Ending Maker Episode 446
SS #36 Regina Bayer (7)
“Did you sleep well?”
Early morning.
Regina, who had stayed up all night with her eyes wide open thanks to the kind greetings from her exclusive maid Luna, thought.
‘I’m screwed. I don’t think I could even breathe a wink.’
But it couldn’t be helped.
My heart was pounding so hard that I couldn’t sleep at all.
For Regina, who had trouble sleeping even the day before the picnic, it was impossible to get a good night’s sleep before the National Foundation Day Ball – and on top of that, the most important day of her life when she would meet ‘the person of her destiny.’
Of course, if Yuria had seen Regina like this, she would have said, ‘Auntie, I’m your partner… … so you were talking about a dance partner?’ However, to 12-year-old Regina, a dance partner was no different from the male protagonist in a love story.
Actually, most of the main characters in love stories I’ve seen so far have been like that.
“Luna, what should we do?”
“Huh? Well… … I think it’ll be okay. Besides, the young lady is young… … and staying up all night for a day or so won’t show much.”
“Oh, really? Doesn’t it show a lot?”
“No, I’m not coming.”
Luna lightly pinched Regina’s cheek as she spoke with a smile and smiled bashfully.
I’ve felt this way for a long time, but Count Bayer is a workplace with a high level of job satisfaction.
“Okay, now get up, miss. There’s a lot to prepare.”
“Yeah, I got it.”
Since she had been awake for a long time, Regina stood up obediently and literally gave herself over to Luna.
And four hours later.
After a simple breakfast and some decorating activities, Regina stood in front of the carriage and looked around with sparkling eyes.
‘So cool! So pretty!’
The people of Count Bayer and Count Chase, who put in a lot of effort to go to the ball.
In fact, they were always so cool and pretty, but there was definitely a noticeable difference between giving them strength and not giving them strength.
‘Wow, Edward oppa looks really handsome like this.’
I knew you were cool, Gale Oppa, but I didn’t know Edward Oppa was this cool.
I always saw him as someone who was always locked up in the lab, but seeing him properly dressed up made me think that Edward oppa is also from the Count Chase family.
Of course, the ones who shined the brightest during this time – no, the ones who couldn’t be compared were Adelia and Sylvia.
‘They are really so pretty. They all look like princesses.’
Adelia was wearing a black mermaid-line dress, her clean white skin and gorgeous blonde hair contrasting with the black dress, each highlighting the other.
And the shoulders, chest, and back.
It was so big and boldly exposed, I just thought it was really amazing.
No one would ever think that Adelia had not one but two children who were fifteen years old.
‘Adelia was an angel to begin with.’
An angel, not a human.
So, rather than thinking that the bold exposure was vulgar, I just thought it was amazing.
And the confident smile on Adelia’s face.
Regina swallowed dry saliva without realizing it, caressed her chest for no reason, and then looked at Sylvia.
She had long, sky-blue hair that flowed down to her hips and was wearing a mermaid-line dress like Adelia, but it was white and less revealing, giving off quite a different feeling.
‘But it’s still amazing.’
Regina, who touched her chest once more, barely took her eyes off Sylvia, who felt like a goddess thanks to her uniquely innocent beauty, and then looked back at the others.
Bella, who looks like a little fairy in a dress with a wide skirt, and Yuria, who surprised us yesterday and continues to surprise us today in a pink dress.
and-
‘Wow! Amber is such an angel!’
That’s right. Ember was showing through her whole body that she was strongly connected to the blood of the Count Chase family – and Adelia at that.
Seeing her in that red bell-line dress, Regina thought to herself for the first time, ‘Amber is a grown-up.’
Because even though Yuriana Vivian and Regina herself were quite mature, I felt like they were still children, whereas Ember was truly an adult.
And Aiden standing next to him.
He had a slightly nervous expression and his mouth was shut tightly, but he looked really cool and manly.
Amber and Aiden were all grown up now and really seemed like adults.
‘Wow, my aunt was really satisfied.’
Regina, who enjoyed the feeling of being an aunt for the first time in a long while watching her grown nephews, climbed onto the carriage with a flushed face and a big smile.
