Chapter 80.
In order to maximize the power given to the body without revealing it, but the body that one can’t feel touching creates a vibration. It’s really like a dog.
I faced this annoying choice and all of a sudden my face twisted. But there was no strength to get angry either, and answered feebly.
“…… It’s not just that.”
“What about something else?” The Crown Prince asked deliberately.
“I ……”
Despite attempting to use the gun as a defense, it simply wouldn’t work on the stubborn and different guy. I held my cold hand under the cover of the crown prince’s cloak and rubbed it desperately.
“Because closing my eyes …… always reminds me of what just happened.
Just now things? What did the crown prince suddenly remember when he frowned and thought hard?
“… When falling from the cliff? Ah, just falling down and immediately reducing, I don’t think so.”
“…”
“Is this something about being beaten by a bear without fear?”
“Ha… Yes.”
Reacting to everything one by one now was tiring.
“I remembered that I had been trembling like a dog when I stepped out without fear to face the black bear’s punches and kicks.”
I was the one shaking with fear, muttering to myself in an unmistakably hoarse voice.
Taking a deep exaggerated breath, I admitted that the Crown Prince never heard another sound. I thought he’d be sarcastic about me ‘mad dogs have moments like that’… Unexpected.
In the secluded cave where the campfire was lit, a brief peace descended.
After gradually regaining consciousness from the conversation with the Crown Prince, the chill that had struck from beginning to end gradually came on. But in place of the seat was a heavy feeling of fatigue.
Because she had embraced her first without consent, it was as if she had to play an intimate role before her eyes slowly sank in.
“… Just when I was little.”
Suddenly like a preamble came a sigh-like voice. Unwilling to turn my head, I only turned my head to confirm my eyes. The Crown Prince looked at such me with a subtle expression, then spoke again.
“Nine, ten years old to be exact.”
“I’ve encountered bears about the same size as the one the male female encountered today in these woods.”
“…? ”
Well. I really don’t know why he suddenly said something like that. But I silently listened to his words.
“There was a time when the birth day of the second prince overlapped with the hunting convention. I met my brother for the first time then.” Probably remembering that time, the Crown Prince’s eyes were a bit hazy. That scenario made him somewhat human.
But the moment. Callisto immediately twisted his lips in a ferocious expression.
“At that time, I was still a small child, I didn’t know if I would hurt the newborn baby, and the Crown Princess picked up the baby for a few years, and I hadn’t even seen his hair.”
“All of the nobles were brought together for the Hunting Competition, but it was only in name. There was a long line of gifts to the Second Prince during the Grand Tournament.”
“I was the only one who participated in it empty-handed.”
His mumbled face became empty all of a sudden. Rereading it, he felt a bit deflated.
“I wanted to give my only brother a nice present.”
“So I snuck up on my father’s disapproval, grabbed a bow and arrow, and hid out in the hunting grounds.”
He said, “I wanted to, catch a small animal like a rabbit and give it to him as a gift.”
Callisto seemed to feel empty at any moment, but quickly regained his composure. Looking back at me, his shirt-pressed face looking like a blossom, the guy had nowhere near that bleak of an unsullied time.
It was incredible. I looked down at the crown prince who was telling me a story.
They were all too busy and lacked information about the men of the “hard” period. In order to stay in front, it is better to pick up everything and use it. Therefore, I cherish the childhood days of the Crown Prince.
“But really found his favorite prey, but fled so fast that the arrow missed.” Good prey. Went into the woods without realizing it. And then ran into a bear.
I was a little surprised. For it was very similar to what I had experienced today. Probably sensing that I was interested, the crown prince silently took over.
“Unlike the princess, I didn’t even shoot an arrow at the running bear.”
“Because it was too scary. It was just a matter of struggling to avoid the body before being beaten by the front hooves ……”
“Unlike me, didn’t your highness only encounter it when you were much younger than me?”
At Callisto’s self-deprecating tone, I replied with wide eyes.
(Now that the heroine is 17 years old, the bar mitzvah at 18 years old, the time when the true sister returns)
Before the coming of age ceremony, I was shivering from the fear of facing a bear that still hasn’t gone away. At only 9 or 10 years old, to what extent did the fear of the crown prince, who faced a huge beast at a young age, reach?
