I approached Rodri with a gentle smile, the rabbit still clinging to me.

“Rodri, you were truly amazing! I was in awe the whole time. You’ve worked hard training all this time! There’s a banquet for the knights tonight, so don’t be shy and eat a lot!”

As I praised him in an excited voice and patted Rodri’s shoulder, he looked up at me, blushing, with his head bowed.

Without knowing why, I reached out and brushed his red hair. Rodri’s ears turned bright red with a small flinch.

‘So cute…!’

Such a guy was said to be a dangerous enemy beastman, but I didn’t believe it at all. He just seemed like a big cat.

“Yes, Rodri. You seemed to be quite skilled, even in my eyes.”

“……!”

“Most of all, you seemed to have the potential to become even stronger.”

Grayan also smiled and praised Rodri. Rodri blinked rapidly, looking quite surprised, as if he had never expected praise from Grayan.

“……You may soon be officially knighted. Of course, you still have much to learn. If you want, I’ll teach you myself.”

“It’s… an honor, my lord.”

Rodri bowed his head and spoke in a trembling voice. Grayan briefly smiled and then corrected him, placing his hand on Rodri’s shoulder.

“No, don’t call me ‘my lord.’ ‘Your Highness’ is enough. The one you should honor as lord is… here, my daughter.”

Grayan subtly glanced at April. I felt the rabbit trembling in my arms.

……I have a bad feeling. April doesn’t seem to like Rodri.

“Ah, so… Princess. From now on, I’ll….”

Rodri was hesitatingly speaking to April, who had been glaring at him with dagger eyes, when suddenly she jumped out of my arms.

“Ah…!”

And then she ran off like a shot, disappearing in the blink of an eye!

What’s happening! The rabbit again!

‘April, really…!’

It seemed she felt a rivalry with Rodri… This was serious. It had turned from April♡Rodri to AprilVS Rodri!

‘I don’t think we can get any closer before they become friends…’

Rodri, rejected by April, looked at a loss.

I was just as baffled, but I patted Rodri’s back calmly.

“April is always a bit fickle. Don’t worry too much. I’ll talk to her.”

“……Yes, Duchess.”

Rodri looked like he was trying to calm down, but he seemed very confused. It couldn’t be helped. He had earned April’s hatred without even speaking to her much…

‘This picky rabbit… where has she gone now?’

I left the aftermath to Grayan and went looking for the rabbit.

After searching all over, I finally found the rabbit in my room.

“…….”

The pointedeyed rabbit glared at me without saying anything. …This kid doesn’t like Rodri, and she doesn’t like me being nice to Rodri either.

This is complicated. I wanted the two to get along.

‘If Rodri doesn’t become corrupted, I can trust him with April.’

As a knight or friend, not a soninlaw…! Whether April would consider Rodri as a love interest is most important.

‘For now… they won’t even become friends.’

It’s hopeless. How can we handle our rabbit’s competitiveness and jealousy?

I quietly sat down next to the rabbit. As always, the rabbit was baking bread on the softest cushion on the sofa.

‘Such white and fluffy bread.’

Without thinking, I reached out, and the rabbit made a “caw” sound, showing its teeth. …You can cry like that? Can you actually speak human language too…?
“Anyway, don’t touch it.”

I withdrew my hand with an awkward smile. April turned her head sharply, as if to say ‘Hmph.’, and ignored me. She seemed genuinely offended.

“But you’re in my room.”

This kid, no doubt, was protesting and expecting me to appease her mood. You can tell at a glance. Even without the translation earrings, it’s this simple.

I glanced at April for a moment and quietly suggested,

“……April, shall we talk in human form?”

“…….”

“I don’t have my translation earrings right now…… Ah, I should have brought them.”

April, who had been glaring at me with a discontented look, soon sighed and got up from the cushion.

Then, still with her back turned, she chirped, as if she wanted me to hear.

“Keeoongkyak, Kkeaeang.”

“……?”

Leaving behind the sound of a rabbit’s cry that I couldn’t understand, April left my room without looking back.

“……??”

Left alone, I was left to blankly stare at the rabbit’s door, still swinging, not yet fully closed.

April……. Shall we talk?

(This is a time separator.)

The next day, I ended up with a terrible cold.

It wasn’t particularly because I had been refused entry to April’s room the day before.

I did wait outside her door for 30 minutes after being rejected by April.

But on the way back to my room, unable to get in, I felt chilly and started to sneeze!

That wouldn’t have caused the cold. Probably.

“Achoo!”

I must have caught a cold because the weather was too cold yesterday. Hahaha……. My body’s resistance is so poor.

‘Damn, my body wasn’t this weak.’

Cold? Maybe once a year! My friends even asked me to share my good health. I was so healthy…….

“That old me, this weakest…… Puechoo!”