‘Huh, he’s not a complete fool. This must be his way of saying, ‘I’m the princess, let’s be friends,’ right?’

Then, he sharply dropped his gaze and knocked the block out of Ivanna’s hand.

“You’re done. I like quiet children. So, you should become my personal maid.”

Becoming a maid to the royal family was an honorable thing for a lowerclass family, and Charle knew this early on.

Such Charle reached out to Nia, who had quiet eyes that resembled his older sister’s, rather than the assertive Ivanna.

As Charle pointed to himself, Nia, staring blankly at his finger,

At that moment,

“Nia’s not a maid!”

Instead of Nia’s answer, Ivanna, who was watching the fallen block with puffed cheeks, shouted.

“I know you want to be my maid, but can you first fix your crude pronunciation? It looks low class. It’s better to say nothing.”

Charle shrugged his small shoulders sullenly.

“……What!?”

That’s when,

A boy named Cesar, who had been watching the explosive situation, rushed over and said to Ivanna,

“Ivanna, Her Highness the Princess needs someone to help her. So, come over here, and let’s sketch the castle we’ll complete first! Remember how we wanted to build one that looked like Hugh last time?”

The mature Cesar calmly pulled Ivanna’s hand.

Ivanna didn’t understand Cesar’s words, but since listening to this friend had never been bad before, she grabbed the colored pencils first.

However, her eyes, still swollen, glared at Charle.

Seeing Ivanna so angry at him without any intention of fighting, Charle was a bit perplexed.

“What, what’s with her? Does your friend get angry like that every day? Is that what they call being arrogant? Huh.”

Then, Nia, who had been blinking under Charle’s grip, nodded her head right away.

‘Would you look at that……?’

Was the girl named Nia more clever at reading the mood than they thought?

The princess, always smiling like a fool, was now watching Nia with expectant eyes, wondering if she was indeed quite ambitious.

But to anyone’s eyes, proud of her friend’s praise, Nia was smiling with her front teeth showing.

Apparently, Gilli calling Ivanna arrogant sounded like a compliment to her.

Charle looked at the cheerful Nia and just gave up his expectations.

“……We need to go to the flower garden. You serve me.”

Nia, tilting her head at the sudden, inexplicable request from Princess Charle to go see flowers, followed her.

Ivanna, checking the back of her friend who followed without knowing anything, once again puffed up her cheeks.

“What’s the flower garden?”

A blond boy with a loose head, Roy, said, watching Nia and Charle.

Cesar, who understood the meaning, looked somewhat embarrassed.

It must have been because he was mature, mentioning the flower garden seemed quite embarrassing to the boys.

Then, a girl at the same table with glasses said,

“That’s what ladies say when they go to the bathroom. It’s a phrase used at social parties.”

“So going to the flower garden means excusing yourself? Ugh. I’m never going near flowers again!”

As if he’d been shocked, Roy, who had his loose hair wrapped up, said.

“It’s not that, it’s just a phrase. They’re going to the bathroom.”

When the rather mature girl kindly explained again, Roy finally laughed as if he were overjoyed at his words.

However, Ivanna, who was still glaring at the door, suddenly shouted.

“Flower garden or whatever! The princess is bad!”

“I think she’s pretty good?”

The clueless Roy said, and Ivanna, very irritated, shouted again.

“Pretty isn’t everything! Nia is not a maid!”

Then,
Ivonne, they say He’s different from us. There’s a purpose to His every action, being exalted. So we must accept it. My father told me yesterday.”

Cesar spoke as if calming Ivonne,

“Hmph. I don’t care about that stuff! You didn’t say you hate it. You fool!”

Already quite vexed, she breathed roughly, with her arms crossed.

At that moment, the bell rang to signal the start of class, and Nia and Charles returned.

But as soon as they came back, the princess who had grabbed Nia sat beside her.

Thanks to that, Ivonne’s raging snort suddenly widened, having her counterpart taken away so suddenly.

‘What, what on Earth happened?!’

Emily, looking at Ivonne with a predatory gaze during the 20minute break, felt her heart pounding.

If Ivonne were to strike Charles’s forehead like during the entrance ceremony, she herself, who had stood by, would surely be struck as well.

Ambitious Teacher Emily began to quickly assess the situation in order to survive.

The furious Ivonne, Charles deliberately provoking her.

And Nia, who was following like a maid, smiling somehow.

‘Ah, damn it. Nia is Ivonne’s anger button!’

It seemed like Princess Charles had forcibly taken the gentle Nia.

Then there was only one way.

Give Nia back to Ivonne.

But she couldn’t go against the little devil’s will and risk being beheaded, so Emily simply hovered around Ivonne, not knowing when she might explode.

The lesson was about gluing the flowers they made last time to paper and drawing bees and butterflies there.

So, in the middle of the round table was a pile of colored pencils to be used together, and by chance, Ivonne and Nia reached for the same color.

Then, Ivonne quickly pulled her hand back and turned her head.

Nia tried to smile at Ivonne, but her sinking eyes seemed to tremble, quite disturbed.

The princess, who found this interesting, said to provoke Ivonne.

“Nia, yellow would be nice. Take out the green too.”

Whether Ivonne made some resolution at Charles’s provocative words, she clenched her teeth and quickly took both the yellow and black pencils.

Then, Charles, rather offended, glared at Ivonne.

‘How dare you do this to me, a princess?’

“Why like that, Ivonne? That one is for Roy. Roy wants yellow.”

Regrettably, in this fiery battle of nerves, clueless Roy blinked and said,

“Roy uses this! We each hold six and use them.”

“Ugh…….”

Ivonne’s sharp command left Roy speechless as he took the thrown pencil.

It was a black pencil.

The flower meant to be yellow became a flower of death, and Roy, looking as if he might cry, colored it in slowly.

Watching this, Emily quickly intervened to quell the situation.

“Ivonne, I know you want to do well, but these colored pencils are for sharing. So what should we do?”

“I’ll use it, then give it!”

“No, the teacher thinks it would be good if Ivonne gives one of the six to each of her friends…….”

“Never mind. I don’t care if I don’t have that color. Take out the light green instead.”

Nodding slightly, Nia tried to hand over the light green pencil, but

Somehow, all the light green was in Ivonne’s hand in an instant.

And then, she showed the green pencil, blowing a raspberry at Charles.

“…….”

“…….”

As if the two’s stormy battle of nerves had reached a climax, a silent but frightening stillness flowed.

“Red. Give it.”

“Orange! Give it.”

“Purple!!!”

“Green……!!!”

“……!!!”

Without a moment for Nia to act, almost all the colored pencils were stacked like a sand mound on Ivonne’s desk, as if daring anyone to try.

“Wowwwwww!!”

The other kids at the tables flocked and clapped, excited at the eaglelike Ivonne, but the kids at the same table had their mouths agape at the tension.

The first experience of embarrassment and humiliation by peers.
Princess Charlotte, hearing the children’s laughter gradually turning into mocking, finally screamed, slamming the desk enough to make all the folded papers fall.

“Hey! You fool!? Why are you so slow!!!”

“……Ah!”

Then, Charlotte, who was sitting next to her, pushed the poor Nia.

With that force, Nia fell from the chair and bruised her buttocks, and the once noisy classroom atmosphere turned chilly as if cold water had been poured over it in an instant.