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'I can't believe it. I ended the long-awaited first meeting with macaroon. "

For a few days, I had been already worried sick.

I was not only worried but also got sick from it. In the meantime, somehow the room was getting hotter and hotter. Even though I did a good job, Ante often stared at me as if I did something wrong.

"What happened? I can not imagine a person who would normally brag about bringing firewood, now bringing them for no reason."

For sure, it was about me.  Hmph, I would never tell you why.

I shuddered with anxious eyes.

Ante walked towards me with big steps as if my expression was annoying and pinched my stomach. As my eyes were filled with tears, Ante then looked satisfied.

"Hmph. No matter what, I just won a favor from the chief of security. Do not get any high hopes, Princess. This is the abandoned palace.. "

Every time when Ante said this, I just kept my mouth shut. One thing that I just did not know what to say and another was that I simply  did not feel the need to speak. My thought was like "So what?"

Yes, it was abandoned. So what?

All I needed to do was leave this palace when I become an adult by endowing Euphil with my life.

'At that time, I should find a man and get married.'

When I was pouting, Ante snorted with laughter. Obviously, she had a cold personality

"Don't be mad at me. I wouldn't have seen you, Princess if I had not come to this abandoned palace. "

It was ridiculous. How could you not grumble about being hara.s.sed?

But I turned my back on her and played with a few toys instead of staring at her. If  I rebelled more here, I may not get meal anymore.

'Anyway, I really needed to see Euphil'

I thought.

Of course, it was to egg him on but I had no idea what to do.

Still, I rolled my eyes as I thought about Euphil who did not let go of my hands.

I wasn't sure about the near future. But for now, he did not seem like a person who would be cold to others since he was young.

'Should I just keep following him around?'

If he would see me everyday, he might grow on me. I shook my head as I clenched my small fists.

What I did not realize was that it was the beginning of a hards.h.i.+p.

Cough!

My mouth was full of dirt and I just fell over the stones but I held my tears because Euphil's cold eyes.

Since that day, Euphil put some distance between us as if he heard something.

Even if I knew where his palace was, I would never make it. The garden of my Princess Palace had already become a part of a forest and it was very difficult to go to another palace through this forest like garden with a body of five-year-old child.

So I had to wait for Euphil to come to this garden instead. Fortunately, the garden was the place that he liked. He often looked around near the base where I fell asleep normally.

"Pfff, you're always on the tree... "

"It's annoying that you follow me."

"Hmph. But Mirthy wants to play with Euvil. "

" Euvil?"

"Euphil Oppa."

BUT, on top of the tree.

It was a really labor-intensive activity to follow him around.

After chasing him around, I had to stop and sit down to catch my breath, and he gave me a look as if asking me to quit following him on top of trees.

Jesus, as if he was like a monkey or a bird.

'How can a ten-years old kid climb tress like that?'

He did not climb a tree like a monkey but climbed as if his body was like a feather. It also looked like as if he was jumping up continuously. However, every time I almost burst into tears, his face would turn cold which made me to have a hiccup all the time.

Whack!

After kicking the base of the tree where he had climbed, I sat down besides him.

panting...

I ran out of my breath as I walked for too long.

"So, why don't you just stop following me"

"No way."

"You are one stubborn one."

"So are you."

"Hmph."

Yawn.

Once I sat down, I felt a little sleepy. I leaned my head on the tree with my head looking upward.

As I was starring at him, Euphil flinched a bit when our eyes met.

'Hmm, his reactions are honest."

When I looked at him with a little more tearful face, his face slowly started to become gloomy. This time, it was not about crying. It was just a resentful face, something like that. Of course, only a little bit.

I needed to tell Euphil that I liked him.

"Euvil Oppa"

"What?"

"I'm sleepy."

"I will not take you to the palace this time. "

"Nooo."

I shook my head. To explain to him that it was not about taking me to the palace.

"Don't you feel sleepy?"

"I am not sleepy."

"Mirthy wants to hear a fairy tale whenever she wants to sleep."

"I wont tell you a story."

"That is why Mirthy will tell you one."

Euphil looked like as if he was sick of me. The appearance of sighing with leaves on the blond hair looked like the spirits of trees but that would be the same for my case too.

I laughed while playing with my hair. Euphil's red eyes narrowed as he stared at me but soon, he lay on the branch as if he had given up already.

