The Unbound World’s “Normal” is Difficult

"Look, your ankles are slowing down again, Lucas. Hurry up! Where did you go, nicknamed Black Leopard on the battlefield? Come on, hurry up! Forward, rush! One, two! One, two!

"Don't rush me so many times, Gerda. It's going at the same speed, isn't it?

The bright early summer sun rises high in the afternoon.

Two people were moving along the corner of the corridor leading to the cathedral.

One is a middle-aged woman who gently stretches out her tiny body and advances in an elegant rush.

The other is an awkward young man wrapped in a simple shirt and black trousers.

Rich dark hair and indigo eyes with sweetness are full of masculine beauty.

With a pleasant bass voice in his ear, he was named Lucas von Rudendorff, who had recently been called the "Second Prince", the son of the collapsed Princess of King Werner.

When Prince Felix, the first son of the righteous queen, takes office, Lucas will be called the king's brother, but he is still called the second prince because he has not yet finished mourning.

There were four princes and three princesses in the kingdom of Luden, but Lucas was the favorite of his predecessors, and he even stood rumoured that he would be behind the king, temporarily in addition to Felix, who was rumored to be all foolish.

Nevertheless, he is an eccentric who has abandoned his patronage and superior successor competition and joined the Order lightly.

However, thanks to this, I have fallen into the kingdom without being sent abroad, and I still stay in the kingdom and spend my days relaxing and famous.

Even now, all he had to do was walk down the road, and I saw the maids who recognized him shouting a yellow voice.

Is Lucas used to it, or does he simply raise one hand and respond to it?

"Give me a break. It's my first holiday in ten days, and I just crawled into my bed a while ago. Why do I have to go to see how my mother feels after 19 years?"

"When I quietly drop my shoulders, I can't deceive you with the smell of perfume. What kind of" work "did you do and fall asleep at such a time? And it is undoubtedly the knight's job to save the powerless girl. Not if you brought her to this royal palace yourself!

Gerda thrust into the bumps and zero Lucas, with the reluctance of her former nurse.

"It's almost up to you to work in the royal palace, Gerda."

Lucas gracefully shrugged his shoulders as he walked down the corridor with his long legs.

Yes, it is.

It was Lucas and Gerda who decided to welcome the "girl of reason", called Elma, as a maid with a royal palace.

What happened was last month.

It dates back to the sudden death of our ancestor, Werner.

Here in the Kingdom of Rouden, there is a system called "grand wish (cancer)", in which the male lineage can fulfill only one wish for the people during the fall of the king.

The intention is to wipe out the misfortune of the king's death with the blessings of the princes.

In most cases, it was activated in the form of "amnesty", and it was usual to rescue people caught by mistake and minor sinners, but what a fool Prince Felix said, "When I came to office, I wanted to invite people from all over the country to a ball."

Even if it is a child's thoughtful remark, please make a big wish.

The nobles set out to conduct the ball with as much coordination as possible.

However, when this happens, the "amnesty" that was supposed to be natural will not be implemented.

Moreover, since his predecessor, Werner, had mercilessly signed the list of executions submitted by the church, the demand for amnesty from the innocently captured people and their families was fierce.

It won't explode soon, but it's too disturbing a bud of dissatisfaction.

After all, Lucas ran into an unparalleled coordination task while issuing an amnesty on behalf of his brother.

However, the wish, which was supposed to end there, was to show unexpected developments afterwards.

In order to pardon, we examined once again the number of people connected to prisons and the charges against them, and found that there was a large number (...) of people per person.

The Hell of the World - Valzer Prison - everyone fears on the border of the Kingdom of Luden.

Thus, there lived a completely innocent girl who was born out of a whore in prison in the harshest, worst, place where people didn't try to step in.

Lucas faded and immediately set out to recover the situation.

Specifically, Lucas protected the girl promptly and at his own discretion without any explanation from the prison side.

The fact that an innocent prisoner existed was thoroughly concealed, and the girl's rumours were not unnecessarily spread - prison negligence should be followed and punished, but the birth of the prisoner should not be allowed to take away the girl's future.

Rather than education, the girl would not have been given a poor hygienic environment.

It was Lucas who was pitiful and trying to leave it in a trusted orphanage, but it also unfolded in an unexpected direction.

As a precaution, I interviewed the girl myself and discovered that she was unexpectedly given a minimum level of education.

Though the expression is slightly scarce and the figure cannot be shaped, the body is healthy.

When Lucas, who was well dressed, approached his face, he leaned down embarrassed, and the reaction was still "normal girl", and it seemed that there was no problem with emotional development.

