Marielle Clarac’s Engagement

There's something wrong with Master Simeon lately.

"Ma'am, it arrived today."

Natalie, a small-timer, came even a round of roses.

"Any messages, letters, etc.?

"No… No"

"Yes. Fine, thank you"

I received the rose and threw it out of the paper wrapped in protection and into the vase of the table. There are many roses of the same crimson. Conditions vary from those that are still close to buds to those that are completely open.

"... I don't think I can do this anymore"

And I passed my sight, and swept in flowers that were so open that they fell apart in shape. The stimulus causes a few petals to fall loose.

"You should change your water, too. We'll get it in order."

Natalie holds each vase and takes it out. I dropped it off and I sighed.

How many days have you not seen Master Simeon's face? Ever since that night club, you wouldn't even come to see me without an invitation. I don't even get a letter. Instead, every day, the roses arrive.

Maybe you're too busy at work to take time? But then, you don't have to leave a message. Master Simeon is a disciplined man, so I don't think I'd leave him without saying anything.

... after all, I guess I've lost my love.

When I thought about it, my chest shifted and heaved.

On the day the night club was held at the residence of the Duke of Brachelle, I went out on my own, saying nothing, knowing that Lady Simeon was at work. Even if I saw you at the venue, I was away from disturbing you because you were offering His Highness Severan over there.

If my fiancée were to become the trusted Kingsguard knight of His Royal Highness Prince Wang, such a thing would be as much as it should be in the future. I didn't think it was a big deal and long ago I was going to encourage myself to gather information.

But that didn't seem right. Lady Simeon, who had found me, was giving signs of displeasure under her smile.

I guess they didn't think I had the discretion to go out and play by myself even though I was engaged. When I was afraid of Simeon, who seemed forceful and irritated, I fled there to greet His Highness.

Afterwards, he never spoke or could talk, and he ended up away. As it turns out, I haven't seen Master Simeon until today.

Maybe that angered me badly. I guess I got stunned with a prodigal daughter who throws out her fiancée and plays alone.

You can't deny it...... it could have been a little reckless indeed.

If you are a generous lord, you will not loudly say that your wife walks at will, but if you are old or difficult, you will not be allowed to go out so easily. It's not uncommon for a wife not to be able to go out very often, except where she goes out accompanied by a couple.

I'm sure that's what Simeon is like. I'm engaged, so I want to treat you the same way as my wife and oversee my actions. Yet you must have been angry because it was something that went out without permission.

I should have at least put up a stomach in advance. It was a bad idea to be unauthorized. I can't stop sighing when I think of my own nagging failure.

Ah... the biggest, once-in-a-lifetime luck I've ever missed.

I haven't been told to dissolve my engagement yet. But nearly a month after that, I guess I shouldn't think I'm already in a state of breaking and discussing that I haven't seen her once and I haven't gotten a letter.

Natalie came to return the vase that changed the water and pulled out the uglier flowers and only the cleaner ones. A passionate crimson rose with moist petals like velvet. Though it is considered the most suitable flower to convey affection, it means something completely different to me.

I wrote that I only deliver one round without telling you anything every day. That episode, wow, I know it.

Lady Simeon said she read Anise Vivier's novel. This is definitely imitating that story. Going out of your way to reproduce it to me is nothing more than a silent message that you know everything.

I don't know who gave me the heroine from that story, but sometimes I flirt with confusion, but Simeon clearly gives me his name. He hunts me down without even showing me how useless it is to hide it. Every time I see a rose every day, I feel heavier.

"Ha...... not adorable"

With a cheek wand in front of the vase, I dropped my shoulder. If you have Simeon in front of you and he's going to blame you with a powerful smile, even though there's still adoration, I can't wait to see who you are and be pursued.

Definitely already. Master Simeon is convinced that I am Anise Vivier. I'm sure that's what's pissing you off, too.

But there shouldn't be any proof. Contacting the publisher won't divulge the writer's personal information. If you're going to force yourself with power, you're going to be questioned why. What can I say because I might be my own fiancée, I would be exposing myself to shame. If you're someone who's uncomfortable with pop novels, you'll never want to say it.

You must be trying to get me to confess from myself so that I don't make a bad noise and shame on you. I send my nectar and my roses every day, and I wait for them to get unbearable. He pushes me to the cliff with a twist, showing me as the ideal fiancée who conveys his affection every day beside him.

I admire you just as much as Deputy Ghost, but I can't just adore the problem.

Um, I think I should surrender already. It was originally a story that didn't match, was it? I could even get engaged to some miracle or mistake, but it was thick to think I could stick to my marriage as it was.

If Simeon has cursed me, there is no point in giving me an evil ascension. Even if we continue to climb, we will eventually be broken for some reason. The matter of the night club alone would be a good reason to dissolve the engagement.

I'm sure Simeon's last kindness isn't clear right now. If he tells me to break from the other side, I will tell the world that it was because I had a problem, and I will be greatly ashamed. So I guess it means thinking about a good excuse and quitting myself.

That's a big consideration. I'm very, very sorry, but let's give it up. Even if you can't be around as much as you are now, you can still see from afar. That's fine. I had many lovely memories even in the short run. Especially when you interrupt the Knights headquarters! Master Simeon, the whip gear I've dreamed of! That was good...... a belly black beauty with livestock elements that whispered a dangerous smell in the soft! That's exactly what Eye Bliss is about, thank you!

Close your eyes and remember the sight of bliss, soaking it by surprise. Yeah, I can write one just for this memory. That's enough. Let's think you let me have a good dream. I'm sure your fathers will convince you. Guys, I didn't think we could get along.

With a lid on the chilli and the pain of stabbing my chest, I took out a note. Master Simeon has been scared since the night club and was hesitant to contact us. But I already braced my stomach. Run the pen and write a letter to Master Simeon.

