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“Ah, Noel.”
Just as he thought she had changed all her clothes, he heard the sound of her looking for him from beyond the cabinet.
“Why again?”
He gave a grumpy answer for nothing.
“No, that… this.”
A groan and an answer came back. Is there any problem?
“It’s because it doesn’t come off very well… Ugh, Noel. Can you help me?”
What?
Noel glanced over the cabinet with his eyes wide open.
‘What the hell, why are you asking for help?’
In his mind, various kinds of clothes a person wears come to mind.
Of course, there were some things that were a bit embarrassing.
‘Don’t panic, don’t panic. Noel Mayer.’
He calmed himself.
From this point on, his mind got a bit out of the way, and strange words lingered in his mind.
‘The other person is a squirrel. So calm down.’
If he doesn’t help the troubled squirrel, who will?
Rieta is Mayer’s squirrel.
“Noel?”
Hearing Rieta’s hurried call, he crouched and headed over the cabinet.
With his head bowed down.
“Why why why! What!”
As if arguing, he asked, ‘What kind of help do you need?’, but for no reason, his voice trembled.
“Ung, this one.”
Then he heard a troubled voice right in front of him.
Of course, Noel was still looking at the floor.
“I think this hairpin is half-stuck and hanging on my head.”
Hairpin?
Noel frowned and looked up cautiously.
Rieta was seen wearing the rather baggy academy uniform.
She raised her arms and frowned, pulling the hairpin back and forth in her hair.
Ah the hell.
Noel felt annoyed at his desponded heart.
Of course, he never expected anything strange, but he never imagined it!
“Fool.”
Noel still stood behind Rieta with an unfriendly face.
It looks like she used quite a few small hair pins to hold her long hair in place.
As a few of them came out, her hair started to fall out.
“I think it would be faster to just remove everything. How did you end up like this?”
Noel grunted as he pulled the pins apart one by one.
She didn’t know why this was happening and it was a shame that he was nervous for nothing.
“Well, that’s..”
Rieta gently put down her hand that was touching her hair and grabbed her two hands.
“When I put the clothes on, it ended up like this. Maybe my hair was caught.”
“Can’t you even wear clothes by yourself? You’re not a child,  it’s annoying to death, Really.”
He took the little hairpins out one by one without pain, even if he said so.
“Thank you.”
“Yes, thank me.”
Just around that time, all of Rieta’s hair fell down her shoulders.
At the same time, the scent that had been lingering thin touched the tip of Noel’s nose.
‘So good…’
He had this thought without realizing it. How weird.
Like Rieta’s hair, she always was close to him.
It’s such a strange feeling.
“Oh, your hair is wavy. Uhh.”
He was absorbed in subtle sentiments for a while, when he heard a sound that broke the atmosphere right in front of him.
At a glance, Rieta was fiddling with her hair.
With a face with no dignity of a princess at all.
“……”
Noel looked at Rieta with cold eyes.
This princess.
He hasn’t seen her in a long time, how come he hates everything she does?
“Anyway, thanks for your help.”
Without knowing his heart, Rieta looked back at him and smiled.
She was still fiddling with her hair.
“Done. If it bothers you that much, tie it up.”
“I’ll do that.”
Rieta tied her long hair roughly in a braid.
It was a bit messy, but it’s common in the academy, so no one will probably notice it.
“Are the clothes… uncomfortable?”
“Yes, except it’s a little big. It’s actually better than the smaller one. Thanks for getting it for me. Did you take care of me so that I could find Darrell?”
“……uh.”
Noel’s reply was a little late.
Actually, he didn’t get the clothes for that reason.
…But even so, he couldn’t honestly say that he felt strange when he heard Rieta saying ‘Young Master’.
Anyway, if it helped Rieta move around comfortably, that would be fine.
“So, where did Brother go?”
Rietta picked up the maid’s clothes that were on the sofa.
She has to tidy it up and get it.
“Um, I don’t know. Suddenly, a professor appeared and took him.”
“Leaving you alone?!”
“To be precise, he left me and the paper. Maybe Darrell has returned to the third floor of the library.”
“But you ran away from there.”
“I mean, there was nothing I could do. Because I didn’t want Noel to find out.”
“Foolish, do you think I can’t find you?!”
He’ll probably recognize Rietta’s disguise as anything else.
Because they’ve been the closest
“You may not be able to find me. Noel, you haven’t seen me at all lately.”
“If I’ve only been away for a few months, and I don’t even recognize you, is that a friend?”
Rieta’s conscience stung a bit at Noel’s question.
“What’s wrong? Why do you look like that?”
“That’s, I.”
Rieta smiled awkwardly with a slightly apologetic face.
“I can’t… recognize you.”
“……?”
“Unng, No. You do not have to know. Anyway, I guess I’ll have to go find Darrell now.”
Rieta recalled her purpose for coming here.
She came here to meet the gatherer who had recently been to the Kingdom of Liz.
The gatherer’s existence is a secret, so it’s unlikely that a regular student Noel will know.