When the atmosphere in the room was subdued by Hayer’s talk, a knock on the door was heard. A knight near the door opened it, and there was an attendant sent by Carl Lassor.
“I’ve brought something for you to wear.”
Hayer smiled despondently as he looked at the clothes the servant had. It was the uniform of the royal family.
“……”
The problem wasn’t just the monsters.
Hayer asked the attendant who had brought the Siere uniform.
“What would happen if I didn’t wear that?”
“There was no such thing as that.”
“Leave it and go.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
After hanging the uniform on the wall, the attendant politely bowed and left.
Hayer was astonished and approached the uniform on the wall.
It was an excellent garment made with good skill. As a Siere who valued beauty, it satisfied a remarkable sense of beauty.
And at the same time, it was also a tool that nailed Hayer Asheri to the Lassor family.
Hayer checked the uniform with his hands, and looked back at his subordinates.
Hencke said indifferently.
“Just wear it. What’s wrong with clothes?”
Hayer grumbled at his words.
“You send it off too coolly. Can’t you be a little confused with me?”
“Captain, you seem to be mistaken about something.”
Hencke continued in a cynical tone.
“I don’t know if you’ve forgotten, Captain, but Luwan’s royal family has never treated you well. No, you risked your life to protect the southern border in the first place, but you weren’t given a single reward. In short, if you hadn’t taken care of us because you’re from a wealthy family, you would have stood up a long time ago. If your subordinates starved, you would have stormed into the palace alone, and I learned that mindset from the captain in the first place.”
“……”
“I honestly have long since run out of loyalty to the royal family.”
“…What a funny guy.”
“Let’s be honest. You don’t think you’ve ever thought that those who came this far, knowing that you were the King of Siere’s son, might be transferred to the knights of Siere? Don’t you think so?”
When Hencke asked while looking back at his subordinates, everyone hesitated for a moment and then nodded.
“Honestly, if I had never thought about it… It’s a lie.”
“The same goes for me.”
“As for me.”
Hayer looked stunned yet pleased when his subordinates showed one by one that they had no great qualms about the change.
Iris laughed blankly at the Knights of Tejas. If Hayer had asked his subordinates to defect to Siere before crossing the North Gate, they would have accepted it without hesitation. Maybe.
The knights, who heard her laugh, looked back at Iris hastily. Now that she was completely recognized as a comrade, they forgot that Iris was the Princess of Luwan.
Iris said.
“I understand how you feel.”
“Pr-Princess! We haven’t completely turned away yet, and if the captain is going to do that, we’ll follow him…”
“That’s right, we just follow the captain, so if you hate it, just hate the captain.”
“I think that’s right.”
Hayer looked falsely accused at the knights’ claims.
“What do you mean, hate me only? I didn’t say a word. You guys are the ones who brought up the topic of change.”
“We were just talking. We’re saying there are opinions like this.”
“That’s right.”
After the talk ended, Hayer looked at Iris.
Knowing the meaning of his gaze, Iris hesitated for a moment before opening her mouth.
“What can you do? You have to wear it first, that uniform. Now that we’ve come all the way here, we have no choice but to listen to the King of Siere’s orders.”
Hayer nodded in agreement with her.
While the meeting of the Knights of Tejas resumed, Iris closed her eyes for a moment and was lost in thought.
When she heard of a monster in human form, there was the first person that came to her mind.
The sage from the Traitor’s Labyrinth, Zeniel Bronte.
A person who was in the form of a human, but was not completely human, and was too close to a human being to be called a monster.
Trapped in the Traitor’s Labyrinth for a long time, he seemed to be unable to distinguish good from evil.
Iris did not know the world more than 300 years ago when Zeniel lived. What was the state of the monsters at that time and what was the state of the sacred tree?
What was clear was that a child born between a monster and a human could not have been accepted with love, especially by the Luwans who were closed off and hostile against themselves and everything else.
Apart from her personal judgement as to whether Zeniel was a villain, Iris questioned whether he had really committed treason.
After a while, the subordinates returned to their rooms, and Hayer put on Siere’s uniform for dinner.
He asked as he turned to Iris.
“Does it suit me?”
“You’re asking a hard question to answer.”
“You just have to answer it outwardly.”
“If that’s the case, it suits you.”
A uniform as black as ink. Iris thought Siere’s uniform really suited Hayer’s orange eyes.
Iris thought of Hayer’s life. He was the son of a king, then he was not, and now he was the son of a foreign king at the age of twenty.
