I Raised Snow White!

33. Promise with the Princess (1)

[Episode 33] – Promise with the Princess (1)

I heard the nonsense that the princess was living in isolation, so I quickly ran to the main palace. What the hell happened to the princess, so that the princess is said to be locked in her room?

“Who the hell taught me such mean things…!”

I thought of a suspect who was already dead, but I couldn’t say anything to someone who was already dead, so I shook my head to get the face off my mind.

In front of the princess’ room, where she arrived at full speed, the maids and Vinshaw were already trying to coax the princess out of the tightly closed door, looking exhausted.

Because I ran so much that my breath reached the tip of my chin, my side pulled. As I was taking a deep breath, holding onto the side that was being pulled, Bang Shaw came over to me and started explaining the dizzy situation.

“Your Highness the Queen… The Princess will live in seclusion.”

“Hey, hehehe, what the hell, why?”

“That’s…”

Binchou wiped his face with the palm of his hand as if he was really tired, and looked at the maids kneeling on the floor. Looking at the maids who were weeping and raising their hands above their heads, the situation was roughly predictable.

“…Did the princess hear what the maids said about me?”

“Yes, the princess says that Her Highness overheard Her Highness talking about how sad she was leaving the palace. What about the maids?”

What should I do…?

In the first place, it was already known that the maids were lighthearted.

There are even people who say that true nobility is knowing how to collect and use rumors through light-mouthed maids.

And the maids weren’t swearing at me, they just said they were sorry I was leaving the palace, so I didn’t mean to say anything. Rather, doesn’t it mean that the evaluation of ‘Vivian’ in the royal palace is getting better and better?

“You’d better be a little careful with your mouth next time. Now put your hands down and go back to your room. I won’t punish you.”

“Go, thank you…!”

Leaving the two maids running swiftly back to their room, I took a deep breath and went to the front of the princess’s room. The maids were already busy conciliating the princess there.

One of the maids was waiting for the princess to come out, piling up a mountain of egg tarts and cakes in front of the tightly closed door. Obviously, those are the princess’s favorite snacks, but…

“…Ha, everyone, go back to your room. I will take care of the princess.”

After dismissing the maids who had gathered like Dottegi Market, it was only then that the front of the princess’s room became quiet. I lifted the plate of egg tarts on the tray and knocked on the door.

“Princess, let’s talk for a moment.”

“……”

With no words being heard, the nightmare-like memory of talking madly to himself in front of the king’s room came to mind. For a moment, I wondered if this family history was going to be confined, but…

I have already learned a lot from Your Majesty the Corner.

“Will you at least eat the egg tart I brought you? It’s sure to be tasteless when it cools down… I’ll leave it in front of the door, so you can take it later.”

How long did it take to put the plate down like that?

One minute? 2 Minutes?

The door that had been firmly closed began to open gently. A red eye narrowed between the gaps in the door, and caught the delicious egg tart placed in front of the door.

The princess, who found the sweet-looking egg tart placed in front of the door, must have intended to quickly reach out and carry the snack into the room-

I didn’t miss the moment and quickly pushed my foot through the crack in the door.

Chin!

The speed at which I put my foot through the crack was faster than the speed at which the princess closed the door. The princess, who was unable to close the door because of my foot, looked up at me through the crack in the slightly open door.

My eyes met the princess who lifted her head with a creak like a machine. When the door could not be closed, the princess, whose face became contemplative, was at a loss.

Once I struggled to close the door somehow, pushed my foot out, tried to close it, but no matter how strong a six-year-old girl was, no adult could beat her.

Realizing that she couldn’t do anything about it, the princess looked up at me with tears in her eyes as if asking her to leave. But, there’s no way I’ll let you close the door like this, right?

“Got it, you bastard!”

“hehehe!”

With a sudden pull on the door, the princess, who had been holding on to the door, fell to the floor and was dragged out of the room.

I didn’t miss the moment and quickly tried to lift the fallen princess, but the princess quickly rolled her body into a ball to avoid my hands, got up in a hurry, and jumped into her bed.

Then she covered her head up to the top of the blanket and hid herself completely.

“Chit…!”

The quickness of a child…!

Bangshaw, who was watching me and the princess from behind, applauded and admired.

“You have become an expert. Her Highness the Queen.”

“It’s a compliment, so go in too. I’ll take care of the princess.”

“Heh heh, then take good care of the princess.”

Leaving behind the bang show heading to the office, I sighed and went into the princess’s room and locked the door to prevent anyone from entering. It was because I didn’t want to cut off the flow in the middle of the conversation.

As I approached the princess who rolled up the blanket like a caterpillar and used it as her secret base, the princess crawled over her squirming bed and tried to avoid me.

“Princess…”

I quietly sat on the princess’s bed and gently brushed her as she rolled up like a caterpillar. Then, as if she had started to cry, she began to hear sobs wriggling inside the blanket.

…It’s not that I don’t understand the feelings of the princess who closed the door after hearing the news of my departure. The news that even my real parents who wanted to be loved died, and even me, whom I was close to, left-

It would have left a bitter and painful shock to the princess.

I dragged the princess who had rolled up her blanket and held her on my lap. It looked like she was hugging a bag, but I quietly found an exit from the blanket and dug the princess’s face out of it.

After digging through the duvet to some extent, the princess’ head, which had been messed up by the duvet, popped out. Her face was a mess with the traces of her tears, and her clothes were wrinkled and messy, probably because she had gone under the covers without taking off her clothes.

The figure of the princess held in my arms, with only his body curled up in a blanket, with only his face sticking out, was the figure of a baby wrapped in a cloth. Maybe that kind of princess doesn’t want to make eye contact with me?

