I have been out and about in the city of Ananaro several times with Master Ninaev's permission. I had never done this kind of tour of the city before I came here.
In the village where I was born and raised, the world was limited. The village was small and had few people. After I was taken in by the High Priestess, I was surrounded by the people who took good care of me, and I never went outside. Because I had never seen the town properly, it was kind of fun to go out into it.
It's a matter of course ......, but I had never thought about it until the country was in turmoil and I was in danger. I had no idea that people were struggling to survive like this. I didn't understand it at all. I really thought that I was special and the others were just there to entertain me. So I did as I pleased, not caring about anyone at all. When I see people living single-mindedly on the streets like this, I think what a fool I was.
--I didn't care about my sister, Lelunda, either.
I never cared about ...... her at all. I didn't even know she was my sister. I didn't even care about her, even though she was in the same house with me, I thought she was just there to do my bidding. I didn't even look around me. When I went out on the street, I realized that I needed to look around me more.
I didn't look around me at all, and now I want to look around me. Because if I had looked properly, I would have known about the gardener who was trying to kidnap me. If I had looked properly, I would have known who was thinking what kind of thing.
I think I have grown more than I was ...... before in being able to think like that. I hope I can grow even a little.
Hello, Alice!
Hello!
When I go down to the town as just Alice, she smiles at me smilingly. I didn't know that I would be so happy to be treated like this as a mere eleven-year-old girl. I had always been singled out. --I am enjoying my life here, and I am gradually becoming able to be kind to people, something I would not have been able to do in the past. They say thank you when I help them.
From now on, I want to do many things for which people say thank you. I have been living freely and causing trouble for others.
Recently, Ninaev-sama has been looking distressed.
At first I thought it might be because I was bothering him by saying that I wanted to go out on the town like this. But apparently not.
Although I have never met him, Ninaev has a fiancée. He is a prince from the neighboring kingdom of Migga. There are many slaves in the Migga Kingdom, and it is said that there is a rebellion by them. The prince sent a messenger to Nynaev and told him that Nynaev has been troubled since then. ...... Hondetta, Ninaev's maid of honor, told me this.
I asked, "Master Ninaev, what's wrong?" She said, "Alice-sama looks after Nina well, doesn't she?" and that was all she told me.
As I moved through the streets of Ananaro, I wondered what I could do for Master Ninaev.
I owe Ninaev a great debt of gratitude. Thanks to Nyunayev, I am able to live a carefree life like this. I am here now because Master Nynaev helped me.
That is why I want to be of help to Master Nynaev more than anything else. I wonder what I can do for him at ....... What can I do to make Nynaev smile?
I asked the knights who had come down to the city with me what I could do to make Master Nynaev happy, and they said, "Why don't you give him a present? Would he be pleased just because I gave him something? I thought so. But I knew that receiving a present would make them happy and that there was nothing else I could do, so I chose to give them a present.
Would I be able to choose something that would please Ninaev, in her position as a princess? I was worried about that, but I found a hair ornament that would look good on Nynaev and bought it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to afford it. ......The money was also from Nyinayev's allowance. I want to be able to earn money by myself. When I grow up, I wonder if I will be able to help Ninaev more and give something back to someone.
I had just turned eleven, but I wanted to be an adult as soon as possible.
I went back to the house and gave Nynaev a gift, and he smiled kindly at me and said, "Thank you, Alice.
I couldn't do anything to solve his problems, but I tried to make him smile as much as possible.
--But in reality, things did not go so well.
Ninaev-sama received a report that her fiancé had gone missing, along with a large-scale slave uprising in the Migga Kingdom.
-sister, worried about the princess.
(The sister of a godchild girl can't help worrying about the princess. But reality is cruel.)