His Royal Highness's cats are very hairy.

This was the first day that Adeline, the only daughter of Fanias Marcelio, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Ludo Saxony, would step into the Royal Palace.

-... Wow, wow...

For Adeline, who turned eight two months ago, everything is rare and beautiful: the luxurious columns of the royal palace, the high ceilings, and the paintings of the saints painted on the ceiling.

"Adeline, don't leave."

"Yes. Father."

He seemed distracted by the ceiling painting and had stopped walking at some point. Adaline rushed over to her father. Then, the Chancellor frowns.

"It's not something that runs freshly"

"... sorry..."

When his daughter apologized, the Chancellor turned himself over and began walking down the polished corridor again. Adeline follows suit.

To avoid dropping a flower hat (kabo) tailored with a dress over her head, Adaline stretched her spine straight and walked carefully, of course, to avoid moving her torso.

It's difficult for a child. Adeline can do this without much bitterness, which is probably due to being thoroughly planted from her mother from the time she started remembering the words.

"Please wait here. Your Royal Highness will be here shortly."

As the woman who guided me finally thanked her, Adeline looked around the room with Kyolo Kyolo.

-... mirrors everywhere...

A mirror with good reflection is worth the same as a gem. It looks like the mirror was stuck on one side of the room.

Adeline worried that if she married her fiancé, Prince Rutvias, and started living in the royal palace, she would start sleeping in a room like this herself.

-... I kinda hate it...

I'm going to be dazzled and have a hard time sleeping.

"Be nice, Adeline."

"Yes. Father"

Adeline nodded honestly. The young leafy shoes that adorn that little foot are embroidered with crystal beads and sparkle every time Adeline walks. On Adeline's eighth birthday, it was given as an engagement item by the king's great-grandson, Prince Rutvias, as the first prince of the king.

A man's gift of shoes to a woman when proposing marriage was a custom throughout the continent, not just in the rude succeed, originally when the goddess first descended on the earth, and the farmer, who later became the husband of the goddess, began knitting and shoeing the white stuffed grass that had grown on the spot so that the goddess' feet would not get dirty.

The engagement was originally an insistence, but the day Adaline was first taught that she would be queen in the future on the day she was given her shoes.

But he's still eight years old.

There was no way I could understand the seriousness of the matter, and my young heart became more obsessed with the beautiful shoes in front of me than my fiancée, whom I had yet to see.

For her, those shoes were magical shoes in her sleep story.

I was halfway serious that wearing these shoes would do some magic to me.

By the way, these crystal beaded shoes were just a little big for Adeline, to tell the truth.

But there is no way that I can return what the prince gave me as an engagement item of different sizes.

The shoes were forced to adjust to Adaline's little feet by increasing the laying on the inside. With that circumstance, in fact, Adeline's heel complained of wrinkles and pain, but still a huge favorite for Adeline. When I see my fiancée, I decide to thank her for my shoes first.

Prince Rutvias is ten years older than Adeline.

This is the first day I've seen you, but if you're officially engaged, you'll have every chance to meet the prince.

-... what to do and play with when we get along.

Adeline's heart was playing. I've been looking forward to meeting my fiancée face-to-face, wondering if I could get her to go out with me for doll games or if I could show her Tenma that only the royal family is allowed to own.

At that time, the door opposite the door that Adaline and the others had entered opened.

"I am with His Royal Highness Prince Rutvias."

To the voice of the woman, her father's prime minister quickly broke his knee and drowned his neck. Adaline rushes to become it, too.

Tips and approaching footsteps stopped right in front of Adeline.

"Give me your face"

Encouraged by a stretchy voice like a girl, Adeline lifts her neck softly.

The boy standing there was taller for one head than Adeline. And the golden hair seemed to emit light. The gemstone-like beauty of the eye, the statue-like face of the goddess seen on the altar, is so beautiful as to keep an eye on her.

Being ejected by its beauty, Adaline wondered if she could hold her breath. Stared at by the godly beautiful eyes, Adeline does not move one finger, one eyelid as she thinks, and stands up like a stick.

"... you're Adeline?

My name, which I should be used to hearing, sounded like a spring poem.

