37. Frankenstein (3)
[Episode 37] – Frankenstein (3)
A few hours have passed since the princess said, “I hate francs.”
Fran said that posture is important at first, so he started correcting posture rather than dancing. He taught the princess in various ways, such as standing on his toes and keeping his body centered.
Time passed like that, and it was already dinner time, and the maid knocked on the door to announce her meal time.
The moment she wondered where to hide her Franc, she opened the door and greeted her maid. Her maid, who opened her door and ran into her fran, was startled, and her shoulders trembled.
“Oh my, who…?”
“I am the exclusive maid of Her Highness.”
“Uh…? Were there any kids like you…?”
“There was.”
She said she was a maid, and the moment she wiped her face, dizzy at the sight of her fran, the maid said that for some reason, seeing her fran, she remembered something about her. Welcomed the franc
“Ah~ That’s right~ I guess I forgot. Oh no, this is not the time. Her Highness the Queen. It’s meal time. Would it be all right if I took you to the restaurant?”
“Uh, huh? Oh yeah. I’m going to have dinner in my room with the princess today, so why don’t you bring it to my room? The princess doesn’t seem to have the energy to go to the dining room.”
She looked at the princess lying limp on the bed, and she covered her mouth as if surprised, then nodded and replied that she would. So the maid leaves, and let me look at her francs with her eyes wide open.
“It is a simple magic used by witches to hide in human society. It’s quite useful once you learn it, so I recommend learning it later.”
“Yes…”
Is magic so versatile in the first place? I learned that witches use magic by borrowing the power of fairies, but Fran was using magic without the help of fairies.
‘Well… it must be because he is a synthetic human. Let’s not worry about it.’
I thought it would make me dizzy if I dug too deep for no reason, so I patted the back of the princess who was lying down next to me. The princess must have been really tired, and seemed unwilling to move even when I brushed her back.
Unlike me, who thinks that since I am tired, I should give her a little rest… Fran ruthlessly drove the princess. Before I knew it, Frank put his hands on both of the princess’s armpits and forced her to stand up.
“Princess, you should try a little harder. Are you falling asleep with that skill now?”
In the end, the princess’s patience reached its limit at that one word.
The princess who was being held by Fran raised her hand high into the sky, and pushed her palm back as if hitting her face with her palm. Then, in a voice I had never heard before, I screamed.
“I can’t buy this!!!!”
After escaping from Fran’s arms, the princess ran out of my room as if she were running away.
Well… Looking at Fran’s teaching method from the side, I thought that the princess would run away like this one day…
I never imagined that one day would be now.
As I got up from the bed to go find the princess, Fran reached out to me and stopped me. When I looked up at Fran, the expressionless face of Fran looked dark for some reason.
“…I will come find you.”
“…Yes, it’s probably in the princess’s room… Can you find it?”
Frank nodded her head and ran out of the room to find the princess. Now it seemed to me that Fran had first introduced himself as a “Third-rate person.”
‘I heard that you’re an artificial human, but you don’t understand human emotions very well.’
*
When Fran arrived at the princess’s room, she opened the door and checked inside. After confirming where the princess was, Fran flinched and stopped for a moment as if surprised.
The place where the princess was, was under her desk. It was a secret base where a blanket was hung over the desk, curtains were drawn long enough to reach the ground, and books and objects were piled up to keep the blanket from falling.
The inside was decorated with pillows and cushions, and a barricade was set up to block the entrance with the rest of the books. The princess entered her own secret base and caught her franc off guard.
“Princess.”
When Fran called for the princess, the snarling princess lifted her pillow and alerted Fran. It meant that if you came any closer, I would throw this pillow at you.
Fran hesitated for a moment, then he crouched down to look at the princess and bowed her head. The princess didn’t say anything, just staring at Frank warily.
“…Sorry. Could you tell me if I did anything wrong?”
“……”
“…As I said, it is difficult for me to understand human emotions because I am a ‘synthetic human’. I tried my best, but it seems that I have offended the princess.”
How far did Fran’s sincerity work? The princess put down the pillow she was holding and looked at the gentle franc. Fran still had an expressionless expression, but the princess could understand this much.
That Fran is really sullen.
The princess, whose heart was weakened by that expression, recalled that she had slapped Fran in the face earlier. He was so angry that he beat him, but seeing Fran now, the princess thought she had been too harsh.
The princess slowly cleared the barricades she had piled up under the desk, and patted the cushion next to her. At the princess’s signal to come in, Fran slowly went inside.
It was cramped for the two of them under the desk made as a secret base, but somehow it felt cozy and comfortable. The princess hesitated for a moment, then looked at Fran’s face.
Seeing that her palm prints were red on her white face, the princess didn’t know what to do for a moment, then bowed her head and apologized to Fran.
“I’m sorry I hit you…”
“No. I offended the princess. The princess did nothing wrong.”
The princess thought so too.
No matter how you think about it, he said he didn’t do anything wrong.
But, hitting is hitting…
After punching Fran in the face, the princess was very embarrassed. No matter how angry she was, she had no intention of hitting Fran.
“I’m sorry though…”
“……”
A moment of silence fell under the desk. Fran turned her head to look down at the princess sitting next to her, then gently placed her hand on the princess’s head and began to stroke it.
“As I said, I am a made-up ‘synthetic human’. The princess’ palm is fine.”
