J-Novel Heart

My parents, and even my teachers often warned me not to bite off more than I could chew — in fact, this was the reason why I’d passed on from my previous life in the first place. Even after dying once and having been reborn, I unfortunately still had that same flaw. I suppose old habits die hard

All this time, I’d thought the most important thing was winning, but now it seemed like a distant lie I had told myself. A sense of peace had come over me.

“Yes. I am at the bottom of the food chain, after all, and there is much work to be done.” However... I couldn’t be any happier than I was right now.

Although he had gone through so much in his life, Rufus didn’t seem to bemoan his own circumstances. In fact, he claimed that he was blessed — and this was what made me think that he was cool

With her back against the wall, the pea-brained princess forced herself to think.

“This might come as a surprise to someone like you,” she continued, “but we are all human. And humans will fail. No one lives perfectly. That is why we forgive, so that we may all have chances to make amends.”

Yes, she was afraid. She was uneasy. She was unsure. But until she walked on her own two feet down a path of her own choosing, she couldn’t call herself a grown woman.

While Dahlia would feel the sunlight, she would also be exposed to the wind and rain.

present, the Rossetti Trading Company consisted only of Dahlia and Ivano. They didn’t deal with their clients directly, instead conducting all their business through the Merchants’ Guild. Their products were stored not on their premises—for they had none—but at the Merchants’ Guild, or they could be delivered directly to the castle by the Tailors’ Guild. Dahlia was thankful for such convenient arrangements. When Dahlia imagined all the clients and products they would have to manage in the future, she couldn’t help feeling a bit apprehensive.

“Behind every item a merchant sells is the work of someone who made it. Crops come from farmers. Craftwork, from artisans. Cuisine, from chefs. They’re all the product of labor. The act of putting a price on a product is therefore the process of valuing the labor that went into it.”