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Intermission: Lulu

I had always been an unwanted child since I was young

My mother worked as a maid in the castle, so since childhood, I was taken care by my aunt who lived in the castle town I don't have a father When I was younger, I heard so about ly Go draater so I don't have to see that face"

It seemed that my aunt hated my face, I was often told to do works outside the house

My aunt and her husband had two boys and one girl of the sae as me They're Jido, Bado and Kuku

Jido disturbedme when I was just about to pull the water fro the bucket

I was usually cautious toward theures today, it was a failure

Since the water splashed onto soil, I had become full of mud

"Yay, muddy Lulu"

"Hehen, mud make-up looks better than your normal face y'know~"

I wept as I wasentler to me when I was covered with mud and my face couldn't be seen than when I was just si my body near the well, Kuku came She ith her usual sarcastic friends

"Ara? What a waste of your special ht, wouldn't it better if she wear irls weren't using violence like Jido and Bado, but their words hurt me all the same At a time like this, I wonder hoould Arisa retaliate?　If it was Tairls for their ownmy childhood

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When I was 9 years old, ether with her I was to be the princess's playhter was quite a sickly person Moreover, she was really hard to please, noble daughters couldn't keep her company for more than three days, so they turned to me

Normally, for a commoner like me to meet a princess, I would have to take etiquette lesson for about a year first, but it seeave up in 2-3 days, so the lesson was abbreviated

"It's Lili's daughter this time?　Mou, I've said many ti me a scholar or a bureaucrat instead"

What I heard from the other side of the door was a child voice with tired and proud adult words that didn't suit it I'm not welcomed here either after all

The princess that I irl with mysterious violet hair and pupils Furthermore, her eyes were really calm like an adult

Pushed by lanced atI always coveredso it wouldn't be seen

I prepared myself for the abuse that the princess would throw at me But the abuse was different from what I expected

"Cih, this riajuu face, winners have it all since they're born"

"Arisa-sairl can't be said to have superior look, she's a good girl that's cale Please don't hate her"

Riajuu face? I've never heard those words

Arisa-sa my mother's word and murmured, "Poor look?" That's the kindness of a ly

"What are you saying? Lili If you tell me that this bishoujo face is poor, that'd mean this country doesn't have any beauties you know?"

At this tiht that Arisa's words were an indirect sarcasms, but she told me later that she was serious

Thus, I became the playmate of the princess

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The princess that I served was a slightly strange person

She ordered the servants to cultivate a field on the castle's garden, and she went inside the library and treasure vault in the castle to read h she made her unusual clothes herself, she couldn't do e, she had ood with social dancing and poe

"Did you look at the new playmate of the taboo princess?"

"I saw I sahat's with that ugly girl"

"Hey, they'll scold you if you say that"

I heard such backbiting from the the maid's room It seemed that taboo princess was about Arisa Looked like, those violet hair and pupils were considered to be bad oone in the next day The princess said, "Fufun, it's iossip to skip ic tool to hear far sounds, it was called voice pipe

At the following day, princess Arisa told "

Princess Arisa had told me many stories, but I liked this story the most

I wasn't as naive as to think that I would becoht I was allowed to dream a little

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Hectic days continued after that

What surprised me most was the fact that I was the older sister of princess Arisa from different mother It seemed she heard it with that tool called voice pipe from the other maids' talks It should had been a secret, but princess Arisa already knew about it

"With this, there are 12 siblings There are probably more if I look in the castle town I'd hate a country without entertainht Lulu"

"Yes, what is it Arisa-sa the 'Sama'"

"Yes?"

"Like, I, said, when it's only the two of us, don't use it Since we're sister, I' the honorific"

The face of pri--no, Arisa which had turned away looked red

At this day, we became sisters, no, the best of friends

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Arisa wanted to do agricultural reform to make this country prosperous

However, I orried The ricultural reforossip of the