The White Stoat Princess (5 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 14
‘Surely Espen hasn’t turned into a beast like me, right?’
As I stared blankly at the boy who resembled Espen, my heart kept sinking heavily. Not wanting to feel more depressed, I quickly turned my body away.
‘No matter what happened to Espen, it has nothing to do with me anymore. That was my previous life.’
And now I was living my own life. It’s foolish to keep clinging to an irreversible past.
Still, perhaps because I thought of Espen, my already cold paws felt like they were freezing even more. I hurriedly started walking.
‘I need to go to where Hadel is.’
The moment I gained freedom, I immediately wanted to return to Hadel’s side. At this point, it was practically flame addiction.
‘But which direction is the office?’
It was my first time wandering around the castle, so how would I know? I just started walking randomly. I wasn’t sure if I was going the right way when I finally encountered people.
“Oh! Weasel!”
‘People!’
She was a young maid wearing a black hat and a long skirt that completely covered her ankles and wrists.
Since she was the first woman I had met after awakening as a weasel, I excitedly stood up on my hind legs, raising my front paws in greeting.
“Kyu!”
But even though I greeted her, I couldn’t get a response. That was because another maid standing next to her, holding a large basket, tapped her shoulder and said this.
“Shh! His Highness said that if we happen to see a white weasel inside the castle, we should pretend not to notice it.”
“Ah, right.”
Hearing their conversation, I was so dumbfounded that my mouth hung open.
‘What kind of order is that, Hadel.’
Pretend not to notice me? So I’m only allowed to talk to you? What kind of new bullying is this?
But the Grand Duke’s command is absolute law. The maids quickly picked up their baskets and hurried away. Feeling awkward, I scratched my head vigorously and thought.
‘That huge pile they’re carrying looks like laundry, doesn’t it? Normally a castle would have more than ten maids just for laundry. Are there no other maids?’
If I follow those people, I should meet other maids too, right?
And among them, there must be one who cleans the office.
‘Following the workers will be faster.’
With these tiny legs, how long would it take to circle the entire castle? I quickly started following the maids.
At first they didn’t notice me, but when one of them turned around, she made a tearful face.
“Uh, what do we do? Lady Weasel is following us.”
It’s just weasel, what’s with adding “Lady”?
‘And if you noticed I’m following, just slow down a bit. It’s hard to keep up.’
Human strides are much longer, and since I was moving my whole body with four legs, my energy consumption was naturally extreme.
‘It would be nice if they just put me in that laundry basket.’
I sent them sparkling eyes, hoping for such a clever trick.
That was when the maid who had said to pretend not to see me spoke up again.
“Still, just ignore her. What if His Highness gets angry and breathes fire?”
“Eek, just imagining it is scary.”
“Should we just run away?”
“Yes!”
Hey! Where are you going! Hey!
They all started running away in a flock. Only I, who had been chasing them, stood there dumbfounded, staring blankly at their retreating figures.
‘…Hadel, you must be lonely.’
Actually, the lonely one seemed to be me, but I deliberately ignored that fact. I’m going to cry from feeling wronged.
‘Because people are afraid of Hadel’s flames, it seems the number of people working in the castle has been reduced to the minimum. What a kind guy.’
Feeling gloomy, I flopped down in the hallway. When I lifted my paws, they were pitch black from having rampaged through an improperly cleaned area earlier.
‘But they don’t leave the castle filthy, do they? It doesn’t suit the dignity of a Grand Duke.’
Hire more people generously. While you’re at it, hire someone exclusively for me too. Someone who moves in whatever direction I wiggle my fur.
I was grumbling with extreme selfishness when a familiar voice called my name from afar.
“…Kyu Kyu?”
“Kyu!”
Overjoyed, I sprang to my feet. It wasn’t my imagination— it really was Hadel!
“Kyu Kyu Kyu!”
I quickly ran to Hadel. Hadel gently picked me up.
“I told you you could come out, and you’ve already come this far.”
“Kyu.”
“Hm?”
The moment his touch reached me, the chill wrapping my body retreated, and in an instant my body became soft and warm.
I was so happy to see him that I spread my front paws and clung to his arm.
Then Hadel frowned and said,
“If you’re cold, say you’re cold. Don’t just suddenly cling like this.”
‘Idiot.’
I blushed and pouted inwardly.
‘It’s called wanting to be held. You should feel honored.’
Hadel carried me all the way to his office with ease. My sixth sense was truly amazing— the direction I had desperately run in was indeed toward Hadel’s office.
