Looking blankly over Calisto’s head, I asked the whole story belatedly.
“Wha... what happened to us? We fell off the cliff.””
“There was a waterfall under the cliff. We could survive without dying because we fell into the river.”
The crown prince, using a branch as a firecracker, rummaged through the bonfire and answered in an indifferent tone.
“When I ca out carrying you around, I found this cave nearby.”
Only then did I take a closer look around. We had now set a bonfire not far from the entrance.
The rain seed to have stopped before we knew it, but outside the entrance was dark and I couldn’t see an inch ahead. Only the occasional refreshing sound of water proved true that there is a waterfall.
I turned my head again and looked inside the cave. It was quite a deep cave, but over the inside there was a dark cloud.
‘What if it’s the territory of a beast? Or a snake....’
A quite realistic ideas crossed my mind. I felt my hand and found the crossbow lying next to , but I soon rembered that I used up all my beads to kill the assassins.
“This is not an animal shelter.”
The prince added bluntly, as he was looking at my anxious face.
“While you were asleep, I skimd through it, and it was strangely empty.”
“......do you know where we are?”
I asked the most important thing first. Even if the sun goes down and we can’t move, we have to go back quickly when the day cos. I had high hopes as he was a native of the imperial palace, but he shook his head rcilessly.
“We held every hunting contest in the northern forest, but I didn’t even know there was a place like this.”
I sighed.
‘I must be going crazy by now.’
It was about ti when I look at the prince with a confused face, anticipating out of the forest that would have been turned over by and the prince who had disappeared. On one shoulder of his reflected bonfire was a dry cut of blood. It was the place where the comndation was given.
At the sa ti, just before falling off the cliff, I rembered him being stabbed by an assassin’s sword.
“Your body.... Are you alright?”
He almost wiped out and killed , but......but it bothered that he was hurt on my behalf.
“Are you asking now? You’re asking very early. Thank for your tears.”
I was a little embarrassed by the sarcastic remarks. In fact, I wasn’t really worried if ML would die.
“Are you seriously hurt? Let see.”
“No, it’s okay.”
He stopped coldly as I was about to get up to see the scar.
“I didn’t get deeply cut in it because I was wearing armor. It’s just shred little blood.”
It was a relief. But I couldn’t help but frown at the news of blood.
“I wish we could go back and get so treatnt...”
“You’re worried, aren’t you?”
“Of course.”
I answered with a straight face. Of course, I wasn’t worried about him.
“Don’t die in front of .”
Because I only worried for myself.
‘If you want to die, go sowhere else and die. Don’t die in front of .....’
I was mutter inwardly and listen to the gaze. He was staring at with a queer face.
Late to realize that there was room for my words to sound strange to him, my face heated up.
‘It sounds like I’m telling him not to die!’
I was taken aback and hurriedly changed my words.
“And...”
“......”
“It’s late, but thank you for saving .”
Anyway, I had to admit it. Apart from the fucking quest, Calisto got hurt on my behalf. And he didn’t fling out after falling off the cliff, and he saved here.
‘.....am I a little off from trouble if we’re going to et?’
I still rember how crazy he was when he asked to say goodbye with a knife in my neck.
Looking at him anew, I t his red eyes head-on. He was still staring at with an unknown look. I felt a little awkward and turned my eyes first.
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Good feelings have risen. He picked up the corners of his mouth and twisted it up.
“If you’re so grateful, you should fall in love with again.”
I frowned at the persistence of another man talk.
“Your Highness talking nonsense again.”
“Isn’t this just the right ti for the princess to like ?”
“Not at all.”
I answered imdiately. Then I asked again because it was so stuffy.
“Why the hell are you so obsessed with hearing my reasons?”
His obsession ended to the point where he even sent a threatening letter saying, “Don’t forget your promise to tell why you like .” At my question the Crown Prince made a more ridiculous expression than I did.
“I can’t stand wondering why the princess suddenly ca after that day and confessed her love.”
“Well, that’s...”
