Chapter 7 – White Glove
Part 1
It was only a mere matter of time until the school term would end.
The grade party had become an established custom, but these parties held within the academy were extravagant.
No words could describe the quality and quantity of the cuisine lined up on tables. The boys participated while wearing their school uniforms, but the girls pretty much wore dresses.
The boys ogled the dressed-up girls, who had demi-human slaves stand next to them.
My line of sight automatically locked onto the chests of the girls as well, and I found it hard to avert my gaze.
I cleared my throat and made a serious face.
“Was that chest just now an F cup? That’s not it, I meant to say that the food here is amazing.”
I returned my gaze to the table, where Daniel was eating a large meaty dish on a plate. Raymond was amazed at that sight.
“This is the first time I’ve been to such a large party. The academy is tremendous.”
“Daniel, don’t talk with your mouth full. Thinking about the scale of this party, and how it’s held per grade, the royal capital really does seem tremendous. It’s a lot different from the poor barons in the countryside.”
Luxon had said something to me before.
The academy was doing this to show off the power of the royal capital to those from the countryside. Indeed, just this party alone showed the difference in their wealth.
I believe there’s the possibility that it’s also to show off to the rich, spoiled young nobles.
Surrounding us were boys from the same environment.
Students from the regular class were also participating today, meaning that there were many people participating in the party.
Daniel surveyed our surroundings.
“There are also a lot girls from the regular class who are dressed-up. There are too few girls wearing the uniform.”
Raymond pushed up his glasses.
In front of him was a slender girl whom he took a liking to.
This guy is a taciturn person.
“There’s a wide range of dresses ranging from pricey to cheap. It seems that there are even ones that go for two thousand dia.”
That’s two hundred thousand yen for a suit of clothes! That’s when converted into Japanese currency, though.
Well, I don’t know what’s cheap or expensive, but the lowest cost seemed to be two hundred thousand.
Meanwhile, Marie, the current hot topic, had appeared in her uniform. The surrounding students created a commotion and noisily talked amongst each other.
With this situation at hand, the honor student who wore her uniform as well, Olivia, didn’t stand out at all.
All things considered, a girl from a viscount household should’ve been able to prepare a dress…and as I was thinking of such things, Marie went over to the prince and the others.
The prince’s group, the one that held the highest rank, welcomed Marie, but…
Julian was a bit surprised upon seeing Marie in her uniform.
“Marie, what happened to your dress?”
“U, umm, I couldn’t prepare one.”
Trying to appeal to her, the surrounding boys each said “We could have given you one if you said so,” to Marie.
Jilk smiled.
“This does feel more refreshing than a gorgeous dress, though. Marie, how about we head to a tailor for a dress next time? There’s a shop in the royal capital that I visit regularly.”
“I, I can’t do something rude like that.”
In response to her modest attitude, Julian started a conversation amongst five people while seeming a little excited. It seems that those five are fighting for Marie’s interest.
There’s more apart from that.
For boy mobs like us, this party was also a chance for glory. According to our upperclassmen, it seems that this is an opportunity for couples to form.
“Well then, are you two ready?”
Once I called out to the two, Daniel set down his plate.
“Yep, I’ve eaten enough.”
Raymond adjusted his glasses.
“We’ll have to do our best.”
The three of us immediately began to take action.
We went around inviting girls over.
With the kind of mood set in place here, it was possible that the girls may have become more lenient on letting us marry them. At this point, we were thinking that it would be fine even if our partner had a lover.
“Whoa! I found a trio of girls over there! Let’s hurry and try our luck!”
The other boys were making moves as well, so the three of us headed towards where the girls were, but──
“Huh? Come back when you’ve looked at a mirror.”
“Countryside barons? I don’t need a hillbilly.”
“Bumpkins will be bumpkins, so just go find some bumpkin girls to call out to. We’re only aiming for viscount households at the very minimum. Furthermore, remote regions…are out of the question.”
