The queen had dragged Lilica to the living room for a nice chat over tea. Lilica sat down opposite the queen nervously.

"No need to be nervous. As you can see, we're quite casual and only the title makes us royalty. We don't really think much of the title." The queen tried to make Lilica less nervous and warm up to her.

"...Yes..." Lilica still replied nervously and politely. It was the second time she had felt so nervous and distressed. The first time being when she had a fight with her parents.

The queen saw that Lilica was still nervous so she said gently, "How about this? Let's go to my bedroom. I'll show you something interesting."

Hearing that, Lilica felt even more nervous and was about to refuse but the queen had already grabbed her hand and led her upstairs, to her bedroom.

Squeak.

The queen opened the door elegantly. She lead Lilica to a sofa and dashed off somewhere.

Lilica was still shocked and couldn't really react in time. When she saw that the queen was gone, she finally relaxed herself and observed the room. Although the palace was decorated in European style, this room was decorated Japanese-style. Probably because of the queen's fondness of Japan.

After while, when Lilica looked around silently, the queen came back with some thick albums. It looked pretty heavy so Lilica immediately rushed to help.

"Thanks!" The queen said cheerfully and friendly.

The two carried the albums back to the coffee table at the sofa and sat down. Lilica decided to sit on the sofa opposite the queen but was pulled down next to the queen instead.

Lilica was surprised and was going to stand up but the queen said, "Just sit here! Let's look at these albums together! Here! This was when Kazuya and Kazuki were just born!"

The queen distracted Lilica with a cute picture of the twins.

"So cute!" Lilica immediately exclaimed when she saw Kazuya's cute chubby face.

Seeing Lilica relaxed, the queen sighed a relief and continued turning the pages of the album.