The Inner Palace Tale of a Villainess Noble Girl

- And after breakfast.

"After all, the morning streets are sparse..."

"It doesn't feel like only the lower end of the samurai is moving, does it? I don't think there's a lot of people at the bottom of it in the first place, so I don't think there's much to look at."

As planned, Deanna, who had taken only one Kai for a decent stroll, walked down the great corridor of the rear palace (Halem) in an evil and conspicuous manner. It seems that the Great Corridor is basically a decision that only the highly-identified can walk, and there are seldom any other walkers besides the Deannas, but the servant aisles by the Great Corridor are hitched by the samurai. The streets are sparse if only in the Great Corridor, but there are never too many people in the whole, Deanna proceeded gracefully like an aristocratic courtier through such a contradictory space.

"I don't know... do everything in your power to get in the way, this great corridor. It's no waste that a lot of samurai have to go through such a narrow aisle and hardly anyone will use the big corridor over here. It's a narrow corridor, so big baggage can get lucky."

"Ma, this is the only time this big corridor is vacant. After this afternoon, the side rooms are coming out for a walk, so it's crowded there."

"Then why don't we just make sure the ladies can use the Great Corridor in the morning? I think it's efficient and good to end all kinds of chores while the Lord is resting, but there are only a few places to go, and you'll lose your work efficiency. Just in the morning, we'll be able to get through the corridor, no matter who we are, and we'll be able to improve the movement of the ladies and make them comfortable."

"I agree with you there. As usual, Dee lacks a sense of privileged class even though he's a fine nobleman. Doesn't this kind of thing deserve a special sense of 'passage through which only our stately selves can pass'?

"Oh...... I know there are a certain number of people who find value in that, but I also know that people who stick there are probably not even about how it ends, so I personally said, 'Glad to be treated specially about where you walk? I think so."

Good thing the pedestrian streets of the Great Corridor are sparse, Kai behind them and whispering in Ellandic, talking about whatever you want. It's a really likable feeling because there's no way the customs of stanza can change where Deanna said it.

Kai behind me chuckled.

"I guess if everyone in the world could think like the Crestors, no one would struggle because of their different identities"

"Instead, discipline and social awareness will no longer be taken care of, so it will be a world that is difficult to control. I wonder if being as free to think and act as we are is a minority, which is why we get around so well in society."

"That makes sense. But I still think it's better to have a world where people are free to think and move, even if it's somewhat difficult to take control, and become people who want to be irrelevant to their birth, than a society where human value is determined and their way of life is tied up in a way that doesn't even allow them to pinch questions there. - Now that I've seen the Stanza Empire with this eye, I'm stronger."

"Kai......"

"The social fabric of this country is entirely for the rulers. A perfect and rational system of identity for the emperor and his surroundings, for a very limited number of human beings to control a large number of others.... but I think it's actually awesome to see that a system created for the sole purpose of the ruler remaining the ruler distorts" man "in exchange for strong rule"

... That was just a feeling I kept to myself because Deanna felt strongly, too, but in Deanna's position it could be internal affairs interference if spoken poorly. Deanna is honestly surprised that Kai, who is not tied to politics (that is), thought and felt so deeply about the Stanza Empire.

"... I didn't expect a day from you to hear your views on governance, domination, and social systems. You're not interested in that hand, are you?

"Of course, you don't have any. - It's just that if you've been close to the heart of the country for over a year, staring all the time at a girl who's been running around for the country and the people just about you, and figuring out how to make that daughter smile, you'll feel that much."

In unexpected return, he is silenced without even floating his attentive gavel. To make sure that it is not unnatural to be asked in error, Kai now speaks in a slightly higher tone than usual, which would normally be perceived as the voice of a sufficient woman. I don't want you to say you can't turn red in conversation with a samurai, but don't say you take words that sound like your heart without touching them before.

(Why, this one...)

Always - always, always think. Whenever I feel Kai's deep and warm emotions, I wonder what kind of life would make me so sweet. Whenever, what Kai gives Deanna as a matter of course isn't really, at all natural.

