"I'm sorry. We're late."
Apologizing, my father has turned his gaze.
"I hear you have received a letter from Your Highness. Was it too late reading that?
"Yes..."
"Right. Then I have no choice. Be careful from next time. Now sit down."
"Yes."
I sat in my seat at a critical speed that looked elegant. Everyone is in order and the meal begins.
My father was speaking to my mother sitting nearby.
"I wondered what I would do when Her Majesty told Her Majesty's Queen Lili, but I was relieved that she seemed to be doing well with the information."
"It's our daughter. Naturally."
"Oh, yeah"
My father and mother start talking pleasantly. My father used to be a minister at the castle, but now he retires and works in territorial management. My mother and I are perfectly politically married, but we are close... or love each other. They fell in love at first sight with each other, and they still look happy.
As much as we fall in love with each other at first sight. My parents are both pretty good looking. The same was true of me and my brothers, its children, who were more famous as a beauty family than a Duke's.
Amongst other things, I'm the only girl, so my parents adore me pretty much. My father will let me do whatever I want, and even this engagement, if I say one word that I don't like it, my father will move quickly. Totally treated like a princess.
I took that for granted until now, and I've spent it, but I've just come to know that I'm sure it won't work this way.
'Cause Prince Wilfred also said. "Villain warrant lady Liz Beltran is spoiled by her parents," he said.
I can't even say it back in grandeur for being aware of it.
"What's wrong with being loved? Isn't that the seclusion of the unloved?," I would have told you until yesterday, but now I'm like, "Oh, my God, I'm sorry I did everything I could. We're going to improve, so shut up! That's all I can say."
It's like a loser howl, there's no way I can tell.
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, I'm currently trying to do the opposite of what he's saying, independence from my parents. In other words, parental separation. We have to set this out as a goal.
- All right, I'll do my best.
When I was secretly consolidating my resolve, I said it as my father reminded me "yes".
"Lili, I haven't made any new dresses lately, have I? What's the matter with you? Could it be that you don't like the designers today? Then you should call anyone who likes you. We'll have fun dressing you up."
My father seemed to care that I had suddenly grown up, moving flashy all the time. Surely my father was right, since that day Al came to the Mansion, I have never made a dress, and I have not bought any gems.
The other day, I checked my private costume room next to my private room again, but the dress I arrived at once made me want to come out like a mountain and hold my head. Same with gems.
There is a perception that wearing a beautiful outfit is working as an aristocratic warrant lady, but whatever it takes, this will be too much. And I thought that far, and, uh, I realized that I thought it was too much, and I was surprised. Has talking to Al changed my perception a little too?
If so, I want to take care of that. Maybe because I think it's a feeling I need to have right now.
"If we start heading out to a royally-sponsored nightclub, we still think we should renovate our dresses, but we've reconsidered that we don't need to re-create them around the usual tea party. Besides, I don't think it's a good idea to spend more money than you have to."
To tell you honestly how I feel now, both my father and my mother, who was listening, looked surprised.
My father stares at me.
"Lili? What's going on, the hell? It's not like you always do. Didn't you always say loudly that it was normal for a lady to hang money on a dress, naturally not to be distracted at any time?... Did you even eat something bad?
"... I haven't eaten"
So did Luke, but how could everyone, say the same thing?
Musty, Luke, who was serving me, was pushing his voice to death and laughing.
... intolerable.
"As I said earlier, I didn't say I wouldn't make anything else. I just didn't think I needed to make anything new. He said it was just a luxury. THAT...... put my dress out. Isn't your father's money a people's blood tax if you correct the ex? I didn't think about it, I just started thinking about how to use it as hot water."
Speaking of my thoughts, my father, my mother, even my brothers, for some reason, have stared at me.
My father says, as if to represent everyone.
"You... what's really going on? Is it also a fever?
"You...... real Lili?
My mother asked me a very rude question. Besides, I snorted as I got in a bad mood.
"I don't have a fever, and I'm real and definitely. What is it? Did I say something wrong?
"No... I'm not saying... if it's normal, it's a place to praise. But... you know what?
I look to my father to ask my mother for her consent. My mother snickered and shook her head vertically.
"I can't believe you're the one who brought it up. Lili? We don't care about you as you are now, do we? You don't have to, but you just have to live the way you always do. You don't have to worry about money because you don't run a territory."
"That's right. Besides, you will be the next Crown Princess. I would also be more luxurious in that fold. You don't have to think about saving money now. You're gonna have to dress up pretty and entertain everyone's eyes, right? Isn't that what you've been saying?"
You're right about my parents, and I wasn't dissatisfied with that life, but then I'm going to be a 'villain's warrant'.
In Prince Wilfred's "Villain Lady". Then I'll be abandoned by everyone.
And this is the crux of it all, but if it turns out to be a 'villain warrant lady', can't you tell Prince Wilfred to "fuck off"?
My pride won't allow it, such as staying hit by Prince Wilfred who made a fool of me.
Absolutely, be the perfect courtier and let him crawl to the ground.
Because I have so decided, I couldn't say yes to my parents' words.