Chapter 364: Siana’s Proposal
“Putting that aside.”
With Elizalina’s main topic concluded,
Felisiana continued.
“Elizalina-anesama, you were about to link arms with Lux-kun while I was away, weren’t you?”
“Yeah, I think you already heard from Violet, Felisiana, but at the Fourth Royal Exchange Gathering the other day, Florence linked arms with Lux, right? Once I hear something like that, or even if I hadn’t, if I end up alone with Lux, you understand the urge to want to touch him somehow, don’t you?”
Naturally, Felisiana loved Lux more than anything.
She usually held herself back as a maid, but if, like Elizalina earlier, she were sitting beside Lux on the same sofa as the Third Princess Felisiana,
She would, without a doubt, want to do things like link arms or touch his hand.
…However.
“I understand, but I have absolutely no intention of allowing any woman other than me to do that!”
“Scary! Well, still… at this rate, I might just take Lux for myself, you know. Even if not right now, in the end I’ll be the one to make Lux happy, and I’ll be happy together with him too!”
Then Felisiana glared at Elizalina,
While Elizalina returned a composed smile.
Watching that exchange up close, Violet…
“Honestly… you two haven’t changed at all since back then.”
Murmured quietly, too soft for the sisters to hear.
Lux’s Side
Elizalina-sama, who had returned with Siana to the guest room where I was, said she would be heading home for today.
So Siana and I came out to the front of the mansion to see her off.
“It’s a shame I couldn’t link arms with you today, Lux, but let’s do it next time!”
“…! U-um…”
“As I said earlier, I will absolutely not permit such a thing! Now then, please be on your way home!”
Saying that, Siana pushed Elizalina-sama from behind.
“Ah… well, see you then! Lux!”
“Y-yes! I look forward to seeing you again…!”
With those final words exchanged,
The carriage carrying Elizalina-sama departed from in front of the mansion.
Immediately after, Siana closed the distance between us.
“Master!!”
“W-what!?”
Startled by her sudden intensity, I raised my voice, and Siana leaned in even closer as she continued.
“As I’ve told you before, please exercise the utmost caution when dealing with that person! If you are to link arms, I believe it would be preferable with someone else!!”
“Someone else…?”
“For example, as I mentioned before, someone the same age as you, who has cherished feelings for you since childhood…”
Siana started speaking rapidly, too fast to follow, but…
She stopped herself once,
Then, after a brief pause, she spoke as if she had made up her mind.
“Someone else… how about the Third Princess, Felisiana-sama?”
“…Huh? F-Felisiana-sama!?”
When we had a similar conversation before, no specific name had come up,
So hearing Felisiana-sama’s name made me raise my voice in surprise.
Siana hurriedly continued, flustered.
“It’s not that I have any deeper intention, but from what I’ve heard from you, Master, you and the Third Princess, Felisiana-sama, seem to share a very close relationship, and more importantly, unlike that frivolous person earlier, Felisiana-sama possesses the dignity befitting someone by your side, so I thought that if you were to link arms with someone, a person like Felisiana-sama would be most appropriate…”
After that, Siana kept muttering something under her breath.
As I caught bits and pieces of what she was saying, my thoughts drifted to the time I would soon be spending with Felisiana-sama.
But before that time came… a few days later,
I received a letter from a member of the royal family.
To be precise, it was a letter from Rezamiliana-sama.