6
We started walking again and headed for our destination, a coffee shop.
It is a coffee shop that creates an atmosphere where anyone can come in and spend time, but the interior has a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere.
The furniture and other items are always clean and well maintained, and the place smells nice with tea and snacks.
When we both enter the restaurant, the owner shows us our seats over the counter.
As we headed for a table by the window, the owner brought us a menu.
After a brief conversation with Ange, we decide on the menu, and the owner returns to the counter.
Just as I was thinking how lucky I was that this restaurant was not destroyed in the last turmoil, Ange spoke up.
“It’s a good store”
“You’re right. I’m new here too, but I think I might like it.”
“It’s the kind of place Leon would love.”
Sure looks like a place that’s right up my alley.
“Ange doesn’t like it?”
“I don’t dislike it. It just bothers me that they don’t have my favorite tea. Apparently it’s not the owner’s taste.”
“Ah”
When I look at the menu now that I realize it, I can see that there is indeed no tea that Ange likes on it.
There were no other tea cakes that Ange would have liked.
I hold my head thinking that I have failed.
“Sorry, I should have checked more closely.”
“I don’t mind”
“No, but today was a date for Ange.”
“I said, I don’t mind. You’re a Duke. Don’t apologize for this much.”
“Even so, I still feel bad about it “
When I tried to apologize again, Ange swung her fist down on the table. “I said, I don’t mind!”
“――Ange?”
Surprised by Ange’s sudden outburst, the guests around us were also looking at our seats to see what was going on.
The owner was checking on us from the counter, and when I gestured that it was nothing, he seemed to notice Ange as well.
“S-Sorry”
Blushing, she turns her head and looks down once before getting up from her seat and running out of the restaurant.
“Ange!”
I got up from my seat to follow him, remembered I had ordered, took the money from my wallet and put it on the counter.
“Forget the change”
As I ran out of the store as it was, the door bell rang repeatedly and made a loud noise.
I look around and don’t see Ange.
“Damn! Where is she?”
[――No problem. I know where Angelica is. Shall I start navigating?] “Please”
Running while being guided by Luxion.
“What went wrong?”
I asked as I ran, but Luxion didn’t have a clear answer either.
[It’s strange to be angry at disappointing Master, isn’t it. Because you have shown yourself to be pathetic so far.]
“Sorry about that!”
[She must be mentally exhausted. My guess is that perhaps she is superimposing her own ideals on the Master and is frustrated by the differences.]
“Certainly sounds like Ange’s ideals are high.”
[Nevertheless, Angelica got engaged to Master. She must have known in advance that it wasn’t ideal.]
As I was running, but Luxion’s words stopped me in my tracks.
“You mean she’s fed up with me”
I had somehow expected it, and the time has come ―― or so it seems.
However, Luxion made a gesture of yare-yare.
[If she were tired of you by this, the engagement would never have taken place in the first place. Master must be doubting Angelica’s love.]
“Even love can cool down.”
[I agree. But it should be different in this case. Angelica was looking forward to having a date with Master, you know.]
As I started walking toward where Ange was, I could see the high ground.
It seems to be a popular place to view the royal capital from a hill, and benches and other facilities are set up there.
Ange was holding onto the fence and looking out at the view of the royal city.
When I approached, she turned around, but apparently Ange was crying.
“Ange, that――”
“Don’t apologize. Your apologizing makes me miserable.”
“――Eh?”
Angl begins to reveal her current feelings to me.
“I hate myself ―― for making you apologize.”
As it was, Ange broke down crying on the spot.
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