《An Otome Game’s Burikko Villainess Turned into a Magic Otaku》


 Volume 1 - Ch 1

    Burikko refers to a girl who likes to act all cutesy or innocent, usually adult women who fawn on men affectedly and act like little girls. Additionally, it can asionally refer to a girl who fakes being cute, sweet, innocent and nice, but is actually a bitch. The use of it in this series refers to the more popr usage (its just that the girl is coincidentally, also a bitch). (There is no satisfactory English equivalent, and I dont believe in hamfisting things just to seem like a better trantor. And obviously people have been doing this for ages, otherwise we wouldnt have the word sushi or keiretsu or ninja in English. Theyd just be vinegared rice rolls and Japonic Cartels and Sengoku mercenary agents or something, so you can get off your slightlyrge-ish pony.)

    Maiden Game  ()Otome Game

    Will assume you know about adv/otomege/eroge in regards to terms like route, capture, event etc.

    Incidentally, tl-ing most incidences of capture target as love interest for simplicity (and due to greater ubiquity of  in JP adv lingo).

    Finally, you should know by now if youve been reading manga and the like, but Japanese people have this concept of four people of power or influence, described as the Four Heavenly Kings, a reference to the four guardian deities of the Buddhist faith.

    You know because of you, I got dumped by Makoto-kun. Mind not getting ahead of yourself?

    There, stood an emotional schoolgirl, spitting out abuse at me, and I, who was standing there dumbfounded. A few other students who were walking past turned this way to see what was going on But they probably realised it was something bothersome. Like that, they pretended nothing was going on and walked away. Tsk Cold bastards.

    Right now Im at school, standing at thending of an emergency staircase, being cornered by a gyaru-type girl with shy make-up from the ss next door.

    Im not used to this kind of love conflict, you know.

    Right now Im at an overwhelming disadvantage of 1 vs 6, and have nowhere to escape to. Because of the fakeshes and double-eyelid tape she was wearing, the eyes of the schoolgirl in question had swollen up to three times the size they were during the entrance ceremony. Its super intense.

    By the way, Im not a gyaru. Im the neat and tidy type at least I pretend to be, and Im camouged as a fairly attractive school girl but, inside Im actually just an otaku girl with otome games as my hobby.

    Otome games are romance games aimed towards females. Theyre games where the female protagonist, through various choices throughout the game, fall in love with various ikemen Honestly, as long as Im ying the part of a schoolgirl with a reasonably fulfilling life, its a hobby that I cant tell anyone about. Thats why I made up this character I y at school, the type that goes I dont y games or the like. I enjoy going with my friends to karaoke or shopping. If I seem like a hikikomori girl, various things will be difficult as long as Im going to school after all.

    Comparatively speaking, Im quite good with dealing with school. I hide my true self as an otome game otaku, and even if Im not part of the gyaru group thats ranked high in the school, Im part of a group that has more influence than average in my ss. I was maintaining a neutral position with the girls standing before my eyes, and was supposed to be on fairly good terms with them, and I was thinking that things were going quite well

    Up until today.

    Its a misunderstanding, I said I dont know what youre talking about. Even though Ive almost never even spoken to this Makoto person

    Honestly, whyd it turn into this? Theres too much I dont understand, so I let out a sigh. Theres nothing more difficult to get through to than an emotional person whos snapped. Shes crying andshing out in anger. I wonder if itd be a good idea to let her know, Your mascara and eyeliner areing off, and youre starting to look like a Jiangshi.

    This all began with that Makoto-kun or whatevers remark. Makoto-kun is a fairly popr, sporty boy in my ss. He was the boyfriend of the girl standing in front of me, but apparently, the other day he one-sidedly broke things off with her. And he left some extremely bothersome words.

    Ive, fallen in love with Aizawa-san

    By the way, Aizawa is my name. Its fine even if you dont remember it though. Because of thosest words of his, right now Im having a terrible time being magnificently cornered by these girls who have misunderstood.

    Of course I dont seduce other peoples boyfriends, and I dont have any memory of being confessed to by him either. On the contrary, Ive hardly even spoken to him in ss! I can say this for sure! Im innocent! But then why do I have to be criticised like this? Its incredibly unreasonable. Oi Makoto, exin things to them right this instant!

    Ahh, itd be nice if I could just summon him with magic, huh

    If I could, everything would turn out just fine! My sense of reality would be pretty damaged though. Meanwhile, the girl is still yelling on and on, with no sign of growing tired. Cant you guys just leave already?

    Are you listening? Break up with Makoto-kun this instant! And donte near him again!

    It seems that shes still continuing with her misunderstanding.

    Um, like I said, were not dating. Ive never talked to him properly, so I really think this is some mistake.

    To begin with, its a mystery as to why my name came out of his mouth anyway. Honestly, my contact with the Makoto-kun in question is limited to eye contact once in a while, and I really havent interacted with him at all.

    Stop lying-!

    Unfortunately my words werent reaching the frenzied girl.

    In a fit of anger, the girl ended up shoving me. Her hands hit me perfectly in the stomach.

    Ah-!

    When I realised that things were bad, my body was already hanging in the air. As I stumbled backwards, I lost my footing on the stairs.

    Im falling

    The girl who pushed me, widened her eyes in shock. Even if she was condemning me, she probably didnt n on pushing me down the stairs, huh I wonder if shell be arrested for assault. Even though it was the instant I was falling down the stairs, the things before my eyes were moving extremely slowly Without sensing the danger of the situation, my mind stayed carefree and continued to think normally.

    Bang!!

    Uwahh!

    A shock hit my body. However, it wasnt as painful as I had prepared myself for. Because I hit myself against something soft, things ended without pain. Whats going on? Theres something fluffy under my back.

    Geez, Camille-sama. Ive told you countless times that you cant jump on the bed

    Who are you?

    Before my eyes stood an obasan with a full build wearing a maid outfit. Shes probably in her fifties, huh Honestly, I think its pushing it for her to cosy a maid at that age. If my mother wore something like that, Id hate it.

    Camille-sama! This is terrible! I thought it was some sort of joke, but have you truly lost your memories? Thats why I asked you time and time again not to do something so dangerous!

    An unknown room, furniture and world. It seems I dived onto this bed Ive never seen before. Its a bed that looks somewhat high ss. I should have fallen from the emergency stairs in my school, but Why? The surroundings have changed. In the first ce, where is this? There are too many questions, so Im sitting still here.

    Aahh! The master[/Danna-sama] will be here shortly, okay!?

    The plump maid-outfit obasan paced around me nervously. This seems like something Id see in a dream.

    No, this is a dream. Theres no mistake. Or rather, please let it be a dream.

    When there are people around more panicked than yourself, you calm down quite a bit. Once I wake up from this dream, Ill be on a bed in my house, or in the infirmary. I mean, theres no way any of this is possible.

    Camille.

    The door suddenly opened, and a man Ive never seen before quietly entered. Hes wearing odd clothing, like a European noble from the middle ages. He might be one of the maid obasans cosy buddies

    Are you all right? Do you know who I am?

    His appearance looked a little cold, but he was young and handsome. His face is exactly my type. Hes probably a young adult, in the first half of his twenties, so theres probably no problem with dating him. Were his head not pink, that is. Whether a miniskirt-maid-obasan, or this pink haired man, nobody decentes out in my dreams, huh. That in itself might be proof that Im an otaku.

    I answered the pink man.

    I dont I mean, this is our first meeting, right?

    Theres definitely no way Id forget such a high impact person.

    Ahh

    The pink man held his head in his arms and squatted. The obasan hurried to his side in a panic.

    Are you all right? Marquis-sama!

    Theres no way Id be all right! For my daughter to have lost her memories All I did was work and I neglected my daughter

    The two of them stayed crouched like that for a while. What on earth is going on?

    My name is Camille Rhodolite. Im the eldest daughter of the Rhodolite Marquis family, and shockingly, Im three! Or so I was told. Speaking of which, my arms and legs have been abnormally small, and my clothes are fluttery childrens clothing too. Even though Im a sketchy person, for something that came out in my dream, the craftmanship of this clothing sure is detailed, huh

    At any rate, both Camille and Rhodolite are names Ive heard somewhere before. As for just where Ive heard them, I cant remember at all.

    And I am your father, Charles Rhodolite.

    I am the head maid of this residence,Aime Afriat!

    What I understand from all this is that the maid obasan is a very energetic person.

    It seems that this is the residence of Marquis Rhodolite, in other words, the residence of the pink headed man dering himself as my father. Because his wife passed away when Camille was born, its a motherless family.

    I showed her to the doctor too, but it seems that besides the loss in memory, shes very healthy Itd be nice if by some chance she remembered everything, but

    I think that might be impossible. I had no memories of living as Camille to begin with, after all.

    Right now is rest time, Camille-sama. Please sleep on the bed.

    Then Ill do so without reserve. And after that, everything will be back to normal once I wake up. Ahh, but wow. That sure was a dream with impact.

    Odd.

    For the dream to be continuing even after I wake up When I woke up the next day, I was still in that room. I woke up on the bed I mentioned earlier, and I got up and was about to check the surroundings when the door opened before I could.

    Ahh, Camille-sama. Have you memories not returned?

    It looks like it.

    My body remains that of a three year old, and my surroundings are still a ce I dont know. It might just be because Im little, but I feel like this house is really big. Did I fall into aa because of the shock in the fall, and thats why I cant wake up from this dream? I still have my life to live after I wake up, so if possible I hope this ends with just a minor injury.

    Well, cant be helped.

    Even if I struggle about, its not like Ill be able to wake up from the dream. Last night before I went to sleep, I tried kicking and squirming so I can dere this with proof. That! Which is impossible, remaaaains impossible. Ive decided to enjoy this dream. I mean, I finally became something as interesting as the young daughter of a rich marquis family after all. Im a person whos good at going with the flow.

    The pink- I mean, where is father[/Otousama]?

    When I looked in the mirror yesterday, I found to my shock that, like my pink father, I had the same hair colour as well. I can no longer ignore my own shorings and continue calling him the pink man.

    Marquis-sama is currently doing his job.

    What is father[/Otousama]s job?

    The Marquis-sama is a high ranking magician at the castle. Each day he maintains the safety of the country.

    I dont really get it, but it sounds like a pretty amazing job! Im slightly re-examining my views of pink dad. And theres magic in this world? How cool!

    Magic? How nice. I wanna do it too!

    When I was little, I admired a certain films wizard protagonist.

    It was my dream to go to a school of witchcraft and wizardry, but even when I entered high school, I didnt get an invitation from the magic school in question. Since there was no other choice, I entered a public school in the neighbourhood. I just lived by camouging and dealing with my surroundings, but Im aware that Im actually a pretty embarassing girl. But its fine, this is a dream after all. Let me do as I please!

    Hahh, once Marquis-sama returns, let us discuss it with him But honestly, Camille-sama, you sure have changed, havent you?

    There a rumour going aroundAime and the other servants that since I hit my head yesterday, Ive be smarter. Inside Im a high school girl, so thats a given. Im being praised a lot just because I stopped jumping on the bed.

    Really?

    Im a three year old child, so there should be leeway for a little change in personality like this.

    More importantly, its my dream, so theres no problem! Everythings fine!

    But just when am I going to be able to wake up? Aahh, there were heaps of things I still needed to do, though! I still havent cleared the otome game I stealthily bought two weeks ago!

    Because I knew how to deal with high school life, Ive been living while concealing the truth that Im an otome game otaku. (therefore), I basically never game outside of the room in my house. I cant take out my games to y on the train or at school, so the time I have to y is necessarily limited to the time I have after Im back from school, and Im not making much progress at all. Not only that, to maintain my decent grades I spend half the time at home studying. Its because all of my ythroughs have been done with the help of walkthrough sites in order to save time, following the guidance of my predecessors, that Ive been able to maintain my gaming life. The game I mentioned a little earlier that Ive been ying recently is also one that Ive been ying sporadically since it came out, and Ive been progressing while reading the walkthroughs.

    Mn Hang on This world is

    This ce is, kinda, pretty simr to the world of that otome game, huh. Mn, right. There was a pink person called Camille Rhodolite. For the game to even appear in my dreams I really do have some lingering attachments to it, huh. As expected of me.

    Carte  Jouer (It means trump in French)

    This was the title of thest otome game I yed, and it was a game set in a world simr to this one. In a magic academy where the four factions, Hearts, Diamonds, Clovers and Spades vied for power, amoner heroine had romances with ikemen in the school, and it was a game about rising status in the world.

    The love interests were the top members of the four great powers that went to the same school as the protagonist. The men were nicknamed K(King), and the protagonist would eventually fall in love with a K from one of the four powers. They were amongst the elite, and were people who had the best grades and highest social positions. As expected of an otome game. The love interests are all high spec.

    The person whose form Im currently taking, Camille Rhodolite, was one of the rivals who got in the protagonists way, and was the antagonist that appeared during one of the romance events with the capture target from the Hearts faction (K of Hearts). Four rival characters appear for each of the four powers. By the way, amongst the yers, the four rivals are known as the Evil Four Heavenly Kings. Camilles role was that of the heart factions rival, and is poprly known as the Q(Queen) of Hearts. Q is a term that refers to the various rival girls. The Q of Hearts was a selfish, cant-take-a-hint burikko type rival character, and after she appeared during the K of Hearts route, she was an unmanageable person who would follow the K of Hearts around, and get in the way of the heroines romance at every turn.

    Of course, each factions Q would get in the way of the romance with their factions king, but amongst them Camille was a particrly infuriating woman. She was like a figure that personified all the annoying parts of a womans stubbornness,bined. I was a fan of the King of Hearts, so I found her extremely irritating. Well, she was a viin so in the end she was destroyed socially, and I felt really refreshed though.

    Wai-Right now Im Camille, arent I? But the thought that Ill be ruined at this rate doesnte to mind. (Because) this is a dream. Theres no way, way~, that Ill fall into ruin~

    Since Ivee all the way to a country with magic, Ill do what I want! Ivee all the way to a dream where I dont have to worry about how others see me, after all. I wonder if the magic of this country has a game where you chase around a golden ball with wings. Id be really, really be interested in ying it.

    Why are people named Makoto always stirring up trouble?

    Are you all right? Marquis-sama!  Im aware that it sounds a little awkward, but didnt tl -sama as lord since I prefer to reserve that for . Please bear with it.

    Camille (kah-mii-yyh) Charles (sharl) Aime Afriat (eh-mehh ah-free-ah)

 Volume 1 - Ch 2

    How weeeeird~

    I turned five. In other words, two years have passed since then. But despite that, I still havent woken up from my dream. Since it cant be helped, Ive been continually enjoying and experiencing this world. At the end of the day, its a ce like the country of magic that Ive longed for. Its a dream, so no time will have passed when I wake up right?

    Camilles fathers, the Marquis Rhodolites, love for magic has been growing more intense, and hes been working at his current job. But because hes a genius, he pays no attention to things outside his interests(magic). I can understand the feeling of being uninterested in what doesnt interest you, but its a situation where he really is neglecting the matters of his household. It seems his daughter Camille had a lonely childhood.

    Up until now hes been immersing himself in his beloved magic, and was a marquis who waspletely ignoring his family and was unqualified as a father, buttely his daughter has started to show interest in magic, so he asionallyes home. Their parent-child rtionship has been changing for the better At least thats the rumour thats been whispered amongst the servantstely.

    Now, when the marquis isnt busy with his job, he teaches magic to his daughter Camille. Its one of the few times that the parent and childe into contact with each other. As for things unrted to magic, hes still the same as ever, though Rather than being indifferent to his daughter, it feels more like he doesnt know how hes supposed to deal with things outside of magic. When he actually does teach magic, hes a very kind father. Hes probably a clumsy person. By the way, when hes busy with his jobs as the marquis, he even sends his subordinates to the estate to teach magic. Despite being five, Im receiving a gifted education. Fortunately it seems that Ive inherited my fathers ability in magic. As expected of my dream; the setting is really convenient.

    Now then, today Ill be asking a question that Ive been wondering about for a while now.

    Father[/Otousama], is there a magic for straddling a broom to fly, or a magic for riding a broom to fly, or a magic for hanging off a broom to fly?

    Its all brooms, huh Theres magic to fly but, why brooms?

    It seems that even the idea of flying on a broom doesnt exist in this world. Speaking of which, even in games theres nothing but cool spells for attack and defence, huh. Is it a matter of appearance?

    Wouldnt flying on a broom be cool?

    Thats an amusing way of thinking, isnt it? If you used a spell that made things float, you could probably do it But doesnt a broom look too shabby?

    My father answers even my foolish questions seriously, so I love him.

    Im shocked by your growth in magic, Camille. As expected of my daughter.

    At this rate, wont I be able to go to a magic school like the protagonist of that certain film? warts, Im always ready for your invitation.

    Camille-sama, its about time to get down.

    In one corner of the marquis residence, fathers subordinate Viscount Soleil Jade, called out for me from below. With long, light blue hair and a gentle demeanour, hes a man of about fathers age. With a kind looking face, and a slim figure, though it isnt as much as father, hes my type. Guhehe.

    Soleil teaches me magic when father is busy, and acts as my private tutor(magic coach). Right now Im taking his ss, and in the middle of flying above the estate on a broom. Thanks to father and Soleil, Im able to fly quite stably. Even when Im by myself, I straddle my broom and fly about the garden. Once I went outside the estate, but father got angry at me super seriously. I guess it cant be helped that as a five year old, my actions are limited, huh

    Okay, Iming downnn!

    The broom slowly descended, and Inded on the ground.

    Still, youve really been thinking, havent you? Using a broom as a intermediary makes it easy to handle, and most importantly, you can fly quickly while stable, huh.

    The one who came up with it wasnt me though~

    For a five year old, Im picking up magic exceptionally quickly. Besides flying in the sky, I can create a light or fire, and I can blow leaves with wind. If I put these to use, it feels like I can do even more. Its incredibly interesting.

    Soleil who was looking at the little me with eyes narrowed in affection has a son about my age.

    Hes a really intelligent kid, you know? he always brags.

    Hes a stupidly doting parent, but the way he is is very heartwarming.

    Is he that cute a kid? It sounds like hed be a pleasure to meet~

    Hes probably like Soleil, huh~

    Itd be nice if I could show him to you. Ill ask Marquis-sama.

    Soleil who had taken my half lip service It sounds like hed be a pleasure to meet~ seriously, had decided together with my father to let their children meet. And so, today Im at their workce I came to the royal castle.

    I found out after I asked father about itter, but Soleils second son who Im meeting today is actually the child of his mistress. Geez, Soleil. Even though you have such a harmless looking face, you sure get busy, huh! Right now hes taken custody of that son from the mistress, and is raising him at his house though. Since its Soleil, I think itll be fine, but it often happens that the son of a mistress feels ashamed, something like a temte in stories, huh? Im a little worried about that kid.

    If I remember correctly, there was a character like that in the game too, huh~ A character who used his past of being oppressed as the son of a mistress, as mental fuel to climb up in the world, and was attending the same school as the heroine, as the right hand man of one of the love interests. In the game, the heroine epted that characters past, and through constion, a friendship budded between the two of them. And then following the orders of the K of Hearts, he was the ringleader behind annihting the Q of Hearts(right now, me). It was horrible treatment, enough that you could say to him, You didnt have to go that far. The yers who enjoyed the game through the heroines perspective were all cheering Nicely done! though

    But well, that has nothing, nothing~, to do with me, though~ Probably. Ill probably wake up from this dream before that.

    I entered the break room that my father uses during work. A job being a job, the workce isnt somewhere a child can just wander about randomly. Mn, I understand! I wont do something so childish! I have the intellect of an adult, after all! (Even if my brains are chu2)

    But Im curious about what kind of job involves magic When I stealthily peeked outside the room, I saw some people who looked like magicians working at the castle. Everyones walking around busily, but unfortunately they dont seem to be using magic. Perhaps its a magicians uniform, but everybody is wearing a sleeveless robe thing. The colours are varied, and at a nce, there seem to be three types; ck, red and blue.

    Im curious about the clothing too, but what Im even more curious about is that they have something like a tattoo running from their face to their arms. In fact, my father the marquis has tattoos on his arm and back as well. I identally saw them when he was changing. Let me just say that I was definitely not peeking! At that time, I was like, whoa, you sure cant judge people by their looks and backed away a little, but perhaps a magician is an upation that requires tattoos. Ill ask him next time!

    And while all this was happening, father and Soleil brought a small boy into the room. He has caramel brown hair and cobalt blue eyes, and is a bishounen with an insanely beautiful face. His kind features are a little bit simr to Soleil. Hes dressed in navy blue clothes for going out, in the style of a young noble boy, and it suits him quite well. And my clothes are simr; grape-coloured going out clothes for the daughter of a rich family[/an ojousama]. Reflecting my tastes, its a design with not too many frills, and is neat and cut knee-length.

    Soleil pushed the boy forward.

    This is my son, Achille, the same age as you, Camille-sama.

    The boy met eyes with me and smiled. But it seems that it wasnt a smile from the heart. It kind of feels like the kid in front of me is interested in my reaction. Even though hes a little brat, hes evaluating me? How cheeky

    It is nice to meet you, Camille-sama. My name is Achille Jade.

    Ahh I know those eyes Theyre the eyes of a person who behaves with confidence that he has the good will of females. Outrageously, an arrogance, of not believing there to be the slightest chance that a person of the opposite sex would hate him, is just barely hidden.

    And right now hes dealing with me in a way that hes calcted to be the most attractive to me. A little five year old girl with no resistance would probably be bewitched. However, I can see through him. After all, there were men like this around me in the world outside of this dream as well.

    Handsome men who were not only aware of their own facial skills while approaching you full of confidence, but egocentric as well. Theyd thoughtlessly call out to me, who was a not bad looking girl, and on top of that, treated me like a sitting duck; one in a line of convenient women who they could use to keep up their reputation. For some reason I would often get approached condescendingly by shy-looking, handsome boys. But because Im that on the inside, let me state that if they made me apany them, Id have suffered quite a bit. To begin with, the moment they tried to pick me up as a candidate for casually ying around with, it was alreadypleeetely out of the question. Ill refrain from such fruitless rtionships.

    But still, this Achille boy For him to be able to use his appearance to maximum effectiveness as a kid Hes not going to grow up to be a decent adult you know! However, I wont be done in by the likes of a kid. Dont look down on not-bad-looking high school girls! Hmph! And so, I got worked up about a five year old child. Of course, I didnt say any of this aloud. Well, hes still a five year old child, and the fact that hes been seen through by the likes of a faker like me is kind of cute, though.

    Its nice to meet you. My name is Camille Rhodolite.

    I pinched my skirt, and did a little curtsy. However, I decided not to use the pretty face I have in this dream. Its a bother, and to begin with, I cant do something so skilful.

    Shes an extremely lovely girl[/personage], isnt she, father[/Otousama]?

    Achille looked up at Soleil and spoke. Soleil looked at his son fawningly.

    Were going out for work, so please y together in this room.

    Thats right. Today was a day that Soleil was working, to say nothing of father who holds a supervisory position here. He should be busy today as well. Father and Soleil left the room side by side. Only me and this precocious brat were left in the room

    Being left in the room with only Achille, I was troubled. In these situations, what am I supposed to talk about? Honestly speaking, Im bad with children. Perhaps because he noticed I was fidgeting, Achille called out to me. What are you gunna do if you make a five year old child be considerate for you, Me!?

    I have heard from my father that you are skilled in magic, Camille-sama. That you have already progressed to intermediate magic, for example

    Achille talked to me with that affected smile from before. Hes unnecessarily close, huh. As expected of a precocious brat.

    Just Camille is fine. I mean we are the same age for once, and Im not going to kick up a fuss about your manners, so dont worry about it

    Its a pain, so I asked to stop with the keigo. I wonder if Im acting unbefittingly for ady. But I dont wanna be stiff and formal with a kid, and its just the two of us anyway, so it should be fine.

    I heard from Soleil that youre really smart, Achille. Do you like studying?

    Achille looked a little troubled, but seemingly epting my proposal, he immediately changed to an informal tone.

    Yeah, I basically do nothing but study. I was told not toe out of my room too much, so

    As expected, it seems that as the child of a mistress, he cant be too bold in doing what he wants. Going out today might be an exception amongst exceptions. If thats the case, I want him to be able to enjoy himself a little

    I suddenly caught eye of a few brooms for cleaning in the corner of the room, and my worthless head came up with a stupid idea.

    Since its been so long since youve been allowed outside, wanna go all out and y?

    Eh?

    I straddled a broom, and beckoned for Achille toe over. Its just the sky, so they probably wont me us for anything, and even if they do find fault with me, were both children so itll probably end with just a light lecture.

    Most importantly, its boring to just stay still in this room. It feels like my mental age is steadily being pulled down to this bodys.

    Get on.

    I forced the bewildered Achille to sit behind me, and I kicked off the ground. The broom lightly floated in the air, and moved towards the outside of the window. I could tell that Achille had caught his breath behind me.

    The broom vigorously flew out the window. The speed is steadily increasing.

    Achille, hold onto the broom tightly!

    Unlike the marquis residence, the castle is wide so flying seems worthwhile. You can see the Magicians Building that my father works in below us. The Magicians Building is something like a circr tower. Behind the Magicians Building, you can see lots of nts growing in the fields, and they seem to be growing medicinal herbs used for magic.

    Camille Where are you nning on heading?

    Achille who had calmed down again called out to me. Geez, it would have been nicer if he showed a more shocked expression. How uncute. And even though I told him to hold onto the broom, why are his arms wrapped around my waist?

    Mn~, I havent decided. For now, maybe we should fly a widep around the castle.

    I see. Then lets try going near where the important people live. If wee too close it feels like well be targeted by the people guarding, so lets fly a little distance away, okay?

    That sounds interesting But just where is it?

    Isnt it further in?

    We headed towards where the living quarters for the important people seemed to be.

    It sounds like hed be a pleasure to meet~ is actually I want to meet him, huh. except this is a verymon phrase in Japanese. In Japanese, youd recognise this as lip service, but in English it sounds like an actual request, so I had to make up something that sounded like lip service.

    Soleil (soh-lei-yyh) Achille (ah-shil)

 Volume 1 - Ch 3

    After flying about for a while, we could see a beautiful garden. Somehow there was this high ss feeling about it, so the important people might be there. I headed in the direction of the garden. In the centre of the garden was a white fountain surrounded by roses in full bloom. Red, white, pink  flowers of beautiful colours were mixed together.

    Suddenly, I felt like I heard a voice, so I looked down, and when I did, I saw the figure of a child about our age. They were a small boy with beautiful blonde hair, and surrounding him were a group of boys dressed like nobles. The boys surrounding him might be a little older. But for a group of children ying together, things looked a little strange.

    Is that, bullying

    One of the children grabbed the small blonde boy by the cor, and the other boys started cackling. It was a revolting scene. Before long, the surrounding boys began to push the blonde child around. I cant watch this.

    Will you save that boy?

    As though he was waiting for this timing, Achille whispered in my ear. I reflexively got goosebumps. This kid aimed for my ear on purpose, didnt he? But I cant object to his words. Im anti-bullying!

    Is it okay to go down? Wont I get you mixed up in it, Achille?

    Its fine, but? That blondie is probably a kid from the royal family It might be a good chance for me to establish contact with him.

    What a mercenary child! Ive misjudged him. But now is not the time to be stunned at Achille. I have to save that child.

    The blonde child identally fell on his butt. At this rate, he might start getting hit or kicked. As one of the children was about to try and mount him, I got in their way, still on the broom.

    Heyy! Stop thaat!

    The child who was trying to mount him got hit in the butt by the broom handle. Because of the impact, the bully fell over. He immediately got back up, red faced and rubbing his butt painfully.

    What the heck is with you!? Whered youe from!?

    Thats my line, you damned brat! Ganging up on a little kid to bully him. Dont you feel embarrassed!?

    While I replied sharply, Achille helped the blonde child up.

    Shaddup! Stop meddling, you bitch!

    Yeah! Yeah!

    One of therge kids near me turned my way and tried to hit me.

    Geh-

    Right now Im a feeble little five year old. Closebat isnt my thing. I immediately used magic to defend. At my actions, the surrounding kids widened their eyes in surprise. It seems that children who can use magic at my age are rare.

    Take thiiis!

    I tried to use some light offensive magic, but for some reason smoke came out of my hands and just disappeared. Did I fail?

    Oh?[/Are?] My magic wonte out

    Except for those in security, nobody can use offensive ss magic without permission here.

    The one who spoke was the blonde child. What the heck? Thats super inconvenient. Is it because its the castle?

    Camille, the broom!

    I came back to my senses at Achilles voice. While stopping the children with defensive magic, I straddled the broom. Right now the priority is to get away from here. While urging the blonde child to get on the broom, Achille got on as well behind him.

    Were ready!

    Alright!

    With Achilles voice as the sign, I levitated the broom, and steadily rose at a fast speed. The dumbfounded bullies gazed up vacantly. What stupid expressions. Serves you right. Whileughing, Kekeke, I flew ap above their heads to provoke them.

    Lets return to the Magicians Building Father might have returned.

    Yeah.

    I turned around, and headed back to the Magic Building. But still, the broom has gotten slow. Three people are riding on it, so thats natural though. Its like when the basket on your bicycle has a lot of drinks packed into it.

    We could see the window of the Magic Building now. Im d that it wasnt too far. Having 3 people ride this is a little bit much It might be necessary to have more practice, and further improvements to the broom. We unsteadily entered through the target window, andnded.

    Ahhh, Im tired. That was heavy.

    After returning the broom to where I found it, I copsed on the sofa. Achille was looking my way with an astonished expression, but Im tired so it cant be helped.

    Are you okay?

    The blonde child peered in on my face. Uwahh, hes a bishounen too. A bishounen with the sure-firebo of blonde hair and green eyes, hes like a prince.

    Thank you for saving me, you two. Im Royce Ga, the first prince of this country.

    Prince? Roiss?

    Royce Ga he said? That moment, all the blood in my body boiled. Royce-sama ROYCE-SAMAAAAAAAAAAA!?

    Speaking frankly, Im a huge fan of his.

    Hes one of the love interests in Carte  Jouer, the future K of Hearts. And he was the love interest character that I adored the most.

    Royces route was standard among standard routes, but while I was ying the game, my heart was struck countless times by his smile. Royce who shouldered the pressure of being the first prince as he entered the Magic School He who held no confidence in anything was encouraged by the heroine, and before he knew it, he had ended up with romantic feelings for her. After oveing numerous ordeals (obviously including the Q of Hearts interference), in the end the admirable two ended up married. Themoner heroine, who despite being amoner had hidden potential, in the end even became the queen of this country. She got the beloved prince, and even seeded in rising in ranks! in other words.

    When I had a look at Achille, he was smirking. A person of influence = royalty. Getting close to him means that Achilles goal was achieved. Good for you. Speaking of which, just as I feared earlier, as expected, isnt Achille also a character from the game? There was certainly a character with his upbringing in the game.

    With Royce and Achille together, my memories are gradually bing clearer. Achille was something who had nothing but a friendship route, so I was beginning to forget him but As expected, he was a character that thoroughly crushed the Q of Hearts, and was the close aide of the K of Hearts, the J of Hearts! Scary-!

    Aahh Perhaps Im headed down the same path as the original story.

    No, this is a dream. A dream. That Ill be socially exterminated is, impossible Its impossible, right? This world thats progressing just like the original story is getting scarier and scarier.

    After that, we introduced ourselves to him, and chatted with Royce in the break room of the Magicians Building. Its like a dream No, it is a dream, though!

    You two really saved me. I got seen being pathetic though, haha

    While being a little shy, Royce-sama thanked the two of us. As expected of Royce-sama, even when hes very young he has this refinement about him.

    No, we just happened to be passing by, but I am d that we were of use to you, Your Highness. What is most important is that you are safe.

    Oooh, that smiling Achille haspletely entered his sales mode. Unlike Royce-sama, Achille is really an uncute kid.

    You dont need to be so formal, you know? Our age is close, and Id be happy if we could get along from now on as well. Unfortunately there arent many people in the castle that Im close to, you see

    After saying this, Royce-sama made a slightly sad expression. Even his sad expression is beautiful! I didnt notice while I was ying the game, but did Royce-sama grow up in a pretty lonely environment?

    Royce-sama In that case, I shall ask my father[/otousama] for permission and bring Achille again to y.

    I can meet Royce-sama, and it gives Achille an excuse to leave the house too. A good idea, if I do say so myself.

    Really?

    His beautiful blue eyes narrowed, and Royce-sama happily took my hand.

    Of course! If my father allows, though.

    Ill have it arranged.

    As expected of a prince! Even at a young age, his authority sure is effective, huh. But if I can meet with Royce-sama, then I have noints.

    Camille, Ive kept you waiting.

    Ah, Father[/Otousama].

    I ran over to greet my father who had just entered the break room. Soleil came in as well, behind father. Soleil saw Royce-sama who was sitting with us, and stiffened.

    Y-, Your Highness!?

    After that, Royce-sama spoke about everything that happened, and hearing that, I was ended up scolded by father. Well, Royce-sama stopped him halfway, though Surprisingly, Achille did too. Soleil contacted the castle to let them know that the prince was here, and somebody immediately came for Royce-sama.

    Your Highness, it is good that you are safe.

    A prim gentleman with the air of a butler appeared in front of the door. His age might have been between forty and fifty. His monocle shed in the light, and gave off the feeling of being a very adequate chambein.

    Henri, Ive worried you havent I? When I was surrounded by my cousins group, these two saved me, you know?

    Henri nodded understandingly, and turned to look at our faces.

    Very good.

    What is? I dont really get this Henri person. After telling Achille and I to wait here, he left with father, Soleil and Royce-sama.

    Left here, as expected I couldntprehend what was going on, and stared towards the door. Perhaps because he couldnt pretend he didnt see, Achille spoke to me.

    Are you okay with that, Camille? Getting close to Prince Royce means that youll be making enemies of the Royal Prince(Kings Younger Brother) Faction, you know?

    Mn? Whats that?

    Why did the conversation suddenly turn into this

    Today you made enemies of the son of His Majestys younger brother, you know I did too, though. Thats why from now on, whether you like it or not, youll be seen as part of the Kings Faction.

    As expected, I dont really get what hes talking about. Speaking of which, the game had a setting like what he just mentioned or so I felt.

    Ahh So thats how it is.

    I suddenly understood what Achille meant.

    The current kingRoyces father, and his younger brother were presently on bad terms. His Highness the Royal Prince was tantly aiming for the throne. Right now the nobles were split in two between those who supported His Majesty, the King Faction, and those who supported his brother, the Royal Prince Faction.

    One day their conflict would spread to their children, and the confrontation between their children was one of the scenes in the game. It might be that Royce-sama was thinking about quickly finding reliable allies, and bringing them to his side. And today, we who happened upon him by chance became those allies in other words. He was properly thinking about his own future as well. Thats why he immediately revealed his position to us when we first met. So that he could guarantee his allies, and absolutely not let us go.

    Mn, they might be talking about the same thing outside, huh

    By the way, fathers life is magic, so he hasnt been getting involved in annoying political struggles, but because of my actions today, he might end up beingbelled as part of the King Faction. I feel a little guilty

    It seems that the ones bullying Royce-sama were the children of nobles in the Royal Prince Faction.

    Im fine After all, one day Id have to choose which faction to fall under after all, and I like Royce-sama too

    Eh, like!? Camille Are you aiming to marry into power?

    Achille turned my way in shock.

    Huhh? What are you on about?

    Im hoping that Prince Royce will be my patron, but I was wondering if you were aiming for the seat of the Queen, you see Unexpected, ambitious?

    Sif I am!

    Thats probably impossible. After I said that, Achille smiled happily for some reason. Hes probably thinking being Queen is impossible for someone like you anyway That Im not suitable for Royce-sama! I know that even if you dont tell me.

    Royce-sama is somebody that I long for. I want to get closer to him, but Im not thinking of something presumptuous like bing his partner. After all, Camille was a character that couldnt end up with Royce-sama. The Royce-sama in the game also cringed at being relentlessly stalked by Camille. Even while I think that this world is a dream, itd be painful to be avoided by Royce-sama. I dont want to be hated by him.

    Thats true. Right now youre the only daughter of Marquis Rhodolite after all, so you have to find a husband and seed your family, right?

    It seems that Achille who didnt know what I was feeling assented to my answer.

    But Royce-sama being the first prince means that he has a lot of enemies, huh

    And then, I suddenly realised. With Royce-sama, apart from the other rival girls, there were many other gs for downfall.

    His downfall level was iparable to that of I who was just a rival character. For Royce, if the heroine chose any K other than him, then his life would automatically head full throttle towards destruction.

    For example if the heroine chose the son of the Royal Prince, Roices cousin the K of Spades, then Royce-sama would be overthrown in a coup detat. If she chose the prince of the neighbouring nation, the K of Diamonds, then a war would begin and our nation would lose, with Royce-sama being ced under house arrest. The she chose hermoner childhood friend, the K of Clovers, then a revolution would begin and the royal family would be destroyed, with Royce-sama executed.

    Its impossible Royce-sama Even if this is a dream world, I dont want my beloved Royce-sama to head towards ruin. Even if its impossible for us to be a couple, I want to protect him. Just by myself, I might not be very helpful to him. Im just an otaku girl after all. However, it would be better to have even one more person to protect him. Fortunately, I know the contents of the game, so I should be able to at least him keep away from danger. Ive made my decision.

    Ill be a magician that protects Royce-sama.

    Ill study magic even more than I already am, so that Ill be able to protect him, no matter who the enemy. Achille looked at me in astonishment, and after looking like he was thinking for a little, he took my hand.

    Then Ill be an aide that can help Royce-sama.

    Youll be a knight?

    Nope, an aide.

    Thinking about it, Achille had that kind of position even in the game, huh. Hes a character whos brains over brawn.

    I see! Then lets try our best together.

    After I said that, Achille smiled like he was truly enjoying himself. Like a child who had found an interesting game. Well, he is a child though.

    More importantly, I wonder if he could hurry up and let go of my hand. Just how long is Achille nning on holding my hand for?

    gs for downfall  have stated this earlier, but I am writing under the assumption that youre familiar with ADV lingo. Think of a g, as in programming g, because thats more or less what g means in visual novels. Raising a death g etc. yeah?

    Rather than dignified gentleman, the text said , but theres no word that I can think of for this. Its like, pulled tightly, sort of. Like a person who is proper in posture, smartly dressed, professional, proper, and un-rxed. Like a super-butler character would be. EDIT: After many long years, has graciously reminded me that the word I was looking for was prim.

    (outei) means kings younger brother. Apparently thats still just prince in English though, cause we dont have a word for it.

    Also, perhaps youve already realised, but everyone in this series has a French-ass name. Well, I dont speak French, but going by the names in Japanese, theyre supposed to be the French versions of these names (for those that have equivalents in othernguages). Now again, I dont actually speak French, but I can tell you something that approximates the sounds, based on the Japanese. So yeah, if there are people who speak French, dont get pissed. These names arent actually French. Theyre Japanese appropriations/approximations of French names, so yeah. And aint nobody can pronounce your mille sounds anyway.

    Camille (kah-mii-yyh) Charles (sharl) Soleil (soh-lei-yyh) Achille (ah-shil) Aime Afriat (eh-mehh ah-free-ah)

 Volume 1 - Ch 4

    I dont remember my mothers face. When I was old enough to understand things, I was already in an orphanage. Even if I say an orphanage, the environment was shit. Despite there being lots of children, the facilities and goods were both poor, and it was constantly a scramble for food and utensils. The only thing that went well in such a ce was that I was good at stealing a march on and using others.

    Living like that, one day a turning point appeared to me. A man calling himself my father came to the orphanage. He said he wanted to take custody of me. That guy who was clothed in beautiful garments smiled at I who was just skin and bones, covered in dust and rags.

    What the hell are you doing after all this time wasnt something I thought, and neither was I angry nor hurt. That kind of cute and clean spirit had probably died somewhere and be a star, long ago. Aahh, I can finally escape from this shithole This was mostly what upied my mind.

    I rode a carriage for the first time in my life, and headed together with the man who called himself my father, to his home. Inside the carriage, the man started talking about his job. Shockingly, it seems that the guy who came to get me was a noble. Even if you say Viscount Jade, to someone like me whospletely unrted, I have absolutely no idea who thats supposed to be, though. My father, Mr. Noble, had in the past hid his status and dated my mother, a bar wench in the outskirts of town. And then, my mother got pregnant and gave birth to me, but because of his position, father couldnt stay by our side. Even bringing us into the estate was opposed by fathers mother, in other words my grandmother, and in the end things ended without him actually doing it. On top of that, father already had a legal wife and other children. Despite his beautiful appearance, hes loose in that area, huh. Before long, my mother fell ill and passed away, and I who was a dependent was left in the care of the orphanage, in other words.

    What happened just now was that at the same time my grandmother left this world, father came to bring me back from the orphanage. It seems Ill be raised in the viscounts estate. This guys wishes aside, to me, being able to move from that run-down orphanage into the house of a noble is cause for huge celebration.

    Goodness! What a squalid child!

    The moment father brought me into the estate, a shy looking woman came running. Shes probably the legal wife that he mentioned. Well, I cant deny being dirty though. I mean, I couldnt enter the likes of a bath that often in the orphanage. I was brought to the bath in the estate.

    After getting out fo the bath, I was made to change into some expensive, intensely decorated clothes, and brought to the other residents of this house. Father, the shy looking woman from earlier, and three children. Breaking them down, they were a boy and girl a little older than me, and a girl slightly younger.

    Let me introduce you. This is your new family, Achille.

    Father called me name.

    This is my wife Ade, my son Dominique, and my daughters Dborah and Dsire.

    Ade and Dominique were ring at me with eyes filled with disgust. Unlike father, Dominique was quite fat. Im sure its because he has plenty of food to eat each day. Though there was disdain apparent in with Dborah and Dsires gazes, they seemed deeply curious about me. When I tried giving them an amiable smile, the two of them turned red, and averted their eyes. I see. It seems like I can use these two, huh. Even in the orphanage I was ones of the more popr among women, so I was able to freely use both children and adults. I cant say that itsfortable, but this ce is much better than the orphanage. I gratefully epted my new surroundings.

    Father trained my step-brother and I equally. Being nagged about these manners I wasnt used to, or my choice in words made me honestly think that it was a crock of shit, but itd be a piss off to be made fun of by my step-mother and step-brother, so I earnestly memorised it. Unsatisfied with just that, they were even thoughtful enough to give me a private tutor. History, letters, management and the like were thoroughly driven into me. What I needed to study was simpler than expected, so within a few months, I caught up to what Dominique was learning without a problem. For some reason my tutors were shocked though. But just when am I going to use this stuff? Or more like, what am I supposed to do from now on? This family is going to be seeded by Dominique, and Dborah and Dsire are going to marry out. Then what position am I in? Since I finally got to live somewhere good, Id like to be able to continue living somewhere good, though.

    Goodness, is that what you were worried about? Achille sure is cute.

    After being called to Dborahs room, I tried speaking my mind, and my older sister smiled proudly. Using that nasty secret of flutteringly covering her mouth with her hand, she looked at me with a gaze that fawned on me.

    Goodness, Achille, you have nothing to worry about, you know.

    Wearing an intense perfume despite being a child, Dsire snuggled up against me as well. The scent floats around, so I honestly wish she would stop. The only thing they inherited from father was their hair colour, and they were simr to my step-mother. They werent beauties, and their personalities were bad too. But theyll basically listen to whatever I say.

    Right. The second and third sons of nobles be bureaucrats, enter the knighthood, or marry into families without sons.

    Well, marrying into the wifes family and being adopted by them would be the best, wouldnt it? I dream of marrying into power as well

    Hmmm, so thats how it is.

    Hey, Achille. Ive secretly gathered some sweets without mother[/okaasama] knowing, so lets eat them together.

    I have a present for you too, Achille.

    Thank you, Dborah-oneesama, Dsire.

    Dborah and Dsire blushed happily at me when I thanked them with a smile stered on my face. Honestly, what you really ought to have are convenient stepsisters, huh.

    Mn, getting ahead in life and climbing the ranks sounds interesting too. Itd be nice to see how far I can go, and I also want to see my arrogant step-mother and step-brothers faces warp in frustration when I rise above my current position. For now, Ill try my best to study what I can.

    Theres a girl that I want you to meet, Achille.

    One day, after I had been taken into the viscounts family for a while, father suddenly said this to me aftering home from work.

    Shes the daughter of my boss, Marquis Rhodolite, but shes good with magic and is a very smart girl. I think youll like her too, Achille.

    ording to my father, shes the youngdy of the marquis family and their only daughter, and there doesnt seem to be any indication of any brothers being born from now on. This might be somebody whose family I can marry into, like Dsire mentioned. Moreover, it seems that Ill be meeting her at the castle. If I lead that youngdy around by the nose, and find somebody in the castle as a connection for my future job, itd be killing two birds with one stone.

    Im looking very forward to it, Father[/Chichiue].

    Happy with my answer, father smiled. Honestly, in my whole family, this guy is the simplest to deal with.

    What awaited me in the break room of the castles Magic Building was a small girl with hair, pink like a field of flowers. Im sure its just a field of flowers in her mind too, like Ade, Dborah or the girls that hang around them.

    It is nice to meet you, Camille-sama. My name is Achille Jade.

    When our eyes met, I gave the same sweet smile that I shed when I first met my step-sisters. Compared to those girls, Camille is definitely the more beautiful, and if she seems useful, I wouldnt mind spending time with her. And moreover, if we get along, then I might be able to seed the marquis family in the future.

    But despite that Far from turning red, the girl before my eyes was observing me with great interest. Moreover, she even freaking snorted Hmph! along the way. Whats with this girl?

    Its nice to meet you. My name is Camille Rhodolite.

    As though nothing had happened, she pinched her skirt and gave a small curtsey, and I found that I had my interest drawn a little.

    I was told to y with Camille while father and the marquis went to work. Since were already here, Ill take this chance to chat a little.

    I have heard from my father that you are skilled in magic, Camille-sama. That you have already progressed to intermediate magic, for example

    For now, I guess Ill start with ttery. Theres no such thing as a human who gets upset at praise. However, she avoided it and countered.

    Just Cami is fine. I mean we are the same age for once, and Im not going to kick up a fuss about your manners, so dont worry about it

    Camille immediately started speaking casually, and wanted me to do so as well. Honestly, I hate formalities so Im thankful for it, but I was surprised that ady of a marquis family like her prefers to speak casually like this. I thought that the daughters of noble families were more pretentious, like my step-sisters.

    I heard from Soleil that youre really smart, Achille. Do you like studying?

    Did that father of mine go as far as saying that to the little kids of other families!? Its so embarrassing that I cant bear it. So that my unrest wouldnt show on my face, I stiffed my muscles.

    Yeah, I basically do nothing but study. I was told not toe out of my room too much, so

    Primarily by my step-mother. Will Camille sympathise with my circumstances? If she sympathises and is willing to lend me a hand, then its my win.

    But she didnt move like I expected. Why!

    Since its been so long since youve been allowed outside, wanna go all out and y?

    I dont know she was thinking but she suddenly straddled a broom that was left in the room, and told me to get on behind her. Im having trouble understanding her thought process.

    Get on.

    When I hesitated, she forcefully made me get on. And the very moment I straddled it, the broom began to lightly float. Like that, the two of us vigorously flew out the window. Camille flew higher and higher without any hesitation. It seems that she really is good with magic. Id like it if she didnt get me wrapped up in it, though. Im at a loss at this unfamiliar sense of floating.

    Achille, hold onto the broom tightly!

    Camille told me to hold onto the broom, but doubling as a little bit of revenge against Camille who just started flying all of a sudden, I wrapped my arms around her waist. Its not really weird, right? I wonder if shell turn red in embarrassment I looked forward and waited for her reaction, but unfortunately it seems like she wasnt diposed in the slightest How boring.

    The castle was iparably hugepared to the likes of a viscount estate. The scenery from high in the sky is also incredibly interesting.

    Camille Where are you nning on heading?

    Mn~, I havent decided. For now, maybe we should fly a widep around the castle.

    You didnt n anything? Even though you flew out the window that enthusiastically, what the hell? Since we were already out here though, I decided to try telling her my wish.

    I see. Then lets try going near where the important people live. If wee too close it feels like well be targeted by the people guarding, so lets fly a little distance away, okay?

    That sounds interesting But just where is it?

    Isnt it further in?

    We headed towards where we thought people with authority might be.

    This might be somebody whose family I can marry into, like Dsire mentioned. Its actually This might be somebody who I can get tama no koshi with (is it the reverse in this case?), like Dsire mentioned.   amon term that refers to a woman marrying into riches and power. But obviously I cant write that, so I had to cut out Achilles little note about it being the reverse.

    youngdy (reijou) refers to like, a young-ish (non-obasan) daughter of a good family. Would usually have writtendy, but shes like 5 so that sounds a little weirder in English, so in the end was forced to stick young in front of it each time. Sorry if it sounded a little awks.

    thought process is (shikou kairo) or thought circuits. I think its figurative circuits, like the way the insides of an electric appliance works, so I just wrote thought process.

 Volume 1 - Ch 5

    By the way, the disappointing/unfortunate used to describe Camille is sort of like the disappointment or regret of having somebody who is attractive, intelligent and professional, but is unfortunately a massive masochist. Its that kind of unfortunate.

    Like a (disappointing/unfortunate husband) is basically a bum of a husband, or a husband that has one or more majorly bum-like qualities about him. Or is majorly hopeless or something.

    A (zannen na bijin) is a beauty that happens to have an aspect of her that just ruins the imagepletely. Like shes actually aplete slob at home. Or she has a massive and uncontroble train fetish. Or shes an insufferable shotacon.

