But God Forced Me to Reincarnate! 2

The Princess' Debut Party

"What took you so long?"

Upon arriving to where my friends were, I was greeted by Luca's raised eyebrows and question.

"Nothing. It's not like Leticia's finished greeting the others, right?" I answered back.

"Did you get lost again?" Luca's tone of voice was affirmative.

"Of course not!" I protested—don't label me like that!

"Yes, yes, can you two stop your usual bickering, please?"

Carbuncle clapped her hands a few times to shift my and Luca's focus with a bored expression on her face.

Back then, she was in high spirits when she saw us starting to bicker, supporting us to "fight" (that was effective in making us stop bickering, too...). But in time, she grew tired of it that she'd just tell us to stop. Or maybe we were getting too noisy...

"Right, Kuu-chan is right! Stop bickering and let's all enjoy the party!" Iris said with her small hands tightly grasped in front of her shoulders.

"Iris, my cute girl~," I quickly hugged her small body in my arms. She's just too adorable!

"Lyra, I'm older than you, so don't treat me like that...," Iris protested.

"My Iris has started to grow up that she's started to protest...," I purposely made my tone of voice sound sad.

"It can't be helped with how things are, Iris. That's why, you should eat a lot and grow up more," Harvey said as he casually patted Iris' head.

"Even Harvey, too..."

"Yes, Little Sheep, eat a lot! I'll go hunt for ya~," Carbuncle smirked.

"...No, thank you," Iris rejected Carbuncle's offer right away.

It was suddenly getting merrier around here. Perhaps due to that, Leticia decided to stop seeing the other nobles and went to approach us.

"Lyra-nee!" She lightly ran towards my direction.

The twins who were behind her tried to follow as well.

"Careful, don't fall down!" I warned them in my worry.

"Hya!" Leticia jumped to hug me.

The twins stared at us.

...I felt as if the twins were asking for their portion as well.

"Hmph, you shouldn't be too careless and do that in public, Princess," Ein commented from the side as he observed us.

"What's wrong with it?" Leticia replied with a sulky voice.

"Well, you're the focus of everyone's eyes. You should restrain yourself and maintain a good image," Ein replied as if it was natural.

"It's okay, Ein, Leti's still small," I tried to back Leticia up.

"Don't pamper her too much, Big Sis Lyra. Things like this require us to get used to it from when we're small..."

"You might be right, but still..."

I can relate much to Ein's comment and understand where he's coming from, but I... maybe since I have experienced that in my past lifetime, I don't want Leticia to experience it as well.

"I'm saying this out of my kind consideration, Big Sis. Isn't that right, Big Bro Luca?" Ein quickly shifted the topic of the conversation to Luca.

"...She'll be fine," Luca refused to comment too much for this and only replied as much.

"Thanks for your consideration then, Ein. I thought you were rivals with Leticia but it turns out you care about her," I smiled.

"I just realized that she's still a child and I no longer view her as quite a rival, but...," Ein shifted his gaze to Freyr. Freyr noticed this and only stared back at Ein with his straight face.