I couldn’t say I tried to die once to see if there was a “reset button.”
I opened my mouth with tears of blood in my past, when I made such a gibberish to avoid another mont’s crisis.
“......I must have been out of my mind at the ti. I’m sorry, Your Highness.”
“Huh.”
The Crown Prince laughed coldly.
“I’ve been waiting for weeks because I want to listen to it, and you suddenly changed in the middle and say hated , so wouldn’t it be unfair if princess were ?”
There was a burning desire to refute who the iron poison was from.
But I didn’t want to dwell on that terrible mory of the day anymore. So I corrected his excessive selling.
“...I didn’t say I hate you.”
“So you’re saying, you still like .”’
“No!”
I changed my words again with a shiver.
“Then, tell about the reason that I suddenly hated.”
‘Cause I don’t want talk to you all day long about that reason!’
However, the crown prince grinned like a ghost as he revealed his teeth.
“It’s a perfect topic to talk to alone in the torture chamber of the Imperial Palace’s underground prison for defaming the Imperial Family. Isn’t that right?”
‘Scary bastard..........’
I shut my mouth in amazent.
A cool silence fell in the cave once. It was when I stared blankly at the end of the campfire dancing, wondering how the hell had happened.
” ......why do you hate it?”
The silent crown prince asked abruptly.
“...yes?”
“Why did you suddenly change your mind?”
“You said it was an insult to the imperial family.”
“I’ll let you off this one ti, so tell .”
I stared at him in a daze and soon crumpled my face.
‘Are you sure you don’t know?’
Then he was a villain in the world.
“You tried to kill .”
Now that He’d said He’ll let it go, I’ve taken a bold shot at the reason. That’s why I hit “X” countless tis in the first place. What kind of crazy woman would like a madman who tries to kill in common sense?
But the Crown Prince had a look of complete ignorance in my answer.
“When did I?”
“When did you, when.......?”
I couldn’t have been more puzzled. After a mont of poking my mouth, I shouted.
“That day. The birthday party of the Second Prince! In the maze garden, the Crown Prince tried to hit my neck with a knife! That’s how much I....”
I had been struggling for days with all kinds of nightmares. If I didn’t looked like a sick girl with a bandage around my neck, would I have passed the Duke and Derek without much scolding?
“That’s...”
In my words the Crown Prince had a rare bewildered expression.
” ......I didn’t really an to kill you.”
‘Don’t be X.’
I couldn’t spit it out with my mouth, and I looked at him with eyes that revealed my thoughts without filtration. When playing the ga, I died so much in the maze garden that I couldn’t proceed with the crown prince route.
“It was when I felt like a real dog. There was nothing noticeable, so I would pull the sword if anyone co.”
The prince, who did not know my thoughts, recited as an excuse.
“But didn’t Princess stay alive because I got interested in the sound of Princess liking ?”
“.......I’m so touched that my hands and feet tremble and my tears will drop. Your Highness.”
“Are you being sarcastic?”
“There’s no way.”
I turned my head in a curt reply. However, despite my attitude to cut off the conversation, the prince did not know that it was over.
“Then tell why you fell in love with .”
“Ha... I already told you then.”
I sighed deeply and murmured in a weary voice.
“Because of Your Highness good looks, Your bravery, and Your skills of the sword.........”
“Don’t talk with insincere like that. You think I’m an eyeless idiot?”
The Crown Prince flashed red eyes at my insincere attitude.
“You make that face when you see , and you want to believe it now?”
“What’s wrong with my face?”
“You look like you’ve chewed up dog poop.”
“....”
He saw it so well that I had nothing to say. Seeing speechless, the prince persuaded with a slightly muted voice.
“Tell honestly. Did anyone threaten to kill you if you didn’t confess?”
I thought.
‘I’d rather do it ....’
I don’t know why I said such a rude thing at the ti, but if He keep questioning about the reason, what kind of answer should I say.
“....”
I looked at the crown prince with eyes that almost shot to death, and said anything with resignation.
“...I liked your hair color.”
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