Although every time Kai says that she is kind to Deanna, it is all about others than about herself. The truth. It's not Deanna, it's Kai who's sweet, it's Kai who's thinking about others all the time. Kai always gives Deanna's wishes priority over her feelings. You look very normal and just say that's natural. It's so natural, sweet on him like that when he realizes it, but leaning on him... the truth is, it's that one of them that should let him go and live for himself, not for someone else. Because one who is gentle and too kind can hardly prioritize one's own well-being with others in mind.

(For example, if Kai's happiness is ahead of my hands -)

The back of my chest hurt sharply at the thought that came to my mind. An emotional self who wastes time like a toddler rejects the clear answers he leads. I get stunned as I wonder how much more I can do.

Once indoors at the corner of the Great Corridor silently, it leaves with the servant aisle. Signs of those moving along were kept away and the surroundings were surrounded by silence.

That, without missing a moment of blank space. Kai behind him took Deanna's arm and led her to a blind spot by the corridor.

"- Dee?"

Kai is not a dull man enough to be so close and overlook Deanna's precarious feelings. The purple blue eyes peeking straight into this one from the front were full of gentle colors that led Deanna through and made her want to cry asexually for some reason.

"... what's wrong? Did you notice anything wrong with my words?

"... do,"

"Dee?"

"Why, are you always, always so sweet?

"Uh... Yasa, you want?

"Always, just care about me, think about me.... Kai is always nice and gives me so much stuff that I can't give back how hard I tried. You said before that you were just returning what I gave you, but I don't remember giving you anything worthy of what you give me."

"... annoying?

To ask the quiet question, shake your head hard, left and right.

"Glad to hear it, it's decided.... but I'm scared."

"Scared?"

"Because you always give me a normal face and a tender feeling.... One day I'm going to get used to it and mistake your kindness for" normal. "I just don't want to be any more arrogant than I've been telling you lately."

The blind spot in the shaded corridor is like a separate world cut off just there. When I realized that strange sense of unreality had pushed my back, my mind, which I would not normally say, was a puffy zero. I can't keep my gaze together and lean down so that Kai's eyes open when I hear Deanna's words.

(The truth is...)

The words that really need to be said must lie ahead.

Don't get me wrong any more.

Before you accidentally talk about me too much.

Arrogant and selfish, before the last "lid" opens, first -!

(Be gentle, don't...!

I held my chest against the words I had to tell you, and I tried to raise my face,

That, moment.

"- Really, it's not that bad, Dee."

After a beat of fever on his wrist and back, he is imprisoned in Kai's arms without a moment to fight. Deanna's thoughts stopped in a hug so strong that she accidentally stopped breathing.

In my ear, the usual voice of Kai sounds.

"I'm not as sweet as Dee thinks I am. Whether I care about Dee or just think about Dee, I'm just taking it personally because I want to. A really sweet, thoughtful person doesn't give you the kind of emotion that bothers them like this."

"I don't...!

"I do. - You assure me that you are 'happy' with my unsolicited emotions, and yet you" look at Dee, who worries because he's arrogant... as far as I'm concerned, I purely doubt what makes a man so happy "

"Happy, ru...?

"I am so familiar with my existence that I thank those who are with me, value their existence as irreplaceable encounters, and always feel that Dee, who has the best respect for their lives, is" normal "to be beside them. - I know, I'm not happy."

"... eh"

You don't seem to understand, Kai's reasoning. But the voice sounding in his ear was filled with genuine sounds, and it was felt that this word was not caring or comforting, but his sincerity.... Whatever Deanna says, it also means that Kai will not change her attitude towards Deanna.

You noticed Deanna breathing shallow repeatedly in her arms, Kai loosens her embrace and softly puts her palms on her cheeks.

"Sorry. That was painful."

"Hey, dude."

Though it was bitter, it is not physical, but bitterness coming from mental factors. He held me with the strength to sever my confused heart, which made breathing easier rather. If Deanna's words don't affect Kai's behavior in any way, I can keep it in my chest for a while.

- Though I understand painfully that even that relief is selfish and exhausting emotion.

"... you know, Dee. Wanna go to the back yard for a change of mood?

Fumi Kai has suggested switching his expression to something bright. The garden in the back probably refers to that garden where Arciolaine is growing a new breed of flowers.

Keeping walking down the big corridor like this doesn't seem likely to do more than stir, and while Kai is right his mood changes and strolls through the garden, he may wait for more crowds.

