After speaking honestly for the first time in a long time, I finally regained my composure.
'Wait a minute.'
In an instant, I blinked and took a deep breath.
'Did I interrupt His Highness the Crown Prince to say what you said?'
Even if preventing war is the top priority!
If I had cut Osun, there would have been a real uproar.
But Kiaros was the crown prince, far superior to Osun…
'Am I going to die?'
As I waited and took a deep breath, Kiaros looked sad and turned his head towards his assistant.
Then he asked in a very serious tone.
“Where is this employee now?”
“Well, um… I think he took a leave of absence due to mental trauma...”
Kiaros's eyes glowed frighteningly.
It seemed like he was calculating his next move.
'...Huh?
He won't scold me?'
I no longer had the energy to keep my eyes wide open, so I lowered my eyelids, but he turned his head to me and said:
“I'm sorry, but I'll see you later, Miss Namiya Rawabi.
Your keen insight is incredibly useful.”
“Oh yes?”
“I'll make up for this later.”
“Oh yes?”
“You saved my life.”
Suddenly our eyes met.
His red eyes, which she thought were only scary, were filled with goodwill.
What this means is... when he said that my keen insight was useful...
‘He’s saying… He’s saying he’ll take into account what I say, right?’ And instead of punishing me, he’ll make it up to me.
It was normal in some ways, but it was something that couldn't happen in the pass management department.
'Good.
Come to think of it, this is the first time something like this has happened since I joined the department.'
I was very embarrassed by this new truth.
I stuttered and muttered without realizing it.
“This is something that is… normal… to do.”
“Of course not.
You also gave me a chance to look at the matter from another angle.”
Speak calmly.
"I wanted to thank you personally and properly...
Anyway, I guess I'll have to do that next time.
It's important that I know exactly what I have to be thankful for."
Ah, I guess he asked me to say thank you after all.
In fact, he did not ask me because he fell in love at first sight and wanted to confess.
I answered politely, quietly forgetting about Operation Cinderella.
“Yes, Your Highness.
I will wait.”
It meant, “Never forget it and be sure to call me back.”
“Regarding the scrolls… Thank you very much for saying that.”
Kiaros nodded at what I added.
Then, as if he suddenly remembered something, he strode into the office.
He elegantly opened a desk drawer and retrieved something before approaching me.
“Your Highness?”
As she froze in the hallway, she blinked unconsciously.
Kiaros handed me what he took out of the drawer.
“You look so thin up close...”
My eyes widened when I saw the thick envelope in his hand.
“Take it and use it.
I don't have time to use it anyway.”
"Yes?"
“It's not like your nutrition is bad because you're not making money, so I think it would be better for your health if I gave you this instead of money.”
She accepted the envelope that Kiaros held up with trembling hands.
The envelope was filled with meal coupons for various restaurants in the capital.
It was really… as impressive as the IV fluid I received this morning.
Loyalty began to rise.
“You can go home early today, this is an order from the Crown Prince.”
Oh, my God.
‘I can’t believe I’m leaving work early!’ And I don’t even need to use annual leave or sick leave!
I bowed my head and saluted him, not in the sense of “I'll be on my way” but sincerely.
"Thank you."
However, since he said he would ask me again, there would be another chance to meet alone.
When I turned around with a stack of meal vouchers in my hand, something hit me.
It was a delayed feeling of relief that came after the situation was over.
'So… the reason I followed him was just to say thank you…'
I think I was in an organization where you would be reprimanded if you stood out whether you created 166 scroll scrolls or 1660 scroll scrolls for too long.
That's why I couldn't even deduce this simple fact.
I thought it would end with handing out praise.
But he also said it gave him a chance to look at manuscripts in a new way.
I didn't feel bad.
It was a feeling of accomplishment I felt for the first time in a long time.
Maybe...the first time since I joined the Scroll Management Department.
Because it was so unusual, I was even more excited.
'correct.
Scrolls… they're really powerful.
Really.’
I even remembered the joy I felt when I first studied scroll making as a child.
It was like a passion that I had long forgotten.
‘Saving His Royal Highness the Crown Prince… it’s a good thing.’
Only then did I face the essence of what I had done.
It's been a long time since I've used scrolling to prove my abilities, and perhaps not to someone else, but to myself.
Achieving something and being recognized for it...
'Really, it's been a very long time since I've experienced this feeling.'
I looked at the ancient essence that was hidden from reality.
The name of the essence I had long forgotten was “Dream.”
“I will see you next time, Your Highness.”
The moment I bent down, closed the office door, went out alone and wandered down the hall.
“Namiya!”
Someone grabbed my arm.
“You haven't been home for two days, what on earth is going on?
Huh?”
Silver hair, green eyes.
“Juan?”
It was Juan.
My twin brother on paper, who worked in the Ministry of Finance of the Imperial Palace.
From his appearance, it seemed that he had been looking for me since the morning.
'He couldn't bear to enter the Crown Prince's office, so he waited outside.'
I didn't know what it was, but I sighed.
Juan wouldn't have chased me so quickly out of genuine concern.
“First….please do this.
It’s really urgent because it’s scheduled for tomorrow.”
Juan said as he handed me a stack of documents.
“Ah, they are definitely treasury documents.”
I also used to do Juan's work at home.
It was definitely wrong to leak the department's documents like that, but Juan wasn't able to handle something like this alone.
“And go home quickly.
Do you know how much my mother and father searched for you?
You are in big trouble.”
My head was already pounding.
If they were looking for me, something big must have happened.
It seems they thought of me as a solution...
'But… it's really too much.'
I swallowed down the thousands of emotions bubbling up inside me.
There was only one memory that could calm this emotional storm.
[Daughter, please wait a moment.
You know that your father loves you, right?]
[Yes, Father...
I will wait with courage and patience.]
I knew the choice my father made for me.
So… I also had to wait for my father.
I took a deep breath and started running.
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Kiaros found himself extremely pathetic.
In fact, he couldn't even remember what the Ministry of Justice employee had said.
In the past, this was unthinkable.
He was so surprised by his temporarily dulled senses that he did not properly understand the situation.
“Ha…”
Chiaros ran his fingers nervously through his hair.
Meanwhile, Namiya remembered when she said those words.
[Your Highness!
Wait!]
The eyes, which had been lifeless the whole time, suddenly sparkled brightly.
Surprisingly, they were the same eyes he saw when she used the scrolls.
“Even then, her eyes were clearly unfocused… and she couldn’t even speak clearly.”
The assistant who was watching hesitated, but finally said:
“Your Highness the Crown Prince, this girl is amazing… Even though all the knights heard that, they had never thought of it this way.”
correct.
However, Namiya's progress so far has been too lackluster to be described as 'excellent'.
“She graduated from the academy, so if she had some talent, the Magic Tower would have discovered her when she was a student.”
Bright blue eyes interfered with the first impression that she was like a zombie.
After she finished talking about the employee at the Ministry of Justice, she returned to her usual appearance, her soft voice, and her confused expression.
There was a great sense of disparity.
Kiaros felt confused when he thought about her.
It was then.
A voice came from outside the office.
“Namiya!”
It was a young man's voice.
Chiaros instinctively turned his attention to the voice coming from outside the office.