Chapter 70
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Even though the Divination I had waited for so eagerly had flopped, I nonchalantly slept in.
'What's failed is failed, and being tired is being tired...'
When the sunlight tickled under my eyes and I barely managed to lift my eyelids, I saw Gabriella's face.
"Our Your Highness, you must have had a hard time yesterday?"
As I blinked my eyes slowly, Gabriella smiled.
"You suffered so much alone at the Temple. To endure that time and receive such a wonderful Divination, I am truly grateful, Your Highness..."
I asked, pretending to be worried.
"How was my sister yesterday?"
A shadow of concern briefly crossed Gabriella's face, but it quickly disappeared as if she didn't want it to be noticed.
"She changed into white clothes from the morning and waited for the results all day, praying piously."
Huh?
Why change clothes?
I asked again, puzzled.
"...Here, in Sei Palace?"
Gabriella nodded.
"She was so nervous that she went hungry all day as well."
So, Rosa Rostel La Perca changed her clothes and fasted, praying for the Divination to end safely...?
I smiled weakly and said,
"Then she must have been terribly disappointed after I returned. Because she didn't receive her Divination."
Gabriella couldn't bring herself to agree with my words.
"His Majesty the King hasn't given up yet. He said that since Rosa Your Highness is young, there may be opportunities left..."
I was startled and asked again.
"Then we can't reveal the fact that we're twins either?"
"No..."
Gabriella slowly shook her head.
"We will reveal it soon. Perhaps when Your Highness has the Holy Power Revelation Ceremony."
Even that alone would mean achieving my biggest goal.
Although I didn't receive a Divination, I had already received the Divinity that I should have received from the Divination...
'As Yan said, nothing has changed.'
I comforted myself that way and got out of bed.
I was impatient to finally talk to Yan, but for some reason, he was nowhere to be seen again.
"Where's Yan?"
Gabriella gestured slightly towards the open window.
"He asked me to open the window early in the morning and went out. Come to think of it, Yan is quite amazing. He didn't even go out until the day of the Divination and stayed by Your Highness's side?"
Uh, no matter how amazing he is, Yan isn't some kind of Magical creature...
I remembered Yan's spirit when he called Celestial Steed a 'riding animal' someday.
'That's because he's a person...'
I sighed and changed my clothes.
I don't know where Yan went again, but I hope he comes back soon.
There were no classes because it was the birthday celebration period.
I waited anxiously for Yan all day, but he didn't show up all morning.
'Where did he go again? Is he even coming back today?'
I was determined to ask him where he was wandering around this time, but I quickly lost confidence.
'Do I have the right to interfere with where the High priest goes...?'
That's what I thought.
Yan returned late in the afternoon, just as Gabriella was away.
"Yan...!"
I happily approached and opened the window wide, and Yan slipped into the room.
He sat on the windowsill and quickly rolled his black eyes around.
He seemed to be checking if Gabriella was there.
"I have a special reason right now, can I transform for a moment?"
I quickly took Yan to the small room and closed the door.
I wanted to talk about the Divination so much that I didn't care if he was a person or a bird.
"Yes, yes."
Because I answered so easily, he suddenly transformed into a large man.
The red hair, the same color as the feathers, scattered like an illusion as it came in through the window.
'Ugh...'
I was horrified and took a step back, even though I had boldly allowed it.
'Even seeing it again, he's too excessively handsome...'
So it's very burdensome, and the sense of betrayal is huge!
But Yan reached out his large hand and suddenly hugged me.
"Ugh, why, why are you doing this...!"
I struggled a lot, worried that the sound would be heard outside.
"Just stay still."
Yan said sternly and stretched out his arms to lift me high.
Near the ceiling, like when my father doted on me.
"...Like this?"
"Huh? What are you doing?"
Then Yan smiled brightly.
'He's even smiling, so dazzling...'
I avoided his gaze, even more at a loss.
'Why is he smiling?'
His two black eyes, even as a human, sparkled like obsidian as they caught the afternoon sunlight.
