Ran grinned and said.
"The gardener's assistant, that's incredible. They'll have a hard week."
"They'll have a bed, clothes, and meals with their gardener's assistant. If they're so curious about the lives of the people, they'd better experience it theirself."
Eustaf sighed again.
"But how did you meet they?"
"Nokyeong reported it."
"Oh, as expected."
She knew that Nokyeong was attached.
"She knew."
"That's why she didn't hold the rod."
"She's not going to take it anyway."
Ran put her hand on his arm. There is still a scar underneath the heat.
"But they don't know about it."
After answering, Eustaf lightly kissed her lips.
Ran laughed and said after kissing each other.
"How was it then? What about meeting?"
It's not that Eustaf was out of the mansion for no reason. Eustaf nodded at Ran's question.
"I think it's going to work out."
"I guess so. Then the territory will be a little wider."
"Instead, the river is included. That's big."
Eustaf decided to buy land in a deal with the Count of the Empire. All the land in the Empire belongs to the imperial family, and the lord borrows it, but still deals in land.
"The deal with the Count is over. All I have to do is talk to him."
"Is that so? Selling the territory of the conquered emperor makes no sense."
"A lot of gold is flowing into us. You want to stop the bleeding."
Even in exchange for a little land, you need cash.
"Yes."
The empire was spending considerably on ice crystals, dwarfs and Elf-made luxuries.
'We're making a lot of money thanks to it.'
said Ran.
"It's not a fight, it's the best if you can get land like this."
"That's right."
Eustaf nodded. Ran smiled and kissed him and said.
"And fortunately, our successor seems to be a pushover."
Eustaf laughed at Ran's words.
"Certainly. That's true."
Though only ten years old, those who saw her closely did not disagree that Evigail was the next king.
"It's going to be a mess somehow. The kingdom of Lazia."
Ran nodded at Eustaf's words.
"But I don't think it's bad."
Eustaf crept into her hand.
"Of course, that's a long way from coming."
"That's it."
Seeing the giggling Ran, Eustaf realized that she was happy. Just moments like this, all of them.
"Ran."
"Huh?"
"Ran, are-"
Are you happy?, Eustaf smiled and shook his head as he tried to ask.
"Nothing."
Shining deep green eyes, unchanging affection.
"I love you."
Ran smiled broadly at Eustaf's words.
"I love you, too."
*******
Ran was lost in thought, combing her hair in the bedroom. Evigail and Sid will be looking for an uncomfortable bed on the floor of the gardener's cottage by now.
I'm worried, but it'll be okay because there's a Nokyeong nearby.
She caressed the pendant on the necklace. A part of the world's tree, caritol made of essence.
I always feel calm when I touch it.
Seeing herself in the mirror, Ran thought she was so happier now.
And when I was so happy, I remembered Lumiere.
'You're happy there, aren't you? Are you all right?'
That was the only small thorn left for her. She clasped the pendant tightly.
'Be happy, Lumie.'
Ran prayed like that and closed her eyes. And quietly, I got up from my seat and headed to my husband's bedroom. Eustaf, who was already there, smiled lightly. Ran threw herself on the bed.
"I'm tired."
Eustaf tidied up the covers, covered her, and hugged Ran tightly.
"Eus."
"Yes."
"Lumie·········, he'll be fine, right?"
"Of course."
"Where are he coming from, I'm sure."
"I don't know."
When Eustaf said, Ran smirked and closed her eyes.
"Good night."
"Yes, go to sleep."
*******
Sina rubbed her swollen eyes. There are so many days when I cry at night.
Lumiere keeps coming out in my dream.
'It's been three months since I came back.'
She took a diamond hairpin out of her pocket.
This was the only thing that was telling her that it wasn't all a dream.
Things have faded so quickly in Lazia that ....
'I'm scared.'
I can't remember Lumiere's voice well already.
She sighed and walked out the front door. As she left the apartment complex, someone called her from behind.
"Sina."
Looking back reflexively, there was a man I didn't know standing.
With red brown hair....
'Are you half-blooded?'
But something familiar. The man laughed.
The moment she saw the smile, she got goose bumps all over her body.
