His Royal Highness's cats are very hairy.

"Ha..."

Adeline dropped a depressing sigh, not knowing how many times.

I have to decide on the fabric of my dress by tomorrow, but I don't feel so good about it. I feel that all of the samples I see are gray because I am depressed.

"... ha..."

During the day, Rutvias didn't even look at Adeline's face. He was thrust away with a cold attitude and words, and came home to flee.

-... maybe he was in a bad mood.

There may have been something unpleasant at your previous meeting, and you may still be concerned about the other day's observation with the King. Maybe I was tired from the long journey.

-... or... maybe I've done something...

I think of Rutvias turning away, and tears creep into Adeline's eyes.

-... I thought I could crack it...

Were all the carriage journeys I laughed at in conversations I didn't love? Today Rutvias returned to Rutvias as if he had been reunited at the border.

"... keep it up... what if you don't even talk to me again..."

Adeline shuddered at the possibility.

For Adeline, Rutvias is no longer just the opponent of a political marriage. A dear friend. Has Adeline done something to her dear friend while she is unaware of it?

But whether you think about it or not, you can't think of anything. I just apologized even though I didn't think of it, will Rutvias fulfill and forgive me?

Concon, and the door rang.

"Yes? Millet?"

Adeline rushes to wipe her tears.

The door opened and Millet peered into his face.

"Ma'am, you're a customer."

"Customer?

Adeline stood up.

It's already dark out there. Who are the guests at this hour?

When Millet opened the door wide, Aurio appeared from beyond.

"Aurio!"

"Excuse me for the night, ma'am. Mind if I come in?

"Of course. Come on, go ahead."

"I'll get you some tea."

"Please, Millet."

The door closes.

Aurio sat across from Adeline across from the round table. That's where he's been since he was a tutor.

"You remembered coming to tea and saying,

"Of course, I just wanted to say that I actually have an announcement for His Excellency the Chancellor. You can't slow down."

"Yes..."

Adeline dropped her shoulder. Aurio's stories are always interesting. It makes it easy for me to understand what Adaline doesn't know. I thought if I listened to him, I would be able to surface the feeling of sinking.

"... sorry"

"Oh, yeah. Don't apologize. You must be busy, huh? I have no choice."

Unlike when he was one of the Chancellor's multiple secretaries, Aurio is now Rutvias' secretary. Besides, chief. I have to refer to the work of the secretaries below the second seat, and I manage all the plans for Rutvias' administration, even if it's just a lot.

-... Your Highness... so far...

Was it around the end of the meal? Does Aurio's presence here mean that today's affairs have come to a close? I think about it and think about it.

-... maybe I didn't like this place...

Would I not have given Rutvias inadvertent attention because I could have broken it? I remember paying attention to my diet. And the habit of elbowing. I'm also a mother, and I wonder if Rutvias would have annoyed Adeline with such an unscrupulous attitude.

Aurio speaks to Adeline, who leaned down and stopped moving.

"Lady?"

"Oh, I'm sorry. Thanks for stopping by though I'm busy. Just have a cup of tea and go."

"... Anything?

"Nothing..."

"There can't be. You were about to cry alone again, right? I pulled back last time, but not this time."

Aurio stares at Adeline, trying to stare. To that pressure, Adaline shrugged her neck.

The tip of the finger hits the sample.

Rutvias' cold voice revived in his ear.

"Why don't you talk to Aurio?"

"... I wanted to... decide on the color of my dress"

When I started talking, I couldn't stop. My eyeballs get hot. I desperately put up with tears getting zero (spilled), but there was nothing I could do about my voice trembling.

"I was going to ask His Highness how many colors he liked... but... I... I think I pissed His Highness off... I said things annoying..."

Adaline rushes to wipe her hands with tears that are all over her cheeks.

"Me. I thought I could crack it, but maybe it was a mistake. I'm sure His Highness... was forced to suit me... because I'm too late to do anything... because it's too late to talk or walk. That's why I'm tired of fitting in, I'm sure."

