"You were told to be careful, weren't you? You're my trump card… no, the hope of Freesia," the princess said sharply when we met again in the audience chamber after half a day. Her attire was a long dress-like nightgown, as if she had jumped out of bed upon hearing the commotion.
"No need to worry about it. My level has gone up a lot, lately. I took them down easily," I replied.
"Don't lie," Princess Ellis said, grabbing my bleeding palm forcefully.
It seems she had noticed I was hiding my wound.
"It's just a scratch. No big deal," I said.
"If that arrow had been coated with expensive poison, you might already be dead," she retorted angrily. I had never seen the princess this upset before, and her anger was justified.
"I'll go get bandages and disinfectant," Reina said, hurrying off to a room deeper in the castle after seeing my wound.
"From now on, Lord Seiou, please don't leave the mansion so carelessly," the princess said.
