The Young Lady Tames the Main Leads

Chapter 117

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For a moment, the maid turned her head toward us.

Her sharp gaze was fixed under the bed.

‘Wait, did we get caught?’

We could not even tremble and froze in horror.

After that, the maid carefully asked Ninaina a question.

“Your Majesty, no way…”

“…what’s wrong?”

I could hear Ninaina answering in a more awkward voice than usual.

The maid tilted her head and continued to talk.

“You’re not going to the banquet like that, are you? The dress is wrinkled.”

At her words, Ninaina was startled and looked down at her clothes.

It really was. The sleeves and skirt hem were wrinkled.

It must have happened because she passed through a hole a while ago and had a fuss with us.

“Oh, I should change.”

“Yes. I will tell them to bring me a new dress, Your Majesty.”

The maid bowed her head and tried to step down.

Then Ninaina seemed to pause for a moment and then caught her.

“Wait a minute! I’ll go ahead and pick it up myself. Let’s go together.”

“Understood, Your Highness.”

So Ninaina and the maid opened the door and disappeared.

Only then were we able to rest our minds and be at peace.

“Whoo… I was really scared. I’m afraid we’ll get caught.”

Alice sighed in relief.

I, too, took a breath I had been holding in for a while and finally let it go.

Suddenly, the curtains shook, and Cedric, who had been hiding in them, pushed his head out.

“But what are we going to do now? The Princess has left, should we follow her?”

“No. What if you go out and get caught? For now, we should stay here.”

At Cedric’s words, Alice was startled.

Then Cedric smacked his lips as if he was disappointed.

“…I’m tired of hiding here all the time.”

But, as soon as that happened, I heard the noise of servants passing by from the nearby hallway.

We shut our mouths again.

After a while, Ninaina returned.

She was alone, not with her maid.

She said she would change her outfit, so she came in really different clothes.

But somehow, the shape of the dress was very familiar.

Without realizing it, I muttered while looking at the dress I was wearing and Ninaina’s one.

“Oh, that outfit?”

It was the same twin look dress I was wearing now.

She seemed to have glanced at my outfit earlier, so I guess she did it on purpose.

“Everyone can come out. It’s time to go to the banquet hall.”

Banquet! As soon as I heard the word, my eyes lit up.

Can we finally see the splendid and grand palace banquet?

Ninaina held out her finger to us as we were about to exclaim.

“Everyone, be quiet! You know, right? We’re going secretly.”

So we left the room with Ninaina.

The empty hallway was different from the noisy one before.

It was probably because most of the attendants went to the banquet hall.

“For now, I’ll let you hide in the banquet hall. Then you have to stay away for a while. I have to go in with Father, Mother and my brother.”

“Okay!”

We headed to the secret passage again.

Oh, so it was a different passage than the one we entered into the room earlier.

It was an underground passage from Ninaina’s palace to the banquet hall.

The gray bricks and the lanterns on the wall at regular intervals reminded me of a medieval palace.

Ninaina managed to find the path as complicated as a maze.

‘Umm, the imperial palace is complicated.’

I, who was not very geography-savvy, diligently followed Ninaina with the other children in fear that I might lose the way.

‘By the way, Nicholas must also be in the Imperial Palace.’

Ninaina was the only one who secretly invited us to the Imperial Palace, so Nicholas probably didn’t even know we were here.

‘He doesn’t know, right?’

I carefully asked Ninaina.

“By the way, does the Prince know that we have come to the Imperial Palace?”

“No. Of course.”

“Oh, I see.”

Ninaina shook her head as if it was natural.

Then she asked back.

“Why did you ask that?”

“That’s… What if I ever run into the Prince?”

“What do you mean, what to do? You can also bring Brother and play together. Don’t worry about things like that.”

“Yes.”

At Ninaina’s affirmation, I nodded my head.

Well, with Ninaina, I wouldn’t have to worry.

Because I felt like she was going to figure it out and fix it.

After a while, a faint light could be seen at the end of the passage. Perhaps we were almost there.

“Now, if you go up here, there is a wall right. If you push the wall a little, it leads to the banquet hall terrace. It will be time for people to enter the banquet hall soon, so in the meantime, you will be able to hide in the banquet hall.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

We nodded with serious expressions. It felt like I was filming a scene in a spy movie.

“Let’s go! To the banquet hall!”

The wall opened, and we entered the banquet hall, taking in the fresh air of the terrace.

“Wow, this vast space is completely empty!”

“Shh, it’s spacious here, so the voice resonates well. The servants might hear it!”

“Oh, I’ll be quiet.”

Alice covered my mouth with both hands.

Just then, there was a buzzing from the doorway.

We were all startled, we quickly squatted against the wall and hid.