Chapter 9 (1/2)

Episode 9

“You too should get ready and try to catch something. Even some rabbits and pigeons. Ahahaha.”

The emperor teased the princes and laughed, saying, “You’re both so funny.”

The princes may have wanted to catch a deer or maybe some wild boars, but they were still too much for them.

I was worried that I might be making things hard for the princes by saying nonsense, but I could see the sudden expectations and excitement on their faces.

The maids were suddenly busy preparing clothing for us to wear at the hunting grounds.

The next day I was being held in my nanny’s arms in clothing that looked purely cute without any practical function whatsoever.

The emperor carried me around for a while and then entrusted me to the nanny as we entered the forest that was attached to the imperial palace.

There were more than a hundred knights around us joining in the activity.

Every time I saw them, I thought of my men and felt a fond sadness for them.

“Karhill will be taking care of Stiana.”

When Adelgio said so, Karhill just nodded and came next to me.

Adelgio was active and his body was moving before his brain even had a thought, and Karhill liked to think first before acting with his calm personality.

I was relieved that Karhill was staying close next to me.

“Stiana, stay close to your brother.”

“Woong, Karil, don’t worry!”

Karhill’s chubby hand clasped my closed hand.

But it didn’t last for long.

Karhill was taking good care of me, but as time went by, he seemed to be jittery as his hunting fever rose.

He looked like he wanted to see the prey up close.

It would have been a shame that all we could see where we were was just passing glimpses.

“Oh, no. I keep missing it. Like this I can only keep looking at the deer butts.”

Whenever the arrow narrowly missed its target, he would stomp the ground hard with his short legs.

With an onlooker’s unique confidence, he seemed frustrated because he believed he would catch everything in a row as soon as he stepped up.

“You guys all take care of the Princess.”

He spoke looking at the knights, then turning towards me he wrapped my cheeks in his hands.

“Tiana, I think it’s time for this brother to step up.” (Stiana abandoned for some deer…)

And then he quickly sped away.

I don’t think so.

I don’t think that him going off is going to change much.

Kahill rode off on his horse before I knew it.

His face was full of excitement.

The nanny hugged me close while Kahill ran off and abandoned me.

“Adelgio! Drive it this way!”

The emperor and Adelgio knew that Kahill had left me behind, but they didn’t ask him to go back because they didn’t expect much from Kahill anyway.

I wanted to ride a horse and run with him.

The nanny had a hard time hugging me who was wiggling.

“It’s me! I want to see it.”

“Look here. You can see it better like this, our Highness.”

“No, I can’t see well.”

But the nanny wouldn’t leave me for a moment.

“I want to drop you off, but I can’t. Your Highness, you don’t know what’s going to pop out of nowhere.”

“I want to try and see too!”

Then they stopped insisting because they thought it would be hard for them to survive if anything happened to me.

After the empress was lost, the emperor became violent.

It was not expressed to anyone, but appeared harsh and ruthless when removing static, but those who saw it had no choice but to fear the emperor and seemed that they were imprinted that they would not be tolerated if they made a mistake.

Because of that, people in the palace were always afraid of the emperor.

“When the princess is a little bigger, we can do it then.”

It was then that I felt something strange behind me.

It seemed that the other people except me didn’t feel the strange sensation.

Even the captain of the Knights failed to sense it.

He looked like he didn’t feel the liveliness I felt even though he was the most outstanding person here.

There were moments when I felt that my body remembered the achievements I had made in my past life, and it was the same as back then.

It was as if a powerful force was trying to pierce my skin, it felt so vivid.

I was in danger and the people I could trust were the Emperor and the princes, but they were far away.

There was nothing I could do to call them.

“Hueeng!!”

That was all I could do even though I felt on edge.

My thin arms, which had no strength, no power, and couldn’t lift a weapon even if I had one around.

I wanted to let them know that I was in danger, but there was a man near me who was living.

The person who should protect me was making me worried.

Cold sweat ran down my back because I thought I could make his approach easier if I did something wrong.

“Huueeenng!!”

I cried louder and huddled into the nanny.

“Your Highness, Your Grace, what’s going on? What’s wrong?”

People approached me when I suddenly started to cry.

“What’s wrong with your highness? I’ve never seen you like this.”

The knights who were far away also approached closer.

They didn’t seem to have sensed any danger until then, and they came here because I was crying strangely, but that alone worked.

The maids said it was fine and comforted me.

I glanced at the man who had set his sights on me in the arms of my nanny.