“How sickening, you boys are desperate for marriage. You can just see how shallow the people at the bottom are.”
“A man isn’t good if they don’t have more assets.”
“There’s a big difference between you and people like his Highness the crown prince.”
The girls lightly brushed us off, and their exclusive servants, their demi-human lovers, looked down on us. Their masters were the girls, and not us. Due to that, there were a lot of slaves that took a dismissive attitude towards boys.
Furthermore, a slave getting attacked would lead to an intense investigation being done.
They knew that they’re in a position safe from assaults, so they looked down on us.
“W, well, we’re just chatting, so──”
One of the girls used her chin to signal a cue to her servant.
Upon which, the muscular, Daruma-like sub-race servant thrust us away. (TLN: Daruma’s are round, stout dolls)
When the surrounding people gathered their sight towards the three of us tumbling, the girls laughed and the boys either laughed along with them or looked at us with sympathy.
“Try again. No wait, it still won’t work out unless you pray to be born as better man in your next life. See ya, bumpkin hillbillies.”
The girls and slaves around looked at us and laughed.
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We were outside the party venue.
“Damn it! We got carried away!”
Daniel spoke without trying to conceal his anger.
Raymond, who sat on the bench with his knees under his arms, looked up into the night sky.
“If only we could redo our lives…I suppose that’s all I need to say.”
…This being my second life, I felt a bit mixed.
We heard happy-sounding music and laughter coming from the party venue.
We couldn’t bear with the mood inside the venue, so we went outside to escape. There were girls who laughed upon seeing us in that situation.
The ones who were laughing were the girls in the advanced class and their slaves.
Perhaps pitying us, the girls in the regular class had averted their gazes.
How miserable.
“…I’m kind of fed up with it all.”
Daniel was about to say something towards what I had said, but closed his mouth and looked down.
Raymond was also silent.
As the head of a baron household, I had to marry a noble lady no matter what.
When one owns a household…their legal wife has to be a noble lady. Otherwise, the people around us will go “Isn’t that unbecoming of the household?” and become cold.
My father married Zola because the drawbacks of not doing so were not to be taken lightly. It sometimes became the excuse for starting a war. There would be people saying that our actions don’t match our rank, and that we’re a vile house.
Due to that, the boys became frantic and the girl’s position only strengthened even more…leading to the current situation of the academy.
Us three fellows sat on the bench, and blankly stared into the sky.
“Those girls gave me an unpleasant feeling.”
Danial agreed with what Raymond said.
“I know, right? Boys are scrambling to marry since the world will turn cold towards them if they don’t do so by graduation. The circumstances are way too different from girls, who have time to spare.”
Not all of the girls in the academy were particularly terrible, but the proportion of cruel girls was way too high.
Hence, there were many boys who didn’t find life at the academy pleasing.
I then remembered something detestable.
It was something the upperclassman Rukul said──
“It seems that in the academy, there were boys who got fed up with women, and started chasing after other boys…but they had been smiling before enrolling in the school. Now, they weren’t smiling.”
Daniel and Raymond nodded.
There were boys who left the academy disgusted with women while going for other boys.
It seemed that there were girls who liked romance between boys, like my little sister before I had reincarnated. There’s no saving this world.
Enroll in school→come to hate how cruel women are→go after boys→give fujoshis great joy. Rinse and repeat for each new school year.
Such a cycle happened.
It was pretty much a rotten spiral…I just called it that because it sounded cool. You see, when considering how these sad events repeat each year, I can’t really use the term rotten chain here. No wait, can’t I still use it? (TLN: Based on what I looked up, ‘rotten chain’ refers to the idea that a fujoshi’s children will also be fujoshis, creating a generational chain of them. My guess is that MC labeled the current situation as a spiral instead of chain, but backtracked when realizing that the idea behind calling it a chain still applies to the situation)
Time passed by in silence.
