44. Time to say goodbye (2)
[Episode 44] – Time to say goodbye (2)
“I really hate it!!!”
Swish, Fran’s wrist, thrown by the princess, flew up. Taking it again casually, Chan Fran put it back on my wrist and looked at the princess hiding behind my leg.
Really… If it’s like a franc, it’s a farewell like a franc, but…
“Come on, Titania. Isn’t Fran playing around for a day or two?”
“……”
I thought the greeting wouldn’t end at this rate, so I picked up the princess who had hidden behind me and set it down in front of Fran. The princess pursed her lips and was busy avoiding Frank’s gaze.
Every time Fran looked at the princess to meet her gaze, the princess turned her head in the opposite direction. After turning their heads several times, the princess stumbled in place as if she was dizzy.
With no sign of starting a conversation, Fran looked at me blankly.
“Will it be okay if I talk with the princess alone for a while?”
“…Okay, I’ll be at the door, so tell me when the conversation is over. Ainsel, come back with my earrings too.”
-Yes, I understand. See you later, princess.
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I turn my head to leave the room, but the princess doesn’t say anything, her head down and her skirt tightly gripped. If I had really hated Fran, she would have immediately jumped at me and told me not to go.
Isn’t what the princess really hates is ‘parting’ with Fran?
It was only a short period of about a month, but Fran and the princess seemed to have bonded more than I thought. They spent a long time learning how to dance, and Frank, who was playful, was busy teasing the princess every time.
It’s just my opinion, but…
The princess has already experienced many separations at a young age. So, wouldn’t it be painful to say goodbye to Fran, whom he fell in love with?
I slowly opened the door and walked out of the room. Through the crack in the slowly closing door, Fran was seen wiping away the princess’s tears.
Seeing that, she thought she didn’t have to worry anymore.
*
Fran wiped Titania’s tears from dripping down her cheeks with her fingers. Fran, crouched down in front of Titania, lifted her head and looked at Titania swallowing her tears.
“Princess.”
At Fran’s call, Titania hid and shed only her tears. Fran, who was looking at her, stroked Titania’s hair and smiled.
“Do you remember the story I told you the other day? What I said was dreaming of harmony between fairies and humans.”
Titania nodded her head softly. When I ran away from a very harsh class, I remembered the time when we made a secret base in the room and hid there and talked together.
“The words are grandiose, but in reality it is not such a grandiose dream. I just-“
Fran’s hand, which had been gently stroking Titania’s hair, gradually came down and brushed Titania’s cheek. At that gesture, Titania lifted her head gently and looked up at her franc.
“I wanted to be friends with humans. When I was a fairy, I was a ‘house fairy’ hiding in people’s homes and helping them.”
Fran began to tell the story of when she was a fairy, before she became a human herself. Titania swallowed her dripping tears and quietly began to listen to Fran.
“A house fairy is a fairy who lives in an old house and helps the humans who live there. Wearing a pure white silk dress, she tries to be helpful to the people she lives with by doing housework and errands. To become family or friends with them.”
Fran flaunted her maid outfit to Titania. She gently waved her skirt, twirled and twirled, then stopped in place and gave an elegant greeting.
“However, no matter how hard I tried and how hard I helped them, they didn’t think of me as family. Well, because I couldn’t see them in their eyes.”
Dedication without reward and hard work without reward.
Recalling the days when he was a house elf, Fran put on a bitter expression.
“So, I wished to become a human being. I really wanted to be ‘family’ with them. I wanted to be a ‘friend’. So I asked. To my father, ‘Victor Frankenstein’.”
Fran took Titania’s hand and brought it to her own heart. Kongdak, Kongdak. Feeling Fran’s heartbeat, which was beating just like a real ‘human’, Titania looked at her Fran.
“However, even if I had a human body, it was difficult to make friends with humans. Actually, I’ve never been friends with another human until now. Is it because ‘humans and fairies’ are both half-penny? Everyone turned me away.”
“The other witches…?”
“They have a ‘business’ relationship with me. Healing fairies, getting paid. Because I am the ‘doctor’ of the fairies. It’s very difficult to call them friends. At most, it would be ‘workmates’.”
With everyone saying that he was reluctant, Fran pulled out her wrist and waved it to Titania. As Titania looked at her with a frown, Fran put her wrist back together.
Fran put her wrist on Titania’s head, and she slowly stroked Titania’s head and smiled. Staring at her fran, who was being treated as a child, Titania puffed out her cheeks slightly.
“So… The princess is my first friend.”
“First friend…”
“Yes, first friend. For me, who has lived a long time with both fairies and humans, the only ‘human’ who called me a friend was the princess.”
