“What are you thinking about?”
“Your Highness.”
The prince, whose dark hair was soaked with water, asked, sitting back to back with Vin.
“Just… something else.”
“So, what other thoughts do you have?”
“I think Irillin is weird these days.”
Pop~. The excitement that flowed strangely through the prince was cut off.
It was not an illusion. In fact, the shallow smile on the prince’s face disappeared.
“I though she was trying to get your attention.”
“I thought so too… but I feel a sense of discord. It sounds strange, but she doesn’t feel like the Irillin I know.”
“That sounds really strange.”
The prince spat out in a low voice as if growling, then stood up and dusted his butt.
“Why do you care about other people? There is absolutely no need for that.”
“Where are you going?”
“I won’t tell you.”
Vin asked the prince, who suddenly started walking away, but the prince suffered a needless heartache.
In fact, there was no destination. It was just to get Vin’s attention.
‘Follow me.’
The prince continued to walk and hoped, but there was no sound of someone following him.
In the end, the prince turned his head.
“Don’t follow me.”
Then, as if he had accidentally remembered, he turned around and added.
“Oh, that kid. Don’t bother, just don’t think about her.”
The words before meant follow me, and the words after were the truth.
But still no sound followed.
‘Sheesh’
Unfortunately, he never followed. However, there was something the 13-year-old prince still didn’t know.
People are beings who want to escape the more you oppress them.
The moment you think you shouldn’t care, you only think about it more.
Screech… I ground my teeth in frustration.
I am in a very bad mood right now.
There are two reasons for this.
One reason is because Sith frustrated me yesterday by saying ‘no’, and another reason…
“There are only two months left until your graduation. You know there’s no time for sentimentality. This means you only have two months left to prepare for the graduation exam!”
It’s because of the graduation exam.
In the graduation exam, you have to get a certain score or higher to graduate safely, but if you get a failing grade in even one subject, you will be suspended.
I am worried about all subjects, but the biggest problem was the swordsmanship test.
You have to pick up the sword to take the test, and you have to take a test to get a score.
In other words, you have to raise your sword somehow!
What kind of joke of fate is this?! Why did Irillin choose swordsmanship as an elective subject!
No, come to think of it, the reason that all the characters in <The Crown Prince’s Lover> have deep ties in swordsmanship is all thanks to me.
…My sister had trouble researching her data, so she decided to write with the knowledge she learnt over her shoulder, through me, into her novel.
“What are you doing? Can’t you draw your sword?”
“…”
Vin, who had no way of knowing that the swordsmanship he was using was conceived from me, was busy urging me today with an indifferent look.
Ah…….
I’d really hate to unsheathe it.
I really didn’t want to see with my own eyes that I could hold a sword in any body other than my real body.
If I see that scene….. I really shouldn’t do it.
I wouldn’t want to go back to my original body…
“I-I’m not feeling well today…”
“Where in your body is feeling bad?”
“I…I’m not feeling….”
“Yes?”
“Yes…….”
What’s up with this guy suddenly being interested in Irillin.
When I answered with a confused look. Vin closed his eyes and smiled.
With a smile sitting below his indifferent eyes, he shouldn’t be looking that beautiful!
However, Vin’s eyes, which were folded into a beautiful smile, returned to their original place.
For a moment, I felt cheap(?) energy.
“I saw you devour a whole bag of cookies in one bite before class. You must be very hungry.”
It was a somewhat sarcastic tone, as if convinced that my words were lies.
I had seen similar scenes in novels.
When Vin laughs like he does now, many extras will be cut out.
…Aren’t I like that now?
“Uh…um, I ate it and got sick…”
“What about when you missed class yesterday? You also weren’t feeling well?”
“Even at that time, my stomach…”
“You weren’t feeling well, but I heard you ate a very good dinner at the Marquis’s house that day.”
“What? How do you know that?”
“Have you forgotten how close your family is to mine? I know that even if I don’t want to hear about you, I will still hear no matter what. I’m tired of hearing it every day.”
Damn. Even if you hear something like that, forget about it. Why are you so interested in my business when you’re so bored.
As if he had read my mind, Vin immediately added.
“I’m tired of hearing that your appetite has increased abnormally these days, and that your arrogance has decreased. As an Ortega, I naturally have to remember details to sense the threats around me.”
“What threat am I to you?”