I'm sorry to disappoint you with my absence. I will turn myself around and decline to talk about my engagement... I won't write about my writer activities though. Unless you can hold back the evidence, I'll never tell you from here. But what I have perceived will be conveyed, and will satisfy Master Simeon.

Choose the words carefully, read them over and over again to make modifications, seal the cleared letter tightly and entrust it to the servant. I asked him to deliver it to the Frober family, and when I saw him leave, I kind of lost my mind.

Ahhh... you're done...

It will be rumored again for a while. They make me laugh the first time I go, and the Aurelians will come here to say they are proud and tired of it. That's helpful, so I don't know how much to come by, but I'm oddly powerless. Given the difference between me and Master Simeon, engagement is like dreaming or dreaming. He just woke up and went back to reality, but he seems to be unexpectedly disappointed.

No, no, don't be depressed forever, we have to switch.

I left the house quickly. I don't take Natalie, and I don't even let her have a carriage on foot. A little walk will get you out of the driveway, so you'll be able to pick up the flushing Tsuji carriage.

As an aristocratic woman, and unmarried daughter, there must be no such way out. That is what points to the prodigal and the hind fingers. - But my family and servants don't care.

If I were walking alone dressed like a common man, no doubt no one would pay attention first. It would also seem that some servant of the house is out to pay for it. If you get to the city, there are all the same people around you. I'm completely lost, and even my family can't find me.

I'm a middle-class daughter from anywhere right now. Wear a lightly decorated cream-colored dress with a same-color hat (bonnet) and take a refreshing cobblestone walk with short braided shoes. It's not like when I go out into the social world, I'm walking around in big strands. Buy chocolate crepes and grilled chestnuts in Square Chardan and walk along the LaTour River. You can stretch your legs to the market, or you can go see the commercial streets lined up by trading companies and newspapers. Let's take a look at the atmosphere and people of Shirai, who can't just walk into and out of the aristocratic social world. Perhaps we could finally stop by the publisher for our next meeting on the work.

If we go back to novel-centric life as before, we can forget about our engagement and Master Simeon. Return to me as I was.

When I reopened it and thought about the bright things, I felt just a little lighter. I stopped the Tsuji carriage, which had just run, and rolled it out into the city, where autumn also deepened.

I enjoyed shopping while sightseeing the city and it was about time to go home.

"Excuse me, are you a lady from the Clarac family?

I was astonished because the woman who approached me stopped calling.

"Um...?

I'm not a bad person. A woman in her twenties or so, with an atmosphere of upstream house servants.

"Oh, I'm sorry I surprised you. I am the servant of the Frober family… Simeon."

Soon my chest made a noise. How much did Simeon pay you? Why? Because I read that letter?

Does that mean we should just discuss it with a view to dissolving the engagement? Even so, why can we be called to a place like this? When I was here, Master Simeon would not have known this man better than he did.

"Actually, Master Simeon is here. You accidentally saw your daughter and commanded me to take her. I'll wait for you in the carriage, so would you mind working hard?"

Oh, my God. I can't believe in this big city, and that's in the city, not in the aristocracy, by chance.

A lot of coincidences, more fate? I wonder if I and Lady Simeon are bound by destiny. How dare you find me out of the multitude of men?

- What an exciting occasion for a story. Though reality is not such a convenient thing.

"Which carriage is it?

Look around and look back at the carriage that looks like it. Over there, shown is a bend into a road that doesn't have much of a crowd. I could see the end of the carriage.

I was taken by a woman and walked to the carriage. The inconspicuously constructed carriage, which also contained no family crest, had no other offering but one of the men in charge.

"Come on, go ahead"

Open the door and a woman nods. When I approached him and glanced inside, it was not Master Simeon who was on board. Yeah, I knew it. If it's Simeon's money, he's not a samurai, he's a servant or an apprentice knight.

Dong, and he gets his back thrust and falls into the carriage. A man lifted up his remaining leg outside, and he forced me to throw him into the carriage. An earlier woman will come aboard before her rise, and form before the closed door, that I may not go out. The carriage soon ran out graciously.

"Good day, Master Mariel. I didn't expect to see you here."

The lord of the carriage uttered a voice of contempt and hostility. I fixed the messy hem and sat down in the seat across from her. The servant woman sits by the Lord.

"Good day, Master Orelia. I was surprised, too. Even Aurelia can travel all over the city."

A gorgeous blonde, dressed in a rosy dress, hoisted her red mouth.

"Yeah, I go to the theater a lot. It's fun to look out the window at the landscape along the way. Though I didn't expect to find you with that. You're looking a lot different today, aren't you? It's like a common man! It looks great on you. But I can't believe the Claracks walked around on their own feet without a samurai. I wonder if low-grade houses are like that. I can't think of anything around me."

Hohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoho, I stared at the villain's lady as I had pictured her.

You're looking out the window of the carriage at the city and you find me. I can't believe it. It would already be love to discern this me from the crowd. I'm so grateful that Aurelia loved me so much.

- Yeah, well, I know. I'm sure that's it, the more I hate it, the more I see it. My mother hates rats, too, and you're amazingly sharp at the signs.

Still, finding me in this outfit is a big deal. Hate may bind people stronger than bad love...... alas, this phrase seems to work. I'd like to put it on my note, but I don't know if I can get it out right now.

"You're blurry, but you're not saying anything?

If I could see it, Master Orelia said it with a slightly white face. You seem dissatisfied because of my weak reaction.

"I'm sorry, Master Orelia was so nice, I could see"

"What? What, that. You think you can buy my pleasure by flattering me like that?

I can't believe I'm flattering you. Even though it's a heartfelt word. I'm sad I can't pass it on, Mariel.

"No, that's not what I meant. It's just an expression of adoration."

"... what?

"So why did you falsely invoke me as a charity from Master Simeon? My name is, which way is this carriage headed?

