Chapter 2-20 (2/2)

“Umm Princess Irina, I believe it would be alright if you didn’t worry so much. My sister is just this kind of person.”

Lasa squeezed out his opinion, you traitor! How could you?!

“What are you saying?! Aren’t you Maria-sama’s brother?! Are you not ashamed of embarrassing her so?!”

Princess Irina told Lasa off with an angry voice.

Lasa then started to scratch his head while making a troubled face.

I’m sorry Lasa.

I know you don’t deserve Princess Irina’s wrath.

“I’ve brought a doctor over!”

Somebody called out while bringing a doctor with them, who ran ahead and rushed over here.

The doctor immediately went to work, checking his abdomen and neck.

I don’t really know what he’s doing.

Well I don’t really care, since he won’t be able to find the cause.

If the doctor can’t find the cause, Lasa will be told that he should go get some more rest back at his room.

Then after I leave with him because I’m ‘worried’, the two of us will escape from his room and take a quick trip over to the Helan territory!

Before that, I’ll make sure to inform grandfather that I’m going to stay in Lasa’s room to watch over his physical condition and that this will probably last until the other princesses go home!

Its perfect!

“Hmm, I can’t figure out what’s wrong. For the time being, he should probably go and get some rest in his room, but if you’re really worried, I can do a more detailed examination, would you like that Maria-sama?”

A perfect diagnosis. I should go and ask father to raise your salary later.

“Yeah, the pain has subsided a little, but for now, I think I’m going to rest in my room.”

“I’ll go watch over you, to make sure you’re alright.”

Mission complete. Now we just need to jump out of your room’s window, and then we can spend the rest of our summer in the Helan territory’s resort!!

Lasa, who seems to have given himself up, sighed.

Now that we’ve gotten this far, that attitude of yours is no good. As I thought about such things, I sent a glare over to Lasa.

“Please wait one moment!!”

Princess Irina suddenly stopped us while raising her voice. What now?

“Let me go watch over him too, I’m a bit worried myself.”

Ugh, what a busybody.

“No, we wouldn’t want to disturb you. Everyone, please continue to enjoy the tea party even after we depart.”

“I can’t allow that. There’s no way I can leave a person whose condition has worsened in my immediate vicinity alone. It’ll only leave me more worried, I can’t leave you to do this by yourself Maria-sama.”

“…yeah.”

* * *

After taking over the conversation, the three of us headed over to Lasa’s room.

Together with us in his room, Lasa lied down on the bed.

Irina, who was here to nurse him pulled a chair over and sat down.

Be brave Lasa. Be friendly, but what am I supposed to do in this situation?!

This whole situation is so boring! I was supposed to be leaving by now!

“In truth, I noticed Maria-sama’s intentions quite a while ago.”

Hmm? Princess Irina suddenly started speaking with a meek look on her face.

“He’s acting, right? He’s not really hurt, is he?”

Eh?! My expression had probably hardened in response to her unexpected words.

“No…he really is sick, Ohohohohoho~”

“I’m not going to blame you or anything, I figured out what you had been trying to do from the very beginning.”

“What? Really?”

“Really, you did all that because you were bored, right? You looked like you wanted to go somewhere.”

“Then, why did you do that back then?”

“‘Because a lot of problems would pop up if I said my true feelings at that moment’, right? I’m sure that you felt the same way when you started that whole commotion.”

“Irina-sama…”

“Maria-sama…”

“You want to leave too?”

“Where though?”

“There’s actually this place famous for its hot springs called the Helan territory. They just opened their new summer resort, and I think it would be a lot of fun there.”

“That sounds nice, I want to go too, but do you have a way out of here?”

“We can leave from the window of course, all you need to get down from there is a rope.”

“Hehehe, this is somewhat exciting, isn’t it?”

The two of us laughed for a little while.

I wonder how long it’s been since I’ve felt this way?

This is fun.

Actually, this might be the first time I’ve met somebody who has understood me so well for the first time in my life.

That’s the feeling I’m getting right now.

“Umm… then can we just leave already then? I was actually supposed to depart quite a while ago.” Lasa suddenly said, breaking the mood.