"Huh?!"
Surprised, Ran shuddered and looked straight at Eustaf.
"What do you mean?"
"Or what about the second prince at this time?"
"To find out who he is."
"So, why?"
Ran leaned back on the chair with a sigh.
"The Crown Prince could not be the Emperor."
"Say something close to treason."
"Honestly, I hope he can't."
"Now it's treason."
"But that bastard...!"
Ran was about to say something, but she bit her lip. I didn't bother to tell Eustaf that the crown prince was chasing her.
It's not a story to tell.
Furthermore, I didn't want to think twice about the babbling the prince made to him.
I support the poisoning of the Crown Princess. It was fortunate not to make a placard like this. Asked Eustaf.
"What about that bastard then?"
"Nothing."
"It can't be nothing."
"At least it's not something to tell my brother."
"Then you'll have to do it even more. I'm not a younger brother."
Ran responded to Eustaf's words, swallowed her breath, and sighed.
"Noonim"
Eustaf stretched out his neat fingers. He caressed the hair gently over her bangs behind her ears.
"Tell me."
It was a soothing touch.
Crouching with tickle and shame, Ran pulled her upper body back.
"Just a little..."
"Just a little?"
Eustaf seemed to have no intention of backing down. Ran sighed.
"He just did some sexual harassment."
Eustaf's face is slightly stiff.
"What?"
"You already know that the Crown Prince is an asshole. He seemed to like me somehow. For some reason, the Crown Princess was acting so hard on me."
Ran, who burst out of words, exhaled and confessed about the prince's bombing. Such a story was not to be told to the subordinates, so I felt cold when I complained to Eustaf.
"He sweeps my back, touches my behind..."
Eustaf was quietly listening to her story. Ran's voice became louder and faster.
"He says I'd got a big chest, and he's gonna give me underwear..."
Ran's face brightened up after a shower.
"Well, he did."
"I see."
"Right"
"Okay. Then let's meet the second prince in person."
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Ran looked at Eustaf, thinking, 'Wait?' Ran was really just curious to meet the second prince.
She has no intention of intervening in the history of the imperial family.
But isn't Eustaf's 'Meet him' completely different?
"Eus?"
"Yes"
"What are you going to do when you meet?"
"I'm going to see who he is."
"And?"
"And..."
Eustaf said, lightly squeezing her hair down and letting it go.
"You have to think about what's next."
"What's next?"
"What about Noonim?"
"Huh?"
Why does the question come back to me?
"What were you going to do after you met the second prince?"
"I thought I'd build a little friendship..."
"Then that would be great."
Ran looked at Eustaf with a suspicious face.
'You've been telling me things about treason?'
Ran looked at Eustaf's cool face like a statue. This stony man fell in love with Sina and became like this.
'Hm'
Love is amazing.
Ran got up from her seat thinking so.
"Everyone's going to panic."
"What do you mean?"
"They're been awed by your performance at war, Eus. But your still not yet an adult."
"That's right."
"Then"
Ran laughed.
"They're going to go crazy to see Eustaf somehow."
"I'm going to watch it anyway. I have to finish my work with Marquis Cameron."
Ran asked without realizing it.
"Did you really...?"
When she began to talk and couldn't finish, Eustaf nodded.
"If you're asking me if I cut him myself, yes. That's right."
Ran took a short breath and looked at him. The blue eyes stared back at themselves. Silent eyes could not be found in madness or murder, or anything similar. Ran managed to say like a joke.
"I'm glad I didn't hang my head on the pole."
"You don't have to go so far as to fight a duel."
Does that mean you would have done it if you hadn't killed him in a duel?
"More than that, I thought you'd ask me another question."
At Eustaf's words, Ran opened her green eyes wide.
"Another question? Which one?"
"If you don't have anything to do, that's it."
Ran smiled bitterly at his remarks, which he had recoiled.
"I didn't mean to bring it up if it was about green shadow."
"That's how you take it out."
"Well, that's fine. No wonder you've took a lot of your allowance."
"it's fine. I don't need much money for other things."
"Yeah, either way, I'm a year away anyway. No, we're less than a year away? That's enough for me to finish being the head."
"...."
Eustaf looked at Ran as if he were looking silently. Ran looked up at Eustaf with a face that said, 'It's really okay.'
Sighing out something similar, Eustaf said.
"Okay."
Ran nodded.
'Why do I have this feeling that Eus mood change?'
Ran looked at Eustaf thinking so. Of course, he's tall and his voice has changed, but should I say that he has a lot of time apart from that?
'Is it my illusion to say that the sharpness of the old days has turned round? Cause I'm so used to Eus?'
With that thought, Ran stared at Eustaf, and he looked suspicious.
"Why do you look at me like that?"
"Has Eus changed?"
In such a place, it was a very honest Ran. Eustaf asked her, "Do you think so?" but added that she seemed lost in thought.
"Don't you like it?"
"Huh? No, it's fine."
It's good to be relaxed, but when I smiled, Eustaf nodded.
"That's enough."
He went on to realize that he had rarely forgotten, "Oh my"
"So, the sap of the cypress tree you asked for."
"That's right. What happened? It must have been distracting by the battle of territory, so I forgot."
"I brought a prototype."
