Until The Real One Shows Up​

‘I’m sure he was around here…’

Anastasia looked around, looking for Wilhelm. But no matter how much she looked at him, of course, she couldn’t even see Avelin when she was wandering around.

“Ah…”

Someone gently grabbed her wrist and pulled her closer. Anastasia was naturally dragged and held in his arms.

“… Your Majesty?”

At the unfamiliar body, Anastasia recognized him immediately.

Wilhelm smiled and looked at Anastasia.

“You seemed to be looking for me, so I came first.”

“Did you have a good conversation with Lady Hazel?”

“Is the first thing you ask me about Lady Hazel?”

Despite his displeasure, Wilhelm answered faithfully.

“I inquired in detail how I got from Baudar to Rosenberg, and there are no loopholes. It’s either a thorough lie or the truth, or both. How about you?”

“As expected, it was a surprise. I decided to give him five days to reveal the truth. Well, but Your Majesty…”

“Say it.”

“Can we talk about this a little bit…?”

Now Wilhelm had Anastasia locked in her arms.

Anastasia added a little with an embarrassed expression.

“It’s a little… It’s a little stuffy.”

“I can’t help it. No one should listen to what we’re talking about.”

“Then shall we move?”

“Good idea. After all, I have received almost all of the greetings from the nobles.”

Wilhelm heard the answer he wanted, and then let Anastasia go.

Anastasia politely bowed her head to Wilhelm and said,

“Then I’ll see you later, Your Majesty.”

“Later?”

Wilhelm asked, his brow slightly narrowed.

“Where are you going?”

“I can’t go to the Central Palace in this state.”

“What…”

Wilhelm, who asked again in a blank voice, realized the meaning of her words.

Wilhelm’s pupils grew rapidly, and Anastasia bowed her head to him with her slightly red face and hurried out.

“… Oh my gosh.”

Eventually, Wilhelm, who was left alone, covered his mouth with a look of disbelief.

“Oh, I don’t have time either.”

Time was running out to prepare before Anastasia came. Wilhelm hurried out of the banquet hall.

~~~~

She couldn’t put off the first night forever. Not due to a sense of duty, but rather she wanted it.

But she didn’t want to have a historic moment on a normal day.

She wanted to be one with him on a special day as she waited so long for him too. So today was the day she chose.

After taking a bath, Anastasia wore a clean white dress and wore a shawl to the Central Palace.

“I see Your Majesty, the moon of the Empire.”

Colton was out as usual, but he didn’t look at her like usual.

Anastasia smiled softly and said to Colton, who bowed, about to die of embarrassment.

“I think you’ve heard all the stories from His Majesty. I unintentionally caused him to suffer.”

“Oh, no, Your Majesty. Rather… I feel sorry for Your Majesty a lot.”

“You don’t have to do that. I’m rather grateful to Sir for keeping the secret for a long time.”

“Oh, from now on, I’ll…”

Suddenly, Colton raised his head with a loud noise.

“Unconditionally! I’m on Your Majesty’s side. I pray that the disloyalty… Please forgive me. I will devote my life to offset the mistakes I have made so far!”

Meanwhile, Colton knelt down in front of Anastasia.

Panicked Anastasia hurried him to his feet.

“Get up, Sir, that’s enough of a commitment. I really have nothing to be disappointed with you.”

“Your Majesty…”

Colton looked at Anastasia with a moved expression.

Anastasia asked Colton with a smile.

“Is His Majesty inside?”

~~~~

Wilhelm sat at the table with a nervous expression on his face.

He moved quickly, so he had everything prepared before Anastasia came, but one thing, his mental preparation was not yet perfect.

Maybe it’s because it’s a moment he had been longing for for a very long time. It was when Wilhelm was controlling his excitement with a deep breath, unable to hide his nervous expression.

– Swish.

The sound of the hem of her dress being dragged to the floor pierced his ears.

At that moment, his heart, which had been beating so fast, started beating so hard that it seemed like it was going to run wild.

“Your Majesty.”

At one point, Anastasia appeared in front of him and smiled brightly as she approached him, and his heartbeat grew louder and faster.

