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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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The princess’s mansion wasn’t as luxurious compared to the buildings surrounding the royal palace.
Although it was beautifully decorated along with the garden, it felt like they had filled the limitations of the building with interior design and sincerity.
Anyway, it didn’t really suit Elise.
Rather than Elise’s room, it gave off the feeling of temporarily borrowing someone else’s room.
Perhaps noticing my impression, Elise answered with a smile before I could even ask.
“It’s the place my eldest sister used to use.”
It seemed like she had more to add, but Elise didn’t say anything further from there.
Since this reaction was rare for her, I didn’t ask any more either.
The door creaked open, and Tana with a tearful face and Bertia with a straight expression entered together.
“There are no issues. She is definitely a chaste virgin.”
“Y-You shouldn’t report that with Daniel here!”
Tana bounced up and down at Bertia’s unfiltered report, her face turning red as if lava would erupt, but Bertia showed no reaction.
Feeling like she was shouting at a wall in vain, Tana quickly lost spirit and glanced at me.
Sigh, it was time to show an example of a mannerly man here.
“Don’t worry, I thought so.”
“You son of a bitch! You bastard! How can Eve like a guy like that!”
It was my best joke, but it didn’t work.
Tana grumbled and whined, then realized whose presence she was in and shut her mouth as if she had been hit.
“Oh my, now you’re showing manners?”
“Um, well… I’m sorry for everything so far.”
“It’s okay, it was fun thanks to you.”
If we recalled what Tana had said to Elise so far, it would be no surprise if she was sentenced to death for insulting the royal family right away.
Even the lawyer would shout at her, asking if she was crazy.
For reference, if it were May, the judge would have rushed over during the trial and smashed her head with a gavel, that’s how harshly she had spoken to Elise.
“Yeah, it’s fine. What did you call me? Crazy bitch, lunatic, masochistic bitch? But it’s true. It’s the fault of this kid who can’t behave properly.”
“Hey! Hey!”
Tana shouted in surprise, asking if it was okay to say such things so casually, but…
“Hic, hic.”
Elise was making a blissful expression while hugging her body with both hands.
“Sir Daniel, didn’t I clearly tell you to be careful?”
“…I’m sorry. It’s been a while, so I forgot.”
Bertia sighed and gave a warning with a reproachful gaze.
I had forgotten for a moment since it had been a long time since I met Elise.
How I should treat her.
“Please be careful. Perhaps because it’s been a while, she has become more serious.”
It got worse from there?
It was not a joke, I didn’t even want to approach her anymore.
Our princess made me realize once again that it was not the appearance but the inside that matters.
“Excuse me.”
“Yeah, what is it?”
Elise, who slightly raised her hand, asked with a smile.
“Can I go change my underwear? It’s a bit wet.”
“…!”
I almost spit out a swear word from my mouth.
No, I did.
If Bertia hadn’t hurriedly covered my mouth with both hands and begged, “Please! Please!”, the entire mansion would have echoed with my voice.
Elise went straight into her closet, leaving me behind as I looked around to see if there was anything to smash my head with.
As she disappeared from my sight, I calmed down a bit, but the shock didn’t go away.
“Is that bitch really a princess of this country? Shouldn’t we start a rebellion?”
“…This is the princess’s mansion.”
“So what!”
Tana, who was sitting next to me and kept mumbling about how crazy she was, jabbed at me, saying, “You’re not normal either, plotting a rebellion against the princess in the princess’s mansion,” so I shut my mouth tight.
Anyway, after some time passed.
Elise had a refreshed expression, while I had a rotting feeling in proportion to it, but we got straight to the point.
“The reason I requested a maid from the Mayas family is because of my brother Oliver.”
“Yeah, I already heard. The current king’s health is gradually deteriorating, so Prince Oliver will soon take power.”
I added while sipping the tea Bertia gave me.
The tea tasted so excellent that I was surprised and looked at Bertia, and she gave me a faint, satisfied smile.
“Yes, that’s right. Actually, Tana, who is from a branch family, is a bit lacking, but since it’s just to test the Mayas family, he doesn’t seem to care much.”
Sighing, Elise only rubbed the handle of the teacup with her hand without drinking it.
Her body had become quite thin compared to before, probably because she hadn’t been able to eat properly recently due to Prince Oliver.
“I’m curious about one thing. Why are you supporting Prince Oliver?”
“…”
“Seeing that you deliberately touched the Mayas family and Tana at Aios Academy, I knew you wanted something from me. But why are you forcibly supporting him?”
The 3rd Princess, Elise, had always been a princess in the dark who never showed herself.
It was widely known that she had various talents, but she had never mentioned or shown interest in the kingship or politics.
That was why she was a flower that bloomed alone in a muddy field.
For her to support Prince Oliver, even if it wasn’t a big gain directly, the ripple effect itself was significant.
Because the princess of silence had broken her beliefs and stepped forward.
“To protect my second brother and sister.”
“…”
“Do you know about my eldest sister?”
