Be My Princess: Wilfred A. Spencer (COMPLETED)

(Princess Sequel) Chapter 2

Wilfred: "I'm sorry about the other day."

Older Man: "Nah... I'm the one that's sorry."

Wilfred: "I'm doing some research into the farm taxes that were revised last year."

The middle-aged man's eyebrows twitched.

Older Man: "Research? What kind of research?"

Wilfred: "I can't share the details, but I wish to find if there's anything I can do..."

The middle-aged man's expression twisted.

Older Man: "If all you've got to offer is lip service, you can take it somewhere else."

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After we got back to the house. Prince Wilfred and I had a breakfast devoid of conversation.

(That's man's words must have come as a shock to him...)

But he kept eating breakfast with a perfectly normal expression for him. And... I asked him nothing.

(I'll just wait for Wilfred to bring it all up... but I won't ask.)

When I finished putting away the dishes from breakfast...

Regina: "Here, have some tea. And one of the apples we bought."

I set a teacup down on the table. And with it, I also placed down a dish with an apple carved into flower shapes. He picked up one of the apple-flowers and he smiled faintly.

Wilfred: "I didn't know you were such a good craftsman."

He took a bite and perked visibly.

Wilfred: "...Delicious."

He gave a soft sigh and murmured to himself.

Wilfred: "I've never known such an idyllic lifestyle."

Regina: "Hm...?"

Wilfred: "But harvesting and softing vegetables, day in and day out..."

Wilfred: "It looks like hard work."

Wilfred: "Not to mention the apples."

Regina: "Yeah... but people have all their own lifestyles."

Wilfred: "I know that. And lifestyles are well enough if they make people happy..."

Wilfred: "Both here and elsewhere. It's just..."

He said as setting his cup on the table.

Wilfred: "Are they happy?"

(Ah... he's really bothered over the mention of those taxes.)

(Not to mention the chewing out he just got.)

Regina: "Wilfred, if this is about what that man said..."

Wilfred: "I tried to ascertain the details of the revisions from last year."

(What...?)

He continued.

Regina: "By revisions..."

Regina: "Do you mean the tax rates that got brought up the other day?"

Wilfred: "Yes. But the documents about it are missing."

Regina: "...They are?"

Wilfred: "Yes. The documents are all missing, even the minutes from the proceedings."