"Hey, Master Linoa, it's me..."
"Because of you, I realized something called love in me.
"Huh?"
Without Master Linoa, I'm sure I wouldn't have noticed so soon. It must have ended up being favored by Elle once, but without realizing it.
"I don't know what love is... so I thought I'd be jealous to see how Lord Linoa... admires His Highness Laus. Lord Sophia and His Highness William, who are near me, are friends, although they are politically married. But I don't think Sophia behaves like a maiden in love with Lord Linoa... no, I think most nobles do.
"... the country here doesn't even think about it, but you're getting married?
"Yeah, marriage for the house is normal. Is the Earth Country Different? Didn't you have an engagement with His Royal Highness Laus because Lord Linoa is a duke's warrant?
"Yeah, me and Laus are really just childhood tamers. There are no formal engagements... and most of our country has a lot of romantic marriages. Well, apart from royalty... your father tried to make me Raus' daughter-in-law because me and Raus were the same age and your father and Raus' father... and the king was a friend... so it wasn't for the house or for power.
"Really? I envy that.
This country... no, most countries should have more political marriages than romantic marriages. However, although there seem to be many times when a political marriage develops into love like my parents do, many houses surround mistresses that did not.
I thought that was nobility. But somewhere in my heart, I also wanted to be free to make love, like in my previous life. Back in my previous life, I had a lover, but that was dating because they told me not to, and I like myself! I didn't think we were going out.
So I also wondered how happy I would be in this world if I was tied to someone I thought I liked.
(I thought it was another dream like that. Yeah, you didn't even know if something called love would bud on me in the first place. ~)
"People's countries are complicated, aren't they? I've known how Raus feels along the way."
"Feelings?"
"Yeah, when we met Laus, we only saw each other as playmates. Your father is your future husband. I don't know what you said, but I didn't really feel it at first.... but now I think it was love at first sight... and your father has always been Raus' daughter-in-law! Because of that, I started to think that myself, and then every time I saw him, I started to like him more and more.
Linoa, speaking dyed her cheeks, was so cute that she wanted to cuddle. But in the middle of the conversation, it turned to a dark look again.
"As much as I liked him, I knew Raus only saw me as a friend. Besides, that has changed to certainty since Laus was kidnapped and returned to the Land of Aarstel. All the sword arches and studies, when I met you occasionally, I started talking about your... Roselia. Laus blushes her cheeks and talks about Lady Roselia... and that's the bump... but stop it! I couldn't say anything. I thought I'd never be able to talk to Raus again... and when I heard that Raus was going to study in this country, I wanted to see the rumor of Roselia, too.
...
I didn't know how to return to the story that Master Linoa would tell me slowly, and I kept my mouth shut.
"You can meet Master Roselia in person and talk to her... okay.
"... what is it?
"Why Raus falls in love"
Elle falls in love, falls in love... why?
I tilted my neck at Master Linoa's words because I didn't know it myself.
"The exterior is as beautiful as a goddess, and I'm very strong with my opinions properly. Besides, the candy and whip were used separately and I felt like I had a raus.
I don't think candy and whips are compliments.
"For us, the Beast Man, Lord Roselia is very attractive.... so I declared my rival when I met Master Roselia, but that was like the last bad scratch.
When I said that, Master Linoa laughed powerlessly at this one.
"I really, really liked Raus. But I like Roselia, too.