“Now, let’s dispose of this before father and brother come.”
I said that and called the other servants to clean up the mess and to lay a new carpet.
“Look, it’s all tidied up, now.”
I said that and took a seat while ignoring my frustrated mother. My mother looked ready to complain, but she didn’t say anything in the end.
Afterwards, my father, Bran, and my brother, Sagius, came to the table. They didn’t seem to notice that the carpet was different.
It was apparent that my mother was still dissatisfied with the situation. I wanted to laugh at her.
Anyway, those two hadn’t seen a thing.
While thinking so, I muttered that I enjoyed the decent soup I had drank for the first time in a few months. Then, my father asked me.
“How’s His Highness.”
“…Don’t know.”
While I answered so, my surprised father asked once again.
“What do you mean?”
“His Highness may suddenly fall for someone else.”
“That won’t be the case. He is the member of the royal family. To them, romance has nothing to do with marriage.”
In my heart, I laughed at my father’s words.
In no time at all, His Highness would fall for Baroness Mia Abazn.
I recalled His Highness steadily devoting himself to Baroness Abazn.
To me, he gave excuses such as—“—I’m merely educating Baroness Abazn. She doesn’t know anything.”
Of course, at first, he only had good intention and probably felt nothing towards her.
Afterwards, as the saying went—‘—the road to hell is paved with good intentions.’
Before I knew it, His Highness fell head over heels for Baroness Abazn.
At that moment, rather than, ‘romance had nothing to do with anything’, to His Highness, it was him being a member of a royal family that had nothing to do with anything.
Therefore, I could say with certainty—
“—It doesn’t matter whether or not he’s a member of the royal family.”
When I said that, I wiped my mouth, said that I was finished, and left my seat.
My dad stared at me with a complicated expression. He didn’t say anything more, perhaps afraid that it’d affect my princess education.
***
“Haa, I’m tired…”
When I returned to my room, I felt tired and collapsed onto my bed.
I thought I’d fell asleep as I was. But, I felt strange. As such, I called a maid.
Then, Luria came and bowed to me.
“Thank you, Milady! How can I repay the favor?”
“You don’t have to worry about it. Well, if you care about it, please assist me in the bath.”
“W, wow, are you sure? Isn’t Grace the one who usually assists you?”
“I’ll explain to Grace later. I asked you because I want to retire early. Grace isn’t my exclusive maid, so there is no need to call her all the time.”
“Okay, I’ll get it ready soon.”
Luria said that and set about preparing the bath.
Seeing Luria, a good idea sprang in my head. I narrowed my eyes.
If possible, I didn’t want to see Grace ever again…
…I thought such, and after the bath was over, Luria nodded happily as I made her my exclusive maid.