"What's wrong with you? Ellen."

"No, it's nothing."

Sooner or later, the two of us prepare ourselves. Traveling to a new land is not without anxiety.

I used to be anxious but happy when I went to Wangdu from the border. I was just happy anyway. I wanted to get out of the border because I could do anything, because that would come true.

But not this time. Go to the border the other way around.

I deserve that, but I'm not alone. To that, happiness is what I feel with anxiety.

Happiness that allows us both to lean closer than anxiety towards a new life.

Yes, happiness.

I'm happy to be with this guy. Again, I feel strangely filled when I think I can be this man's wife. Don't forget this feeling.

"Eddie, it's me. I went to see Julia during this time."

"... what?

"You promised me, but I thought it would be rude to visit anything else, but he invited me in to say that he was okay, and he listened. Something really worried me."

"Is that about the example lady?

"... Yep"

My childhood tame, Baron Winner's daughter Murietta, who is now in a position to be called a hero......

Without her, I must have spent the rest of my life on the border land. And I don't think I ever met Eddie.

As Murietta predicted, a giant monster emerged. And they will defeat it, and be invited to the royal castle to recite it... Besides, I wasn't surprised. Because somehow there was a mysterious sense of trust that 'it's Murietta'.

Naturally she wasn't omnipotent, so there were different prophecies.

But Murietta's cliche,... "Mix everyone up". I was proud to think that could happen. Because she wanted me to help her with it, it seemed like a terrible thing to think that a woman like me with nothing special about being from the border would be responsible for one end of it.

But.

But I wonder if it's really 'everyone's' happiness, since when did I learn more to doubt it?

When I came to the royal castle, I thought it was normal for people from the border to be discriminated against. However, the head of the outer palace acknowledged it properly if I worked hard and praised it.

Whether I was from the border or not, I never saw it with colored glasses.

Even Eddie does.

Of course, that's what some people have been looking at... but still, I remember being much less confused and the other way around than I thought.

So what Murietta was saying was wrong?

Doubt twitching and getting bigger in me. I kept pretending not to look at it, but every time I touched the kindness around me, the suspicions and suspicions in me made me anxious, and I felt uncomfortable.

Even Her Royal Highness. He was told scattered that he was mean and fat and that he didn't care... but he was actually like an angelic girl, with such kindness that he even gave words of labor to a samurai like us.

"... Julia is a sweet man."

"Right."

"You told me to look at you properly when I got anxious. Who is the person walking next door and whose hand I took... again, they say"

"... right"

At first, I thought it was an enemy. Because Murietta said 'yes'.

The person of the Princess's Palace, among them a woman in the position of lead maid closest to Her Royal Highness the Princess.

I felt like I'd won somewhere with my shiny hair, my glasses, it looked so plain.

But that guy was noble, and that was enough to inspire my complex. You also tried to help Eddie at the time that she wasn't quite proposing and was frustrated, and if you were going to switch, you'd take away Aldar Saul, who she's been gracious about lately.

In fact, it was a complete defeat.

There have been rumors that Her Royal Highness and Prince Baum are making a match, so now Aldar Saul, of the right age, is eager to dictate in anticipation of the "aftermath," to marry an Ironwall Samurai who has never heard of any of the floating rumors.

If you're a hardworking aristocratic man for the house anyway, it was sweet even though you thought it was Ichikoro.

Then there was a gardening party, and I didn't expect a lover who had abandoned me locally to come, and even I was suspected... there was no prophecy like this. It was only recently that Eddie remembered my despair, even though I knew I deserved it, but I was about to grasp happiness, because of it.

But Julia was the one who saved me from my predicament.

In this case, Julia arranged a room where she could see me if I was reluctant to go to the training area.

"Princess Palace humans will surely mock Aeren from the border and send him back to the border. So be careful! '

Murietta said after me.

But there were others who could show me around. Even if I knew you were from the border, even the head of the outer palace scolded me for my actions, and I didn't abandon you.

Really, there was no such thing as being ridiculed like evil just because you're from the border.

"It's important to be careful, but I'm more worried that you'll break your body because you're too guided."

Julia gave me a kind word so I could be happy.

It's supposed to be the same word that's guiding me, but what's so different?

Murietta said it would make everyone happy. Always confident.

I think that's a very nice word. I still think so.

But that's... that's what I'm starting to think about “who”.

"Hey, from Eddie's point of view, I wonder if you care about Ardar Saul."

"That's for sure. It's more of a hassle."

"Huh?"

"I would have seen Lord Baum at the New Year's Festival. You've been intimidating me just because you tried to cuddle up to the lead lady."

"Even though it's same-sex? I'm Murietta... not because I'm an associate of?

"I don't think so."

Half frightened, half funny. I laughed like that. Eddie flaunted his shoulder and didn't tell me any more about it.

But, right?

If I could, I'd want Julia to be happy.

Not everyone, like Murietta, but I thought if he was happy, I'd be happy.

... I can't help but wonder if I'm doing something I shouldn't or betraying her when I'm sure I'm putting some crack in that feeling that I believed Murietta through.

But I... you told me I could be next door, I want to live with Eddie.

"Rumors, I'm sure, are just rumors."

"Rumors?"

"See, to welcome Her Royal Highness the Princess at the Baum family," only, "a white feather arrow stood at Aldar Saul to welcome Julia first and make her a caregiver with Her Royal Highness as a kinship representative..."

"Sounds stupid."

"Already! I didn't say it that way..."

"Certainly at the right age in the Baum family, Lord Baum would be suitable given his relationship. But it's not like the Baum family doesn't have a family without a division. There will be as many if you look, and as many hands as he shows difficulty"

"That sort of thing...?

"That's what it is."

Well, I know there are so many ways to say it's adoption.

That's all Eddie said, he brutally stroked my head.

"Don't worry,... no, I'd rather not be relieved"

"Huh?"

"The lead samurai wanted to break up, which means she won't be able to."

"... I, Julia, owe you."

"Oh."

I want you to be happy.

"Yeah, but it's okay."

"... right, I'm sure that guy wouldn't beat the rumors, would he?

It's just that Murietta cares.

That kid has long been getting what he wanted. I wonder if there's ever been a failure before, and this time I've shown favor to Aldar Saul, so I guess I won't back off so easily.

If that happens, won't Baron Winner, who was given the title because of it, be hard?

(... Hey Murietta, you said you wanted to make 'everyone' happy. That 'everyone'... who are you talking about...?

Behind my brain, her adorable smile with bright thin red hair floated away.