If I didn't respond, I opened my mouth, but for some reason, I don't hear a voice. Breathing becomes shallow and paralysis spreads across the body from the toe of the nail.

"Adeline, greet Your Highness."

My neighbor's father urges me to stop.

But Adeline chews on her trembling lips. Until just now, I thanked him for his shoes, and it was like the words I had prepared were leaded and stuck in my throat.

"Adeline!"

"Please don't scold me"

It was a word from Prince Rutvias that controlled his father's harsh voice.

"It's still small. Don't scold him."

He was also young enough to look up to the Chancellor, much older than himself, and sheltered Adeline, but I can already feel the majesty of royalty in his words and deeds.

Adeline realized for the first time that this grown boy was going to marry himself one day.

In fact, until then, the difference between fiancée and playmate was also unclear, and that differentiation was a great revolution.

"Your grandfather is waiting for you. Let's go."

The white beautiful hands offered are beautiful to the tip of the nail and are like works of art.

I am supposed to greet His Majesty the King with Prince Rutvias today and report on his engagement. After that, the engagement of Adeline and Rutvias will be announced to a large extent at home and abroad.

In disgrace of her own small, round hand, Adeline puts her hand aside and adds it to her beautiful hand. Then, a beautiful hand reminiscent of ivory shook Adaline's hand back unexpectedly with the warmth characteristic of the child. To the warmth of it, Adeline was finally only a little relieved.

I'll give you my eyes.

Green beautiful eyes were pointing in the direction of progress, not Adeline, so don't worry, Adeline stole a look at him.

The bright blonde hair of Rutvias swayed sarcastically, but Adeline was glimpsed.

-... wow...

Beautiful face, blonde hair. Besides being kind and brave, it's the saints themselves who come up in the myth.

-... what a beautiful boy...

Adeline quickly became obsessed with Prince Rutvias.

When you grow up, you become a beautiful princess, marry him, and live happily ever after.

Adeline didn't believe and doubt such a dream story.

The engagement ceremony of Prince Sun Rutvias, King of the Kingdom of Ludo Saxony, was celebrated as royalties and ambassadors from various countries, including the Empire of Saint Tiranazir, were invited and listed among the royal nobles. The unusually grand engagement ceremony reveals the unusual expectations of King Albuquerque's grand prince.

There was no choice, people whispered.

On that day, Prince Rutvias' father, Prince Richard, was ill and absent from the engagement ceremony. King Richard Prince is born weak and badly reconciled with King Albuquerque. But Prince Rutvias was also strong in body, young but talented, and widely loved by the people because of the beautiful face of the Mother Queen, and King Albuquerque's anticipation of his grandson Prince Rutvias over his son Prince Richard had no choice but to say so.

The guests watched with a smile the ten-year-old prince and his eight-year-old fiancée, who was first worshipped by the king with his hands held by the prince.

But only ten days after this.

Between the Kingdom of Ludo Saxony and the Empire of Saint Tiranazir, a war erupts. In a battle that lasted more than a year, Ludo Saxony, shouldered with the Empire as the two great powers of the continent, burned vast tracts of national territory and its pride and national prestige fell to the ground.

"Disengagement!?"

To that voice like a mother's scream, Adeline shook her shoulders with a victory.

Seven years after his engagement with Prince Rutvias, Adeline, who turned fifteen, unfortunately did not grow up to be Reishi's beauty.

Black eyes and mouth are small, nose is not high, and cannot be described as beautiful in flattery. But the abundant chestnut hair peeking through the flower hat is plenty glossy to color its back and catch the eye.

He was widely recognised as the future queen from within and outside the country, and was treated as a high-profile woman after the royal family, although before formal marriage.

Even today, the royal woman has just consoled the orphanage in the King's capital, which should have been visited.

To the children's energetic singing, under Adeline, who was warming her breasts, suddenly came a use from her father's prime minister to return to her residence immediately.

If I go home, it is the scream of my mother earlier before I even take off my coat yet. Disengagement, and.

"What... do you mean?

When asked with a trembling voice, she looked back like her mother could have played.

"Adeline!"

The Chancellor's wife ran over to her beloved daughter and held herself to bump into her.

On that clap, a flower hat rolls off the lady's head.

The lady's hat, with its gorgeous embroidery, is called a flower hat, and the graceful and slow work of not dropping this is considered the sagging of the lady.