I glanced at the landscape flowing through the window. I'm going down a street corner I don't know, and I'm not sure which area I'm running around right now.

I wonder if they will take me to the Marquis de Cavenyak. But I don't think he's headed for the aristocratic district.

Having heard what I should have heard, Master Orelia finally laughed with satisfaction.

"I was going to take you to a very pleasant place. I'm sure you'll like it, too. Expect it."

"Yeah, I expect a lot from deployment, but I need to tell you one thing first"

"... what the hell"

Master Orelia's eyebrows come again. Beauty is hard on any look.

"The reason Aurelia makes me uncomfortable is her engagement to Simeon, isn't it? But the truth is, I'm trying to dissolve my engagement. I just sent a letter to Master Simeon today. You're going to do that too, so maybe it'll be decided soon."

"What?

For a moment, Master Orelia's face became proper. Oh, with such a dumb look, the insurance disappears and you look a lot cuter. Master Orelia's new charm, discovery.

"So Master Orelia doesn't have to be hostile to me."

"... you think you're really going to take that shit? If Master Simeon tells you to break it, I understand, but why do you say no? It won't be possible."

"Yeah, I didn't mean to say no without anything. There's been a lot of problems. Master Simeon thought of my worldly body and let me take the form of resignation from me rather than speaking out of you. I'm sure in a few days, we'll be announcing the dissolution of our engagement."

…………

Master Orelia glanced at me, nagging. Soon you seem incredibly suspicious. Since there is no lie or deception, I look back into my green eyes without moving. The carriage was wrapped in heavy silence for a while. Eventually, Master Orelia said, still glancing suspiciously.

"If that story is true, it would be great. It is intolerable that someone like Simeon waste their life on a boring person like you. But I doubt it's true. Isn't it convenient to get away from this place?

"Is this an occasion where you have to escape?

Oh, what shall I do? It freaks me out. I can't believe I'm coming out with a more forceful means, unlike harassment without bad mouth or deflection. It's like a story. Although the heroine of the story has a hero who comes to salvation, I must do something on my own. Don't just adore me, I need to calmly grasp the situation.

"Oh, no. Well, you said it was fun. Hehe, I'm trying to spare you, but how long will such a void last?"

Oh, I like the delightfully distorted face of prey! That's the Wah of Evil! Beautiful and powerful, Master Orelia makes me feel better. This is not how I imitate.

The carriage eventually stopped when he hid his ha-ha-ha inner mind and shut up quietly. It was in front of some building.

"What about this one?

It's time to get dark, but it's a lot busier. In a different atmosphere from the downtown area of the table, isn't this a pleasure district?

There is a rather adorable atmosphere lined up there. Walking down the street is overwhelmingly male. The women you see are not amateurs, they are from a nearby store.

"It's a store where you eat and listen to music and play. Come on down."

When the samurai opened the door, a waiter was already waiting. After me dragged out forcefully, Master Orelia descends.

"Is this something called a... coveted whorehouse!?"

"Back up?"

Ha, you shouldn't. The very truth of the excitement spilled.

"No, that's why I admire you."

Deception in advance. In front of the forbidden garden, which I could not even come close to before entering, I suppressed myself diligently, which seemed inadvertently to run wild.

"Hehe, it's okay. Because this is the most formatted store in Pettibon. Many of our clients are aristocratic men."

Pettibon...... oh, its name is definitely the biggest pleasure district in Saint-Terre city. So when it comes to the best shops, "Turantur"!? I wonder if there is even His Highness Severan, who secretly visits the royal family!?

"Do I work here!?"

"Huh?"

I couldn't contain my excitement in a place I'd only heard about in the story, and when I screamed at her, Master Orelia turned out to be a funny, frowning, ridiculous face.

"If you want to work, I'll ask the store... but you might have customers."

Oh, right. There was no way I could have lined up in a store with first-class beauties.

No, you're not disappointed, are you? It's not a story of being sold off to a whorehouse, so it's something I don't want to happen to us. I am properly aware of the current situation, even if I am excited. I'm relieved Master Orelia doesn't seem to feel that way. Yeah, I'm not disappointed.

No matter how great a story you buy, you can't be a novel unless you get home safely, so it's hard to get sold off.

But then I wonder what you brought me here to do.

The carriage came again while we were talking and stopped near us. It was a familiar face that came down.

"Good evening, Jakob. I'm sorry I called you out so suddenly."

Master Orelia speaks in a sweet voice to a young man. It was still Master Jakob, the young man in the Baron Moré family. I hear you are a fervent follower of Master Orelia. He is a person who is intoxicated by himself who devotes himself to his loved ones, but is laughed at in the shadows that he is just being made a convenient use of.

It was a story I sometimes hear as I listened to and gathered insignificant rumors. Master Orelia and his enthusiasts are regular storytellers. You know you like to speak ill of yourself, but you say the same thing from around you.

"Dear Aurelia, oh, my golden rose! Run to the end of the earth, if you will. What are you ordering this foolish servant of love to do tonight? Say anything."

Lady Jakob mouthed a playful dialogue with her feverish eyes. Really, you're so intoxicating.

"Thank you. I want you to take this kid to the store. Give her a tour of places that ordinary women can't see."

Lady Jakob's gaze shifts from Lady Orelia to me. The heat disappeared from my eyes once in a while, and it became as cold as if I looked down at it even in stone.

"Who is this miserable woman? Not suitable at all to put by your side. Though they should choose someone a little more worthy of you."

"Well, ho ho. No, I'm not. This is Mariel, the Clarak family's maid. He came all the way out here to learn how to be like Ichii."

I know you said it with the intention of making a fool of yourself. Master Orelia's words were infinitely close to the truth.

"Clarac...... oh, that"

Master Jakob's eyes get colder and colder. To him I would be like garbage that pollutes the sight of Master Orelia.