    There was a beautiful garden, and in the centre was a white fountain surrounded by roses in full bloom. We might be getting close to the inner pce.

    Suddenly, I felt like I heard a voice, so I looked down, and when I did, I saw the figure of a child about our age. A small boy with beautiful golden hair was being surrounded by some slightly older looking kids. However, it seemed that they werent ying together.

    When I looked in front, I found that Camille was frowning a little. Shes an oddball, but it seems she has a strong sense of justice.

    Will you save that boy?

    When I spoke into her ear on purpose, Camille was startled enough that it was funny. Oh shit, Ive found a surprising weakness of hers. It seems that this is a bit of a habit.

    Is it okay to go down? Wont I get you mixed up in it, Achille?

    Its fine, but? That blondie is probably a kid from the royal family It might be a good chance for me to establish contact with him.

    Hes wearing clothing thats obviously higher ss than the other children, and if I remember correctly, the first prince was a blonde kid of about that age. Even if we save him, theres no loss to us. Also, the one whos getting wrapped up isnt me, but Camille. Im already resolved. If she saves the prince, shell make enemies of the Royal Prince Faction. Even a kid knows about the issue of the two great powers in this country. It looks like Camille isnt thinking about a thing, though.

    The very moment Camille heard my reply, she thrust the broom at the noble kid who was mounting the prince.

    Heyy! Stop thaat!

    The end of the broom stabbed the guy in the arse. Looks painful. While Camille was arguing with the children of the Royal Prince Faction, I ran over to the prince.

    Can you stand?

    Mn, I can Thanks.

    I helped the prince up, and took a distance from the kids.

    At that moment, one of the kids tried to hit Camille. Even if I tried to save her, I wouldnt make it in time from here or so I thought, when Camille easily repelled it with defensive magic. It was a perfect defensive wall. On top of that, it seems she was nning on going as far as counterattacking.

    Take thiiis!

    However, theres supposed to be a strong magic prevention barrier cast on the castle.

    Oh?[/Are?] My magic wonte out

    Obviously. As expected, Camilles offensive magic turned into smoke and disappeared.

    Except for those in security, nobody can use offensive ss magic without permission here.

    The prince thoughtfully exined to Camille. This much ismon sense, though.

    The children of the Royal Prince Faction who were stunned by the defensive magic gradually recovered, and seeing them approach us in the corner of my eye, I called out to Camille to ride the broom. After a quick gasp, Camille came running over. She quickly had the prince straddle the broom.

    Were ready!

    Alright!

    Camille had us rise quickly into the air, and we distanced ourselves from the noble children. I guided Camille who was flying ap above their heads whileughing provocatively.

    Lets return to the Magicians Building Father might have returned.

    Camille has an immature part to her, so had I left her be, she might have continued taunting them forever. We have to leave here before anybody else from the Royal Prince Faction arrive.

    Yeah.

    She obediently listened to me, and headed back to the Magicians Building.

    Ahhh, Im tired. That was heavy.

    ording to Camille, carrying three people on a broom was tiring. Even though were in front of the prince, she paid it no heed and dived onto the sofa. Even though we even got to gantly save the prince, at the very, very end she showed some seriously disappointing sides of her. My impression of Camille has taken an 180 degree turn from the one I had at our first meeting, plus another 45 degrees. She(This) is not someone(something) you can expect a normal response from.

    Fortunately, it seems that the prince had no intent of finding fault with Camilles irreverence. He looked in on her worriedly.

    Thank you for saving me, you two. Im Royce Ga, the first prince of this country.

    Prince? Roiss?

    It looks like Camille has finally realised the princes identity. It seems she really wasnt thinking about a thing. It had absolutely nothing to do with who the bullied child was, and she saved him purely due to her sense of justice, it seems. She really is a youngdy thats nothing like a noble. I became even more interested in this girl who had a way of thinking that I didnt.

    I-, I am Camille Rhodolite.

    Ahh, Marquis Rhodolites Im d that we met.

    Camille was shaken by each one of the princes words, making a hundred different expressions. For some reason I feel it unamusing, and I feel sick near my chest. Acting like this, even though she snorted during my introduction.

    After that, I finished my introduction without dy.

    Huhu For you two to have been the son and daughter of the Magician Buildings number one and two You two really saved me. I got seen being pathetic though, haha

    The prince smiled contentedly. Well yeah, of course he would be, since he basically gained the higher ups of the Magician Building as allies through Camille and I. Good work in stealing allies for yourself.

    No, we just happened to be passing by, but I am d that we were of use to you, Your Highness. What is most important is that you are safe.

    You dont need to be so formal, you know? Our age is close, and Id be happy if we could get along from now on as well. Unfortunately there arent many people in the castle that Im close to, you see

    Hearing the princes words, Camilles face shone.

    Royce-sama In that case, I shall ask my father[/otousama] for permission and bring Achille again to y.

    I got dragged into it too, for some reason Well, thats fine. I get to leave that house, and increasing my contact with the prince is something to be thankful for.

    Really?

    The prince seems happy too.

    Of course! If my father allows, though.

    Ill have it arranged.

    While this was happening, Marquis Rhodolite and father came into the room. Father was stunned upon seeing the prince, but the marquis didnt seem to be interested in the prince. The prince told the two of them about what happened outside, and hearing this, the marquis scolded Camille. The marquis was indifferent towards the prince, but once it involved Camille, his reaction became excessive. The marquis might also be an overly doting, idiot parent like my father.

    However, theres no reason to me Camille. Certainly I was shocked by her audacity in flying above the castle without permission, but thanks to that, we were able to save the prince.

    Marquis-sama, if you are going to me Camille, then I am guilty as well.

    Surprised that I was covering for her, Camilles eyes widened. She really is a easy to read fellow. She probably thought that it wasnt like me. Somehow I feel that she knows about my true personality

    Mn, Camille hasnt done anything bad. Thanks to her, I was saved.

    The prince took advantage of my words to cover for Camille as well, so she wasnt scolded any further.

    A butler-like man appeared to meet the prince, and the prince and the adults left the room. Theyre probably talking about Camille and I as well as what theyll be doing themselves from now on.

    Are you okay with that, Camille? Getting close to Prince Royce means that youll be making enemies of the Royal Prince(Kings Younger Brother) Faction, you know?

    Mn? Whats that?

    This girl really doesnt know a thing after all.

    Today you made enemies of the son of His Majestys younger brother, you know I did too, though. Thats why from now on, whether you like it or not, youll be seen as part of the Kings Faction.

    Ahh So thats how it is.

    Not, so thats how it is Even though shes the daughter of the marquis, are things going to be alright like this? Its gone past just shock; Im worried now.

    Mn, they might be talking about the same thing outside, huh

    Both the Rhodolite Marquis family and the Jade Viscount family will probably be seen as the Kings Faction from now on.

    Im fine After all, one day Id have to choose which faction to fall under after all, and I like Royce-sama too

    Eh, like!? Camille Are you aiming to marry into power?

    For this weird girl who knows nothing about anything to be aiming for the seat of the queen Was all of the stupid behaviour up until now, camouge to deceive her surroundings?

    However, she looked at me as though she was seeing something strange.

    Huhh? What are you on about?

    Im hoping that Prince Royce will be my patron, but I was wondering if you were aiming for the seat of the Queen, you see Unexpected, ambitious?

    Sif I am!

    I was negated with all her strength, but hearing this, I felt relieved somewhere inside. Why? I dont really get it myself. When Im with Camille, nothing goes as I expect. I end up being led around the nose by her at every turn.

    For some reason Camille was looking my way in indignation for some reason. It seems that she was dissatisfied with my marry into power remark.

    Thats true. Right now youre the only daughter of Marquis Rhodolite after all, so you have to find a husband and seed your family, right?

    Marquis Rhodolite is unmarried, and his only child is Camille. She probably understands her position as well, in her own weirdo way.

    But even though theres nothing toin about when ites to her appearance and status, why on earth are the contents this? Its seriously unfortunate. At this rate, wont a husband candidate never show up? Having the number of rivals decrease is convenient for me, but

    Ill be a magician that protects Royce-sama.

    Completely cutting off the flow of conversation up until now, Camille suddenly dered this. What is she nning to do this time? I really cant take my eye of her. If I dont take responsibility and stop her before she does something problematic the prince is absolutely going to meet with some harm.

    Then Ill be an aide that can help Royce-sama.

    I took Camilles hand. She looked at me in wonder.

    Youll be a knight?

    I have no intention of bing anything like a knight. If Im going to do something, I want a smarter job.

    Nope, an aide.

    One day Ill be the prime minister or something too. Ive decided on my goal.

    I see! Then lets try our best together.

    Camille who probably isnt thinking about a thing, was just simply happy about having herrades increase.

    But I didnt overlook the fact that her eyes looked in bewilderment at the hands I was holding. I was ted by some feeling I didnt know welling up inside me, upon seeing Camille looking shaken for the first time.

    What is this feeling, anyway? Its probably, the feeling of aplishment.

    From then on, my father would asionally bring me to Camilles house, or the castle where the prince lived.

 Volume 1 - Ch 6

    Look, look~!

    Seeing me throw off my outerwear in a good mood, Achille startledly averted his eyes.

    Hey, what the heck is ady doing!

    He flusteredly picked up my outerwear, and draped it over my shoulders. Achilles face is kinda red.

    Geez, its not like I was naked. You sure like to exaggerate, huh~

    Even though I was properly wearing a pseudo sleeveless maxi dress under my outerwear, too.

    Im begging you, dont show me something like your naked body.

    He looks super unhappy about it.

    Stop looking at me like youre seeing something filthy, okay? To be treating me like some sexual deviant, how rude!

    Its not like Im being an exhibitionist or anything. I got matching magic tattoos with my father[/otousama] so I just wanted to show it off, thats all.

    On my left shoulder was a blue ivy pattern. It was a tattoo for automatic mana restoration, and after my father taught me, I drew it on with my own mana.

    Magic tattoos are the inscription of a pattern that holds a certain magical function onto human skin. Through these patterns, you can strengthen your mana and recover your mana. In the end they just act as support, though.

    You can apply these magic tattoos yourself, but to draw them requires a certain magic technique. Depending on whether you can draw it well or not, the effectiveness varies too. Right now I can only do ivy magic tattoos. I want to hurry up and be able to do flower magic tattos already. Theyre cute, after all. By the way, the flower tattoos have the effect of mana amplification. And also, unlike real tattoos, magic tattoos are an extraordinary thing that can be easily drawn and erased with just magic, and theyre gentle on the skin too.

    Come on, looook.

    Stay away! Pervert!

    We began a pointless game of tag.

    Camille, Achille, what are you doing?

    Just when it seemed like I would almost be able to catch him, the one who called out to us, Royce-sama, showed up at the door. Right now, Achille and I are at the castle to y, at Royce-samas invitation. The two of use to visit him quite often.

    Ah, Royce-sama! Look, look ugu-

    When I was about to show off my magic tattoo to Royce-sama, Achille pinned my arms behind my back from behind.

    What on earth are you nning to show His Highness!

    The magic tattoo that I drew myself

    I told you, dont strip!

    Damn you, Achille Dont get in my way. Isnt Royce-samaughing at me now?

    Camille, you got a magic tattoo?

    Yes!

    Isnt it bad for a girl to get a magic tattoo?

    Hauuun~ Royce-sama is such a gentleman.

    Certainly, even if theyre magicians, not many women get magic tattoos. Women with patterns on their skin are avoided by men, after all. If you have a magic tattoo, youd be at an overwhelming disadvantage when it came to marriage prospects. As for the Rhodolite Marquis family, since father is like that, I can get as many magic tattoos as I want, but normally a family wouldnt allow it. Even more so if you were a noble.

    I dont mind. Im not aiming to be popr with men, and I dont mind sacrificing my springtime of youth to protect you, Royce-sama!

    If magic tattoos are necessary to master magic, then Ill draw as many as it takes. And during times when I cant have magic tattoos no matter what, isnt there no problem if I just erase them in a sh with magic? Hmm?[Are?] It looks like Royce-sama is backing away a little, but thats just my imagination, right?

    And so, I want to have a look at the castle town. Of course therell be bodyguards, and I have permission from my dad as well.

    It seems that the reason we were called out today was to apany Royce-sama on his incognito visit to the castle town. Achille looked at at Royce-sama in disbelief. He was probably worried about the kind of dangers that could befall Royce-sama if he left the castle.

    Its already decided, huh. Then the two of us have no choice but to follow you.

    A date in the castle town with Royce-sama! Yahooo!

    Please allow me to show you around. Ive snuck out into town countless times in secret from my dad or the servants, so Ive already checked all of the famous stores!

    When I dered this with pride, Royce-sama looked at me with eyes tinged with misgivings.

    Ummm Ill pretend I didnt hear that, okay?

    When I go out, I aim for when my father is away, and I leave an afternoon nap version of a body double doll in my room, so even now, the servants still dont know, you know?

    The castle town during the day was very lively. We headed down into town, incognito. Me, Achille, Royce-sama, as well as two of Royce-samas bodyguards were travelling together. The remaining guards were watching over us from in hiding.

    Is there anywhere that youd like to go, Royce-sama?

    I spread open a map of the castle town that I obtained beforehand.

    This is a pseudo-pancake shop with lines of customers. This is a pseudo-popcorn shop with lines of customers. This is my favourite shop for magic books. This is my favourite shop for dried lizards.

    Hang on, the second half is clearly weird, you know.

    Achille made fun of me.

    Your Highness, where do you want to go? Its dangerous to leave things to Camille.

    Mmmn I guess I just want to look around the marketce normally.

    Thats an excellent idea!

    One of the guards immediately cut into the conversation.

    There are a lot of shops gathered in the marketce, and itd probably be easy to understand each persons livelihood Please be wary of pickpockets and purse snatchers.

    With that one splendid introduction by the first guard who had suddenly be enthusiastic, we ended up heading towards the marketce.

    The marketce was quite prosperous. Because it was still midday, it wasnt that crowded, but once the night fell, more people would gather. Royce-sama was curiously turning this way and that. He looked like he was having a lot of fun.

    This is?

    Ahh, the Gerugero nut? It has use in digestive medicine.

    Then whats this?

    It is Gangrou meat. Its hard and not very delicious Ahh, there seems to be interesting things further down.

    The first guard who hadpletely taken the initiative continued to guide us through the town at his own discretion and bias. Well, whatever. Royce-sama seems to be having fun too, after all. Achille and I quietly followed after them.

    I wonder if this is far enough

    Suddenly, the first guard stopped still.

    Whats wrong?

    Called out Royce-sama, in wonder.

    We hade to a street a little distance away from the marketce. There was nobody here. Normally there should have been stores selling weapons or magical items, but it seems it was empty today.

    Oi, oi Theres nothing here, you know? Should we go back the way we came?

    The second guard was about to lead Royce-sama back the way we came, when it happened.

    Something that shone silver came flying, and pierced into the second guards back.

 Volume 1 - Ch 7

    The second guard fell to the ground without a sound. Protruding from his back was arge knife. A red stain was spreading across his clothing.

    Wha-!

    Royce-sama flusteredly took some distance from the first guard. I stepped out in front of Royce-sama in a panic.

    Itll be okay, the other guards should be here any minute

    Unfortunately for you help wont being.

    While suppressing the terror that rose up in my body, I tried to soothe the prince, but the first guard cut in. In that instant, I recognised this man as an enemy. Grasped in his hand was a knife just like the one protruding from the second guards back. This guy isnt a guard; hes a viin aiming for Royce-sama!

    All of them are probably already dead, you know.

    The viin smiled inappropriately.

    Royce-sama! Please es

    Once again, the viin cut off my words. This time not with words, but with an attack. I immediately blocked the swing of his de with defensive magic. If theres only one of them, then we might be able to get away somehow.

    However, that faint hope of mine easily disappeared with the appearance of the viinsrades,ing one after another out of hiding. In total there were five of them, and including the guy with the de, there were six. Probably because they had defeated the guards in hiding, a number of them were covered in blood spray. These viins might have been mixed in amongst the guards as well. Three six year old children, versus a total of six of these viins. We were at an overwhelming disadvantage. For some reason I recalled the time I was cornered by the gyaru group in the world outside this dream. Is this my life shing before my eyes?

    If I die here, would I wake up from this dream? Would it be fine if I got stabbed just a little?

    As if, right?

    Iughed dryly at my stubbornness in still supporting myself with the idea that this is a dream after all this time. If Im killed here, Ill probably die for real. Probably, dying without being able to return to being a high schooler Without having protected Royce-sama Ive been averting my eyes all this time, but somewhere in my heart, I actually knew.

    Ive been running away. This world and my circumstances Ive been putting off actually thinking about them properly.

    I mean if I didnt think of this world as a dream, it was just filled with things that I couldnt ept, after all I want to see my parents, I want to see my friends, I want to pass on being a viin I want to go home

    If it was a dream, then I could just enjoy things however I wanted, but if it was a real then I couldnt just have fun without thinking, right?

    I dont want that

    Camille!

    At Achilles voice, my consciousness kicked back in. And at the same time, I felt a pain in my left arm. The viins de had cut apart my skin. They had broken through my defensive wall using magic. Being immersed in my thoughts in this situation was stupid of me. Right now I had to let Royce-sama, and while I was at it, Achille, escape safely Of course, I nned on returning alive as well.

    Get away from us!

    I immediately let out a wind attack from my hand, and sent the viin flying. A fewpanions of his who were dragged into it tumbled about. Right now the magic I could use were limited. Because I was six, they hadnt taught me any offensive magic that might have been dangerous. With a magic of this level, I couldnt expect anything more than putting some distance between us.

    I immediately put a barrier back up, and used magic that called for aid. Countless butterflies flew out from my hand, and headed towards the castle at the speed of light. Its the mostmonmunication spell. With this, I should be able to get into contact with my father immediately. Father[/Otousama] Please hurry! Even while I did that, I continued firing magic at the viins without rest.

    Cami, can you use any offensive magic besides the one just now?

    Achilles quiet voice reached my ear.

    Fire, water, lightning, wood, I can use a bunch, but their power is only the same as that one, so Ah!

    I see. It wasnt working because I was sticking to attacking. I can just buy time or escape.

    The air! If I thin the air, I might be able to buy time If I reduce the oxygen concentration

    I focused my mind.

    After changing the barrier into a dome, I reduced the oxygen in the area around the viins. Magic to manipte the atmosphere was difficult so concentration was required. The viins had probably noticed that the oxygen had thinned, because unrest ran through them. But it wasnt perfect. If they went out of the area that I designated, then they could breathe in as much oxygen as they wanted. We were still at the end of the market, so I couldnt apply the magic over arge area without getting bystanders involved.

    Its alright, Ill help.

    Suddenly, I felt the flow of mana from Achille.

    Achille?

    I learned a little from father It seems that I have some talent for magic, after all.

    When did he? Hes never mentioned this even once before, right? Or more like, Achille wasnt a character who could just easily fire off magic like that, right?

    The Achille in the game acted as the princes brain, and while he was in the magic academy, I never got the impression that he was that good with magic. Rather than learning magic properly, he was the type who was better with creating magic tools or magic medicines, and he kept his position as J bypensating almostpletely through studies. Was it because this was a situation he didnt expect?

    Achille ced a barrier around the viins. With this, they wouldnt be able to escape from the low oxygen area. The fact that my inability prevented me from removing all oxygenpletely made the situation harsh for us. The viins who had underestimated some six year olds fell into chaos, and gasped at theck of oxygen. Three of them copsed unconscious due to trouble breathing. Im grateful that some weaklings were mixed in with them. However, amongst the viins was one who lightly waved his hand, and the moment he did, the flow of the air changed. My magic was cancelled. It seems that there was a magician in their group. He spoke in a displeased voice.

    What a conceited brat.

    While Achilles barrier magic still held, I took out a paintbrush from my pocket and quickly turned it huge with magic. My simply made pseudo-broom wasplete. Because it was a magic I came up with just recently, the feeling of riding it was inferior to a normal broom, but it was still fast. I filled the pseudo-broom with my mana and set a location for it to automatically head to.

    Royce-sama, this seats one, but please get on. It will take you directly to the castle!

    At least he who was the prince needed to get away. However, Royce-sama refused in a loud voice that he had never used before.

    No! Are you telling me to abandon you two?

    Their target is you. Hurry and get on!

    Following that, Achilles magic barrier was also dispelled. Because of my wind magic they couldnt easilye near us, but the viins were free to move now. Because of that, one of the knives they threw bounced off my barrier, and another persons arrow stuck into it. From behind, the magician was working to dispel my barrier. We were done for.

    Royce-sama!

    By now, I was shrieking at him. Achille changed to attack magic, and fired off some ice. However, because it was as small as a pebble, it only had the might of a hailball. While I maintained my barrier, I fired off the same magic. With Royce-sama in the middle, I was in front, Achille was behind, and the two of us fired off magic.

    Finally, the enemy magicians magic dispelled my barrier. Its over! I lost myself in firing off ice to the limits of my mana. I increased the force of the ice with wind magic. By now I was just a mess, and firing off magic without worrying about how I looked. It felt like there was rock, or wood, or metal or something mixed in with the ice, but it wasnt the time to be worrying about that. At any rate, I just fired stuff off at them. Thankfully, the magic tattoo was useful in preventing me from running out of mana. A viins knife grazed my cheek. Achille had countless wounds on his arms and legs too. But despite that, Royce-sama still wouldnt fly away for us.

    The magician let off some purple smoke It was probably poison. Im already super at my limits, so please stop! I let out a scream in my mind. I changed from ice to fire and desperately burnt the gas. I wonder if this gas is inmmable Even though I said I would protect Royce-sama, would I be unable to do a thing in the end? Everything I do is half-baked. I could feel Achille manipting the air from behind me. At that moment, something exploded near us, and an unmanned stall flew into two of them and blew them away.

    But taking that moment to act, a man holding a knife leapt towards us.

    Stay awayy!

    I turned a ball of me his way, but the guys knife passed through the mes, drew near us and a shock ran through my stomach. My vision turned white from the pain

    UWAHHHH

    For some reason the man that stabbed me let out a scream Why the hell are you screaming, the one who got stabbed was me

    Royce-sama Ru

    My consciousness went out just like that.

    Camille, Camille

    So annoyingg. Let me sleep a bit more.

    Cut it out Get up.

    I dont wanna. My body is kinda heavy.

    If you dont get up, Ill kiss you, you know?

    Fugah-!

    Even though youre just a kid, what a joke to make! I sat up with a start. A sharp pain ran through my abdomen.

    Like I thought It felt like your sleep was getting shallow.

    At my bedside was Achille.

    Achille Huh? Why? Im alive?

    I was sleeping on a in bed. Is this, inside the castle? Im

    I remembered the horrible memory from just before, and checked my abdomen, but the deep wound stab wound that should have been there was gone. It seems somebody used healing magic, but even then, a little pain remains. Ahh, as expected its not at the level of a little I can feel a level of pain impossible for a dream, throbbing through my body. It seems thatpletely recovering will take a little.

    You were saved.

    And Royce-sama?

    Hes safe. He made it into the marquis care uninjured. Since he had just gone through something dangerous, right now hes locked up in his room.

    Thank goodness

    It looks like the thin wounds that Achille suffered are healed as well. It seems that my father and Soleil are busy dealing with the aftermath.

    Hey, what happened after that? After that, I copsed and dont remember a thing

    You dont remember? Anything?

    Mn, I dont remember anything from after I got stabbed

    Achille looked at me in wonder.

    The guy who stabbed you got burned, you see

    Eh?

    Burned he says?

    Like I was saying, the moment you got stabbed, the man burned. The knife he was holding melted in an instant too Wasnt it something you did, Camille?

    Youre kidding

    Could it be, that it was unconscious?

    ording to Achille, I emitted a me that burnt the man who stabbed me into a crisp, and the de he was holding literally melted in an instant. I dont remember this at all Maybe I made a mistake in the moderation of my magic because of the pain. Maybe only the temperature rose to an abnormal level Or maybe the moment I used me magic, my mana poured into his knife and turned into heat Thetter sounds like it might be possible It seems that immediately after that, my father and the magicians of the Magic Building came running. All of the criminals except for the ckened man were caught.

    The ones that attacked us were small fry of the lowest among the lowest ranks. However, because they blended in skilfully with the real guards, the real guards didnt notice the viins either. They had been hiding as guard soldiers over the span of years. The result was that negligence was born amongst the guards. But, even though they were the princes guards werent they too weak? Even though theyre the guards for the next king, this was really too shabby an oue. It looked like the viins were probably employed by the Royal Prince Faction, but they were skilfully untraceable, so it was difficult to determine who the culprit was. Because the attackers themselves were too far down, they couldnt teach us anything either. It seems like itll take time to determine the culprit. To be done in by such small fry Im still too inexperienced. How pathetic

    -

    At this point, the trembling came. I steeled my nerves because I had to protect Royce-sama, but it was actually very scary. Ive never had a knife turned towards me before, to say nothing of being stabbed When we faced off against the attackers, I was anxiously wondering if we would just end up being killed there, so it cant be helped.

    Camille Its okay now. The rest of them were caught as well, after all.

    Even though Achille looks like he doesnt care about the feelings of people he has no vested interests in, hes been watching me properly. Hes probably noticed that my feelings of terror have returned too. Even though he should be scared too, he tried his best to sooth me.

    I burned somebody and killed them?

    A different feeling of terror began to well up. After turning into a ck lump, no human would survive. Unconsciously burning a person to cinders is too terrifying.

    You protected His Highness and I, Camille. If that guy lived, all of us would have been killed.

    Guarding somebody meant bing a magician that would protect Royce-sama meant this kind of thing. It wasnt just something you just dered on a whim. To be realising it only now, what an incredible idiot I am.

    Huh?

    Tears were dropping onto the back of my clenched hands. Crap, am I, crying? Youre kidding, what do I do? It wont stop The more impatient I got, the more tears began to overflow, dropping again and again. Ah, Achille is visibly shaken. To be troubling a six year old like this, Im really too miserable No matter how bad things have gotten, hasnt my mental age regressed too much?

    Uuu, hic

    Aahh, Achille Could you perhaps pretend you didnt see this, and leave the room? My sobbing

    Its okay now You havent done anything wrong, Camille.

    Far from leaving, he instead closed the distance. He softly and soothingly stroked me on the head. The movements were clumsy, but was he trying tofort me? Even though hes Achile, for him to be treating me kindly. Isnt it because Im ovee with emotion that I ended up crying this much? My mind is in chaos.

    For someone whos going to ruin me Dont treat me so kindly hic

    I dont really understand what youre saying.

    After that, Achille continued to stay with me until my tears stopped. Surprisingly, he can take action even without it being calcted, and it seems that he has some kind parts to him too.

 Volume 1 - Ch 8

    I, who was a high schooler, was constantly controlled by the gazes and opinions of those around me, skilfully went with the flow, and lived however it led me. So that I could look even a little better to others, I paid attention to nothing but the eyes of others, and did nothing but keep up appearances. But what meaning did that have? In this world, there was no meaning in being reasonably good. From when I was three years old until I was five, I averted my eyes from reality, and lived by nothing but my desires and whims. Were I to ept this world in the true sense of the word, there was no way that it would be alright to stay that way.

    Im reflecting on my actions. The way Ive been up until now is no good. If I dont change myself, my wishes wonte true.

    Up until now, have I ever devoted my body and soul to anything? Paying no heed to ttery from others, and earnestly facing reality without running away

    Right now, Im wholeheartedly studying magic. The amount of study is iparable to any Ive done before. I dont want to feel that way again. I dont want to despair due to myck of power. Without being content with only the tasks given by my tutor, wholeheartedly reading magic textbooks from morning until night, and asionally showing up at the Magic Building Aime and the other servants backed away from me due to my enthusiasm. But I dont mind if people back away from me. Ive decided not to worry about the eyes of others anymore. If I dont, let alone Royce-sama, I wont even be able to protect myself.

    In the incident that happened in the castle townst year, had I messed up, Royce-sama, Achille and I would have died. I wont let something like that happend again. If I dont master magic more than anyone If I dont be strong enough to protect my loved ones from everybody else Even though this is supposed to be the world of an otome game, theres no saving, loading or resetting.

    This world is my reality.

    I felt impatient. Protecting Royce-sama from destruction was not something so simple.

    Im not certain if they could understand my zeal, but when I turned seven I was allowed some work at the Magic Building. My job at the Magic Building was to be an apprentice Red. It was a job within the red robed magician group that I saw at the castle before. The colour of the clothing worn by magicians working at the castle depended on their jobs. Blue was a magical research job, involving the development of new varieties of magic, items or medicine. ck worked as the guards of people of influence. Red had the most personnel, and were responsible for all of the work not covered by Blue or ck. Doing things like solving problems that arose in the countrys cities and viges, heading to certain ces to do magic inspections, eliminating monsters that troubled the citizens; it was a pretty hectic job.

    It seems that even monsters appear in this world. Its seriously too fantasy. They mostly live deep in the forest or in caves; dark ces with no human presence, and if you lived normally in a town, you would almost never see one. They didnt appear in the setting of the otome game. If something like monsters appeared in the academy, it would be undoubtedly a major incident, so thats basically the end of the story, but

    Starting from simple inspections, then eventually making my way to exterminations of lower ss monsters, I would be learning the jobs of Red, little by little. During this time, it was made sure that Royce-sama had capable adult guards with him. As expected, guarding the prince wasnt a job you could leave to a little six year old, so until we entered the academy, there was no need for me to stick to Royce-sama. My contact with him was limited to visiting a few times a week. It seems that Achille was also working a simple administration/odd-jobs job. That was because he was an apprentice like me, though.

    While living like this, one day, I had an encounter. An encounter with the enemy of Royce-sama that would appear during the K of Spades route; the heroines rival, the Q of Spades.

    Mei Zakro, the Q of Spades, was the loyal servant of the son of the kings younger brother, the K of Spades. She and her younger twin brother served as the guards of the K of Spades.

    Mei was a taciturn woman who loyally followed her orders, d in a mysterious aura, and amongst the rivals she was the one with the best personality. Incidentally, the one with the worst personality was Camille. After all, Camille was jealous towards the heroine who was growing close to the K of Hearts that she was one-sidedly in love with, and was a rival who harassed the heroine as much as possible.

    However, when it came to Mei, because her love for her lord was too strong, she ran wild and persistently tried to get rid of the heroine who was deceiving her lord. Once the heroine cleared the K of Spades route, the fact that Mei tried to harm the heroine was revealed and she was fired, and like that it became unknown what happened to her. Up until the end, she remained a somewhat mysterious rival.

    That Mei Zakro was now bawling in the middle of the corridor.

    FUAAAAAAAAAH, NOOOOOOO! WHERE AREEE YOUUUUU?

    That mysterious, devoted-to-her-duties, silent beauty is also the same age as me right now. Theres not a trace of mysteriousness here.

    So Mei was working from such a young age too, huh

    Her deep blue hair and dark skin were just like in the game, and tears overflowed endlessly from her golden eyes.

    The enemy was a little girl It might get annoying to get involved. I have no idea what to do with crying children. But Ill feel guilty leaving her alone too. And I look like a child too, right now

    Whats wrong? Are you looking for someone?

    WAAAAAAAAAH!

    Just like Achille did to me recently, I tried patting her on the head. It seems that it was effective, and the girls sobbing receded just a little. Just by knowing her future self, seeing her crying face feels plenty wrong.

    Wheresss, Raiga-sama?

    Ehh

    It seems like shes looking for her master Raiga Transbaal; in other words the K of Spades. Was Mei all LOVEMaster at this young an age? But wow, it really is too weird seeing this gap between the always calm, mysterious Mei from the game, and the Mei right now.

    Youre looking for Raiga-sama?

    Uuu I had an afternoon nap, and then Raiga-sama was gone (sob)

    Mei and afternoon naps It really is a mismatchedbo. I stayed by her side for a whileforting her, so her crying calmed down a lot.

    After a while came the pitter patter sounds of multiple peopleing down the other end of the hallway.

    Meii!

    In an instant, I could tell who the owner of those footsteps were How troubling.

    Raiga-sama!

    Before my eyes stood the K of Spades, Royce-samas enemy, Raiga Transbaal. Because hes Royce-samas cousin, hes an ikemen as well, but that overpowering atmosphere of his has not a smidgen of friendliness. Behind him was Meis younger twin brother, J of Spades Kai Zakro, standing there inconspicuous as the air. Her face still dirtied from crying, Mei reached her hand out to him.

    Why are you in a ce like this? I told you not to leave the room, didnt I

    Fueeh, because, when I woke up Raiga-sama wasnt there.

    Mei You musnt bother Raiga-sama

    Ah! Even though hes young, the little brother is speaking just like in the game. Kai the little brother was taciturn and mysterious just like his older sister.

    You. What did you do to Mei?

    Raiga red at I, who had been reduced to decoration. When he did, Mei grabbed Raigas arm and shook her head side to side in protest.

    The pink Oneechan didnt do anything wrong!

    Hang on, is the pink Oneechan referring to me? Certainly I didnt give my name, but

    She listened to me when I was crying!

    Is that so?

    Raiga made aplicated expression. He was d in a difficult-to-approach aura, but this expression of his held some amity.

    Youre Royces hanger-on-er, right?

    He knows about me? The informationwork of the royal princes son sure is amazing, huh Its still better than being called a flunky, I guess.

    Im not a hanger-on-er; Im his future guard, you know.

    Like I care Oi, Mei! Dont wipe your snot on my clothes!

    The dignity of the royal princes son is being ruined. As I thought, I feel like I dont really understand their rtionship.

    Did Mei-chan always have this kind of personality? At a nce she looks like the calm type, but

    Could it be? I wondered about a certain possibility in my heart. Raiga might know something about it.

    The one who reacted to my worsd wasnt Raiga, but surprisingly Kai.

    You What do you know about Mei?

    I dont know where he got it from, but he was holding a long needle in one hand. Oi, oi, are you trying to threaten me with a deadly weapon? Were in a corridor used by other people, you know? The twins Mei and Kai were characters that looked docile, but were prone to quickly resorting to violence.

    Stop it, Kai.

    Held in check by his lord, Kai readily withdrew. He really does feel like the by my lords orders type, huh. After making sure that Kai sheathed his weapon, Raiga turned to me and spoke.

    Mei has been like this since I met her. Dont make weirdints.

    Im sorry. I was just thinking that they werent a very simr pair of twins.

    Just because theyre twins, doesnt mean their personalities have to be the same, right?

    You are right

    Were heading back.

    Yes!

    Leaving the frozen me behind, Raiga left with the twins in tow.

    Does Raiga not know, or was that acting? But Kai knows something for sure. I cant say anything since I only know how she was in the future, but perhaps Mei is a human from the same ce as me I dont have any confidence in that though

    persistently tried to get rid of is . Since I mostly read action fantasy, it almost always means kill, but Im hoping thats not the case here. ><

    (sob)  gusu which is a sobbing noise

    her crying calmed down a lot  her style of crying mostly became less extravagant (i.e. less bawling more sniffling)

    Youre Royces hanger-on-er, right? [] Its still better than being called a flunky, I guess. Theres a world of difference between a pouch and poop. Hanger-on-er is hang-on pouch, whereas flunky is actually goldfish poop. Both refer to people who follow another around like a sycophant. I omitted thest line, since it wasnt significant, and would be like impossible to trante anyway. Ruins the flow to leave it in with an exnation, but fyi, there was such a joke present.

    Also theres no  but its like a set phrase thing in JP (___LOVE or ____) so I had to try and find a way in Eng that wouldnt just look like two words awkwardly stuck next to each other.

 Volume 1 - Ch 9

    First of all, once again (Ive mentioned this in Maou), good will is a very, verymon Japanese euphemism for like/love.

    Dont get so cocky, you fucking brat!

    Why the hell was he left a job higher than ours!?

    Hahh The boys who were my co-workers were picking a fight with me. Whereever you go, there are idiots like these, huh. Are they slightly older than me? Theyre a bunch that ignore their own shorings and use reasons like social status and age to discriminate against others. Theyre gunna pick a fight with a seven year old apprentice?

    Ahahahah, you have it tough too, huh~

    After meeting with Camille for the first time in a while, she had a hugeugh. It seems that she saw what happened just now.

    Just because its someone elses problem

    I get told that too, you know, Connected Girl they call me P-Pfft Since Im the daughter of a marquis, its true though.

    Seeing Camille talk about it like it isnt a problem, I start feeling like an idiot for getting annoyed.

    Royce-sama says that helle once his sses are done, you know.

    It seems itll take a little longer, huh

    Because I had business at the castle today, we all decided to meet today. Camille and I are candidates for his future aides, so there are a lot of chances to meet with His Majesty during the breaks between our work. There are times when I meet him alone too, but there are also days when Ill be meeting him together with Camille.

    Achille, you help Royce-sama with his studies, right?

    When he asks me, yeah. His Highness has a number of talented private tutors, so I think itd be quicker just to ask them, but

    But you exin things easily, right? I mean you immediately remembered the political science stuff you were taught the other day.

    It seems that Camille is bad with studying. It wasnt like that in the past, but recently theres been an obvious trend towards it.

    Shes concentrating on magic too much. In exchange for the neglect of her studies, her ability in magic has recently been growing at a strange rate. Both her arms and her legs are marked with magic tattoos now, and shes done for as a woman. However, Camille doesnt care about the eyes of society at all, and just keeps marking herself all over with her custom made tattoos of strange patterns like butterflies, or hearts, or angel wings. And I just wish she would stop stripping her outerwear off each time, and trying to show me. That time when she tried to show me the rose or whatever tattoo on her chest, I had no idea what to do, you know.

    Ahh-! Oneechan!

    Suddenly, a dark skinned girl came running out of nowhere. Shes somebody Ive seen. This woman was one of the followers of the royal princes son, wasnt she?

    Mei-chan?

    Youre acquaintances!?

    Oneechan, even though I asked you toe y, howe you wonte?

    Sorry, Meichan. There are some grown-up reasons behind it.

    Really Then, its okay if Ie to y?

    Of course!

    For some reason this woman has gotten close to Camille, even though theyre supposed to be enemies.

    Indeed, of course its no good. Geez, just when I was wondering where you ran off to

    From behind the woman named Mei appeared the son of the royal prince, Raiga Transbaal.

    Nooo! I wanna y with Oneechan!

    You mind not luring my attendant?

    Raiga red at Camille with a cold gaze, but Camille wasnt concerned in the slightest.

    Just when did she be acquainted with Raiga? Even though the two of them are supposed to bepletely avoiding each other. Even for the areas theyre active in, the King Faction are in the eastern building, whilst the Royal Prince Faction are segregated in the western building, so except for work, there are few ces theyre together. Speaking of which, this was the central building, wasnt it? The central building has a lot of workces, so both factionse and go.

    Sorry, Mei-chan, your bully of a master said that we couldnt y I like Meichan, but theres nothing I can do, huh? (In regards to this and that.)

    Raiga-sama you idiott!

    With that, Mei ran back towards the western building. Camille is snickering away happily.

    Youu This is the seventh time. I told you not to get involved with Mei, didnt I?

    It seems that the two of theme into contact surprisingly often. Despite the fact that theyre hostiles, it kind of seems that both Raiga and Camille are rxed around each other.

    Mei-chan is the one thates to me, so I cant refuse.

    Tsk

    With a sour expression, Raiga swiftly disappeared in the direction of the western building. Camille fluttered her hand in a wave. She really doesnt know fear.

    Expensive tableware and small, round tables that seem like they would be popr amongst females, were lined up in the wide garden. A garden party in name only, it was a gathering to strengthen the bonds of the King Faction. Of course, the members were all nobles of the King Faction. Since a few years ago, the Rhodolite Marquis family and the Jade Viscount family were able to be invited here as well. Todays party was one that invited the children of these nobles as well. Camille and I were invited as well, so we attended.

    Achile-samaa!

    Kyaa~, please look this wayy!

    Aahh! Just now, our eyes met!

    Im ridiculously popr with the youngdies of around my age. Its annoying but, I cant forget to be sociable. After all, this mighte in handy one day, right? I suddenly felt a gaze, and when I turned around, I found that Camille was, ck tea in one hand, looking this way with a smirk.

    Hey,dy-killer!

    She mocked me with words that mighte from my drunk father. Its kind of irritating.

    Cami has no males around her. Since her whole body is marked with magic tattoos, if you ask me if its natural, then it is, but When Camille made her debut, she was surrounded by a huge group of men. Like me, they were second and third sons aiming to marry into her family. Probably being fed up with this, she decided to try attending with all her magic tattoos on. It was shallow thinking, but super effective. Still, backing away so easily just because of magic tattoos, what a bunch of useless guys.

    Royce-samaa!

    Kyaaaa! How wonderfull!

    Haah That smile, is so dazzling that Im dizzy

    His Highness is popr too. Wherever he went, high-pitched voices would call out.

    Royce-sama Shant we have a chat over there?

    No, Royce-sama will with I

    No! With I!

    You vixen! Step away from His Highness!

    What! Youre the one! Ah! You over there! Would you mind not stealing a march on us!?

    A battle between five, six women unfolded around His Highness.

    Royce-sama will be eating cake with me!

    What was thattt!? You damned tattoo woman!

    What!? You make-up monster! Even though youre just a little kid!

    At some point, Camille joined the battle.

    That one area alone turned into chaos. I dont want to be near such a weird ce.

    Achille

    His Highness unsteadily walked over to me. It seems that his spirit was shaved down upon seeing that ugly dispute between the women unfold before his eyes, and he came here to escape. After I offered him a nearby chair, he basically copsed into it.

    That seemed rough.

    Mn Im a little tired. All of these youngdies sure are energetic, huh.

    For women like those, couldnt you just use Camille like insect repellent

    Shes an overly loyal guard hopeful and holds goodwill towards His Highness, and yet doesnt desire to be queen. While Im saying this, I should mention that she isnt acting in self-interest either, and neither is she looking for repayment. Truly, an overly devoted and convenient partner.

    Mmmmmn, but you know

    What is it?

    His Highness looked like he was having trouble saying something, while he made eye contact with me. Its like hes trying to get me to say something.

    Achille, are you okay with that?

    Sorry? To begin with, why did you ask me something like that?

    Hearing my words, His Highness let out a huge sigh. Its rare for him to take such an attitude. Hes kind to everybody without distinction, and is a person who is in a sense the very model of a prince.

    You know, Achille. You shouldnt have the girl you like, do something like that, you know?

    Hahh?

    like? I, like Camille? Even though Im in front of His Majesty, I let out a foolish sound.

    Youre always thinking about Camille, right? When Camille is paying attention to me, your mood turns bad after all.

    That is not the case.

    Wasnt it you who reacted first when Camille was stabbed? You gave her first aid too, and afterwards you were looking after her the entire time, after all.

    That was just coincidence That time the Marquis was stuck with dealing with the aftermath, and Your Highness couldnt leave the room, after all.

    His Highness sighed again. Just why?

    Does Your Highness not feel anything about Camille?

    Unconsciously, something other than the words I prepared came out of my mouth. Even though I had no intention of asking such a thing. His Highness made a surprised expression, but its toote to take back my words now.

    Me? About Camille?

    I mean just now, she participated in the Struggle for His Highness, didnt she?

    Even though she has such obvious good will towards him, His Highness didnt look swayed by Camille in the slightest.

    I wonder if its that kind of good will. Camille absolutely never crosses a certain line, and its because of that that I can continue being around her, though.

    With those words, His Highness fell into thought. Camilles good will had no effect at all.

    Are you saying that you do not feel anything for Camille, Your Highness?

    I like Camille, but I dont think these feelings are romantic. Shes somebody wholl seed her marquis house, and Ill probably have a fiance before long as well.

    Its a standard answer, huh. And Camille said this earlier too. Why on earth am I asking questions with such obvious answers? I feel annoyed at myself for having said something needless. Besides that, somehow the area near my chest feels bad

    Camille is strong, isnt she?

    While gazing at Camille who was even now doing battle with the other youngdies, His Highness suddenly muttered this. Shes wrapped up in an intense all-female battle at the table on the far side of the room, but thats probably not what His Highness is talking about. Moreover,

    Camille is, strong?

    Theres no way that she is.

    Mmn, even though shes a girl, shes trying hard to be my guard. Because of me, she got stabbed once, but despite that, even now shell stay by my side.

    His Highness spoke of the past painfully. When our conversationse to that topic, his beautiful face always warps bitterly.

    Certainly, Camille is different to the other daughters of noble families. asionally shell have a strangely mature face on, and shes good at handling magic too. If its to protect His Highness, she wont hesitate to fight either. But how can he dere that shes strong just because of that?

    Even in the incident from a year ago, she was trembling and crying by herself on that bed in the infirmary. If I werent there, there probably wouldnt have been anybody whod have known.

    Camille is just acting stronger than she is, and is by no means strong.

    Why wont he notice this? His Highness, of all people. Even though Camille has been trying that hard, all for the sake of protecting him. If it were me

    Having thought that far, I was suddenly struck by lightning.

    Just what on earth would I do, if it were me?

    Many of the noble daughter fangirls use watakushi. If you dont know what that means, again, dont worry.

    Sorry? is  Okay or anything else  implies idea of even if you ask me okay or whatever, that has nothing to do with anything/okay or not has nothing to do with me/the situation anyway. Those words dont fit the situation to begin with. Its a reallymon Japanese phrase, but afaik we dont have an equivalent in English. Would usually just say Huh? and skip to the second part, which is Why did you ask me something like that?

    who is in a sense the very model of a prince Gunna assume she meant  and not , though apparently its bemon to use the former even when they mean thetter.

 Volume 1 - Ch 10

    First of all, having some trouble sleeping tonight, so I thought why not trante something easy? so I did. Once again (Ive mentioned this in Maou and in the previous chapter), good will is a very, verymon Japanese euphemism for like/love.

    I have no confidence in myself. And, I hate myself. Because of my position as the prince, everybody around me serves me as though its natural, but in the end, am I somebody worth doing that for?

    From when I was small up until now, Ive had my life targetted. Up until I was five, I almost never left the inner pce. There were a lot of dangers outside, after all. Ojisan was targetting my life after all Those were the reasons. My world was a closed one.

    The first friend I made in that small world of mine was my servant Colette. She passed away before my eyes Because of the poison that was in the snacks suddenly brought in by a maid.

    The next friend I made was my guard Adolphe. He also died before my eyes When somebody tried to assassinate me, he covered me.

    The third friend I made was my tutor mile. He tried to betray me and kill me, and was instead killed by my guard.

    If I didnt exist, none of them would have died

    After that, I decided to try my best to have as few people close with me as possible. I was afraid of my heart hurting from the people close to me bing sacrifices. In order to kill me, in order to protect me, from now on many more people would be sacrificed, and before long my heart wouldnt hurt as much. I thought that that was fine.

    Because I avoided creating friends that I could rx around, naturally I had nobody of my age around me. I was different to Raiga. My butler was desperate to have me quickly make friends of the same age in order to protect myself, and the children of the King Faction nobles were brought to meet me but I couldnt get into it. I did think that I needed allies, but I couldnt take action. I didnt have the courage to move, nor did I think I wanted to move. Because of the suspicion of being betrayed again, and the fear of losing somebody again. Even if Raigas followers werent aiming for my life, they diligently picked on me. On that day too, I was surrounded by Raigas followers.

    In the inner pce, even when they pushed me, and tried to get on top of me, I didnt even resist. It was always the same, and after a while, they would probably get tired of it. Each time, they wouldnt do anything too cruel. If it stayed at the level of children messing about, the guards wouldnt move. If I endured, for just a little

    But the hit I anticipated didnte.

    Heyy! Stop thaat!

    Suddenly came a voice from above my head. At the same time that I heard the voice, the boy that tried to mount me was sent flying.

    What descended from the sky was a pink haired girl and a caramel brown haired boy. I stared wide-eyed at their bizarre entrance.

    Can you stand?

    The boy helped me up. The girl was holding back Raigas followers. In spite the fact that there were overwhelmingly more of them. What she used to protect herself was a carefully created, beautiful barrier magic. I had never seen somebody of that age use that. The two of them sat me down on the broom, and brought me to the Magic Building. I was overwhelmed from seeing the view from the sky for the first time. They were children who were beyond expectations in every way, and being with them was fun. It was the first time I felt that way.

    I was at a loss about these feelings in my heart that I felt for the first time since I was born. At the same time, I felt that I want to try talking to them a little, try getting to know them a little. It had been a long time since I had heard a friendly voice talking to me that energetically. Even though I should have already decided that I wouldnt get deeply involved with others anymore. If it was them, would it be okay for them to stay beside me? Would they be the first allies of my age? My stupid expectations raised its neck.

    A sly person like me thought to use political power to capture them with my status as the first prince. The days I spent with them were exciting, and filled my heart with warmth. Thats why I had forgotten.

    And a regretful incident urred. That day, I invited Achille and Camille toe with me to tour the castle town. It was because I simply thought that it would be more fun with a lot of people. Along with the guards prepared for me, I headed to the market in high spirits. No matter how much I regret it, it still wouldnt be enough. Amongst those guards was an assassin.

    Achille and Camille tried to get me to escape. Camille prepared a broom with magic, and told me to escape. But I couldnt move. Wouldnt I lose the two of them? Like the guard who had covered for me in the past Thinking that, I became afraid. I couldnt leave there. In the end, Camille was injured.

    With thest of her strength, she killed an assassin, and protected me. Even whilst blood was streaming from her stomach. The knife that had stabbed her had melted and dropped onto the floor.

    Camille! Camille!

