Zagnac raised his hand and gently brushed his bitter chest, tilting his head to at least one facet. He was glad she didn’t love him… that Azela, a human, liked a satan, Zagnac. There had by no means been a precedent like that earlier than.
It was not doable, so this was regular… as a result of she didn’t love him, and he didn’t love her both.
Nonetheless…
‘…Why is it so annoying.’
Nonetheless, he didn’t know why he was getting so aggravated.
As he thought that, Zagnac lifted his head and regarded again at Azela. She was calm as she replied in a assured voice that she didn’t love him, and even now, she was consuming the ready dessert with a peaceful angle.
‘Can she eat dessert on this scenario?’
He lowered his head and glanced down on the dessert in entrance of him. It was tart topped with candy strawberries and banana pudding with a candy banana scent. Regardless that it was his favourite dessert with candy concord, it was surprisingly unappetizing.
Zagnac raised his fork and patted the tart, glancing at Azela with a tragic face.
“…Scrumptious?”
“Sure, it’s scrumptious. It is best to eat it shortly, it’s your favourite candy style.”
She smiled broadly answering his bored query.
As Azela answered with a broad smile, Zagnac gazed at her, placing down the small fork he was holding in his hand and resting his chin. The expression on his face was considerably dissatisfied, but it surely additionally appeared that he was offended. Though, after all, Azela knew full nicely why.
‘Silly.’
Azela thought as she lowered her head to the dessert to keep away from assembly Zagnac, who was looking at her. Nonetheless, she was oddly completely satisfied that he acted in a different way than when he had stated he didn’t like her.
A vibrant smile got here on her lips as she ate the dessert.
“Seeing you smile, I suppose it’s actually scrumptious.”
With a grunting voice, he then tapped the pudding with a spoon this time. Seeing his infantile conduct, she laughed although Zagnac furrowed his forehead on the sight.
“I’m glad.”
“What?”
“I’m glad you say you don’t love me. As a result of I questioned what would occur should you had been mistaken and liked me.”
Azela gave no extra solutions to his grumbling. She solely ate the dessert along with her head down.
Quite the opposite, Zagnac saved getting offended, seeing such calmness. He didn’t know why as a result of it was the primary time he had felt this sense. Instantly, he remembered what Baharf stated to him final night time.
‘As anticipated. I don’t like Azela.’
He nodded and glued his gaze on Azela.
Taking a look at her like this now, seeing that his anger rose greater than a cheerful feeling, it was clear that he didn’t like her.
Zagnac lifted the spoon and scooped the pudding into his mouth with a relaxed look on his neatly organized face and tilted his head. One thing was unusual. As he raised his fork this time and shoveled the same old strawberry tart into his mouth, it was additionally bizarre.
‘…What’s scrumptious about this?’
The candy desserts he appreciated a lot had been surprisingly candy and stuffed with bitterness. It didn’t style good.
He frowned.
* * *
“Are, are you okay?”
“…Am I okay? It’s not only a day or two.”
Nanny Daran spoke in a anxious tone, Livia lowered her gaze and nodded her head. Her face was depressing at the same time as she stated that. There was blood on the bed room ground. It was all of the blood shed by Livia.
Serena, who had come to her at daybreak, grabbed her hair and shouted as quickly as she noticed Livia’s face.
“Are you going to embarrass His Majesty by not profitable that man’s coronary heart?”
Profiting from this chance, Serena tried to win the Emperor’s coronary heart, however all of her plans failed on account of Zagnac’s refusal to marry Livia in entrance of everybody. Due to that, her livid anger that rose to the tip of her head finally returned to Livia.
“Ah, I feel it could be finest to not go away the Palace in the intervening time.”
Daran stated as she smeared the drugs on her face. Nonetheless, the one smart and worth-looking place was her face.
Serena all the time used violence all over the place besides on the face, however she was completely different at present. Livia smiled bitterly at Daran’s phrases and nodded her head. She then turned her gaze to her bed room, which was a large number.
Though it might be her bed room, it was not her place to be.
Right now, in contrast to regular, Serena’s palms and ft flew mercilessly towards Livia’s face. She didn’t know the place it could be subsequent. She thought that if she stayed right here like this, the subsequent assault would possibly fly to her coronary heart.