"Because of this, I thought I'd give you more opportunities for a social tour. I can't get into that shop, so I was wondering if you could take me with you. You can just eat and stay for a few hours. Not in a private room, but with other guests."

... So Aurelia's aim is to get me into the whorehouse, and to witness it to other guests (some aristocrats), and to make it the source of bad rumors?

It's a lot of scandal that noble daughters were in and out of the whorehouse. If it had been witnessed as a fact rather than just a rumor, things would have gone so far that I could never show my face to the social world again. Even the engagement is immediately destroyed. Has Master Orelia, who had doubts about my story, contemplated this measure to become true, even if it is a lie?

No, not since before, right? If you sent for Master Jakob, before you captured me. I can't believe you happen to see me in the city, set up an immediate operation, and hit my hands quickly...... fantastic! Exactly the villain's appraisal!

That's not if you adore me. Yeah, I also feel a little shabby just bringing him into the store and letting him witness it around. That's all? I almost said. I mean, I mean, it's been a lot of spicy, but to that extent, you're still a good grown lady. I'm supposed to be a lady, too, but I wonder why I can come up with as many more spicy occasions as I want. I'm sure you read too many stories.

They don't do anything as bad as I imagined. Can I be relieved at last? But Master Orelia's operation is troublesome enough.

I want to see inside the whorehouse. But we need to prioritize our safety over curiosity.

Will I be able to escape? I looked around softly. Then the group approaching this way caught my eye.

Common men. They come laughing and yelling out loud about whether alcohol is already in there.

They've noticed and noticed right here. You bet, no matter how high the format of the store, there's no way a flashy man or woman standing in front of a whorehouse can catch his eye.

"Oh, which princess? Isn't that a big deal?"

"That's Turantur under the sky, even the kind of woman who attracts guests on the table."

"You better deal with me than such a boy. I'm gonna be a good guest."

It was naturally Master Aurelia who was teased. Then the samurai was also offered a little, but the consciousness of the men was not directed against me.

"Oh, my God, you guys! Hard, don't touch me!

Master Orelia screams and twists herself, escaping the hand of a man who inexplicably touches her. Before that, Master Jakob stood and covered himself.

"Back off, you little bitch! This is not a good place for you!

He was truly splendid and resolute. Though I tried to protect Master Orelia with a neat face, like a hero in the story.

"Shut up."

With a ruthless word and a wave of arms, Lady Jakob was suddenly blown away. I get slammed by cobblestones, and I get groaned on the spot and can't get up.

Oh...... quite a thing in real life. You can't just solve love and courage.

Those who tried to help the lady were also beaten to death.

Master Orelia and the others screamed tall. The men are going to hold me and force me to drag me away.

"No! Stop! Why is this happening!?"

Oh, my God. If I come to a place like this at this hour, it's decided to be like this.

Young girls, even if they are not aristocrats, should not step into pleasure streets, etc. It's common sense.

I'm supposed to be included in the young girls too, but the men didn't realize I existed at all. It's stuck in the carriage, so I wonder if it's assimilated and doesn't look good.

"There! What are you doing!

If I was going to go get help before they noticed, they came from the help. Several men came running along with a sharp voice and jumped at the men trying to take Master Orelia away.

Oh... these people, they're unobtrusive normal clothes, but they're military.

In a well-trained move invisible to amateurs, they quickly repelled drunkards. Master Orelia, who escaped the crisis, was in tears.

"Are you hurt? I see you as a Kavenyak lady, but what are you doing in a place like this..."

"Shit, I don't know! I'm just passing by!

After a little while, Master Orelia is relieved. It would be an unexpected development to find out here. When she realized that the measures she had tried to set me up were about to wake up to herself, she turned herself in advance.

Master Orelia and the samurai jump into the carriage, and the man who manages to get up also returns warmly and puts a whip in the horse. The carriage happened to run out to leave the people who were taken aback and dropped off.

"Ah, Master Orelia! Wait, my rose!

The resurrected Master Jakob still shouts a playful scream, but he doesn't look like he made a fool of himself. I noticed the eyes around me, and he turned to the sleaze and his carriage, too. but there is no one to hide. If I let him know what was going on, he was completely scared of all the noise and hiding in the shadows.

"What are you doing! Get it out now!"

... I can't believe the young man was attacked and hiding without help.

And two carriages drove away, and one of me was left behind.

Dear Aurelia... it's terrible that you forgot me. If you're a villain, you have to take responsibility to the end.

However, I walked out to get to the point where Tsuji carriage could pick it up. But the men who helped me were properly aware of my presence and were immediately stopped.

"Over there, please."

Slightly beckoned with a polite gesture. When did you see it, there was one carriage parked a short distance away.

"Um?"

"Don't worry. Our Lord protect you."

A soldier pretending to be an ordinary man says so and takes me to the carriage. Who will come out this time? As I followed him with my neck clenched, I turned my eyes round to what was beyond the open door.

"It's not good to get noticed in a place like this. Come on, get in."

Ordered with a slightly harsher voice, and hastened from behind, I enter the carriage. I was hesitant to do anything, and he told me to sit down. I'm surprised, I sit across the street in my seat.

Ha, and a frightened breath spilled.

"I had no idea you'd see your face in a place like this. I need you to explain what the hell you were doing."

Black hair and black eyes. Unlike Simeon, a young man with a strong beauty makes fun of me. Surprisingly, I turned back.

"This is me, I didn't expect to see you in the city. I didn't know Your Highness was going out to places like this, after all, are you looking for Turantur!? Rumors were true that even royalty would pass! So who's the familiar whore?!?"

"That's the first word! Let your eyes shine and ask what!?"

His Royal Highness Severan, who immediately stuck around, also appeared to be a completely different figure than usual.

