His Royal Highness's cats are very hairy.

Adeline's routine turned it into something busy.

Get up early in the morning, harvest the ingredients in the vegetable garden, then turn them against the royal palace, make a fire, boil the water, cool it, then wash, cut, cook the ingredients...

Your meeting just ends when you distribute what you can to Knights Unit III at the end of the exercise. Rutvias heads straight to the stables to take care of Shiva at the end of the meeting, so grab there and give her the meal. While Rutvias is eating, Adaline also sits down next to him, dropping him off on his way to the House of Lords before taking the dirty dishes home to the cooking area and cleaning them up. Then hurry up and get dressed, get your hair done, and head to the invited tea party, etc. When it's over, we'll go back to the royal palace and get back to dinner. The soup serves two large pots to make meals with you the next morning. Make bread twice the amount of noon.

Rutvias was asked to give the bread a pinch of cheese and sausage along with dinner as breakfast. You can't give soup to Rutvias by the rules.

Crude, but now I can get three meals, Rutvias, to eat in peace. Except on days when Adeline has official business, of course.

Incidentally, the knights of the Third Squad were afraid that the Chancellor's Lady would cook them, and seemed to kneel to receive the soup served in the vessel, but in time, they boiled water or took on the cleanup, which helped them in some way. Adeline's plain face may have made the knights feel intimate, or they may have just seen the mundane Adeline.

Nevertheless, Adeline enjoyed a busy day, the opposite of her previous life of drawbacks, as enriching.

And even that day, Adaline was chatting with the knights, cleaning up dinner.

"Are you on official business tomorrow?

A young knight asked as he received the fork that Adeline had washed. He is helping me wipe dishes washed with a dry cloth.

"No, there's nothing tomorrow."

Adeline replied as she washed the vessel.

Little featherworms are flying around the candlestick hanging from the column.

The washing area with a simple roof co-located in the well is dim due to the setting of the sun.

"So you can cook a meal here, right?

Other knights, who were wiping dishes in the same way, talk.

"Yeah, I'm gonna"

When Adeline nodded, the knights who had gathered to surround the washroom said, "Oooh."

"We can have some delicious meals tomorrow!

"Now I can stand the scratch of Captain Haunted... Huh!

Adeline grinned in disdain as she thrust her fist up into the sky.

"Oh, my God."

"No, it's not a big deal. When I say this guy's soup tastes bad..."

"I'm sorry about that! If you have any complaints, please make your own!

"What are you talking about?"

Soon, the contention developed into a skirmish. Avoid beating young knight's fists with the look of an old knight's spare. The knights around them laughed and stood up.

"Not at all... what could also be a knight, can be frightening. I'm not much different from all the bad ghosts in Lower Town."

"That's good, Millet. Sounds like fun."

Until Adeline and Millet came to cook the meal, they said the new knight was in charge of the cooking area. He is naturally not a good cook, although he is of lower rank, and the knights often went out to dine outside the royal palace. But the food paid to the knights is not enough to eat out every time. So Adaline slipped in looking for someone to hire a younger man or a younger woman who could cook.

The captain of the third unit, who had his eyes blackened and white, such as cooking out the Chancellor's Lady and hiring a woman, also reluctantly agreed to the orders - rather than to the persuasion - of the Knights Commander. Such a captain now replaces the soup made by Adeline.

"You guys, come on! It's in front of the lady!

Deo, who was scrolling his arms and polishing an empty large pot, called out.

"What the hell, Deo? Don't be prestigious because you've been chosen exclusively."

"Yes, yes, yes."

"What?

"Deo, leave me alone. They're just messing around in front of the ladies."

Lyle sprinkled a pot of water from the well with his usual faceless expression.

"Lyle, tell me."

"I like it because you've been chosen exclusively..."

"Oh, yeah. If you regret it, try to be chosen."

"Ahhh! Oh, my gosh, this guy!

One knight jumped into the wheel when the laughter intensified.

"Be quiet! Be quiet!

He is a Knight of the First Corps, who is in love with the captain's niece in the Fifth Corps.

"You, sure..."

