I was accidentally injured by God and I just want to be an ordinary person

Lotte raised her hand and patted her stiff cheeks. After adjusting her expression, she smiled and nodded to Camisia. Then she followed Camisia to the door of Ella's room and walked into the room with Camisia one after another.

A cool feeling completely different from the outside world hits you.

Da da da.

The sound of hurried footsteps rang in Loti's ears. Loti was very familiar with this sound. It was the footsteps of Ella.

I didn't dare look up at Ella's face.

Rather than asking Ms. Ella to point out her fault, it would be better to admit it yourself.

"Ms. Ella, I..."

"Are you okay? Are you hurt? Did the Berserk Potion have any other side effects? Ah, I was careless. I shouldn't have let Lotte buy that kind of medicine with negative properties. The potions made in this world are far inferior to those of 'F.Wing'."

"Miss...Ella?"

Looking at Ella circling around her with a look of concern, Lotte felt a sour feeling on the tip of her nose.

"Am I completely overthinking this... Ah, Miss Ella is indeed Miss Ella... I'll never be able to look that dazzling."

"Eh? What's wrong? Eh hey hey? Did that demon hurt you? I'll go take care of him soon. Don't cry! I can't handle tears!"

Hearing Ella's bewildered voice, Lotte wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her hands and looked up at Ella.

"My master is Miss Ella. How wonderful!"

"Why are you still talking about this now? It's so ridiculous... Okay, okay, let's get back to preparing for the awards ceremony in a few days. This is Lotte's first time in front of so many people, right? She'll have to dress up nicely. Hmm... should we ask Iris to come? Never mind, Camisia should be the same."

As if to hide her shyness, Ella looked away and kept talking about other things.

Feeling familiar with Ella in this state, Lotte threw all her previous worries out of her mind.

"Ah, yes, Miss Camisia, I'll make dinner tonight."

"Yeah, no problem."

"Then I'll be leaving first. Lotte and Camisia, don't leave too far behind, okay?"

As if fleeing in panic, Ella said goodbye to Lotte and Camisia and left the room.

"Isn't that right? Princess-sama, you wouldn't say anything excessive, would you?"

It seemed that Camisia had guessed what Lotte was thinking before, and she winked at Lotte without any attitude of a queen.

"Yes! Yes, Miss Ella is the best master in the world."

This time, even Lotte herself seemed to feel a little shy, her cheeks slightly flushed. After bowing to Camisia, she quickly caught up with Ella in front.

"Really? Enough of worrying me for nothing. Okay, okay, I should get ready for the reward."

After staying in the room alone and muttering to herself, Camisia smiled a seemingly happy smile and was the last one to leave the room.

Chapter 59: The Princess and the Knight Who Will Finally Sign a Contract

* August 8, 6186, at 14:8.11 AM, Demon King's Capital Mistydin

This is the mansion that Ella bought in the city of Kepa. Unlike the previous mansion that looked a bit old, the current mansion has been renovated to look like a new one. In fact, this mansion can indeed be said to be a newly built house, because both the appearance and the interior have been transformed into something brand new.

Although it was only eight o'clock in the morning, which was still Ella's bedtime, she woke up unexpectedly early today because she always felt in her dreams that the air today was different from before. If she was usually woken up by the various noisy sounds coming from the throne room being built next to her, then now it was completely quiet and even the sound of the wind blowing the leaves could be clearly heard.

It was this unusual silence that made Ella, who was already accustomed to the noise, get up from the bed.

“Ah~ah.”

She stretched hard. The feeling of stretching her whole body always made Ella intoxicated.

"Huh? Why is it only eight o'clock?"

After glancing at the clock in her mind, Ella retracted her stretched hands, widened her eyes, and then she noticed something different from usual.

"Why is it so quiet today? Is it the holiday?"

Ella couldn't help but think of the vacation in her previous world, and with a plop, she lay back on the soft bed.

