Chapter 14

Chapter 14

A noble prisoner

"Princess Luna?"

Frustrated, Yuri asked Sylphide again and again.

"That... woman who looks a little short? Are you sure she's the Princess?"

"Yes, I'm sure."

Sylphide opened a collection of portraits of major figures from the Kingdom of Eindel.

"Luna 'Golden Heart' is the second of the three children in the Eindel royal family." Yuri hastily picked up the collection of portraits.

"Well, that's true."

Her name and identity were written underneath the portrait,

Luna, smiling subtly in the portrait, was noble and dignified. At a glance, it was easy to recognize that she was a princess.Visit no(v)eLb(i)n.com for the best novel reading experience

Yuri swallowed his dry saliva and turned his head to the side.

Sitting at a table right next to him, Luna was holding a mug with her hands and drinking a third cup of water,

"Gulp, gulp, gulp..."

Yuri continued to alternate between the portrait and Luna.

Her appearance was definitely the same as in the portrait... but...

"The atmosphere is different...?"

Sylphide also looked at Luna in a cold sweat.

"Ah ~!"

Luna, who gulped down the water in the cup, smiled happily and put down the cup.

"It's good!"

Because of Yuri's operation to cut off the water supply in the fortress, she did not seem to have been able to drink water properly for several days. She picked up the bucket and tried to pour water back into the cup.

"Huh?"

But the bucket was empty after drinking it aII.

Luna, who tilted her head, lifted the bucket and shook it in front of her eyes. But no water came out of an empty bucket.

"Huh ~?"

Luna tilted her head continuously with her tongue sticking out when she tried to eat the drops of water but they did not come out well.

Then Luna and Yuri's eyes met.

"Hehe?"

Luna immediately smiled broadly.

She looked like a real fool.

They were inside the Commander's office of the Ice Fortress.

The fortress was now completely occupied by the Brunhilt army, and all of these facilities now belonged to its commander, Yuri,

But Yuri and Sylphide were whispering in the corner of the commander's office as if they were guests. They did not want Luna, who was sitting at the table in the middle, to hear the conversation.

"No, but she looks at least 20 years old! Why is she acting like a child? Is that how the Eindel royals behave?"

"...Please refrain from speaking, Your Highness the Crown Prince."

Sylphide explained the information she knew in a cold sweat.

"Princess Luna is a little... She's suffering from a disease,"

"A disease? Like what?"

"A mental illness..."

Sylphide raised her index finger and twirled it around her head.

"So to say it in one word, she's a little simple-minded! I think that's it."

Surprised, Yuri asked.

"Really?"

"Hey, look, she has flowers on her head,"

When he looked at Luna after Sylphide pointed at her, it was true. There were flowers on both sides of Luna's head.

"Oh, it's true."

"You can't do this in your right mind. You do it to look pretty, or... because your head is not right..."

Both cases were possible for Luna, but the latter seemed to be the bigger reason.

"Hehehe?"

Whether she knew she was crazy, Luna looked toward them and laughed slowly.

She had a childlike smile, like a spotless blank piece of paper.

Yuri, who had been staring at Luna for a while, was embarrassed and asked Sylphide.

"Well, anyway, if she's the Princess, she's an important prisoner... right?"

"Right? She's one of the three children of King Eindel,"

"Then how should we treat her? Should we put her in jail? Or should we take care of her carefully?"

"Well, isn't that up to the Crown Prince's heart?"

Sylphide skillfully handed the responsibility over to Yuri.

"Uh, well."

Yuri groaned. Of course, he had to decide himself, but...

"Huh?"

As his always-tight composure collapsed, Yuri's face only looked like a boy of his age.

'Cute, so cute.'

Sylphide looked again at Yuri.

Yuri was now being dragged around by Luna with a look that had given up on his face.

It was cute,

She wanted to keep looking at him like this,

'Oh, maybe this isn't so bad...'

As she thought like this, Sylphide's face hardened in an instant.

"...?!"

One of her guards had come to the entrance to the commander's office and was standing there. He had a stiff, blushed face.

Sylphide's face, which made eye contact with the guard, also turned red. If two of the greatest warriors in the Empire were holding hands with a girl with flowers on her head, laughing, and circling around the room, one would have no choice but to look at her with that kind of face,

Speechless, the guard, finally spoke with difficulty.

"The, the meal, the meal preparations are complete, Commander..."

Tap!

Sylphide, who let go of Luna's hand like lightning, ran to the guard, grabbed him by the collar and dragged him out of the room.

"Ack?!"

Sylphide led the guard to the corner and growled low.

"Forget this."

"What?"

"You got it. Forget this, Everything you just saw."

Sylphide raised her right hand threateningly.

Swish!

The black gauntlet, that she was only wearing on her right hand, started to glow with a silver halo. The atmosphere in the area was shaking so much that the magical energy fluctuated. Enormous magical energy fluctuated so much that the atmosphere in the area was shaking.

"What's your answer?"

"Y-yes, yes... I'll forget everything!"

The guard nodded his head in a cold sweat.

"Sigh..."

Sylphide lowered her hand and turned back with a deep sigh.

She did not know what was going on, so she opened her eyes wide and peeked out of the door, and she saw Luna and Yuri still holding hands.

"Haa..."

Yuri was covering his face and sighing.

He seemed to have no idea what to do with this reckless prisoner,

The same was true of Sylphide, who could not see the answer.

Sylphide sighed again and beckoned to the other side of the hallway.

"...Well, then, Your Highness the Crown Prince. Do you want to go eat?"

As soon as she heard it, Luna jumped out of place.

"Yes! Luna is hungry! Very hungry!"

Then she ran down the halIway first.

As the two stood still, speechless, Luna stuck her face out at the end of the hallway.

"What are you doing? Let's hurry up and go eat!"

"Hehe, it looks delicious! Hurry, hurry!"

Yuri and Sylphide faced each other.

"...Did you prepare a meal for her too?"

"...I'll ask for it to be prepared right away."

"Yes... please."

Sylphide talked to Yuri, who was touching his aching forehead.

"Well, Your Highness the Crown Prince."

"What?"

"Wouldn't it be better just lock her up?"

Yuri looked at Luna on the other side of the hallway with a complex face.

"Hehe?"

Luna smiled immaturely with a face that was not worried at all.

"Ugh..."

Yuri wiped his frown on his forehead with his hand.

"Wait for now, I'll think about it a little bit more."

"All right..."

"Yuri! Sylphi! What are you doing? Hurry, hurry!"

After Luna abbreviated the names of the two, her stomach echoed with a rumbling sound.

"Come on~ Hurry up~"

Luna, who was calling while holding her stomach, ran away first.

Yuri and Sylphide looked at each other.

And once again, they sighed.