Watashi wa Teki ni Narimasen!

Afterwards, Aida continued to stay at the Marquis Castle of Shestina with Guzugu.

I get a room, looked after by a servant who works frighteningly at Chestina Castle, thinking about what lies ahead, but I still can't decide.

Because I don't know how to live by myself.

I don't even know how to spend the money because the noble lady doesn't get a chance to buy her own things. I don't even know how to rent a house. I have a jeweled ornament that seems to be redeemable in the first place, but I didn't even know where to redeem it.

Viscount Credias has never been allowed to run errands outside the building, so he has no knowledge of anything but cleaning.

If we rely on nobility, soon the whereabouts of Aida will be known to the rest of us. If the princes wanted to plead guilty to Aida, they would soon find her.

I knew you'd stay here and stay still until you decided to win or lose the battle? But if you lose, will you go to the queen? I can't do that either, I think.

In such a fold, I had the opportunity to dine with Count Patriciere.

Count Patriciere said to Aida, not sure why she wanted to invite herself.

"You, if you're not running, are you going to go to war?

"On the battlefield..."

Aida was rather relieved to finally ask the question.

But I don't have the strength to fight. In an attempt to get her to think about it, Aida asked a different question.

"The Count is going to fight only for Her Majesty's sake."

Count Patriciere then spoke without changing his expression.

"I met him when he was still thirteen. He went to the kingdom of Ruein, mixed up in postwar negotiations. He sacrificed one daughter for it, but thanks to it, he succeeded in placing his trust in the king."

"Daughter...?

"I tried to be a magician like you. I heard he died without success."

Aida lost her power from her hand in surprise and was about to drop a knife.

Did you try to make your own daughter a magician? Even Ada's parents, who thought it was cold, wouldn't just do anything that might make them die.

Suddenly this Earl seemed like some other creature who looked like a person.

"What do you not know? I just thought Creditus had spoken."

Count Patriciere says so, and continues to eat pale. I chew it with a slice of meat in its mouth, which I told him so lightly that I had sacrificed my daughter.

"In the first place, after the royal family took half of the territory, the Count Patriciere territory was also higher in taxes than any other territory. To undo it to standard, he daughter-in-law a daughter whose royalty had wrongly caused her to be born. If you hear that the royal family needs that daughter, you have no choice but to offer this weak one. I handed it over because I thought it was like I gave it back.... the royal family misled the existence of my daughter"

It wasn't a pleasant story to talk about if you try to be an Aida who was made a magician.

Count Patriciere did not even care about the look on Aida's face like that, but continued his story in Ruein.

"Yes, you meant Master Marianne. Back then I had little interest in Ruein, albeit to rebuild the house. It was just the only way to take advantage of having a kinship aristocrat. That's how I met Marianne."

Princess Marianne, who was only thirteen years old, lived asking about the complexion of her brother king. It seems that the princess of Luain is often forced to repeat her marriage for aggression. Sometimes he remains murdered by his angry husband or his clan at the place of his wife. In fact, one of Marianne's sisters died that way.

"But if we don't expand our territory, it's probably because a country called Ruein can't keep it. That country is twitchy and eroded by the desert. Do the people also have a sense of impatience, other than perhaps Evrard, who should have barely lost a battle"

At the time, another sister had been daughter-in-law to another country, so Marianne probably thought it was herself to be offered during the ceasefire negotiations. He's been asking Count Patriciere how Evrard is.

"You wanted to get some information about where you were going. At first, I thought it was a hassle. But the negotiation then is a truce negotiation at the end of the draw. Not wanting to undermine King Luain's mood, I could not turn down the princess's favor. I guess Marianne noticed in my heart that I had no choice but to deal with her in exchange for information about Ruein."

Count Patriciere didn't feel comfortable making a deal. But even though it's because of the child's promise, it looks like Queen Marianne offered it to me. Think I might be able to use it to pull up my own house further.

"Somewhat... I may have unconsciously rebuked my conscience for the desperate appearance of a daughter the same age as my own daughter who let her die."

Count Patriciere added so.

He said many times, while talking to Marianne, he took pity on Queen Marianne, who was as desperate as he was.

Even after it was thus decided that Queen Marianne would not be offered as a bride, the fringe between the Count and the Queen seemed to have continued.

When he was finally to be married to Falgia after the second battle, Count Patriciere took in the Falgian nobility to take him to the Queen's side, in order to establish his position.