    While trembling, I propped her up. Achille applied emergency aid with the healing magic he learnt, but it was all he could do to stop the bleeding and treat the burn. As for me, I couldnt use magic at all. I cursed myself for being useless. Im always, always protected by others. Just how many people have to be sacrificed for me before Im satisfied? Im so pathetic. I was disgusted with myself for being unable to live without sacrificing others. Even though I was supposed to have understood, before I knew it, I had be spoilt from thefortable environment. I didnt n on this happening. As I thought, it would be better if I didnt exist. The two of them might part from me, but when that happened, I had to resolutely let go of them for their sake, I thought. Seeing their two injured forms was more painful than I had imagined. As long as they were by my side, the two of them couldnt live peaceful lives.

    Royce-sama, Royce-sama~

    Camille who was in a good mood was frolicking about me. Even though she had gone through something like that, she followed me around even more. A cute, but dependable older sisterly or maybe young sisterly important person to me. Her good will towards me was open to see, but not even a little amorous, romantic feeling could be see. Thats why I could associate with her without putting any distance between us.

    Camille, isnt it bad for you to follow around Royce-sama that much? Like that, Royce-sama cant move about, you know.

    Said Achille, nonchntly parting Camille from me. He isnt conscious of it, but he holds good will towards Camille is what I think. Up until now, hes been thoroughly looking after her. I secretly think it would be nice if the two of them paired up with each other. The only one who can take off Achilles poker face is Camille after all, and the only one who can stop Camilles rampages is Achille after all.

    Right now Camille is working at the castle as a Red magician, and Achille is working there as an apprentice in things rted to the government. Far from leaving me, the two of them even became apprenticeships in jobs for my future. Im no match for these two.

    I felt that it wouldnt do to stay this way.

    I have to graduate from holding these feelings of inferiority about my father the king, and about my cousin, and stop wallowing about in feelings of guilt about existing. So that from now on, Ill be a lord worthy of these two.

 Volume 1 - Ch 11

    Camille-sama, what will you be wearing to the dance party?

    Aime suddenly said something iprehensible to me.

    Dance party?

    Meaning, that, huh?

    As in, young men and women dancing madly in ecstasy trying to win each others hearts?

    No, Camille-sama! Where on earth did you learn something like that?

    Aime showed her indignation openly, cing her hands on her hips. Because she was bending backwards, a button on the chest portion of her maid outfit seemed like it was about to snap off and go flying. How strange, in my beloved otome games and novels in my past life, dance parties were that sort of thing, but

    And so, what about the dance party?

    You will be attending, will you not? Have you heard nothing from Marquis-sama?

    I havent, but if its father, then hes always engrossed with his work so I think he probably forgot to tell me.

    The one other person who should have heard from father, our butler Pierre, hasnt contacted me either. Because hes old, though he wont admit it himself, he feels a little senile so hes dodgy. Hes a good old man who is enthusiastic with his job, but it might be about time that itd be better for him to retire from the frontlines.

    Hahh, Marquis-samas love for his job is troubling, isnt it? Even though its his daughters dance party debut!

    Its the same as always I have learned dancing and manners, so I think it would be fine as long as I ask Achille about the things I dont know in advance.

    Hahhh, each and every time I want to take my hat off to Achille-sama Itd be nice if he one day he married into the marquis family.

    Aime has a high evaluation of Achille whoes to y on asion. Not just her, but there are a huge number of his fans among the servants too. You cant make light of Achilles surface mode. The more he matures, the more polished Achilles smile bes, and the less fake it looks too Its already reached a level that I cant see through anymore.

    No matter what, that would just put Achille in a pitiful position, you know.

    I may be saying this myself, but I cant call myself a normal nobles daughter. I dont mind since Im like this because I want to be, but I feel sympathy towards any men who marry into this family. Well, I feel sympathy, but I have no intentions of changing the way I roll though

    If its with his specs, Achille can hunt as many good women as he wants. This isnt bias because Im a childhood friend; it really seems like that in reality. To him, itd be a tragedy to be stuck marrying someone like me. Its that guy, but I hope hell be happy.

    In the game, Achille was a guy who wanted to ruin me, but if its now that were on good terms, as youd expect, I dont think hed relentlessly drive me to destruction. Achille seems to have at least that much affection for me, and Im filled with love for him.

    Isnt my destruction g getting weaker and weaker? Having thought that, to me, the Achille right now is a good friend.

    Haahh, Im beat.

    On a day a few days after the time I heard about the dance party from Aime, I finished my Red work, and came to the castle to report the details. Because I left for far away toplete my job, it took nearly a week going there and back. And it was night time right now.

    Wee back, Camille. Good work with the dragon extermination.

    For some reason Achille came out to meet me when I returned to the castle. Certainly I wasing home from a dragon extermination, but

    This time I was left the job of exterminating the dragon that attacked the viges in the frontier one by one, by my Red boss. I moved together with a number of other magicians, but the one that found the dragon responsible and finished it off was me.

    Why do you know about it, Achille?

    Its under my jurisdiction, so theres no way I wouldnt, right? I received the missionpletemunication magic too, you know.

    Speaking of which, Achille was working in the public order bureau. I dont really get the difficult stuff, but the intellectual jobs of this kingdom sure transfer a lot, huh. Up until just a while ago, he was supposed to be working in the finance bureau, but Even though Achille is a little twelve year old, hes been left a bunch of jobs for proper adults. The monster extermination of a certain region was left to Achille as well, so tracing things back, it means that I was sent out on the dragon extermination by his instruction, huh. I dont really care where the requestse from and just focus on my job though, you know? Its kind ofplicated.

    My skill in magic has been noticeably going up, and right now Im at a level where I can take down high ss monsters alone. But I have no skill in bringing jobs and people together, or giving directions, so I cant be like Achille. Im totally fine with that. I like hands on work after all Im definitely not jealous of Achille or anything!

    Speaking of which, Camille, youll be attending the dance party this time, right?

    Mmn, Im attending You too, Achille?

    Mmn, an invitation arrived for me too, after all. I n on going.

    How reassuring. This is much moreforting than having just father and I attending. Its a dance party open to princes of foreign countries and whatnot, so both the King Faction and Royal Prince Faction will be attending. The security is wless, but if I dont make sure that I dont let Royce-sama out of my sight And I must carefully observe Royce-samas dancing form. Royce-sama is growing into a pleasant and kind ikemen. Im suddenly filled with enthusiasm.

    And then, leaving aside my delusions of a dancing Royce-sama that Ive never seen before, I suddenly felt doubt about something.

    Heyy Achille, why are you in the castle at this hour? Overtime?

    Usually hed have gone home at an earlier hour.

    Todays a little busy. As for your report, Ill listen to it. After that, lets go home together.

    M-Mmn.

    It seems that he ns on seeing me home, but if he does that, Achille will get home eventer

    Thesest few years, I feel that Achille has suddenly gotten gentler. The amount of times we meet at the castle hasnt changed, but on days off, hell help me with my studies, or apany my shopping. In the past he was a calcting child (damned brat), but hes growing in a good direction for a person, right?

    There was also the exhaustion from work, so on the carriage home I identally began to doze off. I was considering getting on my broom and flying home, but it might have been the right decision to let Achille drop me off in the carriage. A magician falling asleep at the wheel and falling off her broom I cantugh about it.

    You can sleep, you know. Once we arrive, Ill wake you up.

    Mn But Id feel bad, you know. Being escorted home, and even falling asleep

    I dont mind, so its fine. You came home from somewhere far away this time, right?

    Mmn I saw the ocean, you know. One day I want to go with you, and Royce-sama too

    At some point I fell asleep in the rattling and swaying carriage. I feel like somebody was stroking my hair, but once again my consciousness left me and I stopped being able to think about anything

    In the end, I was fast asleep all the way up until the marquis residence.

 Volume 1 - Ch 12

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    I think I became interested in Camille fairly quickly after we met. Had I not, the young me would not have concerned himself with a stranger to that extent.

    I gazed at Camille who was sleeping inside the carriage. Her silky pink hair isnt curled today, probably because of her job. A small, well-featured face, eyshes fine like smoke, and lips like cherry blossoms No matter from whose perspective, Camille is a beautiful girl. Having reached twelve years old, her beauty has be outstanding, and overwhelms all the other girls. Were it not for her unfortunate behaviour, theres no doubt that shed be considerably popr. I have fun watching the disappointing Camille, so its fine though, you see. When I stroked her straight hair while she was fast asleep, she suddenly stirred. In surprise, I pulled my hand back, but Camille didnt wake, and immediately her regr sleeping breath could be heard again.

    Even though shes alone with a man, shes way too rxed.

    I realised my feelings because of what His Highness said. Up until then, she had been just an entric childhood friend to me, but because of His Highness unnecessary words, that day I became more conscious of Camille than necessary. Honestly, I didnt want to admit it. Getting wrapped up about a woman was something that a fool did, and I knew how to use the other sex Even though thats how it should have been I got close to Camille because I was interested in the position of marquis. Even though thats how it should have been

    Why did it turn out like this?

    This isnt how it should have gone I was at my wits end. But, this alone was something that was purely a matter of emotions, so there was nothing I could do about it.

    After realising my own feelings, I was quick to act. Since I was aiming to marry into the marquis family to begin with, wouldnt it be fine to be positive about this? And so, under the pretext of making sure Camille was studying right, I frequently showed my face at the marquis house. I think Ive caught the hearts of the servants All of them see me favourably. In particr, the maid with therge build, Aime, even went as far as telling me Please be the groom!. Just ording to nerai [tl: nerai means aim]

    As for the fact that Im diligently removing the obstacles in my way, Camille hasnt noticed in the slightest.

    It was the day of the aforementioned dance party. It was held in the banquet hall of the castle, and dressed up nobles and foreign guests were gathered there.

    Royce-sama So wonderful, hahh hahh[/pant pant].

    After going around once and greeting everybody, Camille was glued to His Majesty. Without forgetting to threaten the other nobles daughters when His Highness wasnt watching. Camille whose breathing was rough as she licked His Highness all over with her gaze, looked like a degenerate no matter how you saw it.

    Huhu You look very cute too, Camille.

    Ehehe~, if you praise me that much Ill get excited and have a nose bleed.

    What Camille, who was in high spirits at being praised, was wearing tonight was a navy blue dress with few puffy parts. Since its Camille, she probably stressed ease of movement in her choice of dress. The skirts of Dborah and Dsire who were at the other side of the room were super puffy, as though it werent already enough. Once it gets that big, honestly, theyre just blocking the road.

    Ah! Dborah, Dsire!

    Noticing the two of them, Camille waved her hands while she approached the sisters who had turned into walkingnterns. Mysteriously, those two were on good terms with Camille. It seems they became acquainted once Camille started visiting my house.

    Camille, the dessert that you love is over there, you know.

    Shall we get some together, Camille?

    Lets, lets~

    After the lively girls had moved away beyond a certain distance, I was called out to from behind, with calcted timing.

    Achille-sama, may we have a dance together?

    Upon turning my head, I found a whole line of youngdies Im feeling dizzy.

    Yes, of course.

    I wish they would give me a break, but I cant just refuse. Among them are some nobles daughters that are higher ranked than I am.

    I continually dance around like an idiot How many people has it been now? After its done, shall I take refuge in the break room? While I was being fed up, in the corner of my eye I saw a man courting Camille. To court Camille whos stered with magic tattoos as always, what an incredible hero. Since Im curious, Ill take the lead of the dance and move that way. Doesnt Camilles expression seem kind of stiff?

    Like I said, Im willing to partner with a woman covered in magic tattoos like you.

    Not a single person wants to marry you anyway, right? If you hand over the marquis seat to me, I dont mind making you my wife yanno?

    So what do you think?

    Ummmm.

    Camille was looking at the man like she had found some strange new organism. The mans words and behaviour was probably iprehensible. I recognise the face of the guy talking to her; hes the recently upstart barons delinquent second son. With glittering clothes of bad taste, and a greasy pimpled face, hes probably around sixteen or seventeen, huh Truly a nobody. From a while ago, hes been smirking at Camille while appraising her. Its incredibly unpleasant.

    I decline! I too have the right to choice, after all. I do not like arrogant men.

    Said Camille, casually replying with cruel words. But, well done.

    What was that!? Even though youre covered in tattoos, youre going to refuse my kind offer? If you refuse me, not a single man will approach you for the rest of your life, you know!

    The indignant man grabbed Camilles arm. Even like that, Camille is still the daughter of a marquis, though. If you do something violent like that things will get scary afterwards, you know?

    Soorry to say this even though you love me so much, but please look for somebody elseee.

    Aahh, Camille has started having fun by provoking the man. It looks like the guys attitude has woken up the sadist in her. Dborah and Dsire have been watching the whole thing from a little distance away. Those two enjoy watching others fight, after all.

    Looking down on me!

    The mans face was bright red, and he tried to twist Camilles arm, but she didnt move at all. And little wonder, since among Camilles magic tattoos is one that has the effect of automatically defending herself. Automatic defence, automatic regeneration, high speed strike reinforcement, magic reflection etc. etc. Right now Camille whos smeared all over in tattoos is close to invincible. Only I, who gets shown them each time she gets a new tattoo, knows this.

    Achille-sama

    The young nobledy whos my dance partner looks up at me confused. With good timing, the dances song ends.

    No, it is nothing

    I reply with a smile to reassure her, but If you asked me if that was on my mind, then yes it was.

    Please excuse me for a moment.

    After leaving the ring of dancers, I head towards Camille.

    You damned woman! Ill freaking send you flying!

    The man grabbed at Camille. It looks like hes finally run out of patience. Its something very brave to do to a woman who killed a dragon by herself. But, because of the power of Camilles automatic defence, the man couldnt do a thing to her. Everything was blocked by an invisible barrier.

    Having noticed the noise, there were people gathered there and watching. Its about time that I have to stop this, huh

    Camille, what are you doing? Looks fun.

    I walked straight into the group of people. Seeing me, she smiled happily.

    Achille! It seems that this person wants to be my fianc, but I refused him

    My, my

    Looking from up close, the man looks increasingly of bad taste. All of his fingers are covered in glittering, gaudy rings.

    I approached the man, and announced something to him.

    I am sorry, but shes already taken.

    Eh?

    The marquis daughter, Camille Rhodolite, is my fiance.

    Ehh?

    Camille blinked her eyes.

    Thats how it is, so please excuse us.

    I pulled her by the arm, and immediately left the scene. The man was still making a fuss, but the people in charge of security had an eye on him and dragged him away somewhere. At this rate wed catch the attention of others in the hall, so bringing Camille along, I headed to one of the break rooms prepared for today for a rest.

    Camille and I entered the small-ish room. In the corner of the room was a white sofa and table prepared. For now, I had her sit down, and took the seat beside her.

    Achille Whats going on what why?

    While tilting her head nkly, Camille asked about my earlier words.

    It was an excuse to shut him up, you know? But I sure said it in front of a huge group of people huh I wonder what will happen.

    Of course, I dered it in front of a crowd on purpose.

    Camille lost her words. It seems like theposure she had while dealing with that barons second son has been blown off somewhere.

    Achille You At this rate, isnt it possible that youll end up myfianc? This isnt the time to be acting so carefree, you know!

    It seems like shes truly worried about me. But, its misdirected.

    I dont really mind, even so.

    Thats no good! If its you Achille, you can aim for any number of better girls, so you mustnt settle for me!

    Eh?

    Ill, try talking to father[/otousama] about this! Dont worry, itll be alright, okay!?

    After making some sort of determined expression, Camille strongly grasped my hand.

    Huh?[Are?]

 Volume 1 - Ch 13

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    I worked hard today too! I copsed onto the sofa in the break room in the Magic Building. I finished the job and returned just now. Todays job, exterminate the kraken that have been appearing inrge quantities was surprisingly backbreaking work. The magicians that worked with me are probably resting by themselves as well. Before I start the next job, shall I take a breather? As soon as I closed my eyes, sleep came calling.

    Oi.

    In my dreams, it feels like somebody is calling out to me. I can kind of hear something, but Ill ignore it. Im exhausted.

    Oi, get up.

    So noisy. If you tell order somebody around so arrogantly, wont people just rebel?

    Im telling you to get up.

    The owner of the voice began to kick the sofa I was lying on. I cant sleep like this.

    Ahh, geez!

    I got up in irritation. Because my sleep was disturbed, my mood has taken a dive.

    Somebody was looking down on me from right beside me, so I turned my eyes that way. How troubling.

    Why are you in the Magic Building?

    The owner of the voice was somebody who shouldnt have appeared here; the royal princes son, Raiga Transbaal. Its been a while since weve met.

    Have you seen Mei

    I havent seen her today, but I just got back to the castle, so Whats happening with Mei-chan

    Shes gone missing Even though shes never beente to afternoon tea before!

    It seems that each day, Raiga takes a break during the afternoon and has tea with Mei. Him having tea is kinda mismatched.

    But can you really call just that, going missing?

    Raigas anxiety isnt normal. When ites to Mei, he always loses hisposure. Enough that he stepped foot into the Magic building that had been turned into a King Faction stronghold. Im technically part of the King Faction too, though, you knoww?

    Umm, perhaps waiting a little for Mei-chan

    Look for her.

    Pardon?

    Look for her with your magic. You can do it, right?

    Asking for the ridiculous, this guy. I dont think that I cant do it, but when I get ordered with an arrogant attitude like this, you knoww

    Please listen carefully. If I do it once, from now on Ill always be able to find Mei-chans whereabouts, you know?

    To begin with, detection magic is a magic that follows the waves of the targets mana, and if you remember their waves once, youll always be able to find those waves from then on.

    If you dont mind somebody of the King Faction like me being able to do that, Im fine with cooperating though.

    Raigas face that was cold to begin with became even more dreadful. The number of magicians that can use highly urate detection magic is limited, so he probably has his own troubles too.

    You can do the searching, right?

    If I have Mei-chans belongings, then searching for her is possible, you know? From now and always.

    Raiga was thinking about something for a little while, but it seems that he had resolved himself. He held out something fluttery before me.

    Its Meis handkerchief. Can you find her with this?

    Why is Raiga walking around with Meis handkerchief on his person? Contrary to his appearance, this guy is Wont I be unable to look at him the same way because of this? After clearing my throat to hide my inner turmoil, I concentrated.

    Well then, I shall be borrowing the handkerchief then.

    After holding the handkerchief in my hand, I activated the search magic. This, is actually supposed to be magic used for searching for monsters, huh. The handkerchief disappeared, and a ball of light appeared in the air.

    Well then, lets go, Raiga-sama. If we follow after the light, well reach Mei-chan.

    Raiga obediently followed me.

    The ball of light went inside arge building in a courtyard of the royal pce.

    Its locked, isnt it?

    Open it with your magic.

    Umm, you see, the locks in the royal pce have various magic ced on them, you see, and are made so that outsiders cant open them.

    I know that, so just open it.

    What are you going to do if I get arrested for lock breaking!? Unlike Royce-sama, this guy is a tyrant, huh! I really cant understand a heroine that could fall in love with such a guy. Lets leave aside the fact that through the heroine I waspletely in a romance with Raiga in the game.

    But still, why does he know that I can open the lock? Even though all of the doors in the castle are made so that they cant normally be opened by magicians. Was I seen that time, when I was locked in a knights changing room that reeked of men by one of Royce-samas fans and undid the lock by myself to escape? In that case, dont just watch, but help me!!

    If anything happens, please take responsibility, Raiga-samaa.

    I filled the keyhole with magic, and forcefully opened the lock. At the same time that I opened the lock, Raiga opened the door and rushed inside, and I followed after him as well.

    Mei!

    Mei-chaaaaan

    Tools for maintaining the courtyard, flower seeds, soil a dusty smell wafted about the room.

    Raigasama?

    After hearing a weak voice from beyond the pile of stacked manure, I frantically turned that way, and found Mei squatting on the ground. For some reason her clothing was tattered, and she was wounded here and there too.

    Mei

    Raiga ran over the Mei, and embraced her.

    Raiga-samaa Wahhhh

    Whats wrong? What happened?

    Thats

    Looking like it was difficult to say, Mei averted her eyes.

    Who did this? Making you go through this Unforgivable!

    Its fine, Raiga-sama I was wrong.

    The two of them werepletely in their own world. Sure is master and servant love, huh~

    As if its fine! Even though my lover was made to suffer like this, Im supposed to stay quiet!?

    Oh my, I feel like I heard Raiga say something shocking just now. Lover as in It couldnt be.

    Ummmm Are you two going out with each other?

    What, youre still here?

    A piss off! This guy is seriously a piss off! Who do you think you have to thank for getting all the way here!?

    Of course I am. Hurry up and hand Mei-chan over here. Ill heal her wounds.

    Raiga flusteredly stopped hugging Mei.

    Oneesama!

    Meichan sure has grown, huh. Going from Oneechan to Oneesama.

    Yes, yes, stay still, Mei-chan.

    While I was healing Mei, she told me about her rtionship with Raiga.

    About your question just now Raiga-sama and I, have, umm, be lovers.

    I-, I see~[/H-, heehh]

    Kai was angry for some reason, and went to the castle just now

    I see.

    Has it be some strange incident?

    Raiga and Mei are lovers, and Kai went to the castle. Its all stuff that didnt happen in the game. Developments different to the game have been appearing with these guys too. If we continue like this, we might be able to avoid the risk of coup dtat to Royce-sama. I cant be careless, though As long as Raiga and Mei are dating, the heroine probably wont end up with Raiga.

    And so, why did you end up like this, Mei?

    It seems that Raiga hadnt forgotten about his question from earlier. He once again questioned Mei.

    Thats Because Im not suitable for Raiga-sama Because despite being a lowly servant, I took the position of Raiga-samas lover

    Who said that!?

    Raiga-sama, if you start bellowing like that, Mei-chan will get scared. Please calm down.

    What a helpless guy, geez. He wasnt such a passionate guy in the game though, huhh.

    Mei-chan, if its difficult to say then you dont have to, but would it be okay to hear what happened?

    I can sort of guess, but Im not positively sure, so

    Its okay, Oneesama Um, you see, because it was tea time, I was heading to Raiga-samas room, and then I was surrounded by the daughters of the Royal Prince Faction, and was brought here to be locked in.

    Just like I thought, huh. The actions of nobles daughters who fall in love with people of influence stick to one pattern, huh. Locker rooms that reek of sweat, and storage rooms with piles of manure, and even the ces they choose to lock you up in arent creative at all, huh.

    Did those women give you those wounds? [Raiga]

    It was the servants that served them, and they watched andughed.

    Ahh, I can sort of picture it. Not wanting to dirty their own hands, huh A bunch of women with bad hobbies. The Mei before me is unlike the Mei of the game, and has a personality unrted tobat. Without any means to defend herself, shes a good target. To lock up such a good girl, its unforgivable! Raiga is also making a vicious smile behind Meis back. Ah. This guy is definitely nning on some kind of revenge. Meaning that I wont get a chance to appear, huh. Would I get in the way instead?

    Sorry, Mei. This is because I was careless.

    Raiga-sama No way, you werent wrong, Raiga-samaa.

    The two of them began falling into their own little world again. Theres nothing more ufortable than this. For that Mei to get close to Raiga, who wouldve thought Even though it was the heartwarming image of a young girl, and an overprotective older sister

    The two of them have reached that age, huh. Leaving the two of them who were getting excited in various senses, I quietly departed from that ce.

    On another day, I got a wonderful book called Encyclopaedia of the Ga Nations Legendary Magics as a thank you from Raiga. Guess theres no choice. Shall I forget about the numerous times he was rude to me?

 Volume 1 - Ch 14

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    Sliding Dogeza:

    Congrattions, Camille-samaa!

    Gyah-!

    Uponing home after work, I was hugged by Aime. Hurtss, heavyy getting crushed.

    Did something happen? It shouldnt be my birthday yet.

    Towards I, who was creating some distance in a panic, Aime neared me while twisting her body back and forth.

    What are you saying? Is it not obviously about your engagement being decided?

    Engagement?

    It couldnt be! Have you failed to hear from Marquis-sama again?

    Getting contacted through my father again? It wouldve been fine just to tell me personally anyway, but Our butler Pierre retiredst year, and his son took his ce, but how should I say this? His son is ipetent. Hepletely forgot to contact me. If it gets too bad, I n on firing him.

    Hey, who am I getting engaged to?

    Uhuhuhuhuu, that is you know?

    Instead of acting all dramatic, hurry up and tell me. While I pressed my hand against my anxiously beating heart, I red at Aime.

    Its Achille.

    A third person suddenly butted into our conversation. Reacting to that voice, Aime turned around.

    My, wee home, Marquis-sama. You are early today, arent you?

    At the entrance to the house stood father.

    Otousama Just now, what did you?

    Like I said, Achille has been decided as your fianc.

    !

    Why? After that one incident at the dance party, didnt I thoroughly ask father, Please protect Achille from falling into the disgrace of being my fianc.? And yet, why did Achille end up engaged to someone like me!?

    Otousama! I remember asking you to free Achille from this

    But the Jade family formally applied for it, you know? Soleil was on board with it too.

    Heh?

    And Ive judged too that Soleils son is the better choice. There was another, more annoying, request, you see.

    It seems that without my knowing, various things have been progressing.

    I am truly very sorryy!

    I had directed a sliding dogeza at Achille, and Royce-sama was overlooking me in curiosity. As expected of the carpet in Royce-samas room! Even though I was sliding, it didnt hurt!

    Camille, did you do something to Achille?

    Royce-sama, a woman is a being with many secrets, you know.

    Ahh, could this be about the engagement?

    Yeah!

    Damn Achille, what a thing to admit in front of Royce-sama! Wait, or is it my fault for not choosing the time and ce properly?

    Theres nothing to apologise about, you know. I dont mind, after all.

    Buttt Because of me, your shining future has been crushed, Achille!

    Why did youe to that conclusion?

    Achille is scratching his head, looking troubled. Huh? For some reason Royce-sama is looking downwards, trembling.

    -kuku Wouldnt it be better for you two to have a proper chat about this? P-pfft-

    At Royce-samas suggestion, Achille and I decided to talk about it properly. Royce-sama kindly left.

    Having said that though, whats there to talk about after all this time? Whats happening this time is all because of my blunder. While telling him that it would be alright, it ended up like this Aahh, Im depressed.

    Achille Im really so sorry.

    Hahh.

    He sighed! Even though I know Im in the wrong, it still hurts, huh.

    Im not angry. Raise your head?

    When I raised my head like I was told, I found Achilles face closer than expected.

    Umm Achille?

    His eyshes sure are long. A nose that runs beautifully down his face, and well-shaped lips He had ikemen elements to begin with, but he sure grew up well too, huh.

    I was staring at Achille, but he didnt show any signs of moving away.

    About being your fianc, Camille Im not against it.

    Its fine, its fine, you dont have to worry about me. Youre kind, Achille.

    For some reason he sighed again.

    The one who should be apologising is me Listen, Camille.

    He gazed at me unexpectedly seriously, so I became bewildered.

    The one who proposed for an engagement this time, was me.

    You did, Achille? I-, It couldnt be that because the rumours about the time at the dance party spread uncontrobly, you gave up on finding a good bride? What do I do?

    Wont you calm down?

    Achille ced both his hands on my shoulders, after I stood up vigorously.

    But this is terrible!

    I was panicked. A huge problem that would mess about with Achilles life, at this rate, wont getting engaged to me be the worst disgrace in Achilles lifetime?

    Since that time at the dance party, Ive always wanted to be your husband, Camille. It seems like youre misunderstanding something, but this is what I want, Camille.

    Achille?

    Speaking of which, Achille was an ambitious person. As he matured, hes gotten better at hiding that, but his true self hasnt changed. If he marries me, hell be the next marquis in every meaning. Is that why Achille decided to be my fianc andpromised? Thinking like that, it makes sense.

    Ive got it, Achille. If youre fine with someone like me as a fiance Ill be in your care.

    Camille

    Achille is gazing at me painfully at point nk. Whats wrong? Huh, it seems like Achilles face is getting closer, and closer?

    Ah, thats it! I suddenly remembered a most important issue. I have to make sure I say this!

    Achille! Even if youre engaged to me, if you find somebody you like, you can make them your mistress, okay? Im open-minded, you see, so as long as you properly do your job as the marquis, I dont mind you doing that kind of thing!

    Huh? His face which is now point nk just stiffened I feel. I guess saying mistress right to his face was bad, huh. Maybe hes embarrassed. But, if Achille became strangely considerate of me, and became unable to pursue his own romances, itd be pitiful so

    I really dont want this engagement with me to give him painful feelings, you know? Achille is an important friend after all.

    Anyway, Achille, I have work now so see you.

    Wa- Camille!

    It seems that Achille has rebooted from his freeze. Thank goodness. If he says that he wants to be engaged to me, then thats fine too, right? I have no right to say anything more than this. I feel relieved.

    Anyway, see youter~

    I erged the quill, and took off from Royce-samas window towards the Magic Building.

    Or so I thought, but Achille was grabbing my ankle.

    Uwah-, dangerous!

    Were not done talking yet, you know

    Achille is in a bad mood for some reason.

    Sorry, Achille, but work is-

    Your job starts in the evening today, right? Its still daytime, so youre still free for three hours, right?

    This guyyy, why does he know my shifts at work? Even though I thought Id be able to indulge inziness until my next job! Because I had no choice, Inded in the room. Aah, my hours of sleep are disappearing

    The very moment Inded, Achille caught my arm. Is it to prevent me from escaping? Because weve known each other for a long time, hes a man that knows me quite well.

    Not done talking, you say? Was there something else to talk about? If its about the number of mistresses you can have, Im not restraining you, you know? If you have too many itll be troublesome, but if its two or three, then.

    Im sorry about saying that he cant have a huge number of them, but we have our financial circumstances too. If it uses too much money, Ill be troubled.

    You can stop talking about mistresses, you know? Im not going to have any, after all.

    Not having any? I wonder if its a good idea to dere that now. He might want to make someter, after all.

    Im fine with you, Camille. Im fine with just you.

    Geeez, this againnn.

    Honestly, this guy sure thinks of his friends, huh! Still being worried about me after all that time.

    You wont believe me anyway, right? Thats fine Im going to prove it from now on, after all.

    Prove?

    Achille gave a slight smile, and for some reason my back ran cold. Huh? Did I, say something bad?

    Yeah Prepared?

    He raised the arm that he was holding, and gave the back of my hand, one light and gentle kiss.

 Volume 1 - Ch 15

    Oh no!

    Im in my room, ring at my workbook. Its study practice for the entrance exam to the Royal Magic Academy. The entrance exams to the Magic Academy include tests for both magic and general education.

    If its magic knowledge or practical skills then Im set, but that isnt the case for general education. Right now, Im bad at studies. I didnt notice until I enrolled for the exam, but all the characters in the games, the mob characters included, are actually all extremely gifted.

    Camille-sama, for this question, you use the equation from before, you know.

    Today, Achille is ying the part of my private tutor. Hes perfect for both magic and general studies. Hes good at exining things, so Im grateful that I can ask him for help like this.

    Im done forr Theres only a month left, after all.

    Come on, its only a little more. Arent you going to enjoy your school life with Royce-sama? Its a boarding school system, so if you fail the exam you wont be able to meet Royce-sama for a while, you know?

    I dont want that!

    Then youll solve this question, right? If you can do that, Ill take you to a street cafe that just opened.

    Ill do my best!

    Achille is incredibly good at using the carrot and the stick technique. Hepletely understands how to get me to bite.

    Ever since I formally became his fiance, Achille has beening to our house even more than before. Aime and all the other servants wee him. Hes extremely popr with the servants.

    Ive been desperately studying. In this world, the things I studied in my old world are almostpletely useless. The officialnguage of this world is Japanese, but there are no Japanese ssics, Chinese ssics, or English to study. The history is different to my old world too, so I had to memorise it from scratch. And English which I hated so much! Even though I suffered so much studying it in my old world, for it all to have been meaningless is just too cruel. A little bit of the modernnguage and science curriculums just managed to ovep.

    Correct.

    Achille told me well done, as he pat my head. This is kinda, embarassing, huh. It feels like hes been touching me more recently.

    The street cafe

    All right, all right.

    The two of us left the room for a bit, and quickly changed into clothing for going incognito.

    We finished getting ready without a hitch, and left the garden of the estate.

    Achille ergened the quill he produced from his pocket, and sat me down in front. He can use broom magic just like me. Achille is talented, so he immediately managed to learn the new magic that I taught him. It was worth teaching him, but for him to be good at both magic and studies is a little mortifying.

    Its fine, Ill just take out a broom too.

    However, Achille ignored my words and sat down behind me.

    Achille-! Like I said, Id bring out I can ride it myselff.

    Come on now, were taking off. Hold on, okay?

    Whats up with that? It feels like the distance between us has shortened somehow.

    My resistance was futile, and Achille took off with me sitting in front.

    Youre so slender, Camille, and you smell nice.

    You should just save those words for those noble daughter fans of yours, or something.

    Ever since that day when Achille told me that he wanted to be my fianc, hes asionally created this kind of sweet mood. I wonder if this is his proof or whatever. Honestly speaking, I dont know what to do.

    Finally, the day of the entrance exam hase. It was packed enough that it made you wonder if there were really this many people of your age in the world, and the school grounds were a mess of people. The exams can be taken by anybody, so there might be a lot of people whoe to take it for the hell of it.

    Unfortunately, Im in a different examination room to both Achille and Royce-sama. It seems that Mei, and while Im thinking about her, Raiga as well, arent in my ssroom either. Im feeling just a little discouraged.

    No, its alright. After all, Ive been studying all for this day.

    If I fail now, I wont be able to show my face in front of the tutors who have looked after me, or Achille either. Not only that, of all things I wouldnt be able to meet with Royce-sama! How unbearable! If something happened to Royce-sama while I wasnt there, it wouldnt be enough even if I regretted it.

    I steeled myself, and opened the door to the examination room.

    Buhe-

    Ouch The moment I opened the door, somebodys arm smacked me right in the face. For the sake of protecting against cheating, everyone took off their automatic magic today. Because of that, right now Im obviously not using automatic defence magic. Even my magic tattoos arepletely gone today, you know~?

    I could feel a seemingly expensive cloth up against the ce on my face that was hit. Because the cloth served as a buffer, it seemed that I suffered less dmg than expected.

    Sorry, are you okay?

    A tall man with long copper hair, and foreign looking essories jingling about was looking down at me with a troubled expression.

    Im fine. I should be saying sorry for bumping into you.

    I immediately began heading to the table I was assigned, but the man I bumped into earlier called out to me.

    Hang onnn, could you possible be The noble daughter of Marquis Rhodolite?

    Eh

    It really is youu. You dont have any tattoos today, so I didnt recognise you.

    My tattoos are already something like a trademark of mine. There are almost no women with tattoos, so I guess it cant be helped though. But still, just who is this guy? I cant remember, but was there someone this gaudy around me?

    Probably because my expression gave me away, the man named himself.

    Im Tria Topageria We havent seen each other since the dance party, huh~

    Ahhh!

    Tria Topageria is the second prince of the neighbouring nation, and in the game he was the K of Diamonds. Speaking of which, I feel like I recall his older brother, the first prince, bringing him along to the dance party as well. Because he was carriage-sick, he wasying down and we shouldnt have had a chance to meet, though.

    Today is the first time weve spoken directly to each other, huhh~

    He said with a smile, which was really too unmatched with his in-game character.

    The in-game Tria had short, cropped hair, and was muscled he wasnt dressed this jingle-jangly, and he wasnt this weak-looking either, and also he was a super womanising character.

    The route for him followed the temte of because his way of thinking was a stereotypical royal, and moreover because he had always wanted to defeat his brother, the first prince, and take the crown from him, during the period that the heroine pointed this out to him, they fell in love.

    The Tria in front of me has for some reason turned into a gaudy man with long hair, but Just what the heck happened?

    Umm, I apologise for failing to greet you at the party, and

    You dont have to worry about formalities, you know! We might be ssmates after this, right!? And also, on the day of the dance party, I was carriage-sick and throwing up all over the ce, so I wasnt in any condition to greet people, yanno?

    I see.

    Ah-! But I felt better near the end, you see, and I went to have a look at the party from the corner of the hall, but Your magic was suuuper amazing, you know? I was moved!

    It seems like he saw the back and forth with that good-for-nothing son from that barons family.

    Heyhey, howd you do that magic? I havent seen that magic in my country, but it was automagic, right?

    Yeah, that was the magic tattoos

    ..

    Umm, -cough cough- Everybody who is taking the exam, please take a seat. I repeat, everybody who is taking the exam

    It seems like the exam supervisor has arrived in the room.

    Cutting off our conversation, the two of us sat down. Trias sitting two seats diagonally in front of me, but hes been turning around asionally and winking at me Whats up with that?

    Via the supervisors magic, the papers and stationary for the general education written exam appeared on our desks.

    Well then, you may begin.

    The middle-aged supervisors voice rang out throughout the room.

    However, Achille ignored my words and sat down behind me. actually However, Achille ignored my words and straddled (the broom) behind me. but putting it like that sounds like theres a second broom behind Camille.

    Tria Topageria tria as in TRY A banana, topageria as in TOPAz was found in alGERIA

 Volume 1 - Ch 16

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    I wonder if Camille is alright Even though I was taking the exam, I couldnt help but be anxious about whether Camille could solve the problems. Once ites to exercises, even without magic tattoos, shes likely to automatically short-circuit. She did study that much though, so Id like her to be rewarded for it.

    As for me, I had room to rx, so I ended up finishing all the questions before the exam even ended. I have nothing to do. I spotted Mei Zakro in the same examination room. Raiger Transbaal is taking the exam for this school, so shes applied as well, I guess. Last year, they also became formally engaged. Raigers father, the Royal Prince, seemed to be dissatisfied, but I heard that Raiger pressed past it. Perhaps because hes hit the rebellious age, but Raigers be a lot less obedient to the Royal Prince than in the past. To us, thats something to be thankful for. Kai Zakro has disappeared, but there are rumours of him returning to his familys barony, or of him studying abroad.

    With this, the exam is over.

    In sync with the exam supervisors voice, the exam papers disappeared from our desks. Together with the noise of chatter, the examinees rose from their chairs. I left my seat at the same time too. Guess Ill go pick up His Highness and Camille. For now, I sent a magic message that read Iming to meet you.

    Your Highness!

    Ahh, Achille.

    Having received my message, His Highness appeared at the spot I specified. However, he was already surrounded by a number of women. As usual, what incredible poprity. Right now, theres no Camille to restrain them.

    Are you going to meet up with Camille?

    Yes.

    She was in a ce a little bit away, wasnt she? Lets go.

    His Highness and I were headed to the building Camille was in, but because of the female students in the way, we arent making much progress. It goes without saying that the usual noble daughters are here, but right now there are noble daughters from other countries and the daughters of wealthy families, and to top it off, there are evenmoner girls surrounding us, watching from a distance. I knew that it would end up like this, but Camille actually ys a great role, huh. When shes around, His Highness and I dont get followed about by women.

    Your Highness, can we break through?

    Mn, no worries.

    We brought out small quills, and used the magic Camille taught us to ergen them. With this magic, as long as it resembles the form of a broom, anything will do, buttely its often been the portable quill pens. His Highness and I turned the quill pens sideways and mounted them, and then floated into the sky. As expected, the women didnt go as far as chasing us up here. The women were noisily squealing something or other, but I ignored them and we headed towards Camille. A little earlier, I sent amunication spell to Camille that specified where we would meet.

    Close to where Camille took her exam were a lot of applicants crowded about. The designated meet-up point in particr was congested.

    I wonder if it was a miss, choosing this ce I didnt think itd be this crowded.

    Thats quite rare for you, huh, Achille.

    Within a terriblyrge crowd, I suddenly caught eye of Camille. Her pink coloured hair is rare, so it stands out. Camille who was standing in the crowd was or I should say, it feels like with Camille as the centre, a crowd formed. Camille was standing dead centre of the crowd, with a lost expression. A number of men were calling out to her Which reminds me, she isnt wearing her magic tattoos today!

    She said a number of times that it was so that I dont get falsely used of cheating, and appeared at the exam with all of her magic tattoos erased. No matter how you look at it, right now shes just a normal bishoujo. This is bad.

    I impatiently tried to get to her side, broom and all, but before I did, the crowd parted.

    I wonder whats going on.

    His Highness who was next to me, looked on quite curiously.

    Thats

    Your Highness, do you know that man?

    Mmn, its the second prince of the neighbouring country.

    ! Topagerias?

    The second prince of Topageria passed through the crowd where they parted, and stood by Camille. They seem to be speaking friendlily. I felt anxiety at the scene before me. Camille might not know, but father once said A suggestion for Camille-samas hand in marriage came from the neighbouring country.. That was one of the reasons that father and I rushed the engagement. The person who sent it was

    Ah! Royce-sama~ Achille~

    It seems that Camille has noticed us. Shes waving.

    Byee then, Tria-sama. Itd be great if we both passed, huh!

    Camille took out a quill just like ours, and mounted it with familiar movements. Shes flying towards us.

    So you two flew here.

    Yeah The women were chasing us quite terribly, so we escaped and came here.

    Everyone sure is energetic, huh~ Even though its right after an exam by the way, Camille, you were speaking to the second prince of the neighbouring nation just now, right? Do you know him?

    Your Highness, nice question.

    Rather than know him, we just got to know each other today. We were in the same room.

    Have you gotten friendly?

    Yes, it seems that he has an interest in magic.

    Hmm~? Friendly

    Up until now, Ive been relieved somewhere in my heart because there werent any men interested in Camille. And just how was that? The moment she takes off her tattoos, mene swarming Even though you lot havent taken any notice of her up until now.

    And the prince of Topageria. Even though an engagement between him and Camille shouldnt be up for discussion anymore

    Because they discussed engagements with other noble daughters as well, I underestimated his interest in Camille.

    This is bad. Being royalty should be foul y

 Volume 1 - Ch 17

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    Today is the day of the Royal Magic Academy magic exam. At this school, a pass is determined by the cumtive scores of the general education exam and the magic exam. The other day, we had the general exam, and I was shocked at the incredible amount of people. Itd be great if I passed, but Or so I began to worry. I mean, for a prince to fail the exam, it would be much toome, you know?

    Achille will probably pass without a problem. Camille Im a little worried about her general section.

    The contents of this times exam is extremely simple. You destroy a sturdy target provided by a teacher, theres a measurement of your magic power, and finally there are various challenges set for you. Because there are a great number of people, we take the exams in groups of twenty, but upon checking which group I ended up in on the magic noticeboard, due to some good luck I was allotted to the same group as Camille.

    Royce-sama~

    While I waited at the gathering ce for our group, Camille ran over with sparkling eyes.

    Camille, were in the same group, huh.

    Yes! It seems that the first exam will be held on the field grounds, you know? Lets go.

    A continuation from the day of the general exam, Camille has no tattoos today, which is a very fresh look. Looking at her like this, shes extremely cute. Achille probably cant rx out of nervousness.

    Because Camille and I are moving together, there are no women obstructing our path like the day of the general education exam. Camille as well, because Im here, isnt being surrounded by men either.

    We were headed to arge field in the middle of the academy. On thewn in the middle was the first group of students. Surrounding, were spectator seats, and students waiting for their turn were sitting there.

    Were the eighth group, huh.

    Yes, thats right! Incidentally, Achille is the second group, so he might be waiting down here, huh?

    While we were speaking, the first group began their exam. When the examiner used magic to bring up a rectangr target, the people in the spectator seats began watching the exam seriously. In front of each student floated a hard-looking stone b target. The exam involved urately breaking your target, without getting any of the other targets involved. The tes of stone look hard, and not so easily broken. People who managed to break the stone, people who didnt manage to scratch it at all, people who fired their magic in the wrong direction The first exam finished with a lot of people still unable to break their stones.

    Next was the second group with Achille. High-pitched screams rose from the spectator seats. Even though hes engaged to Camille Achille has it rough too, huh.

    Achille skilfully broke apart a b like the ones from earlier. Once again, high-pitched screams rose around us.

    After that, the exams continued Finally, its our turn.

    Royce-sama! Itll be okay!

    Camille who noticed my nervousness, encouraged me.

    After all, with your power, Royce-sama, youll be able to reliably break that rock b.

    It seems that she urately grasped the strength of those magically produced rock bs and my magic power.

    Your words are very reassuring.

    Its too reassuring. When ites to magic, I trust in Camilles words more than anything else. With her skill in magic alone, despite being only sixteen, she climbed to quite a high position within Red.

    In time with the examiners signal, tes of stone appeared before Camille and I.

    Royce-sama, just watch~

    Camille who was next to me winked, and at the same time her stone b was pulverised without a trace. Amotion ran through the spectator seats but she didnt pay it any attention.

    She turned to me with a gaze that said Praise me, praise me.

    I see. Theres still the stone powder left. Shall I burn it away?

    Its fine, thats plenty. I can really see that youve been trying your best, Camille. As a candidate for my guard, theres noints to say about your skill.

    So that Camille doesnt do anything unnecessary, its my job to stop her. Right now Achille isnt here, so I have to do it properly.

    Really? Ill definitely be an excellent guard, okay!?

    With a happy expression on her face, she gave a fist pump Because of Camille, my nervousness about the exam has disappeared.

    When I calmed down and faced the target, I gathered mana around the target and made it explode. With one shot, it cracked, and then it very quickly flew off in four directions. Thanks to the magic cast on the area, the flying pieces of stone didnt hit any other students.

    Its just like you said, huh, Camille. It broke.

    When I said that, she looked incredibly d and smiled. Probably startled by that smile of hers, the men around us were entranced by her. Some of them shot off their magic in various directions, or hit themselves with magic instead of the targets Even though its an examination, they sureck concentration, huh

    Up until now, Camille hasnt concerned herself with the gazes of the opposite sex. She only knew of boys sidling up to her in their aim for the seat of the next marquis during tea parties while she was young, and of men who looked down on her from a distance due to her tattoos. Thats why she didnt notice at all, themotion she caused amongst the men. Its fine that she doesnt notice their gazes, but I wish she would just hurry up and notice Achilles feelings already Achilles also in the wrong for not frankly telling her his feelings though, huh. After we finished the target-destruction exam, we headed to the examination ground for the magic power measurement.

    However, at our destination, the exam was temporarily suspended. The other students were making a fuss.

    Oi, have you heard? It seems that in the group before ours, there was someone who broke the measurement item.

    Serious? They didnt get disqualified?

    Nah, the examiner said that it broke because their magic power was too great, and it couldnt be measured.

    It seems that theres an incredible examinee. Camille also has strong magic power, but even she isnt strong enough that shed destroy the measurement item. I looked towards her, and found that for some reason, her eyebrows were knit in thought. Its rare that Camille makes such a serious face.

    In the end, the magic power measurement started again a little while after that, and we finished the final exam without a problem.

    But still, there are still heaps of incredible people in this world, huhh.

    /Child Chapter End

    Camille who noticed my nervousness, encouraged me. is actually just spoke to me, but  seems grateful enough, so yeah

    Might be a bitte to mention, but the prince is rtively soft spoken. Uh, also he uses boku. Achille uses ore(at least in his monologues).

    Also funny that Royce thinks her dullness is because of herck of experience with men. Shes been to high school before, and her monologues show that she clearly has experience. Its clear to us that she didnt notice them, simply because shes just a straight up legit 100% idiot sometimes, lol.

    Also, hehe. Enter the heroine. Id be happy as long as she was even half as nice as Wakaba-chan.

 Volume 2 - Ch 1

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    A small blue bird stopped at the window of my room. I stood up, and timidly approached it The truth is, this blue bird is not just a simple bird. Its a type of magicmunication spell.

    What itsmunicating are the Exam Results.

    I reach out with my hand, when the bird stops on the back of my right hand and turns into a piece of paper with the exam results written on it.

    It sure is scary to look.

    If I failed Once I started thinking this, I couldnt bring myself to check what was on the paper.

    Oh? Camille-sama.

    Aime who was in the middle of giving maids cleaning instructions showed up at my room. Aime reigns over the maids of the Rhodolite house as the strongest attendant.

    Oh? Oh oh? This is

    Aime snatched the paper away from me at a speed that seemed impossible with her body, and held it out with both hands.

    My! My my! Camille-sama!

    Eh, did I fail? My chief maid was showing me a worrying reaction.

    It seems well be celebrating tonight! I must inform Marquis-sama!

    After returning me the paper, Aime left the room, her hips fluttering about. After she was gone, I timidly took a look at the paper, and found

    That the four letters, PASS were written there.

    I passed!

    What do I do? Im so happy Much more than when it was my high school entrance exam.

    I wonder if Royce-sama and Achille passed? Achille is probably okay, but Royce-sama? No, he should be better at general education that I am. Royce-sama, you didnt fail, right?

    I want to ask, but when I consider the possibility that he failed, its too scary so I cant send themunication magic.

    Its so hard to ask

    Achille has probably passed, so its fine even if I tell Achille my results, right? In the end, after a lot of worrying about it, I sent a message spell to Achille only.

    After a little while, a reply came from Achille. It mentioned that Royce-sama passed as well. Royce-sama, to think that you only told Achille You were thinking the same thing as me, werent you? I passed as well, you know?

    The day of the entrance ceremony arrived.

    The time between the announcement of the results, and the entrance ceremony, felt quicker than expected. I heard that after the entrance ceremony there would be a chance to mingle with fellow students to deepen friendships. Normally Id be d without a care about the event and all, but because it was an event held by this school, I felt a little nervousness.

    Along with that incident where the magic power measurement item broke, Ive been getting an incredibly bad feeling about this, after all~ When you say a person of this world who has enough magic power to destroy a measuring item, no matter how you think about it, its her, right?

