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“Please wait, Prince!”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nI heard the footsteps of a group and the voice of a pretty girl.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nWhen I looked at them while still being held by the Prince, surprisingly, it was the Princess who was calling. Her strawberry blonde hair shook softly as she stopped. And now her green eyes are wavering confusingly.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nAfter three years she grew up really well, it’s what I was thinking thoughtlessly in the Prince’s arms.\n
“So it was true. The fact that the Prince woke up that…”\n
“That?”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nThe Prince’s voice became low. It’s in disapproval of me being called that?\n
It couldn’t be. For someone like me that is good enough. \n
Or, did some affection come out because I’m the one whose curse he broke? No, that guess is rude. I’m sure he’s a very compassionate person. After all he even broke my curse.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“Princess, have you forgotten why he was cursed?”\n
“N-no, of course not! You had a hard time, uh… you.”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nThe Princess, of course, didn’t remember my name. Her attendants neither.\n
But that’s alright! That is the normal reaction to me.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“It’s Thomas Moborough, Princess. Isn’t there a word of apology for the one who was cursed instead of you, Princess?”\n
“From, from me!?”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nAfter the Prince’s unreasonable request, the Princess eyes widened. Well that’s to be expected. He said that I’m really pitiful for taking such a stupid curse.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“Err, Prince? Please don’t get troubled over me…\n
I cautiously tried to persuade the Prince, but the Prince didn’t give in, and the Princess stared at me with daggers in her eyes.\n
Let’s stop, I’m scared of the rest!\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nBut the Prince smiled at the Princess.\n
“Princess, if you don’t have business with Thomas, could you please do it later? Thomas has just awakened and his health isn’t good. I want to make him rest as soon as possible.”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“If so! At least the room will be prepared, so bring him here”\n
“I’m in a hurry, so excuse me.”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nWow, what country is this Prince from?\n
To be able to bluntly refuse our Princess, maybe from Villle in the east? Or Mimsun in the west? Or the north…\n
Oh, it’s the red wing.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nThe room he stays in is the finest room in the castle.\n
The wallpaper is deep red and there’s gold decorations here and there. It probably doesn’t feel so annoying because much of the furniture is white.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nTo stay in the red wing, it means he’s a Prince from Excellent Kingdom? This is bad, he’s a big shot.\n
While I was dumbfounded, the Prince entered the bedroom, and I was surprised and clung to him.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“Prince!? I’m good with the chair, or even better, the floor!”\n
“What are you talking about? I can’t put you to sleep in such places. It will be unpleasant after my use, but please bear with me.”\n
“No, not unpleasant, just I’m sorry!”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“Oh, I said it again.”\n
I sensed a bad mood, so I closed my mouth\n
The resistance was in vain, and I was gently laid down on the Prince’s bed.\n
And the placement was so gentle!\n
The maiden’s heart is fluttering. But I’m not a maiden, so I’m more cautious.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nIt kinda smells like luxury, so I can’t calm down.\n
As I was moving my eyes, the Prince suddenly raised his hand.\n
Eh? Why did you order the people to leave?\n
Why am I alone in the bedroom with the Prince! ??\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nWhile I was so surprised that I couldn’t even speak, The Prince naturally sat on the edge of the bed.\n
“Hey Thomas. Your habit is like a curse. So let’s do like this”\n
The Prince stroked my cheek with a very gentle hand.\n
“From now on every time you say that, I’ll kiss you.”\n
“Ha ha! If you don’t like it, you must be careful.”\n
What are you saying, and even laughing so refreshingly. I definitely have to never say it again.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“That’s why Thomas, do you think you can talk? If it’s hard you can sleep as it is.”\n
“Oh, if it’s just talking I’m fine. — It’s about the curse right?”\n
“Yeah. I want to ask about it now. It’s not talked about curses very openly after all.”\n
“Oh, what! So it was that…”\n
I was about to guess something suspicious because you cleared out the people in the bedroom. I’m sor—. Dangerous! I haven’t said it right now right?\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“It was that?”\n
The Prince tilted his head lightly.\n
“Ah no no! It’s nothing. Well, I already talked a little bit earlier, but when I was sleeping in that box, I could see the spectators. Like, it felt that only my soul slipped out. It also worked for the Witch.”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nI remembered the day the Witch came.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“I was supposed to take away that Princess’s three years. A young woman’s three years are precious, right? In the meantime, the man I was aiming for would enter his marriageable age, and maybe even marry a suitable woman. But carelessly! I cursed a inconsequential man, who wouldn’t matter if he was there or not.”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“But you know, this is very troublesome to solve. Well, if you’re a prince you can just kiss and it’s done. And isn’t that unfair, like just by being born a prince you can have that kind of power. I’m talking about how much hard work I put into becoming a witch! They should try eating centipedes too!”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nDid you eat it?\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“Oh well, apologies? I’ll play with the conditions a little. So be patient. Well then, I hope you have a wonderful encounter with the prince!”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nNo no no! Wait a minute!\n
