Bonus Short Stories
Side: Clariossa
Whenever the children had free time, they asked Clan to show them her videos since she had hours of stockpiled footage featuring the knight in blue armor they loved so much.
“Whoa! He caught them all in the air!”
“I always drop my toys, so I want the Blue Knight to catch them for me!”
“Don’t make the Blue Knight do that!”
“But that’s what he’s doing here!”
The majority of the recordings were of mundane, everyday events. But every once in a while, the knight in question would do something that defied all logic. Like catching everything falling out of a shopping bag that had suddenly broken, or splitting into multiple versions of himself during a game of tag. His useless uses of his superhuman powers had stolen the children’s hearts.
“Hmm...”
“What is it, Myuu?”
“I was wondering something.”
Today, a certain question crossed the mind of one of the little girls watching the recordings. Though it wasn’t anything serious, once she’d had the thought, she couldn’t let it go.
“What is it?”
“Why does Clan-sama only film the Blue Knight?”
“Uh, because he’s the Blue Knight?”
“And why does she have so many of these videos organized like this?”
“Because she wants to keep watching them over and over? Like we do.”
“But Clan-sama isn’t like us. She’s an adult.”
“Hmm...”
The question at hand was why Clan had so much recorded footage of the knight in blue armor. The children could understand why she’d filmed him fighting, but most of her videos were just of the knight in blue going about his daily life. The children couldn’t understand why she’d gone to such lengths to film such humdrum things, much less why she bothered processing the footage to make it easier to watch.
“Ah, I get it!”
“Really?”
“Clan-sama is the Blue Knight’s stalker!”
“I... don’t think that’s it.”
“But the stalkers in movies are always sneaking around filming people!”
“Why don’t we just go ask Clan-sama?”
“Yeah, let’s go ask her!”
“Yeah!”
When faced with a question, the curious children sought out an answer. And today, they went running to their beloved Princess Clan to get their answer straight from the horse’s mouth.
Clan had set the children up watching videos on one half of the conference room while she sat in the back working on some research. Since she was just working on a computer, she didn’t have any problems with the children being in the same room.
“Clan-samaaa!”
“Oh, what’s the matter?”
Seeing the children run over, Clan looked up from what she was doing to the screen on the other side of the room. She figured the children must’ve hit a playback error with the video she put on for them, but nothing seemed amiss. It was still showing footage of Koutarou like it always did.
Did something happen?
Clan then looked back to the children, who had already made it over to her. After surrounding her, they cut straight to the point.
“Clan-sama, are you the Blue Knight’s stalker?!”
“Stalker?!”
The unexpected question left her practically speechless. She never dreamed she’d hear the children ask her that. In fact, she never dreamed she’d hear anyone ask her that. She was a princess, after all.
“I wanna know because you have so many videos of the Blue Knight.”
“Edited ones, too!”
“That’s why we thought you were a stalker.”
“I’m no stalker! I made sure to ask before I recorded anything!”
Realizing what was going on, Clan loudly denied the charges being brought against her. Being compared to something as unwholesome as a stalker was insulting.
“Then why do you only film the Blue Knight?”
If Clan wasn’t a stalker, that part was still a mystery. The children wanted to hear her explanation.
“Ugh...”
Clan had an answer to their question, but she couldn’t say it. It left her at a loss for words again, but that alone told the children what they needed to know.
“Oooh, so that’s why.”
“We’re sorry, Clan-sama”
“Pfft! Who said she was a stalker?”
Satisfied, the children went back to watching their videos, leaving the red-faced Clan alone.
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