I was in a flower garden, surrounded by buildings made of stone bricks.
Probably a place that looks like the courtyard of some castle.
Such a beautiful flower garden, the girl who stands alone in the center of it lonely and lonely.
I slowly walk up to the girl.
Yes, I’ve been here before.
As I recall, I was an attendant at a previous meeting of the royal family by the surrounding countries.
Was it because we were the same age that I was brought in to play with the girl?
Eventually, the girl noticed me and ran up to me with a dazzling smile that made even the sun look inferior, swaying her lapis lazuli-colored hair tied in a side-tail.
“Rag!”
The girl calls me Rag.
Uh, that’s right. Did I tell her before that she should call me that?
Because all my close friends call it that way.
“Look. I’ve made friends with a new spirit again. ……”
Then she turns her left palm up and closes her eyes quickly.
Soon after, a lovely spirit clad in blue light popped out of her hand with a peacock.
“Nymph-chan, spirit of water.”.
She looks very happy to show me that spirit.
That hollow-eyed spirit was looking up at me very strangely.
She had shown me a spirit before, but I believe it was a wind spirit at the time.
I had never seen a spirit before, so I was very surprised.
“My goodness, Aerilusia-sama!”
I couldn’t help but yell that out loud.
Perhaps startled by this, the spirit named Nymph let out a cute little squeak and disappeared in her hands.
“Oh.”
I thought she’d lost it, but it was already too late.
I looked at her face fearfully, and she turned away with a mushy expression, her cheeks puffed out.
“Aerilusia-sama?”
I asked her again to check on her,s but he didn’t seem to be looking at me.
I regret that I did it.
“I told you to call me …….”
As I was thinking about what to do, she muttered something in a fading voice.
I told you to call me ……? Ah!
I remember when we met before, we decided to call each other by our first names.
Apparently, she wasn’t angry for me to surprise the spirit, but at me for not keeping that promise.
“No need a honorific for that…. And …… we’re friends, so ……”
And she says so shyly with a blush on her cheeks.
“No, I can’t do that.”
I hurried to shoot her down.
She is a princess of a country.
Even though I’m also a Marquess of Zweig, she’s royalty.
Even if I’m told to talk to such a person in an intimate manner, such a thing is not …… possible.