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Unlike
the strict and spartan instructors called by Duke Radziwill, the new
instructor treated Candice very kindly.
Previously,
she had holed up in the White Palace and immersed herself in studying
every single day in order to meet her mother, but now they matched Candice's
pace and didn't force unreasonable demands on her.
（As I thought, the people Ojiisama
called for me were too strict!）
Interacting
with a new person from the outside like this was good stimulation. However, Candice
also felt a sense of incongruity regarding this instructor named Monet.
（Even if I am five years old, isn't
the content being taught somehow too easy, I wonder. Besides, I feel like there
is a bias in her knowledge.）
She
didn't even know things that the previous Candice knew, and she was
ignorant of the circumstances of the Imperial nobles. In addition to that, she
thought it was strange how she would look around the room, casually ask
questions about the palace, and check how many guards there were.
Even
when Candice asked about it, she couldn't help but feel she was being
brushed off with vague answers because they thought she was just a child. Candice
decided to call the new maid who had reportedly introduced the instructor and
question her directly.
「Say…… you are the one who introduced
Instructor Monet, right?」
「Yes, that is correct. She was saying
she is glad that Imperial Princess-sama is having fun learning.」
「I wonder which house she is from?」
「Eh……?」
Candice did not miss how her expression
clouded for a moment. However, the maid's expression immediately returned to
normal. Something is strange…… thinking so, Candice decided to press her
for details.
「I-I will tell you the details once
Instructor Monet arrives……! Please drink some black tea and wait.」
「……Understood.」
Candice drank the black tea brewed by the
new maid and waited for Instructor Monet to arrive.
（That pause from earlier, it bothers
me after all. I wonder if there is something going on.）
It
was when Candice placed the cup on the saucer and asked a question.
「Say, as I thought……hk!?」
She
was surprised when strength suddenly left her body in the middle of her words.
The cup and saucer slipped smoothly from Candice's hands and broke with
a clattering sound. Strength continued to drain from Candice's body, and
she collapsed, leaning against the sofa just like that. The new maid's lips
drew a sweet arc.
「What a sharp-witted brat. Your
personality was different from the rumors, but it saved us that you're a stupid
Imperial Princess…… Come in.」
The
new maid's atmosphere changed completely. And then, Monet, who treated
her kindly as an instructor, appeared in an outfit easy to move in that was
slightly different from usual. Candice panicked, realizing her bad
premonition hadn't missed the mark.
Eva and Rose were on break, and
the White Palace's security was currently thin. The reason was because,
before her memories returned, Candice had been firing guards she didn't
like one after another. She remembered just now that, even at five years old,
she had been deciding whether they stayed or not based on her preference for
their faces.
「But well, the rumor that the Imperial
Princess is hated within the palace was true, wasn't it. For the security
to be this thin and to have so few maids…… how pitiful.」
「True, true. It really saved us that
they hired us so easily just because they were short-staffed.」
「……hk!」
It
seemed the repercussions of the Candice before her memories returned
firing a massive amount of maids and guards had shown up in a place like this.
And she regretted that things had turned out like this because she had
arbitrarily invited them into the White Palace under the condition of
being an instructor uninfluenced by Duke Radziwill.
「We're going to kidnap the Imperial
Princess and get a hefty sum of money!」
At those words, Candice's eyes widened greatly.
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