Rutvias didn't tell me that. But in words, I actually felt like that was the truth.

With a hand wipe that was on the round table, Adeline covers her eyes.

-... don't cry.

Don't cry any more. Tomorrow Adeline is supposed to go out on official business. You can't hold official duties with a sobbing eye.

Aurio, who was listening to Adeline in silence, flickered at her mouth.

"Aren't you the one who's impossible to match?

face up from the hand wipe. Adeline listens back.

"Huh?"

"I don't think His Highness can protect you very well. Forgot? Your Highness did this to you."

What Aurio is saying would have been three years ago.

Even then, Adeline had Aurio listen to her like this. Remember that, and Adeline wonders.

At that time, Adeline was in love with Rutvias. In fact, there was no such thing as a calm, gentle, perfect prince in love with Adeline, but Adeline believed Rutvias was. I moaned and cried that I couldn't get him to turn around, I should...

-... than then, my chest hurts...

Adeline is not in love with Rutvias right now.

But why is my chest so stiff?

Why is Rutvias so scratched by his cold demeanor?

-... why...

"... you can stop getting married or something"

Before Adeline got to the answer, Aurio's outrageous remarks popped into Adeline's ear.

"... Aurio?

I can't stop getting married, and I can't possibly rebel from the Adeline side.

Even Aurio should know that. You should know, but Aurio went on. Look straight at Adeline.

"We're going to throw away our country, our identities, and we're going to change our names and live. It is not impossible as long as we cross the border. If you want me to, I'll take you away. Anytime, anywhere."

Adeline doubted her ears.

What the hell did Aurio say now?

Even though it was a slow spinning head, Adeline nevertheless desperately chewed (shudder) the meaning of Aurio's words.

A cousin I trust wholeheartedly.

Does he know that what he says is synonymous with betrayal of the country and with his proposal to Adeline?

Shin, and the indoor quiets back down.

Aurio doesn't want to distract himself from Adeline.

"... Phew."

Dull, Adeline started laughing.

"Thanks Aurio. Yeah, I'll apologize to His Highness tomorrow, and if you still can't, please."

I didn't expect Aurio to make such a joke.

I almost meant it. On a glimpse of the unexpected side of her serious cousin, Adeline was surprised, while feeling easier.

-... that's Aurio.

I must have been calculating everything.

"... ha..."

Aurio leaned down like he was weak for some reason.

And reach out to Adeline's sample at hand.

"... at least I'll ask you about this consultation. Do you have any idea?

"... that's it, at all..."

"How about this one? It's a pattern, but it's tonal, so it's not flashy."

We ended up dating Aurio for about a half an hour, and out of a huge sample, Adeline chose a single piece of fabric. Aurio, returning to the royal palace, also took on the word for the workshop.

"Thanks for stopping by today, Aurio. Tell the workshop, please."

"I did accept"

Politely bowing his head, Aurio boarded the carriage. Until the carriage was out of the gate and out of sight, Adeline waved off.

Millet, who refrained next door, says worryingly.

"Dear Aurio... is something wrong?

"Why?"

"It seemed a little depressing..."

"Really? No, I kept talking about myself and I didn't notice anything"

I've done something bad to Aurio. I'm sure he was busy at work and tired. Yet I even made my cousin worry.

"You can't be sweet on Aurio forever..."

Let's at least serve in good standing tomorrow on official business. And with Rutvias, let's not run away and talk properly.

Looking up at the night sky, where the stars began to shine, Adeline consolidated her small determination.

It is the vegetable garden on the eastern outskirts of Wangdu that Adelaine inspects on official business.

It was a vegetable garden that started delivering vegetables to the Royal Palace last year, sometimes outdoors, and the male royal family was supposed to go, but it wasn't even as important a place as the King or Rutvias would go, and the heavy town didn't care to embark on official duties that didn't get them politically, and I turned to Adeline to push them.

"You feel the wind, ma'am."

Adeline nodded to Millet, who said it seemed pleasant.

"Right."

Inhale comfortable air all over your lungs.

