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Effie! Let's go for a walk!
*munch munch*
Effiiiie! Are you eating again?
I'm sorry. I can't help it. I just never feel full...
It's because you train too much! You've gotta take it easy sometimes.
But I can't get stronger if I don't train.
I wouldn't worry about that. I think you're plenty strong already.
One mustn't neglect one's responsibilities, Lady Elise. I need to be strong enough to protect you from anything.
Aww, that's sweet!
But I still think you might be overdoing it. Besides, doesn't eating all that food make it harder for you to move in an emergency?
Oh, yes. In fact, I'm having trouble moving right now.
What?! Does that mean we can't go for a walk now?
Don't worry. You can just roll me on my side instead.
*sigh* No, it's OK. We'll walk together some other day...
B Support
HUH! HAH! HOO-WAH! HYAH!
Effie! Will you put me down now? Pleeease? I don't wanna be your dumbbell anymore!
Awww, but you're the perfect weight... OK. I'll set you down. Watch your feet, milady.
No need to be so formal, Effie! It's just the two of us.
Yes, milad—er, OK, Elise.
Heehee.
Say, do you remember how we met?
Of course I do. You snuck out of the castle and came to play in the underground city.
Yep! I was sick of being in that stuffy old castle. I wanted to make a new friend! A real one.
I'd never have guessed that muddy little girl was our princess.
If we hadn't gone back up to the capital, you probably never woulda found out, huh? It's weird to think about what might have happened...
Yes. It would have changed the entire course of my life. But we did go up, and those guards found us. I tried so hard to protect you, but they were too much for me. I was only a child...
I might have been locked away forever if you hadn't told them who you were.
Heehee. Yeah, we sure showed them! They got sooooooo scared!
That was the day I swore I'd protect you for the rest of my life. No matter what.
Yup! I remember it like it was yesterday.
Thank you for always being there for me, Effie!
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The world's a strange place, isn't it?
Hm? Why do you say that?
Well, if it wasn't, we wouldn't be together like this!
If things had turned out just a li'l different, I'd never have seen you again after we met. I knew the guards wouldn't let me sneak out again after they found out who I was.
Yes. It's not often that the lives of commoners and princesses overlap.
I was so shocked when I saw you at the castle in full uniform! To think you were the same girl I'd met in town...
I knew then and there that we'd be friends forever!
I kept remembering your face on the day we met. To have snuck out of the castle and gone all that way on your own... I knew I had to spend my life protecting that brave, sweet girl. I knew to do that I'd have to join the castle guard. So I trained as hard as I could. I lifted boulders beneath waterfalls, and I swam upstream through the rapids.
I even went hunting with nothing but my bare hands.
Really?! Yikes, I didn't know that part...
But it was because of those hardships that I earned the honor of being your retainer. I feel only gratitude for the pain I suffered. It made me strong.
It really did! You're the strongest person I've ever known, Effie!
Thank you so much. For everything!
Heehee. No need to thank me.
I promise, I'll never let us get separated again! No matter what!
Thank you, milady. And I promise to protect you until the end of time. I am so glad we met.
Me too!