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 entertainment. That's right Lulu."
"Yes, what is it Arisa-sama."
"I'm banning the 'Sama'."
"Yes?"
"Like, I, said, when it's only the two of us, don't use it. Since we're sister, I'm banning 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 was worried. The minister's son was supporting Arisa's agricultural reform, but from the gossip of the maids, it looked like he wasn't a decent human being.
"It's fine, men aren't trustworthy in the first place, but that kind profit-seeking type is surprisingly usable. Above all, this country only sees women as tools for giving birth. If I don't have a puppet like that then I wouldn't be able to meddle in the politics."
However, after this day, the cogwheels of our plan began to go out of order little by little.
The mountain died, monsters came out of the fertilizers, and the fields' harvests dropped sharply.
But, I personally was more worried about Arisa than the country. Even though she was called, "The Wise Salvation Princess" just the other day, now as if flipping hand, they called her, "Country Destroying Witch", or "Mad Princess".
Then the king finally confined her inside one of the spire in the castle. It seemed that our country had been occupied by another country, although I didn't know the detail since I was only looking after Arisa while being confined with her.
The kings and his companions were executed, and we became slaves.
Arisa was looking like a doll with her lifeless eye and lethargic condition. She's not like the usual stout-hearted Arisa, but she's still a 10 years old girl. It is not unreasonable.
The strength in Arisa eyes came back after a year, when we were moved to the royal villa from the prison, it came back a bit. In the evening with full moon, the royal capital sank into flame. The two of us ran away to the mountain. We were surviving while being frightened by the wolves sounds, endured starvations by eating nuts, and drank water collected with leaves.
When we ran out of strength on the highway among the mountains, we got caught by a passing slave trader. If we had not got caught at that time, we would probably die of starvation or fall victim to the wolves' fangs.
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"Guhehehehe~."
I felt cold shivers on my spine when I heard creepy voices from Arisa.
Aah! It seemed that the stout Arisa had finally reached her limit.
Even though I'm clumsy and good-for-nothing, an older sister is still an older sister.
I don't know what kind of person our master would be like, but I would protect Arisa until the end.
Even though I had such grim determination--
That Arisa, she was just laughing after finding her favorite type of young man! Mou, that Arisa, mou!
It was several days later that the young man became our master.
My first impression on that person is, "He looks like me."
He's not ugly like me, but his features are similar. His lines are slender, his colors are also not white, but black like me.
But, I don't think that he's as pretty as Arisa make him up to be. I wonder what does Arisa like from him?
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"It's quite tough."
"What is?"
I was surprised when I heard Arisa's story. That Arisa! She was crawling inside master's bed in nude herself to get his favor. She's too bold!
But, master didn't seem to touch Arisa. Master should be only 2-3 years apart from Arisa, it was strange that he didn't lay his hands on her when someone as beautiful as Arisa approached.
I wonder if master likes men?
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Today, I talked a lot about Arisa with master.
I noticed that I was talking too much in the middle, but I couldn't restrain myself as I didn't feel tense like I would with other men.
But, master listened me to the end without showing unpleasant face even once.
Furthermore!
Furthermore desu!
He didn't look disgusted from seeing my face.
It might be the first time this happened beside with Arisa.
It might only be my misunderstanding, but I felt like he was looking at me gently full of affection. Even if it was misunderstanding, it is fine.
Since the only one who could cook was Liza, I offered myself to help her. I also had things I could do. I would work hard to become something that was needed, not only as a freebie from Arisa.