The mother, who once served the Crown Princess and was a floral woman in the court, never forgot this sagging, at any time.

Always stretching her spine, Rin and her beautiful mother looking forward were Adeline's yearnings. But now the flower hat rolled off his mother's head. Neither my mother nor my strict father will try to do that.

That's all that matters.

"Mother..."

"It's not decided"

The Chancellor had a tough look, but ran out of words.

"It won't cancel the engagement. Don't worry about anything."

"I... did I do something wrong?

Adeline held her chest so that she could contain her swelling anxiety. Since his engagement, he is Adeline, who has made an effort to make Prince Rutvias worthy. But the original people have a familiar temperament, and I don't like to chat. At one dinner party or prom from time to time, I wonder if something has gone wrong.

"It's not. There's no downfall."

"Then why does that story hold up!

It was the Lady Chancellor who shouted on behalf of her daughter. The Chancellor frowns and drops his gaze to the floor. It's like running away from my only daughter's face that's about to cry out now.

"... Your Highness, I hope so."

"... of His Highness Rutvias?

Adeline was stunned. On the day of the engagement show, I haven't seen a boy since who gave me a sober smile like an angel. The war against the Empire of St. Tyrann Azir shortly afterwards and the defeat. Prince Rutvias was travelling to the Empire as a de facto hostage in the name of studying abroad.

"... Your Highness wishes to dissolve your engagement with me?

Adeline could no longer contain the tremor of her hands. Anxiety shaped the tears and is still going to spill out of my eyes.

"... in the Empire, he said he had seen a certain woman. He who desires to marry her strongly."

"Oh my... Huh!

Before Adeline, her mother cried down.

"Rumors have... I've heard rumors of His Highness being close to certain ladies for a long time. But the other day, His Royal Highness asked His Majesty the Emperor to forgive him for his marriage."

"... so... the story went public."

Adaline also laid her hands on the floor, as her mother dragged her.

"That's right. His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire is against marriage. But it seems that the face of Congress positively thinks of recognizing marriage.

If you take the Empire side, this is a great opportunity to put your own daughter on the queen of the kingdom of Ludo Succeed. But the fact that the emperor is showing opposition to marriage, as is the case in every country, I guess there is a rush of the powerful inside the empire as well.

"He says he's a low-status woman. Such a man to the royal family of my kingdom of Ludo Saxony, and the imperial man!

The Chancellor, who was distracted from his daughter, suddenly bared his voice, trying to push his wife away and grabbing Adeline's shoulders hard.

"Adeline, listen carefully! Rude, you're the queen of succeeds. It's just that! His Majesty the late Lord Albuquerque has made up his mind. I don't have a daughter more deserving of a queen than that!

"Father..."

In his usually sober father's overly emotional mouthfeel, Adaline recognised once again the seriousness of the matter.

"Even if His Royal Highness Rutvias' strong wishes, this engagement will never be covered.

The queen is the mother of the land. It's not just something a king can love! Bloodline, lineage, and proper upbringing will be the only way to be queen!

The queen is the mother of the land. It's just not something the king can be if he loves him. On the contrary, you can be queen even if the king doesn't love you.

Adeline hadn't even noticed until then. As Adeline wants, Prince Rutvias doesn't want me to marry Adeline as well. That Prince Rutvias is not thinking of me as he admires Prince Rutvias and makes his chest hot.

This is a political marriage.

Prince Rutvias did not choose Adeline. It's just a story about Adeline being nominated as the 'Queen of the Future' after considering the bloodline, lineage, and domestic political equilibrium.

I should have known. But Adeline really didn't know.

My hands aren't shaking anymore.

My eyeballs are already dry.

I just don't need power.

Contrary to the strength of his father's hand grabbing his shoulder, Adeline had left his arm dallarious.

It is a mistake to be hurt by Prince Rutvias, who wishes to break his engagement, in a betrayed mood. Betrayal or nothing, the prince's heart does not belong to Adeline in the first place.

"You're the queen. It's just Adeline!

That sounded like a declaration of execution.

Far away that day. Beautiful hand warmth that wrapped me in Adeline's hand.

That warmth, Adeline can't remember anymore.