Chapter 21 (1/2)

The day after the conversation with Mother and Father we headed towards the royal palace.

Father seemed fired up saying ‘Today for sure’.

Mother had been firing herself up with fighting spirit since the early morning.

Mother mine .. that was just your daily practise routine, wasn’t it? It wasn’t specifically for today, was it?

We swiftly arrived at the palace.

Father had contacted the King yesterday it seemed, so we were immediately granted an audience.

Nh?

Why, I wonder.

I could feel one extremely strong stare on me.

As I was inadvertently making sure of what the origin of that gaze was ..

Nyo!

I-I almost let out a strange voice.

Not having let out that voice, well done Me!

The gaze was .. that is, probably, Leon-sama.

I’m sure the person himself has every intention to be hiding.

He’s pretty far from here, but my eyes are good.

He’s peeking over here from a room on the second floor while trying to hide his figure.

But he was a lot more emaciated than when he declared his breaking off our engagement just the other day.

This place is quite a bit apart so I can’t be confident about it, but he looks sort of happy seeing me.

Why would he be happy about seeing someone he broke off an engagement with?

As usual, I didn’t really understand him.

For now let’s pretent not to have seen anything.

He was trying to hide so he himself probably didn’t want to be noticed, either.

Ignoring the matter I entered the inner parts of the palace.

Father, Mother and me directly made our way to the room the King and Queen were at.

“Ririina! Is it true that you have been attacked on your way back to your territory? Are you alright? Were you injured anywhere?”

The moment we entered the room Rachel-sama  walked over to me and inquired with a worrying face.

“Rachel-sama, thank you very much for worrying about me. I haven’t received any injuries anywhere. We also captured all the enemies so there was no problem.”

I thus answered in order to remove her worries.

Thereupon, as if she now had the piece of mind to do so, she looked around and noticed my Mother.

“Maa, it’s been a while, Liesa. You look well, I’m glad. I really do apologize for the trouble our idiot has caused you this time around.”

“Rachel-sama, it has been a while. So far, well, things have been manageable in a way, but as for this time’s cancellation of the engagement, that really won’t do at all.”

“You haven’t changed at all, have you, Liesa. Also, it’s only us here so please just call me Rachel like you used to. Having sama added by you makes me feel embara.s.sed.”

It appears that Mother and Rachel-sama have known each other ever since the past.

Well, I only just learned of that though.

Listening to their conversation it seems they had been close with each other.