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Night club day. I was concerned about the big hall door, even as I welcomed Al to the venue where he picked me up to the mansion.
Only Chloe makes her social debut today. As long as you say hello to the king, she'll be here any minute.
As soon as the first dance was over, I went to the side and tried to speak up, and I waited now or now.
"... I don't know yet"
I feel it's late over time.
I was wondering if Chloe would come soon, and Al, who was next door, snapped at my cheek.
"Eh."
"Hih!? a, al?
Suddenly he gets his cheeks squeezed and his eyes squeezed. When I looked at Al, he was staring at me in a mushy way.
"A, Al?
"It's terrible, Lili. I also know that your friend is a debater today, but it's been all about that kid ever since I picked him up at the mansion. Even now, when I'm next door, I'm staring hot at the door. Hey, don't stare at me. Look at me."
"Ah... oh, I'm sorry"
Al dissatisfied me and I finally realized.
I had little conversation with Al today because my friend was concerned. I've been thinking about Chloe, in the sky somewhere up there, even if he talks to me.
They pointed that out and I let myself be shrunk by so much sorry.
- I did the worst I could to leave my partner alone.
Naturally Al gets angry.
Deeply reflecting and apologizing, Al chuckled at me fluffily.
"I don't know. Lie. I know you care about your first friend. I'm not angry. But I guess I'll miss being left alone all the time."
"I'll be careful. Sorry, Al."
Being with Al, you shouldn't just be trapped about Chloe. At one end, Al said as he remembered that he was determined to forget about her.
"Speaking of which... Will's been hanging out a lot this morning. Mostly, he said he wanted to go out to the club today, but he doesn't show up at all. I wonder what he's doing."
"Is His Highness Wilfred here?
"Yeah."
Al nodding with a seemingly complicated face. I looked around the nightclub venue.
Prince Wilfred is nowhere to be found. He's a prince as well as Al, so I'm sure he'd stand out if he showed up, but I didn't see anyone like him.
"... Welcome. Aren't you ready yet?"
"I don't think that's exactly it... but it seems like I've been hanging out for a long time."
"Really?"
If so, what is Prince Wilfred doing?
Al sighed as he gazed at the large clock hung on the wall.
"He... while telling people to hang out with him... but on that grounds, he came to the night club with Lili, so I wonder if it's okay"
"Al......"
Gentle gaze, loose mouth. A twitchy joy came and I accidentally held my own cheek with both hands. I'm not happy with the words I can see that you care about me.
"... I, too, am glad to be out at the night club with Al,. Um, I'm really sorry about earlier. It was the night club Al invited me to, and I did something rude."
"I'm telling you I'm not angry."
"That's not the problem. Well... I thought I was sorry..."
When I told him how honest I felt, Al nodded, "Yeah."
"I really like that about Lili. But let's get this story over with, shall we? I really don't care, and that's why I don't want you to be sick either. 'Cause I'm here for the night club. There's time, and from now on, we both want to have fun."
"Yes."
Especially what Al says.
Afterwards I also changed my mind and enjoyed talking to Al. The subject is Noel and his brothers.
We both dared to avoid talking about spiritual covenants because we didn't know where or who was listening.
"- Well, Victor's in on it today, isn't he? Unusual."
Al, who looked around, stopped his gaze at one point. There's Brother Victor there, and he's eager to talk to someone. I made sure of that, and I nodded.
"Yeah, it is. I hear my brother will be there tonight."
I'll tell you what my brother told me last night.
Brother Victor told me he was coming to the club tomorrow night, and he told me, "So am I."
My brother was surprised because he hardly answered the club except for the night club he was obliged to attend, but (although my brother Hugo doesn't answer at all) he was invited by someone he couldn't refuse. He was my brother who said he had no choice for his job, but he didn't look so disgusted, so I guess he just thinks it's a hassle.
Al, listening, said to me, laughing lightly.
"Yes, I thought you might have come out worried because you were there."
"Huh? No way"
"No, no, Viktor could be enough these days"
"... I'm glad to hear that."
Tell me how you feel honestly.