Of course.
The 1st Princess of the Frisia Kingdom, Elena de Frisia.
The saint of the royal family, the meteor shower of paradox that grants wishes.
And…
“The girl whom God loved and took into his arms early.”
At that time, she was only 19 years old.
In a small village in the mountains, even the young me heard about it, to the extent that the entire kingdom mourned her death.
People praised that she was too beautiful, pure, and transparent to be in this world, so God had no choice but to take her away so as not to taint her.
“It was said that she passed away from an illness, but that’s not actually the case.”
The story Elise told us after that was the kind that if you carelessly spoke about it, you would disappear without a trace.
That kind of story.
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“Haa.”
Perhaps because of the tight-fitting clothes, a heavy sigh escaped from my chest as if pushing out.
I never thought the day would come when I would wear such clothes in my life.
“Wow, it suits you well!”
“Me, master’s, master?”
“Princess, you’re drooling.”
I had to stay at Elise’s villa for a while, so I became a servant.
Even though I was a servant, I had to work in the royal palace, so the outfit was also strict, from a bow tie to a white dress shirt and a black vest.
It was the first time I had ever worn such clothes, including in my previous life, so I kept feeling like the neck part was constricting.
“Eve should have seen this! She would have really liked it. Daniel, take this with you when you go back later. Wear it for her once.”
“Stop talking nonsense.”
Tana, who was wearing a maid outfit like me, made a fuss.
If it weren’t for the attention being focused on me, Tana’s outfit was actually quite enough to make many men’s hearts flutter.
“Well then, let’s leave Sir Daniel alone, and Tana, follow me and learn the maid’s work.”
“Ah, yes! I understand!”
At Bertia’s words, Tana suddenly stood stiffly like a new soldier and answered, but…
“You don’t need to, so don’t do it.”
I stopped Bertia, who was trying to take Tana away.
Both of them had a questioning expression on what I was saying, but I answered firmly again.
“She’s going to go back to the academy with me. So there’s no need to learn maid work.”
Actually, I was uncomfortable even when Tana spoke just now.
Take it with me when I go back later?
Wasn’t that implying that she was staying here?
It was very annoying.
“Daniel? But…”
“…”
Tana looked back and forth between me and Bertia, not knowing how to act, and Bertia naturally turned her gaze to her master.
Elise sipped the already cold tea and answered with an extremely satisfied smile.
“Of course. Tana is not my maid, but a friend from the same academy. She’s only staying for a short while, so there’s no need to teach her.”
“I understand. I apologize, Lady Tana.”
Bertia immediately corrected the way she addressed her and apologized by bowing her head neatly.
Tana waved her hands and made a fuss, saying it was okay.
“But just in case, I will teach you the basics. You may meet someone other than us.”
Bertia, who added that it was for disguise, not teaching, took Tana away.
“You’ve made up your mind?”
Elise looked up at me with the corners of her mouth not coming down.
Not keeping Tana as a maid didn’t simply mean that I had protected her.
It was a declaration of my will to go against Prince Oliver’s intention and withdraw Elise’s support.
“I can’t hand over the country to a bastard who assassinates his sister just because she’s better than him.”
“That’s right.”
Without a word…
Elise, who got up modestly, slightly lifted her skirt and greeted me with formality.
“To you who will save the royal family, an early gratitude.”
“We haven’t even started yet.”
“Hehe, but I feel like you’ll be able to do it, Master.”
“…I told you not to call me Master.”
Really, she tries to squeeze in whenever there’s a slight gap.
Elise sat back down.
She even took a bite of the snacks that she hadn’t touched at all until now and asked me.
“But you seem to be particularly relaxed around Tana compared to the others.”
“…”
“Rin, your childhood friend, May, who is almost like a subordinate, Eve, who you always hang out with. You seemed much more comfortable than with those kids?”
I almost said it was because I was burdened by their confessions, but I held it back.
Certainly, I was more comfortable with Tana compared to the others.
When I was with her, I felt like a student who was really hanging out with a close friend, not the sherpa who lived in the Demon Realm Forest.
This was partly because I had been with her the longest at the academy, except for Rin and Ares, but…
It was also because she treated me as a purely platonic friend, not with romantic feelings.
The same went for Hayun, but since she wasn’t as emotionally expressive as Tana, I also became a bit calmer when dealing with her.
“She’s a fun kid, like a paint.”
There were so many crazy girls around me, but Tana was truly a bright child.
A child who had many friends even before she was bullied.
“Paint?”
“Yeah, she shines in various colors. Just looking at her makes me feel quite good.”
Thinking I had revealed too much of my inner thoughts, at the moment I thought, ‘Oops’…
“Hey! You come too! Are you trying to slack off by yourself?”
“…”
“Huh? You’re not loosening up? I’m a maid! You’re a servant! Don’t you know the difference in status?”
Looking at Elise, who was chuckling, I asked.
“She’s like paint, so I should dilute her in water. Is there a bucket or something?”
I’ll just pour water on her.
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