“Good morning.”
“Ah, good morning.”
I exchanged morning greetings with Monica, who came to my room as I was changing early the next morning.
Seriously, could you please stop targeting my changing time to come to my room? I managed to hide myself just in time, but one wrong move and I would have been caught in a compromising position wearing only my underwear. I’m used to it, though.
“By the way, I feel bad for you and Sandra, but I’ll be leaving here soon, so could you please prepare?”
“‘Leaving soon,’ you say…”
“Yeah. It was only one night, but I already miss the Royal Capital.”
I tried to convince them that it was just my selfishness, with a slightly desperate look.
Hehe, how’s my acting? Caz must be captivated too… Yeah, sorry. Don’t look at me like that.
“So, tell Sandra about this too… !?”
“Really… for someone like me, you would…”
Suddenly, Monica pressed her cheek against my back and whispered in a strained voice.
Ah… she noticed after all.
However.
“I don’t like that way of putting it. ‘For someone like me’? There’s no personal maid in this world better than you.”
“Ah…”
“Listen. I will never allow you to belittle yourself. Even if it’s your own words.”
I turned around and told her, looking into Monica’s hazel eyes.
You usually tease me so much and act cocky more than necessary. Why do you seem so insecure now…?
“That’s right. You are the only maid who has served Lord Hal all this time. As Lord Hal says, we won’t allow you to deny yourself.”
“Yeah! Monica makes lots of yummy food for me too, and she’s super kind!”
Sandra, who had entered the room unnoticed, and Caz, who was jumping on the bed, both denied Monica’s words.
Because you are my… no, our ‘Precious Thing’.
“Alright, if you understand, let’s hurry and prepare! I feel bad for Monica, but I want to go home quickly!”
“Hehe… I can’t refuse Lord Hal’s whims, can I?”
“That’s right! …Oh, but since we’re going back anyway, let’s eat something delicious on the way!”
“Yay! I want to eat sashimi again!”
I, Sandra, and Caz laughed, saying such things.
Just so Monica wouldn’t feel any guilt or responsibility.
Having a wife and partner who immediately go along with me like this is the best, isn’t it?
“W-well, I suppose I have no choice. I’m the only one who can take care of you all, so I’ll have to ask for a raise as soon as we return to the Royal Capital.”
Monica pushed up her glasses and puffed out her chest, acting playfully.
Her hazel eyes were slightly teary.
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“Y-you’re already leaving!?”
“Yeah. I have no more business here.”
Madam Margo rushed out, her face pale, as she watched us loading our luggage into the carriage.
Well, of course. We were supposed to stay for a month, but we said we were leaving after just one night.
Besides, Madam Margo knows, doesn’t she?
That their negligence made their master uncomfortable.
“Well then, thanks for everything.”
“Ah…”
Ignoring Madam Margo’s gesture as if to stop us, the carriage headed towards the Royal Capital… but not before stopping in a nearby town for a meal.
We left without eating breakfast, after all.
“Well, I’ll miss this ocean view, but still, even though it was mostly traveling by carriage, I had fun spending time with everyone like this.”
“Hehe… I’m always happy as long as I’m with Lord Hal.”
As she said that, Sandra rested her cheek on my shoulder.
Yeah, my wife is super cute.
Then.
“…Prince Harold, Young Lady, Caz-san. Would you mind listening to my boring old story?”
Monica, with an unusually serious expression, looked at us and said that.
“Of course. Tell me about Monica.”
“I only know about you since you started serving me, so I’m happy to hear it.”
“Yeah, yeah!”
We looked back at Monica and nodded.
“Then please listen. To the past of this Monica Ashton, who was a foolish clown.”
Placing her hand on her large chest, Monica bowed grandly with a composed expression.
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