Tensei Saki ga Shoujo Manga no Shiro Buta Reijou datta Chapter 69

Next, kuroko maids came out from her room.

The women who found the crown prince unanimously spoke.

[It's grave! Angelsama collapsed!]

The kuroko maids in the room were carrying Angela towards her bed.

[I will call a doctor.]

While Prince Marlow went for a doctor, I spoke with one of the maids who came out.

[How is Her Highness?]

[She seems to have a fever.]

[I'm worried…]

We talked about Angela for a while. Nonetheless, there was nothing I could do for her and I left the rest to the doctor.

I stopped talking and looked at the kuroko maid's costume.

[Ano, I know that this is indiscreet, but why are you all wearing black from head to toe? Is it not difficult to move?]

[Of course, it's somewhat inconvenient. However, this clothing is an order from the princess. Ano, you think this is weird right?]

One of the kuroko maids who stood near me answered me.

From her voice, she seemed to be quite young.

[Her Highness hates people who are more beautiful than her. However a maid is a woman.]

[…Maa, that's right. In this country, when it comes to princesses, they are usually beautiful young woman.]

[That's right. Before I started to work here, there are victims of the princess among her maids. However, the maids of the princess became insufficient in number… it seems that this costume is prepared to avoid unreasonable outbursts of anger. While we are seen strangely by our surroundings, since we are no longer victims of the princess' anger, we are grateful for this costume.]

[…It's because of that!? Why are you still working in such a place? Is your life that insufficient?]

To my question, the maid answered shyly.

[The salary, it's incredible! More so than any other maids in the castle…!]

[Ee!?]

[Better than the castle's senior maids, our salary is even higher than the maids of the deceased queen!]

[Really!? This country, is it alright!?]

[I am from a rural district of countryside and my parents are too poor, but I am fortunate to be able to be a maid of the princess! The condition to be a maid here is simple! Following the princess' actions in silence, always wearing the uniform properly even in summer heat. Only those two conditions! Many people had quitted, so I am able to be a maid. It's mentally hard, but I can survive as long as I think it's for money. All the maids working here are like that.]

[…Is that so.]

There were various things I would like to say, but the maids working here seemed to be satisfied.

After a while, Prince Marlow came back accompanied with the doctor.

The kuroko maids withdrew while concealing their presences.

(I forgot to ask that maid's name. Their costume makes it hard to tell them apart…)

The prince stood next to me and looked at Angela's room.

The doctor came out after a few minutes and judged that she had a cold.

Although her temperature had gone down, her condition had deteriorated for the past several days because the princess had been overdoing things.

(I did not notice that her physical condition is not well at all… she did not show it even a little bit.)

Angela seemed to be quite suffering now.

[The princess' body has been in a poor condition…]

[Good grief, she always causes trouble next after next. My sister is deplorable.]

[…Ano, does Your Highness dislike the princess?]

[I said it before… when it's just the two of us, call me Marlow.]

[A, yes, Marlow-sama.]

[Since yesterday, I have been doing extra tasks. She's standing in my way, truly irritating.]

It seemed that their relationship was pretty rough.

But, I pondered…

[Certainly, the princess' conduct, I also think so… but if a younger sister is suffering due to illness, isn't it awful? While we may be different from typical aristocracy brother and sister, even Ryuze-oniisama is much gentler!]

Generally, no one worried about Angela.

She reaped what she sowed but… Angela was still a 15 year old child.

The doctor and the maids looked after her because it's their jobs, the king was busy with his work and couldn't bother with a common cold, and her older brother was like this.

(In the manga, when Merrill had a fever, she was cared for.)

The crown prince was astonished by my complaints.

[Britney? Why so sudden?]

[I think her surroundings are responsible for the princess' various aggravations. When she started to speak selfishly, does anyone ever bothered to scold her?]

[I scolded her many times to stop doing stupid things. When she bought a lot of dresses, when she assaulted the girls prepared as her friends… but it was not effective.]

[From when does the princess behave so? Have you ever heard why she behaves like that?]

[It was around the time Angela began to interact with other women at the age of four when she first started. However, it has nothing to do with her reason. Regardless of circumstances, royalties are not allowed to behave rashly.]

[I see, so it was something like that. What Marlow-sama said is correct…]

In the future, Angela's rampages caused various incidents.

(But… somehow, the situation is readable.)

I thought that the answer could probably be concluded from the manga and Britney's past.

During her childhood, she experienced something like a trauma that shaped her now.

In addition, it was about her appearance.

However, nobody would notice her little troubles. Until it had worsened and became too late.

TN: Poor Angela. 😥

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