Chapter 499 – Friday, Week 7 (11)
Celine, who had spoken out a lot of cursing about the Romanian principality, seemed relieved.
“Do you have any plans later?”
Celine checked the time by sneaking her Marais into Celine’s gaze, looking at herself with her expectant eyes. She had been invited to dinner by Lauren, so she still had plenty of time.
“What’s going on?”
“If you are by my side, Jubalen. That son of a bitch can’t be bothered.”
“Can I help?”
“Of course, even a big lady would have been a burden to her. Because if you are there, the story will be different. Thanks to you, I’m doing well these days, Prince Fawen?”
“Thank god.”
Celine stared blankly at the square in the distance, her expression as if she was dreaming.
“It’s me. No, it’s a story we’re thankful for. So I want to ask Marey, are you okay?”
“Yes? What?”
“Because there are too many things on the table to simply call it a fight between the successors. I’m not even a pawn on the chessboard, so I don’t know how things are going… I know it’s not an easy story.”
At Celine’s words, Marei just shrugged her shoulders. She hadn’t heard much of anything from Lauren. Ravela just laughed and said, ‘I just need to get along with my friends,’ and she didn’t seem to care much.
“Well. I think Philia will do well and she does nothing but trust me. Labella… Hmmmm, her mother didn’t seem to have much of an idea about her principality. Even Lauren…”
Doesn’t he have no interest in the declining principality? Celine couldn’t help but exhale slowly at the emotionless story the boy told her nonchalantly. The boy in front of her was the same. She wanted to say that she believes and waits, she is irresponsible.
“If the… If the… If Philia-sama can’t become the princess, what will she do?”
“My mother told me to call her home.”
“What!? For a moment. Wait for a sec… Didn’t the Inspector General also admit it!?”
Celine opened her eyes wide enough to see, and she looked at the younger boy.
She said, “She didn’t invite her because Philia seemed busy, but she said to bring her home when the time was right…”
“No no. Wait for a sec. Marey? Marey? Did you tell the princess!?”
“You look busy these days, so I’m waiting to talk to you when it’s okay… ?”
Celine couldn’t keep her mouth shut at her boy’s outrageous remarks.
“If I had told the princess, she would have gone right away, right? Inspector General. No, it’s a place to meet the next head of the Parwen family, a person who is no different than the head of the family. That would make time for the princess somehow?”
“Is that so?”
Is that so Celine smiled unconsciously. She used to be told that she got a laugh out of it when she was being ridiculous, which she actually didn’t know she was going through.
“Not next week. Call the princess over the weekend and talk to her. Yes, do you want to do it now?”
“You said you were busy, so I’ll call you over the weekend.”
If you contact me right now, I think you will be happy to cancel all the schedules. I couldn’t tell now if Philia was indifferent to becoming the duke or if she really believed it. She or she might be pushing herself off a cliff so that she could become a princess on her own.
“Ugh… Lose your spirits.”
“Oh, I must have been holding on too long. Then, shall we stop here for today?”
Seeing Celine look exhausted, Maray got up from her seat.
“Now, wait a minute… ! Marey, me. Wait for a sec… !”
Celine, who even dyed her ears red, stammered out what was so embarrassing.
“That, Valter… I couldn’t even look properly… Wander around the square a bit… Something delicious… Eat… Just like that… Will it be okay?”
“Are you asking me out on a date?”
“No no! Not that!”
Celine shook her head roughly.
“I didn’t get a good look at Balter…”
“I haven’t tried it… Senior?”
“Because of Jubalen.”
In response to Celine’s answer, Maray unconsciously nodded her head. It seemed to her that if she were the one who treated Celine like a bird in her cage, she would even interfere with her going back.
“There, don’t talk about dating or anything like that. If the big lady listens, she might put me on a stake!”
“Would you like to do that?”
Celine said nothing. In her strange uneasiness, Marais reached out to her Celine to divert her attention…
“Because there is plenty of time until dinner. Shall we take a little walk, my lady?”
“Wow, thanks so much!!! I will definitely repay you when you become my sire!”
No matter how happy she was, Celine came over and hugged Marey tightly. Her soft breasts were touching the boy’s face, but he didn’t seem to be paying attention to her.
“But when you call Philia, you call me in various ways. Like the big lady, the princess, and the senior.”
“When I was little, I was called Princess. After that, the big lady… When she came to Baltaire, she came to call her senior. I’m not particularly conscious of what I’m talking about.”
Celine shrugged her shoulders as she munched on her street food.
“How long have you known each other?”
“Hmm… I? Or, miss?”
“Are they different?”
Celine nods her head, saying it’s natural, and she orders her street food, which she doesn’t know how many, and distributes it to Marey.
“Hmm… Do you know about Duke Pahu?”
“Of course I know.”
“What about the Southern Commander?”
“General Schwafen? Isn’t it strange that he doesn’t know?”
“That’s it. Of course, it’s strange compared to war heroes, but… It’s strange that you don’t know among nobles. Just like your mother.”
She felt shaken, but nodded her head.
“Since it’s in Baltaire, that’s what everyone is saying. If you go somewhere else, there must be a lot of people who annoy you. You said you first met a lady in Romania, did you meet anyone there? No, she didn’t pretend to know anyone?”
At Celine’s question, Maray remembered a man named Norman who had rented her suite to Philia and himself.