In fact, his appearance did not resemble King Eswa at all, and he was suspected of not being his biological son from a very young age. So it was, actually, the first time that he was fully recognized as a king’s son.
Hayer’s uniform worn by men from the Siere royal family was beautiful and dignified. The human heart was superficial, so even though she knew what the essence was, her emotions were shaken by what was in front of her.
Iris tried not to think that he was beautiful, dressed in the uniform of the Siere royal family, something she hated. She tried to think she didn’t want to kiss him. However, such efforts only ignited a fire in her heart.
“Come back after eating.”
Iris tried to send him away quickly by saying that when someone knocked on the door again.
Hayer opened the door and groaned in distress when he saw what the maid who knocked on the door brought. Then he took what the maid had in her hands and said, showing it to Iris.
“I’m sorry, but I think you should go too.”
An apricot dress that exposed the shoulders was in his hand.
Iris looked at his hand and made a troubled expression.
“What if they find out who I am? The King of Siere rejected my letter twice to cross the border. But if he knows I’ve crossed the border…”
“When you go to dinner, don’t say anything as much as you can.”
Hayer approached Iris and continued, looking into her eyes.
“And forgive me if I’m rude.”
“…I will.”
Hayer was the son of the King of Siere and the second son of the Queen of Luwan. So it was rather suspicious of him to be polite to a woman he met at a farmhouse while passing by.
Hayer handed the clothes to Iris and said.
“Then, I’ll lower my voice for a while for practice.”
“Let’s do that.”
With her permission, Hayer said, holding Iris’s waist in his hands.
“I’m going to act rudely.”
“……”
“I’ll come back and ask for forgiveness in return.”
He bowed his head without a smile and told her so.
Iris, who was looking at his face, laughed a little.
“Hayer.”
“Huh?”
“I don’t think you should apologize for acting like that.”
“Is that so?”
Hayer clicked his tongue.
“I can’t stand the difference in status.”
“Still, it will change if you fall in love.”
“Yes, I suppose so?”
Hayer smiled and spoke politely to her.
“I can’t do it anyway. Let’s commit to rudeness at the start of the dinner. Let’s not before that.”
“Yes.”
“May I help you change your clothes? It’s going to take a lot of work.”
“I’ll ask the maid to help me. There seemed to be maids.”
“How can you think of asking a woman to change your clothes? There’s a man you know right in front of you.”
“No matter how I think about it, the man I know seems to be thinking something lewd.”
“I’ll change it for you with pure thoughts.”
“……”
“Trust me?”
When Hayer brazenly insisted, Iris was dumbfounded but soon nodded.
─── ⋅ ∙ ∘ ☽ ༓ ☾ ∘ ⋅ ⋅ ───
The news that Hayer’s party arrived in Siere soon reached Luwan’s royal palace.
The king’s brother and leader of the Royal Knights, Kernin Lepos, said to Meppo, the vice-captain who returned from finishing his training at the station.
“Hayer Asheri has arrived at the Siere castle.”
“I see.”
“Today, my grandchild will be born. They say he is a boy.”
“Yes, that’s right. Congratulations in advance. Where are you going?”
“To the sage.”
Meppo paused at his words and said to Kernin.
“Don’t rely too much on that sage. He’s not very reliable.”
“He said in advance about my grandchild’s birth date and that a boy will be born. I think I’ve already seen enough of his ability as a sage.”
“It’s not that…”
“Don’t waste my time.”
Kernin said so and headed to the small chapel where Zeniel was.
As Kernin entered, Zeniel, who was carefully wiping the chairs in the chapel, greeted him with a smile.
“Your Majesty.”
Zeniel was calling Kernin ‘Your Majesty’ as if he were calling the king, and Kernin didn’t correct it.
Kernin said.
“Did the date come out?”
“You mean the day you will sit on the throne?”
It was Kernin’s idea to cause treason in Hayer’s absence.
Zeniel said.
“I don’t think it’s the time yet. Please wait a little longer. Tilla will give you an answer soon.”
“Is that so?”
Kernin clicked his tongue with a look of regret.
Then, expecting the throne to come into his hands, he had a question that came to mind.
afterword
hayer changing iris’s clothes w/ pure intentions and iris buying none of it BYE fyi i interpreted it as ‘lewd’ since it fits more than ‘sly’ or ‘insidious’ as the online dictionaries say so !!