    But thats weirddd

    The Heroine was supposed to enrol starting in the second year.

    For her to take the exam like a normal person

    Is there an irregr here as well? Just like how because of Camilles influence, Royce and Achille changed. Just like how before even the entrance ceremony, Raiger already got engaged.

    Unlike in the game, the heroines influence shouldnt change Camilles fate. It shouldnt, but Theres not a thing, thing~, to worry about.

    She might even be a reaally good girl!

    But, my mood has gotten a little depressed.

    If the heroine chooses Royce-sama What am I going to do?

    I might get in the way like in the game, and after all, I actually have been doing that to the other noble daughters.

    ! No way!

    I only just realised it after all this time. I, whove been repeatedly getting in the way of the noble daughters who tried to get near Royce-sama Isnt that exactly Camille?

    Like this, Ill meet a Social Obliteration End!

    The heckk are you mumbling about?

    Achille

    Were still in the middle of the entrance ceremony, you know? If you get too noisy, youll draw attention.

    Oh, right. I was in the middle of a solemn ceremony. The principal is speaking in front of us. Im a bit concerned about the fact that itpletely feels like thezily speaking principal is just getting it over with In the game it felt like he took things more seriously, though Mr. Principal Is this really okay?

    While the principal was giving his address, I turned my head here and there, observing the students, but I didnt find any female student that seemed to be the heroine. Thats weird Could it be that she failed the exam? In her ce, there are slightly weird characters popping up here and there

    The Q of Diamonds has turned into a beautiful crossdresser for example, and the Q of Clovers is absent The K of Diamonds is missing too, huh It goes without saying that the J of Spades is as well, though. Since K, Q and J arepletely gathered here, doesnt that mean that we of the Hearts faction have the strongest influence now?

    Its definitely weird!

    Camille, if you kick up such a fuss Ill seal your mouth, you know?

    !

    I dont really get it, but I sensed danger to my body, so I shut up in a panic.

    Achilles behaviour has only been escting since that day. Were engaged, so that kind of contact isnt anything weird, but I dont think he has a need to go this far just for the spirit of friendship.

    After the entrance ceremony ended, the socialising event began. Because I have the stuff from before as well, Achille was tightly holding my hand. So that I wouldnt lose concentration, he said Gosh, to treat a sixteen year old like a lost child that you cant let go of!

    Speaking of being sixteen, thats an adult in this world. Its an age where I can even drink alcohol, you know?

    The event is being held in the form of a stand-up buffet, and on top of the table are light foods and dessert. Meeting my expectations, on a nearby table are various coloured alcoholic drinks in small cocktail sses. Even though the academy is an educational grounds, for them to serve alcohol Parallel worlds sure are mysterious.

    Achille, I want to drink that.

    Camille Do you know what that is?

    Alcohol, right?

    Mmn. Thats right, but make sure you dont drink too much, alright?

    Im not going to start gulping them down, you know? Achille is kinda Hes like an overly worried mother, isnt he?

    Here you go.

    What he handed me was a cocktail with the same raspberry colour as my eyes.

    Thanks

    Finding something incredibly interesting about this, Achille is staring at me as I drink.

    The drink he gave me was sweet and tasty, so I want a little more now.

    Ah, Camille!

    Just a little more.

    Shaking free of Achilles warnings, I drink a second, and then a third cocktail, when Achille starts to openly frown.

    Mmn. It really is delicious.

    Are you really alright, drinking that much?

    Mn, Impletely fine, you know? At home, Ive been stopped by Aime, so even though Ivee of age Ive never drunk before you know? It turns out that I might actually be a heavy drinker, huh?

    Saying that, I turn to face Achille, but my foot got tangled and I was about to fall forward. I braced myself, but I didnt have enough strength, so my body wouldnt move the way I wanted.

    Huh? Uwahh!

    At this rate, Im guaranteed to facent!

    Watch out-

    Achille supported me with his arm as I was about to tumble. Weve ended up kind of embracing each other.

    S-, Sorry

    I flusteredly tried to get away, but I tripped again. My sense of bnce has disappeared. Achille is looking at me, dumbfounded.

    Even though I told you this would happen.

    Im not drunk or anything, you know? Im totally fine.

    Thats what all drunks say Come on, hold on.

    Almost hanging off Achille, I moved a little distance away from the event ce, and walked to a ce with chairs. Achille has been kindly supporting me withoutints. There are no other students near the chairs. I bet nobody else will leave the venue or anything. As long as they dont be like me, that is.

    Achille, sorry about this Thanks.

    Achille averted his eyes. Did I anger him? His ears are kind of red, after all. Guilt starts to well up in me.

    Ill go get you some water, so sit here quietly, okay?

    Much obliged, sir.

    Even though hes angry at me, hes even going to get me water. Achille is really such a good guy.

    Since Achille went to bring me some water, Im by myself now. I cant get up from the seat, so I have nothing to do. Im not cut out for the job of sitting around quietly. Even my head feels kinda fluffy. Achille, hurry up ande back This is kinda bad. My head is swimming.

    While I was in such a state, a single female student approached. She was heading towards me, making a beeline. Theres probably no mistake that she wants something from me.

    That student looks kind of familiar. Someone Ive seen on screen, again and again in the past Wavy, cinnamon coloured medium length hair, and olive coloured eyes My eyes widened.

    Shes, that games heroine

    So she really did pass the exam?

    The Heroine is ring at me. In her profile, it was written that she had an ordinary appearance, but isnt she just a normal bishoujo!? She looks gant and neat, and makes you want to protect her.

    However, this neat and tidy bishoujo osted me in a harsh tone unthinkable from her outward appearance.

    Youre a bodyswap, right? Youre not Camille Rhodolite, right?

    Eh

    Suddenly being asked this, I fell into turmoil.

    I wonder if Royce and Achille are just like they were in the game. Do you know what I mean by bodyswapping?

    I dont recall doing anything so bad to her, but I can feel extreme hostility from her. Why? I havent bullied the heroine yet, though? Or more like, why am I being cornered by her? Like me, is she a different person from the real heroine? No good. Because Im drunk, my head wont function better than usuall. Ahh, my stomach feels kind of bad. This is a bad sign.

    How about saying something? Its pointless to try and hide it!

    The Heroine spoke in an even harsher tone, and pressed me for an answer. Even though thats out of the question right now Even though Im currently feeling worse and worse.

    Uu I cant

    Something hot gradually rose from the depths of my throat.

    What cant you? Youd best quit ying dumb! Huh? KYAAAAAAAAAA!

    The Heroine let out a terrible shriek.

    Id magnificently thrown up the contents of my stomach, in the direction of the Heroine. Apologies.

 Volume 2 - Ch 2

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    waka-sama = young master Normally itd be my policy to trante it as young master, but that doesnt rhyme with baka-sama. And I cant think of any word for idiot that would rhyme with young master exactly either, so yeah.

    Todays the entrance ceremony. It seems that our Baka-sama- Ah, I mean, our Waka-sama, has wandered off somewhere again. Isnt it no good for a prince to ditch the entrance ceremony? Seriously, I wish hed cut me a break. Hes probably wandering around the school, chasing ass anyway. Only that guys womanising is the same as in the game.

    While I was searching for Baka-sama, I was looking around and observing the other factions. Of course, my motivations are just a pure desire to pay respects to the other characters from the otome game. In the game, all of the characters first gathered here at this school.

    The otome game that I love, Carte  Jouer For some reason or another, this world is the world of that otomege. Ive yed it a number of times, so there shouldnt be any mistake. I was on the way back from university, when no sooner had I fallen into an open manhole, than I found myself in this world. Id switched ces with someone else.

    Beatrix Tapas Thats my current name. And Beatrix was the name of a counts daughter who appeared in the game as an enemy character.

    In the games story, she bullied, and bullied, and bullied the heroine without end; a viin to the roots. She was a slender beauty with long, straight, ck hair, harsh looking orange coloured eyes, and bright red lips that seemed like they could eat a man alive. Truly, a nobles daughter who yed the role of a rival. Since I ended up switching ces with such a woman, I fell into despair. I mean, this viin ojousama met with a miserable end, after all

    Beatrix who had fallen in love with the prince of her country had gotten in the way of his romance with the heroine, and incurred the wrath of that prince. And she received dreadful retribution from him. The worst retribution ever; she was ordered to marry this fat, greasy, five time divorced old geezer who already had kids. Thats why the moment I became Beatrix, I began making my move.

    As if Id let things happen like the game!

    For the sake of distancing myself from the Beatrix in the game, I decided to try dressing as a man, and found that it fit me perfectly. This was when I was five. Since then, Ive always lived as a crossdresser. In case the worse came to worst, I polished my swordsmanship as well, so that I could live on my own no matter what happened. And now, Im more popr amongst women than even the prince.

    Im beginning with observation of the Hearts faction. How disciplined. Dont they have all thirteen members of them there? Its a huge difference from our faction. However

    Wh- Could that be? Nah, the impression they give is too different, so perhaps Ive got the wrong person? Shes a pretty student with pink hair and a petite build. Theres only one character with that appearance.

    Goshhhhh. Royce-sama you kno~? Loves Camille, you seeee~ So theres no room for a dirty looking Ugly like you, is thereee~?

    was the signature phrase of the Heart Routes burikko rival. Isnt that Camille Rhodolite, the Q of Hearts who grandlynded a smashing lead at rank 1 of the Annoying Characters list?

    But why is Camille covered all over in tattoos? Did something happen to her!? Her clothing is considerably different from her in-game design too. Even though Camille is supposed to be a bishoujo who suited her goth loli fashion outfits, why the heck is that girl wearing a mantle that could be a magicians uniform? Its way too in!

    And the Spades faction. For a while now, the K of Spades Raiger Transbaal, and Mei Zakro have been meeting their eyes meaningfully from time to time. Its almost as though theyre lovers Even though Mei was supposed to be a rival character as well. Or more like, I was a Raiger fan too For him to be unavable as a love interest from the start I want to cry

    As for the Clovers faction, theres nobody except for the K of Clovers, but? Whered the Q and J go?

    I know that the Diamonds faction has diverged from its time in the game. I made it that way to avoid my Bad End after all. I identally went a bit far, and even ended up changing the feel of the love interest character, the K of diamonds. But still, this is A lot of things are way too crazy. Theres no doubt that there are causes other than me.

    Beatrix-sama, today you look gant as well~

    How dreamy. Compared to Beatrix-sama, average men are less than weeds.

    The girls from the Diamonds faction called out to me. Were girls born from the same nation. The Diamonds factions strengthprises the students and rich children of nations other than the Ga Nations. It sounds good, but this school takes the nobles of the Ga Nation too lightly, huh? For the Ga Nations nobles of the King Faction and Royal Prince Faction alone to ount for twenty six people So unfair. Even though the Diamonds faction all together only has thirteen people!

    Huhu, thank you. Such lovely ojousans Im a lucky person, arent I?

    Aahh! Beatrix-sama!

    Ovee with emotions, the girls eyes moistened with tears. Ive bepletely established as a crossdressing character, havent I? Well, its amusing though so its fine.

    When I happened to shift my gaze I happened upon a pink head by a far off table. Isnt that Camille from earlier?

    Shes gulping downrge amounts of alcohol. Even if theyre cocktails-, no, precisely because theyre cocktails, I have a bad feeling about this. Isnt the person standing next to her the J of Hearts, Achille Jade? For that Achille to be taking care of Camille like that, at a time like this Maybe I should try visiting an eye doctor just once. Achille is supposed to hate Camille, who follows his lord around like a housefly. I mean, in the ending where the heroine gets together with the K of Hearts, its by Achilles hands that Camille was socially obliterated, and was forced into a life of misery. But despite that, why do they look like theyre getting along so well? What a mystery.

    At that moment, I discovered a person who looked like our Baka-sama behind the hedge. You ditched the entrance ceremony to hide in a ce like that? I thought he was picking up girls, but hes chatting friendlily with the prince of our neighbouring nation, the K of Hearts. Ah-, he looked this way.

    Bea-chin! So here you were~

    After waving to the prince of the neighbouring nation, Baka-sama walked in my direction.

    I should be asking you, Waka-sama, where did you go during the entrance ceremony? I was sure that you were flirting with girls in the academys neighbourhood, but

    I wasnt, you know~? I was in the infirmary.

    Were you always so delicate?

    Its fineee, its fineee, Bea-chin, you sure are serious, huh~ You sure worry about the details, huh~ You sure act like a sister-inw, huh~

    Seriously, why did this prince grow up into such a useless guy? Even though he was a high-specd, popr prince in the game. Is it because Ive been spoiling him? By now he has no intentions of opposing the first prince at all.

    I was trying too hard in trying to avoid danger to myself, that I greatly exceeded the abilities of the in-game Beatrix. Enough that I serve the second prince as a single knight. On the contrary, because Ive been trying too hard at avoiding bing enemies with this prince, each year the prince falls further into the mindset that even if he doesnt do something himself, Ill do all the work for him. Since then, for every single thing, Baka-sama has been relying on me, and fawning on me.

    I ended up bing a massively bad influence for this prince.

 Volume 2 - Ch 3

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    Would like to note that in Japan, instead of saying you, you, you can rece you with their name. Lets say your name is slumberknight, and I am now addressing you directly.

    It would not be weird at all to say slumberknight-san. Which juice did slumberknight-san pick? or slumberknight-san said that slumberknight-san would pick up the chicken, so why do I have to?

    At the same time, this means that the way the Heroine speaks could also be taken as referring to the character from the game, rather than the person shes speaking to. Even more so because she uses no honorifics with the names, which is more than a little blunt considering they dont know each other.

    For this reason, I have left things the way they would be in Japanese, even though I would normally rece them with you.

    Uuuun, uuuun

    From inside a futon came a groan that seemed to crawl along the ground, unmatching with the clear and sunny entrance day, The owner of that voice was, of course, Camille. This idiot did something quite grand on the first day of school.

    Regarding Camilles vomit that seemed to have been regurgitated due to a stomach forced to drink too much When I came back with the water, it waspletely cleaned up with magic.

    And there, all that remained was a school girl noisily making a shrill fuss, and Camille whose mouth was frothing.

    Hey! This isnt something that can be dropped just because you cleaned it up with magic, you know.

    The school girl was indignant for some reason.

    Uuun, uuu Guu

    Wake up! After sshing that kind of thing on me, do you think youll get away scot-free? What are you going to do if a smell remains!?

    From those words, I could more or less guess what had happened.

    Its alright Just that side has been reverted in time by magic, so Uu-. Uuun, like it never happened

    . .

    Camille, are you alright? Here, I brought you water, okay?

    Achille Thank Uu

    After getting drunk, she was probably feeling bad. Itd be better if I brought her to a ce she could lie down, huh.

    Achille Jade!

    The girl that got tangled up with Camille, suddenly shouted my name What I dont know any woman like this.

    Thats me, but?

    Why is Achille taking care of someone like Camille?

    I dont quite understand but, right now Id like to carry her to an infirmary, so please excuse me. As for what my fiance did, please seek your apology another day.

    Fiance you said? Why the heck are you two engaged?

    Im the one who wants to do the questioning. Why do I have to exin myself to you?

    Because, Achille should have been the one to push Camille into ruin.

    What kind of nonsense are you?

    Having spoken that far, I suddenly remember a certain matter. The word ruin Ive heard it somewhere

    For someone whos going to ruin me Dont treat me so kindly

    When was that again? There was a time when Camille herself had said something like that. Nah, its probably a coincidence. At the time, Camille was still young, and the situation being what it was, she was probably just quite confused. It has nothing to do with this womans words.

    Achille hates Camille, you know?

    I will listen to what you have to say at some other date.

    Camille was now feeling too sick to move, so I picked her up in my arms. The schoolgirl was still kicking up a fuss about something, but I let her be and brought Camille to the infirmary.

    When I opened the door to the infirmary, nobody was inside. It was awkward because the infirmary doctor had apparently gone off somewhere.

    Camille, are you still feeling nauseous?

    I pheel bhad. Bud I threw ub earlier, so ids okey.

    A marquis daughter who gets drunk on an entrance ceremony Its disappointing, but Im already used to it. Its Camille here, so it cant be helped. I treasure her, that aspect of her included, after all.

    Achille Sorry.

    Camille who was lying on the bed was looking up at me apologetically. Aahh, if you look up at me with those moist eyes things will get bad, in various ways. Even though I want to look directly at her, I cant, so I immediately shifted my gaze.

    Its okay to sleep. Ill be here until the infirmary nurse gets here.

    Mn Thanks. Huhu, this is just like that time, huh?

    Which time?

    In the past, when I was brought to the castle after being stabbed you nursed me, Achille.

    It seems that shes talking about the time we went to the castle town with His Highness.

    Yeah.

    Otousama was really busy as well, so he couldnte visit But because you were there, I felt reassured.

    Camille Saying that right now should be foul y, right?

    My face is hot Calm down, me. What are you going to do if you take a drunkards babble seriously? Youll just end up heartbroken like usual, you know? Ahh, but still

    Achille

    Camille started to fall asleep. Because of her condition as well, itd be better for her to sleep right now. I immediately began to hear her soft sleeping breath.

    I love you, Camille.

    Of course, Camille didnt react. She was sound asleep. Unable to bear it, I gave her a single kiss on the face.

    I saw that, Achille.

    Suddenly, I heard a voice I knew well, and stiffened. When I looked in the direction of the voice, I found His Highness peeking in from the gap in the infirmary door. His Highness and peeping Its abo that doesnt go well together.

    Is Camille alright? I heard that she drank a lot, but

    It seems that ugly stories of Camille are spreading with certainty.

    Shes fine. She fell asleep just now.

    Achille Even if you do that to her while shes asleep, theres no meaning, right?

    Thats fine.

    Its not, right? Have you properly told her that you like her? If you dont give it to her straight, Camille wont notice, you know? Even though itd be questionable even after giving it to her straight, you

    Hahh

    I know that. But I dont want to force her into that kind of rtionship by telling her this. No, thats not it. Im simply afraid of destroying the rtionship that we have now. Camille distancing herself from me in shock, would be unbearable. Im not so great a person that Id be able to silently watch as she left me. It seems more like Id forcefully keep her tied to me While I think that Id like to be sincere with her, at the same time I can picture myself using various ways to keep her with me I cant move forward nor backward.

    The point is that because of my cowardice, Im putting off the problem. His Highness has seen through me.

    Im cheering for you two.

    Hahh

    Geez, Ive been watching for a number of years now, but it cant be helped that Im feeling impatient now.

    Hahh But even if you say that, Your Highness, I-

    The second prince of the neighbouring country doesnt seem to have given up, you know? On the contrary, it looks like hes quite interested in Camille.

    Even though Camille is engaged to me

    That an engagement is something that can be overturned, is something that you should know better than I do, right?

    The difference in status between the illegitimate son of a viscount, and the prince of arge nation is too huge. Yeah, I dont have a chance, do I?

    I dont want to give Camille to another nation. Shes my important magician, after all.

    Whether for good or for bad, His Highness has grown as a prince. Even though he used to be a frankly gentle person. However, once I consider that I might have contributed to this via my bad influence on His Highness, I feel a little guilty.

    Mmmn One more drink.

    I could hear sleeptalking from Camille. It looks like this idiot hasnt learnt her lesson yet, so Ill have to warn herter.

    Geez. Camille likes drinking that much, huh?

    Because he didnt see what happened today, His Highness is smiling, but this isnt something tough about, okay?

    It would be better not to give Camille alcohol anymore. It seems that shes the type whos immediately affected by alcohol, after all.

    Hm~mm. A drunk who cutely fawns on you, and slurs her words If Camille was like that, then itd be fine, but as expected of her, I guess.

    Ah-, I thought that too. But since its Camille, it cant be helped.

 Volume 2 - Ch 4

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    Why do the ces called school all love exams so much? Even though it was right after taking the entrance exams, as soon as we started out the semester, we were given some iprehensible First Test.

    My results? You want to know? You really want to know?

    Camille, this isnt the time to be spacing out, know you? Youre taking the supplementary exam, arent you?

    Ruthlessly, my fianc disclosed my current situation. Achille, you bastard, why do you know my results? And moreover, you even know about the supplementary exam! Each and every time, just where does this childhood friend of mine get his information from?

    God, Ive already gotten into the school, so general education is just unnecessarryyy!

    If your marks are too bad, you might get expelled you know?

    My magic exam schools are good, so its okay!

    . .

    If you pass the supplementary exams, as a reward Ill buy you the newest edition of the magic items dictionary, you know?

    The new edition of the magic items dictionary!? The one thats super hard to get a hold of?

    I have a connection.

    Achille-sama! Please let me try my best!

    Well then, lets go to the library. Right now.

    I obediently nodded, and was brought to the library by Achille. We passed through a hallway on the way that had the top 10 achievers names posted up. Im really d that they dont post up the names of those who need supplementaries. Hatefully, Achille is the top of the whole general course for the test. Third ce for the magic exam as well, and altogether number one As expected, hes be higher spec than when he was in a game. Royce-sama has reasonably good results too.

    Im number one for the magic exam, but all of my general curriculum subjects were fails, so mybined results were tragic. Theres one more person who tied top in the magic exam but it was somebody unexpected. Just like me, they smacked out a perfect result. I didnt expect that they would be magically inclined though

    You can do it if you try, Camille.

    Even if you say that

    For a while therell be less work, so of course youll be putting that time into studying, right?

    Yeah, but

    Despite the library being quiterge, there were few people. The whole student bodyprises fifty or sixty people, so you can tell just how many people need to study right this instant. During this period, theres no demand for a library.

    Camille, lets go sit over there.

    Achille and I took up seats in a corner, far away from the reception. Its a ce that makes it difficult for the other students to see us. It seems to be Achilles own way of showing concern by making sure my exam failure isnt exposed to the other students. Or it could be that he doesnt want people to know that his fiance failed.

    Okay, open up your textbook!

    Uuu

    For the sake of the new edition of the magic item dictionary, I have no choice but to study. I gathered my determination, and opened up the massive textbook. First up is the subject that Im less bad at, the history of this nation. History sure is hard to remember, huh? There are too many people with the same name. Back when I was in high school as well, there were all these Fujiwaras and Tokugawas, so I had a hard time

    Camille, for this question

    Achille began exining to me. His exnations are really easy to understand, so once Ive heard it once, I wont make a mistake a second time. Itd be nice if I went through things with him each time I learnt something new, but getting lost in my magic research and job, before I knew it, the day of the exam hade.

    Achille, youre close.

    If I dont sit closer, I wont be able to teach you, right?

    But

    How do I say this? Isnt he kind of sticking too closely to me? Last time when we studied, I dont think he was this close, but I mean, his left hand! Achilles left hand is on my waist

    Camille, are you listening? Look, you arent concentrating at all.

    I am listening, you know? Your lessons are easy to remember Theyre Spartan, though.

    But I might not be able to concentrate No good, if I fail this supplementary exam as well, Ill end up stuck with supplementary lessons. Wont the precious time I have to enjoy magic get cut down? Already, Im cutting down my work time for my studies

    I dont want my work time to get cut down. When I talked to Aime about this before entering school, she looked at me with slightly disapproving eyes, and said You sure are father and daughter, arent you?. I asked Otousama to increase my workload, but I was rejected It looks like I have no choice but to put effort into my studies.

    Achille is quite patient, and is willing to teach me. Hes cutting down his own free time. Even someone like me feels sorry about that.

    Achille Ill pay you back for thister, okay? Youre always helping me with my studies, so Im quite grateful to you.

    Theres no need to thank me. After all, looking after you isnt something that started just now.

    Hespletely right Im feeling exceedingly sorry about all this.

    I dont hate being alone together with you like this, you know?

    But because of that, time spent on yourself is getting cut down.

    This is time spent on myself though

    As if thats the case!

    Youre not the one who gets to decide that, Camille. Im the one who gets to choose what to do with my time, after all.

    Today, Achille is being overbearing in various ways.

    Uuu

    Theres no choice. Ive given up. If we end up arguing, somebody like me has no chance of beating Achille.

    Phe, its over~!

    Somehow or other I managed to get through the material for all the subjects in the supplementaries. After this, all I need to do is review the material by myself. The night is already about to begin, and its pitch ck outside the window. Theres nobody left except the library staff.

    You sure tried hard. With this, youre fine for your supplementaries.

    Mn, thank you Achille. You really saved me Supplementary lessons wouldnt be funny.

    Thats right, it wouldnt be funny. If your time got taken up by something like that, Id be bothered after all.

    Eh

    As for the pay back that you mentioned, is it okay if I make a request?

    ? Of course.

    Suddenly, Achille who was sitting in the seat next to me forcefully pulled me over with the left hand he had wrapped around my waist, and hugged me.

    Fuwah-? Eh-? Achille?

    Whats going on? For him to suddenly cling to me This hasnt happened even once before.

    Camille I like you.

    Heh? L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-Like? Like as in that like? That one? Not this one? He doesnt mean this like, but that like, right? E-, Even Ive had a boyfriend before in my past life, okay!? We broke up in just two weeks, though. We did nothing but hold hands, though! But I at least have enough ability to distinguish which like he means, okay? This is the Affection Plus Friendship-type like. Right?

    Umm Achille, this

    Achilles cobalt eyes are narrowed lustfully and peering in on my face. What does he mean to do by turning on his passion on me at full force? Use it somewhere else.

    Like I said, Im iming my reward.

    I see! So Achille is taking a non-physical reward out of kindness. Then just this time, Ill take him up on his words.

    If its just this, you can hug me as much as you want, you know? I dont think that hugging someone like me is anything near enough of a thank you, though.

    Achille has e quiet, still hugging me. He looks kind of discouraged Why? So he really is dissatisfied with someone like me as repayment? Even though he should have just done something like this whenever he wanted.

    Umm, Achi-

    Even though I already told you that I was fine with you. Even though I said that I liked you Why wont you believe me?

    Heh?

    For some reason, Achille is in a bad mood.

    How many times do I have to confess before youre happy? Why do you immediately write things off with the words someone like me?

    Because, thats-

    Theres no way that Id help a girl each and every time with her studies if I didnt like her, right? Camille, just what on earth do you think I am?

    A saintly childhood friend with deep feelings of friendship. Was that wrong?

    Camille, youre too dull. I thought that you were gradually noticing, but youre showing no signs of noticing at all

    I started feeling awkward, and clumsily averted my eyes. I dont know what kind of face to make. I mean, its Achille, you know? Up until now, Ive shown him all my worthless and pathetic parts. I can guarantee that Ive worn him out.

    I got engaged to you because I like you, and those feelings havent changed even now.

    No way

    Even if Im your fianc, if you dont want to then I wont do anything, okay? Your feelings take preference, and Or so I was thinking, but Im sick of doing nothing but waiting. Ive reached my limit. There are rude bastards who are trying to take you from the side too, after all.

    I couldnt really hear the second half, but Achille telling me that he likes me in that way is I somehow understand. I ended up understanding. Which means that all the kindness up until now was for that reason as well? Helping me with studying today as well

    Holy crap

    Thats my line. How long do you think this took?

    You have bad taste huh, Achille?

    Seriously.

    I can tell that my blood is rushing to my face. My face is probably redder than its ever been. If I didnt insult him, I dont think Id be able to stand from the embarassment. With my face still hanging, Im frozen like a statue. Even if I try to run, Achille is tightly holding onto my whole body.

    Camille.

    He slowly called out my name. In a voice thats sweeter than Ive ever heard it. What is this? Its earthshatteringly embarassing, you know?

    Raise your face?

    N-, No way!

    My face is absolutely red right now. As if Id show such a pathetic face to this guy!

    But my resistance was futile, and my chin was forcefully raised by Achilles hand.

    Let go -!

    Huhu Your face is red.

    Achilles expression looks incredibly happy. Is my pathetic face that amusing? So cruel!

    Gee- Stop, thats embarassing.

    It looks like I have a bit of a chance, huh? Right, Camille?

    As if Id know! Please, just give me a break already, and stop looking at my face!

    Its no good, Im at my limit. I dont think I can bear this nauseatingly sweet mood anymore. Alright, lets escape!

    T-, thats right! I suddenly remembered something incredibly important that I have to attend to!

    I began speaking in a loud voice.

    Hm~m?

    Achille is grinning. Damnit, in psychological warfare, I have no way of winning at all.

    If its something important, then it cant be helped, huh? Ill walk you to your room.

    Umm, I can go by myself, so Lets part here.

    Ill walk you to your room.

    Hes pushing it with a smile. Theres no need to get into work mode in a ce like this, so geez!

    In the end, it was impossible to disrupt Achilles pace, and because there was arguing, I let him see me to my room.

    Authors Note: The tables have turned.

    TL Note:

 Volume 2 - Ch 5

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    To be kicked by a horsemeans to get in the way of somebody elses romance, whether intentionally or not.

    Huhhuhhu. Im unusually overflowing with confidence. This is because I solved the problems in the supplementary exam more easily than expected. I think its likely that Ill pass all my subjects.

    Whats this, whats this~? Camille, youre confident? How nice~, I might end up with supplementary lessons.

    The one who spoke to me was the K of Diamonds, Tria. Hes also taking the supplementary exam. Unlike in the game, the Tria of this world seems to bepletely bad at all studies. However, in magic potions ss alone, hes doing well, as he consistently produces high quality potions it seems.

    I think Ill probably pass. Tria-sama, do your best in the supplementary sses, okay?

    Aahh, even though I thought youd be arade in supplementary sses! You traitor~!

    Did I seem like Id be your supplementary ssrade? But wow, what a shamefulrade to be. Im fine with being a traitor.

    Sorryy.

    Aahh, Ive lost my willpower. Camille,e apany this pitiful me for some tea Console meee!

    Dont wanna. Im about to head back to the dorm and read the Magic Items Dictionary  Newest Edition after all.

    Dont say that.

    I refuse.

    . .

    Ill treat you to magic tea that you cant find outside Topageria.

    I ended up reacting to those words.

    Magic tea? Whats that?

    Its been spreading around in my home country recently. A special tea. Its a healthy tea made with a magic nt as the base, and depending on the magic nt used, there are various effects and

    I want to try drinking it!

    There shouldnt be a tea like that in our nation. If it has the word magic in it, then theres no way I can afford to decline.

    Yesss! Now that thats decided, lets head to my room.

    Lets go, lets go~

    Trias room was on the top floor of the Diamonds factions dorm. At this school, each faction has their own dorm. In the game, the four factions had a terrible rtionship with each other, so it was an appropriate decision.

    But despite that, I, the Q of Hearts, am stepping foot into the enemy territory that is the Diamonds dorm This is so strange. My rtionship with Tria isnt bad. But looking at our nations, I cant say that our kings get along with each other. Its a rtionship where they act like they get along, while probing each other out.

    Ah-, its Camille-sama.

    Wee to our Diamonds ss dorm.

    It seems that the Diamonds ss is friendly with me for some reason. Its a weing atmosphere.

    Thank you. Ill be imposing.

    I got on the magic circle in the lobby that acted like an elevator, and headed to the top floor. Overall, the Diamonds dorm has a lot of Arabian-esque decorations. It seems that the influence of the neighbouring Topageria is strong. Trias room was no exception, and everything in there brought about an Arabian atmosphere.

    For now, sit down?

    M-, Mmn.

    Tria pointed at a splendorous sofa. The truth is, Ive actually never been anywhere besides Achilles house, and the castle where Royce-sama lives, so I was quite nervousing here. Royce-sama and Achille; Dborah, Dsire and Mei My social circle is basically just them. Tria is my first friend since entering the academy.

    After he gave directions to his maid who followed him from Topageria, he sat down opposite me.

    Im having the magic tea brought over, so wait just a little.

    Thanks.

    While I was waiting excitedly for the magic tea, Tria stood up and approached me.

    What?

    Hey, hey, show me your magic tattoos, Camille. The magicians in Topageria dont use tattoos, so Im interested.

    During the entrance exams as well, Tria showed interest in my automatic defence magic tattoos. Speaking of which, none of the kids in the Diamonds faction have tattoos, do they? Even in the Hearts faction, only one or two of the boys have them though. I wonder if they simply dont have that kind of culture.

    Thats fine. What type of magic is mainstream in Topageria?

    Mmmm Rather than mainstream Were not really a nation that uses magic as much as Ga does, you see. In exchange, our magic items and magic potions are enriched, even moreso than Ga, you know?

    I see.

    If theres an item you want, just tell me. I can get most things, after all.

    Really?

    Its quite a generous offer.

    Of course, if its your request, Camille. By the way, whats that tattoo? Ive never seen one with a butterfly pattern, but

    Its a boost to floating, and you use it when youre flying on a broom. Its a design I thought up myself, you know.

    Ahh, by broom, you mean like that time at the entrance exam, huh. Its quite a weird magic, isnt it? I wonder if I could use it too

    Would you like to try? I dont think its that difficult.

    Seriously!? Id be super happy, you know.

    At the same time Tria leaned forward happily, a knock came at the door.

    Waka-sama, Ive brought the tea.

    The door opened with a ck, and a tall student entered the room.

    The person who entered the room noticed me, and smiled at me. This person is the Q of Diamonds isnt she? Im a little nervous. At any rate, in the game Beatrix had an incredibly harsh personality. The day that I get seen together alone with Tria, Ill be called out to the back yard for sure.

    Ah, grazie, Bea-chin.

    Bea-chin? Ah-, as in the Bea in Beatrix maybe? But this Beatrix I wondered about this during the entrance ceremony as well, but just why is she wearing mens clothing? She waved her hand as though in reply to Trias thanks, and prepared tea and sweets on the table. Somehow, the polish of her movements is pretty cool.

    But still~, Camille, you really are the best, arent you?

    I wonder about that.

    Its the first time Ive been told this, though Usually I just get called a pervert, or Tattoo Woman, after all.

    You are! Its not easy to find a magician of your skill, you know? Id definitely want you toe to Topageria, and spread your knowledge of magic through our country. As my wife.

    Waitwait, I have a job in Ga, and Hang on.

    Huh? Waif?

    Just now, I feel like I heard a weird word mixed in.

    Right. Hmm? Could it be that it didnt reach you, Camille?

    What are you talking about?

    Mmmmn, thats weirddd. The Rhodolite Marquis family said that they received our message, though.

    Tria-sama?

    You see, I applied for a marriage. With you.

    Heh? When?

    Right after the dance party It seems like the message didnt reach you thoughhh.

    B-, But Im already engaged to Achille, you see.

    But I mean, with my authority, Id be able to do something about it, you seeee.

    At that moment, a shadow crossed my eyes at an astonishing speed.

    You stupid kiddd! What the hell are you thinking, making a move on a girl with a fianc!? If a horse doesnt kick you, I will!

    Beatrix who was standing to the side after she was done with the tea and sweets, had run over at an astounding speed, and smacked Tria in the head.

    It huuurts! Bea-chin, what are you doing!? This is abuse of a prince!

    Shut up, damnit.

    Beatrix? She wasnt this sort of character, right?

    Owow I mean, arent you only engaged in a strategic marriage?

    Thats-

    A little earlier, I would have dered Right. without hesitation. However, since that day in the library when Achille helped me study, Ive noticed his feelings. Its already difficult to say that this is purely a marriage of convenience. I cant simply affirm it. Not only that, I

    I What am I supposed to reply with?

 Volume 2 - Ch 6

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    1) I know, I know, its like youre telling us after all this time?, but Id just like to mention that I use mana and magic power interchangeably because Im just random like that. Same thing.

    2) Stereotypical shoujo KabeDON(, wall bang) scene. KabeDON (wall bang, or wall smack). New word for you all to add to your shoujo manga lingo.

    2) Nioh Statues: Basically a serious and imposing stance.

    3) Whether speaking politely or casually, Beatrix uses a somewhat masculine tone. Its not rough, but its masculine.

    4) You know, Im starting to wonder now, after all this time, if perhaps Makoto was actually really obviously into Aimi, and she was just too much of a dense motherfucker to notice.

    5) LOL, who on earth tagged this?

    When my words wouldnte out, unexpectedly, it was Beatrix that gave me a lifeboat.

    Waka-sama, Camille-sama must also have her own circumstances. Impatient men end up hated, you know. Camille-sama, please help yourself to the tea. This time weve prepared a variety of magic tea thats rtively easier to drink.

    Thanks.

    I held the magic tea in my mouth. It was a refreshing tea with the faint scent of flowers. Just like Beatrix said, it was easy to drink.

    Its delicious.

    When I said that, Beatrix smiled happily.

    Its just a slight effect, but that tea contains the ability to reduce weariness and help replenish magic power.

    Mana recovery is something to be grateful for. Especially to those in my line of work. To a magician, running out of magic power is a troubling problem. Magicians who run out of magic power while on the job will suddenly copse and be bedridden for three days. My magic tattoos have the effect of optimising mana consumption, but even then, theres no way I can use magic without using any magic power at all.

    Ah, thats right. Waka-sama, after your tea time is done, would it be fine if I borrowed Camille-sama for a little while?

    Why? Today I was the one who invited Camille, thoughh?

    You dont have that much free time, correct? Were not the results of your supplementary exam quite poor?

    Donnnnt waaaannnaaaa! Im about to talk to Camille about lots of different things.

    Tria took my hand. But. Beatrix mercilessly smacked his hand away. Scary.

    Please be silent! Did His Majesty not say that if you failed again, you would be forcefully repatriated?

    Uuu

    His Majesty gave you permission to study abroad based on the reason that you would be trying hard at studies, you know?

    Beatrix has no mercy with Tria. As expected, even Tria doesnt seem to be able to refute her.

    Tria-sama, you were in such a bad situation? Wouldnt it be better if you studied?

    Camille! But today was

    Waka-sama. If you obtain over 80% in the exam at the end of the supplementary lessons, His Highness may well reconsider, you know? Weve discussed this Now then, what will you do, Waka-sama?

    Tria was agonising over it. Unwilling to overlook this gap, Beatrix pressed him further.

    Just by getting over 80% in the supplementary lessons final test, youll be able to escape from repatriation.

    Uuuuu

    Waka-sama.

    I get it! All I need is 80% right? Ill do it!

    Thats the spirit!

    Sorry Camille, even though I invited you here. Ill definitely make up for this!

    Said Tria, as he grasped my two hands apologetically, before leaving the room, his essories jingly and jangly all the while.

    We-ll-then. The noisy one has left the room now, hasnt he? Camille-sama, Id like to have a little chat with you, so would that be all right?

    Beatrix who had referred to the prince of her own country as the noisy one turned to me. Going by the conversation earlier, it seems that she has some business with me.

    Eh-, mn. Go ahead?

    I timidly replied to her.

    I shall go straight to the point. Are you, like me, a person from a different world?

    -!

    Beatrix was looking straight at me. I was thinking that she was very different from the in-game Beatrix, and it seems that she too was someone who was thrown into this world.

    Now then, how should I answer. Would it be better if I just honestly revealed everything, or should I hide anything that she doesnt already know? Shes from the Diamonds faction; an enemy force, as it were.

    The original Camille Rhodolite wouldnt have gotten into something like an engagement with Achille Jade. Her magic was also not as good as yours. She was a woman who did nothing other than chase Royce-sama about Though, simrly, I too am very far from the original Beatrix Tapas.

    She began telling me about herself. About how she was originally a Japanese university student, and after falling into a manhole, she came to this world. About how she knew that this game was that of an otome game, and she hadpletely cleared that game About how the result of her efforts so that she didnt end up with the same fate as Beatrix was that the situation around her became very different from how it was in the game, and in particr how she had an influence on Tria.

    She revealed everything to me, without hiding a thing. Moved by her sincerity, I felt like being frank about my circumstances as well.

    I see. Im like you somebody who came from another world. I fell down the emergency stairs at high school, and I ended up as the three year old Camille in this game world

    I knew it!

    Beatrix hugged me. I can smell a gentle and faint musk perfume on her.

    Whoa!

    Sorry, I was just too happy Once I thought that it wasnt just me.

    Without being able to tell anyone anything, in order to twist her fate, she fought a lonely battle. Inparison, Ive been living a veryfortable life There was also a period when I couldnt ept this world, but after that, I did whatever I wanted to master magic, and ended up where I am now. Royce-sama isnt avoiding me, and Achille became my fianc. Im on good terms with my father as well.

    Its not just me, you know? I probably know of two other people who came from another world.

    Who is it? Could it be the Q of Clovers who failed the exam?

    No, I dont know that person Also, you dont have to use keigo with me, you know? In our original worlds, youre my elder after all.

    Well then, as long as we arent in public, Ill take you up on your offer If its not the Q of Clovers, then who?

    The Heroine, and probably the Q of Spades is the same as us. It looks like the Q of Spades doesnt have any knowledge of the game, though. I think that she might havee to this world at quite a young age.

    The Heroine is here too? Even though its only the first year Shes supposed to enter next year, right?

    Right. But she was at the event held after the entrance ceremony. She asked me Are you a bodyswapper?. It looked like she also knew about Royce-sama and Achille.

    That means theres a good chance that shes a person whos yed the game, doesnt it? What kind of girl is the Heroine?

    I dont really know.

    At the time, the Heroine had probably wanted to say something. Because of the alcohol, my memories are a bit fuzzy, you know?

    I see. It seems that youre not on good terms with the Heroine, huh?

    If its Mei-chan, then its good terms, you know? When Raiga-sama isnt with her, I might be able to lure her out.

    Ah-!

    When I brought up Raigas name, Beatrix suddenly had a huge reaction.

    Raiga? Thats right, what kind of rtionship do Mei and Raiga have? At the entrance ceremony, they seemed very close, but

    The two of them are engaged, you see.

    No way! So the two of them really are together? Hes already impossible as a love interest?

    I wonder why, but it looks like Beatrix has received quite the shock. Could it be that shes a Raiga fan? In that case, theres no mistake that itd be a shock. I mean, if it were me, and the moment I met Royce-sama in this world, he already had something like a fiance, Id probably be intensely depressed.

    By the way, Beatrix. At the entrance ceremony, I didnt spot the J of Diamonds, but is he at this school?

    A-, ahh J huh? Hes supposed to be in the same faction, but Ive never met him before. He hasnt entered the school either.

    Perhaps because she was still under the shock from before, Beatrix was quite shaken.

    Hes not here? At this school?

    The J of Diamonds lived in Topageria, and was the son of a merchant that did business all over the world. Of course, he was super rich. In the game, he was a character that gave the feeling of a generous older brother who was good at looking after others.

    So the Q of Clovers, the J of Diamonds, as well as the J of Spades arent at the school, huh?

    Its already something impossible to predict.

    Y-, Youre right Its be something strange, huh?

    Ever since we spoke about Raiga and Mei, Beatrix hasnt really been paying attention.

    Beatrix?

    Sorry.

    Shall I try speaking to Mei-chan?

    Would that be all right?

    Mn. Mei-chan is a good girl after all. Im sure shell say okay.

    Because Otome Game Comrades in the same situation have increased, Im feeling reassured as well. To me, bing friendly with Beatrix was a huge gain.

    After I left Trias room to head back to my dorm, I found Achille standing in front of my door. The way hes standing looks a bit like this statue I saw long ago, doesnt it? Right! It was the Niou statue!

    Camille, where were you, until an hour like this?

    After the supplementary exam, school had finished, and after that I went to y at the Diamonds dorm, so I ended up returning to the dormte. Its already time to sleep. I might have needlessly worried Achille.

    While unlocking the lock to my room, I answered Achille.

    Where? Um, to the Diamonds dorm, but?

    The Diamonds dorm? What were you doing at such a ce?

    For a moment, Achille looked shocked.

    I went to y at Trias, and got friendly with Beatrix.

    Camille

    Hmm? Achille seems kind of weird.

    Achille, why-

    Come here for a minute!

    Achille grabbed my hand, and brought us into my room himself.

    What? This is my room, but You cant sleep, so you want to y trumps?

    Camille, you really dont have even a little sense of wariness, do you?

    Wariness? Did some incident happen or something?

    Thats not what I mean. Camille, you have too little wariness towards men If you go wandering about by yourself, moreover, following a guy into his room at this hour, what are you going to do if something happens?

    Nothing happened you know, we just ate cake and drank magic tea. It might be the stronghold of the Diamonds faction, but something like what youre worrying about

    Camille, that isnt what Im talking about.

    Suddenly, Achille closed the distance between us.

    What Im worried about, is this kind of thing, you know?

    With another step, Achille drew in towards me.

    Achille?

    I unconsciously backpedalled, but behind me was a wall. Achille ced both of his hands on the wall around my face, and closed me in. Achille was in a position where he was peering directly into my face. Isnt this, whatsmonly known as a KabeDON? Wont this end up once again like that sweet atmosphere from a while ago?

    Even though youve got me, a fianc, what are you going to do if after wandering about and following some other guy around, you get this done to you?

    -

    Achille is way too close! Even if I try to escape, there are no openings though What do I do? What do I say? Im just flustered, and a good idea wonte to mind.

    Umm Achille, umm-

    Hey, Camille? Im not as tolerant as you are, so I wouldnt be able to overlook my fiances cheating.

    Achille came even closer, and hes already at a distance where I can feel his breath.

    Ch-, Cheating?

    What kind of iprehensible stuff is he talking about? Even though all I did was enjoy myself to some magic tea, and didnt do anything to feel guilty about

    For a while now, Achille hasnt taken his cobalt eyes off of mine. Perhaps because of nervousness, my heart is beating like a hammer. Why does my heart have to beat so quickly like this? Im innocent! The moment I thought to refute with this, Achille moved his face even closer His lips, softly touched mine.

    Nn-

    I-, Is this a k-, k-k-k-k-, a kiss? The rebuttal I came up with haspletely disappeared from my head. Holy crap! After Achille slowly parted his lips from mine, his eyes narrowed in satisfaction.

    Goodnight, Camille. If youve learned your lesson with this, next time be more careful, okay?

    Leaving me still frozen up against the wall, Achille left my room. What the heck was that?

    After being released from the tension I had all that time, with my hands still over my lips, I slid helplessly to the ground. Even though Achille has already left, my heart is still pounding away.

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    In her internal monologue, Beatrix refers to Camille as (kamiiyu-jou). The -jou here Ive tranted as miss, and is the same jou in ojousama and jouchan''(little miss). Young, unmarried woman.

    Today is the day of Baka-samas supplementary exam. Actually, His Majesty doesnt think fondly of Baka-sama studying abroad. After all, he gave Baka-sama permission to take the exam under the assumption that hed fail, when miraculously Baka-sama passed. The second prince whos wilful and unfettered at best of times, would be going to a ce where His Majesty wouldnt be around. Theres no way that His Majesty wouldnt be worried. Absolutely dont let him cause trouble, His Majesty instructed us guards personally. Aahh, my stomach hurts

    On the day of that Baka-samas supplementary exams, I was drinking his handmade stomach medicine while I waited for his return in the lobby of the Diamonds dorm. Baka-sama is an idiot, but his ability in magic potions is amazing. The medicines that he create have effects unmatched by others.

    Ahh, its about time for the exams to finish, isnt it?

    I have a little time to rest until my lord returns. The strain from always being forced to babysit him just keeps building up. I want to be able to rest, at least in the times when he isnt here.

    After a while, the dorm begins to get noisy. Ahh, Baka-sama has arrived, hasnt he? Hes popr with the girls. Not as much as me, but hes popr. Moreover, the person himself is a helpless womaniser. Even in this dorm, regardless of whether theyre a student or a servant, there are many devotees of Baka-sama . Still, today is one grade noisier than usual. Wondering about this, I went to go see what was going on with my lord.

    Baka-sama brought back a petite school girl. Shes not a member of the Diamonds faction, and seems to be a student from another faction. Honestly, hes a man who makes no distinction.

    Oh? Thats

    I saw the girls head. She had pink hair, and from her cheek to her shoulder were tattoos There are a bunch on her arms, too.

    Camille Rhodolite

    Why did Baka-sama bring Camille Rhodolite? When did they be friendly? Speaking of which, in the past he mentioned something about liking a youngdy that was at Gas dance party. It couldnt be that it was her? Baka-sama got on the magic circle that served as an elevator, and headed with her to his room.

    I have a bad feeling about this. In a fluster, I headed towards the floor with his room, and after questioning the maid about the instructions he gave her regarding todays guest, I found that as expected, she was asked to prepare one of the princes handmade magic teas (one with a bewitchment effect). That guyyyy. Look, Ivepletely seen his ulterior motives. Even if he can fool Camille, my eyes wont be! Just how many years do you think Ive taken care of Baka-sama?

    Its just a magic tea, so normally the effects wouldnt be anything that great. Even if there was an effect, itd just be enough to change the mood. Thats why there shouldnt be any immediate bewitchment effects. No, but I changed my mind. All of these teas are handmade by Baka-sama It might be risky to consider them as having the same effect as normal magic teas. I honestly cant let my guard down when ites to that idiot prince. Its only in this area that his brain is put to use.

    In ce of the magic tea with the bewitching effects, I prepared a magic tea for fatigue and mana recovery, and headed to Baka-samas room.

    Waka-sama, Ive brought the tea.

    In my lords room was Miss Camille whom I caught a nce of earlier. Camille-samas silky pink hair was worn straight down, and she was happily speaking about something with an adorable smile. Shes a bishoujo. Even excluding Baka-sama, Im sure shes easily popr.

    Ah, grazie, Bea-chin.

    Baka-sama, arent you sitting a little too close to Miss Camille?

    But still~, Camille, you really are the best, arent you?

    I wonder about that.

    As expected of you. To continue seducing women even though Im here, I take my hat off to my lord.

    But still, Miss Camilles reply came admirably quickly. In the game, wasnt she a girl who was very proud of her own good looks, who loved men, her favourite being the prince of her own country, but also being a slut who was weak against thepliments of good looking men in general? Considering that shes tattooed all over her body, and her rtionship with the J of Hearts, shes really too different from the original Camille.