Is it because of the wide sky?

Even though it was the same king's capital, the air in the vegetable garden felt much clearer than the mansions of the royal palace and Adelaine.

"Ma'am, please come this way"

Encouraged by a seemingly well-minded vegetable gardener, Adeline entered the greenhouse.

Millet and the clerks and clerks who record the inspections follow behind them, with a cavalry of escorts at the end.

When he got out of the carriage, Adeline found Lyle and Deo among the knights. I wanted to talk to you, but my private language is "ridiculous" when I'm on official business. Lyle, who noticed Adeline's gaze, gently interpreted it, so Adeline grinned and returned it as well.

Some greenhouses are lined with fruits and vegetables that favor a warm climate.

"You're warm."

"Yes, because it's vitriolic and it hits a lot of sunlight"

To Adeline, the vegetable gardener smiled and depressed the gavel.

"The vegetables we make here are very sweet because they bathe in the sun a lot."

"I have a dinner party next time, can we have it then?

"Yes, for the dinner party, we will choose one that looks particularly good and deliver it"

Others and the vegetable gardener told me about the vegetables.

The vegetables that can be eaten in the royal palace are designated farms and vegetable gardens, limited to those grown and harvested, and cannot even be brought into the royal palace without proof of harvest. Making vegetables to eat in the Royal Palace is a great honor for farmers.

"I used to make wheat with my son, but the war burned all the seeds."

"... did you burn this one too?

"Yes. My son was also taken by the soldiers..."

I hear that in the same King's capital, unlike the central city that spared the war, suburban areas have lost homes and fields to fighting and many civilians have sacrificed themselves. Knowing that such a tragic history was hidden in this idyllic scenery, Adeline had a chest ache.

"But the ashes turned out to be good fertilizer. The vegetables grew a lot, and now they can be bought by the royal palace."

The vegetable gardener looks uncomfortable and looks at the vegetables with a serene face.

Creating a fine vegetable garden so far from the Yakitori shouldn't have been much of a struggle. On the side of the gentle old man, Adeline looked.

-... I have to apprentice too.

As cold as Rutvias made me a little bit, I can't cry yet.

Stick around, and Adeline looked back when she pulled the dress. A young girl is offering Adaline a cage so that she can stretch her back.

"Ohime. I'll give you."

"... well"

The cage is filled with red clams. Adeline succumbed and received the cage.

"Thank you very much"

When Adaline thanked her, the girl was ashamed to hide behind the vegetable gardener. But from the shadow, I am eager for Adeline. Adeline's cheeks loosen in that adorable way.

"She's my granddaughter"

She must be adorable. The vegetable gardener broke his face and stroked the girl's head.

"Well, your son..."

"Yes, I came home safely"

"Yes."

Good, Adeline sincerely thought. If my son is back and my grandson is born, this decade shouldn't be just hard years for vegetable gardeners.

"Thanks to His Royal Highness the Prince"

The vegetable gardener suddenly lowered his head.

"Thank you for your long life in the Empire. Thanks to this, we were able to cultivate the fields without being frightened by the battle. Thank you."

"Ah..."

Adeline was confused.

It is not strange that my fiancée, Adeline, receives thanks for Rutvias on her behalf. But Adeline knows nothing about what kind of struggle Rutvias has had in the Empire. Would it be a good thing to return the words on behalf of Rutvias nonetheless?

To the lost Adeline, from behind the vegetable gardener, a girl called out.

"Hey, I saw the carriage. Ohime, you were waving."

"Huh?"

I thought for a moment about what it was about, but I immediately remembered that Rutvias had taken a carriage through the boulevard of the king's capital when he returned home. Many people were pushing along the road.

"We picked you up, too."

"Yes, it was."

"Hey, will you wave again?

The girl's eyes, slightly inclined to her neck, were sparkling. For her, Adeline, wearing a beautiful flower hat and costume, may be the longing 'ohime' to hear the bedtime story.

-... when I waved from the carriage...

