332 283. The white prince took an oath.

131 months ago

"Yoan, refrain from visiting the kingdom of Sursis.

It was about six months after I became involved with Prince Lance.

He was summoned by his father, the current king, and suddenly said so.

"... what do you mean, Father? The Kingdom of Sursis is a single wing of my Hanazoo United Kingdom. Why should I refrain from visiting?

I knew exactly why. Still dare to ask. Then his father, the king, opened his mouth, "Don't you see," and glanced at me from the throne.

"I wonder if the first prince of the kingdom of Chinensis is visiting the first prince of Lance for preaching.... a disgrace to our country if you can think of it that way. It will also hinder future alliance relations.

Again, huh?

I bite my mouth and endure. [M]

I had long anticipated that fathers and upper human beings would fear it. Whenever I visited the kingdom of Sursis, neither the people of the kingdom of China nor the people of the kingdom of Sursis were pleased, but not only the royal family or the upper echelons.

My closest parents, my oldest superiors, were the enemies of me and my first friend, Prince Lance.

"If you're going to visit our country from the Kingdom of Sursis, it's still good. But it also involves the holding of our country, such as the fact that the First Prince of our country keeps bothering to ask about the Kingdom of Sursis.

It's a sloppy insistence.

I especially sincerely think so since I started talking to Prince Lance. The people also want us royalty to be close to each other's country. Yet why should we refrain from visiting for such reasons?

"Yoan, you are an excellent first prince in history. Don't be confused. My country is the kingdom of Chinensis. Don't let that first prince, the second prince, have a day to bow his head.... Especially don't let the second prince have your heart. I am an abomination to my country.

Still, there was no reason for me to have the courage to turn to my father when I was only ten years old.

I could only pray to God as I clenched my chest cross.

Just nodding, thanking your father and leaving the room.

When I heard the door shut, I felt like something else was closed at the same time.

"There's no reason to be bad at this one, so from now on, you can come to the kingdom of Chinensis... there's no reason I can say that. Prince Lance didn't originally want to impress me. [M]

Do you make excuses for being busy on official business as the first prince? No, you can't, if you're deluded like that. When they find out sooner or later, the relationship gets unnecessarily worse.

You can't hide it, you can't delude it.... I just have to be honest. Even if, for that matter, I bought his discomfort.

"... corner, I thought we could be friends.

Walking down the wide corridor, whining to no one.

Prince Lance was my first friend.

He showed me the light when I found nothing to hope for in the future. He was the only one who offered me the breadth to this world that I thought was closed.

Both Circus and Chinensis are from our own country, the United Kingdom of Hanazoo, right?

I won't forget his words.

Only his presence coloured my life just boring.

The last six months of getting involved with him have been incredibly fun.

He crossed the hedge of a country, … rather he lined up with me as a people of the same country.

But even he would be the last of them. The next time I see you, I'll tell you everything clearly. My kingdom of Chinensis has closed its doors to you, the kingdom of Sursis.... and that I followed it again.

I thought with him, we could create one country in a real sense. I really thought so.... but I'm sure that's over too

"I see, I get it. From now on, I will visit the kingdom of Chinensis.

"What...?

It was the time I told him, who visited my country as usual, not to hide it. Payments were also made in the guest room, and even though he left it to his anger to yell at me, he also struck his hand so that there was no problem.... but to my words he immediately answered that without any confusion.

"Aren't you angry...?

Unexpectedly, I said it from myself. I couldn't believe his flat attitude, stared at him so much that the hole was empty, and I also suspected he didn't understand.

"If the king commanded me, I would have no choice. I'm sorry I made you feel so narrow-shouldered because of me, Prince Joan.

Hung, he snapped his nose and put his arms together. He bowed his head to me. But there was no shade, and my eyes burned brightly at me with a bright eye.

"... but one day my kingdom of Sursis might be ordered to refrain from visiting as well. My interest in me isn't that good right now, or I don't have that kind of life... but my father's head is hard on this one.

Closed his eyes, thinking deeply, he leaked his voice as he roared for a while, leaning down. For a few minutes, watching him roar, I could not accept the fact that I was still allowed to do so.

Why is he so vast?

I'm sure if I had been told, I would have wanted to turn down the relationship already, and I would have stayed put.

The doubt continued to precede the relief without losing friends, that was when.

"That's right!

Pan! And he slapped himself on the knee as he sat down and sounded, smiling at me happily that he had come up with something good.

Prince Lance circled to me, who was across the table, and stood next to him.

"Prince Joan, surely there was a blood vow in your country?

"Blood vows… rituals performed in the faith of our kingdom of Chinensis, where we exchange absolute vows by mixing each other's blood. It is also a ritual for royalty to exchange vows with the people before the people and with God. It is often done by succession to the throne, faith, engagement or oath.

He suddenly bit off the tip of his thumb in front of me when I couldn't figure it out. I can hear the dull and painful sound of gallip, and I take my breath unexpectedly.

"What...?"

I can't believe the first prince suddenly bled himself out. He stuck out his red dripping fingertips at me trying to get the cloth out without knowing what it meant. Bluntly lit red in front of him, he shouted at me with no confusion.

"I swear on this occasion now, my friend!

That voice was so clear that it resonated, and that powerful grin lighted me up hot.

"We may suddenly not be able to see each other again one day. But that's only a decade or so. If I succeed to the throne, I will. If you inherit the throne, you will destroy the walls that hold each other back. That's when it starts again… at the beginning.

No matter how high and heavy the strong walls block, he easily makes the walls laugh forward. I get over it, and when I break it, I declare it grand.

Yes, I've always wanted this glare.

"I swear, Prince Joan... no matter what happens next, we will always be kings, and together we will enrich the Hanazoo kingdom!

The heat in his red eyes increases and burns and rolls with even more dazzling light. Blood continues to overflow and passes from his finger to his wrist. Not caring about it at all, he laughed forcefully and showed his teeth.

"You can do it, if we can! If it's not you, we're..."

He cuts the words. The brilliance of the eyes at that time is neither precipitation nor intoxication. Solid hope and certainty were there.

"He's the only prince in the world who could exist with two people."

My whole body trembled badly, foaming.

Until now, I have only assumed that being born in this distorted kingdom of the United Kingdom, or in the First Prince of a divided country, is a fate that I should abhor.

But for the first time in this moment, I...

I thought it was happier than anything else.

Move your flogging feet to your trembling body. Turn your back on him and remove the knife provided for the guest room in self-defense from the back of the concealed shelf and tear the tip of his thumb the same way he did. I felt nothing because of the excitement when I was supposed to run for a moment. Blood overflowed from the wound and red glanced through the belly of his finger.

"Let's swear. For the future of this country and for its people.

I walked over to him and superimposed the dripping red together. Push the wounds together hard and the blood overflowing each other stops once and for all.

"Lance. I... need you.

Prince Lance... that blood that Lance and I shed was the same red color before we mixed it up.

And again, I understand, we're the same people.

"So let's swear it from me, Lance. When we bury each other. When I don't, you do, and when you don't, I promise to protect what's important to us.

He loosened the force of his pressing fingers and squeezed each other's hands hard as they were. Palms joined each other and the temperatures overlapped with each other.

No priests, no swearing words, no ritual daggers, nothing. I can see for myself, it's just a child's imitation. Still, at this time, it's for us.

It became a darker oath than blood.