She stopped at the words, which suddenly hit her nerves.
Overprotective.
“Young Master is 13 years old, and he can travel alone without the Miss.”
“No, what if he gets lost! It’s too cold here!”
“Sometimes the Miss is too overprotective.”
“Me?”
Overprotective.
Bella pointed to herself and looked at Iwer and Zanbar alternately.
“Me?”
A silence was heard as an answer of agreement.
“Think about it. What would you do if a kid like Bwen said he’ll go and pick up firewood?”
Bella couldn’t speak for a moment.
She hated to admit it, but she felt bad for the example that was too stark.
“How are Bwen and Kiehl alike?”
She was just grateful for Bwen when he first brought her food, but she had been annoyed these days.
How dare they compare her favorite and that guy on the same line.
“The Miss’ excessive interest is rather poisonous to the Young Master.”
“The Young Master seems to like attention more.”
Bella crossed her arms in annoyance and looked at Jenkins silently.
‘He nagged me once or twice, so nagging is his hobby.’
It’s not that the demons hate it because he’s a half demon, it’s that they don’t like it because it’s Jenkins.
“So the Young Master says he likes to do things alone.”
But contrary to Bella’s expectations, Zanbar joined as well.
“That’s right. He’s a kid with more ability than he looks.”
“I don’t think it’s good to raise someone too much to make him a big character.”
“Iwer, do you think so too?”
“Well. Actually, I don’t think you’re overprotective, but rather a different feeling….”
As Iwer was about to add more, Jenkins threw a stone at her.
“Miss Iwer. We decided to play the game fairly, didn’t we?”
“Sheesh.”
It’s a Jenkins and Iwer game. Bella wondered what was going on for a moment, but she soon returned to her worries.
‘Am I really like an overprotective parent?’
She sometimes saw guys like Mama’s Boys who call for their ‘Mom’ when they can’t cook properly as a grown adult.
Of course at the police station.
Bella feared that her overprotectiveness would somehow make Kiehl do that, she was worried.
“But somehow something ominous has arisen.”
Since he is the main character in the novel, it is true that she cares more for him.
No matter how she thinks about it, it’s not overprotective.
“I wonder if there are wild beasts living on this mountain?”
Meanwhile, further away from the tent, Kiehl was looking for Pur, who was gathering firewood.
He had been walking alone in the woods for a long time.
He used to walk aimlessly in these mountains before he returned, he was even chased and driven away.
Unlike then, he now has a warm home and food waiting for him.
He has a beautiful person who smiles no matter what he says.
He closed his eyes for a moment and recalled the warm scent that enveloped his body.
‘I really like it.’
He knew clearly that Bella thought of him as her family.
‘I wish I could just stop time.’
He sighed heavily.
‘After returning to the Imperial Palace, will Bella still be there?’
He wondered what he would do if he fell in love with someone else.
Occasionally, he felt the internal struggle between the desire to abandon his identity as the Crown Prince and stay with Bella forever and the opposing desire to meet and accept his fate.
Kiehl recalled what Bella had said a long time ago.
-“It may be hard to believe now, but one day someone from the Imperial palace will come for you.”
-“The Goddesses of Fate told me.”
The Goddesses of Fate in the myth of the founding of the empire.
People think of it as just a myth passed down by word of mouth, but Kiehl was different.
Because one of the goddesses, Archmage Ordi was descended from the royal family.
– “They said I had to help you. If I make a mistake, it will change your fate.”
Kiehl’s hand touched his pendant, which did not contain divine power.
‘If fate has been reversed.’
Kiehl thought about the time when time had returned.
He didn’t want to repeat that powerless childhood again.
At that time I…. I really thought I was going to die.’
Kiehl thought that the Goddesses of Fate were really involved, as Bella said. If it wasn’t for Bella, he might have ended his life.
So now he had to move forward.
If one day he becomes a prince and the road to the emperor becomes clear.
If only I could have everything in this world under my feet.
‘Can I bring Bella back then?’
The princess marries the prince. Like the fairy tale told by Bella.
‘You have to stand upright as soon as possible.’
It was something he thought about for a long time.
If he went to the Imperial Palace again, he wouldn’t be locked up like he was back then.
He won’t let a voice dare say he could not be recognized as an Imperial family member because he doesn’t have magical powers.
Because he’s not a young and protected little brother in front of Bella, he’s got to be the one who can give her everything.
Suddenly Kiehl heard a rustling sound from behind as a large shadow swallowed his own on the ground before him.
He asked looking back.
“Pur?”
The brown hair was the first thing Kiehl saw.
The bear was a little too big to be Pur.
Kiehl was startled, but he slowly reached for the dagger at his waist.