Your Highness, the Voice of Your Heart is Leaking!

Pattiri, and the blasting sound of firewood, Tsitsy woke up. Wake up slowly. Only the lights in the fireplace illuminate the room and nothing stands out except a few crates by the wall.

Sounds like an old mountain hut to me. The situation was uncharted and blurry for a while, Twizzy, but found Geisel lying a little further away, rushing closer.

"Dear Geisel......!

Touch your body gently.

It is getting worse and colder, but the exhalation is also stable and definitely alive. When Tsitsy relieved herself from the bottom of her heart, she suddenly felt her powers fall out.

- You're still asleep.

Then suddenly, a low voice broke in. Turning over like Zizzy had been played, there stood a man of flexion, who had built up a splendid mustache. A small hand axe is held in his right hand, and Zizzy exposes his vigilance.

"This guy is safe, too. Reliable."

"... you are"

"How dare you look at the benefactor of your life?"

Ha, and the man sighed, and put the firewood in his opposite hand into the fire. Like licking a new tree, the flames burn and illuminate as they rock the dim room. Apparently, it doesn't mean a chase from Vercia.

"Shh, excuse me... there's something going on"

"Well enough to go into the mountains dressed like that. I don't think it's normal..."

Said, Zizzy reviewed their outfits. There's nothing like being identified because it stayed in a travel costume. Seeing the scratched clothes, Zizzy finally remembered their situation.

(Only a soldier chased me and jumped off a cliff...)

The shock of the fall seems to have caused Zizzy to lose her mind. Geisel would have run the horse for a while after that, but... I wonder how far the hell he's come.

"Thank you for your help. So, … could you tell me which part of the world this is?"

"... it's Isiris. Even so, there are only a few smaller settlements in the north."

Isiris.

To a nostalgic place name, Tsitsy's heart just relaxes a little.

Of course, you can't be more cautious than being a Versian country. But I have heard that the north of Isiris is very difficult to navigate this season, making supplies and food difficult to reach. If so, a decree from the Wang Capital may not have been received yet either.

(Good... Doesn't seem like we'll be captured any time soon...)

But now that Geisel had woken up, the two of them had nowhere to go.

(I can't go back to the king's capital... but I can't even go back to my country (Lassie)...)

Zizzy stares at Geisel, who sleeps peacefully, exhaling one breath as if she had decided to do something.

"Um... I'd like you to know that I can't."

"... what"

"I don't mind just during this winter,... could you put it in the settlement"

Something heavy fell in front of the front door. Hearing the noise, Zizie rushed over, and Geisel, who had opened the door from the outside, was just pulling a big deer leg into the earth.

"Welcome back! Wow, that's splendid"

"Oh. I stumbled upon it, and I was lucky enough to be finished"

"It helps. We'll have dinner soon."

In the beginning, Zizzy, who had never seen deer raw meat or anything else, was trembling at the amount of blood and grotesque texture.

But I can't say anything easy in this harsh environment. As a result of this struggle, I've become completely accustomed to it recently. Zizzy remembers a couple of weeks ago while Geisel put away his cold gear.

- The inflexible man named himself Dita and said he was living with his daughter in a settlement in Isiris.

"Help is fundamental in the village. Don't forget that."

When Dita pressed that precaution, she lent me one of the cabins that it wasn't being used. So Geisel falsely named "Zell," and Zizie falsely named "Zita," and he was to start living as a young couple.

"Hunting is a man's job. We share the prey we take."

The settlement ranged from the elderly to the young, and Geisel, young and fit, was particularly welcome. Dita seems to be everyone's leader, and Geisel was silently learning about hunting methods and tools, albeit under the curiosity eye for newcomers.

On the other hand, it was Henri that led us to Zizie, Dita's daughter. Is he about seven or eight years old? She has cute dark hair.

"While your fathers are hunting, women make preserved food and products to sell in the city!

That said, work was being carried out in the assembly hall to dry the crops that had been taken and to create a parquet. At first, there was interest in Zizzy's rare hair colour, but when someone appeared to be the leader on the woman's side, they all shut their mouths simultaneously.

With all the unfamiliar work, Zizzy was pissed off many times, but still desperately remembers her job.

Thus Geisel and Zizie were to live in hiding in a small settlement in Isiris.

"Zizzy."

Geisel called off Zizzy, who finished dinner and cleaned up. He sits on a sofa placed in front of the fireplace, kneeling beside him wondering what happened to Zizzy.

"Well... as I said before, you're the only one who can go home to Lassie."

Seeing Geisel tell him so with her gaze down, Zizzy smiled. Shake your head slowly.

"I told you before, I'm not leaving"

"You don't have to hang out with me. I'm not an emperor anymore, I'm powerless."

To the words, Tsitsy seemed to have her chest tightened.

"Dear Geisel, I'm an emperor, so I didn't want to be with you"

……

"Since I've been here, Mr. Geisel has spoken a lot. Plus we'll be together longer than we were in the royal palace. I'm so happy about that."

Tsitsy had recently felt that Geisel's heart was getting a little deaf.

Of course, it doesn't make any difference that it sounds clearer than others, but perhaps because Geisel herself has spent more time mouthing what she thought with her heart.

While in the royal palace, I have a stronger feeling that I must be recognized than my predecessors, that I should not show any gaps, and I guess that arrogant attitude and words were the flip of those strengths.

But in this settlement, where we don't know who Geisel is, we don't need to put up a vanity. We need Geisel as just one young man. Maybe that's making a good impact.

"Right..."

Geisel stared quietly at Zizzy laughing calmly. Eventually, when I raised my mouth just a little bit, I said "rest first" and went into the bedroom.