Chapter 17 – Reconciliation

The person I’ve been waiting for is me… ?

I couldn’t understand what she said while holding my chin up.

No, it was not accurate to say that I did not understand.

Maria and I were close friends in the past, so it is understandable that she was looking forward to the day we would meet. If you’re close friends but have drifted apart due to a sad story, it’s only natural to look forward to the day we meet again.

However, it was strange to think about it when she said that the person she had been waiting for was me.

I don’t know what kind of emotion it is, but I clearly feel the longing. She fell in love with lilies after watching my cartoon.

In the meantime, she looked at me and said that while blushing.

I’ve been looking forward to it for a long time, and I didn’t know that I was Miss Lily.

Maybe it’s my mistake

It may be self-consciousness.

Now it was to the point of wishing it was self-consciousness.

I hope you see me as an ordinary friend, I just want to meet you… I really hoped to see him as a childhood friend.

I wasn’t looking at my friend that way.

Of course, in the past I was a man.

Although I did paint lilies, I was clearly heterosexual, so even when I was a man, I liked women.

My preference was only for that beautiful woman to mix her body with another beautiful woman, sharing fresh love with each other.

However, the years she had lived as a saint were too long to say that she liked women rationally.

It was that women were not sexually attracted to them.

But if you ask me if I, who was a man, came to like men rationally, then of course it wasn’t.

I’m the only one who doesn’t look like a man, and I don’t look like a woman.

It was only when beautiful women mixed their bodies.

Yes, only when I see lilies.

It wasn’t me, it was only when I saw it that my sexual desire boiled.

Maybe that’s why I started to focus more on painting.

“If you are the one who drew such a picture… You must be fine… ?”

Maria came up to me with her wet eyes.

I don’t know what she might be feeling towards me right now, but she knew it wasn’t going to be like this.

I blocked her mouth with my hand as she slowly approached my mouth.

“Ah… “

Realizing my refusal, Maria put on a face like the sky was falling.

“Please don’t be offended, Maria. I am… “

“I know… Just because you draw doesn’t necessarily mean you have the same taste.”

If you look at it, it was like that.

Maria has understood me from the past.

Maria was the only one who understood and befriended me, who was living a selfish life without accepting her duties as a saint.

Just because she’s grown older, her personality won’t go anywhere.

Maria held my hand with both of her hands with her expression of pity.

“I am actually confused. I opened my eyes to the feeling of love for a woman after reading Ellie’s cartoon… More than that, I hate that you reject me, Ellie. Just like from real and fake princesses… I think we want to confirm our love for each other and share true love.”

Maria said so and she let go of my hand and made eye contact with me.

Clearly, the eyes filled with pity, regret, sadness, and various emotions, but those eyes looking at me were still alive.

Eyes that once again made up their will.

I opened my eyes wide.

“Therefore… Ellie, I’ll try to make you look back on me. Someday… Until you love me.”

Maria smiled as she said that.

“… “

She still considers me a friend.

To be honest… I used to be a bit scared.

Could it be that she kidnapped me or threatened me with this incident and forced me to ask for it?

Or the various worries that you might take advantage of yourself by threatening after pretending to be a lily.

But she wasn’t like that.

It hasn’t changed over the years.

She still considers me a friend.

I chuckled.

“Really… You haven’t changed.”

“Whoops… Has this changed a lot? Anyone who lives as an heir in the imperial palace will go crazy somewhere.”

“Am I too kind to say that?”

“That, that… Because you are the opponent… Besides, how can I ask someone who draws my favorite manga… “

“John, you don’t have to, Marie.”

“Yes?”

Marie opened her eyes wide.

“You can’t ask your friend to treat you with respect, can you?”

I said that and smiled.

This side first thinks of me as a friend, but if you don’t think of me as a friend, wouldn’t that mean I’m trash?

“Ah… “

Tears began to form in Marie’s eyes, who had been looking up at me with a blank expression for a while at my words.

“Uh… Number of animals?”

“Huh… Suck… “

“Why, why are you crying?!”

Surprised, I took a handkerchief from my bosom and wiped away the tears.

I never thought that she would suddenly cry… ?

“Speaking… I was worried… I wondered if they would despise me and push me away… That is… When I approached, I felt uneasy when he blocked it with his hand… “

If you were anxious, why did you do that…

I’d rather try until I really fall in love, and then what should I do if I pretend that I’m drawing a cartoon like that?

Of course, I didn’t intend to argue with that, and it’s been a long time since I’ve forgiven that mistake, so it’s a good story.

Looking at this point, it seems that the personality of the past, which started from action, has not gone anywhere.

We didn’t have much in common in each other’s personalities, but the only similarity was that we were just going out.

Because that personality remained, the reason why she staged a play at a festival like this to find me was, of course, the Grand Princess of the North…

Grand Duchess of the North?

Oh right.

You should have asked that.

“Ahhh… “

“Hey, Marie? Pop! Pop!”

“Ahhh!”

This once.

I need to appease this kid first…

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“Do not worry… I’m not lying… The daughter of the Grand Duke of the North really came to this festival.”

I was glad to hear that.

I let out a sigh of relief.

I came to this festival for two reasons, one was to see my play and the other was because I wanted to meet the daughter of the Grand Duke of the North or watch it from afar.

“By the way, in order to be able to refer to it properly when drawing a manga, I will inevitably have to show you, would that be okay?”

“Ah… Okay.”

I should have a look

It’s probably a good story if you keep it a secret… I thought about what to do.

“What… The daughter of the Grand Duke of the North would be around here. Because the excuse to bring it was your play.”

“… “

Something, I don’t have a sense of reality.

In the middle of the festival, the princess and the saint were sitting on a bench and talking.

A commoner who knows our faces and identities would be horrified to see this.

In addition, now that the daughter of the Grand Duke of the North is going to be added, you may wonder what kind of war is going on.

I trembled.

“Previously… That… “

“Yes?”

“No, the way you talk… Let’s start fixing it… ?”

“Ah… “

Come to think of it, did I say that I didn’t have to be respectful?

“As long as there are two, two, I want to go back to the old days… “

“Then… Number of animals?”

“Yes, four!”

“If you say four, it doesn’t mean anything… “

I let out a sigh and said it, and only then did Marie gasp and slap her cheek.

Then he turned to me with a determined expression.

“Eh, eh… L… “

“L?”

Marie, who was trying hard to say something with her mouth shaking, closed her eyes tightly and asked as if shouting.

“Eh, Ellie… ! Ooh, do you want to go around the festival together?!”

How embarrassing it is for you to be gasping for breath with your face flushed.

“That, yes… Let’s go around together… “

“Joe, that was great!”

Is this the princess… ?

In the past, he was still a child with a bit of an adult side, but now doesn’t he feel like a pure child?

As I was scratching my head and looking down at Mari, whom I liked, someone approached us.

Let’s reflexively turn our head at the sound of the jabuk jabuk, there.

“Is this… ?”

A large woman with white hair reminiscent of hers and red eyes that looked a little creepy looked around and was approaching.

Mostly… That part is a big woman.

It was the so-called older sister style.

“Uh… “

“Ah, you are here.”

As I was looking up in bewilderment, Marie, who had been liking me with an embarrassed expression earlier, returned to normal and cleared her throat.

“Let me introduce you. This is the daughter of the Grand Duke of the North… This is Frapea del Ignia. And this side… The saintess, my name is Eris Christina.”

A woman named Frafea looked down at me as if she had finally found me after Marie’s introduction.

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Big.

That was my first impression.