    You are! Its not easy to find a magician of your skill, you know? Id definitely want you toe to Topageria, and spread your knowledge of magic through our country. As my wife.

    Huh? Waif?

    Camilles words covered over the words in my mind.

    Right. Hmm? Could it be that it didnt reach you, Camille?

    What are you talking about?

    Mmmmn, thats weirddd. The Rhodolite Marquis family said that they received our message, though.

    Tria-sama?

    You see, I applied for a marriage. With you.

    Haah? Before I knew it, had my lord even started making moves on women in other countries? It seems that at some point, Baka-sama had applied for a marriage with Miss Camille without me knowing. It seems that Miss Camille didnt know about it either, and shes bewildered.

    B-, But Im already engaged to Achille, you see.

    Eh-, Miss Camille is engaged? And moreover, to the J of Hearts of all people? Why? Arent the two of them supposed to be like cats and dogs when ites to the K of Hearts? When the Heroine met with the K of Hearts end, didnt Achille socially obliterate Camille to the point that she couldnt show her face in public anymore? I cant get over this, geez. But this trouble in my heart was blown away by Baka-samas next line.

    But I mean, with my authority, Id be able to do something about it, you seeee.

    To think that he said the absolutely lowest line he could say to the girl that hes trying to get close to. This guy, is he nning to forcefully break apart somebody elses marriage using his authority? I dont recall bringing up such a kid!

    You stupid kiddd! What the hell are you thinking, making a move on a girl with a fianc!? If a horse doesnt kick you, I will!

    Oops, I ended up raising my hand against him. Miss Camille is wide-eyed in shock.

    It huuurts! Bea-chin, what are you doing!? This is abuse of a prince!

    Shut up, damnit.

    Ah, no good, no good. Even though were in front of a guest, didnt I just reveal our usual conduct?

    Owow I mean, arent you only engaged in a strategic marriage?

    Thats-

    Oh? Miss Camille is stuck for words. Looking at how those two were behaving at the mixer, it doesnt seem that theyre just in a marriage of convenience.

    Waka-sama, Camille-sama must also have her own circumstances. Impatient men end up hated, you know. Camille-sama, please help yourself to the tea. This time weve prepared a variety of magic tea thats rtively easier to drink.

    Thanks.

    Miss Camille looks relieved that the topic has moved on from that. Savouring the magic tea in her mouth, shes smiling.

    Its delicious.

    How cute! The Camille Rhodolite in the game was just annoying, but this girl is different. As expected, this girl isnt Camille. Im sure of it.

    I want to try speaking to her. After all, if shes in the same circumstances as me, then Im sure shes been troubled about it all this time.

    After chasing Baka-sama out of the room, I gained a chance to speak with Miss Camille. It looks like shes being wary of me. Its understandable; in the game, the Hearts and Diamonds factions had a bad rtionship.

    I shall go straight to the point. Are you, like me, a person from a different world?

    -!

    Miss Camille reacted a little. Unlike how she was in the game, this Camille seems to be bad at lying. I decided to press her further.

    The original Camille Rhodolite wouldnt have gotten into something like an engagement with Achille Jade. Her magic was also not as good as yours. She was a woman who did nothing other than chase Royce-sama about Though, simrly, I too am very far from the original Beatrix Tapas.

    Because her vignce seemed to have slightly lessened, I told her about myself. It seems that it was effective, and her expression softened a little. Miss Camille slowly opened those lovely, cherry blossom coloured lips of hers, and answered with what I wanted to hear.

    I see. Im like you somebody who came from another world. I fell down the emergency stairs at high school, and I ended up as the three year old Camille in this game world

    She easily spoke to me about how she first ended up in this world, and how shed been living up until now. She was originally a high schooler, and although she hadntpletely cleared the game, shed finished the routes of the important characters. Of course, she knew about the fate that awaited Camille in the game as well.

    I knew it!

    Because I was overwhelmed with emotion, I unconsciously hugged her. Ive always been alone, and anxious, and there were days where I was afraid that no matter how I tried, nothing would change. It was tough. But I had arade in a ce like this. Camille, who hade to this world in the same way that I did.

    Whoa!

    She was surprised at my behaviour.

    Sorry, I was just too happy Once I thought that it wasnt just me.

    Miss Camille epted somebody like me. The fact that shes facing away a little awkwardly is probably because shes being shy.

    However, I couldnt conceal my shock at her next words.

    Its not just me, you know? I probably know of two other people who came from another world.

    Who is it? Could it be the Q of Clovers who failed the exam?

    In fact, I independently researched the other characters that didnt enter the school. In the end, I didnt know what the majority were doing, but I know about the Q of Clovers. She took the entrance exam, but she failed. Despite the fact that she was supposed to be a talented student in the game, what does it mean that she failed the exam? It could be that both she and Miss Camille are people who swapped with the original characters.

    No, I dont know that person Also, you dont have to use keigo with me, you know? In our original worlds, youre my elder after all.

    Well then, as long as we arent in public, Ill take you up on your offer If its not the Q of Clovers, then who?

    Miss Camille spoke about the possibility of the Heroine and the Q of Spades being bodyswappers. The Heroine seemed like she might have knowledge of the game. It seems that Miss Camille doesnt know about her personality yet, but at any rate, shes the heroine. Itd be reassuring if she was an ally.

    Miss Camille spoke of yet another shocking truth. It was about the rtionship between Raiga and Mei, that Id been wondering about since the entrance ceremony.

    The two of them are engaged, you see.

    No way! So the two of them really are together?

    My mind went nk.

    If possible, I had wanted to try speaking to Raiga Transbaal who I had always been a fan of, once I entered the school. I held the weak hopes of even bing lovers with him if things went well. Right now, in that instant, it was all smashed to pieces though.

    After that, I spoke to her about various other things, but as sorry as I am, because the shock was too huge, I hardly remember a thing about what we talked about. However, I feel like at the end, I epted an invitation to meet with Mei.

 Volume 2 - Ch 8

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    Today there were no sses, so it was decided that wed have a girls only gathering. Camille properly remembered the promise we made on that day, and immediately put it into action. Incidentally, Baka-sama is taking supplementary lessons, so hes absent.

    She brought the Q of Spades, Mei Zakro along, and came to the Diamonds factions dorm. The Ga Nations King Faction and Royal Prince Faction werent on as bad terms as in the game, but if we gathered at either the Hearts factions dorm or the Spades factions dorm, it seems like one of them would find it ufortable to stay in. Because of that we took the middle ground, and hosted the gathering in a garden near the Diamonds dorms entrance.

    I-, Its nice to meet you My name is Mei Zakro.

    A girl with dark blue hair that hugged her face was trembling as she curtsied. S-, So cute I can acknowledge the cuteness of the one Raiga chose as his fiance. Its vexing though When I look at this girl, the desire to protect her wells up in me.

    Im Beatrix Tapas. Lets get along, Ojousan.

    At my words, Meis face turned red, and she faced downwards.

    Y- Yes. Lets get along.

    Because she was too nervous, towards the end her voice shrank.

    Mmn, this really isnt Mei, is it? The original Mei Zakro was more of a cool and bold type of character. Ive easily reached a conclusion in my mind.

    Well then, now that the three of us are here, lets start the gathering!

    Miss Camille was making a loud announcement.

    By the way, what are we supposed to do at a girls only gathering?

    Eh-, thats what you want to announce? I could see a little bit of Baka-sama in Miss Camille who had taken action with all energy and no forethought.

    Hmm. Oneesama Amongst the girls in the Spades ss, there are a lot of talks about love.

    Well then, lets go with that.

    What an incredibly thoughtless response. Is that really all right? I had to swallow back the tsukkomi that reached as far up as my throat.

    Well then, lets talk begin by talking about the type of men that we like. Huhu, Im so happy. Ive wanted to try talking about love with fellow girls at least once in my life!

    Said Mei, who had taken charge at some point. Whilst continually referring to Camille as Oneesama, shes sticking quite closely to her.

    Oneesama, what type of men do you like? By the way, my type is one thats slightly arrogant and overbearing, but is a gentleman whos very sweet to me.

    Are you suddenly going to jump into praising your man? Thats definitely Raiga shes talking about, right?

    M- My type?

    Miss Camille has for some reason suddenly grown agitated. Just whats the matter? Her eyes are swimming, and her face is red.

    I-I-I-Id suure like to hear about Beatrix type first

    My type, huh? Its like Meis.

    And little wonder, since the person I like is one and the same as hers.

    What an interesting conversation youre havingg.

    While we were still in the middle of our girls gathering, it seems that Baka-sama returned from his supplementary lessons. This garden is close by the entrance to the Diamonds dorm, thus, students who are returning from the school building will unfailing pass by it. Today, Baka-sama had brought along an unfamiliar blonde student who was standing behind him.

    Waka-sama and,

    Royce-sama!

    Miss Camilles face is shining. Its almost as though shes the in-game Camille.

    The person that was with Baka-sama was the prince of the neighbouring nation, K of Hearts Royce Ga.

    Heyys, Bea-chin. This is my friend, Royce~ Royce, this is Beatrix Tapas. Shes my knight.

    Pleased to meet you, Your Highness.

    Huh? Whats wrong? Prince Royce is staring right at me.

    Umm

    A-, Ahh. Sorry for spacing out. Its nice to meet you, Beatrix. Youve been looking after our Camille, huh?

    No, it is I who is being looked after. I am d to be getting along with Camille-sama.

    Prince Royce gave me a sweet smile. As expected of the number one popr romantic interest character. Its a smile thats well suited for use on women.

    Because of the mens intrusion, our girls gathering is temporarily over. Miss Camille left her seat with Mei who had be nervous because of Prince Royces appearance. Id heard rumours about it softening, but it seems that the factional disputes of the Ga Nation haventpletely disappeared.

    Waka-sama, what happened to the supplementary lessons?

    Its fine to take a bit of a break, right? If its my studies, Im about to have Royce teach me so its all good~

    Waka-sama!

    Ahaha, Ill go get a tool for studying, okayy? Ill leave entertaining Royce up to you, Bea-chin~

    Baka-sama disappeared into the dorm,ughing frivolously all the while. Does he n on studying in the garden? Certainly, there are tables and chairs as well, but

    Wont you stop being so mad? I really did make a promise with Tria to study together today, after all.

    Prince Royce who was still here was following up for Baka-sama. If Im told that by him, then theres no way I can condemn Baka-sama any further.

    Ah-, yes.

    Having a friend help him with his studies can already be considered admirable for Baka-sama. This is if he doesnt cause trouble for His Highness today, but things seem fine for now. But still, Ive been acutely feeling Prince Royces gaze for a while now. Why is he staring at me so hard, I wonder.

    Umm, Your Highness Is something the matter?

    Youre Trias knight, arent you, Beatrix?

    High Highness softly smiled. Mn, its the smile of a model prince, isnt it? I wonder how many women hes unconsciously taken captive with this smile of his. However, Prince Royce is a gentle man, both in appearance and in personality. I like prim and stiff men, so Im not lured by that smile, and continue the conversation normally.

    I am, but?

    Even though youre a girl. How amazing You sure are cool.

    Eh-

    This is the first time that Ive been praised by a man for being a knight.

    In Topageria, female knights are normally looked on with hostility or contempt or as something bothersome, by men. The only exception around me is Baka-sama. I dont know why, but despite being afraid of me, hes be attached to me. Its exactly because of this that I felt like serving Baka-sama. I wonder if praising a female knight is because of a difference in views between Ga and Topageria.

    While I was racking my brains over this, Prince Royce spoke to me again.

    What are your hobbies, Beatrix?

    Eh-, my hobbies?

    Being shocked by the sudden question, I obediently answered him.

    My hobbies are training, perhaps.

    Anything else?

    Umm, reading books on war strategy for example Also I enjoy strolls in the forest, you see.

    Hmmm, strolls? Theres a forest near the academy, isnt there?

    Indeed, I asionally head there. It doubles as training.

    Whats with this? His Highness is continually asking me questions with a smile, but?

    I seee, how interesting If its fine with you, would you mind guiding me around the forest? Ive never been.

    G-, Guiding, you say? Me?

    Just go, Bea-chin.

    My lord who had gone to fetch a tool for studying from his dorm room had suddenly appeared behind me. Damn you, Baka-sama Even though the other party is the prince of a nation, what are you going to do if something happens? This isnt something you say irresponsibly.

    Its fine. Ill make sure to bring guards Is it okay?

    I was going to point out the problems from a security point of view, but my thoughts were anticipated by His Highness and he said that first. Whilst asking Is it okay? or whatever, Prince Royce is giving off an aura that seems to say that he wont ept anything other than an affirmative. Even though in the game he was supposed to be a sparkling prince, this feeling of pressure is no joke. Was he always such a forceful character?

    With His Highness having said that much, theres no way I can decline.

    Y-, Yes If you are fine with me then dly

    Losing to his pressure, I ended up agreeing to his proposal.

    Thanks!

    His Highness flushed happily, and took my hand.

    What is this? Why does His Highness, want to go to the forest with me upon our first meeting? It cant be.

    Im not an idiot either, and Im not so dull that Ill fail to notice his forceful attitude today. In my old world, I was a university student, so Ive had a reasonable amount of experience. In other words, Prince Royce is interested in me in that meaning of the word. I dont understand why, though.

    But, I wonder why Even though I hade to this academy to babysit Baka-sama whilst also hoping that if chance permitted, Id be able to romance Raiga who appeared in the game

    For a rival character like me to be romanced instead Its an impossible development. And moreover, the other party is that Prince Royce.

    Why did the situation turn into this!?

    Authors Note: RoyceHeroine was the original n, but following the flow of the story, it ended up as Beatrix. Sorry.

 Volume 2 - Ch 9

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    You know, people have mentioned that Camille is smart because shes a genius in magic. However, its been mentioned in the memo that her nature is one of someone who is fundamentally above average in all aspects, but can never get really good at anything. Could it be that aspensation for her magical talents, the universe has robbed her of her other mental facilities?

    Today I came to the forest together with Royce-sama and Achille to have a pic.

    Beatrix of the Diamonds faction is apanying us as a guide. It seems that shes familiar with this forest. Royce-sama When did you get so friendly with Beatrix? I think it was probably after that girls only gathering, but that he became close enough with her to invite her on a pic is surprising.

    When I mentioned this, Camille, wont you have fun being with a girl friend? he replied to me. Certainly, its just as he says. What, did he invite Beatrix for my sake? Royce-sama really is so kind, huh?

    Camille, Achille, please look after me as my guards today.

    Understood.

    Please leave it to me!

    Royce-sama is sparkly and lovely today as well. The light clothing hes wearing for the pic really suit him, huh!

    When I stared at Royce-sama as though eating him up, breathing wildly, Achille stood in front of me and blocked my view.

    Camille, your robe is going to get caught on branches, you know? Its because youre wearing something like this even though were going on a pic

    But If you say magicians uniform then its a robe

    Its the clothing I always wear to work, so just putting it on puts me at ease. Its already gotten to the point that I feel uneasy going out without it.

    Take it off.

    Eh-

    Youre wearing clothing under the robe, right? Today were walking in the forest, so the robe will get in the way. So take it off.

    Wai- Achille.

    Achille slipped in behind me and easily pulled off my robe.

    Under my robe, Im wearing a long ck vest, and shorts. Under the vest is a grey, shoulderless shirt. This is also my work-wear. Even like this, I can move around just fine, but like I thought, I cant calm down without the robe.

    Camille Do you not have any clothes besides those?

    Of course I do. The robe alsoes in red, and as for the underclothing Ive worn them in a variety of colours before, and

    Achille looked at me with an astounded look.

    Lets go shopping next time.

    In the end, my robe was confiscated by Achille.

    While crunching fallen leaves, we headed to the depths of the forest. Our destination was ake within the forest. There wed eat, and then wed head back.

    Not that way, Camille. Over here.

    To stop me from heading in the wrong direction, Achille grasped my hand.

    Hyaa!

    Because I stumbled with bad timing, I fell into Achilles chest. Even though hes dainty for a guy, Achille easily caught me without staggering.

    T-, Thanks.

    Suddenly, the time when Achille held me and told me that he liked me crossed by my mind, and my face grew hot. Achille thinks of me in that way, doesnt he? He likes me as a member of the opposite sex While I was at it, I even recalled the incident at the girls gathering, and I was even more shaken. Even though it wouldve been fine just to say that Royce-sama was my type The face that appeared in my mind, was Achille for some reason. Aahh, all of that waspletely because that guy did something so raunchy to me! T-, To kiss me like that!

    Camille?

    Achilles wondering voice snapped me out of it. While I was stuck in thought, the whole time I was being held by Achille.

    Sorry It-, Its not-, -hing.

    I leapt out of Achilles arms in a panic.

    Because I was feeling awkward, I turned to gaze towards Royce-sama, and found that he was having fun chatting with Beatrix. Its rare that Royce-sama is that close with a girl. Even though he normally deals with noble daughters quite ndly, and never lets them into his personal space

    Up until now, except for me, hes never been especially close to any women. Even if theyre a girl thats close with me. Dborah and Dsire are a good example. Whats with this ufortable and hazy feeling in my chest?

    Im sure its because of the overeating I did at dinnerst night. I mean, it was the cream cheese pasta that I like. I was hungry for it despite myself, and was even gluttonous enough for seconds. Im reflecting.

    I decided to breathe in the fresh air of the forest and refresh myself. Even though I say its a forest, right now were walking in a rtively less dense area, so theres a lot of sunlight. Perhaps because people walk this way often, theres a pathrge enough for several people to pass though. There are flowers blooming on either side of the path. Whilst looking around for flowers that seem like theyd be good for magic experiments, I continued heading into the forest.

    We finally reached theke. We left when it was the morning, but right now it isnt even noon yet. It seems that we got here faster than Id have thought. By theke was a clearing, and I could see the sky properly. The weather is good today, so the water in theke is calm as well.

    At a ce a little distance away from theke where the ground was t, we immediately began spreading out lunch boxes made by Royce-samas maids on the cloth we were using as a pic nket. Inside therge, but light lunch boxes were sandwich-ey things made from various foods stuffed in a baguette-like bread, and in another lunch box they even had fruits for dessert. It looks delicious. Because Im always eating high ss-ish food, eating this type of food is a great change of pace.

    We began to eat while drinking the magic tea that Beatrix brought. Today as well, it was a tea with fatigue recovery effects. Its just right for a pic. Magic tea sure is convenient, huh

    I picked two baguettes. One was a roast tomato and cheese sandwich with something like basil in it, and the other was a sandwich with roast apple and caramel sauce, with something like custard cream mixed in.

    Its delicious

    I dont know where the fullness from yesterday night went, but I immediately began devouring the baguettes. Dessert was something like strawberries, something like grapes, and something like mangoes. I keep saying something like because Im finding it hard to dere confidently that theyre exactly the same thing. The foods in this world are extremely simr to those in my old world, but I cant say that theyre exactly the same. The strawberry-like fruit has no hairs growing from the seeds after all, and theres no calyx either, and the grape-like fruit dont grow in a bunch either. As for the fruit like a mango, theres no seed or skin, and its a shy and rainbow coloured. Of course, these all have their own names as well, but theyreplicated so in my head Im just giving them the names of fruits from my old world.

    Camille, theres cream around your mouth, you know?

    Achille wiped my mouth with a napkin for me. He does it skilfully, like a mother. The fact that the only one he takes care of this much is me, is something that I only recently realised. No, to begin with, theres no one but me who does childish things like getting cream around their mouths though.

    The weather is good, and the temperature was nice and warm, and even though it was in the middle of a pic, I became sleepy. To fight back the sleepiness, I tidied up the lunch boxes, and went on a walk around theke. Fortunately, it isnt thatrge ake, so it doesnt seem like itll take me too long.

    Royce-sama and Beatrix were getting along well and having a conversation while drinking tea Hmm? If I look carefully, for people who were getting along, Beatrix seemed a little withdrawn. Royce-sama was smiling incredibly happily though.

    Beatrix?

    C-, Camille Suddenly standing up like that, are you going somewhere?

    A stroll. Im just going to walk ap around theke, so Ill be right back.

    M-, Me too

    For some reason, Beatrix looked like she was making me an entreaty with hers eyes. Maybe she needs the toilet.

    Well then, together with Beatrix-

    Ille with you, Camille. Itd trouble me if you wandered off somewhere weird again, after all And Beatrix-sama, while Im gone, could I trouble you to look after His Highness? We wont take all that long, so itd be great if you could enjoy theke after wee back.

    Achille cut off my offer. Is he feeling sleepy too? But geez, even I wont get lost just walking around theke.

    Mn, that sounds good.

    Before Beatrix could reply to Achilles slightly overbearing proposal, Royce-sama answered for her.

    Achille, Camille, you two go on ahead. Ill be fine.

    If you say so, Royce-sama.

    Though I felt dissatisfied with the way this conversation went, I decided to take a walk around theke first.

    Then Ill be going first, Beatrix. Ill leave Royce-sama to you, okay?

    With my hands joined with Achilles, I began slowly heading towards the shore of theke.

    We were at a ce with t ground and a little grass growing, but after walking for a little while, more and more trees started to appear. But there was a small path between the trees due to people walking there, and the path seemed to lead all the way around theke. Each generation of students may have walked along this path like we are now.

    A pic once in a while isnt bad, huh?

    I looked up at Achille who was next to me. Achille was walking with a peaceful expression, still holding my right hand.

    Yeah.

    The area around theke is peaceful. All I could hear was the sound of leaves blowing in the wind, and asionally the songs of small birds.

    Were always passing here through the sky, so a pic is fresh. Achille, you havent done this sort of thing much either, right?

    Its because youre always flying through the sky, Camille, that you cant remember the paths on the ground. Really, dont even think about taking a stroll in the forest by yourself, okay?

    Its fine. If I get lost, I can just fly.

    Achille looked astounded by my reply.

    When we had made it halfway around theke, suddenly a strong gust of wind blew. The leaves of the blowing trees danced in the air.

    Wah-, what a strong wind.

    I unconsciously shut my eyes, and Achille pulled me over as though covering me.

    Are you okay?

    I-, Im fine Thanks.

    Even though I said I was fine, Achille wouldnt move away. On the contrary, one of his hands began fiddling with my hair Its ticklish, you know?

    Umm, Achille?

    When I spoke up, lost, Achille finally parted his hand from my hair.

    There were petals stuck to your hair, you know?

    Eh?

    In the palm of his hand were small flower petals of a slightly deep pink, that he had picked out of my hair. Lovely flower petals blown in the wind from somewhere.

    What, so it was because of flower petals? I was surprised.

    Isnt it your fault for making me wonder what was going on, because you suddenly started touching my hair? Because of Achille, my heart is beating violently again.

    Im just chatting with Achille normally, and being alone together is something that happens all the time. But then why is it that when Im alone with him nowadays, my heart will just suddenly start pounding?

    Just what did you think it was?

    Achille asked me teasingly with a smirk. He kinda seems like hes in a good mood. As if I could say it, thattely Ive been repeatedly interpreting what he does as a continuation of that shameless thing he did to me.

    Nothing really.

    Because the embarassment was just too much, my reply ended up curt. Im not sure what was so funny, but Achille was chuckling away. As if my heart had been seen through, the embarassment in my heart just kept piling up.

    Theres no mistake that by the time I was led by hand back to Royce-sama and Beatrix, my face was as red as a boiled octopus.

    Authors Note: It was a coordinated y by Royce and Achille.

 Volume 2 - Ch 10

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    Why? Did I do something to make this happen? I cantprehend it in the slightest.

    Why is it that Im doing something like having a pic with His Highness Royce of the neighbouring nation?

    My boots crunch against fallen leaves as I advance. For something as simple as walking through this forest, something like a guide is unnecessary.

    Not that way, Camille. Over here.

    J of Hearts Achille Jade was guiding Miss Camille. Shes bad with directions to the extreme. Shes veered off in the wrong direction countless times now. And with full confidence in herself, too.

    Huhu, Achille and Camille sure get along, huh?

    Royce-sama gazed at them, seemingly finding it heartwarming.

    Certainly, the two of them do seem to get along. This is the first time Ive heard Achille use anything other than Keigo. In the game he gave the feeling of being an intellectual keigo-using character. For him to talk in such a manner ispletely unexpected. He was a character whose true self was difficult to read, but he feigned innocence with the games heroine as well, didnt he?

    Your Highness, is this truly all right? To be walking in the forest with so few people.

    As expected, I really was uneasy about moving through the forest with so few people, so I asked him as such.

    Its fine. Those two are strong, and Im good at hiding myself.

    His Highness Royce seems to have confidence in his two subordinates, but honestly if I had to say, those two dont look strong in the slightest. Miss Camille is a frail nobles daughter, and Achille is quite slender for a man. They dont look suited for battle. If ites down to it, I have no choice but to fight, do I? I gathered strength into the hand that held my sword.

    Youre strong, arent you, Beatrix?

    Eh-?

    Youre the personal knight of the second prince after all, and in Topagerias swordsmanship tournament you were the champion six times, right?

    Ahh Well

    Why does the prince of the neighbouring country know about something like that? Prince Royce sure is well informed, isnt he? Or rather, perhaps hes fond of the swordsmanship tournament. I musnt think of this prince as the same as the prince in the game.

    We arrived at theke earlier than predicted. We departed in the morning, but it still isnt noon yet. The three members of the Hearts faction have quite the strong legs, it seems. Using Baka-sama as the basis for predicting the time it would take might have been rude to them. Theres arge clearing around theke, so there arent any obstacles blocking the view of the sky. The weather today is fine, so the water in theke is calm.

    Camille and Achille spread out a cloth in ce of a pic nket on a ce with t ground, a little distance from theke. It looks like this cloth is of a design unique to the Ga Nation. With red as the base colour, theres a three coloured pattern. Honestly, it like a waste to spread it out on the ground. It seems like lunch was made by Royce-samas maids. A Ga cuisine thatprised a baguette-like bread with various stuffings were inside the lunch boxes. It resembles the sandwich from my old world. I was the one who brought the drinks. Its the magic tea that Miss Camille likes.

    From the number of foods lined up inside the basket, I chose a baguette with the meat of something simr to a chicken, named a teikeen, mixed in with various herbs, and a chocte cream baguette with lots of nuts mixed in. Shockingly, this world has normal chocte. It might be because of somebody else who like us, came from another world.

    How is it, Beatrix? Does Gas cuisine suit your taste?

    Prince Royce was being attentive to me. Even if he didnt worry, itd be fine, since this is a taste that I experienced in my old world.

    Yes, its very delicious.

    I see. Thats great.

    Topageria is a country in the middle of the desert, so the foods have a lot of spices in them. You start to want to eat something different, once in a while.

    Wow, a nation in the desert sounds interesting too. I know about it, but Ive never actually gone, so Im attracted to the idea.

    This countrys climate is easier to live in, so I like it. In Ga, there are oceans and mountains, after all.

    I see! That sure makes me happy.

    Crap, did I give him some weird expectations? His Highness sparkling aura increased by 50%. Ill enjoy the climate andnd of Ga as much as I please, but I have no ns on permanently living there though.

    By the way, Ive heard that your dorm room is a room borrowed from Trias floor. Since its the same anyway, why didnt you just take your own room in the floor right below?

    Did Baka-sama speak to Prince Royce about the circumstances of my room?

    Well, it is because I am Waka-samas knight. His guard as well, you see. Waka-sama is using the entire floor as his own room, so I do have my own room, you know?

    Incidentally, Im not only his guard, but I also have the duty of keeping a look out so that Baka-sama does the things that hes supposed to, so I try to stay as close as possible.

    At present, you could say that most of my jobprises that aspect. When ites to Baka-sama, because hes famous for the stupidity of his actions, hes considered as a politically harmless stupid prince. Nobody would think of harming him. All this time, at most it was a few viins who tried to hold him for ransom.

    Hows the dessert? You like maingoes, right?

    Wh-

    Why does he know something like that? I certainly do like the maingo, a rainbow coloured fruit that resembles the mango. But I have no recollection of telling anybody anything like that, so its something known only to those quite close to me.

    You like strawbrees and grayps as well, right? And as for flowers, you like deep crimson roses, and on weekends, you go to the rose garden on campus

    There are plenty of the fruits that taste like strawberries and grapes in the basket. For all of the things that I enjoy to have been prepared And moreover, why does he know even the flowers that I like? I dont think even Baka-sama knows about that.

    Y-Yes, well

    Could this prince be a stalker? What a shocking development, even our Baka-sama seems better than that. No, maybe not. I mean, hes a man wholl even drug you if he has the chance. He only deals in substances that dont harm the body, but as a human, thats as low as it gets. No No matter how much of a stalker he might be, if he unskilfully follows me, Ill notice his presence but for me to have noticed no such thing at all, just what kind of method did he use?

    While I was at a loss as to what to reply, Miss Camille who was sitting next to me stood up. Perhaps because she noticed the anxiety on my face, she called out to me.

    Beatrix?

    C-, Camille Suddenly standing up like that, are you going somewhere?

    A stroll. Im just going to walk ap around theke, so Ill be right back.

    M-, Me too

    At this rate, staying here will be awkward, and it seems like Ill get to find out the princes true nature even though I dont want to which is scary, so I stared at Miss Camille while entreating her in my mind.

    Well then, together with Beatrix-

    Ille with you, Camille. Itd trouble me if you wandered off somewhere weird again, after all And Beatrix-sama, while Im gone, could I trouble you to look after His Highness? We wont take all that long, so itd be great if you could enjoy theke after wee back.

    Achille cut off Miss Camilles offer. What was that!? You n on leaving me alone with this prince!?

    Mn, that sounds good.

    Prince Royce answered Achilles slightly overbearing proposal. Even though I havent said a thing yet These two are in cahoots arent they? Even in the game, they showed their wlessbination ys whenever chance permitted.

    Achille, Camille, you two go on ahead. Ill be fine.

    If you say so, Royce-sama.

    Miss Camille was led by the hand and left. Please, wait a momentt!

    However, the screams of my heart didnt reach her. While Miss Camille and Achille were gone, I spent my time awkwardly with His Highness Royce.

    Umm, Your highness.

    What?

    Does Your Highness like me?

    Ill pass on both awkwardness and annoying things. For these sort of things, theres nothing better than to be straightforward and clear. After looking bewildered for a moment, Prince Royce answered my question.

    How troubling. Even though I wasnt nning on confessing like this.

    While giving off the sparkling aura that I mentioned, he smiled bitterly. I feel that there are plenty of schoolgirls who would swoon just seeing him do that.

    Thats right, Im interested in you, Beatrix. Its the first time Ive met a girl like you, after all.

    That is to say, a girl who wears mens clothing?

    Thats right, theres your appearance as well, but I think strong girls are cool.

    Why? Im terribly popr amongst youngdies, but in contrast, men do nothing but pretend to respect me while avoiding me. asionally, there are even those who hold open hostility to me.

    You sure have strange tastes, dont you, Your Highness?

    Really?

    Normally, a member of the opposite sex wouldnt pay a woman like me a nce.

    Thats great. It saves me the trouble if my love rivals decrease.

    His Highnessughed, unruffled.

    However, Your Highness. I apologise but I cant return Your Highness feelings.

    I clearly let him know what I thought. I know much too well that Im being rude. However, I also think that you should avoid taking a vague attitude. If you cant respond to the other persons feelings, then I dont think its good to let them hold too many expectations.

    I see. Somebody else you like You dont have one, right? Would it be okay to hear the reason why you cant?

    It seems that His Highness Royce even knows about my dating history. Wont ask, though! Whilst lost, I decided to speak the reason.

    It isnt as though I dislike you, Your Highness Its simply that Ive only recently been heartbroken, so Im not in the mood for new romance.

    Truly, I only just recently discovered that Raiga had a fiance, so my words arent a lie. It would be rude to Prince Royce, so I refrained from saying I dont like gentle men.

    Then it cant be helped, huh.

    Unexpectedly, His Highness easily backed down. His sad look would make a picture too. Frankly, it was anti-climactic. Even though he did something so stalkery.

    Umm

    Ill give up for now. But since weve already gotten to know each other, Id be happy if we could go out together again Would that be problematic?

    His Highness is gazing at me with sparkly and teary eyes like that of a pure puppy Its a face that our Baka-sama would definitely not be able to make.

    I wont be moved by those eyes of his

    I-, Isnt it obvious that theres no problems with that? If its somewhere close-by like today, then let us go out together again.

    By the time I realised, I had already ended up replying as such. Even if I regret it, its already toote

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    It seems that the nobles supporting uncle are starting to move It looks like Im being targeted.

    His Highness suddenly informed me as such.

    Information about the two great factions in this nation also mostly reach my ears. So the Royal Prince Faction have finally begun to move for real?

    Lately, the conflict between the Kings Faction and the Royal Prince Faction has begun to soften on the surface. Their sons, His Highness and Raiga-sama didnt have such a dangerous rtionship after all. It wasnt as though the two of them were very close to each other, but they hadnt openlye into conflict even once, and each one of them just lived as they wanted. Their subordinates also behaved as their lords did. In response, one section of the Royal Prince Faction nobles had grown tired of waiting, and finally began to take action.

    On the other hand though, the neighbouring country also has a power thats beginning to be turbulent Information that that power is aiming for me has also reached me.

    What purpose they have, we still dont know. Is this hostility towards Ga Nation, or has the Royal Prince Faction even reached their hands into the neighbouring country? Its aplicated issue, but there are nobles of the Royal Prince Faction who have wedded their daughters into the neighbouring country.

    It isnt as though were sure that the nobles of the Royal Prince Faction and the power of one section of the neighbouring nation have joined hands, is it?

    Mmn. Thats why I was thinking of wringing them out I havent been able to really catch them after all.

    Your Highness.

    Im having a bad feeling about this. Recently, His Highness has be a little reckless. He was already a person with a strong sense of curiosity, but it seems that thats been heading in a no good direction. Doing things with half-baked ability is just dangerous.

    Ill have you and Camille cooperate with me as well.

    His Highness n is as follows. Hell go out to have fun in a mountain thats on campus There, hell watch the movements of the Royal Prince Faction and determine which power it is.

    For the sake of that, Ill be having a student born in the neighbouring nation help me.

    Even though theyll be going through something dangerous, is there really a student willing to help you with this?

    Its fine! Shes strong, after all. I mean, shes the guard of the neighbouring nations prince after all.

    I get the feeling that these kind of rash ideas arepletely the fault of Camilles influence.

    And, shes willing to help you?

    Nope? All I said was that wed be having a pic together.

    You really are the worst, huh.

    His Higness smiled sweetly An affirmative. I dont want to admit it, but this side of him seems to be because of my influence. I wouldnt do something so sleazy though.

    Now, now, dont get so mad. I dont think itll be necessary, but if ites down to it, Ill protect her after all.

    Certainly, His Highness has be strong. Unnecessarily so. Im not sure how or why, but recently His Highness has been ying at being a spy, and his information gathering skills have grown to a considerable level. Even though spy skills arepletely unnecessary for a prince.

    However

    It looks like you arent getting on board, huh, even though I even came up with a great n where I could have a date whilst exposing the criminals.

    Just now, what was that?

    Eh? A date I said, a date.

    With who?

    Like I said, with the girl whos the guard of the neighbouring nations prince.

    Who would?

    Me Achille, why are you sighing? Even though this is a great n that even kills two birds with one stone.

    His Highness is also of that age. Without me realising, it seems that at some point His Highness has fallen for that student from the neighbouring nation. But, if she found out that she was being used for this kind of n Why doesnt he realise that shed grow to hate him? Hes developing emotionally in a slightly warped direction, which worries me.

    Her strength is famous in the neighbouring nation, you know. The martial pride tournament held by the nation came out with her as the victor as much as six times, and an evil organisation that tried to touch Tria waspletely destroyed by her alone. If even knowing that, they attack in disdain, then theyre people of our nation. If they attack whilst looking wary of that, then the chance that theyre from the neighbouring nation is high.

    You really are the worst, huh.

    Dont condemn me so much. Ah, keep silent about this from Camille?

    Certainly if Camille found out about this, shed be incredibly shaken, huh. And shes stupidly honest, so its inevitable that her movements will be stiff.

    Mn, so lets have say its a normal pic. So that the number of guards decrease, and Ill get targeted while were having the pic, Ill have you two move away from me.

    But if anything happens to Your Highness

    Do you think something will? You and Camille areing along As for whether or not the Royal Prince Faction and the neighbouring nation have any connection, well wring that out of the people we catch. Well be carrying it out next break, so keep your schedule free, okay?

    His Highness unterally told me as such. If its his order, then even if I have something I want to say about it, theres no way I can go against him.

    Hahh Understood. You really are the worst, huh.

    Youve said that three times, you know?

    His Highness was beginning to smile gloomily, so I decided to immediately leave. Honestly, who does this guy take after?

    On the day of the pic, His Highness introduced me to a crossdressing schoolgirl. Shes the daughter of a count in the neighbouring nation, Topageria. Her jet ck hair was tied up with a simple string of a design unique to Topageria. Hanging from her waist was argish sword.

    After hearing about Miss Beatrix from His Highness, Ive been researching her up until today, but Miss Beatrix doesnt hold any malice towards His Highness, and shes on good terms with Camille as well. I cant say that we canpletely trust her, but for now it should be okay to travel together. For a while now, His Highness has been stuck to Miss Beatrix. That Camille didnt bat an eyelid at His Highness suddenly courting someone left me a little surprised.

    Once wed reached theke, His Highness and I immediately decided to set the n into action. Theke was smaller than Id thought, and was a size that wed immediately be able to walk ap around, but I got permission to use a abnormality detection magic on His Highness so that Id know immediately if anything happened, just in case.

    With good timing, aftering eating lunch Camille started talking about how she wanted to go on a stroll and have a look around theke. Camille was nning on having me stay with His Highness, but that would mess up the n, so I immediately stood up as well. I cut off Miss Beatrix before she could say that she wanted to go as well, and then began to lead Camille away. At first, Camille was looked at me in protest, but it looks like she sensed something from my face. After that, His Highnesss words backed me up, and led by my hand, she obediently began to walk. Even while making a face that said that she didnt agree.

    While we were on the path around theke, I turned to look in His Highness direction, and found that he was smiling very happily. It looks like hes satisfied with being left alone with Miss Beatrix. Without knowing my feelings at all, hes enjoying himself. If His Highness is going to be like that, then for a little while, Ill enjoy my stroll with Camille as well. Camilles small right hand was faintly warm, soft and pleasant to the touch. The sunlight was warm as well. Even though were it not for the fact that todays excursion was wrapped up in His Highness n, Id be enjoying this even more It feels like a bit of a shame.

    Roughly halfway around theke, a strong wind suddenly blew. The fallen leaves and litter was whirled up by it, so I immediately covered Camille.

    Are you okay?

    I-, Im fine Thanks.

    Aahh, she became shaken with great timing. Lately, somehow or other Camilles been led around the nose by my every action. Up until now, shes taken no notice of things in that manner whatsoever, so Im happy about this change.

    Camille who was being nervous had flower petals stuck in her hair. They were flower petals of a slightly deeper pink than the pink of her hair. When I reached my hand out towards the petals, Camille stirred a little. Today, her hair is curled inwards. Hair that always looks silky and beautiful.

    Umm, Achille?

    Camilles lost voice suddenly woke me up. It seems that I was unconsciously ying with her hair.

    There were petals stuck to your hair, you know?

    I showed her the petals that were my original goal.

    What, so it was because of flower petals? I was surprised.

    Camille acting inly suspiciously was adorable, so I identally said something teasing.

    Just what did you think it was?

    Nothing really.

    She was feigning calm, and her reply was blunt, but her ears were bright red so it was pointless. That too was lovely, so I wrapped my left arm around her right.

    Authors Note: Next time, I have a battle-scene-ish story nned.

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    In just a little while longer, well have finished thep around theke and have reunited with His Highness. Camille and I have walked as far as a ce close to the rest spot. Having walked this far, we can see His Highness and Miss Beatrix between the gaps in the trees, but theres no sign of the viins making their move.

    It might be a poor catch this time. When I was thinking this, and was about to make my way back to His Highness, from the trees in the opposite direction of His Highness that we were, came the presence of a number of people.

    Miss Beatrix who was beside His Highness red towards the presences with a severe expression. Her hand was against the grip of her sword. When I ran towards the presence of the viins, Camille surrounded His Highness with magic traps from between the gaps in the trees. Camille linkedplicated magic from a long distance Lately, shes been bing more and more inhuman.

    Behind His Highness from the shade of the trees appeared roughly twenty men. All of them were dressed in ck.

    You are Prince Royce, arent you?

    Thats right?

    At the same time that His Highness gave a stupidly honest answer, the men all attacked him together. I wish His Highness would choose his words just a little better.

    Your Highness, behind me!

    Miss Beatrix covered His Highness behind her back, and drew her sword. It was argish curved sword. However, before Miss Beatrix had a chance to step forward, Camille activated her traps. The ground parted, thorny vines stretched out, and coiled around the ck clothed men. The men who couldnt even move. It looks nothing but painful.

    The men who were lucky enough to run from the vines were all struck about by my wind magic. Of course, I made sure not to take any lives. While watching them all, His Highness smiled happily as he spectated the event.

    Achille, you cant kill any, okay?

    Of course I know that. The only one who would make a blunder like that would be Camille, you know?

    In the blink of an eye, the viins were all rounded up. It really ended too quickly.

    They underestimated us too, huh~ For them to have thought they could do anything with assassins of this caliber.

    Truly. It was so easy that on the contrary Im worried about it though.

    His Highness sent off amunication spell towards the academy. Hes probably contacting his subordinates to have these knaves taken away.

    Royce-sama! Im d youre safe!

    Camille came flying on a quill.

    Youre safe too, I see. Your vines this time were well done.

    Ehehe~

    Camille was twisting and turning her body in happiness. Itspletely the picture of a dog being happily praised by its owner. I tore away the fiance who had the right demeanour for infidelity.

    After a while, ten of His Highness subordinates came running. We handed over the viins that we caught. After this, theyd probably be harshly interrogated.

    Even though I invited you all the way here, Beatrix, it ended up quite a pic, huh. Im sorry.

    No

    Miss Beatrix shooked her head.

    Youre kind Next time Ill give it my all to make sure you have fun, so wont you give me a chance to do this over?

    Just whose mouth is thising out of? Im in awe at His Highness shamelessness.

    Your Highness.

    Or could it be that because assassins will probablye after me, that you dont want to go out with me anymore?

    Theres no way! That kind of thing-

    Miss Beatrix was flusteredly denying it Even though it wouldve been fine to just say yes.

    Thanks, Beatrix.

    His Highness gave his trademark smile, and grasped Miss Beatrixs two hands.

    Hahh.

    Whilst looking troubled, Miss Beatrix was being coaxed by His Highness. However, its my first time seeing a youngdy who isnt swayed by His Highness sparkly attack.

    After making sure Miss Beatrix made it to the Diamonds dorm safely, His Highness headed to the castle with a number of his guards. Hes going to deal with the aftermath. Unfortunately, Camille and I who arent formally his aides, are relieved of our duties as of this moment. Camille looked like she had regrets, and was repeatedly ncing at the back of His Highness who was leaving with other guards.

    Achille

    Camille suddenly muttered.

    The incident this time, did you know about it beforehand?

    Yeah.

    When I brought Camille to theke, she probably realised something.

    I knew it. We didnt bring the usualy guards, after all Why was it only me, that was left out?

    Camille was pouting just a little.

    Because, if we told you Camille, youd start acting suspiciously, right? The n this time was to lure out the criminals.

    Uu Then youre saying that this time Royce-sama volunteered to y the bait?

    Right. I was given an order, so I had to obey, after all. Starting from now, at the castle theyll be sniffing out the mastermind behind this, it seems.

    That has nothing to do with me, though

    Its frustrating, isnt it.

    Camille let out a rare sigh.

    Camille and I are still in the position of students. And in the end, were nothing more than people His Highness have taken a liking to, and are by no means his official aides. At times like these, I feel vexed by the line drawn by our positions. Camille is probably feeling the same.

    At first, I thought Camille was just going to continue her job without going to any school. Shes like her father in that she loves magic and jobs that deal with them, after all. But the moment His Highness decided to go to school, she immediately decided on entering as well. Whilst saying I have to determine what kind of person the heroine is or something nonsensical like that. Even now, she should be wanting to immediately follow His Highness.

    Camille, lets head back to the dorm.

    Yeah

    When I held out my left hand, Camille naturally took it. Im in no position to be saying this after making a move on her myself, but really, what defencelessness. Has she noticed it? That normally, as long as a man and woman of our age werent lovers, we wouldnt be holding hands like this

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    Camille, Camille Wake up!

    Mn

    Whats going on? There a knock at the door. Even though its still the middle of the night

    I can see a golden moon from the window of my room. Even though I wanted to have a deep sleep after walking that far for the pic yesterday

    Camille, His Highness has

    I can hear somebodys room from the hallway His Highness? Eh!?

    Royce-sama!

    I reflexively jumped up.

    It seems that I really wasnt hearing things. Somebodys knocking hard at the door. Aahh, it seems it wasnt a dream. Its Achilles voice too.

    Whats wrong? Toe here at this hour

    I promptly headed to the door and undid the lock to my room. Before the door was Achille in light clothing. Its night, so the hallway that continued behind him was pitch dark.

    His Highness was attacked on the way to the castle He was abducted by somebody.

    Eh?

    My just woken head couldnt keep up with the information I was suddenly given, and my thoughts stopped for a moment.

    Royce-sama being attacked I mean, didnt we juste back together from the pic? He wasughing happily. But then for him to get abducted right after Its something difficult to suddenly believe.

    I- Is Royce-sama okay? There were guards with him, right?

    It seems that the guards were wiped out, and His Highness was the only one taken They were almost at the castle.

    For the guards to have been wiped out is no small matter.

    Why did informatione at this time? We parted with Royce-sama at dusk. We werent that far from the castle, and even if they werete, the information should havee before I slept.

    They probably dyed it Were just young students, and just people His Highness have taken a liking to after all

    Meaning that guards and soldiers on active duty, and then the heads of prominent noble families were all contacted first. But still, this is cruel.

    Lets head to Royce-samas room. Ill use search magic.

    You n on chasing His Highness?

    Of course I am!

    This is an enemy thatpletely wiped out the guards, you know?

    But If we dont hurry up and save him, Royce-sama might be in danger.

    Even while were talking like this, he might be in danger.

    Calm down.

    Id lost myposure, so Achille gently hugged me.

    Achille, but

    Itll be okay. The enemy abducted His Highness alive, after all. They shouldnt immediately kill him or anything, okay?

    Youre right But Im worried about Royce-sama.

    I left the room, and pulled Achille by the hand.

    Lets go, Achille!

    I know too well that Ive lost my cool. But even so, I cant help but worry. Forcefully pulling Achille along, I continued down the hallway. It seems like all the other students are fast asleep. There are no people.

    I used magic to unlock the door to Royce-samas room, and intruded. Normally there would be two guards posted even in front of the door, but today Royce-sama isnt here so the area around the room is deserted as well. Royce-samas room is two sizesrger than a normal students. The furnishing is luxurious too.

    Lets borrow this.

    I took a memo pad that was on Royce-samas desk, and invoked search magic. The memo pad turned into a ball of light, and danced in the air.

    Camille, are you really nning on going right now? I think its reckless though.

    Then Ill go by myself.

    Following the ball of light, I left Royce-samas room. Because there would be a distance to walk, I n on flying on my quill once I leave the building.

    Camille, wai-

    Ugyah!

    The moment I turned the corner, I bumped into something running in the other direction at ferocious speeds. I fell over magnificently, but because Achille supported me from behind, it ended without me tumbling unseemingly.

    Ouchhh.

    Whatever I bumped into was standing there just fine. Im jealous. While being supported by Achille, I stare at the culprit behind the collision. It was somebody that shouldnt have been here How rare. Even though our sses have been differenttely, so its rare that we even see each others faces.

    Raiga-sama?

    Achille was shocked as well, and gazed as Raiga. But that was only for a moment, and he immediately tried to chase him out. As expected of Achille.

    To intrude in the Hearts ss dorm at this hour, is there something the matter?

    Right, right, I dont know what he needs in a ce like this, but were in the middle of something right now.

    Have you seen Mei? I havent seen her since Ivee back.

    By the way, whenever I get called out by him, its almost always about Mei.

    Mei-chan? I dont know anything about that, but

    Search for her.

    This flow events again? Im not a Mei-chan Searching Machine, you know.

    But because theres the incident this time as well, I cant be too optimistic about it. Im worried about her as well.

    I understand. Ill follow up Mei-chans magic power. Im sorry, but we have an urgent matter of our own, so youll have to search for her yourself, Raiga-sama.

    With the magic that I used to search for Meist time, I produced a magic light that would lead to Meis location.

    Mn Huh?

    Meis magic power is weak. Something is happening right now with her body. If it just wasnt for Royce-samas case, Id want to go after her but its a race against time for Royce-sama.

    Once Im finished with my stuff, Ill help find Mei-chan. Theres a good chance that youll finish things up before that happens though.

    Doenst matter. Just the search magic is plenty.

    Raiga immediately turned around and followed the light to where Mei was. We decided to follow the light and head towards Royce-sama as well.

    No matter what I say, you dont listen do you, Camille.

    Achille looked astonished, smiling bitterly behind me.

    Sorry.

    But youre not going to quit, right? If it really gets dangerous, Ill stop you even by force, alright?

    Uu

    Turning back to face Achille, I felt regret. Hes smiling, but this guy is actually quietly being terrifyingly mad I know. Thats the smile he makes when his mood is incredibly bad!