"Huh?"
"It should be in my luggage. The sugar you want."
Ran's face lit up at the words.
"Sugar!"
"Yes, sugar."
Eustaf said so and then laughed. However, she was so distracted by sugar that Ran could not even see his smile.
'Sugar. Now you can eat as much sugar as you want!' Give the people all the sugar they need!
'But then I'll teach them how to brush their teeth. Otherwise, Commoners will be dead.'
Ran couldn't stop laughing even though she thought so.
Eustaf thought she was happier with sugar than with ice crystals, but she didn't have to take it out of her mouth.
'By the way, the Crown Prince.'
Eustaf squinted his eyes.
He heard the rumor that the crown prince was a bum. However, he and the imperial family were so far apart that rumors were just rumors and nothing concrete.
Until today.
*******
The gold workshop between the Duke of Lazia and the Marquis of Cameron was a boring workshop as usual.
However, the talk of society is full of it.
Eustaf Laban de Lazia.
It was because of his existence.
"Oh, my God, have you seen the face of Lazia's Next Patriarch?"
"Yes, I have. Oh, my God."
The women flapped their fans and blushed. There has already been news that there are a series of women who say they want to marry him.
The compensation was coordinated at the Crystal Hall in the Imperial Palace. It has been a long tradition to discuss the compensation of Battle war in a neutral place and also in the residence of the lord.
Just as the first emperor used to peddle rice paddies in tents on the battlefield.
Of course, no one was allowed to enter the crystal hall while discussing compensation, but the way in and out is different. On the day of the compensation debate, far more people used to hang around Crystal Hall than on the other days.
Ran exhaled for a long time and left Crystal Hall.
It was not easy to hear the voice and hatred of the Marquis, who lost his trusted heir, the eldest son, from the front. In comparison, Eustaf smashed all the Marquis' words without batting an eyelid.
In addition, Eustaf was popular in society, and the emperor was also stabbed, so the Marquis' defeat was apparent.
"Are you alright?"
Eustaf asked Ran and Ran nodded.
"Yeah, I'm okay."
Eustaf, wearing a cape only on one shoulder, stopped and looked at Ran for a moment. Ran smiled softly, and only then did he turn around and start walking.
The people who were talking in the hallway rushed to this side. The women blushed and shook the fan gently.
"Good morning, Duchess of Lazia. I'm..."
"Duchess Lazia, can you spare me a moment?"
To those who were scrambling to speak, Ran said firmly.
"I'm sorry, but I don't want to stand here and talk. If you want, ask for green arch."
It's no use listening to each story. At that time, I heard a loud voice.
"Duchess of Lazia!"
Surprised, Ran looked up, and people looked away with their mouths shut. There stood two women in black mourning.
One was an older woman, and the other was still young. It was the young side who screamed.
"Give me back my brother! Save him!"
When a young woman started shouting in evil, people quickly realized who she was.
It's Young lady of Marquis Cameron.
Shaking all over her body, the girl stood up and screamed. The older woman standing next to her seemed to try to stop her, but it didn't work.
Young lady of Marquis Cameron ran this way, shaking off her gripping arm. The people backed away from side to side.
In an instant, the Marquis' daughter, who stood in front of Ran, raised her hand while staring at Ran without giving Eustaf any attention.
'Huh?'
As she was doing it, my body sounded light and my vision swirled. At the same time, a short scream was heard.
"Argh!"
"Eus?"
Looking at the situation in embarrassment, Eustaf wrapped her waist around him, moved her sideways, and grabbed the young lady's wrist as she approached her.
"What is the escort looking at?"
Blaine bowed his head in embarrassment at Eustaf's cold words.
It was the source of trouble that he, the Knights, hesitated for a moment because he couldn't touch the Lady.
"Let... let go of me! You're so rude!"
The young lady of Marquis Cameron, , tried to remove her wrist. Eustaf slowly tightened his grip on the wrist and Young lady of Marquis Cameron, turned pale.
"Let...let go of me! It hurts! You, killer! Just like you killed my brother, you are really a killer! Killer!!!"
When he saw the young lady Marquis shouting and talking, Eustaf was irritated. He grabbed her by the wrist and turned it around, and a scream broke out.
"Kyakk!"
As if to subdue the criminal, her arms were twisted, and young Lady of Marquis Cameron, screamed with fear and pain.
Everyone in the hallway was embarrassed and confused looking at the situation. It's ridiculous to touch a woman.
"Eu..Eus..."
As Ran pulled on the hem of his clothes in embarrassment, Eustaf sighed and let go of the young lady's arm. Marquis's daughter fell dramatically to the floor and began to cry.
The old woman ran over and glared at him then started soothing her.
"I didn't kill your brother. Your father's greed has swallowed his child."
A cold and ruthless voice rang out in the hallway.
"If you're going to blame us, why don't you do it?"
Adding sarcastic words, Marquis's daughter began to cry louder. Eustaf's voice followed, pressing the cry.
"Besides, I don't know if it's attacking me, and it's that the Marquis of Cameron is also raising her hand to my gentle sister."
The long hallway was silent, and Eustaf said to Ran with a calm face, filling the high palace with only a cry.
"Let's go."
"Huh? Yeah."