Chapter 223 – Queen and King and Princess (2/2)

She was radiating an elegant air, waiting at the door for Taiyou to come in.

「Yes, they woke me up.」

「Who did?」

「No one you would be jealous of, and there was no way around it. Don’t worry.」

「Ah, well…」

Taiyou winced a bit.

He though since Leticia couldn’t recover from passing out without a kiss, he wanted to check what had happened.

It seems that it just wasn’t a way for her to get a kiss from him, after all.

However, since she said 「Someone you wouldn’t be jealous of」he was now a bit worried, and now was imagining bad things.

「But now, I have something to tell you.」

「Before that…where is everyone?」

As Taiyou walked past the entrance into the living room terrace, he looked at all the doors to the different rooms.

There was no one there, and there was no feeling that anyone remained inside.

「They’re at a celebration. The Hayases requested it.」

「A celebration?」

「Due to all of our work, we helped you get the fourth wife.」

「The fourth?」

As he remembered this, he responded like a parrot.

Strange for a person to think about it, but until this morning…even though Taiyou considered Leticia 「outside this number」, it made him feel weird to hear her talk about something like this in front of him.

「Youran isn’t the fifth one?」

「Have you looked at your status?」

「Wha?」

「That idiot was the one who fell for your sweet talk.」

Even though Leticia was using her polite speech, she still used the term 「that idiot.」

It felt a bit off for a princess in 「princess mode」to be talking like that.

「I wasn’t there to see it all take place, but not only her body, but her heart became yours. Or am I wrong?」

「Well, she’s still the tomboy-type she always is.」

「If that’s so, what will happen to your status? What happened to it now?」

「…it hasn’t increased.」

As he felt the sensation of looking between his eyeball and molars, he called the status up to check it.

This morning there was four as the corrected amount.

Even now, there was only four.

There was now way that Youran wasn’t part of them after giving her body and soul over to him recently, but maybe she was just being stubborn.

There was no way it was Kotone and the rest.

That left just one possibility.

「You…aren’t one of them anymore.」

「Yes, you’re right.」

「Why?」

「Do I have to tell you the reason?」

「I’d at least like an explanation.」

「Just like you.」

Leticia smiled at him.

It was a smile that he’s never felt before…one with a distance to it.

Looking at her calmly, her lips seemed so soft. But the smile was still distant.

「Do you want to hear the words that the idiot told you finally?」

「What?」

「That you would be the king of Juunishima. I think that idiot told you that.」

「…」

Taiyou said nothing in return.

It’s true she had said that in their bed.

In fact, Leticia had told him exactly what Youran had told him to the word.

「You know what she said?」

「Yes, in the future, when I am going to give my virginity to my husband, I will say the same thing as her. 」

「Is that how you are related?」

「Yes, at the same time, I had to be separated from her.」

「…I think I understand.」

「Really?」

Leticia was a bit surprised she understood.

「Well, I really don’t know anything. I don’t know the details, but it seems right at least.」

Taiyou said so, and grimaced.

「『That’s why』are the words and story that I expected right afterwards.」

「Thanks anyway.」

「It’s hard to be thanked and not answered.」

Youran never talked like that, playing with words.

Taiyou, as he said, wore a sad face.

Leticia simply smiled.

Like a princess, a complete smile fit for a public appearance.

「Well, then, I’ll be seeing you.」

She left Taiyou’s side, and then Taiyou’s Castle.

Suddenly…after using all his heart and feelings for Youran, had not strength to stop her.

She left him, and he silently watched her leave.