    W-, We have to hurry

    I decided that I hadnt seen it, and ran with the light towards Royce-sama. Im definitely not running away from Achille. Honest.

    The light that shone dimly in the dark hallway continued through the dorm. It seems that the light for Mei is going in the same direction as ours, so Raiga is walking in front of us. The lights headed towards a window in the hallway, and then flew out of the building.

 Volume 2 - Ch 14

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    TL Note: If any of you read Yomigaeri no Maou, then please check my status report when you have time.

    Nn This Outside the academy?

    The light that showed Meis location was pointing in the same direction as where Royce-sama was. Achille and I took out our quills and floated them in the air. From here on, it would likely be faster to go by air.

    Oi, let me on too. Our destinations are probably different, so just partway is fine.

    I nodded at Raiga. If its just partway, then its fine if I bring him while Im at it. Hes good at fighting with weapons, but hes bad with all magic in general.

    Please get on behind me.

    Without hesitation, Raiga sat down on the quill behind me. Achile sent a gaze like he had something he wanted to say, but going by his bad mood from earlier, talking with him would probably take a while, so I didnt pay any attention and flew out the window. Or more like, I ran.

    To have this kind of weather at a time like this, were sure out of luck, huh.

    It was raining buckets outside. In the waterfall-like downpour,rge drops of rain hit all over my body. I immediately used a simple rain ward spell. A barrier that repelled the rain was spread around the quill,

    Magic sure is useful, huh. To be this all-purpose, it all seems like fraud.

    Raiga-sama

    Though this is a convenient world where magic exists, there are also a certain number of people who dont look kindly upon it. Raiga seems to be one of them. Amongst them are arge number of people with the view, magic will make humans conceited, which will be their downfall. As a person who works as a magician, its not as though I dont think as if! but certainly there are a number of magicians who are like that, so I cantpletely deny it. But I wont get conceited, so I decided to give a soft rebuttal to Raiga.

    Magic like this thats useful for everyday life is good, you know? You can use it when it suddenly starts raining after youve gone out, as well. If you went out together with Mei-chan it wouldnt end with just wet clothes, you know?

    Your thinking is warped. If you take shelter, then it ends there, and then theres the feelings that grow in a situation like that too. Well, its not like youve ever had any experience like that though, huh.

    Uwahh! Whats this guy done to Mei while they were taking shelter from the rain? Because I was countered from an improper angle, I turned around at him in shock. Raiga was looking down on me with a bold smile.

    No, but from Meis fond talks of Raiga that I hear from time to time, even though he seems like this, Raiga is actually a surprisingly pure person.

    Well, I bet all you do is hold hands until the rain stops anyway, right? How pure you are, Raiga-samaaa.

    You Are you mocking me?

    The one doing the mocking is you, right? To begin with, I wouldnt flirt about with someone while taking shelter in the fiiiirst ce.

    Well soorry. I wasnt able to experience that even in my old world.

    When it came to me, even if I had a boyfriend who confessed to me, it neversted long. They, who fell into despair after peeling away the temporary niceness of the fake me, would always fling the words Youre different than I expected. at me before leaving. Even if we made memories together, wed break up before it got to that point. I seem to have ended up recalling something unpleasant.

    In the rain, we continued to fly after the lights, but because the waterfall-like rain was clinging to the rain repelling barriers, it was hard to see ahead.

    Next time Ill see if I can add wipers to this.

    Oi, youre muttering something nonsensical.

    Its just something that youuu, dont understand, Raiga-sama.

    But still, to think that the light chasing after Mei is still heading in the same direction as Royce-samas.

    Lightning shed in the distance.

    This time its lightning, huh?

    Why is it only today? I want to cry out. Lightning is dangerous. Its a little doubtful as to whether my automatic defence tattoos that only have support magic will be able topletely protect against it, and more importantly, Raiga who has no tattoos is bare. Even though the weather during yesterdays pic was so good

    Raiga-sama, Ill use lightning protection magic, okay?

    I added lightning protection magic to the rain protection barrier. Achille who was next to me also used lightning protection magic. But still, even though were flying quite quickly, we havent reached the destination at all. Just how long are we supposed to continue flying?

    The two lights continued flying out of the royal capital. I continued to feel more anxious.

 Volume 2 - Ch 15

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    TL Note: My all important right shift key has been fucked for a few days now. I could just buy another keyboard for myptop, but this would be the third one already. Rather than the cost, Im more worried that my parents will be wondering what the fuck are you always doing to waste the keyboards you buy?.

    Should I get one? Its bing quite painful for my right pinky, and even if i press it hard, its unresponsive a lot. But then, I could just adapt by changing my typing style, instead of dealing with parents.

    Hey you, wont youe with me for a little bit?

    The one who called out to me was a girl in the same Spades ss as I was. She was ire-sama, the Ten of Spades.

    She loves, loves, loves Raiga-sama so at every given moment, shell make me her target. In the past, there was also the time when she locked me in a storeroom. After being rescued from the storeroom, Raiga-sama scolded them, but it looks like her heart wont chance with only that much.

    Honestly speaking, I didnt want to follow her. Because I know what kind of result it has. Im sure it will be a repeat of the time with the storeroom. That time, Raiga-sama and Oneesama saved me. But today Raiga-sama has gone out, and Oneesama said she would be out having a pic in the mountains as well. Its only at times like these that the two of them are both gone. That might be why she chose today to target me.

    Im sorry, I have something to attend to and

    Whatever, just start walking.

    St-Stop this.

    My wrist was forcefully caught by ire-sama, and when I unconsciously strongly shook it off, an expression of rage floated onto her face.

    You! Seize this woman and go!

    At hermand, her servants and followers came out from hiding, and drew near me. In terror, my legs began to unconsciously retreat.

    No!

    I immediately moved to escape, but I was already encircled by them. Behind me is a wall.

    One of the servants grabbed my skirt. With that as a sign, the servants, and the girls who were herckeys stretched out their hands towards me.

    No-, let go! Stop it

    I resisted, and the hem of my skirt was torn. In the chaos, one of girls kicked me in the stomach.

    Uu

    I immediately curled up to defend myself, but this time they grabbed my hair.

    It hurts, it hurts-

    Start walking!

    One of the other follower girls pushed me in the back. Will I be taken to the storeroom again? The terror from that day was brought back to my mind. Being pulled and dragged along, I was brought to the deserted back school gate. In front of the gate were a number of carriages.

    Get on this!

    ire-sama ordered me, but I shook my head. Even though I dont know where Ill be taken to. Theres no way Ill get on such a thing. I frantically resisted.

    No! I will not get on!

    Im more than prepared for the trivial bullying of the daughters of nobles. I chose Raiga-sama even so But.

    How annoying! A woman of low birth shouldntin so much!

    My arm was firmly caught by a follower, and my other arm was grabbed by another woman. The two of them intentionally sank their nails into my arm. Their long nails dug into my skin.

    It hurts-!

    I lost myself and swang my arms about. Even if by some chance they got hit, it would only be their own fault. Even I have no reason to ept this one-sided treatment. However, the next moment, an electric current ran through my whole body, and my body suddenly lost its strength.

    Nuoh St-

    My whole body was numb, and I couldnt speak properly. No matter how I tried, my body wouldnt move.

    My Youve saved me. As you can see, she was tough so I had trouble.

    ire-sama is speaking to somebody. But I cant turn my head, so I couldnt see them. Aahh, I hate my weakness. If things were going to end up like this, then I should have learned magic for self-defence from Oneesama.

    Even if I regret it, its toote now. The carriage I was riding on ttered as it left the school behind. On the other side of the carriage were two servant women. One of them was restraining me, but I couldnt resist at all. Its pathetic, and frustrating Tears flowed down my cheek.

    Whats the meaning of this? This It isnt what we agreed.

    This woman resisted. Its not my fault!

    I woke up to men arguing. It seems that after that, I lost consciousness. Imying on the floor of a broad, white room that Ive never seen before. My back is up against the hard floor, which hurts a little. The coldness from the smooth and pure white stone floor is spreading through my entire body.

    Nn

    Ah, Ive be able to make a sound. It seems that the numbness in my body is gone too. But my arms and legs are bound, and I cant move freely. Im just barely able to move my neck, so I looked towards the source of the voices. There was a fat, middle-aged man who looked like a noble If I remember correctly, thats the head of the Royal Prince Faction, Count Tito. Hes also ire-samas father.

    You, injured her

    I already said why!!

    A small built boy with navy blue hair and dark skin argued with the count even more. Thats

    Kai?

    I looked at the person who was speaking to the count, and unconsciously let out a voice. Why? Why is he at a ce like this?

    Mei

    Kai turned his face, and our eyes met. He was looking at me with a bitter expression.

    Kai, why-

    Sorry You, got injured.

    Kai was looking painfully at the wounds I got when I was taken away. The way his wordse out intermittently are the same as before. Aahh, its Kai He suddenly disappeared from the castle, and because he was missing I was worried, but Im d that he seems well. I have my doubts about why hes in a ce like this, but Im relieved at the fact that hes safe. But why is Kai apologising to me?

    Kai ran over to me, and kissed the wounds that the servants nails gave me.

    Sorry, Mei.

    He kissed it again, and again.

    Kai? Im okay. So, umm

    To have my wounds kissed like this by my younger brother is really quite embarassing. Im d that hes worried about me, but

    Mei, Mei.

    Kai, stop it. Its a little embarassing.

    Kai obediently obeyed my words. My cute younger brother. Even though he has the same face as me, he has apletely different personality to me. Hes a kind boy, whos always looked after me since I lost my memories at 5. In the time that weve been apart, hes be just a little more mature looking.

    Mei, just bear with this, for a little After Im done tidying this up, well go together.

    Go together, where?

    Kai, what do you mean?

    Mei Youlle with me, and leave this country.

    Why are you saying something like that?

    Im going to school at the academy, and Im also engaged to Raiga-sama. But despite that, to suddenly leave the country

    Mei, your life is going to be, targeted from now on By the Royal Prince Faction. So, lets excape.

    What do you mean?

    This man, is participating in the Royal Prince Factions usurpation of the throne. And, he wants his daughter, to marry Raiga.

    Im being a hindrance?

    If theyre aiming to marry Raiga-sama, then I who am his fiance would be a hindrance no matter what.

    Right Made a deal. In exchange for letting you escape safely, I, would bring the prince.

    His Higness Royce is here too?

    Yes. In a cell.

    Such a thing It looks like Kai abducted His Majesty. Hes always been strong. But, to use Kai in such a manner

    I wont forgive you. Using me to make Kai do something like this

    Oi, oi, that has nothing to do with me. Your little brother suggested that on his own. He doesnt want to hand you over to Raiga-sama, and I want to marry my daughter off to Raiga-sama, so our interests aligned, thats all.

    No way

    In disbelief, I looked at Kai. Right. He left the castle right after Raiga and I got engaged.

    Mei

    Kai gazed at me with a bitter expression.

    What do you n on doing by having Kai abduct His Highness? What is it that youre trying to do?

    I red at the count. The count pulled a cigar out of his pocket, lit it, and after a pause, answered my question.

    Fuu, isnt that obvious? Right now, its as your brother says. Royal Prince Kuuga Because hes aiming to have Raiga-sama rise to the throne in the very end By marrying my daughter to Raiga-sama, Ill seize this country through the mothers bloodline.

    That kind of selfish thing wont be permitted, you know.

    Shut up, girl. Even though youre a noble at the very bottom of the Royal Prince Faction, for you to be a traitor who colludes with the King Faction Switching Raiga-samas position with the prince, and then having him rise to the throne. After that, there wont be a thing anyone can do, since the real power will lie with us, after all.

    The count was looking down at me scornfully, and trampled my body.

    Uu Gu-

    This is different than what we agreed We agreed that Mei would not be injured.

    Its the fault of that woman for saying something disagreeable. Take the girl, and get the hell out.

    I would even if you didnt tell me to.

    Listen up, well have the national boarders guarded. Donte back to this country again.

    I know.

    Shouldering me, Kai walked towards the door.

    No Stop, Kai. I still want to stay in this country. I dont want to part with Raiga-sama in such a way, please.

    Mei, give up, on Raiga-sama.

    No. No! Kai Please.

    I frantically pressured him. To be unallowed to meet with Raiga-sama again, would be too unbearable. And, I have not even the slightest intention of parting with Raiga-sama. Moreover, it looks like at this rate, His Majesty and His Highness Royce will be in danger. I cant abandon them and leave the country, knowing this. When I tried to oppose, a door in the room quietly opened.

    Otousama, you havent killed that woman yet? ire

    In front of the door appeared the culprit who brought me here, ire-sama. She was the pr opposite of I who was beaten up with my clothes torn. She was wearing a beautiful violet dress, and make-up.

    You said that you would kill her, didnt you!?

    But, these two agreed that they would leave the country.

    I dont care about that! Even if this cockroach woman leaves the country, isnt it obviously that shell immediately turn up back at Raiga-samas side!?

    The moment she said cockroach woman, Kais expression became severe. However, its just as ire-sama says. I have no intention of quietly living overseas. Id probably immediately head back to Ga, to Raiga-samas side.

    Kill, her, kill her, kill her! That woman is in the wrong! She seduced and deceived Raiga-sama Its because of that woman that I was rejected! Even though the one that fits him best is me!

    ire-sama went mad, and continuedining to the count.

    After making a show of of thinking for a while, the count turned to ire-sama.

    Theres really no helping you, huh Ive got it. The prince is also in our hands. Theres no problem with having these two disappear as well.

    It seems that hes a father whos sweet on his daughter, and he immediately changed his opinion.

    Thank you, Otousama! Ill be the one to finish that woman off~!

    The crazed ire-sama was cackling shrilly. Id endured a number of her harassments, but to think that she hated me enough to do this Its a shock.

    Kai

    Its okay.

    Kai produced a de from his pocket, and undid my bindings. Having my arms and legs freed, I stood up by myself. He was blocking me from the count, as though to shield me.

    No matter how strong you might be, can you protect your older sister while fighting off arge number of people?

    Behind the count appeared a number ofrge men, who were obviously in abat profession. Altogether, there were probably fifty people. Fighting off this many opponents Its crazy.

    Kai, Im fine, so escape.

    Its okay, Ill, protect you

    Even though its at a time like this, Kai gave me a smile to reassure me. Even though had it just not been for me, he might have been able to escape with his ability.

    The men who were after us, expressionlessly drew closer, step by step. Im sure that these people think nothing of killing a human.

    Ahaha, hurry up and be killed. Ill feed your corpses to the pigs.

    ire-sama is looking at me, whileughing enjoyably. Shes insane.

    The moment Kai set up his knife in a guard, an explosion rang out from downstairs.

    Whats going on?

    The moment I was thinking that I could hear the sound of running footsteps from outside the room, a man who seemed to be the counts subordinate appeared.

    Its an intruder! Somebody has destroyed the gate to the estate!

    Tsk Were already found out, huh?

    The count clicked his tongue with a loathesome expression, and then gave an order to the man.

    Gather the soldiers we have hired, and eliminate the intruder. After that, bring out the prince from his cell. Got it?

    Understood.

    The subordinate man ran down the hallway with a pitter patter. It seems that somebody hase to this mansion. Just who is it, I wonder Since it seems that His Highness Royce was captured, I wonder if its the people from the castle.

    I dont know who it is, but pleasee quickly! As though praying, I thought this, and clenched my two hands tightly.

 Volume 2 - Ch 16

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    The search magic that I invoked flew into an old western-styled mansion, outside of the royal capital. Its a veryrge building, but perhaps because it isnt normally used, the garden is a mess.

    This ce? Why is Mei in a ce like this?

    Raiga frowned in doubt.

    Wended near the gate to the mansion. I put away the quill, and stepped down onto the wet ground. Achillended as well, right beside me. The light that was pursuing Royce-sama and the light pursuing Mei both indicated the same ce.

    Aahh, I have an idea about the culprit. Its probably one of the people currying up favour with my father.

    If ites down to it, do you think you can fight? From here on out, it might be dangerous.

    Not a problem.

    On this asion, Raiga will be helping as well. In the game, he was used to fighting, and was the strongest romantic interest. Whether hes the strongest right now is a little hard to say, but he shouldnt be weak.

    Raiga drew a slender sword from the scabbarb at his waist. It was a thin, and straight longsword.

    The lightning protection magic is still in use, so please feel free to go as crazy as youd like.

    Raiga let out a grin at my words. He wants to stain the people who kidnapped Mei with blood, doesnt he? I understand his feelings quite well; I too cant forgive the culprits who abducted Royce-sama.

    I began by grandly destroying the gate. I mean, there are probably guards lying in wait at any rate. I dont like small fights. Just as I suspected, a number of men who seemed to be guards came bustling out from the mansion. Is that thirty of them altogether? They came running across the soaked ground, aiming for us.

    I let loose lightning magic. An electric current transmitted through the wet ground. The whole garden was filled with golden light. We had defence against lightning, so we were unharmed.

    Stepping over the guards who were unable to move now, we invaded the mansion.

    Camille! Suddenly destroying the gate is too reckless! The ground just happened to be wet so you could take them out in one go, but if it wasnt

    Its okayyyyy, Achille. Because of what we did just now, Royce-sama will know that wevee to save him.

    The enemies will have known as well, though. Camille, were still students, and were not professionals atbat like this, so dont do anything reckless. I sent amunication spell towards the castle just now, so if it bes dangerous, dont charge on ahead and wait for reinforcements. Okay?

    Achille was looking at me worriedly. It seems that his bad mood from before has softened a little.

    Its fine. Its different from ten years ago. Ive gotten stronger, you know.

    Even so, Im worried. I dont want that sort of thing to happen again.

    In the incident ten years ago, I was stabbed in the stomach by an enemy, and copsed. Luckily, the mana sleeping inside me was transmitted through the mans weapon which burnt the manpletely, saving us. Had that not happened, I wouldve probably lost my life at that time. Achille is worried about that. After it happened, I bawled right before his eyes, after all

    Got it Ill be careful.

    I replied obediently. Its my fault that hes a worrier, after all. Achille looked at me with suspicious eyes, but was satisfied for now. I sure dont have any trust, huh

    Whilst chasing the light, we passed through a hallway with nobody in it, and went up a flight of stone stairs. Weve all braced ourselves so that wed be okay with enemies appearing at any time. Just as I was about to reach the next floor, an arrow came from above. After I put up a magic shield, Achille fired magic at the offender. Oohh, we made a goodbo! But from what happened just now, it seems theyre nning to ambush us We continued up the stairs, even more vignt than before.

    Camille

    Achille suddenly pulled my arm.

    Wa- -sounds of bncing herself- Whats up, Achille?

    Look below you.

    I turned my gaze to my feet just like Achille told me to. Right in front of me was a transparent thread spread out. You wouldnt see it unless you looked carefully, it but seems it was a trap. If you moved the thread, the trap would probably activate. That was close.

    Achille, thank you

    I honestly told him my thanks. It would be unbearable if there were more traps. I created magical des of wind, and fired them up ahead.

    With a snapping noise, each thread was cut, and a rain of arrows and axes and pitfalls and the like appeared. Honestly Im d that I didnt get caught in them.

    Scary

    We advanced while avoiding traps. It would be no joke to get caught in one of these. Im timid now because of the traps from before, so my whole body is shielded as I fly on my quill through the air. After passing through the area with traps, as expected, we found guards in wait.

    There were roughly fifty in the hall and thirty in hiding; just how many soldiers is this guy employing? The signs of wrongdoing are overwhelming.

    Wheres Royce-sama!?

    I charged towards the enemy, quill and all.

    -sounds of bncing herself- is her going Tottotto.

 Volume 2 - Ch 17

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    Raiga swung his sword with violent intensity. You understand once you see this, but hes strong. He might be as good as the guards in the castle, or maybe even better. What hes using is a sword imbued with magic. As expected of royalty, they have nice things. His sword is a special one that blocks magic, and can tear through magical barriers. The things called magic items are troublesome stuff. Im really d that I didnt make an enemy out of Raiga!

    Flying the quill around, I fired wind magic as I toyed with the enemies. The men who were sent flying by the wind collided with the wall and lost consciousness. So that I wouldnt burn down the mansion, I held back on ignition type magic. Even I consider that much. Losing unexpectedly, the enemies were brought down by Achille with certainty. Probably because he wanted their statements as evidenceter, Achille encased them all in ice. It was a magic that would return the people inside back to normal, once you thawed the ice.

    Unlike ten years ago, I could feel us making progress. I could even feel that we had leeway. Weve grown. Both Achille and I.

    All too easily, we suppressed the forces in the hall. Probably because they were hired soldiers, once they lost leadership, their strength also varied. They werent professionals who had undergone training. That was also one of the reasons we won.

    Lets hurry up and chase the lights.

    Raiga hurried on ahead. We nodded and were about to follow him But. In the hall, the lights that had up until now been together went two separate ways. The light that showed Meis location continued straight ahead, whilst the light for Royce-sama was wandering about in the centre of the hall. It seemed that Royce-sama and Mei were in different ces in this mansion.

    Raiga-sama

    If you asked me who I would be going after, then Achille and I prioritised Royce-sama.

    Its fine, you two came here for that, right? Royce is here too, huh Im going to go after Mei.

    Sorry. Well be going after Royce-sama, it seems.

    Since arriving in this room, the light that was chasing Royce-sama had be a little unstable. Wandering this way or that way, heading towards the floor

    Its weird huh, this odd movement. Its heading towards the floor.

    His Highness may be moving around, perhaps.

    If Royce-sama is being moved, then we have to hurry. Thinking that, after taking a step towards the light, my foot stepped on something. I heard a click sound.

    Eh

    Camille!

    Achille called my name in a panic, but it was already toote. A hole suddenly opened up at my feet.

    Gyahhh! Another traaap!?

    I was sucked into the pitch ck hole. I shut my eyes in terror. I absolutely hate confined ces, and dark ces.

    Im falling!

    Its over, Im just going to hit the ground. I didnt have theposure to manipte gravity to lighten myself. Its already toote. I wonder just how well the automatic defence tattoos will work Or so I was thinking, when something caught my body. After making a revolution in the air, I fell with a thud. Theres no pain. In excange, I can feel something like fabric on my skin.

    I slowly opened my eyes, and what I saw was bright blue.

    Achille!?

    What I fell on, was Achille. The moment I fell down the hole, hed probably fallen in with me to protect me Hes good at looking after people, so hes liable to do it. My god! Even though the blunder was mine! Even though there was no absolutely no need to be a sacrifice for the sake of someone like me!

    Achille, Achille!

    What do I do, even when I call him and shake him, theres no response.

    Achille, get up

    Even still, hes not moving, and is showing no signs of opening his eyes. Because of me. W-W-W-W-W-What do I do? For now, Ill try spamming my strongest healing magic. Its something that uses no trifling amount of magic power, but Achilles life is more important. Even if I copse from mana exhaustion, if it saves Achille then it doesnt matter.

    Achille, get up. I dont want you to diee!

    -, Camille.

    Achille?

    Achilles expression changed. After that, he opened his eyes, and I could see his beautiful cobalt pupils.

    You dont have to make such a tragic expression, you know. I just got hit Youve already healed it, so Im fine already, though.

    Youre really honestly okay? Youre not forcing yourself?

    Im not. I immediately used magic to reduce the impact, after all. I should be asking you. Firing away advanced recovery magic for something like that Are you okay? Can you stand?

    Speaking of which, Im still on top of Achille. I tried to stand in a fluster, but just as Achille said, the mana consumption was too great, and I was lightheaded from the response, so I fell right back down on top of him. This time alone, it seems that my mana economising tattoos didnt have much use.

    Uu S-, Sorry.

    Even when I propped myself up with my arms and tried to raise my body, I couldnt find the power.

    Honestly, you really dont think about consequences.

    Still on the ground with me on top of him, Achille embraced me, and then rolled a half-turn.

    Wha-

    Before I knew it, I was squished under Achille, in a position like I was being pushed down. This is bad, my hearts starting to go thumpthump. I really, have no resistance against Achille.

    Umm Achille?

    Magic power. Youre out, right? Ill give you some, so sit still.

    G-, Giving magic power not through a potion, but directly?

    Giving it directly recovers it more quickly, right? The potions I have with me right now are all weak ones.

    When you run out of magic power, besides recovering through potions, its primitive, but there are also methods to transfer magic power from person to person. The method being what it is, there are few amongst magicians who will actually put it into practice, though

    Transferring magic power from the insides of one person to another In other words, orally. Kissing. Kissing!?

    Ah-, Achille, wai-

    But I wasnt allowed to speak to the end. In a position where I was being pushed down, slowlying down on me, my lips were stolen by Achille.

    Nn Nnnn-

    Hang on! Unlikest time, isnt this time a little bold? If its mana transfer, is there any need to suck on each others lips like this? Achilles tongue ran along the lip of my lips, and I unconsciously parted the lips that had been shut until now. Achille didnt overlook this chance. A tongue entered my mouth and forced my lips apart, and mana flowed in.

    While this was happening, I could feel Achilles mana flowing into me. Little by little, the power in my body returned.

    I recovered my magic power, but it feels like something else has been considerably worn down. But, is my dizziness gone now, perhaps?

    But I wonder why. Achille is showing no signs of getting off me. d in this amorous atmosphere, hes gazing at me.

    Umm, could you move a little

    Shall I have you recover mana for a little longer?

    After saying that, with his amourousness increasing, Achilles face drew near a second time

    Ahh, ahem ahem. Could you possibly leave it at that, you two? If any more of that stuff happens before my eyes, Ill be troubled for a reaction. Also, Achille, please dont forget that this is enemy territory.

    I know that.

    Turning in the direction of the familiar voice that suddenly rang out, Achille replied. Using that chance, I crawled out from under Achille.

    Royce-sama~!

    The owner of the voice was the person we had been looking for. I cant believe it, that Royce-sama would just be normally in front of my eyes like this Hes safe, hes sound. Im really so d.

    Im d that you two are both safe as well. I believed that you two woulde for me.

    Isnt that a given!? We wouldnt leave you by yourself in such a ce, you know.

    I dered reassuringly.

    By the way, Your Highness. Why were you wandering about in such a ce? I was sure that you would be chained up somewhere

    Achille asked Royce-sama. Mn, Ive been wondering that too.

    Originally I was shut up in a jail cell, but because I heard an explosion outside, I made a break for it. Because the guard was getting ck, I easily escaped. I guess that nobody thought the sheltered prince would do something like a jail break, huh.

    He seems extremely satisfied, having stolen a march on the enemy.

    Well then, what shall we do?

    Normally we would now bring Royce-sama outside andplete our duties. Achille already contacted the castle, so even if we leave them alone, soldiers from the castle will arrest the abductors. However, right now Mei is here too. Im sure she was captured as well.

    Right now, Raiga is heading to save her.

    Going to save Mei Zakro, right?

    Royce-sama, why do you know

    I heard one of the guards on watch speaking about bringing her here. The criminal is an ambitious count, so I understand his aim.

    Hes probably starting going on about how hell hand the throne over to the Royal Prince, huh.

    Yeah Alright, lets go save Mei Zakro!

    Royce-sama? Is that alright?

    I was shocked at Royce-samas response. Even I thought that he would say something about leaving it to the soldiers.

    Dont you think that if we buy some favours now, thingsll be funter on?

    Royce-sama said something like what Achille would. Why do I get the feeling that his personality is slipping in a weird direction.

    Camille, is your magic power okay now? Did Achille give you lots and lots?

    Ah- Yes. Im absolutely fine!

    Im afraid about what Achille whos next to me would do, if I said that I didnt have enough.

    Its about the guy who aimed for me, but he was an abnormally strong guy And I get the feeling that Ive seen him before, huh.

    In other words, the culprit is an acquaintance?

    Might be. If we question the mastermind, Im sure well find out.

    We once again made for the top floor.

    I created another light for searching for Mei-chan. The light continued straight down the basement hallway, before going up the stairs. Halfway up the stairs, another arrow came, but they were all blocked by Achille. Achilles magic is exact, and wastes little.

    Camille, make sure you dont waste too much magic power Even if we say that you recovered, youre not in your normal condition, right?

    Uu Are you okay, Achille? You did give me mana.

    Im stillpletely fine. If you want more, say so at any time.

    He used a flirtatious sidelong nce just now! Foul y! My heart rate and breathing were a mess, so I averted my eyes in a panic. This is bad for my heart

    Advancing together like this let me understand that Royce-sama was also quite a war potential. He wasnt specialised in fighting the same way Raiga was, but he was quite adept with magic too, and rather than holding us back, on the contrary he contributed a lot. Also, finding enemies in hiding, or finding traps and the like seemed to be his specialty as well. He really is too reliable. Just because we spent so much time together, when it came tobat even our breathing was perfectly in sync. With us three together, arent we quite amazing?

    But still, you two have sure gotten close like engaged couples are supposed to be, huh. Im relieved as well, you know.

    Wha-

    Royce-sama suddenly brought us up. He probablypletely saw all of that mana transfer from earlier. I couldnt sense his presence in the slightest though

    It seems that Camille has finally graduated from idealising me by ovepping some other person onto me, so Im d.

    Royce-sama continued.

    Idealised?

    You werent aware of it yourself? Youve been looking at me, but not really, you know? Through me, youve been looking at someone else, right? Or maybe it was that you wereparing me to somebody else.

    Thats

    Originally I was wondering if you perhaps had an interest in me, but I immediately realised that that wasnt it.

    Royce-sama

    Looking at somebody else through Royce-sama I had no intention of doing anything like that, but What does he mean? Just who is he saying that I ovepped onto him? While I was holding confused feelings about this, we arrived before the door of the room Mei was probably in. I timidly ced my hand on the door.

    TL Note: Was just a little bit worried it would turn into Fate/Stay Night for a moment.

 Volume 2 - Ch 18

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    I opened the door. The scene before my eyes dumbfounded me for a moment.

    What is this?

    In the middle of the room were burly men, and again, a huge number of them. Unlike the lot below, these guys seemed quite skilled. Mei was crouching in the corner of the room. And fighting while protecting her was

    Kai?

    Eh- Why is he in here? Even though he should have gone missing after leaving the castle.

    Opposite them was a fat, middle-aged noble and a dressed up nobles daughter standing there spectating. Ahh, if I rememeber correctly, hes Ti Ti- what again? Count Ti something or other. Hm? But the noble daughter is for some reason looking towards the intruding Raiga with a paled face.

    Raiga is surrounded by the burly men inbat. Im d that he made it to Mei safely.

    Raiga-samaa, people havee to help!

    Look after Meis wounds for me! She got done in by them!

    Is that the first thing you say to me?

    Roger!

    I ran towards Mei. Kai is kind of ring at me

    I wont do any harm to Mei, you know.

    Thinking about it, Kai has looked at me with suspicious eyes since the beginning, huhh.

    I promptly crouched down by Mei and started treating her. I carefully use healing magic so that it doesnt end up like the time with Achille.

    How cruel.

    To injure a gentle girl like Mei to this extent. I could see things like the signs of a beating, and w marks. To scratch her like this, no matter how you look at it, the one who did this was that woman, huh

    Mei-chan, its okay now.

    Meis wounds were receding. There probably wont be scars or anything either. I definitely wont let something like that happen!

    Oneesama, thank you

    Despite having her injuries healed, Mei has no energy. Though since she went through something like that, if you ask me if its natural, then its natural.

    Royce-sama, this way. Please wait somewhere safe.

    I called out to Royce-sama. He was also someone being targeted.

    Being next to you two is the safest.

    So stated Royce-sama with a gentle smile Theres a limit to working your subordinates to death, you know.

    I understand, so please stand back with Meichan. While youre at it, it would be of great help if you cast a shield.

    Mn, leave it to me.

    With this, concern about what happens behind me has lowered a great deal.

    Again, when I return my sight to Raiga, I find that hes suddenly begun to struggle. It looks like the enemies have a magician with them.

    Achille.

    Camille, be careful.

    In the past, I struggled because of an enemy magician. But this time, I wont lose.

    The enemy had one magician, and turning our way, he fired a spell like an electric shock. Achille immediately defended.

    What, it looks like hes no big deal.

    Mn, hes not a magician of the castle, is he? Ive never seen him at work. Even short on mana, I think Ill be fine.

    As a test, I opened up a hole in the floor with magic. So that Raiga and the others didnt get mixed up in it, I aimed for ces where the enemies were tightly packed together. You dared drop me in a hole earlier! Taste the fear of pitfalls! Because the ground suddenly started disappearing, the enemy were shaken, and fell downstairs without even a scream. The height of the ceiling backfired on you, huh! Once again, I closed the holes. A number of them were probably fine, but there seems to be only one door to this room, so I decided to aim for the survivors positioned in front of the door. If I did so, then itd use less magic power, and Id be fine with a potion.

    Because I dropped them downstairs, the number of enemies had fallen by half. While I was dropping soldiers into a hole, it seems that the magician and his buddies were frozen by Achille, and the remaining enemies were being cut down by the raging Raiga. Royce-sama was shielding Mei and himself with magic, while binding the count and his daughter with thorny vines so they wouldnt be able to escape. A prince who really does too good a job. Those thorny vines are a magic I taught Royce-sama earlier, but is it my imagination that the thorns on his vines seem sharper and more brutal than mine?

    Ah, the surviving soldiers have finally returned from downstairs. Ive been waiting for you! To show respect to Count Ti-somethings soldiers who faithfully behaved just as nned

    Shall we have you try going once more?

    Again, arge hole opened up in the ground on which they stood. I wonder how many wille back this time.

 Volume 2 - Ch 19

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    How many times have I already dropped the soldiers into a pitfall? Not a single man of valour has made it to where I am.

    Camille, how long are you going to y around for?

    Achille brought me in front of the door. When I saw that the number of icicles had increased, I realised that while I was busy dropping soldiers into holes, the number of Achilles victims further increased.

    Nnnnn, Im not ying, you know.

    I raised my voice in protest, but Achille paid it no heed and took my arm. With my arm still linked with his, we walked to Royce-samas side.

    I wonder what we should do with these.

    With sparkling eyes filled with amusement, Royce-sama was watching the count and his daughter who were both coiled up by thorny vines. What a nice smile!

    The count had probably struggled quite hard to get out of the vines. His clothes were worn and tattered. As for his daughter, she had no energy. Shes a girl with a familiar face, but this girl has been acting strangely ever since she saw us entering the room. Herplexion worsened, and she was fearfully looking in Raigas direction.

    As for Raiga, because he had burst in here by himself and began fighting, his body was wounded all over. Kai was covered in simrly harsh wounds. Count, even though Raiga is the son of the Royal Prince, you attacked him? Isnt that no good? Even if it was in self-defence, this is overdoing it. Guess theres no choice, huh. Shall I heal him? When I made to heal the two of them, I was stopped by Achille.

    You dont have much magic power, so Ill do it.

    But

    Camille, just leave it to Achille.

    For some reason, Royce-sama stopped me with a smirk. I dont really get it, but Ill take Achille up on his offer.

    Achille precisely sent off healing magic at a distance. How skilful I was looking at Achille with a sidelong gaze, when Royce-sama spoke to me in a quiet voice.

    Achille has a surprisingly strong desire to monopolise you, doesnt he? He doesnt want you to treat other men, you know.

    Eh-

    I was bewildered by the unexpected response. Is that why he stopped me just now?

    It looks like Raiga and Kais injuries have healed. A smile has returned, just a little, to Meis face. Raiga called out to Mei about something, but because they were too far, I couldnt really hear. Is it a lovers conversation? Or is it asking about the events that led to this? On the side, Kai is watching the two of them with a dissatisfied expression.

    The Spades faction are here in full force, but why is Kai in a ce like this? Ive been having my doubts about that for a while now, but as I thought, I cant really figure it out. After all, theres also the fact that I feel that he arrived a little too quickly for somebody who found out about danger to his sister by chance.

    So, Count Tito. Is what Mei said true?

    Raiga suddenly spoke to the count. Thats it! It was Count Tito! So vexing! Even though I even recalled as far as Ti-!

    Still wrapped up in the vines, Count Tito shouted.

    Raiga-sama! Why are you getting familiar with those of the King Faction!? You are the son of Royal Prince Kuuga!

    It seems that hes dissatisfied about the fact that Raiga is with us.

    Who I get familiar with is my right. Its nothing to do with you.

    But, they are the enemy!

    To me, you lot who did this to Mei are more the enemy!

    Raiga red at them with a furious expression. The daughter began trembling even more.

    It was a plot to separate Mei and I, and have me marry that woman over there, wasnt it? Was turning your de even towards me because you wanted to capture me weakened and have me move as you pleased?

    With a wicked smile, Raiga approached the count and his daughter.

    That was for your sake

    It was for your sake, wasnt it!? Using Royce to depose the king, separating Mei and I You wanted to turn me, who would be your future son-inw, into a puppet and seize control, right!?

    Hii-!

    Raigas anger wouldnt stop. Theres enough momentum that Count Tito will end up killed at this rate. The cornered count continued giving even more excuses.

    Its that woman! That womans in the wrong! She whispered something into your ears! Shes a spy of the King Faction!

    Count Tito started attacking Mei. You could tell what a small fry the count was from how he mercilessly attacked only Mei who wasnt resisting.

    Thats enough, okay?

    Suddenly, one of the vines constricting Count Tito rose into the air, and then came down on his butt.

    Higii-

    Royce-sama?

    The count let out a cry of anguish. It seems that Royce-sama had his own anger about this.

    Well? Who are the others that youre connected with?

    Kuu I have nothing to say to say to you!

    Really. Even if I do this?

    Another vine came down on him.

    R-R-R-Royce-sama, is this an interrogation? Just when did you learn something like that!?

    I was panicked. As the thorny whip swung down at the count, Royce-sama questioned him with a smile. It seems that hes an expert at it for some reason, but this isnt something a normal prince does. The counts huge bottom was swollen bright red, pants torn.

    At any rate, after having father step down from the throne, you were nning on killing me together with him, right? Its uninspired, isnt it? Who did you receive those orders from?

    Frankly speaking, hes several times scarier than Raiga.

    Or was it something you thought up yourself? Just how did you gather up this many soldiers, I wonderr?

    Guahh-

    Achille who had noticed that Id paled subtly pulled me towards him, and blocked my sight with an embrace.

    Royce-sama, lets leave the rest to the interrogation service. People from the castle should arrive before long.

    Hmph, guess theres no choice, huhh.

    Royce-sama looked a little discontented, but he obediently followed Achilles suggestion. Being freed from Royce-sama, the count wet his pants in relief, and lost consciousness.

 Volume 2 - Ch 20

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    The most pitiful one, was the counts daughter who remained. Her face had already gone past pale, and had be white. She did nothing but wholeheartedly gaze in Raigas direction.

    Raiga, is this youngdy one of yours, I wonder?

    Royce-sama who had noticed the girls gaze asked, and Raiga replied curtly.

    I dont know such a woman.

    R-, Raiga-sama Shes one of the students in the Spades ss, you know?

    Mei interjected from the side.

    The counts daughter, ire Tito is certainly enrolled in our academy, isnt she.

    Achille supported her words as well. Achille, for you to even remember students from other sses

    Raiga-sama I was

    ire began speaking in a feeble voice.

    Theres no worth in listening to somebody like you. Immediately shut that mouth of yours that spews nothing but unpleasantries.

    -

    Raiga shows no mercy even to the noble daughters of the Royal Prince Faction. ire began to shedrge tears.

    - This, cockroach womann-!

    Suddenly, squeezing out a voice that seemed to have crawled out from the bottom of the earth, ire red at Mei. Being father and daughter, it seems that they direct their attacks in the same direction. They med Mei, who was the weakest one here.

    Just what kind of things did you say to deceive Raiga-sama!? Why would Raiga-sama, with the likes of you-!?

    Up until just now, I thought she was curling herself up, but she suddenly began spouting abuse at Mei. I felt something wrong with herck of consistency.

    Well!? Even though youre a woman who never, ever does anything except hide behind someone else, and gets protected! Why is it you?

    ire screamed as her hair became violently disheveled.

    Ill kill you! Ill exterminate this cockroach woman again and again! Until Raiga-sama opens his eyes!

    While screaming, her face contorted in ugliness due to the pain of trying to crawl out of the thorny vines.

    I walked towards the nobles daughter who was mad with rage.

    Hey, ire, wont you calm down a bit?

    What do you want!? This has nothing to do with you, right!?

    Youre unhappy about the fact that Raiga-sama and Mei-chan are engaged, right? You like Raiga-sama, right?

    Its not something that has anything to do with the Tattoo Woman of the King Faction!

    As nned, the brunt of ires attack switched to me.

    Were you rejected by Raiga-sama?

    Shut up! Shut up!

    Did you tell him your feelings?

    As if you could understand my feelings! He couldnt even remember my face, even my name! Without even being given a chance to speak to him, he always shook me off annoyedly I couldnt even get close to him! In those kind of circumstances, there was no way I could confess, right!?

    But despite that, before you knew it, Mei-chan and Raiga-sama were engaged

    Thats right! Even though Im overwhelmingly more suitable for him! I cant forgive that cockroach woman! Even though she just happened to be assigned a job close to Raiga-sama! Thats why I spoke to Otousama, you know, and I asked him to use me in his n

    Are you saying that you knew about Count Titos conspiracy from the beginning?

    No, a certain person told me about it. That father was scheming to overthrow the king, and would soon be putting it into action. When I told Otousama about my n, he said it was a good idea and happily let me! Otousama would gain power, and I would gain Raiga-sama!

    Did you think I would love you or something? How stupid.

    Ahh, Raiga retorted from the side. He should also have a slightly better way of wording things.

    I didnt think something like that! But if you were close, Id have chances to talk to you, and someday

    Hmph, how worthless. Something like that will be impossible all my life.

    ires eyes widened enough that herrge pupils seemed like the could spill out.

    Why Why that woman? I would be

    As though her vigour from before was a lie, ires words suddenly became weak. Her eyes were hollow.

    Could it be

    Having recalled the symptoms for a certain something, I drew even closer to her. Its not as though Ive been reading magic books for show. I discovered on her neck, a bruise probably given by magic.

    How cruel Who did this sort of thing?

    Whats wrong, Oneesama?

    From a ce far away from me came Meis concerned question. Even being subjected to something so frightening, it looks like she was worried about ire.

    There was a curse on the girls neck. Even if I say curse, its a kind of magic. Only, its not a normal magic, but one that belongs to a type that acts on the mind.

    As one of the types of magic that are generally considered uneptable for use, these magics are referred to as forbidden arts. In this country, with the exception of certain upations, the use of mind affecting magic is forbidden byw. By certain upations, I mean those such as the interrogation bureau. They have permission to use confession magic only.

    Its likely that she, ire, has a forbidden art cast on her.

    What did you say!?

    Realising the seriousness of the issue, Mei covered her mouth with her hands. Royce-sama who was near me asked me a question.

    Camille, youre certain thats a forbidden magic? You can tell what magic it is?

    Yes, Royce-sama. Ive never used it, but if its just knowledge about it This is a magic that works on the mind, and primarily amplifies hatred. In ancient times, it was a magic used to increase the morale of soldiers, but in modern times, it is forbidden due to its immorality.

    Lets leave aside the matter of why Camille knows about forbidden arts. For there to be a person who readily uses curse magic is a grave situation, isnt it.

    QUITE SO. (monotone)

    I was exposed! I identally spilled it out of my mouth! Books on forbidden arts are strictly managed, and you can only find them in the royal pce and academy in the sections of the archive that are forbidden for reading. Aahh, even Achille Dont look at me with those eyess I just snuck in because I was a little curious, thats all!

    Can you undo it, Camille?

    I can but, theres one more forbidden art that even I dont know about, cast on top of it. Im not sure it would be a good idea to carelessly undo it without understanding it

    There might be a bad effect on ires body due to the bacsh.

    That would be troubling, huhh. Camille, Ill give you permission to read the forbidden magic bookster, so could you have a scan through them? Well be bringing the captured count and his daughter to the castle.

    Understood!

    Hooray! To think Id be able to openly read the magic books in the forbidden section! Its a little imprudent though. In the meanwhile, ire continued making a hollow expression.

 Volume 2 - Ch 21

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    Count Tito and ire were taken away by burly men from the knight order, and the parent and child were put on separate carriages for criminals and carried away. They would probably be confined in the castle jail for a while, and questioned about various things. I received Royce-samas permission to read the forbidden books, and n to look up on forbidden magic. If its the forbidden books in the castle, then a way to undo ires magic might be written somewhere.

    Royce-sama was heavily, heavily guarded and transported to the castle. It was after a kidnapping incident, so I guess it couldnt be helped even that he was confined in the carriage

    After knights were dispatched from the castle, Achille and I were quickly removed from Royce-samas guard. Kiiii! So frustrating! Even though we were the ones who saved Royce-sama No, Royce-sama escaped on his own, though. Because of this and that, right now our job is done, and Im in the same carriage as Achille. Were riding this carriage to apany Royce-sama until he reaches the castle.

    Our hours of sleep were cut down, and then we chased after Royce-sama, so riding the rocking carriage like this make me feel like my consciousness is going to leave me. Even though we have to be prepared for an emergency, so theres no way itd be okay to fall asleep.

    I was nodding off, when suddenly Achille spoke to me. Im grateful, since I feel like Ill fall asleep any moment now.

    During the events this time, Ive been thinking.

    Nn Thinking what?

    Probably about the Royal Prince Factions schemes, or possibly

    Camille, you consume too much.

    Its about me!?

    Certainly this bodys consumption rate is bad, and I immediately feel hungry again, but in exchange I have the benefit of not getting fat-

    Not that, Camille, Im talking about your magic power. Ive been thinking this since I see it from up close, but when you use magic, you spend more than necessary and let off a lot of wasted mana. Like that, youll suffer mana exhaustion again, you know?

    Uuu

    Because I made that kind of failure before his eyes, I cant even refute him. Also, in truth, there are cases of magicians running out of magic power various times while on the job. At the time, apanion will have a recovery potion, and theyll make do somehow, but what Achille is pointing out is for me, something truly difficult to hear. The mana recovery potions for emergencies that appear on the market have too weak an effect. Even if you say theyre potions for recovering magic power, its not as if all your magic power will return after drinking it. Even now, an effective mana recovery potions has yet to be created. Thats why Achille is also worried about emergency situations. Honestly, this childhood friend of mine is really overprotective, huhh.

    Ill try my best to take care. After all, I cant use magic in an efficient way like you can, Achille

    Even though your magic knowledge and technique is towering above everyone else, the way you use your magic power is crude, so its really a waste, isnt it?

    By the way, isnt there some trick to using magic power efficiently?

    Achille can already perfectly use only the necessary amount of magic power. Its unbelievable howpact and methodically he can convert magic power into magic. Its enough that I admire him each time.

    Its not that hard, you know? Shall I teach you?

    Is that really okay?

    Asking Achille to teach me in magic is curious. Even though its always the other way around.

    Of course. Youre always teaching me in magic after all.

    But you teach me schoolwork in exchange, dont you?

    Well then, well do it in addition to studying. Im worried. Finding out that without knowing it, you even got involved with forbidden arts It seems like one day youll do something that you cant take back

    The fact that I knew about forbidden magic was exposed to Achille as well, wasnt it But Im not that much of an idiot, you know! Forbidden arts are dangerous. Even if I gain knowledge about it, I wont actually use it you know!

    Suddenly, Achille closed the distance. We were in a carriage, so it was cramped, and it was difficult to move about. Inevitably, Achille ended up stuck to me.

    U-, Umm

    So, Camille. When am I going to get a reply to my confession? Ive been waiting the whole time since then, but

    Fue-?

    The very instant Iprehended the contents of what he slowly whispered to me in a sweet voice, I froze.

    The conversation has suddenly jumped way ahead again, huhh

    Certainly I did get told something confession-like, but I didnt think that a reply would be required. Mm~mn What should I do?

    Camille, are you spacing out? Are you nning on pretending this didnt happen?

    Achilles voice brought me back to my senses. I apologised in a panic.

    Nah, but I mean, Im your fiance, so isnt that kind of conversation unnecessary by now? Or so I was thinking.

    Even though I told you my feelings? Are you saying youre fine with a loveless marriage?

    Why did he interpret it like that?

    No, like I was saying, its not that, umm

    Is it my imagination that I can feel some sort of pressure from Achille?

    Honestly, I regret mixing up the order. I dont regret getting engaged to you, Camille, but making sure of your feelings first wouldve been the correct order, huh?

    Achille

    Certainly, we got the order backwards. Were in a rtionship like that of a political marriage.

    But Achille directly told me his feelings. Always, with his words and behaviour. Compared to that, I use being engaged as an excuse, and always leave it half done. This attitude might be a little bit insincere.

    If you stay quiet, I end up misunderstanding it in a way thats convenient for me, you know?

    Misunderstand?

    I mean, even when I hug you or kiss you, you dont resist at all, right?

    Th-, ats-

    Just because I was surprised and frozen, though

    I-I-I-If I told you frankly that I was rejecting your confession, what would you do?

    Then Id continue putting in more effort until you looked at me. Ive already waited ten years, so a little more is nothing, right?

    Ten years? In other words, since the time I was six, Achille has liked me and has been looking at me in that way? Suddenly, heat started gathering in my face.

    T-, Then what would you do if I epted?

    Then itd be mutual. Wed openly behave like lovers.

    I was agonising over it. I dont dislike Achille. But I dont have any confidence that these feelings are the same as Achilles. I mean at any rate, including both this life and my first, Ive never looked at a member of the opposite sex in that way even once before. Even the people I went out with in my old world were people who confessed to me, so it was nothing more than me just going out with them to try. But

    Achille is always putting off his own convenience, worrying about me, and prioritising my opinions. There are a lot of times when he teases me, but we trust each other the most. Or rather, hes basically the only member of the opposite sex.

