Tristan took a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth.
Dwayne was briefly dazed by his master’s bad manners
‘Eh, heeyy. He must be cracking a joke that isn’t a joke.’
Even though Tristan would do things thoughtlessly, neglecting his body and killing some people(?), Dwayne doesn’t think Tristan was such a despicable human being to harass the bride he was going to marry.
So, where on earth did Lady Valois go?
“I had taken measures for her to come back safely, so don’t look at me like that.”
“Ah, aha. You’re being considerate of her so she can enjoy a walk alone, right?”
Dwayne hoped that would be the case and lit up the end of Tristan’s cigarette.
Smoke puffed into the air.
“Ha…….”
Tristan breathed the scent of death deeply, then exhaled it slowly.
It hadn’t been long since he met Sabina, but he seemed to have a rough idea of what she was like. She was in no way like a time-limited person who was accepting her death.
‘She shined more brilliantly than anyone else with her blazing vitality.’
Her future would surely be just like the sun, if only she hadn’t been involved with Valentine.
His lips curled into a smile on its own.
Just imagining what he has to do to extinguish that irritatingly blinding light was fun.
“Whoo… Shit.”
Sabina swept her hair in annoyance.
Wherever her gaze went, there were the only greens of the forest.
Her eyebrows twitched as she stopped walking.
The mark she had carved on the tree with the sword a long time ago came into view again.
‘I’m just going round and round in the same place.’
Sabina sat down on a wide tree stump, wiping her sweat.
Hearing her determination, Tristan just set the carriage running. He truly went away just like that.
‘No wonder I thought he was being too docile.’
To have left her behind without even showing any intention of returning. He must have been confident that she could not escape in the first place.
Like…….
‘Outsiders can never escape this forest once they step their foot in.’
It didn’t really matter that he left her alone. It was she herself who jumped off the carriage in the first place.
Then knowing she couldn’t escape, he agreed to it and left Sabina alone. As Sabina won’t be able to reach the Grand Duke’s castle on her own.
That was another matter.
‘It’s obvious that he intended for me to go through some hardships.’
If it’s really because of this reason, that’s just petty and narrow-minded.
‘Or perhaps he was curious on how far I could rebel. Because my reaction was interesting…….’
However, judging from the Grand Prince’s appearance who kept laughing even while being cursed at, it was highly likely to be the latter
‘I’m not confident to win against a madman.’
The Valois family may be humans with flaws in their personalities, but at least they weren’t mad.
‘The human mind is like glass. Once it’s broken, they can never be put back together’
Sabina recalled what her mother had said. It was the first and last proper advice as a parent.
That word had been strongly embedded in Sabina’s brain.
‘At least I’ll have to try.’
Sabina sighed and raised her head.
Darkness was slowly descending over the sky full of dark clouds. It’s going to rain.
‘I’ll have to find a place to get out of the rain for a while.’
It was fortunate that mountain animals did not rush at her. But she had no way of knowing what would happen once the night came.
‘My first outing was very eventful.’
Sabina gave up trying to get out of the mountain and decided to spend the night in the forest for now. It would be troubling if she were to collapse in the rain and wind after exhausting her energy here.
‘I think I saw a cave or something in the middle of a rock crevice earlier…… Ah, here.’
Close to the dry waterfall was a cave that seems to have been formed by the erosion of the waterfall.
The entrance was quite small.
‘Can I get in?’
Sabina threw a stone into the small hole.
Roll, roll. There was a rolling sound. So it seemed that the inside was wider than she presumed.
Sabina waited for a moment, fearing that a wild animal would pop out of it. When she decided it was safe, she pushed her body in.
“It’s nice.”
It’s better than expected. She gathered leaves and piled them densely on the cave floor and lay down on them.
It was soft in its own way that she could stay all night.
It was fortunate that it was autumn now.
‘I think this is enough for me to stay.’
The next on the list was food.
Since she will be isolated in the forest anyway, the Grand Prince might come pick her up. But she doesn’t know when it will be.
She would have starved to death before that.
‘I have to give birth to an heir so he probably won’t let me die.’
However, she did not trust the other person that much to just wait in vain.
Eventually Sabina got out of the cave and tried to look for something like fruits or mushrooms. Although she soon gave up because she couldn’t tell which was edible and which wasn’t.
‘There’s no helping it. Should I just go hunting?’
She would have to get it done before it rains.
Sabina took the sword she had stolen from Tristan.
Breaking a person’s mind is easier than most people think.
Humans break down very easily when left alone without a single person to talk to, trapped in an isolated space they cannot escape no matter how hard they struggle.
There were no exceptions even if it was a strong warrior who had crossed life and death countless times.
‘Not to mention those who are vulnerable to madness.’
Tristan was well aware of that fact. Better than anyone else, even more.
As Tristan gazed out of the window he touched a certain place for a moment.
The annex that traces of time remaining intact as no one managed it, quietly melted into the darkness.
At that time.
Wha-bam!
Thunder blasts upon the earth with a flash of light.
Dwayne paced the room back and forth while listening to the sound of the storm.
“You’re annoying me.”
“Is it time for you to say that so casually?”
Dwayne was Tristan’s childhood friend and now his aide.
He boasted that no one would know the Grand Prince as well as he did, but he couldn’t say the same today.
As today, Tristan has been behaving really incomprehensibly.
“Don’t you know that I’ve never disobeyed your orders, Grand Prince?”
Of course, there were many times when he talked back.