'That's ridiculous.'
The bag slipped off her shoulder, but Sina didn't notice.
"Lu, Lumie ..."
I thought I was stupid because I spit it out, but it's already out of my mouth. The man strode up and picked up the fallen bag, and Sina managed to come to her senses.
"Oh, there. Thank you. How can I be·······."
"What, you've already forgotten? You're a filly on this spring day?"
Again, a lightning shock hit Sina. The man spoke with a close look.
"It's not this, haven't we met once before? I think I saw you in Lazia."
He laughed again, wondering if she should say that. The bag I received fell off again.
"Lu, Lumie, Lumie?"
I felt my voice shaking. Lumiere smiled.
"Yes."
Sina hugged him like she was bumping into him.
"Lumie, Lumiere, Lumiere..."
A burst of tears broke out.
What happened, strange, why you're here, why you're looking different.
There was no question at all. Here he is.
Lumiere is here.
That was enough.
"We've barely met."
Lumiere hugged her face to face.
*******
Ran opened her eyes.
Tears streamed down the temples. I felt the warmth when I held the pendant without realizing it.
Bluntly, Ran looked at the green pendant. In the dark, the pendant glittered and faded, comforting the faint green light, saying it was not a dream.
Ran covers her face with both hands. I was about to burst into tears.
"Ran·····?"
Eustaf reached out and pulled Ran's waist.
"What the-"
I was going to ask if it was the case, but when I saw Ran crying, I suddenly held in.
"Ran?!"
"No, it's okay."
Ran smiled and pulled him. She whispered, burying her face in his arms.
"Eustaf was right."
Eustaf swept Ran's back and she laughed and cried.
"Lumie and Sina, they met."
It's okay not to look after it. I'm sure they'll be happy, too. Like us.
Ran closed her eyes with the waves of relief.
"Eus."
"Yes."
"How could you be so sure?"
Eustaf smiled lightly at Ran's question.
"If it were a book, it would definitely be."
Happy ending.
Ran laughed.
"Right. That's right."
And that's what happened.
Happy ending.
*******
Sina lightly stirred an iced Americano with a straw.
"There's one thing I'm sadly about."
"What is it?"
Lumie-Louis took it easy. Sina looked at him curiously. Dressed casually, he was attracting the attention of the people in the cafe.
We always meet, but I still don't feel like an inspiration.
His father is Russian and his mother is Korean, so he introduced himself.
And how we got this far.
"I wish I could tell Ran Unnie that we met well. I think she'll keep worrying because of her personality."
"Really?"
"Isn't that right?"
"No, there's a feeling that somehow she'll know. It's a world of spirits, dragons, and magic."
"That's true. Is that so?"
Sina was only then relieved to sweep her chest. Lumiere put his chin on the table.
"That's why I'm here. I'll keep my promise."
When I'm born again, I'll meet you for the first time. Sina's eyes were filled with tears again.
"You're my first love."
Sina whispered at Louie's words.
"I love you."
"Yes, me too."
Louie grinned.
Sina wiped away her tears quickly. All you have to do is smile.
'I hope so too, Ran unnie.'
In her heart, Sina prayed quietly. But she was convinced.
I'm sure Ran herself is happy. And it will be like that in the future.
*******
Two horses were galloping through the plains of the night.
It would be dangerous to run at night on a dark with horse, but this is a grassland with only the wind that it will catch.
So Ran barely stopped talking while running on a dark night with stars hanging down to the end of the horizon.
When she stopped talking, the leading Eustaf turned his horse head back.
"Are you all right?"
"I'm a hard rider, but why aren't I improving?"
Ran gasped and grumbled, so Eustaf laughed.
"You've improved a lot. It still reminds me of the seal ceremony we went to when Ran first became a Patriarch."
Everyone was anxious that she might fall from the horse.
"That's it, though."
"You won't be as good as I am."
Eustaf said so and made the horse spin lightly in its place, and Ran stuck out her mouth.
Even if she's dead and awake, she won't be able to drive a horse that freely.
The two were running on a plain near Tilanoy.
They sneaks out the horse of the stable in the middle of the night and flies here in a moment.
It was a kind of date that we often do.