“But… my face turned red…”
“Nothing is wrong.”
Looking at Fran, who calmly said that it was nothing, the princess decided not to care anymore. I just thought ‘Fran is this kind of person’ and gave up.
Fran and the princess stopped talking again.
The princess sat there blankly for a while, then suddenly became curious about what Fran meant by ‘artificial human’. Even though he was created, no matter how you look at it, Fran was just like an ordinary person.
Aside from spitting out strange iron nuggets, having his wrist pulled out, and having an unusual way of speaking, Fran’s appearance was no different from other people. The princess raised her head and asked Fran.
“Fran said he was a cyborg… What does he mean by cyborg?”
“It literally means an artificially created human being. In my case, my father ‘Dr. Victor Frankenstein’ made me.”
The princess tilted her head as if the words were difficult. Fran thought hard for a moment, then he suddenly pulled out his wrist and held it out to the princess.
And then, in an instant! And a bouquet of flowers popped out of his wrist. Startled by the sudden burst of flowers, the princess tried to stand up, but slammed her head under his desk.
Looking at the princess stroking the bumped head, Fran began to explain herself again. He talked about why he was created and various pasts.
“I was, in fact, one of the ordinary fairies.”
“A fairy? Like Sylphy?”
Fran nodded.
“I was originally a fairy, but I longed for humans. I envy the way they live, and I watched them every day. At that time, I met my father, ‘Victor Frankenstein’.”
Fran intertwined his wrists again and started talking, recalling the past. The princess listened to the story while looking alternately at the bouquet in her hand and at the franc sitting next to her.
“My father dreamed of a world where ‘humans and fairies reconcile’. Originally, fear came from ignorance, and he believed that if humans knew about fairies, their fear of fairies would also disappear.”
“Humans and fairies… Together? I used to live well with Ainsel. Is it different from that?”
“It is not different. However, ordinary people do not see fairies. So my father started doing research on making me.”
Fran pounded his chest and pointed at himself. He is half-human, half-fairy in his own body.
“If a fairy has a ‘human body’, everyone will get to know each other and start coexisting.”
“Ummm…”
The princess shook her head as if she was still having a hard time even with Fran’s easily explained words. Fran looked at the princess and said that it was okay to be in trouble and stroked her hair.
“The first successful study of turning fairies into humans. That’s that ‘Frankenstein’. I definitely believed that since I was successful, I would have a lot of younger siblings, but-“
Fran paused for a moment, then shook his head. The princess felt Fran’s expression getting darker and patted Fran’s shoulder.
“…Unfortunately, my father passed away in an accident not long after I was born. There was a fire in the laboratory, and the research that produced me was also completely ‘disappeared’.”
When she heard that she had lost her father, the princess’s expression began to darken. Because it reminded me of Obama’s funeral not too long ago. The princess hugged his knees and began to listen to his francs.
“…I follow my father’s will and dream of harmony between humans and fairies. It is still difficult, but I live with the hope that it will come true someday.”
“…I hope it will come true.”
“Actually, I think it has been done to some extent.”
“Huh?”
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The princess hugged his knees tightly, leaning her head on her knees and looking up at his francs. Fran looked down at the princess and smiled for the first time.
“I am originally a fairy, and you are a human. I wonder if my dream has come true to some extent just by sticking together and talking like this. I think it is.”
“Huh? Is that so?”
What Fran said was very difficult for the princess. The princess was busy tilting her head as if she really didn’t know.
Fran looked at the princess like that, and as if the story was over, she slipped out of the secret base and held out her hand to the princess.
“From now on, I will continue the class while reflecting the princess’s opinion as much as possible. So, would you like to continue taking my class?”
The princess frowned again at the mention of her class, pursed her lips, and glared at Fran.
To be honest, the princess did not want to take Frank’s harsh lessons. Classes that were so harsh that I couldn’t even take a break, I’d been sick of them since the Marquis.
While worrying so much, by the time the balance in the princess’s heart tilted even more toward ‘I don’t want to hear it’…
“If you take my class, at least Vivian. No, I will make sure that you will not be ashamed when dancing with your highness.”
At those words, the princess’s ears trembled.
As Sylphy had suggested, the princess was thinking of asking ‘Her Highness’ to dance at her birthday party, the ball.
That’s why I wanted to show Her Majesty the Queen all the hard work I’ve been working on so far without making any mistakes.
“…Really? Will you make it?”
“…I will try.”
The princess pondered for a while at the answer she didn’t like, and then, as if she hated it but couldn’t help it, Fran held out her hand.
Fran was really a ‘person’ with a strange way of speaking and acting, but the dance he danced was really beautiful.
The princess wanted to learn so that she could imitate Frank’s dance even a little bit. As Fran said…
When I danced in front of Her Highness the Queen, I didn’t want to make mistakes or look embarrassing.
*
Time passed, and the prom was less than a week away.
I let out a small sigh as I looked at Ainsel, who still grunted every night and didn’t want to wake up. According to Fran, he said he would open his eyes soon…
Already two weeks have passed since Fran diagnosed Ainsel, but Ainsel still hasn’t returned to consciousness. At first, it was nice just to see Aincel’s reflection on the surface of the mirror, but…
I would be lying if I said I wasn’t worried.
Today, before going to sleep, the moment I sighed while looking at Ainsel-
-Vivian…?
Finally, Ainsel’s consciousness returned.
