His Royal Highness's cats are very hairy.

The next morning.

The sky cleared and the road was confirmed safe, so a line was to leave.

"It's today's carriage… I'd like to take my father's carriage…"

At the breakfast table, when Adeline tells her that she is a snack, Rutvias stops the meal and sees Adeline as Giroli. but soon he returned his gaze to the plate and resumed his meal.

"If you don't want to ride the same carriage as me, say so clearly."

"That's not... eh. I just..."

Rutvias rises to block Adeline's voice.

"Be my guest."

That's what I said, Rutvias got out of the room.

Adeline, left alone, drops her shoulders disappointingly.

It pissed Rutvias off again. This wasn't supposed to happen.

"... I knew I should have told you that story first..."

But to prove that Adeline meant it, I didn't think I could just talk.

The door rang a ton, and Millet's voice sounded.

"Ma'am, may I?

"Millet? Go ahead."

To Millet, who comes in, Adeline asks.

"How are you going to get out?

In the city stopping by for a break for lunch today, Adeline had something she wanted to go to. I asked Millet to arrange everything for it.

Millet had a troubled face and nodded small

"We've got a connection on the other side. … but… one problem"

"What?"

"The escort..."

"Ah..."

This is what rust comes out of you. Adeline closed her eyes bitterly.

Originally two knights were assigned by the Knights as guards for Adeline, but two knights were assigned as guards for Rutvias the other day were scandalous and cautious. A knight with Adeline moved in with Rutvias to fill the hole.

Who are the two people who did the scandal... yes, those are the two people who worked disrespect for Adeline.

"There was a mansion escort yesterday, so there was no inconvenience."

"If you leave, the escort won't follow you..."

You can't go out without an escort. I can't get out of here, and if anything happens, I'll bother Rutvias and the Chancellor, and it'll be Millet's liability issue. I just have to give up going out.

"... No, I'm going out"

"Lady?"

There's two of them.

"Huh?"

"I'm gonna eat it anyway. They say they fall off horses on an empty stomach."

When the stir-fried eggs were placed on a pile of forks, Adeline cheeked on her mouth.

As fiancée of the suddenly revealed prince to the Chancellor's Lady, the two men who were watering the horses froze.

Regardless, Adeline laughed at the brunette youth. Rutvias kicked me. I have a white bandage on my head.

"You in Deo..."

He then smiles at the red-haired young man who was holding the horse's reins.

"You're Lyle, right?

"What are you doing? In front of the Chancellor's Lady."

Deo and Lyle knelt in a hurry as the Knights captain stirred awesomeness from behind Adeline.

"Oh, it's okay. Stop. Your clothes will get dirty."

Adeline said in a hurry, but the two of them don't get up. I lowered my head deeper.

"Sorry to disturb you the other day with great disrespect for not knowing your lady!

"and no decoy to His Highness..."

Millet advanced from the side.

"I don't need to listen to you. Shut up."

"... is"

"Yes."

Pressured by the power of Millet, the two of them mumble. Adeline started talking to Deo and Lyle when she told Millet to thank her with her gaze.

"I need a favor. I'd like to go out on a lunch break, but I don't have an escort... and I want you to follow me."

The two frowned.

"... but..."

"We are cautious…"

To the two who say, Adeline embarks on herself.

"Prudence doesn't matter because this isn't a mission. I just want you to hang out with my personal selfishness, so I'll give you a thank you."

Behind Adeline, the captain stared at Giroli.

"As far as I'm concerned, I disagreed, lady. It's just a story. But if anything happens to the lady, don't be sorry about the knight stripping."

"Yes!

"Yes!"

I heard the two of them swallow their saliva, and Adeline is now even more sorry. I'm sorry to escort Adeline, the cause of our own discretion. But we don't have enough people. Adeline apologized to the captain when she looked back.

"I'm sorry you said you couldn't either. Thanks for allowing me to be selfish."

