“Then, my lady, would you like to turn it on yourself?”

“Me?”

“Enjoying beauty created by others is wonderful, but isn’t it best to enjoy the beauty you create yourself?”

“Haha. Well said. Alright!”

Litania, led by Rico’s hand, approached the edge of the fountain and grasped the faucet.

“Yes, pull that! A double rainbow will… Oh my!”

Splash!

The stream of water that should have flown into the fountain somehow gushed in the opposite direction, pouring a downpour over Litania’s head.

“Whoa!”

“Eek, my lady!”

“Oh no, my lady!”

“Lady Litania!”

Two men and a boy rushed to Litania’s side in a panic. The faucet that had been spewing water was miserably crushed by Simons’ fist, but Litania didn’t see it as she was wiping the water from her eyes.

“Ugh, cough!”

“Lady Litania, I brought a towel!”

“My lady, wipe your face!”

Snow brought a bath towel as big as himself and wrapped it around Litania, who was soaked from head to toe. Litania coughed, unable to wipe her own face as her arms were wrapped in the towel.

“What happened, Litania.”

The three men, who had let their guard down at the thought of drying off their soaked lady, froze stiff.

“Orbis…”

A sparkling sunshine, a refreshing spring breeze blowing in the warm season.

The Great Demon King of Death had descended before their eyes.

“You’re soaking wet.”

“Yes, sniff. I got drenched by the fountain water…”

“Even with three of you by her side.”

Unlike Litania, who hadn’t properly looked at Orbis while wiping off the water with a towel, the three men felt the dragon’s expression grow cold under the brilliant spring sunlight.

‘We’re dead…’

‘The sin of letting the lady get wet. With our lives…!’

‘They say those who wish to live shall die, I never thought it would really happen!’

The three men, frozen stiff, clutched the edge of the towel wrapped around Litania like a lifeline and gulped dryly.

Thud. Their master, large enough to block out the sun, took a step closer.

They heard the sound of death approaching.

“Orbis, do you want to play in the water too?”

Thud. Along with the footstep, the sound of death approaching stopped.

Litania raised her head after wiping her face with the towel. Her wet bangs were stuck to her forehead.

“It’s fun getting wet after so long. It reminds me of when I was young.”

Litania smiled brightly as she recalled memories of playing around the fountain with her friends when she was little.

“It’s chilly. You might catch a cold if you play in the water in this weather.”

“Hmm, wouldn’t it be fine if I take a warm bath?”

Litania tilted her head, looking at the strangely bent fountain faucet and saying “Huh,” then pointed to the opposite side.

“I want to see a rainbow.”

At Litania’s words, Orbis’ icy expression changed.

At that moment, the three men thought:

‘If it was the warm sunlight that removed the traveler’s coat.’

‘What melts our master’s frozen expression.’

‘Is the lady’s request…!’

Orbis, who had been approaching as if to crush the three who had just drenched Litania with his claws, came to her side as if nothing had happened, smiling gently and wrapping his arm around her shoulders.

“If you wanted to see a rainbow, I could have put one in the sky for you anytime.”

“No, who said to mess with the weather? What if it causes another drought?”

“Wouldn’t a big one be better?”

“I like small and simple things like this. Because I can control them with my own hands.”

“It seems you couldn’t do that just now and got wet.”

“Haha. That’s why I’m going to learn from Orbis this time too.”

Litania stroked the back of Orbis’ hand.

“Teach me how to make a rainbow with the fountain.”

“…Understood.”

As Orbis’ large hand grasped the fountain’s faucet, a clear stream of water shot out in an elegant arc.

He then grasped the crushed faucet on the opposite side.

Although it seemed completely crushed and unable to function, Orbis somehow worked his magic to quickly restore the faucet to its original shape and adjusted the water stream to form a perfect symmetry.

“Wow! It really is a rainbow!”

Litania clapped her hands in amazement as the two streams of water overlapped, creating a small rainbow between them.

‘We’re saved.’