"Right. From here, the roads aren't so mixed up."

"Okay, settled. Until someone gets here, can I walk with you?

"... yeah"

Deanna was also honest, and Kai's state of withholding behind him was unsettling. It would be confusing if the other samurai were with us, but it is amazing how uncomfortable it is to be alone with Kai for some reason.

Unnatural as husband and samurai, but alongside Kai, Deanna returned to the corridor.

The garden behind the visit, unchanged from the other day, was blooming with colourful poor flowers. That's right, there have been times when Maari, who has the sagginess to blossom even in the sea breeze, and cuteness have just multiplied the popular stuff. The flowers here were also very favourable to humans, surrounded by gentle signs that Deanna was breathing ho ho, because the two species were connected in navahs as if they were different habitats and characteristics and were newly born by the hands of men.

(I wasn't really aware, but you're tired, I guess)

I got used to spending a year in the rear palace of the kingdom of Elland called 'The Red Rose', but Deanna doesn't really like to stand out originally, and I'm not good at directing this from above standpoint. Even though it didn't feel right just doing "Red Rose" tentatively, I became a quasi-royal, albeit for a limited time. Moreover, the head of the national mission - if it is also a position to represent the Kingdom of Elland - will be licked if it does not stand out and create some majesty, even if it does not like it. Deanna, I don't care if an individual can just be licked and I can just flush it out that it's the usual thing, but I can't overlook the fact that his status as a quasi royal and the position of head of a national mission can be licked because it also directly connects the entire kingdom of Elland to being licked.

As a result of that circumstance, Deanna in the Stanza Empire stood out while probably behaving as if she were the most, if not the most, noble person in her life. Remarkably, I got used to it there thanks to "The Red Rose," but I didn't really have any connection with the majestic behavior that noble people deserved, so it may be natural to get tired in a way.

- Unknowingly, the heart that stood offering me is unraveled surrounded by gentle greenery. The Stanza Empire showed no darker signs of greenery than the kingdom of Elland, and that too might have clapped tirelessly. The lack of signs of familiarity right around the corner from birth would be a good reason to drive things crazy.

Put your hips down on the small bench and close your eyes. Deanna sinks her consciousness quietly into the flowers around her -.

[Lene]

[Lene, Mamor]

[Lehne, Canaraz, Tuskel -]

Deep "diving moment, overflowing rage" mindfulness ". The simple and pure" voice "of the plant on the surface is clearly heterogeneous" and Deanna jumps up unexpectedly. Kai, who had been on guard around him a little further away, rushed over looking a little surprised.

"Dee? What's going on?

"Now..."

"Yeah, now?

"I was listening to these kids' voices right now. I was wondering if it would be okay because it's a human-friendly sign, so I tried to get a little deep in tune."

"That's... in short, you've tried to match Dee's heart to these flowers," he said?

"Fit together, or... it could be close to the feeling of sinking into the water without the force. I do it all the time in the Crestor Forest. It's possible that if you hate humans or are vigilant kids, you won't be able to come back in depth, but because the Crestor kids know me very well, and they like humans. Even if I sink, it gently wraps and heals me"

"... that's the one you shouldn't do outside of Crestor. If Dee feels that way, I'm pretty sure the flowers here are good for humans, so it's a different story to see if he can wrap them unconditionally and protect them."

Especially what Kai said. He snorts and Deanna exhales.

"So I didn't mean to dive that deep here. I was going to keep it to the point where I could feel the gentle" voice "of these kids... because it's a new kind of flower, and it's not deeper than I thought."

What does that have to do with the depth of consciousness in plants?

"There is, it seems. If you think about it, it's the first time you've felt the" voice "of a new child created by man.... well, maybe that too."

"What do you mean?

"Deep parts of these kids are stained with" thoughts "other than these kids. Perhaps the human minds involved in these children's" beginnings. "

"Beginning" Human… "

Mumbling in his mouth alone, Kai glanced at the flowers around him.

"Do plants stain human minds?"

"Nothing, it's not just plants. Because it is the organism that affects each other and lives with each" voice. "So do humans, and humans and animals and plants. Various changes are made under the influence of the life involved"

"I know what you're saying... but isn't the expression" staining "inappropriate?

