Chapter 5. Such crazy palbulchul2020.02.18.
hot. hot. It’s hot! I had only been out for a short while, but the nanny raised the temperature in the room, worried that I might catch a cold. In addition, it was suffocatingly hot because the emperor had given him a robe to cover it. nurse. Are you new to parenting? It’s not. Apparently Oscar’s nanny was also a nanny. If I tried to whine for no reason, I would only hear my clothes come off and I would hear ‘It’s not time to change the diaper yet’, so I just stared at the ceiling. Today, the mobile that boasts a brilliant majesty was slowly turning.
‘So what was that red-eyed boy earlier?’
It seemed that the unfamiliar feeling I felt at that time was still there.
‘Take care.’
But in reality, I can’t do anything.
“Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…”
I was babbling without meaning, but the entrance to the room suddenly became noisy.
“Meet Your Majesty the Emperor.”
‘Did you come again?’
The sound of footsteps came closer and stopped right next to me. And as if it were natural, I was lifted up in the air.
“hmm?”
The blue eyes of the emperor who had been watching me closely narrowed. Sweating profusely, I averted the emperor’s eyes.
“It seems to have gotten slightly heavier than before.”
“You just finished eating.”
Isn’t that too delicate? However, the emperor’s inquiry did not end there.
“Why are you sweating so much again?”
“In case you caught a cold, I covered you with the clothes Your Majesty gave you.”
“Right. But what about this toy? I didn’t see it.”
“Ah, that was a gift from the maid to Her Highness.”
“The toxicity test must have been done.”
“…yes?”
“Even the slightest possibility of danger should not be ruled out.”
‘Cheer up, nanny.’
All I can give is the support in my heart. Even after that, the emperor roasted the maids including the nanny for a long time. In the end, I, who couldn’t see it, had to step in.
“Sheep.”
“Mabel?”
“Sheep!”
I couldn’t help it when I suddenly asked why Yang was Taryeong. Because I decided to go with the concept that only ‘Yang-i’ can speak without knowing how to say anything else. Fortunately, the emperor’s attention returned to me.
“Did you like meow that much?”
“Sheep.”
‘It’s okay, the sheep.’
The reason I chant sheep is not because cats are good, but because that’s the only thing I know how to say. I self-hypnotized myself and tried to think of myself as a normal baby.
‘I am a baby. i am a baby I’m just a normal baby The only words I know how to say are sheep…!’
“You must have liked the kitty, Mabel.”
No, it’s not necessarily like that…
“Then I’ll give you the forest north of the Hwangseong.”
“…?”
yes?
‘You must be kidding, right?’
Of course, I thought it was a joke, but suddenly the emperor gestured toward the aide who was waiting.
“Did you hear?”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Transfer ownership of the northern forest to Mabel.”
“I follow the orders of His Majesty the Emperor.”
“!!”
no wait! This isn’t much! The aide who agreed as if it were natural was also dumbfounded.
‘Your emperor is out of his mind! Giving a forest to a daughter who is only 2 months old!’
However, the aide responded familiarly as if it had always been the case. Others didn’t seem too surprised. Only me, the party involved, is shocked. I opened my mouth and just closed it. There are so many things I want to say, but I can’t.
“hmm? Somehow, Mabel doesn’t seem to like it. What do you think, Gustav?”
“As far as I can see…”
Gustaf, an aide, looked at the emperor and cautiously let go of the rhyme. I expected
‘Are you finally going to say something?’
But…
“The forest in the northern part of the Hwangseong Fortress doesn’t have very good landscaping, so I wonder if that’s the case. It is incomparable to the villas owned by the imperial family built along the forest.”
It wasn’t drying, but it was one more drink! Far from snorting, the emperor seriously contemplated the nonsense.
“Right. That’s a reasonable opinion.”
‘What’s the matter? There is no such thing! How does a baby know something like landscaping?!’
But my silent clamor did not reach anyone. The emperor, who had been fiddling with my cheek with a serious expression, finally opened his mouth.
“good night. So let’s do this Gustav. Write it down.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Mabel. I will grant you the castle of Ponce.”
