Girl Talk Between Princess Sophia and Princess Noelle
◇ Princess Sophia’s Perspective ◇
“Your tie’s crooked, Takatsuki.”
“Thanks, Sasa.”
“Hey, Makoto, let’s go train over here.”
“Sure.”
“Luuuu, you two don’t need to go train alone, do you?”
“Aya, you tried to kiss him when you straightened his tie, didn’t you?”
The two girls glared at each other from close range. In other words, it was the same sight as always.
“My knight, I wish to go shopping. Come with me.” Furiae began pulling him by the arm.
“Right, right,” he answered.
“No fair, Fuu!”
“Fuuri! Wait your turn!”
“Uh...turn? We’ll be right back...?”
Three beauties were all fawning over him... It used to be just two, but yet again, another had been added.
Ugh. Maybe I should join them. I had duties to attend to, though...
“Lady Sophia, your next appointment,” my subordinate announced.
“I know!”
So, with precious little choice, I parted from Hero Makoto.
◇
“That’s what happened,” I finished. “There are more and more girls around him all the time, Lady Noelle.”
“You do not have it easy, Sophia.”
Once my official duties in the castle had been dealt with, Lady Noelle had invited me to her private room.
I sighed as we sipped tea together.
Then, there came a knock at the door, followed immediately by someone entering.
“Hey, Noelle... Oh, Princess Sophia is with you?” Ryousuke Sakurai—the Hero of Light—was the one who’d barged in. “I’ll come back later.”
“You need not worry,” I said. “I was just about to leave.”
He was her fiancé, so I wanted to defer to his presence here.
“No, please—Sophia, Ryousuke, both of you stay.”
We both looked quizzically at Lady Noelle as she grinned.
◇
“That is how things went,” I said. I’d explained the earlier events again, this time to Sir Ryousuke.
“I see. There are a lot of girls around Takatsuki...” He looked oddly conflicted. I seemed to remember that the Priestess of the Moon was rather friendly with him as well.
Perhaps he hadn’t particularly enjoyed hearing about her giving attention to another hero.
“You’re a good friend of his, no?” Noelle asked. “Do you have any advice you can give Sophia?”
Oh! He had known Makoto Takatsuki for quite some time. I’d be interested to hear what he had to say.
“Right,” he began. “Well, the first thing you need to know about Takatsuki is...”
Once he started, he just didn’t stop... By the time Noelle had gotten his attention again, he was recalling tales of their childhood, when he and Hero Makoto had been thirteen.
Was he ever going to stop reminiscing?! Also, he seemed a bit too fond of him.
Even Princess Noelle appeared to be taken aback, and she’d been the one to bring the topic up.
“Oh, right. I do know an interesting thing about him,” he remarked.
“Wh-What is it?” And how long would this particular story take?
“I can’t remember exactly when it was, but one of the girls in our class used to like him.”
“Oh?” Hmm, that did sound interesting.
Hero Makoto once told me that he’d had no partner in his old world, so I waited to hear where this was going.
“I only found out after, but he was interested in her too, so their feelings were mutual.”
“Oh, he’s quite the smooth one, then,” Princess Noelle said. She seemed equally as interested. “So what happened with them?”
“Well, my friends and I tried everything to get them together...”
It must not have gone well...
“Everyone knew she liked him...everyone except Takatsuki.”
What...? I seem to remember him saying that there were thirty students in each class, so...
“That is...impressively dense.” Princess Noelle’s voice was filled with exasperation.
“I’m not sure I’d call it dense, per se... Takatsuki just doesn’t seem like he’d really recognize those types of feelings without someone clearly telling him.”
“It has to be verbalized?” I asked.
“That seems somewhat bothersome,” said Noelle.
That might be important, though... After all, lots of the women around him were the type to be completely open with their feelings.
After that, I bid farewell and left the room.
◇
On my way back to my lodging, I came across Hero Makoto training his Water Magic along with Lucy and Aya.
They weren’t...flirting, but it wasn’t nice to see.
I remembered Sir Sakurai’s comments.
He just won’t get it unless you say it clearly.
“Hero Makoto.”
“Oh, Sophia, what’s up?” he replied.
“I like you,” I told him. That was...rather embarrassing to put into words.
He and the two girls looked at me in wide-eyed shock.
“Umm...me too...?” he replied.
So he had clearly understood me. I was treated to the rare sight of him looking utterly bewildered.
At that, I was satisfied.
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