“Ha… so that’s how it is,” Lloyd muttered with a sigh.
She didn’t heed his warnings at all.
“So she doesn’t care even if she dies.”
Vincent laughed at the sight of his brother who looked so stressed out.
Lloyd immediately headed to the main palace. He was thinking of visiting the grand duke since it seemed like he had finally gone crazy.
“What are you going to do?” Vincent asked.
“If he’s really gone mad, then I’ll have to snap him back to his senses.”
Vincent followed Lloyd with a big smile.
“Let’s go together, brother.”
“Go away.”
Even with the cold response, Vincent just laughed and followed him to the palace.
Then, they reached the entrance of the main palace which was blocked with a ‘cage.’ Or to be more precise, the ‘wolf cage’ and the ‘jaguar cage.’
One would only be able to enter the palace through the cage. It served as a security filter to ensure the safety of the palace from intruders.
Lloyd opened the door to the jaguar cage without hesitation.
Then, a green meadow could be seen from beyond the ‘cage.’ It was an artificially created space that showed a flowing river, scenery of beautiful flowers, and herbivorous animals that were put in as food for the jaguars.
“I still can’t get used to it even after passing here several times,” Vincent frowned as he looked at his dirt-stained shoe.
“I don’t know why I have to enter and exit the palace through this inefficient route.”
As he lightly clicked his tongue and lifted his head, Vincent found out that Lloyd didn’t listen to him at all. In fact, he was staring at something else.
‘Hmm?’
Curious, Vincent turned his eyes to where his gaze was directed at.
Then, he came to see a rare sight he had never seen before in his entire life.
“What the hell is that…”
Rabbits, deer, larks, and squirrels were all gathered together.
The fork entered Aria’s mouth as she chewed on the turkey.
Everyone stared at Diana, they were certainly green with envy.
* * *
Diana was dressing Aria up.
She dressed her with a pastel purple gown made of soft, satiny fabric, long and loose. The arms and neckline were trimmed with decadent lavender and the white ruffled laces were delicately embroidered with small flowers.
“As I thought. Pastel colors suit you well,” Diana smiled as she saw that Aria’s new clothes fit her perfectly.
Aria looked at the mirror.
The velvet waist ribbon was decorated with a cute pendant in the shape of a cat.
‘It looks like Lloyd.’
Its eyes were black obsidian, the same color as Lloyd’s.
And as Aria was fiddling with the pendant.
Diana, who glimpsed out the window for a while, hurriedly spoke, “The prince came back yesterday… Do you want me to guide you to him?”
But Aria shook her head quickly.
‘He’ll kick me out.’
It was better not to provoke him until the grand duchess was cured.
Afterward, Aria headed for the library.
There were several libraries in the palace, and all of their walls were soundproofed, so the place was perfect for Aria to practice singing.
Of course, just because the walls were soundproofed didn’t mean that her songs couldn’t be heard. Mages could also cast magic to disable them.
‘The grand duke thinks that I’m a bookworm.’
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Aria pretended to browse through the library books, picked up roughly anything, and headed to the office.
Though… that would have been the case even if no one had struck up a conversation with her.
“Hello, sister-in-law.”
‘Sister-in-law?’
T/N: Hello everyone, so I just wanted to clear things up about addressing nobles. After doing some research, grand dukes are addressed as His Royal Highness in most kingdoms. But I’ve been using His Grace the entire time because the prince is also addressed as His Royal Highness (according to Wikipedia). His Grace for the grand duke and His Highness for the prince. If you guys don’t like it or have any other ideas on what I should call them, please let me know because there’s not much info about grand dukes and their successors on Google. Thank you for reading~