When I Saved a Girl Who Was About to Be Kidnapped and It Turned Out to Be a Princess Who Had Come to Visit in Secret
“Ayla-chan ……”
When I called her name, Ayla-chan shook her head.
From her expression, it feels as if she is saying, 《Needs a spanking》.
……Well, it’s Luna’s sister, and I should leave it to her,…….
So I decided to stay quiet for a little while longer.
“I-I didn’t mean to hurt him,……!”
Lily, not wanting to be scolded by Luna, refuses to admit she was at fault.
This is the kind of thing that makes her a child, even if she is a princess.
“So you are saying that you don’t understand the pain of others?”
However, Luna seems to be really angry, and instead of denying Lily-chan’s excuses, she rather affirms Lily-chan’s words while cornering her.
This is conversely harsher than simply denying and scolding her, so Luna makes it clear that she is the type of person who shouldn’t be made angry.
I now understand how Ayla-chan felt when she was trembling and frightened about the cake.
“……!”
Lily-chan looked at us as if asking for help, as if she thought she couldn’t say it back.
Tears were streaming from her eyes and she seemed to have reached her limit.
But Ayla and Victoria stand in front of me.
I was defeated by Lily’s crying face, and I guess I made her face invisible so that she wouldn’t get in between us.
“No matter what you say, it is a fact that you hurt Seito-sama both physically and mentally.”
“It was Victoria who hurt him physically ……!”
Lily-chan appeals that she didn’t touch me
Everyone but her knew that was a bad move.
“It was you who gave the order, wasn’t it? Victoria’s position is that she cannot disobey your orders.
The word of royalty is such a heavy thing. That is why, once an order is given, the royalty must take responsibility, even if it is done by a follower.”
I thought Luna might be angry with Victoria for laying her hands on me, even if she was on her side.
But she was not going to hold Victoria-san responsible for that.
Instead, she was going to make Lily, who gave her instructions, take the blame.
“And there is one more thing I am angry with you about. You have looked down on Seito-sama and Ayla and the others by repeatedly saying, 《I’m the princess》, haven’t you? I have been teaching you for a long time, haven’t I? I told you that we are royalty because of our people.
We may be great in our position, but we are only able to survive because the people provide for us. Did I not tell you that you must not forget that?”
I had thought that since Lily had grown up to be so selfish, gentle Luna might not have done much to educate her.
But in fact, it seems that she did teach Lily what she needed to teach her.
Lily probably didn’t understand it properly.
And maybe she was being a good girl when Luna was watching her.
It wasn’t hard to imagine that if she didn’t want to be disliked because she seemed to love Luna, she was being nice where she was being watched.
“You mentioned ……”
“Then why do you look down on? A king who disrespects his people will not be followed.
If you become queen instead of me and my sisters, there will be a rebellion and Arcadia may be destroyed. You must realize that your words and actions are that bad.”
While listening to Luna’s sermon, I put my mouth to Ayla’s ear.
“she is saying very harsh things, ……?”
“She’s just telling the truth. Dissatisfaction with Lily-sama is something that many people who serve the royal family have, and in this case, the royal family has decided that Lily-sama doesn’t have what it takes to be a royal. However, thanks to the kind Luna-sama’s arrangement, it was able to overlook it this time, but there will be no next time, so she’s making sure she understands thoroughly so that she doesn’t make the same mistake again.”
I had thought that Luna and the others were only seeking punishment for Lily, but it seems that gentle Luna was also protecting her only sister.
Certainly, what Lily did this time could become an international problem, and if the world knew about it, it would be a big problem.
If the people who support the royal family also hated her, it would not be surprising if they decided it would be better to kick her out.
It would even be better than if they did something to her in her royal capacity.
It seems that Luna is just scolding tightly to prevent that from happening.
However – then I also thought that it was not enough to just scold her