When I rolled up my well-dried hair, my preparations were complete. It’s a birthday party, but I felt like my preparation time was getting longer every year. Why the hell?

  “Oh, my. Princess, you look so beautiful today.”


  “Really?”


  “Of course.”


  Yeah, I knew that I was pretty.

  I nodded and accept that compliment; Serira and Elyne laughed thereafter.

  What’s wrong with these two? Why were they laughing at me? I frowned, slightly irritated by their unusual reaction, and Serira pattered me on the shoulder. I became a bit uncomfortable after then. What was the meaning of this? Was she cheering me up? Without time to ask a question, Assisi led me outside.

  “…”


  Of course, since I was all set up, I should go to my dad, who would go to the party with me, first. I knew that mom had been freed from the job of guarding me since Assisi became my guardian knight…


  Something was like… It made me feel like something was uncomfortable somehow. I felt like my mom had been neglecting me. Standing there with a slight frown, I approached Assisi, who had been waiting in the drawing-room all this time. He then looked at me and asked.

  “Pardon me. Who are you?”


  “Your master.”


  “Ah.”


  As if convinced, Assisi opened his mouth. Did I transform or something? I was still the same except for my hair, dress, and all these accessories! They were all the same as usual. What’s the point of asking? Did he have a problem with his facial recognition? Of course, the same questions and answers came last year and the year before that too.

  … It was really such a depressing consistency.

  Then again… he’s the sort of man who would ask if I had a twin once I changed my hairstyle. Thus, Assisi thought that Elyne was triplets. This fool.

  Anyway, I still needed to get what I needed to get, right?

  “What did you get me for my birthday, Assisi?”


  “What would you like?”


  I calmly asked him, and Assisi asked me earnestly. I answered back without delay.

  “A House.”


  “…”


  “Or the land is fine too.”


  Owning property was the way to go these days!

  … of course, that was a list I wanted in my past life, but they were all useless gifts to me now. What would the princess do with land and the houses? The only problem was that I already had too much of both. However, Assisi, who never took my jokes as well, jokes, nodded his head with a stern look.

  “I shall give you all of my fortunes.”


  I didn’t need that!

  Assisi tilted his head when I reject it in fright. It was scary because he would always say the most absurd things with the most severe expressions I had ever seen!