CH 89

One day, about three days after Cain left for the neighboring country. Without Sasha’s noticing, Diana went to Ilvalino’s servant room. 

“Like I said… How many times do I need to tell you that you shouldn’t come here?”

“I came here because I have a secret story for Il-kun. Hey, Il-kun. Let’s bring Sasha into our group.  

“Hah?”

Cain was gone but as always, Ilvalino still slept in a hidden room next to Cain’s room. It was because Cain will come back someday.

Diana has also had her own room since last year, and that room was directly below Cain’s room. Next to Diana’s room was also a hidden room for servants, in which Sasha was asleep.

“What do you mean bringing her in?”

“We’ll tell her that the lady that I am is just an alias to present to the world. As long as Sasha takes care of everything around me, I can’t keep lying to her.”

“That may be the case but…”

“Also, I’d like to ask Professor Yannis to increase lessons for Siriyum language.”

“Don’t tell me, you want to follow him and go study abroad, right?” 

“Exactly! I won’t put up with this. I’ll put in effort and will not put up with this.” 

Those were the words that Cain always used to say.

However, if she did that, that would mean that only Diana would remain in Siriyum for three years after Cain’s graduation. 

She can only be together with him for three years. The six-year separation was only divided into every three years.

“There are three more years until you start school, so it might be a good idea to start preparing. Whether to actually study abroad or not, let’s think of it separately.”

“Yes!”

Diana always replies to things excitedly. She did say yes, but Ilvalino knew that her intention to study abroad was probably not gone. 

“Even if we’re going to expose the secret to Sasha, we have to do it well or it would be exposed to Father and Mother and it would be all for nothing.”

“That’s right. Hmm. Why about telling Sascha the story of Shokokumanyu or the story of the king disguised as a playboy?”

“Suddenly just saying “There is an old story..”… It’s difficult to start a conversation like that, you know?” 

Both Ilvalino and Diana were racking their brains over this, but they didn’t come up with a good idea.

At such a time, both of them thought that if Cain were there, he would come up with a good idea saying “I thought of something good!” but they didn’t say it out loud. Because if they say it out loud, it would come out together with the lonely feeling. 

“Let’s find out about things around Sasha. Her hobbies or her friendships… When we know about what she likes and dislikes, then we can find out if she has an opening.” 

“Can I ask you to do this, Il-kun?”

“Please leave it to me. It will take some time, but I will investigate.”

“As expected from a ninja.” 

“I’m not a ninja.”

Ilvalino’s room was small and had minimal furniture only for one person so there was only one chair. So Diana was sitting in the chair and Ilvalino was sitting at the edge of the bed.

It was concluded that there was nothing they could do about Sasha at that time, so Ilvalino thought that Diana would get up to leave but Diana stayed seated on the chair and showed no sign of getting up. Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com

“Is there something else?”

“I want to resolve the misunderstandings between Father and Mother about my brother, but what do you think I should do?”

“What do you mean by misunderstanding?”

About doting her sister too much, Ilvalino thought that was the undeniable truth and was not an understanding, but was there anything else that was misunderstood?

Diana crossed her legs and rested her elbows on them, supporting her chin with her arms. If Sasha saw her, she would say that it was an improper posture but Ilvalino didn’t find fault in it. It was because he was told by Cain to help with Diana in relieving her stress. 

“It’s about brother’s matchmaking. They think that Brother one-sidedly had a terrible attitude towards the girls, but that’s not true.” 

“Is it not true?”

“…It’s true for some girls, but almost all of them are not true.” 

Diana crossed her legs again and this time, she folded her arm. She pouted and groaned. It was not extreme, but it wasn’t an attitude that a lady should not have. 

“There’s a girl called Kei-chan. I first met her at the Queen’s embroidery party and she’s the girl that I play together with. That girl also came to the tea party as the matchmaking partner for Brother, but she was talking about riddles with me all the time. Brother just laughed at us and didn’t participate in the conversation. Kei-chan was asked by her father how the tea party was and it seemed like she said that she was talking to Di all the time.”

“Maybe they took it wrongly as she didn’t talk with Cain-sama?”

“I don’t think she said that she was ignored in particular, Kei-chan is a good girl after all. Also, with the girls that we always meet at the Queen’s embroidery party, even when there were only three of us at the tea parties, we talked as usual.  About the next embroidery party or talking about the embroidery that we’re doing now, talk about flowers or talk about sweets and the likes of it.” 

When Cain tried to attack Arundilano, he was under penitence and after that, he sent out an apology letter with an embroidered handkerchief to the children who were involved. Some of them were embroidered by Ilvalino, but publicly all were presented as handkerchief embroidered by Cain. 

Because of the handkerchiefs, there were a few children who started to join the meeting to embroider instead of playing with toys.

The Queen was pleased to see the young children who hadn’t started school gathered at the embroidery party to practice and show off their poor embroidery to each other.

Cain and Diana also attended the embroidery party held by the Queen every other month. Since Cain would take a break from knight training when he attended the embroidery party, for some reason, Arundilano also attended the embroidery party.

The ladies who were already friends with them there know that Cain doted on Diana. So they were not surprised when Cain appeared with Diana at the matchmaking which also served as a meeting for the tea party. 

Most of the ladies enjoyed conversations like a continuation from the usual embroidery party and headed back, but some of them still gave it a try to ask questions and reacted as told by the parents since it was a matchmaking. Because of that, they were shocked when Cain gave them the cold shoulder when it was a topic of conversation that didn’t involve Diana but at the embroidery party after that, when they met again, Cain was his usual self so they were relieved. 

“Brother had a cold attitude because it was matchmaking… After that, he treated them as friends as usual at the embroidery party. I think for the ladies who were not acquainted with us from the embroidery party, he just came across as a cold person. “

“Hmm … He was cold because it was matchmaking, I see.”

“Yes… Yes”

“Because it’s Cain-sama, he should have been able to do a little better though.” 

“Totally.” 

A young lady who didn’t normally know Cain, but only met him during matchmaking was ignored when they met. The way the matchmaking went was informed to the parents and that was how there were complaints made.

To begin with, it wouldn’t have been such a problem if the matchmaking were held after school had started and friendship had been established. Because of the three years difference and His Royal Highness The Prince was around his age, it should have been fine to do the matchmaking after His Royal Highness The Prince’s fiancee was decided. 

“Let’s involve Sasha. Resolve  Father and Mother’s misunderstanding. I will make sure to carry out these two things. Please cooperate with me, Il-kun.”

“As you wish, my lady.” 

So that Cain could home pleasantly, Diana decided that she would be active behind the scene as she clenched her fist tightly.