“You guys.”
Rieta lifted her head with a sigh and looked at them.
“It seems like you always work like this.”
Pathetically, their faces distort.
“Even mercenaries on the streets who chase money know how to faithfully obey the orders of their clients. You each occupy the position of knights of the royal family.”
Rieta looked at the decorations of honorable knights hanging from their clothes.
Like it was too much of a decoration for them.
That look seemed to have offended them.
“Wh, what…!”
Moody and Taylor immediately jumped to their feet in anger.
On the other hand, Rieta didn’t show any reaction, and she just stared at the front while sitting in her seat.
“I was going to be kind to you because you were a poor Princess who was sold, but I can’t do it anymore.”
Taylor roughly picked up the dress from Rieta’s lap.
“Ack…!”
Rieta, startled, held onto the dress.
Taylor smiled and lifted his arm high, and at that moment, a riipp— sound came from the dress.
“No!”
When Rieta quickly let go of her hands, a satisfied sneer came from the two men.
…!
Rieta turned her head away. She didn’t want to look miserable in front of them.
I should have stayed calm…
She regretted it belatedly, but it was after the situation had completely sided with them.
Taylor held out the ragged dress in front of Rieta.
“You should accept the wedding dress. Princess.”
“Because the knights who faithfully obey orders brought it themselves.”
“…”
Taylor, wanting to provoke her further, tossed the torn dress over Rieta’s head as she sat.
“Ah, the bride’s dress was torn! We’ve done the groom’s job.”
After the words of ridicule, they began to laugh among themselves.
Rieta stood still, not having the energy to remove the dress that covered her face.
At this point, she doesn’t want to react, only thinking that it might be better for them to disappear.
“It would be a real trouble if the princess asks for a pay cut under the pretext of this… ah!”
They excitedly mocked Rieta, but at one point they stopped talking.
They made a sound like they were startled by something.
Was something going on?
As she wondered, their voices turned to pleading.
“No, that’s because the clothes are too old.”
“We didn’t tear it. How could we?”
“We know best how important this wedding is!”
“Truly!”
Who were they pleading with? It was clear that it wasn’t Rieta.
Rieta started pulling the heavy dress off her head.
However, the buttons on the dress got caught in her long hair, so it wasn’t as easy as she thought.
In the meantime, she could hear the pleading knights leaving the room with a clattering sound.
It seemed that they gave up making excuses and ran away.
“Uh…”
Left alone, Rieta was struggling to untangle her hair, which got tangled in the buttons.
How did it get tangled up in so many places?
She wondered if she should cut her hair off or not.
Just then, Rieta felt someone approaching her, who was covered in the dress.
It must have been the person that Sir Moody and Sir Taylor feared, but she couldn’t guess who it was.
Who is it? Before the thoughts that came to her, came to an end, the other person carefully lifted the dress.
“Ah.”
As Rieta held her hands above her head, remained rigid, staring blankly at the other person who had come for her.
They were her younger brothers.
They were still stiff-faced, as they were on the boat.
Did Rieta look pathetic to them? To end up being ridiculed by the knights.
“I, that’s…”
Rieta barely opened her mouth with a blushing face.
She wanted to cover her face with both hands, but she couldn’t because she would end up grabbing her hair and buttons.
“My hair is caught on the buttons…”
After stuttering, they looked at what Rieta’s hands were doing.
Rieta wanted to dig into the earth and hide for the first time in a long time.
Even if she didn’t, she left a bad image for her younger brothers, and now it got added with the word ‘pathetic’.
“Stay still.”
“Don’t move.”
The two children spoke almost simultaneously and began to carefully untie the hair that was caught in the buttons one by one.
“Uh… yes.”
Rieta replied belatedly, and put her hands down quietly.
The two children focused on untangling her hair in silence.
“…”
For some reason, it felt strange to see three people closely gathered around a dress.
It felt that they were getting incredibly close. Mentally.
“Thank you, Ver…non.”
Rieta summoned her courage and called her brother by name.
She thought her younger brothers were small and cute like rabbits, but at the moment when she became dependent on them like this, she somehow couldn’t think of such a thing.
She realized that time had passed.
“What about me?”
While Rieta stared at Vernon in admiration, her younger brother, Eddie, spoke up.
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