450 Lesson 72: The flower of love withers.

My first love doesn't come true.

It is extremely rare for love to bear fruit, especially between nobles and royalty.

So this is one of those commonplace, hundreds of love stories.

I'm talking about a love that was drunk by a wave of history and withered.

Tiona Rudolfon first met Theon Saul Sankland on the day she came to St. Noel.

Together with his servant Riola, Zion, who appeared refreshed to help her, who had been mocked by the noble ladies. Escorted by him reaching out, she toured St. Noel's Island..., feeling her heart saved.

It must have been natural for Tiona to have taken a liking to Zion at the freshman welcome dance party, and then in her student life, as she got help more than once.

My heart jumped when I put my hands together.

Just staring into those straight eyes made my cheeks hot.

That was probably... Tiona's first love.

He was a nice smiling boy.

He was gentle, noble, and pure.

More importantly, as royalty…, as a empowered person, I impose on myself to be right and believe that it is so…, Tiona admired that appearance. At the same time, he disgusted the nobles of his country.

My relationship with Rafina Orca Verga also influenced that thought.

I want to be right. I want to be strong. As a nobleman standing above people......

When such a wish was sprouting on Tiona's chest, pure as a young child, a great famine struck the continent as if to test its aspirations.

The plague epidemic, the financial collapse, the popular bee...... revolution.

Tiona, who was assassinated by her father, was unresponsive and thrown out in that wave.

But I didn't think you were scared. Because she had people to support her......

Theon Saul Sankland shared Tiona's wrath and did the "right thing” for the Empire.

He defeated the rotten imperial chamber and swept away the great nobles.

For the people, for the new empire.

But......, since when?

I started to feel far away about him...

Tiona knew I was watching beside her.

That there is a wound in Zion's heart...... Though for the sake of justice, he executed Meer, the princess who once had a schoolhouse with him. It can't be a scratch.

Theon is strong, he tries to be strong, so he doesn't show that in front of his minister. Or he might not have noticed about the wound himself. Maybe he didn't want to admit it.

But Tiona was clearly aware that Scion was hurt.

Perhaps...... that's because Tiona liked Scion.

I've been watching it and I've been admiring someone..., so I could notice.

"Prince Zion's, I want to be supportive..."

That feeling was in Tiona's mind.

... but Tiona couldn't step out.

Zion is the prince of a great power. I don't go along with myself. That was a harsh fact. As the leader of the revolution, he is in a different position than he is, even though he has become involved in Tiermoon's administration.

But... more importantly, what stopped Tiona from legging..., that's the fact that Zion killed Meer for Tiona.

Tiona, who assassinated her father by a faction of emperors. To correct that outrage, Zion took the sword and fought for me with his life at stake.

To him who was wounded by it......, what the hell am I supposed to say?

Heal him who's hurt for himself, who's a party?

Isn't that a cowardly act, poking through the gaps in the hearts of wounded Scion?

Whenever he sees his face, does Theon remember and suffer more than once about Meer, who killed him?

Tiona couldn't move a single step because of a glitch from Goto.

However, Tiona was not a child enough to rush over to Zion while she was in love.

Helping her busy days after the revolution, Tiona had stopped thinking altogether.

That's how I became so alienated from Scion when I returned to Sunkland.

Though we had not been in touch, there, we were no longer as intimate as we once were.

A while later, I heard that Zion had a wedding with the daughter of a nobleman in the country. Even then, Tiona didn't think it was sad.

It's just..., with the loneliness of tightening his chest loosely, I sincerely prayed that the woman tied to Theon was someone who could heal his wounds.

It was the end of one, of a pale love affair in which Meer's death had been distorted.

"……… Ah"

So......, Tiona woke up.

Think about the dream you had earlier with a blurry head specific to your awakening.

I feel like it was a dream I shouldn't forget..., before its shape breaks down, I try to reach out and grab it, but... While I saw it, it faded away lightly, and all that remained was an indescribable no longer.

"... weird dreams..."

On the bed, get your half body up......, twinkle.

I don't remember the details, but still, that's all I know.

It was a very strange dream, a terribly big one...... But...

Tiona, hold her chest gently. I find there faint agony and indelible cuts, confused.

Because of this, it was time for a peaceful nap (Siesta)... but the feeling wasn't resting at all.

"I slept somewhere I wasn't used to..."

Three days had passed since the Meers had come to the Lampron Castle.

I changed into a dress, I just left the room for visitors, and just, I bowled with Meer, who came out of the room in the same way.

"Ah, Mia..."

In a dream, the Imperial Princess, Meer Luna Tiermoon, executed as a villain..., I wonder why, came out of the room with her mouth awaked.