Battlefield Of Woman Is Not A Battlefield?

'we are here lady lapiz'

Lapiz was escorted down the carriage with the help of lazuli knight and looked at the huge mansion

[Man it's larger than lazuli household]

She thought to herself and started walking to the rose garden just when she started walking a palace maid came near her and bowed

'good evening my lady'

She said while smiling

'who are you'?

'i am Alice, her highness the princess ordered me to escort my lady to the rose garden'

Lapiz followed the maid along with the knight and lily on her back

'why do I have to wear a veil'?

She asked lily

'because my lady belongs to another man'

Lily said while walking

[Wait what]?

She thought to herself, soon they reached the rose garden where the ladies and princess Charlotte were, she could see that they had prepared a seat next to the princess for her

[Oho, so I gotta sit next to that Loli]

'i greet the only rose in the empire, princess Charlotte de alvoa decodia'

Lapiz said while bowing, the ladies were unable to see lapiz's face because of the veil

'i also greet the blue gem of the empire lapiz lazuli'

Charlotte stood up and greeted lapiz,

[Look at them curious about how I look like]

Lapiz went ahead and sat on the chair while the knight and lily stood at the rose gardens entrance

'there was no need for lady lapiz to bring along a knight considering this is the palace'

A girl sitting opposite to lapiz asked her

'i apologize, but I am currently recovering, so I can't tell when I will faint, so it is necessary for a knight in my house he to escort me'

Lapiz replied with a smile

'may I ask what your name is young lady'

Lapiz asked the lady

'ah! I am maria berzet'

Maria replied while looking away

[Hmm looking at them all, it seems that all the ladies are 18 or 16. Pfft, I wonder what these kids have stored for me]

'now now let's get into the party already'

Charlotte said while smiling awkwardly

'sure'

All the ladies replied, they all started introducing themselves one by one

' I heard that his highness Khalid returned from the monster hunting '

Sophia a daughter of a count told suddenly which gained lapiz's attention

'i know right, he was so handsome when riding the horse through the town'

Renda another count's daughter replied

[Khalid? So he went to hunt monsters before I woke up?]

'i heard that the lord went to see lady lapiz right after returning'

Maria said while looking at lapiz suspiciously

[Ah I see so that was why his clothes smelled of blood, he must have returned when I was near to get kidnapped]

'indeed, as our families are very close his grace must have wanted to see if I was safe with his own eyes'

Lapiz replied to maria with a gentle smile which no one could see

[this is weird, the tea party is going opposite of what maria told me, is this perhaps a test or something]

Lapiz looked at all the lady's however none of them seemed to hold any anger towards her

[Since this is my first tea party after waking up they must be going easy on me]

Time passed faster than lapiz could, it was the time for her to return to the mansion she stood up and bowed while facing the princess

'i shall take my leave your highness, it seems that my time to enjoy this beautiful event has ended'

'it's alright, as my lady's condition is not that good i guess you have to leave early'

the princess stood up and escorted her to the entrance of the rose garden while the other lady's stood up and bowed

[Does this naive child really have nothing against me]

[I noticed it in the tea party but, she seems to hold some special feelings for Khalid seeing how she blushed a lot whenever he came to the topic, and also how the other girls kept mentioning that Khalid and her would look good toghether]

Lapiz walked outside with lily and the knight behind her back while having lots in her mind

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'so that's how it went'

Khalid who was standing near the window while sipping tea said while looking at Leo who was standing near the table

'yes my lord'

Leo replied while bowing

[That princess has some feeling for me, so I thought she would neglect lapiz, but it seems like she didn't, ]

[No, that was not it, she seemed to be observing lapiz more, how troublesome it seems like the princess is not going to be on me and lapiz's side]

[Welp, if she dare hurt lapiz then i guess she is looking for death]

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'sighh'

Lapiz took a deep sigh while sitting down on a chair

'what's wrong my lady'?

Lily asked lapiz who kept sighing

'the battlefield of women was not a battlefield'

Lapiz said with a bored expression

'isn't that a good thingy'?

Lily asked her while tilting

'duh! Of course not'!

'if it was a battlefield then their hidden motive would have been clear, but all of those lady didn't show an inch of expression, especially that princess i can tell just by looking that she is a fox in rabbit's cloth'

Lily was slowly combing lapiz's hair, she looked in a mirror which was in front of her and could see lapiz complaining

'i am glad this is not a dream'

She mumbled

'what'?

Lapiz asked while turning backside

'its nothing'

[If it was at that time, i would have never even dreamed about braiding my lady's hair while listening to her complaint, my lady more than the battlefield of woman i treasure you more, we all do, so don't do anything endangering your life just like in your last life, you are the treasure of lazuli'

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'she was clever'

The princess was walking on the rose garden cutting bloomed Rose's one by one

'and interesting than i thought'

TO BE CONTINUED.....