The Knights Commander was formerly the person who escorted me to Adeline at an official event as a knight. He sometimes comes to confirm Adeline's security even after assuming the presidency due to the brave defection of the former commander.

"No. I wish I could go... Please go out with care."

"Ma'am, time for you."

The time to leave is running out.

"Oh, I shouldn't. Bye, Lyle, Deo, see you later."

"Ha"

"Yes... Yes"

Leaving two confused knights behind, Adeline hurried to the carriage.

"Can I trust those two?"

Millet groans anxiously.

Her anxiety is fine, but Adeline was worried about nothing.

"It is a prudent disposition in situations where it is also possible to strip knights. I don't think you'd be surprised if you had a grudge against me."

"That's true..."

Millet can't trust Lyle and Deo. That won't help either. Speaking of Millet when I heard about one the other day, it was just as mad as a volcano or eruption. Millet can't forgive Lyle and Deo for abusively imitating Adeline if he cares about her.

Adeline, however, has no particular resentment toward Lyle and Deo. Instead, he thinks he did something wrong by making him be discreet.

Unlike the guards recruited as long as their identities are clear, knights require a certain amount of knowledge and skills such as swordsmanship and equestrianism. Candidates are selected after several exams and interviews, but the cost of living for the period of the candidate is at their own expense, and training is demanding. Few people fail to withstand training, fail to acquire all the credits to take the final exam, spoil tens of thousands of years of candidates, and resign their living expenses to the bottom.

Lyle and Deo should have made an effort to break through those trials.

One wrong step, Adeline almost attributed that effort to nothing.

"And I was surprised. I can't believe the lady wants to go out like this."

From behind Adeline, I can hear Millet laughing at Couscous.

Adeline asked over her shoulder.

"Can't be?"

"No. I'm relieved. Even ladies want to dress when they fall in love."

"Huh?"

Adeline doubted her ears. What did Millet say now?

"You want to look beautiful in front of His Highness and make a dress, don't you?

"Chi, no!

Adeline looked back at Millet in the sky.

In the next city, it's the tailor Adeline wants to go to. I'm supposed to buy a new dress there.

But that's not because I want Rutvias to see it. No, technically, maybe it will, but that's not about romantic feelings involved.

Sometimes yesterday, Adaline has much better feelings for Rutvias than at the beginning of the reunion. I'm getting used to wearing cats, and I don't think I'm a bad person.

But if he asks if he's in love, I can assure you he's not, and Adeline thinks that's okay. Love feelings cloud your eyes sometimes, I often hear. For Adaline's sake, that's something to avoid.

Adeline desperately tries to explain to Millet.

"I just... wanted to be worthy of His Highness..."

"Oh, I knew it."

"No, it's not. Not like that."

"Yes, yes, I get it. You got it, lady."

I know everything, that's how Millet laughed. It seems useless no matter how much Adeline denies it.

Several carriages lined the square in front of the main entrance.

The Prime Minister, who found his daughter, is approaching early.

"Did you sleep well?

"Yes, Father. I'm fine."

Looking straight into his father's eyes, Adeline smiled.

Adeline knows that the Chancellor cares about last night's dinner party.

-... even for your father...

Adeline renewed her determination to hold on to her chest.

"Father, I need a favor. I'd like to go out at noon, if you don't mind?

"At noon? But..."

"Millet's with you. I can arrange an escort. Hey, okay?

The Chancellor was an imaginary face, but slightly nodded.

"... if that's gonna change your mood, go with care."

"Thanks!"

The Chancellor escorted me into the carriage when he laid his hand on his shoulder so that he could labor Adeline.

I heard the blurring, and Adeline peered out the carriage window. Just as Rutvias appears to have come out of the mansion. Adeline holds her breath and stares at Rutvias. Without realizing such Adeline, Rutvias got into the carriage.

-... Your Highness, me.

Tie your lips together.

I put my hand on my chest so I could hold my resolve.

-... I will be your queen.