Although somehow it seemed to comfort others, Callisto shook his head.
He said, “My age is not important for the heir. The emperor should always be unique.”
“Not only that, but also instead of dodging it at all, it was stupid, and his arm was scratched by his toenail. With a little ।
If it had been later, it wouldn’t have stayed torn, but would have lost the arm instead. I was lucky.”
“Huh. ……”
I winced at the depiction of the cruelty of holding up a round arm without hesitation. Probably feeling ridiculous, the Crown Prince pulled the corner of my mouth.
“Was desperately running away to avoid a favorite monster. Suddenly, an arrow flew over from the other side.”
“Are the soldiers coming? ”
“I thought so at first, but…” The Crown Prince suddenly became angry, and my brows furrowed.
“As soon as the bear died, I desperately ran over to him, and it was the assassin in black shooting arrows at me.”
“Well, I sent him a ten year old.”
My jaw dropped at his bland explanation. Would it be okay if it was the current crown prince? Is it really normal to kill dozens of assassins in a hunting place in order to kill small children?
I remembered the 20 assassins I encountered today, and it’s really heavenly.
Whether it was the hunting ground or elsewhere, the crown prince who faced the sudden appearance of shooting assassins acted very calmly. The childhood of the tyrant who didn’t detail the contents of the game was more unfortunate than expected.
“… Was it to investigate?”
“Although it was investigated, the results of the investigation couldn’t be settled.”
He stroked his chin with one hand and suddenly flashed sour eyes.
“Even if it didn’t, it should have been sent by the Imperial Consort or a relative. At that time, the second prince was still illiterate and a child who didn’t know any better.”
His only “younger brother” didn’t feel an ounce of emotion in that title’s voice.
I was suddenly worried.
“But this story…you can tell it to me so casually?”
“So what? It won’t wait until you come to stick with the Second Prince.”
It was a bit of an exasperating statement, but it was the right one. But why were the fists clenched?
“It’s been like this since I was a child, so humanity is completely broken.”
Once again, I heartily agree with the formation of his character and shoot a glance that urges him to talk.
“So what?”
“Well, I was running away from the killers who killed me to avoid the bears, when all of a sudden those guys got a chestful of me and fell down the hill.”
Uh, a chest?
“Well, it’s a good thing I didn’t get hit by a relic.”
I subconsciously stared at Callisto’s neck. But, let alone the relics, there wasn’t even a solid chest.
“It’s not there now. That time when it can’t be used later, it’s back when it’s kept separately again.
The Crown Prince snorted.
“Does it look like you’ve decided to give up on dating now?”
“… Cough,” later in the day face flamed. I coughed dryly and scrambled to turn my head away.
“So, what’s next? Where’s the favorite bear?”
Changing the subject and my clothes being dropped on the hillside, the ever favorite bear passed me and pounced on the assassin
He seemed to remember that time again, and his mouth turned his tail up again.
“It was a bloodbath. That bear, very wise. Could take on fifteen men with weapons.
Ohhhhhhh- !
The wildly jumping giant black bear that pair of black bears brutally killed the assassins, and the appearance of the childhood crown prince who watched them was depicted
“… So who won?” The Crown Prince answered immediately with an expressionless face.
“Two people have been all but killed.”
“Two ……”
“The assassins had the upper hand in numbers, but to minimize their trail, they didn’t carry close-range weapons…
He said, “On the contrary, my dream is to destroy all my enemies and achieve victory.”
As a result, the only one who survived such a horrific killing scene was the young crown prince.
“What should I, who is still alive, do from now on?” This time the Crown Prince suddenly asked me.
My lips twitched, but I didn’t even have any answer.
What should be done? If it was me, I would probably be surrounded by black bears and assassin attacks, desperately running away and escaping from the woods.
“I cut off the neck of the dream,” but the crown prince in his infancy, who heard it through the mouth of the person in question, performed an act that he could never have dreamed of.
He justifiably won the hunting contest.
After the prize-giving ceremony, the black-headed bear who brought it threw the presents to the place where the second prince’s birthday presents were piled up. His body was dripping with blood that had not yet cooled.