I Raised Snow White!

39. My child’s birthday party (1)

[Episode 39] – My child’s birthday (1)

In order to somehow avoid the death sentence that the queen’s maid had told me about, and in order not to get caught in the slightest bit, I dressed up as much as I could and packed up presents before heading to the queen’s detached palace.

When I went to the place the lady-in-waiting had guided me to, even though it wasn’t even winter yet, I felt a chill permeate her body. I knocked on the tightly closed door in a dizzying illusion, and I heard a cold voice like winter.

“Tsk, come in.”

As if she already knew who the person outside the door was, the queen clicked her tongue and allowed her to visit. As I gently turned the doorknob and stepped inside, the Queen Mother glared at me with a frown on her face.

“You are really late. Was your promise to me really funny?”

“Sorry, sorry… It’s not like that. Majesty.”

“Huh… Are you trying to make an excuse here? Why don’t you listen to that lame excuse?”

Perhaps she was angry, the queen’s voice was full of anger. I tried my best to come up with an excuse that would somehow ease the Queen Mother’s frozen heart even a little bit.

“It was not easy to come up with a name that the princess would use for the rest of her life. No matter how much I worry about it, it doesn’t end, and I sincerely apologize for being late.”

“All right. So, after thinking about it, did you come up with a good name?”

“Yes, there are a few things that come to mind.”

I slowly approached the Queen Mother and began to jot down some of the names of the princesses on her paper. There are a total of three names for the princesses that I came up with.

Although I had already made up my mind a long time ago, I quietly submitted it to the queen mother as proof that ‘the reason for my delay was because I had been thinking hard until now’.

The Queen Mother studied the three possible names for her princess placed in front of her, then looked up at me with a frown on her brow. Do you not like it? While I said to fix it…!

The Queen Mother looked at the ‘name I chose’ among her three candidates and asked.

“Do you know what this name means and use it as the name of a princess?”

“I know. And, I think it’s a very fitting name for a princess. Wouldn’t that be an appropriate name for a ‘future princess’?”

“Certainly, if you look only at the meaning…”

The Queen Mother let out her drool as if in agony as she looked at her name. I knew very well why the queen mother was worried. However, she decided that there was no other name befitting a princess than this one.

As if the queen consort had the same thoughts as me, she compared and compared with other names several times. However, in the end, the name entered the heart of the queen.

The Queen Mother let out a deep sigh and looked at me with twitching eyebrows.

“Your name and meaning are fine. However, there is no precedent of using such a name in the previous royal family. Do you know what the reason is?”

“I know.”

“You mean to give the princess this name, even though you know it?”

As if the queen would check it once more, she asked me. I smiled at the question and asked the queen instead. She said she didn’t like it.

“Isn’t Her Highness liked the Queen Mother too?”

“Yeah… I like it, but…”

Tsk, the Queen Mother, who clicked her tongue, looked up at me as if she were being sarcastic. She said that she ordered a name for no reason, and the queen, who had been grumbling, stared at the piece of paper on which I had written her name.

“Tsk, I’m sure there will be people who say something. Just like the previous meeting, there will be people arguing about the history of the royal family. Will you be okay though?”

“Yes, it is fine. And…”

…Because I don’t have any more self-esteem.

The moment I decided to give the princess a name, I decided to think of myself as her ‘parent’.

Regardless of blood, no matter what anyone says, I intend to raise the princess as my ‘child’ from now on.

“No matter what anyone says, I am the royal family of this country and the parents of the princess. Parents say they will name their children, but it’s strange when people say what they say.”

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“Ha ha ha!”

The Queen Mother burst into laughter at the declaration of my parents. The queen mother looked at me with a chuckle, as if she liked the contrast with that time.

“Yes, it is. Parents say that they will name their children, but those who say something are strange. Yes, as the princess’s parent, do as you please.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

She still couldn’t stop her laughter. The Queen Mother covered her mouth and shook her hand to tell her to leave. I bowed her head, then turned and headed for the door.

As I was about to turn the doorknob, the Queen Mother spoke to me.

“The name of the princess you chose will resonate throughout the kingdom that day. Now everyone in the kingdom will know the name of the princess. The name of the princess you named.”

“…I’m sure that day will be a blissful day.”

“Yes, I am sure.”

After that conversation, I turned the doorknob and got out of the room. The Queen’s lady-in-waiting, who was waiting outside the room, opened her eyes wide as if surprised to hear the Queen’s loud laughter.

The princess’s name has been accepted, and there is less than a week left until the princess’s birthday party. It’s obviously the main event of the spring, where gaming hasn’t had much interest, but this time it was different.

As the princess’s birthday approached, my heart beat louder and I became extremely nervous.

As if it were the most important day of my life.

*

Once again, time goes by so fast-

It was already the day before the princess’s birthday party. A week before the princess’s party, the royal palace was busy preparing for the princess’s birthday party. How long ago did this day come?

