The Abandoned Empress Chapter 60

Chapter 60: Chapter 60

After getting out of the 1st Knights building, I walked here and there. I thought my father might not like the idea of becoming a knight because of its weight and price I would have to pay, but never did I expect he, who supported my decision silently, was actually opposed to it.

It often broke my heart when I recalled that he wanted to live freely.

Was that the reason why my father sent the old , his only daughter, to the Imperial Palace?

“Whew!” I let out a deep sigh.

I ca out to shake off my idle thoughts, but it looked like I was more distracted.

I took a deep breath and turned around because I felt I couldn’t think straight no matter how much I tried.

At that mont, I saw soone walking toward across the street. He had blue hair fluttering in the breeze and put on a ceremonial uniform as white as snow.

He was the crown prince.

“I, Aristia La Monique, am honored to greet Your Majesty, the little sun of the empire.”

“What’s going on here?”

“I was getting so fresh air.”

“I see.” He nodded silently and told , “Can you walk with for a minute?”

“Sure, Your Majesty.”

I was walking a few steps behind him carefully, but he opened his mouth, breaking the silence, “Looking at your uniform, it seems that you joined the knights.”

“Ah… ”

I looked at my uniform again. My uniform had the silver badge of the 2nd Knights, my original unit, on the black background of the 1st Knights where I’m currently assigned. This was the uniform that the only one who could succeed the Monique family, naly the Captain of the 2nd Knights, could wear in the empire. Although I was not yet fully qualified, I could wear it because I was the legitimate successor of our family.

He continued to walk as if he didn’t want to hear my answer. When I walked silently behind him, I saw a maid walking from the opposite side, holding a handful of beautiful white flowers.

She was holding pure white callia flowers.

‘It’s the sa flower I saw yesterday! The flower that my mother liked most. ‘

When I was surprised by the surprise coincidence, the maid approached us and bowed deeply.

“Your Majesty, I brought you the flowers you have ordered. Shall I place them in your room like every year? ”

“Sure, go ahead.”

Bowing out deeply, the maid disappeared with the flowers. Because of the afterimage of a bouquet of white callia in my mind that I saw last night, I opened my mouth unconsciously, “Do you like that flower, too?” I asked.

“Well…”

“What a coincidence! My mother also liked that flower. ”

“Yes, she did.”

Surprised by his unexpected reply, I looked up at him. How did he know that?

I never expected to see this flower in an unexpected place today. Is there any relationship among my father, mother and the crown prince?

“Did you know your mother well? How did you know about it?”

“Well, I heard it accidentally so ti ago.”

“Then, how do you know? I understand you didn’t know when your mother passed away.”

“Well, I heard it accidentally the other day.”

“I see,” he said with a deep sigh.

He turned his eyes from and stared into the sky. It was the first ti I saw a compassionate expression on his face. He always looked expressionless or cold, but this ti he made a compassionate expression as if he were longing for soone.

“Co to think of it…” He was whispering sothing to himself.

Strangely enough, I couldn’t feel any coldness in his voice now.

“Pardon, Your Majesty?”

“Well, you look a lot like your mother.”

Suddenly, I was speechless. I didn’t know how to answer because I had no mory of my mother. And there were only a few who told about my mother.

A weak wind blew over us. Sohow, I slled a callia flower blown by the wind.

It wasn’t until dark when I got back ho. My father was not there. It seed that he went to the room where my mother’s portrait was hung.

I went up to the second floor and paced up and down the corridors. I found the room by tracing my mory, but I couldn’t enter because it was locked. I sighed sohow.

‘I wanted to see my mother’s portrait once.’

My mother who doesn’t exist at all in mory. What kind of woman was she? Do I really look like her? If I do, which part of takes after her? My face or character?

With my curiosity growing, I ca out of the house with a deep sigh.

When I breathed in a cool night air, I felt much better.

“Who is there?”

I stopped at the sudden voice coming from the darkness. I saw a middle-aged man approaching from the end of the trail.

“It’s , Sir League.”

“Lady Monique? What are you doing here at this ti? ”

“I couldn’t sleep. I think you’re on night duty today. ”

“Yes, I am,” said Sir League, who walked to with big strides.

“I will escort you. You should not be alone at this ti. ”

“Oh, thank you. Sorry for giving you trouble.”

“You’re welco. It’s my honor to serve you, my lady.”

Of course, it was not a dangerous place because I was walking inside my garden, but I nodded gently when I noticed that he was genuinely concerned about my security. I was glad to see him. If he knew my mother, he could solve so questions that dogged all day long.

“Sir League.”

“Yes, my lady.”

“Well, I would like to…”

“Please go ahead.”

“Well, do you know my mother?”

“Are you talking about your late mother? Of course, I do.”

As soon as he replied in the positive, I asked him questions without hesitating any more.

In fact, I kept on reflecting on these questions because I didn’t have the nerve to ask my father.

“In your eyes, do I look like my mother a lot?”

“I don’t think your father has said that. Who told you so?”

“The crown prince.”

“Oh, I see,” said Sir League with a sigh after hesitating for a mont, adding, “It looks like the crown prince also rembers today.”

“Really?”

“Yes, because the crown prince kept your mother’s deathbed.”

“Did the crown prince really?”

“That’s right. He was also there that day. ”

I stopped walking at the mont. I felt like I spaced out. Given his reaction at the palace, I thought he might be related to my mother in one way or another, but I didn’t know he was close enough to my mother to keep her deathbed. I have never heard of this in the past or even after I ca back from the past.

“You may not rember it that ti. You had convulsions while crying for a long ti after knowing about her death. You might have lost your life unless your father had co and soothed you in ti.”

“… ”

“Since that day, your father has forbidden anybody to speak of her in front of you, but I think sobody told you about it.”

‘Now I see what happened.’

Only then did I know why I couldn’t even rember my mother’s death. I also knew why my father didn’t even let know about the date of my mother’s death.

“You look like her very much.”

“Pardon?”

“You have just asked , right? You really look like your mother. You’re a chip off the old block except for the color of your hair.”

“…I see.”

When I replied with a hoarse voice, Sir League imdiately stopped and said, “It’s spring, but it’s still chilly at night. Why don’t you go back inside, my lady? ”

“Ah, yes.”

With a heavy heart I headed back to the house, escorted by Sir League who insisted on taking there, although my house was just around the corner.

My life as a knight was more interesting than I thought. I trained with apprentice knights in the morning and helped my boss with his work and worked or practiced personally in the afternoon. Thanks to my special status as the captain’s aide, I never had to be on guard duty, so I had more personal ti than other knights. However, more personal ti did not necessarily an I had more break ti.

“Hey, you have to swing faster! Don’t you rember I’ve told you as you can’t overpower the other party, speed really matters to you?

“… ”