No. 364
He looked at me without a word. He didn't come to me through these guys, and he didn't frown.
On the contrary, I narrowed my brow.
“Why don’t you say anything?”
“……”
“Adrian.”
At my words, people's eyes turned to Adrian at the door.
The intruders took turns looking at me and Adrian, and after a while the least of them said the least sane East.
"It's nice to see Adrian, but he's got to accept my wreath first. I like you, LeBlaine. Be my wife.”
As East spoke, the others were also clamoring.
“You know how long I’ve been watching you.”
Hatton too,
“Give me a chance this time.”
Storas too,
“If you and I hold hands, we can embrace this continent.”
"If you want, I'll be the son-in-law instead of the heir to the Grand Duke!"
Jin and Lionel both offered me flowers, but only Adrian just looked at me.
I was grumpy for some reason.
‘Why? No, I know why I'm grumpy.'
Be honest.
Now, I hate to see Adrian giving up on me for any reason. Even if it's because it's for me.
‘It’s obvious what’s going on in my head.’
He is the only child of the Imperial Emperor.
Now that Andre has been completely excluded from the succession, he is a person who has taken it for granted.
And I was the one who said to the Emperor and the people of the Empire, "I don't want to live in the Empire."
If I marry him, I will of course cross over to the Empire.
Knowing how much I love Dubbleed, he couldn't have let me give up my hometown willingly.
I stared at Adrian.
“You are a man with a weaker will than a sea cucumber, you!”
As soon as I shouted, the family seemed to have heard the news from the servants, but stopped running like wild boars in full rage.
“LeBlaine?”
“Kid, little one.”
I could only count on my hand to be angry like this in front of my family, so everyone was bewildered.
I groaned and turned my back.
Adrian's voice, who had been staring at me until now, followed behind his back.
“Then what should I do?”
“…… What?"
I turned to see Adrian's eyes clouded.
“You will be happier here. All the people who proposed to you are people with spares. I can be here with you.”
"Therefore? You mean you don't have a spare, so if I accept your proposal, you'll have to leave Dubbleed forever?"
“…… Kkay."
I stared at Adrian fiercely.
"Coward! dummy! Silly! This @#$@#one @#%@!”
Then, when the double bath came out, everyone was startled. Only my mother covered her cheek with one hand and said, “You look like me in that way.” murmured.
I said in a thorny voice.
“Okay. Because I have no intention of accepting the proposal of a coward like you.”
“LeBla-”
"I!"
I screamed and glared at Adrian.
“I want a man who tells us that no matter what obstacles we face, we can overcome them together.”
“……”
“I want a man who wants to be with me more than the consideration that hurts me.”
While everyone looked at me silently, East and Lionel said without notice, "That's me!" shouted
I looked at Adrian without even looking at them.
“Go back. A precious person who will become the Crown Prince. I will remain in this Dubbleed waiting for a brave companion-”
Just as I was shooting in a hard tone, Adrian strode through the courtyard.
Passed by his men and caught me.
Why me. What?’ I looked at him with a look,
"Ugh!"
"This person……!”
“I can’t fall right now!!”
It was only after yelling from the surrounding area that I understood the situation.
He grabbed my face with both hands and kissed me.
I stiffened with my eyes wide open, and there was a commotion around me.
Mom said, “Oh my gosh.” She covered her reddened cheeks with both hands, but the brothers shouted at the castle to leave.
“I, that crazy……!”
“Adrian Ruerg!”
"Go away. LeBlaine said she'd marry me."
The last one was Dad.
“The entire army of the kingdom, ready for battle.”
Adrian was kissing me until my mother shut the mouth of my terribly angry father.
He slowly pulled away from me and said in a slightly hoarse voice.
“You think you know me well, but you are mistaken.”
“What, what……?”
Confused, I stuttered.
‘What, what? This force.’
His eyes were sharp and intense, as if they were caught up in me.
He whispered.
“I am not running away. It gives you a chance to escape.”
Like a predator showing mercy to small animals.
‘Mom……'
I know without looking in the mirror. My cheeks would have turned red without noticing.
I swallowed dry saliva and looked at the shimmering red eyes.
I coughed and said.
“I am not running away. So you run away.”
Adrian stared at me.
He thought for a moment as if he was trying to figure out what I meant, and I laughed a little at him.
Then, looking around, he found violets in a vase.
