I would be happy to slap myself on the cheek, but I couldn’t stand insulting my mother. Disgustingly, the Crown Prince’s eyes flashed in the same color.
“How dare you grab my wrist.”
“You have many eyes, Your Majesty, the crown prince”
he had the urge to cut off the prince’s wrist, but he bit his teeth and held it in. He didn’t have the power to stand up to the Crown Prince now. He lowered his head as he let go of the crown prince’s wrist.
“Please.” A cruel laugh erupted from the top of his head.
“What do you mean? Anyone who sees it would know that I was doing something terrible. To a thousand things that are not even worth dealing with.”
Raymond’s eyes gleamed with life. But at that moment, his mother held his hand tightly.
My mother knelt down and shook her head on the floor. “Your Highness, ease your anger. It’s because I don’t know the subject.”
“‘It’s not the same as receiving the royal family name. If you were born with a low-key attitude, you would know the subject. If this happens again, I will rip your four limbs apart.”
“It’s my fault that I didn’t educate myself properly. Never again, I’ll make sure that never happens again. Please have mercy on me.”
The mother appealed with her head cringing painfully on the floor.
He received so many insults, but he never felt such a surge of anger. Even if he died right now, he wanted to cut off the crown prince’s head.
Was it the problem that he was blinded by anger for a while?
The mother, who was raising her body, could not stop herself from bumping into a servant. When the glass broke, the crown prince’s clothes and shoes were already stained with wine.
The crown prince’s order was dropped before he even realized what had happened.
“You crazy bitch! Don’t you dare dirty someone’s clothes! Take her right now!”
The knights grabbed the mother’s arm and led her out.
He wanted to stop it, but in his dream, he can’t do anything.
“Stop it now!” Losing his temper, he shouted at the Crown Prince.
“You want to die as well. That’s fine, I’ll kill you right now.”
The crown prince’s face was distorted and he drew his sword.
The moment he raised his arms as if cutting his neck, silver hair flashed in front of him. At that moment when no one was able to step up because of the Crown Prince’s anger, Ellie jumped in between them.
“No matter how much I ask the Crown Prince, you cannot judge the Imperial people immediately. Calm down, Your Grace.”
Even with the rising momentum of the Crown Prince, Ellie never backed down.
The crown prince’s aides stop him and the crown prince eventually threw away his sword because he could not let Young-ae, who had the title of count, die.
No, I don’t want to see what’s next.
Ellie turns around and takes his hand.
A nightmare I’ve had dozens of times.
Raymond knows what the next scene will be. He cried out knowing it, but in his dream, he can’t do anything.
Soon the scene changed, and he heard his mother’s obituary. Even the body could not be recovered. I couldn’t even say my last goodbye. His mother, who lived only for him, died miserably.
Raymond cried out in the empty palace.
An apathetic voice called him and hugged his shoulder.
Sobbing, he clung to Ellie and decided. I will never lose the precious warmth that is by my side again. If I can’t have it, even if I take it all, I will protect mine.
Just as his heart felt like it was going to explode, Raymond opened his eyes. “Ha ha ha…”
His heart was beating like crazy and his body was drenched in a cold sweat. Taking a deep breath, he pulled the string that came down like a veil.
Immediately, the servant entered the room. “Water, bring water.”
“Yes.” Seeing Raymond’s condition, the chief brought cold water.
“Did you have a nightmare?”
“Huu….” He took a deep breath and drank the entire glass of water without holding his breath.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve had a nightmare.” Raymond ruffled his sweat-drenched hair.
As I turned my head, I saw darkness outside the window. The stars are bright as if there are many days left before the morning starts. I didn’t dream for a while. Maybe it was because I had a lot of work today.
Edmund’s entry into the Crown and the Appeal of the nobility to the Empress. It was an exceptionally tiring day.
“Would you like some sleeping pills?”
The chieftain asked worriedly.
