My Fiancee Was the Villainess of This World

53 – Red Thread of Destiny (2)

My body complains of fatigue and my head also throbs.

It was a situation where I could have fallen asleep, but my mind gradually became clearer due to the warmth I felt in my arms.

“Ha, huh…” .”

His red-hot face was as hot as if he was suffering from a fever, and the sound of his breathing coming out of his open mouth was so fatal that it shook his senses.

Even though I tried to restrain myself as much as possible, it felt like certain parts were gradually reacting.

I tried to pull away because I thought this wasn’t going to work, but I don’t know where this strength came from and he started hugging me even harder.

I felt more and more confined by this guy, as if I was caught by thorny vines.

─ I… ha… like that… Isn’t it attractive…? ?

─ Men and women… ha… Living in the same bed… Phew… Nothing happened….

How dare a gentleman born in the empire attack a sleeping woman!

As I was thinking that, a disturbing thought crept in that Priscilla would somehow smile and greet me.

‘… ‘You mean Moore is immune to status ailments?’

Isn’t it so easy to be captivated by the temptation of this strange thing?

Priscilla was thinking that even the mana of the sun was not omnipotent, so she started tossing and turning even more and let out that irritated voice again.

“Wow….”

Did she understand that it was easy to escape the pressure of the corset every time she tossed and turned?

With Priscilla clinging to me, she began to take off her dress, tossing and turning like a cicada shedding her skin.

Her dress doesn’t come off easily if she tosses and turns like that.

However, since the dress she was wearing was designed to highlight certain feminine parts of her from the beginning, her clothes began to come off easily even with that much movement.

Now, if you pay attention to the angle, you might even be able to see parts that shouldn’t be visible.

As I was trying to keep my distance, thinking that something really big might happen like this, a strange new drawing on my shirt caught my eye.

It seemed like it was a drawing from Priscilla’s strange face painting.

“Pfft!”

I stopped laughing without realizing it and carefully picked up the water cup on the side table.

She then, out of the two handkerchiefs she kept in her arms, she wetted the one without embroidery.

“Lazy.”

I wiped Priscilla’s face while holding back the laughter that was about to escape.

“Ugh, ugh, ugh!”

Priscilla started tossing and turning her body and throwing up her hands, as if she was annoyed by the feel of her face.

Peook.

“… And cocky.”

This is the first time in my 15 years of life that someone has punched me in the face, Priscilla.

You are the one who took away so many beginnings from me.

‘Oh my…’ .’

I tried to remove the powder from her face, and in that moment, her hand reached out for my shirt again.

If this continued, it seemed like a strange picture would be engraved on that pure white face again.

I had no choice but to take off her shirt and then wrap Priscilla’s body tightly in a blanket.

And then I hugged him a little tightly so that he couldn’t move.

As she looked at Priscilla, who looked like both a bug and a kimbap, the feeling that had always made her heart flutter disappeared.

“Next time, drink in moderation.”

I patted Priscilla’s head lightly and closed my eyes while still holding her in my arms.

“Ugh, uh….”

***

It was a dream that must have been unfamiliar, but somehow made me feel nostalgic.

I wasn’t called a fool yet, but it was a memory of a day when I was wandering around because I couldn’t get my hands on anything.

Of course, my father threw a fancy birthday party that year as well.

But I still couldn’t escape the sorrow of losing my mother, and my father, who was worse off, took me to the east where a meeting between feudal lords was held.

My father was the emperor of the empire, so he had no time to take care of me.

That’s why I headed to Arbest County, the quietest county in the East, with my employees.

And there I stayed at Count Arbest’s house.

“It is an honor to serve His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Empire. Please rest comfortably.”

“Thank you, Count Arvest.”

I have changed a lot since my mother passed away.

At some point, I started imitating my father, who was the emperor, and used an awkward way of speaking that made me laugh.

But Count Arvest treated me with respect.

“This is my daughter, Priscilla.”

“My name is Priscilla Ru Arvest van Istria, Your Highness.”

The Count was obviously strict up to this point, but I remember him as a father who loved his daughter.

Otherwise, Priscilla wouldn’t have been sticking her head out, clinging to her father’s thigh.

