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That night...

Kalix laid down on the bed, but couldn't sleep all night. It was because of his thoughts about Lelia.

From what he has seen, she was a very nice person. He felt the same way when he visited her before and talked to her about the secret.

"You... Ah... What happened last night, you shouldn't let anyone know about it."

"... Of course. Do not worry. By the way, are you okay?"

"Uh... Well, I'm okay."

He was there to warn her just in case she tells Romeo about his seizures. Lelia nodded her head as if it was natural, but looked very worried about him.

His confidence grew even more.

She is a very loyal and trustworthy guy.

'I didn't know there would be such pain...'

Anyway, every time he saw Lelia, she reminded him of Leo, So Kalix liked Lelia.

'Somehow, even though she's a woman, she doesn't feel so gritty.'

Kalix knew that he had a hard time conversing with women from an early age. He was very simple at best, but was also the worst because his behavior was terrible.

In front of women, he felt like he had to be more polite and modest, so it was difficult to deal with them.

But he felt comfortable with Lelia from the beginning.

Maybe it's because she resembles Leo?

After thinking about Lelia all night, Kalix came up with another hypothesis.

'Or maybe he was originally a man, but was raised as a princess?'

When he was a former mercenary, he had heard similar stories somewhere.

It happened a long time ago in a country where only men can succeed the throne. They said that there were men who were raised as women in fear of being a threat to the throne.

It was a pretty plausible hypothesis.

If Romeo was right next to him, he would have said, 'Stop writing novels in your head and grow up.'

But Kalix was very serious in his own way.

Kalix spent the night burning his imagination just like that.

***

"What is all this?"

"This is a letter to Sir Raymond...."

When she asked the question again, the servant replied as if she was in trouble.

Lelia was stunned.

When she woke up in the morning to eat, she found that her attendant came with a basket full of envelopes.

At first, there were dozens of them.

The attendant said she was supposed to deliver some of these yesterday. She said that it was the accumulation of the new letters that came today and what she couldn't hand over yesterday.

She exited Lelia's room and left the basket of letters on the table of her parlor.

"......."

Lelia, who was left alone, carefully opened her letters one by one.

The letters were things like "I was amazed at the courage you showed us at the ball." or "I want to build a friendship."

All of them were letters from the female nobles who participated in the ball.