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Volume 2
Crisp.
Siana sat down on a chair and munched on snacks.
Gulp.
Siana thought as she swallowed the snack.
‘What you’re asking me to do is to eat the dessert you made today ……As expected, this man is strange.’
Rashid was sitting in front of Siana, smiling brightly.
It was a face filled with utmost happiness, as if nothing could be better.
Rashid said with a smile on his face.
“How does it taste?”
“It’s great. The ingredients seem to be good, and it’s not too sweet, so I can eat it comfortably. I also like the scent of fruit interspersed.”
Indeed, it was the moment when I was about to add that the chef at the Crown Prince’s Palace was skillful.
“It’s worth working hard.”
“Pu-huh!”
Siana was so shocked that she almost spat out the snack in her mouth.
Siena asked with a face that she had heard the most bizarre words in the world.
“……Is this snack made by Your Highness?”
Rashid nodded with a refreshing face.
But Siena could not say ‘I see~’ with such a refreshing face.
‘The crown prince with the highest power in the empire makes his own cookies? Why the hell?’
Rashid said as if he had noticed Siana’s mind.
“I don’t want to feed the children in my arms what others have made, so I make all the snacks and food myself. That made it interesting.”
It was only then that I saw small animals eagerly gnawing at the snacks in Rashid’s arms.
Galgalgalgal.
A white ferret and a squirrel, which were eating snacks with cookies the size of their bodies in their hands, made eye contact with Sianna and tilted their heads with faces saying, ‘Why?’
Along with the bird that was pecking hard on the floor.
Seeing those appearances, the tail of Rashid’s eyes curved.
As if one were dying of cuteness.
“…….”
Siana looked at the terrifying sight and thought.
‘Come to think of it, I’ve heard of it. His Highness, the ruthless prince without blood or tears, has a secret: he loves animals very much.’
But there was something added after that.
The capricious crown prince cuts down even the animals he loved yesterday if he’s in a bad mood today.
His Highness the Crown Prince is, after all, a scary person.
The maids trembled.
But it was all nonsense.
Rashid was a pure animal lover.
‘Like a fool, an enormous one to boot.’
Rashid looked really happy looking at the bulging animals.
‘If someone else did that, it would have looked a little lacking, but with an incredibly beautiful face……’
‘It looks good.’
It was just like a painting.
‘Oops. I looked at it again in a trance.’
Siana, who barely came to her senses, opened her mouth in embarrassment.
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“You seem to like animals very much.”
“I don’t like all animals. I like little cute kids.”
But why are you staring at me so intently, Your Highness?
Rashid burst into laughter as he looked at Siana with her eyebrows gathered as if she was nervous.
“And it’s nice to have these children because they’re warm. I get cold easily.”
Saying that, Rashid stroked the white ferret that had burrowed into his arms.
‘…What a surprise.’
Like his unrealistically beautiful face, he’s an unrealistically strong man, so I thought he wouldn’t be weak like this at all.
Siana stared at Rashid and murmured.
“Your Highness reminds me of a story.”
“What story?”
Rashid’s eyes sparkled with interest.
Siana munched on the snack and said.
“It’s the story of a princess who lived in the Frozen Kingdom. The princess was brilliantly beautiful, but she couldn’t stand the cold at all. She couldn’t get a step out of the room where she had a fireplace for her whole life. A little bird appeared because it felt sorry for the princess. The little bird said.”
“… … .”
“I’d like to cut a piece of the sun for you as a present.”
It was a careless remark.
But at that moment, Rashid opened his eyes wide.
As if she had said something she should never have said.
Rashid asked urgently.
“Who did you hear that story from?”
Rashid’s reaction shocked Shiana.
Siana looked into Rashid’s eyes and answered.
“I didn’t hear it from a specific person. It’s just one of those old stories from home.”
“Oh…”
Rashid brushed his hair with a distraught face.
“I see. I don’t even know that…….”
Rashid added an explanation as he looked at Siana staring at him.
“Someone told me that story a long time ago. For some reason, I can’t remember the person’s face or voice at all, but I remember the story clearly.”
“… … .”
“So I thought the story would be a clue to finding that person …… I was mistaken.”
Rashid’s eyes sank as they lowered.
As if greatly disappointed.
Seeing that, Siana wriggled her hands.
My heart was pounding.
***
Siana could not stand up until she had three more plates of dessert.
Rashid packed a lot of snacks for Siana, saying it was a gift to commemorate her visit to the crown prince’s palace.
All the cute-shaped snacks were handmade by Rashid.
‘… … I feel pressured.’
Rashid, who read Siena’s expression, said.
“Eat with Aris. She’ll love it.”
It was as Rashid said.
The sweets were soft and sweet, just right for Aris’ taste.
In the end, Siana calmly accepted the pile of snacks.
“Thank you.”
“Eung.”
Rashid smiled broadly.
Just as Siana was about to bow her head in greeting, Rashid said.
“Do you want me to take you there?”
Siana’s eyes widened.
The crown prince who takes a maid home. There was nothing in the world more burdensome than that.
Siana shook her head and shouted.
“No, thank you!”
“The cookies must be heavy.”
“Sweets are heavy, but they are snacks!”
The sweets in the huge basket were actually heavy. But it wasn’t to the point where I couldn’t carry it.
Siana said quickly.
“Then I’ll get going.”
Siena hurriedly bowed her head and turned away.
Like a little mouse running away from being caught by a cat.
Rashid’s voice came from behind.
“What a shame.”
“… … !”
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Siana pretended not to hear the words and moved her legs.
Fortunately, Rashid no longer said anything that troubled Siena.
Siana, who escaped safely from the crown prince’s palace, sighed.
“It was a harder day than I expected.”
It wouldn’t have been as hard as this if I had been forced to work.
Sunlight pouring through the glass ceiling, Rashid’s soft eyes looking at her, sweet snacks, and rustling little animals.
Everything was awkward and tense.
Siana, who was recalling her previous memory, murmured with a frown.
“……By the way, how does the Crown Prince know the story?”
A princess who lives in a frozen kingdom and suffers from a lot of cold.
A little bird gave a piece of the sun as a gift, and the princess was finally able to go outside the beautiful world.
—The story was actually not an old fairy tale from my hometown.
It was a story that Siana made up when she was little.
So when Rashid said he knew the story, Siana felt her heart jump out.
So I tricked Rashid without realizing it.
‘Thinking about it again, it was a good choice a hundred times.’
Somehow I felt like things were going to get really big when Rashid found out that it was Siana who made the story.
It was the instinct of Siana, who was as sensitive as a small animal.
‘I’m glad His Highness didn’t ask more questions.’
But Siana’s mind was not entirely at ease.
Because it was at stake how Rashid knew the story.
‘There’s only one person I’ve told the story about… .’
Siana’s eyes narrowed.
TL/N: Are we getting a “we met at childhood” troupe???