She turned her head away from me, avoiding my gaze.

And what’s even more shocking is-

“Liar.”

“Are you a liar?”

“They said that people who lie for snacks are the worst people in the world. I don’t trust Her Highness anymore. He’s a liar and a bad person.”

“That, that is…”

At the sight of the princess telling me that I was a liar while shedding tears, I felt guilty stabbing my heart. The moment I wondered if I should bring a snack that was placed outside-

The princess cried and screamed at me.

“I told you not to come in! I told no one to come in! I said I’m not leaving here!”

“Go, Princess…”

The princess pulled out her hands from under the blanket and started pushing me. I was filled with sadness from the touch of the princess who clenched her small fist and slapped my body.

“Why is no one listening to me! Maids too! Ellie too! Bang show too! Her Highness the Queen too! And, and…”

Tap, pop.

Big tears welled up in the princess’s eyes. Flowed over the ball. The princess, who was wiping away her tears with the blanket wrapped around her body, continued with a sobbing voice.

“Mother…And Dad…”

Sobbing soon turned into sobs of sadness.

The princess, who had buried her face and wept bitterly, cried out for her mother and father in a hoarse voice and shed tears. All I could do was to quietly embrace the princess.

“Mom… Dad…”

“……”

As the princess’ shoulders subsided after sobbing for a long time, I was able to take out a handkerchief and wipe her face. Her red eyes from wiping her face with the blanket looked painful.

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…How to tell the princess.

Should I tell you that you don’t go until you’re an adult? In the end, leaving the princess’s side is the same, right? If I said that, wouldn’t it hurt the princess even more now?

But…

“Princess, look at me.”

For now, I just want the princess to stop being sad.

As there is a saying in the world of white lies, I felt like I had to lie for the sake of the princess. No matter how later this lie is revealed, even if they hate me and hate me.

Now I have no doubt that this is the right thing to do.

I wiped the tears from the princess’s eyes with my finger and tried to meet her gaze. The princess didn’t want to face me as much as her eyes, perhaps because she still hated me.

“The maids got it wrong. So where do I go? Just as the princess’s house is here, so is my house.”

“……”

“…How can I make the princess believe me…? Should I make an appointment?”

The princess nodded at the word that she had to make a promise. If not, I tried to glare at her with eyes like a stray cat, saying she wouldn’t trust people anymore, and I smiled and stroked the princess’s hair.

“Princess, who am I?”

“Your Highness the Queen…”

“No, who did I say I was before?”

The princess thought deeply and opened her mouth as if she had remembered something.

“Good? It’s a witch…”

“Yes. White witch. Isn’t that Witches cannot break their ‘promise’ by doing this.”

I held out my little finger to the princess. The princess stared blankly at my little finger, then tilted her head and looked at me as if she was not sure.

Aren’t there promises to bet your little finger here? Rather, I thought it was good, so I made the princess’s finger the same as mine, asking the princess to stick out her little finger the same way.

“Do you know why witches can’t break their promises? She does it because if she breaks a promise by snapping her little finger, she’ll get a very-ignoring-punishment.”

“Bur, a bee…?”

As I spoke in a slightly intimidating manner, the princess’s shoulders trembled. I couldn’t help it, because I had to be scared to this extent to believe that I would not break my promise.

“Yes, if you go this far and break your promise-“

“Uh, if you break it…”

“You have to swallow a thousand needles as punishment.”

When she heard that she would have to swallow a thousand needles if she broke her promise, the princess’s expression turned into shock. It’s an idiomatic expression, but the princess looked at me with her face contemplative, as if she believed it to be real.

“Does the princess want to swallow a thousand needles?”

The princess shook her head.

“Me too. If you break your promise and swallow a thousand needles, it will be very painful, right?”

The princess nodded her head.

The princess’s fierce reaction was so cute that I laughed without even realizing it. When she held out her pinky finger, she was shocked to hear that she had to swallow a thousand needles, but the princess tried to fold her little finger back, but—

“Come on, promise. ‘I will always be by your side!’ Will you trust me now?”

I forcibly hooked my little finger on the little finger of the princess, shaking it up and down. The princess was shocked and tried to quickly remove her little finger, but the entangled little finger did not come off easily.

“Yeah, but, if you break it… a thousand needles…”

The princess looked at me very worried. Fearing that I might swallow a thousand needles, the princess began to worry about me, forgetting what she had cried earlier.

“You don’t have to break your promise, right? Now, thumbs up too.”

I forcibly even stamped the princess’s thumb, and the princess didn’t know what to do, and was busy looking alternately at my intertwined fingers and my face. Then, soon, tears welled up as if she were going to cry again.

“…Really, where are you not going…?”

“…So, you promised? A terrible witch’s promise that if you break it, you will have to swallow a thousand needles.”

At those words, the princess buried her face in my chest and hugged me tightly. Wouldn’t this be the first time a princess has been embraced by me like this? I patted the back of the princess in my arms.

… As I stared at the sobbing princess in my arms, her guilt felt like needles poking her in the chest. But even so, I had no choice but to tell this lie.

Really, if I told you the ‘truth’ here and said that I had no choice but to leave the palace… The princess might have really collapsed.

So, even if one day this lie is discovered and the princess calls me a liar and hates, hates, hates me.

I will not regret telling the princess a ‘white lie’. Because I made up my mind to do so.

I squeezed the princess in my arms, hugged her, and smiled bitterly at her.

As I was embracing the princess like that, the rumbling sound from the princess’s stomach that was touching me resonated with my stomach. The princess buried herself in my chest and couldn’t lift her head, perhaps ashamed of having made her growl.

He stroked the shy princess’s head, smiled and proposed to her.

“It’s late, but shall we have a snack together?”