Chapter 79
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“Waaaaaa!”
Even the servants had all rushed out to clap, but my hands stroking the chicken were clumsy.
Yan, unable to watch any longer, eventually cleared his throat softly.
“Ahem.”
As soon as he did, the hen became surprisingly calm.
‘He should have helped sooner.’
I glared at Yan disapprovingly, then placed my trembling palm on the hen’s belly.
It took some time to focus, but eventually, a faint ray of light flickered across my palm.
‘Got it.’
I took my hand away, but since the hen wasn’t laying an egg right away, there was no way to know if it had been healed.
“Princess Rostel!”
The palace people, equally unable to know the result, cheered without hesitation.
—Cluck, cluck cluck!
The hen, far from offering thanks, just cried.
What is this……?
‘Divinity training, is this okay?!’
The next day, the chef baked a chicken-shaped cake and brought it with a boiled egg.
“Thanks to the Miracle of Aea bestowed by Your Highness, everyone can gratefully eat eggs.”
That’s exactly what she said, Mother wrote in her letter.
However, I didn’t hear what Rosa said in response to that.
She must have been incredibly angry……
‘I heard that Rosa’s patience is so deep and wide these days, so maybe she held back a little?’
Yan followed me whenever I came to the Separate Palace and stayed in his bird form, but that day he went all the way to Rosa to get that egg and eat it.
It seemed he had developed a nasty habit of watching Rosa get annoyed.
‘Doesn’t Yan find it strange that the chicken I healed is laying eggs again?’
Of course, that was just my thought, and he even evaluated the taste of the egg as if nothing was wrong.
“The chicken seems to have become very healthy. It laid a fresh and healthy egg.”
Hey, aren’t you a bird too……?
Maybe something went wrong from the moment I started breaking up egg yolks to feed baby(?) Yan.
* * *
I shook my head as I watched Yan return, then realized something.
“You know, Yan. I don’t seem to get very tired from healing just one animal.”
He was still sitting in bird form and replied casually.
“Of course not. You saved my life twice when I was dying. Do you think healing me can be compared to that one chicken?”
Come to think of it, Yan gets as big as that pillar when he’s a human.
Thinking about that made my past life seem suspicious once again.
‘How could I not have known about this overflowing Divinity my whole life?’
Then I remembered the Scent pouch Rosa had given me.
I had kept that thing my whole life, and it contained Deadly Poison Herb.
To confirm, I casually asked Yan.
“Yan, but do I happen to have poison resistance now?”
“Why do you ask?”
“Just…… since my Divinity is so great, I was just wondering.”
It was difficult to explain in detail, so I vaguely made excuses, and Yan suddenly returned to his Priest Cassian form.
Then, he slowly grabbed my hand as I tried to step back in surprise.
“Little one, you are a Princess.”
“……So?”
The next moment, Yan knelt on one knee as Gray would do and kissed the back of my hand.
“It’s better if others don’t know that you have poison resistance. Hide that ability for as long as possible.”
I nodded, but still insisted.
“I won’t tell anyone else. But if Yan doesn’t tell me for sure, I’ll have no choice but to go somewhere and test it myself…….”
He squeezed the hand he was holding, conveying his intention to dissuade me, and sighed.
Then he calmly reasoned with me.
“You shouldn’t test poison carelessly. You can only endure it, but it accumulates in your body.”
Accumulates in my body?
My fingertips twitched at the unknown fact, and Yan’s voice continued.
“You won’t be harmed by most poisons, but it’s a different story if it’s a Deadly Poison Herb that can kill you instantly.”
In other words, Rosa had been accumulating poison in my body for 15 years, since I was seven years old.
‘That’s probably why my Divinity didn’t manifest by chance……’
Because I would have been using Healing Power every day to detoxify the poison in the Scent pouch.
Did Rosa know all about my situation……?
‘She’s really amazing……’
How should I accept the fact that such a terribly amazing sister has been unbelievably quiet lately?
