My Lover's Personality is a Little Strange

01. The black-haired Prince

I, Yvonne Chernicia.

Albrecht's youngest knight.

I was the youngest daughter of the Chernicia family, which had produced some of the finest knights in the empire for generations.

That was the qualifier that marked me when I was young.

Ernst, the second prince of the Albrecht empire, was my closest friend and the one who would be with me in the future as the adults of the family had promised each other.

At that time, I was too young to know what exactly was the "future" that the adults had promised.

However, in order to avoid the nagging of the adults, I often had to go to the Imperial Palace to meet Ernst at their behest.

That day, too, I visited the Imperial Palace to see Ernst.

[Listen carefully, Yvonne. When you go to the Imperial Palace, you have to be careful not to run into the first Prince Theodore].

Today, the brothers said it so many times that I had calluses in my ears.

Even if my brothers didn't tell me about it, I knew the rumors about Prince Theodore.

[They say they have to clean up the corpses every day in the Prince's palace.]

[Not a day goes by without the smell of blood and the sound of screams............]

[He enjoys targeting people and makes them suffer.]

[He bathes in the blood of beasts.......]

I rubbed my arms in horror at the chill. However, it was the scariest story related to the first Prince.

[Especially with that black hair, it's extremely sinister............]

Black hair.

In the Albrecht Empire, black was considered very ominous.

This was because it was a color that symbolized the "ancient darkness" that unleashed demons into the world and threatened people in the distant past.

Of course, it was now a story in legends, but in the empire led by the three families that defeated the Ancient Darkness, the color black was still considered terrifying.

It was so bad that if a child with black hair or black eyes was born in a high-ranking noble family, he would be thrown out.

'But I can't believe a child with black hair was born in the royal family.'

[In fact, it is said that Prince Theodore was born in this world by borrowing a human body from the ancient darkness.]

I shook her head, recalling the story that Brian once told me.

[No! That's a lie made up by Brian!]

Whenever my mean youngest brother, Brian, tormented me, he would tell me that he would marry me off to Prince Theodore and tell me horrible rumors about him.

Then I ran to Richard in tears and told him of every single one of Brian's harassments.

[Oh, it seems that Brian has bullied Yvonne again]

Richard, the kindest and oldest brother, insisted that Brian's words were a lie.

[It's okay, Yvonne. It's just a lie that Briand made up to tease you.]

[Really? Are you sure?]

I asked again, sobbing, and Richard answered in a gentle voice, nodding his head.