“Yes, my name is Maximilian, Crown Prince of the Empire.”

That was the first meeting between Priscilla and me, nothing special.

After that, there was no significant exchange between me and the count’s father and daughter.

At the time, I was mentally exhausted, so I spent my time going back and forth between the room and the yard without doing anything in particular.

Then one day it happened.

As I was idly looking at the view of the County of Arvest from the window sill, Priscilla, wearing a large straw hat on her head, came out into the courtyard carrying a basket full of flowers.

This somehow bothered me, so I looked down at Priscilla from the window sill and spoke to her.

“Hey.”

When I said that, Priscilla jumped up slightly from her seat and looked up at me cautiously.

Probably my father, who was usually a bit strict, paid more attention to me.

Priscilla’s eyes were filled with quite a bit of fear.

“Boo, did you call me?”

“What is that?”

I think it was because of longing.

Probably because it reminded her of her mother, whose hobby was gardening.

So, I think I was talking to Priscilla without realizing it.

“It’s a flower, it’s a flower… ?”

Priscilla muttered as her body trembled.

The voice was so quiet that I almost missed it.

“I’m asking what kind of flower it is.”

“Well, it’s the tea leaf flower that Your Majesty said was delicious…” .”

“What?”

Tea leaves are the dried leaves of a plant, so I never thought that the flowers of such a plant could be so pretty.

I was so intrigued by this that I took Priscilla into her room.

At first, Priscilla was as stiff as a mouse in front of a cat, but as soon as I showed interest in flowers, she started talking excitedly.

… I forgot.

Priscilla may not have any other hobbies, but gardening was purely her hobby.

She loved the County of Arvest with its beautiful vegetation, and since she grew up there, it was a hobby she picked up naturally.

Now that I think about it, Priscilla seemed really happy back then as she was sharing her knowledge in the garden of the Dragon Pavilion.

Unlike me, my memory seems to be intact, so I wonder if I laughed while thinking about what happened at that time.

“So why did you pick so many of those flowers?”

My mother often became chatty like that when I showed interest in gardening.

That’s why Priscilla was so excited that after listening to the whole story, she asked that question.

Then Priscilla touched the side of her head and lowered her head.

“Oh, it’s my mother’s favorite flower. I heard it from users…. So….”

It is in the past tense and I heard it from users, not myself.

I introduced my daughter, but not her wife.

Perhaps Priscilla, like me, had her mother thin.

When I was still young, I had feelings for Priscilla based on that alone.

The only people around the crown prince of the opposite s*x are people with a considerable age difference.

So, maybe it was natural to be attracted to someone of the opposite s*x.

Anyway, from that day on, the time I spent with Priscilla increased.

Priscilla was like an encyclopedia and knew everything about gardening.

Every time I asked what was this and what was that, I always got a quick answer.

I think it was so interesting that I asked more questions.

“hehehehe….”

“What is it?”

“Your Majesty, you are kind. hehehehe….”

Priscilla touched the side of her head as if she was embarrassed, her expression slightly flushed.

“Your Highness is the first person to listen to my story to the end.”

Priscilla muttered with a slightly lonely expression.

At that, I turned her head slightly to the side and muttered quietly.

“… “The owner of a fiefdom is a busy person.”

“Is that so?”

“I hope you understand. “That’s what it means to be an adult.”

My father said I was intelligent at the time, but I was still a kid who wasn’t even 10 years old.

I also used to always complain to her mother that her father didn’t play with her.

I think she did it because it reminded her and she felt a little embarrassed.

“I will listen instead.”

“… Really?”

“I am the person who will become the emperor of this empire in the future. “You have to listen to the stories of your subjects.”

“Hee hee!”

Priscilla seems to have approached me without hesitation since then.

She probably opened her heart.

From this point on, it is safe to say that she spent almost the entire time hanging around.

“What is your favorite flower? Umm… “I don’t know either.”

“Unexpected. “I thought you might like Freesia.”

“Freesia?”

“We look alike, you and I.”

The names were similar, but more than anything, I thought they had a really similar bright feel.

