How About a Refill? ~The Elegant Tea Party of the Grand Witches~

"Are you calm?

Ivan spoke to Miriam while drinking the tea served.

"I'm sorry for your concern."

I see.

……

……

The conversation does not continue. How much time has passed in the heavy silence? Miriam and Ivan, young maids in the room. Because there is no conversation, only the maid's service sounds chattering.

"How are you, brother?

"Yes, but you've been working a lot lately, and you're in the jade palace office late every day."

You could easily imagine what your job might have been, and Ivan leaned on it like she said, "I see."

Silence wraps the room heavily.

"... I'm really sorry about your sister. I always thought I had to apologize."

Ivan lowers his head to Miriam when he says so.

"Please raise your face. Your Highness Ivan."

"But..."

"Royalty, don't lower your head so easily."

Ivan raised her face and Hazel's eyes stared firmly.

"What Your Highness did to my sister is not very forgiving and I will not forgive you."

Drop your shoulders on the words, and raise your face again to the words that follow "………".

"Your Highness is Emilio's brother. After marriage, we become brother-in-law. So even if I can't forgive you, I want to have a good relationship."

"Well... thank you..."

Shizukuzuku conveyed the cheek of Ivan, who was lying down.

I don't have anything to do, so I'll talk to you two for a while. The subject is all about Emilio.

"Oniisama and so on! You're inconspicuous, you're good at martial arts, and you're good at your studies! It's not noticeable."

"I don't know if you're complimenting me or despising me..."

"Still, that tough face! Black hair and blue eyes! I can't believe you're tall enough to have a good personality! Refreshing!"

(I wonder if oniisama loves it after all...)

Miriam watches Ivan praise his brother in a humiliating tone.

"... I've always thought it worthwhile for my brother to take the throne. That's why that day I tried to tell my uncle not to delay Congress in any more factions."

Miriam rounded his eyes to Ivan's words. Isn't Ivan about to lose the throne struggle and start a case as a result?

"Did His Highness Ivan say that he was not willing to take the throne....?

Ivan agrees slowly.

"Originally, neither I nor my mother wanted the throne. Her majesty, the concubine, and Her Majesty have a good relationship. Not to mention, it was none other than my mother who gave impetus to the marriage of Father and Her Majesty."

"Well, is that so!?

Ah...

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Sasha, the current king of the kingdom of Irvilière, and Ornella, the queen, were unusual royal marriages.

Sasha had a fiancé in the first place. The eldest daughter of the Duke of Santangelo, Benedicta, is the current concubine.

However, since it was an engagement that had been decided before I realized anything, not only were there no love feelings for the person in question, but also the character of the masculine benedictor was helped, and it was more like a man (·) friend who liked each other than fiancées.

During a royal tour, Sasha meets Ornella at the Earl's Mansion where she stays when visiting one of the Earl's domiciles. Sasha falls in love at a glance with her dark silky hair, her moist eyes, and her lustful little body, Ornella.

Ornella was also attracted to Sasha with her chestnut hair and blue eyes. However, Sasha had a fiancé named Benedicta, who was too different in status from the prince and the countess, so no matter how much Sasha had spoken, she stubbornly persisted.

It was the unusual benedictor who pushed them on their back.

Benedictor said to Sasha, "If you like to burn so much, go through it. No matter what happens, no matter who opposes it," Ornella said, "I can only see Sasha as a male brother, a male friend, and so on, and so on. You're the only one who can love him as a man, Nera."

And I said to the troubled outsider, "If you say that, I'll be the concubine, and I'll be the backshield and everything. Are you complaining? I shut him up.

Then, after Sasha's onslaught, Ornella finally fell and got married.

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"Besides, now I have a mother and a father, not a queen, but a queen."

Yes?

Miriam inadvertently sounds crazy at Ivan's mysterious remarks.

"I don't know what to say, my mother doesn't have eyes on cute things... Does Her Majesty look very unlikely to have an adult child?

Ah...

Reminds me of my face when I got engaged. Emilio's mother, Queen Ornella, looked as pathetic as if she were 20 years old and the time had stopped there. It was very impressive for the king to stare at a quiet queen with a rolling bell.

"Both my brother and I were loved when we were little. By the way, I've been waiting a long time for you to marry your brother and enter the royal palace. I'm looking forward to having you and your queen sit next to each other for tea."

"Am I too? Was it a mistake?

"I think you're much prettier than you think you are. It's just that your family doesn't have the same direction. Unicorn and kittens, that's the difference."

Miriam half-eyed at the subtle analogy, but managed to reclaim it, prompting the continuation of Ivan's story of "that day."