Chapter 61

When I saw that he was determined to put his safety aside for mine, I let out a deep sigh.

“I’ll take care of that. Answer me. Is it okay if I can guarantee your safety?”

“…yes, then it’s okay.”

As long as his life was guaranteed, there was no reason for us to separate right now.

Finally, Sihael’s face brightened up when he got the answer he wanted.

“Okay, I see.”

“Yes? What?”

“I don’t want to be apart from you, so don’t think about useless things.”

Did you even listen to me? My mouth dropped open at his obstinate attitude.

“Why do you want to go down the difficult road? If we keep a distance, everything will be solved neatly…”

“It’s my choice.”

By this point, I felt like an idiot after worrying and caring about him enough to give me a headache. I told myself to not think too hard.

“In other way around, we could say if your blood puts you in danger, you would be fine if I don’t look at the blood.”

“… That’s right.”

In a nutshell, yes. When I answered awkwardly, Sihael clapped and livened up the atmosphere.

“Then that’s it, let’s stop talking about it.”

I felt a strong will not to talk about this topic anymore.

‘Sigh. I don’t know. I just have to be careful until he leaves.’

Maybe he couldn’t see me pressing down on my throbbing temple, but Sihael acted like a puppy who couldn’t tell the difference between heaven and earth.

“Shall we go out for a walk after a long time?”

How cheeky!

As I stared at him, I pushed away Sihael’s shoulder. Sihael, who was pushed away by my power, suddenly frowned at our reversed position.

“What’s this?”

“What do you mean by ‘what’s this’? Your Highness also threw me down on the bed, so shouldn’t I also try it?”

“…what?”

“You look so cute.”

I left him alone and got out of bed. I decided to go to the garden for a walk.

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“Wow, the flowers are in full bloom.”

We entered the garden while looking at the blooming flowers.

I picked a flower that had bloomed nearby and sat down in the shade. When I heard a rustling sound from next to me, I looked up and saw Sihael standing there while holding his handkerchief.

“What are you doing?”

“I was going to lay it down for you.”

His hand was awkwardly hanging in the air. I snatched the handkerchief from his grasp, spread it beside me, and lightly patted it.

“What are you doing?”

“Please sit here, Your Highness.”

Then Sihael covered his face with his big hand and sat down beside me. His ears, peeking through his silver hair, were flushed red.

‘Is it so embarrassing?’

If I tease him more, would he get angry? I pretended not to see Sihael’s ears and turned my head, and started to weave the flowers I had brought.

“It’s been a while since I made it, so I don’t quite remember how to make it.”

“What are you making?”

“You’ll know when you see it.”

After a few trials and errors, I finally put the finished flower crown over Sihael’s head.

“Ta-da. The flower crown is done.”

“I see, I’m getting the coronation crown in advance.”

“Oh, you can’t compare that with this wreath.”

Sihael, who had been carefully touching the flower crown I made for a while, suddenly stood up.

“Where are you going?”

“I’ll be right back.”

Sihael strode away with hasty steps. He was so fast that he disappeared out of my sight before I could stop him.

“He’ll be back soon, right?”

I looked in the direction where Sihael disappeared for a moment and then made a new wreath. After making it once, the second time was easy. Just about the time the second wreath was completed, Sihael returned.

“I don’t know how to make a flower crown.”

He grabbed my hand and carefully put something on my ring finger.

“I’ll give you this instead.”

It was a cute ring made of white clovers. It seemed he had worked hard to make it, but the ring was big and loose, and the petals adorning it were crushed and fell down from the ring, giving it an appearance of a grass ring rather than a flower ring. Seeing the ring on my hand, Sihael scratched his forehead. I smiled as I imagined him wriggling his big hands while making it.

“Where did you learn this?”

He gave me a rabbit when he was a wolf, and this time he gave me a flower ring. It was very cute of him.

“Thank you.”

I decided to take it and put a preservation spell on it. I carefully put the ring down next to the flower crown, fearing that all the few petals would fall off.

“Do you want me to make it again?”

“Why, I like it!”

Even when I answered that it was enough, Sihael sat next to me and started to wiggle his big hands to make me another ring. I pulled my knees together and placed my chin over it as I looked at Sihael, who was absorbed in making the ring. This time, it was not easy to make, and his fine eyebrows furrowed deeply.

The sight brought a smile on my face.

‘Did Sihael ever go feral because of Liliana in the original story?’

I tried to recall it but I couldn’t come up with anything. In the first place, there was hardly any situation where there was any blood mentioned. I carefully called Sihael, who was terribly focused on the ring.

“Your Highness, what kind of smell comes from me?”

Sihael’s eyebrows furrowed at the sudden question.

“I don’t know what you’re trying to ask here.”

“Do I smell as good as I did when you were Shasha?”

“Usually you smell like you, but now you smell like flowers.”

I didn’t know what my smell was, but fortunately I didn’t smell that good. I now didn’t have to worry about getting eaten by him by accident.

“Then what did you smell from Liliana?”

“Do you think of me as some pervert? You want me to smell her?”

Sihael was heavily disgusted.

I knew it was weird to remember the smell of a strange woman. It was surely weird, but it was the female lead. Shouldn’t there be something memorable about her?

‘Ha, I don’t know. The two will eventually take care of it when they meet at the emperor’s birthday banquet.’

“Stop saying weird things and give me your hand.”

Meanwhile, Sihael, who completed the ring, put the ring on my finger.