To my beloved fiancée,
The sun’s rays have grown stronger.
How are you faring during these early summer days of fresh, vibrant greenery?
It’s been one year since we parted ways.
Even though we haven’t seen each other for many moons, my feelings for you remain utterly unchanged.
I hope yours are the same, Your Highness.
I apologize for the gap between letters.
For the past six months or so, I was working with my seniors on the development of a magic tool. Day after day, I forgot to even sleep or eat, so I had no time to write to you.
As I wrote previously, I was making a gift for you. The process has been far more difficult than I expected, and your gift is nowhere near complete. It will probably be another year or two before I can give it to you.
And so I have a different present for you in the meantime.
I truly hope you like it.
Oh, that reminds me.
I can’t go into the details, but there was an incident and one of the school’s buildings collapsed. The room I was renting as my lab was destroyed, too. Everyone’s documents were in a jumbled mess, and it took more than two weeks to sort through them. It was absolutely awful.
Please be careful to avoid trouble yourself, Princess. Though I suppose there are some accidents that can’t be avoided no matter how careful one is.
Still, please take care.
Speaking of, I attended an afterparty for the first time the other day. Around a dozen of us went out into the city at night together.
Do you remember, Your Highness? That night you and I went out together for dinner?
Afterward, I felt like I had become just a little more grown up.
I got that same feeling that I had matured slightly at the afterparty, too. Perhaps nighttime is when people become adults.
In any case, to think that drinking alcohol makes everyone, men and women alike, so boisterous.
The legal drinking age in Hughlia is fifteen, as I recall.
It’s not as though I’m uninterested, but… Imagining myself in such a state of disorder is kind of frightening.
What of your affairs, Princess?
You’re already a second-year student in the knighthood class, right?
I’m sure both the training and assignments are tougher than the previous year’s.
Please get plenty of rest and don’t overexert yourself.
Even from afar, I worry about your well-being.
With eternal love,
Your Kunon Gurion
PS
I upset my maid a little and ended up suffering rather a lot.
If I could give you a word of friendly advice… Please be sure to take good care of your servants, too.