Vol 1 Chapter 10 (1/2)

7 Years Old – K of Hearts

First of all, having soht ‘why not translate soain (I’ve ood will‘ is a very, very common japanese euphemism for ‘like/love‘

I have no confidence in myself And, I hate myself Because of my position as the prince, everybody around h it’s natural, but in the end, a that for?

Froetted Up until I was five, I alers outside, after all Ojisan was targetting my life after all… Those were the reasons My world was a closed one

The first friend I made in that small world of mine was my servant Colette She passed away before my eyes… Because of the poison that was in the snacks suddenly brought in by a uard Adolphe He also died before my eyes… When somebody tried to assassinate me, he covered me

The third friend I made was my tutor Émile He tried to betray uard

If I didn’t exist, none of them would have died…

After that, I decided to try my best to have as few people close withfro sacrifices In order to kill me, in order to protect me, fro ht that that was fine

Because I avoided creating friends that I could relax around, naturally I had nobody of a My butler was desperate to have e in order to protectFaction nobles were brought to et into it I did think that I needed allies, but… I couldn’t take action I didn’t have the courage to move, nor did I think I wanted to ain, and the fear of losing so for ently picked on a’s followers

In the inner palace, even when they pushed et on top of me, I didn’t even resist It was always the saet tired of it Each ti too cruel If it stayed at the level of children uards wouldn’t move If I endured, for just a little…

But the hit I anticipated didn’t come

“Heyy! Stop thaat!”

Suddenly came a voice from above my head At the same time that I heard the voice, the boy that tried to