When the atmosphere in the room was subdued by Hayer’s talk, a knock on the door was heard. A knight near the door opened it, and there was an attendant sent by Carl Lassor.
“I’ve brought something for you to wear.”
Hayer smiled despondently as he looked at the clothes the servant had. It was the uniform of the royal family.
“……”
The problem wasn’t just the monsters.
Hayer asked the attendant who had brought the Siere uniform.
“What would happen if I didn’t wear that?”
“There was no such thing as that.”
“Leave it and go.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
After hanging the uniform on the wall, the attendant politely bowed and left.
Hayer was astonished and approached the uniform on the wall.
It was an excellent garment made with good skill. As a Siere who valued beauty, it satisfied a remarkable sense of beauty.
And at the same time, it was also a tool that nailed Hayer Asheri to the Lassor family.
Hayer checked the uniform with his hands, and looked back at his subordinates.
Hencke said indifferently.
“Just wear it. What’s wrong with clothes?”
Hayer grumbled at his words.
“You send it off too coolly. Can’t you be a little confused with me?”
“Captain, you seem to be mistaken about something.”
Hencke continued in a cynical tone.
“I don’t know if you’ve forgotten, Captain, but Luwan’s royal family has never treated you well. No, you risked your life to protect the southern border in the first place, but you weren’t given a single reward. In short, if you hadn’t taken care of us because you’re from a wealthy family, you would have stood up a long time ago. If your subordinates starved, you would have stormed into the palace alone, and I learned that mindset from the captain in the first place.”
“……”
“I honestly have long since run out of loyalty to the royal family.”
“…What a funny guy.”
“Let’s be honest. You don’t think you’ve ever thought that those who came this far, knowing that you were the King of Siere’s son, might be transferred to the knights of Siere? Don’t you think so?”
When Hencke asked while looking back at his subordinates, everyone hesitated for a moment and then nodded.
“Honestly, if I had never thought about it… It’s a lie.”
“The same goes for me.”
“As for me.”
Hayer looked stunned yet pleased when his subordinates showed one by one that they had no great qualms about the change.
Iris laughed blankly at the Knights of Tejas. If Hayer had asked his subordinates to defect to Siere before crossing the North Gate, they would have accepted it without hesitation. Maybe.
The knights, who heard her laugh, looked back at Iris hastily. Now that she was completely recognized as a comrade, they forgot that Iris was the Princess of Luwan.
Iris said.
“I understand how you feel.”
“Pr-Princess! We haven’t completely turned away yet, and if the captain is going to do that, we’ll follow him…”
“That’s right, we just follow the captain, so if you hate it, just hate the captain.”
“I think that’s right.”
Hayer looked falsely accused at the knights’ claims.
“What do you mean, hate me only? I didn’t say a word. You guys are the ones who brought up the topic of change.”
“We were just talking. We’re saying there are opinions like this.”
“That’s right.”
After the talk ended, Hayer looked at Iris.
Knowing the meaning of his gaze, Iris hesitated for a moment before opening her mouth.
“What can you do? You have to wear it first, that uniform. Now that we’ve come all the way here, we have no choice but to listen to the King of Siere’s orders.”
Hayer nodded in agreement with her.
While the meeting of the Knights of Tejas resumed, Iris closed her eyes for a moment and was lost in thought.
When she heard of a monster in human form, there was the first person that came to her mind.
The sage from the Traitor’s Labyrinth, Zeniel Bronte.
A person who was in the form of a human, but was not completely human, and was too close to a human being to be called a monster.
Trapped in the Traitor’s Labyrinth for a long time, he seemed to be unable to distinguish good from evil.
Iris did not know the world more than 300 years ago when Zeniel lived. What was the state of the monsters at that time and what was the state of the sacred tree?
What was clear was that a child born between a monster and a human could not have been accepted with love, especially by the Luwans who were closed off and hostile against themselves and everything else.
Apart from her personal judgement as to whether Zeniel was a villain, Iris questioned whether he had really committed treason.
After a while, the subordinates returned to their rooms, and Hayer put on Siere’s uniform for dinner.
He asked as he turned to Iris.
“Does it suit me?”
“You’re asking a hard question to answer.”
“You just have to answer it outwardly.”
“If that’s the case, it suits you.”
A uniform as black as ink. Iris thought Siere’s uniform really suited Hayer’s orange eyes.
Iris thought of Hayer’s life. He was the son of a king, then he was not, and now he was the son of a foreign king at the age of twenty.
