Chapter 17 (1/2)

“…!!”

“Princess Rosemarie?!”

I stood up from my chair with a clatter, and turned around in a panic

Rose, you big fool…!!

I hadn’t thought about the possibility of Hilde getting killed at all On top being aware of their plans, once she was deemed useless there was no way she’d be left in peace!

“Where—”

Klaus chased after me

Hearing the uproar, the duo in the greenhouse poked their heads out

Seeingrong, and became alarmed

“Wait a, hey you, what’s wrong?!”

“Princess?”

Lutz rushed over and shook my shoulders

“What happened? We won’t understand if you don’t tell us!” he said

I considered his words

He was right If I didn’t tell them, they wouldn’t understand

But, I couldn’t I wanted to confess everything, but in this situation where I didn’t even have someone to talk to, it was pure torture

If I told theer posed to them would only increase

“I just reent business…”

“Huh?”

“I’m sorry I’ll have to excuse myself for today”

Lutz see, but I removed his hands and smiled at him

Holding backas norazes on me, but I didn’t turn back to look

“Princess Rosemarie, where in the world are you headed?”

“To meet…”

Hilde, I replied in a small voice, and Klaus moved in front of me to block the path, a harsh expression the like of which I’d never seen before on his face

“I cannot assent”

Klaus was usually sweet on ranted

The only tiainst er

“Klaus”

“I cannot allow you to place yourself in danger”

My shoulders shook

Klaus just said it was “dangerous”

“You knew”

“…………”

In other words, Klaus knew Hilde was on treacherous footing If he knew, then it only stood to reason his commander did as well

And yet, why?

“…don’t you protect her?”

“She is not e”

You should already know, his eyes reproached me, stone cold

That was that Although it was highly likely she would get killed, she was on the enemy’s side There was no way he would protect her

In the kingdom’s eyes, she was one of the traitors

The ene their irl would definitely be abandoned They had divided interests, after all

“…………”

THMP THMP My heart beat unpleasantly

I felt painfully suffocated, like I’d run a h air My blood puhout my body, and cold sweat flowed down my back and neck

Eyes wide, I was on the verge of fainting

Right noas trying to influence the fate of a person

That truth terrifiedelse

Let’s say, for exa

Even if I didn’t personally get involved, it didn’t change the fact that I could have done so

I was close to getting forced into watching a 15 year old girl die without lifting a finger to help

The burden was crushi+ng