Book 6: Chapter 24
“Your Highness! Your Highness! Look, look! They’ve bloomed! They’ve bloomed!!” Lucia ran up to me, cheerfully and brightly, holding a flower pot.
I looked up from the documents and saw small white petals on the plant in the pot.
I smiled and said, “Not bad, Lucia. You took good care of it, huh?”
“Of course, you gave them to me, after all!” Lucia puffed her chest out proudly.
She then looked at Nier, who wasn’t too happy, and mocked her, “But it looks like a particularly dense person can’t take care of flowers so that they can bloom. She might’ve even split the seed.”
“If you only know how to swing a sword, just stick to being a bodyguard. What are you doing being a wife? If you can’t even nurture a flower, how are you going to raise a child?”
Nier folded her arms angrily and then indifferently fired back, “Someone is still sticking around, shamelessly refusing to leave, after losing a duel. It’s clearly only because His Majesty is generous and tolerant that she was able to stay. And yet, she’s acting like it’s justified in front of us. I really wonder if it wasn’t your elven shamelessness that caused my seed, which was planted next to it, to die.”
“Okay, enough, ladies.” Freya stepped out and ended their bickering. She then looked at Nier and said, “Miss Nier, your flower did not bloom, correct?”
Nier looked at me somewhat scared and then panicked, “No… it’s just… just… I think… maybe it’s not time for it to bloom yet…”