TVRTH [Book 1]

Chapter 64

Testing and Trial, Part V

Translator: Khan

Editor Group: Liber Reverie

If there were sisters, it was common to bring gifts that were similar. But she received only a bouquet of flowers like this. Nevertheless, Aria received the bouquet of flowers with a happy face, not expressing what was really on her mind.

"Thank you. It's a pretty tulip."

"It's my master's favorite flower."

"I see. Usually, people like the flowers of their family the most, but he must be very patriotic."

"Well... I can say that."

Aria, who gave a fresh smile in return for the bouquet, took her nose to the tulip bouquet and smelled it. Whether it was not the flower she could easily smell on the streets, she could smell the fresh, heavy fragrance from it.

"It smells so good. I don't think it's the usual smell of flowers. Where did you buy it?"

Aria asked, slowly blinking her eyelids full of eyelashes. Her beautiful face mingled with the flowers. Lane briefly looked into Aria's eyes with a faint frown in the middle of his forehead.

"... I bought it near the mansion."

Then he quickly turned his head to avoid her as if he had seen something wrong.

"If it's still this fresh, I guess it's from the capital, right? It's a lot closer than I thought."

"..."

Lane gave a look implying that he had made a mistake at the moment. Aria, who had fixed her gaze on him all the time, was able to catch that moment. Aria realized that his master was not a foreign aristocrat. He seemed to serve his master nearby, and it meant that his master was staying in the capital.

However, from the beginning, putting a foreign aristocrat on the list was simply a delusion. Lane's speech tone was a sample of the Imperial standard language. If he served as a foreign aristocrat or came from a foreign country, he would not be able to speak such a clean standard language. It would be different somewhere. According to Aria's experience, it was so.

'Then who the hell is it? Don't tell me he is the Crown Prince.'

No way. He would marry Princess Frederick soon. There was no way he would pay attention to Mielle when there were already a lot of rumors about his engagement with Princess Frederick. In addition, Mielle was nothing but a person who was entangled with the family that his engagement talk was coming and going. If this absurd idea was true and not an imagination, it was clear that it would bring bloody wind to the Empire. He wouldn't do that if he had an idea.

Aria shook her head, saying that this would never be the case.

"I'm curious about other kinds of flowers, too. If you don't mind, could you tell me about the flower shop?"

"... I'll let you know later. Right now, a little... I'm in trouble."

"Yes, and whenever you change your mind, let me know."

"... I will."

Little by little, Lane's reply was becoming late, perhaps because he realized that he had leaked information about his master's identity. He glanced at her face, worried that Aria might have noticed the little information.

'It's a rare tulip, so if she looks it up, she'll find out where it was purchased.'

So Aria smiled brightly as if she knew nothing. Lane returned to his first expression once he realized that his opponent was only fifteen years old.