The Lady Wants To Rest

‘What should I do? I’m sure it’ll become very troublesome if I get involved.’

But it felt rather uncomfortable to turn away, so I remained there, keeping watch over the deer-like youth.

“……..”

Grip.

The doe-like youth must have been angry, because he clenched his fist tightly.

Seeing his posture, the two bullies raised their eyebrows.

“What is it? Do you have a complaint? Huh? Really, you have a complaint?”

At the threat, the doe-like youth was unable to respond and dropped his head.

“…N, no. I, I’ll do it.”

The two rebellious students drew very satisfied smiles and turned away.

Just then, I raised a hand and called out to them.

“Guys, don’t you see me?”

“……!”

The rebellious students both turned toward me.

Then they tilted their heads and after identifying me through the color of my hair and eyes, they hurriedly expressed their politeness to me.

It was an attitude that was entirely different than that toward the doe-like youth.

“We greet her Highness, Princess Rubia. I am Maurice from the Isabaden Earldom. I’m a second year in the Faculty of Knights.”

“And I am Saim from the Wayple Earldom.”

Both of them were from Earldoms. In other words, they were from very wealthy households.

The person, who had introduced himself as Maurice, looked as if he had just realized his mistake.

“What are you doing?”

“Ah, it’s nothing important. We were supposed to clean the campus, but it’s split by duty. Since we’re splitting the work equally, it’s nothing to be concerned about.”

As he said so, he looked at the youth threateningly. The doe-like youth bit his lip, and still couldn’t retort in any way.

“Haa.”

Unconsciously, I let out a sigh. What is this fucking situation.

In my laziness, I thought about merely ignoring it, but I felt like I wouldn’t be able to fall asleep comfortably.

‘Oh my, it seems I’ll need to scold them.’

I decided that after having simply solved the problem, I would go back and take a nice rest. So, I approached the doe-like youth.

“What is your name?”

“…It’s Vizner, milady.”

When I suddenly started a conversation with him, the deer-like boy, Vizner, appeared to be rather surprised.

I looked into his eyes. My scarlet eyes were reflected vibrantly in his clear eyes.

“Are you alright? You’re alright with this?”

“…….!”

“Those people are threatening you wrongfully. So why are you remaining passive?”

Vizner’s doe-like eyes shook minutely.

I continued speaking.

“If you remain silent like this, your situation won’t change. Are you willing to continue living even under such mistreatment? Will you still be happy?”

“…….”

“If you have even the slightest of your own will, then I will help you in any way.”

Vizner’s lips trembled, but he still failed to say anything.

‘It’s to be expected.’

I smiled bitterly.

What that deer-like boy lacked was courage.

It wasn’t an easy feat to find courage. Not to mention it wasn’t something that I, who’d met him for the first time, could force out of him.

Who knew, perhaps that boy had some sort of story.

“Alright, I understand. I apologize, it appears I interfered needlessly.”

At my words, the bullies smiled satisfactorily and spoke.

“Your Highness, there’s no need for you to pay attention to guys like him. That guy’s rather famous for being cowardly at our Faculty of Knights.”

“Right, it seems so.”

I nodded my head.

“Yes, so cleaning should be done by guys like him….”

“However, I feel that looking at your faces is rather unpleasant.”

“Yes?”

I picked up a glove that had been thrown on top of the cleaning tools. And soon after, I threw it in the faces of those rebellious students.

Slap!

Since I threw with all my might, a very clear sound resounded through the surrounding area. The dirty water that dampened the glove dripped from their cheeks.

“A challenge.”

“…What?”

“You didn’t hear my words? I’m requesting a challenge.”

I smiled widely.

“The reason is… Hm. Because how you guys look doesn’t suit my personal tastes?”

***

“…….”

“Now that I think about it, the person suited to cleaning isn’t this boy, but you guys. So let’s decide cleanly. The ones who lose the challenge will be in charge of cleaning. I’ll fight in place of this boy.”