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“…5 copper?”

Jake muttered to himself, startled.

The other children also seemed to be agitated.

Five copper coins are the same price as one silver coin, but for those of us who have a lot of pocket money, it was a fairly low price.

‘It could be overpriced  compared to the cost, or anything like that. Don’t tell me?’

I heard the story about the rough prices through the nanny who usually likes to go to the market.

However, it was difficult to estimate the price of these trivial accessories, which are not daily necessities.

“Wow! Very cheap!”

“……”

Of course, seeing Cedric’s reaction like that, even if it’s a rip off, I think he’ll buy it right away.

‘Ah, well. Fine. If he wants to buy it, just buy it. Let’s just leave it alone.’

Five people except me went to the stall and started looking at things.

I took a step back and waited until everyone had bought a headband that they liked.

“…Which is better, a wolf ear or a leopard ear? Hah, I’m in big trouble because they both go so well together.”

Cedric was thinking seriously about the wolf headband with soft gray faux fur and the leopard-skin print headband.

Somehow, when he was looking at himself in the mirror placed on the kiosk, I felt like he was being narcissistic…

‘Ahh! Of course, he was handsome, but he didn’t have to say that on his own.’

I swallowed the words I couldn’t bear to say.

I could see the stall owner trying to keep a business smile with a look like, ‘What is this narcissist knight?’

“……”

Meanwhile, Jake seemed to be very interested in the unicorn horn headband, and he seemed to be struggling to choose between pink and sky blue.

It has beads that give off different colors depending on the angle, so it glistened.

‘Jake, you look good in pink and sky blue together.’

Of course, a little pink would look better with that hot chocolate with milk-mixed brown hair.

As I was looking at Jake, Alice spoke to me.

“Miss Emir, please pick a headband for me! I like both the sheep and the rabbit, which one is prettier?”

I looked at Alice’s outstretched hand.

The sheep headband with curled horns in the shape of fluffy cotton was really cute.

It seemed to suit the light blonde Alice.

“Ummm, the sheep is pretty…”

I was about to answer, but when I saw the rabbit headband on the other hand, I was speechless.

It was a pink headband with bunny ears filled with soft cotton.

‘Oh, I can’t decide! And it’s not mine either.’

As I pondered, I carefully pointed to the rabbit ear headband.

“I think this one is prettier. Of course, Alice goes well with both.”

“Then, as Miss Emir said, I will buy the rabbit headband.”

Saying that, Alice really smiled like a rabbit.

7-year-old Alice had baby teeth incisors that really looked like a rabbit’s.

However, the present Alice was fully grown, with no such small cuteness to be found.

It was a little disappointing, but it was really nice to see her smiling like that with her future face.

Unlike the original story, it looks like a happy adult Alice.

As I watched Alice, I heard the chatter of the brother and sister next to me.

“Don’t you think the pig is a better match for Brother? Look, here’s the pig nose that comes with the set. It would be perfect if you added this.”

“What are you talking about? I like brown bears and zebras. What do you mean with pig? If you like it so much, you can have it.”

“No. I’m going to be a cat.”

At first, I was wondering what the situation was, but Ninaina recommended a pig headband to Nicholas… No, it was a forced situation.

But Nicholas was persistent and insisted on my taste.

‘When you look at it like this, the two really look like brothers and sisters. I don’t usually know about it, but is a family a family?’

I was smiling silently at the two of them, when I suddenly felt someone put a headband on my head.

“Are you surprised? Sorry. I think this will suit Mir well.”

The culprit was Jake.

When I turned around, he smiled and apologized bashfully.

I put my hand over my head and touched the headband.

‘What animal is it?’

I touched my hand and felt it.

It has fluttering imitation feathers, and in the middle is a very long horn… is this a unicorn?

“A unicorn headband?”

“Yes. I chose pink. I just got Mir’s too while buying mine, and mine is light blue.”

“……!”

I narrowed my eyes. Anyway, Jake, how smart.

If he had asked me before paying, he knew that I will answer to not buy it for me, so he put it on me after buying it.

“You didn’t have to buy it. Thanks anyway, Jay.”

However, I thanked him for the sincere gift for me.

Then Jake smiled.

“I’m glad it suits you well.”