71 – Princess celebrates her birthday.(1)

Rebecca woke up very quickly today.

The reason is obvious, but today is her birthday, which only comes once a year.

“······Haam.”

In her nightgown, she opened the window as usual, letting out a yawn she never wanted to show to anyone, especially her fiancé.

Wheeing-

A cool breeze rushes in as soon as you open the window.

As if the wind knew what day it was, the wind swayed more than usual, blowing her beautiful red hair through the air.

“Oh, lady.”

“My lady! Happy birthday!”

As she rested her chin against her window for a moment and enjoyed the incoming wind, the servants of her duke who found her greeted her.

I was able to let other people know how she was feeling by shouting ‘Thank you!’

“····.”

Instead, a small nod of her head indicated that she had heard them clearly.

Because there were other people who would listen to her thanks, which is very difficult to hear normally.

For those people, I didn’t want to express my gratitude already.

Kikik-

“Are you awake?”

The voice of the exclusive maid, Dorothy, heard as soon as she stepped out of her room.

Again, if it was her usual time, she would have lightly nodded her head, but today was also a day, so she wanted to act differently than usual.

“Yes, Dorothy?”

“I’m always the same, well. But why did the lady say hello to me…”

“····.”

I should have said no.

She didn’t like the way Dorothy looked at her as if she had met a strange person.

“Anyway, happy birthday, ma’am.”

“Thank you.”

Today’s first thank you was Dorothy, her exclusive maid.

Her Even though she just looked at her and didn’t like her expression very much, she’s usually one of those guys who work for her more than anyone else on her.

She had enough reasons to express her gratitude with her sincerity.

“······Lady?”

Dorothy was at a loss for a moment to hear her thank you, who was no different than her own employee.

“Oh, I prepared a present for you too!”

She immediately regained her senses and screamed as if she had finally realized.

“A gift?”

“Yes! Today is none other than the lady’s birthday!”

“Thank you.”

“Eh, don’t you like it?”

Dorothy seemed to think that she had offended her by her cold reaction.

“No, I haven’t received it yet, but thanks.”

However, that was not the case.

Dorothy, far from being her fault, she rather gave her a touch of her own.

She just didn’t have a lot of resonance in her mind.

I have to say that her words, ‘My lady, not someone else’, didn’t touch her as much as I thought.

It was never about doubting Dorothy’s loyalty or anything like that.

Always her faithful servant, Dorothy is almost as trustworthy as her parents.

However, despite the fact that she believed and trusted Dorothy to this extent, she showed a cold reaction.

“······Because it’s something I’ve been hearing a lot lately.”

“····.”

Because it was something she always heard from her fiancé.

Albert, her fiancée, gets bored and says, ‘Didn’t I say that I am only the princess’ fiancée?’ How can I forget?’

It’s been a long time since I’ve heard those words from someone other than her fiancé.

Anyway, seeing what I’ve been hearing over and over again, it’s just that I’m so used to it that I don’t think much of it.

“If you’ve been listening to it a lot lately… Are you sure you’re Prince Xernias?”

“····.”

Dorothy did not confirm or deny the question that followed.

It was a blatant lie to deny here, and to affirm it was to reveal everything that I had been living listening to such embarrassing words.

Although she always trusts and trusts Dorothy. Unfortunately for her, she couldn’t trust Dorothy’s light mouth.

“······Well, it can’t be helped. It’s only natural that you can’t win over the person you love.”

“····.”

Dorothy nodded her head, thinking that now she was the truth of her self-indulgent judgment.

Somehow, it occurred to me that other people were increasingly misunderstanding the relationship between her fiancé and her.

“······Then I’ll go down.”

“Yes! Have a nice breakfast!”

She didn’t bother clearing up the misunderstanding and went slowly down the stairs to eat breakfast.

There was no big reason for not resolving the obvious misunderstanding.

For once, she still didn’t realize what kind of relationship she was with her fiancé.

What kind of relationship would be the most ideal to call her and her fiancé?

