Chapter 411: The Emperor’s Daughter 411
“Ahh, I feel awake!”
Ria asked the maid to bring in so honey water, which Valer gulped down in a single sip and crashed on the couch. Ria looked at her pathetic-looking younger brother and clicked her tongue. Seeing that, Valer smiled.
“Did you go to another party?”
“Yes.”
“With who?”
Ah, well.
“With who?”
“...”
‘Man, why all the questions!?’
Valer thought he could almost hear Ria’s inner voice, but probably because she seed moody.
As Valer stretched his hands, Ria folded her arms.
“Use that passion in your sword. If you cut down your partying to half, you would be a better knight than Sanse.”
“I don’t want to.”
He liked swords, but he didn’t want to be an excellent knight.
Valer’s answer only brought in a sneer on Ria’s face. But Valer was smiling brightly as ever.
‘What does it matter? We only have one life to live.’
It seed very much like a case where he acted like a child, not intending to compromise his beliefs with reality. Ria only found it irritating.
“What were you up to, Ria? Did you work again?”
“Yes, your sister is a busy person.”
Her expression was too stiff. It made Valer doubt sothing. No matter what it was, the princess wasn’t soone who would express herself.
After thinking about it, he realized sothing.
Yes, that was it!
“Your Majesty has done sothing!”
He knew it. Valer’s suspicions were pretty much on the spot. Ria’s expression darkened at the ntion of her father. He enjoyed the mont a lot more.
She had an expression that ant she was trying to hold back her anger.
“It must be because of your dad!”
Eventually, Ria took a huge breath.
“If it isn’t, I’ll slap you and push you to eternal sleep. No, even if you find the world easy to walk through, how can you ask such things to my face? How do I live? I can’t even hear anything because of how shy I feel!”
“What are you even blabbering about?”
Valer asked by taking Ria’s dessert. As if waiting for Valer to utter that specific question, Ria poured out everything.
“This ti, the Ancief family sent a marriage proposal, and dad tore it right in the face of the giver. ‘How dare they send that to my daughter’”
“Puah!”
Indeed, the tyrant.
He expected it to be of sothing serious, but the answer was too unexpected.
Ria glared at Valer for laughing about it. It seed like he was having a good ti.
“Rather, I thought he would be hurt or killed, just like the last ti. Uh, that situation.”
“That is our Majesty for you.”
The most incomprehensible Emperor.
Ria giggled at Valer’s words. Seeing Ria, who was shaking her head, made Valer laugh hard, probably why she got irritated imdiately.
“Think that’s funny? Is it that funny?”
“It is funny!”
And it wasn’t just funny. Valer’s stomach was hurting from laughing.
Well, he was soone who got used to His Majesty and his way of doing things, but Ria seed to take his actions into serious consideration still. Shaking her head, Ria muttered to herself.
“He is my dad, but sotis I can’t handle what he does.”
“Huh.”
It was a bit pitiful to see a princess complain.
The princess always wondered how she was born for such a rude man and the troubles she had to face, but when one looked at them together, they both looked like they hailed from the sa puzzle pieces. Valer could only smile at the thought.
Although they said different things and acted opposite each other, they were close; the father and daughter were very close.
Obviously, if one would hear how the father and daughter converse, they would doubt if they were even related.
However, their actions with each other would speak a different story. Valer couldn’t imagine his Emperor, Caitel, watching soone very keenly or closely as he did with Ria, but the way he watched Ria made it convincing that his vigilance was all for his daughter. Maybe that was what happened if one had a daughter?
He had other people’s company when Ria was young, but as Ria began to grow, Valer could notice that Emperor Caitel would push others away.
The Emperor wanted to spend ti with soone related to him.
“Why are you looking at like that?”
“Just surprised.”
As he smiled and shrugged, Ria asked for a reason.
The princess wasn’t soone with a great personality. On the contrary, no other woman was as evil as her when she’s stressed. If Valer went stiff or nervous, she would bring up so of his embarrassing childhood stories!
Still, the innocence of her childhood hadn’t disappeared yet.
“The tea mom sent, was it good?”
“Yes. Sil is the best. Sil, great.”
“Let my mom know that; go to her and give her that ssage. She will love hearing it from you.”
