1. Story
⌈…. Your Majesty Crown Prince¹, just now, what might have you just said?²⌋
Asked Victoria Reycardt³ in a discreet voice, to her fiance who stand in front of her, who is also the crown prince of Plast³ Kingdom, Bernhardt³.
On the opposition, Bernhardt glances at Victoria with a look as cold as ice.
⌈….You want me to say it one more time?⌋
⌈Yes.⌋
I’m sorry but, with a small addition, Victoria looks calmly at the Crown Prince.
Temporarily in one kingdom, the Crown Prince with the (suddenly?) deaf people.⁴ At the graduation ceremony of Platinum Academy, an educational institution that the Plast Kingdom boasts to other countries. Not only domestic senior aristocrats, international students including royalists from neighboring countries are also gathering.
He said that.
⌈I will annul my engagement with Victoria Reykardt the Duke’s daughter, and I will get engaged with Miss Telecia Sassen!⌋
The Crown Prince took Telecia’s hand who was half a step behind him, and draw her closer.
The sight of those two gazing at each other with a dyed cheeks is beautiful.
⌈Did you hear it this time?⌋
⌈…..Well, for once.⌋
After the second declaration, He asked Victoria in a lower voice, and she nodded for the time being.
And the Crown Prince was pleased with satisfaction.
⌈You are my fiancé chosen by the king of our kingdom, but you seem to have done a lot of harassments to Telecia who just moved to the school.”⌋
⌈Harassments…⌋
The said Victoria was, inclining her head in doubt.
⌈I don’t remember such a thing in my mind⌋
⌈It can’t be…!⌋
It was Telecia Telecia that cuddled up with the Crown Prince, who gave out that voice.
Her position inside this school, who is the lowest-ranked Countess, looks like she’s about to collapse, her delicate shoulder shivered.
⌈Ever since I entered this school six months ago, you always had your eyes on me. Breaking my textbooks, ripping my uniforms, at last, you pushed me from the stairs…⌋
⌈Telecia…!⌋
As tears floats on Telecia’s big sky-blue eyes, Crown Prince Bernhardt embraces her softly.
⌈That must have been a terrible memory. You don’t have to remember anything anymore. From now on, I will be by your side and will definitely protect you …!⌋
⌈Berndhart-sama…!⌋
⌈Telecia…!⌋
This time, as if their dyed cheeks aren’t enough, those two gazing at each other eyes.
⌈……⌋
Victoria spread her fan and covers her mouth, said “yare yare”⁵ and then shrugged her shoulders.
And that Victoria, needs time to digest such a Crown Prince.
⌈It’s your fault, even though Telecia is this scared….! Victoria, you’re really such a cold-blooded⁶ woman…!⌋
⌈……..⌋
Well that’s rude.
There’s no way i don’t have blood. I’m one of humans too after all.
As for tears….. I think I have it too, you know⁷?…… maybe.⁶
Besides, I think that all Telecia-sama’s fearful expression is only an act, you know?
Because, from a little while ago, in a place where Crown Prince is not seeing, there’s a small smile on her. Ah, it happened again.
⌈You know I stand as a man and also your future husband, yet you always took people’s interest from me!⌋
⌈……….⌋
Ummm…….
Saying not standing, is it about studying?
Certainly, up to graduation I have spent the same grade as you for three years, even though I am two years younger than you, and I have never lost to you at school.
And, about people’s interests….., could it be about popularity?
Certainly, every time I join the founding ceremony and harvest festival with the Crown Prince, people called my name in a loud voice….
……..Well that’s, rather than saying anything about me, it’s just something about you didn’t have any popularity right?
What were you doing when the country fell into food shortage and I was asking for help to a neighboring country?
You who were by your surrounding thought only for being used as goods, was so immersed in card games, right?
⌈Even after I noticed that my love was not in you, you tried to exclude the woman who is around me in the desire of being the queen! Even this cute Telecia too! !⌋
⌈……….Ha? It’s because I want to become the queen, is it?⌋
⌈Because of the previous harassment, all the other women left me. But only Telecia kept staying beside me, not losing to your outrageous acts.⌋
……. Ah, that’s, kind of a misunderstanding though.
Many women were approaching you without hesitation, it was bothersome you know?
However, those women who approached you by their own will, just like what you said, has been “removed.”