I took sleeping pills when my insomnia was severe, but it had no effect. What can silence his nightmares…
As if to shake off Ellie’s voice that resonated in his head for a moment, Raymond jumped up from his seat.
“That’s enough, I should walk a little than that.” It was quite late at night to go for a walk, but I couldn’t sleep at this rate because I was so confused.
Raymond went out to the garden to cool off his stiff chest.
Suddenly, I looked up at the sky, and the stars were shining especially today. Raymond, who was walking through the garden looking at the night sky, stopped walking on the star that caught his eye.
“The star that Ellie liked.” I think she once told me the name of the star, but I can’t remember.
He doesn’t know when, but he couldn’t afford to look up at the sky. He remembered why she liked that star. It was always nice to be in the same place. A star that looks just like her caught his attention today.
In retrospect, Ellie was always within Raymond’s reach, just as that star had always been in the same place.
There was always Ellie when he turned his head. It’s always been like that for so long that he doesn’t know exactly when it started. Ellie and he had known each other since childhood.
“My mother really liked Ellie……”
Is it because I dreamed of the past? Suddenly, I remembered my mother’s face, which had been buried in the corner of my chest.
She was a pure and kind person who was always polite to even her children and knew nothing about magic. Therefore, she did not suit this imperial palace even more. If she had lived with an ordinary husband and not the Imperial Palace, she would not have died so miserably.
Raymond slowly closed his eyes at the pain of the past he had forgotten.
In anger over his mother’s death, he drew his sword, not wanting to lose a loved one anymore. So he killed his father and brother and ascended the throne.
Not to lose what’s yours again. So he took power and succeeded in revenge for his mother.
But why do I feel so empty right now?
“Your Majesty, the wind is rising. Now that you’ve finished your walk, you should go to bed.”
“I’m going to my mother’s palace.” Raymond cut off the chief’s worried words and headed towards the palace, which he had not stopped by for a long time.
After walking for a while in the Imperial Palace, the Sun Palace, a small mansion that was difficult to call a palace, came up.
Raymond, who was walking towards the mansion, stopped, feeling uncomfortable on the side of the road that was different from the memories of the past. According to his memories, the road leading to the old palace was overgrown with weeds as no one maintained it.
However, the road was clean as if it had been steadily touched. After his mother died, he did not visit this palace. He avoided helplessness, guilt, and unbearable wounds that he could not do anything before his mother’s death. Therefore, he had never ordered the palace to be maintained.
“Iled, have you been managing this palace without telling me?” Iled has been the chief of the court since he was a prince.
I thought he might be the one in charge of the palace, but the chief servant narrowed his brow as if he was in trouble.
“Not me, but the former Empress was in charge of the palace.”
“……what?” Raymond opened his eyes wide to the unexpected answer.
Since when did Ellie… … … .
“After entering the palace as the Empress, she immediately ordered the administration of the palace.”
At the following words of the chief, Raymond became numb as if he had been hit in the head.
It was a place where even his children had forgotten. But why….
No words came out as if someone had strangled him.
Raymond, who had been hardened like a stone, stepped forward slowly. The sound of the rusty door opening was particularly loud.
Having bitten all the servants, Raymond stepped out into the palace. The palace, where the cool wind blows, has not changed from the memories of the past.
A small mansion that is embarrassing to even call a palace and a garden without a single flower.
The cry of the past that I saw in my dream was drawn in front of my eyes. Instead of the body, there was a clear cry of him hugging the old dress. And it’s Ellie standing by his side. She was with me that day. No, most of the time I lived in this old palace, Ellie was with me.
“Really… I’m going crazy.”
I came out not to think about her, but the place I arrived at is probably the place where I have the most memories with her.
When he shed a self-helpful laugh, a cold wind blew hard.
Green leaves fluttered in the wind fell to his feet.
There could be no such green leaf in this desolate place. But Raymond remembered what this leaf was. He turned around with a hopeful heart and ran to the back of the mansion.
And as something got closer and closer, Raymond’s steps slowed down.
He looked at the large tree in front of him with trembling eyes.