‘Heh heh, this weasel. What a smart weasel.’
As I felt proud, Hadel pressed down on my head with his palm. Then he pointed to the office door and spoke clearly.
“This dark green door is my office. If you get hungry, come here.”
‘The office!’
It was the place where the meeting had been held last time. Hadel placed me on the office floor. Excited to be put down, I flinched and ended up standing on two legs.
‘Ah, cold.’
Why is the window open on such a cold day! The hallway was actually warmer.
Scratch scratch scratch.
The moment I was put down, I scratched Hadel’s leg with both paws, meaning “pick me up again.”
Hadel gave a wry smile and bent down to lift me once more.
“You’re quite spoiled.”
He said that, but wasn’t the corner of his mouth slightly raised? Is it just my imagination?
‘You like it when I ask to be held too.’
Not wanting to admit that I was the only one who liked being held, I grumbled for no reason.
While holding me, Hadel sat at his desk. Papers were scattered across the desk, and just like last time, one scribe was sitting beside him, writing documents on his behalf.
Hadel pointed to a corner of the desk and said,
“Your cushion is here, so if you get bored, climb up there.”
“Kyu?”
My cushion, why is it there? How did he know I would come to the office?
Tilting my head, Hadel pressed my head repeatedly and answered.
“I just put it here. You always end up crawling into my bed anyway.”
“Kyu.”
I know nothing about that.
‘Every morning I wake up, I’m always on the bed.’
Since a story unfavorable to me had come up, I quietly curled up and avoided Hadel’s gaze.
‘What does it matter. No one lectures a weasel about manners. And Hadel doesn’t seem to care whether I’m female or male.’
As I stayed quietly in his arms, Hadel resumed the work he had paused. He would dictate and the scribe would write it down, but naturally the writing speed was slower than the speaking speed, so the conversation kept getting interrupted.
‘Even working looks inconvenient. He should just pour out all that overflowing mana and be done with it.’
Still, thinking there might be some information useful to me, I stretched my neck and peeked at the documents too.
‘Just boring papers. I don’t even understand the year. I don’t know the place names either.’
Since they were official documents that felt completely different from the era I lived in, they weren’t particularly helpful. Getting bored, I pressed down on Hadel’s palm.
“Kyuu.”
Hadel’s red eyes looked at me. He had grown quite used to me now and easily read the meaning of my cry.
“Want to be put down?”
“Kyu.”
“You’re fickle.”
His voice sounded like he was scolding me, but the hand that lifted me and placed me on the floor was infinitely gentle.
Even after being put down, I could clearly hear Hadel’s characteristic calm, even-toned voice.
“The North welcomes Prince Saedel’s visit and next month…”
He had mentioned receiving a letter earlier; it seemed a prince was visiting the North.
‘If it’s a prince, isn’t that Hadel’s brother?’
Yet the letter he was dictating felt more like one written with thorough courtesy to a stranger rather than to family.
‘Well, family relationships are as varied as the stars.’
Whatever relationship Hadel had with the rest of his family was none of my business.
I stopped paying attention to Hadel’s letter and eagerly looked around his office.
I had seen maids passing by earlier, but it didn’t seem like maids cleaned this place every day.
‘Having so few servants is a problem. Look here. So much dust has piled up.’
Normally, in a place where a Grand Duke resides, every corner including under the sofa would be thoroughly cleaned daily, but it seemed this place wasn’t cleaned that meticulously.
‘Well, with few people, there are limits. Hadel’s flames are the problem.’
Those flames— can’t you share some with me? One person has so much it’s causing chaos, so it would be fine to give some charity to a deficient weasel.
While I was carefully inspecting every nook and cranny and had returned to Hadel’s desk, one of Hadel’s subordinates knocked and entered, bowing his head to Hadel.
“Your Highness, a moment please.”
“What is it?”
It must have been something serious; after hearing the report, Hadel’s face hardened, and he left the office, taking even the man who had been inside with him. Suddenly left alone to guard the office, I confidently put my paws on my hips.
Finally, this body has found a way to earn its keep!
‘While Hadel is away working, shall I do some cleaning?’
Cleaning, right now.
Cleaning the entire room would be too much, so I decided to clean Hadel’s desk and the area around it first. Fortunately the window was already open, so I didn’t need to open it.
The very first thing to do is, of course, dusting.
‘Ugh, the only thing I can use as a broom is my tail. No choice.’
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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