T/N: Just want to preface this by saying, if you see what seems like a typo but Actsion is saying it, it is not a typo. The child is butchering the words.
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“Auntie.”
“I’ve been telling you to stop calling me ‘Auntie’! My proper title is Grand Princess Yenika!”
“Auntie!”
“My goodness, seriously! Who do you take after to be so disobedient?!”
Yenikarina frowned deeply.
Actsion spread out his chubby arms.
“Carry me.”
“What if I don’t want to?”
Yenikarina stuck out her tongue and quickly picked Actsion into her arms.
“I won’t carry you; I’ll hug you, hah!”
“Ahhh!”
“And I’m going to tickle you!”
“Aaah, no! It tickles!”
Hahahaha!
Actsion’s laughter filled the palace.
The court ladies whispered among themselves as they watched this scene.
“Gosh, no one watches the prince better than Grand Princess Yenikarina.”
“Both of them get along so well.”
“Mhm, they are on the same wavelength in so many ways.”
Personality-wise too…
Out of respect for the Grand Princess, the court ladies fell silent.
Unlike Paellamien who was granted the title of Marquis, Yenikarina became a Grand Princess.
《I like Princess! Grand Princess sounds so much better than Marquis! 》
《…Yenika, I wasn’t going to title you Marquis anyway. You’re not exactly as capable as Paella at handling things. 》
《Whatever, I like Princess! 》
In some ways, she was a very consistent person.
Right at that moment.
“Lu!”
Actsion, who had been giggling constantly, suddenly shouted a word.
For a moment, Yenikarina’s expression darkened.
It was probably just a meaningless shout, but it happened to be the same nickname that her long-deceased brother used to go by.
Then Yenikarina realized that Actsion, who was in her arms, was staring intently at the water basin, which was filled with flowers.
Aristine always kept a water basin by her side, so her son, Actsion seemed to have taken a liking to them too.
Actsion was staring intently at it like there was something inside.
“Is there something wrong?”
Yenikarina looked at the basin too, but she could only see flowers inside.
“Lu!”
Actsion exclaimed again and pointed his tiny finger at the basin.
“…”
Yenikarina didn’t know what expression to make.
Immediately, Actsion turned his head and looked at Yenikarina.
“Auntie!”
His small fingers brushed against Yenikarina’s eyes.
“Don’t cwy.”
“Huh?”
Of course, Yenikarina wasn’t crying.
She was an adult, and she wouldn’t break down in tears in front of a child just because of the word “Lu.”
Yenikarina chuckled.
“Did Grand Princess Yenika look sad to you? I’m not sad.”
It seems her kind-hearted nephew felt she was sad and was trying to comfort her.
Thinking this, Yenikarina patted Actsion’s bottom.
“Why will Auntie be sad when she’s with her dearest boy?”
“Impewial mother and Impewial father coming!”
“Oh, I know you miss Mummy and Daddy. But they won’t be back for a while.”
“Na!”
“Until then, you can play with Auntie Yenika. I will even be nice and let you call me Auntie.”
“Impewial Mother! Impewial Father! Graddy!”
Yenikarina lifted Actsion high into the air.
“Look! Our Prince is flying!”
However, Actsion’s reaction was strange.
Normally, he would have forgotten all about clamoring to see his parents and would start laughing again.
“Impewial Mother! Impewial Father!”
Then again, this must be the first time in Actsion’s short life that he was away from his parents for so long.
Yenikarina moved vigorously, swinging Actsion around.
And just as she was doing that…
“I’m touched to see you playing with Actsion so passionately.”
“Huh?”
Startled by the familiar voice, Yenikarina spun around.
“Impewial Mother! Impewial Father!”
Actsion shouted with a big smile.
Only then did Yenikarina realize that Actsion had been calling out to his real Mother and Father.
“Sister Rineh.”
“Thank you, Yenika. I was able to leave with peace of mind because of you.”
“Indeed, you were playing with him very well.”
“Well…he is my nephew.”
Yenikarina pursed her lips.
“But what happened? I thought you’d be returning much later.”
“Well, one thing led to another.”
Aristine smiled mysteriously.
Yenikarina walked up to Aristine and just as she was about to hand Actsion over, she paused.
‘…Wasn’t there something Sion said before Sister Rineh and Khan came in?’
When Yenikarina turned around, the door was just opening.
And then—.
《Impewial mother and Impewial father coming!》
Actsion had said that his Mother and Father were coming.
“What’s the matter?”
Aristine asked, and Yenikarina shook her head.
“No, it’s just…just now, Sion—.”
Yenikarina began but froze in the middle of her sentence.
Because she noticed someone standing behind Aristine and Tarkan.
She hadn’t seen her father, Nephther, in a long time, and he stood there smiling at her.
But Nephther wasn’t the person that Yenikarina was looking at.
She couldn’t believe her eyes.
Yenikarina thought she must be having a very unpleasant dream for the first time in a while.
And yet, she couldn’t help but call out.
“B…Brother Hamill?”
Her voice was trembling.
Hearing her voice, Hamill smiled.
“It has been a while, Yenika.”
It was different from her dreams.
He wasn’t dying and resenting her. Instead, he was smiling.
His hair was shorter, he looked a bit thinner…
‘It’s really…’
It was real.
Not a fading illusion, but the real Hamill.
Her very own brother.
Yenikarina’s breathing turned rough.
Something welled up in her chest and climbed up her throat, threatening to burst.
Soon, beads of tears began to fall from Yenikarina’s eyes.
“…Liar.”
How could she even describe what she was feeling?
Resentment.
Anger.
He was alive, he was breathing right in front of her, and yet…
‘How, how could you—’
“Don’t cwy.”
A small hand brushed against Yenikarina’s eyes.
Just as it had moments ago, when nothing had been falling down her face.
But that small warmth, that small pat, only made the tears flow harder.
“Waaah!”
She cried out like a child, like she used to do when they were children.
“I’m sorry, Yenika.”
Hamill carefully pulled his little sister into his embrace.
“You, you knew I’d be angry so how could you do this to me—!! How could you, how could you!!!”
Hamill patted Yenikarina’s back, not saying a word.
“You’re so mean! You’re horrible!! Wait, no. You’re not horrible at all. I don’t hate you. So don’t leave again anymore, okay?”
“Okay.”
“You promise?”
“Mhm, I’ll stay here… with my family.”
“…Mn.”
Yenikarina buried her face in the chest of her beloved brother.
It was a very comforting smell.
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That was so adorable! But it will be interesting to see what Rineh and Knan think about Sion using his abilities already. But that reunion was fantastic.
Thanks, Ruby!
I still can’t help but be ambivalent about all these “happy endings”…it’s like, kill the (nearly) nameless queen and get a ready-made family? No one is working through their feelings about the queen or the unfaithful father or the illegitimate brother, even though they were so obsessed with their feelings in the main storyline…I get that there’s a timeskip, but this is whiplash worthy…
Thank you so much for the translations. Loved binge reading it all. This story was quite a roller coaster and happy to see it isn’t over.