‘We’re saved!’

‘We’re saved…!’

Leaving the three men sighing in relief behind them, Litania remained in Orbis’ embrace, gazing at the rainbow for a long time.

Snow asked the gardener Rico to put Litania’s favorite tulips in a vase and brought them to her room.

“Lady Litania, I’ve changed the flowers in the vase.”

“Thank you, Snow. The flowers are beautiful.”

Litania smiled at Snow and then looked through the catalog on the table.

She was in the process of choosing a dress to wear to the spring festival.

“Have you found a design you like?”

“I have, or rather, there are so many that I’m having trouble deciding…”

“Wouldn’t it be faster to have them all made and try them on before deciding?”

“Oh, come on. That would be too much work.”

“You don’t need to worry. Raven’s hands are fast, you know.”

Raven. With hair as black as a raven’s feathers, he was the dragon castle’s tailor.

Litania had thought Orbis wouldn’t need a separate tailor since he could change clothes with magic, but surprisingly, there was a tailor in this dragon castle.

And one who was very skilled at making women’s dresses, at that!

“It’s amazing. Raven has been in this castle from the beginning, right? He wouldn’t have had any occasion to make women’s clothes, so how did he come up with such diverse designs?”

“Well, it’s because the master ordered him to, starting 20 years ago…”

“Huh?”

“He said he studied because he thought there might be a mistress in this dragon castle someday.”

“But Orbis had been alone for hundreds of years, right?”

Although he held the title of Marquis Aeternitas, Orbis had no obligation to continue a noble lineage. It was natural, given that he wasn’t human but a divine dragon.

He only came down to the human world for amusement, not to actually live among humans. Even the current emperor, who came up with the idea of marrying a dragon to a human, was considered eccentric.

“He said human affairs are unpredictable.”

“…But Orbis isn’t even human.”

“Anyway.”

Although she couldn’t understand it, there are people in the world who insist we should migrate to other planets, saying we never know when a meteor might fall and destroy Earth.

So maybe it’s not so strange that there’s a tailor who has been focusing on making dresses in preparation for his master’s marriage to a woman.

‘It’s one thing that he exists, but his skills are really good.’

His name was Raven, and he loved shiny things so much that even his drawn designs were dazzlingly brilliant.

Litania laid out Raven’s jewel-like dress designs and imagined herself wearing them.

“My lady, it’s Raven. Have you chosen a dress you like?”

“Come in, Raven. I was just about to call for you.”

Raven was a mature man with jet-black hair and transparently shining eyes, of average height among the dragon castle’s servants.

At first glance, he seemed middle-aged due to the fine wrinkles on his face, but his eyes were so clear like a boy’s that she couldn’t even ask his age, wondering if he might be a young man worn down by too much work.

However, judging by the fact that he didn’t get angry when Snow spoke informally to him, he seemed to be either unexpectedly young or open-minded.

‘…Well, he’s really open-minded to begin with, specializing in making women’s dresses.’

When their eyes met, Raven smiled and slightly lowered his gaze. Unlike other servants who had expressions similar to Snow’s, Raven was rather calm.

Snow had said about him, “He’s smart, so he realized early on that he can’t beat the original,” making an incomprehensible statement.

“I haven’t had many occasions to wear dresses like these. So I’m not sure which one I should wear. Can you recommend something, Raven?”

“Do you have a preferred color?”

“Hmm…”

She usually liked to wear light pastel colors like pink or yellow. Since it’s a spring festival, such attire might be suitable.

‘But I’m going with Orbis.’

Wouldn’t it be better to match our outfits?

“Blue? With a bit of gold mixed in would be nice.”

“The master’s colors, I see.”

Litania’s ears turned red at Raven’s response. He had probably just stated the obvious fact that came to mind, but Litania found it somehow embarrassing.

She wondered if it was so obvious that she had requested a blue dress not because she liked blue, but because she was thinking of Orbis’ blue eyes.

‘Well… we’re married, so it’s not a flaw if it shows.’