"I'm praising you. Didn't Baha High Priest do this?"
I frowned and asked back.
"Why don't you just praise me with words?"
Then Yan said, holding me high in the air,
"Good job, kid."
"Just say it with words..."
I muttered in absurdity, but Yan seemed to have observed my father's actions in great detail.
He spun me around in the air, imitating my father.
'Are you the same as my father?'
I have my pride, I can't laugh in front of you...!
I couldn't unfold my crumpled expression and hung limply in Yan's hands, and barely came down to the floor.
Only after Yan put me down did he chuckle and say,
"You used to do this often too."
What?
All the past memories of me coaxing and comforting Yan, holding him and sleeping, rubbing his cheeks and kissing him suddenly came to mind.
I hurriedly turned my face, which had turned bright red.
'You, you, you don't have any shame?'
I wanted to ask that, but looking at Yan's grinning face, it was obvious.
'No, no. He doesn't have that, no way.'
No, even if he had shame, it would melt away in front of a six-year-old Princess.
Unable to handle it, I asked accusingly.
"W-What's the special reason?"
"Huh?"
Yan didn't even understand what he had just said and asked back.
"The reason why you had to transform into a person!"
Then, after hearing my explanation, he chuckled.
"Ah, praising you?"
"You...!"
I put my hands on my hips and got as angry as I could.
"T-This is not accepted as a reason."
"...Why?"
"I-It's not very special...!"
"It's the first time?"
Yan made me feel troubled by talking back so clearly, and then smiled and put one hand on my head.
"Still, you did really well. It was cool. I fell in love with our kid for the second time."
"...R-Really?"
Then is there a first time separately?
He naturally continued as if he had noticed that I was curious but couldn't ask.
"The first time is obviously the day you saved me. You were too young then to remember, right? You hugged me and sobbed even in your sleep, so I..."
"Ugh...!"
Yan wanted to tease me like breathing, so it took a long time for me to ask about the Divination.
"Did I really do well?"
In the end, I sat Yan, who had transformed into a new bird again, on the windowsill and faced him.
Yan, who had become a small bird, nodded cutely.
"Yes. You did much better than I expected."
I guess the expectations were very low.
"Tch..."
I pouted my lips a little and said,
"But I faked the Divination. Isn't that blasphemy? Won't I receive a huge punishment?"
Actually, I know that won't happen.
'Because in the past, Rosa also heard a Divination about me and didn't tell it.'
But the God only looked for Rosa in front of me, so I wonder if the past was really Rosa's sole decision.
'To give me abilities, but to be a God who doesn't want me...'
Yan shook his head as he looked at my depressed face.
"You never lied. You just showed your Divinity."
Ah, Yan doesn't know the story I shared with my mother alone.
"...No. I told my mom. I didn't hear anything about Rosa, and I can heal anyone except the dead with my Divinity..."
"That's not a lie either."
I kept explaining even with Yan's firm denial.
"Even though I said that's what God said?"
Yan suddenly said kindly.
"If Ea had come, she would have said that."
Suddenly, Yan's voice, which had been lingering uncomfortably in my heart, came to mind.
"Ea doesn't reject anyone and embraces everyone, and you are the daughter of Ruelle chosen by her."
Ea said she wouldn't reject anyone...
'The God who was going to give the Divination denied me.'
Yan looked at me and chuckled.
"I thought you remembered my words well and dealt with it that way, but it wasn't?"
I was dumbfounded and asked back.
"Then it wasn't Ea? It's the Ea Temple there?"
Yan let out a soft sigh and said,
"Ea is originally so soft. More than that, there's something you need to do."
"...What is it?"
"To be exact, there's something I need to do, so you have to help me..."
He hesitated for a moment, but eventually continued.
"I need a lot of Divinity to change my body and gain the power to act. So..."
I listened seriously, but my face crumpled at his next words.
"That means I wasn't just sticking by your side for no reason before."
In short, it means that even though he's a grown adult, he has to stick close to me.
Like when he was a baby bird who was injured...!