It doesn't even have to be the average person, it's a plain outfit about a middle-class nobleman. At a glance, I could see that he was out of the room with patience. But, Your Highness, can I stick with you, too? Where I changed my identity, beauty and majesty are too self-assertive to be meaningless at all.

It could only be expected to have an effect to such an extent that it would not be noticeable in the long run.

"Sorry, curiosity has broken out"

"... too honest, but okay"

Apologizing in advance, His Highness Severan also coughed up with Cohon and returned his expression.

"I don't even have time to relax, so let me just hear more about it. Keep following me. Like talking good things on the way or being quiet without acting on your own"

"Yes."

There is no way you can disobey the words of His Royal Highness Prince Wang. I nodded softly, and thereafter remained as quiet as a figurine. The carriage stopped again soon after just a few moves. If His Royal Highness nodded me down, it was in front of the main entrance of Turantur.

Oh...... the garden I admire is right in front of me. I hear a beautiful sound of ease leaking from inside. It also smells good. Near the entrance as luxurious as the noble hall, there was no foul hustle or crowd that broke the atmosphere. Deacon, nice and elegant man to welcome you.

"What touches me at the entrance. Come on."

His Highness, who was walking ahead, sprinkled and called me. You can come in!? Fine!? Then go to the forbidden garden!

Step gently into the red carpet laid in the marble hallway and the footsteps will be sucked in. I walked in His Highness's throat from time to time. Where are the beautiful sisters!?

Without running into anyone, we move on. There was a line of doors just moments after entering, and the conductor opened the door to the right. Contrary to hearing music and laughter leaking from the left, this one is quiet. He walked down the corridor where no one was, ascended some stairs, and went up to the third floor of the building.

"It's this way. You will arrive first."

Says the conductor in front of a room in the back. Is this a hidden encounter?!? I hear that there are inns in Shirai that offer such places, but I am surprised that as many stores as Turantur will be used for such things. 'Cause here's a bunch of beautiful, attractive whores. If I bothered to use such a place, I wonder if men's eyes would move away.

Flirted by the waves of inspiration and surprise that struck me one after the other, I followed His Highness into the room. As you can imagine, it was a luxurious interior. A man rising from a bench beneath a shimmering chandelier squirms at His Highness.

"I guess I've kept you waiting. I'm sorry I picked you up on the way."

"No, not as much. It's faster than I promised. What do you mean, picking up? That was a lot of cute stuff falling off."

The eyes of those who joked and answered turn to me. The sinister calm and tidy face looked familiar.

"Good evening, Miss Mariel. It was an unexpected reunion."

"Good day, Ambassador Fan Rail. You were His Highness's" companion. "

Waiting for His Highness in the room was Fissel's new ambassador. Oh, my God, it was a meeting with my sinister uncle, not my beautiful sister! This is an unexpected development! But it could be ants. There's also some kind of king's way of coupling a beautiful young man with a beautiful middle aged man!

Indeed, there is no need to worry about moving on to this. Whatever you do with beauty, if you are not eligible at a time when you are a woman.

"... something, I feel misunderstood"

His Royal Highness scolded me with his face. Oh, was that on your face?

"Sometimes we use these places to have confidential talks to keep people out of sight. That's all. All you have to do is pretend to be an unrelated guest and come in and out, and you can trust this store because it will never divulge a customer's secrets. Needless to say, what you see and hear here is useless. Don't even tell your family. If you talk to Pepper, it's not one of his necks, it's about the survival of the Claracks."

"Of course, I won't tell anyone. I'll shut up and watch you both."

"No, it's a meeting!? We're talking politics!?"

Your Highness seems anxious for some reason, even though I have given you my unequivocal word. Will I not be so trustworthy? Exactly. If this can't even be a story in a novel, there's enough discernment.

"... but first, let me tell you something. Why were you in a place like this? You were with Olelia Cavegnac and the other one was Jakob More, right? What were you doing with them?"

His Highness asked as he pinched me like a cat's child and pushed me into the chair, and lowered his back himself. In the strange circumstances of being present with a foreign ambassador, I explained the rush of things.

Her Royal Highness wasn't so surprised either, as harassing someone she doesn't like is a well-known story in the social world. I was frightened that what I would do was too vicious, but I was also frightened that I was walking alone, so it would be like fifty hundred steps. Ambassador van Rail did not pinch his mouth and was listening with a funny looking face.

"Totally...... I thought she was too quiet, plain and uncharacteristic a daughter, but today she remains amazed. Simeon was turning bright blue with a letter from him."

"Did you know about the letter?

"He could have told his family to let them know as soon as they heard from him. It was delivered from the Frober family to the Royal Palace. Thanks to you, I couldn't bring Simeon in today. Being upset and hitting your hand and foot at the corner of your desk at the same time and dropping your glasses again helps. I just threw him out to go... but being here means he's gone wrong."

"Yes, because I went out as soon as I got the letter out"

His Highness exhaled deeply as he was tired. Elbow to the chair and hold the temples. You look strangely smooth, and I adore you a little.

"Why did you say you were disengaged?"

Oh, and I snapped my neck.

"Did you know that too?"

"It was like Simeon, but it wasn't just every time. I asked what it said. What's wrong with that guy?... No, I'm not saying it has no flaws. They say you're a cutter and a schemer, but the tight spot is an inconvenient fucking serious man. Some of them are surprisingly messy, and they're not as well-dressed men as they look."

To His Highness's words, I nodded, yeah, nagging. Yes, Master Simeon is a very serious person. I was also convinced to hear from the captain and his men what I had somehow felt since my engagement. Even the Knights, Master Simeon is known for his seriousness.

It is true that you are a brainchild, and there are occasions when you are intelligent and active. But the usual Simeon was a man who seriously encouraged his duties, was fair to everyone, compassionate even in tough times, and admired by his men. Everyone said stupid things to Deputy Ghost, but their faces were laughing.