After all, if you get intimate with those women who has a relationship with anyone like that, and infected with a disease…..
The first night of our marriage might become disastrous, right?
……..While thinking “such a thing is…”, Victoria finally gave up thinking, and she let out a small sigh behind her fan.
Cutting the Crown Prince’s words, Victoria elegantly drew her folding fan with her hand, and smiled quietly.
⌈I understand. Your Royal Highness Crown Prince. I agree with the matter about the engagement cancellation. ⌋
⌈Yoshaaa!⁷⌋
⌈……!⌋
……… Telecia-sama….. As expected, doing a Two-handed gut pose⁸ is not excusable.
Look, everyone’s eyes got bigger. (suprised)
As for the Crown Prince…. well, you seems pretty suprised too huh…
I was wondering if it would be a pleasure to let go of what I agreed to.
Is he that shocked to see the unexpected side of Telecia who he thought as “cute”?
In response to the Crown Prince’s surprise, Victoria bowed, and the Crown Prince frowned.
⌈…….. Is it really allright?⌋
⌈Yes, I don’t mind.⌋
When Victoria nods, the expression of the Crown Prince becomes steep.
⌈You… you didn’t want to be the queen?⌋
⌈No, I didn’t really want to be a queen. It’s just, since I was born, I was given a duty to become the queen this country.⌋
⌈………⌋
As if she was talking about tomorrow’s weather, Victoria answers in a straightforward manner.
The Crown Prince was stunned at her unexpected appearance.
⌈You…. did not like me…?⌋
⌈…….⌋
At the Crown Prince’s remark, Victoria managed to hold a sigh that was about to escape involuntarily.
……….Bernhardt-sama…..
You too, have never been in love with me even once, since we were a child, right?
Besides, you speak about my feelings not only to the people of this country, but also in front of people from the other countries?
……Well, I don’t really mind about it, If everyone knows that I don’t have any feelings for you, will you who have such a high pride, not be ashamed of yourself?
⌈……⌋
Victoria who thought so, didn’t reply to the Crown Prince, but just looking away with a long face.
Then, turned her expressionless face again to the Crown Prince.
⌈Your Royal Highness Crown Prince, you don’t have to worry, both the fact that you annulled your engagement with me, and that I have accepted it, it was all watched by everyone in this hall. The words spoken by Your Royal Highness Crown Prince in the presence of other countries, will surely reach the neighboring countries as well as throughout the country.⌋
⌈….!⌋
…Well, Your Highness. Why are you so surprised now?
In the first place, in order to put me in shame in front of many people, you are the one who chose the graduation ceremony to annul the engagement right?
It was well known by all the friends who have studied together with us for three years.
In particular, International students from neighboring countries will promptly communicate this matter to the country.
Seriously, the information is already out of the tube.
⌈——————⌋
Victoria silently muttered “yareyare⁵” in her heart, closed her fan with a dusting gesture, and smiled towards the Crown Prince.
⌈Well then, I will take my leave now.⌋
⌈……..!!⌋
Victoria, with a perfect curtsy level that can even be put in a textbook, leave the hall with her back stared by the Crown Prince which eyes lacking a vivid color.
TLor Note:
王太子 (Ō taishi) : google translate says king. but when i look it up, in Chinese it means Crown Prince, so…. suggestion, anyone? Victoria talks using a very polite speech. i might not be able to convey it perfectly, so i will often use a normal translation instead… RIP English.. ビクトリア・レイカルト (Bikutoria reikaruto), プラスト国 (Purasuto kuni), ベルンハルト (Berunharuto), テレシア・サッセン (Tereshia sassen). should i just use “d” instead of “dt” in their names? i think using “dt” is cooler tho.. XD Sorry this sentence is a mess. I think it simply means that {for a moment in the kingdom, the crown prince and the people that suddenly “turned silent”}. but i sisn’t dare to change it since even translated word by word, it still make the original sentence. so… suggestion (again) anyone..? Just in case someone didn’t know yet, here’s a link for Yare yare meaning It’s a pretty funny pun actually.. “cold-blooded woman”(Aka. heartless) here used “血も涙もない女だ” wich literally translated (word-to-word) means “A woman without blood nor tears”. And so, Victoria took it literally. よっしゃあ！lit. “All right!”, “Great!” but in a very non-formal way. Here’s an example of: Two-Hand guts pose
1. Story
⌈…. Your Majesty Crown Prince¹, just now, what might have you just said?²⌋
Asked Victoria Reycardt³ in a discreet voice, to her fiance who stand in front of her, who is also the crown prince of Plast³ Kingdom, Bernhardt³.
