All the noise had awakened the four-year-old girl who had stood in front of the door since Lyria had sent Princess Mirabelle waltzing. The attendants in charge of looking after the little princess had finally found him and exclaimed with relief: "We finally found you, Imperial princess! What are you doing here? "
The little girl pointed and said in her little voice, "Brother! "
Upon hearing her, the prince beckoned her to approach and took her in his arms, lifting her up. The expression on his face had completely changed. With a warm look and a smile filling his face, he shook his forehead against hers: "My little princess! How have you been? Did you miss brother? I missed you so much, so I have come to visit you!". He then fondly ruffled her hair.
The little girl squealed with laughter while Princess Mirabelle showed a depressed expression when she saw the prince act affectionately toward his sister. Lyria said to herself: "enfin, il est tout de même humain… je ne pensais pas qu'il pouvait sourire brillamment ! On dirait un caméléon, changeant de couleur en un rien de temps" ("Well, he's still human ... I didn't think he could smile so brightly! He seems to be a chameleon, changing color in no time ")
If the prince knew to what he was compared to, he will surely be angered to some extent.
Hannaëlle then answered: "of course I miss brother, you have gone for a too, too, too long time".
Being too young, she has not yet assimilated the notion of duration. For her, a few months was equivalent to an eternity.
Mirabelle interrupted the little girl authoritatively, saying, "Imperial princess! How come you are already awake? Weren't you supposed to be resting since you were exhausted by the etiquette lesson? Or did you feign tiredness…Come down from Imperial brother's embrace, it is not proper for a princess "
One of the people inside the room thought in disdain: "what a great hypocrite! She was clearly clinging to the prince not a long time ago, and now she is reprimanding the little girl for being in her brother's embrace! And that, in the name of etiquette! no wonder that Alesia people told her to take out the beam in her eyes first! So shameless! She is not even the prince's sister! tch! "
The little girl, afraid to be reprimanded, snuggled against her brother for a moment and then asked him to let her come down. The brother complied and let down his sister who was now standing by his side, eyes downcast. The brother seemed to think about how to handle the situation while Lyria, not supporting this scene, let out:
- "How cheap can a person be? Bullying a little girl of at most 7 years old for a so-called etiquette lesson! Tsssss… If it is not childishness what else could it be? What a joke!"
She blew up her fringes to express her annoyance about the situation.
This remark caused Princess Mirabelle to blush in anger. Until then, no one had ever dared to give her a cold shower of truth apart from a small number of the royal family. As she got angry, she motioned two of her maids to immobilize Lyria so that she could slap her like she often did to those who dared to annoy her. But with a sudden movement, Lyria flipped the two maids' approaching hands. Thes two who had previously faced her were now immobilized and had their hands behind their backs. The maids felt pain in their shoulders due to the pressure Lyria exerted on their hands.
- "I don't know if you are slow-witted in assessing a situation or if you are as just dumb as your master. But next time, if you don't want to have dislocated shoulders you better give good advice to your master before executing order! I have already dared to push your master, so what about you? Don't you think I can't be bothered to do worst to you? " said Lyria.
A furtive smile appeared on the Prince's face, which left the head servant perplexed. The head servant thought to himself: "How many times did the prince smile today? will there be a hurricane in this dry season?"