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Chapter 58

While mumbling in dissatisfaction, Rashid gave his discarded shirt over to Tenon . In truth, this wasn’t the kind of thing an Imperial Prince should be doing, but Rashid’s personality did not permit him to trust other people . It would be different if they were in the Imperial Palace—but here, the only people he could trust to wait on him now were his brothers .

“Now leave . ”

“Please give me all the other garments too . I will tell them to remove them all at the same time . ”

Before his elder brother’s mood soured, Tenon extended his hand in order to take the rest of his garments .

If the Emperor’s outfit, out of everyone’s, was dirtied, then there was no way that he would wear it for a second time .

Only after he had received the pair of pants along with the shirt did he begin to leave, but something still remained in Rashid’s hand .

“… . . ”

A red ribbon . No, a ribbon that was probably red before .

Though the Emperor had steadily handed over everything else, he spent a long time especially staring at this one string that was wrapped around his fingers . It was beyond just a slight, passing gaze .

As if he was met with the Emperor of an enemy nation, he showed a complicated yet strong obsession towards it . Only after he became aware of his brothers’ eyes did he stop .

“Take this as well . ”

“Yes, sir . Though I wonder what it is . ”

Peyton received the ribbon from Rashid’s hand and titled his head . He found this red industrial ribbon, seemingly worthless even at a second glance, unfamiliar .

“Then please rest . I will take these and instruct them to do away with…”

“No . ”

After Rashid had stripped off his last garments, he slowly brought a hand up to the back of his neck .

The place where a certain person’s hands had touched .

His entire form stiffened, Rashid’s body twisted a bit sideways and looked back .

“Bring that back to me . ”

***

[Madam, what do we do . I can’t find the princess’s ribbon anywhere . ]

“Really? It should be here somewhere . ”

I stopped drying Haniel’s chin and looked towards Selene . She had been poking around for a while now, and it appeared that she’d been looking for the ribbon .

“If you can’t find it, oh well . Leave it . ”

[But it was the only ribbon we had . We cut it off from where it was attached to the skirt that time, so we don’t have any more red ones . ]

“It’s fine if we don’t have the ribbon . And is that the problem right now?”

Even though our Haniel just came back from the dead!

I spread out my towel and brushed off Haniel’s body with it, tapping .

Actually, since even the towel was black, I did lament the lost red ribbon .

It was the same when we searched the wardrobe . If I wanted to get some red cloth, I would have to go to the town, but even that was out of question now .

“Pheww . We’re doomed . ”

[But really, what happened? Were you caught by Lady Lania while you were running away?]

“Just… It just happened that way . ”

[That doesn’t make sense . That you came back alive even though you were caught by Lady Lania . ]

“… . About that . ”

That was because I wasn’t caught by Lania, I was caught by the Emperor . That’s how I came back alive .

It was the truth, not a lie, but it seemed more like a lie than the truth .

Anyhow, both my mind and body were hitting bottom in exhaustion too much to be sitting the duck down and explaining all of that .

Haniel and I both shared the experience of surviving after sinking into the lake, but the difference lay in our schedules after that .

As soon as we entered the house, putting on the fire, boiling up water, working milk powder in and making soup .

All those things were what I, the human, had to do . Up until now, I’d regarded it as being obvious, but on days like this it was certainly burdensome .

“Achoo!”

Plus, the more I was contracting a cold, the more my nose was clogging . I still had so much I need to do—what should I do? No matter how I thought about it, with this stamina… .

[Uwa, uwaaaaah . ]