"If humans or animals and plants have some clear consciousness or" affection "with each other, they can resonate with each other's" voices "and lead to mutual change, because this child hasn't even been born yet. I guess this is what happens when you're being nurtured with a strong human passion at a time when you're uncertain about even establishing yourself."

"I see. If you want to brainwash humans perfectly, raise them from babies, is that a similar logic?"

"You have no body or lid. Exactly."

To the bitter Deanna, Kai smiled back gently, too.

"So, these flowers are stained." What kind of things are they? Feels dangerous to Dee?

"Yeah. It's nothing malicious or anything, and it's not like I'm in the eye in the first place, so there's nothing dangerous at all..."

"But?"

"... I wonder what it's like for Lady Lehne."

"What?"

Kai that punches my eyes. After a little laugh, Deanna gets up.

"Though I was distracted, it's so intense a passion that I'm about to be accidentally flushed. Though the very shape of thoughts is never a bad thing, it's paranoid and papery when it gets so intense. … to the extent that they accidentally guide the person to whom they are being directed all the way"

"I mean, what Dee felt was a thought directed at Mr. Lehne, right?

"Yep. It's also not a wish - a firm determination"

The age and gender of the human being who stained the flowers with "mindfulness" is unknown, but there is no doubt that she is someone who cares more about her than anything else to observe from her determination to "protect" and "help" without any hesitation or shaking. The question of what it means to "help" Lehne, who is a side room and doesn't look so troubled to live in, is now set aside.

"Sure... this flower was made new by Mr. Lehne's father, wasn't it?

"That's right. Dr. Tariq Tebalan, you will be studying botany at the same university as Prince Exiga. - Even so, the field of research is quite different, so I didn't have any direct knowledge of the prince until now."

"Speaking of which, when you went to college yesterday, did you say hello?

"Yep."

The day she first left for the city of Iftanne, Deanna, who had engaged with the people of the Glades, wondered what she could do for them, only one exotic, and the day after that she was visiting the University of Exige. With a good grasp of the country's culture and academic level, I wanted to explore whether there were "seeds" that I could sow.

Exiga was thrilled to show us around the university, and she also remembered Deanna's interest was in plant relations, which also took us to a building where botanical researchers gathered. Dr. Tebalan, who greeted him there, was the real father of Arciolaine.

"Although I didn't know the name alone, it seems the Doctor and Lady Lehne had very similar eyes. Laine also told me that your father was studying the mating of plants, and when I turned to the water, I was sure of it."

"Mr. Lehne, you named Balloon's family name. Is the Balloons and the Tebalans also blood related?

"Come on... you didn't have time, so you haven't been able to hear it very deeply. I can't possibly ask you 'different family names than your daughter' in person for the first time."

"If this were the kingdom of Elland, the circumstances around it would be pre-purchased and then contacted."

"Really. We're understaffed, we have difficulty purchasing one piece of information because we don't speak the same language, and intelligence in the exotic is more difficult than we thought."

Sighing lightly, Deanna recalls Dr. Tebalan, whom she met yesterday.

"The Doctor himself seemed warm, honest, thoughtful, erudite, with a very good personality and deep insight. I don't think a little girl like me would be angry to the extent that she said something somewhat offensive, but that wouldn't be a good thing to bother asking rude questions and making you uncomfortable, would it?

"Well, that's... sort of"

Kai, who was speaking in the front, turned behind Deanna by suppressing her expression. He tells me in a whisper as I go around.

"Rumor has it, yes. Signs of Mr. Lehne are coming up."

"Okay, thank you"

He nodded and stood up, aligning the hem of his dress and dressed in the wind watching the flower garden loosely. Less than that, a mild footsteps sounded, and Deanna looked back as if she'd just noticed.

"What... Deana?

Arciolaine, with her plant care tools in her arms, is surprised with her eyes squeezed. Deanna smiled, not accidentally acting, body by body, turning back to her.

Good morning, Lady Lehne. Sorry to bother you so early in the morning. "

"Yes, no, not at all. Good morning, Deanna."

"Is Lady Raine taking care of your garden?

"It is on the left. I can't keep this beauty until I see it every day."

To her words, I nod, I guess. Naturally living plants are also beautiful, but the beauty of this backyard flower garden is different, created by man by hand salt.