On the opposition, Bernhardt glances at Victoria with a look as cold as ice.
⌈….You want me to say it one more time?⌋
⌈Yes.⌋
I’m sorry but, with a small addition, Victoria looks calmly at the Crown Prince.
Temporarily in one kingdom, the Crown Prince with the (suddenly?) deaf people.⁴ At the graduation ceremony of Platinum Academy, an educational institution that the Plast Kingdom boasts to other countries. Not only domestic senior aristocrats, international students including royalists from neighboring countries are also gathering.
He said that.
⌈I will annul my engagement with Victoria Reykardt the Duke’s daughter, and I will get engaged with Miss Telecia Sassen!⌋
The Crown Prince took Telecia’s hand who was half a step behind him, and draw her closer.
The sight of those two gazing at each other with a dyed cheeks is beautiful.
⌈Did you hear it this time?⌋
⌈…..Well, for once.⌋
After the second declaration, He asked Victoria in a lower voice, and she nodded for the time being.
And the Crown Prince was pleased with satisfaction.
⌈You are my fiancé chosen by the king of our kingdom, but you seem to have done a lot of harassments to Telecia who just moved to the school.”⌋
⌈Harassments…⌋
The said Victoria was, inclining her head in doubt.
⌈I don’t remember such a thing in my mind⌋
⌈It can’t be…!⌋
It was Telecia Telecia that cuddled up with the Crown Prince, who gave out that voice.
Her position inside this school, who is the lowest-ranked Countess, looks like she’s about to collapse, her delicate shoulder shivered.
⌈Ever since I entered this school six months ago, you always had your eyes on me. Breaking my textbooks, ripping my uniforms, at last, you pushed me from the stairs…⌋
⌈Telecia…!⌋
As tears floats on Telecia’s big sky-blue eyes, Crown Prince Bernhardt embraces her softly.
⌈That must have been a terrible memory. You don’t have to remember anything anymore. From now on, I will be by your side and will definitely protect you …!⌋
⌈Berndhart-sama…!⌋
⌈Telecia…!⌋
This time, as if their dyed cheeks aren’t enough, those two gazing at each other eyes.
⌈……⌋
Victoria spread her fan and covers her mouth, said “yare yare”⁵ and then shrugged her shoulders.
And that Victoria, needs time to digest such a Crown Prince.
⌈It’s your fault, even though Telecia is this scared….! Victoria, you’re really such a cold-blooded⁶ woman…!⌋
⌈……..⌋
Well that’s rude.
There’s no way i don’t have blood. I’m one of humans too after all.
As for tears….. I think I have it too, you know⁷?…… maybe.⁶
Besides, I think that all Telecia-sama’s fearful expression is only an act, you know?
Because, from a little while ago, in a place where Crown Prince is not seeing, there’s a small smile on her. Ah, it happened again.
⌈You know I stand as a man and also your future husband, yet you always took people’s interest from me!⌋
⌈……….⌋
Ummm…….
Saying not standing, is it about studying?
Certainly, up to graduation I have spent the same grade as you for three years, even though I am two years younger than you, and I have never lost to you at school.
And, about people’s interests….., could it be about popularity?
Certainly, every time I join the founding ceremony and harvest festival with the Crown Prince, people called my name in a loud voice….
……..Well that’s, rather than saying anything about me, it’s just something about you didn’t have any popularity right?
What were you doing when the country fell into food shortage and I was asking for help to a neighboring country?
You who were by your surrounding thought only for being used as goods, was so immersed in card games, right?
⌈Even after I noticed that my love was not in you, you tried to exclude the woman who is around me in the desire of being the queen! Even this cute Telecia too! !⌋
⌈……….Ha? It’s because I want to become the queen, is it?⌋
⌈Because of the previous harassment, all the other women left me. But only Telecia kept staying beside me, not losing to your outrageous acts.⌋
……. Ah, that’s, kind of a misunderstanding though.
Many women were approaching you without hesitation, it was bothersome you know?
However, those women who approached you by their own will, just like what you said, has been “removed.”
