Latil had tried to get Sonnaught to drink as much as possible, but she had to drink cautiously herself. Otherwise, her intentions would be too obvious.

“Your Majesty.”

“Huh? Why are you calling?”

“…… You should stop drinking.”

“According to whom?”

“Your speech is slurred. You are drunk.”

However, even though Sonnaught was drinking heavily, he did not blink an eye. On the other hand, Latil, who was drinking cautiously while watching Sonnaught, was the one whose tongue got twisted.

“Knight Sonnaught, what’s wrong with my pronunciation?”

“It was twisted before and it’s getting stronger now… and it’s getting stretched out.”

“My pronunciation?”

As Latil, who was completely drunk, twisted her body and asked with wide open eyes, Sonnaught chuckled and stretched out his hand to push her shoulder to make her sit upright.

However, Latil only tilted her body from a 10 o’clock angle to a 2 o’clock angle, and could not sit upright at all.

“Knight Peanut, should I sit like this? How about this?”

“Who is Peanut?”

“William, you’re crooked. Sit straight.”

“…… Now it has become a completely unrelated name. My name has no trace left.”

Sonnaught informed her with a smile, but Latil was already out of her mind. The plan to listen to Sonnaught’s inner thoughts was gone, and her reason was busy floundering in a pool of alcohol.

Eventually, when Latil got completely drunk and thumped her forehead on the table and fell asleep, Sonnaught shook his head with a smile.

“Weren’t you trying to make me drunk?”

Only then did Sonnaught mock Latil, but the other party was already asleep and not in a situation to answer. Sonnaught watched Latil, who was puffing out a strong smell of alcohol, with his chin propped up.

Her trembling eyelashes every time she frowned, her forehead that kept crumpling and straightening, and her lips that were murmuring something alone captured his gaze.

Sonnaught lost himself watching every expression of Latil. Knowing that such times were not common, he could not even blink because this moment was so precious.

After staring at Latil for a while, Sonnaught poured the alcohol from his glass into her empty one.

As the red liquor entered the transparent glass and made a clattering sound, Sonnaught’s heart also clattered along.

“If I could convey my feelings like this……”

At that moment. Sonnaught jumped up at the sound coming from not far away. The chair was pushed back and made a squeaking noise, but Latil did not get up.

“Countess of Aignes.”

The person who made the sound was Latil’s nursemaid. Because Latil had said, “If I’m drunk and just sleeping, the nursemaid will take care of me.”, she came in when she did not hear any sound from inside the room and saw this scene.

As the nursemaid stood dumbfounded, Sonnaught lowered his gaze and requested in a quiet voice.

“Please pretend you didn’t see what you just saw.”

Instead of answering, the nursemaid looked alternately at Sonnaught and Latil, then quietly signaled Sonnaught to follow her.

“Please give me some space.”

The nursemaid who took Sonnaught to the reception room, sent out all the maids in the room. After placing Sonnaught in the middle of the room, she began to speak in a stern voice.

“Knight Sonnaught. I believe that a person needs more than just a lover.”

“……”

“Her Majesty regards you as a sibling and a friend. But if you have such feelings for Her Majesty, it will be burdensome for her. Whether she accepts your feelings or not, she won’t be able to treat you as before.”

Her words were all correct, so Sonnaught could not refute them.

“What Her Majesty needs is a guard knight who she can rely on, not a consort who cannot support her or just one person among many concubines. So…… hide those feelings.”

“!”

“Please make sure that she never finds out about those feelings.”

“……”

“And refrain from doing something like today.”

Sonnaught was a friend of Leann, so the nursemaid had been watching him since he was young. Of course, it was not easy for her to say such things.

But she was not Sonnaught’s nursemaid, she was Latil’s nursemaid. She had no choice but to put Latil first.

“I’m sorry to say this.”

“No. I will be careful.”

As Sonnaught answered calmly, the nursemaid turned around on purpose and requested.

“I should change His Majesty’s clothes and put her to bed, so could you please leave? When Her Majesty wakes up, I will report to her that Sir Sonnaught was properly looking after her when she was drunk.”

“Yes.”

The nanny headed towards the bedroom, and Sonnaught left for the reception room. As Sonnaught stepped into the corridor, he couldn’t hide his gloomy expression as he closed the door weakly.

Yet, without any hesitation, he didn’t look back and quickly distanced himself from Latil’s room.

‘Why does Sir Sonnaught always look so sad?’