I sighed, feeling depressed, and then came to my senses when I heard her mumbling softly to herself.
I still didn't know exactly what Rudnine was thinking, but I didn't want to leave even the slightest stain on his noble reputation.
I quickly changed the subject.
"Lady Alentia is very close to Her Majesty the Empress. Frankly, I'm quite surprised."
“Oh, of course. We... are very close.”
She lifted her chin and spoke with a slight smirk.
'Uh?'
I squinted, feeling uncomfortable with her choice of words.
Not intimacy, but close. Something seems off. What reason would there be to be so close to the Empress of the empire?
I wanted to ask outright, "Isn't that a crime related to the 'Fountain of the Sun'?"
You're the culprit, aren't you? How could you, as her aunt, inflict such pain on your niece, Liana? You're a cruel person, wearing a mask of kindness!
I wanted to throw away the cider and say, “I’m going to throw it away.”
If I did that, it would be like pouring vinegar on cooked rice, so I really had to hold back.
The reason I came to see this woman today was to create an excuse to be able to roam the Empress's palace a little more freely when I went to the Crown Prince's birthday banquet.
Even though Lady Alentia was already showing a lot of affection for me, I tried to win her favor by making all sorts of random remarks to solidify our relationship.
"Here, tilt your neck back. Hold for about three seconds, then stretch it forward like a turtle and hold for another three seconds... They say this helps with neck wrinkles. Neck wrinkles are where age really shows."
“Really? I guess I’ll have to do this every day.”
In particular, she was very interested in my body and skin, so I just told her all the random information I knew, and she listened to it and did exactly what I said.
And she even instructed her maid to write down every single beauty treatment and exercise routine I told her.
Oh, me.
In some ways, she's a naive and innocent person... but she's secretly hiding her desire to experiment on her niece with the Fountain of the Sun and make her a Duchess.
And I keep having this gut feeling that this won't be the end, but I can't figure out why. It's so frustrating, I'm going crazy.
Time passed like that.
“Then I’ll go now.”
“Oh, that’s too bad.”
As I was leaving the Cardin Mansion, Lady Alentia held my hand and repeatedly made me promise.
“See you at the banquet hall! Since your mother is not here, I will be by your side, hahaha.”
“Haha. Yes.”
“Oh, and I heard that Liana also entered the Agenthoz mansion. Do you happen to know about it, Your Grace?”
'I ask quickly.'
I grumbled inside, but smiled softly on the outside.
"Yes. They're your nieces. I brought Eudela here as my maid because she's secretly quite sassy, but she wanted to look after her older sister, so I brought her here."
“Oh, I see? Um... Yes, I understand.”
Lady Alentia smiled as if nothing had happened.
So now that Liana is useless, there's no need to even bother with her? After all, is the Fountain of the Sun side effect experiment over?
'I feel nauseous.'
“Thank you for the advice today. I’ll go.”
I wrenched her hand free from me, climbed into the carriage, and quickly set off.
I let out a long sigh, feeling drained.
"Ha."
An afternoon where rain still falls lightly.
As the carriage drove on for a while and left the Cardin Townhouse, Carol opened the carriage window, looked around, and asked me.
“How was Lady Alentia and the Cardin Mansion, Princess?”
“Hmm. How was it for you?”
“Well, I didn’t really see anything suspicious on the outside.”
"Yes. I didn't notice anything particularly strange. Except that it was unusual for Lady Alentia to be so close to Empress Giselle..."
I was thinking hard, rubbing my chin, then turned my head and asked calmly while rubbing the back of Pembe, who was sitting next to me.
“Well, yeah, how was it for you, Pembe?”
Pembe hesitated, scratching his head with his forepaw.
"Uh... um... that's it."
But Carol, who couldn't hear Pembe's voice, laughed as if it were funny.
“Haha. Princess? What would that insignificant hamster know? No matter how frustrating it is, it’s still like that... hey.”
Pembe, seeing Carol's openly laughing face, got angry and stamped his short feet.
"What, what? Insignificant?! A mere human! What do you have to say to this great servant, Pembe?!"
"Huh? Princess, look at that hamster baring its teeth! It's so dangerous! I don't think you should keep it!"