Thereupon, we could not longer hear the musical performance within the party venue.
There was a live musical performance in there. Taking out my pocket watch, I confirmed that it wasn’t yet time for the party to end.
I thought that the performance was taking a break, but when I strained my ears, I couldn’t hear any laughter in the venue either.
I could hear an occasional voice, as if someone was shouting.
“Hey, doesn’t something seem odd?”
Raymond turned his gaze towards the venue once I said that.
“Now that you mention it, there seems to be a strange commotion.”
Daniel got up.
“Should we take a look? We don’t need to go inside if we just peek through a window.”
Raymond stopped him.
“I don’t want to be shamed even more than I have already been. If we’re spotted, we’ll be targets of ridicule. Though, I certainly am curious.”
The three of us showed signs of interest, but while we were talking about not going back into the venue, there was a girl who came outside.
The girl looked around, and then rushed over when she noticed us.
She was a girl in a uniform, Olivia.
“Leon! This is serious!”
Part 2
When returning to the party venue, the place was wrapped in a strange atmosphere.
The students were watchfully waiting while clinging to the walls, but there was a group in the center being noisy.
I asked Olivia about the situation.
“What in the world happened?”
“It started out as a small quarrel. However…”
In the center were five people surrounding Marie. In addition to them, I could also see the figure of a pretty elf with blond hair and blue eyes, “Kyle.”
Anjelica raised her voice in front of the seven people.
It was a shout filled with grief.
“Why can’t you listen to me?! I’m──I’m doing this for your sake, your Highness!”
The prince was absolutely cold towards her quivering voice.
“Your words are not fit to be heard. End of discussion.”
“Please wait. If you know the character of that person, why do you still accept her?!”
I’m not sure what had happened, but I understood that Anjelica was desperate and trying to appeal to the prince.
When I looked to Olivia, she continued talking.
“Um, when Anjelica saw Marie holding hands with a boy other than his Highness the crown prince, she got angry. Then his Highness the crown prince said that she shouldn’t be noisy over just that much.”
He forgave his girl even when she went after other men.
That was the kind of guy Julian was.
I definitely would hate it if something like that were to happen, but the prince seemed to think that it was fine.
Marie, wearing her uniform, hid behind the prince.
She took an attitude that would make someone want to protect her, while Anjelica on the hand wore a red dress, makeup, and appeared to shine.
Quite the contrast, right?
Anjelica and Marie looked like exact opposites.
Marie had guys and pretty boys surrounding her, but Anjelica had nobody near her.
Brad stepped forward.
“So the daughter of the Redgrave family has become this wretched. Look, there’s nobody by your side.”
When Anjelica looked at her surroundings, the rich students and her supposed followers both turned away.
The students who held animosity towards her didn’t act hostile, but they grinned while watching.
“Do you all know what that woman’s done? All of you have been──”
Everyone held out their hand.
However, the boys weren’t in a panic.
“We know.”
Anjelica was surprised when the blue-haired Chris said that.
“What?!”
I felt that Chris had smiled for just a moment when looking at Marie. He was a guy that would keep a blank expression while swinging his sword, but when he made that expression, the girls around him had blushed.
Is it really because his looks? Is it his looks? It’s his looks, isn’t it?
“She had saved me. She listened to my troubles. So──I want to protect her.”
I felt it was praise-worthy that he was able to make such a confession while all the students were watching.
The next one to step forward was Greg.
“Your argument is way too shoddy. Him directly saying that he liked her should give you enough of a clue of what’s going on.”
Jilk held his hand over his mouth while smiling.
“That’s right. She’s a lovely woman. Though, I’m sure that the one Marie loves the most is me.”
Anjelica, who was at a loss for words, looked to the prince.
Julian made a slightly huffy expression
“Jilk, I think you’re wrong. I’m the one Marie loves the most.”
When he said that, the girls, who had been silent, then raised shrieks of cheers.
“Did you hear that just now?!”
