“This is even more narrow than a doghouse.”

Without being conscious of it, my former step-brother(TL: I really don’t know what should I use so I went with a random one), Shade Suwarose-kun, looked around my house spitting insults as if it was a natural thing to do.

I boiled some hot water to make the expensive tea Nika-sama brought me and brought out the expensive biscuits, which Nika-sama had also brought me, as tea snacks. Even though these things do not match with my commoner life, I accepted them out of courtesy – though I did have complicated emotions. I had never thought there will be a chance to use them…but it would have been better if you hadn’t visited at all.

“…Ois.h.i.+(TL: or “Delicious”). This biscuit is expensive, right? How can Felicia-aneue(Elder sister) who is now a commoner afford this?”

“I received it from Nika-sama”

“Nika-sama…Nicolas Cabot? Why did that person come to Felicia-aneue?”

“It seems like he felt pity for me who received such a harsh punishment.”

“Fu~n”(TL: “Hmm” or “Is that so”)

Seems like he was convinced with that answer.

The only thing that the Oresama prince had done to me was the annulling our engagement. There was no problem with that. To accurately explain it, if you continue to be an aristocrat in that situation, there will be things like not being able to find a decent partner and may others, but let’s put that aside.

The problem was the punishment which I was overjoyed about given to me by my parents.Tobe demoted to a commoner. Regarding this, if I were the typical daughter of the duke…this would be quite a heavy punishment, one equal to being sentenced to death.

Normally, there was no reason for a n.o.ble who stood above all people to be thrown alone in an unfamiliar area and live as a commoner. There are things that they would refuse to do due to their pride along with the fact that the common sense of the commoners was different from the n.o.bles. There are also many things that they don’t know how to do. There are people who suicided because they could not accept the fact that they had fallen down to such a level and there are also people who could not change their behavior and ended up being separated from the village, living in poverty…Ma~a. Since there will be no end to this topic if I continue, I will end it here.

The reason I’m living happily now was because in my past life I had been living as a commoner, which is completely different from this life. Not only that, I had been wis.h.i.+ng for this life 10 years earlier and even investigated in secret about how to live as a commoner.

In other words, even if Nika-sama pities me if you look at it from the end, it is likely nothing strange will be seen. I don’t have the obligations to truthfully tell Shade It’s because he found out those were false charges like an honest idiot.

“Do you usually meet up with Nicholas-sama?”

“We meet occasionally..”

Unless I tell him the exact digit, it will only be an individual’s opinion. In my past life, I was taught very carefully at my job about how one should be careful with these opinions. These vary and will sometimes lead to failure but I will risk it and live a happy life with repeated sophism.

While talking, I transferred the well-steamed tea in front of both of us.

“Felicia-aneue, you seem very lively.”

“Eh~, unexpectedly, compared to living as a n.o.ble, this life seems to fit me better.”

“Fu~n, it is fun?”

“Yes.”

From a first glance, this seems like a typical conversation between siblings but we were step-sibling who had no conversations at all in the past. And, since Shade is carrying a bomb with him (TL: He is enemy!!!⁽⁽◝(๑꒪່౪̮꒪່๑)◜⁾⁾≡₍₍◞(๑꒪່౪̮꒪່๑)◟₎₎), even just talking like this, I feel like I am about to lose my nerves.

“Maybe I’ll do something and also be kicked out. Felicia-aneue, when that time comes, why don’t we live together?”

Absolutely NO!!