Chapter 85 (2/2)

I wanted to socialize with the noble women here, so I was moving to the place where people gathered when I suddenly heard a scream and mumbling from the dance floor. Princess Moira, who passed out, turning white in his arms.

“Call the royal guard!”

He shouted, looking down at the princess casually. A royal guard who came quickly took the princess from him.

“Call a royal doctor and move her to a different place,” he ordered an attendant.

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“I hope you can stay on and enjoy the banquet.”

The attendant got out of the banquet hall in a hurry. As lots of guests gathered around him, the crown prince turned around and left. The knight holding the princess followed him. I and other princesses also walked behind.

The royal guard laid the princess in a guest room and politely went out. I was a little worried when I saw her whose face turned white.

‘What if she got sick?’

Shortly afterwards, a royal doctor hastily came in and began to untie the string of her dress after checking her pale face. It was so tightly tied around the dress that the doctor struggled to untie it. I quickly went out and got a dagger from the guard to cut it. Then, the tight knot was cut at once.

“Cut off the corset string, too,” the doctor said.

When I cut them off, the princess took a deep breath with a more relaxed expression.

Why did she tighten the strings so tightly? Did she tighten her waist with the string to look more slim?

‘Wait a minute. Did she really do it?’

“What happened?” I asked the doctor.

“Well, she had a temporary shortness of breath because she tightened her corset too much.

As the string was removed, she will come to her senses in no time,” said the doctor, placing the incense bag on her nose. The other princesses giggled at that. Just a little while ago, Princess Naima and Princess Beary, who stared at her with a jealous look, were gazing at the fallen princess with disdain.

At that moment, she came to her senses. She looked around for a moment blankly.

She screamed, grabbing her loose dress while trying to get up. Pulling the dress to cover her breasts, she stammered, “What happened…”

“On, you now come to your senses. You suddenly passed out while dancing,” the crown prince said.

“Ah!”

Her face suddenly turned red. She looked at Princess Beatrice and Princess Frincia as well as the two other princesses smiling derisively before turning her eyes to me for some time.

There was intense anger in her green eyes.

“It seems like you are tired, so I hope you take a rest today.”

“Ah… Yes, thank you, Your Majesty. ”

“So, let’s all go out for her to take a rest. You seem to have been away from the banquet hall for too long. ”

Giggling at her, Princess Naima and Princess Beary went out, followed by Princess Frincia, who looked back hesitantly.

Grabbing his hand, I went back to the banquet hall, but I was bothered by Princess Moira’s venomous look that I noticed right before closing the door. Her overtightened waist, his sudden offer to give her a dress and Princess Frincia’s ambiguous remarks to me. When I put together the puzzle words, I felt more and more convinced about my guesswork.

“Are you feeling better now?”

“Pardon?” As I now understood the whole situation, I felt kind of woozy. Was it true?

The reason he gave her the dress was to keep her at bay, not to show her his good feelings? I looked blankly at him in embarrassment and asked, “Why did you do that to her?”

“Well, let me say it’s for multiple purposes for now.”

“… Oh, your behavior doesn’t suit you, Your Majesty. I wonder why you mixed your personal feelings with this grave national event.”

Although I was grateful that he cared for me, I thought he went too far, so I spoke out firmly.

No matter how different he was from the old him, I just wondered if he was the same man I used to know. Of course, he might have wanted to hold the anti-emperor noble factions in check by disgracing Princess Moira, but I couldn’t understand why he, who always handled matters rationally and cool-heartedly, took it personally this time and botched the job this time.

“It looks like you really want me to take one of the princesses as my bride, even if she is from the noble factions…”

“… Your Majesty.”

“Okay. Let me take it into account.”