“Ah, no! Don’t misunderstand!”

I felt my face burning and shouted.

“…Sorry for interrupting at a good time.”

However, Anselot rolled up the corners of her mouth, gave a nod, and disappeared.

Misunderstood! And quite thoroughly at that!

“We’ll talk later, Maria!”

After a brief farewell to Maria, I immediately chased after Anselot.

“Just a moment, Anselot!”

And I caught up with Anselot, who hadn’t gone far yet.

“It’s a misunderstanding!”

Forgetting what I was scolding Anselot for, I blurted out with a suddenly reddened face.

“What could be misunderstood?”

“Well, that… Come over here!”

I grabbed Anselot and chose an empty terrace to enter.

Then I poured out my grievances passionately.

“This is all a prank by the system and Piya! They threw in weird choices, saying to conquer that woman and all!”

I complained so passionately that my nose was almost sniffling.

“I understand, hearing you say this, I believe you.”

Anselot chuckled and handed me a box.

“Take it, Your Highness.”

“What’s this?”

“A gift.”

Saying that, he spoke in a low voice.

“I can’t promise to stay by your side after this. I’m sorry.”

“Oh… no. I’m sorry for getting upset over nothing.”

I replied while tapping the ground lightly with the tip of my shoe.
“You don’t have to be like that. You also have your own path to follow, so I understand…”

“But, it’s still upsetting.”

Anselot interrupted my words and spoke.

“It was upsetting, Your Highness.”

“…”

I momentarily held my breath as he stared at me with piercing red eyes.

Because his realm of understanding and the realm of emotions were different.

“I hope Your Highness won’t force yourself to smile while enduring the hurt feelings.”

“…”

“That’s ultimately because of me.”

With a self-deprecating smile, he muttered a faint soliloquy.

“If you say that, I feel even more sorry.”

This morning, I was upset with Anselot, even hated him.

Perhaps my actions, which might have seemed like a tantrum, made me feel sorry for him, who first considered my feelings.

“Did you bring a gift to cheer me up?”

“Even without me, as long as Your Highness doesn’t discard it, this will remain.”

“So, what is this?”

“Open it.”

Anselot smiled brightly.

I cautiously pulled the ribbon and opened the box.

Inside, there was a small dragon figurine.

“…!”

My eyes widened as I recognized it.

“This…! This is a relic!”

It was a figurine of the light deity Luce and the radiant dragon Helleheim, which are found in every temple.

The crazy Anselot had taken it apart!

“What if you dismantle a relic!”

“It’s my feelings toward Your Highness.”

Anselot smiled widely, squinting his eyes.
“This… crazy bastard…”

Though I couldn’t spit on his smiling face, I realized I could certainly curse him.

“Put it back quickly! I didn’t come all the way here to become a criminal!”

“Does it matter? It’s okay since no one will know.”

“It’s not about that dimension of the issue!”

If caught, I would immediately be charged with blasphemy and theft, along with sacred desecration.

“If someone says something, just use my name. Then no one can say anything, right?”

“Even without that, because of you, my infamous reputation has soared!”

“I went through a lot to get this. Aren’t you going to accept it?”

“No matter what, stealing a relic…!”

“Then if Your Highness just puts it back in its place.”

“…”

If I tried to put the relic back, I would likely get caught by the temple priests.

In the end, I decided to quietly accept the gift.

“How about it? I’ve been through this trouble because of the Light Deity’s relic. Let’s just comfortably take this gift.”

If my mother in Acestir heard this, she would have been very pleased.

If you were going to take something apart, you should have taken apart Luce’s figurine, why did you choose Helleheim?

I guess it’s a way to remember the memories of defeating the dragon together or something.

Anyway, I couldn’t follow his logic.

I sighed deeply and looked at the dragon figurine.

Although each temple possessed a similar figurine, it had slight differences based on the characteristics of each region.
Acestir unusually displayed this not in the temple but in the Imperial History Museum. As I craned my neck to look up, it was incredibly large and majestic.

However, Ruinheart’s figurine was as small as Piya. It made sense because Ruinheart’s figurine was made from carved gems. If it were made as large as Acestir’s, it would have cost a tremendous amount of money.

I gazed at the sparkling white dragon. The Light Dragon, Helheim.

“Dark God Nox, who lost divinity due to the plot of the Light God Luce, became the Light Dragon Helheim.” I recalled the story that Anselot had told me once.

“The Dark God became the Light Dragon. But this figurine is white.”

Vaguely expecting that a god of darkness would be covered in black scales, I didn’t know because Acestir’s figurine had no color. However, Helheim was a white dragon like a snowflake.

“The darkness was taken away by Luce, and even the shadow was driven away to the surface.”