Wilhelm struggled to laugh, thinking that his heart might burst at this point.

“Come in.”

Wilhelm, startled by the trembling voice, hurriedly coughed. Realizing that he was nervous, Anastasia laughed lowly.

“Have you already finished preparing?”

“… Yes.”

“Would you like a glass of wine?”

Anastasia naturally approached the table where the wine was placed. Wilhelm followed suit.

Soon, two people sitting opposite each other with the wine in front raised their glasses.

Chaeng! The glasses lightly bumped against each other, creating a pleasant sound.

“Congratulations on your birthday, Your Majesty.”

“Thank you.”

Wilhelm smiled slightly.

“Last year, I had a really hard time getting that greeting.”

“Are you going to keep talking about the past?”

“I won’t.”

Wilhelm quickly lowered his tail, and Anastasia looked at him cutely and took a small box from her arms and handed it to him. Wilhelm, who accepted it, asked.

“What is this?”

“I…”

Anastasia hesitated and replied.

“I prepared it for Your Majesty.”

“Oh, my God.”

Wilhelm mumbled, fiddling with the box with a genuinely surprised face.

“You told me you didn’t prepare a birthday present.”

“It was a lie. … To surprise you.”

Why was the shy voice so lovely?

Wilhelm smiled and opened the box, and a brilliant purple sapphire appeared.

It looked the same as Avelin’s gift earlier, so embarrassment came over her face.

What a coincidence.

“But you said you got a gift from someone else earlier…”

It was also given to him by a “very special” person.

‘Who the hell is that?’

Anastasia continued, trying to suppress her concern.

“If you don’t like it, I’ll change it…”

“No!”

Wilhelm cried hastily.

“No, it’s my first time receiving it. Such a pretty jewel.”

“First time? Then what you said earlier…”

“It was an excuse to refuse Lady Hazel’s gift. I thought you’d notice. Didn’t you know?”

“Ah…”

Anastasia muttered for a moment with a blank look on her face.

“I didn’t know. I didn’t know you meant that…”

That’s why her expression hardened earlier. Well, as a result, it wasn’t a lie.

Wilhelm rose from his seat with a light smile and approached Anastasia.

“Because I was going to get a gift from someone very special to me.”

Anastasia turned her head and looked at him, and at one point, he came to her and kissed her forehead with his hands full of her cheeks.

“It’s so pretty.”

“The jewel?”

“The jewel is pretty, too.”

Wilhelm, who smiled slightly, kissed Anastasia’s nose this time.

“You who gave it to me as a gift are much more lovely in my eyes.”

This time it was the lips. Anastasia looked at Wilhelm as if she was a little disappointed with his lips that stuck briefly and fell off.

Wilhelm, who noticed her heart, soon approached with a deeper kiss, with a bigger smile.

Wilhelm, who was coveting Anastasia’s lips like the first kiss he got with difficulty, held Anastasia’s waist in one hand and lifted it up.

Still, he had no intention of taking off his lips that touched her. Long before he coveted the lips and the denser flesh inside, Wilhelm took her to bed.

Anastasia hugged his neck and laid down on the bed, and their gazes were intertwined at a distance as far as their lips were slightly blown away by the wind.

Looking at Wilhelm, who looked at her with the most lovely eyes, Anastasia felt her heart pounding.

How much she had longed for this moment, no less. Anastasia touched Wilhelm’s cheek carefully with an overwhelmed heart.

Wilhelm flinched and exhaled a deep breath. It had been a long time since the flesh had already touched him and he became very sensitive.

He whispered to her in a low voice.

“I won’t hurt you.”

At the words of his warm heart, Anastasia’s heart swelled with hot emotions.

“It’s always been like that.”

So she believed him. Even if he didn’t, she was willing to accept it. If it was him.

Anastasia first pulled his neck and kissed him again, and Wilhelm dragged her dress down her shoulders as he struggled to maintain his composure and patience.

“This is…”

Then Wilhelm, who found something under the exposed collarbone, asked in a slightly startled voice.