“No, Pobi. Especially in times like this, you need to stay calm.”

I imagined Pobi running wild, turning the bedroom into a mess. It was dreadful.

“Keep your mouth shut and stay quiet. Move only when I command. Got it?”

“……Kwak.”

Pobi, with a serious expression, tilted his head. Seeing me lying under the bed with one hand covering my mouth, he attempted to imitate, but hesitated.

Pobi’s arms were not long enough to cover his snout. They were short and stubby. The sight of him struggling and then awkwardly lying down, embarrassed, made me want to laugh, but I managed to hold it in.

‘Why is it so quiet? I distinctly felt a sign of popularity near the window.’

I heard a faint noise, like the window opening, but since I couldn’t see anyone’s feet, it was strange.

‘Right now, it’s eerily quiet, as if a mouse has died.’

It wasn’t the oppressive silence filled with tension, and it felt odd even though it was the room I stayed in.

At the moment, the same scenery heightened the tension. I even slowed down my breathing, being careful not to make a sound. I cautiously turned my body to look behind, in case an enemy appeared from behind.

‘Is it an assassin? If it were me, I’d pierce through the bed right away.’

It wasn’t my imagination, and if it really was an assassin, I was ready to command Pobi to shoot a beam, even if it meant the destruction of the bedroom.

‘After covering my mouth and breathing cautiously, my palms became damp.’

Feeling uneasy about the bad breath and wondering how long I had to stay like this, the thought that I could be attacked as soon as I went out crossed my mind.

It would be a shame to do this to the new clothes, but I couldn’t go out to get a handkerchief, so it was as good as dead. I temporarily took my hand away from covering my mouth to wipe the moisture from my lips on my pajamas.

Swoosh .

“What are you doing there?”

“!!!!”

Surprised, I got goosebumps and reflexively tried to get up, almost hitting my head on the bed frame.

“What? Was it you?”

However, the tension that had momentarily heightened all over my body quickly disappeared as soon as a familiar face appeared.

With a mischievous expression, an irritating smile, green hair, and yellow eyes, the only person in knight attire at the imperial palace.

It was Lillis.

“If you see me, you wouldn’t know? I thought an assassin had come, so I was hiding.”

I nonchalantly crawled out from under the bed, making it seem as if nothing had happened.

‘Why is she chuckling as if something is amusing?’

But looking at Lillis’s expression, I wanted to tease her.

Although it wasn’t the one who caused trouble by intruding in the middle of the night to annoy me, the thought that she was calculating even the means of attack, considering the possibility of an emergency, made me feel less pleasant as if a toy had been tossed around on Lillis’s palm.

“By the way, what brings you here in the middle of the night?”
“First of all, let’s maintain our composure and judgment. I released Pobi, who had rolled out after loosening the restraints, and pulled him close to me. I then swept under his chin with one hand.

Hurry, quickly, with a determined gaze, I gestured with my eyes, urging her to reveal what she had come for at such an ambitious hour.

“Ah, that’s it.”

Lillis, who had put on a delightful smile as if she had just returned from a picnic, slightly squinted her eyes. She gracefully motioned with her right index finger, pointing outside the balcony where the window was wide open, revealing the night sky.

“If you look outside now, Your Majesty will be pleased with what appears.”

“Has a giant candy appeared?”

Actually, I knew that such a thing was impossible.

However, intentionally turning the conversation around and asking Lillis with an absurd example was because I wondered how extraordinary what had appeared in the sky must be for her to confidently raise her face without a hint of surprise.

“Let’s see it first.”

Seeing that confidence, I thought I should at least see what effort she had put into it. I headed straight to the balcony and, inadvertently turning my head, found deep footprints in front of the railing.

“Did you climb the wall all the way here?”

I hadn’t heard the sound of a snake climbing the wall, but adding that, Lillis quickly put on a serious face, with a mischievous smile on her lips. His eyes were sparkling with interest, as if he had found an amusing prey.

“Oh my, I’ve been caught.”

“Usually, when caught, people fumble and get embarrassed. You’re quite casual.”

What’s with putting hands together and patting one cheek? I shrugged my shoulders, and Lillis just smiled slyly.

‘Anyway… Now it’s confirmed that the presence I felt earlier was him.’

After that, I didn’t bother to inquire further and simply rested my hands on the railing, raising my heels slightly. Even if it was just a little, I stretched my legs upward to get a closer look at the reversed sky beyond the horizontal line where the sun had set.

‘That!’