Brother Victor has always hated me, so I'm glad you think that way.
Smiling small, Al asked in a gentle voice.
"So? You don't have to talk to Victor?
"Uh, of course I'm going to say hello, because my brother seems busy right now. I'm thinking of anticipating when we settle down."
"Because he has a lot of relationships, too. Oh? Looks like he doesn't have a partner, but didn't Victor have a fiancée yet?
"Yes."
Nodding at Al's words.
Brother Victor, and Brother Hugo don't have a fiancée yet either.
Brother Victor even distanced himself from his father until recently, and Brother Hugo is a tea party threesome caged in the mansion.
We've both been through this before without knowing that my father even examined my engagement.
Brother Hugo said he didn't like to be tied to one person because he wanted to stare at a lot of beautiful things, and Brother Victor said he would eventually and kept turning down the friendship that my father would bring.
But isn't it time for neither of us to escape?
Even if Brother Hugo hasn't yet, Brother Victor is a trail to the Duke's house. You need to select your fiancée early.
"... maybe it's time for my father to put his back in."
"I guess so. I don't think Victor can get away with it just because marriage is an aristocratic duty, and since he's a very responsible man himself, I guess if he's convinced it's a time limit, he'll respond to the engagement lightly."
"I think so too"
Until now, I wasn't really convinced that my brother was told that he was' very responsible ', etc., but now I feel that I can somehow understand what Al is saying.
My brother would surprisingly easily shake his head vertically as long as he was convinced it was necessary.
"I'm not worried about Brother Victor either. Marriage... may be more disturbing to Brother Hugo"
Much has changed since before, but Brother Hugo is still Brother Hugo and still fuzzy.
I can't normally imagine Brother Hugo getting married or anything.
Al also agreed with the truth that it was bad for his brother but he thought it that way.
"Right. Surely Hugo is not for marriage... well, people change. I don't know what's going to happen next."
"Right."
In fact, my brother, who insisted on not acknowledging anything other than beautiful, recognized Noel and became adorable. I know the change, so I think it might be.
Even today my brother went to a night club and took care of Noel instead of me.
If my brother had told me not long ago, I could not trust him and keep Noel, but now my brother Hugo can trust me with peace of mind.
When I told Al that I had deposited Noel, he was surprised to say the same thing to me: "You feel safe with him now".
Talking to Al, time passes quickly.
Al, the first prince, is at a nightclub. I thought there might be a lot of people who wanted to say hello to him, but surprisingly few came to talk to him.
I wondered, but Al laughed and said, "I know I'm talking to my fiancée, and I'm rarely the kind of fool who calls me out. Because it's the extreme of the wild," he said.
- I see, indeed, that may be the case.
Even I don't want to go talk to someone like that. Unless there's so much going on, I think we'll go in a direction that doesn't get in the way. Otherwise, because people are going to be neglected the other way around by people who want to get along. I want you to go say hello and hate me, or give me a break.
"Ah..."
I noticed the door opening.
When, I wonder, was it time? If you notice, a tense faceted Chloe stood at the entrance to the Great Hall.
"Chloe......"
For a moment, I fall in love with her in a dress for a debutant.
She appeared to me as a truly adorable and very attractive woman from my point of view of the same sex.
"It's lovely."
Honest praise comes out with a mouthful.
Finally, Chloe is also making her debut in the social world. From now on, we can talk not only at the orphanage, but also at the nightclub. Glad to hear that, I shifted my gaze next door to see her uncle as an escort - hardened.
"Huh?"
For a moment, I rubbed my eyes wondering if I'd seen it wrong. But now, the sight I see remains the same.
I mean, this is real. So...
"What? Yeah?
All I get is a surprise.
Chloe's escort is handled by her uncle. Yes, I heard it from Chloe herself.
And yet the sight I'm seeing right now is completely different.
"Duh, how could His Highness Wilfred...?
Yes, strangely, Prince Wilfred was escorting Chloe for some reason.
I open my eyes to stories I hadn't heard at all. It seemed that everyone at the nightclub venue had not been informed of this, and the venue was stunned and bothered.