There was a slight difference between the figure I held and reality. It seems a little different from the belly-black livestock staff, and even though I can be disappointed, I don't feel that way with wonder. I rather adore the new charm. Difference between appearance and contents...... I wonder if it's called gap adoration.

I guess he took care to be able to resign from me instead of poking me out of engagement all of a sudden because he's like that. I don't know if it's still a little belly-black that I've been hunting down silently for that matter.

"But I think you can count on it. I don't have to worry about cheating. He doesn't have that dexterity. If we get married, we'll fuck one of our wives and never hang out with another woman. It's not tyrannical to say I'm not accommodating, so I shouldn't be a bad husband. I don't suppress my wife on my own. As long as you don't let your wings come off, there's about a certain amount of freedom to let it go."

With all the words lined up, His Highness defends Lady Simeon. I wondered when I heard it. I wonder why he would defend all the Simeons, too.

"I know exactly what you're saying. I am not unhappy with Simeon."

"So what's the problem?!? Is it your daughter-in-law's problem?!? The Counts of Frovel are not opposed to it. Aside from the details, I'm thrilled that my son was willing to marry you."

His Royal Highness seems to assume that there is a problem with Simeon's side. Does that mean you haven't heard anything from Master Simeon? Even though the problem lies with me.

Think about how I'll explain it. Ambassadors van Rail took a good look at it. I don't want to talk too embarrassing in front of irrelevant people.

I pretended not to know about the writer's activities and told him that I had angered Master Simeon by going out alone to a night club. I guess they didn't think my wife could do it with a daughter who wasn't discreet enough to go hang out with her fiancée. I have never seen my face since, and I am blamed for the far-fetched of things that are not clear. Considering the public, I drew on his intention to resign from this one and offered to dissolve the engagement -

His Royal Highness became more and more of a frightened face as he spoke. I know how you feel, but you don't have to despise me so openly. I failed a little, but my fiancée made me sad.

On the other hand, Ambassador van Rail was sifting his shoulders and laughing at what was wrong. He turns away from me, grabs the elbow of the chair and puffs. Isn't this terrible? Is it Uedo Laughing? But I wonder what made me so ugly about the dissolution of my engagement.

"I don't feel like saying anything..."

After a while His Highness said in a sigh mix. Something, he was a very tired face.

"That I haven't seen you since? Not once?

"Yes."

"Letters, etc..."

"We have received no letters or messages. Anything but your words were delivered every day, which means it's like a signal to me to resign."

"What, that's"

I couldn't answer your face lord that I wasn't sure, this time. If they ask me why a rose means that, I have to tell them all my secrets. You may hear from Simeon sooner or later, but I can't admit it.

When the silence somehow fell indoors, the door was knocked from the outside. Your Highness's escort is coming in. A face I don't know, but I'm sure they're Kingsguard knights.

"Your Highness, the vice president has arrived."

"Get through here now."

"Ha."

A stiff knight leaves. Soon the door opened again and Lady Simeon appeared.

…………

A beautiful eye behind my glasses looks straight at me. Has she rushed here so quickly that her hair and clothes, which are always decent, were a little broken? Before the engagement is dissolved, I will take action on the matter again, and I will be humiliated and angry in front of my master and foreign ambassadors. Don't let the words come out any time soon, he was just fooling around and staring at me.

Cohon, and a cough broke in between us.

"I'll let you use the other room. Talk to you two."

Your Highness will show you the door that leads to the room. So Lady Simeon turned her eyes and bowed her head in the face that she had finally noticed His Highness's presence.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry to be so sweet with your words"

"Oh. Discuss it thoroughly and misunderstand it"

- Misunderstood?

His Highness rushes me, and I rise, too. Lady Simeon pushed me on my back, and I gently mowed at His Highness and the ambassador to the next room.

But when he came in, Mr. Simeon stopped his legs perfectly. I look at the center of the room with a surprised face. There was a splendid bedside with a canopy that seemed like three people could afford to sleep there.

- Oh, was this the real room!

After enjoying a drink in that room over there, you're moving over here and enjoying your array and collection! There is no big lighting and a few smaller lamps are placed, raising the dim space to demons. The book dripping from the ceiling is elegant yet smooth purple. After plenty of talking about love on this sleeping table, I can barely get molested by a whore in my arms.

"... what are you doing?"

He returned to me in Simeon's voice. I shouldn't, I was obsessed with the clutching of the futon and the pattern of the book. Ah, the pillow smells good.

"It's exciting. Does Simeon come to this shop often?

"And it's work, work! Just come at His Highness's service, not for that purpose!

"Olga, Isabel, and Chloe are the three most senior in Turantur's" Flowers, "right? Has Master Simeon ever met you? Who likes you the most?

"Why are you so familiar with it!?"

I wonder why. You also know Olga has red hair, Isabel has chestnut hair, and Chloe has blonde hair.

Although this is the first time I have come to the site, only rumors have ever purchased a lot. If that's the case, I'd like to see you at a glance.

Lady Simeon lifted her forehead, and, ah, exhaled and fixed her glasses.

"... I don't know what to tell you... but I'm also very confused about how you're protected in a place like this."

"It's not a long story to talk about. Your Royal Highness has just told me."

Answering so troublesome to return the same explanation over and over again, Master Simeon nodded, whispering his eyebrows.

"Right, that's not the most important thing right now. What I want to ask you more than anything else is why you were told to cancel your engagement and so on."

I snapped my neck in my eyes. Why? Do you hear that?

"Were you unbearably dissatisfied with me? I'm not sure how women feel. If you were doing something to hurt you before you knew it, let me know. I'll help you improve."

- Yes or no?

More and more I don't know why, and my neck remains tilted. I don't know what that means, the story doesn't connect at all.

I thought Simeon gave me all his love. Does Simeon think he's lost his love? I wonder why that happens. I have no idea.

