The reception dinner was over, and Viola returned to the room.
It was only an hour or so, but it felt like ten hours for Viola.
“It was hard. I’m exhausted.”
He returned to the room and threw himself on the bed.
She lay on her back.
Zenon stood by the bed.
“Princess, you look tired.”
“Yeah. I’m tired.”
Zenon approached Viola and handed her a sweet juice.
“Do you want this?”
He raised the scattered viola as if it had melted on the bed.
I’ve been feeling that Zenon was surprisingly delicate.
The touch was very soft and careful.
It was a touch with a lot of consideration for Viola, and the way he spoke was friendly.
“Don’t worry. Considering my condition, I put in a weak poison.”
“…”
That’s the way this Duke is supposed to be.
Add a small amount of poison to every food. In order not to be poisoned, take poison at an acceptable level in advance. It was an act of developing resistance.
“You must have put in the poison which was measured accurately in consideration of my physical condition, right?”
A colorless, odorless poison.
It tasted just like orange juice.
It’s sweet.
I want to eat strawberry ade.
“When I wake up, I wish I had strawberry ade.”
“I’ll prepare it.”
“With ice floating.”
“I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll grind the ice to a minimum and put it up like a snowflake.”
“Yes.”
Well, it sounds a bit grand, but it’s going to be good anyway.
Blinking.
My eyes closed.
It’s been too much of a push since dawn.
The seven-year-old’s body could not withstand sleepiness and quickly became half asleep.
I’m half out of my mind.
Her mouth moved regardless of her will.
“I’m sleepy.”
Slithering,
Viola’s body melted into the bed.
I fell asleep.
Zenon looked down at the bed.
Viola’s hair was messy.
Part of the hair was in the mouth again.
“Yum yum”
The sleeping viola chewed his hair like a cow.
Xenon carefully pulled out her hair and asked softly.
“May I apply some medicine?”
Viola fell asleep and couldn’t answer.
Zenon lifted the blanket very gently. Viola’s shins and feet were visible.
It was the part where she got burned because of the poison potion.
I applied the ointment gently earlier, but I thought I had to apply it a few times to fully recover.
“Well, I’ll excuse you, I thought you’d let me.”
Xenon fell to his knees.
Very slowly, I sat down, carefully so that the viola would not wake up.
I opened the lid of the ointment.
I applied ointment to the burned area with a delicate touch.
Xenon applied the ointment to Viola several times in that posture.
I applied it again when it was dry, and I applied it again when it was dry.
“I have to apply it several times so that it doesn’t get ugly.”
He raised himself up.
Xenon knows.
No matter how much Viola or her talent as a killer is outstanding, this kind of burn hurts.
I smiled as I looked at the sleeping viola.
‘I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll grind the ice to a minimum and put it up like a snowflake.
In that short moment, his expression became very bright.
Is strawberry ade filled with ice that good?
‘That brightness… I don’t hate it.’
If possible, I wanted to see the brightness for a long time.
“Other people have never seen Princess Viola sleeping like this, right?”
Viola’s appearance at the reception dinner was far more fascinating than Xenon had imagined.
She was more like Bellatu than anyone else and exuded a powerful presence beyond pure blood Bellatu.
The person who did…
She’s chewing her hair and falling into dreamland.
The gap between the conscious viola and the unconscious viola was as large as heaven and earth.
Xenon smiled and continued to look at Viola’s face, who fell asleep.
‘It’s very strange.’
Viola was a princess of Bellatu who could never be cute.
But strangely enough, that sleeping face was cute.
***
It’s been about four hours.
When Viola opened her eyes, she saw Xenon’s face.
“What are you doing here?”
“Just. I was next to the princess.”
“Why?”
“The princess kept kicking the blanket.”
I was next to you for four hours to keep you covered.
“You shouldn’t have a stomachache at times like this.”
“At times like this?”
“You had a potion, viola.”
“… Ah.”
I’m afraid it’s because I drank it alone. What did I say?
Viola Bellatu shouldn’t be weak or anything.
“Yes.”
That’s right.
There’s no way you’re purely worried.
But then.
Xenon smiled beautifully.
“I’m glad you’re not sick.”
The way he spoke was very friendly.
Whatever the reason, Viola seemed to be sincere in herself that she didn’t want her to be sick.
“I’m fine, go out. Take a rest, too, butler.”
“Yes, sir.”
I answered yes, but Xenon didn’t go outside.
“By the way, Princess. Do you mind if I am honest for a moment?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well.”
Xenon smiled beautifully.
I hesitated a little.
Xenon spoke frankly, slightly scratching his head.
“It was a little sad.”
“What?”
“When you have a wound in your leg.”
