My Fiancee Was the Villainess of This World

23 – Omen

I woke up to an unusually drowsy noise.

‘It’s raining.’

It seemed that the unsightly night sky had finally begun to vomit the sadness it had endured.

It was supposed to rain, but it felt like it would rain all day today.

Smart.

─ Maximilian, did you cough?

“Yes.”

Sitting blankly on the bed, listening to the sound of rain hitting the window, Priscilla came to wake me up.

“I will prepare the water for washing.”

After washing my face with the water Priscilla prepared, I started preparing for the parade as usual.

Then Priscilla began to twitch her hands, looking a little embarrassed.

“The morning training at the parade ground has been canceled due to rain. The other soldiers are in the barracks of the main castle—”

As the deputy captain of the knights, he has to instruct the soldiers to train in the barracks, so in reality, he can rest for the day.

But I had no intention of doing that, so I gave her a rough nod and waved her hand, saying that I will change her clothes and leave immediately.

“… Maximilian?”

“You said you would try.”

What was so embarrassing was that he didn’t even see my gestures.

I started to change Priscilla’s clothes, ignoring her because it was annoying.

“Ah… !”

Then, Priscilla must have missed the timing to leave, so she hurriedly turned behind her and avoided her gaze.

“Today I do as much as others do and rest as much as others rest is negligence. You can’t call that an effort.”

If you’ve been doing as well as others for six years, you can call it effort in your own way.

But when I’m already behind, I have to do more than I put my efforts into.

The amount of rain is trivial.

You must not rest even in harsher environments than that, because you are so far behind that you can barely see the backs of those who ran ahead.

“I will go.”

I left behind Priscilla, who seemed to have something to say, and headed to the parade ground where the rain was pouring down.

“Whoa.”

A damp aura unique to rainy days washed over the whole body.

I felt like my shoulders were drooping even though I hadn’t gotten wet yet.

“Whoop, whoop, whoop….”

After light stretching, I started my morning training by cantering as usual.

It’s heavy.

Does Kubo’s legs become so heavy on a rainy day?

‘Come to think of it, this is the first time in my life.’

It was the first time in my life to do outdoor activities like this in the rain.

‘This is how it felt.’

I think I know why I always lived with the vulgar curse of ‘f*ck’ while working on drainage in the rain in the army.

It was gradually getting hotter, so I thought it would be cool to run in the rain, but my body was extremely heavy and I was breathing faster than usual.

Still, if you keep stepping forward, you will meet the end someday.

I shook off the indolence that kept holding my ankles and finished the canter.

After that, he recalled what the assistant manager had taught him, swung his wooden sword, and squeezed his last strength to finish the squat.

“Whoop, whoop, whoop… Keck!”

My legs gave out and I rolled on the floor, and before I knew it, my whole body was covered in muddy water.

Anyway, I should give the lady-in-waiting who washes these clothes a day off.

My face was ugly and dirty enough to make me think of such nonsensical things.

‘It’s amazing.’

The rain, which had been testing my patience until just a moment ago, made me feel really good now.

So I lay down on the floor and sprawled out toward the sky.

Patter.

I felt a presence by my bedside as I was in the rain.

Steel puck, iron puck, iron puck.

Someone was coming here across the muddy parade ground.

I tilted my head back slightly, and before I knew it, an umbrella had been put over my head.

“… I have a cold.”

There was Priscilla, holding an umbrella in one hand and a towel in the other, with a pitiful expression.

As if the conversation they had last night had meaning, Priscilla’s tone was back to normal.

“I told you not to come. You really are a disobedient person, disqualified as a lady-in-waiting.”

When I said that with a smile on my face, Priscilla closed her mouth with a slight frown.

My cheeks were strangely convex, and I had a grumpy expression for some reason.

Usually, there is a mysterious corner that disturbs people’s hearts, but seeing it like this, I thought that it was suitable for that age group.

“Clean it up. You feel like you want to cool down a bit right now.”

“The lord is in the rain, but there are no servants who use umbrellas. If you keep doing this, I have no choice but to do this… ?”

Priscilla said that and very slowly began to tilt her umbrella to her side.

Did this guy just threaten me… ?

Is that Priscilla?

Pattern.

At last the summer rain began to beat on my face.

But I was more concerned about her maid’s clothes, which were getting wet faster than that.

“It has been done. Hurry up and take an umbrella-“

She tried to urge him to quickly use her umbrella, but her maid’s outfit was already so wet that she didn’t need an umbrella.