Wasn't it the dedicated knight of Rutvias? Adeline stands up wiping her hands with a forehang. The knights looked back to chase that gaze, and they were all uniformly gnawed.

In the evening, a line of secretaries and samurai, led by bright blondes like the moon, approaches this way along the path beside the barracks.

"Clear the way! Refrain!"

At the behest of the knights of the first unit, the knights who were on the spot hurriedly fall back and kneel.

The only two standing are Adeline and -..., Rutvias.

"Your Highness! What is it?

Actually, this is the first time the two of you have met today.

Neither day nor night was able to catch Rutvias, busy with his administration, and in the end he could not hand over a cage containing a meal directly. After the idea, he asked Deo to hand it to Aurio, saying he could trust Aurio.

"Trying to give this back"

Rutvias showed the cage he was holding in one hand, lifting it gently. Even though it's evening, Rutvias' cat smiles slightly, not even looking tired. Adaline hastily received the cage.

"Oh no... you must be tired..."

"I wanted to see your face."

To her surprisingly natural and gentle voice, Adeline became perplexed. It's like whispering to your lover.

-... calm down, this is to wipe out the scandal... and then it's to increase tax revenues.

If Adeline gets upset badly, they'll suspect the rapprochement between Rutvias and Adeline around.

"Wow, me too... seeing you... um... happy, yes..."

Needless to say to the end, Adeline leaned over in embarrassment.

I'd like to try to follow Rutvias' instructions one day, "If you can, you can't wait to air that I like you," but it's too difficult for Adeline. It goes away and is not unnatural. But that, in turn, seemed to be the first and preferred around. The knights look at Rutvias and Adeline with a face that looks like a flower full of spring. That's embarrassing, but it doesn't seem suspicious for now.

-... good. Looks like it worked.

Looking up at Rutvias in relief, for some reason a lonely colour seeped into his cheek. Your mouth is laughing, but your eyes are sad.

-... why?

"Um... Your Highness?

I was hesitant to ask him directly why he looked like that. Because I was concerned about my surrounding eyes.

You noticed how Adeline was doing, and Millet signaled with his hand and gaze, and Lyle and Deo, who noticed it, pulled the sleeves of their fellow knights and went down without sound.

If anything, we can rush, but where we can't hear the conversation, two dedicated knights, Lyle and Rutvias, refrain.

"Um, Your Highness..."

"Should I wipe this?

"Huh? Oh, yes... you shouldn't! It's better to be Prince Wang..."

"Don't lack persuasion if you ask me to be the Crown Princess."

-... indeed...

In the gap that Adeline is losing the words to return, Rutvias bends down and takes the vessel that is lying down and the cloth towel that was on it. I manipulate the cloth towel while I'm not used to long fingers and wipe the moisture off the vessel. I realized it was useless to stop, and Adaline gave in and resumed washing. Remove the vessel from the cage given to you by Rutvias. It's empty. Seeing that, Adeline's happy.

"... thank you. Eat it."

"It's up to me to thank you. It was delicious."

Saying so, he had an unusual look no longer. I don't see the loneliness just now anywhere.

"What is it?

"Huh? Oh, no. Excuse me, it's nothing."

-... wrong look...?

Maybe the color of the sunset gave him that look. I'm sure so, Adeline convinces one.

"... you're close to the knights for a long time."

Potty and grunting Rutvias' expression was invisible with his longer forehead in the way. But Adeline nods uncontrollably, without worrying about it.

"Right. I think it's familiar because I don't look like the Chancellor's Lady."

"... not..."

"Yes?"

……

Rutvias has shut up. I wonder what's wrong. I wonder if I've lost my word again, and Adeline panics about it.

"Oh, you know, I'm fine. This team is the only one who knows I'm the Chancellor's Lady, and there are rumors that His Highness's fiancée is impersonating his youngest daughter..."

"That's not what I care about."

"Huh? Uh... then... ah! I'm careful with sunburn. A bride with burnt skin in the day is a shame."

"No, I didn't..."

Then what is Rutvias trying to say? I have no idea.

Rutvias has his hand on his forehead, holding the cloth towel that wipes the vessel.

