[I mean, to be honest, I feel very familiar with you. As if you were someone I have known for a long time.]
[Sir Cain, have we ever met before?]
The Princess had clearly said that.
She felt that I was quite familiar. And, by any chance, have we ever met in the past…
Those questions, no matter how much I thought about it, wasn’t just out of mere curiosity. There was a certain conviction in the eyes of the Princess while she asked me such questions.
I was sure that the woman didn’t ask such a question out of mere curiosity. The Princess must have asked such questions to find out something from me. Otherwise, there was no way to explain the unusual look the Princess gave me at the last moment.
“…..”
Of course, there was no point of contact between a country boy named Cain von Estel, who was born and raised only in the Duchy of Estel, and the Princess, who was born and raised in Lumentium, the capital of the Empire.
It took two palms to clap.
It was very very unlikely that we had met in the past. We were completely different from each other in the region we lived in and the way we socialized.
Yes, we had no chance of meeting unless it was an extremely unusual situation. For example, when the witch who brought winter all over the continent appeared, an expedition was organized to subdue her, and the Princess and I unluckily belonged to that same expedition.
“…..”
All sorts of thoughts started running through my head. There were many possibilities. If I thought about it most rationally, there was a high possibility that the Princess’s words were meant as a simple greeting.
If it wasn’t that, then considering that the population of the capital was well over 1 million people, there must be at least one person with a similar appearance to me somewhere in there. To put it bluntly, that was the most realistic and logical hypothesis I could come up with.
But, what if, just in case, what if the Princess really had the memories of the past timeline. Though it was a terrible thing to imagine, what if she had asked those questions based on those memories?
“…..”
But sadly, I couldn’t choose the option of getting out of the capital right now and return to the Duchy of Estelle. It was because the Princess had formally invited me to the banquet to commemorate the founding day.
Naturally, it would be absurd to ignore her invitation at this point, having even received a polite invitation in the name of the imperial family.
“Young Lord Cain. Please stretch out your hand. Your robe is crumpled.”
At the moment, Aria was helping me put on the formal dress for the banquet.
I was so preoccupied with my gloomy thoughts that I forgot that Aria was struggling with the robe behind me.
“Oh sorry, Aria.”
When I apologize to her sincerely, Aria turned her head away as if it was nothing.
“You don’t have to apologize. It’s something I have to do!”
By the way, Aria was also wearing a neat formal dress, not the maid’s uniform she usually wore to attend the banquet.
“…Young Lord.”
“Yes?”
“Is it really okay for someone like me to wear such classy clothes?”
Aria murmured as she slightly lifted the azure dress she was wearing. In fact, the dress Aria wore was a bit luxurious for commoners to wear, but at the same time, it seemed inexpensive enough in the eyes of nobles.
Even if we wanted to buy something expensive in the first place, the Estel family didn’t have that kind of budget.
But even with such a cheap dress on, Aria’s figure was breathtakingly beautiful. Her glossy sliver white hair and azure dress matched well as if the tailor intended and made it for her from the beginning, and even though she was not wearing a single accessory, Aria overflowed with elegance that overwhelmed any other women.
She looked like a Princess from a remote place visiting an unfamiliar country.
“…ah.”
I wasn’t aware of it when she was wearing maid’s clothes, but when I saw her dressed so well, I suddenly realized just how beautiful Aria was.
Come to think of it, the Witch of Winer, who could be said to be the grown-up version of Aria, was
also stunningly beautiful.
As expected, since she was so cute 10 years ago, she must have grown into such an amazing beauty 10 years later.
“Eh…? Young Lord? Why are you making such an expression? So these clothes don’t suit me after all!”
When I noticed that Aria almost began to cry, I rushed to soothe her.
“No, not at all. It suits you very well. Really!”
When I spoke to Aria with full of sincerity, her face quickly turned bright.
“…really? Does it really suit me?”
“Yes.”
“Hehe..”
When I expressed my affirmation without hesitation, Aria smiled again.
She looked so cute that I unknowingly cleared my throat.
The original witch didn’t seem to have this kind of personality. It seemed that after she had lost her memory, her personality also went through a change.
It was then.
Kiie-ek-ik!
The door opened.
The person who opened the door was none other than my father, Franz von Estel, who had dressed up as a duke for the first time in a long while.
“I…seem to have arrived just in time. Are you ready to go to the banquet hall?”
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