The National Foundation Day celebration itself was scheduled to take place in the afternoon, and the ball was scheduled to begin after Crown Princess Daphne’s coronation, so there was still a long way to go, but in order to proceed with the schedule without a hitch, they had to arrive at the venue around lunchtime.
‘There really are a lot of carriages.’
The line of carriages was endless as nobles from all over the Kingdom of Seilun gathered.
Regina, who had been staring out the window while maintaining her upright posture due to Luna’s stern warning that her dress and makeup would be ruined, suddenly let out an involuntary laugh.
Because I discovered the carriages of Count Hresvelg forming a much longer line than the other carriages.
‘You said your younger siblings would all come out too?’
Because Vivian had bragged about her siblings so much – of course, Walter was the one who bragged the most – Regina could recall in detail what the children of Count Hresvelg wore and how they had their hair done, even though she had never actually seen them.
‘The twelve northern clans have all gathered.’
After finding the carriage of the Marquis Duran, following that of Emma Pikus, a famously zealous believer in the Cordelia Church, Regina thought back to the various stories she had heard from the adults.
‘You said that Marquise Duran and Sister Sylvia were close, right? And Sister Cordelia too.’
Regina turned her gaze back to the carriages, recalling the slightly melancholic Marquise of Duran with her long purple hair.
‘Do foreigners come by a different route?’
Since this national foundation anniversary also included the coronation of Crown Princess Daphne, it was planned that not only nobles from the Kingdom of Cailun would gather, but also many dignitaries from neighboring countries would attend.
‘Paragon, Paragon, Paragon… … Ah, I can’t find it.’
I looked around diligently, but since I was observing from inside a carriage that was at a standstill, the scope of what I could see was quite limited.
Besides, if you really came by a different route or at a different time, you wouldn’t have been able to see it in the first place.
‘Ha, by the way, I wonder if Yuder oppa and Cordelia are really coming.’
Not only Yuria, but also Dahlia and Maia said, ‘They’ll come in a few days,’ so I thought, ‘They’ll come the day before the ball, right?’ but there’s been no news yet.
‘It seems like Yuria doesn’t seem particularly worried, so I don’t think she’s not coming.’
Oppa Yuder likes dramatic moments, so will he really come at a perfect time?
‘Maybe they’ve already arrived and are just hiding?’
Regina, who was thinking about this and that, also thought about the faces of her father and mother, whom she had not seen for a full year.
The two of them left home, saying they wanted to go on a journey of love together.
Since these people had originally set out to travel around the world, the chances of them attending this ball were virtually zero.
‘You must be in the East by now. The wind is always free.’
Regina thought of her father laughing and her mother smiling brightly while being held in her father’s arms, and she smiled warmly, her shoulders drooping.
* * *
Crown Princess Daphne’s coronation was truly splendid.
The coronation ceremony, held in a huge hall with a ceiling height of several tens of meters, was attended by not only nobles of the Kingdom of Seilun, but also nobles from various foreign countries, and the number was easily in the hundreds, if not thousands.
‘If you include the people waiting outside the palace, there would be even more?’
It is said that the number of people gathered in the square to immediately receive the coronation of Crown Princess Daphne is in the hundreds of thousands.
‘Hundreds of thousands… … .’
Regina, who was trying to imagine the unimaginable crowd of people, soon gave up and looked at the stage where the coronation ceremony would be held.
The Northern region, one of the three regions that form the foundation of the Kingdom of Seilun – and among them, the Bayer Counts, one of the three most famous of the twelve Northern families, were able to secure a position that was one of the best in the world.
Regina took a last glance at Vivian and her family in the next room, then took a deep breath and looked at Crown Princess Daphne, who was walking towards the podium.
‘Queen of Lions.’
Although she has only just ascended to the throne, Crown Princess Daphne has been acting as the de facto monarch for nearly ten years.
Queen of the Lions.
Regina nodded without realizing it, recalling Crown Princess Daphne’s nickname.
Although she was in her mid-thirties, she still had the beauty of someone in her mid-to-late twenties, and she was not just a beautiful woman.
The majesty of the king.
A unique aura that only those who stand in the highest position can emit.
