Chapter 20 (1/2)

“I’m sorry, but my sister is a bit shy and seems to be difficult to become a his highness companion by the day.”

After Dice’s bomb declaration, the inside of the banquet hall became as loud as a beehive. The crown prince asked another person to his palace with his own words.

It was the first time he invited me.

I also looked at him with a big smile and faced a smile, but when someone made a remark to pour cold water on it, it was Eugene.

A bit shy and hard going in day? Who, me? No, by the way, are you allowed to hit the crown prince words with such a knife?

It was so unprecedented for a birthday present that I initially wanted to say something with Eugene in advance, but his reaction didn’t seem to be that way.

“You’re have something scheduled in the day?

‘I does not…’

“I don’t see it, so she usually has it.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes.”

Dice shrank at Eugene’s words, which seemed to have cut dozens of sweet pumpkins.

“Then what if I visit Ernst to meet the lady?”

Dice made a concession. There wasn’t any offended tee on his face that was still seared.

It seemed obvious that he was friendly to our family, including Eugene. But again, Eugene’s face was cold.

I opened my mouth before he refused the crown prince’s invitation again, but this time Cabel hit the player.

“Unfortunately, my sister is so popular that there are people lined up to ask her to show them her face. So if you want to meet my sister at least, you have to wait at least one year from today… memory!”

Ugh, this guy is going to have a big problem while he’s neglected to crack down the crown prince!

I smiled again as I stepped on Cabel’s foot again. I think it’s time to organize things quickly!

“Thank you for your consideration like this, his highness. Then see you again, I’ll be waiting for you.”

Eugene said that I only needed to do what I wanted to do, but no matter how many times I refused the request of the crown prince at this position, I didn’t think it would look good.

Eugene’s gaze turned to me in my answer.

It was an eye light with words he wanted to say, but this time he was silent as he would respect my answer then.

“Then I’ll go to see Ernst later.”

“It’s fantastic.”

Dice turned to me again with an exciting eye, and soon left.

Perhaps it was because of the Dice’s bomb declaration that there were so many people around it that I was feeling insane throughout the banquet.

“I’m going to stop by Velontia.”

After the banquet, Eugene left the room, escorting Rosabella.

“Hari, then see you later. Go in today, rest, and have a happy birthday in advance.”

Johannes and Louise left us with greetings and then went back to Vastia. After that, I went on a carriage with Cabel and Erich.

“Why did you say you’d like to meet him?Just give it up and say you don’t like it!”

Scaredly, Carbel burst into a disgruntled voice. Still, as I told you, I was glad that there was no more fuss in the banquet hall.

“You must call me when he’s there! Okay?”

“You only come home on the weekends.”

“I didn’t have to take class for a day!”

“She can’t help it, send me a letter when the date is set. Because I’m going to watch in the special time.”

“Can’t help it you say, mr too, me too! Send me a letter by all means! My penalty, I don’t care!”

“Are you really wanting to be invited?” Have some sense of crisis.”

Oh, tired. I leaned deep into the back of the seat in the wagon. There seemed to be too much going on today.

It’s amazing just to have a banquet at Kazenta Hall, even to be asked to be his talking companion to the crown prince.

I remembered the boy’s eyes that were sparkling with interest.

I never even imagined that it would happen to me to talk alone with the royal family.

So, what happened at the banquet hall felt unrealistic.

Then, suddenly, I recalled the words that just passed through my ears.

“Wait, but brother Cabel. How long has it been since the semester has already started?”

“Uh, uh, no…… No, not exactly! Erich is mistaken!”

“Do you know what going to be wrong? Can I tell you how great the penalty for my older brother accumulated from the day of the entrance ceremony is now?”

After that, the way back to the house became a place to pursue the second brother to come back to academy.

A few days later I was in the piano room.

This place, which has been completely remodeled as a playroom when I was a child, was almost good for myself.

That’s it. The clear piano sound swims freely in the afternoon sunlight.

The piano that Eugene gave was shining more brightly under the sunlight. Well, my piano. So pretty.

The sound is also clear and clean, so how does it really fit my taste? I was so impressed that I hit the keyboard.

The song I’m playing right now was cat waltz.

Do you ever want to laugh at me that I’m playing cat waltz at best with this great piano right now?

Hung, but it doesn’t matter. I’m the only one here. Play hard. That’s it!

After hitting the cat waltz as much as I could, I took a long breath and lowered my bones. Oh, it’s hard.

Suddenly today, I wants to hit the piano, so I played too hard.

“Hugh.”

I sat still for a while and then fell on the keyboard. The shuffled notes came out of the keys pressed on my arm. I breathed shallowly in that state and blinked slowly.

Suddenly, a small step come in the hallway. The sound rang in a quiet space. Great.

“Hari.”

In a small voice leaking out of the door, I straightened my upper body that was leaning on the keyboard.

“Come in.”

Looking out the window, the sun was fading.

The door opened and Eugene stepped in. Whether it was just a strange things, he was wearing a light shirt.

“You came early today.”

“It’s your birthday.”

I smiled a little because I felt happy at that. Eugene looked down at me and approached me a little closer and held out something he was holding.

“What?”

“A letter from the Imperial Palace.”

Oh, was it sent by the Dice? It was a few days before he told me that he would visit Ernst, and it was fast.

I couldn’t take it. Eugene hold the letter, It was because he gave strength to his hands.

When I looked up at Eugene, he opened his mouth again.

“I’ve said it before, but if you don’t like it, you don’t have to accept it. No one can force you.”

The crown prince said it in front of the people, but he refused him with a single knife on the spot.

Somehow with a little smiled, I answered with a little frown.

“Well, I don’t hate it. I’m just afraid that I might make a mistake.”

