Mochiron, Isharyōseikyū Itashimasu!

15.

That day, a ball was held at the castle.

For the sake of meeting my father, I decided to attend the ball.

Usually, I never bother to attend the ball if I do not have a new dress and or jewels to wear.

Therefore, without anything new merchandise to advertise, it was more likely that I will not make any presence at all in any kind of ball.

This was a classic sales tactic.

However, I decided to make an exception for this time, in order to catch my busy father.

If the ball was going to be held at the castle, all those powerful aristocrats were obliged to attend it.

There were also no exception in regard to my father.

As I looked around for my father inside the ballroom, I pasted a smile on my face.

It seemed that my father was having a conversation with his Excellency Prime Minister.

Am I allowed to interrupt them?

"Oya, is that your daughter over there?"

"A~ Yulias. Come over here."

I approached the two men with a business smile on my face.

"I am sorry for interrupting you during your conversation."

"Lady Yulias seemed to become more and more beautiful every time I see you."

"Thank you very much, Prime Minister."

Prime Minister was grinning at me.

"I heard that recently you had been getting closer to His Highness, the Prince."

"Yes. He is a friend of mine,"

"Friend....."

The Prime Minister uttered that word slowly.

"Your father is an ambitious person. It is impossible for you to forever stay as a friend of His Highness, right?"

The Prime Minister was smirking at me.

Without losing a beat, I chuckled back at him.

"I am going to inform you this since you are the Prime Minister. Between ourselves, I am as ambitious as my father. So I think that His Highness is a necessary cog-wheel for the sake of bringing advantages to my house."

"The cog-wheel....."

I continued as I grinned.

"Rather than being His Highness' lover, I think that, it will be more lucrative if I were to be able to obtain the diplomatic power concerning the foreign trade; therefore, establishing His Highness role as the necessary cog-wheel.... Is what I desired out of my friendship with him."

"So he had been staying by your side all this time without knowing that you have been regarding him as a cog-wheel."

"I know about it."

It was His Highness, who suddenly appeared beside us.

The Prince stared at me before continuing.

"That woman is also here."

"I know! How about trying not to be alone as much as possible?"

"You have to help me! That person is going to bump into me again!"

"I know! Good luck."

"I already written that report for you!"

Needless to say, it was his slipped of tongue.