“hehehehe…. But when I see Freesia, I think of Your Highness, right?”

Priscilla said that and gave me a bright look.

Her eyes were really busy going back and forth between my head and my eyes.

“… Is it.”

“Yes!”

Priscilla smiled brightly and touched the side of her head with an embarrassed expression.

“Starting today, my favorite flower is freesia!”

As Priscilla said that, her face had turned bright red even though her glow had not even faded.

I also remember her face turning bright red and giving a rough answer in a muttered voice.

Although she had an innocent side to her, Priscilla was strange from the beginning.

“… “Ugh, huh.”

“I lost.”

“Wow!”

Priscilla grew up spending more time with her employees than with her father.

As a result, when she played games, she was always given away and never experienced defeat.

Perhaps for that reason, she had a strong competitive spirit, and if she felt even the slightest disadvantage, she would almost reflexively whimper and do something cowardly to elicit sympathy.

Following her mother’s words not to make her lady cry, I often had no choice but to give Priscilla her game.

“… “I will definitely win next time.”

But perhaps because of that environment, Priscilla had an unusual sense of humor that was not appropriate for her age.

So she had to work hard to become natural.

“Magic is so convenient, right? Lol.”

Priscilla smiled brightly as she sprinkled magic water on the flowers in the flower bed.

At the time, I was evaluated as not being very good at magic, so I remember glaring at Priscilla with her lips pouting, with an envious look on her magic.

It was the first time I had seen such a sullen expression on my face, so Priscilla was taken aback and said she would show me her secret location and guided my hand.

The place Priscilla took me was a gentle hill planted with sunflowers.

This is a place I know well now.

Because it was the background of the flower field with the sunflowers that the pig took away from the Count Arvest family.

“It’s really pretty in the summer….”

Priscilla said that and lowered her head with a tearful expression on her face.

Although I couldn’t see her because of her big straw hat, I could understand at the time that Priscilla was depressed remembering her breakup.

I came here at the end of May.

Sunflowers are flowers that bloom in the summer, so no matter what I do, I can’t see the sight Priscilla wanted to show me.

It was the moment when I faced the moment of separation that I consciously tried to avoid.

“Well….”

When I heard the crying, I held Priscilla’s small hand tightly.

“Ugh, Your Highness…” ?”

This is the eastern end of the continent, the most underdeveloped region.

It is unlikely that the crown prince of the empire will ever visit this place again.

But there was only one way.

It is an engagement.

If Priscilla becomes engaged to me, she can use him as an excuse to come here at any time.

Even if it doesn’t, it can definitely lead to something someday.

Thinking like that, I took Priscilla, who was sobbing, and returned to Count Arvest’s mansion.

It was because she remembered an anecdote she heard from her mother.

“Your Highness… ?”

“Shh.”

I tied a red thread around Priscilla’s and my little fingers and clasped them.

“Huh?”

Priscilla was so amazed by this that she laughed and wiggled her hands.

I placed a handkerchief on top of our clasped hands.

“What is this?”

“I heard from her mother that it was a promise symbolizing her engagement.”

“Yes?!”

Priscilla must have known what her engagement meant, as her face turned red and she melted on the spot.

“The handkerchief symbolizes the veil that the bride wears at the ceremony, and the shadow beneath it symbolizes shade. And she was told that the red thread symbolizes that the fates of two people are intertwined, and that the grace of the sun is with them on their way forward.”

Priscilla quickly came to her senses from my words and listened to my explanation, nodding her head repeatedly with bright eyes.

“The royal family’s promise is not light. “If it’s an engagement, it’s even heavier.”

As soon as I said that, Priscilla began to shed tears from her wide-open eyes.

“I will come to greet you soon. Will you take me there again then?”

“Yes… !”

“At that time, call me Maximilian, not Your Highness. “Isn’t it strange to call her fiancé to tell her?”

“Yes! “Master Maximilian!”

Yes, I promised.

I will come to greet you.

Why did I forget that until now?

Was it related to the incident that so-and-so mentioned that caused serious injury to the soul?

Before that question was answered, the surrounding scenery gradually became blurred.

It seemed like it was time to wake up.