Volume 1 – Chapter 11 Part 2

What about my paradise?

「Ro-anija, Ro-anija? What is the matter? Say something.」

「Oichi, weren’t you supposed to go home?」

「Of course I am going home. But the sun is still high, so I am going to play a little longer.」

「Aren’t you going to the children’s quarters?」

「I hate the place where Sanjuro-anija is. He is so unfair.」

「What did Brother Sanjuro do?」

「He says he has nothing to do until the tenth, so he is staying here the whole time. I want to have a sleepover too.」

Oichi’s mother, Tsuchida Gozen, had been incredibly busy throughout the New Year.

In addition to receiving New Year’s greetings from the female attendants in the inner palace, she was also managing the receptions for senior retainers—whom she invited to bolster support for her son, Nobukatsu-aniue—leaving her no time even to share a meal with Oichi.

Perhaps concerned about Oichi spending her time alone in the inner quarters of Suemori Castle, she