Chapter 7 (1/2)

While heading to the end at Crow’s side, a pleasant scent tickled Fii’s nose.

It was definitely a food stall.

And Fii suddenly recalled that she was hungry.

(Auu, I’m sooo hungryy…)

But it wouldn’t do to buy food now.

She had money, but it wasn’t the currency being used in this nation.

They were made from precious metals so if you weighed them, you could easily convert the value.

But a boy going shopping with money from another nation would draw eyes whether he wanted to or not.

(Bear with it… Bear with it…)

Fii desperately ignored the food cart as she made her way past it.

“What’s up?”

“Nothing at all.”

She couldn’t rouse Crow’s suspicion any further.

She tried glossing over it.

Crow stared hard at her for a while.

“Wait here for a bit.”

“Crow-san?”

He suddenly went off somewhere.

When Crow returned, in his hand were two skewers of grilled chicken.

He handed one to Fii.

“Here. Eat up.”

“Eh, but…”

“You’re hungry, right? Don’t worry about it and eat. With your body like that, you’re not gunna pa.s.s the exam, yanno.”

A pleasant scent was drifting from the skewer in her hand.

Fii looked up at Crow entreatingly, and he responded with a nod, so she opened her mouth and took a bit.

The taste of the first meat in weeks spread through her mouth.

(It’s yummy! It’s so yummyy…!)

She couldn’t stop at one bite.

Forgetting any manners as a princess, she frantically gulped down the chicken.

“Haha, don’t rush. You’ll choke, yanno. C’mon, it’s nothing to cry about, right?”

Crow’s words made her notice the tears dripping from her face as she ate the chicken.

Since coming to his country, the people here had all ignored her. n.o.body would give her the time of day, and she spent weeks locked up in the villa, given nothing but loneliness…

Crow was the first one to give her kindness since she had come here.

While eating the warm chicken, something even warmer filled her heart.