Binchoud said that he never imagined that he would be able to participate in the royal family’s seventh birthday party again while he was alive, and he cried while holding the princess’s hand, saying that he was truly deeply moved.

Maids, butlers, and nobles working in the palace all excitedly prepared a birthday party for the princess. Not only the royal palace, but the entire kingdom did that.

A week ago, festival-like days had already continued in the capital, and firecrackers were lit every night. The Queen Mother even issued a large pardon to commemorate the seventh birthday of the royal family.

Except for those with very serious crimes, all were released through amnesty, and they shared the joy with the people. As such, the meaning of the seventh birthday of the royal family was very special.

However, for some reason, the main character of Happy Day had a more sullen expression today. He seemed nervous, and he seemed anxious.

The princess, who decided to go to bed early for tomorrow, went into her room with an uneasy expression on her face, but for some reason, her expression was like a fish thorn caught in her throat.

Should I go to the princess? However, the princess had to get up early tomorrow morning to dress up. If you are tired tomorrow because you sleep late for no reason…

No, but I felt sorry for him to see him anxious and worried. At least I should comfort her by her side, otherwise wouldn’t she not be able to sleep?

I couldn’t stand still with this and that thought, and as I walked around her room, the ain cell hanging on her wall sighed deeply and whispered to me to calm down.

– Calm down. I know the princess is worried… But it’s already late at night? Wouldn’t it be good for you to get some sleep too? Dressing up isn’t just for princesses.

“I do, but… I am still worried.”

-I’m worried about the princess, but I’m also worried about you… So, hurry up and go to sleep.

While I was thinking about what to do, someone knocked on the door. I’m sure everyone would have thought I was asleep. Let’s ask who wants to come in.

“Wow, Her Highness the Queen… Aren’t you sleeping yet?”

“Princess? Why at a time like this…”

Putting her head through the crack in the slightly open door, the princess looked at me with bright eyes like a deer. The princess, wearing her pajamas and hugging her pillow, walked towards me.

“Can’t you sleep?”

The princess hugged her pillow tightly and nodded her head.

Are you too anxious? I should have gone there myself before the princess came. I smiled bitterly at the thought and picked the princess up in her arms and laid her down on her bed.

“Then we can sleep together. I couldn’t sleep either.”

“Her Highness the Queen…?”

The princess looked at me curiously. I covered her shoulders with the blanket, lay down next to her, and patted her belly.

“Then, I can’t sleep thinking about tomorrow.”

“hehehe, me too…”

That’s what I said, but when I started patting her stomach, the princess seemed to fall asleep right away, and her voice gradually faded. I looked at the princess and waited for her to fall asleep, but…

The princess asked me, blinking her sleepy eyes.

“Your Highness the Queen… What should I do tomorrow?”

“What do you mean by that?”

The princess, with a worried expression on her face, stretched out her hands to ask me to hold her. The sudden increase in aegyo must be because of a lot of anxiety.

I slipped between the outstretched hands of the princess, stroked her dark hair, and hugged her tightly. Then the princess also hugged me and burrowed into my arms and buried her face.

“Are you very anxious?”

The princess nodded her head.

“You practiced a lot of dancing and prepared a perfect greeting. I also prepared the prettiest dress. Tomorrow, for sure, the most beautiful person in the world will be a princess. What is the princess so worried about?”

I was reading the princess’s hair slowly while burrowing into my arms. The princess shook her head in my arms and muttered in a low voice that only I could hear.

“But… Everyone said that my birthday was a very special day… So… I had to prepare perfectly… But now… Did I really prepare perfectly? Wouldn’t that be enough?”

The princess who said that gradually burrowed into my arms. The expectations of people who had to perfectly prepare for the grand ceremony of the seventh birthday of the royal family seemed to be putting even greater pressure on the princess.

I patted the princess on the back and comforted her so that she could feel at ease. And the pressure the princess feels is not the only pressure from the event.

I don’t say it to me, but it was definitely anxiety that included worry about my ‘name’.

I was wondering if I should tell you that I gave the princess a name, but I decided to hold back for now.

I was thinking of telling you the name of the princess tomorrow, in a more colorful way, in front of everyone.

This was one of the schedules for events that the queen consort also allowed. Until then, I told you to keep it a secret from the princess.

“Don’t worry, it’s not lacking at all. I know you prepared perfectly. Didn’t the princess give up even if her feet were injured, even if she fell and scraped her knee while dancing?”

“……”

“There’s no way that something prepared by such a princess wouldn’t be perfect. So don’t worry and go to sleep. And, show me tomorrow. Things you worked hard for.”

I took the princess into my arms and rubbed her back. The princess sniffed lightly and fell asleep in my arms. I looked at the princess like that and closed my eyes to sleep.

Finally tomorrow.

The princess’s birthday party is held.

The day has come to let everyone know.

My child’s name and its existence.