Common Sense of a Duke’s Daughter

"Hey, Lyle. Can you tell me why you came to the royal castle today and why?

"... go and you'll see"

Lyle returned unanswered words to my question.

Now we were on our way to the royal castle with that leg we reached the king's capital.

I stopped opening my mouth after an earlier inquiry. That's my half-walking buddy... because it was so, so disastrous to overflow from Lyle.

If you touch it, you'll cut it... I can't see your usual princess at all.

We were guided by one of the servants waiting at the entrance to the Imperial Castle, but we walked.

And it was Yuri waiting there. I can't hide my surprise at the appearance of an unexpected person.

"Oh, I knew you were here, Mr. Lyle. … although some people are not calling for you."

The moment she sees Lyle show up, she shines her eyes.

However, when he found me next to him, he immediately changed his expression to that of stubbornness.

"It won't be a problem.... even with him."

"Well, if you're good, I don't care."

Ironically, she distorts her mouth.

... I felt dazzled that this was the only woman with a handle that was innocent and natural. And at the same time, I have doubts about Lyle, who behaves as if he knew that.

"So, why did you call me?

"Already... to the habit I know. Are you gonna bother making me say it out of my mouth?

"Come on. I'm asking because I don't know."

"Not at all..."

She exhales, but that doesn't look like she's in any trouble at all.

Rather, he seemed happy somewhere.

"I'll tell you straight in. You, join the Knights. I'll listen to you."

"I thought you said no.

"I know you do. But you should take it this time."

She seems confident.

"Once you're in the Knights, I'll help you become Count Melese."

I was even more shocked by the words.

What the hell is this guy talking about...

Count Melese... sure is about the guy who became the new Knight Commander, isn't he?

"How do you know where I come from?

Lyle just asks her quietly.

From me, I didn't know why and my head was upset.

"Now I am the future queen of this country. The information you crave is in a position that you can easily access. Sometimes what you do comes up is so elegant, I made you look into it because I wondered. Then I was surprised. I can't believe you were Uncle Merese's bastard. Your poor mother, seen dyed by as many men as her own parents. By the way, I sympathize with you as the same woman who was killed by touching her right wife, even though she wasn't the pet she wanted."

To the words that came out of her, she had also forgotten to fix them and uttered a voice that didn't make her mouth squeak.

"Well, you didn't tell your partner about your past."

She finds me like that and laughs at her face crooked.

"You hate it, don't you? There's a current Count Merese who knows nothing. He said he had killed his mother and was about to be killed and banished, but he didn't know anything about it, so he lived to solicit you. You want to take your mother's revenge, don't you? It is unfortunate that the former Earl of Merese is already dead, but we should take that as vengeance by hitting the current Earl of Merese.... How's it going? Isn't that a good story?

Her eyes were filled with madness. I have no hesitation or anything at all.

Instead, she even seemed to hate Count Melese.

"Hate, but not for me"

Lyle, however, was not in the heat.

Just be quiet, keep your eyes on her.

"What... are you talking about?

In response, she was dismayed.

So I said, "You don't have to."

"Liar!

To denial again, she distorted her face to anger.

"Something you can't possibly hate! So you used to go for the Knights, too? That's what I hear.... you didn't let that favorite natural duke lady fool you?

She got caught by Lyle.

The intensity makes me suspicious.

But the person at heart... Lyle just looked down on her chilly.

"The name of Count Melese, I threw it away.... Originally, they said I didn't deserve to be named. I was picked up by a lady once, dead. Dead, reborn. So I'm not interested in Count Melese or anything like that, and I don't want to be in the Knights or fine dust."

Lyle let go of her hand as she grabbed it and said pale off to her with her cold eyes intact.

"All I came here today was to know how you found out about my ghost. Are you doing this… and then be careful."

Lyle returns her heels just because she lost interest.

"Wait! … why……. The past is not easily abandoned. Especially the more resentment and hatred you accumulate. You'd think so, wouldn't you?

"I can't throw it away. However, there is no need to detain him. I think it doesn't matter now that I have something more important."

Lyle said so, leaving the room.

I rush after him, too.

Just like when I came, I was silent and just walking.

There's a more painful atmosphere between us than just now.

"... hey"

Speak to Lyle, as you have decided.

"What?

"Am I glad to accompany you? I've learned about your past in this way..."

"It's fine. I didn't mean to hide it from you. I just didn't have the time to say it.... knowing your past unilaterally..."

There is no sharpness in his expression that I said so earlier. The usual, I knew him well.

"hehe...... well"

I laughed as lighted by accident, and that's another embarrassing slap on Lyle's back with a pong.

And Lyle laughed, too.

"Even so, you're the nobleman... If you ask me, is it like that? You, the princess, you know that?

Zubazuba and I said relentlessly. No more reluctance.

"You mean I'm the Count Melese droppings? Or was that woman calling you today?

"Well, that would be both of us."

"I haven't told you what that woman called me. I'm going to put an extra burden on my current lady..."

"Oh well..."

"As for my past, it's up to me to know. My husband checked me out when he picked me up... because I myself defied the lady when she first picked me up and told him that."

"You defy the lady!... Damn, I wanted to see it!

Lyle sighs at me for saying that and laughing heavily.

"Black history."

"Because of that, how did you disobey?

…… "I'm the son of Count Melese," or "I'm alive to join the Knights"... quote, "I can't go out with the lady's deception."

"Wow... that, seriously, you said that?

"... so I told you. He said it was black history."

"Heh... how did such a nobleman fall on a princess?"

"Don't say aristocratic boy.... because they cried."

"Well, there it is."

"Oh, it's happening. But he cried when he heard about my past.... that I'm sorry I'm not strong enough."

"... what?

"I thought you were sympathetic, and a five-year-old girl lamented her lack of power. Hearing that, he said he resented the helplessness he couldn't do anything about it. So he asked me to wait. You said if you wanted to be a Knights, you'd make sure you put your strength into it and make it happen."

As I miss those days, he had far-eyed eyes.

"... think about it, it was your first time. Anyone who looked at me and said they wanted to help me. My mother didn't see me as an enemy because she wanted me, and my father wasn't interested."

"Your nobility is in trouble, too.... or the princess has been a princess since then."

"That's the thing. I'm fucked if you admit I exist. I couldn't believe I wanted to be in the Knights, and I didn't even think of the dust. Actually, it was a meeting with the lady about the recommendation from the master."

"What? I didn't know."

"Me too." In the dawn when it came to fulfilling your grandfather's glasses, "he said when we started going to the master. My master asked me that later."

"But you didn't choose."

That said, again I slapped Lyle's back lightly.

"Naturally.... Is there anything more worthwhile than a lady's escort?... some of my buddies can take their backs off."

Lyle, too, slaps me in the back just in return.

... would be sloppy.

At this time, the line is...

I got itchy and turned my back on Lyle and just walked ahead.