Chapter 245: The Princess’ Dream (1)
Chapter 245: The Princess’ Dream (1)
However, Flora and Asil are different cases.
Among them, first is Flora.
The princess of the ruined kingdom whose kingdom was destroyed by the invasion of the Demon King\'s army, and who was barely able to escape alone.
In a way, it was as if Flora, who lost her entire family overnight, had already decided what she wanted.
"Mother! Check this out! I succeeded!"
In her dream, Flora\'s wish was realized, and Flora smiled innocently and boasted to her mother that she had mastered her new magic.
"Hehe, I can\'t believe you\'ve already learned advanced magic. "You are great, our Flora."
Flora\'s mother, Cloris Vale. In other words, the Queen of the Kingdom of Vale smiled benevolently and stroked the head of her lovely youngest daughter.
"Lol... "
Flora smiled happily as she felt her mother\'s warm touch.
Flora was happier that her mother was happy that she learned advanced magic than that she learned advanced magic.
Since her mother was so happy, Flora also felt rewarded for working hard to learn advanced magic.
How much effort did Flora put into it? During the six months he attended the academy, he worked day and night just to master advanced magic for several months –
\'... What? But have I ever attended an academy?\'
Memories that seemed to come to mind for a moment soon disappeared like bubbles along with questions.
If the kingdom was healthy, she wouldn\'t have met Soira, and she wouldn\'t have gone to the academy.
In this dream, Flora\'s memories of her hard work at her academy were replaced by memories of her own efforts at her palace.
"Our Flora, what are you thinking like that?"
"Ah. Mother. Just... Hehe."
It felt like something was coming to mind, but Flora forgot her complicated thoughts as she was embraced by her mother\'s warm embrace.
The cozy, warm, good-smelling embrace of a loving mother.
If she was held quietly and felt the warmth, it felt like she was going to cry.
I don\'t know why, but she didn\'t want to fall again.
"Oh~! "My mother made my youngest cry!"
As Flora was enjoying her mother\'s embrace, a clear voice like a bird chirping came from next to her.
Ayla Bale. She was the second princess of the Kingdom of Vale and the second older sister to Flora.
"Huh, Aila? No. Her mom didn\'t make her cry. Hey, Flora? Why? "What really happened?"
"Yes... "
Queen Chloris was embarrassed and tried to comfort Flora, but Flora shook her head and did not think about leaving her mother\'s arms.
On the contrary, I just dug deeper and deeper.
Aila burst into anger at the sight of her mother and daughter clinging to her.
"This is shameful! Only mothers! "I want to hug the youngest too!"
"Hehe. Then will Aela come here too? "You can just hug me together."
"Mom, I love you so much!"
Chloris smiled slightly at the sight of her daughter changing her attitude in an instant.
At the sound of her mother\'s laughter, Flora, who was held in her arms, burst into laughter.
Eventually, Eila was next to her, and her petite body, Flora, could feel the warmth of her body from all sides.
Flora was happy.
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In the Bale royal family, if there was nothing special going on, the whole family would gather together for dinner.
The messy and dirty power struggle surrounding the throne was not found, at least in the Vale royal family.
It was also because the situation in the Kingdom of Vale was not so relaxed that the royal family could fight among themselves.
Even now, less than half of the dining room where the whole family would have gathered was filled.
The rest are leading armies, holding important diplomatic meetings with other countries, or receiving reports about the continued invasion of the Demon King\'s army. Everyone was working hard in their respective positions.
"Okay. "The youngest has learned advanced magic?"
Amid the sound of crockery clattering, Caerleon Veil, the king of the Vale Kingdom and Flora\'s father, spoke first.
Originally, it was an etiquette unsuitable for a noble dinner. Making noises while eating and opening your mouth while eating.
But no one here cared about that.
We were busy fighting the devil\'s army on the front line of humanity right now, so there was no reason to obsess over petty etiquette. It was enough to find something like that only in diplomatic situations with foreign countries.
Discourse at a meal. Today\'s topic was about Flora\'s growth.
In fact, it wasn\'t even a topic of the day. Unless something goes wrong, 80% of the conversation topics at dinner are about Flora.
In the past, there was a time when I felt a little burdened about being loved so much.
