Chapter 66 (1/2)

At that moment, I smiled in spite of myself. I was supposed to be wary of him, but I forgot it because I was overjoyed with the idea that I could go to the party to celebrate Caresein. I sprang to my feet and thanked him.

He looked at me silently for a while before standing up and said, “Okay. Let me prepare to go out. Just wait here for a minute.”

“Thanks for your thoughtful consideration, Your Majesty.”

As if he was used to this kind of occasion, he came back quickly, after completing preparations.

Wearing white ceremonial dress, he reached out to me.

“Okay, I think I have to stop by your house first. Let’s go.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

When I returned home with him, my family employees were pleasantly shocked to see him. He waved to them who hurriedly came to offer formal greetings and said he would take a walk in the garden. Then, he disappeared with the royal guards.

When I told Lina that I would attend the party to celebrate Duke Lars’s son, she cheered. She kept chattering to me endlessly, prettying me up in time for the party.

“My lady, what happened? Why is the crown prince here?”

“Well, I’m surprised, too. ”

“I was really surprised. Well, what kind of dress is a good match for you? As the crown prince is in white, I think your dress should match it. ”

Lina seemed quite excited about his visit. I could understand her feelings, but I opened my mouth because I would be late for the party as she spent too much time prettying me up.

“Can you choose any matching dress? And can you hurry?”

“Okay, my lady.”

Only then did she begin to shut up and focus on preparing me.

I hurried through taking a shower, drying my hair, putting on light makeup, choosing a dress, putting on a corset, and so on.

Even though I completed preparations as soon as possible, I was still in danger of being late for the party because it was about to start pretty soon. Finally, I looked in the mirror after adjusting my clothes and thanking her. I looked a bit mature in the mirror perhaps because my hair was in a knot. My blue-purple dress, decorated with a white ribbon, seemed large thanks to the pannier supported on it, and my waist seemed more slender than usual due to the tight corset. But I liked it, given that Lina hastily prettied me up in such a short time.

When I went downstairs in a hurry, I saw Sir League overlooking the garden from the balcony across the hall. He looked back at me and said pleasantly, “Oh, how are you, my lady? You are so beautiful, dressed like that.”

“Thank you. By the way, did you see the crown prince?”

“He is right there!”

At the place he directed, a young man with blue hair was overlooking the garden tree, escorted by three royal guards. I thanked him and turned when someone murmured behind my back. It was Sir League.

“Oh, the crown prince became taller than before.”

“Pardon?”

“When he came here last, he was smaller than the tree over there…”

“Has he ever visited here before?”

I stopped walking at that. What the heck is he talking about? These days it seems that I’ve come to know a lot about him that I have never heard before.

“Yes. He came here often for some time.”

“I see.”

“Yeah, but when you were about five years old, he came here suddenly, then just left. He never returned since then.”

“What happened?”

“I don’t know. At that time, I was on duty inside the mansion, so I remember it vividly because I was here. He was looking at you and your mother standing over there. When you approached him and said something, he left. If my memories are correct, he hasn’t come back since then. ”

I was suddenly confused. What the heck is this? Why am I hearing a lot about what I didn’t know in the past? To the best of my recollection, I met him for the first time when I was ten, not five.