“I want him to say that to me too!”
“I’m jealous. On the other hand, that duke woman is quite unsightly.”
Anjelica sneered.
She cast her eyes downward while clenching her fists.
“…Do you not intend to stop playing around while attending the academy, your Highness?”
Julian lowered his gaze once Anjelica said that.
“She’s the only irreplaceable woman for me. Anjelica, I didn’t dislike you before I had entered the academy. However, I cannot forgive your attitude towards Marie.”
The girls around Anjelica laughed at her.
“Did you hear that? The duke woman’s done for.”
“This is pretty much the same as him breaking off the engagement, isn’t it?”
“I always hated that girl.”
They were slandering her to their hearts content now that her position had weakened.
“I wonder if this is what girls feel when they see a harem? It’s kind of unsettling, and it’s painful just to look at this scene.”
“What’s wrong, Leon?”
Olivia, who was next to me, tilted her head.
Daniel and Raymond were surprised looking at Anjelica’s expression.
“H, hey, isn’t this really serious?”
“Judging from her face, it looks like she’ll resort to violence at any moment”
As if deciding on something, she then took on a blank expression like she had given up. The light in her eyes had disappeared, and I felt that I could see something dark dwelling within.
Anjelica threw something at Marie.
“──Huh?”
While Marie was taken aback, the thing that Anjelica threw had fallen to the floor. It was a white glove.
“Pick it up, you sellout of a woman. You witch that would deceive his Highness.”
It was a challenge to a duel.
In moments like these, picking up the glove is a sign of accepting the duel.
“Come to think of it, there was also a setting like this. The duel event, was it?”
While I was muttering such things, Raymond got into a panic.
“You must know what this means! Do you understand the meaning of this duel?!”
A duke woman challenged a girl from the viscount family to a duel.
That’s just what it looks like on the surface, though.
“His Highness Julian will stand as her representative──so it’ll be a duel between the duke woman and him, right?”
Once a duel rises, it’s considered shameful if a boy used a representative. However, there are no complaints when a girl has a representative take her place.
In the game, a boy the protagonist has raised the love meter with would take on the duel proposed to the her by the duke woman. It’s quite possible that things are heading towards that route.
The argument from just a bit ago gave me a bad premonition.
“…Anjelica, I’m disappointed.”
The prince, looking at his fiance with a look of scorn while furrowing his eyebrows, seemed to be reaching the peak of his anger.
“Marie, pick it up. It’ll be fine. I will take your side. I’ll work as your representative.”
Jilk followed along with the conversation.
“I can’t let his Highness be the only one looking good. According to the rules of the academy, girls are not limited to one boy as their representative. I declare that I will also participate.”
Greg hit his palm with his fist.
“This is looking amusing, so I’ll also get in on this. Come at me, anyone!”
“This is why you’re a meathead…but, calling her a sellout of a woman is inexcusable.” So how about I mend your ways? While we’re at it, we’ll also have you apologize after the duel. Naturally, I’m participating as well.”
Brad looked annoyed, but also seemed to be in high spirits.
Chris, crossed his arms.
“I’m confident in my blade skills. Let’s see if I can fight as Marie’s sword.”
Marie wiped her tears with her fingers.
“Everyone…I’m scared, but I feel safe when all of you are here. I will accept this duel. Anjelica, I will fight with all I’ve got.”
Kyle was amazed by the heroic image his master was portraying. This boy, who had a bit of a sharp tongue, was good-looking and had graceful movements.
“You really are a foolish master. How about you not forget me? I can assist, you know.”
Marie smiled.
“Thank you, Kyle.”
…It’s just as I thought.
“This is the reverse harem route.”
“You’re spouting out nonsense again, Leon. Anyways, now that it has come to this, what’s going to happen to that duke woman? Is there anyone who would go up against those five people?”
Raymond agreed with Daniel’s doubts.
