I Raised Snow White!

59. Preparing for the Hunting Tournament

[Episode 59] – Preparing for the Hunting Tournament

“hahahahaha! Whoa, ha ha ha ha!! Dumbass! I knew you would buy and hit someday! What if you ruin the princess’s first tea party! Shouldn’t this ugly bastard be forced to quit his job as minister? Her Highness the Queen? Heh heh heh heh!”

“……”

“Uh heh heh heh heh! Ha ha ha ha ha! Ah! You were teasing me with this taste too! At this age, I learn very good things because of you. Heh heh heh heh!!”

The Minister of Education, kneeling on the grass floor, holding both hands above his head while punishing, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs laughing at the scene. And, I stare at it as if I am dumbfounded.

“Ugh, you burn. I recognized you from the time you flirted in front of Her Highness the Queen. This time, I’m sure you’ll have an accident.”

“Then why didn’t you tell me sooner…?”

“I must have stopped it, right? After drying, who was it that said he would unwrap that ‘puppy’ in my room? You see this and say it’s self-sufficiency, maybe? Heh heh heh heh heh heh!”

“……”

The day after the tea party, the Minister of Education was being punished by me today as well as yesterday. The wolves kept making excuses to me, saying they were meek, but after that, the princess was startled by just hearing about wolves, so I had no intention of forgiving her so easily.

‘I hope it doesn’t remain as a trauma.’

I was worried about the princess who became afraid of wolves, but other things were also important now. Currently, I was at the horse riding arena in the palace with the princess to learn horse riding. In the hunting competition, the princess and I did not need to ride horses, but a horse was essential to going to the ‘hut’ deep in the forest.

‘Even if it’s not the case, since we’re in the position of a queen and a princess, there’s too little time for just the two of us. And the ‘hunter’ that will be there is also a problem. In order to avoid being noticed as much as possible, I need to learn to ride a horse.’

So I came to the horse riding course with the princess to learn horseback riding from the Minister of Education who knows animals well… But how on earth did I know?

“…Minister of Foreign Affairs, don’t you have much to do?”

“Yes? Could it be? Work is important, but isn’t the most important thing right now to make fun of this guy who is being scolded by Her Highness? Heh heh heh!”

In other words, the Minister of Foreign Affairs threw away what he was doing to make fun of the Minister of Education, who was being scolded by me, and came directly to the horseback riding course far away from his office.

I let out a small sigh and looked at the princess feeding the horse a treat. She cried in my room last night, and her eyes were so swollen that it was embarrassing to see.

“Tease in moderation and go home. The princess and I have to practice horseback riding.”

“Heh heh, of course. I’ll play around appropriately. Heh heh heh!”

The Minister of Foreign Affairs had said that, but he was grinning as if he was still thinking of teasing him, and he was saying something as he circled around the Minister of Education. Let’s listen to some conversation-

Since there were childish words such as ‘fool, idiot, minister who picks up dog poop,’ etc., It seemed like it was a conversation that didn’t need to be listened to, so I ignored it and approached the princess who was watching the horse.

“Titania. Aren’t horses scary now?”

“Yes, a little… I think it is cute.”

At first, the princess hesitated at the size of the horse, which was bigger than she thought, but now she seems to have gotten used to the horse and even fed it by hand. The horse followed the princess well, and the animals followed the princess well, so for some reason it reminded me of Snow White in the fairy tale.

“Huh… By the way, you’re more tired than I thought.”

After riding a horse myself, I realized that horseback riding is a sport that really requires physical strength. There was no place where his thighs, back, and hips weren’t sore. As I was shaking and stretching his stiff back and pelvis from riding his horse, the princess looked up at me with a blank expression.

“Why?”

“That’s… I think it’s the first time I’ve seen my mother in pants. Ah! That doesn’t mean it doesn’t fit! You fit so much better than I thought…”

I lowered my head and looked at the riding outfit I was wearing. Now that I’ve gotten so used to skirts that I don’t feel uncomfortable living in just a dress, it was a little awkward if pants that fit the lower body were awkward. It was to the extent that I wondered if it was too tight.

“Huh, thank you for the compliment. The shorts you’re wearing look good too. How about trying them on in the castle sometimes? Aren’t shorts more comfortable than skirts?”

