Outaishihi ni Nante Naritakunai!!

A few days after I asked Fried to help.

I was making tea for the afternoon.

The place is a dedicated garden that only allows the same royalty as last time. Let the table set in places where spring and summer flowers bloom, prepare tea confectionery and tea leaves before finishing paying for them.

"I'll do it later. I need to talk to you about something important, so stay away from me."

"Yes, I did. Call me if you need me."

When I told my dedicated ladies who helped me prepare, they all bowed their heads and left.

Ready for the rest, exhale.

"Hmm. That's about enough preparation for this one."

Look around. Give me someone with a view of this place and I'll know soon enough.

Anyway, when I checked the time, it was time for my appointment.

"Liddy."

It was my mother-in-law who showed up almost on time. I grinned and welcomed my mother-in-law.

"Thank you for coming. Mother-in-law."

"It's an invitation from my righteous daughter. Of course I've decided to go. Hehe... I won't even bother you today, and now it's time to talk slowly."

"Uh... that's..."

Stuck in a good mood and unable to return to the words of my mother-in-law smiling. Another pair showed up waiting at that time.

"Liddy, please wait"

"Fried."

Coming from the entrance was Fried with the King. Where does the king go with his usual tattoos? He looks slightly restless and awkward.

The two stood a little distance from us when they came this way.

My mother-in-law stares at Fried, then at me.

"... what does that mean?"

"Mother-in-law"

I spoke in a small voice so that the two of them could not hear me, but gazed at each other.

"Mother-in-law. My mother-in-law, I think it's time to face Her Majesty properly once and for all. Please don't turn away from the reality you have now, and listen to His Majesty and put it up. To the extent that I can give you that much, I think His Majesty suffered, too."

"Liddy...... Something unsolicited. I told you to forget it."

"... sorry"

The reprimand of my mother-in-law was natural. But I really don't want to leave it like this.

Even if my mother-in-law hated me, she wanted my mother-in-law to know the truth.

That's why I told my mother-in-law.

"Mother-in-law. Fifteen years ago His Majesty was indeed greeted by Master Helene as his concubine, but he has not gone to Master Helene at one time. It was your mother-in-law's room that His Majesty went out every night. The monstrous sound of that night was nothing short of His Majesty."

"Huh..."

Mother-in-law who hears my words and just stares at me flashly. I let myself snort firmly.

"I don't know if you believe me, but it's true. The soldiers in charge of guarding your mother-in-law's room also testified. And the soldiers who guard Master Helene's hall. There's no reason for them to lie, is there?

"Oh... that's"

Tell the soldiers what you heard.

I always asked the soldiers who were guarding my mother-in-law's room, "Is the king coming?" but not for Master Hélène.

I thought he might have been ordered to remain silent, and I asked him something farther away, irrelevant.

"Has Master Sarah ever come here to visit?".

'Cause Master Helene said. That I was the second person to come to that hall.

I honestly thought it was about the king then, but it wasn't. The king has not come to his concubine.

Then the other...

I stepped on Sarah, who is said to be close to Master Hélène, but he was a big winner.

If it's true that only me and Master Sarah are in the hall, the king is still not here and you're right.

"This is only my guess, but I think His Majesty has always regretted it. So at the very least, my mother-in-law was married to a concubine trying to do what she wanted. I don't love you, I don't hold you."

……

stepmother to be extinct. Still my lips spinning the words small.

"Oh, you need to do that... and you don't... Lord Helene is too"

My mother-in-law shakes her neck sideways if she doesn't want to believe it.

But I tell the truth. Gather them from here and there over the past few days for the truth that has united them.

"Because if you don't marry your concubine, your mother-in-law won't be able to rest assured, will she? You won't be able to calm down when His Majesty will come again, will you? As for Master Hélène... Hi. Seems like a concubine is like a mutual agreement, doesn't it?

"Keh, the contract?

"Yes."

Yes, it is.

Fried asked me to look into it, and apparently, Helene's home was in such a miserable situation that she was one step ahead of her fall before she was served as a concubine.

Yet some time after Master Hélène became a concubine, for some reason her house was restored.

Fifteen years later, he is now recovering to a house where he is laughed off when he hears that he is about to fall.

Perhaps, but that was the consideration for the white marriage to Master Hélène.

'Cause Master Helene said. "I'm convinced of who I am now," he said.

That she was asked to go up as a concubine with no married life. In return, the reconstruction of the house. And she responded to it. Definitely. Because if a house is going to help under such conditions, I think everyone will happily take the hand that has been reached.

Even though it's normal to be forced into a marriage with a sexual life, it's a cruel and unbreakable condition that you don't have to.

Yes, it is. For Master Hélène, this is not an unintended story. It's a contract that I'm convinced of.

I might have been unhappy if I liked the man, but I didn't have to worry about him, Master Hélène.

Because she told me that day. "There's someone else I like besides the king," he said.

For a moment I thought it was a betrayal to the King, but it isn't.

Neither she nor the king saw each other from the beginning.

If only I could behave 'like' as a concubine, the king wouldn't have said anything either.

So she was free to act in that hall.

And I also figured out why I was hanging out with the first ladies prepared.

The king is not coming to Lord Helene, who is supposed to be the king's princess.

I guess they managed to attract the king's attention. For Lord Helene, whom we serve.

But from her, that's an extra favor.

I don't want to match the taste of a man I don't even like, and when I get rid of him, that's what I'm talking about.

She didn't say it clearly, probably because that's the kind of promise she makes with the king.

But Master Hélène must have been disgusted by the mistake of the King and his wife. That's when I showed up, supposedly on my mother-in-law's side.

She tipped as far as she could tell and decided to wait for me to move.

"Oh no..."

Listen to me, blue-blooded stepmother.

I guess it was too unexpected. It said on his face that his stunning husband had never thought that no one had held him for fifteen years.

I gently pressed my mother-in-law's back.

"... I know you didn't say it, but I think Your Majesty loves your mother-in-law, don't you? Otherwise, I won't be able to do it for exactly fifteen years.... Didn't your mother-in-law always say that? on the strength of Wilhelm royal libido. I was just thinking about it, but I was wondering if you could just listen to me."

……

"I think you mother-in-law have a decisive lack of conversation. Because of this, why don't you two take your time and have some tea?"

My mother-in-law did not answer my words. But I wasn't angry or trying to escape the scene.

I was just staring at my own husband's face.

"Your Majesty..."

"... sorry for so long. Elizabeth."

Pompous and the king opened his mouth. Tears overflow from my mother's eyes when I heard the words.

The king embraced his mother-in-law. My mother-in-law wandered a little, but eventually stopped the resistance as she gave up.

Keep crying quietly in the king's chest.

I stopped by Fried's side and pulled the sleeve of his clothes.

"... let's go, Freed"

"Right."

I'm only here in the wild any longer.

Sometimes I originally wanted the two of us to talk, and I only prepared tea for two.

I hope you'll take advantage of this for a little while.

But then it's the two of us. All I can do is solve my mother-in-law's misunderstanding.

I cheered in my heart to do my best, and me and Fried quietly followed the scene.