I calmed down Carol, who was terrified that Pembe might bite her Princess's beautiful skin at any moment, and gave Pembe a macaron I had brought in advance to calm the situation.
I lowered my voice and asked Pembe, who was swallowing a macaron.
“So, did anything strange happen?”
"Tch... I can't stand it because the macarons are delicious. By the way, that's where you took me because it was a strange place, right?"
"What?"
"It's a total warlock den. I could really feel the dark magic."
Hmm... a warlock? Black magic?
What did you just say?
As I was just blankly staring at Pembe without answering, Pembe gave me a confirmation shot.
"That Lady Alentia, she's also a warlock. I don't know the details, but there were quite a few of them, weren't there?"
“Warlock?!”
I screamed, rubbing my throbbing temples.
No, why not just end it with something like 'Lady Alentia's master plan to sell the Fountain of the Sun to become a Duchess?'
Why do you suddenly sense dark magic in Duke Cardin's mansion? Why is Lady Alentia a dark magician?!
“A warlock?”
Carol, startled by the sudden roar, opened her eyes wide and asked. I quickly waved my hand.
“Oh, no. I was just thinking about something...”
"Yes."
Carol looked at me with a slightly suspicious expression and tilted her head.
I was getting anxious, and my heart was pounding.
The warlock was nearby.
In the original, the warlock was running wild, so even if Yvonne didn't become a warlock, it seems that black magicians existed separately.
As I was shocked and couldn't say anything, Pembe tilted his head.
"I didn't know that ordinary wizards can't sense warlocks."
In the midst of all this, the surprised hamster Pembe was so cute that I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Haha..."
No, does Pembe even have the luxury of looking cute right now? What direction is this going?
Now that I've made a lot of money, I'm trying to cure my magical amnesia and live comfortably, but this time I've found a warlock's den.
'That's also Empress Giselle's maternal family. Then, Empress Giselle is 100% involved. It's too complicated!'
I'm getting a migraine.
It's ruined.
How should I solve this? I leaned against the carriage window and looked out helplessly. Then, when I saw the exterior wall of the Argenthoz townhouse, I stood up.
But as the rain poured down, I saw a figure standing in front of the front door of my house with an umbrella.
"Why is that person standing outside in the rain? Who did he have plans with?"
As the carriage drew closer to him, I opened my eyes wide in surprise and slowly pushed my back away from the backrest.
'Uh...?'
I quickly opened the window, leaned out, and hung on the carriage window frame.
“Rudd?!”
“Princess? It’s raining outside. What are you doing?”
Carol pulled me towards her in horror, but I didn't budge.
Because in front of the main gate of the Argenthoz mansion, Duke Rudnine Iels was standing there holding an umbrella, waiting for someone.
For sure!
Even from this far away, the only man whose halo shines so brightly is that man, Rudnine!
Excited, I shouted at the coachman.
“Stop!”
“Princess!”
As soon as the surprised coachman stopped the carriage, I roughly opened the carriage door and jumped out.
And I ran along the rain-soaked street to him.
The sound of the rain rang in my ears, and the rain was falling so heavily that I couldn't see clearly, so I had to wipe the moisture off my face.
And as I ran, I called him.
“Rudd!”
He must have been so lost in thought that he only slowly turned his head to look at me after I called out to him.
Oh, it's right.
I was sure of it, but seeing it with my own eyes is so reassuring.
And I had a gut feeling that he came here to meet me.
Even though he looks a little gaunt, he still has a great vibe and is still a radiant, handsome, and wonderful person.
“Yvonne.”
Rudnine, surprised by my appearance running through the rain, ran over and quickly put his umbrella over me.
Then he took a handkerchief out of the inside pocket of the jacket he was wearing and wiped my cheek and the area around my eyes, speaking in a hushed voice.
“You got rained on.”
“No... Oh, really? Hehe.”
His affectionate touch made my heart pound.
On the one hand, I was so embarrassed when I realized that I had been so excited to see Rudnine that I had run out of the carriage without even taking an umbrella.
'Oh my god, I think I'm crazy.'
