"Jeanne!"

The two shadows stood at the spot where Pride and Amlet had been seen off.

Stale, who was carrying the watch, also checked the time with them again. It seemed like we'd arrived slightly ahead of schedule. At least it didn't seem to be late, but Steyl felt relieved that he had finished his errands without delay.

Arthur swallowed Amlet's pride, saying, “I've been waiting for you.” Instead, when I said, "Welcome back," my lips bent strangely after I said it myself and closed to itchiness.

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting!" I was just talking to you. Could it be that you've been waiting here all this time? "

"No, I just arrived." Jeanne is here to interrupt. ”

Arthur comes forward in Amlet's words.

Normally, Stale would respond immediately, but now he was keeping as much silence as he could to avoid interacting with Amlet. While still holding Arthur's step back, he only makes a smile so that he doesn't think it's weird. Attach fingers to the black edge of the glasses and check the pride from the gap between the hands.

……

Suddenly, Stale raised his eyebrows slightly with a smile.

The number of pride mouths is strangely small.

Arthur laughed a lot beside Amlet, but his lips stiffened with a slight smile. Not long before he could see it, Steyl called out to Arthur, who was speaking, as he poked his elbow at her flank.

"Jeanne, have you enjoyed your time with Amlet?"

There was no problem, and the shoulders of pride were shaking with pain, including the question of whether there was anything wrong.

Arthur, who had received an elbow from Stale, also turned from Amlet to Pride. At that moment, the pale color was opened in the back of the silver-rimmed glasses. Breathe in the uncomfortable feeling of pride as you giggle.

Yes, Arthur suddenly squeezed his lips with the usual smile. While wondering what had happened, he shook his head in a small, vertical manner to answer Stale's question.

In response to Arthur's reply, saying that something had definitely happened, Stale chewed his mouth tinyly without giving a look. I'm curious about what happened, but I won't pursue it here.

I swallowed my words while trying to listen to my pride later. At least then, her smile, “I'm so glad I could talk to Amlet,” was from the bottom of her heart.

"Thank you very much, Amlet. I will definitely bother you again."

"! Thank you so much for being here! Jeanne is my best friend!”

Amlet's eyes glistened at the words from the gentle Jeanne.

After riding all my consultations, I cuddled the next moment with Jeanne, who gave me nothing but Philip or Jack.

As soon as he was hugged with momentum, the pride in his brain, which had only been busy until just now, also took hold with his eyes wide open. He grabbed back his hugged back, and in his head [his best friend] resounded with shock rather than being beaten with a hammer.

Crying in my heart with my friends......, I hugged Amlet's thin back back back back from my own.

Not only Arthur but also Stale could see and understand that his pride was flaming happily.

Without knowing the danger of the two relieved in response, Amlet softly relaxed her arm and released her pride in a bright voice, and turned back to Arthur and the others who had been waiting.

"I've wrapped the cookies, so please eat them later by yourself." Thank you so much for today. Now let's both talk together. "

Arthur breathed a word back into Amlet, who smiled softly as if his shoulder was unloaded. I can be sure that the soft smile is not a made-up smile for public viewing.

I walked up to my pride and reached for the wrap of cloth in one hand, thinking that I didn't mean to say anything bad behind my back. “I'll hold it myself,” she said, and the fluffy, baked, sweet scent quickly swept through her nose.

See you, Jeanne, Jack, Berners.

Waving, Amlet saw them off in a slightly raised voice.

She smiles cheekily, a smile everyone can see. As they headed toward Eric's waiting school gate, the two bowed their heads and turned their backs. Sandwiched between the pride of the unaware footsteps, the two turned their necks and checked her complexion with their eyes alone.

"...... Jeanne, your face is loose."

"Seriously, something happened...?"

Stills exhales deeply as she walks in a dreamy manner to hear her friend's remarks, taking care not to let her fall.

Furthermore, Arthur gently put his hand on her back, worried that she might not be feeling well.

