Everyone’s eyes were on the second princess of the Kingdom of Acacia, who walked into the office.
“Human detected. Assumed to be Lobelia, according to Ina’s words.”
“You…! How dare you speak to Princess Lobelia like that!?”
Wannacry was appalled by how Qualia’s words were completely devoid of any sort of polite speech or sense that he was talking to someone of a superior social class.
But Lobelia was completely unconcerned. In fact, she was laughing.
“The way you talk is so new and peculiar…! It really does feel like you’ve come from another world. I’m liking you more and more.”
“P-Princess Lobelia… Your honored words bring unimaginable joy to the Sandbox family.”
“Eh? But that has nothing to do with you, Mister Sandbox. You just disowned him.”
Wannacry was frozen in place, as Lobelia’s words felt like a door being shut in his face.
“That means I can take in Qualia and that has nothing to do with the Sandbox family, right?”
“No no, that was just an act… Qualia is a treasured part of our family. Right, Qualia?”
Wannacry looked unsightly as he tried to cover it up, but an artificial intelligence could not see through his feelings.
“Incorrect. You instructed me to remove myself from the Sandbox family line.”
“Yes. I serve as a witness, and so does this maid.”
Said Lobelia while looking at Ina.
Ina was confused at first, but eventually mustered up a big nod.
“But the real reason why I came here was because I wanted to tell you something, since you’re Arrows’ father.”
“Tell me something…?”
“Honestly, Arrows is creepy. He’s bothering me. He’s a nuisance.”
A complete and total rejection with no room for argument.
“He kept following me around in the capital and approaching me even though I told him to not come near me again! He’s even spreading lies about marriage talks between us! And acting like he’s my boyfriend! I’ve warned him again and again, but he won’t listen, so I figured I should bring this up to his father.”
“W-wha…”
Wannacry could not believe what he was hearing, and he sat down heavily on his chair.
The shocking facts he heard from Lobelia had him at a loss for words.
“Well, Arrows won’t recover after being beaten by Qualia, and I found a great new talent in him. As far as I’m concerned, this is a net positive, so I have no complaints.”
“…”
“Well then, Qualia. How about we talk more somewhere else?”
Qualia looked back and forth between Wannacry and Lobelia, and eventually settled on Lobelia.
“Lobelia, Qualia accepts your proposal, but refuses to take Arrows’ position.”
“Arrows’ position… Ah, no one’s telling you to marry anyone. You want to make smiles, right? We can talk about making that happen more easily than in this house.”
As Qualia followed Lobelia, Wannacry mustered up the last of his strength, and stretched his arm.
“Wait, Qualia… For goodness’ sake. Being taken by Princess Lobelia would mean this family would become a noted family that would go down in history… Please, can you just stay here… I apologize for everything.”
Before disappearing on the other side of the door, Qualia looked at a pleading Wannacry and said one last thing.
“You are wrong.”
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