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Chapter 98
Chapter 98
Chapter 98
The Princess tried to rein in her laughter as much as possible.
Rieta seemed to be speaking quite seriously.
But when she remembered Noel, who vowed to present a roe deer the size of a carriage, she bursted out into such a large laugh that she couldn’t help but roll over.
“Oh my God, Duchy Mayer’s ‘best groom’ was Noel, not the Duke!”
“That’s right! The Duke is wonderful, but Noel is also a wonderful gentleman.”
“Probably.”
The Princess smiled so much that she had to gently wipe the corners of her eyes, where tears had come out.
“I have to meet the Princess more often. I think I can get to know a new side of Noel.”
That was the answer Rieta had been waiting for the most.
So, Rieta answered bravely with a happy voice.
“Yes, please call me. Let me tell you a lot about Noel. You will definitely be satisfied!”
Satisfied!
The words that Rieta chose were so interesting that the Princess ended up laughing once more.
“I am very happy that the Princess likes my cousin brother so much. Thank you.”
“No. Noel is a really good friend.”
The Princess was surprised for a moment at the answer she immediately heard.
“Friends?”
“Yes, my friend.”
Well, it’s perfectly natural for ten-year-olds to think of each other as ‘friends’.
For some reason, when Rieta turned 18, the Princess thought she would say proudly, ‘Noel is a really good friend,’.
Uh, that would be a bit difficult.
Of course, it meant that Noel would be in trouble.
Because she doesn’t think the child would be kind to Rieta without reason.
“How about this?”
Moreover, a bad foreboding is not wrong.
“Princess?”
As Rieta started, Gabriella grinned at the little child.
“It seems that Noel has changed a lot since the Princess came. Please take good care of that child.”
At her request, Rieta clapped her hands with a delighted face.
“Are you saying that you want me to keep an eye?”
What was she going to keep an eye on? Noel?
The Princess didn’t know what to say, so she was a little confused, but she nodded her head anyway.
“I’ll be happy to. I will try not to disappoint.”
Rieta said she would be satisfied before, but this time she won’t be disappointed.
The Princess remembered that a lot of merchants used to say that.
“Pfft.”
Really she doesn’t know how many times she’s laughed since she met this little girl.
“The Princess is such a fun person, you look like you came to sell me Noel.”
“. . . !”
Rieta was a little pricked.
But when she had a chance, she decided to open her mind a bit.
“Are you going to give him to me?”
“Well. In the first place, Noel’s ownership belongs to Noel, so it’s useless for us to say this.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“But the good news is that Noel is starting to act like a gentleman little by little. I hope the Princess likes Noel a lot too.”
“Yes! I will!”
The Princess seemed to have omitted the words ‘As a friend!’ for some reason after Rieta’s words.
Noel, stay strong. This sister did her best.
A wind blew between the two of them, facing each other with a smile.
Rieta’s hair was clinging to the back of her small nose, so the Princess pulled it off.
The little girl wrinkled her eyes as if tickled.
“Hmm . . .”
The Princess stared at Rieta and sighed for a moment.
And soon she spoke her words that she had kept in her heart.
“I’m sorry, Princess.”
“. . . Yes?”
“Actually, I should have come to look after the Princess a little sooner.”
“. . . ?”
Rieta still had a face that didn’t understand the situation.
It was out of the blue.
Rieta was without the Princess, but she was with Darrel.
“Well, if I had come a little earlier . . .”
If she had come earlier, would something have changed?
“. . . At least, the bizarre sight of needles being pierced in brother’s finger could have been prevented.”
The two both looked at Darrel, reading a book from a distance of ten steps away.
Did he feel the gaze?
He waved his hand slightly.
With tightly bandaged fingers.
Rieta thought about what would have happened to that finger if the Princess had come a little later.
. . . A few of them would have been pierced a lot and disappeared.
“The Princess is not late. At least Darrel still has five fingers.”
“Thank you. For being kind to me.”
“I am grateful. Oh right.”
Rieta decided to pass on the words she had been putting off until now.
“I’m glad you wore those shoes.”
The Princess shook her head.
It was she who was really happy with this gift.
“It was a wonderful gift for me. If it wasn’t for such a place . . . I wanted to try them on right away.”
“. . . What?”
Rita was a little surprised by the sincere story.
Well, the Princess of that day didn’t seem to appreciate the gift.