I smiled and looked at the clothes the princess was wearing. A princess wearing a blouse and shorts made for riding. After wearing only a dress every day, seeing her wearing these active shorts, the otherwise cute princess became cute in a different way.

However, the princess shook her head at my suggestion, as if shorts were awkward. Seeing that, I laughed and, as I had learned from the Minister of Education, stepped on the saddle and quickly mounted the horse. It was scary at first, but now it felt good because my heart was wide open at the heightened view.

“Come on, Titania. Hold my hand.”

I got on the horse and reached out my hand to the princess standing next to me. The princess hesitated, took my hand, and whimpered eagerly as she climbed onto the horse. Having the princess sit in front of me, I pulled the reins and slowly rode off.

As expected, it was a clever horse recommended by the Minister of Education who knows animals well, and it did not drop the person on its back or act violently. Even as a beginner, the horse was gentle enough that I felt like the horse was driving me instead of driving it.

It’s just a slow walk on the designated track, but the princess smiled broadly as if riding a horse was fun. I laughed at the expression of the princess who smiled broadly as if she had never cried before. As we were enjoying the horseback riding, the princess raised her head to look at me and asked curiously.

“Is your mother going to hunt too?”

“Me? Hunting?”

Laughing at those words, I sucked! He made a noise and put strength on one arm to assume a bicep posture. Arms slimmer and thinner than those of normal women. I tried to strain my arms, which were so thin that I could barely hold a pen, but instead of biceps, my forearms just trembled.

“Do you think you can hold a heavy bow with this arm?”

The princess shook her head.

“Then why did you say you were going to a hunting competition?”

“That is…”

I wondered if I should tell the princess about the cabin and the ‘dwarf’ in the forest, but I held back. You’ll find out anyway when you attend the hunting competition, and I just looked down at the princess with a grin, thinking that if I told you in advance, I might ruin the first meeting between the princess and the dwarf.

“Just because there is a hunting competition doesn’t mean that there are only people who hunt.”

“Sure?”

“The wife who invited me said that scholars to check the ecology of the forest also participate in the hunting competition. I heard that scholars go into the forest to study what kind of animals live there and what kinds of plants grow naturally.”

That was not wrong. She said that she would invite scholars to hunting competitions and see what was going on in the forest. She used to survey the ecology of the forest and annually examine the ‘fog’ that persists inside the forest. So far, there has been no harvest.

‘Well… Maybe it’s because the fairy’s magic is the reason.’

The fog was a phenomenon similar to the ‘Fairy’s Byway’ that Fran had been talking about. It was a ‘fog’ connected to the ‘hut’ of the dwarfs, but it was a kind of ‘magic’ that would make you wander forever in the mist if you went deep without knowing anything.

‘Because I don’t have to go into the ‘deep part’ of the forest where the fog spreads out anyway. The wife and her husband must know that, so they’re holding a hunting competition.’

Originally, the control of the forest would have been prevented by posting various bad rumors such as the monster’s forest, but for some reason, many animals are said to visit the surroundings of the fog.

Perhaps they were possessed by the fog, and there were even unique and beautiful animals found only in that forest, so there was no reason not to catch those animals from the aristocratic point of view, the owner of the forest.

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So, she says, she has scholars every year to investigate the fog and the forest, and at the same time holds a ‘hunting competition’ to hunt animals. She sometimes captures them and sells them as pets, and raises money by turning them into meat or hides to earn money, she said.

“So, like scholars, we are going to ‘see’ the forest. They say there are a lot of flowers and animals that only grow there. Titania, don’t you want to visit the forest with me?”

The princess shook her head and smiled.

“hehehe! Anywhere is fine as long as you go with your mother!”

“You say it cutely. Then, when we go to the hunting competition, ask the chef to pack a lunch and go. She said she told me a good spot for a picnic.”

I was worried about the rumor going into the scary fog, but I knew how to get out of the fog and how to get into the ‘cabin’, so it wasn’t too much of a worry. There was Ainsel, and there were other ‘witches’ living a little further away, so there was no need to worry.

“Come to think of it, isn’t this the first time Titania has gone out of the castle?”

“Yes! So I look forward to more!”

I could feel my heart pounding on Titania’s back, as if she were looking forward to leaving the palace for the first time in her life, which she had never been outside of. I grinned, stroked Titania’s hair, grabbed her horse by the reins, and sped it up just a little bit.