The Princess Who Was Married Off To The Prince of Slaughter In Place of Her Sister. While She Was Growing Fairies and Potatoes in The Garden of The Detached Palace, His Highness's Infatuation Began - Episode 2

My name is Ariaberta Noblegrant.

My father was the king, and my mother was a commoner and His Majesty’s mistress.

However, my mother had no intention of becoming my father’s mistress. While working at the café, she fell for my father, who approached her earnestly in disguise, and she thought of building a warm family, even if it was modest.

When the lid was lifted, it turned out that my father was the king, and he had a child with his legitimate wife, while my mother was given the status of a mistress and a cramped life in a palace with a garden.

At that time, my mother was already pregnant with me, so she couldn’t leave the castle.

My father rarely visited the detached palace, and in the world where I grew up in the detached palace, there was only my mother.

As a human…

My mother loved me very much, and when she was alive, she provided food and clothing, and if I wanted, she also gave me books and study materials.

There was the inconvenience of not being able to leave the detached palace, but I was happy when my mother was alive.

My mother passed away eight years ago, when I was ten years old.

Even on the day my mother passed away, my father did not come to visit the detached palace.

After that, almost nothing was provided to the detached palace.

The meals that used to arrive three times a day were reduced to once every two days, and no clothes or books of any kind were delivered anymore.

As my body grew, the dress I received as a child became tight.

Reluctantly, I’m wearing the dress my mother wore while she was alive after having it repaired.

When my mother was alive, there were soft bread, warm soup, and fluffy omelets.

After my mother’s death, what is provided is hard bread, rotting fruit, and raw potatoes.

Still, I have survived until today.

Because he was by my side.

“Ali, what was the king’s story about?”

“Welcome back, Fel. I’ve been summoned to return to the crown prince of the neighboring country.”

“Huh!? What is that? This is all happening too fast!”

“We have to leave here by tomorrow morning. We need to pack up before then.”

“The royalty is always selfish!”

His name is Fel, his real name is Felix.

It’s the fairy my mother brought with her when she left the village.

Fel has the appearance of an innocent seven-year-old boy with bright green hair and eyes, reminiscent of early summer plants.

Her features are very cute, her eyes are big and round, her skin is fair, and her cheeks are soft and plump.

My mother grew up in a village deep in the mountains of a distant continent.

That village was one where people coexisted with fairies, and each person had one fairy with them.

The villagers were forbidden from going outside, but my mother wanted to see the outside world, so she took Fel and set out on a journey.

Crossing many mountains and rivers, taking a ship across the continent, and after several years of travel, I settled in the Noble Grant Kingdom.

When I was working at a café in the royal capital, my father took notice of me.

Fel has been with me even after my mother passed away.

Thanks to Fel, I didn’t feel lonely even after my mother passed away.

Thanks to Fel’s abilities, we managed to avoid starvation.

Fel has the ability to promote crop growth, so potatoes can be harvested in one day, and plants that grow on trees, like apples and oranges, can be harvested in one month from planting the seeds.

If you take the seeds from rotten apples, wash them with water, dry them in the sun, and then plant them in the field, they grow very well.

Thanks to the garden of the detached palace and Fel, I have been able to live until now.

Fel can also disappear and fly.

“Don’t say that, Fel. I’m a little bit excited. We’re finally getting to go outside the castle.”

“Since Ali has always lived in the detached palace, she doesn’t know the outside world. It’s a pity.”

I wonder what the outside world is like?

The information about the outside world comes only from the stories I heard from my mother and the knowledge I gained from books.

I’m somewhat interested in what the world actually looks like.

I wonder if the castle in the neighboring country has a garden too?

If it exists, I would like to grow plants there.

“In an hour, the maid will come to call for me. It seems like I’ll be busy with various things like taking a bath, brushing my hair, and getting measured for a dress.”

I have to finish packing by then.

“I don’t have time to harvest the crops in the field.”

In the orchard visible from the window, apples, mandarins, and peaches were abundantly bearing fruit, and the potato plants in the field were lush with leaves.

“Let’s take the ones we set aside for seed potatoes and the ones we dried in the sun just in case.”

I took out two small trunks that my mother brought when she got married, put her keepsake dress in one, and stored seed potatoes and plant seeds in the other.

“It’s sad to say goodbye to this orchard.”

I started to feel sorry for the fruit that no one was harvesting.

“Don’t worry. The birds will eat the fruit for us. Even the potatoes will be eaten by other animals.”

“That’s right.”

I saw a sparrow perched on the apple tree, pecking at the fruit.

Seeing that scene made me feel a little warm and fuzzy inside.

“Will Fel come with me?”

“I will definitely go with you! I don’t want to be left behind!”

“Thank you. If Fel is with me, I can manage anywhere.”

If I’m with Fel, I feel invincible.

At that moment, the door to the room was knocked on.

“Your Highness, it’s time.”

It seems the maid has come to call.

“Okay. I’m coming now.”

After replying, I speak to Fer in a low voice.

“Fel, it seems like it would be troublesome if others see you. Until we reach the neighboring country, no, until we reach a safe place, could you disappear?”

“I understood.”

Fel nodded deeply and disappeared.

To my eyes, Fel’s figure appeared translucent.

“With this, no one but Ali can see me.”

“Your Highness, are you still getting ready?”

The maid who came to call me entered the room.

“Just now, it ended. I was saying goodbye to my mother.”

Is that so?

It seemed she couldn’t see Fel, and she said, “I’ll wait outside,” and left the room.

I let out a sigh of relief that I couldn’t see Fel.

The existence of Fel was a secret known only to my mother and me.

Even my father doesn’t know of his existence.

My mother repeatedly told me to keep Fer’s existence a secret so that people wouldn’t use him for his fairy-like qualities.

“My magic is perfect.”

“Seems like it.”

If he can make himself invisible, then Fel won’t be found by anyone.

“Even so, she’s a rude maid. She enters the room without the owner’s permission and doesn’t even carry the luggage.”

“Don’t expect anything from anyone. Ever since Mother passed away, these people have always been like this, haven’t they?”

“I dislike everyone in the castle except for Ali.”

Fel is puffing his cheeks and fuming with anger.

He is much older than me, but just like he looks, he is like a child on the inside.

I can’t express how much his brightness has encouraged me.

Today, we say goodbye to the villa where we lived with Mother.

“Mother, I am going to marry the crown prince of the neighboring country. Please watch over me even when I go to the neighboring country.”

I bid farewell to the neighboring country where I spent time with my mother and went outside with my trunk.