……

"Welcome home, Pride."

Shortly after moving back to the Pride Room, a dedicated maid and guardsman greeted her with the usual words.

Now, if you laugh at the pride, it's a bright smile that's no different now. While Eric and the four of them were walking back to the Gilchrist's house, Amlet's "best friend" remarks cooled the pride, and Steyl and the others asked, "I just talked a little bit."

And even now, I still stop the two of them leaving the room once to change their clothes.

"Ah, Steyl, Arthur. Um... what I talked to Amlet about is important. That's why."

“I know. The Knights Guard also ordered us to keep the details secret, except for the presence or absence of danger and suspicion.... it's just [female to female]."

Is that it, are you going to be okay now?

Already on the way back, Amlet and her girlfriend's talk put aside their hidden pride and gave up exploring from the Knights of the Guard.

If the only other person is a man, I'm worried about it, but it's only a woman. She was also a reliable girl for both Stale and Arthur. Even in Arthur's eyes, the pride of that time was not so much to deceive the dark shadows as to make the dazed thoughts go unnoticed. Even though Pride himself hasn't pulled off yet, they're both cold-headed now that it's probably not that serious.

Following Steyl, Arthur smiled and replied, “It's okay,” and the pride was small.

I can't say that I was in love with a fourteen-year-old girl. It's even harder to say if the other thing is Steyl's old friend's birthday celebration and his sister's obsession.

I reflected in my heart that the knights who gave me the escort had been quite embarrassed. Too much sweet vinegar for all the conversation. At least Stale and Arthur can't tell us what happened to Amlet.

"When you change your clothes, take care of your weight, your mind, your lower back. When Jill Bale arrives, you'll know the outcome of Ray's trial."

"I'll be with you," I said, returning a word of pride to Stale.

The outcome of Ray's trial, which he would have already finished. This also changes what he is doing now.

It was also something they wanted to see first at a meeting with Gilbert.

Steyl, Arthur, and the Guard Jack finally left the room and closed the door with a smile on their face. After Patan and the door are closed, Lotte, a dedicated maid, moves to get ready to change quickly.

Pride-sama, I'm going to help you undress.

Reach for her to take off her clothes before her body returns to its original state.

Pride, who started to change with fewer hands than usual, stretched out her posture and turned her eyes in a different direction.

"I wonder if Marie's okay."

“Yes, I'm sure.”

While vaguely throwing at the one-man maid, he could also think about his plans after the meeting.

After taking off her clothes, she looked back at all the shocking events that had taken place today, and she quietly decided how to use the shelf.

……

"... ahhhhh... I'm not coming out at all, right?"

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

It was a man who made it to the castle, but he couldn't get anywhere near it. The towering walls of the city cannot be surpassed by his stones. In addition, the guards sat at the castle gate.

I climbed the wall to get past the gate, but I could see that it would become a rope in no time.

As a result, I had to wait and stare at the gate far enough away from the castle.

... there's no way I'm going to come out.

Leaning against a visible tree, Rheer thought that it had been more than an hour since he sat down on the ground.

The guards captured him this morning, and as soon as they knew that the trial would be over, they lifted his posture from the gate to the sky. Occasionally, gates are opened with sacrifices to the castle, import relations, and guests, but there is no shadow there.

The pursuer was able to make it to the castle thanks to the knights and guards, but he had to wait. I thought I'd be more sure to wait in Ray's mansion last night, but I didn't feel like moving from here.

Usually, it is more unusual to come out when a sinner's trial reaches the castle. There are other courts, such as the Guard House and the King's City, but at the time of being taken to the castle, it is tantamount to a felony. If we had finished the trial, we would most likely have been captured by the castle jail now.

I had no intention of letting my castle opponent break out of prison. Besides, Ray himself had confessed his guilt last night.

If there is no acquittal, even if it comes out, it is not today, but after the punishment has been executed. Whether it is corporal punishment or the death penalty that escapes imprisonment, it is often later. In other words, it's wiser to think that Ray won't show up no matter how long he waits.

