As a 1 year old I do nothing but eat, sleep, bathe and breathe. If I don’t do something I might just get too used to this luxury… and that… will be bad haha.

I want to move around too but my body is too weak even for a 1 year old, I didn’t even know that a year had passed while I was drifting from consciousness to sleep when I was in that room.

I guess I just have to practice.

Trying to move my body to flip myself over, I used all the strength I have to do so but I was still too weak.

Days went by and I repeated that routine, hardly making any progress and just continued to practice.

My perception of time thus seemed to blur as I continued to repeat the same routine each and every day.

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Finally, I successfully flipped myself over but I didn’t anticipate that I’ll also have a hard time trying to flip myself over again, my head being too heavy for me to lift thus making it hard for me to breathe.

Most babies would start crying when this happens to them but I don’t have enough energy to do that.

I could then hear distant tapping noises of heels, that seem to belong to a girl, hurriedly going to my direction.

Finally reaching my crib, she then carried me up and so I can now see her face up close.

‘Ah it seems to be the head maid, Selina was it?’ I then stared at the brunette beauty, observing her neatly braided hair and worried eyes.

“Dear Prince! Please be more careful you are this kingdom’s treasure, you mustn’t get yourself killed due to curiosity, ah what am I doing? Honestly a baby won’t be able to understand me.”

Briefly stopping mid-sentence as if she realized something, she then used one hand to cover her mouth as she said her apologies.

“Ah that was rude, I apologize” After saying what she needed to say, she then sat me down in my crib.

“I guess they are right about babies growing up too quickly, dear Prince it has been almost 2 years since your birth… and thus this marks as a year already…”

She sat near my crib and I looked at her sad eyes, a year of what exactly? I wanted to ask but I can’t speak words yet.

“Dear Prince, please grow up well and rule this kingdom well in the future… that will be my only wish and it also might’ve been the wish of that person as well…”

She said, smiling faintly. I could see that it had a tinge of bitterness and mourning.

‘That person…?’ I tilted my head as if to question what she meant but the weight of my head made me fall from my sitting position.

Letting out a soft chuckle, her silver eyes that carved into a crescent made her look like a young girl.

Creak-

The door then opened and a familiar figure entered as he called out the head maid’s name.

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“Selina.” That one word made her jump and brought her back to her normal prim and proper self. She turned quickly to face Elt and walked towards him.

“Yes? Elt, what is it?” She asks what was the purpose of his visit today, since Selina and the other maids are the ones responsible in looking after me and not the job of Elt the butler and the direct servant of the King.

So it’s pretty strange of him to be here thus making Selina question him.

“Ah it’s about the Prince’s…” Selina noticing something, she quickly covered his mouth making him briefly look at me.

“Understood, let’s talk outside.” Selina quickly pulled Elt by the hand and headed out of the room to talk about matters concerning me in private.

‘My what?? My execution??? Ahhh please don’t stop mid-sentence I’m getting paranoid here!’ I reached my hand out of the gap in the crib as I started to think negatively.

After half an hour long of waiting, Selina finally came back. She looked pretty determined that it seemed almost scary. “Dear Prince!” she started

Startled by her excited shout I flinched, her eyes felt like a predator eyeing its prey. She then took out some measuring tape….? And began to measure my body making me feel like a doll.

“Good!” Looking fired up she left the room and told the guards stationed outside something.

‘Ah whatever I’m just gonna rest…. No use in using more brain power than needed’ I then drifted off to a deep sleep.

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Lately it seems that everyone is acting all weird and excited for some reason…. Why is that? Are they proud that I can somehow crawl now? Or that I can now throw my dolls further?? Is there a festival???

‘Ahhh damn it! They are making me anxious and curious at the same time!’ I tried to reach my head but my tubby arms couldn’t…. damn it.

This continued until I was sick of it…

Today though, I was wearing a slightly flashier outfit. The maids in particular were all fired up, they even made me take a bath in a tub filled with roses! I thought those things only happen in movies…

After they finished dolling me up, they all left the room in squeals and giggles….

‘Haa… I’m tired…’ I looked into the distance feeling bored and so I decided to follow them and see what they are up to.

Though my crawling doesn’t let me get far…. As Elt, who noticed me following him picked me up and started to say things all at once in a very excited tone.

I couldn’t make sense of what this human printer was saying, as the words he begins to spit out start to overlap each other.

The words then went to one ear and out the other, thus I began to feel dizzy and proceeded to closed my eyes for a bit and when I opened them I seemed to have woken up…

Apparently I fell asleep while I was being carried.

‘HOW.EMBARASSING. WHAT AM I, A BABY? Technically correct but! You get my point…’

Anywho, I then looked down and saw that I was wearing a red fur coat and even some black mittens.

‘…What in the blazes??’ While questioning the purpose of these clothes I then started to hear voices nearby, making me look to the direction where they were coming from.

Then as we exited the building, the harsh wind blew and made my eyes close slightly.

After regaining their clarity, the sight in front of me sure did give me a surprise.

We arrived at the garden that was now decorated with ribbons and frills.

““Happy birthday to our young Sun!”” Ambushed with a warm and heartfelt greeting I could only gape in awe as I try to take in the scenery in front of me.

I then looked closer and everyone was there, the maids, the cook, the guards, the gardeners—almost, if not, all of the staff inside this palace!

Everyone seemed to have planned me a surprise birthday party….. Just then the white snow began to fall entirely obstructing my view.

A snow drop fell on my eye and when I rubbed it off, a warm feeling was left in my palms. Soon the warmth started to flow down my cheeks too.

‘Ah so my birthday was in winter.’ Since the ceremony took place in spring I thought my birthday was at spring.

They then gave me birthday gifts and sang me songs, they played with me and stayed with me.

I couldn’t help myself smiling…

Ah this is bad… the people here are making me feel attached to this world… Maybe it’s not so bad to enjoy the life of a Prince for a while longer.

｢ "And that was my biggest mistake and regret that I will remember for a whole lifetime. Everyone was looking all happy and I too was having fun…" ｣

｢ As I stood there and watched the scene unfold, I clenched my fists constantly reminding myself that I could never go back to these times and that this will forever remain only as a memory. ｣

｢ ‘Ah… I really shouldn’t have let my guard down that time…’ ｣

This marked my 2 years in this world.