Yes, yes, I was crazy... I was crazy about my first love, and I pretended to be calm while waiting for Rudnine to contact me, but I lost my judgment and went crazy because of my unrequited love...
“That, that’s it. Uh, I don’t have an umbrella...”
My face turned red as I made some ridiculous excuse.
I lowered my head further and glanced up at him again.
Because there was no answer, and only the sound of rain could be heard.
The smell of damp summer grass, the smell of earth, and the uniquely attractive body odor of Rudnine can be felt.
Unable to bear the strangely flowing atmosphere, I eventually called him.
“Rudd!”
"Yes."
He answered briefly, his expression strangely stiff.
Is it because of the rain?
I had no choice but to come to that conclusion because I couldn't understand it at all.
As I stared at him, Rudnine's red lips parted.
“Yvonne. Where have you been?”
“Ah... I had something important to do, so I went out for a bit.”
I was about to ask Rudnine if he had been waiting for me here.
But then his eyes became sharp, and a cold chill formed in his pupils.
"'Work'? Are you here on account of His Highness the Crown Prince? It's raining so hard."
“How did you know? Who told you?”
I was rather taken aback by his question and asked with wide eyes.
Because I had strongly advised them not to tell anyone that I was going to see Lady Alentia.
It would have been a problem if a false rumor had spread and ruined the work.
Only a few people, including Eudela and Liana, know about it...
'What?'
I looked at him again to see who had leaked it out, but his expression was not normal.
“Rudd?”
“Yvonne.”
Rudnine smiled faintly under the umbrella.
“Still, is His Highness the Crown Prince still that good?”
Huh...? Why is the story going like this again!
Again, it was Yvonne's unrequited love for the original male protagonist, Adrian, that was in her heart in the past, and I have no thoughts about it now.
Rather, I hate it.
Why on earth does this person misunderstand so much?
I wanted to answer no right away.
But his black eyes staring at me were so persistent today that I couldn't even open my mouth.
My whole body trembled, feeling like I was being hunted.
As I took a step back without realizing it, my shoulders, which had taken off the umbrella he had placed around them, got soaked with rain.
Then Rudnine quickly wrapped her arms around my waist and pulled me close.
“...You're wet.”
I still didn't know exactly what Rudnine was thinking, but I didn't want to leave even the slightest stain on his noble reputation.
I quickly changed the subject.
"Lady Alentia is very close to Her Majesty the Empress. Frankly, I'm quite surprised."
“Oh, of course. We... are very close.”
She lifted her chin and spoke with a slight smirk.
'Uh?'
I squinted, feeling uncomfortable with her choice of words.
Not intimacy, but close. Something seems off. What reason would there be to be so close to the Empress of the empire?
I wanted to ask outright, "Isn't that a crime related to the 'Fountain of the Sun'?"
You're the culprit, aren't you? How could you, as her aunt, inflict such pain on your niece, Liana? You're a cruel person, wearing a mask of kindness!
I wanted to throw away the cider and say, “I’m going to throw it away.”
If I did that, it would be like pouring vinegar on cooked rice, so I really had to hold back.
The reason I came to see this woman today was to create an excuse to be able to roam the Empress's palace a little more freely when I went to the Crown Prince's birthday banquet.
Even though Lady Alentia was already showing a lot of affection for me, I tried to win her favor by making all sorts of random remarks to solidify our relationship.
"Here, tilt your neck back. Hold for about three seconds, then stretch it forward like a turtle and hold for another three seconds... They say this helps with neck wrinkles. Neck wrinkles are where age really shows."
“Really? I guess I’ll have to do this every day.”
In particular, she was very interested in my body and skin, so I just told her all the random information I knew, and she listened to it and did exactly what I said.
And she even instructed her maid to write down every single beauty treatment and exercise routine I told her.
Oh, me.
In some ways, she's a naive and innocent person... but she's secretly hiding her desire to experiment on her niece with the Fountain of the Sun and make her a Duchess.
And I keep having this gut feeling that this won't be the end, but I can't figure out why. It's so frustrating, I'm going crazy.
Time passed like that.
“Then I’ll go now.”
“Oh, that’s too bad.”
As I was leaving the Cardin Mansion, Lady Alentia held my hand and repeatedly made me promise.
