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Chapter 119: Met with Lady Stella ①

Translated by AmaLynne

Sam was guided through the royal palace by the king himself.

Sam, an ordinary person, was taken to a residential area where only royal family members were allowed to enter.

「This is Stella’s room.」

After a long walk in the palace, he arrived at a room guarded by two female knights.

Both knights bowed deeply when they saw the king, and then looked at Sam with a glare.

(Wow, not welcomed.)

Sam shrugged his shoulders as he looked at the knight, who was looking at him as if he were suspicious or a foreign object.

「Good. I brought him here myself. No need to be alarmed.」

「I understand.」

At the king’s words, the knights turned their attention away from Sam.

「How is Stella?」

「She is studying hard today.」

「Lately, she seems to be spending every moment she has studying, and the lights are on until midnight.」

「――Has she increased her studies again? Why so much?」

「…………」

「Is something wrong?」

「T-That’s…」

One of the knights stammered.

The king urged her to speak.

「Is this hard for you to say? No problem, you can say it.」

「Now, if you’ll excuse me. Rachel-sama visited Stella-sama’s room the other day.」

「Rachel? What is she doing here?」

Rachel is the second princess of this country.

Sam remembers that she and the first princess, Stella, had different mothers.

「It is very hard to say, but Rachel-sama has come to tell Stella-sama herself that at a party she attended the other day, the nobles were gossiping and laughing about Stella-sama as a child of a wrongdoer…」

「…Rachel. You came all the way here to tell Stella such a thing. Why don’t you follow your sister’s example and study a little?」

「I don’t know what she told her in detail, but since then, Stella-sama has been studying harder.」

(The second princess has a bad personality. She goes out of her way to mention that her sister is the topic of conversation, usually?)

Sam was disgusted by Princess Rachel, whom he had not yet met or seen.

「Open the door.」

「But…」

「It doesn’t matter, open the door. It is not good for her health to stay in her room every day, no matter how hard she is studying. Besides, there is someone I want her to meet.」

「The person you want her to meet is that boy?」

「Yes. You may not know him because you have not left this place, but he is a young wizard who has newly become a court wizard and is the most powerful wizard in the kingdom. He is also the man Stella is marrying.」

(……And before you know it, you’ll be married to someone else.)

「――, I beg your pardon. Please come through.」

「Mm.」

The door is opened by the knights.

「Follow me, Sam.」

「Yes.」

With the king, he entered the princess’s room.

It seemed unwise to enter a woman’s room without permission, even if it was her daughter, but the king did not care and continued on his way.

After going through the door, another door was opened by a maid in the room, and finally, he entered the princess’s room.

The room did not look very much like the princess’s.

There was a canopied bed, a wardrobe, and a mirror table, not so different from those of ordinary women, but books and documents were cramped in between.

Then there was a lone woman nibbling at a desk by the window.

The sound of her writing brushes was echoing in the room. It was as if Sam had wandered into the room of a scholar rather than a princess.

「Stella.」

「――, wa, Father! I am sorry, I did not realize.」

The princess jumps out of her chair when she hears her name called, realizes the voice is her father, and rushes to her knees on the floor.

「Good, make yourself comfortable. You seem to be working hard at your studies, by the way.」

「Yes, I still have a lot to learn.」

Princess Stella, who said such things with a smile, had pure white hair as Sam had heard beforehand.

Her straight hair, as white as snow, reached down to her waist.

Her skin was as white as her hair, probably because she is always holed up in her room studying. It is unlikely that she has been exposed to much sunlight.

Her limbs are thin and slender, and she is generally thin.

Bathed in the light that pierced through the window, she had a fantastic beauty.

She was not like her father, but her well-formed, neat appearance was eye-catching and refined beauty.

「I hope to study more and be recognized as a princess by all.」

Stella smiled at her father, but to Sam, she seemed somehow tired, impatient, and pressed.