The Grand Duke’s Fox Princess

his sense of superiority and turned around.

And then, in a hurry, he went out.

“…….I’ll get going.
Goodbye.”

Leighton looked at Heinricion, bowed his head slightly as he said goodbye, and was about to follow Patrick.

Tap, tap.

Eristella touched Leighton’s leg with her front paw.

‘Little boy.
Look here.’

Leighton stopped walking and looked back at the sensation of something touching his leg.
The white fox was staring at him with a smile.

“…….Me?”

When Leighton asked, bewildered, Eristella nodded her head.

‘Yes, you.
You should bow your head.’

Leighton had a strange feeling of being commanded by the fox.

Leighton’s eyes widened, and he bent his knees to bring himself to the fox’s eye level.
Eristella reached her front paw out and grabbed Leighton’s hand.
And looking into his eyes, she said,

‘I promise in the name of Princess Eristella Rene Leonard.
I will grant your request in some way later.’

Leighton, unable to understand the fox’s low cry, tilted her head and pondered.

Eristella quickly used that same paw to tap something behind Leighton’s shoe.
And she stretched the corners of her lips as if nothing had happened.

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It didn’t matter at all that Leighton didn’t understand anyway.
It was like Eristella’s own promise to him.

It was an apology and a compensation from Eristella, for forgetting and not helping him for the past six months, although there were circumstances.

‘You’ve been through a lot, but things will only get better from now on.’

At that moment, Leighton had a strange experience.

He felt as if all problems surrounding him had been resolved just by looking into the fox’s gold eyes.
There appeared to be a power that brought relief for no apparent reason.

From the moment he entered the mansion, Leighton’s eyes, which had never smiled once, curved for the first time.

*******

After the people of the Marquis of Haveling returned, Eristella’s eyes wandered through the distant air as if they were running away.

Heinricion was glaring at her half-heartedly as only the two of them were left, as if he had never brought and fed her cookies just a little while ago.

‘Stop looking at me.
At this rate, there’s going to be a hole.’

Eristella turned, dodging his blazing gaze.
There were still plenty of things to be picked on, so she couldn’t be relieved until she had a justification not to get kicked out.

At the moment when she was about to run away…

‘Huh…….?!’

She was immediately caught by Heinricion by the nape of her neck.

“Where are you trying to make off?”

Eristella, hanging Heinricion’s hand, struggled, but could not escape from him.

‘Why is a fox’s body so powerless!’

“Aww—!”

The sad cry of a fox, whose heart was as much as a wolf, resounded like the last rebellion.

Then, Heinricion pressed Eristella’s cheeks with one hand and suppressed her at once.

‘Hey, let me go.’

“I’ll give you a chance to be honest about what you did to Patrick Haveling a while ago.”

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‘Yes, yes.
Okay…….’

“When I saw it earlier, I knew it.
Did you bring it from that room?”

At first, he couldn’t figure out what it was, but as he kept watching, something came to mind.

It was something Heinricion made together with Eristella when they were young.

Heinricion’s interrogation continued, and at that instance, Eristella’s eyes were pointed.

Then she suddenly struggled with her four limbs and pounded Heinricion’s chest.

‘I came forward because you didn’t know.’

Eristella hit Heinricion with all her might, and expressed it with her gestures.

“Ow! Woo woo woo!!!”

Heinricion’s eyes thinned; though he could not understand the fox’s words, he knew the purpose of the object.

“Maybe Patrick Haveling…….
Leighton…….”

Heinricion’s eyes sank coldly.

It was when Heinricion, who had grasped the situation, turned with the momentum to attack the marquisate at once.

‘Wait a minute!’

This time, Eristella grabbed Heinricion’s hair, pulling tightly.

‘Hold on.
For now, wait!’

Heinricion’s ferocious gaze touched her.

‘You saw it all earlier, right? What did I put on here and here?’

Eristella hurriedly reached out with her front paw and tapped the back of Heinricion’s neck and shoes.

‘Anyway, he can’t touch Leighton’s finger anymore.’

“…….”

‘So you send a letter to the Marquisate of Haveling!’

Eristella stretched out her front paws and wrote what Heinricion had to do right away on his chest.