Adeline herself can be crushed by inferiority and ridiculed by people for her unusual appearance. Except when it comes to shaming Rutvias. At last night's dinner party, Rutvias should have been able to laugh at Adeline with her surroundings. I'd rather do that. That place fitted round. I wouldn't have bought the Grand Duke's unhappiness either.

But Rutvias didn't.

Even though he hated Adeline, and would have thought the same of everyone else on that occasion, as Adeline's fiancée, he protected Adeline's retention.

Even if that was not love, but an action from a sense of duty, he took Adeline for every ugly inferiority. Even Adeline herself had turned away from Adeline.

-... what about me?

What about Adeline?

Would you have seen Rutvias from the front even once?

Haven't you run around because you're not a gentle and serene ideal prince? Were you scared of that strong glance, which sees all the stupid Adeline, and just turns away?

He's a fair, honest, respectable man. Even minus wearing a cat, he must be brilliant and talented.

Wearing a cat is because you don't need to deal with it properly, and that reason, like looking around, is now suspicious.

At least Adeline knows that he is not the one to judge people by their identity and appearance. I can't imagine Adeline wearing a cat, but there must be some other reason.

'Are you sure that's all right?

Last night, Rutvias questioned me and I got lost for a moment.

Adeline knew in the back of her mind that being lost couldn't be better.

I was furiously exaggerated by Rutvias' phrase 'what are you kind of obsessed with your appearance' because I actually knew that it was you who was most obsessed with your appearance.

Adeline always thought it was because everything wasn't beautiful. I thought everything would have worked out if it was beautiful. But did you really?

No, it's not. That shouldn't have happened. Adeline blamed everything on her appearance, bullied her, and gave up. He was running away.

Rutvias made me realize that to Adeline.

Adeline is not beautiful.

I just got dressed, and I can't even be beautiful.

I can't change my face.

No matter how much I wish.

That's not why you can bully me, give up, and run away. So what do I do?

"Don't be humble."

Rutvias was also giving me answers that night.

No, the truth is, I've known Adeline for a long time.

'Stretch your spine. Don't lean down. It's a disgrace to your wife to drop the flower hat. "

I don't think the only thing my mother said on a distant, young day was about behavior. Besides, I've noticed it by now.

-... let's look up.

Let's lean down, out of people's eyes, out of ourselves, and stop running away.

That's all, but, you know, you should be able to see what you couldn't see because you were leaning down.

At least, thrown mud can be avoided.

Because of Adeline, I will never let Rutvias wear mud again.

-... I'm glad I broke my heart.

It is fortunate now that we no longer have any romantic feelings for Rutvias, unlike heartbreak in its original meaning. If he liked Rutvias, Adeline just wanted his heart and lamented that it wouldn't come true. I should have spent the rest of my life as a queen full of depressed names.

My father once told Adeline. If you love me, you can't be queen.

-... you don't have to be loved, you can be queen...

To that fact, Adeline was desperate that day as if her life was over. But my life wasn't over. And with Adaline now, I can find hope in those words.

Even if I wasn't loved as a woman for the rest of my life, that's not my unhappy life. Adeline has a duty that she has been fortunate enough to give.

"... I'll be queen."

With determination in his words, Adeline turned away. It was not long before the carriage stopped in the city for a lunch break. The Chancellor has already left the carriage.

Tons, and carriage doors are knocked from the outside.

Ma'am, Lyle and Deo are here.

It's Millet. Adeline just stood up and opened the door from herself waiting.

"Then let's go"

"Yes, sir."

Get out of the carriage to support the hand Millet offered me.

In the blue sky, there is no cloud. The wind was just a little cold.

It is up to Adeline to make Princess Wang a life that will eventually be queen, just a miserable one crushed by heavy pressure, or withstand heavy pressure and look forward to it.

Become a recognized queen to Rutvias. To the Queen, who will allow him to stand next to her, proud.

I won't lean down anymore. Stretch your spine and drop your flower hat, your lady's shame.

- The way, it's decided.

Then all you have to do is walk.