[Episode 67]
The handmaiden wiped her face impatiently, buried her face in the palm of her hand, and took a deep breath.
“That… There’s something like that behind…”
“Something like that?”
“Should we say that there is a… place that enshrines people like that Prince Colin… and His Excellency the Duke of Etham?”
“Take him?”
“So… there are people who enthusiastically collect things about people they like… making dolls, photos, models, or models similar to the products they used cheaply… just… The
maid sighed and took out a locket pendant from the inside of the necklace. Inside the locket pendant was a picture of Duke Colin.
He was looking somewhere with slightly soft eyes instead of a sharp gaze as always, but his expression slightly raised the corners of his mouth.
“This is one of only 7 locket pendants from the limited edition His Excellency, Duke Michael Colin’s collection. There is a place that collects and sells these things.”
“…Do you like your father?”
Richard Colin looked at the maid with a shocked face.
The maid shook her head in embarrassment.
He even hit the palm with both hands. She stamped her feet and lowered herself to meet Richard Collin’s gaze.
“It’s not that… there is such a thing! You want to collect cool dolls, right? Just like that, Prince Colin is handsome and very cool… Should I say that I make a doll that imitates him or a picture of such a wonderful scene and share it with the people I admire…?”
The maid who was explaining was on the verge of bursting into tears. Tears welled up on his reddened face.
Richard crossed his arms and nodded as he saw her, whose earlobes were burning bright red, probably from shame.
“You mean it’s not the opposite sex?”
“yes! of course. The mistress is there and the young master is like this. I don’t like it rationally. Longing for the unreachable… that envy! something like that.”
“okay?”
Richard nodded.
“So what does that have to do with this?”
“There… there is a series like this.”
“this?”
“You’re a prisoner named ‘Eirin,’ right? These days, he is emerging as a rising star in the ‘Market’. The number of goods also increased little by little.”
“You have something like this?”
said Richard Collin, holding up a rather elaborate lizard-shaped piece of wood.
“I have your stuffed toy and recent photos. If you register as a seller, you can make and sell them yourself.”
“…okay?”
Richard lowered his eyes slightly.
‘Because I’m lonely without BamBam…’
Wouldn’t it be okay to buy at least one fluffy doll?
“Okay guide me.”
“…yes?”
“I need to guide you.”
The arrogant boy clicked his chin and said.
“To guide you, the market or something.”
I didn’t know that I would bring the young master there, so the maid only pursed her lips with a tear-stained face.
“I will not?”
At the threat of the boy who raised his eyes fiercely, the maid eventually cried and nodded to eat mustard.
Later, Richard Colin became famous in the ‘Market’ with the nickname ‘Heart’.
* * *
“Eirin.”
Callan Ettam, who had been visiting since morning, suddenly showed up to me with a proud face.
“Your request is complete!”
“already…?”
“Yeah already!”
Hasn’t it only been a week yet?
Looking at him with a curious face, Callan Etham looked at me with a smile.
‘ah!’
I quickly hugged him tightly.
Then Callan Etam hugged me and spun around in place.
“It was a little difficult and complicated, but not impossible! Because your brother is amazing!”
“huh…! My brother is the best!”
Callan grinned.
“yes? am i cool? Silian couldn’t do anything—. I did everything.”
I nodded my head at the sight of him pounding his chest with his fist. He hugged me and hurried to the back of the garden.
In the backyard, a small flower bed was surrounded by a pure white transparent membrane.
Inside, the white glacier was solidly frozen, and on top of it, white flowers with frost were blooming majestically.
It was a beautiful flower with leaves that were even slightly transparent, as if they would melt if touched.
It wasn’t just one flower, it seemed that there were well over a hundred snowflakes in full bloom on the flower bed.
The sight of hundreds of snow ice flowers in full bloom was truly speechless.
“I decided to keep my promise!”
“huh! Starting tonight, I’ll go to my brother’s room every night.”
“good…! I’ll have warm milk ready.”
Callan Etam nodded happily, the corners of her mouth quivering.
A hundred songs were enough for a study.
“But what are you going to do with this?”
“Um, what kind of flower seeds are you going to make?”
“A flower seed?”
Callan Etham looked at me with a strange expression and nodded as if to ask.
“cheer up! I should get some sleep.”
“Yeah thanks!”
I didn’t know how to do it this far, so when I hugged him once more, Callan Etam smiled broadly.
“I am more grateful. You’ve helped me a lot more.”
Kalan Etham waved her hands and quickly disappeared, as if she was really tired.
And that afternoon, I was able to receive a heap of salt and deep sea flowers.
Callan Etham’s Snow Binghwa 100 was really cute.
“…”
“Why don’t you like it?”
Duke Mirelle, who had come to pick me up triumphantly, asked with a terrifying frown.
“Oh no.”
A sea of fire and water appeared on one side of the Etam family’s empty lot.
I was speechless at the huge sea and huge lava contained in a transparent glass box as if a special magic had been cast.
“Harabuji… this…”
“I can’t move the volcano, so I moved the lava. I put a spell on it to keep the temperature inside.”
“….”
“This just brought the sea. It was a simple task. It just took a while because it was a little far away.”
Duke Miriel said in a light tone as if it was nothing.
There were fish that really looked like deep sea fish in the box as if they had been taken from the deep sea.
And here and there, I saw the flowers I was looking for. The problem is I can’t get it out.
“Do you see the button here?”
Did you even notice my thoughts?
Duke Mirel led me to one side of the transparent glass box and pointed out somewhere.
There was a small sensor-like place where you could raise your palm.
“If you put your hand here, flowers will come out one by one.”
‘…There’s a fresh flower vending machine.’
In a fantasy world more futuristic than the 21st century Korea where science has developed, I was simply speechless.
“But what are you trying to do with it?”
“I’m going to make flowers!”
“flower? what flowers?”
“Dragonia!”
As soon as I finished my words, Duke Mirel’s expression darkened.
“Is it Harabu?”
“…Dragonia herb works as a panacea, so you want to save the second prince with it?”
“yes.”
“Certainly, if that’s the case, I might be able to save it.”
“I may not, but I am.”
Duke Mirelle looked down at me, pursed his lips several times, then just swallowed his words and laughed.
Then he stroked my hair with his big hand.
“I hope it goes well.”
The voice that came from me was kind enough that I had never heard it before, but somehow it looked bitter… I widened my eyes.
It was as if he was giving courage to a child who was still immature.
“yes.”
I looked at him quietly and nodded.
From that day on, Lillian and I met almost every day to study flowers, make them bear fruit, and plant the fruit again and again.
Even in the meantime, there was no contact from Enosh.
However, there were cases where Lucillion was often called to the imperial castle alone.
I don’t know what they were talking about, but he went to see Enosh two or three times a week.
I also brought gifts and letters from Nana and Lillian.
In the meantime, I had to correspond frequently with Richard, slept with Callan to keep his promise, and took lessons from Hill Rosemont.
As autumn was just approaching, we succeeded in fertilizing salt and snow flowers, and we also succeeded in getting ‘snow flowers’.
And before the winter of that year we also succeeded in fertilizing ‘Snowy Flower’ and ‘Deep Sea Flower’ and planted 100 seeds.
And when we entered the beginning of winter… We finally got the dragonia seeds.
It was the fruit of a long hard work.
