“I proposed to Lettie.”
“Ha…?”
After Al said that, the cup that I held almost slipped out before I stopped it from falling at the end.
But the bottom of the cup still hit the saucer because I couldn’t fully stop it.
A few days had passed since the closure of the school and the academy security was reviewed and resumed, but because the princess from the neighboring country was still staying in the castle, Al, Sieg, and I hadn’t gone back to the academy.
Al who came to the Duke Residence in the early morning said that he wanted to tell me something, so I passed him to the reception room. It was soon after the maids were hurrying to make the preparation and pouring us some tea. Unexpected words came out of Al’s mouth.
“Fufu, you know, don’t you? Although I had never explicitly told you, you know my feelings, right?”
“That’s… Yes, I know.”
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Apparently, Father who lowered his guard was elbowed strongly by Mother so that he couldn’t speak any more than that as he was in agony.
He was supposed to be the brother of His Majesty, but different from the King who was filled with prudence, Father is the type who shows results.
The first and second princes should have fought for the succession. However, there was a rumor that the younger one said “(It’s too troublesome.) It’s impossible for me. So, please do it, Brother.” and the second prince, my father, quickly left the race. I bet the rumor is true.
“Well~ A King seems to be very busy, so I’m glad I ran away earlier. It’s better to run only my own territory.”
“Richard…”
“Please take care of Brother, Brium-senpai! Wahaha!”
There is a time when I passed by a room where Father was drinking with the prime minister, Marquis Rottnel, Lettie’s father, and heard those words coming from Father who was in a good mood. I unconsciously let out a sigh.
It seems that the time when I became an adult and married someone, he would give me his title and went to the mansion in the corner of the territory with Mother and lived freely there.
Thanks to his plan, I was taught in detail about territory management since little.
Al and Lettie were still meeting each other.
And I didn’t know about that.
Unnecessary uneasiness and the feeling of losing to him was striking me.
But that day, Lettie took some distance from me.
The day when I gave her the blue flower hair ornament that I bought by myself from the town, after gathering my courage.
Did I do something that was bothering her? Did I do something that made her hate me?
Afraid of finding the answer, I didn’t ask her anything, and 2 years had passed.
At the very least, my only salvation was that she was still not anyone’s fiance when she enrolled in the academy.
Ever since her academy entrance, our distance was about to shorten, but when I was being pushy, she made a troubled face as she lowered her eyebrows, but she let me speak to her like before when there was no one around us.
I was delighted by her unchanged behavior.
I had never seen her using that hair ornament, and thinking about it made my heart hurt, but everything was blown away when I was spending the time with her and laughing together.
—I will tell her my feelings, soon.
That was what I decided when malicious intents from the jealous ladies were leaking around.
About someone being locked with a royalty, Sieg, who was drugged, about her knowledge in poison and picking, and about Anna making antidote.
Coincidentally, all the pieces were connected, but thinking that if something had gone wrong there, Lettie would have been dirtied by another man and that made my spine froze.
If I followed my greed, I wanted to make Lettie my fiance.
Although my feelings would not be mutual, I conveyed them.
When the turmoil of this riot subsides, let’s ask her for a time to talk.
Moreover, now is the time when the flowers in my flower bed are blooming.
That was what I thought just before.
Just before Al said that he proposed to Lettie.
And from the way he spoke, I thought Lettie accepted it.
… My body flared-up in rage, but I calmly accepted it, and it made me confused.
I knew all of Al’s good things. Someone you can’t really hate maybe means someone like him.
“Theo, you are going to check on Lettie now, right?”
“… Yes, I am planning to.”
In contrast to me who made an expressionless face, Al didn’t drop his smile.
From the start, I was worried about Lettie who had been sick, so I had planned to go to the Marquis Residence soon. And if he was not mistaken, he told his plan to this friend of his.
“Then, here. Can you please give this to Lettie? It is an important letter.”
The thing that was taken out was a waxed-sealed letter with the royal seal on it.
Considering the timing it was given, the contents of the letter must be about the continuation of their engagement.
“Why not you—”
“I want to do it myself, but you see, it hasn’t been announced officially, so if there is a rumor, Lettie’s safety is on the line. Please give it to her, Theo.”
I wanted to tell him to give it by himself, but he cut my words.
I wanted to just break the letter at that place, that important letter.
But if I destroyed it and someone knew it, I would be given a punishment.
“… I understand.”
It was hard to accept the letter while killing these feelings.
cheeky prince