Extra 37 – Anna Cellars (12) Changes

“… Why didn’t the king do anything?”

I didn’t expect that I would let out such a low voice.

The repeated and nonstop attacks must mean that His Majesty The King neglected the conflict between the princes.

And if the princes were in this state, their mothers who were the queen and the consort must be in a bad relationship.

Is it what royalty like?

In my country, there were also power struggles between aristocrats.

Just like the aristocrats who were convicted in the previous purge, they tried to make the Marquis Rottnel Family fall down, and there was no doubt that they did that to improve their position.

—However.

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Tl eked’v vau vs es yduvbkdt lhld obld bkp psd oyp rskpsdle. Mbyv oyp dsv y ryaldv.

Gv zlypv, vbyv oyp dsv bso Ulzzyap Wyxkzu yde Ssvvdlz Wyxkzu osajle.

“Tl oyp oykvkdt. Rv oyp vbl clpv vkxkdt vs tlv ake sq vbl xyvvla. Rv pllxp vbyv vblal kp psxl xshlxldv qasx vbl qkapv rakdnl qaynvksd yp vblu oydv vs alrzynl vbl jkdt yp pssd yp rsppkczl, yde kv pxlzzp pwprknkswp. R yzps qllz twkzvu pkdnl xu yvvkvwel byp yzoyup zlye vs xkpwdelapvydekdt. R eked’v qllz cye obld vblu pyke vbyv R oyp clvvla yde lmnlzzldv, xsal vbyd xu lzela casvbla. Mblal kp yzps y ryav sq xl obs oyp cayttkdt vss xwnb, vbswtb.”

“Jwv…”

“Mbyv’p obu R yx tskdt bsxl. Rd saela vs prlyj okvb Jasvbla yde Wyvbla. R okzz elnzyal vbyv R es dsv oydv vbl vbasdl. R okpb R bye esdl vbkp lyazkla.”

Tkp Tktbdlpp obs pyke ps nyxl nzspla vs xl yde vbld rwv bkp byde sd xu blye.

Tkp byde qlzv tldvzl yde oyax.

“… Mbyv’p obu Gddy, rzlypl esd’v nau.”

His face which looked like he was hasty as he lowered his eyebrows was illuminated by the moonlight.

At that moment, I just realized that I was crying anxiously.

When I touched my cheek, I could feel that it was definitely wet.

I was frustrated and sad.

When I felt conscious of it, the tears were flowing nonstop.

I didn’t know the way to stop these tears.

“What should I do? What should I do so that you stop crying? I don’t want to see Anna’s crying face.”

As he looked troubled, he said so, and his hand on my head was sliding down to my cheek. The hand which is clearly bigger than mine wrapped my cheek and it felt comfortable.

As the hand snuggled in, I closed my eyes. 

And I thought.

I wished someone would protect this person.

—No.

I don’t want anybody to hurt this clumsy person anymore.

He who had achieved a high accomplishment since an early age had been exposed to the thoughts and ugly tricks by the adults.

I remembered the story about his knight escort when he was young that he told the other day.

The person he adored so dearly plotted a dirty trick and became the culprit behind his poisoning, and for such a little boy, it was too much.

No matter whether he was really the culprit or not, the first time he was poisoned and put in the line between life and death, I couldn’t imagine how lonely and painful that little boy felt.

But, His Highness still believed in that person’s innocence.

That’s why I believed so as well.

If possible, while staying in the royal palace during this conspiracy, I would like to explore and find out about that person.

I was thinking to put off the research about the poison that I had been hoping for.

There was no more the side of me who hated this person with the reason that he got a bad attitude and looked down on people.

Now, I realized that I had a strong desire to protect this person from the bottom of my heart.

It might be a big change of my mind as I had only thought about protecting Lettie-sama until now.

When the silence fell into this room, a cough was heard.

“—I am afraid that I am still here, so please stop right there.”

This calm voice came from Yulian-sama.

When I heard his voice, I opened my eyes in a snap.

As I was puzzled unconsciously, I realized that we still got a lot of things to do.

Since I had decided to protect him, I had to fulfill my role.

The last night was still long.

There were a lot of things I could do.

I needed to find out the identity of this man and the woman with a birthmark on his wrist.

In all probability, it was likely to be one of the maids who served Princess Lily, but I still needed to go check it out.

—But, first.

“You stopped crying.”

“… Yes. Thank you very much.”

“No. … I am glad.”

His Highness who was supposed to be the one who felt the pain he most was smiling like that, so I too unconsciously returned his smile.

“Well then, I will brew a special tea. You will feel at ease after drinking it.”

—As a maid, I should brew him some tea.

Not a poisoned tea, but the delicious tea that will warm and soothe his heart.

I wanted to give this person time to breathe as he would definitely have a sleepless night.