Ria nodded her response, affirming Valer wordlessly.
It was a very trivial gesture, an everyday gesture, but the way she smiled and the beauty she inherited from her father made her look bright. Valer felt like he had to protect Ria from other hyena-like n.
Of course, in the forefront of Ria’s guards was Emperor Caitel, which was reassuring, yet, even Caitel was human, and he would die; thus, Valer made a pledge to stick close and protect her.
When he was young, he would think the little girl was weaker.
No, honestly, Ria, who treated the Emperor very casually and looked after the others, seed very motherly. Even right then, he felt embarrassed to say it out loud, but there was a reason why he followed Ria.
“Huh.”
Her little feet naturally walked on the ground with an enigmatic vibe. It was a strange atmosphere as if she would turn into a single entity with nature like she had taken the blood of a spirit.
A noble angel.
The girl who seed taller than him looked smaller as ti passed, probably because of the different ways boys and girls grew.
Valer laughed at the thought running through his head.
“Why are you laughing again? Did you curse in your head?”
... He canceled the angel title he gave her.
She was pretty, but her response was never satisfactory. Valer made a sour face.
“Like I’d tell you.”
“You have a death wish!”
Her little fist hit his side. He could avoid getting hit if he wanted to, but Valer just took the punch. It never hurt to be right.
Ria, who managed to land her strike, glared at him.
“So, what about Sanse? Are you here alone?”
Valer smiled at Ria.
“Sanse must be out working.”
“And you?”
“...”
He wanted the conversation to end there.
Instead of answering, Valer turned his gaze away.
Ria just clicked her tongue, knowing the answer.
Anyti she had nothing to say, she would ask Sanse.
Weak move, Ria.
It must have been since then—the ti when Sanse started to grow. The mory of that day suddenly erged in Valer’s mind; he couldn’t help but stare at Ria sitting in front of him.
Ria tilted her head when Valer asked.
“Ria, do you know why Sanse started learning how to use the sword?”
It was an unexpected question; Ria’s frown was enough to guess that she didn’t expect it.
“How would I know that?”
During that ti, Valer had already started learning swords. Maybe because he was excited about swords, but Valer used to be so crazed with the idea of using them. Perhaps because Ferdel didn’t learn the sword, he never pushed Sanse or Valer into learning swordsmanship.
However, the rest of the family were outstanding in the art sword. They were skilled, so his grandfather made young Valer learn swords by tempting him with all kinds of things.
Valer, who began learning swords, asked Sanse to join him, but Sanse never agreed to it, probably because he hated the fact that he couldn’t play with Ria.
However, one winter, he changed his mind.
“Why did he learn?”
“I won’t tell you.”
“...”
Valer laughed and avoided the hairpin which flew at him. Ria was frowning a lot.
She always used her pretty face to frown.
“So, why do you think I learned it?”
He thought she wouldn’t know it, but Ria replied with a frown.
“You said that your grandfather gave you a sword. A legendary one.”
It was the right answer. She rembered it.
“Oh? You rember?”
“Do I look like so kind of fool?”
“Uhm.”
And that called in for another fist.
The day Sanse started learning the sword was a windy one.
Ria was playing around one day and got hurt by a shard of glass she was trying to pick up because she wanted to protect Sanse, who had broken the vase; however, Valer wasn’t there, so he didn’t know the exact details.
Later, Ria pretended and lied to Caitel that her mistake got her injured since the truth would make their father hurt Sanse, but the young Sanse was shocked to learn that Caitel had hurt Ria.
For a few days, he wouldn’t eat or sleep, making the others worried. Then, Sanse confessed to Valer about what had happened and said he wanted to beco stronger.
Ria would always say that she was fine, but Sanse hated himself for not doing sothing when he was in harm’s way.
“So what is the real reason?”
Ria couldn’t hold back the curiosity tugging her mind; Valer smiled as always.
It made no sense for Sanse to take up the sword and protect soone of higher status than him, probably because Valer didn’t have such a mindset.
However, seeing that small little angel in front, he could only smile.
“Later, ask Sanse directly.”
The kid grew up.
Any child would grow up and turn into an adult.
‘Just like us,’
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