59. Adelheit Isilia (1)

I was walking in the garden. What discovered Shione.

Over the years, we haven’t met for a moment. My one and only childhood friend with whom I have never spoken a single word.

The time when Shione suffered the most. Even though I know the reason for her suffering, the relationship that went wrong by comforting her with her stupid words still remains a big regret to me.

Because of that. I called her with courage because I wanted to correct my lack of consideration for her then and make up for her mistake.

“Shione… !”

At my call, Shione looked at me.

I hurried over to her.

“… Hello, how are you?”

“… Okay. Hello, Noah.”

I couldn’t help but feel awkward.

Because Shione is a child who got hurt because of me. It can’t be helped that she hates me.

I was in the middle of such an awkward conversation.

Come to think of it, Shione hated flowers…. Why did she come all the way to the garden and she was looking at the flowers… ?

“Anyway, a garden…. Shione doesn’t like places like this very much?”

“… At all. I like flowers and gardens.”

Shione was embarrassed to say that. As if she was conscious of someone.

That reaction reminded her of Shione, who used to hide her face a lot in the past, and she was talking with a smile on her face.

Come to think of it, Shione doesn’t like flowers very much….

“Lies. Shione said she really hated flowers, saying that things like flowers were not womanly. Even when I asked to go flower viewing with her, she always ran away.”

Why did Shione tell a lie that she was sure would get caught?

Come to think of it, it’s strange that Shione, who said that she prefers to take a rest rather than wandering around outside, bothers to look around the garden….

Judging from the bad rumors about Shione that she heard even if she didn’t want to hear them.

Because she said that she doesn’t like going out of the mansion, she doesn’t even want to come out of my room… There must be a reason.

Then the reason…….

Then, a thought passed through her mind.

Maybe… Do you want to meet me?

I know very well that you are overthinking things. But other than that, it’s also true that Shione doesn’t come to her garden.

Besides, the Shione I knew was a unique child who sometimes actually did what others only thought of in her head.

If you’ve been waiting like this this time, thinking that I might come to the garden…….

The question of “Perhaps,” Is starting to gain weight. My heart beats thump at the expectation that sprouts and gradually inflates.

I asked Shione if what I was thinking was correct.

“Maybe… Is it because of me?”

I just said it once.

Shione was taken aback by my words. Just like she did when she revealed her old secrets to me.

… After all, I haven’t forgotten Shione. Remembering that I love flowers, he thought I would come to the garden.

“I thought Shione had forgotten all about me… she still remembers I like flowers.”

“Uh… ?”

“Did you come all the way to the garden on purpose because you thought I would be here?”

Instead of answering, Shione chose her silence.

Maybe that shy personality is still the same.

Instead of answering, Shione turned her head away, seemingly hiding her embarrassment.

I smiled at him.

“Thank you, Sione.”

The atmosphere was good.

It is definitely different from yesterday. To the point where I wonder if it could be this good.

I wished this tickling relationship lasted a little longer.

They say that I am usually very fat, and that I have a very bad personality. I’ve heard quite a few bad rumors about Sione.

Shione isn’t even fat now. As long as she doesn’t have a bad personality.

Since I thought that Shione’s usual appearance, which I had only heard about through rumors, would be different from the real one, I wanted to hear from Shione directly, rather than those trivial rumors.

“By the way, how has Shione been lately… ?”

“Fortress… Nothing else, except she started practicing her bow.”

“A bow?”

Shione is training her bow… I’m surprised…….

Cianella’s people always use swords. If that’s not the case, she said that she should handle the spear and become a decent knight.

“Shione didn’t she want to be a knight? But a bow…….”

When Shione quietly asked a question to her horse, which was far from the statue of the knight she had dreamed of.

Shione looked at me and showed an extremely serious expression.

I stared at her Shione figure as if possessed.

“… Because my idea of what an article is has changed a lot. If at first I thought that swordsmen who handle sword auras like our ancestors were knights.”

Shione announced that her self-worth had changed.

“Right now, regardless of weapons, people who have the power to save and protect others are considered knights.”

She announced her will to her newly established self.

At the same time, her vague memories of her past were revived.

-I’ll become a great knight and protect Noah.

The things Shione said every day to me, who didn’t know much about the past and was indecisive.