The umbrella she brought was large in size because it was originally made for the use of a servant to cover the owner.

However, it is said that it was in a place where it was raining and windy.

‘A foolish thing.’

You could just wait inside out of the rain. I mean, I stood outside with an umbrella waiting for my training to finish.

“I’m sorry, Priscilla.”

I braced my wobbly legs to get up and snatched the umbrella from Priscilla’s hand.

“I live a life free of colds.”

Even if I fall head first from a galloping horse, I’ll be fine after a little sleep.

There’s no way you’ll catch a cold.

“Let’s go, it looks like you will be very busy today.”

If Martin’s whereabouts are confirmed, he ordered to report at dawn.

The fact that there is still no news is that Martin’s whereabouts are unknown today.

“Tea time is exactly 30 minutes. When the time is right, clean up and leave.”

That way, I can finish my self-study at least a little before bedtime.

“… Have you been training like this all along?”

“Recently.”

“… No rest?”

“You take a day off on the weekend.”

A normal person would have collapsed in an instant.

However, this body imbued with the mana of the sun, unfortunately, does not budge even at this level.

Perhaps it is because of these traits that the captain and the deputy are pushing me to the limit.

“….”

Priscilla shut her mouth in an indescribable expression.

Anyway, after training to the point of being in a mess, I seemed to feel complicated feelings for me, who spent the holiday that I barely reached, meeting myself.

“I am human too, sometimes I get shaken. Every time that happens, you need something to catch up. It was a necessary time.”

A presence that will cast dark clouds on this world in the not-too-distant future exists right beside you.

And I am the only one who knows that.

So, even for monitoring purposes, it was necessary to check the status at least once a week.

It was a necessary time.

“….”

After that, we arrived at the hallway leading to Biryonggwan without a word being exchanged between us.

The muddy parade ground made walking difficult.

Moreover, since we were sharing an umbrella, we felt a bit embarrassed as our bodies kept bumping into each other.

“Wash with warm water.”

“… Yes, Maximilian.”

I headed for the bathhouse, leaving Priscilla behind.

And I still spent the day doing awkward self-study.

A day turned into two days, then three days.

And on the fifth day after four days, Martin, who had not been informed, appeared in the Biryong Hall.

“Sorry, Your Highness!”

Martin bent over at a 90 degree angle and begged me for forgiveness.

“It has been done. Are there any injuries anywhere?”

Martin was a man close to 40, but he was unmarried.

For that reason, the search was delayed.

“Yes, Your Highness!”

“Then what did you do for five days or where?”

“… Ray went to the ‘Witch’s Forest’ near the Viscounty.”

Forest?

… No way?

“Has it been five days since you came out after spending the night in the woods?”

A look of astonishment crossed Martin’s face.

“Did Your Highness know about that forest too?”

“No. Just since you, sincere, didn’t come to Hwangseong for no reason, I thought she must have had that reason.”

“Haa… It was a really strange experience.”

Martin gets a day off, so she seems to have been thinking of going to her parents’ house.

As soon as I went to visit my parents’ house, it seems that I was trying to find a unique herb that only grows wild in a place called the Witch’s Forest.

However, it was difficult to secure the view due to a thick fog, and it was said that five days had passed since they had no choice but to set up camp, sleep, and leave the forest.

I know this story.

It was exactly the story I knew in my previous life.

‘Wasn’t it a game-like exaggeration… ?’

There is a setting in the Thorn Garden gardener to use a holy relic in the form of a notebook called ‘a fragment of the moment’ when saving and loading.

This is an item that the childhood heroine gets lost in a certain forest and picks up in a temple that seems to be collapsing at any moment.

The holy relic is imbued with the power of a god who controls time, so it was set up that time could be turned back at any time to the moment it was carved.

I believed that the story was so absurd that fiction was mixed in with the game-like permission….

“Looking at his face, it seems like he ran without resting. All right, go and rest.”

The anecdote Martin experienced is information that he heard later through conversations with other extras.

I know it as a commotion that occurs when the holy relic is activated.

‘… Sooner or later.’

I couldn’t help but sigh with a complicated expression on my face.

“Your Highness. Can I check your academic achievements before you go back?”

… You sigh in another way too, Martin.

Don’t worry, I’ve already done enough.

“Awesome, Your Highness! If you have this kind of understanding, from next week—”

… Ha.