Book 3.5: Chapter 1
“Your majesty, your majesty, I am coming in. Your majesty, it is unbecoming of you to be so lazy. You have been stalling for a long time. You have not attended your morning lessons yet. You cannot leave today’s tasks for tomorrow. If you continue like this in a few days, you will put the Rosvenor kingdom to shame when you marry off to the Socina kingdom… Your majesty?” The maid who was lecturing the princess pushed the doors to the room open. Inside the large room, only a white curtain fluttering could be seen. There was nobody on the red bed. The open window, and rope tied to the bed-leg told the maid how her majesty escaped. The maid ran to the window with disbelief. Below, there was only a rope on the ground. No, it couldn’t be called a rope. It was a bunch of cloth tied together to become a long piece of cloth, and the cloth came from the wedding dress prepared for her majesty’s wedding.
“Her majesty has run away!!”
The cry of the maid could be heard throughout the outer court.
That’s right, the beginning of this was as rotten as every other story, but it was something that truly took place. Perhaps the story of “the princess has ran away to avoid her wedding” gave the princess the inspiration to follow her heart. She escaped through her window from the fourth floor in the outer court, and then escaped out of the palace under the watchful eyes of the guards.
“My sister ran off?”
In the dining hall, a young man laughed out loud while holding his glass after hearing the maid recount what happened while panting. He laughed and said: “I thought this would happen. I knew it. How would my younger sister be willing to marry somebody she’d never even met before. The king of Socina is already over sixty, what would my sister marry him for?”
The king wiped his mouth, stroked his white hair and said: “After your sister marries him and he dies, Socina will become your sister’s.”
The young man looked at his father and without fear said: “Father, I think that a city conquered by using a woman will eventually be taken by a man. Nobody will accept their kingdom being ruled by a woman who was married into the kingdom. If we want to have Socina, we should send troops there, not my younger sister.”
The king laughed and said: “Son, war can bring you glory and land, but will cause the people to lose their families and homes. I am very happy to know that my daughter can replace thousands of people.”