‘I’d actually die like this…’
Livia grabbed her chest and furrowed her forehead. She needed to run away from right here as quickly as doable as a result of her life was at stake. At that second, she remembered Zagnac. As she considered him, Azela’s face additionally got here to thoughts on the identical time.
“…Nanny.”
“Even when it hurts, maintain it in. You need to apply the drugs in order that there are not any scars.”
“What concerning the torn costume?”
Daran, who was making use of the drugs, tilted her head to at least one facet to Livia’s query. She lowered her hand that was making use of the drugs.
“It wasn’t simply the sleeves that had been torn, however the lace a part of the costume got here off because it acquired rubbed whereas falling. It appears higher to throw it away…”
“Did you throw it away?”
“No, how dare I throw it away with out permission. Might I deliver it to you?”
“Sure.”
Listening to her unhappy voice, Daran put down the drugs, stood up, and introduced the costume.
It was the costume Azela had given to Livia. As Daran stated, not solely the sleeves had been torn although the lace half was additionally peeling off, and the jewels on it had been additionally falling off. Whereas Azela saved it nicely, the costume would shortly put on out over time, even with minor scratches.
“…Shall I ask them to do repairs?”
Seeing Livia’s unhappy gaze wanting down on the costume, Daran requested softly. After all, if it was repaired, it may very well be worn once more. Nonetheless, it could be a bit completely different from the unique and it could be awkward as a result of it could be padded with cloth, however there can be no large drawback in carrying it.
“…No, that’s okay. It’s fantastic.”
Livia shook her head as Daran requested cautiously. It was a resolute nod, opposite to her unhappy eyes and hesitation in her voice. She quietly closed her eyes and held the costume in her palms tightly in her arms.
It was the primary time she had obtained it from somebody.
It was the primary favor for her.
“Nanny.”
“Sure, sure.”
“…Throw this away.”
As she opened her closed eyes, Livia held out the costume she was holding in her arms to Daran. She appeared to take care of it a lot, but she handed over the costume with a trembling expression to her and ordered it to be thrown away.
“Are, are you actually going to throw it away?”
“Sure.”
“Bu-but you want this costume, don’t you?”
“That’s proper.”
“Moreover this costume, you wouldn’t have a costume that will match… They’re all small.”
“Sure, that’s proper.”
Livia nodded her head.
As she grew up, nobody would tailor a costume to her. If the costume she had grew to become too small to put on, they might in all probability deliver her sisters’ discarded costume with mockery.
“Nonetheless, it’s okay. It’s okay to imagine that it didn’t exist within the first place.”
Livia couldn’t take her eyes off the costume.
Daran’s eyebrows twitched on the sight of Livia wanting vaguely on the costume, so she regarded moderately puzzled. Taking a look at her expression, her eyes appeared to say by no means to throw it away whereas she stated to throw it away firmly.
“…Are, are you actually going to throw it away?”
“Sure.”
“Actually? Even should you ask me later why you threw it away later, it’s not my accountability?”
“Sure. That’s proper.”
Daran finally stood up, holding the costume in her hand. Livia stated to throw it away, so she thought that she ought to throw it away straight away. As she was about to depart the bed room with the costume, Livia hurriedly known as her.
“Daran.”
After all.
Daran picked up the costume and turned her physique. What would she have completed if she actually went to throw it away? She checked out Livia, considering that to herself. Nevertheless, Livia, opposite to what Daran had anticipated, was nonetheless decided. She all of the sudden thought that the younger princess had turn out to be a girl and had grown up.
Livia uttered in a chilly voice as she gazed on the costume with a decided face.
“If doable, don’t simply throw it away. Burn it.”
“…Sure?”
“Don’t let me come again to it.”
Saying that, she squeezed her palms and turned away from Daran earlier than climbing onto the mattress. She then pulled the blanket over her head.
It doesn’t matter what he stated, she wanted Zagnac. When Azela’s face appeared in her thoughts, Livia resolutely closed her eyes, burying her face within the darkness. Her phrases along with her to combat her honest and sq. echoed in her head, however Livia coated her ears. It was time for her to stay on her personal.
Closing her eyes, Livia solely remembered her marriage to Zagnac.
And some days later, Sylvia got here to her.