"You'd better not think about beating me with horseback riding."
"That's too much."
Ran shouted and laughed like that.
Her hair seemed to glow faintly in the moonlight.
Eustaf reached for Ran. Ran closed her eyes on her palm and slapped her cheek, and he smiled unconsciously.
Her defenseless comfort and affection gently enveloped him.
A sense of ecstasy and anxiety as if touching an extremely thin and smooth crystal glass.
The anxiety caused him to be endlessly soft and sometimes rough when dealing with her.
In the bedroom.
A sobbing voice, blurred eyes that only contain oneself, a thin arm that shakes but desperately closes, and lips that only come out of my name.
Thinking about it, I already felt like I was bleeding.
"Eus?"
When Ran looked at him with a slight open eye, YlEustaf smiled.
"Did I say I loved Ran very much?"
"Tell me again."
Ran said so and made a calm, girlish look on his face, Eustaf laughed.
"I love you very much."
"I love Youth so much, too."
Ran laughed and swallowed her saliva when she saw Eustaf in the moonlight.
I see you very often, and now you're used to it. Eyes full of desire.
Does Ran have the same eyes when she sees them? I came to think.
I wish he would kiss me. I want you to touch me more, I want you to hug me stronger.
Eustaf's expression in the blurry view was good.
His voice, which calls her name in pleasure, was much lower than ever before, and, rarely, his forehead is slightly frown.
I liked the look.
His touch also gave her a good sense of contraction.
'I think I'm becoming a woman who reveal more and more.'
Ran blushed and thought Eustaf would have laughed if he had heard her.
Eustaf approached and whispered, taking out the brooch pin on her neck.
"Shall we go to Tilanoy?"
"Maybe I won't be able to open my eyes until tomorrow morning, and I'll see the empty bedroom and the palace will be in chaos."
"Then we'll have to go back to the palace bedroom."
After dropping the brooch, Eustaf began to unbutton her blouse.
"Eus!"
Eustaf laughed when he saw Ran holding the front of her blouse in surprise.
"If you don't move quickly, all your clothes will come off here."
"But the brooch-"
"Someone must be lucky."
"If, if you're too close on a horse-"
"I'm very good at horses."
Breathing breath into the back of her neck, Eustaf untying his belt.
Ran felt her neck bristling to the fluff. A prickly sensation swarms in the lower abdomen.
'Really, I don't know.'
Ran thought so, grabbing Eustaf's arm and teleporting it back to the royal bedroom.
"If they look at a horse that hasn't returned, umm-"
I can't afford to talk or think anymore. Ran gasped and kissed Eustaf's eyes.
Well, since we're a royal couple, this is fine.
*******
Eustaf signaled, and the servants who came in to prepare for the wake quietly left the room again.
However, whether she had felt the trace, Ran opened her eyes with a small sound.
"Is it morning?"
"You can sleep a little longer."
"Yes-"
Mumbling Ran reached out, Eustaf hold her hand. Compared to him, it is a very small, white, thin finger. I kissed the finger one by one.
"Eus."
"Yes."
"Are you happy?"
Eustaf opened his eyes wide and laughed at Ran's murmur.
"Of course."
A satisfying smile spread around her mouth at his answer.
"Then that's fine."
"What about Ran?"
"If Eus happy, I'm happy."
"No, it's not."
Ran slowly opened her eyes. With her tangled golden hair like a halo, it touched the white sheet and she smiled with her thin eyes.
Somehow Eustaf felt that he would never forget the scene.
Even the stripes created by the sunlight between the closed curtains were clear.
"I'm so happy every day."
Eustaf agreed with the remark.
He leaned down and kissed her like drinking a cold water he had found in the desert.
Ran Romia de Lazia.
It's just amazing that everything you want is in one name.
She is Lazia, and she is her own.
That's the only thing that monopolizes this spring.
And she has a monopoly on herself, too.
That was my favorite point.
Eustaf whispered, swallowing her, who became a spring from the rock, no longer a flowing raindrop.
"I love you."
"Me too."
Whispering softly, Ran smiled.
At his words, she had been excited by a whisper. It was going to be like that forever.
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