Duke's wife

Chapter 69

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“Are you talking about the fairy tale in which the Duke of the Snow kingdom meets the Princess of the Spring kingdom and has a happy ending?”

“Yes! That’s right! Did the fairy tale really come from here at Felix Castle?”

“… … Well. I suppose it is, given that Sally, who told me the fairy tale for the first time, had a vague memory of saying that.”

“… … Oh my, that’s amazing.”

Grace was amazed and marvelled at the fact that the background of the fairy tale she had read with her eyes shining when she was a child was based on Felix Castle, where she had been married.

Arthur asked, looking at the cute figure of Grace, who was amazed in a fairy tale story with her eyes twinkling like a little girl.

“Did my wife like the fairy tale?”

“Yes! I didn’t want to read other fairy tales again because I was less interested after reading them once, but I used to read this one over and over again until its book was worn out. It didn’t snow well in the capital, so the story of a fairy tale that has more than half of a year of winter came to me interestingly. And most of all, my favourite was the brave and wonderful Duke of Snow.”

“You liked the Duke of Snow, so that’s why you read the fairy tale over and over again.”

“Yes. I liked the part about defeating the hideous monsters for the people of the Kingdom of Snow. But most of all, when the Princess of the Kingdom of Spring was dying, the part where he tied his life to the life of the princess with magic was most touching. It was so touching to see the willingness to give up one’s life for someone and to vow to live and die with the person he loves. But I didn’t expect the story to be set in Felix Castle!”

Grace recounted her feelings for the fairy tale to Arthur as if she had returned to when she was a little girl back then.

Arthur stopped eating and looked at Grace and agreed with Grace’s words. Even though there may be people who will listen to their conversion, a question suddenly ran through Grace’s mind as she continued to speak with excitement.

So Grace asked Arthur straight away.

“By the way, Arthur. If the fairy tale is the story of the ancestor of this Felix Castle, did that ‘life-binding magic’ actually happen, too?”

Arthur smiled lightly and shook his head in response to her somewhat absurd question.

“I don’t think so. That’s probably what the minstrels made up to make the story more romantic.”

“Is that so?”

“If the ancestors of Felix Castle were able to use such magic, it would probably have been recorded, but I’ve never seen such a story in a book that chronicles the history of Felix Castle.”

“Really?”

“… … And even if the Ancestors had truly been able to use that power, they would never have tried to use it on anyone. If it was a power strong enough to save someone from death, those with dark intentions who wanted to use that power somehow would not have left our ancestors alone.”

“That’s true.”

Grace replied with a nod to Arthur’s subsequent explanation.

If the descendants of Duke Felix had the power to save someone’s life, it was self-evident that the noble who became the head of the empire through the soul would have been Felix, not Alberton.