Chapter 28

“This, what’s on top of this……?”

Alice’s eyes gaze at the strange thing she sees for the first time.

At that moment I realized.

Oh, it’s still time Alice doesn’t even know what kind of fruit these blueberries are. It was said that the Rose family was indifferent to the little Alice, and did not treat her like family, and didn’t even serve her much food.

But I didn’t expect it to be this much.

I stopped crying in my mind and explained it quietly.

“It’s a fruit called blueberries. Although it is sour, the ripe fruit tastes sweet. Obviously, Lady will like it.”

Alice hesitated and took a bite of the cake with the fork that I gave her.  And after a while, Alice’s eyes widened.

“……it’s delicious!  Really, it tastes sweet as Lady Saeron said. That…… Can I eat one more time?”

“As much as you want. And Alice, you don’t have to ask. You just eat as much as Alice wants to eat.”

I felt sorry for Alice who was conscious of having another bite

I might have been able to help Alice in a more obvious way if I had been 20, no, at least 10 years old. I hated it when I was 6 years old.

I wonder if it would be burdensome if I kept looking at her, and when Alice slowly started eating the cake, I turned my head.

‘Hmm?’

Obviously, Cedric was eating, and Jake was also eating the least sweet vanilla macaron, and I saw two people sitting quietly. I approached and asked them a question.

“Don’t you eat?”

“……You made this too?  The packaging is different from yesterday.”

Then they spit out a completely ridiculous question. Seeing the luxurious packaging Nina pointed to, I tilted my head. It is not a handmade product made by anyone.

“Of course I didn’t make it!  I bought it from a newly opened luxury dessert shop in the capital city yesterday. Oh, of course, I didn’t buy it either. In fact, all of these were bought by Jake!”

“Huh? Me?”

Jake lifted his head at me suddenly calling his name.

But why… The reaction around me is cold?

“Ah, what is it? Jake bought it.”

Cedric, who had just eaten without a break, stopped the fork dipping the cake and made a rotten expression. Then Nina and Nicholas quietly lifted their hands with the expression that they thought this would happen.

“…….?”

No, what’s wrong?

Everyone hates Jake, or is there a problem because I didn’t make it?

“If the Lady had made it herself, I would have eaten it, but unfortunately, we do not eat the food sold in general stores.”

Nicholas said as if to solve my question.

I asked back with my eyes,’ Why?’ Then Ninaina replied, tying the flower arrangement above her head.

“We can’t help it but prepare in case we risk getting poisoned. We learned that way.”

“Ah……”

I couldn’t even think about it.

I just thought it would be nice to eat together.

“I’m sorry. I was rash. I will inform you in advance.”

At my words, Nina shook her head, waving the peacock feather fan next to her. Then, as if something had come to mind, she folded her fan and stood up.

“Well, it’s okay. Oh, more than that. In return for the caramel that Lady gave me yesterday, I have something to give as well.”

*

“You got something for me? For me?”

Nina thought as she looked at Emir staring at herself with a surprised expression.

‘What, did you give me a gift because you wanted to be rewarded?’

Although Ninaina was still at a young age, countless people have sent gifts to Ninaina just because of her status as an imperial family.

Some of them were flown by the name of children of her age, but in fact, most of them were sent by elderly nobles or royal families from other countries.

It was so prominently visible even to young Nina that they wanted to look good to her.

And Nina learned, through the people around her, that she should give the proper reward in such cases.

Gifts from other countries’ families who wanted to connect with the imperial family were simply returned, and gifts from families that had deep ties with the imperial family since ancient times were sent a reply at a similar level.