Since my return, the courtiers have always adorned violets.
I took a handful of violets from the vase and walked over to Adrian.
“Leave your country and come to me. I will make you that happy.”
“……”
“I am so greedy that I cannot leave my country and my family, which I have obtained after all kinds of asceticism. Sorry for being selfish, but you love me like that. So, Adrian.”
“……”
“Princess Leblaine Rissette Dubbleed is proposing to Adrian Ruerg.”
Adrian's eyes narrowed.
The surroundings became quiet.
I smiled at Adrian, who stared blankly at the violet.
“If it’s okay to be in such a bad country, then, Adrian. …… Will you accept me?”
“…… Easy."
"What?"
He hugged me tightly.
"Sure."
Adrian, who met me a little farther away, was smiling for the first time.
A very, very, very bright smile that does not know what to do with happiness.
I chose this man.
He's not even the descendant of a valiant chieftain with wisdom comparable to that of a demon.
Maybe not the Crown Prince who will rewrite the history of the beast people.
Not the son of a brave Archduke who finally found his father and left the family behind and came to me.
I am not the ambitious person I have changed over the course of several lifetimes.
Not a great demon who looked only at me for over a thousand years.
‘Just this man.’
This foolish man who gave up his supreme abilities, his honor for eternity, and the best bloodline on this continent, and even himself for me.
He is a man who puts me first above anything else.
I chose this idiot because the words of love are so heavy that he can't easily get them out.
I said with a smile.
"Do not worry. For the rest of my life, I will not make you worry about wealth, or worry about bowing your head to others.”
“Is there no option for me to work?”
"Do you want to?"
“I wanted to do business with the socialites.”
“Good. make your dreams come true by my side.”
"Huh."
So I started as a vicious Dubbleed Princess by 'Plundering the Crown Prince from the Empire'.
* * *
Aside from the Empire, it was not that there was no opposition.
First of all, the family was in an uproar.
[Hey kid, you are a minor!]
- He was adamantly opposed to my marriage.
I lightly stopped those words.
[Am I no longer a minor? It's been three years since I left.]
However, the enemies (fathers and brothers who were opposed to marriage) did not back down easily. I was helped by a strong friends (mother and aunt).
[Only those who have endured alone for hundreds or thousands of years to protect LeBlaine here, throw stones.]
Everyone shut their mouths at the mother's attack.
In fact, no one in my family would have liked me as a mate. But Adrian had made such a sacrifice and had no excuse to oppose it.
He's going to be his son-in-law, and he'll stay with Dubbleed, so where else could there be a better groom than that?
Adrian even took on the troublesome task, saying, "I'll take care of the Empire's affairs."
In the end, my father and older brothers (I don't know why, but my maternal grandfather and uncle) gathered together and drank alcohol for two days in a row, and after tears and tears, they gave it up.
My mother, aunt, and the chairman shook their heads as they watched the two drunken brothers, their father, and their mother-in-law crying while holding their heads together.
My father looked at me with vague eyes even when he was drunk.
Each time, though, I averted my gaze.
Anyway, it was a good ending.
And……
“You are really bad, bad girl...…”
“How did you propose to another man in front of me who proposed to you…... You trampled on the man's innocence!"
The men who had proposed to me left the castle weeping.
To be precise, it was East and Lionel.
I chuckled and saw them off.
"Bye! Find a good girl! Hi!"
Seeing the fresh me, Jin smiled sadly.
“You may regret it.”
"I?"
"Okay. I'm a better man than you think. We would have gotten along pretty well.”
“In this life, I’ve decided to do my regrets in Adrian’s arms.”
Jin smiled and took my hand lightly and kissed the back of my hand.
“I hope you are happy. The strongest Stalla (warrior) I have ever seen.”
I thanked him with a smirk.
Hayton looked at me without saying a word and moved forward.
He expected to say something, but he was surprised as he walked silently.
‘Is the wound deep?’
Feeling a little sorry, Hayton paused, he said.
“Even if it’s an affair, I’m fine.”
“Can’t you turn it off right now?”
When I opened my eyes, he muttered.
“If you have a next life, give me a chance.”
“…… Okay."
He stroked me and looked back. I added.
“Give me a chance around the tenth life.”
“It’s boring. Really."
“It means letting go of regret. Because I will never go to you.”
Awww Storas
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