"Um... Isn't it Master Simeon who wants the engagement dissolved?

"Me? Why?"

The eyes behind the glasses open wide and the eyebrows rise all the way up. I knew it was beautiful, and I said as I fell in love with Rin once again.

"I confess because I have nothing more to hide... but you know my secret, don't you?

"Secrets... are you talking about the novel?

Answers are returned. I nodded.

"Is that what you're publishing in the name of Anise Vivier? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that would be you."

"How did I know... Yes, I do. I am Anise Vivier. You must have despised your noble daughter for writing and selling pop novels."

"Huh?"

"They thought you were a careless, thin woman to bring there and go out and play alone even though you have a fiancée, right? That's why you seemed so angry then, wasn't it? I'm sorry. Since then, Mr. Simeon has not invited me once, and I have been unable to receive letters or messages, and instead a rose that flaunts me when I know about the novel is delivered every day, and I understand. Mr. Simeon said he wanted the engagement dissolved. But you cut yourself out, and you whispered to me what infidelity I had, so you turned me down, didn't you? That would convince the public that it would be natural because it was a misplaced relationship."

Open your eyes as well as your mouth, and Lady Simeon gazes at me. In order to be truly surprised, I bowed my neck as I spoke. I'm not going to be able to get back to normal without leaving it behind.

"... why, it does"

From Master Simeon's throat, words leaked like groans. It was like a word that came out unconscious, not a word that you put on me.

Hold on to your forehead and think of Simeon with a dizzy face. I finally realized when I watched him do what he did, wondering if my perception could have been a great mistake.

"Did you not?

"It's a big difference! Why does that happen!... No, that night, I also reflect that I was narrow-minded. I didn't think about what you said, I didn't... I just stuck around on my own."

"Obsessed?

"Well, that's already a reflection! You're nothing wrong. I just had a bad attitude, I'm sorry. You said you went out alone, but that wouldn't have been a problem then. Although I think we should have contacted each other beforehand. But I'm not angry about that."

"... Really?"

Oh, surprise. Master Simeon was a very forgiving man.

Then why were you so grumpy? Though I said I was obstinate for another reason, I did not know for what reason Master Simeon would be obstinate.

"I apologize for not showing my face once since then. Well... sometimes I was busy with work, but that's half the pretext... hello, it's hard to meet each other"

"... we got awkward that day."

"Right...... I've noticed a lot about it and I'm not sure I'll face you in peace. If I thought I'd settle down a little bit, I'd find it hard to see him."

Yeah, yeah, I nodded when I knew better about that.

If you get worked up, you should just apologize and make up, right? When I put my time away poorly by saying things like that after I calm down, I get more awkwardness for good. I regretted it so much when I used to mess with Julienne. It took me two months to make up, and that was with my grandmother's help. Since then, we have been trying to make up for it by apologizing as soon as we can, even if we are upset.

That much thought, I kind of figured it out. Has Master Simeon dragged something a little awkward with me, but he didn't even think about it until the edge was cut off, so he has given you a rose every day to make up for it? Wasn't that silent blackmail?

Oh... I totally misunderstood.

"I'm sorry, I seem to have made a terrible mistake. I thought they kept giving me roses because they knew about the novel and it was useless to hide it."

Apologizing, Master Simeon looked very pitiful. I'm sure you'd be surprised to see Deputy Ghost's face like this. I was surprised, too. Maybe I should keep it to myself because the power's gone and you think it's kind of cute or something?

"That's what they think... I was just wondering if you like that..."

"Am I?

"... you were writing, weren't you?

"... you wrote"

Yeah, well, I wrote that kind of story. Eventually, the heroine who learns who the giver is, realizes his thoughts, which he was secretly watching over, and is linked across misunderstandings and obsessions - that was the development.

Oh, did you just purely imitate that? No, but it was not a secret, it was a gift with a grand name, and it's not normal to think that the intent would change?

I can't believe they already gave it to me with that intent. I'm sorry I thought it was a nettine and a belly-black way to hunt you down. I can't tell you how much I prefer jade and bell orchids to crimson roses.

"Uh... uh"

As Simeon dropped his shoulder disappointingly and opened his mouth no more, I said as I tidied my head.

"Thank you very much. I'm sorry for the mistake. So you can interpret Simeon as saying that he didn't want the engagement to be dissolved?

"... Yep"

Sighing, Master Simeon nodded.

"I don't think about that at all"

"I can't stop writing novels."

"I don't mind. I'm not really talking about revealing it to the peeve, but I personally don't see it as a problem. Didn't you say that before? He said your story was interesting. It would have been different if it was so crappy, but I never felt uncomfortable reading it. Instead there was a lot on my mind."

... oh.

Through tolerance, Master Simeon seemed to God. Instead of tolerating my activities, I can't believe you're accepting them favorably. It's a joy I've written the story of a woman for a woman by a woman, but never thought I'd get such high praise from a man.

Does Master Simeon have a bit of a feminine insider? Yeah, that's probably why you look great alongside your Highness.

"Mariel?

He waved back to me in front of me. I shouldn't, my consciousness was flying into a world of inspiration and delusion.

"Thank you! Me, next, let me write Lady Simeon on the model! Do you still like dark hair?!?"

"What opponent!

When I crammed into Master Simeon with gratitude, I heard a boo-blown voice behind me. It wasn't for one, it was a bunch of laughs.

"Oh, no... what, that's funny"

"Not without that cold-blooded knight. Funny."

"You guys, hold back."

"Your Highness is laughing."

"Ha ha, no. Young people are good. It's really smiling."

"Aren't you on the verge of a blast instead of smiling, Lord Fan Rail?

"No, I'm not thinking about who the brunette is, or anything like that."

"... we have to protest against cross-border misconceptions."

"It's not obvious, I like that too."

"There's nothing like that or anything!

