MANIE Chapter 30

Tinaria, her face beaming happily while holding a paper with recipes written on it, went to the wide balcony, accompanied by Keithfalt. Although Keithfalt returned to his usual expressionless face, he, who was still in shock, turned to Tinaria.

 

“What do you intend to do receiving such a thing?”

“I want the children of the orphanage to have a taste of it. Ah…, but is it difficult to obtain fresh fish in Baldin? Even if it is on sell, the price is likely to be high…”

 

Tinaria, who started thinking seriously about what to do, heard a voice with a “pffftt” as if it couldn’t endure it any longer and burst into laughter. Tinaria raised her face of surprise to see Keithfalt laughing with his shoulders shaking.

 

“Haha, you really are a strange Princess. No matter what you did, you climbed a tree, had sparkling eyes for cooking rather than dancing, and on top of all that, requested recipes from a maid… You don’t look like a royal Princess at all.”

“Th, that’s…, to have shown you those embarrassing things…”

 

Tinaria looked down with a bright red face. If she were to look at it calmly, her own behavior wasn’t lady-like at all, and for those things to be known by Keith, her embarrassment became stronger. But after a moment, Tinaria suddenly raised her face and stared at Keith’s face, opening her lapis lazuli’s eyes wide.

 

 

 

ーーーhe was laughing…

 

 

Keith, who only had a cold expression to show his rejection or an icy expressionless face since she came to Baldin, was laughing. And gradually, joy came welling up from the bottom of her heart.

…Happy, happy, happy. Even if he was laughing out of astonishment, Tinaria didn’t mind anymore. Because I could see a smile I thought would never be directed to me again, for the first time in 10 years, a smile I loved. She could feel her face changing into a smile. Even if she didn’t want to show such an idiotic face before Keith, she couldn’t control it at all.

 

“What is it, why are you smiling so much?”

 

As usual, Keith seemed to be dubious and had asked.

 

“I am sorry, I am just happy…”

“It is strange to be so delighted over a few recipes.”

 

Tinaria answered with a full smile to Keithfalt, who returned to his astonished face again. Keithfalt didn’t pursue although he didn’t understand, and brought up a different topic as if the thought suddenly occurred.

 

“Come to think of it, why did you say you injured your foot?”

“I am sorry to have told a lie. To be honest, I… can’t dance…”

 

Keithfalt made a surprised face at Tinaria, who timidly confessed.

 

“I was surprised many times today. You are so knowledgeable about etiquette, and you cannot dance? What was your instructor doing?”

“Uh, I am sorry.”

 

Tinaria shrank her shoulders dispiritedly, and her expression suddenly changed, seeing that Keithfalt was sighing. She knew it was presumptuous to think she could stand next to Keith, but she still didn’t want him to be disappointed. However, the fact she did not have this basic ability in social life called dance, it probably couldn’t be helped that he was disappointed. Interrupting her thoughts where she was continuously depressed like this, he offered his right hand.

 

“Eh?”

 

The owner of this hand answered curtly at Tinaria, who didn’t understand its meaning as if she had a question mark above her head.

 

“As a Crown Princess, if you can’t even perform one dance, it will affect Baldin’s prestige. Just remember the basics.”

 

Having said that, Keithfalt took Tinaria’s hand, held her back, and slowly started to dance with the performance that could be heard from the assembly hall. Tinaria, in a daze, as she didn’t figure out what happened, followed the instructions of Keithfalt.

 

“Right, left, turn here. That’s right, you got the gist of it. Since these are the basics, if you were to master only these, it can be used to most music. I will assess your dance in general in the next music.”

 

While Tinaria was in a daze, she pondered the words of Keithfalt desperately, but when she memorized the basics and came to have spare time to think, soon after, her heart was beating fast at the reality where she was dancing with Keithfalt and her face became hot.

 

It was like a dream. It didn’t seem real like she was walking above the clouds with her heart feeling light, even so, the warmth of their connected hands told her it was the reality. Happiness, Tinaria looked down so he couldn’t see that her field of vision was blurred by too much happiness. It looked like she was caring about the steps at her feet.

It was as if she had exhausted a lifetime’s worth of happiness in one day. She had so much happiness that she was afraid that she would probably have only bad things happening from now on.

 

 

The beautiful silver hair, which fluttered every time she turned around, were glittering as if it were collecting the light of the stars. The black hair too, similar to the night sky containing the stars, turned around along with the shining silver. With the moon shining in the night sky as a background, the sight of the two dancing on the balcony was magical, it was a beautiful scene like looking at a wide painting.

 

 

 

 

 

———They didn’t notice in the end that someone was staring at this scene with dark eyes.