MY BELOVED KNIGHT'S
A SNEAKY PLAN THAT FAILED
"Happy birthday Tira. Long live and happy always." One of the girls who was Desya's friend, who had just returned after they had devised a plan to harm Tira, said with a big smile on her face, it was as if he was wishing the happy birthday sincerely and happily for Tira's birthday.
"Thank you Diana." Tira said as she returned a smile from Diana.
"Well...." Diana who turned to the side immediately smiled wider as soon as she saw the maid that Desya had assigned to bring a drink to Diana and pretended to pass near them seemed to be walking towards her.
"Servant...." Diana said as she waved her hand to the waiter who was carrying a tray of glasses that contained various types of drinks, including juice and drinks containing alcohol.
"Tira.. for your longevity and health, how about we do cheers...." Diana said as she picked up one of the cup-shaped cups.
Tira who was with several friends, including one of his school friends, who was the man Diana was targeting, smiled as he stepped closer to Diana, upon hearing the invitation from Diana.
"Ah, but I can't drink alcoholic beverages." With a soft voice Tira said as she looked towards Diana with a regretful face.
"To do cheers does not have to be with the same drink right? You can drink juice or other non-alcoholic beverages." Diana said as she gave a sign to the servant carrying it to get closer to her.
"Do you bring drinks without alcohol?" Diana asked the waiter while glancing over the tray, where there was one glass containing a light blue drink, looking different from the other drinks on the same tray.
"This is a mixture of fruit juice mixed with soda. Suitable for people who like fruit juice." The waiter said as one of his fingertips pointed towards the glass he intended.
"Let's toast Tira, I pray that all the best continue to accompany your life." Diana said as she grabbed the glass filled with light blue liquid and thrust it towards Tira.
"To honor your sincerity, I'll do cheers with you. Sorry if I can just drink this juice." Tira responded to Diana's words with a sweet smile.
"Come all. We're doing cheers to celebrate our best friend's birthday." Diana said to some of the people around Tira, who immediately raised the glass in their hands, and some immediately took gela containing drinks from trays held by servants who seemed to pass by in the area where the party was held.
"Cheers!" Without giving the slightest suspicion, Tira and her friends simultaneously said the word cheers and brought the glasses they held closer to each other and made a loud clanking sound, accompanied by cheerful laughter on their faces.
As soon as she said the word cheers, and pulled the glass back, in a slow and graceful motion, Tira brought the cup close to her hand, intending to sip the drink inside.
Tira's lips were about to touch the cup's lips when suddenly, just as quickly, Ernest grabbed the glass, snatched it from Tira's hands and kept it away from Tira.
Diana and the others looked shocked at what Ernest had just done as a knight to Tira who was a Gracetian princess.
The base of the twin guards who were not self-aware. What does he mean he does something like that? It could be that he snatched the drink from Tira's hands with such disrespectful attitude. Indeed the destroyer of plans, should be taught a lesson when I have a chance for it.
Desya grumbled in her heart with her hand clasping tightly to the cup in her hand with a heart that was hot with anger that hit her heart.
"Sorry for my impoliteness Princess Tira...." Ernest said as he slightly bent his body in front of Tira, without releasing the goblet in his hand.
Tira himself seemed confused by what Ernest had done, because after all, the personal bodyguards of his older cousin, both Ernest and Erich, were polite and it was impossible to act so harshly on him.
Although Erich's figure is known to be cold and tends to look unfriendly, but Tira knows that Erichpun may not be rude or disrespectful to him.
"You're so disrespectful! Isn't your position just a bodyguard in this palace? How dare to be disrespectful to Tira who is a princess?" Diana who was one of the children of a Baron (a noble status who had a position one level above a knight) shouted while looking at Ernest with disdain.
"Why you Ernest? Why are you acting so strange today?" Tira asked without caring about the anger of Diana, who immediately looked down on Ernest's figure because of the royal bodyguard uniform that Ernest was wearing at the moment, for him was just a bodyguard with a status below him, he said, so Diana felt no need to be polite to the bodyguard who had been considered brash because she dared to make her plan interrupted.
While Tira himself, despite being shocked and astonished by Ernest's actions, chose to ask Ernest with a tone of voice that sounded ordinary, there was no visible emotion in Tira.
Ernest, who heard Diana's curse, seemed to hold his breath as he straightened his body, to answer the gentle question of Tira which at that time made his heart beat hard, seeing how the figure of the girl he admired was, keep being friendly and gentle with her, after she did something quite disrespectful to Tira.
Even though Ernest knew he was doing all that to obey Alvero's orders, Tira could have decided to get angry, because he definitely did not know that all that was the plan was Alvero's order.
But seeing how Tira chose to remain gentle with him, Ernest became even more fascinated and fell in love with the beautiful princess who was celebrating her seventeenth birthday.
Desya, who was originally standing not far from there, moved slightly closer towards Tira and Diana, to be able to observe more clearly what was going on, and prepare to join in berating Ernest who had made the plan he made failed tonight.
Ernest who finally stood up straight in front of Tira, making Diana who was originally ready to nag Ernest back instantly speechless a thousand languages, so saw how handsome and dashing Ernest's figure was standing in front of him at this moment.
For Diana, seeing the royal bodyguards with gallant and athletic bodies was not unusual for her, but in addition to being dashing and athletic, having a face so handsome as Ernest's, it was enough to make Diana unnerved at once, and make her stand in place.
All those words of ridicule that were originally ready to slide at the tip of Diana's tongue, suddenly disappeared just like that, replaced with her sizzling lips with gazes of admiration staring at Ernest.
Unconsciously, Diana's attitude made Tira who glanced at Diana and saw how Diana looked at Ernest, causing a spark of dislike in Tira's chest, even though it was, at that time, a spark of dislike, Tira did not think that it was a sign that she was starting to feel what jealousy was, when there was another girl who was showing her interest in Ernest in front of her eyes.