Deanna laughed brightly and stopped to the edge to give the place to Lene.

Dr. Tebalan will be delighted. My daughter, Laine, has blossomed so beautifully in the flowers she has produced. "

"Huh..."

Arciolaine's eyes grew larger. I barely seem to have had to drop the care tools in my arms, but my big up and down chest informs me of her upset.

"Do you know my father?

"Yes. I greeted you yesterday when you guided me to His Royal Highness the Eighteenth Prince and toured the University. He had the same eyes as Lady Lehne, so I asked him if he would, and he told me that he was your father."

"Really?"

After several deep breaths, Arciolaine turned her back on Deanna once and quietly placed her care tools on the bench.

And a beat later. Looking back on the momentum as if you were ready.

Dear Deanna, Was my father a breath disaster?

"Huh... yeah. I was very healthy and vigorously researching plant varietal improvements. It was very interesting, and I learned it too."

"Yes... you are. How are you?"

Good, with a voice that doesn't sound, Arciolaine growls over and over again. Deanna didn't think, she exchanged glances with Kai behind her back.... It's still the second time I've talked to her, but it's not normal to ask.

"Um... Lady Lehne. There seems to be something wrong with you, but if you don't mind, could you tell me? There may be something I can help you with."

Dear Deanna...

"It is unusual, no matter what you think, not to know the news of your father who is in the same city without asking me of the exotic. The rear palace of the Stanza Empire (Halem) is not an easy place to get out once you get in, but shouldn't you have been allowed to interact externally and to the extent of exchanging letters?

The disrespect reflected Deanna, who took a step forward knowingly, with Lene's blue-grey eyes as if she were on a cloaked lake...

Deanna is a stranger.

"... Huh?

"It's only the second time I've seen you. I haven't even exchanged your words in depth enough to know your personality. … when your eyes stare at you, you want to make your mind completely bare and expose everything"

"... I've never been told that before, that"

If so, most of you will be exposed before you even think about it.

That being said, Arciolaine smiled quietly, unchanged.

"I'm not asking you to help me... Can I talk to you for a second?

Yes, of course.

Thank you.

Arciolaine's "old story", which he thanked and spoke of, was exhaustive of a spectacular word, albeit predictive.

- Arciolaine was born as the father of a wise scholar and the only daughter of a beautiful and gentle mother. My father was an unsuitable quality for his very birth and moneymaker to advance his academic path, a life full of just feeding my mother and Lehne, but still my family lived happily ever after. Unusual for the Stanza Empire, the ever-green Tebalan family had strange eyes from their neighbors all year round, but many children come with an interest in such a garden on the contrary. My father taught such children pro bono and easy reading, writing and arithmetic, so he said it was also a bit like a learning hall.

Eventually, when Arciolaine had passed ten, her mother, who was not originally very sturdy in her body, came to herself, and Raine became two with her father. Lene supports her father on behalf of her mother, who continues her research to produce plants that grow even in the less rainy Stanza Empire, so that she can cut up houses. Sometimes the childhood familiars who had been in and out of the Tebalan family for a long time helped me, and I managed to see the results of my father's research, then. The tragedy did not touch her before, it struck her.

One night when it didn't rain for decades and the air was so dry that it accidentally lit the fire of doom. A certain fire spread quickly and widely in a dry breeze, and the flames were relentless, and Tebalan's house swallowed up. Neither my mother's memories, nor my father's research results, left me with little to take out, just running away with my life - after the flames were extinguished by the rain that came down to forgive me, they said that only burnt stone wrecks remained where the house was.

My father and Arciolaine, who could barely bring anything up and became insensitive. I've been approaching them with sweet words lined up on the way...

It was the Balloons.

"... so you had nothing to do with Lady Lehne's house and the Balloons until then?

"I don't care. The Tebalan family is a Stanza people who live in Iftane for their ancestors, but their character is below inside. I'm not in a position to hang out with famous people."

And the Balloons offered assistance to the Tebalans?

"Yes. - If you offer me as the adopted daughter of the Balloon family, my lord has spoken directly to me in an effort to become a patron of my father's research."

"That also sounds like a generous and generous word... if you return the back, does that mean that that's all Lady Lehne wanted?

