“Your Highness, the young princes have drawn many amusing pictures.”

“Really?”

“Yes. How about taking a look?”

Carlyle seemed puzzled, but he couldn’t be bothered with the boy.

He had no reason to, and since he was slowly only drawing pictures and was getting bored, he decided to go to the youngsters for a change of mood.

‘I’ll take just one.’

Soon, when art play was about to begin, he remembered what Beris had said and proudly took a cat picture pebble.

“Your Majesty! Isn’t my pebble pretty?”

“I drew many pictures on a valuable pebble with my sister!”

As soon as he arrived, the youngsters, who were unmistakably children, rushed forward, eagerly showing off their finished works.

It seemed that they had revealed their most confident works… Ronowe drew a smallhorned devil, and Beris had drawn several indecipherable dots on a pebble.

“How is it?”

“It’s amazing? I want to switch with Your Majesty’s!”

Though they couldn’t draw well, their stamina was good.

‘Somehow, the pebbles have diminished in an instant.’

He had planned to draw one or two more if there were extras, but they disappeared quickly.

‘The culprits were these youngsters.’

Staring at the heaps of pebbles behind Ronowe and Beris, he muttered to himself that they were uncontrollable.

“I haven’t drawn many, so I can’t exchange much; let’s just swap one.”

Pretending to comply reluctantly, he naturally revealed the work he had brought.

“Grant me the honor of swapping this cat picture pebble specially.”

This too was no less a masterpiece of mine. I confidently extended the pebble forward.

“Then switch with me!”

Beris requested the exchange at the speed of light, even though it wasn’t firstcomefirstserve.

“All right.”

I couldn’t refuse, so I successfully exchanged the pebble.

Ronowe was disappointed, but he didn’t cry or whine.

It was strange.

‘He must be preparing something else.’

When he returned to his seat, lo and behold, the maids were whispering and bustling.

‘Annoying…’

I spent my time fiddling with the pebble.

Not long after, when the children were seated and resting from their excitement, the maids announced that they would end the art play.

“Young Princes~ We have something fun to show you, please gather around!”

They quickly cleared the art tools and desks and brought several chairs.

“Wow~”

At the word ‘fun,’ Ronowe and Beris were the first to run over.

The two boys, guided by the maids, found their seats quietly, and the maids busied themselves.

“Everyone is seated. Now we will start the play we have prepared~.”

They’ve obviously put some effort into preparation.

I leaned back, arms folded, watching the props for the play.

“Once upon a time, in a village, there lived the seven colorful pebble brothers.”

Such things were always tedious and trite. I generously decided to lend an ear.

Just because I didn’t like it, I couldn’t immediately walk out; excessive or unreasonable behavior could harm the dignity and reputation of the royal family.

“The seven brothers were hated and driven away for being different.”

Holding a stick with a tree drawing in her left hand and a pebble drawing in her right, the maid energetically explained.

“The seven sorrowful brothers, after much consideration… decided to meet a god who would grant wishes, and headed for the World Tree.”

A god again. Suddenly, I felt complicated, thinking about my original life.

“After crossing mountains and rivers, the seven brothers met a squirrel.”

“The squirrel told them to go to the top of the World Tree to meet the god.”

“Afterward, the seven brothers were guided by the squirrel.”

The two maids cooperated, changing the background and even making sound effects. They genuinely, vividly tried to make it enjoyable.

“And finally, upon reaching the top of the World Tree, the seven brothers were astonished.”

“Because the squirrel that had been helping them all along turned out to be the god.”

Taking turns reciting their wellmemorized lines, the maids didn’t even hesitate in their facial expressions.

“The seven brothers knelt before the god and begged fervently.”
“모두에게 미움받지 않게 해달라고.”

I harbored doubts at that sight.

It seemed like too much immersion, although I couldn’t be careless. I didn’t understand why this was happening when no one was acknowledging it.

“God said, ”

“And thus God created the seven brothers of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet into a rainbow.”

It’ll end soon. I decided to pull myself out of my idle thoughts. There was a break after the play, and I wanted to be alone when the children were asleep.

“”

“God bestowed the blessing and disappeared. The seven brothers were loved forever as beautiful beings.”

The play ended with a view of the rainbow floating above the village filled with houses.

“Well, that’s the end of the story. Did you enjoy it?”

Clap, clap, clap, clap[dash].