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"Like a princess."

"Is the title Prince? That means a lot."

"It's a custom that's gone now, but it must have been up to the grandfathers' generation, right? I heard you used to dress young boys up to get them to miss out on you because boys often died of unexplained illness back then?

"There used to be a lot of blood marriages, and that repetition seems to have harmed the child. I'm sure Roma heard the story from somewhere and drew it."

"Fee, you say, as if you knew a Roman painter?

'Cause I know him.

"What? Do you know him? Liar?"

"Thanks to that I got a ticket"

Saying so, Phee put her finger up in her mouth. Sounds like my speaking voice was getting louder at some point. Luckily there was no one around, so I'm the only one who knows Phee is a Roman painter.

"When did you get to know such a celebrity?

"Coincidence, or the fact that I happened to get close from helping him get tangled up in a chimp in the country ahead of me at work. He was the king's painter in that country, so he was a terrible man."

"I see. Otherwise, you won't be able to paint fancy Lapis Lazuli."

Fee said the Roman painter had been stuck around because he was a painter in the king's arms. I was convinced it would be. Lapis lazuli are rare and expensive. It's not a substitute for a painter. Perhaps it would have been possible if the king of some country had been a patron.

In fact, all the Roman paintings were wonderful. It depicted a look like the person in the painting throwing something over here. He's going to talk to me from the other side of the painting now.

"Wonderful. I think I see you all saying it's nice. How about this? Fee."

What I particularly liked was the piece titled "The Woman in the Blue Dress," which I couldn't help but notice from the feminine appearance of waiting for my turn behind the scenes.

"How about this woman? I feel like I'm looking to the future."

"Right. It also seems like an occasion to confront a crime scene."

"Decriminalize?"

"It just seems like it to me."

If a hell of a word felt like it popped out of Fee's mouth and I heard it, Fee was smiling bitterly. It was fun to look around at the painting after that while Phee and I shared our thoughts on this.