"Once upon a time, there was a water fairy."

"Oh come on, we both know that story. "

"The fairy had an apple tree. A golden apple, uh, comes out of that tree!"

As I was waving my arms and described the story, I felt that he was watching me quietly. I felt as if I could shed tears of joy or something.

'Now that I think of it, I don't have any friends.'

Even though I met him for only a couple of days for now, Euphil was one of people I had shared many fun stories with.

"So?"

"Uh?"

"What happened to the golden apple?"

"Huh, do you want to hear it? "

Euphil was one of people I had shared many fun stories with.

His pure voice was knocking on my ears while I was s.p.a.cing out. His red eyes like rubies were staring at me silently.

When I saw him, I laughed. Euphil's face got grumpy. It was surprising that he did not say anything even though he could simply say 'Okay, get it over with already."

Somehow, my heart was pounding.

I could not stop blus.h.i.+ng as I realized the fact that I now have an older brother.

"Uhm. Uh, so..."

I was kicking and digging the ground with my toes with a strange feeling and began to tell the story with my arms waving around.

It was a story of a water fairy with apples meeting many people who came to have that golden apple.

Among them, there was a prince and a king but the apple was given to a beggar boy because he was the only one who asked the name of the water fairy.

"So the boy, the fairy was..."

Yawn

And while I was talking, I could not resist but give myself up to sleep.

It was natural for I walked around like that. There seemed to be a big sigh from the top.

Whirring sounds were coming from far away.

Like always, I could feel as if someone was touching my hair but I knew that this was to get rid of the leaves on my hair.

'Silly Euphil, why doesn't he clean up his hair instead..'

A little kid who pushes me out but doesn't really hate me..

How did this kid become a tyrant who would kill all of his family in the future?

The book did not explain the reason well.

He was not the main character. Euphil was rather a villain in the novel.

"Good night…Oppa."

"I'm not sleeping"

As I mumbled and felt asleep, his voice became very soft.

And when I woke up, I was in his palace again.

* * *

Euphil could be said to be a natural born genius.

Even if it was not his s.h.i.+ny golden hair and cold red eyes, the boy could understand whatever books was in his hand.

What he could not understand was the father who abandoned him and the mother who pa.s.sed away and leaving him alone. He could understand things in the book but not the people.

There was a lot to learn besides the books. He learned what solitude was by watching people around him who periodically changed.

He realized one thing for sure when his servant who spilled the beans on him. His servant had been killed and his father completely took his freedom away. Not only his father and mother but the whole world abandoned him.

If so, why not change the world? He had talent to do so.

A talent that one could say was a gift from G.o.d turned into a lost item of  the devil.

"Hehe. It's brother's palace again."

I awoke with the sweet scent and I opened my eyes. I could never smell such things in my palace so it must be his palace.

sniff sniff.  

I heard a sigh next to me as my tongue was out while sniffing.

"At least, if you are a member of the royal family..."

"Aww...it's a sweet smell. "

"As soon as you wake up, do not behave like that."

"The royal family...member?"

It was his room when I opened my eyes. I never knew how this kid brought me into this room every time. At first, I thought he ordered a knight to carry me but it was strange that there were no knights around him. So that indicated that he was well enough to have more macaroons but not to have a knight.

'So how did he learn swordsmans.h.i.+p?'

As I understand it, he was the most powerful person in this country.

When I looked at him with a puzzled face, he thought that I was puzzled by the expression,'member of the royal family' and he was shaking his head. Every time he shook his head, his golden thread like hairs were moving around like silk.

As  I was looking at him blankly, Epil brought a tray with desserts this time.

"Wipe it."

"Yes."

He always brought a towel whenever he brought desserts because whenever I ate those, it would get messy everywhere.

I took a towel and cleaned my mouth. I put an eclair into my mouth. This long shaped dessert looked like bread but it was filled with cream.

As I took a bite, the fillings of the thick chocolate inside spilled into my hands.

As he saw this, Euphil sighed deeply.

"The reason why I am keep wiping you is.."

"Uh?"

"If anyone  thinks that I spilled it, they would look at me like a typical ten year old kid, so I am doing this to prevent it."

Oh, have you ever seen a deep two-strand wrinkle on the face of a handsome ten-year-old young man? It is so unbalanced and cute.

So I bursted into laughter as I touched his head with my hand.