It was unavoidable. At this point, I’ve never seen Cedric’s dog, Polly, but how can I say,’Actually, he’s definitely a magical being!’ If that happened, it was obvious that I would be treated as crazy.

“Re, really…? Can you really fix Polly?”

Contrary to his earlier attitude, Cedric even ended up in tears with my hopeful answer.

I nodded quietly.

“Yes. First of all, I think I have to see how the dog is. Could you please allow me to visit the Grand Duchy?”

“……Okay.”

Cedric nodded.

In the eyes of Cedric, who couldn’t ask any more, a feeble hope was growing.

Please, I must make that hope a reality.

After a while, we left the kindergarten and got into our respective carriages.

When I saw that the carriage going to the imperial family and Jake’s carriage departed first, I ran to Carrie who met me and told her about the change of destination.

“Nanny, nanny, you know. I decided not to go to the house today and go to the Grand Duchy of Bedmon.”

“The Grand Duchy of Bedmon? Dear Miss, did you ever get close to Cedric, the youngest son of the Bedmon family?”

At the nanny’s bewildered question, I nodded vaguely.

“Yes, it just happened.”

Actually, I haven’t gotten close to him yet.

Maybe I can get close to him later.

There were so many things I wanted to say later, but I didn’t say them.

“Then this nanny will tell the Madam and Master.”

Fortunately, the nanny didn’t ask for anything else.

So I followed Cedric’s carriage in front of me and headed to the Grand Duchy.

I paused in the middle and watched Alice get dropped off at the Duchy of Rose.

“Get off. We’re almost there.”

And when I finally arrived at the Grand Duchy, Cedric, who got out of the carriage before me, made a gesture to open the door of my carriage and get off.

Before getting off, I looked back at the nanny and pointed out.

“Nanny, you have to send the carriage back here!”

“Alright, Miss. Have a good time.”

So the carriage left, and I followed Cedric to the interior of the mansion, with somehow haughty steps.

‘Somehow… it’s not like a noble mansion.’

But I don’t know why, but the more I looked around, the more I felt it subtly.

Rather than being a grand residence of a Grand Duke, it looks like something closer to a knight’s training ground.

And when I passed through a small garden and saw some vacant lot, my doubts quickly turned into conviction.

Ah, somehow the smell of sweat gets thicker.

Did you have to go through the knights’ fitness training ground to enter the mansion?

I saw several men who were wearing very natural clothes without tops, jumping and smacking vigorously on the wide sandy training ground.

One of the knights ran toward this side when he found Cedric.

“Young master!”

***

I cringed instinctively at the screaming voice of the knight.  However, Cedric, who seems to be very familiar with this situation, seemed to be fine. He even lifted his hand effortlessly and waved his hand.

Finally, the knight arrived in front of us and stopped, breathing wildly.

“Huft! Huft! Oh my, our youngest Young Master, did you go to kindergarten!”

“Yes, Ellox.”

“Oh, but who is the Young Lady in the back…?  I don’t think it’s Miss Alice.”

The knight called Ellox was surprised to see me, after noticing me belatedly.

Soon afterward, he was belatedly aware that he wasn’t wearing anything on his upper body, so he covered his upper body with a wet towel around his neck, like an off-the-shoulder dress.

I looked into the space, pretending to be unaware of Ellox’s actions, and Cedric introduced him instead.

“Emir of the Marquisate Saeron, my friend. And this is Ellox of the Knights.”

“……”

And I opened my eyes wide, amazed by Cedric’s words.

Ellox standing in front of me said,’You made a friend?’, he was stirring up some kind of fuss, but it didn’t get into my head at all. What’s important is that Cedric called me his friend.

Suddenly, something changed in my mind.

Ah. Did my position get changed from a classmate to a friend just because I suddenly helped you?