“A very big threat. You tied me with a rope called marriage, so I can’t separate from you for the rest of my life. ‘If I don’t want something bad to happen in the future, i should know in advance and prepare for it.'”
The reason the Crown Prince had executed Irillin was also because of Vin’s attitude.
Even though he hated Irillin so much, he always tried to keep her in his sight.
Even if it was only because of anxiety about his own safety, it was enough to invoke the prince’s jealousy.
“I won’t do that anymore…..”
“I heard those words over a hundred times. I don’t believe a single word you say anymore.”
That’s probably why you didn’t believe me when I said I didn’t like you anymore.
It will probably be like that in the future as well. Damn it.
Please don’t pay attention to me….No, I just want you to turn off your mind!
“You are still lying. You’re not hurt, but you can’t hold a sword. You’re avoiding me and you can’t say. Why?”
“…Avoiding you is not a threat to you.”
“It becomes a threat. If I don’t know what you’re going to do, I’m anxious. And…”
Vin pointed at the other students who were sparring with his chin.
“Being left behind is a big threat.”
“If you want to spar, you can change partners.”
“That’s not allowed.”
“Why?”
“There is no one better than you.”
Until this time, when she hadn’t yet undergone her second growth, Irillin was a powerful person who beat all male students.
This was because she made a lot of effort to walk the same path as Vin.
However, there was only one person Irillin couldn’t beat.
It is the Crown Prince.
The prince had excellent skills among his peers, to the point that there were no students he could compete with among his classmates.
Thanks to this, the prince’s sparring partner was decided to be the swordsmanship teacher, but there were times when he was already pushing the teacher because his skills were so outstanding.
“Why don’t you spar with His Highness the Crown Prince? He is better than me.”
“No.”
“Why?”
“How dare I swing a sword at His Highness.”
“…”
In terms of development, this must be a time where his relationship with the crown prince shouldn’t have been known yet. But to say such a heartfelt statement….
I though, but Vin immediately added an excuse.
“As I servant, I dare not commit such a disrespectful act.”
“Ah, yes. I’m sure…”
“Anyway,”
This time, Vin did not just gesture with his chin, but with a glance and pointed at the sword that was left quietly in my scabbard.
Then he raised his eyes and looked at me.
His deep blue eyes were like a calm lake, but I felt like I was about to be sucked in and suffocated.
“Put up your sword, Irillin Heather.”
Unknowingly, I swallowed my saliva. I felt opressed.
Even as a child who was only 13 years old.
Vin’s words had weight.
‘It’s not anyone else whose asking, it’s what I want. You have to listen. As always. Is it not?’
As if demanding, as if pressing.
Vin, who had to give up many things since he was young, only expressed his demands to Irillin.
Because she wanted to listen to whatever Vin wanted.
Like giving up her life.
So this situation is unacceptable to him.
If a dog that had been wagging it’s tail for years suddenly bit you yesterday, everyone will react like Vin.
However, there are no dogs in this place.
Neither I nor Irillin are dogs, Irillin may have acted quite a bit like one, but as long as I’m in her body, I won’t die being treated like a dog.
“No.”
“What?”
“Don’t order me, Vin Ortega. I’m not your dog.”
My expression reflected through Vin’s pupils looked quite determined.
Tightly closed mouth with untremblingly, brightly shining, watery eyes.
Vin seemed taken aback by my reaction which was not like ‘Irillin’.
Vin took a deep breath and opened his mouth.
“…I never thought so.”
“I think you do. Even if I say no you keep forcing me”
“Forcing…”
Vin murmured.
He was shocked, but his face was blank.
It’s what Irillin always did to him. He must be shocked that it was suddenly now the opposite.
After that, Vin was unable to do anything for a while.
But it didn’t last long.
Because Vin heard a must more shocking sound.
“Ugh!”
It wasn’t a loud sound, but Vin’s head immediately returned to where the sound came from.
The place where Vin’s gaze was directed was the prince and the swordsmanship teacher.
“Your Highness! Are you okay? I’m sorry. Just now I went too far.”
“……No, it’s my fault for not focusing on sparring.”
The answer was clearly directed at the swordsmanship teacher, but the prince’s red eyes were not looking at the swordsmanship teacher.
It was facing Vin and the empty space beside him.
‘….Could it be that you’re jealous? We were just talking.’
Irillin thought.
T/N: Finally! Some action between the original CP….. Is it bad that I ship them