I desperately tried to restrain her.\n
But my appearance couldn’t be seen by the Witch anymore.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“That’s why, it seems like the Witch tampered with the curse, but I don’t know the contents.”\n
While explaining the details of this last wonderful encounter, the Prince seemed to be thinking of something.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“… That’s a little troublesome. It means your connection with the Witch isn’t broken. In the future, maybe there will be another interference from the Witch. — Thomas, I have a suggestion. Won’t you come to my country?\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“… Does that mean that you’re taking me in to protect me from the Witch?”\n
“That’s right, you’ll be leaving your homeland so you won’t be able to decide right away. But I want you to think about it.”\n
“No, I’m just wondering, why would you do so much? If you break the curse, will something like responsibility arise?”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nThe Prince suddenly dropped his eyes. Like he had something hard to say.\n
“No that’s not the case. It’s the whole story of why you were cursed, and the responsibility for neglecting your curse.”\n
“Neglecting?”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“The Princess and the Witch were fighting over me. That’s why the reason you were cursed is also partially my fault. Thomas, I… I’m the one who have to apologize to you.”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“Well, I guessed it when the Princess came. The Prince also has it hard.”\n
“I have it hard? What do you mean?”\n
“Ah! No, I’m not particularly saying about how that Princess is stubborn, but I’m saying that it’s hard for people who are popular! About the circumstances of the curse, it doesn’t matter so don’t worry about it. “\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“You don’t care!? No, but that’s not all. I’m a prince.”\n
“That’s right”\n
“I knew you were cursed in an accident! I knew it, and I didn’t break the curse. Even though I was also responsible!”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nOh, the painful face can also make a painting.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“Thomas, are you even listening?”\n
“Ah, yes. For the time being?”\n
“I’ve been worried about you for the last three years… I’ve robbed you of your three years!”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nThe prince grabbed my shoulder.\n
No, posture! It’s almost like you’re lying over me?\n
The Prince distorted his face as if he was about to cry.\n
Ah, isn’t this rather, I robbed the Prince of three years?\n
And maybe he worried so much that he went crazy!?\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“Oh, yes! I understand.”\n
“What? Aren’t you saying it too lightly!? Do you really know!”\n
“Wow, wait wait your face is too close!”\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nYou haven’t forgotten that this is on the bed right? It feels like being courted by the Prince you know?\n
Wow, it’s an anniversary of my life.\n
— But this is not the time to escape from reality.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\nI took the Prince’s hand off my shoulder and managed to get up halfway.\n
Um. I was supported.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n “No, well. First of all, thank you very much for breaking the curse. If it was solved with the intention of apologizing I’m relieved. I didn’t think I could give back enough.\n
“Give back? Ridiculous! I’m the one who can’t apologize enough.”\n
Instead of shaking my head, I closed my eyes tightly.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“No, it’s enough. I never thought there was a prince who would break my curse, and I don’t even have a miraculously cute sister who would marry for me. Because our whole family has a mediocre face. “\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“Marry for you?”\n
“Well, who knows whether or not I can buy one of the Prince’s buttons even if I sell all my household goods! Even if I say I’ll pay you back with my body? It’s not as valuable as a button! Ha ha. I’m really glad I didn’t have to ruin my whole family! “\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“Wait Thomas, what are you talking about! “\n
The Prince seemed to be confused because I was relieved and ended up talking a lot.\n
I stiffened my face and turned to the Prince.\n
I can’t be fooling around from here on.\n
I have to express my gratitude properly.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“I’m a mediocre man, and I’m grateful that the Prince even lifted the curse. There’s nothing to the Prince to worry about.”\n
I really though so, so before I knew I was smiling naturally.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“Thomas. You are such a… “\n
The Prince stopped what he was saying and shut his mouth tightly.\n
The blue eyes of the nodding Prince had a determination.\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-background-background-color has-background-color is-style-default">\n“Okay. If you are like that. At least for now on, I’ll protect you no matter what.”\n