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Alicia, not caring that we could not keep up with the conversation, continued.
“I met the Queen of the Forest there,”
…What’s a Queen of the Forest?
Was she some kind of Pretty Princess who talked to animals? Did you help her or something?
When I first heard about it, I stood up straight, but now I couldn’t do it anymore.
“That person beat me to a pulp! She almost killed me!”
Beaten to a pulp!
She was not the Queen of the Forest I had imagined singing with little birds!
“She was really strong. Maybe that defeat was a retribution…”
I couldn’t believe Alicia lost….
“That’s when I got her to train me as an apprentice, so to speak.”
Oops, here we go again.
Maybe I was the only one who was stuck in my mind. Albert, who was standing next to me, was holding his head in his hands.
“That’s where I fought, Uncle Will, which is real but also not real.”
No, wait I would like to be on the side of the head holding team too.
I was not saying that Alicia was not a good storyteller. It was just that the level of storytelling was too difficult.
We mere mortals couldn’t keep up with her at full speed.
“He almost killed me there as well.”
What am I going to do? I really didn’t understand what was going on.
Did she mean that she and Jicchan had a duel? …Oh, so that’s why Jicchan was muttering about Alicia before he died.
…No, but even if that was the case, I couldn’t make sense of it.
Maybe I shouldn’t try to understand the meaning of this story. That would be wiser.
“Then Duke-sama and I came back after that.”
“Yeah, I see. As if I would ever be able to understand that!”
I finally said out loud.
Alicia looked at me with a “What?” expression. That’s the look we wanted to give you.
How could you think that we could understand everything you just said?
Alicia turned to Henry.
“Kushana… I haven’t even fulfilled my promise to the Queen of the Forest. I still have unfinished business in Ravaal Kingdom. So I must return to the Ravaal Kingdom again, no matter what it takes. Do you understand, Big Brother Henry?”
“No, not at all.”
Henry replied without a pause.
Alicia’s expression of “What?” That expression appeared on her face again.
This was far beyond what we had imagined Alicia’s living conditions in the Ravaal Kingdom would be like. No one could say anything.
“…Alicia is supposed to be a young lady, right?”
“Yes.”
Alicia nodded smiling at Finn’s words.
I understand very well what Finn was trying to say; Alicia may be a young lady, but she didn’t act like one. Yet the elegance she exudes was unmistakably noble.
“Ali-chan, are you trying to be an Empress?”
“Empress…. That would certainly be a good idea.”
Well, Alicia was the kind of girl who wouldn’t deny that she was going to be an Empress.
Curtis said with a chuckle, “You can be one, Ali-chan”.
Alicia’s cheeks puffed up a little as she looked at Curtis and said, “Please don’t make fun of me,” but I was sure that Curtis meant what he said.
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