Caterina got up early.

This was more or less her habit, and partly due to the fact that the family of Giang had raised such a good routine, and as a princess, Caterina was always required to maintain a good routine.

Of course, that doesn't mean Caterina doesn't get tired, and struggling to get out of the comfort of her bed every morning is a pain for her, especially now that she's dealing with a ton of paperwork that alone is enough to keep her from getting a good night's sleep.

With tiredness, Caterina came to the small restaurant, the previous restaurant was too damaged and naturally could not be used anymore, so now Caterina and her family, who live in the Tiamat Palace, can only eat in this remote small restaurant.

When she walked into the small dining room, Caterina looked at the environment in the restaurant, indeed, compared to the formal dining room of the original Tiamat Palace, the layout here is far less luxurious, but it is extraordinarily family-like, just enough to sit at the dining table for four people, with a checkered tablecloth on it, with the sunlight shining in from the window, it looks like an ordinary people's dining room, although it is small, but the distance between the dining table will be very close.

Sophia was already eating breakfast at the table, and when she saw Caterina come in, she nodded politely to the other party, but there was still a bit of complexity in her eyes.

Caterina pursed her lips and sat down across from her.

"Good morning, Sophia. ”

"Good morning, Your Highness Princess. ”

Caterina took a piece of bread, put it on the plate in front of her, tore off a small piece, and stuffed it into her mouth to taste it slowly.

Sophia looked at Caterina, but her gaze was not focused on any part of Celestia.

"What's the matter, Sophia?" Caterina asked, licking her fingers, to Sophia.

"Hmm...... You don't look well rested, and your face is a little tired. ”

"Really?" Caterina smiled wryly, raising her hand and stroking her cheek with the back of her hand, "Maybe it was too late to deal with those documents last night." ”

Sophia took a deep breath.

"You're really ...... It's a lot of hard work. ”

Caterina picked up the orange juice and put it down as soon as her lips touched the glass.

She turned her face to Sophia, revealing a big smile.

"You're working hard, aren't you?"

Sophia bowed her head. "No, compared to you, I ...... Nothing can help. ”

"If you think so, you're underestimating yourself. Caterina looked at Sophia, and there was a little sadness in her gentle eyes, "You are Swain's spiritual support, there is no doubt about it, you don't have to do anything at all, Swain will also act for the love of you, from this point of view, you have actually done a lot." ”

Sophia's hand under the table clenched the corner of the tablecloth tightly, and her knuckles turned white from too much force.

"You're very resentful, aren't you? You look down on me very much, don't you? You don't have to do anything, it means that I can't do anything at all, right? I just stay behind my brother and be sheltered by him, so I get all his love, and in order to get my brother, you can only desperately behave in front of him, and I want to use this method to make my brother look at you a few more times, this feeling must be very unwilling!"

She lifted her eyes, and panic and jealousy gradually soaked in those beautiful eyes.

"But, even if I knew this, I wouldn't give my brother to anyone! Love is inherently unfair, 'if you meet your brother first, you can get his heart first', this kind of thing will not be true - he is only mine, only mine!"

The smile on Katerina's face faded completely, leaving only sadness.

"I know, I understand, I can understand your fear of Swain being snatched away......" Princess Celestia sighed, her eyes turned to the bright sunshine outside the window, "I used to want to get his heart, and even, I once wanted to use my life to force him to make a choice, and that feeling of wanting to get is no different from the feeling you are afraid of losing now, just as intense." ”

"But now I don't think the same way. What does it mean to get someone? Let him always be by his side, let him always say sweet things to me, or ...... So that he will never forget me?"

Caterina curled the corners of her mouth, and Sophia couldn't tell whether the corners of her mouth meant smug or sad.

"So, now I'm not thinking about how to get him, but how to get him ...... Get something from me. ”

Sophia opened her lips slightly, she was a little stunned.

"Love is not blindly stubborn, it is not simply obtained from the other party, especially a person like Swain, his heart is not easy to be moved, so, do you understand? If you want to keep your brother, if you want to do something for him, what kind of way to use, do you understand?"

Sophia lowered her head, her expression visibly shaken.

There was the sound of footsteps at the door, and Caterina looked up to see a face that looked very similar to Sophia.

Victoria's expression was visibly impatient, and if it weren't for Artemis following closely behind her, she probably wouldn't want to come here for breakfast.

However, when she saw Sophia, her expression was obviously touched.

Victoria immediately walked quickly to Sophia's side and grabbed her hand tightly.

"Sophia, you...... Are you alright?"

Sophia looked up blankly, she hadn't recovered from what she had just come to her senses.

"Ah, sister...... I am fine. ”

Victoria looked into Sophia's eyes, and the worry in her expression only increased.

"But ......"