The time we’ve spent together has been too much to call it a mere engagement relationship.

Funny memories, sad memories, angry memories.

Memories suitable for each emotion were melted into the past, so it felt like we had come too far to be a simple betrothed relationship.

Then what kind of relationship should we call it?

It feels much closer than that to be a friend relationship, and we only fought on fictitious days to be a lover relationship.

Isn’t the relationship between her and Albert really the most ambiguous one in the world?

Perhaps her fiancé was aware of this as well.

That he and she are currently in a relationship that is neither one nor the other.

Anyway, this is the first reason why we haven’t corrected the misunderstanding that might spread to the Duke of Valencia.

The second was because of her mood.

The second reason is that when she hears Dorothy say she can’t win, she doesn’t feel bad about her.

Here again she realized that she had changed a lot.

If she had been the girl she used to be, she would have gone mad as soon as she heard that she was in love with her hapless fiancé.

She’s not angry now, she’s blushing like she’s ashamed for nothing.

It was terrifying to realize just how much she had fallen for her fiancé.

“······You must never get caught.”

And I was able to make a firm resolution once again in this area.

This feeling that she secretly harbors inside of her must never let her fiancé know.

She knows that by the time her fiancé finds out, it must be since she has already heard and accepted her confession to her fiancé.

That if things didn’t go that way, she might find herself in a situation where her fiancée’s every word would stump her.

It should never have happened that way.

“Rebecca, are you awake?”

As she made up her mind over and over again, she came down to the restaurant where the Valencian family was having a meal, and her mother, the Duchess of Valencia, spoke to her in a splendid way.

“Yes.”

“How are you feeling today?”

“······Good.”

“Hmm… I guess there’s something I don’t like about my daughter’s late reply.”

“····.”

Should I say her mother? Or should I say that she is the Duchess of Valencia, who is also called the queen of society.

She had a lot of respect for her late reply and for realizing what kind of condition she was in just by looking at her expression.

“Um… Is it because of your fiancée?”

“····.”

“Looks like that.”

In addition, her mother even found the cause of her disquiet at once.

She hasn’t learned any mind reading. She even began to wonder how this could be possible.

“If you’re thinking, ‘How did you find out?’, Put it aside. The only reason for my daughter’s heart to be disturbed is her fiancé, isn’t it?”

“····.”

I heard her words mean that the only thing she cares about these days is her fiancé, so I wanted to refute it.

Unfortunately, strangely, there were no words to refute.

Because it’s true that she doesn’t care much about anything else these days, just her fiancé.

When taking the next craft class, when practicing swordsmanship, when eating, when taking a shower.

Even right before she went to bed, the person who controlled her mind was her fiancé, not her.

Even if she closed her eyes, the only thing she could see was her fiancé’s face.

At this level, it was literally at a serious level.

“······Mother is a bit surprised and proud.”

As she continued to listen to her story without any reaction, her mother, who seemed to be worried for a while, continued her words.

“·······Yes?”

“Obviously, when the two of them first met, they argued like they were going to kill each other.”

“····.”

“To think of each other even though we haven’t met like this.”

Her mother with a very moved expression.

It wasn’t her taste to make a fuss like that, but it was her mother who made the most accurate judgment in this situation.

She listened quietly, wondering if anything would help her today.

“Are you excited?”

“Yes…?”

“The present that Prince Xernias will give you today. I wonder if you’re expecting it.”

“······I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t expecting it.”

Although she said that this is not a lie either. Actually, this was a lie too.

Since she heard from her fiancé that her birthday would be something to look forward to, she’s only been waiting for today to come.

She was so excited about what to expect from her, what gift she had been asking her to receive from her fiancé.

She was so excited that she couldn’t even sleep yesterday.

However, was it true that her excessive expectations always lead to a bad path?

“I heard that Prince Albert is coming a little late today.”

“····.”

Her mother was full of anticipation, and the news she heard from her mother was that her fiancé would be late today.