Still single and unmarried, she had no husband or children, but Regina suddenly wondered, ‘What does that matter?’
She was a perfect queen in her own right.
Regina pressed her chest to calm her heart, which was starting to pound again, and looked around the stage a little wider.
Prince Dion, like Crown Princess Daphne, is still single.
He, who is also the prime minister of the kingdom, was moved to see Crown Princess Daphne walking down the red carpet for the coronation ceremony, while Duchess Wotan, the former Princess Darian, sat next to her with a gentle smile.
‘His Majesty the King was delighted.’
Henry II.
Next to him, who was smiling brightly with a face that was a mixture of pride and admiration, was the first queen, Justia, known as the pillar of the Kingdom of Cailun, with an elegant smile.
The coronation ceremony proceeded smoothly.
Crown Princess Daphne, who had been crowned by Henry II – the Lion Queen, looked around at the nobles and declared the birth of a new king, and the crowd gathered in the square rejoiced and gave their generous blessings to the new queen’s ascension to the throne.
And then another hour or so.
The time for the ball has finally arrived.
* * *
As expected of the daughter of the Counts of Bayer, Regina had participated in many balls since she was young, but at today’s ball, she couldn’t help but blush and feel nervous, like a child going to a social gathering for the first time.
A grand ball attended by royalty, including the Queen, and nobles from all over the country.
Regina unconsciously shrugged her shoulders as she looked at the high ceiling that seemed to be dozens of meters high and the huge chandelier. She wiggled her fingers and looked around, then flinched and swallowed her breath.
Because the music in the ballroom has changed.
‘Poetry, begins.’
It’s dance time.
Regina looked around hastily, wiggling her fingers again.
Brother Gail was walking alone, holding Sister Adelia’s hand, and Brother Edward was leading Sister Sylvia with confident steps today.
‘Ember and Aiden too.’
Ember smiled faintly at the men who approached her and walked out alone, holding Aiden’s hand.
He said his first dance would be with Aiden, and it looks like he was serious.
Regina looked at Ember and Aiden, who started dancing like a prince and princess from a fairy tale, and felt a strange sense of impatience. She turned her gaze away and found herself laughing.
‘I’m so excited.’
Vivian, who came into the hall with Walter, had a big smile on her face.
Walter’s expression was also very good.
If someone saw them, they would have thought they were not siblings but a pair of engaged couples who were crazy about each other and had come out to dance.
‘My younger siblings also look at me with envious eyes.’
It seemed clear that Count Hresvelg was a den of siscons and brocons.
First Lady – Regina briefly looked at Count Hresvelg, who had begun to dance with Caesar Hresvelg, then turned her gaze back to the commotion of the people, and she could immediately understand why there was such a commotion.
Dahlia and Maia were dancing.
Although it was a dance between women, Dahlia was dressed in knightly attire as a guardian angel, so the distinction between the two was clear, as was Maia, who was dressed in a dress. Since it was a dance between two angels, it was impossible not to look away.
‘Huh! This isn’t it!’
Regina, who had been staring blankly without realizing it, quickly turned her gaze back to find Yuria.
Wearing a pink dress, she had an overwhelming presence.
It was only natural that all eyes were on her, as she was a beautiful combination of contradictions: proud, sexy, yet still young.
And as if to prove its obviousness, dance requests kept pouring in – even from adults – but Yuria was rejecting them all with an elegant yet firm smile.
Why is that?
Could it be because of the person I was destined to meet today?
Regina herself is also rejecting all the dance requests that come in.
Luna’s gaze, which seemed to imply, ‘Miss! What are you doing! You just keep refusing!’, kept hitting the back of her head, but Regina looked at Yuria’s calm expression and tried hard to catch her breath.
Because it was Yuria’s intuition, and no one else’s.
I have to wait.
I have to wait and have my first dance with the person of my destiny.
Regina clenched her fists again, steeled her resolve, and straightened her shoulders and chest.
And then another ten minutes or so.
When Regina’s shoulders, which had finally opened wide, began to hunched again and her clenched fists began to shake.
“The incarnation of the goddess enters!”
The loud voices of the palace officials shook the entire hall.