“What’s wrong with that?”
“I don’t know. Am I weird?”
Viola was a little confused, too.
“Why are you sad?”
Xenon is a unique character.
They don’t sympathize with other people’s pain or suffering at all, and they don’t know their feelings well.
Because of this, he was also called a monster when he was young.
However, he expressed that the emotionless character was sad.
‘In the original… Did you ever say you were sad?’
I thought hard about it.
“I don’t have one.”
No matter how much I thought about it, Xenon himself had never sung “emotion” so honestly.
“Yeah. It’s weird.”
“I know. I have a wound on your leg. Why were you sad?”
“Well.”
Xenon was genuinely amazed.
I was amazed and smiled again.
“This feeling, this is very strange. It’s my first time feeling this way, but I don’t want to feel it. It’s sad. I only knew it with my head, it’s my first time going through it.”
“…”
“Anyway, I think one thing is clear.”
One thing has become clear.
“It makes me sad when the princess gets hurt.”
“…”
“So I don’t want the princess to get hurt.”
Viola made a reasonable judgment as a true reader amid confusion.
Why Xenon has changed. Reasons for self-awareness.
I read it out.
It’s probably because the character Viola has changed.’
So the character next to him, Xenon, changed, too.
Viola has become a more rational, more rational character.
Therefore, it was judged that Xenon, a character who constantly tests viola, evolved accordingly.
‘The way you shake my reason. The way you try to find a gap in me. The way you touch the realm of emotion. It’s constantly testing me in a more evolved way.’
Okay.
Jenon is that kind of character!
I think I know now.
‘Phew. It’s easier to be clear.’
I felt at ease.
If a character like Xenon, who doesn’t know what’s inside, acts in a different direction from the original, his head becomes complicated.
However, I felt comfortable knowing the reason for that.
“You don’t want me to get hurt?”
He laughed scornfully.
“I am Bellatu.”
There’s no way not to get hurt.
No matter how careful you act, there are definitely cases of injury.
Viola’s goal was to survive, not to get hurt at all.
Xenon, who understood Viola’s words, bowed.
“You know very well, Princess Viola Bellatu.”
“But why are you talking so much nonsense? What about getting hurt? Why is that sad? Xenon, what do you think I am?”
Xenon spent a long time bending down.
Viola had no idea, but in fact, Zenon was in a very confused state.
Xenon agonized.
‘Can I say this?’
I had to think about it for a long time.
After such a long time.
Xenon opened his mouth with difficulty.
“She is the princess of Belatu, whom I serve.”
“Yeah. You know it well and don’t talk nonsense.”
Xenon was a little heartbroken at that.
That was more so because it wasn’t wrong.
I wish you’d just told me that you knew, that you wouldn’t get hurt, that you’d be sad.
‘That would be my greed.
I don’t even know why I’m so greedy.
“To the butler who serves the master, can you give the master an order yourself?”
“What order?”
At that moment, the setting value of the character Xenon set by the author changed.
Without even knowing the viola or xenon.
“Orders to protect the princess.”
The butler cannot protect the princess of his own will.
It’s not that you can’t keep it, but you can’t keep it.
A butler is a butler, not an escort.
A princess protected by a butler cannot be called Bellatu.
“So I want to hear it.”
An order to protect yourself.
Being forced to obey an order.
I thought it would be okay.
“I don’t want the princess to be sick.”
“…”
“So I wanted to protect you.”
The viola squinted its eyes.
“Wow. It was so sincere.”’
If I didn’t dig a novel hard.
If I didn’t know Xenon’s character well, I think I would have fallen for it like this.
“Let’s pull ourselves together.”
It is not until the latter part of the work that Xenon truly recognizes Viola.
No matter how much information you used in the novel, you couldn’t open all the doors of your mind to yourself, who was only seven years old.
at the mercy of that horse.
“Protect me”.
Are you giving orders?
Then Xenon will be deeply disappointed in himself.
You’ll start questioning Bellatu’s qualifications again, without making it obvious on the outside.
‘Whoa, I almost fell for it.’
His expression and tone seemed so sweet and desperate.
I almost fell for it.
“It’s not you who protects, it’s me.”
– What
“Belatu is me, not you.”
Bellatu is a keeper.
Northern Forest. Shield to protect humanity from the snow.
referred to.
Xenon was silent for a moment and then replied.
“Thank you, Princess.”
Xenon raised his waist.
That smiling face was full of fondness for Viola.
“It’s a shame that I’m a butler at times like this.”
“You’re sad”
“If I were an outsider like Lord Herson, would you have reached out to me for help?”
“It may have been so.”
The day after that.
The absurd news broke.
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