Shinario-dōri ni Taijō Shita no ni, Imasara Nan no Goyōdesu ka?

"I've always thought so and I still don't think that's wrong. That's why I blamed you, and I'm still talking about it. It's just... you started working downtown, and there's something I think."

According to your father, he knew where I was from the beginning. From the time I left the mansion until I went around the store that was open at night and settled into the current store, my escort followed me.

"After a while, the first time I went to see how you were, Elise came home crying that day"

"Your mother...?

"Oh, I thought you were laughing."

………

"You always seemed less interested in everything. I looked at him like I'd given up and hardly ever turned against him. Well, obediently, badly, you weren't a hegemony, and you were laughing with a face that you wouldn't even show your family..."

………

"Seems I was shocked at you for being happier than I was at the mansion at first, but Elise couldn't seem to be happy to go see you work happily"

"... Mother..."

"Every time I go to see how you are, Elise says. I was scolded for what I did today, I was thanked for responding like this to my guests today, it seems like I was mainly making suggestions like this today... Elise tells me you were alive and as if you were someone else. Christiane, you..."

Until then, my father, who had a slightly distant eye, looked closely at me.

"Isn't your happiness in your current life?

It hardened by accident.

Life is certainly fun and busy but also rewarding right now.

... but.

"It's not an instant answer."

Your father breathed slightly.

"Yes... although I don't know which is happier... Father, me. If I'm allowed to, I want to start over as the daughter of the Duke's family. I shouldn't have run away from so many things..."

"... that's the same for me. Not as a father, not as a duke. Even if I lost my power from your eyes, I never took the time to talk to you seriously."

My father's shoulder is slightly dropped.

"This time too... it is obvious from your actions that there are errors in judgment, but all of a sudden I made a foolish imitation of the problem and blamed it on the results. … from the very beginning, if we had talked about this and deepened our understanding, it would not have turned out so pathetic."

Saying so, your father took out his pocket watch.

"His Majesty is speaking to His Highness by now."