Chapter 135 (1/2)
Chapter 135: Chapter 135
I headed with Carsein in the direction where they drove the horses.
Several people were gathered under the dark shade of a tree. I saw the emperor standing upright, surrounded by the royal knights escorting him, and a messenger, who knelt down, reporting to him.
‘What is he reporting?’
I listened attentively, but I couldn’t hear well.
I was biting my lip in frustration when a royal knight who recognized me stepped aside.
As I approached with an ominous foreboding, I heard the emperor shouting at the messenger.
“What did you just say? Say it again. ”
“I’m afraid to say this, but I got the message that a dark-haired woman suddenly appeared in the imperial garden. ”
Right at that moment, I was shocked.
‘What? A dark-haired woman appeared? Black hair … ‘
My heart was now beating like crazy, and I was gasping for breath. My knees were bent wobbly.
Dark hair? A woman who suddenly appeared in the Imperial Palace?
Is this that woman? The genuine child of God’s prophecy, Jiun? Did she come finally?
Why now, instead of one year later? I was confused and full of complicated thoughts. I spaced out. I moaned and fell into a pure white world where nothing could be seen or heard.
A world of pure white where I could neither think or feel.
How long have I been drifting in the pure white sea?
My empty vision slowly came back, and the ringing in my ears lessened gradually.
I closed and opened my blurry eyes.
The blurry world began to clearly come into my view little by little.
When I closed and opened my eyes wide for the last time, a young man with red hair was looking anxiously at me.
“… Ah.”
“… ”
“Tia?”
“… Sein.” I looked around.
I saw towering trees and a breeze was blowing over my ears. It was quiet everywhere.
Not only the emperor but also the messenger and the passers-by disappeared. Only I, Carsein and a couple of others were standing in the shade of the tree.
With his blue eyes full of doubts, he asked me with a smile, “What’s the matter with you? You suddenly stood aghast and…”
“Oh, no. nothing.”
“Hmm.”
Carsein leaned forward to meet my eyes and suddenly put both hands on my cheek.
His rough but warm palms felt like my father’s hands. Is it because they were both knights bearing swords that I felt like that?
“What’s wrong with you, Tia?”
“Huh? How do I look?”
“Are you really asking me now because you don’t know?”
With a frown, Carsein crooked his thumb and index fingers to pinch my cheeks.
‘What the heck is he doing now?’
Even before I asked him, my cheeks were already smarting from his pinching.
Only then did I stop feeling nauseated. I felt as if I got off the ship that was rocked by high waves and finally set foot on the ground.
When I came to my senses and looked ahead, Carsein, who was pinching my cheek, smiled at me. His blue eyes fully reflecting the blue autumn sky danced wiggled with a smile.
“Ouch. Don’t do that!”
“What did you say, little girl?”
“… Stop it.”
When I pulled at his big hand still pinching my cheek, he straightened up and patted my cheek with his index finger.
Narrowing my brows, I spoke with a grumpy voice, “Why are you teasing me like this?”
“My little girl, you look like that little cat in your house as you are so on edge today.”
When I stared at him sharply, knitting my brows, he smiled brightly and reached out to my chin.
‘Is he trying to tickle me?’
Suddenly, I recalled Luna because she meowed pleasantly when I tickled under her chin gently. Is he now treating me as a cat, not content with calling me a little girl?
‘Then, should I make a sound like Luna?’
When I recalled her meowing, I suddenly burst into laughter. Looking at me carefully, he stopped reaching out and said, “Hmm, I think you are okay now.”