Adeline thought no one was looking at herself. I wondered if there was a good reason to wave. But there was someone to watch. Emotionally, Adaline nodded at the girl.

"Yeah, shake it with the prince, so you can look back, too"

"Yeah!"

The girl laughs.

Seeing that, the vegetable gardener laughs with joy.

Once again, Adeline thought that standing next to Rutvias would create added value, so much so that Adeline would just wave and rejoice. So much so that the presence of Rutvias is significant in this country. In the political sense, of course, but also in the spiritual sense.

Rutvias, far too much, is aware of it.

Adeline squeezed her hand.

-... if at all... if I could help you...

Becoming a king prince, Rutvias would represent most of the affairs of a sick king. The same goes for reigning. Adeline has no more plans to be the queen who just stands next to her.

"Um... I need to ask you a favor"

"Yes?"

"Could you sell me some carrots? I don't mind if it's not in good shape. I need something fresh."

The vegetable gardener blinked his eyes.

"I don't mind that… of course…"

"Ma'am? Ginseng... what are you going to do?

To Millet with a strange face, Adeline just laughed and showed it.

When the carriage arrived, Adaline did not enter the royal palace, but walked straight through the outer garden and crossed several corridors.

"Um... lady. Which way?"

Millet, who will follow later, is anxious because he is not guided to the Royal Palace.

"I think this is the time, not the office."

"This one..."

"Is this Tenma's stables?

"Well done, Lyle."

Adaline stopped and turned around.

With the royal palace, the knights of the escort have completed their mission once, but Lyle and Deo followed us as luggage carriers.

Deo reclaimed the sack of hemp on his shoulder.

"So this carrot is tattooed by Tenma?

"They don't eat wild Heavenly Horses, but Shiva... Her Highness's Heavenly Horse loves them. And apples."

"Oh... so..."

Lyle's hemp bag contains apples. There were a lot of apples that fell out of the wind in the apple fields in the vegetable garden, so they sold something with less damage. The vegetable gardener was in a hurry to pay for his injuries, but he couldn't get them to give up for free, and he sold them for a cheap price at the end of the push. It's the first apple of its kind to be harvested in the summer. Quick to harvest, not yet coloured, but slightly scented sweet.

"And yet... it's a cool amount..."

"Are you going to eat? So much."

"Eat. Amazingly much."

When I first saw Adeline, I was worried that she would eat too much and gain weight and not be able to fly. Later I asked Rutvias, Heavenly Horse seems to be devouring it in the first place. Instead, you don't have to eat for a few days. Adeline blew it out on Rutvias' words, 'I guess you mean you usually save your food'.

In front of Shiva's stables there were several guards on guard.

-... that's crazy...

I don't see a knight with rutvias. If Rutvias is inside, there must always be a knight there. At this hour, I thought Rutvias would be here, but he hasn't come yet?

Though strange, Adaline spoke to the guard who always exchanged greetings.

He's an old man who seems nice.

"I've been thinking Your Highness is here..."

"Is it Your Highness?

The guard glanced up at the sun.

"... if you say so... it's your usual time..."

Again, Rutvias hasn't come.

"... I wonder what's going on..."

"Isn't your meeting prolonging again?

To Millet, Adaline shook her head.

"No way..."

Whatever it takes, it won't take long to get here. The afternoon Parliament begins.

During his journey, Rutvias made sure to visit Shiva's stables a few times a day by messing up busy appointments. After breakfast and at this hour after noon, then before dinner. I don't think that habit will be involved because I went to the royal palace.

-... maybe something happened...

"... I'm going to the office."

"Lady?"

"Lyle, Deo, thank you for your help. That's enough."

"Ma'am? Wait! Lady!"

To leave Millet in panic, Adeline walked out.

Walk faster and faster, and still run out without enough.

I had a heartbeat.

I'm sure Rutvias is too busy to leave Shiva alone. Must be.... Though I think so, anxiety occupies my chest.

My hair was messed up and I didn't mind the flower hat falling off.