…what are you gifting? I opened my mouth and looked at the emperor, and he smiled kindly.
“Of course, the forest north of the Hwangseong is also yours, so don’t worry.”
All of a sudden, I became ‘the Mabel who got rich in 2 months’.
***
A special guest has visited the Ermano Empire. Priests of Abelardo, the holy kingdom, claiming to be representatives of a noble god. Since there are no people in this world who do not believe in God, they were treated as honored guests wherever they went. However, to Emperor Esteban, they were no different from uninvited guests. Even more so if they are the ones who came looking for their lovely daughter.
‘The temple bastards like worms.’
Esteban’s patience was exhausted just by not kicking him out. Although he agreed to an audience with Gustav’s torch, he could not erase his resentment. Esteban sat on the throne and looked down at the priests with his chin slanted.
“Meet His Majesty the Emperor of Ermano.”
It was Abelardo’s high priest, Montego, who greeted them as the representative. Esteban didn’t like Montego very much because of his smirk and dubious attitude. At least we met once every few years and there was little friction, but I never thought we would meet two years in a row. I felt even worse.
“I think you must have been surprised by the sudden visit.”
“It was amazing. Indeed.”
He tore up all the priests’ letters and used them as firewood, but in fact predicted that they would visit sooner or later. I didn’t expect to start acting so quickly.
“I heard that you visited Ermano to exchange Old Newspeak. Please do good research.”
‘ASAP.’
Esteban struggled to swallow his words. It was because there was no advantage to being hostile towards the priests of Abelardo. It was fortunate, however, that he did not have to be friendly.
“Thank you for your consideration, Your Majesty. Please, I will try to produce great research results for Abelardo and Hermano.”
“Okay then back off-”
He hurriedly tried to drive them out, but Esteban didn’t go his way.
“I have something to tell you about Her Highness Princess Hermano of Mabel Winter Gardenia.”
Montego’s eyes, glistening with tenacity, looked cunning like snakes. Esteban sighed and leaned his tired body back.
“Mabel Gardenia Ermano.”
He resolutely corrected Mabel’s name given by Montego. In the name of Mabel Winter Gardenia Ermano, ‘Winter’ was a divine name that was given by God along with prophecy. At the same time as Mabel’s birth, the Holy Kingdom announced that another name had been given to the princess, but Esteban refused to acknowledge it. If they admit this, they will be more frantic to take away Mabel.
“Jim did not recognize Abelardo’s oracle. How can I be sure that the object of the trust is Mabel?”
Abelardo argued that he was the protagonist of the oracle on the basis of the fact that the Ermano Empire was located at the easternmost point and that a lightning strike struck the dry sky when Mabel was born. But it was all just a coincidence, so it was a matter of refutation.
“I knew His Majesty would say that.”
Despite Esteban’s bloody attitude, Montego did not lose his composure. Wooddeuk. The sound of something breaking made Gustaf flinch.
‘your majesty. Please don’t kill…!’
All the ministers were relieved that his fiery temper had softened after marrying Empress Siana, but will it eventually return to normal? The current matter concerned Mabel, as the lovely Princess hoped to appease the Emperor’s wrath. A terrible silence passed.
“…Mabel is a bloody lump, not even a few months old. Are you saying that my child, who is so weak, should be sent to the Holy Land because of an oracle that leaves a lot of room for interpretation?”
Esteban’s voice was filled with anger.
Gustav’s face was so white that he was tired of the precarious atmosphere that seemed to explode at any moment. Montego laughed blankly and took something out of his arms.
“This is an item that the God King handed over to His Majesty. He said he would understand it if he saw it.”
A servant received the goods on a tray and showed them to Gustav. Confirming that there was no danger, Gustaf presented the goods to Esteban. Even Esteban had seen an impressive accessory with a red jewel embossed with a splendid pattern.
“It’s the emperor’s pendant.”
