Chapter 405 Escort (1)

Chapter 405 Escort (1)

The moment that I realized this, I couldn't help stopping for a second.

The princess noticed that I had stopped and she also stopped to ask, "Sir Zwein, is there something wrong?"

I looked at her with a stunned look for a few seconds before coming back to my senses.

I gave a cough and turned around before saying, "No, nothing's wrong."

Then without waiting for a response, I started walking again.

The princess paused for a second before following me.

But behind, the fourth prince had narrowed his eyes as he whispered to himself, "So he realized? But how?"

After we left the room, the fourth prince waved his hand and there was someone else that appeared in this room.

This was a figure cloaked in black that knelt down on the ground the moment that they appeared as they said, "Your highness, your order?"

The fourth prince was silent for a few seconds before saying, "Help me check him out. See if there were any other times where he met with the princess."

The figure in black gave another bow of the head before disappearing just as suddenly as they had appeared.

When they were gone, the fourth prince just sat there with knitted brows on his face.

But he didn't say anything in the end.

...

As the two of us walked out of the fourth prince's manor, I couldn't help peeking back at the princess following behind me.

She didn't seem to have a problem following my pace at all.

It was almost as if she was already used to moving around quickly.

But from what I knew about her, I wasn't that surprised since I knew that she was a tomboy princess.

This was true in the game and this was true in this world.

After all, my first meeting with her was when she snuck into my carriage to sneak into the city.

When we came out, there was a carriage waiting for us with the same butler as before.

He was waiting for us to help us into the carriage, but I made the first move.

I reached out for the princess and said, "Let me help you."

She couldn't help jolting when she saw this before slowly reaching a hand out.

Was she really that scared of me?

I guess it made sense since I wasn't someone that was close to her, but why would the fourth prince make me escort her out of the city if that was the case?

None of this made sense...

It was clear that the real mission was to escort and protect the princess as she went out of the city for her own fun.

So that meant that I had to do everything that I could to ensure that she had fun and was safe.

If even a single hair went missing on her head...then my head would go missing next.

Just what was the fourth prince's game here?

After taking my hand, I made sure to help her into the carriage before getting up myself.

The butler saw this and then took his position in the driver's seat of this carriage.

With a crack of the reins, we started moving.

The direction that we moved in was the northern gate of the city since that was the closest gate.

As we sat there in the carriage, there really wasn't much for us to talk about.

The princess didn't say a thing and I didn't dare say anything since I was scared of offending her.

This was the princess of this kingdom...a single wrong word would mean losing my head.

Especially since I knew how much the king cherished her.

Others might not know, but there were plenty of events in the game that told me this.

It really was a hard road getting that royal ending because of the king's love for his daughter.

But the silence put pressure on the two of us until we finally couldn't take it anymore.

The princess suddenly broke the ice by saying, "It's lovely weather outside today, isn't it?"nOvE/Lb/In

I looked up at the sky and I couldn't help revealing a bit of a bitter smile.

That was because...the sky was overcast with clouds.

No matter how I tried, it was impossible for me to agree that this was good weather...

But for the sake of the princess, I just gave a nod and said, "Un."

Then there was silence that filled the carriage again.

lightsnοvεl After a bit of silence, the princess once again said, "It seems like it's about to rain."

I just gave a nod and said, "Un."

I couldn't help feeling strange after hearing the princess ask this.

By my memory, she shouldn't be this bad at conversing...there were plenty of CGs where I was able to see the princess speaking in quite the eloquent manner.

So why was she acting so strange now?

What he would never know was...that the princess had been kicking herself the entire time.

She didn't know what was happening, but she wasn't able to say the things that she normally would have been able to say.

When she tried to say anything, it was as if her mind had gone completely blank and she couldn't think of what she wanted to say.

So all she could do was say these dumb questions out loud like she was crazy.

When in truth, the princess was actually quite eloquent.

But then again, she was a princess, so this was something that she had to be skilled in.

There was this strange feeling inside of her chest that just made her unable to act the way that she wanted, so that caused an awkward feeling to fill the carriage.

The only real sound that rang out were the wheels rolling across the road.

It was a long time before the carriage finally stopped and the butler opened the door to say, "Sir Zwein, young miss, we have arrived at our destination. You can come out now."