Chapter 42: Cousin!
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, in 3 days the Prime Minister of Austria-Hungary and Her Royal Highness Princess Mary of the Empire will arrive in Munich, and His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has asked you and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to greet you personally." Count Schelling said respectfully.
"Okay, I'll go!" The traverser's face instantly turned pale, the prime minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had nothing to fear, but his cousin, the third princess of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Mary. Valery made him very uncomfortable. Not because of her temper or character, but because the traverser felt that the other party seemed to know something!
"You don't look like my cousin!" When the owner of this body was occupied by the traverser after a serious illness, when he came to visit him with Duke Max (Princess Sissi's father), the other party's whispered words frightened the traverser into a cold sweat!
In the days that followed, the Traveler had secretly observed her cousin, who had always looked at her with a scrutinizing eye, though she tried to hide her curiosity and a hint of surprise. But the traveler of the two worlds can still feel the strangeness of the Austro-Hungarian princess.
At that time, the two were just 10 years old, the so-called fairy tales were unscrupulous, no one cared what these two people said or did, if the traveler was a stowaway in time and space, then the most feared thing was naturally another traveler who also came from another time and space.
Soon, however, he gave up on this speculation, and the other party seemed to him to be full of childish behavior and straightforward and unintentional language to tell the other party that the other party was a 10-year-old girl, and he had tried to test the other party in various ways, such as mentioning some words that would never appear in this plane, and seeing the other party's reaction through science fiction stories in Verne's novels. However, it is useless.
Only when he mentioned the contradictions within Austria-Hungary did the other side move! Far more than a little girl's hobbies. "There must be a problem!" The Traveler once said of his cousin.
"The crown is not as stable as we imagined, whether it is the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the German Empire, one day, all the royal families will fall to the dust." And at the end of the meeting at the age of 15, the other party's words almost didn't scare the prince down!
For this somewhat eccentric cousin, the first way for the time-traveler to do so was to stay away. But all kinds of troubles did not disappear because of the distance, but the letters sent by the other party from time to time still frightened him, and all kinds of hints pointed to the end of World War 1 in history, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the absence of the glory of the German royal family, and so on.
And through the understanding of all aspects of the traverser, Princess Mary has changed from a cheerful and optimistic little princess to a little indifferent, anxious, and concerned about political affairs when she is almost 11 years old, and this time is the time for the traverser to be reborn in this world!
"This situation is quite metaphysical!" Crossing is inherently an unexplainable thing. It is also normal for some other accidents to occur during the crossing, such as the current Kaiser, and then the current Austro-Constitutional Princess. The other party is like a person who can peek into his own heart, in distant Vienna, from time to time to remind that the pace of fate is moving forward step by step.
"It's time to face everything!" Simply dodging will not work after all. If historically, the connection between Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Bavaria was not so close, and now it is indispensable to draw Austria-Hungary in their own plans! And the Habsburg royal family can't get around it!
Although it was not a government-to-government reception, as a sign of respect for the noble Austro-Hungarian royal family and relatives, all the important members of the Wittelsbach family were present, except for the grandfather of the regent who was abroad. His Royal Highness is personally responsible for receiving Count Taaffe, and according to the principle of reciprocity, he has to face the little princess of the Austro-Hungarian royal family, this cousin who is absolutely different from history!
"Are you finally ready for a showdown?" Looking at the time-traveler who received her with a stylized smile in the distance, the Austro-Crarian princess calmed down, and a dream from ten years ago haunted her like a nightmare, the collapse of the empire, the fall of the crown to dust, and the centuries-old glory of the Habsburg dynasty turned to ashes. In this prophetic nightmare, she was hesitant and miserable, and he saw the end of almost all those who were related to him, but he did not see his cousin, Prince Ruprecht.
When she visited the prince, who had just recovered from a serious illness, a gut told her that it was someone else who took over the shell, someone she had never known! And then the other party's various actions just confirmed her thoughts, he is the singularity in her nightmare, a variable!
She used every means she could think of to test him, and even said some rebellious remarks. And the other party's answer is only silence and evasion. He didn't seem to know what he was worried about, but he was determined to do something. And now, it's time for him to "harvest".
"Perhaps, like me, he sees the not-so-distant future, but the difference is that he is down-to-earth and changes something, while I am just struggling in vain in the court, no one believes my words, or they don't want to believe me." When the eyes of the traverser swept over, Her Royal Highness smiled and nodded, and then stepped forward, accompanied by the lady-in-waiting.
At the same time, the time-traveler is also in a large number of cousins who have not been seen for a long time, and the time-traveler does not know the historical Mary. What does Princess Valerie look like. But the one in front of him has indeed inherited the excellent genes of Princess Sissi.
She has fair skin, bright red lips, and a voice that, although sweet, is full of royal majesty. The blonde hair inherited from her mother was smooth like silk and combed into wavy curls. The delicate facial features and the momentum cultivated in a high position made her lose the innocence of her youth, and for some reason she was skeptical of everything around her, the girl's childishness has disappeared, the girl's little charm, the princess's dignified elegance and arrogant momentum make people admire and subconsciously keep their distance.
"Congratulations, my cousin, you've finally taken the first step toward change." The princess on the other side walked over in the company of everyone and said with a pun.
"More will change in the future, and our destiny is in our hands. The legacy of kings will endure and carry forward in the future. The traverser said with a smile.
"I am sure that we will have a very pleasant meeting with each other, and that many of our previous suspicions and unpleasantness will also pass away with open and honest communication." There was even some excitement in Mary's words, how many years had she finally waited for this day! Someone who can trust her and can help her reverse her tragic fate!
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