“His Highness has scored top-notch marks, and the others have terrifyingly excellent ones as well. There aren’t any guys here who would battle against those five. The most frightening is Chris, the candidate for the next master swordsman. He’s not someone you can afford to make enemies with.”
Most of the boys disliked fighting. Any normal boy would definitely reject fighting against the prince.
This wasn’t a practice match, but a duel.
The boys following Anjelica up until now didn’t want to get involved either.
When Anjelica looked around her, the boys all simultaneously averted their gaze.
Greg added fuel to the fire.
“Hey, is there no commendable fellow out there who will help this girl? I’m going to start pitying her if none of her followers have the guts to stand up…She’s the one that proposed the duel. She can’t back out, even if she has no representative.”
A voice of ridicule towards Anjelica filled the party venue.
Everyone was either laughing at how nobody would help her, or was looking at her with sympathy.
According to the academy’s rules, bringing along someone from the outside to work as a representative was prohibited. It was sort of an implicit rule given how it wouldn’t be good if an adult entered a duel between children.
In the game, Anjelica broke the rule and still lost, piling shame on top of shame.
However──
“Hey, anyone want to bet what kind of unsightly side to her will be exposed?”
“She won’t be able to cling to her family anymore. She shouldn’t have proposed the duel. After all, she definitely won’t find a representative for her.”
“Perhaps she’ll just represent herself. If that’s the case, then I hope she gets beaten black and blue.”
──The reactions of the girls were cold. Way too cold.
Though they were pretty complaisant in front of Anjelica around the time of school enrollment, perhaps they’ve gotten more cocky now that the situation had changed?
They were acting as if she was no longer a duke woman…so maybe they thought that since she made the disgrace of causing the engagement to fall apart, her life was over.
I believe that in the game, things concluded by having some ugly man from the countryside being forced onto her.
The normally-tough Anjelica looked around while seeming impatient.
Her sight met with mine.
Anjelica, a girl with a violent temper who never thought about the consequences, was evidently in disorder. I felt that she was getting desperate, and her eyes told me that she wanted help.
However, I clenched my teeth while looking downwards.
“I, I’ll do it even if I don’t get someone to act as a representative…”
Greg laughed scornfully.
“What’s the matter? What happened to all that spirit from just a while ago?”
The people around Anjelica looked at her very coldly.
The coldest among them was the prince. Even though she was more or less supposed to be his fiancee.
“Anjelica, I suppose you’re ready, right? You can’t back out at this point. You’ve already thrown your white glove at Marie.”
Really…just why is this happening?
I can’t ignore Anjelica.
Olivia grabbed my arms when I took a step forward.
“U, um…what do you plan on doing?”
Looking at her face of unease, I started wondering why this girl was here. A woman named Marie was taking the spot of where Olivia should have been──actually, it’s more like she snatched away the position of where Olivia was supposed to belong.
…What should I do? I then heard an answer.
Daniel came in to stop me.
“You idiot. Why are you trying to get involved? There’s no point!”
Raymond agreed.
“This is the kind of duel where the result has been decided before the fight has even begun. Besides, whether you win or lose, you can’t ignore the representatives over there. Your opponents are his Highness and the others, you know?”
The three were stopping me, but I gave a grin.
“Well…it’s just that I hate those guys.”
It’s not like I’m close with Anjelica, who was being scorned at. I can’t say that I feel no sympathy towards her either. The biggest reason for why I’m doing is because of my own feelings.
I pushed my way through the people and stepped forward, causing everyone to gather their attention to me.
“Here! He~re! I’ll be the representative for the duel~!”
Part 3
I announced that I would be the representative while raising my hand and taking a light tone, and while enduring the gazes of everyone around me going “Who is this guy? Can’t he read the mood?”, Greg stared into my face.
“Who the hell are you?”
It seems he really doesn’t know.
Such is the painful reality for mobs.
Brad looked at me as if he was evaluating me.