While I was thinking about Rosa, Yan asked, sounding frustrated.
“What are you thinking about again? Did you even hear what I said? You can’t touch poison. You can’t test it either. Huh?”
Yan was still kneeling uncomfortably on one knee.
I finally looked up at Yan and smiled.
“Yeah, I won’t.”
He let go of my hand and held out his pinky finger.
“Promise.”
Have I been living being deceived? Why go this far again?
I chuckled and hooked my finger with Yan’s.
“Yeah, promise.”
Sometimes he’s as overprotective of me as Father.
* * *
A few days later, Beatrice muttered while looking out the window.
“Oh my, what’s suddenly happening in Hestia?”
But with the visits of the Marquess and his children combined, the Hestia’s carriages entered the Royal Palace about three days a week.
‘What’s so important about something coming from Hestia……’
Even as I thought that, I turned my gaze to the window, and my eyes widened as I spotted the Marquess’s carriage.
Because……
“It’s not a special day, but three carriages are coming in, and it looks like they’re even bringing a whole barn!”
It certainly seemed that way.
Something white and large was loaded onto a strangely shaped carriage that no one would ever ride in.
‘Today’s animal must be Hestia’s responsibility……’
As I stared blankly out the window, I heard a knock.
—Knock knock.
Beatrice got up with a delighted expression and praised in a small voice.
“It seems Priest Cassian has come. He’s so diligent, he appears like clockwork.”
Well, he went out the window a little while ago……
I turned to the door, rolling the words I couldn’t say on the tip of my tongue.
My friend, who had grown so big, asked.
“Your Highness, did you have a peaceful night?”
What’s the point of asking when you were stuck to me all night?
When he was a bird, Yan still liked to stay by my side, saying that he needed energy to change his form often.
“Thanks to you.”
I barely managed to hide my laughter as I replied.
Since I was sitting by the window, Kashian naturally approached and looked out the window as well.
“Today’s practice seems to be quite serious.”
“It does…….”
I said that and finally got off the chair.
“Then let’s go down now.”
Otherwise, the sick horse from the Hestia family would end up struggling to climb the Royal Palace stairs.
“Let’s.”
Kashian readily replied and followed behind me.
* * *
“Your Highness.”
As soon as I stepped out into the garden, I unexpectedly encountered Gray.
“Gray!”
While I was happily greeting him, I heard the sound of pattering footsteps, and Victory appeared.
“Your Highness! I came too!”
“Hello, our Victory.”
Victory, who had a Bun hairstyle like me today, was so cute that I stroked her head, and Gray quickly became noticeably gloomy.
‘Oh dear, this kid.’
I casually linked arms with Gray to cheer him up and asked.
“Is there a sick animal in Hestia that they brought here?”
Gray’s white cheeks quickly brightened, and he praised me as if he had memorized it.
“I heard that Your Highness is practicing healing animals these days. You’re really wonderful.”
I glanced at the barn and asked again.
“Is it a horse that’s sick?”
At that moment, Marquess Hestia approached with a servant.
“I don’t know if I’m giving Your Highness too much of a task today. I said it would be difficult because it’s such a large creature, but His Majesty the King kept recommending it…….”
Oh my goodness…….
It seemed that Mother had made up her mind firmly after the previous clumsy chicken practice.
I smiled brightly at the Marquess and said.
“Instead of making the sick child suffer by bringing it here, I should have gone to Hestia. I can’t guarantee the result, but I’ll meet it.”
“Thank you, Your Highness.”
It seemed that the rumor that I had made a dying hunting dog walk and a sick hen lay eggs had spread greatly throughout the Royal Palace.
“Waaaaa!”
“Princess Rostel!”
When I approached the one-room barn that was barely loaded onto the large baggage cart, the surroundings were filled with as many spectators as there were garden trees.
In the midst of the chaos, the Royal Palace guard shouted.
“His Majesty the King is coming!”
Turning around, Mother’s pace was quite hurried than usual.
“T, the horse is bigger than I thought?”