    On top of that That time, in the counts secret base when I fell into the hole without a word Achille jumped into the hole to save me, and even used his body to protect me.

    When he was squashed under me and wouldnt move I was really scared. When I thought that I might lose him like that, it couldnt be helped that I was really helplessly terrified. More important than rescuing Royce-sama, more important than making sure Mei was safe, what I did first was use the highest ss of recovery magic out of worry for Achille, in spite of running out of mana..

    This feeling is?

    I do I like you, perhaps?

    Even if you ask me, Im stumped, you know.

    Somehow or another, even being hugged by him or kissed by him, Ive felt surprised and bewildered, but never angry at him. I wonder if thats because I didnt dislike it.

    The one whos always closest, watching over me, is without a doubt him, after all.

    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Her final dialogue line,

    I do I like you, perhaps?

    in Japanese first reads I like you before going into something that roughly means do I perhaps? watashi, Achille no koto suki nano kanaa? ore ni kikaretemo komarun dakedo

 Volume 2 - Ch 22

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    Heyyy, French people. If I mess up any names, would it be okay if youmented and told me? Im being pretty irresponsible with my googling, so Ive already gotten two names wrong before. Thanks (:

    His Highness Royces kidnapping incident was treated as more or less concluded, and we guarded His Highness to the castle. We boarded various carriages. It would be faster to fly on a broom, but because there were a lot of knights who couldnt use magic, we ended up travelling on ground. It seems that the knights all hurried their horses and hade running here. It was probably quite forced. Because the guards for His Highness on the way back were specialised knights, Camille and I were relieved of our duties. Because knights had a strong sense of self respect, they wouldnt leave the duty of guarding to we who were nothing more than His Highnesss hanger ons. Even amongst the knights themselves, they were always kicking and fighting for a better position, so it cant be helped I guess. As long as no harmes to His Highness, I dont really care, but Im a little worried. Far from cooperating, Knights also holding each other back Its a sad thing that they arent heading in a direction where they try to strengthen each other. When ites to my managerial position, Id like to think that we dont engage in such pointless quarrels.

    Camille and I rode in the same carriage. Count Tito and his daughter ire were in cells in carriages for prisoners. The carriages were borrowed from a nearby noble. It would certainly take quite a long time to bring some all the way from the castle.

    Camille was starting to doze off in the seat opposite mine. She seems like shell fall asleep any moment now. We were allowed to ride a carriage as well, but strictly speaking were borrowing a carriage. Having Camille ride a carriage in this situation is much too risky.

    Uuun

    While moaning for some reason, Camille was frantically trying to keep her eyes open. Its probably a given that she wont sleep until she knows that Royce-sama has safely arrived at the castle. In that respect, shes been a conscientious one since a long time ago. Since theres no other choice, I speak to Canille. If I speak to her, she might wake up.

    During the events this time, Ive been thinking.

    Nn Thinking what?

    It seems like Camilles consciousness is returning a little.

    Camille, you consume too much.

    She woke up after hearing those words.

    Certainly this bodys consumption rate is bad, and I immediately feel hungry again, but in exchange I have the benefit of not getting fat-

    To say this body, its almost like shes talking about somebody elses problem.

    Not that, Camille, Im talking about your magic power. Ive been thinking this since I see it from up close, but when you use magic, you spend more than necessary and let off a lot of wasted mana. Like that, youll suffer mana exhaustion again, you know?

    Uuu

    At the counts mansion, I got injured saving Camille after she blundered. Seeing that, Camille repeatedly used healing magic before my eyes, but though she has a lot of power in magic, apanying that is too much wasteful discharge of magic power. As a result, she suffered mana exhaustion. Even though shed normally be able to use more magic, to be unable to utilise her full power because of her magic power shortage when the time came, is too much of a waste.

    Ill try my best to take care. After all, I cant use magic in an efficient way like you can, Achille

    Its not that you cant do it, but that its annoying so you simply dont, isnt it? Camille is sketchy with absolutely everything. You can see it even in the way she uses magic. Paying no heed to magic power, and firing off huge magic again and again.

    Even though your magic knowledge and technique is towering above everyone else, the way you use your magic power is crude, so its really a waste, isnt it?

    Camille made a difficult expression.

    By the way, isnt there some trick to using magic power efficiently?

    This is also one of Camilles habits. She immediately starts drifting towards convenient methods. Trying to gain the maximum effect through the minimum effort can also be taken as a good point, but when ites to her, her biggest motivation is because she cant be bothered. She really cant be helped, huhh

    Its not that hard, you know? Shall I teach you?

    Is that really okay?

    Its probably unconscious, but when Camille looks at me with those sparkling eyes, its cute enough to kill. However, I musnt be fooled by that. When the topic turns to magic, she always makes that face. I restrained myself.

    Of course. Youre always teaching me in magic after all.

    The reason Ive been improving in magic so quickly is not only because Im being taught by my father. Its because Camille always showcases practical and unique modified spells before my eyes as well. And, because she cheerfully imparts that knowledge onto His Highness and I without reluctance

    But you teach me schoolwork in exchange, dont you?

    Thats nothing more than the fact that if I leave her alone, she wont study at all, so theres no choice but to teach her. As expected, having the daughter of a marquis stay an idiot would be pretty bad right? Or so I was thinking, so I poked my nose in, and the result was that I ended up in the present situation, stuck with the job of acting like a private tutor. Its also the truth that its a good excuse to be with her, so Im fine with it though.

    This time, itd probably be fine to treat mana control as part of her studies as well. Camille is conscientious only in these regards.

    Well then, well do it in addition to studying. Im worried. Finding out that without knowing it, you even got involved with forbidden arts It seems like one day youll do something that you cant take back

    Im honestly worried about this. Before I knew it, in some ce I dont know, Camilles been stocking up on knowledge of forbidden arts. She probably intruded on the royal pces archive or something on her own. Even if a door is heavily locked with difficult to dispel magic, shes a lock picking expert wholl easily dispel it. That acts as a good impetus for her to arbitrarily open and close doors in the royal pce, and go in and out of various ces. From now on, Id better keep an eye on her, or else It looks like His Highness will be giving her permission to the forbidden archives, but when she goes, Ille with her. Camille always, always, does what she pleases when shes in deserted ces

    Hahh.

    Tired from my one way feelings, I ended up wanting to sooth myself a little. So I decided to poke at Camille just a little. Shes given me plenty of good reactions so far, so shes someone worth poking at.

    So, Camille. When am I going to get a reply to my confession? Ive been waiting the whole time since then, but

    I moved to her side.

    Fue-?

    Whats with that stupid sounding reply? With that, Camille sank into thought about something.

    Camille, are you spacing out? Are you nning on pretending this didnt happen?

    Nah, but I mean, Im your fiance, so isnt that kind of conversation unnecessary by now? Or so I was thinking.

    I wonder if in Camilles mind, just having the title of being engaged is enough, and our feelings dont matter.

    Even though I told you my feelings? Are you saying youre fine with a loveless marriage?

    I know what a real political marriage is. My two parents are like that. My stepmother who gave birth to children out of duty, and desperately tries to have her own child be family head. My father who, being overwhelmed by that kind of woman, felt that being around her was oppressive, and so went outside to have affairs. Is it fine even if we be like that?

    No, like I was saying, its not that, umm

    Its Camille though, so perhaps theres a good chance that shes just not thinking anything. Or rather, thats probably the correct answer.

    Is this reaping what I sowed? Because Camille grew up, and her circumstances changed ordingly, I panicked and used the title of engaged couple to keep her surroundings at bay. All while leaving her feelings behind Im sure that this is thepensation for that.

    Honestly, I regret mixing up the order. I dont regret getting engaged to you, Camille, but making sure of your feelings first wouldve been the correct order, huh?

    Achille

    Herrge, raspberry coloured eyes widened.

    If you stay quiet, I end up misunderstanding it in a way thats convenient for me, you know?

    Misunderstand?

    I mean, even when I hug you or kiss you, you dont resist at all, right?

    Th-, ats-

    Honestly, I think I have a chance.

    Lately, Camille has been acting bashful and embarassed a lot around me, after all. Her behaviour is like that of a normal nobles daughter of her age. Im properly being viewed by her as a member of the opposite sex.

    I-I-I-If I told you frankly that I was rejecting your confession, what would you do?

    Camilles voice was getting agitated and shrill. That she lets her unrest show like that is adorable, and its relieving that I dont have to read whats under the surface like with other people.

    Then Id continue putting in more effort until you looked at me. Ive already waited ten years, so a little more is nothing, right?

    But, Ive waited that long already, so Im starting to want a reply Is what Im really thinking. Camille turned bright red.

    T-, Then what would you do if I epted?

    Then itd be mutual. Wed openly behave like lovers.

    I do I like you, perhaps?

    Is that something youd usually ask me? Would it be okay if I intentionally took that as an affirmative?

    Even if you ask me, Im stumped, you know.

    Camille looks like shes fretting about it. Her expressions are rapidly changing about, so I dont get tired of watching her. I wonder if therelle a day when she loves me I do feel somehow or other that I have a chance, but it might be early for Camille whos still like a little kid. Does this need to take more time? While I was worrying about this, I met my eyes with Camille, who surprisingly was suddenly looking hard at me. It looks like she wants to say something.

    Whats wrong?

    Ah, Achille Um, you see,

    Mn?

    Y-, You see. Umm, thats ermmmm

    Whilst fidgeting, Camille began looking into space. Her preface was too long, but because she was giving her all, I stayed quiet and watched over her.

    I-, I also might like you. Its surprising when you hug me, but I dont particrly dislike it, after all.

    Her voice shrank during the second half, but I heard it all.

    Camille

    If you tell me that while averting your gaze with all your might, you lose your credibility you know But weve known each other for many years, so I understand that shes just earthshakingly embarassed. The ones who would understand this, are probably just His Highness and I.

    I said it, okay!? I properly replied, okay!?

    Seems so.

    With this, this conversation is fini-

    With this, were openly in love with each other, huh!

    Our levels of enthusiasm are a little different, but we can deal with that step by step And, I have no intention of letting the conversation finish like this. I finally got a chance to hear the words Ive been longing for from Camilles mouth, after all.

    You, like me?

    Like I said, Ive already said it, havent I!?

    Do you like me?

    I, I like you.

    As usual shes averting her gaze with all she has, but her face is as red as a boiled octopus, so shes probably saying this from the heart.

    Well then, can we kiss?

    GUFUO-! Geho, gohoh-

    Why did she choke there? Its Camille, so I guess it cant be helped, huh? Honestly, she really is an expert at destroying the mood. I love that kind of Camille even so, so theres no way I can be shaken by this degree of coughing. Im prepared to ept her no matter how she is. Its been ten years now, after all.

    My first move is interpreting that coughing as an okay, you know.

    I see, I see. So its okay, huh. Well then, I wont hold back.

    GEHO, GEHO-! Eh? Achille, I havent said a thing ye- Nnnnnn-!

    Even though her mouth says various of things, when I actually kiss her, she goes docile. She says that its just being frozen from shock, though. Theres no real resistance either. When ites to her, if she really didnt like it, on top of going on a rampage, shed even start go berserk with magic, after all.

    Nn, Camille so cute.

    Hyaa-! Nn-, Achille.

    Right now, theres nobody but Camille and I in the carriage, and His Highness the peeping expert is under close guard and cant freely move about.

    Going by the speed of our carriage, we might reach the castle around noon tomorrow, huh? Knights who came to pick up His Highness, good job!

 Volume 2 - Ch 23

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    Huhu, Im d, Camille. You and Achille like each other, right?

    I get the feeling that information gets leaked to Royce-sama, each and every time. How mysterious. Did Achille tell him about it? No matter how good it is, even Royce-sama would find it impossible to actually peep on what happened inside the carriage.

    Having returned to the castle, right now Im having tea with Royce-sama whos finished dealing with the post-processing of the incident. Achille was apparently busy with work or something, so he isnt here. The tea I have in Royce-samas room is very delicious, and each time it feels like Ive gained a little something for free. Todays ck tea is exquisite as well.

    Im d you say? You are, Royce-sama?

    Of course. The two of you are my important friends, after all That you two are openly in love with each other feels like a load off my back, you know.

    Was there some sort of burden that you had in regards to this, Royce-sama?

    There was, you know. You were having trouble graduating from me, after all. I got watched pretty badly by Achille

    Achille? He did that sort of thing?

    G-, Graduate, you say?

    Speaking of which, at the counts hideout he said the same thing as well, but Just what does he mean?

    I said it earlier, right? That you ovepped me with somebody else, and adored them through me. For a long time now, Ive always been wondering about it, but am I really that simr to that person?

    Something like ovepping somebody simr to you, I wouldnt do

    Having thought that far, it suddenly hit me. Could it be

    Just one person,es to mind. Hes incredibly simr him But, Im certain that hes different to the one thats before my eyes in real life.

    It couldnt be

    Is the person that Royce-sama talked about, the in-game him?

    I unconsciously, unwittingly, ovepped andpared Royce-sama with the in-game him? While I was aware that this world was real, I looked for points that were simr with the games characters, and without realising it myself,pared them.

    What Ive been holding onto for these ten years, were love for the games Royce No, a yearning for him. I sended up stacking those feelings onto the real him. And Royce-sama whos good at reading others feelings, has probably always noticed this.

    Royce-sama I,

    What a rude attitude Ive taken towards him for almost ten years. Instead of the real person, Ive been yearning for a fake existence of my own convenience.

    Camille, did you like that person?

    No, rather than love, it was just yearning, I think. I understood that being with them was impossible, after all.

    I mean, it was a game character. And someonepletely different from the current Royce-sama.

    I see

    Royce-sama gazed at me.

    Im sorry. It must have been ufortable, right? To have an imaginary person like that ovepped onto you for so long

    Id definitely hate it. To be seen through the filter of the in-game Camille.

    However, inexpectedly, Royce-sama shook his head.

    Thats not true. The fact that youve always been by me, and protected me, is because of that imaginary guy after all.

    Royce-sama Youre too kind.

    What a magnanimous prince. epting even me, who was holding onto selfish delusions, and always keeping me as a friend.

    From now on as well, I intend to protect you, Royce-sama. Because youre my friend, and an older brotherly, or perhaps younger brotherly important person to me.

    Royce-sama softly smiled. Even now, after hes grown up, that smile is still the same as always.

    Me too. Youre my important friend, and though older sister is impossible I think of you like a little sister, you know.

    He just dered that older sister was impossible for meee!

    After my chat with Royce-sama, I turned up to work for the first time in a while and was discovered by Achille, and he speedily walked towards me. Has he already finished work or something? He stopped in front of my eyes, and with a grave expression, ced his hands on my two shoulders.

    Since that incident in the carriage, I feel that the sense of distance between us has shrunk again. It seems that Achille ispletely in boyfriend mode. Hes been treating me even more protectively than before I cant get used to being treated like this, and its embarassing.

    Achille, whats wrong? Youre making such a serious expression.

    Whos the person that you yearn for?

    Yearn for? Ah-, could it be!

    Achille Didnt you hear about this too quickly? Even though I only just told Royce-sama, what a formidable guy.

    Maybe Royce-sama and Achille dont hide anything from each other. The friendship between men is a mystery. But still, Royce-sama, youre too loose-lipped Even though youre a prince.

    Id decided that I would also tell Achille the truth. I-, Its not perfect, but we are lovers, so Id like to avoid weird misunderstandings.

    Ive said this to Royce-sama too, but its not a person that exists in reality, you know.

    Ah, hes giving me a weird look. I might look like a cringeworthy woman right now.

    What kind of person are they?

    Mnnnn, an ideal prince. Hes a little bit like Royce-sama, but As expected, Ive understood that they arent the same.

    Hmmn I wonder if its like the princes on white steeds that Dborah and Dsire have spoken to me about. Girls seem to like those types of stories, dont they?

    R-, rightright! Hes like that! An existence you yearn for!

    Its a little different, but the point about being a prince that you yearn for is the same, so Ill just go with this. If I dont, it seems like things will getplicated.

    Achille didnt look like he was epting it, but it looks like hell spare me more questioning, which saved me.

    Then, you really do like me back, right?

    Mmn

    When he asks me face to face, I get shy no matter what, and end up being stiff.

    Other people that you long for

    D-, Didnt I say that there arent any!?

    No good, I was panicked and identally let out a bit of a loud voice. So embarassing.

    Really? You wont cheat on me?

    I said that I wont, geez!

    To begin with, since it was the imaginary Royce-sama from the game, itd be impossible to cheat anyway. Achille Surprisingly, Im sort of seeing elements of a possessive boyfriend just under the surface, you know.

    You should know it too, right? I dont have someone like th- Ah-!?

    When I red at Achille and was trying to refute him, I saw from over his shoulders a pair of blue eyes, sneakily watching us from a corner of the hallway. It seems that Achille noticed the presence behind him as well, and turned around.

    Wh- Royce-sama, what are you doing spying from the shadows!? Do you have business in the Magic Building?

    Even though he should have been resting in his room until just a moment ago. Honestly, hes a prince you cant let your guard down around.

    No, I was just watching over you two. I want to use you guys as a referenceter, okay?

    Im hugely questioning what exactly he ns on using this as a reference for.

    Not, okay?! Even though youre a prince, arent your information gathering skills getting too good? Why was there no hint of your presence!?

    Achille tsukkomid Royce-sama. But, I also dont think that Royce-samas presence erasing abilities are ordinary. But still, we sure showed him something embarassing, huhh.

    Looking at the three of us together like this, I start to think that weve grown quite a lot since that time. Each of us, in different directions. The first time we met, we chatted in this Magic Building as well, huhh Our personalities werepletely different though.

    Now, Achille is using his genius intellect in his job, and is going fullspeed down the path to bing an elite. Thepetence that he had when he was Royce-samas right hand man in the game was plenty as well, I think. The calcting side of him that wasid bare when he was a child has also calmed down, but hes good at hiding what he doesnt want to show, so I have no idea what hes actually thinking though. Royce-sama was originally a prince whose kindness was his only merit, buttely, perhaps due to Achilles influence, asionally he shows a highly calcting side of him. Also, he erases his presence and moves about stealthily like a ninja, so it seems that hes making various secret manoeuvres in ces I dont know about. Im sure hes already got a hold of my weaknesses. A secret intelligence-type prince Hes ended up growing in a surprising direction, huhh

    Im developing in the direction that I originally aimed for, and became a professional magician whos mastering magic. Right now Im a student, as well as a Red magician, but in the future I n on bing a ck magician who can guard Royce-sama. Ive also g-, gotten Achille as a fianc and lover so my future as the daughter of a marquis also seems stable for now. To think that Id end up in this kind of rtionship with that Achille I wouldnt have thought it when I first came to this world, huhh. The world is a mysterious thing. But this world isnt a game; its reality. Achille, and Royce and I as well, are people living in reality. Through our choices, the future is something that changes unendingly.

    /First Semester END

    Authors Note: The Mansion Arc has basically finished.

 Volume 3 - Ch 1

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    tl: check status plz. am starting to post a little bit before final 2 chapters of this section are done.

    Royce-samas kidnapping incident was dealt with for now, and I got used to life at the academy. The culprits of the incident are right now in the middle of being investigated in the castle jail. The captured count is the same as always, but it seems that Miss ire is being obedient to a strange degree. After that, Raiga sent to my address a wonderful magic book named Forbidden Magics  the Complete Collection. It seems that it was originally a magic book that belonged to the Royal Prince Faction, and was a rare book that cant even be found in the forbidden archives of the pce. Its something that only the people in the Royal Prince Faction know about, but even if they had it they would only do bad things with it, so Ill give it to you. or so he said. It cant be helped. Shall I forget about all the abusive words that he said during the kidnapping incident?

    It seems that after that, Raiga earnestly tried to persuade the Royal Prince regarding his marriage with Mei. Since after that incident, our rtionship with Raiga has be less dangerous than before. Meis idea of Achille and Royce-sama being hard to deal with has also disappeared. This is a good sign. Only, unfortunately, Kai skirted the pursuers and is even now in the middle of escape.

    Were about to enter the academys summer holiday. This world has four seasons as well. Many students will be returning to their homes this break. Achille, Royce-sama and I are no exceptions. Having a long break sure is a little exciting, huh. Theres one more reason that Im excited. During this break, Achilles older stepsister, Dborah, will be holding her wedding ceremony. While I was living life at school, she splendidlynded a speed-engagement, and then a speed-marriage. Her parner is shockingly, amoner whos her junior, and is apparently one of the guards that works at the castle. Even though Dborah always talked about marrying into riches and power, to think there would be this sudden development! I definitely want to meet the groom! And so, I happily decide to attend her wedding ceremony.

    Im looking forward to it. I wonder what kind of dress Dborah will wear.

    Yeah Lets pray that she wears a normal dress.

    Though theyre only half-siblings, it is his sisters wedding, but Achille has little excitement. I wonder if hes being shy. Even though Dborah is so ridiculously fond of Achille

    Oh yeah! Lets go meet Dborah to congratte her in advance!

    I decided that right after I arrive home from school, Ill immediately charge into Achilles home for a visit.

    Wee home, Camille-sama!

    The next day, the moment I opened the door to my home after arrived,Aime came charging. As always, its an incredible tackle.

    I-, Im back Aime

    Even though I only just got home, because of Aime, my stamina gauge has drastically diminished.

    Goodness, Camille-sama, youve be even more beautiful again Its definitely because of Achille-samas power, isnt it!

    Im shocked Whether knowingly or unknowingly,Aime has let out some extreme words. As expected of the Chief Maid She has sharp perception. Ill escape before Aimee says anything more!

    O-, Oh yeah! I have to go congratte Dborah!

    Ahh, she is your sister-inw, isnt she! What shall we give her as a celebratory gift!? Listen up, Camille-sama, as a reference for your own wedding, make sure to have a proper talk with Dborah!

    I just stirred up trouble for myself, huh. The unusually fired upAime immediately began preparing what I needed for the visit to Dborah.

    Dborah! Congrattions on your wedding!

    While carrying a huge amount of celebratory gifts, I visited Dborah. In the short while that I havent seen her, Dborahs be more slim than before, and was now covering her mouth with her fan, face red. In the guest room that I was brought into, we began having a girls talk.

    Thank you, Camille Im also happy to have a little sister-inw as cute as you.

    Dborahs personality has be a lot more mild. Is this the power of love? Even though when I first met her, she had a more haughty and funny personality.

    Hey, what kind of person is your groom?

    From what I hear, her marriage is a love marriage; something rare for a noble! Of course, the information source was Achille.

    Goodness, Camille! Hes a normal person.

    I cant tell with just that much.

    Hes kind. Hes amoner, but he treats me more dearly than any noble boy. Okaasama and Oniisama were against it, but Otousama and Dsire were happy about it.

    Its mainstream for themoners of this world to marry for love, isnt it? Conversely, nobles almost never marry for love and go for The Political Marriage. A marriage like Achilles and I where the political marriage matches our feelings is a very rare example. There are also cases like the Rhodolite marquis family where the rtionships between husband and wife improved after marriage, as well as cases like the Jade viscount family where the rtions never improved and the family head has a mistress. For example, Soleil also had a number of mistresses after Achilles mother, and is currently in the middle of a massive argument with this wife, and may one day end up living alone in the marquis estate. That Dborah is marrying as she wishes in the midst of all this, is something I think is great.

    Saying this Camille, are things going well with Achille?

    Uu-

    Please dont just suddenly turn the brunt of the conversation on me, please.

    Achille is fundamentally a capable boy, but it seems that he cant make any good calctions with you. Hes a good kid at heart, so please get along with him, okay?

    O-, Of course.

    Im currently in a situation where were reciprocating feelings. Its expectedly embarassing, so I dont want to talk to Dborah about it now though Speaking to Dborah even flustered, the door behind me made a sound as it opened.

    Camille!

    A-, Achille? Thanks for having me over.

    Speaking of the devil, the person himself appeared. Leaning before the door to the guestroom was Achille, dressed in clothing for rxed; a change from his noble clothes. As usual, hes pointlessly dripping with amour

    Leaving me behind and visiting Oneesama first, arent you quite the cruel fiance?

    Achille smiled sweetly. The very first words I heard were a reprimand! Achilles eyes are fixed on me like a cat that was teasing its prey.

    Achille Sorry about tha-, hyan-!?

    Sitting down right beside me, even though were in front of Dborah, Achille licked my ear. What the heck is he doing all of a sudden!?

    Gyaaah-! M-, My-my-my-my-my-my-my-!

    Falling into terrible confusion, I tried to put some distance between Achille and I, but Without me noticing, Achille had already gotten my waist in a firm hold, and I couldnt escape.

    Whaat, Camille? Pretending to be a cicada? [the earlier line, Camille goes mimimimimimimimi where mimi = ear, and cicadas are said to go miii miii miii miii in Japan.]

    Damn you, Achille! Even though you know! Who the heck would pretend to be a cicada in somebody elses house!?

    Even since I returned his feelings, Achilles done more embarassing things than before. Somebody please stop this guy whos unterally escting things! Moreover, for some reason he knows that my ears are weak. Even though I didnt say it!

    My, you two get along well, dont you?

    Dborah-?

    Dontugh, and please stop your brother!

    Seeing things go well between you, Im feeling relieved as well.

    Worry not, Oneesama.

    Both smirking, Dborah and Achille continue their conversation. Wha- Why are these two just concluding the conversation themselves!? These two siblings really resemble each other!!

    Oh, Camille! Its been a while!

    Probably because she knew we were gathered here, Dsire showed up in the guest room as well. Today shes wearing a light blue dress for homewear. Rather than that intense hyper crinoline-type dress that she wore to the dance party, this type of dress suits her better.

    Camille, are you enjoying school? I wonder if there are any good men there.

    Because of her older sisters marriage, Dsire is filled with interest in romance.

    Hmmmm Good men, huh?

    Dsire, youre asking the wrong person. I mean, to begin with, almost everybody in the Hearts ss hasbelled me as a tattoo weirdo And though it isnt as much as before, the people in the Spades ss are still wary of me, so And the Anti-noble! aura in the Clovers ss is no joke, so I fundamentally have nothing to do with men outside of Achille and Royce-sama you know.

    I think that a love marriage like Oneesama and Camille would be good too! Dominique-niisama still has not a single good womanperson you know. Hes a mothercon after all. I dont want to fall behind him!

    No, I mean, Im still not married you know? Speaking of Dominique who Dsire mentioned, hes Achilles older brother and the next head of the viscount family. But he has the reputation of being nothing like Achille at all. asionally I catch sight of him at the Jade house but Hes always happily holding hands with Soleils wife, Ade! By the way, Dominique is eighteen.

    It seems that Dominique isnt really fond of Achille whos an illegitimate child, and hasnt really spoken to I whove been close to Achille since childhood. But on asion, while thinking about who knows what, with clouded, dark eyes hell look at me at though licking me with them Its a mystery. I guess Dominique isnt too fond of me either.

    Dborah and Dsire, and Ade and Dominique dont really get along. It might be that since they were children, Ade has only been affectionate with Dominique, the sessor. From the perspective of an outsider like me, the difference in treatment is obvious, so to the people involved, could it be even more than that? Perhaps because Dominique is indifferent towards his two sisters as well, the bonds between the siblings is weak. To Dominique and his mother, Dborah and Dsire may have no more worth than chesspieces.

    At first, Okaasama nned to wed Dborah-Oneesama to some upstart baron you know? Its unbelievable!

    Upstart baron? Whos that?

    Hes the father of the man that came to talk to you at the dance party, Camille.

    I wasnt really understanding the conversation, so Achille who was next to me cut in with a supplementary exnation.

    Dance party? Ahh, it was that, huh!

    Speaking of which, I do recall getting into an argument with a strange, shy guy at the castle dance party. He was the second son of a baron And Achille dering that bombshell announcement about being my fiance is still fresh in my mind. I didnt imagine itd actually happen though.

    Huh? Dsire, hang on a moment. The father of that second son, means that

    Exactly! Hes a greasy, over fifty, lustful, sexual deviant of a middle-aged man!

    Dsire confirmed it! It seems that shes incredibly angry with Ades actions. Certainly, a lustful, sexually deviant middle aged man might be a little unpleasant.

    But the talks of marriage to that upstart baron have stopped, right? Thats great!

    Right now, Dborah has a kind,moner fianc.

    Q-, Quite. But since then, Okaasama and Dominique-Oniisama havent said a word to Oneesama, you know?

    Thats rough huh? Even though youre all family.

    Its okay, Camille. Right now Okaasama is wrapped up in an uproar about Otousamas mistress, so its not that bad.

    Dborah smiled quietly. Thats not the point on which youre supposed to smile, you know!

    The family rtions of the Jade marquis family, are muddy.

 Volume 3 - Ch 2

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    Its been decided that Dborahs wedding will be held with dignity at the church with the most history in all the country. Because theres the fact that her partner is amoner as well, its not going to be thatrge and shy a ceremony. However, because the many guard colleagues of the groom areing in full force, the numbers ended uprger than expected.

    Dborah

    When I went to the waiting room to meet the changing bride, she appeared dressed up. Right now, Dborah isnt wearing a hyper princess-style dress, but a mature dress that fell straight down from below the busy. It fit her very well.

    Youre so pretty, Dborah.

    Thanks, Camille.

    She gave a joyful smile. Im looking forward more and more to meeting the groom.

    After leaving the waiting room, I spotted Achille who was speaking with nobles and guards in the church. To even be looking for useful future contacts at a ce like this, as expected of Achille.

    Ah-, Camille returned.

    Achille who I discovered smiled broadly at me. Uwah It kind of feels like Im somebody special to Achille, so Im feeling self-conscious. So Achille makes expressions like that too The guards that Achille were talking to were ncing my way. What? Does this dress not suit me, I wonder? Or is there something stuck to my face? While I was feeling bothered by it and looking back at them, Achille grabbed my hand.

    Sit down, it seems that the ceremony is about to start.

    Eh-, mmn Youre right.

    I was led by the hand towards the seats in the church, and like that, sat down next to Achille and waited for the bride and groom to appear. Even when I was sitting down, the guards were still intermittently turning their gazes my way, but I wonder if I really have done something after all. Even though I went to the trouble of erasing my tattoos today because its a holy matrimony, and Im supposed to be inconspicuous

    Camille, what is it that youve been looking at for a while now?

    Somewhat unhappy, Achille drew in towards me. Even though theres no need for him to draw in so close in a public ce like this! Its embarassing. Perhaps knowing something, Dsire was smirking at me while suppressing augh.

    Geez, what is it?

    It might not be my ce to say, but I think itd be better if you had a bit more wariness.

    Wariness?

    Is there a need for wariness at a wedding ceremony?

    The sound of the pipe organ resounded, and the groom arrived. The groom was an ash-blonde man who was more handsome than expected. Dborah, youve found a nice guy, havent you? Following him was Dborah, who walked slowly, lead by the hand by Soleil. Lined up on the altar, Dborah and the groom looked joyed.

    What a nice ceremony -,

    Camille, are you crying?

    I mean, its moving, you know. Even Dsire is also crying hugely with her nose running. Achille took out a handkerchief and wiped my tears. As usual, he sure is good at looking after people.

    Come on, Camille.

    Uuu Dborahh, -sniff-

    Being unable to stop crying even then, I was embraced by Achille. He was patting my head soothingly. Because I was reluctant to expose my messed up crying face, I stayed in Achilles arms and buried my face in his chest. Even after Dborah and her husband exited, I continued crying for a little longer.

    The reception was being grandly held at another nearby residence of their viscount family. Dborahs mother, Ade, whose whole body was dressed enough that it was even if its this, Ill still dress up properly, was behaving sociably towards the invited nobles. Also amongst them was the upstart baron that Dsire mentioned. However, as expected of Ade, shepletely ignored themoners that were mixed in there. Shes probably a little too blunt about it.

    Until the reception began, I was escorted by Achille to the vis garden. In the past, Achilles brought me here to y before. On a small table nearby were cocktails in various colours, but recalling the painful memories from the entrance ceremony, I didnt touch them. It would be much too tragic if I ended up like *that again at the wedding reception.

    Should I bring some drinks with no alcohol?

    Seeing this, Achille kindly made a suggestion.

    Thanks, Achille. But Im okay.

    Id feel bad about having him go out of his way to bring me a drink.

    Theres no need to hesistate, you know. Its not that far away, after all.

    When I looked in the direction that Achille was pointing, I found sses with non-alcoholic drinks lined up, right inside the building. Certainly, it was just a little walk away.

    Youre right.

    Just wait a little.

    Like that, Achille went to bring me a drink.

    Youre kind.

    The fact that he properly looks at me is something I like about him I wont say it though.

    A little while after Achille left my side, I was surrounded by a number of men.

    Eh- Ummm.

    Were they friends of the groom? They were toughly built, and seemed to probably be other guards, but

    Is there something you need with me?

    After I asked them, they discussed something or other amongst themselves, and then replied to me.

    U-, Umm We thought that you were beautiful, so we came to talk a little.

    The stern men became red, and fidgeted. All ttery aside, they might have been looking for somebody to talk to. Amongst the nobles, the grooms guests seemed a little timid.

    Thats fine, but I have apanion at the moment. Would you be okay with talkingter?

    Achille is going to be back any minute, after all.

    Y-, Yes

    The men immediately left. They dont seem like bad people. I mean, they seem interesting after all, so if I have timeter, Ill ask them various things about the grooms personality.

    Now then, Achille sure iste. Even though its just right there. Or so I was thinking, when I noticed that the drinks table that Achille had gone to was surrounded by nobles daughters. Its the usual scene. Noble daughters who boldly call out to an engaged man Just where on earth does their confidencee from, I wonder. Even though Achille isnt the type of guy wholly his hands on other women while he has a fiance. Last time when we first got engaged there were also cases of people rmending him mistresses, but he clearly told them that he didnt need one. Even though it seems that thedies attacks are troubling for him, Achille is still Achille. Hes that courteous, so the noble daughters who follow him around are endless! Aahh, Im getting kind of irritated. I cant stay rxed. Even though I used to be able to tease Achille about his poprity. If it was going to be like this, I should have just talked with the guards who approached me earlier.

    Unable to suppress the indignance in my chest, I took a cocktail from the nearby table. It should be fine if its just one cup; the only problem was that I drank threest time. Right now I want to quell the annoyance in my heart. I brought the red cocktail to my lips.

    tl note: let me just state in advance that i have no idea what the differences between a summer house/gazebo/gazebo/perg/chickadee are supposed to be, or where we draw the line, and what the author is thinking of etc. etc. so a few chapters from now, just imagine a magical gazebo-summerhouse hybrid please

 Volume 3 - Ch 3

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    Even after finishing the cocktail, my irritation wasnt settled. On the contrary, my anger towards the noble daughters was growingrger. Right now I can painfully understand the feelings of the in-game Camille. I want to smack those noble daughters about

    Alright! Thats what Ill do!

    Im not the nice girl heroine. I dont have the sort of lovely personality thatll have me suck on my thumb from a corner while looking on enviously. Ill go now, and take back my fianc from that ring of girls! Its simple.

    Boosted by the vigour of alcohol, I took a powerful step forward, but suddenly, somebody call out to me from behind.

    Miss Camille, it seems that the reception is about to start, doesnt it?

    I stared at the person who had called out to me.

    Dominique.

    Thats unexpected. To think he called out to me. Dominique was wearing the ck formal dress that he ordered for today. He strongly resembles the character that appeared in childrens books from my old world; Humpty Dumpty.

    Shall we chat a little over there?

    I nced at Achille, but it seems hes still in the middle of chatting with the noble daughters. From this, it seems that itll still take some more time huh.

    Sure.

    I decided to go with Dominique. Ille back immediately so there probably wont be a problem. He is technically Dborahs brother. Perhaps theres something he wants to say about his sisters wedding reception.

    After being brought by him to gazebo away from the garden, I asked him about his business with me. In the distance I can hear the voices of the other guests, chatting with a cocktail in hand.

    What was it you wanted to say to me?

    While crossing his blubbery arms, sweat running down his skin, Dominique replied.

    Miss Camille, just what is good about that illegitimate child?

    Huh?

    Youre being tricked. That guys using you, its all for your position!

    Hahh. [either a sigh, or a nonmittal I see.]

    Whats he feeling indignant about? His face suddenly turned red.

    That man has no interest in anything but the position of Marquis. I cant stand by and watch as you be a sacrifice to that kind of cold man!

    Ummmmm

    Hes talking about Achille right?

    It still isnt toote! You should cancel your engagement with him!

    Umm, err

    Dominique is serious. Hes seriously worried about me and rmending that I cancel the engagement with Achille.

    Since the past, that illegitimate child has been a man that only does things out of self-interest.

    Mmn, that I know. Achille has been hugely self-interested since the very moment we met, after all. But right now I also know that that isnt all he is.

    If its about about cancelling our engagement, I have no intention of doing so, you know?

    Why-?

    I know about both Achilles calctiveness and ambition, but he has good points too and, umm, I also dont hate him.

    Uwahh! So embarassing! I didnt think the day woulde when Id say something like that to Achilles brother. I held my reddened cheeks in my two hands.

    However, it seems that Dominique wasnt happy about my response. He was jiggling as he trembled, and hisrge red face was gradually paling

    You surprisingly, have bad eyes, huh Even a marquis daughter like you.

    The moment he said this, Dominique strongly grabbed my arm.

    -Dominique?

    Turning to look at me when I spoke, Dominiques eyes were clouded over. Its those eyes that he asionally turns on me when I visit Achilles house. With my arm grabbed, I was forcefully held against the wall of the gazebo.

    Oww-!

    Crap! Because today is Dborahs wedding, my tattoos are gone! Without my automatic defences, right now my physical power is no difference from a normal, weak nobles daughter.

    I wont ept it, I wont ept it For that guy to have a higher position than even me. For him to steal away everything away!

    While saying his, his hands mped down on my arms.

    Dominique, it hurts. Let go!

    Should I use magic and blow Dominique away? But its Dborahs wedding ceremony, so Id like to avoid doing anything that would cause a fuss. Right now Dominique is running wild for some reason, but hes Dborahs real blood brother.

    Please stay quiet, Miss Camille; people wille, you know? If they saw this kind of scene, I wonder just what kind of rumours would spread.

    Too close! Dominiques face is drawing right before my eyes. I dont know what kind of rumours would spread, but to me its certain that this situation is getting extremely bad.

    I wont hand them over to that guy! Not a higher position than me, or you!

    Together with his rough breathing, Dominique stuck his body to me. At this rate, I might get shamefullybelled as the evil woman who led on the two brothers of the viscount family! Thatd be troubling!

    As expected, even if it gets a little rough, I should use magic now to escape. I immediately made to cycle magic power through my body to use magic but, for some reason I cant do it well.

    Mn huhH? ThATS weIRd

    I cant pronounce things properly. My legs are feeling unstable Dominique is sneering at me.

    Miss Camille, are you already drunk from that cocktail?

    That might be. His idea that I cant find my strength because Im drunk is very possible. Something like this happened before too, huhh. I guess I really should have held back from drinking. Even if I reflect on it now, its toote though

    Mmn

    I suddenly couldnt stand, and cosed on the spot. Dominique began to nket me with his body.

    Both the marquis position, and Miss Camille are mine.

    While in a daze, my cloudy vision turned to the bottom of Dominiques neck, and I discovered a familiar bruise.

    Authors Note: Its unrted but

    Blood Types of Characters

    Camille  B Achille  A Royce  AB Tria  AB Beatrix  A Raiga  B Twins  A Heroine  O

 Volume 3 - Ch 4

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    Today is my older sister Dborahs wedding ceremony. Despite constantly talking to me about marrying into power, she married a solder ofmoners birth. My stepmother and stepbrother were against this marriage, but my father was on Dborahs side and realised her wish.

    That Dborah was wearing a normal wedding dress, and not her usualntern-like dress was a little relief for me. It seems that Dsires tastes have also gone fromnterns to normal dresses recently. I wonder what on earth happened to my two sisters

    Well, lets leave that aside Today, Camille was wearing a refreshing, ice-blue high waist dress. Im bothered that its a little short, but it suits her quite well. Her normal clothing is usually a robe, so its a rare chance to see her wearing a dress like today. Today, her magic tattoos are gone. They were gone during the entrance ceremony as well, but Once Camille erases her tattoos, the fact that men immediately turn their gazes to her is boundlessly unpleasant. Even though they normally dont even pay her a nce. In particr, the grooms friends who probably dont know about her are sending her gazes, bold to the point of obviousness. Camille is still Camille, you know. Even though its be fine if she ignored those gazes why is she looking back at them each time? These guys have enough momentum that it seems theyll approach Camille at any moment now, so I embraced her and restrained them.

    After the wedding ceremony, the reception was being held at our vi. Until the reception begins, a cocktail party is being held in the garden But. Camille whos walking beside me is acting suspiciously. The fact that shes been ncing at the cocktails for a while now has not escaped me.

    I-, Im not going to drink, you know. Ive already decided not to drink anymore, after all.

    It seems that shes recalling that incident at the entrance ceremony. However, seeing the desirous gaze she was turning to the cocktails, it might just be a matter of time before she retracts her statement. I decided to get her something else to drink before that happens. Fortunately, theres a table with non-alcoholic cocktails prepared nearby. Id have have Camille wait a bit, and Id procure a drink for her I decided.

    Since it was right there, I expectedly thought itd be okay, but Having gone to get a drink for Camille, I was splendidly surrounded by nobles daughters. For them to be fine with this kind of thing even at my sisters wedding is I gave my tongue a small, unnoticable click. Of course, these women know that Im engaged to Camille. Thats why these women are probably aiming for the position of the future Marquis Rhodolites mistress. There are many nobles with mistresses like my father in this country. Earlier, even Camille said that it would be fine to keep some mistresses, after all; its thatmon a thing. Its not rare even for both husband and wife to have other lovers.

    Hey, Achille-sama. Wont you have a little chat with me?

    Go away. Camilles waiting for me nearby, but you can see that, right? They probably have too much confidence in themselves. Camille is also a beautiful girl, but normally she acts like a weirdo so the daughters of nobles probably dont even bother with her.

    Sorry, my fiance is waiting for me.

    Isnt it fine to talk for just a little?

    To be married to an oddball marquis daughter, Achille-sama is pitiful

    This is how normal society sees me. Even though Im the one who pushed for the engagement, for some reason people sympathise with me wherever I go.

    Its a beautiful gathering, so nobody would me you even if you let down your hair a little.

    No, this is my sisters wedding, you know? To do that in a gathering of nobles, how bold youd have to be.

    Sorry, I also have things to do, so at some other time.

    Geez, please dont say something so cold!

    One of the noble daughters clung to me even more. In truth, after bringing Camille, I have to go greet people you know I am technically Dborahs younger brother, so I have to go around and greet the guests. I did so before and after the wedding ceremony, but there are still others left. Even though this is small scale, were still nobles so the number of guests is no joke. Thanks to my stepmothers showing off, even nobles we arent even close to are attending in huge groups. This nobles daughter is one of them. As youd expect, His Highness didnt show up, but he sent words and a gift of congrattion.

    Achille-samaa

    The stubborn noble daughter wrapped her hands around my arm. Was she the second daughter of the Wazzurri viscount family, again? If I remember correctly, amongst the nobles daughters, she has the nicest face, but her pridefulness and pushiness practically spills out of her. You could say that its hatred for my own kind, but at the very least, I can do things a little better than her.

    We did get this rare chance to meet after all Isnt it fine?

    As if its fine! Seriously, give me a break; what are you going to do if Camille misunderstands? Even while this was going on, I was still worried about Camille, so I unconsciously turned my eyes her way but

    Not there.

    Camille wasnt there.

    Camille?

    It couldnt be that she got jealous and walked off somewhere?

    Its nothing surprising. Its Camille after all.

    But then Ill be worried about where she disappeared to. Could it be that shes gone to talk to the soldiers from before, or could it be?

    Mn?

    On the table, right where Camille was sitting, was an empty drink ss. I got a bad premonition.

    Hey, Achille? The fiance whos in the way is gone, so lets go.

    While I was worrying about Camille, Viscount Wazzurris daughter continued talking to me without giving up. All the other nobles daughters have been pushed back by her good looks and forcefulness.

    Please let go, Miss Wazzurri.

    My, you dont have to speak so distantly. Please call me Elenore.

    I probably wont call you that all my life.

 Volume 3 - Ch 5

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    After inserting a refusal to the girls, I started to search for Camille. But, there was approximately one person who couldnt read the mood

    Geez, isnt it fine-!? Im sure Camille-sama is getting along with some other man. It take quite a man of valour to call out to a person like that though, hohohoho!

    Hahahahaha, shall I obliterate you socially? Ill so thoroughly corner you that youll never recover. Its the first time someone has spoken so harshly of Camille.

    Like I said, we should have fun together.

    Achille-sama?

    The viscounts daughter looked at me doubtfully after I went silent. However, it seems she interpreted it in a way convenient for herself. Honestly, its impossible to understand how this person thinks.

    Huhuhu, I also yearn for you, Achille-sama. So

    Excuse me.

    I cut off her words.

    I have not even a grain of yearning for you, and I have no ns to yearn for you.

    What do you mean?

    Seemingly unable toprehend the meaning of my words, the viscounts daughter blinked her eyes. Something that seemed a matter of course to me is apparently an unexpected oue for her.

    Like I said, I am saying that I have no intention of making you who, insulted my precious fiance, my mistress.

    Of course, I have no intention of keeping any mistress to begin with. Probably gradually understanding the meaning of my words, she began to tremble in disgrace.

    You are saying, that I am inferior to that tattoo woman?

    Yes, in every way.

    I gave her an extraordinary smile. Of course, in harassment.

    Well then, I shall be leaving.

    I promptly did an about face and left the area. From this situation, its possible that Camille is hurt or in danger. I dont think Camille will be done in easily, but theres no harm in being overly cautious. That the rampage of ady mad with jealously is surprisingly terrifying is something that we learnt from Miss ires case after all. Even having that much said to her, the viscounts daughter seemed like she was still about to follow after me, so I quickly moved away from that ce. I have to quickly look for Camille

    The party grounds were crowded with people. Honestly, I dont feel that Ill find her immediately. I activated search magic without hesistation. Im nervous since this is the first time Ive used the magic, but you cant escape a crisis without some sacrifice. I took out the quill that I received as a present from Camille, and changed it into light. When I did, what should have been light flew outside the party grounds.

    Why?

    Did she start feeling bad from the alcohol, and leave the premises? I chased the light in a panic.

    Camille was inside a gazebo that was a little removed from the garden. Together with someone unexpected

    Why is he here?

    In the gazebo, it seemed that my half-brother Dominique was in an agitated state and was in the middle of closing in on Camille. Speaking of which, Ive seen Dominique behave like hes fallen in love with Camille before. asionally when shees over to our house, his eyes are glued to her with a hot stare He fancied her. However, if you had to say it, despite being arrogant at home, Dominique is shy outside. I underestimated him and thought that he wouldnty his hands on somebody elses fiance but it seems that this is an exception. If I dont hurry, Camille will be in danger. Right now she doesnt even have tattoos, so she cant even use automagic defence. And, perhaps because shes drunk, she looks kind of limp.

    Camille!

    Achille-samaa!

    When I tried to move forward, my left arm was suddenly caught by a delicate white hand.

    -

    Chasing me this far? What incredible tenacity. When I turned around, the viscounts daughter was standing there.

    See? Look. Isnt Camille-sama in the middle of enjoying herself? And of all people, with your Oniisama. How unpleasantt, how dirtyy.

    I wordlessly shook off her hand. Right now saving Camille takes precedence.

    While I was busy with this woman, Camille had fallen to the ground. Dominique got on top of her without hesitating. My mind turned bright red.

    Dominique!

    From here, I wont make it even if I run  do I fire magic at him? Its fine right? Even if I get a little rough, I mean. The moment I turned my hand towards Dominique

    Oi, youuu! What the bloody ell are you doin in broad daylight!?

    A ck shadow suddenly appeared, and thrust Dominique away.

    TL: Enter osakaben character. Um, impression is like, humorous and witty (although thats because of manzai culture associations from television etc.) and idunno, just different. It often gets adapted as cockney or southern USA, but thats not really right, not just for osaka dialect, but kansai dialect in general. Kind of a different impression, but hey. So yeah, idunno. Ended up using a very, very, very mild (I dont even change the ts into glottal stops) mockney ent thats actually neither of them. Hohoho, what a mysterious and inconsistent ent this is. I wonder just where shees from.

 Volume 3 - Ch 6

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    I was stunned by the sudden development, but immediately regained my bearings and ran towards Camilles side. Naturally, I ignored the viscounts daughter.

    Camille, are you okay?

    It seems that she lost consciousness, but she was unhurt. But she smells a little bit like alcohol She drank, didnt she?

    You- Bakamille!

    Ill immediately take her elsewhere and nurse her. I cant leave her like this. I picked Camille up.

    Whaat, just when I was thinkin that some couple was foolin around. Isnt this little miss out cold? Wasnt that fat Niichan over there forcefully attackin er?

    The shadow that tackled Dominique slowly stood up. Their true identity of that ck thing was actually the ck-clothed servant of the Jade house; a bespectacled girl with ck braids. If I remember correctly, shes a new maid that we recently hired for the vi. Since she just entered our service at the vi, she probably doesnt know my face, nor Dominiques.

    You there! What is a lowly maid like you thinking, to ram me like that!

    Dominique who was thrust away was supporting his heavy body as he got up, and red at the maid with rough breathing. That guy is always haughty to those lower than him, without distinction.

