70 – The princess grumbles.

A night when the sun sets and the twinkling stars rise, the existence of curtains on the windows becomes meaningless.

At this peaceful time, when the sound of crickets is likely to be heard.

“······Why did you suddenly say you were going to sleep?”

“····.”

Just like in the past when we were bound by the Duchess’s magic and forced to sleep (?), The princess and I were facing each other in the same room alone.

The difference from the last time is that this time I came in of my own will, not because I was tied up and forced to enter.

“This is what happened because you brought up such nonsense.”

Even that, the picky fiancee didn’t seem to like it very much.

Looking at him wearing a bunny pajamas that looks cute, not scary, and makes a rugged expression with his mouth protruding like that.

“So, don’t you like it?”

“······That’s it.”

“She didn’t say anything until the Duchess spoke and I entered the room, but now she’s wearing the cutest animal pajamas in the world.”

“····.”

“Are you going to protest now?”

Rebecca is silent as if she has nothing to say about him.

That sullen expression, which usually looked cute, overlapped with the current situation and the pajama the princess was wearing, so it felt like she looked several times cuter.

“·······Don’t look at us that way.”

Perhaps she sensed that the gaze I was looking at her was unusual, Rebecca asked me to stop staring.

“Isn’t it okay for a fiancé to stare at her fiancée?”

“That’s not it, the look on your face right now…”

“What do you think of my expression? Looking at my expression right now, I’m very curious what the princess is thinking.”

“····.”

Of course, there was no way I would easily accept that request.

I knew very well why Rebecca told me not to look at her.

Although it was impossible to check what my expression would be like because I didn’t have a mirror, it was easy to predict what the state of my expression would be like.

It’s so cute and lovely that I can’t stand it.

My face must have had that expression right now, and this must have been the reason Rebecca couldn’t comment on my expression.

My fiancée was still very shy about expressing affection or love.

There was no way the Rebecca of today could say, ‘You’re staring at me as if you’re loving me.’

That’s why I’m keeping my mouth shut without saying anything.

“Why are you suddenly unable to open your mouth? I’m also very curious about my expression.”

“····.”

“Tell me quickly. How is my expression right now?”

There was no way I would just let go of such a golden opportunity.

Even though I put up with the day’s meal and training, I was the kind of person who could never stand making fun of my fiancée.

After that, she spent a lot of time teasing her fiancée who showed cute reactions.

“······So why did you suddenly say you were sleeping today?”

It was only after Rebecca’s tightly closed mouth opened that she was able to stop her chatter.

***

After Albert came to visit, Rebecca’s heart continued to beat rapidly.

“Are you having a hard time telling me what my expression looks like? Oh, you never know.”

“····.”

She was being teased by her fiancé for over 10 minutes, so at some point she was back to normal.

I was about to get a little annoyed now.

Even though she thought that this kind of annoyance was like her fiance, she didn’t like the fiancé who cooled her beating heart.

She doesn’t like her fiancé, who has an important reason to go to bed, but spends her time teasing her without telling her about the important reason.

Besides, she must have already known if she was her astute fiancé.

She knows what her fiancé’s expression means, and why she can’t tell her what it means.

The reason I couldn’t tell you was simple.

Her fiancé was looking at her with the look on her face that everyone loves, the way she looks at her lover.

It was just difficult to get that fact out of her mouth.

If she struggled to say, ‘… You’re looking at me like you love me too much.’

From her fiancé, ‘Me? I’m not sure.’ She was the only one who would be embarrassed to hear such a thing.

If that happens, her fiancé, the meanest person in the world, will be excited to make fun of her again.

I couldn’t go through that situation with my eyes open.

“······So why did you suddenly say you were sleeping today?”

So, in her usual colder-than-her voice, she cut off her fiancé’s teasing.

She felt that if she continued to be teased further, her heart, which had trembled a little since hearing her declaration that her fiancé would go to bed, would be endlessly disappointed.