"Speaking of which, sister, are you still used to living here?" Sophia didn't give Victoria a chance to finish speaking, and after she adjusted her demeanor, she immediately rushed to say, "This is Her Royal Highness Princess Caterina, sister, I'm afraid you don't know each other, right?"

"Ka, Your Highness Caterina!" Victoria was immediately distracted by her sister's words, staring blankly at Princess Celestia, her mouth open almost as much as a goose egg.

Caterina smiled slightly at Victoria, who she could guess from the other party's appearance.

Although Winston is well-known among the big families in the imperial capital, and the Jericho family is very famous, but in terms of social status, the Ernest family is really not qualified to meet the royal family.

"Hello. Seeing that Victoria was still in a daze, Katerina took the initiative to reach out her hand, "I'm Katerina Higrid No. Gion-Godunov. ”

"Yes, yes, I know you, Your Highness the Princess!" Victoria looked very nervous, her hands didn't know where to go, and she looked like a boy who was going to his girlfriend's house for the first time.

Seeing Victoria's appearance, Caterina couldn't help but laugh out loud, she covered her mouth, but the smile in her eyes couldn't be concealed at all.

"Miss Victoria, you really ...... It's really cute. ”

No matter how stupid Victoria was, she couldn't take it as a compliment, so she could only stand awkwardly and turn her eyes on her sister Sophia for help.

"Let's sit down and have a bite to eat. Sophia took Victoria's hand and sat her down, "By the way, what about Mother?"

"Uh-" Victoria's face hesitated again at the mention of her mother, "Mother's words, she'...... Now he is in the care of Ramrem. ”

Sophia pursed her lips. "Well, I'll go see her later. ”

Caterina glanced at the sisters, then turned her gaze and said to Artmis, who was still standing in the doorway, "Artemis, you can come in and have something to eat together." It's not the guards, how about taking it easy?"

Artemis hesitated for a moment, then slowly walked in and sat down silently in a corner of the table.

Caterina pointed at Victoria. "Are you responsible for protecting Miss Victoria during this time?"

"To be precise, to protect this Tiamat Palace. "There aren't many people we can trust, so Your Excellency Earl has put me in charge of the defense here." ”

"That's right. Katerina nodded, "With you, it's reliable." ”

Listening to the conversation between Caterina and Artemis, Victoria, who had just looked a little depressed, frowned again.

"Sorry for the interruption. "I wonder if it was you, or the Count Sven no Jericho, who declared my father, Count Ernest no Jericho, to be the traitor who attacked the Palace of Tiamat?"

The other three girls all looked at Victoria, and their expressions made Victoria, who had finally become serious, feel a little nervous.

"Is there any difference?" Caterina smiled at Victoria, "Is there any difference between whether this order was given by me or by Swain?"

Victoria swallowed, although Caterina was smiling, but inexplicably, she felt an aura enveloping the other party, shocking herself.

"In between...... It's a difference!" Although she was a little nervous about facing a figure of the princess's level for the first time, Victoria still mustered up her courage, just as she did when she faced Swain, "I wonder why you think my father is a traitor." He was loyal to the Empire, and I absolutely did not believe that he would start such a rebellion!and, if it was really decided that my father was a traitor, why should he bring us to the palace of Tiamat?

While Victoria spoke, Caterina kept looking at her with playful eyes. Princess Celestia found that Sophia's sister seemed to be more interesting.

"Although you and your mother are family members of Count Ernest, you are also a close relative of Count Swayn, aren't you? It's not a good idea to say it this way, but that's the truth. ”

Victoria's face couldn't help but be a little gloomy, she understood that even this princess was on Swain's side, in other words, it was impossible to overturn the case for her father through Katarina.

"Well, then, I'd rather not be treated like this!" Victoria said angrily, "it would be better to send me to prison, then I would feel more comfortable." ”

"Sister. Sophia patted Victoria's hand, "You'd better not do that, my brother will be upset." ”

Victoria's cheeks twitched, as if she were about to have a seizure, but she finally endured.

"Sophia, why? I don't understand, why are you talking to him so much, why is that?

Sophia turned her face to her sister with a blank expression.

"Elder brother, it's everything to me, and I can give up anything else for him. ”

Sophia blinked, but there was nothing moving in her beautiful eyes.

"Including you, sister. ”

Victoria froze, she looked at her twin sister in disbelief, her chest heaving sharply, and her breathing became very unsmooth.

"You're ...... For that guy, to this extent......"

This time, Victoria couldn't hold back.

"Why! Do you know what he did! He hurt his mother so much that he couldn't even remember things, he watched the boss who had served him for so many years commit suicide, and he was merciless about shooting and killing a child who was only twelve years old! What is there about a man like him?"

Facing her hysterical roaring sister, Sophia was unusually calm.

"Because he's my elder brother. ”