Now, at this timing.

Seeing me smiling and talking like that….

After all, Shione. There was no doubt that he had not forgotten any of the memories he had made with me and cherished them.

“How about it, if you think so, the bow isn’t bad either, right?”

* *

What could have been called a small commotion was over, and the sun was setting before I knew it.

Around the time when the blue sky replaced the red sunset.

The nobles were busy preparing for tonight’s banquet in their own way.

For the banquet that will be held when the stars begin to appear dimly.

I too was urging Shione hard.

“Shione-nim, hurry up and change into the clothes you bought yesterday. You have to get cremated to attend the banquet, and there are so many things to do, so there is not much time.”

“It’s annoying to go out to a banquet, but makeup… ? Do you really have to do that?”

“Of course. No matter how much you hate it, it’s a place where all the nobles of the kingdom gather, so it wouldn’t be better to decorate your appearance more beautifully.”

“But makeup… Isn’t that what men do? To powder and color my face. If I was struggling to become that beautiful and then got a skin disease on the contrary, I would think it would be a joke…….”

… Really, what kind of a woman is talking so much.

They say women in this world are usually taciturn and rational.

I don’t know why I ended up serving such a troublesome master.

“… They say that even women these days wear all the simple, basic makeup.”

“Tsk, the world is coming to an end. These days, women are really…….”

Shione is muttering something that doesn’t sound like words.

Because I didn’t have the confidence to listen to those mind-bending complaints anymore.

I cast a spell that could have made her mouth shut in an instant.

“Moreover, I also… I miss Sione-nim, who has become even more beautiful with makeup. I like her usual appearance, but with the right makeup, she will be able to enhance Shione-sama’s charm even more.”

“… Really?”

“Yes, you must be much more beautiful than now.”

“Did you mean that you are still beautiful?”

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… A real horsetail catches wonderfully.

An annoying junior or younger brother. It feels like dealing with something down there.

I’d like to ask you to stop joking around.

Her damn status became her fetters and wrapped around my wrists, so the thought of giving her a hand to f*ck her with one of her own was just a thought, and it didn’t work.

I said, pretending to scratch my temples and pressing hard to suppress the headache.

“You are beautiful.”

This is an objective evaluation.

“Really?”

“Yes.”

Of course, this is not a subjective opinion.

“Hmm, if you say that. Okay. Let’s get that makeup, too.”

“Excellent choice.”

And finally.

I even managed to get her to promise to put her makeup on by slashing her sanity.

After that, preparations were made swiftly.

Shione changed into the black dress she bought yesterday, and I changed into a suit that I roughly chose and calculated together.

Then, I called a servant and even received makeup separately.

As Shione said, I was skeptical about why a man would have to paint my face. Because this is a world where men and women are reversed.

If you look at the male aristocrats you see from time to time, they are really floating in white tops with dark makeup. At least, it’s not unusual for men to wear makeup here.

Just letting you know that you only want a hair style and really basic make-up because you think I might be like that by mistake.

Fortunately, it wasn’t too much, and things ended well enough to save the original version, which was just fine.

After finishing the clothes and makeup, meeting Shione again, as expected.

Shione couldn’t take her eyes off my face.

“Is there something strange about it?”

“Uh, huh? Where are you talking about?”

“My face. I want you to stare at me too closely….”

“Ah… ….”

Shione turned her head away and took her gaze away.

“… No. It suits you well.”

She gave the same compliment to Shione, who was responding bluntly.

Shione, who finished her makeup, was much more beautiful than she was just a moment ago.

After such a casual conversation, she walked toward the banquet hall in silence for a while.

And as the banquet hall got closer, Shione’s expression hardened.

“Haa… ….”

Uh-oh, take a deep breath now.

It seems like it’s starting to bother me as I try to enter the banquet hall.

“You don’t want to go to the banquet like that?”

“Aren’t you tired? It’s to the point where I want to show my face for just one day at the coming-of-age ceremony.”

Shione’s conversations with various nobles in the future, behavior, etc.

I was already fed up with the thought of acting with all my strength.

Even now, his expression is getting more and more rotten.

Why don’t you put it all down during the banquet because it’s annoying?