But these days, Flora is just grateful for the love her family gives her.
"It seems like just yesterday she was running around in excitement because she learned intermediate magic, but Flora has grown up a lot."
Justitia Veil, the first princess of the Veil Kingdom and Flora\'s eldest sister.
She, who was called by her nickname, looked at Flora with happy eyes.
Then this time, the first prince, Keren Bale, spoke.
"When did Yusti learn advanced magic? Was she faster than the youngest?"
"Well, when I was Flora\'s age, I could only use intermediate level magic."
In some ways, Keren\'s words could be heard as degrading Justitia\'s abilities, but neither the speaker nor the receiver interpreted them in that sense.
Because everyone in her family loved her youngest child, Flora.
There was no intention whatsoever in coddling and praising Flora.
Seeing such a friendly appearance, King Carlion stroked his short beard with satisfaction.
"Haha. It\'s always nice to see. Isn\'t that right? Madam."
"Yes. It\'s true."
Unlike Carlyon, who was born as a prince of the Kingdom of Vale, the sight of such a harmonious family was even more dazzling to Chloris, who had married from a foreign country.
If you think back to the time when Chloris was a princess, everyone was desperate to belittle each other and catch and kill each other.
When I married into the Veil royal family, who could be destroyed by the demon king\'s army at any moment, I imagined a miserable future where I would struggle to survive every day.
However, in actual experience, a harmonious family brought her much greater happiness than she imagined.
It was true that we might be destroyed by the Demon King\'s army, but even so, it was thought to be worth the risk.
The three siblings, Justitia, Keren, and Eila, pampered her youngest, Flora, with various words. Flora watched her cheeks blushing with joy and embarrassment at the love of her older sisters and brothers. Chloris sat next to her. She rested her head on her husband\'s shoulder.
Carlyon said nothing and quietly lent her his shoulder.
As always, it was a happy meal time.
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It was an extremely happy time for Flora and others, but in the end, this was a dream created by Drippert.
It meant that there was a fatal difference somewhere.
Here, the fact that the Kingdom of Vale is alive and well was not acknowledged in any other way.
That\'s the wind read from Flora\'s memories. So to speak, it\'s like the basis of a dream.
In Flora\'s case, there was something fatally different from the reality created by her own wishes.
"After everyone has finished eating, let\'s carry out our evening routine."
When King Caerleon rang the bell on the table, servants came in and busily cleaned up the table.
Everything from dishes and tableware to tablecloths.
There was no such thing as leftover food.
It seemed that in the countries in the back, there were people who brought out a lot of food that they couldn\'t eat to show off their leisure, and then left more than half of it, but in the Kingdom of Vale, it was something you couldn\'t even dream of.
After the restaurant was completely cleaned out and the only table left was neatly organized so that it could be used as a conference table rather than a dining table, all the servants left.
The only people left in the restaurant were the king and his wife, Flora, and Flora\'s siblings.
Flora was confused as to what the royal family would do while remaining.
Since I said it was my evening routine, it must have been something I always did, but for some reason I couldn\'t quite remember what I did.
Keren, who thought that Flora was nervous, whispered to her in a low voice.
"Flora, are you nervous?"
"Yes? Oh, no. Brother Karen. I was just thinking about something else."
"I feel sorry for you, my brother. Just call me oppa!"
However, since everyone was close by, the conversation between Karen and Flora was heard by the other siblings.
"... Karen, my brother. "Do you really seem like an old man when you\'re so obsessed with the word \'oppa\'?"
"What are you talking about. Ayla! "Who else can Flora call her brother besides me?"
"First of all, just looking at my siblings, there are two more."
"It\'s not here now!"
Watching Ayla and Karen\'s playful conversation, Flora was able to relax a little.
As if sensing Flora\'s feelings, Queen Chloris spoke.
"Come on. Then get ready now. Everyone is busy."
"Yes." "Huh!" "Yes."
With a variety of answers.
– Slurp.
There was a sound of fabric rubbing, and everyone started taking off the clothes and dresses they were wearing.
A fatally different part of Flora\'s dream.
The point was that the familial love of a harmonious family was expressed as \'family love\' in a slightly different sense.