Chapter 47 (1/2)

Translator: Jawbrie

Surfania Calibrachoa was confused.

Her friend had come. That was fine. That was normal. Unscheduled visits and visits without warning were the norms for her.

But her friend seemed very strange.

Usually, she would enter the room and confiscate Surfania’s book before challenging her to a board game. But today, Christina had entered her bedroom and covered her face in Surfania’s bed and groaned with ‘Ahh!’ and ‘Ugh!’ and did little else.

It was nice not having her reading disturbed for once, but she could not help but be curious as to what had happened.

However, she ultimately did nothing and finished reading her book. Chris did not seem like she would be challenging her to a game today. She was just flailing her limbs around on the bed.

As she had little choice, Surfania finally took a closer look at Christina.

“Chris. Why did you even come here today? Isn’t this the day that Prince Charles is supposed to visit the Noir mansion? Should you really be here?”

“It’s fine. I’m too embarrassed to meet Charles, I can’t…”

What was this girl talking about?

Even a shut-in like Surfania knew that it was clearly not just an issue of being too embarrassed to meet someone in the royal family.

She looked hard at Christina who was now occupying her bed, with her face buried in the sheets. As she could only see her back, there was no information for her to read. Her back didn’t really tell her anything, the only thing she could tell was that Christina’s neck had become quite red.

“Oh, why did I do such a thing yesterday… How embarrassing… I won’t be able to look at him again…I want to die…”

Christina groaned and mumbled something incomprehensible. Surfania sighed, tired of it all. She would just ignore her for now and read another book, she decided as she turned on her heels.

But right then, she thought of something.

The book she had just read. It was a romance novel about a knight and princess who fall in love in spite of their stations. She felt as though there was a situation in the book that resembled Chris’ bizarre behavior right now.

She tried to recall what scene it was. It was a conversation between the princess and her maid confidante.

“Princess. If I may be so bold, why have you decided to relegate imperial guard Allen to the frontiers? It was only just recently that you caused such a stir after realizing that you loved him.”

“Because…because, I am so embarrassed!”

“…What?”

“He, he is protecting me as a close guard, you know? Then I must face him every day… I am so bashful that I cannot bear it!”

“But how can you send him away just for that!? You may never see him again!?”

“…Ah.”

“Ah. So you didn’t think things through and just acted based on your emotions, princess! I understand! I shall prepare for the order to be revoked immediately!”

It was a little different in scale, but the situation was much the same.

Surfania had drawn a comparison with this princess and Chris, and she now muttered the name of this illness that Chris suffered from.

“…Lovesickness?”

Chris pulled her face away from the sheets and jumped to her feet.

“Wh wawawwawawawa.”

Surfania was not able to understand her, but it was evident that she wanted to say something.

She had jumped back with a reddened face and was now looking towards Surfania. Surfania looked back with her mahogany eyes.

“You want to know, how I know.”

“!”

Apparently, she could still not speak properly. Chris remained silent, but she could still move her neck, and so she nodded vigorously.

And so Surfania thrust a single volume right up to her nose.

“It’s really nothing. Chris. But what you are suffering from, and the remedy for it, are all written in this book.”

“Are you serious!?”

Chris’ obsidian eyes widened in surprise.

“What, what is that book!? You say that it holds a remedy for what I suffer from… Which renowned scholar wrote this medical tome!?”