In fact, his appearance did not resemble King Eswa at all, and he was suspected of not being his biological son from a very young age. So it was, actually, the first time that he was fully recognized as a king’s son.
Hayer’s uniform worn by men from the Siere royal family was beautiful and dignified. The human heart was superficial, so even though she knew what the essence was, her emotions were shaken by what was in front of her.
Iris tried not to think that he was beautiful, dressed in the uniform of the Siere royal family, something she hated. She tried to think she didn’t want to kiss him. However, such efforts only ignited a fire in her heart.
“Come back after eating.”
Iris tried to send him away quickly by saying that when someone knocked on the door again.
Hayer opened the door and groaned in distress when he saw what the maid who knocked on the door brought. Then he took what the maid had in her hands and said, showing it to Iris.
“I’m sorry, but I think you should go too.”
An apricot dress that exposed the shoulders was in his hand.
Iris looked at his hand and made a troubled expression.
“What if they find out who I am? The King of Siere rejected my letter twice to cross the border. But if he knows I’ve crossed the border…”
“When you go to dinner, don’t say anything as much as you can.”
Hayer approached Iris and continued, looking into her eyes.
“And forgive me if I’m rude.”
“…I will.”
Hayer was the son of the King of Siere and the second son of the Queen of Luwan. So it was rather suspicious of him to be polite to a woman he met at a farmhouse while passing by.
Hayer handed the clothes to Iris and said.
“Then, I’ll lower my voice for a while for practice.”
“Let’s do that.”
With her permission, Hayer said, holding Iris’s waist in his hands.
“I’m going to act rudely.”
“……”
“I’ll come back and ask for forgiveness in return.”
He bowed his head without a smile and told her so.
Iris, who was looking at his face, laughed a little.
“Hayer.”
“Huh?”
“I don’t think you should apologize for acting like that.”
“Is that so?”
Hayer clicked his tongue.
“I can’t stand the difference in status.”
“Still, it will change if you fall in love.”
“Yes, I suppose so?”
Hayer smiled and spoke politely to her.
“I can’t do it anyway. Let’s commit to rudeness at the start of the dinner. Let’s not before that.”
“Yes.”
“May I help you change your clothes? It’s going to take a lot of work.”
“I’ll ask the maid to help me. There seemed to be maids.”
“How can you think of asking a woman to change your clothes? There’s a man you know right in front of you.”
“No matter how I think about it, the man I know seems to be thinking something lewd.”
“I’ll change it for you with pure thoughts.”
“……”
“Trust me?”
When Hayer brazenly insisted, Iris was dumbfounded but soon nodded.
─── ⋅ ∙ ∘ ☽ ༓ ☾ ∘ ⋅ ⋅ ───
The news that Hayer’s party arrived in Siere soon reached Luwan’s royal palace.
The king’s brother and leader of the Royal Knights, Kernin Lepos, said to Meppo, the vice-captain who returned from finishing his training at the station.
“Hayer Asheri has arrived at the Siere castle.”
“I see.”
“Today, my grandchild will be born. They say he is a boy.”
“Yes, that’s right. Congratulations in advance. Where are you going?”
“To the sage.”
Meppo paused at his words and said to Kernin.
“Don’t rely too much on that sage. He’s not very reliable.”
“He said in advance about my grandchild’s birth date and that a boy will be born. I think I’ve already seen enough of his ability as a sage.”
“It’s not that…”
“Don’t waste my time.”
Kernin said so and headed to the small chapel where Zeniel was.
As Kernin entered, Zeniel, who was carefully wiping the chairs in the chapel, greeted him with a smile.
“Your Majesty.”
Zeniel was calling Kernin ‘Your Majesty’ as if he were calling the king, and Kernin didn’t correct it.
Kernin said.
“Did the date come out?”
“You mean the day you will sit on the throne?”
It was Kernin’s idea to cause treason in Hayer’s absence.
Zeniel said.
“I don’t think it’s the time yet. Please wait a little longer. Tilla will give you an answer soon.”
“Is that so?”
Kernin clicked his tongue with a look of regret.
Then, expecting the throne to come into his hands, he had a question that came to mind.
afterword
hayer changing iris’s clothes w/ pure intentions and iris buying none of it BYE fyi i interpreted it as ‘lewd’ since it fits more than ‘sly’ or ‘insidious’ as the online dictionaries say so !!