The door, which should have been closed, opened thinly at some point. There was no one or two shadows beyond it.

…………

…………

We took a little distance silently.

"A lot, I imitate without goods. If you want to see it so badly, you don't have to peek at it, you can come in here. You're welcome."

- Wow.

Simeon's face, which spoke to the door, was a beautiful and frightening smile. Ahhh! This is the animal belly black staff! In the middle of my taste! It's the nicest, Master Simeon!

Noticing me looking up haha, Master Simeon coughed up his expression once more. And on the spot, I knelt.

Oh, by what? And I take my hand, and he drips his head.

"I propose to you again, Mariel. Please be my wife."

... Wow.

Sometimes something different just happened. It's a show of love, just like the story. I nodded, nagging at the mouthpiece I had been given.

"Yeah, welcome. There's no one more adorable than you. Please let me stare at you forever."

"... Yep"

Is it my fault you felt a little subtle at the end of the day?

There was no time to check, and people slipped in through the door.

"You're gonna show it off!

"Simeon is a lot cuter in front of his fiancée"

"Ho, this boiled or roasted dude is fuzzy."

Oh, oh. Flowers. Beautiful flowers rush in. My gaze sucks on my white chest. What a bold open collar. The glimmer of a rich valley! Dreamy beauty surrounds us.

"Disgusting. Don't you know what it's like not to?"

"It wasn't Master Simeon who said to come in."

"That's right. More than that, you are Anise Vivier!?"

My red-haired sister's hand snapped my cheek and forcefully turned to herself. What a slippery and soft hand. The chest smells good sometimes. And the valley. The valley is right in front of you.

"Ah, yes..."

When I managed to nod, Kah cheered from the sisters.

"Ugh, I can't believe I met Vivier himself!

"I have all your books! I like" Misty Castle Love "the most!

"I can't believe this cute little lady wrote it. Can you sign for me later?

My beautiful sisters messed me up and I was only apart from Master Simeon for how long. On the other side, Simeon was slapped on the shoulder by His Highness Severan and Ambassador van Rail. All the beautiful men and women in the room, everywhere they look. What bliss, what extreme pleasure. I have too many eyelids and my eyes are going to close.

"Oh, are you... Could it be Mr. Olga, Mr. Isabel and Mr. Chloe?

"Oh, you know about us?

"Know it or nothing, Turantur's peak flower is an admiration throughout Saint-Terre! I'm the one who signed it!

"What does an aristocratic lady say? This one's just a whore."

"That's what you do! Aren't all Turantur flowers ladies of first-rate upbringing and skill! I'm not tied up in the year, I'm also a professional lady who works with pride! It's not a product you can buy as long as you give it money, no matter how many times you go through it or how much you contribute, you're a heavenly lady who can't go flooring if you don't like it! I'm no longer a goddess for the highest flower of them all!

"… so why are you familiar with that as well"

Although I feel like I heard Master Simeon's voice, it's not the other way around. I am obsessed with the goddesses in front of me.

Oh, what a wonderful day this is. I let Aurelia feel like a heroine, and I was able to make up for her misunderstanding with Simeon. The engagement went on, and on the contrary, I didn't have to keep my writing a secret. Plus, I can't believe I can face the flowers I admire!

Please, I hope you're not dreaming. May this night not disappear with illusions.

Away from us who were willing and uplifting, the men were speaking quietly.

"Simeon...... well now, are you sure it's okay with me?

"... Yes"

"Right. I don't know what to say if you're okay..."

"No, no, isn't that good? It's going to be a fun, boring wife."

"Ambassadors, think of it as other personnel"

"Moderate stimulation is needed between men and women. Life is a long time, so you can enjoy it slowly."

"... right..."

About two months later, a new book by Anise Vivier was published. The story of love and conspiracy, which begins with a confrontational relationship, gained quite a reputation and was also a great woe to the flowers of Turantur.

"I don't mind that, but what is this, this pair of people with a strange vibe on the side"

This time again, Simeon read my work. Sitting next to each other, he asks.

"What, my heroes' best friends?"

"I know that. Not really... why do guys have this kind of vibe between themselves"

"It is for my best friend, and for a secret companion. But it doesn't say anything clearly, does it? It's for the average woman, so I can't write any more. I can smell it."

"Do you write if you can!?"

"I don't write, but there are books like that. I just borrowed a new one from Julienne. Would you like to read it?

Simeon said no with his head to the book that I had taken away. I wonder if a man can do this book. Beech, you have to be a real person.

"Well...... I won't say it loud if you just incorporate those elements...... for some reason I feel like someone I know strangely?

"Ho ho ho, who is it? Not brunettes and blondes, though."

"It's still us!? Why are these two more than anything else!?"

"Well, what is it? It's a common royal road coupling, isn't it? It's a common combination, not uncommon in stories. The reader doesn't really think of anyone as a model."

"I hope so. Someone who understands... at all, absolutely! Don't write a sequel."

With a sinister face, Master Simeon turned his arms around my hips and held them tightly together. Recently, the distance is very close. We used to sit across from each other in separate chairs, not next to each other.

You've been reading stories that women prefer and researching a lot. I am glad that you are not cold and inseparable from the political marriage and strive to have a good relationship with me. I'll try my best to be a good wife too. I will do everything I can for your husband.

I keep writing novels though.

Surprisingly, there's been a lot of response from the two sides, and the editing definitely tells me what to do with the sequel? Julienne was happy, and as far as I'm concerned, I'd like to write.

If you look up, you only loosen your face. A smile returns if you laugh. I opened my head on my broad shoulder.

I think I'll go to Turantur again and teach you how to be a good snake.

I was thinking of a plan for a pleasant tomorrow, teasing my hair into a diminutive, mouth-dropping Simeon.

Today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Let's live happily ever after, shall we?

* * * * * FINAL * * * * *