CH 11

After introducing Caien to Eloine, we returned to the drawing room.

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Caien, who was about to enter the drawing room, stopped at a sound coming from inside. He had something to ask Eloise, and he had just come to the drawing room.

'Were you still with Eloine?'

These were voices that would not reach ordinary people.

"......."

But Caien was not ordinary people, if he listened, he could steal a conversation.

"What should I do?"

Caien muttered with an expressionless face. He looked down at the floor with a cold gaze, and finally leaned against the door. Eloise's voice faintly penetrated into his ear.

"It means that we will push out Duke Ilysian, who will soon become emperor, and place the Crown Prince on the throne. In the near future."

An unknown expression appeared on his cold face and then disappeared. Caien turned back and walked into the room.

*****

"By the way, what do you think?"

I twisted my fingers across the flowing hair and asked in a light tone.

"His Royal Highness memory loss."

At the sudden death of their father, the assassins chased and barely reached the north, but the gates were locked, and the forest was full of evil things. He must have had a hard time penetrating the crystal stone and entering the forest.

'He was also injured.'

It wasn't a situation where it didn't make sense to lose your memory because you must have been physically exhausted as well as mentally traumatized.

".....Memory loss wouldn't be that common."

That was the problem. Is it enough to cause memory loss?

"Didn't you ever see the Crown Prince up close when you were in the Imperial Palace?"

"Because there's very little for a Saintess to be close to the Crown Prince. I don't know if it's from far away."

I can't believe he haven't even seen Eloine up close.

'I know a little about the male lead past... but I can't do it like this.'

It was when I was lost in thought, twisting my hair habitually.

"Maybe this is your chance, Ellie."

I glanced at Eloine and remained silent. I understood clearly what opportunities he was talking about.

*****

I sighed inside and swept my hair.

'But I'm glad that Caien condition has improved a lot.'

Recently, Caien was holding my hand whenever he slept.

'Maybe because he's the Crown Prince, he's very sensitive to movement.'

When I secretly left my hand so that Caien wouldn't wake up, it was already close to dawn.

'I'm tired. It's good to get close by just holding hands.'

I entered the drawing room, asking a passing maid for wine and a simple meal.

"Older brother."

".....Has His Royal Highness fallen asleep now?"

"Maybe it's because he's been through a rough time, he keeps tossing and turning."

After a little while, the maids came in with bread and wine to eat. When I nodded to Eloine to sit down, he sat on the sofa on the right. I took a sip of wine, leaning against a chair.

My face was reflected in the opposite window.

'Wow, look at your face.'

The tilted head and half-down eyes seemed normal in the eyes of others. .....but it feels like my eyes are soaking wet from exhaustion.

Eloine crossed his legs and clasped his chin as if he was worried about something.