Raphael shouted at Rosé and Ferre, who had jumped off their seats like little frogs.
“Us?”
The twins looked back and tilted their heads to the side. And as two bright smiles graced their faces, Raphael winced in shock.
They had been very quiet ever since they started being under Sera’s tutelage, but right now, with both Sera and Helios gone from their side, there was no one to temper their mischievous behavior.
Seeing them jump down from their seats instead of just sitting gave him a bad feeling.
And, sure enough. Just as ever, any bad feeling of his that anticipated what’s to come always proved to be accurate.
“We’re gonna go look for Sera!”
Rose and Ferre, who were holding each other’s hands tightly, declared this loudly in unison.
“Pardon?”
“We’re gonna go play with Sera. It’s so boring here.”
“Yeah, me and Rosé are gonna go see Sera.”
Soon, Rosé and Ferre waddled off the platform.
Terribly worried that the children really were going, Raphael beckoned them over to him and asked them to come back.
“There are a lot of people around, so it’ll be difficult for Your Highnesses to find her. Rather than that, I’ll go call someone to bring her to you. Please come back here.”
However, instead of doing that, the children gave him two bright smiles as they waved at him. It was the clear gesture of saying goodbye, see you later!
“Your Highnesses… Please wait!”
For a moment, Raphael gasped.
“See ya!”
“Bye bye, Raphael!”
“W…Wait!”
He ran after them belatedly, and so he couldn’t catch up to them.
The twins didn’t even look back as they jumped right into the crowd of adults who were twice as big as them.
Raphael could only gape at the twins’ shocking actions.
‘Other than your faces, do Your Highnesses have any other resemblances with Heli?! Heli never acted so stubbornly like this!’
With his thoughts shouting like a roar, he glared at the knights.
As he thought, ‘It’s not like you guys don’t know that Their Highnesses are two walking disasters! If I didn’t manage to catch them, you all should have!’ he also gave them a reproachful glower.
Feeling Raphael’s stinging gaze, the knights gulped.
After getting a glance like that, they all knew well enough that their ears would fall off from all the scolding.
“Haa. Please, I just hope there won’t be an incident.”
With scathing eyes, Raphael looked at the knights. He then closed his eyes and let out a heavy sigh. There’s no use crying over spilt milk.
Now that it’s come to this, he couldn’t even order the knights to look for the twin prince and princess.
Since they’re looking for Sera now, he could only hope that the wise Sera would bring the twins back without any incident.
* * *
Like loach fishes, Rosé and Ferre crisscrossed between the people who were dressed in colorful gowns and dapper suits.
Some nobles recognized who they were and greeted them, but Rosé and Ferre couldn’t spare them any time.
Likewise, most nobles were too busy with whatever they were doing that they didn’t truly see the twins properly.
Now that they had a completely different view compared to what they saw on the platform, they slowly, gradually lost their sense of direction.
From that place, they could find someone at just one glance. But then finding Sera amidst this crowd was like finding a needle in a haystack.
They should have just listened to Raphael.
“Rosé, just where is Sera?”
Ferre let out a long sigh and whined.
“I don’t know. I don’t even know where we are now. Is that the exit?”