Chapter 83 – Princess Maker (1/2)

CHAPTER 83 – PRINCESS MAKER

「Please! Please become our leader!」

The man did a dogeza in front of Fiona and Marie. The two panicked.

The man seems desperate, and doesn’t seem to be lying, but.

「Do you have a proof?」

「Yes!」

The man took out something from his waist.

It was an exalted emblem with a glance, an accessory with a gemstone.

And with that, he emphasized.

「This is the proof given to the generations of the royal family. It is an object that would react if one who has the blood of the royal family touches it」

「Fiona, Marie. For the meantime, try and hold it」

「Eh? But, Kakeru-san……」

Fiona made a troubled face, Marie looked so troubled that she didn’t know anything to say.

「He might have just mistaken you for another person, if so, that’s good too. ーーyou will leave if she’s not the person you’re searching for right」

I asked the man.

「Of course!」

The man nodded. He had an expression that was saying something like, “something like that is impossible though”.

「And, so. Here」

I passed it to Fiona and Marie.

The sisters looked at each other, they were still having troubled faces.

But finally, they slowly nodded at each other, and the elder sister Fiona took it.

The instant she held it, it lit.

Not just the emblem, but Fiona’s whole body lit.

「No way……」

「How about Marie? Try holding it」

I urged Marie. Marie timidly and cautiously received the emblem.

It lit just the same, and Marie became stunned with that result.

I took away the emblem from her handーーthe light disappeared.

It won’t light with me holding it huh, just like the man says, it seems like it reacts to the blood of the royal family.

I returned it to the man.

「Fiona-sama! Marie-sama! Please!」

While holding that, the man rubbed his head on the floor in a dogeza position.

The surroundings became noisy.

The customers that were originally inside the store, and the townspeople who heard the commotion who were taking a look from outside.

Looking at this situation, they were buzzing.

「Onee-chan……what should we do」

「Even if you ask me that……」

The two became more and more troubled, it seems like they don’t know what to do.

Looking at them, I said to the man.

「Can you return for today」

「Butーー」

「Give them time to think of it carefully, time to have their resolutions. Or is it better to let them be like that, but say something like “I don’t want to do it” when the war starts?」

「Mu!」

The man raised his head and stared at me.

He probably imagined that scene that I told.

The war had progressed very well for them, and it was only a little bit until the revival of the kingdom, but there, the two hesitated.

He probably imagined that and got convinced.

The man looked at me, and looked at the Fiona sisters.

And finally, he nodded, and stood up.

「I understand. I will come again」

He said that, and left the store.

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Inside the closed hours of Purosu-Diner.

It was only Fiona and Marie who was facing each other troubled and me.

After a long silence, I started the conversation.

「Fiona, do you have any clues about what it was about?」

「U〜un, not at all. Marie also right」

「U-Un」

「Did your mother tell you something?」

If they are the king’s secret child, then their mother should be a person concerned.

「U〜un, Okaa-san didn’t tell us about that at all. Even when she died, she only said “get along with each other, the two of you”」

「I see」

『Who is the owner of this store?』

Eleanor said inside my head.

「Who’s this store’s owner?」