“If I’m not mistaken, this is the guy who found success as an adventurer before enrolling. I heard that he has plans to be an independent baron, but was it really all his doing?”
He was obviously looking down on me.
Well, thinking about my marks and position, I suppose he would disregard me.
I ignored him and continued talking.
“Anyways, You have to nominate me as your representative, Anjelica. C’mon, hurry up.”
Anjelica looked worried.
“Err, ah…”
“Look, permit me. Just say those words and it’ll be settled.”
“I, I…permit you.”
After forcing a confused Anjelica to permit me, I turned toward the prince and the others.
“So, I, Leon Fou Balfault, will take on the role of the representative. I assume that’s no problem for his Highness and the five of you, right? I’d like to settle the method of the duel, but before that, how about we decide on the wager?”
Marie looked at me dumbfounded.
It seemed that she didn’t think I would be someone to get involved at all. I recently had Luxon gather information, so there’s no doubt about it.
This person──is a foreigner to this world, just like me. Someone who had reincarnated, or perhaps undergone something similar to that.
She was someone who recognized this world as that of an otome game’s. She’s probably a girl from my previous world. If she was a guy in her previous life, um…err, well, I guess it’s okay if a guy likes otome games. Thinking about it like that, it would mean that a former boy is going after other boys and making a reverse harem…I shouldn’t ponder about this too deeply. I’ll just consider her a former woman.
I turned to Anjelica.
“By the way, what’s the reason for you proposing this duel, Anjelica? I’m a bit troubled if I don’t get that cleared up.”
Both Anjelica and those around me were perplexed. They had faces of disbelief in the fact that I had stepped forward while speaking in a light tone.
However, perhaps due to me changing the mood, she told me her aspirations.
“…For her to stay away from his Highness. That’s all I want.”
The people around us started whispering.
“Did you hear that?”
“How disgusting~, could she be jealous?”
“Truly unsightly. She’s being forceful now since she can’t get him to look at her using her own charm.”
Anjelica clenched her teeth while looking down.
“So, since this is a duel, I’d like to hear what you guys want as well.”
When I turned towards Marie to ask her, the prince stepped forward to block my sight.
“Are you going this far to try and break us up? It seems that you don’t know who the real witch is. Anjelica, even if you break up our relationships, your feelings for me will never be mutual!”
Anjelica muttered something.
“I know that. I know that, but I’ll pull that person away, even if it’s the last thing i do…”
I clapped my hands to urge on the prince and the others.
“C’mon, let’s leave this for later. Look, hurry up and tell me your conditions. Hu~rry~ up.”
Marie’s faction took offense, but I didn’t care.
Marie stepped forward and stated her conditions for Anjelica.
“I, if I win, then please stop doing these cruel things. I don’t think that…boasting the power of your household is a good thing.”
When thinking about how I had heard those words somewhere before, I remembered that was the line the protagonist had said. This girl was imitating the protagonist’s lines.
“Well, if we win, you and his Highness will break up. If we lose, we won’t get involved anymore. Sounds nice, right? Now, next is to decide on the type of duel. How about a duel where we borrow an arena and wear armor? I believe that’s the usual duel method.”
There aren’t many duels, but they do happen each year. There weren’t many reasons for a duel, but many were enthusiastic about them since they provide highlight scenes for boys.
In these cases, it’s typical to use armor──powered suit-like things. Someone saying that they have armor is enough to prove their financial strength.
Furthermore, the people around them will know about their fight, so if they win, they’ll earn honor.
For that reason, it was common for a form of duel to involve armor.
Chris looked at me with a sharp gaze. It seemed like he was about to lunge at me with a sword at any moment…He wasn’t holding a weapon, but it felt like he would do that.
“Do you plan on winning against us? If you don’t want to get hurt, then you should withdraw from being a representative. You can’t compete against us with your ability.”
