Seeing Roxie so full of regret, Shien really wanted to say something.
"I don't think you're all that different yourself, Princess."
Wasn't that true?
Maybe not to Tier's extent, but wasn't Roxie also the type to completely let down her guard once she trusted someone?
Otherwise, why would Roxie be so utterly unreserved around Shien?
Strictly speaking, Shien had only met Roxie once. Yet after that single meeting, she was already dragging and pulling him around, even pouncing on him to snatch things from him. Was that something just any Princess could casually do?
Definitely not, right?
Especially not Roxie, the greatest Princess in the world.
So, Roxie really was not all that different from Tier.
(For all I know, that girl might come running over to scrub my back before long.)
Shien silently grumbled to himself.
Then Shien thought of Merika.
(That girl probably isn't much better either.)
She had once been so wary of Shien that she had not wanted to get anywhere near him, yet lately she had become increasingly defenseless around him. She was practically turning into a stalker. Was this what they meant by gradually becoming the kind of person you used to hate?
(Women in Another World are way too easy to win over, aren't they?)
Shien sighed to himself.
Of course, he was only joking around. He did not actually think that way.
He knew that the main reason things had turned out this way was that these girls had always kept their distance from men. It could even be said that they had barely interacted with men at all. That was why, like sheltered young ladies, they simply did not know how to judge the proper distance and boundaries between themselves and men.
With other men, they naturally would not act like