Well, even Lucas, whose strike zone was quite wide, couldn't move his index finger because it seemed too blurry and lacking in fun.

In any case, he thought that he would arrange to work in the city instead of in an orphanage, but there Gerda - a trustworthy girlfriend who was there as a same-sex witness - said, "I'll take care of her, so let her work in the royal palace!".

Apparently, before seeing the girl, she had already had a lot of delusions against the background of "growing up in jail without sin". Whether the girl answered quietly or lacked an expression, it all appeared as evidence that "I have survived the bad environment by letting go of my emotions".

Originally, Gerda was a little too nice, or a little too emotionally fragile.

If the maid uses a false illness, she kindly nurses her "I'm sorry I didn't notice", and if she tears that her mother has fallen, the more she sympathizes with the gardener's boy and gives him a fine jewel.

The subject of that excessive human love went to Elma this time, but when I asked him, he said that there was nothing special about him.

That's how Lucas finally allowed the girl to come forward and have a royal palace.

"I realized she was already under your supervision, away from me. Why did you end up in an" emergency situation "again?

"So half of it is your fault, Lucas. Rumors of you talking to the maid in vain and talking to her herself got weird, and she became jealous of the maids who worshipped you from the very first day of service."

That explains Gerda that while she was talking to the gardener boy this morning, one of the shy maids forced Elma to do an excessive job.

"Irene... you must have been a blonde, cat-eyed daughter. I've been called a few times."

"That's just the memory.... anyway, I'm glad I scolded Irene, but I couldn't catch my precious Elma..."

"Lost in the castle?

Gerda sighed and shook her head to Lucas, who raised one eyebrow, saying it was the guard's job to protect the lost.

"No, it's not, it's sorting things out faster than we expected."

"... what?

"I followed the notes of my work, and they said, 'I've finished my work and left' anywhere, in the chicken coop, in the garden, in the hallway..."

Lucas was confused.

That was an unexpected development.

Nevertheless, if there is no problem even if it is an excess amount, it seems that it can be left as it is.

But when I told him that, Gerda must have fished up and challenged it.

"How ruthless! She was in prison until yesterday, wasn't she? Rather than a maid's job, is there a way to make such a child work like a carriage horse from the first day without letting him rest satisfactorily, without literally knowing whether the building is on the right or the left?

― Well, that's correct.

"Besides, if you've done everything you've been told to do, all you have to do is... give Juliana tea."

When he heard that, Lucas the servant raised his eyebrows slightly.

"For a rookie to snore, it's a terrible thing to do."

"... yeah"

"Juliana is noble," said Gerda, murmuring her painful followers.

Juliana.

Her official name is Juliana Fitzroy.

As can be seen from the echo of a name different from the Ruden style, she is an exotic queen, married from the Principality of Rattrand, which separates the Straits. She is also Lucas' mother.

Expecting beauty consisting of shiny blonde hair and deep blue eyes, she became the first concubine after the first concubine. She was a thoughtful and bright woman, but at the same time, she was also a person who showed aggressiveness to things that were ruthless and hurt what she loved.

First and foremost, Juliana's beloved is her son Lucas.

And secondly, the culture of the homeland.

Especially, the habit of enjoying tea in the afternoon was supreme to her, and the maid who played the fault there was often beheaded without the mercy of the shards.

"I had decided to serve tea to Juliana, or else I would be a veteran for more than 10 years.... Irene lied to her former maid on duty and gave her a rest until she sent Elma there. I don't even know how to drink tea, but if she drops the pot, what kind of trouble will happen...."

…………

Lucas deepened the wrinkles between his eyebrows.

You just have to reprimand me.

However, in the case of Mother Juliana, depending on her mood, she behaves in such a way as to thoroughly destroy the spirit of the other person.

"I don't want to see that kid get kicked out naked on the mid-winter terrace because the tea was too cold, or because there were feathers in the cup and crawling bugs in the body. In case something happens... Lucas. You're the only one who can deceive her."

The fierce queen, Juliana, also stepped forward to help her beloved son get some mood right.

Loud of women's tastes, and thoroughly disinterested, Lucas, who was beaten with the spirit of the knighthood, shrugged his shoulders and accelerated his pace.

Continue through the corridor, through the cathedral gate, to the back yard facing Juliana's bedroom.

At that moment, Juliana's excited voice was heard, and they looked at each other with their steep faces -

"----Eh?"

The moment they hurried into the garden, Lucas and the others lost their words to the sight that jumped into their eyes.