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“Hahaha, I know. So I’m so nervous! Dorothea, do I look like a crown prince?”
Ray took a deep breath and turned around.
No, I feel like you’re an idiot every day. A little dressed fool.
An idiot with a half-curly blonde hair greased and dressed in a white uniform and cape.
It’s nice to look at, but it hasn’t changed that he’s still a Ray.
No, on the contrary, the serious appearance of dressing up like that didn’t suit Ray, so it felt funnier.
People praised Ray for being quite brave and handsome, but well.
“It would have been better if Dorothea instead of me was the Crown Prince. Dorothea must have finished the opening ceremony nicely without trembling. Dorothea is smarter than me.”
“
.”
Those words were too stupid to cover them up as pure and kind.
If I hadn’t returned, I would have slapped him right away.
How cruel those words are to a person who can’t become a prince, the fool Ray who was born with everything doesn’t know.
So I couldn’t like Ray, who was pure, kind, and lovely.
“I can’t because I can’t summon a spirit.”
“No, Dorothea will be summoning spirits soon, right?”
No, I have never seen it, until death.
Whether or not she knew my heart, Rey held out her chest and assured me that the day I would meet the spirit would soon come.
Ray does not know that hasty consolation and encouragement are like hacking into pieces for me.
I bit my lip tight as a bad heart kept growing inside me.
‘Ray doesn’t know anything.’
It’s just that I don’t know.
Dorothea, you must live a good life. do not forget.
Then Ray sneaked up to me and sat down.
“Dorothea, can’t you just cheer me up?”
“why me?”
“If Dorothea cheers me up, I think I’ll do well.”
Ray tilted his head with a soft smile and met eyes with me. A pleasant blue light shone refreshingly from the inside of the golden eyelashes.
I wrinkled my eyebrows over my blunt face in a gesture that seemed to wag my tail like a fox.
“Just ruin it.”
“Dorothy, don’t do that, huh? This is your brother, hug me just once. yes?”
What he asked me to cheer me up suddenly developed into a hug.
Even the cute nasal voice was perfect, so I answered gladly.
“Yeah, ruin it.”
Where do you dare to swear?
Instead of hugging, I’m holding on to wanting to give you a fist as a gift.
He grew pale like a dog with droopy ears, bowed his head and puffed out his lower lip.
“Dorothea seems to hate me just looking at me.”
Now you know that? What a clueless person.
Still, I’m working hard not to show hatred, so I understand, Ray.
I couldn’t put it out through my mouth, but I wished that Ray would realize it on his own and not look for me in the future.
“Prince Ray, you must go in soon.”
Just then, the servant in charge of the ceremony came to pick up Ray.
“Dorothy, will you still come to see my opening ceremony?”
If I can’t go, I don’t want to go, but I can’t do that.
As he nodded as if he couldn’t do it, he smiled.
“If Dorothy is watching, I think I can do well.”
“
.”
If it wasn’t for Ray, I might have liked him.
I could have thought you were just a good fool and thought you were cute.
Ray looked as if he was expecting a word of good luck, but I ignored him in the end.
* * *
Ray’s opening ceremony.
I was fortunate to have my seat in front of Theon.
If Theon had caught my eye because he was in front of me, I would have been distracted by looking at him, and soon I would have been depressed when I saw Julia standing next to him.
The only dissatisfaction was that Carnan was in sight.
Normally, I was the daughter of his blood, so I had to stand in the front row close to Carnan.
At the ceremony for appointing the Crown Prince as a national ambassador, Carnan wore a golden cloak that covered the floor and was holding a scepter symbolizing the Milanair royal family.
At the end of the scepter that Carnan was holding, there was a sculpture of a spirit with arms outstretched as if hugging the air.
Originally, the spirit stone of light should be placed in the arms of the spirit, but it is empty because the spirit stone fell into the sea and was lost in the past.
It is possible to replace it with another gem, but it is said that putting another gem in the place of the spirit stone is an insult to the spirit, so it is said that it was left empty.
‘Did you find the broken pieces of that spirit stone?’
I think I heard the story of finding the Spirit Stone right before being executed, but at that time, I gave up everything and lost my mind, so my memories were sparse and hazy.
“The light of the glorious Milanaire shall shine upon the whole empire
”
Meanwhile, as the opening ceremony was held, I realized something new.
‘Carnan, the barrel is small.’
When I became young again, the opening ceremony was very simple.
It was not deliberately prepared frugally.
Since it was the place to announce the successor to the next throne, it was a big event where the entire palace was buzzing and noisy for a few days before, and it was also a place where many nobles gathered so much that Fried came a long way.
‘When I was young, Ray’s ceremonies seemed to be big and great.’
There was a time when Carnan, who sat proudly on the throne, felt terrifying and distant.
There were times when I felt like he was a great being that I couldn’t reach, and I felt like I had to get his attention to be recognized as a part of the world.
But now Carnan was nothing to me.
To my eyes, Carnan’s accessories looked rustic, and the chandelier hanging from the ceiling looked small and shabby. The seats were too cramped and the flowers were too common.
It was because my eyes, which had taken the peak of luxury, were too high.
When I had a banquet, I lit a fire that did not go out even at night as if the sun had risen, and brought the best alcohol and food to play and drink.
I cut jewels and beautiful stones to make flowers and trees, and invited dancers from distant lands to dance.
If I had held the dedication ceremony, it would have been much bigger, louder, and extravagant than this.
‘Like a tyrant.’
It was possible because I was a tyrant who ate the backs of his people.
So I’m guessing Carnan is doing a good job.
At that time, Ray entered along the red carpet in the middle with people standing up.
A majestic pipe organ was played, and countless candles lit up.
When Rey appeared, those present all at once bowed their heads.
Around Rey, the spirit of light was buzzing like a mosquito.
Evidence of the Crown Prince. Qualifications of Milanaire. the terms of the emperor.
‘I don’t need that kind of power.’
I beat Rey without it.
I stared at Rey walking in, struggling to push the past behind me.
His tense face and stiff shoulders were funny. With trembling hands, Ray, who came with the chorale, seemed to trip over the hem of his long clothes at any moment.
In the meantime, Ray rolled her blue eyes without looking straight ahead and met my eyes.
Immediately after looking at me, the corners of his mouth went up and he smiled broadly so that I could see his teeth!
‘What are you doing! You have to look straight ahead and walk!’
What a stupid laugh at a ceremony that should be solemn!
It would have been nice to have stopped there, but with his laughter, the spirits of light that orbited him along the orbit began to fluctuate frantically.
That idiot, doesn’t he handle spirits properly?
‘Look ahead, in front!’
I shouted out my mouth to Ray, who was not looking ahead.
Ray nodded eagerly as if he recognized the shape of my mouth immediately.
The nodded head shook the choir in his hand, and the spirits shook as if dancing.
‘No, why are you nodding your head during the ceremony!’
Silly Ray!
Fortunately, Ray followed my instructions and saw the front, and climbed onto the podium safely without falling.
I couldn’t take my eyes off of it, as if I had left a child on the water’s edge.
Such an idiot is the next emperor.
‘If it were me, a mistake like this
no. You don’t deserve to think like that, Dorothea.’
I shook my head to shake the thoughts away.
However, I wish that the person who became the emperor on my behalf would be a great sage who would go down in history if possible, but that was just a pity.