Run down the hallway with a red carpet. If you climb the big stairs, that's the floor lined with the senior officials' office.

With a severe shortness of breath, Adeline fell to her knees. Several women and samurai pass by in surprise at Adeline.

Up the stairs, in the back, in Rutvias' office.

-... quick, we have to go fast...

I'm in a hurry and can't wait to get my breath ready.

Adeline scolded her wandering feet and tried to staircase her. But they stick a stick in the tip of my nose, and I can stop it.

"We can't go through here!

The guard guarding the stairs.

"Up there is no place for people like you to get in!

For the first time since she was told, Adaline realized she had made the same mistake again. No one is making a statement.

-... Oh, I broke my promise to Your Highness again... Huh!

Even Aurio said he was scolded for lack of consciousness.

After all, on his own, Adeline lacks the persuasion of being the 'daughter of the Marcelio family'. I resented my plain face for making it.

"Wow, I'm from the Marcelio family..."

Adaline speaks up to try to get up there, but the guards don't hear.

"What a rude daughter to come to the royal palace without even wearing a flower hat"

"Wow, I..."

"Come on, get out of here! You want to be in jail!

The guard pushed me on the shoulder, and Adeline mellowed.

-... fall!

Prepared to wear a buttcake, Adeline closed her eyes.

But the impact will not go away.

"Are you all right?

When he spoke and opened his eyes, there was Lyle supporting Adeline's shoulder from behind.

"Lyle!"

"Ma'am, you have surprisingly fast feet. Surprised."

"Deo!"

I hear Lyle and Deo ran after me. We're both a little disturbed in our breaths.

"You both came?

"If you find out you left your daughter alone, this time the captain will kill you"

"Mr. Millet was worried. And this, please."

Deo gives Adaline a flower hat.

"Thanks... eh"

"This is the Lady of the Marcelio family. I won't tolerate disrespect. Make way."

When Lyle said low, the guard clasped his face and lagged back.

"Sa, the Chancellor's... Huh!?

Wearing the flower hat he received, Adeline breathes this time.

-... stretch your spine. Give me your face. Dropping the flower hat is a disgrace to your lady.

Chanting in his heart like a spell, Adeline took one deep breath.

I feel a little calm because of my mind to do it.

"Let's go"

No one stopped Adeline from climbing the stairs anymore.

Deo says Bosoboso while following Adeline

"Lady, I think you can make it look a little more great."

"Huh?"

"Look. Give me that guard's blue face. I'm sorry. I sympathize."

Speaking of which, Lyle and Deo also got cautious by mistaken Adeline for a samurai.

Lyle pushes Deo's shoulder.

"Hey."

"Ah... su, Suimasen"

"Yeah. Deo's right, it's my fault"

Great, I don't know what to do, but as it is, more and more victims will continue to mistake the Chancellor's Lady for a samurai and crush her liver. We need to work out measures as soon as possible.

"But the lady has changed."

Lyle says it's pompous.

"Changed? Me?"

Asked where, Adaline was good at it.

"Dress."

"... no, not..."

"You're cute now!

Deo says with a full smile.

With Millet, there's going to be another fuss with the impudent. Adeline blew out.

"Thanks. Glad to hear it."

"You think it's a joke. I don't think we're the only ones who think that. How dare you fall in love with a young lady?"

"Beh... eh?

Adeline looks back at them unexpectedly. Because Adeline is a few steps up, her gaze is about the same height.

Deo looked surprised to Lyle.

"Huh? Don't know?

"... I don't know"

After that reply, Adeline realized that Rutvias' efforts to dispel the scandal were fruitful. It wouldn't be a good idea for Adeline to shake her head here.

"Ah... because... Your Highness is a kind man. You care for me, too."

In the meantime, let's make sure that Adeline is comfortable.

Lyle and Deo, though, still seemed strange.

"... you don't know who you are."

"Huh?"

"Ma'am, are you so blunt?

I'm so glad Millet's not here. A high voice would have sounded denouncing Deo on the high ceiling of the large staircase if it had been there.