Karina shouted and called Melissa in embarrassment.
Melissa repeatedly asked in a confident tone.
“Do you have it or not?”
“There is.”
“…Really?”
“Yeah.”
Claude bent her knees to meet Melissa’s eye level.
“She’s the princess of the South. She’ll be happy to see you.”
“……..”
Karina’s eyes got bigger.
‘You have a daughter.’
Claude was not lying to persuade Melissa.
The duke and his family were not ordinary nobles, but immediate family of monarchs.
Naturally, the Duke’s daughter will be called a princess.
Melissa grumbled as the situation did not go as expected.
Claude asked a question in a soft voice.
“Is there anything else you want, Melissa?”
“… I’ll go.”
“You’re a good kid.”
Claude lightly patted Melissa’s shoulder and stood up.
“If it’s okay with you Madam, I’ll ask the Landlord to get the carriage right away.”
“I have to pack my things.”
“I will send someone to do that. You’re still in pain. Excessive movement is not good.”
Karina opened her eyes in a circle.
‘How did you know?’
Although there was still some pain, she could endure it without blinking.
She thought she wasn’t making it obvious at all, but he noticed it.
“Mom, are you sick?”
“It’s nothing. I tripped over a stone on my way here.”
“Mom is big, so it will hurt more if you fall down. Are you okay?”
Roland spoke with a worried face.
Karina smiled and stroked Roland’s head.
“Let’s go. I don’t think there’s much time to delay.”
Claude gave the innkeeper gold coins and ordered him to call a carriage for four people.
The innkeeper shook his hands, put the gold coins into his pocket, and hurriedly left to call the carriage.
In a little bit.
The carriage arrived in front of the inn.
“…….oh.”
Karina blinked her eyes.
The carriage was the most luxurious carriage Karina has ever seen, with a shiny gold coat all over it and a silk curtain attached.
Claude’s absurd voice came out.
“It’s a little too much.”
It was all the more luxurious inside. Karina first learned that there was a carriage with a table inside.
On the table, snacks piled up with a wrapper that was too good to be torn off. Claude picked up one.
The words came out of Karina’s mouth earlier than expected.
“Sir, I think it would be better not to eat it.”
“Why?”
“There’s dust.”
Karina slightly swept the remaining snacks with her hands.
Dust that is seemingly invisible but cannot be hidden is on the hand.
“Originally, there must have been quite a lot of dust. But when we said we were going to ride it, I think they just shook it off.”
This carriage was really unsuitable for the cheap inn street where Karina stayed.
Perhaps it was made in case a wealthy merchant who stays on this street looks for a carriage.
Since it has never been used, the snacks must have remained untouched for a long time.
“You have good eyes.”
“In the past, I worked as a maid before I got married. We need to find out about this kind of thing right away.”
Karina was a little surprised at herself, talking about the past to the Duke without hesitation.
‘I need to watch my mouth.’
Karina closed her mouth.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, Melissa whined all the way to the duke’s residence, so there was nothing more to talk to Claude than necessary to soothe the child.
How long has it been?
Roland pointed at the window and shouted.
“Mom, it’s a castle!”
As Karina approached the window out of curiosity, she soon realized how much she was under illusion.
Subconsciously, I thought that the duke’s residence was only a few times larger than the house of a general nobleman such as Sir Renke, but the sight in front of her was.…….
“It’s a palace.”
Melissa looked strange as she clung into the window.
The carriage arrived at a space that seems only to be used as a stop for the carriage.
Claude was the first to get off, followed by the children, and finally Karina.
“Mom……”
As soon as Karina stepped on the support of her high foot and carefully got off, Roland’s powerless voice came out.