Leesche, who broke up with Else and then returned to the castle, used the water he had drawn and went back to cleaning.

After a while, the knights will carry me to the bedroom. The large, fluffy sleeping area is hung with clean sheets and looks comfortable to sleep in to see.

After finishing the rag hanging to a nice spot, Lieche decided to take a break around here. When I head to one of the rooms on the top floor where they carried me to the bedroom, I try to get out on the balcony.

The royal capital, overlooking it from there, was beginning to stain gold with the light of dusk.

With a little rain earlier, the air is clear and can be seen far away. The spring breeze was pleasant on my sweaty skin after cleaning.

When I hang my arm on the balcony railing, I meditate my eyes with my cheeks on top of it.

It would be great if I could sleep like this, but I have to take a bath. Nevertheless, it is hard to get away from the view and spring breeze that overlooks us from here.

Blurring with that in mind, my mother's voice inadvertently passes behind my brain.

"Liesche, you don't need it in your life, like your own thoughts."

I remember the words I had once been told and frowned.

'Don't forget. It is the mission of our Duke's family to live with loyalty and devotion to the royal family.'

"No matter how good you are, it's all pointless to be born into a woman. You only have to live for it to help His Royal Highness the King."

'Study? That's enough if you have enough knowledge to fix up a place to socialize. Bride training is better than that. You learn to laugh more lovingly.'

How can I remember so much jealously while I'm at it? Leishe exhaled one more thing.

(Yes, I did. Fifteen years old, I thought back so many times about what your father and mother had told me...)

You can't get that habit out of you, Leishe, just after you wind up breaking your engagement, often shakes back your childhood memories.

My father and mother have always repeatedly preached to Liesche, who was a child.

"Marriage to someone recognized by the public. A woman's true happiness is all about being tied up with someone like that and having a baby. '

"... but oh, my God..."

To Liesche in those days, objections were not allowed.

In the first place, it was only the parents who felt the value of the leachette in terms of "the daughter who will eventually become queen and give birth to heirs".

Even though value is not determined by others or given by title.

……

Her fingertips moved slowly and unconsciously, and Leishe opened her eyes slowly.

And ask in the same position.

"... Are you sure? Get out of business on the way."

"Damn, you don't surprise me every time"

I hear him sound like he enjoys himself, wake up his body and look back.

Arnold stood there, as I expected. He says, laughing, relying on the entrance to the balcony.

"I was going to erase the signs. Is it so distant?"

"Which mouth says? They would have adjusted the intensity of the signs a little bit to measure when I'd find out."

"Ha. You know what I mean?"

Arnold walks over here and lines up next to the leachet. I was a little wary, but he just looked down at the castle wonderfully.

"What were you looking at"

"Take the city.... What's that over there?

"It would be a library. State-funded, books collected from each country are kept"

"Well! There's a building that big?

I guess it has a rich collection of sawdust. She wants to make sure she goes soon, and Leishe makes her eyes shine.

Then I pointed to something else that I was concerned about.

"What about that spire over there? It's a beautiful building, though."

"Church. It also acts as a clock tower, ringing a bell that announces a fixed time in the morning and at night"

"Wow, nice......! Speaking of which, there seems to be a big market around here."

"It's the biggest shopping street in the Imperial City. Early in the morning, we also have stalls lined up, dealing with things we just purchased that day."

"It's great! Then, Your Highness, the beautiful mountains over there..."

Every time Arnold explained to me, Leishe was so excited that she couldn't help it.

My imagination swells in my head and I want to make sure it's actually there. The vast library, the beautiful church that tells the moment, the morning market that sells and buys bright fruits, etc.

Arnold has looked at such a leachet with interest.

"What is it?

"No. Just wondering what's so fun. - Are you so interested in a country where you have been married in an unwanted situation?"

"Uh..."

I was asked and wondered how I should answer.

(I don't know what to do. Is this the kind of thing that's okay to answer normally?

It's not like you're lying, so maybe you should just keep talking.

But it's a strange feeling to talk to Arnold, who was once hostile in his life. And that discomfort calls for some kind of embarrassment.

As a result, Liesche blushed a little and became the winger to answer with a mouthful of mouth.

"… admired, was"

Look at that face, Arnold looks surprised.

"You think I admire you?

"Yes, I've always wanted to try to come to this country someday"

In his first life as a trader, Liesche had one dream.

It's in this world, trying to go to all countries. But the dream ended where I left my last country.

It was this last country, the Imperial Garchhein.

The only thing that didn't set foot on the soil of the Garchhein nation was the life of a merchant.

In every life, Liesche had to get the means to live first. By the time that prospect holds, however, the situation has changed so that we cannot easily enter and leave the Garchhein country.

This marriage was Leishe's first chance to visit the Garchhein country.

"Perhaps the last push, the reason I decided to marry His Highness, was because I had that longing"

……

Arnold glances at the root of his eyebrow, then looks down at the castle and opens his mouth.

"There's nothing in this country you can admire."

"No, that's not true! Just so you know, there were a lot of fascinating places. The faces of the city people were glittering, and the knights are gentle. And..."

Whatever the subject, it's fun to think about something great.

As Leishe grins and counts her fingerfolds, Arnold is, sometime, staring at Leishe again.

I felt the expression was strangely gentle and confused without knowing why.

"Me, are you saying something weird?

"If you're unconscious, that's a big deal."

(and rude......)

"I've never seen a woman like you. The content of the statement, the knowledge and physical abilities that you possess. Just a warrant lady wouldn't need it in the first place."

To Arnold's words, Liesche is annoyed.

"Liesche, you don't need it in your life, like your own thoughts."

What my late mother said was past and I accidentally kept my mouth open.

"... everything is my treasure, whether you need it from others. It's an asset you'll never lose, and it's a part of your precious life. Even if someone refuses to be meaningless."

I turned back from the front to Arnold and looked up at him tall.

"What is of value to my life is for me to decide"

Leishe will never accept the curse once poured on her parents.

I can give birth to a woman, and I will never live to be a queen again and give up the learning I want to gain.

Keep that flame in your pocket and stare at Arnold. Then he said, surprisingly gentle.

- I know.

And I touched Liesche's cheek with my big hand.

Its thumb softly wipes the surface of the skin. After she blinked, Leishe thought her face was dirty by the cleaning.

"You're going to be in this country, you just have to be free to do what you want. I swear I will support that hope and will continue to help."

"Huh..."

Leishe is astonished by the unexpected tolerance directed at her.

Arnold has the right to ask Liesche to be like a queen, even though he has tried to say this. Because this is a political marriage where there is a difference in power between the two countries, and the essence of the leachet is hostage.

Yet do you say that Arnolt, instead of allowing the liberty of the leachet, even supports it?

"How could you do that?

"I told you. I fell in love with you."

Arnold repeats the same lie.

"And you may not want words from others. - I sincerely prefer your bottomless ability to be meaningless."

"... eh"

"I thought it was telling."

That's what I said, took my hand off the leachet, turned my back and started walking.

When I stop at the entrance, I look back at the leachet that was stunned and say it.

"Think about something, even what you want. I broke my contract to say," Don't touch a finger. "

……

After Arnold was gone, Leishe lost her strength as to why, and sat perfectly on the balcony.

(... I can't read at all! What the hell is Arnold Hein up to...)

A quiet night is about to come to the royal capital of Garchhein.