Good god, but I’m a normal human, so my confidence wasn’t that big…

Honestly, even if I really hated it, I wouldn’t be able to refused it on the spot. At last, Eugene’s hand was slowly let go. I just received a letter from Dice from his hand.

“If that’s the case, even if you make a mistake, don’t feel burdened because no one will say anything”

If you think about the atmosphere of the banquet hall yesterday, I definitely made a big mistake.

Even if I committed it, no one seemed to be able to catch it easily.

Suddenly, I remembered how cold Eugene treated a maid who poured hot water on my hands a month ago.

And I now knew that Eugene had fired her that very day. But hems telling me it doesn’t matter what mistakes I make.

“Yeah, I will.”

Am I a bad person when I’m really happy with his word?

However, in fact, it seems to have been the same as before.

To others, it was good for someone who became infinitely cold and indifferent to look at me with eyes full of warmth and not showinf the cold in front of me.

“It’s not an empty talk.”

“I know.”

“You know, you can rely on me a little more.”

It wasn’t a feeling of superiority close to vanity. Just in his solid wall that no one else easily breaks through, I think our bond was good.

“Yeah, I’ll allow you to stroke my head for that.”

I looked up at Eugene and laughed playfully. Eugene shook his eyebrows at my words close to the document answer.

Because it is you, I stared at him like a special permission.

Immediately after a sigh of laughter tickled my ear somewhere, the warmth sat down over my head.

“Please tell me what his highness Dice is like.”

I said, feeling his touch of my head. Then hus voice was followed.

“Age is one year older than you, and as the people says, he is a suitable character for the next emperor, but he is not yet fully grown.”

There was a perception that he was not suitable as an emperor to lead artlanta.

So after the death of the deceased current emperor, crown prince instead of the Prince immediately returned to the throne.

There were many who expected him to climb.

“There are quite a few corners like that, so sometimes it’s hard to predict what he will be. Like this time.”

I recalled his succession ceremony, which remained splendid in memory.

“But still, the favor for Ernst is sincere, so maybe it wasn’t because there were other people trying to meet you that he wanted to make friends,” he said.

It was definitely a good thing that he had such a big favor with us. Of course, it was still painful for the former Ernst couple to die that way….

“He thinks he owe us, so he won’t be too careless. You just think you’re dealing with it in moderation.”

Eugene said that and gently smacked my head as if he had no worries.

After a bit of anxiety, my worries was pushed by his voice and distracted in the air.

I wish I could be a strenght for this person too. I secretly thought so and laughed at him as if not to worry.

Today, the name that most heated Arlanta’s was Hari Ernst. Who she is?

The sister of the current Duke of Ernst, but who did not know that she, who was a girl who sold flowers on the street, became Ernst’s stepdaughter and raised her status.

There was no one in Arlanta who did not know that.

Since it was the Ernst, a second-ranked noble after the imperial family, who had the power to be, the system at that time was forced to become more easy.

For a while, a rumored rumor circulated about Hari Ernst.

Maybe because she is, too, the child in the back alley, who doesn’t even know her native, became a noble in the morning.

Ernst’s favor made it easy for the first two years, but the former Duke of Ernst, who had her as a stepfather, loved and had a good care for her.

The testimony of Mrs. Lenoard, the former Duke Ernst sister, and Miss Hari Ernst’s orthodox teacher, The Madame, spread in secret.

Hari Ernst is from a common origin, sand she doesn’t even know the ‘key’ of courtesy, and she doesn’t know what is like to be a noble from the time she was born.

After a while, the rumors was completely erased from, as it sat down quietly.

In addition, the details are unknown, but The Madame, a former tutor of Hari Ernst, is a big shame according to Mrs. Vastia.

Rumors have circulated that she has been beaten. She did something terrible that she shouldn’t do as a tutor.

Shortly afterwards, The Madame was rumored to be true as the rumors, so people chatted about her behavior.

The story from the mouth of Mrs. Flora, who later became Hari Ernst’s new orthodox teacher, was completely different.

When she teaches Hari Ernst, she awakens her, and is also surprisingly versatile, as she has already learned the lady’s qualities, including tea ceremony, musical instruments, embroidery, and etiquette.

Not only was she fully acquainted, she was also proud of her outstanding skills in other studies.

Nevertheless, it is natural that people’s curiosity grows by day, because she is always humble without showing off herself, and everyone is curious to her personality.

But when everybody sees her at once, they have no choice but to be taken away.

The public’s curiosity grew even more when Hari Ernst wasn’t go out outside while staying in Vastia.

But the words from the mouths of Vastia’s servants her escorts always full of compliments.

Sometimes people’s perceptions were shifting toward.

‘Is Hari Ernst actually a decent lady’?

Soon, her name spread from the Academy

school.

Hari Ernst and Louise Vastia visited the school where their brothers were attending.

After that, it was not a secret that Cabel Ernst had earned enough points by the academy because he go around trying to kill boys who fell for his sister.

Soon Hari Ernst became famous for another nickname within the Academy. The Mad Dog Trainer!

Everyone was amazed by the fact that Cabel Ernst, who stirs up a dog, dies in the words of my sister. Even professors with dirty temper heads were scared of him.

In fact, he was supposed to belong to the 2nd Knights of the Imperial Family upon graduation.

Although unlucky, Frankly, Cabel’s skills excelled in Arlanta, but he was also a deadly problem with his dog-like head and bottom hitting enough to suffer a paid crisis.

Then he sat quietly with one of his sister’s words and studied, and began to reduce the amount of squeezing students.

The fact that it was all that was surprising (of course, he didn’t quit completely, but moved from fighting openly to fighting secretly, but that alone was astounding for students).

What about the tone of the softness that didn’t suit him? Of course, it was the ‘smooth tone’ of Cabel Ernst standards, but in the old days….