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"Raymond. You are the next King of this country! Good. Because you are the son of me, the First Princess of the Ost Empire, I won't allow you to lose to the son of some mere duchess!"
"Dau."
For the past three months, my mother, Maya-san, has been constantly telling me things like that.
Maya-san is a beauty with long black hair and sharp, beautiful grey eyes.
She's quite beautiful, but her words and behavior always give off a girlish impression, though she is undoubtedly a grown woman.
So, the information I can gather from her is that I seem to have siblings, and my father has other wives besides my mother.
Envy is inexcusable.
"Raymond. Have you been doing well? It's your papa!"
"Au au..."
"What's wrong? Is Raymond-kun in a bad mood?"
This man with the frivolous way of speaking is Abramo Centro, the current King of Centro Kingdom, also known as Middle-earth here. He is my father in this life.
He sweeps his fiery red hair, which reaches about halfway down his back, backward and ties it into a single ponytail at the low back of his head.
His eyes are a beautiful peridot green, and I can see overflowing affection in the eyes that look at me.
However, perhaps it's one of his ways of expressing his affection, but the tone he uses when talking to me makes me feel, how should I say it, mocked, which I think is understandable.
Is it okay for this guy to be a king? I wonder, but well, maybe it's just towards children.
My father only ever says, My Raymond is so cute!
In this way, my mother only ever tells me to become king, and my father only ever says I'm cute.
There's no way I can learn about the world's internal affairs.
So, what about Maria?
"Is this alright, Raymond-sama? Maya-sama is saying those things, but I, Maria, believe that you should choose for yourself. That's what I think."
"Au!"
"The world is wide, and full of things you don't know. Raymond-sama. Please look over there."
Maria, who became my caretaker, is a woman with her carrot-orange hair in a bun and beautiful amber eyes.
She's quite a beauty, and she has a good personality too.
Is she perfect? I absolutely can't let her marry some strange man. I'll protect her.
I won't let her marry anyone unless they're a man I approve of.
Maria-san picks me up like that and takes me to the window.
By this time, my vision, which hadn't been very clear until now, had become much clearer.
I thought the vision of a baby who hadn't been born for very long would be worse, but I don't know if it's because of my memories from my previous life, or if it's the norm in this world, but as I came to terms with my memories from my previous life, it gradually became clearer.
That's how Maria-san showed me the royal capital from the window.
"Beyond the east, all the way there, is the Ost Empire, the hometown of your mother, Raymond-sama. It is said to be different from Centro Kingdom here, with many steep mountains."
I turn my eyes to the outside of the window at Maria's words, but from Centro Kingdom, which has many plains, I can't see even a part of those steep mountains.
"Dragons, said to be messengers of God, live in those mountains. In the Ost Empire, there are many Dragon Knights who communicate with those dragons and control them as if they were their own limbs."
Wow.
There seem to be dragons in this world after all.
No, I had a feeling that there might be some when I heard that there were monsters, but I can't believe they're really here!
"Au au!"
"Oh, are you interested in dragons, Raymond-sama?"
"Ai!"
When I waved my hands greatly, raised my voice, and showed that I was interested, Maria seemed to understand and told me while chuckling.
"Dragons are noble creatures. They find only one partner in their lifetime. That's why affectionate and close couples are called Dragon Couples."
In other words, it's like the mandarin duck couple in Japan.
In reality, mandarin ducks seem to be aloof creatures that leave each other after raising their young, but the dragons in this world seem to be nothing like that.
"Dragons are very affectionate, and if one partner dies, the surviving one will surely die soon after. Also, dragons are said to be the ancestors of the scaled race of the Notos United Kingdom."
Scaled race... If the name is anything to go by, it's a race with scales, right?
So, there are dragonoids? Lizardmen? Are there guys like that too?!
My tension rises just from Maria's words.
"Dauwa! Babuu!"
"Oh, are you interested in the scaled race now?"
"Auu!"
"I see. Then, shall we talk about the Notos United Kingdom?"
Saying that, Maria left the room while holding me.
It's been three months since I was born into this world, and I might have left that room for the first time.
My mother often leaves that room because she has things to do as the King's wife.
My father is the top of this country, so it may be natural, but it's rare for him to come to that room in the first place.
And Maria didn't want to take the still-small me outside, so I had never left that small room, or rather, a room many times the size of my room in my previous life, but small to me who knows the vastness of the world.
However, that's finally over!
Today is my outside debut!
With a carefree feeling, I am held by Maria and go outside, and it was truly another world.
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