of her small hand was still there.

“Do you miss them?”

Rieta nodded her head when BB asked.

She never forgot them.

Even while she grew up comfortably here.

“Ah . . . that’s troubling. You mean it.”

However, BB only scratched his head as if he troubled by Rieta’s answer.

It was not necessarily a good idea for her to miss them.

“Princess.”

And for the first time. He called Rieta by her proper title.

“You’ll be better off just staying in this country.”

Rieta wanted to ask at that moment why he would think so, but somehow she couldn’t open her mouth.

“Now, no one in that country is waiting for you.”

It must have been because of the ridicule alongside it.

“. . . !”

Noel responded to those words first.

He pulled BB’s collar roughly across the table.

“You want to die?!”

“Don’t!”

Rieta quickly stopped him, but this time the plea didn’t work.

Noel gritted his teeth, almost touching BB’s face.

“Noel, please.”

“Let him go? Ha, if Elisha had been here, this bastard’s head would have already been sweeping dust off the floor!”

“Noel!”

“If you want to babble, know your words! How much does this bastard know about the Princess!”

“Um, but you two don’t know much about the Kingdom of Liz, do you?”

If only he had just stayed still.

BB further aroused Noel’s anger with useless words.

No, at least now, in Rieta’s eyes, it seemed like he was doing it on purpose.

“You . . .”

Noel pulled him closer and looked at him sharply.

Even at that moment, Rieta pulled Noel here and there and begged him to stop.

But it doesn’t work at all, perhaps because of the agitation.

What to do? If Noel put his hands on BB . . .

Something pretty big might happen.

In Rieta’s ears as she was thinking about that, suddenly, a cute sound of ‘chu’ resounded between the two men.

That’s the kind of sound to hear with a kiss.

No way.

Rieta carefully raised her head while holding Noel’s arm.

Then she saw BB smiling happily.

She also saw Noel’s cheeks, which had turned white.

“. . . You.”

After a while, Noel spoke. His words were shaking.

“Now, what did you just do to me?”

“I mean, it’s unavoidable. The Lord came within range. BB is a loner.”

Then, BB pushed his lips out again, and Noel immediately let go of the collar he was holding.

Then he covered his mouth with both hands and looked up into the air in despair.

“Oh, Lord, don’t tell me . . .”

As BB tried to point out something, Noel roared with a blushing face.

“No!”

“But that delicate reaction is undoubtedly . . . !”

“No! It’s not my first time?!”

“Ah, I’m glad. I thought I was an unscrupulous person who stole someone’s first kiss.”

“Shut up! Do you think I would be humiliated by someone like you?!”

Even if it wasn’t his first kiss, the fact that Noel was humiliated doesn’t seem to change.

Rieta wanted to point it out, but she stood still for now.

It seems that Noel is half losing his mind.

“BB.”

Rietta left the agitated Noel behind and faced BB.

“Do you still have any more questions?”

“You said they’re not waiting for me. So what are they waiting for?”

BB smiled bitterly as he made eye contact with Rieta, who asked about their hopes.

“You are back in the fairy tale.”

“What?”

“Of course, they wait for nothing.”

Nothing. He dared to repeat it one more time.

As if to engrave it painfully into Rieta’s heart.

“. . . Somehow.”

She thought she knew.

The end of a small revolution within the kingdom would have been death.

Even so, it was clear that the coming war from the outside would only leave harshness behind.

In the end, all they could hope for was survival.

“The bare minimum life . . . continues.”