"... with a man... who... is surrounded by a man other than me... the..."

Rarely does Rutvias have a bad tooth cut. Is there something wrong with being surrounded by knights? Conceived, Adeline pounded her hand.

"Oh, right. There's a chance that one of them might try to get close to me for the purpose of poison mixing."

"Oh no!

In a frustrating way, Rutvias looks up.

"With a man other than me..."

"... Yes?

"... and"

"... Yes"

…

…

"................................. Enough, Enough..."

Rutvias looked down and weakened in such a way as exhaustion.

Apparently, what Rutvias was trying to say could not be extended in Adeline's mind.

"... Um, I'm sorry. Bad guess..."

"... I'm telling you,"

With one loud sigh, Rutvias lay down the vessel in his hand in a cage containing the vessel he had finished wiping.

The two moved silently at hand for a while.

Rutvias' finger, which was an inexorable move at first, seemed to have obtained the guidelines by the time he finished wiping the third vessel, moving agile and one vessel after another laying low.

Adeline was impressed that this man could do well no matter what he made him do.

"... you'll be a good queen"

Adeline, stop hands again.

But Rutvias won't stop. As if talking about nothing, Rutvias goes on and on.

"Understand my position and my own, and do what Princess Wang deserves. You're doing really well."

Adeline was surprised.

Because it was the first time Rutvias had praised Adeline so directly.

"Your Highness?"

"... you want more than that... you're my selfish"

On his shapely lips comes a self-derisive grin. My eyes fell on me lonely.

-... earlier...

That look I thought was a mistake. It wasn't a mistake. Rutvias is worried about something.

"No, Your Highness! It's not selfish!

Adeline said she was supposed to. To the momentum, Rutvias glances slightly, as he was frightened.

"Oh, no..."

"I'm really sorry for the incorrect guessing! Please tell me what I'm missing or anything you're unhappy with! I'll try! Your Highness will make you the splendid queen you desire!

"... eh"

"Come on! Go ahead!

Adeline was motivated and waited for Rutvias' words. Rutvias, however, does not try to say anything in distress. Is it hard to say, Adeline tilted her neck -... and lowered her brow butt.

"... excuse me. You can't do anything about this plain face."

"... what?

"Excuse me..."

Sluggly, Adeline dropped her shoulder.

If Adeline's noticeable nose was at least a little more in order, she would be able to make a match even if she stood next to Rutvias. The pictures the merchants will sell to match Rutvias' marriage to Adeline, and when Adeline is so plain, the sales may be inconceivable. The tax revenues you expect then will surely grow.

"... I'm a little more beautiful... I was just... I was just!

Long fingers like artwork are pulling as if they were going to stretch Adaline's low nose.

"Your Highness!"

"You said nose next."

"Yikes, there he is..."

With Rutvias smiling as sober as a saint, Lyle and his escorts must make it look like their fiancées are twisted.

Assuming that Adeline called for help, I don't even think Lyle would rescue Adeline from Rutvias opponents by fulfilling...

Adeline screams voiceless at the strange awesome smile.

"Anything crosses the ocean. They say the exotic one ahead has a demon with a long nose. You want to try? Hmm? I'll work with you at my fiancée's behest, okay?

"Suhima-hen! Suhima-hen!! Forgive me, Rasahi!

When Adeline apologized as she screamed, Rutvias finally let go of her hand.

Adeline strokes her sore nose with her fingers.

"What a sara. Ah. What do you do when you're really like a demon?"

"Don't worry, I'll get you my wife no matter how stretched"

Rutvias said Salari to Adeline's pitiful grudge verse. Adeline's heart bounces for a moment at the words she spoke lightly.

"Huh?"

Rutvias' eyes opened to say, "Shit," but soon he leaned down, and the expression could no longer be read.

"... because you're my fiancée"

"... oh, yeah, right..."

…

…

Instead of two silent people, the sound of water echoes in the washroom.

I wonder what. The silence that contains this strange sweetness. The sweetness I've never tasted is so awkward.

Whether Adeline's nose is low or stretched, Adeline will be Rutvias' wife as long as she has an engagement to Rutvias. Isn't that natural? Adeline's weird reaction has troubled Rutvias.

