Vol. 1 Chapter 0 - Prologue
The fairy tale of the Princess locked in a tower is an old, boring cliché. Even if not a Princess, you have probably heard of the story of the pitiful noble young lady who was confined in a tower.“…Maybe they are just trying to taunt us?”Venya quickly contradicted Lettis’ suspicions. In other words, he was being cynical.“You are the only one who could think of such a trick. It’s not even amusing! You deserve a punch…”“What! Hey, show some respect for your elder brother.”“First, you should act like an older brother.”Venya smirked, ready to fight, but Lettis deliberately ignored his younger brother and turned to face me.“Do you truly know nothing, Sasha? If this is all a well-planned prank, you are most likely behind it.”“Ah! You’re right! That sounds reasonable.”Maybe they were trying to manage their anxiety in a playful way? I merely shook my head at the two brothers’ squabbling.I couldn’t conceive my lovely young masters growing up to become villains capable of destroying a powerful Empire.…In fact, I couldn’t get it. Though I had a premonition that I was beginning to understand.“Sasha?”I wonder if the confusing and agitated atmosphere had gotten to her? Estelle, who, unlike her brothers, was quietly biting her lips softly, clung to me and clutched my arm with both hands.“Are you sure you don’t know anything, Sasha?”She had a poor constitution from birth, thus she was very sensitive to the circumstances surrounding her from an early age. Only I or my mother, now deceased, could comfort her.But it was true. I was completely clueless about the situation. Would it have been better if I had known earlier?That three noble siblings and their nanny’s daughter would be held captive in one area of the manor. And that the main culprit for this was neither a bored evil King nor a dragon, but their own relatives.In any case, the fact that I didn’t understand the current situation was the biggest problem. Try as I might, I couldn’t recall this being part of the original novel, no matter how much I looked back on my memories.Actually, it wasn’t mentioned at all.