No matter how much I did, my master showed Ainel that he couldn’t properly manage his facial expression or behavior because he was tired from being in a public place like this.

I trusted her and entrusted it to her, so why should she be reprimanded for being such a fool?

I suggested a bet that would help Sione do their best.

“If you don’t like the banquet… How about making a bet with me?”

“A bet?”

“Yes, the condition is that until Lady Ainel Cianella finishes her business and shows up at the banquet hall, she will have a pleasant conversation with the children of other families. The reward… I will listen to one simple thing that I think I can listen to.”

Shione’s eyes brightened at the word reward.

Couldn’t the beam go out at this rate?

Seeing Shione bursting with life suddenly, she gets a little sick of it.

The baby, now in my head, I’m full of my thoughts.

But what about lip smacking? There’s no way.

The reward I will receive is something good that I believe will be fine.

If you ask for such an unscrupulous reward, just refuse.

“Really?”

You don’t even know what I’m thinking.

Shione answered with a smile as she snapped at the bait I threw.

“Will the man say two things with one mouth?”

“They say that a man’s heart is a reed….”

“Am I a man?”

I am the man who does it.

Of course I have no intention of going against my words by shaking like a reed.

Since you said it without wavering, Sione also seemed to agree and move on.

Thanks to that, I was able to lure Shione and take her to her banquet hall with her puck and her decent vibes.

“Excuse me for a moment. May I know which family you are from?”

A man guarding the banquet hall came out and asked for Sione’s identity.

After a brief confirmation, he shouted as he opened the banquet hall door.

“Princess Sione Cianella of Countess Cianella is entering!”

Ever since I came to this world, all the men I’ve met up to this point have been saying something in a low-pitched voice.

After a long time, I felt that something blocked somewhere had been opened after hearing such a loud cry from a man.

With his notification, let’s go into the banquet hall with Sione.

“… It is too burdensome.”

“Please don’t be shaken and adjust your expression.”

Everyone around me focused on Shione.

Where is Cianella’s first daughter going? Her second daughter, Shione, who had only been rumored about it, has arrived.

Those who used to chat with each other over wine and simple food are sure to look at us and start talking about Count Cianella.

I looked around her, remembering the personal information of the people that Ai Nell had told me about, that Shione must talk to.

While I was looking around eagerly, Noah walked over to Shione.

“Shione!”

While Shione and Noah exchanged brief greetings.

I stuck right behind Shione and checked the faces of the nobles one by one.

I felt an obsessive gaze for no reason, so I bent my head in that direction.

I was able to find one of the many nobles Ainel had talked about.

His dark black hair hangs down to his waist as if embracing the abyss.

People who usually have an elegant image, but know how to express various colors in a bright way depending on their facial expressions.

It was the eldest daughter of the Marquess Peosha, Feira Peosha.

Such is Feira Peiosha.

“… Why are you here?”

What the hell did we do?

I came out next to Yulia Peiosha, who was talking with other nobles, and even Noah was glaring at me.

… That moment when you start to feel that something is going wrong.

The door to the banquet hall was wide open.

“The first princess of the Kingdom of Adelheit, Adelheit Aecilia, is entering!”

Feira, who was glaring at us as if to kill us, headed towards the entrance of the banquet hall.

Me and Shione, just like Faira, turned our heads toward her.

I heard that the princess of a country has come. I need to see her face for once.

“Adelheit Isilia….”

I muttered the princess’s name very quietly and looked at her.

Adelheit’s hair had a soft light, not a bright purple.

Her hair, dyed in pale violet and neatly arranged, came down to her chest, adding mystery and nobility.

The beautiful princess looked around the banquet hall with an expression as if everything was boring.

She only slowly turned her head, but there was dignity in her actions.

She seemed to shine mysteriously whenever her insides embraced each person’s image.

And soon, when Adelheit Aicilia’s mysterious self passed by Noah and contained Shione.

Her expression of boredom was broken and there was a faint interest in it.

Adelheit looked at me beyond Sione.

“… Me?”

She fixed her gaze on me, frowning her fine eyebrows.

Same goes for Peira Peiosha. The same goes for Adelheit, who is said to be the princess.

Could my contemplation be the contemplation of a criminal?

Why the hell are you doing this to me?

This is firmly wrong even if something is wrong.