"Your Highness, Sumima..."

"... why don't you stop now?

"Yes?"

Rutvias lays the last vessel down in a cage. And I saw Adeline. Though the area was completely darkened, only Rutvias' bi eyes seemed like a sunset reflecting the lights on the lighthouse.

"No more."

To his unexpected words, Adaline blinked a few times.

Rutvias continues with a slightly angry look and tone.

"Is this what you're doing between business and dating? You're going to fall overworked before I get poisoned."

Even Adeline, who is ill-conceived, can tell. Rutvias is worried about Adeline.

"Your Highness..."

"Enough. I'm fine. I don't make failures like this one before. So already..."

Adeline deliberately blocked the words that would go on.

"Don't worry about me."

"... adeline"

"Thank you for your concern. But"

Adeline smiled. I can't wait to see the kindness of Rutvias.

"But Your Highness. It's perfectly normal for a wife to prepare her husband's meal."

I heard Adeline speak, and now Rutvias blinks a few times. And he sighed in a frightened manner.

"-... you..."

"Rest assured. I won't be this unscrupulous until I'm Princess Wang. Didn't Your Highness say you would settle this by the time you got married? Until then, I will prepare your meal."

I want to help Rutvias at all. I want to pluck away the loneliness of this lonely man at all.

For this reason, there is no such thing as making soup. On top of that, Rutvias understands, cares for, and worries about Adeline's busyness. I got tired and so on.

"So don't worry. I'm very sturdy even when I look like this."

"... Whatever I say is useless"

Rutvias, who had a frightened, troubled, complex face, looks up to heaven. Adeline laughed at Huff, obsessively.

"Unfortunately, you're right."

"Your face is a fraud. He's a stubborn man who looks like a grown-up."

"Oh, that's too much to say..."

Adaline rushed to hide her nose with both hands. Rutvias' hand was stretching, so I thought I'd get my nose stuck. But Rutvias' finger snapped was Adeline's hair.

The hind hair, which cannot be put together in three braids, grabs it flaking with the wind and fixes it by the ear.

Every time I lift my hair, Rutvias' long fingers stroke around Adeline's temples. to its gentle tricks, Adeline's chest rattled

This isn't the first time they've touched my hair.

Try Rutvias, it could be like catching something fluffy and shaky in front of you.

How about reacting to hypersensitivity? At the same time, my body temperature rises at will.

"Oh, thank you"

Adeline thanked her not to move her head. You mustn't move and increase Rutvias' hassle.

Gently, Adeline moved only her eyes and stole Rutvias' expression. And I deeply regretted the act.

Rutvias is smiling.

The gentle smile that spoiled Adeline seemed like this one watching was going to wander off.

I'm really glad at night. Don't let Rutvias see your blushing face.

"... so, my lord..."

"... don't just push it."

Rutvias' finger clings to Adeline's cheek.

That gentle warmth tightened Adaline's chest painfully to see what was going on.

"... good night"

"... good night... not..."

While Rutvias' eyes glowed like a leaking day, and Adeline was in love with it, he rose and turned himself over and went.

…………

I couldn't even thank him for dropping me off, and when I lost sight of Rutvias with the knights of the escort, Adeline snarled.

-... well, why?

I wonder why you treat Adeline like a lover.

Touch the cheeks touched by Rutvias, gently. That's not supposed to happen, but I felt that's the only place I was experiencing a fever.

The fever brings back memories previously held in Rutvias' arms.

The strength of Rutvias' arms, the warmth of his chest, the sound of a heartbeat...

Besides, I'm sure I didn't turn my hand around his neck. What a bold thing to do, even though the emotion was high...

Adeline's face is getting more and more red.

I don't know why.

I can't even afford to think about it.

Lyle approached me, reluctantly speaking.

"Ma'am?... are you okay?

Unanswered, Adeline covers her cheeks with both hands.

It's not okay.

Why is your body as hot as a fever?

Why are you dizzy?

-... I'm sure... I'm tired...

Let's go to bed early today.

Rutvias is right, impossibility is forbidden.