“See you at the banquet hall! Since your mother is not here, I will be by your side, hahaha.”
“Haha. Yes.”
“Oh, and I heard that Liana also entered the Agenthoz mansion. Do you happen to know about it, Your Grace?”
'I ask quickly.'
I grumbled inside, but smiled softly on the outside.
"Yes. They're your nieces. I brought Eudela here as my maid because she's secretly quite sassy, but she wanted to look after her older sister, so I brought her here."
“Oh, I see? Um... Yes, I understand.”
Lady Alentia smiled as if nothing had happened.
So now that Liana is useless, there's no need to even bother with her? After all, is the Fountain of the Sun side effect experiment over?
'I feel nauseous.'
“Thank you for the advice today. I’ll go.”
I wrenched her hand free from me, climbed into the carriage, and quickly set off.
I let out a long sigh, feeling drained.
"Ha."
An afternoon where rain still falls lightly.
As the carriage drove on for a while and left the Cardin Townhouse, Carol opened the carriage window, looked around, and asked me.
“How was Lady Alentia and the Cardin Mansion, Princess?”
“Hmm. How was it for you?”
“Well, I didn’t really see anything suspicious on the outside.”
"Yes. I didn't notice anything particularly strange. Except that it was unusual for Lady Alentia to be so close to Empress Giselle..."
I was thinking hard, rubbing my chin, then turned my head and asked calmly while rubbing the back of Pembe, who was sitting next to me.
“Well, yeah, how was it for you, Pembe?”
Pembe hesitated, scratching his head with his forepaw.
"Uh... um... that's it."
But Carol, who couldn't hear Pembe's voice, laughed as if it were funny.
“Haha. Princess? What would that insignificant hamster know? No matter how frustrating it is, it’s still like that... hey.”
Pembe, seeing Carol's openly laughing face, got angry and stamped his short feet.
"What, what? Insignificant?! A mere human! What do you have to say to this great servant, Pembe?!"
"Huh? Princess, look at that hamster baring its teeth! It's so dangerous! I don't think you should keep it!"
I calmed down Carol, who was terrified that Pembe might bite her Princess's beautiful skin at any moment, and gave Pembe a macaron I had brought in advance to calm the situation.
I lowered my voice and asked Pembe, who was swallowing a macaron.
“So, did anything strange happen?”
"Tch... I can't stand it because the macarons are delicious. By the way, that's where you took me because it was a strange place, right?"
"What?"
"It's a total warlock den. I could really feel the dark magic."
Hmm... a warlock? Black magic?
What did you just say?
As I was just blankly staring at Pembe without answering, Pembe gave me a confirmation shot.
"That Lady Alentia, she's also a warlock. I don't know the details, but there were quite a few of them, weren't there?"
“Warlock?!”
I screamed, rubbing my throbbing temples.
No, why not just end it with something like 'Lady Alentia's master plan to sell the Fountain of the Sun to become a Duchess?'
Why do you suddenly sense dark magic in Duke Cardin's mansion? Why is Lady Alentia a dark magician?!
“A warlock?”
Carol, startled by the sudden roar, opened her eyes wide and asked. I quickly waved my hand.
“Oh, no. I was just thinking about something...”
"Yes."
Carol looked at me with a slightly suspicious expression and tilted her head.
I was getting anxious, and my heart was pounding.
The warlock was nearby.
In the original, the warlock was running wild, so even if Yvonne didn't become a warlock, it seems that black magicians existed separately.
As I was shocked and couldn't say anything, Pembe tilted his head.
"I didn't know that ordinary wizards can't sense warlocks."
In the midst of all this, the surprised hamster Pembe was so cute that I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Haha..."
No, does Pembe even have the luxury of looking cute right now? What direction is this going?
Now that I've made a lot of money, I'm trying to cure my magical amnesia and live comfortably, but this time I've found a warlock's den.
'That's also Empress Giselle's maternal family. Then, Empress Giselle is 100% involved. It's too complicated!'
I'm getting a migraine.
It's ruined.
How should I solve this? I leaned against the carriage window and looked out helplessly. Then, when I saw the exterior wall of the Argenthoz townhouse, I stood up.
