episode_0112

“… … Oh, really!”

Diane suddenly shouted to herself, and all of our eyes turned to her at the same time.

“What am I doing here now!?”

“So you’re sitting down and eating a sandwich, right?”

Diane looked at Adele as if she were dumbfounded as she answered calmly.

“Yeah! That’s the problem! Why am I sitting around eating a sandwich with you?”

“That’s because we met on the weekend morning.”

We met on the weekend morning, so we went outside the capital, spread out a mat in a clearing in the forest, and sat together.

Oh, of course Diane woke up a little while ago.

“The problem is that we met on a weekend morning!”

Diane stamped her feet as if she was frustrated. She didn’t look very aristocratic.

Even though Diane became emotionally distant, her respectful language did not change, but she could not hide her attitude.

What should I say? I feel like I’m a child who hasn’t grown up yet.

Of course, the body itself is already close to an adult. Maybe it’s because I grew up being spoiled at home.

“I came up with the idea, and Diane agreed, so this is how we came together.”

Adele still answered that way without losing her composure, but that calm attitude seemed to upset Diane even more.

“I never thought the idea would be a picnic! I thought we would get together in the morning and practice or spar!”

Ah, I agree with that too.

Adele, whom I had met so far, was a child with a great desire to improve, and of course I assumed that meeting her early in the morning meant to sweat it out in the morning.

Now that the days were slowly getting longer, I thought that even if I played a little longer—no, even if I practiced—the people in the house wouldn’t notice.

Of course, Nana Amelia lived without paying attention from the beginning.

In fact, out of the four of us, Diane was the only one who had something resembling a curfew.

In the first place, Adele’s father came home very late. This means that there is no one worth worrying about because Adele does not go home until late, regardless of permission.

Amelia and I are from the North. Going out at night was almost a part of our daily life. Of course, that did not mean it was late, it was just that the time when the sun did not rise was so long that it was unavoidable, but even taking that into account, people in the North are better than people in the South. Because there is a tendency to grow a little rougher.

On the other hand, Diane, a thorough southerner, literally grew up as a noble child, except that she learned swordsmanship.

When the sun goes down, he looks a little anxious, and even when his clothes get dirty while playing, he looks like he’s getting scolded by the maid he lives with.

Since the maid is a ‘maid’, she may be of lower status than Diane, but if she has raised Diane since childhood, it is not surprising if Diane is unable to move. After all, she is the person who raised her.

In this world, it was common for high-ranking nobles to entrust their children’s care to nannies or maids, and if they grow up like that from a young age, a connection similar to that of parents and children develops between the noble and the nanny. No matter how arrogant the noble, they naturally become cautious. .

It seems that there are some nobles who use it politically, but that fact is not that important right now, so let’s put it aside.

Anyway, that is why Diane gets restless when it gets late even though there is no one higher than her in the house.

Adele probably chose the ‘early time’ out of consideration for Diane.

“Did I tell you to do something like that in the morning? I guess Diane misunderstood.”

“Profit… … !Profit… … !”

uh… … maybe.

Diane couldn’t hit Adele and was stamping her feet, but Diane suddenly stopped, as if she realized something too late.

“… … No, wait a minute.”

Then he put his finger on his forehead and said, as if his head was itching.

“So, are you calling me ‘Diane’?”

“Then let’s call Diane Diane, what should we call her?”

Adele said without saying a single word.

“Would you like one more piece?”

“Thank you.”

Leaving the two people fighting in front of me as is, I picked a piece of the sandwich that Adele had packed too much and handed it to Amelia. Amelia responded softly but still maintained aristocratic elegance and accepted the sandwich I gave her.

And I ate the sandwich little by little.

For some reason, it reminded Amelia of Pori, which she raised, but I refrained from saying it because I didn’t want to make her angry by saying such a thing.

Amelia seemed to be enjoying this situation as much as I was, looking at Adele and Diane in turn as they exchanged words as if they were playing ping-pong.

“That doesn’t matter now, right? When did I give you permission to call me by my name? Even nobles of much higher rank than you don’t call me by my name!”

“Oh, is that so? Then it’s okay to call Diane by her name.”

“I am at an unconditional loss!”

If you were to judge the name and name only by value, it would be like that. Because she is a common noble and a countess.

Of course, since Diane will never inherit the name of ‘Countess’, it can be said that they have similar status. In theory, the status of the two people changed when they became ‘Mrs.’

Naturally, the higher the status in the ‘blah’ section, the higher the social status, and generally, the higher the status of a daughter, the higher the possibility of her status in the ‘blah’ section being higher, so the daughter of a great family is treated higher from the beginning.

And even if legally it is similar, when it actually goes to trial, the severity of the same crime may be different.

To begin with, the law of this country is not a written law like the law of the modern Republic of Korea. The judgment is almost completely different depending on who is judged during the trial, so it is meaningless to say, ‘You have no title yet, so you are just like that person.’

“Would you like some more tea?”

“Thank you.”

I poured the black tea that Adele herself had made cold using magic into Amelia’s cup. Sugar was added to the cold black tea, so it tasted similar to iced tea. Of course, it didn’t have any peach or lemon flavor added, but if you drink it in the sun like this, it tastes similar to iced tea. It felt particularly delicious.

“I thought our swordsmanship skills were almost similar.”

“… … .”

Diane’s face hardened at Adele’s words.

Of course, Adele’s logic did not come close to the ‘ㄴ’ in the word ‘logic’.

It was a world where honor was important and the outcome of a trial was often decided by duel, but that did not mean that a family’s status was determined by swordsmanship skills.

If that had been the case, the Delki family would have been royalty, not barons.

… … Well, for some reason, it seems like I can become independent if I really try to be independent, but I think that kind of thinking is a bit dangerous, so I decided to throw it away.

Anyway, that’s why Adele’s words didn’t make sense at all.

“… … Okay, I’ll make you regret that. Shall we spar right away?”

“Good. If I win, I will keep calling you Diane, and if I lose, I will allow you to call me by Diane’s name.”

“That’s why I said I was at a loss from before!”

Diane stamped her feet again at Adele’s words.

hmm.

To be honest, I was a little reluctant to come out in the morning. On the weekends, I could lie down, writhing around here and there, holding Amelia in my arms.

But, well.

Still, since I was able to see such an interesting sight, following Adele’s words might not have been a bad choice.

“… … Poriga also eats sandwiches.”

“Did you bring it with you?”

She was so surprised to see Porry eating a small piece of bread on Amelia’s lap that she asked that question—

“Please don’t just watch and say something to Lady Carlins!”

Diane screamed.

“Oh, that’s right.”

Amelia nodded, then turned to Adele and said.

“Adele, if you spar here, the dust will ruin all the food you made.”

“Oh, that’s definitely true. Then it would be better to go home and do the sparring later, Amelia.”

Diane’s mouth widened at the sight.

I tried not to make the same expression as Diane.

uh… … When I was with Adele, I was always with her.

When did these two people become so close?

No, of course, Amelia might have just done it to take Adele’s side.

Until now, I was the only person who called Amelia by her first name.

“What do you think about Elsie?”

Amelia looked at me and smiled.

That smiling expression was a little different from Amelia’s expression that I usually see.

I’m not sure exactly how to express it, but—

How can I say that I am filled with a strange sense of satisfaction?

By any chance, are you satisfied with having a conversation with Adele?

It had been a while since I shared a bed with Amelia, and my heart was pounding with anxiety.