Chapter 27 (1/2)

Seeing Shin approach her and hearing her say to call him Shin, which she ȧssumed to be his first name, her heartbeat quickened and this unfamiliar feeling grew.

”I can't call you that,” Irene said, clapping her hands forward to show her refusal to call him by his first name.​​

Not that she didn't want to, but she couldn't. For her, Shin was an ancient and respectable being with whom she had to be polite.

And calling him by his first name and with such familiarity was for her a little disrespectful and there was also the fact that she felt shy to call him that.

”Don't worry, really, call me Shin,” insisted Shin with a gentle smile that Irene found hard to resist and finally gave in.

”Okay Shi-Shin, you can also call me Irene,” Irene replied shyly.

Shin couldn't help but laugh silently when he saw this side of Irene that he thought was really cute.

”Okay Irene”

Irene blushes when she hears her first name mentioned by Shin.

At the time, she was like a young girl in love and since it was the first time she had ever spoken like that, without her queen status, to a person of the opposite sėx, she was not sure how to go about it.

”Irene turned around and started walking while Shin followed her.

”While following Irene, Shin heard the children shouting goodbye to her.

Turning his head behind him, Shin looked at the children and shook his hand, still with his little smile, to answer them.

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Shin continued to follow Irene as he walked through the palace toward Irene's office.

There was a deadly silence between the two as neither began the conversation.

Neither knew what to say.

So Shin could do nothing but look around curiously.

The corridors they were in were really huge, big enough to accommodate one or more dragons.

At the same time, seeing the size of the streets in the kingdom and the size of the palace from the outside, one could expect it.

A very large courtyard built in a circular shape with a statue of a dragon with a woman surrounded by a field of flowers.

The courtyard was lit by the sun coming from the ceiling which was open to allow the sun's rays to pass and the dragons to enter.

It was a cheerful and fun place, full of dragons and children playing together and ȧduŀts talking.

Shin found this scene very beautiful and meaningful to Irene.

”This scene and this place must be very important to you,” Shin said sincerely.

Irene was taken aback when she heard Shin speak for the first time in all their walking.

”It's true, this scene represents what I'm fighting for,” Shin replied solemnly and determinedly.

”Unfortunately, what you're trying to do is probably just a utopia,” mumbled Shin to himself and sadly to Irene.

Shin didn't know if this kingdom would survive with his presence or not.

He didn't know, but he would try his best.

Having finished contemplating this scene, Shin and Irene returned to their walk to go up to the palace floor and finally arrive at Irene's office.

Arriving in her office, Shin was rather surprised.

The desk was a fairly large room filled with cabinets and shelves on the left and right sides of the room. In the middle of the room were two sofas opposite each other and a small table in the middle of both. There was a large chandelier on the ceiling lit by magic, and at the back was his wooden desk with a small lamp on it, papers, and books.

Just behind the desk was a huge bay window with a view of the entire kingdom from the entrance side, where Shin came from.

One could also see the square just in front of the palace entrance, the forest at the end of the kingdom, and Shin could even see the mountain from where he came.

Even if he was surely the only one here who could see it from so far.

Irene walked towards the sofas in the center and invited me.

”Sit down” having been invited, Shin approached the sofas and sat down with Irene who had waited for him to show her politeness.