Tristan took a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth.
Dwayne was briefly dazed by his master’s bad manners
‘Eh, heeyy. He must be cracking a joke that isn’t a joke.’
Even though Tristan would do things thoughtlessly, neglecting his body and killing some people(?), Dwayne doesn’t think Tristan was such a despicable human being to harass the bride he was going to marry.
So, where on earth did Lady Valois go?
“I had taken measures for her to come back safely, so don’t look at me like that.”
“Ah, aha. You’re being considerate of her so she can enjoy a walk alone, right?”
Dwayne hoped that would be the case and lit up the end of Tristan’s cigarette.
Smoke puffed into the air.
“Ha…….”
Tristan breathed the scent of death deeply, then exhaled it slowly.
It hadn’t been long since he met Sabina, but he seemed to have a rough idea of what she was like. She was in no way like a time-limited person who was accepting her death.
‘She shined more brilliantly than anyone else with her blazing vitality.’
Her future would surely be just like the sun, if only she hadn’t been involved with Valentine.
His lips curled into a smile on its own.
Just imagining what he has to do to extinguish that irritatingly blinding light was fun.
“Whoo… Shit.”
Sabina swept her hair in annoyance.
Wherever her gaze went, there were the only greens of the forest.
Her eyebrows twitched as she stopped walking.
The mark she had carved on the tree with the sword a long time ago came into view again.
‘I’m just going round and round in the same place.’
Sabina sat down on a wide tree stump, wiping her sweat.
Hearing her determination, Tristan just set the carriage running. He truly went away just like that.
‘No wonder I thought he was being too docile.’
To have left her behind without even showing any intention of returning. He must have been confident that she could not escape in the first place.
Like…….
‘Outsiders can never escape this forest once they step their foot in.’
It didn’t really matter that he left her alone. It was she herself who jumped off the carriage in the first place.
Then knowing she couldn’t escape, he agreed to it and left Sabina alone. As Sabina won’t be able to reach the Grand Duke’s castle on her own.
That was another matter.
‘It’s obvious that he intended for me to go through some hardships.’
If it’s really because of this reason, that’s just petty and narrow-minded.
‘Or perhaps he was curious on how far I could rebel. Because my reaction was interesting…….’
However, judging from the Grand Prince’s appearance who kept laughing even while being cursed at, it was highly likely to be the latter
‘I’m not confident to win against a madman.’
The Valois family may be humans with flaws in their personalities, but at least they weren’t mad.
‘The human mind is like glass. Once it’s broken, they can never be put back together’
Sabina recalled what her mother had said. It was the first and last proper advice as a parent.
That word had been strongly embedded in Sabina’s brain.
‘At least I’ll have to try.’
Sabina sighed and raised her head.
Darkness was slowly descending over the sky full of dark clouds. It’s going to rain.
‘I’ll have to find a place to get out of the rain for a while.’
It was fortunate that mountain animals did not rush at her. But she had no way of knowing what would happen once the night came.
‘My first outing was very eventful.’
Sabina gave up trying to get out of the mountain and decided to spend the night in the forest for now. It would be troubling if she were to collapse in the rain and wind after exhausting her energy here.
‘I think I saw a cave or something in the middle of a rock crevice earlier…… Ah, here.’
Close to the dry waterfall was a cave that seems to have been formed by the erosion of the waterfall.
The entrance was quite small.
‘Can I get in?’
Sabina threw a stone into the small hole.
Roll, roll. There was a rolling sound. So it seemed that the inside was wider than she presumed.
Sabina waited for a moment, fearing that a wild animal would pop out of it. When she decided it was safe, she pushed her body in.
“It’s nice.”
It’s better than expected. She gathered leaves and piled them densely on the cave floor and lay down on them.
It was soft in its own way that she could stay all night.
It was fortunate that it was autumn now.
‘I think this is enough for me to stay.’
The next on the list was food.
Since she will be isolated in the forest anyway, the Grand Prince might come pick her up. But she doesn’t know when it will be.
She would have starved to death before that.
‘I have to give birth to an heir so he probably won’t let me die.’
However, she did not trust the other person that much to just wait in vain.
Eventually Sabina got out of the cave and tried to look for something like fruits or mushrooms. Although she soon gave up because she couldn’t tell which was edible and which wasn’t.
‘There’s no helping it. Should I just go hunting?’
She would have to get it done before it rains.
Sabina took the sword she had stolen from Tristan.
Breaking a person’s mind is easier than most people think.
Humans break down very easily when left alone without a single person to talk to, trapped in an isolated space they cannot escape no matter how hard they struggle.
There were no exceptions even if it was a strong warrior who had crossed life and death countless times.
‘Not to mention those who are vulnerable to madness.’
Tristan was well aware of that fact. Better than anyone else, even more.
As Tristan gazed out of the window he touched a certain place for a moment.
The annex that traces of time remaining intact as no one managed it, quietly melted into the darkness.
At that time.
Wha-bam!
Thunder blasts upon the earth with a flash of light.
Dwayne paced the room back and forth while listening to the sound of the storm.
“You’re annoying me.”
“Is it time for you to say that so casually?”
Dwayne was Tristan’s childhood friend and now his aide.
He boasted that no one would know the Grand Prince as well as he did, but he couldn’t say the same today.
As today, Tristan has been behaving really incomprehensibly.
“Don’t you know that I’ve never disobeyed your orders, Grand Prince?”
Of course, there were many times when he talked back.