Ruthie had participated in the maze event before, so he stayed in the capital until Ruthie finished the competition and received the prize. Although the prize for first place was a magic book, he did not think this was a good choice. For Hela, even if he learned new magic, it would be equivalent to not learning it if it could not be adapted to Hela. And in the process of adaptation, the higher the level of magic, the more difficult it was to complete. So he did not support Ruthie doing this. Compared with this, the gold coin rewards for the later places would be better in his opinion. Even if he intentionally separated the money he earned from Ruthie's work, Ruthie would mix them together when he was not paying attention, and then they would become public property. In this regard, Ruthie would never spend the money on it indiscriminately.

"Speaking of which, isn't it time to find a way to remove Lotte's slave collar?"

Ella couldn't help but think of the award ceremony two days ago, and her brows furrowed slightly, looking a little angry.

"What? That kind of discrimination against slaves? Lotte is much better than you guys."

On the day of the awards ceremony, many adventurers expressed disapproval of Luti's slave status, believing that such a lowly slave was unworthy of such a reward. Naturally, all adventurers who publicly spoke of this were expelled by Camisia—forbidden from ever entering the Western Demon Tribe's territory. Under this harsh rule, which effectively destroyed the adventurers' financial resources, no one dared to express dissatisfaction with Luti's slave status.

At the same time, this would not, on the surface, affect the reputation of the demon clan. Within the demon clan's territory, slavery was prohibited. Slavery had never existed since the founding of the nation. While foreign travelers were not prohibited from bringing slaves into the country, there were special regulations within the territory prohibiting discrimination against slaves. While no one specifically required this, this rule, which had existed since the nation's founding, was now perfectly applicable.

Thinking of Lotte's slave collar, Ella knocked her head in frustration.

"Slave collar... This thing isn't from F.Wing. There's absolutely no way to counter it."

I'd considered whether being a "slave" was an abnormal state, but since even the high-level skill "Archangel's Kiss" I used to initially save Lotte couldn't cancel it, it probably wasn't an abnormal state.

Dude, dunk, dunk.

Finally, a voice that didn't come from Ella was heard in the quiet air.

"Lotte? If it's Lotte, you can come right in."

"Princess, it's me."

"Oh, Camisia, just come in."

Sitting up from the bed, Ella changed into summer slippers, walked to the window and opened the curtains that blocked out the light. No matter how much Camisia indulged herself, it was too inappropriate to lie in bed and talk to her like she had just done.

pat.

The door of the room opened, and Camisia, wearing a dreamy white dress, walked into the room.

"Princess, there is something I would like you to see."

"Well, take it out."

"This isn't something you can bring in. You need to move to another room."

"Eh? Now? Wait until I change my clothes..."

"Uh...it's not something that needs to happen in front of other people, so just come directly."

Camisia spoke to Ella in a rare non-negotiating tone. Although she thought it might be a bit inappropriate for her to wander around in just pajamas, she also thought that this might be an urgent matter. Ella nodded, and her messy blonde hair swayed up and down.

"Well, let's go now."

Following the silent Camisia, Ella walked through a deserted corridor and arrived in front of a door. Camisia skillfully turned the handle, opened the door and made a gesture of invitation.

"This is it, Princess-sama."

"Yeah?"

There was no other furniture in the room except for an extra-large cardboard box that took up about half of the room. If there was one special feature, it would be that the entire wall of the room was decorated with lavender paint, and a scent of lavender could be smelled from time to time.

Although she was a little confused about the room, Ella still walked in, and then.

Snapped--

The door was closed from behind by Camisia, and then there was a click of a lock.

"Camisia?!"

"Princess, please forgive me, and happy birthday."

"Huh? Happy birthday? What? Explain clearly!"

There was no response, only the sound of Camisia's receding footsteps could be heard outside the door. Ella knocked on the door hard and shouted Camisia's name, but there was no response.

"Happy birthday or something...what?"

Covering her hand that was a little sore from knocking on the door, Ella began to look around the room.