Understood, but Lyer didn't feel like moving.

"...... It's a messy guy"

I don't know if it's for me or Ray.

Most of the blurred language disappeared in my mouth. Even though I can only think that it is useless to do this now, I don't feel like leaving.

I thought about staying here until I got over it.... then.

The gate opened.

".................. Ooh......"

Rheer, who was only in the corner of his sight, jumped up in an instant.

I raised my back from the leaning tree, and there was a shadow diving out of the castle gate at the end of my gaze as I sat forward. The distance was enough, but he could see it was Ray.

I swam my eyes for the first time feeling sick from my heartbeat, wondering if I had been sentenced so quickly to release too soon.

He swallowed his mouth three times while scratching his short hair, which was no longer long, and then took a breath and looked forward.

"...... Ray-chan! I'll let you go soon."

"Rhea! ◆ ◆ Why are you here?

Rae's eyes widened as she laughed at Rhea, who waved her hand to the side of her head in a carefree voice.

After diving through the gate, he moved his legs nowhere and lowered his gaze to the ground, but he didn't even notice him standing in front of him.

His head rose reflexively without a mishearing voice, but for a moment he even thought it was a dream or something. It still doesn't make sense to him that he was allowed to leave the castle.

"When I went to Ray's mansion for free, I heard he got caught." When I came to look at it chillingly, Ray-chan just came out. "

I peered into Ray's face while making up a lie.

After yesterday, the right half, which is not hidden in the mask, turns into a strange phenomenon that Rhea, who had been searching for years, appeared before her own eyes. Even though she hadn't shown up before, she looked back at Rhea, who was a little angry and thoughtful, but was familiar with her face as she approached the distance.

"I didn't think it would come out for a hundred years like this, but you're coming home very early." What happened to your sentence? How much have you fined and whipped? "

There are no new injuries to Ray. In addition to being satisfied with the five bodies, Rhea thinks that she will be generally safe under her clothes because she is walking without much flutter.

When I saw it from a distance, I thought that I had confiscated some of my limbs with punishment, but even if I looked up close, it didn't look like it at all. Even in parts that are difficult to see from the top of the clothes, it is impossible to think of walking normally on the day they are cut off.

Ray shut his mouth for a second with a gentle gesture from Rhea.

Instead of looking up at him in front of me, I dropped my gaze diagonally. Ray, who didn't even want to hit each other with a hateful tongue, looked at Rhea with a tilted face.

"What's the matter?" Ray raised his eyebrows as he asked, really curious. I keep remembering what happened to me and what happened in the trial; and

"............ it would have been easier for you to be imprisoned."

«What's the matter?»

Listening to Ray like he was talking to himself, Rhea replied.

I tilted my ears to make it easier to understand what I said, but more than that, Ray tied his mouth. I turned my gaze back to the gate where I had been thrown out to escape from Lyre.

Originally, I was going to be imprisoned in a castle, waiting for the appropriate punishment. Even after looking back at the verdict, I think it was easier and easier to understand. I have no great fear of living in solitary confinement for myself, who originally lived in a lower class.

Compared to the many sentences handed down to me, solitary confinement and corporal punishment are quicker to talk about.... but.

"Leeeee!" I told you to talk to me without shaking me! I don't have a hobby to be teased by bastards, so... "

Rhea turned her arm to Ray's shoulder without a second thought, and her body's vision was shaken.

You tease me, make fun of it, and put your arms together, looking sideways at him, who is so rough that you can spit.

I have accepted all the verdicts, but I am not satisfied. But I'm just a little lucky that it's far from the punishment I was expecting. No matter how uncomfortable, dissatisfied, and troublesome the verdict is, you can endure it if you think that it was to get you back next door again.

"... it's the whims of royalty."

I could afford to overflow Rhea, who kept shaking my shoulders.