Fake Cinderella

"Huh?"

Humph again sounds. Now much closer than just now.

"Your Highness!

A similar voice echoes Milady's scream.

"Who! You're a crook! Your Highness!!!

A third sound called hump. That blurs my ear.

Moment after moment, my spine became zombie.

Just a few more deviations, and that could have stuck him in the throat, or in the face, in the eye.

"Dear Elaine, this way."

The color of the falling arrow feathers is black.

(... it's the northern color)

"But... this is..."

"Think later. Run!!!

I run out holding a thin hand covered in lace gloves.

(What is it? This!! I should no longer be in danger of being targeted for my life!!

Even before, it wasn't so straightforward! Unexpectedly, I want to spill every cry.

I almost got poisoned, but I didn't get targeted for this physical, direct life.

I escaped to the back of the yard because I was being shot from the building, but maybe this was a failure.

(... 'Cause this could be pushing you, right?

Signs of someone coming after me from behind...... I walked into a narrow path, not even a path, and squatted in the shade of the shrub.

"... Your Highness?

Put your index finger in front of your lips.

Shortly afterwards, a human leg that apparently was following us went past the other side over the shrub.

"... it's hard to get back to the building, so let's go far and get out to the government side"

I dive my voice and tell you.

(So you can contact the rear palace and have them pick you up)

I'm sure I'll be in touch with His Highness Nadir soon.

I have a feeling I'll be a caged bird again for a while though.

"... what the hell..."

Naturally, but I guess Master Elaine isn't used to this. I'm breathing all over my body. Of course, so am I.

"I'm not sure either"

I was just certain they were after me.

(... they're after me...)

Is it me, or...?

Do your gaze on the white side.

(... the other side probably thinks we don't need to be intact, but rather, we can die)

"... sorry"

"Huh?"

"... it's probably me"

"What is it?

"I'm the one being targeted."

"Why, are they after you?

"It's..."

When I tried to hear more talk, I heard an arrow cut the wind again from behind.

"In the meantime, we'll talk later!

I took Master Elaine's hand again and ran out.

It is well known that the Royal Palace has an underground. But no one knows the whole story.

And that's because it's too broad.

"... This is..."

Dim stone passages… Dim, but not invisible at all, it is also possible to proceed without light sources if the eyes are used to it.

"As you can see, it's underground in the Royal Palace."

The unidentified assassins... maybe more than one... it was underground that I fled with Master Elaine.

Downpouring bows and arrows...... Even though the number of chasers seemed to be increasing, our own escorts did not even see their shape.

If you're underground, the arrows don't fly all over you.

(And...)

In the basement, there is a guard without appearance.

(Your Majesty said it was safer for me than anywhere else...)

Sometimes I have some guesses about who the guards without the appearance of saying that they would rule out other than the royal family, the Fourth Duke, and some of those who draw the blood of the Fourth Duke, but they are too absurd to speak a bit.

(But is it safe for Elaine to fulfill it...)

I appreciate the arrows just not flying, but I'd be in trouble if something happened to Lady Elaine because she stuck in the basement.

"... I, only once before, have been here"

"Just once?

"Yes.... it was fifty years ago, but I, I used to be the 'princess' of the Founding Fathers' Festival... that's when I walked in this basement with my father"

Master Elaine said it in a nostalgic tone.

"... Her Royal Highness was the Princess this year."

"Yes."

(... then Master Elaine is probably registered)

Lady Elaine had a prediction that she would probably be fine because she was a 'royal'. But if it was a 'princess', it's almost certain.

(Because 'princess' is authenticated in some way...)

"His Royal Highness, the last 'princess', gives his sword to His Royal Highness the King, who would not even be recognized as royal... as if it were a reproduction of the myth of the founding kingdom"

Ho, and a small exhale.

"... Huh?

I was told to rush, so for a moment, I was about to flush.

"Master Elaine?

"Yes."

Master Elaine looks at me in a quiet manner.

"Um, I'm the last 'princess'..."

"Your Highness is the last Elsevelt, isn't he?

(Huh? Is that what anyone knows?

"Oh... if it were you, you would have been a secretary known only to the King and the Four Dukes. I know because I asked my father."

The decoy and Lady Elaine said.

"Dear Elaine's father..."

Lady Elaine was born in Elsevelt.

I string the lineage diagram in my head.

"From Her Royal Highness's point of view, if you say so with your father, you are my grandfather. Another generation when it comes to motherhood, will you lay down your generations...... Folding of the ritual of the Founding Fathers Festival. We were walking here together... and my father was so depressed that I, I thought I'd done something again and apologized. And then I remembered what I said yesterday, sorry it wasn't my fault."

(... er, Elaine is born between those who have been entered into a posterior wife, so Elzevelt's blood is thin in the maternal system)

Still, my late wife also had Elzevelt's blood on her, so maybe she had the expectation that...

"It was possible to say that I might be recognized as a 'princess of keys', but I was told that I was sorry to find out that it wasn't there. At that time, it was harder than it is now."

"What is it?

"When I was a princess, it was after your sister Elizabeth ran off."

I almost gave him a weird voice by accident. Right, is this guy born in that era?

"Besides, your brother, who succeeded the Duke of Elsevelt family, died successively of your son and wife… I guess that's why my father entrusted me with some secrets. Just in case it wasn't inherited correctly, just so you remember the right thing."

"The Right Thing..."

"I was told not to tell anyone. Even if you get married, you shouldn't even tell your husband.... that when your brother can't have your son and Elzevelt's direct line is gone, I will teach him who will be the next Duke of Elzevelt... Fortunately, your brother has received his late wife and your father was born, so that is no longer necessary... but there is nothing wrong with being Her Highness."

Lady Elaine laughed at the look on her face. I don't know what I'm getting at, but the look on his face is very cute, and I'm going to forget where he is now.

At the end of the day, there is a sense of urgency that we are fleeing a life-targeting enemy, but we also tend to forget that a lot.

"... then Master Elaine will be fine"

"What is it?

"... because in the basement of the Royal Palace, I heard there was a guard without appearance"

"Oh...... yeah, that's right. I was registered, and my father said... at that time, I wouldn't even need it anymore."

Heh heh, and laugh thanks to you.

"I'm not in that situation, but it's like some kind of adventure and I'm excited"

I'm sorry, and the old lady who apologizes is so cute.

(I want to grow old like this)

Probably not for me, though.