"While using magic to blast the door open is an option, it's better to avoid intentionally damaging things like this. After all, Camisia should be here to open the door soon, right?"

Thinking of this, Ella walked to the only and most conspicuous cardboard box in the room.

"Could this be what you want to show me?"

Ella frowned as she looked at the opaque cardboard box in front of her, which was a head taller than her.

"I have a bad feeling..."

I tried knocking on it with my hands, and the cardboard box moved slightly with the tapping of my knuckles.

"It's actually built directly on the ground... Then - the 'Holy Barrier'."

A transparent barrier stretched before Ella. This barrier could only block energy and undead attacks, but physical contact with non-undead creatures could easily pass through. Ella placed her hands on either side of the cardboard box and gripped it tightly.

“Hey!”

It was not difficult at all and she easily opened the extra-large cardboard box. Although Ella's strength was much lower than that of her classmates, with the level bonus of 17, there was actually no problem in lifting the cardboard box.

But——the scene before her, which only appeared in comics, made Ella unable to close her open mouth.

"what……"

"Happy birthday, Miss Ella."

Inside the cardboard box was a massive three-tiered cake. Sitting on the top tier was Lotte, bound in red ribbons with a large bow tied at the back. Lotte, kneeling on the cream, lowered her head, her face flushed, as she handed a blue magic book to Ella.

Shocked by the sight before her, unable to form words, Ella stared at Lotte on the cake.

"Lu, Luty, are you...?"

"If I'm being stared at like that..."

Perhaps knowing that she looked too provocative, Lotte rubbed her legs together a few times, as if hiding something - her whole body was tied up with red ribbons, as if she were wrapped like a gift. Naturally, apart from the ribbons, there were no other clothes to decorate her. Large areas of snow-white skin were bathed in sight, and some parts of it were stained with white cream.

Taking a deep breath, Ella adjusted her rapid breathing, but she couldn't take her eyes off Lotte.

"Lotte, what are you doing?"

"Because it's Miss Ella's birthday... I wanted to give her this storybook she likes as a gift, but Miss Camisia said I wanted something more unique, so..."

"Really? Okay, got it. Come down first."

"Yes……"

Perhaps because she had been kneeling on the cake for too long, Lotte seemed a little unstable when she stood up. In the end, she was able to walk down from the top layer of the cake with the help of Ella. As a result, Ella inevitably got some cream on her body.

"Was Lotte's current outfit also made by Camisia?"

"No... I saw this in the book Miss Elise gave me. I thought it might be suitable, so..."

"Iris again? Well, anyway, change your clothes first. I don't know where to look now."

Although my hands touched things I shouldn't have touched when Fuluti got down from the cake, there was nothing I could do about it. Well, there was nothing I could do about it.

"But... I didn't prepare any other clothes."

"Huh? Never mind—luckily there are some spare clothes in the warehouse. Lotte, put them on first."

Taking out a smock from the storage, Ella turned her head and handed the clothes to Lotte.

"But speaking of storybooks... I never mentioned I liked them. Could it be that Lotte participated in the maze just for this?"

"Um?"

Ella's words made Lotte suddenly stunned.

"Miss Ella, don't you like storybooks?"

Feeling a little troubled, Ella scratched her blonde hair that was stained with cream and said.

"Well, I can't say I hate it, but I can't say I like it either."

flutter.

The blouse in Lotte's hand fell to the ground.

"Is that so... After all this preparation... I still haven't chosen a good gift. I'm sorry, Miss Ella."

Lotte lowered her head, and her shy expression completely faded, replaced by a look of deep dejection that Ella could still see even though she tried her best to hide it.

It's not Ruthie's fault that she's too fragile. It's just that for some time now, Ruthie has always believed that Ella likes storybooks. It's natural for her to feel depressed when she is suddenly told that what she believed in was wrong, and that it was a mistake about a birthday gift.

Feeling a little distressed by Lotte's expression, Ella picked up the smock from the ground, walked behind Lotte and put it on her.