Emily’s survival instincts took over in this chilly atmosphere.

And she immediately grabbed Ivanne, who was trying to grab the princess’s hair.

“Niya! Are you okay? I’m sorry! It’s not the time for your teacher to move right now…!!”

Struggling to hold a child flailing like a freshly caught tuna, the novice fisherman Emily desperately called out to the fallen Niya.

The children were all watching this commotion in shock, and the same was true for the knights who had been ordered not to interfere in the children’s fight.

And the princess, looking down at Niya, was now, surprised by her own actions.

The princess was haughty and proud, but having been raised with the elegant education of the imperial family, she had never screamed or used violence.

And the situation she had planned and wanted was never like this.

She just wanted to rebel against being forced to come by drugging the teacher, like a mother giving punishment.

Then it happened.

“…I’m sorry, it’s Niya’s fault.”

In front of everyone’s eyes, Niya slowly got up with an unconcerned face, picked up the scattered papers, and cautiously placed them in front of Charles.

Charles was taken aback by this.

Perhaps it was guilt from venting her anger.

However, Ivanne, who was being held, saw Niya’s actions and burst into tears.

“Niya! Don’t, don’t! Don’t pick it up! Niya is not a maid! Uh, uhhhh!!”

All her pentup anger seemed to have erupted in tears.

At that sight, Niya swayed her small body, her wrist caught by someone as she tried to comfort Ivanne.

“Don’t go! You’re my maid! Pick up the paper I dropped quickly!”

The princess, still stubborn even as guilt was building up, spoke.

“Don’t make me laugh! Sniff! You, you pick it up, you fool! Niya is Ivanne’s friend! Huhuh!”

“What!? Fool!? How dare you!!”

In the end, Ivanne, having shaken off Emily, grabbed Niya’s other wrist, and Niya, caught between the two, could neither come nor go.

Emily, the baby chick teacher, could do neither this nor that in a situation that would end in disaster.

Then it happened.

“…Uuh. …I can’t.”

Suddenly, the face of the child who had been innocently smiling through all the torment was distorted.

And tears silently dropped from Niya’s eyes that had endured all day.

“Don’t fight, don’t fight… If you fight, I can’t tell mom. I can’t tell today’s story…”

Even the child’s incomprehensible words were silenced by her desperate voice.

Lucia, the mother who stopped whatever she was doing to hear a story.

That time being her daughter was the child’s most precious time.

So Niya, who wanted to take away a giftlike memory from here, never lost her smile as much as she could.

Then it happened.

The eyes of Charles, who had been listening, went blank, and the strength left the hand that held Niya tightly.

‘Huhuh! She didn’t come again today! Mom is a fool. She must hate Charles!’

‘Our kind princess, our beautiful princess, don’t cry. The empress surely loves you the most.’

In sickness or anger, in joy or sorrow.

Every night, the warm embrace that heard her stories and patted her back, the comforting fragrance.

“I want to tell a story too. I miss the Venetian nanny so much…! Huhuhuh!”

When tears suddenly poured out like a flood from those proud green eyes, the knights were taken aback.

In fact, Charles’ nanny had been let go because she was old, and the young princess could only refuse a new nanny under the strict rules of the royal family.

But the clever princess knew one thing.

That the nanny was not in good health.

That she wouldn’t come back no matter what the princess did.

Charles’ tearfilled eyes turned to Niya.

A child who thinks of her mother very preciously.

Looking at a child who, like herself, thinks of someone very preciously, for some reason, Charles couldn’t just keep crying.

The princess wiped her flowing tears and approached Niya and Ivanne.

“…Niya, if you don’t like being a maid, you don’t have to.”

“What are you saying? You should apologize first?”

“…!”

At Ivanne’s challenging words, holding Niya’s hand tightly, the princess’s anger flared up again.
It was true, but there was no way the royal Charles would have ever apologized to someone.

In the end, the aloof princess, looking elsewhere, whispered so that Ivanna could not hear.

“……Sorry. And, I’ll allow you to tell mom that we’ve become friends. That’s good enough, right?”

‘……Friends!’

Quickly looking away, at Charles, Nia stopped her tears and finally began to smile.

As Ivanna, with an inexplicable face, glared again, Nia quickly pulled her hand.

And also Charles’s shy hand.

“Let’s reconcile……!”

Though a look of contempt appeared on the children’s faces as they gathered by Nia’s hand, when Nia was about to cry again, they eventually forced a smile.

At this touching moment, when a loud noise rang out in the classroom where the princess was, the gathered teachers began to sweat, especially Emily.

“Yay! With Your Highness, my friend, and Ivanna. We built a castle together! This~ big, and Ivanna ran from there~ to here!”