After all, if you get intimate with those women who has a relationship with anyone like that, and infected with a disease…..
The first night of our marriage might become disastrous, right?
……..While thinking “such a thing is…”, Victoria finally gave up thinking, and she let out a small sigh behind her fan.
Cutting the Crown Prince’s words, Victoria elegantly drew her folding fan with her hand, and smiled quietly.
⌈I understand. Your Royal Highness Crown Prince. I agree with the matter about the engagement cancellation. ⌋
⌈Yoshaaa!⁷⌋
⌈……!⌋
……… Telecia-sama….. As expected, doing a Two-handed gut pose⁸ is not excusable.
Look, everyone’s eyes got bigger. (suprised)
As for the Crown Prince…. well, you seems pretty suprised too huh…
I was wondering if it would be a pleasure to let go of what I agreed to.
Is he that shocked to see the unexpected side of Telecia who he thought as “cute”?
In response to the Crown Prince’s surprise, Victoria bowed, and the Crown Prince frowned.
⌈…….. Is it really allright?⌋
⌈Yes, I don’t mind.⌋
When Victoria nods, the expression of the Crown Prince becomes steep.
⌈You… you didn’t want to be the queen?⌋
⌈No, I didn’t really want to be a queen. It’s just, since I was born, I was given a duty to become the queen this country.⌋
⌈………⌋
As if she was talking about tomorrow’s weather, Victoria answers in a straightforward manner.
The Crown Prince was stunned at her unexpected appearance.
⌈You…. did not like me…?⌋
⌈…….⌋
At the Crown Prince’s remark, Victoria managed to hold a sigh that was about to escape involuntarily.
……….Bernhardt-sama…..
You too, have never been in love with me even once, since we were a child, right?
Besides, you speak about my feelings not only to the people of this country, but also in front of people from the other countries?
……Well, I don’t really mind about it, If everyone knows that I don’t have any feelings for you, will you who have such a high pride, not be ashamed of yourself?
⌈……⌋
Victoria who thought so, didn’t reply to the Crown Prince, but just looking away with a long face.
Then, turned her expressionless face again to the Crown Prince.
⌈Your Royal Highness Crown Prince, you don’t have to worry, both the fact that you annulled your engagement with me, and that I have accepted it, it was all watched by everyone in this hall. The words spoken by Your Royal Highness Crown Prince in the presence of other countries, will surely reach the neighboring countries as well as throughout the country.⌋
⌈….!⌋
…Well, Your Highness. Why are you so surprised now?
In the first place, in order to put me in shame in front of many people, you are the one who chose the graduation ceremony to annul the engagement right?
It was well known by all the friends who have studied together with us for three years.
In particular, International students from neighboring countries will promptly communicate this matter to the country.
Seriously, the information is already out of the tube.
⌈——————⌋
Victoria silently muttered “yareyare⁵” in her heart, closed her fan with a dusting gesture, and smiled towards the Crown Prince.
⌈Well then, I will take my leave now.⌋
⌈……..!!⌋
Victoria, with a perfect curtsy level that can even be put in a textbook, leave the hall with her back stared by the Crown Prince which eyes lacking a vivid color.
TLor Note:
王太子 (Ō taishi) : google translate says king. but when i look it up, in Chinese it means Crown Prince, so…. suggestion, anyone? Victoria talks using a very polite speech. i might not be able to convey it perfectly, so i will often use a normal translation instead… RIP English.. ビクトリア・レイカルト (Bikutoria reikaruto), プラスト国 (Purasuto kuni), ベルンハルト (Berunharuto), テレシア・サッセン (Tereshia sassen). should i just use “d” instead of “dt” in their names? i think using “dt” is cooler tho.. XD Sorry this sentence is a mess. I think it simply means that {for a moment in the kingdom, the crown prince and the people that suddenly “turned silent”}. but i sisn’t dare to change it since even translated word by word, it still make the original sentence. so… suggestion (again) anyone..? Just in case someone didn’t know yet, here’s a link for Yare yare meaning It’s a pretty funny pun actually.. “cold-blooded woman”(Aka. heartless) here used “血も涙もない女だ” wich literally translated (word-to-word) means “A woman without blood nor tears”. And so, Victoria took it literally. よっしゃあ！lit. “All right!”, “Great!” but in a very non-formal way. Here’s an example of: Two-Hand guts pose