My Beloved Dog is the Strongest in Another World

Ms. Johanna said something unexpected

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“That hat. It suits you, so you can be more confident, you know?”

“Confident… If you say so, Mr. Takumi. But I don’t feel… What about you, Mr. Takumi?”

“I got used to it. It was more embarrassing wearing in town around strangers.”

“Well…I can see how that would happen. I suppose I would get used to it too if a lot of people saw me?”

“That is no good, Lady Claire. It will be no good at all!”

“Johanna…?”

“I have watched you for a long time, Lady Claire… Even when you were young, you would sneak out with a sword and pretend to be your father…”

“Jo-Johanna! Calm down.”

“I cannot calm down! I still remember how you fell down and hurt your hand… While we worried, you said you wanted to become strong like your father. I remember it like it was yesterday!”

“Uh, Johanna. That’s enough…”

“No! Your cuteness is much more than that! Even when you ran and fell. You bore the pain and pretended to be strong. And when you understood that you were not suited to fighting, you cried angrily. I have seen it all! I know how you are in every state. And there are some things that should not be shown to others!”

Ms. Johanna started ranting and praising Ms. Claire in a confused way out of nowhere.

Just because Ms. Claire might walk through the town in a strange hat? Not that she looked bad in it.

Also, I didn’t know that happened when she was a child… But I suppose it made sense, looking at Mr. Ekenhart and Tilura.

“No…you are saying too much, Johanna. Besides, when did I give up?”

“Huh? You haven’t?”

“Of course, not.”

“Even when you fell off a horse and landed on your face?”

“Yes.”

“And when you lost every race to the other children, including the ones that spent all of their time reading books? And you cried all night?”

“Oh, I was probably sick…”

“And when they threw mud balls at your face?”

“…You weren’t even there, Johanna. Oh, father must have told you…”

“Yes, he sounded very amused. I had just started training then, so that I could be your guard.”

All these stories about Ms. Claire were very interesting…

Still, she had become tired quickly when first entering the forest. But she was dragging Ms. Anne the second time. But it seemed like she was not very athletic.

She probably did have the strength, which she inherited from her father.

She just did not know how to use it well.

“More importantly, why are you so upset, Johanna?”

“Because…more people might target you…”

“Target me?”

“Ruffians! Once they see you, most men would become bewitched in an instant!”

Apparently, she was worried about strange men approaching Ms. Claire.

She was starting to sound like Mr. Ekenhart.

“Hah… So that’s what you’ve been babbling about? Don’t worry, that will not happen. As if they would ever approach someone from a duke’s house. They should be much too afraid.”

“Well…even if they did, I will protect you, as your guard…”

Ms. Claire seemed like she wasn’t fully aware of how pretty she was.

I thought she would be a little confident, even if it wasn’t as much as Ms. Anne…

Though, it was also hard to imagine a Ms. Claire who boasted about her beauty. It would be like a different person.