"… I too, at first, suffered an understanding of why your lord wanted me so far. The Balloons are the most famous houses in the Stanza Empire, and the blood relatives are supposed to be there like stars. I wonder where the hell I need to go out of my way to adopt my lord without a blood connection."

Lene's words are true. If polygamy were also to become a famous family in a country where it is recognised, the number of kinship relatives would not be the ratio of the nobility of the Kingdom of Elland. You could have found as many as you wanted, such as Lene and her near-age daughter.

Arciolaine laughed bitterly at Deanna twisting her neck.

"But as I went up to your mansion and got my lady educated, I understood. - My appearance once told me about the side room, but I didn't accept it. I fell in love with others and left the Stanza Empire... Your sister is very similar to you."

Deanna once again exchanges her gaze with Kai behind her back. Nodded, he had a convincing look on his face, observing Arciolaine to an unnatural extent. Perhaps it compares to her in memory.

(... well. When I first saw Lady Lehne, for some reason she didn't work too vigilantly, because Lady Lehne's color looked just like Lair's)

In gray eyes, sunny golden hair. I didn't think it was similar because Arciolaine is small and has an overall poor impression, but if you look closely, it does, one part at a time is similar. Rhea said she looked and shaded like her mother, so it would be good to assume that resemblance to Rhea resembles Rhea's mother. He's taller, and the overall atmosphere is maybe closer to Lene than the larger Rhea, if you ask me.

"Even now, my lord, if only my sister had entered the rear palace (Halem), she would have been loved by His Majesty the Emperor, and the Balloons would have been more prosperous. Sister, you are a famous stanza-born, feminine and rampant woman, who did not dare speak with the Emperor and congratulated His Majesty on remembering her... she said she should have been spoiled for you because I meant His Majesty, who is called upon to care for a hairy woman."

"... so I assume. Do you mean that he educated his sister, Lady Lehne, who is very similar in appearance to you, as his adopted daughter, and was raised to the Womb (Halem)?

"Yes, if you are a daughter with a very similar appearance to your sister, please tell me that you will always be in the sight of the Emperor."

... The reason why the Marquis Stresia is not negotiating with the Balloons is clear when they come here. Rhea's mother's father - the former head of the Balloon family - seemed to have the temper and measure to send his daughter out to his daughter-in-law to an exotic country, but his son was left to float. Until my beautifully raised sister dreams of getting the Emperor's favor, it's no good distorting the life of her irrelevant daughter on her own because it's torn.

Lene smiles slightly at what she thought of Deanna's expression.

"I am grateful to you. Because with your help, my father is able to continue his research. When I first spoke to you, my father told me not to worry about money or research..."

"... if the Balloons have the power and money to assist Dr. Tebalan, they can get in the way of him."

"... Yes. Back then, I had just counted twelve, but still knew your lord's extraordinary enthusiasm. If you refuse, I wonder if my father's life might even be in danger... because it was such a crazy calorie."

I had a faint feeling, but Arciolaine is a daughter of Dr. Tebalan's concession wisdom. I guess that's why she took the Balloon offer and decided to leave her father.

"When I came to the Balloons, I was strictly told to forget that I was born a lowlife. My father and I weren't even allowed to exchange letters, and I couldn't ask anyone what was going on… I could only hope that he would be well so that he could be safe."

"I see..."

Dr. Tebalan is an adult. When I gave Lene's name yesterday, I didn't even give her that circumstance every time. Since the twelfth year, I've been asked about the recent situation of my daughter, "Really? You seem to be doing well and most importantly," you won't get the guts to answer with a smile overnight.

And, thinking that far, one question arose behind Deanna's brain.

"So when and from whom did you receive the flowers that Laine now grows?

It is hard to believe that the current owner of the Balloon family, who despises the Tebalan family as a lowlife, authorized the bringing of the remaining items of burning. Inevitably, it would have been given to Lehne between her adoption of the Balloons and her ascent to the rear house (Halem), but that she was forbidden to make any contact with the Doctor...

To Deanna's inquiry, Arciolaine let her gaze swim a little and leaned down.

"... the flowers I grew here came from a childhood tame I had been visiting in secret the night before I came to Harem."

Are you a friend of the Doctor's who taught you how to study and helped you with the Doctor?

