"! Ninth. What a coincidence to meet you here." — She said, looking too confident without waiting for a reply and nodding to the maid who followed her. — "Will you be meeting his highness the Crown Prince here?"
"… Lady Karina, I feel as if it is no longer a coincidence, haha… once or twice it could be, yet I have lost count of how many times these kinds of encounters have happened with you."
"The Palace feels little when you cross each other's path so often~"
"That could be it." — I answered believing none of it. Watching how the maid brought something she could eat and uncovered it so I could see. — "But is it, truly?"
"Hm… Would you like to eat some?"
"… no, thank you."
"Really? I heard you like blackberries… perhaps it is because of the ones you did not eat the other day that you no longer want to eat these?"
"Excuse me?"
"At the city. In the streets."
"…"