It was a pendant that the emperor always carried. With this, he could understand what the Holy Nation was asking for Mabel under the pretext. The Sunhwang fought for succession to ascend the throne and received help from the Holy Nation. As a token of that, he shared a pendant with the God King of the Holy Land, and the other was kept in Esteban’s treasury.
“To repay the debt of the deceased emperor with my child instead. How should Jim take it?”
Esteban was smiling, but the smile was bloody. Blue veins swelled on the back of Esteban’s hand holding the pendant. He handed the pendant to Gustav rather nervously. Before long, the pendant was back in Montego’s hands.
“You know that’s not what it means, Your Majesty.”
“All I can hear from Jim is to sell my child. Did I hear you wrong?”
“What the God King wants is to protect the object of the trust. Phew… I know that I can’t take Her Highness to the Holy Land right away. Also, asking too much.”
With a sigh, Montego’s expression changed. Esteban frowned at Montego’s changed attitude. I thought we would continue this conversation like Dodol-Ipyo until the end, but the change of attitude was too quick.
‘What kind of plan is this?’
Anyway, Abelardo didn’t like them because they couldn’t understand them. Montego, who had taken care of the pendant, took an example as if it could not be helped.
“Your Majesty’s refusal is firm, so I will withdraw this time.”
But Esteban was not vigilant. There will definitely be something to follow. As expected, Montego did not disappoint.
“Instead, please listen to one request.”
“Listen and see.”
“I ask for an audience with Her Highness the Princess.”
Esteban looked down at the lowering Montego. As I’ve said before, these people probably never expected to take Mabel with them. There’s no way Esteban would agree.
‘That was the purpose in the first place.’
I want to refuse with a single knife, but the base food they laid made it difficult. By citing the deal between the former emperor and the god king, he created a situation where he could not refuse a trivial request, so he had no choice but to accept it if there was no justification for it.
‘It doesn’t matter.’
Anyway, you will always be by Mabel’s side, so if you think he’ll pose a threat, it’s a matter of appropriate sanctions. Esteban nodded.
“good night. Instead, there are conditions.”
“What is?”
“My luggage is with me in the audience. And keep a distance of 20m between you and Mabel. Contact is absolutely prohibited, and the use of magic or divinity is also prohibited. If Mabel starts to cry, I will end the audience immediately.”
“….”
‘Such a crazy outburst.’
Montego couldn’t hide his bewildered expression. It was the first time he let go of the smoke since visiting Ermano.
***
It’s already been three months since I was born. Fortunately, nothing happened to me in the meantime. Like any other baby, he grew up under the care of his nanny. I sucked on the tooth that my nanny had given me and watched my movements. Nanny knitting. Xavier was absent. Larimar is doing the laundry.
‘It was good.’
Fortunately, the nanny put her on her side, which made things easier. I struggled on my limbs and struggled to get down.
“Turn it off…”
‘Please let me turn it over for today!’
But things don’t go my way.
“Whoah…”
My head is too heavy.
“Phehe…”
He caught his breath with his arms drooping weakly.
‘I can’t help it. Let’s practice flipping like this.’
It was still daytime, so if I was caught sweating again, I didn’t know that it would cause an unfortunate incident that would lead to a useless waste of manpower like before. It’s really strange when you look at it. Even though it had already been three months, the attitude of the biological father and older brother on the family register was still the same. no. Rather, he pretended to be more friendly. I thought by this point, of course, I would get tired of it and stop looking for it, but it was my mistake. It was a bit harsh to come here without even trying.
“Mabel.”
…okay. like this. Oscar entered my name and took off his coat, washed his hands, and clung to my cradle.
“Did I wait?”
side. Instead of answering, I only sucked hard on one side. That’s a question that doesn’t even deserve an answer. Fortunately, I didn’t get caught practicing flipping. Oscar sat right next to me and opened the book.
“Mabel. I will read you a book.”
okay. Read it once because you are bored. Maybe it’s a fairy tale? I made up my mind not to laugh at the content, even if it was very childish. Big. Oscar picked up his throat and began to read the book without hesitation.
“On the ills of Bordosism advocated by Algor Chekhov.”
“…?”
Hey, I’m only 3 months old?
