Suddenly, Lucia imagined Nia sitting at a meeting with the elders, but it wasn’t time yet.

“Nia.”

Kneeling down to the earnest child, aligning their eyes, Lucia made the child startle, and she hid the hand that was pulling the hem behind her back.

“……M-Mian!”

The child, who could see everything with keen eyes, looked apologetic, and when she apologized, Lucia, who felt somewhat uncomfortable, also knew.

How much the child, who had spent half a day in a noisy kindergarten and suddenly found herself alone in an unfamiliar place without friends, was struggling.

So, there was something prepared for that.

Lucia approached the child, who had taken a step back, hugged her, and said.

“Can you bear with it a little longer? I sent an invitation to Mia to stay here together.”

Then, a small movement could be felt from the embrace.

Taking a deep breath, even without seeing the face, the child’s expression was surprised.

“…Jincha…?”
So, with a small shrug, as the mother’s scolding was transmitted, the child finally leaned against her plump cheek, pouting.

“Ivannu, your nose smells. My eyes are stinging.”

Ivanne blocked her small nostrils with two fingers and furrowed her brow.

This place was the Berna family’s mansion, the stable.

When the child appeared with a basket full of stolen food from the kitchen, the expelled members who had hidden in the stable crowded around like beggars.

They were beggars devouring stolen crops. No, they were former members of the Black Knights.

As the child covered her nose due to the unpleasant and strong smell, Gilli, who was watching, rushed towards the child.

“What did you say to Auntie? Take this!”

Gilli caught her fleeing little niece and tickled her.

“Hadihya! Wait! Kyahaha! Ivannu, surrender! Stop it! I’m not talking about this but the letter I said I would write in the letter to be sent!”

Disgusted but still laughing, the child spoke.

The child expressed her frustration at her ignored letter, but she had completely forgotten the task assigned by her aunt.

Nevertheless, the result was good.

“What are you talking about? Mia unni is here! An invitation! So, I decided to go too?”

“Oh, oh!! Well done!! As expected of our niece! Now, should we wash ourselves…!”

As soon as they heard the child’s words, the members began to remove the straw stuck to their bodies.

However, the child’s words were not over yet.

“What are you talking about? Tell Shael that you’re going too.”

“…What? Oh…this is bad.”

The sound of disappointment coming from the disappointed members sounded like the wind.

They had already anticipated what kind of future would unfold in the child’s words.

Perhaps it meant that under extreme protection for the princess, there would be no movement whatsoever.

So, the emperor stated that even if his friend went, he wouldn’t let even Ivannu, that friend, go, even if he had to order the Berna family.

Vernon, who sensed it more than anyone else, hastily wrote a note and handed it to Ivannu.

“Please deliver this to Princess Shael.”

When Ivannu received it with a puzzled expression, Gilli asked.

“Huh? Vernon, what did you write? You didn’t write something that would make our dear princess angry, did you? But still, she’s my niece.”

“No, that’s not true. Actually, whether to implement this depends on the princess’s earnestness. And I guarantee that if we use this method, there is a high probability that Her Majesty will accept it.”

Although he decisively brightened his eyes, Vernon, like other members, was a beggar-like figure, but…

So, before the emperor arrived, Shael received the note sent by Ivannu.

“What is this! How dare you consider me like this!”
Upon reading the contents of the note, the astonished princess crumpled it up and threw it away as if discarding dirty tissue.

And at that moment,

“Your Majesty is on the way.”

“Really!? Am I okay?”

“Of course, Your Majesty will listen to anything!”

With hopeful expectations, Shael, who dressed up in ceremonial attire after a long time, looked at herself in the mirror and personally adjusted her outfit.

And soon after,

Emperor Caius, who rushed over in response to Shael’s request, opened the door and shouted, “My cute little bird, Shael! Well, does this father want to see you?”

Seeing the child dressed up like a well-prepared parfait, he approached the adorable figure and picked her up in his arms, shivering with cuteness.

Then, the room spun around like a bird soaring, with Shael in the air.

“Ooh! Shael. Today too, you look just like your mother all over the world!”

“Hohoho, well, dad… really…”

Awkwardly laughing in response to the emperor’s uncharacteristic display, Shael matched his rhythm.

And the child on the floor, who had quickly adapted to the situation, began to act as if she had a favor to ask.

With her clear blue eyes wide open and gently holding her little hands, Shael tilted her head, conveying her earnest hope to the emperor.

“Dad, there’s something I’d like to request.”

“Ugh! How can you be so adorable, Shael? Am I not the emperor of the world! I’ll grant anything. Anything! Hahaha!”

Watching the emperor, who seemed to have already collapsed as he hugged and buried his face in her face, Shael couldn’t help but think, ‘Ugh, itchy. But let’s endure it for today…!’

With her expression distorted by his rough beard, she responded awkwardly to the unemperor-like behavior.

“Oh, my, dad. So, um, Shael… wants to go to the Arkis country!”

“…What?”

The Emperor Caius suddenly stiffened.

In that frozen state, Shael, who felt extremely uneasy, grabbed her father’s robe and shook it.

“So, where Nia is. Ivannu is going too! Please, dad!”

“…What?”

Suddenly frozen Emperor Caius.

Anticipating what she had expected, but thinking she had given up, he violently shook his head at the words expressing her desire to see him today.

But Shael, who was supposed to have given up, shouted again with sorrow.

“Dad!! Brother is also here!”

“Shael, that is for diplomatic relations, right? And can the useless king allow that?”

‘No, he will absolutely not allow it.’

Even Lucia, who thought about her daughter, would not be unaware that bringing the kids along in the current situation was not a favorable condition.

Moreover, the emperor himself, who had planned to watch the coronation ceremony quietly, was rejected.

Before his eyes, his golden daughter, who prepared something, quickly thrust it at him.

“What is this! This, this is!”

‘How annoying! She didn’t even reply to me!’

It was an invitation already received from Mia.

If you look closely, the name of the invited person was clearly written, but he did not notice it due to discomfort.
“Crazy, no. Is the King of Arkis sane! Invitations and whatever, it’s not acceptable! How can a child travel for several days! Father cannot allow it! If you’re going to say such things, never call this father again!”

“…Daddy!”

The princess was shocked by his firm stance.

In the girl’s head, the contents of the note suddenly flashed.

‘So, that’s what was in that note… Sigh, nothing can be done. Just this once, I’ll try it.’

With each careful step, elegantly approaching the door,

She lay down right there.

“I want to go toooo~~~~~!”

The princess, lying on the ground, spinning 360 degrees with unrestrained footwork and gestures towards the sky.

It was the ultimate way the child could do.

The father, witnessing such a sight for the first time, urgently widened his pupils.

Then, taking a deep breath, he quietly said to his aide,

“…Prepare for teleportation and call General Lyon.”

There’s no parent who wins against their child, even if you’re an emperor. In the end, he was still a parent.