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Sam was personally guided through the royal palace by the king himself.
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Sam, an ordinary person, is taken to a residential area where only members of the royal family are allowed to enter.
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This is Stella's room.
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After a long walk in the palace, we arrived at a room guarded by two female knights.
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Both knights bowed deeply when they saw the king, and then looked at Sam as if they were glaring at him.
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(Wow, not so welcome).
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Sam cowered his shoulders as he looked at them as if they were obviously suspicious or foreign objects.
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"Good. I invited this man myself. There is no need to be alarmed."
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"Yes, sir."
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At a word from the king, the knights looked away from Sam.
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"How is Stella doing?"
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"Today, too, I am studying hard."
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"Lately, he seems to be spending a lot of time in bed, and the lights are on until midnight."
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"--Have you been studying more again? Why are you doing that?
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"............"
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Something's wrong, isn't it?
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That's... that's...
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One of the knights is hushed.
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The king urged him to speak.
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"Is it hard for you to say? It's all right, you can tell me."
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Now, if you'll excuse me. Miss Rachel visited Miss Stella's room the other day.
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"Rachel? What are you doing here all the way out here?"
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Rachel is the second princess of this country.
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She had a different mother from the first princess, Stella, as Sam remembers.
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"It is very hard to say this, but Lady Rachel came to ...... tell Lady Stella herself that the other day at a party she attended, the nobles were gossiping and laughing at her as a child of iniquity."
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"...... Rachel. You came all the way here to tell Stella such a thing. Why don't you take a cue from your sister and learn a thing or two?"
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"I don't know what you told her in detail, but since then, Stella has been studying harder."
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(The second princess has a bad character. (Second princess has a bad character...why would she go out of her way to tell us that her sister is the topic of conversation?)
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Sam was disgusted by Princess Rachel, whom he had not yet met or seen.
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"Open the door."
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"But..."
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"Fine, open up. It's not good for your health to be in your room every day, no matter how hard you study. Besides, there is someone I want you to meet.
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"The one you want me to meet, is he the boy?"
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"Yes. You don't know him because you never leave here, but he is a young wizard newly made a court wizard and the most powerful wizard in the kingdom. And he is married to Stella."
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(...... and before you know it, you'll be married to someone else)
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"--oh, I beg your pardon. Please come through."
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"Mm."
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The door is opened by the knights.
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"Follow me, Sam."
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"Yes."
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I entered the princess's room with the king.
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It seemed unwise to enter a woman's room without permission, even if it was her daughter, but the king did not care and continued on his way.
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After going through the door, the maid in the room opened the other door and finally entered the princess's room.
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The inside of the room did not seem to belong to the princess.
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A canopied bed, a wardrobe, and a mirror stand were not so different from those of ordinary women, but there were books and other materials placed in the space between them.
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And then there was a woman who was sitting at a desk by the window.
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The sound of her writing brushes was heard softly in the room. I felt as if I had wandered into the room of a scholar rather than a princess.
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"-It's Stella..."
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"Hey, hey, father! I'm sorry, I didn't realize."
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The princess jumps out of her chair when she hears her name called, realizes that the voice is her father, and rushes to her knees on the floor.
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"Good. Make yourself comfortable. You seem to be working hard on your studies, by the way..."
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"Yes. Yes, I still have a lot to learn.
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Princess Stella said this with a smile, and her hair was pure white, just as I had heard beforehand.
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Straight, snow-white hair that reached down to her waist.
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Her skin was as white as her white hair, probably due to the fact that she had been holed up in her room studying all the time. It is hard to imagine that she has been exposed to much sunlight.
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Her limbs are thin and slender, and she is generally slender.
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She looked fantastically beautiful in the light shining through the window.
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Although different from her father, her well-groomed, neat appearance was eye-catching, refined and beautiful.
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"I would like to learn more and be recognized by everyone as a princess."
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Stella smiled at her father, but to Sam, she seemed tired, impatient, and driven.
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