The Villainous Princess Wants to Live in a Gingerbread House

ed! He likes signing a contract with Alyosha!”

Alexei looked a little confused and absent-minded at Asha’s cry.
He couldn’t even ask how she knew.

Alexei stumbled a little and then sat down again.
The red shadow that began to shine beside Alexei fluttered more and more violently.

“I had a sudden spirit ceremony and signed Fafnir, but I knew nothing.
It was not the Candle Spirit but the Fire King Spirit that I signed.
Grandfather told me when I came back from the contract.
At that time, I…”

Alexei’s eyes were quickly wet.
Asha covered her mouth with her hands.

“I… shouldn’t have cried.”

Every time Alexei blinked his eyes, tears fell.
Alexei was so embarrassed by himself that he just put his hand around his eyes.

The murky waves of grey that flooded in from Alexei stifled her.
Asha barely held her breath, hugging Alexei with her trembling arms.

“Even if Alyosha cries, laughs, or gets angry with me, nothing changes.”

She tried to hug Alexei, but on the contrary, Asha seemed to be in Alexei’s arms.

In his arms, Asha held Alexei’s clothes tightly and only listened to the sound of his fast-beating heart.
The sound of her heart said he had been lonely for a long time.
And at the same time, a red air current rose violently and burned, embracing Alexei.

━━━✦❘༻༺❘✦━━━

She let Alexei cry to his heart’s content, and he fell ill.
The court healer left after only diagnosing that Alexei had accumulated fatigue and mild body aches due to overwork.

“No… Was that the end of the diagnosis? What about the medicine? You’re not giving it to him?”

Asha, who returned to her bedroom at Lise’s attendance, lay in bed and asked in a bewildered voice.
Lise spoke softly to her.

“His Highness the Crown Prince doesn’t take medicine.
So…”

“Oh.”

He told her the other day that the poison doesn’t work.
The medicine didn’t seem to work on the same principle.

Asha couldn’t sleep and paced around even after Lise went to bed, and eventually knocked on Alexei’s door again.
Cyril opened the door with a deep face.

“Your Highness Anastasia.”

“I came back because I was worried about Alyosha.
Is he still sleeping?”

Cyril nodded.
Asha sat by Alexei’s bedside.
Only a small candlestick was burning with a subtle light on the table.

And when a sudden crackling came in, Asha almost screamed and barely held her breath.
Cyril, who was standing a little far away, tilted his head a little.
Asha waved her hand at nothing and looked at the candlestick on the table.
The candles were burning brightly like firewood, unlike before.

‘You, no way…’

My child isn’t waking up!>

Asha managed to keep her mind awake between the roaring candles and the increasingly vivid new embroidery on the sleeves of her nightgowns.

‘Phoebe! Phoebe, wait! Please be quiet.
Is this… Fafnir?’

She felt like she was going crazy again.
Asha tried to fix her thoughts.

‘I haven’t heard Fafnir’s voice until now.
How did you get to speak?’

Phoebe tried to intervene, but Asha wrapped her hand around the sleeve of her pajamas.
The candlelight fluttered loudly.

‘Spirit and human worlds are divided? Was it always together?’

Anyway, it’s all thanks to you for bringing me out.>

‘I brought you out?’

When Asha asked back with an uncertain tone, the candle moved.
The candle wax splashed slightly.

‘I didn’t look at you like I was going to kill you! …but that’s how we get to talk? I’m not even your contractor.’

Asha blinked in surprise, Phoebe was flattered.

Even if it’s someone who doesn’t seem to be able to talk at all.
It’s proof that you are qualified as my contractor.
That is why this body is the greatest spirit, Asha.>

With the candle about a knuckle of her finger still shining bright like the full moon, she pretended not to hear Phoebe and she made a different noise.

Phoebe flagged the story.