“I met a man named Norman.”
“Norman… ? Norman Devalem?”
“I’ve never heard of the last name… She and Philia had been together for a long time.”
Oh my god. Celine just smiled dejectedly.
“You’ve never heard of Norman Devalemm, the genius administrator? Aren’t you taking a business administration class? A genius administrator who was forcibly dragged from Romania by the Empire saying that it would reform internally! I don’t know?”
“Ah, um…Yes. I’m thinking of taking it next semester…”
“Sometimes when I talk, I wonder if I don’t know anything… Or are you pretending not to know? This is delicious, would you like to eat it?”
I received an egg cookie from Celine. She was sweet
“I don’t know your face, but I think everyone already knows your name, right? My family has already been ruined for a long time, so I can’t even care about the central politics.”
Celine muttered gloomily. Marey couldn’t help but laugh moderately. It wasn’t until after walking around the square about two times that Marey and Celine stopped at the fountain, but at a violin shop in the corner of the square.
It was also where she met an old man who was a former soldier. It was the place where the violin that I fell in love with at first sight was. It was a gift from Lauren, so she didn’t have to hang out in front of the store anymore.
“In the bamboo forest… Oh, it doesn’t matter because you know It’s a violin made of ironwood from Elbenheim. It was made of precious materials that could only be used by the imperial family or the great nobility. Compared to the strength, the sound is soft and the mithril and gold-coated lines produce a clear sound even when pressed with a finger. Ah, I want it~!”
“Ah yes…”
Celine pointed at the violin through the screen window with her love-struck expression. It was the violin Lauren had bought for her.
“It sounds expensive.”
“Price is not important, price is also a problem… How many months do you have to wait to get it? . Because it’s absurd.”
“Wait?”
“Even though it came out last year. When you said you were going to release it for the first time, I heard that some of the people who pre-ordered still haven’t received it?”
She seemed to have done something bad, so Marei was embarrassed to hear any more details. It seems like Lauren gave it to me as if it was nothing, but it was such a valuable item. Seeing Celine point out each of her violins on display and explain their characteristics, Marey could hear her as well, as she seemed more energetic than ever.
After listening to Celine chatter for a few minutes, the door to her instrument store opened. A man with a shaggy beard, smaller than Marey’s, was sticking out his head at her. Shorter than Merende, a good height to call shorty. Then, it was a thick shape on the left and right. However, she expressed that she was thick, but she had to add an explanation that the problem was not the flesh, but the bulging muscles.
Dwarf! Marey looked at it curiously, then looked away. She seemed to be rude if she stared too hard, so she decided to focus on his beard.
“Aren’t you the musician girl? Did you come to watch again?”
“Ah, were you disturbed? Sorry. I will go now.”
Celine, as if familiar, lowered her head and asked Marey to go somewhere else. Marei thoughtlessly nodded her head and was about to move, but the dwarf
“For a moment. Next to… It’s that young boy… Even the musician girl. Bring both of you in.”
“Yes?”
At the words of the red-bearded dwarf showing her kindness, Celine asked back as if she was surprised.
“Because there is something I want to say about the violin. You can go to the musician girl if you don’t like it, but I want the young master to listen. If you’re busy, you can come over next time.”
At the dwarf’s words, Marey whispered carefully to Celine.
“Could you be all right for a moment?”
“Ah, yes… May I come in too?”
“If you’re the Bocchan’s girlfriend, you’re welcome.”
The Dwarf laughed heartily.
“I was really surprised when that monster knight came and brought a letter from the Governor-General asking to make it right away.”
The dwarf, who introduced himself as the root of the vine, started talking while offering drinks.
“Are you surprised that it looks the same as the violin outside? I did my best, but the schedule was tight and I didn’t have time to make anything new. Thanks to that, the shape had to be similar, but I still paid a little more attention. Thanks to that, he was always on my mind and I wanted to talk to him, but I didn’t expect him to come to me like this. I think it’s because of the lady next to me.”
The Dwarf started talking excitedly. The calluses on his palms and clear eyes, which were unusual even on the outside, gave him a strange sense of trust. He seemed to fit the word artisan. Although, of course, he was a little talkative.
“Did you bring the violin?”
“Ah yes… I am keeping it.”
After Marey touched her bracelet a few times, particles of her light gathered together and formed her violin case.
“A space… “
Celine’s small murmur was heard.
“Can I take a look?”
“Ah yes. Because you are a producer…”
With Marey’s permission, the roots of her vines opened the violin case without hesitation, and the violin was carefully removed.
“Looking at it now, it’s great. I was worried that there might be a problem because I was absorbed in it for five days and nights, but it’s amazing! Really well done! I couldn’t even check it properly because it was stolen right away by the monster knight.”
Carefully sweeping the surface of the violin with his calloused hands, the dwarf gently plucked the reddish gold strings with his fingertips. It sounded very clear.
“It’s good to believe, but I want that young lady to be considerate of this old man… Well, aside from the weird stuff, let’s talk about this friend. Look carefully, the whole mithril thread is coated with Orichalcum. And I cut it at regular intervals on the surface so as not to get hurt.”
“Orichalcum… ?”
“Oh! Do you know the musician girl? Ordinary people would not know.”
Celine stared blankly at the violin the dwarf was holding.
