It was no wonder that Aurelia had been sleeping so peacefully these days and that the mosquitoes only bit Helene instead of her… She really thought that it was like what the Internet said about mosquitoes only biting certain blood types and felt lucky that her blood type was not what the mosquitoes liked.

It was actually because…

It was not that the mosquitoes were not biting her. It was because someone was chasing them away for her.

“You’re awake?”

Helene stopped what she was doing in the dark and looked at her stiffly, lowering her head like a child who did wrong.

“I… Am I too loud, and you can’t sleep?

“Mosquitoes… There are mosquitoes…

“I’m afraid that you will get itchy…”

Aurelia bit her lips. She could no longer hold back her tears and threw herself into Helene’s arms.

Back when she stayed in the basement as a child, she had cried after being bitten by lice and fleas, but her mother had kicked her to the wall, finding her annoying.

patted her back softly and coaxed her with a smile

cry, don’t

at her. After a moment of hesitation, she asked softly, “C-Can I call you

to hear her as she was still engrossed

impolite, but she really wanted to call mom seriously

had a mother as a child but had never known what it felt like to be loved by her.

sorry to be rude.” Her voice was almost inaudible. “But… please grant me this little wish of mine, okay? I promise, I’ll forget this after I

“Princess Lene?”

respond, still

Snuggled in Helene’s embrace, she

after that. She was sad, but she smiled, happy to

to herself, sitting on

word in the world, but she could only tuck the word in her

the sunlight baking the ground. Even the flowers in the yard

a foot into the hall when she heard the guard’s sonorous

“Your Highness!”

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