Don't Come to Wendy's Flower House Chapter 46

Chapter 46: Chapter 46 Don’t co to the hunting contest in the forest (8)

As if she recalled the terrible event at the Botanical Garden of Rajabude Museum, lissa soon had a scared look of her own because she saw Wendy’s cold look.

‘Dang it! Why am I seeing this troubleso woman here?’

Wendy turned her mouth up slightly to hide her displeasure. She found comfort in the fact that lissa didn’t recognize her face at once, thinking with great relief that the veil of her hat was more effective than she thought

“Miss lissa, it’s nice to see you again. How have you been?”

“Oh, it’s you, Wendy, right?”

Smiling brightly, lissa pretended to know her. Obviously, she seed very glad to et Wendy again.

“Never did I expect to see you here! Actually, I have been wanting to go to the flower shop all the ti, but I didn’t because you might feel uncomfortable… I’m so happy to et you in this place, Wendy!”

Wendy turned her eyes to the glass on the table, trying to be indifferent to lissa’s kind words. When Wendy wiped off the white vapor on the surface of the glass with her hand, water drops fell, leaving her hand marks on it.

“Miss lissa, can you lower your voice a little bit? I’m embarrassed as everybody is looking at us.”

“Oops! I think I made a mistake again.”

With a straight face, lissa quickly covered her mouth with both hands. Jean, who was next to her, urged her to avoid telling the people around Wendy’s na because he was well aware that Wendy did not want her na to be ntioned to people. When he pointed it out, lissa nodded. She seed downcast when Wendy and Jean rebuked her.

“By the way, please call lissa! Please call lissa. I want to be called by that na this ti.”

lissa indicated her wishes to Wendy, who thought that though she looked foolish, there was sothing devious about her.

“Sure, will do,” said Wendy with a bright smile.

If the people here saw Wendy calling the marquis’s daughter by her na causally, it would be harder for them to guess her identity. As lissa herself let her call her by her given na, no one would take issue with it. So, calling her lissa was not in any way harmful to Wendy.

But she was worried that lissa would warm up to her too much.

“I think we had better go to see the crown prince. Will you stand up?”

As many nobles were unusually crowded near their table inside the tent, Lard suggested to Wendy that they should move. Although she didn’t like to be around the nobles or et the crown prince,

Wendy nodded and stood up because she had to follow the prince’s order that she and Lard should co and see him before the hunting contest began.

The two left the tent after seeking Jean and lissa’s understanding.

The prince’s tent was located far from the tents provided for the nobles. A pure white tent, ornately decorated with red and yellow silk, stood in the midst of the forest. They stopped at the entrance of the tent where the imperial family’s crest was embroidered.

“Oh, it seems the emperor is inside the tent now,” he said, seeing the guards surrounding the tent.

“…This is a necessary bill, Your Majesty. Do you know that? ”

“Of course, I know. But I have to be concerned about its repercussions.”

“That’s why I am trying to alleviate your burden. So, please take my side this ti.”

“Don’t you know that’s why I’m more worried?”

An agitated voice ca out of the shallow tent. Wendy and Lard remained outside.

“… Co to the Kingsbray Palace after the hunting competition is over. ”

“I will.”

“…Didn’t you quit playing the violin once and for all?”

“Yes, I quit as you ordered. But don’t interfere with when I play it as a hobby.”

“Keep the imperial rule. None of the successive emperors liked musical instrunts like you. You should make sure they don’t doubt your legitimacy because of that.”

Their conversation continued. Right at that mont, one of the guards standing near the entrance of the tent saluted Lard silently and approached them. As Lard couldn’t overhear the emperor’s conversation, he said to Wendy, “I think we have to postpone seeing the prince.”

Wendy nodded silently.

“I’ve co here to see the prince. So, tell him that I’ve been here.”

Conveying his words to the knight, Lard led Wendy back to the tent where the nobles were.

There, while trying to be indifferent to the curious gaze of the aristocrats and sipping soft drinks, Wendy spent a tedious ti recalling the dialogue between the emperor and the prince who she had just overheard.

As she saw only his superficial behavior, she had a very low expectation of the prince. But obviously the prince had qualities befitting his position, given his conversation with the emperor.

Hearing him talking to the emperor, she thought he was very determined.

‘That’s what the position of the crown prince looks like…’ she thought to herself.

She even felt sorry for him because he couldn’t play the music he wanted to do, but it was none of her business.

After so ti, several servants serving the imperial family appeared and escorted the nobles to a wide open area to the right of the tents where there were tables full of bows and arrows as well as target boards at a distance.

The prince appeared with several imperial knights with a big smile and said to the embarrassed nobles, “Well, nice to et you all. Welco to the Burgonu hunting competition on behalf of the imperial family! ”

His voice now was so different from the voice he used in his tent a little while ago.

Wendy first noticed his curly, chocolate brown hair.

With his fair complexion and hair, his image seed to have beco more subdued and even mischievous, especially when he laughed like that!

Wendy forgot her sympathy towards him like she did a little while ago, and got upset, recalling his hysterical actions after his forced retirent from the musical stage.

As soon as she saw his face, she instinctively felt annoyed. Such a childish expression on his face also made her feel more resentful because she knew he was faking it on purpose.

“Hahaha. Before you guys go hunting, I decided to help you. You already know that n and won should go on the hunt as a team, and what you see now are my special gifts for the ladies who will go hunting for the first ti. Now, ladies, please choose the bow that you like. And with the help of your partner, please learn how to draw and shoot an arrow! Oh, don’t worry too much because you’ll have plenty of ti to practice. In particular, Count Josephine’s daughter! Your face has turned so white! You shouldn’t be scared even before lifting your bow!”

The dark-haired woman, who was pointed out by the prince, lowered her head as if she was ashad, putting her hands on her cheeks. There were outbursts of laughter here and there, but Wendy couldn’t understand their amusent.

“After practice, I’m going to have the won compete with each other first. Well, I will give the winner the bow of my violin! Ahaha! As you learn archery for hunting and receive my gift, isn’t it like killing two birds with one stone?”

Wendy concluded that she didn’t need to win.

‘Does he think what’s valuable to him is also valuable to others?’

It wasn’t much different from the round stone her neighbor boy Benfork gave her, saying it was a good viewing stone. Benfork liked it, saying he could draw brown letters with it on the floor, but she refused his gift coldly. For him, it was a pretty precious object, but for her it was nothing but a lump of hardened horse dung. He didn’t seem to know if it was still horse dung.

Anyway, his violin bow was as useless to her as a horse dung.

But other won seed to think differently. They were burning with desire to win as if the bow stained with the prince’s touch was a very special souvenir for them because they flocked to the tables to choose bows that fit their hands.

“Co on! Let’s go and get one,” lissa said with a flushed face.

She was obviously anxious to win and get the prince’s bow. Wendy was silent, pretending not to know what was happening around her, before walking when lissa waved her hand at her a couple of tis, asking her to co quickly. As if all the people gathered here seed to participate in a huge play directed by the prince, she couldn’t find any sincerity in their excitent.

She approached the won crowded around the table when she was pushed hard by a sudden force and almost staggered. Obviously, soone pushed her shoulders with a lot of force. She barely avoided falling but moved back a few steps.

“Oh, dear! Are you okay? You should be careful.”