But as the rain poured down, I saw a figure standing in front of the front door of my house with an umbrella.
"Why is that person standing outside in the rain? Who did he have plans with?"
As the carriage drew closer to him, I opened my eyes wide in surprise and slowly pushed my back away from the backrest.
'Uh...?'
I quickly opened the window, leaned out, and hung on the carriage window frame.
“Rudd?!”
“Princess? It’s raining outside. What are you doing?”
Carol pulled me towards her in horror, but I didn't budge.
Because in front of the main gate of the Argenthoz mansion, Duke Rudnine Iels was standing there holding an umbrella, waiting for someone.
For sure!
Even from this far away, the only man whose halo shines so brightly is that man, Rudnine!
Excited, I shouted at the coachman.
“Stop!”
“Princess!”
As soon as the surprised coachman stopped the carriage, I roughly opened the carriage door and jumped out.
And I ran along the rain-soaked street to him.
The sound of the rain rang in my ears, and the rain was falling so heavily that I couldn't see clearly, so I had to wipe the moisture off my face.
And as I ran, I called him.
“Rudd!”
He must have been so lost in thought that he only slowly turned his head to look at me after I called out to him.
Oh, it's right.
I was sure of it, but seeing it with my own eyes is so reassuring.
And I had a gut feeling that he came here to meet me.
Even though he looks a little gaunt, he still has a great vibe and is still a radiant, handsome, and wonderful person.
“Yvonne.”
Rudnine, surprised by my appearance running through the rain, ran over and quickly put his umbrella over me.
Then he took a handkerchief out of the inside pocket of the jacket he was wearing and wiped my cheek and the area around my eyes, speaking in a hushed voice.
“You got rained on.”
“No... Oh, really? Hehe.”
His affectionate touch made my heart pound.
On the one hand, I was so embarrassed when I realized that I had been so excited to see Rudnine that I had run out of the carriage without even taking an umbrella.
'Oh my god, I think I'm crazy.'
Yes, yes, I was crazy... I was crazy about my first love, and I pretended to be calm while waiting for Rudnine to contact me, but I lost my judgment and went crazy because of my unrequited love...
“That, that’s it. Uh, I don’t have an umbrella...”
My face turned red as I made some ridiculous excuse.
I lowered my head further and glanced up at him again.
Because there was no answer, and only the sound of rain could be heard.
The smell of damp summer grass, the smell of earth, and the uniquely attractive body odor of Rudnine can be felt.
Unable to bear the strangely flowing atmosphere, I eventually called him.
“Rudd!”
"Yes."
He answered briefly, his expression strangely stiff.
Is it because of the rain?
I had no choice but to come to that conclusion because I couldn't understand it at all.
As I stared at him, Rudnine's red lips parted.
“Yvonne. Where have you been?”
“Ah... I had something important to do, so I went out for a bit.”
I was about to ask Rudnine if he had been waiting for me here.
But then his eyes became sharp, and a cold chill formed in his pupils.
"'Work'? Are you here on account of His Highness the Crown Prince? It's raining so hard."
“How did you know? Who told you?”
I was rather taken aback by his question and asked with wide eyes.
Because I had strongly advised them not to tell anyone that I was going to see Lady Alentia.
It would have been a problem if a false rumor had spread and ruined the work.
Only a few people, including Eudela and Liana, know about it...
'What?'
I looked at him again to see who had leaked it out, but his expression was not normal.
“Rudd?”
“Yvonne.”
Rudnine smiled faintly under the umbrella.
“Still, is His Highness the Crown Prince still that good?”
Huh...? Why is the story going like this again!
Again, it was Yvonne's unrequited love for the original male protagonist, Adrian, that was in her heart in the past, and I have no thoughts about it now.
Rather, I hate it.
Why on earth does this person misunderstand so much?
I wanted to answer no right away.
But his black eyes staring at me were so persistent today that I couldn't even open my mouth.
My whole body trembled, feeling like I was being hunted.
As I took a step back without realizing it, my shoulders, which had taken off the umbrella he had placed around them, got soaked with rain.
Then Rudnine quickly wrapped her arms around my waist and pulled me close.
“...You're wet.”
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