The Crown Prince Ceremony (4)

With out pondering, the crown of the Crown Princess was additionally positioned on my head. Then I felt a sensation like one thing snapping. After I raised my face in shock, I noticed ladies round me who had not been there earlier than. Many noblewomen of varied ages might be seen. What’s happening? After I tensed up, they laughed and disappeared with a graceful.

As I stood there dumbfounded, the Empress chuckled.

“Did you see them? Then Ralphine is okay too”

“What was that simply now?”

The Empress checked out my shocked expression and laughed heartily.

“They’re the Empresses who’ve been right here on this cathedral. They got here to examine the brand new Crown Princess.”

… May they be ghosts or one thing like that?

“That’s one option to put it. Nonetheless, they received’t present themselves to somebody they don’t like, so it’s good that they confirmed themselves to you. You might have been acknowledged by the Empresses.”

I used to be fearful of ghosts and monsters once I was a child, however finally I finished listening to them as a result of they weren’t there. Nonetheless, in the event that they actually exist… It will be scary if I began to fret about it and have become afraid of the darkness at evening.

“Did Cermiane see them too?”

I attempted to distract myself by asking Cermiane. He appeared a bit of completely satisfied, and smiled a bit of sadly.

“Oh, the previous Emperors and… My three older brothers have been there.”

Wow. He should have met his two older brothers who died earlier than Cermiane was born. That’s in all probability why he’s so completely satisfied.

The Emperor and Empress have been laughing fortunately. They’re fairly mischievous. They knew what we have been shocked to see and laughed silently. Nonetheless, not solely that, however they need to even be actually completely satisfied that now we have actually turn into members of the imperial household

After leaving the cathedral, this time we boarded a carriage with the Emperor and Empress and headed to the tower of the outer wall of the imperial palace. There’s a presentation for the residents of the imperial capital. Just a few days in the past, bulletins of the brand new crown prince’s enthronement ceremony have been made all around the capital, and by now the knights ought to have despatched out bulletins all through town.

Underneath the escort of Cermiane, upon reaching the tower, an unlimited crowd writhed beneath. The realm in entrance of the tower was a small sq., so spacious that even I would wish to rely to thirty to run throughout it. However the sq. was filled with folks to the purpose the place the cobblestones weren’t seen. Furthermore, the alleys that led from the sq. have been full of individuals so far as the attention might see, and other people have been even crowded on the windowsills and rooftops of the buildings.

These tens of hundreds of individuals, whom I used to be not sure what number of there are, have been those who made the earth shake and throb after we appeared on the prime of the tower.

The proclaimer yells out, to not be outdone by the earth tremors: “On this good day, the Prince Cermiane has turn into Crown Prince. On the identical time, his spouse, Princess Ralphine, grew to become Crown Princess. The nice Emperor decreed it in accordance with the need of god almighty!

The tower started to tremble with the strain and vibration of the cheers. Despite the fact that it was winter, the warmth rose up and made me sweat on my brow.

“Lengthy dwell Crown Prince Cermiane!”

“Glory to the Empire!”

“Lengthy dwell Crown Princess Ralphine!”

The cries of the folks swirled round me like a whirlwind, and I couldn’t inform whether or not they have been shouts, screams, or cheers. All of them have been directed at I and Cermiane.

One thing unimaginable had occurred. At that second, I really understood the enormity of changing into the Crown Princess in each sense of the phrase. As Crown Princess, I might stand above not solely the folks on this empire but additionally a whole bunch of instances extra folks, lead them, and assume accountability. We’d have the ability to affect the life and demise of those folks and their households. We’d have the ability to make or break the Empire’s residents, to carry prosperity or famine, every little thing could be in our fingers.

I nonetheless didn’t know a lot in regards to the the Aristocracy, and though I used to be instructed that we’d maintain a better place than the the Aristocracy, just under the Emperor and Empress, it felt like another person’s drawback. Nonetheless, I did perceive the widespread folks’s lives very effectively. Among the many harmless folks cheering for us, there could be folks I grew to become pals with on the Hunter’s Affiliation, or the pleasant shopkeepers from our common market. From as we speak onwards, I held the ability to have an effect on their lives in a big manner.  I’ve turn into the one who can simply let these people who find themselves making an attempt their greatest to dwell, die.

It despatched chills down my backbone. Oh, my God, I can’t do this! No manner! I seemed up at Cermiane, who was additionally pale. I guessed he was additionally feeling the identical manner. Besides, Cermiane checked out me and smiled softly. I gritted my tooth inwardly! I gritted my tooth inwardly.

NoIt’s no use. If I can’t deal with it, then I shouldn’t have come alongside within the first place. Despite the fact that Cermiane had already made up his thoughts and was exhibiting concern for me, it was clear that the Crown Prince, who would turn into the Emperor someday, would bear extra burdens and tasks. He would undoubtedly face better challenges. It was pitiful. How might I name myself his spouse if I couldn’t help him or assist him by the hardships?

I reached out my proper hand and grasped Cermiane’s left hand. His hand was sweaty and a bit of trembling. I squeezed her hand tightly and firmly.

“Let’s go, Mia.”

Cermiane smiled as he squeezed my hand again.

“Oh Ral, with you by my facet, every little thing will likely be okay.”

We held fingers and confronted the tornado-like warmth and deafening noise, elevating our fingers to smile and reply to the cheering crowd. We felt like we have been crusing into tough seas as we grew to become the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of the Empire.

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