episode_0056

The reason I came all the way to the capital to wear makeup, which I did not do in Delchisina or Gratton Mount, was not only because I had reached an age where I could no longer be considered a child.

Because now is the time to pay a little more attention to what’s going on around you.

The reason I wasn’t able to care about my appearance in Grand Duchy of Grattenmount was because the people who ruled there were all my distant relatives down the family tree.

In reality, it is a family that split off so long ago that it is meaningless to trace the family tree, but the Grand Duke of Grattonmount himself said, ‘We are family, so stay like family,’ so I lived by his words.

However, it wasn’t really to the point where I was walking around without even washing my hair. At least I had the pride of maintaining cleanliness and making noble gestures so that I wouldn’t be embarrassed by others.

Since the Archduke and the Archduke already knew which family I came from and what family line I was from, there was no need to worry about promoting what kind of family our family was or making our family name widely known.

But in the royal capital, the story is different.

At first glance, the statement that ‘an occupation is nobility’ may sound trivial, but on the other hand, it also means that all other aristocrats in the world are no different from coworkers.

Nobles from families higher than me were no different from my senior at work, and conversely, nobles from families lower than me were no different from my successor.

And the one at the top among them was the royal family.

In social life, it is not polite to appear in front of others without grooming yourself. Regardless of the level of social status, it can be seen as a behavior that ignores the other person. A reaction like ‘I prepared like this to meet you, but you didn’t prepare at all.’ If you don’t want to come out, it would be a good idea to always be properly dressed.

“By the way, there is no need to go to the royal capital to say hello to His Majesty, right?”

If you’re a grand duke, shouldn’t you show off that you’re from a high-ranking family with royal blood? I asked Amelia that even though she’d been here for about a week and she didn’t bother to visit.

“There is no need to go to meet His Majesty the King in person. Even if we wanted to meet him in the first place, we would only be able to see him in a few weeks. It would be a different story if my father came in person, but at best, we would be children of nobles who are not the ones to inherit the territory directly. It’s just that. If it’s not an urgent issue, that’s natural.”

Amelia said that in a low voice.

We were walking down the street side by side. Amelia had said that it would be a good idea to memorize a little bit of geography before going to work in the royal capital in earnest.

Most daughters of high-ranking noble families do not bother to do such things. The only time they walk in the first place is when there is no other way than to walk on their own legs, such as inside a building, and the rest of the time they usually get around in a carriage.

However, according to Amelia, each family is slightly different, and each family seems to have its own preferred ‘image’.

So, the children of some families engage in ‘image making’.

For example, even if she is a daughter and not a son, if she is the daughter of a long-established knight, she must know how to ride a horse and wield a black sword. If she is a high-ranking noble, she does not do the calculation herself, but if she is a child of a place famous for commerce, it is calculated. He said that you have to have good skills, and that families whose family business is rooted in gardening sometimes do the pruning themselves.

After listening to the story, the content of the original came to mind. Even in the original, there were people who were nobles but strangely knew details about trivial matters that did not seem ‘aristocratic’, and that seems to have been the case in the original.

… … There is no way to know whether it is because it was just not explained in the novel I read, whether it is because there is a difference between the two novels, or whether the story in the novel is the result of being corrected to make it likely in reality.

“Then is it because of the Grattenmount family’s image making that we’re walking around like this?”

Even though the Grattenmount family is a grand duke, they have a simple image. Although they are not as great as Delkish, they are people who live with nature as their friend. I mentioned that a man as big as a grand duke goes hunting with local commoner hunters.

“No, not that.”

But Amelia smiled slightly, shook her head, and spoke with a confident expression.

“The ‘images’ we will create are ones that the heroine would like to see.”

ah.

“Adele is the child of a common noble family with no title. Moreover, she is poor even among the common nobles, so she is poorer than a commoner family with a successful business. The mansion is located in the center of an aristocratic family, but just maintaining the house is tight, so she actually owns it. We don’t even have a carriage. When we need it, we pay money for a coachman and ride around.”

Although they are not commoners, and if you compare their assets with ordinary commoners, Adele’s family’s assets are enormous, but if you think of them as ‘nobles’, their assets are at the bottom.

In the novel, the reason is said to be ‘a family of upright knights’.

In a time when there were frequent wars and battles, there were many places to make money, but as the world entered an era of peace, there were no places to make money, and it was one of the families that were ‘in danger of being demoted to commoners due to lack of money’ in every era. .

There was also a reason why Adele was often ignored in the novel. The fact that she was of a knightly family but was a common noble meant that she did not make a great contribution in the war. Even if you can earn money by going to battle here and there, you will not receive a fiefdom and a title unless you make a really great contribution. I don’t receive it.

Of course, there are more families without fiefs than with fiefs, but Adele, a common noble, somehow gets entangled with the ‘children of famous families’ such as the crown prince, the prince, and the lord of the magic tower, and for the reason that she is in the ‘misfit’, she is the eldest daughter of the grand duke’s family. I was picked on and bullied by Amelia… … That was the setting of the original story.

Moreover, my personality is influenced by my father, so there is a ‘strong part’ to it.

“And of course, I have no intention of bullying that child.”

“If that happens, it will turn out like a real novel.”

Although I only knew the contents of the ‘original work’ as a setting, I still agreed with it.

Amelia seemed to really like the original work. And it seems like trying to become friends with the heroine, Adele, wasn’t just to ‘avoid a bad ending’.

It was like a fan trying to meet a celebrity they really like.

… … Although I also saw it in novels.

“Yes, that’s right. So the first thing we have to do is get to know Adele. We have to become close enough to call her by her first name. Don’t you think so?”

“Yeah, well, that’s right.”

“… … Huh?”

Amelia tilted her head at my lukewarm response.

“What’s wrong? Are you not happy with the plan? Is there something holding you back?”

“Uh, no, it’s not like that… … .”

Amelia’s face looked very bright when she talked about Adele.

And I don’t know why, but when I looked at that expression, I felt somewhat confused.

“Hmm?”

Amelia looked up at my face and immediately smiled as if she knew what I was thinking.

“Aha. Are you maybe jealous?”

“Huh?No?No?”

When I answered right away, Amelia smiled, shrugged her shoulders and said,

“I know. It’s strange to be jealous of someone you’ve never met. In fact, we’ve only seen Adele’s face on the cover of a novel, so we don’t even know what she looks like in real life.”

In addition to being a 2D cover, Amelia said that due to the expansion of the platform and the illustrator changing for the newly chosen cover, Amelia’s appearance is two very different images.

“As a person from Delki City, if you felt something strange, it must be instinctive. Okay. I will try to become friendly with you for now, but be careful.”

Amelia smiled brightly at me as she said that.

It was a very pleasant smile.

In the novel, it seems like Amelia was a bit anxious during this period.

And, as Amelia said, it is true that my feelings are instinctive.

Because every time I saw Amelia’s smile, my heart pounded.

It was a feeling I had almost never felt before. In the novel I read, Amelia was connected to the female protagonist, Adele, and I knew that well.

But as time passed, every time I stayed with Amelia, slept in the same bed, and whenever she put makeup on my face, the more I remembered those images, the more frustrated I felt.

… … .

… … Oh, I guess not.

I denied it and ran after Amelia, who was in a good mood.