When he was called ‘her first friend’, Titania raised the corner of her mouth and smiled, feeling as if her breasts were being tickled. Fran didn’t miss the chance to caress her princess’s cheek and lift the corners of her mouth with her fingers.
Looking at Titania’s ugly face, Fran laughed.
Bright, bright.
“My friends say that when they part, they will send them off with a smile, it was written in a book I read. So, don’t cry. Even if it is not an invitation, I will come to see you again.”
“…Really?”
“Yes, then I will bring a lot of delicious food and toys from where I live. Or a bunch of unusual items received from other witches in return. Therefore-“
Fran gently hugged Titania and patted her. Then, as if the crying she had barely endured would burst, Titania’s eyes turned red and tears began to form.
“The next time we meet, please be sure to greet us with a smile. Titania.”
“Yes…!”
Titania buried her face in her franc’s shoulder and smiled as she wept.
“You must keep your promise to come to see me…!”
*
“Are you really okay with not getting anything? I want to give you something in return for treating Ainsel…”
“It’s okay. Because that’s not what I’m asking for.”
Fran shook her head at my words and slowly opened her closet door. When she asks why the closet door is a passageway, she says that it is a ‘fairy’s byway’ and is a ‘road’ that normal witches use when moving.
There is such a convenient thing, so everyone can meet even if they are in a distant area… If I could learn that ‘byway’, I thought I might be able to sneak out of this palace, so I asked for it to be taught…
‘Fairy’s Byway is really complicated and difficult. If you once misstep her, you can wander the byways of the Young Fairy. It’s such a difficult method, so I recommend that you build up your knowledge and learn as a witch later.’
Fran shook her head and said she couldn’t tell me yet.
So Fran raised her foot on her dresser, turned her head and looked down at her princess. Perhaps she still felt sorry for parting, the princess pouted her lips and glanced at her francs.
As Fran looked at her, she held out her hand to greet him one last time. The princess, who was afraid that her wrists would be pulled out again, gently took her hand in her franc and shook her up and down.
“Whoops, I’ll come up with a Franzocque that will surprise Titania more later.”
“…I don’t need it.”
Fran smiled at the princess’s plain voice, raising the corners of her mouth even more. As Fran and her princess’ hands fell, Fran climbed into her closet and stood there, looking at me.
“Vivian, Ainsell. I’ll see you next time.”
“…Yes, until then you should be healthy.”
-Thank you so much for treating me. See you next time Frankenstein.
With that final greeting, the door to her closet was closed. When she opened the closet again, the Franc that had been in her closet was gone.
“…It really is a fairy byway.”
*
For about three days after Fran left, it was really hard to see the princess. Frank’s vacancy must have been quite large, and Ainsel worked hard to comfort the princess, who was drooping and unable to do anything.
As expected, she must have been sad to say goodbye to her new friend. The princess even asked her to give me the francoque she hated so much.
I couldn’t pull her wrists and vomit screws, so I showed her finger tricks… Rather, the clumsy prank seemed to make her miss her franc even more, so the princess sighed.
But, did I say that time is medicine? No, it might just be getting used to it, but the princess began to gradually fill the vacancy left by Fran with memories of Ainsel and me.
As time passed, the princess began to smile more and more. Although she missed Fran, she no longer cried and missed her like the first time.
I don’t know what the two of them were talking about, but the princess always answered the question of whether she misses Fran. She ‘promised’ to come see me, so it’s okay.
When she saw the princess growing up in good shape both physically and mentally, she couldn’t help but feel happy for some reason. Maybe this is how her parents look at their children’s growth.
Thus, the princess turned seven and her spring ‘main event’ came to an end.
I can’t say it’s perfect, but I still thought it was a successful ‘declaration’.
Everyone present at the party venue looked at the seven-year-old princess, and the king and the people all knew her princess’s name.
That her princess’ name was ‘Titania Snow White’.
As she spends more and more time with her princess, her timid princess gradually disappears and she regains her original self, bright and energetic like her original self.
Sometimes how mischievous he was, so much mischief that everyone was in trouble.
Just like that, the time of 3 years passed quickly without hesitation.
“Princess Titania, what kind of hair should I do today?”
“I want to cut my hair down to my shoulders… But my mother won’t allow it? What do you think of Ellie?”
“Whoops, if I were to tell the queen, would you do all the princess’s request?”
“hehehe, I think so too.”
Titania, who was seven, turned ten, and I, who was twenty, turned twenty-three.
The princess’s spring has passed and summer has arrived.