"Yes.... the doctor completed it, even the stanza grew brightly colored flowers, so I want you to take them. He planted a round of flowers and gave me a pot."

Three times, Deanna gazes at Kai. - Who is the person who planted the thick "mindfulness" in the young flowers, which we have been talking about earlier?

"Um, Lady Lehne. If I'm wrong, I'm sorry. Who is that childhood friend of yours...... what if he wasn't just a friend?

As bounced, Arciolaine looks up. Those eyes, staring at Deanna, were stained with amazement close to awe.

"Why..."

"Ah... no. Um, somehow. Of course, I'm not going to blame you or blow it to anyone. Because only a man's heart is indifferent to himself."

It would be incomprehensible if I honestly explained, "Because I felt" thoughts "from the flowers, so I would reassure them while being duly deluded. Deanna's prospect seemed to be a success, and Arciolaine broke her expression by exhaling in a ho.

"That one... I loved my father's garden, and by the time I got my mind on it, I was already visiting a lot. My father taught me to read and write when I was born in a poor house and found time to visit my home while working."

You're a hard worker.

"Yes. In time, my father hired him as his assistant and, marginally, he also started paying.... inspired me to be depressed by my mother's death, saying, 'I'm going to succeed my teacher and become a fine scholar, and I'm going to marry Lene and protect this house, so I'm going to be fine'"

Well, did you want a fiancée?

"It's a toddler's promise. But I also hoped childhood would be good if that happened.... until the fire swallowed everything."

"Dear Lene..."

Oh - again.

Here again, there are those who were flirted with by fate and forced to live in brutal reality, deprived of the future they wished for.

Even though it was not a strange situation to be broken by despair, the woman in front of her still smiled at her temperament.

"He came to deliver these flowers, that last night... he promised me." I'll always pick you up, "he said.

"Welcome, to?

"He's a bad person for giving up. I found hope in a system that had been abandoned a hundred years ago, and I said," I'll make it up, and I'll definitely give you Lene credit, so wait. "

The bad thing about giving up is that Deanna is the same. The man I've never even met has a tremendous sense of intimacy.

And - What did Lene say now?

"An obsolete system a hundred years ago," what? In accordance with that system, can we save Lady Lehne from the rear house (Halem)?

"By reason, though. Until about a hundred years ago, when this country was repeating a great battle, it was frequent for His Majesty the Emperor to lower the side chamber as a reward to soldiers who had made great martial arts in the battle. This system, called" Giving, "tells us that many side chambers have surrendered to brave generals."

"Giving, System…"

Deanna knows that the customs and institutions of the Stanza Empire are limited to those of the last few decades in which her association with them has become full-scale. When it gets older than that, "the relatives haven't even explored it.

If that system, which existed more than a hundred years ago, still survives as a mechanism -!

"So, if so. Your fiancée's right, you won't be able to give up. It's itchy to just wait..."

"No, Deanna. Now, times are different. This is not happening on this continent, such as a battle that can be fought with martial arts so great that it is given a side chamber."

"That may be..."

"… for example, if it were to be an all-out war with the Kingdom of Elland, that would be a great opportunity. I'm not supposed to want that with Deanna."

"... yeah, that's troublesome"

Arciolaine chuckles at Deanna's gavel of honesty.

It's all right now. That you can't even tell if that one hasn't given up on me yet. - There was one person in my life who wanted me from the bottom of my heart. The memories alone make me happy enough… to remember this happiness as long as the flowers bloom with memories. "

Lady Lehne.

Rin smiling Arciolaine was beautiful as she reflected the blooming flowers in her eyes. Someone wanted me so strongly that I could take care of just that much, because I'm sure it's so deep and I love that "someone".

The appearance even seemed prestigious somewhere...... to Deanna, it even seemed like one ideal to aspire to.

(If there's ever going to be a day ahead where I love someone, I want to love them like this. Take care of your little happiness and never be a burden to them, I want to love you that way......)

Lene still loves him for giving me flowers. That's why I care about the blooming flowers.... memories, merciful.

There is no lie in that word that now is happiness. But Deanna takes it upon herself to wish Lene that she could love someone so beautifully, even if she wanted her happiness to be better than it is now.

Kai watched quietly from behind Deanna staring at Lene as she tangled her complicated thoughts -.