The fruits of the effort are manifested in the number of nobles who have rebelled in this battle.

Having heard the whole story, Ada wondered if Count Patriciere had put her shoulder in Queen Marianne because of her conscience or sympathy.

If he had such a conscience, he would have protected his daughter somehow.

You have relatives in Ruain, so you should have been able to exile. Though it would have been a sacrifice of political marriage there and there because of drawing royal blood.

Besides, if it hurts to have a child sacrificed, you must not have thought about Chiara, who adopted her, or that she was going to offer her to the Viscount.

Maybe I just fell in love with Queen Marianne, who was just a girl.

I guess I didn't want to admit it until Queen Marianne grew up and reunited because she was too old.

Because of his love, he sacrifices his daughter, even though it was an unwilled marriage, to take into account so much as to devote his life for the princess of another country, and now again tries to stone many stranger slaves on the battlefield.

Even though he felt scared of its two-sided nature, Aida could not be blamed.

I did the same thing myself.

For desire's sake, I only saw the Marquis Azur as a pawn. No matter how kind I was, I looked down on the good, simple Marquis in my heart and killed him like a piece of garbage in the way.

In order for myself and the prince to be united, I thought I had no choice... without realizing how distorted that might be.

I realized my horizons were too narrow because of the actions of Felix and Chiara.

Unlike Prince Reginald, who doesn't even look back, Felix was instrumental but attached to Aida's selfishness and mouthed his own honest words.

The moment she nearly killed him and thought she might no longer hear the word, Aida realized that she wanted Felix's words more than the prince's.

And Chiara.

I was trying to blame it all on her. Because I thought I was below me.

But I guess that's how he decided she was down there because he thought Ada was originally miserable about herself.

My parents didn't look up to me much, and I wasn't the kind of person who would be flattered by my marriage. That's when I heard rumors about Chiara, who was clearly abused, and thought she was' better than her 'was going to be a relief to Aida.

After being made to marry Viscount Credias, he comforted himself by thinking it was because of Chiara's escape.

But when she saw Chiara caught in the Trisfeed, she found out it was a sweet idea. If it had been Chiara who was married to Viscount Credias, she would have seen worse than Aida. You must never do something like give Aida respite to Chiara.

I realized that the response to Viscount Credias, who had only thought about attacking the captured Chiara, was rather slow.

Is it because I told you about Queen Marianne? Count Patriciere seemed willing to tell me everything at this time.

"If you're going to get away with it now, do it. I only laid eyes on you in the first place to get your father involved."

"Huh...?

"It was necessary to mislead the documents in order to obtain the mines that the stones of the contract produce in large quantities."

Indeed, Viscount Credias had terribly large quantities of that stone. There's no way Viscount Credias owns a mine without territory. I thought there must have been a mine in Count Patriciere's territory, but it didn't.

"Because the place I found it was king's territory... it was originally the land of the Count Patriciere family. I needed to involve your father, who handles the paperwork, in order to secure the stone of the covenant without the royal knowledge. That's why I made him my wife."

"What..."

I don't know what that means. Aida is stunned.

"It was easy enough for me to let you seduce me in the way because you had someone to marry and give me the money to get away with it. I didn't expect to jump out of the ceremony. After taking the trouble to find it, I was surprised that Creditus accidentally tried the sand of his contract and tried to kill him."

I didn't know that Aida's wedding turned out that way, or that she was forced to marry Viscount Credias, to secretly collect the stones of the contract.

Unable to think right away, Aida blurred and went back from the main dining room to the room.

Sit on the couch in the room like a sledge falls.

Count Patriciere told me I don't need it anymore.

My father and mother, they're gone.

And really, it wasn't Chiara's fault that I was caught by the Viscount.

I didn't know what more to do than before my meal.

"I don't like to fight. But..."

Aida blushes her lips. Anyone...... could Aida take me out of here? If you tell me what to do that way.

It was Chiara's words that came to mind at that time.

"Because I originally wanted to leave home and live as a civilian in a corner of town..."

If Chiara can do it, she thought she couldn't do it herself. At least, I felt it seemed easier than fighting or seeing worse on the battlefield.

But I can't get up from the chair I sat in. I knew the first time I tried, I was scared.

And so I noticed the sound of the sweeping window on the veranda side being tapped against this one.

Looking back, Aida opened her eyes to the silver-haired girl standing there.