On the outside, she was grumbling about her fiancé, but on the inside, it was true that she was looking forward to her upcoming situation more than anyone else.

“There is something I want to say to the princess.”

Fortunately (?) Contrary to her expectation that it would still be the same even if she said it in a cold voice, her fiancé immediately changed her attitude seriously as if it had never happened.

The fiance’s sincere voice, which seems to have been heard for quite some time, without all the playfulness.

Even though she passed the thought that a serious voice like that would be better to listen to, she couldn’t contain her curiosity.

“·······What do you want to say?”

What her fiancé wants to say as she spends her night with her.

What the hell is that, she is preparing to bring up the story even while setting an atmosphere that is not at all like her fiancée.

I was very curious.

“Since the princess also listened to it, I don’t expect it to be difficult to explain.”

“····.”

“There’s not much left before I thought. The day when the princess and I get married.”

Marriage.

A word from an unusually serious fiancée.

The length of the word was short, but the weight of the two-letter word was quite different from other words.

“Is the princess all right?”

“·······What is it.”

“You didn’t like it very much at first. The fact that you had to be engaged to me.”

“····.”

It was true.

Since she first met her fiancé, she expressed with all her body that she did not want to be engaged.

She hates the fact that she has to spend her whole life with someone she never met because of her parents’ will and not of her own, so from the first meeting she spat out rude words to her fiancé.

“I wanted to ask that.”

“····.”

“Now we’ve been together for such a long time and we’ve become a little closer, but I wonder if the princess who hated me when we first met still doesn’t like marrying me.”

And it seems that her fiancé was worried about that.

I guess she still hates the heavy word ‘marriage’.

As I always say, it was her fiancé who was slow to notice only in useless places.

······It would be great if you were always so slow-witted.

“·······I don’t like it.”

“Yes?”

“Do I have to say it twice? I don’t hate marrying you.”

It was only after making her say it again that she was paying attention, which was usually too quick.

“····.”

Her fiancé, who briefly looked surprised at her words.

“······Is that so?”

With the words, I walked over to her and sat down on the bed she was lying on.

“Why is my bed suddenly…”

“······Do you remember the conditions we talked about earlier?”

Her face blushed from what she had just said. Ignoring what she had to say, she began to speak incomprehensibly.

Conditions? What conditions are you talking about out of the blue?

“If the condition…”

“Isn’t there a condition that I agreed to accept in exchange for not telling the Duchess and Dorothy that the Princess kissed me earlier in the evening?”

“····.”

I had completely forgotten about it.

She had completely forgotten about her fiancé, who had suddenly slept with her in her room.

What kind of unbearable words did she say to avoid embarrassing herself right away?

I wanted to go back to the past and dry myself from the past.

“Don’t beat yourself up too much. I, the kindest and most thoughtful fiancée of all, couldn’t ask her fiancée whom she loves so much.”

“····.”

That was completely unreliable.

She couldn’t believe that she wasn’t stupid and that her fiancé was kinder and more considerate than anyone else.

Because it was her fiancé who pretended it was nothing and hit her in the back every time.

.

Anyway, it was clear that these words were not easily believed.

Whether she put on a look of disbelief or not, her fiancé went on with her words.

“It’s simple. Princess’s birthday is just around the corner, so all you have to do is accept the present I’m giving you.”

“······What kind of weird gift are you asking for?”

“A strange gift. It is not the behavior of a fiancé who loves her fiancé to strike down the truth like that.”

“····.”

“So, my fiancée, you just have to be kind and accept my gift as a thank you.”

How strange is it to write a request that is practically like a wish ticket in order to receive it?

I was quite afraid of her birthday, which was just a few days away.

At the same time, it was also true that I was looking forward to a gift from my fiancé that was said to be sincere.

“Leave it like this and I won’t leave it unless it’s a big deal.”

“Don’t worry.”

“······Really, if you can’t talk.”

All she could do was grunt as she always did, feeling the warmth of her fiancé sitting right next to her.

So, her birthday is just around the corner.