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The inside of the mansion seemed to be much better maintained than the outside. Even in the novel, Adele’s personality was described several times as being quite meticulous, so that is not strange. Although the maintenance of the exterior walls of the building is the domain of experts, the inside can be kept clean as long as you clean it diligently. Because it can be maintained.

In fact, there didn’t seem to be that much decoration in the house. The things that made up the interior decoration of the house were made of quite high-quality materials, but there were only enough decorations, such as flower pots and ceramics, to save one’s face as an aristocrat.

“Here is black tea.”

And after seeing that scene, I felt a little sorry for being treated to tea like this. Still, the Alwen Kingdom in the north is a place where it is impossible to grow tea trees, so tea leaves are expensive.

However, we couldn’t drink the already brewed black tea, so Amelia and I decided to drink it quietly.

The black tea flavor was a bit faint.

“Lady Baron Delkisi!”

“… … You can just call me by my name.”

“You can’t call author Delkisinam carelessly!”

In the case of Brother Harvey… … No, I don’t think Brother Harvey was ever called by his name either. In the novels, he was always called Delkisi.

Could it be that he was called that until the end because it wasn’t unnatural to call him that because of Harvey’s quiet personality?

Adele’s sparkling gaze was burdensome.

In fact, if it were just me and Adele, it might not have been this burdensome. I’m not saying it wouldn’t have been burdensome, but it was a bit burdensome to show so much interest in Adele when there was Amelia next to me who really wanted to meet Adele.

Besides, Amelia has been looking at Adele and me alternately since a while ago.

“Keuhm. Sorry. I was too excited. ”

Now, it’s too late to try to look a little more decent. Just show off the image of a girl who met your favorite idol just a little while ago without any regrets, and that’s not going to change your image.

“That’s… … When I heard such praise from Delkishi, whom I had only heard stories of since I was a child… … .”

But, isn’t there any evidence that I am the real Delkish?

Well, it’s too late to come here and think like this, but neither Amelia nor I have ever provided proof that we are really from that family. I don’t know about the author, but I wonder how many people have gone overboard enough to impersonate the archduke. Still, isn’t there a possibility?

They say they are meticulous and sincere, but they have holes in some strange places.

“Hey, so… … .”

And at this point, Adele seemed to have begun to realize that she had been too excited, and her face slowly blushed.

And as he looked at Amelia and me alternately, he seemed to suddenly realize that something was strange.

“Hey, but… … It might be rude to say this.”

Adele said while looking at me carefully.

“Unlike when I heard the story about the Delki City people, their height… … .”

It was typical of a heroine to say everything she wanted to say even though she was worried about how to say it.

“I am unusually short among Delkisi people. Everyone in my family is at least a head taller than me.”

“I see!”

After I answered, Adele smiled and said.

“But your swordsmanship skills are definitely exceptional, right? They are enough to escort the Grand Duchess of Grattenmount, right?”

I am asking with twinkling eyes, but unfortunately my swordsmanship skills are the lowest even in Delki City. Everyone in Delki City can create pure sword energy just by swinging their swords, but I failed in the end.

But before I could give that answer, Amelia spoke first.

“He does have special abilities.”

“That’s right!?”

Adele responded excitedly to Amelia’s answer.

“Oh, sorry. I got excited again without realizing it. I met someone whose family I admired… … .”

“I understand.”

Amelia responded somewhat harshly to Adele’s words.

“I am happy that the person I admire even praised me.”

“Hehe… … .”

Even though she was scratching her cheek and smiling mischievously, it was difficult to feel anything bad about Adele. Is she, after all, the heroine?

Amelia, who sipped her tea with the gentleness of a grand duke’s eldest daughter, spoke naturally to Adele.

“It was fate that led us to meet like this, and it would be nice if we could continue our exchange in the future. Especially since the two of us seem to have overlapping interests in one way or another.”

There is no overlap at all.

The reason I received swordsmanship training was not because I had any interest in swordsmanship, but because I wanted to avoid embarrassment as Amelia’s bodyguard. I needed at least some justification to maintain this position.

But since I had made the connection, there was no reason to stop, so I sat quietly without saying a word.

“And—Oh, I see.”

Amelia said, looking at me as if she had just remembered it.

“Elsie, do you have an invitation?”

“Ah, yes.”

I took out the invitation I had packed in my arms.

It was an invitation to a ball tomorrow, a ‘welcome ceremony’.

As the royal family participates, the people who received invitations were carefully selected high-ranking nobles, but if you only invited high-ranking nobles, the ball would be too empty. Originally, the more high-ranking people hold a ball, the more extravagant it should be and the more people participating.

But that doesn’t mean you can’t just invite random people.

That is why extra invitations are sent to those attending. Naturally, the attending high-ranking nobles will hand the invitation to a proven person among those under them in order to avoid tarnishing the name of their family, and naturally those who fill the number will also receive one invitation. It gets filtered out.

We also received a few extra invitations, but even after inviting important people who followed us, we still had a few invitations left.

The invitation I brought was one of them.

“Invitation?”

I handed the invitation in my hand to Adele, who tilted her head.

Adele took it with a puzzled expression and immediately got up, excited.

“Wow, wow, wow, wow, it’s a ball hosted by the royal family!?”

As if she couldn’t believe it, Adele turned the invitation envelope around without even opening it. It was as if she felt happy just by opening the seal.

“Every time winter ends, local lords dispatch trustworthy people to the royal capital. Usually, such people are close relatives or blood relatives of the lord. My uncle was staying in my family until not long ago, but this time, my eldest daughter came. This invitation is an invitation to a welcome ceremony held by the royal family to welcome such people.”

I thought about whether it would be better to spend it in the summer when the days are long, but for northerners, summer was ‘summer’. As someone who has experienced Korea’s melting summer, it was cool fall-like weather, but for northerners, it was ‘hot’ weather and it was hard work, and the ice The road was even harder if you set off when it had not yet melted.

If it’s a little later than this, the roads can get muddy, and if it stays a little longer, it gets hot, so this time of year is considered good weather by northerners.

“Why are you giving me such a precious thing? … .”

To Adele, who was shaking with the invitation in her hand, Amelia shrugged her shoulders and said with a smile.

“Perhaps, I think we can become close friends.”

That was also an answer that left my true feelings intact to some extent.

*

“In the original, it was sent as a joke, right?”

“Because Adele’s father is upright, he has many enemies.”

Amelia answered as if to confirm what I said.

In many ways, there are many interesting elements surrounding the heroine of a romantic fantasy web novel. Even if it is not Amelia, Adele is described as having many enemies.

Of course, the only story I knew was what Amelia explained in the novel by saying, ‘In the original~’.

Aristocrats without money are likely to be ignored.

And the Carlins family, a knightly family to which Adele belonged, was a model of an aristocratic family without money.

However, Adele’s father, the owner of the house, was very rigid and never touched even the dirty work that was usually done by ‘knights’ when there was no war.

There are people who don’t like seeing that kind of thing.

Adele sees the family family going down somehow and thinks that her father may have had a hand in such matters, but in reality, Adele’s father is just legitimately doing things that a nobleman would not do.

I don’t want to worry my daughter, so I’m just hiding the fact that I’m doing dirty work.

“Still, I’m glad it’s not too late. It’s true that Adele had to rush to get ready, but because we delivered it first, we had a little more time, and Adele didn’t get embarrassed when she came to the ball. Aren’t you curious? That’s how the Carlins did it. What kind of facial expressions will the haters make?”

Yeah, I’m curious.

What would the guys who were Amelia’s right and left arms look like in the ‘original work’?