Does this guy think he knows me? Well, since he only remembers people with prominent skills, I suppose he just forgot my name and was treating me like a worthless chip of wood.
“Huh? Why did you arbitrarily decide that I’m going to lose?”
I tried fanning the flames, and was met with a whirlpool of laughter from the people around.
“Did you hear that?!”
“He plans on winning. He really doesn’t know his place.”
“It seems this guy has a knack for making people laugh!”
“I can’t help but laugh at this guy who became a baron by a fluke.”
Not only the girls, but the guys also laughed at me. Well, those five were indeed prominent and excelling people within the first year students.
Furthermore, those five weren’t someone a guy should pick a fight with.
Greg approached me. He brought his face closer to try and threaten me,
“Come to think of it, there was someone who ran off after calling out to a group of girls and getting tossed away by their exclusive servants. Was that you?”
He knew and called me out on it. This guy had a bad personality.
“…You can’t compete with us. If you’re just here because you want to stand out, then scurry home, small fry.”
Greg had actual combat experience, so his intensity was different from the others.
Well, they really are an imposing group of people. That’s why I’m going this far to protect this weak girl.
From the view of an outsider that wouldn’t know anything, it just seemed like Anjelica was suffering from severe bullying.
…They really are an imposing group of people.
“Huh, what? Are you trying to talk me down? Perhaps you want the duel method to be a debate? How troubling~. I’m not too good at those kinds of things, you see. However, since I’m the one who initiated the challenge, I must accept it. It seems you don’t want to fight, and instead want a battle of words. It can’t be helped. Let’s do our best and spar with each other.”
Greg, who hated guys who settled things with words, had a vein appear on his forehead in response to my agitations.
Jilk intervened.
“We’ll go with one-on-one matches using armor. However, there are five of us. We will allow you to gather up to five people within a certain time limit to participate. About the arena…well, summer vacation is just around the corner. We can borrow one for the day after the end-term ceremony.”
Now that the conversation was reaching its conclusion, I nodded my head. However, since there’s only a couple of days left, we probably won’t be able to gather people.
“I almost thought you’d suggest one-on-five. Well, it’s not a problem if it’s five rounds of one-on-one.”
It might be dangerous if all five attack me at once, but if it’s still one-on-one, it should be fine.
Jilk looked at me with a doubting glance.
“Do you really plan on winning? Although it’s rare at this point in history, it’s still possible that you could lose your life in a duel.”
The rule about putting one’s life on the line slowly became obsolete, so now death in duels is the result of just being unlucky. It’s sort of a special rule in the academy.
“I know, it’s fine. Can I ask one thing?”
“…What is it?”
“Why are guys making those faces like everything will be alright? I get that you want to look good in front of the girl you like. However, isn’t it too naive to think that you guys aren’t at any risk of death?”
Jilk narrows his eyes. It was really frightening when this guy, who’s normally gentle, gets angry.
“I heard that you had some achievements, but apparently you seem to be a let-down. It appears that you can’t judge your opponents’ abilities.”
Julian forced himself into the conversation.
“Leave it, Jilk. It’s as Leon says. We shouldn’t pass it off as a joke. You’re prepared to face the possibility of it, right?”
Marie, who didn’t step forward and was surprised beyond expectation, didn’t show signs of calming down.
With how confused she was, I was hoping that she wouldn’t heighten the situation regarding Anjelica. That would be an inconvenience for me.
Let me just say this now…I’m a pretty timid person.
“So, break up with your oh-so important lover, Prince. Oh wait? Since the other four are unrelated to this matter, even if you lose, they can still associate with her while you look on in envy. How’s that?”
The prince’s gaze toughened.
Though I was provoking him, I didn’t want him to get furious with me.
Actually….Anjelica, who was behind me, was no longer the focus of attention.
I wanted the prince to think seriously about the reason why his fiance was standing front of him.
I think it would better if each of those prestigious nobles were more aware about the fact that they’re actually being deceived by one woman.
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