    Theres nothin to say about it! Someone like you who was going to do indecent things to a bloody unconscious girl ere shouldnt be talkin!

    Miss Camille belongs to me! Thats why I can do whatever I want! Achille Get away from her!

    Dominique whose gaze turned to me raised a hateful voice as his body shook. His words make no sense.

    So troublesome.

    Dominique haspletely hated me since childhood. He 100% ignores my words anyway. When I ignored his demand, he approached with bloodshot eyes.

    You illegitimate childd-!

    The frenzied Dominique came to attack me, so I promptly avoided him. Wouldnt it be terrible if he hit Camille? Having lost its destination, thatrge body lost its bnce and once again tumbled to the floor. I desperately kept down the urge to kick flying the lump of meat in front of me thaty its hands on Camille, and bound him with magic.

    As though binding him, I sealed the movements of his two hands and feet.

    I wont! I wont hand her over! The marquis position and Camille As if Ill let an illegitimate child like you have a single one of them!

    Should I seal up that noisy mouth as well?

    I fired magic at Dominiques mouth as well. Its unpleasant to hear Camilles namee out of that mouth.

    You there, please carry him into the basement from the back entrance.

    I called out to the maid with braids who was conveniently here. However, she pouted in displeasure.

    Hahh? Carry this fat mister? Why do I afta?

    Youre our familys maid, right? This is the first time weve met, but the one youre working for is me, you know.

    The maid widened her eyes at my words.

    Could it be?

    I am Achille Jade. This familys second son.

    And the one lying on the floor is the first son, but I doubt theres any need to say it right now. After showing acknowledgement at my words, the maid said she was going to get a trolley and headed to the storeroom.

    Now then

    I looked at Camille who was in my arms. Shes sleeping quietly, oblivious to anyone else.

    You really are too defenceless What should I do now?

    Ill immediately head to the mansion. Its not bad either to spend time alone with Camille in a room until the reception starts.

    Achille-sama, where is it that you are headed? I shall also-

    Ahh, she was still here, wasnt she. The viscounts daughter followed me even this far.

    To nurse my precious fiance

    My, Achille-sama. Theres no need to go that far for a shameless woman who eveny her hands on your real brother.

    I want to erase this rude and shameless woman from this ce right this instant

    Miss Wazzurri, please return to the party. If you cannot, then please leave here immediately.

    I tried to speak as gently as I could. If I didnt, it felt like my true colours would spill out at any moment.

    How cruel. To pick a woman like that over me I know! Achille-sama, youve had magic cast on you by that tattoo woman! If she didnt, there is no way that you would like a woman who is so strange in the head!

    Please stop it already.

    Oohhh, theyre fightin over love

    While I was arguing with this viscounts daughter, the braids maid from before returned. She came back with a trolley for carrying Dominique, and a number of fellow maids. Her timing is just right. I decided to let the maids take care of the annoying stuff.

    Please have this youngdy return. Please guide her to the entrance.

    Achille-sama Understood.

    The oldest maid answered. Shes a veteran whos served the Jade family for many years. Itll probably be fine even if I leave this viscounts daughter to her.

    Wha- Achille-sama? Im not returning yet, you know? I still have many things I would like to chat with you about! And furthermore, if somebody has to return, then should it not be Miss Camille that leaves first? She was on the brink of drunkenly doing indecent things with Dominique-sama, you know? Whilst having a wonderfulfianc like you, Achille-sama!

    The viscounts daughter desperately went on and on. Hearing this, the maids looked at each other with ufortable expression. With the exception of the neer maid with braids, all of the loyal retainers of the Jade family know very well the rtionship between Camille and I. Because of that, theyve also noticed my bad mood.

    Would it not be better to change your way of speaking?

    After giving once nce at the noble daughter who was stubbornly staying here, I turned to face the maids and gave them another order.

    Take this rude thing that insulted my precious fiance, and immediately remove her from the premises.

    After giving a reverent bow, the maids immediately became to bring the viscounts daughter away.

    You insolents! A lowly maid should not casually touch mee! Achille-sama, Achille-samaa!

    With only fruitless resistance, the viscounts daughter was surrounded by the maids, and then dragged outside the estate. While that was happening, the braids maid and another young maid picked up Dominique together and ced him on the trolly.

    AAAahhh, even though its a rare chance for a big celebration, in the end I hafta carry this big mister

    After carrying him inside, lock the door. Ill take care of the key after that.

    Understoood. Achille-sama, your keigo and pokerface are slipping, you kno?

    While smirking, the maid with braids left the with the trolley.

    The only ones left in the vicinity of the gazebo were Camille and I.

    Camille Im d that youre safe, but why did things end up like this?

    Camille was sleeping quietly in my arms. I decided to carry her into my room in the vige, and nurse her there.

 Volume 3 - Ch 7

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    Uuu, my body feels heavy.

    Oh yeah, Dominique was on top of me. I have to push him off! My eyes snapped open and I gathered power in my arms, and pped my palms towards the source of the weight.

    But, the weight wouldnt even budge. It seems that my attack had no effect at all.

    Nn, Camille, youre up?

    Mnn? Huh? Achilles voice?

    I turned my head left and right, observing my surroundings. I wasying on a canopy bed in a room that I didnt know. From on top of a nket, Achille was leaning on me. So Achille was the source of the heaviness. For now, Im relieved that Dominique isnt here.

    Why am I in a bed?

    You dont remember?

    Achille peered into my face at point-nk from atop the bed.

    Dominique?

    After he went on a rampage, I restrained him and locked him up in the basement.

    I wonder how long its been since then I wonder if Dominique did anything to me after that. I cant tell. What am I gunna do if its turned into a situation where I cant be a bride? My dress is fine, and it doesnt seem to have been torn off though. Because I have no idea what happened while I was out, Im feeling anxious.

    Achille I, by Dominique,

    I looked up at Achille timidly.

    - Achille, what do I do?

    Huh? Droplets are dripping onto the sheets. From along my cheeks warm water is flowing down endlessly. Aahh, am I, crying? How selfish. Even though all of this is my own fault. To think Id start crying once things became inconvenient for me.

    Its fine now, Camille. Its fine now.

    Achille hugged me, nket and all.

    After you copsed, Dominique was immediately thrust away by one of our maids. He didnt do anything to you.

    Really?

    When I asked him this, Achilles embrace became even firmer.

    Really. You just drank yourself out cold. How are you feeling? Do you feel bad at all?

    Like what, he continued to gently stroke my back.

    Mmn, I seem fine. I only drank one cup after all What about Dborahs wedding reception?

    I dont think itd be in a good position to start.

    Sorry. Even though its your Oneesans wedding reception, things turned out like this.

    Im the one whos sorry. I should have realised earlier I let you be in danger, didnt I?

    Youre wrong, I was careless.

    Neither of us will let the other say that theyre wrong. It doesnt seem that things will go anywhere at this rate. It seems that Achille was thinking the same thing, bceause he gave an awkward, bitter smile.

    Well, the one most in the wrong was Dominique But it might be good that this happened, as long as youve learned not drink and then willing follow strange men.

    Mmn. I wont drink anymore, and I definitely wont follow men alone except for you, Royce-sama and Otousama.

    Hearing my words, Achille gave a satisfied smile. His lips came down on my forehead.

    Nn Achille.

    Camille

    Like that, Achilles lips came down from my forehead, and before I knew it, he had taken my lips. A tongue passed through my lips, and stroked the inside of my mouth. Achille-sama, arent you escting things each time you kiss?

    Nnn- Hu-

    Camille-, n-,

    Suddenly, somebody vigorously knocked at the door.

    Scuuuuse meee, Ive brought the key for the basementtt.

    I think I heard Achille give a little tsk. Parting from me with a reluctant expression, he headed towards the door.

    Well done.

    When Achille opened the door, there stood a maid girl with ck braids.

    Hm? I know this face

    After staring at her, our eyes met.

    Aahh, little miss. Youve woken up, eh? Thats great.

    ?

    Camille, this is our familys maid, Aurelia Trfle. Shes the maid that thrust Dominique away.

    Eh-, really? Thank you, Aurelia. You saved me.

    Right! Aurelia was The Q of Clovers! The one that failed the exam or whatever. Because her atmosphere is just too different from the game, I didnt recognise her at first.

    The Aurelia in the game was a honours student type rival with a docile atmosphere. If you chose the K of Clovers route, Aurelia would appear along the way, and get in the way of the heroine. She was overly serious and a little gloomy, and if you took off her sses, she was actually an incredible beauty.

    Unlike the other rival girls, she never directlyined to the heroine, but would harrass her in the shadows in a way that she wouldnt be caught. Shed hide one of the heroines important magic books on the day of a test for example, or shed rip up a dress that the heroine was supposed to be wearing for the school festival, or shed steal a present that the K of Clovers gave to the heroine for example In the end, her harassment of the heroine escted to physical harm, and her harassment was revealed on arge scale by them and she was forced to drop out of school. After that, the K of Clovers happily got together with the heroine.

    Both Mei and Beatrix were like me, people from another world. Meaning that the possibility that she is as well is high. She seems to have a personality thats exactly the opposite of Aurelias after all

    I want to ask her about it right this minute, but unfortunately, Achille is here. I havent told him that I was a high schooler in another world. Itd be, tricky, to tell him after all this time, after all. To begin with, theres way too little credibility in proving that the original Camille had a different personality.

    Aurelia is working at the vi?

    ? Well yeah?

    She wonte to the main residence?

    There are no ns for that. She is technically a live in worker, but because her actual home is incredibly close to here Which is why shes working with us, after all.

    How should Ie into contact with Aurelia from now on? Should I just charge into the vige some other day, whilst thanking her for today as well? Mmn, lets go with that.

    Ah!

    Oh yeah, I forgot something important.

    Dominique!

    At the base of his neck was a bruise from a forbidden art!

 Volume 3 - Ch 8

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    Authors Note: I came up with a with some different contents, so I thought Id try writing it out.

    It follows the original

    Im aware that its a little Otome Game-ish. ughs)

    Uuu, my body feels heavy.

    Oh yeah, Dominique was on top of me. I have to push him off! My eyes snapped open and I gathered power in my arms, and pped my palms towards the source of the weight.

    But, the weight wouldnt even budge. It seems that my attack had no effect at all.

    Nn, Camille, youre up?

    Mnn? Huh? Achilles voice?

    I turned my head left and right, observing my surroundings. I wasying on a canopy bed in a room that I didnt know. From on top of a nket, Achille was leaning on me. So Achille was the source of the heaviness. For now, Im relieved that Dominique isnt here.

    . A Choice Has Appeared  Cry and reflect. Go to the   Reflect? About what? Go below!

    . I ended up getting squashed by Dominique, but it seems that Im fine. As youd expect, I dont think Id be able to support that huge body, after all.

    I wonder why. It feels like a ck aura is seeping out of Achille.

    S-, Speaking of which, why am I here?

    I turned my head left and right, observing the room. Even though I was supposed to be outside until just a moment ago

    You dont remember?

    Achilles eyes turned dangerous.

    Really, why do I feel like I just said something incredibly bad? Maybe its the power of the alcohol, but I can only vaguely remember what happened when I met Dominique. This is bad, this is really bad Being pressured by Achille, Im desperately trying to remember, but because of my panic, my mind is just spinning in circles.

    H-, Huh? Umm

    You-, Bakamille! Didnt I warn you earlier about readily following other men? Didnt you say that youd be careful?

    Uu-

    Hes probably talking about the time I went to Trias room. He certainly did say it

    And moreover, you drank! Didnt you learn from the time at the entrance ceremony?

    Uuu-

    Its a fact that I messed up big time at the entrance ceremony. It hurts to be jabbed there.

    . A Choice Has Appeared  Talk back. Lets go with this one;  Dogeza.

    .

    B-, But-! If were talking, then you too, Achille! Telling me off even though you were all lovestruck, surrounded by those girls! All while telling me not to cheat!

    To be smiling at those girls in front of your own fiance, even for a calcting guy, isnt that too cruel? When I talked back, Achilles dangerous atmosphere softed a little. Huh? Even though, I talked back to him? Even though there shouldnt have been anything in my words just now to appease his anger. On the contrary, because I was prepared to incur more of his anger with my retort, its anticlimactic. Its incredibly ominous.

    Camille.

    Wwh-, wh-wh-what is it?

    I asked, coweringly. At times like this, this unreadable fianc of mine is incredibly scary.

    Could it be that you were jealous of those girls?

    Eh-

    I looked up at Achille, dumbfounded.

    Hmmm, so you were jealous.

    Achille muttered to himself. It seems like his ck aura is quietening down. Suffering from that at point nk was terrible, so its a relief.

    As though his expression up until now was a lie, a smile floats to his face. Hes smiling, no Hes smirking.

    Mn?

    Youre so cute, Camille. Did you think Id be stolen by those girls?

    C-, Cute-?

    What did he say? Since we were young, hes called me unfortunate or idiot or thick countless times, but hes never ever said something like cute. Being suddenly told that was quite a shock.

    A-, A-A-A-A-As if I-, a- a-, aym-!

    Its no good, when I tried to object, I fumbled and couldnt say it like I wanted to. Seeing this, Achilles shoulders trembled inughter. To beughing at somebody in turmoil, hes the worst!

    Achille, you stupid idiot!

    Because his face was right there, I decided to settle things with a chop to his forehead.

    Ahahahaha, sorry Camille.

    Hes still freakingughing Once more! I raised my hand to really settle things with a hit to the crown, but my arms were caught, and I was pulled down towards Achille.

    Be gentle with sick people!

    Arent you just drunk, Camille?

    Like that, I was held tightly in Achilles arms.

    You dont have to worry. I have no intention of changing my mind to one of those noble daughters, you know?

    I know that. I at least know that Achille isnt the type of frivolous guy who would do that. But when I see him happily chatting with those girls, I get much too irritated. But facing him head on and telling him that is, really embarassing.

    . A Choice Has Appeared  Tell him honestly.  Act tough. Lets go with this one;

    . Thats why I spat out words that I didnt really mean.

    Im not particrly worried or anything. I dont care either way.

    Suddenly, Achilles dark aura started gushing out. Oh crap, did my remark just now rub Achille the wrong way?

    Dont care either way huh?

    Hii-

    I stiffened. It seems that he wasnt happy to hear dont care either way. I wanted to put some distance between us, but because Im being embraced and restrained, its impossible.

    You think nothing at all of someone like me, right? Thats why youll follow some other guy when its just you two?

    No- Thats not it.

    Oh crap, oh crappp. Our conversation has looped back to this. At this rate, will it end up as another lecture? Since a long time ago, Ive asionally been lectured by him, but Achilles lectures where I have no room for objection are scary, and Im terrible at handling them.

    I wonder if Im too timid For you to say something like that to me, is

    Eh-? I dont think that youre too timid at al-

    No, theres no mistake. Right now, itd be best to make a stronger impression on you, right? So that you wont say dont care either way ever again.

    Achille, your eyes are scary you know I trembled in dread. Dominique or dragons cantpare. The thing that Im most terrified of in this world, might be him

    N-N-, No need!

    Without listening to me at all, as Im stillying down on the bed, Achille looms over me. His hand rested on my dress.

    Wai- Achille, we cant do this before marriage, you know! And this kind of thing should only be done when the moonlight is out, okay?

    At this rate Ill be in, in various meanings, a pinch. That because of my careless remark, I forcefully turned on Achilles switch is, something that Im regretting with all my strength.

    Authors Note: The above was in a parallel universe. ughs) It has absolutely no rtion to the original story.

    To beughing at somebody in turmoil, hes the worst! ^ here, hes the worst is more or less how Japanese would say what a bastard!, but because of his parentage, I couldnt use it without readers wondering if there was some extra meaning to it.

    Achille, you stupid idiot! (, bakayarou)

    Above is an unrted, but nheless enriching video.

 Volume 3 - Ch 9

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    Did something happen?

    Achille noticed my change.

    At the foot of Dominiques neck was a bruise from a forbidden art.

    Eh-?

    I was thinking that he was acting a little strange, and it seems that a spell is cast on him.

    We have to hurry up and dispel it.

    Achille, I want to go to the basement that Dominique is locked up in.

    But, Camille are you alright with meeting Dominique?

    Because something like that happened, hes probably worried about me.

    Im okay now. Id prefer not to meet if possible, but at this rate, we cant leave him alone, so.

    I headed to the cer with Achille. Aurelia has gone back to work.

    When we opened the cer door, Dominique was there, lying along the ground. I can smell the dampness. Dominique was lying still there, without even a twitch.

    Dominique

    I timidly spoke to him.

    Its fine. Ive cast magic on him so that he wont start screaming or acting violently.

    It seems that because of the constraint magic cast on him, Dominique wont move, but his eyes alone are ring at me fiercely.

    Dominique, youre under a forbidden spell. Ill remove it.

    Since the case with Miss ire, I was allowed by Royce-sama to deal with the areas with forbidden magic books, but it seems that itll take a little time until I get authorisation to read them. I still havent been granted formal permission yet. Isnt it taking too long just to get permission?

    I looked at Dominiques neck once more. It doesnt seem that there are twoyers of magic like the time with Miss ire. If its only magic to amplify the feelings of hatred, then even I can probably deal with it. I held out my hand to Dominique. Forbidden magic is quite high level magic in itself. Even though I say that Im only dispelling it, you have to go through the reverse procedures of the magic, and it requires concentration. The bruise on Dominiques neck shone, and its colour changed.

    !

    It seems that hes sealed from speaking as well, but Dominique made an expression of suffering. If he was able to let out a voice, wouldnt he have certainly screamed?

    Itll just take a little longer.

    The colour of the bruise continued to fade, and eventually itpletely disappeared. It seems that at the same time that the bruise disappeared, Dominique lost consciousness. His eyes are closed.

    The forbidden magic is goneee. It seems that Dominique was in pain, so hes fainted.

    Isnt that fine?

    Even though its his half-brother, Achilles attitude is cold.

    It seems that removing a forbidden magic puts quite a strain on them, huh?

    ..

    Do you think, we can still make Dborahs reception?

    Its fine. She said that shed be changing her dress five times.

    As expected of Dborah. To change her dress five whole times; she really doesnt betray expectation.

    Shall we go?

    Mn.

    We walked towards the gorgeously decorated wedding reception.

    Camille.

    Nn? What~?

    One day, I want us to have a wedding like this too.

    !

    Saying something like that right now is foul y.

 Volume 3 - Ch 10

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    Today I went to the castle. Ive finally gotten permission to enter the restricted section of the castle library.

    Right now Im in Royce-samas room, and in the middle of listening to him talk about it. Of course, he brought out tea and sweets as well. As expected of Royce-sama, you truly understand! Delicious ck tea with a meringue-like dessert WE art satisfied.

    Sorry that it took so long, Camille. They were reaaally a bunch of stubborn idiots I still have a long way to go as well, huh

    I wonder what happened. Royce-sama is quietly fuming. Royce-sama gets angry with a quiet smile, so hes a little scary isnt he? The number one scariest is Achille though.

    Royce-sama, thank you.

    Mn, I got permission for three people granted, so lets go together.

    Mn? Three people? The ones browsing the forbidden books, wont just be me?

    When my doubt appeared on my face, the door to the room was knocked, and Achille appeared, guided here by the maid.

    Three people you said?

    Me, you, and Achille of course.

    You fellows shall be reading as well!? It seems that my thoughts were revealed on my face, and Royce-sama happily said to me,

    I mean, isnt it unfair if its only you? We want to see them too. Right, Achille~?

    Indeed. It would be better for arger number of people to be able to deal with forbidden magic, after all.

    Or so Achille said, following up with a reasonable argument, but I think Achille has the same opinion as Royce-sama. Achille looked at me with suspicion, and smiled wryly.

    It wouldnt do if only you faced danger, right Camille?

    And like that, Achille took from my hand the meringue I was nibbling on, and stuffed his cheeks with it.

    Ah-!

    Mn, sweet

    I-I-I-I-Indirect Kiss! Geez, hes done something incredible again I think. As expected, no matter how much time passes, I havent gained any resistance to Achilles actions.

    How niceeee, I want to do that kind of thing tooo.

    Royce-sama said something a little off the mark.

    Isnt it fine just to do so then? If it is you, you should be able to do so as much as you like. However, please pick a partner other than Camille.

    Despite using keigo, the words that Achille heaped onto Royce-sama were merciless, huh? Could we consider it a proof of closeness? Royce-sama smiled amusedly. He doesnt hold back in front of Achille either.

    Ahaha, as if I would do something life-risking like that!

    That noble daughter?

    Achille looked at Royce-sama with aplicated expression. On the other hand, Royce-sama was giving his usual sparkly smile.

    Mn, yeah!

    That noble daughter? Who exactly?

    Royce-sama, have you fallen for someone?

    I picked up another pseudo-meringue and nibbled on it. My previous one was stolen by Achille after all.

    Yeah, shall I have you acquaint yourself with her sometime? Id be happy if you helped me out with her, but

    I-, It couldnt be, the heroine? Did she get close to Royce-sama without me knowing? Ever since I covered her in various things during the entrance ceremony, I havent been able to strike up a real conversation with her though.

    Its Miss Beatrix.

    Achille helped me out.

    Eh-, Beatrix?

    Because I heard an unexpected name, my eyes widened.

    Right, during the entrance ceremony, I was unexpectedly taken by her at first nce.

    Eeehhh-!

    I had not noticed at all.

    By the way, Royce-sama, what parts of Beatrix did you find to your liking?

    Royce-sama answered my question with sparkling eyes. He looks like a maiden in love

    Her strong parts!

    An immediate reply.

    I see.

    And not only that, shes incredibly humble, and kind,

    At this rate, it feels like hell continue talking about Beatrix forever. But Miss Beatrix, huh? I got the feeling that shes a Raiga fan.

    Your Highness, it is about time

    Thankfully, Achille cut off the runaway Royce-sama.

    Ah-, youre right. Shall we head to the library?

    Its perfect timing since weve just finished drinking the tea, and weve just finished eating the pseudo-meringues too.

    Yes, lets go!

    We gleefully headed to the library.

    WE art satisfied.  (yo wa manzoku ja) For a while this was trending as a tag used when someone ate or drank something delicious and satisfying, but even after googling for a bit, I couldnt find the source. Not that it matters  point is, she was just saying it slightly jokingly. Ah, and the we here is an oratory/royal We, and  is often used as a pronoun for royalty in Japanese fantasy fiction, but Im unsure where it historically came about in Japan. Perhaps it was no historically recent Japanese that used it, but rather a pronoun from Chinese that they adapted when tranting the speech of their Western counterparts over thest few centuries? Unsure, and not motivated/bored enough to find out, but if anyone knows, mind telling me?

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    The library room was in the eastern wing of the castle. And speaking of the eastern wing, its a ce where many of the King Faction members live. In contrast, the western wing is a building crawling with the Royal Prince Faction. Why is the library in a ce like this? Even thought it wouldve been fine to ce it in the central wing. Because the Royal Prince Faction stay away from the eastern wing, it feels a bit unfair. Thats why nobles of the Royal Prince Faction who possess and monopolise important books like Raiga are neverending. The book Forbidden Magics  the Complete Collection that I got from Raiga It was a book that was not just a little dangerous. Theyre appearing, theyre appearing, various brutal magics that turn away from the path of a human~ The editor too is quite the piece of work, putting together that many dangerous forbidden arts. Forbidden arts in and of themselves are things that cant be used by normal people, but if a skilled magician was in possession of a book of forbidden arts, and on top of that, put the forbidden art into practice, that would be quite a threat.

    Because the number of people who can use the library are limited, its quiet. I asionally use this ce as well. And Ive asionally intruded on the forbidden arts corner. Once Royce-sama starts walking, the people in the corridor all give him way without exception. Hes like Moses, or maybe like those head doctors that I saw in the dramas in my old world.

    Camille, today were properly using the key, so dont pick the lock, okay?

    Royce-sama! Even I dont just constantly, constantly, go around picking locks, you know?

    After descending the librarys spiral staircase, we head through the door to a room at the end of the very lowest floor.

    Lined up inside this gloomy and dusty room are the shelves of the forbidden magic books.

    This is the first time Ive seen it, but there sure are a lot of books arent there.

    It seems that we will be breaking our backs to find the spell cast on Miss ire, doesnt it?

    Certainly, unlike when I was browsing through the magic books on a whim, searching for a certain magic is quite a bothersome job.

    Hm? This The dust is wiped off strangely.

    On a dusty shelf, Royce-sama discovered the tracks of one ce alone with dust wiped off.

    Truly. The trail of a finger or something has been left behind. Camille?

    Y-, Youre wrong! It wasnt me! As if I would leave behind such an obvious trail!

    How rude. If I left behind that kind of trail when I looked at the forbidden magic books, wouldnt someone start saying stuff like There was an intruder guyyys~?

    Meaning, that someone else broke in?

    The possibility for that seems high, doesnt it?

    Who was it anyway? For someone other than me to have broken in here and read the books.

    But really, it is because people keep breaking in here as they please that I think it would be better to change all the keys in the pce.

    What Achille said waspletely right, so I took the chance to get onboard.

    Im with Achille! The locks and defence in the castle is toox!

    Camille the past offender is saying it, so that really is the truth, huh

    It seems that my existence is ying the role of good proof.

    Arent the books around this finger trail suspicious? It does not seem to be the trail of a book being taken, after all.

    At Achilles words, we all took a book from around the finger trail.

    It doesnt seem to be the trail from a book being stolen, but lets have the librarian confirm itter.

    Yes, I think it would be better to check the identities of the people who use the library as well. Well, if they ignored the formal processes and just intruded, it would be useless though, huh?

    They chat as their recognition of me as a criminal continues to strengthen in their minds. When ites to this troublesome topic, it doesnt seem like Ill get a chance to speak. For now Ill do what I can. I obediently go through the magic took, and look for magic rted to Miss ire. Magic to force the criminal to confess nope. Magic to read the targets mind nope. Magic to enve the target nope, and how scary. Still, these spells really arent anything decent.

    After flipping through the pages for a while, I finally catch eye of a familiar symbol.

    Ah- This is the one that was on ires neck.

    The mysterious forbidden art that was written over the top of the magic for amplifying hatred. Lets see

    Forbidding them from speaking?

    I continued reading the page.

    What the heck is this?

    What was written there was revolting enough to make you sick.

    Camille?

    Did you find it?

    I found it.

    Mouth-sealing forbidden art. A magic to absolutely prevent inconvenient knowledge of the caster to be spoken. The moment somebody under the influence of this spell attempts to speak even a single fact about the caster, they will immediately lose their life. This is the case even when they speak with good intention, as well as the case when it is not so.

    Its heartless huh?

    Peering in on the book, Achille frowns.

    Did Miss ire speak anything of the incident?

    Nah, shes silent like shes had her strings cut, so she hasnt said a thing.

    Thank goodness, if she hasnt said anything then shes still alive.

    Ive understood how to remove the spell on her.

    <supporting character="" introduction=""> Dborah Jade A viscounts daughter (eldest) who has inherited her fathers light blue hair, and her mothers red-tinged eyes. A slightly plump build. Shes a vain and pushy, stereotypical nobles daughter, but possesses a sharp eye for observation. She also has a side of her that is good at looking after her younger brother and sister. Her taste in fashion is a little bad.</supporting>

    Dsire Jade A viscounts (second) daughter who has inherited her fathers light blue hair, and her mothers red-tinged eyes. A slightly skinny build. She also has a side of her that judges everything calmly. Her taste in fashion is a little bad.

    The two sisters get along very well. The two of them are distant with their mother and older brother. Though they are attached to their father who takes other women as mistresses, they regard him coldly, however they treasure Achille who was born of a mistress.

 Volume 3 - Ch 12

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    The dim underground space was damp and smelled of mould, as though it was in a separate space from the gorgeous castle. Whether Dominique or ire, it seems that theres a tendency for the criminals in this country to be locked underground. However,pared to this aged dungeon, the cer in Achilles vi was far better. I followed a few prison guards and headed to the cell where ir was. My worrywart fianc followed along as well.

    In the castle underground, the imprisoned ire was unmoving like a puppet with its strings cut, and had a hollow expression. It seems to be a side effect of the forbidden magic. The forbidden spell that amplifies hatred will increase the targets anger and sadness without end. If those feelings continued to grow, and exceeded the persons limit they would end up emotionless and like an empty snakeskin like ire. Itll probably take time to recover from this state.

    ire.

    I gently spoke to her. Of course, its to dispell the forbidden art. While speaking to her, I slowly approached her. ires two arms were cuffed by heavy looking shackles. Its probably a harsh weight for a normal nobles daughter, but I cant read anything from irs emotionless expression. The count is probably confined like this in another cell. ording to the reports hesining about stuff like his arms hurting, or his hips hurting, and is still lively.

    Im going to dispel the magic cast on you, okay?

    I did give her a warning just in case, but as expected, ire didnt respond. First up I carefully undid the mouth-sealing magic, followed by the hatred amplification magic. I expected her to scream from pain like Dominique, but all she did was roll her eyes back and open and close her mouth repeatedly. It might be that she already didnt have enough strength to scream. The prison guards regarded ire who was under forbidden arts, and I who had dispeled them, with expressions of shock.

    Phew, its done!

    At the same time as the bruise on ires neck disappearing, I staggered backwards. Achille who had apanied me here supported me from behind in a panic.

    Camille?

    Ah-, thanks. I dispelled both of them together so it seems Im a little beat.

    You wasted magic power again, didnt you?

    S-, So fussy! Even at a time like this! Certainly I made quite a mistake with my magic power, but I undid the spells safely, so isnt it fine?

    Speaking of which, I promised that I would teach your magic control earlier, didnt I?

    Yeah!

    Various things happened between now and then, but I made a promise with Achille.

    Seems it would be better for me to teach you sooner thanter, huh.

    Yeah.

    Even though I said that I could walk, Achille left the cell with me in his arms. Its a princess carry. [tl: ohimesama dakko/bridal carry]

    Let me downnn.

    Wouldnt it be bad if you staggered again?

    Whilst still in his arms, I was kissed loudly on the cheek.

    !

    Even though the prison guards are still here, what a thing to do. Its so embarassing that I cant bear it.

    Come now, if you move youll fall, you know?

    !

    Despite saying that, it feels like youre carrying me pretty stably, you know? But Achille sure is skinny for a guy. Itd be terrible if his arms snapped because he of carrying someone like me.

    It really would be better to

    Make sure to hold on properly.

    I couldnt oppose Achille who paid no regard to my consent. My naiveity in allocating magic power is the cause of this, so theres also my gratitude towards him for taking care of me. Even in the future when were married, will I still be dominated by him like this?

    Okay.

    I did as I was told, and wrapped my arms around Achilles neck.

    <supporting character="" introduction=""> Adide Jade A viscounts wife with bright red hair and bright red eyes. She originallyes from a barons family. Shes actually that random upstart barons rtive, and owes him money. Her ambition and vanity knows no end, and because of that, her spending is also incredible. Lately shes been busy stopping her husband who seems to be trying to bring his mistress into the house.</supporting>

 Volume 3 - Ch 13

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    In Japan, just being older raises your status. For two normal people in a non-job context, the older will be the superior simply by merit of age.

    In Japan, each school/university has its own exam. You can roughly know how difficult a certain schools exam will be, especially the high ranked schools, and because sometimes the dates ovep, people have to choose their exams carefully, usually with advice from teachers on what their grades/abilities will realistically get them into. However, some people still take exams to hard ces just because they have nothing to lose; (kinen juken, memento exammemoration exam).

    Since then, it seems that ires condition has been gradually recovering. It doesnt seem that shes about to say anything yet though. I hear that the earl is lively as usual. Even though hes stuck in a cell, there are no signs of him thinning.

    Oh, right right. I should go visit the Q of Clovers while its still summer break. I straddled the quill, and visited the Jade familys vi.

    Is Aurelia in?

    The maid who received me with a surprised look flusteredly went to call for Aurelia.

    Ah-, the little miss from that time. Youre gettin married to Achille, arent ya?

    Right! Thanks for that! Theres a little something I want to talk to you about, but can we speak alone?

    Talk to me? Ya dont afta worry; Im not gunna make eyes at your fianc yanno?

    Thats not it

    I pulled Aurelia outside into the vis garden.

    Aurelia, I might be asking something strange all of a sudden, but could it be, arent you actually from another world?

    Eh-

    I worried about revealing my true self by talking to Aurelia about this, but decided to put it into action. I felt that if it was Aurelia who was amoner and the young daughter of a doctor, it would be okay.

    Before you came here, didnt you live another life? Didnt you suddenly get moved to this body?

    Why do ya know?

    Aurelia looked at me with shock on her face. The fact that she doesnt know my face nor Achilles means that she might be the same as Mei, and doesnt have knowledge of the game.

    Because I also, lived in another world.

    Eehh-!

    I was a high school girl before.

    I suuure didnt think that Id ear a word like high school girl in this world.

    Aurelia narrowed her eyes in nostalgia. She might be thinking back on her old life.

    Really I was also livin in a different ce before. I look like this, but I ad kids too.

    Kids?

    Right. I mean, in my old world, I was fifty-five yanno!

    Fifty-five?

    I divorced with my usband, and I ave experience of workin to raise my children by myself as well.

    It seems that Aurelia is a lot older than how she looks now. Because it seems that shes quite my superior, Im at a loss now as to whether its okay to speak to her casually.

    Then, your children? [ polite]

    If she suddenly disappeared, what would happen to her children?

    Its fine. Theyve already left the ouse and are workin.

    I-, I see so thats how it is.  monotone AND polite

    Thats no good. The daughter of a marquis family doesnt need to watch her words with me!

    Aurelia burst outughing, seemingly finding it ridiculous. Since she was kind enough to say that I didnt have to use keigo with her, I decided to speak normally.

    Ah-, oh yeah. Aurelia, you took the entrance exam?

    ording to what Beatrix said, she took the exam and failed.

    Aahh, that.

    Aurelia answered with a smile.

    It was one of those; a memento exam!

    Eh-, a memento exam?

    I wanted to see what kinda ce an elite magic school was! I was thinkin that if I got in by some mistake Id attend, but as youd expect I failed.

    Ehhhhh-

    I felt exhausted. You went to school for a reason like that? It seems that it wasnt anything to do with the love interest characters. Whats left is I have to make sure to find out if she has knowledge of the game.

    You knew about the magic academy?

    It was famous after all.

    Umm, do you recognise my face?

    If shes yed that game, then theres no way that she wouldnt know about that nasty slut Camille.

    Mn? Ive met with ya once before, right? At Dborahs wedding reception.

    Did you ever y an otome game in your old world?

    Maiden? Game? My daughter yed all sorts of games, but Ive never yed yed it before.

    So she really doesnt know about the game, huh?

    Ahh, but Im happy. To find someone else who also has memories like me in this world where noone knows about my birthce sure is a good thing.

    Aurelias mouth spread in a wide grin, and for a while looked like she was thinking about something.

    Today I came to thank you for the other day, but I wanted to ask you about that as well Well then, Ill be going before Achille finds me, okay?

    I handed over my thank you present to Aurelia before straddling my quill. Today I came to talk to the maids without an appointment, but its probably already been revealed by that sharp-eared Achille. Ive gotta run before I suffer another lecture.

    Ah-, wait a bit.

    Suddenly, Aurelia called out to me.

    Mn, whats up?

    Its nothing but a rumour but right now youre a noble ojousama arent ya? Thats why I was thinkin of givin ya a little warnin

    Warning?

    After shifting her gaze to confirm that no one was around, Aurelia told me in a quiet voice.

    Lately, the number ofmoners with anti-noble sentiments has been increasing ya see, and one of the radical groups is even beginning to move it seems. Not that long ago, a person who got wrapped up in that and injured was carried into our clinic, ya see.

    Anti-noble sentiment?

    Yea. An institution that does nothing but ignoring the circumstances of themoners, and fighting amongst themselves is unnecessary they say.

    I paled. Its a line that Im familiar with after all.

    The revolution, end.

    Living this all too peaceful lifestyle, I got too wrapped up in my own business and carelessly forgot. Forgot the existence of that ending. I was thinking that Id avoided the social obliteration end, and the coup detat end, and the war end didnt seem likely either, so Because this world was moving in apletely different way than the game, I ended up underrating the concern that these presented. This world is a reality different from the world of that game, but it has the elements needed for incidents in the game to ur All it was was that we didnt take the actions necessary for them to happen.

    Dominique Jade The Jade familys eldest son. Sweet tooth. Weights 0.1 tons. Because he was raised being spoilt, hes a selfish young master who acts high and mighty with the weak. He hates his younger brother who is better than him. The only thing he wins in is borrowing the power of his position, and curses him as a Damned illegitimate child!. He himself is aware of theplexes that underly his behaviour but he cant stop himself. Actually possesses a ss heart.

    TL note: I still havent solified Aurelias ent yet. Once Ive hammered it out, Ill go back and edit all her dialogue.

 Volume 3 - Ch 14

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    When I write intelligentsia I mean intelligentsia, but its a looooooot moremonly used in Japanese, and usually with a less strict meaning of the word. Its basically used where we might use nerd or intellectual, but yeah. Since its somon in Japanese, I thought I may as well let you guys know in case one day some other trantor just writes intelligentsia and youre left going wtf?

    Today Achille came to my house. Recently, hell appear at my house frequently.

    If you just charge into my vi again, Ill be troubled.

    Uu-

    So I really got found out, huh. It seems that his visits to our house also serves as monitoring me. Once he brings up the vi, I cant refute him Suddenly, the matter of the revolution came to mine but I cant decide whether or not to tell Achille. In town, some of the extremistmoners are running wild At present, thats all it is. That the line said by Aurelia was in the revolution end of the game, is something that only the yers of the game would know.

    Speaking of which, Achille suddenly began.

    Theres going to be a test pretty soon after we enter second semester, isnt there?

    Im startled.

    Itll be fine, this time Im totally fine~

    Ohh? Youre that confident?

    For some reason, Achille is looking my way with challenging eyes.

    Er.rr

    Yeah, youre right~ For you to have this much summer vacation homework piled up, youll be totally fine, right~?

    !

    Even the matter of the homework, was found ou-t, huh? Why!? Even though I made sure that even Aime didnt know! All thoughts of the revolution were blown from my mind.

    The truth is, the homework that was assigned for my summer vacation hasnt been touched at all.

    Well There was just too much, and it didnt feel like it would end?

    Being an elite academy, the homework for the summer break is no joke either.

    I thought as much.

    Well, I mean

    Take out the textbooks. Your workbook too!

    Y-, YESH!

    At Achilles threatening attitude, my voice ended up cracking. In panic, I took out all the stuff I needed for homework.

    By the way, your homework?

    I finished it in two days.

    Tsk this damned intelligentsia!

    The exam contents will being out of this work, so

    Y-, YESF!

    Camille, are you really listening?

    I-, I am, but,

    Honestly speaking, its not possible. I mean, isnt this all weird?

    A-, Achille-sensei. I really think Id prefer to sit properly Please.

    Mn? what are you saying? Arent you already sitting?

    So Achille says, but this really is weird! I mean, right now Im sitting between his knees~ Indeed, Im sitting here being embraced by Achille from behind. asionally his hand brushes about, so it cant help that its on my mind.

    This one is wrong

    Ah-

    This one too

    No good, I cant concentrate, so lots of mistakes are appearing. Both this and that are because of Achilleee!

    I wonder if this unserious student of mine needs a spanking.

    !

    Dont say that so happily! Its because Achille is like this, that Royce-sama has awakened to that new inclination of his~! He was tormenting that little viinous count with a thorned whip, you know~!

    I decided that I would escape from Achilles knees. The moment I see an opening, Ill squirm and break out of these constraints.

    Camille.

    I could feel Achille lightlyughing from behind me.

    Were not done yet, you know?

    He began putting strength into his arms, and I ended up locked in harder than before. C-, Cant move! Will I be unable to even go to the bathroom until this homework is done?

    Redo it?

    He whispered sweetly into my ear, so Im feeling kind of ticklish. In the confusion, even my thigh got stroked. C-, Can I report him for sexual harassment? Or is there no rule against that because hes my fianc?

    Hyauu

    So that I wouldnt pay attention to the feeling of my face getting hotter, or my pulse gradually getting quicker, I desperately clung to my exercise book. Now that itse to this, I have no choice but to finish my homework and escape from Achille! I tackled my homework problems with never-before-seen vigour.

    <supporting character="" introduction=""> ire Tito The young miss of a counts family. An only child. She was raised in quite a pampered manner, so she has a selfish and aggressive personality. Even if he showers cold words on her, she likes Raiga; shes this kind of slightly masochistic person. Her made-up face is a little harsh looking.</supporting>

 Volume 3 - Ch 15

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    A few hourster I wasying exhausted on the couch after finishing the fourth of the homework that I nned to do.

    Camille, we arent even half done yet you know?

    Uuu I cant, anymore.

    In various meanings My emotions cant endure. Raising my head from the sofa and turning my neck, BAKIBAKI sounds ring out.

    Cant be helped, huhh.

    Achille chuckled to himself, and sat right next to where I wasying down.

    Mn

    I felt afortable pressure on my neck then on my shoulders too.

    How stiff. Even though you hardly did any work.

    It seems that Achille is giving me a massage. Together with a needlessment.

    I was reading a magic book after all. Phe-

    Ahhh, feels good. To Achille whos great at everything, massages are no exception.

    Youre like an old man.

    I decided to try my best to shut up. I feel that being called an old man by your own fianc is pretty bad too, after all.

    Hey Camille, does it feel good?

    In a sweet voice overflowing with amour, Achille whispered to me.

    Mn It feels goood.

    It feels so good that Im about to fall asleep. Even though theres still more than half of the Homework Youll Do Today that Achille gave me to do.

    Ah-, oh yeah, Achille

    Mn, whaat?

    Only now do I remember the rumours about the revolution end that Aurelia talked about. He might just tell me that Im exaggerating, but I decide to tell Achille.

    You know, it seems that recently amongst themoners theres an anti-noble movement appearing. An institution that does nothing but ignoring the circumstances of themoners, and fighting amongst themselves is unnecessary they say.

    Aahh, youre talking about how theres been stuff like huge numbers of torches being thrown into nobles estates, or noble girls being assaulted when they go out?

    -, yeah.

    It seems that Achille knows about it too. Moreover, in greater detail than me

    Its kind of been on my mind. It couldnt be a revolution or something, could it?

    I spoke while feigning indifference, but Im actually worried about if theres preparations for a revolution going on somewhere, or maybe the actions of those extremists will escte and belinked to a revolution.

    Camille.

    Achille stroked my head soothingly.

    Certainly its difficult to say that the situation in the castle is normal Outside of the conflict between the King Faction and the Royal Prince faction, the knights will struggle for achievements and wont do their jobs properly, or the bureaucrats are afraid of stepping on anyones tails so in self-protection they wont give the go ahead for various important ventures. The reason that we had trouble getting permission to ess the forbidden areas of the archives are also because of that.

    Eh-, really? The permission for the forbidden magic books was because of that too?

    I dont really know much about the soldiers struggling for achievements, but the issue of the forbidden magic books was just recently.

    At that rate theyd just pretend that it didnt happen, so I forced it.

    So it was because of your efforts that we got permission.

    I didnt know. That he went and got us permission.

    Um, Achille Thanks.

    If its thanking me, theres no need, you know? I wanted to see the forbidden magic books too after all

    Even so, its because you got us permission that I could remove the forbidden magic on ire, you know?

    -, Camille!

    Uwoa-?

    The ce I was lying down on suddenly overturned becauseof Achille. Achille who was sitting next to me was now nketing me.

    Eh-, ah-, Achille? Achille-san?

    Its because you said something so cute, Camille.

    Chuckling while letting out an amorous atmosphere, Achille buried his face in my nape. Uwah, uwah, what do I do? What do I do? I can feel his breath at the bottom of my neck, and its really ticklish.

    Achi--,

    Suddenly, I could feel a light pain on my neck.

    That hurts What are you doing!?

    However, Achille who had raised his head paid me no heed, and smiled in satisfaction.

    Camille, because themoners are moving, you might be worried for Royce-sama, but dont do anything rash Youre a noble too, after all.

    Its okay. I can use heaps of magic after all, and I have my magic tattoos too Huh? Howe even though I have my magic tattoos, I could feel pain on my neck?

    Isnt it because the magic tattoos didnt determine it as harm?

    Is that how it is?

    It seems that there are a number of ways to get around it, huh Its because there are things like this too, that I think itd be better if you didnt overestimate yourself.

    Y-, Yeah By the way, just now, what on earth did you do to me?

    Achille just smirked and didnt tell me.

    I think youll find out at night.

    That night, when I saw the nape of my neck in the bathroom mirror, I turned red and let out a scream.

    <supporting character="" introduction=""> Count tito A noble of the Royal Prince Faction. Was aiming for the position of the queens father. Is even fatter than Dominique. Normally has a cheerful and amiable personality. Even in prison, he just lives as he likes. Hes faint of heart, but possesses a fairly bold and strong-willed personality.</supporting>

 Volume 4 - Ch 1

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    note to self  major assgnmnt 23 march

    The second semester has finally begun. Ive returned to the Hearts ss dorm. In front of the mirror Im fond of thats installed in a wooden frame in my dorm room, I carefully checked the bottom of my neck.

    Alright! Itspletely gone.

    That day Of all things, Achille left a kissmark on me. And of all ces, on my easily visible nape! For a few days, I was forced to live a lifestyle of concealing it. During that time, Achille would appear like natural to force me to do my homework But thanks to that, I somehow or other got all of my homework done before the new semester began. After making sure that I hadnt forgotten anything I needed for ss, I left my room. Before going to ss, I have to drop by the auditorium. Its just for formalitys sake, but we do have an opening ceremony.

    When I entered the auditorium, I found that the other students were already gathered there. Characteristic of the first day after the summer vacation, the building is filled with liveliness.

    Ah-, Beatrix. Its been a while~

    I discovered Beatrix right by the entrance. She was wearing vivid oriental clothing, and was surrounded by girls of the Diamonds ss.

    Miss Camille, Im more d to see you well than anything.

    Beatrix was kind enough to step out from the ring of girls. With a wave of her hand, the schoolgirls all blushed and stepped aside. Beatrix, youre so cool.

    I decided to talk with Beatrix until the opening ceremony began.

    Oh yeah, I met the Q of Clovers during the summer break.

    Ohh? I see I see Meaning, that Aurelia Trfle?

    Mn, she was actually a fifty-five year old woman inside.

    Eh-?

    Shes Achilles familys maid. It seems that after she failed the entrance exam, she went to get a job.

    It seems that Beatrix was shocked in various senses.

    And you see, Im about to get into a pretty important topic, but

    More important than talking about the Q of Clovers?

    After making sure there were no other people around, I told Beatrix about it.

    Its about an omen of the revolution end

    Beatrix looked at me with a shocked expression.

    By the revolution end, you mean that?

    Yeah. The citizens of Ga are starting to riot, and I heard from Aurelia that theyre using the revolution ends slogan of An institution that does nothing but ignoring the circumstances of themoners, and fighting amongst themselves is unnecessary.

    Aurelia was never forced to drop out of school, but she never enroled in school, and the world is moving in this direction, huh But, dont think about it so hard. This world is simr to the game, but its a real world, independent of the game. The future should change in ordance to how we live our lives

    Beatrix has been battling with this belief in mind, in order to avoid a nightmarish future. She probably wont allow this thinking to be overturned no matter what. EVen I think so.

    Yeah Something like the games end wont happen, right?

    As long as somebody like us who came from another world doesnt intentionally move and manipte the world to realise the games plot, things probably wont so easily follow the path of the game. There are countless ways the future can y out, after all.

    But it really is a little worrying, huh My side will feel the effects of a rebellion in Ga as well. Miss Camille, please take great care as well. Youre also a noble girl of the Ga Nation after all.

    Got it, Ill be careful.

    If there really is a revolution, then I want to do something to stop it before it happens. If I dont, in the worst case, Royce-sama will be executed, and Achille and I will be in danger as well.

    The headmaster appeared atop the stage. It looks like he has no motivation today, either. Possibly because theres still some time until the ceremony begins, he just began to doze off on stage. He had three thick braids of hair hanging down to his waist, and was probably quite old, but his appearance didnt look like anything other than a youth in his twenties. He had slightly unhealthy looking pale skin, and unreadable golden irises. Rumours have it that hes an incredible magician, or a monster, but I think its just because the students have fun spreading rumours. I mean, its the headmaster who only ever moves slowly like a slug, you know?

    Oneesama!

    Ah-, Mei-chan.

    Mei, who went through a terrible time during the kidnapping incident, ran over to me with a smile.

    Are you okay now?

    Her wounds were healed with magic, but it should have been a great shock emotionally.

    Im fine! I wont lose to something like that!

    Youre strong, Mei-chan.

    Seeing her try her best in that small body of hers makes me want to support her unconditionally.

    Yes, I have to keep a strong heart. I mean, Im going to be a mother after all.

    Nn?

    I kind of get the feeling that I just heard something incredibly shocking at the end.

    Theres a baby in my stomach.

    !

    With a gentle smile, Mei lovely patted her belly.

    C- Congrattions.

    Im so shocked that my words wonte out. The father There seems to be no possibility other than Raiga-sama, right?

    Thanks, Oneesama. Ill try my best to give birth to a healthy baby.

    Mei-chan, you have a baby in your belly, so take care not to overwork yourself, okay? Are you sure its okay for you to even stand here?

    Youre such a worrywart too, Oneesama. Huhu, just like Raiga-sama.

    How outrageous. To be simr to Raiga, doesnt make me even a little happy.

    Its alright, Ive already spoken to the school staff. If it bes too tiring, Ill take a rest on one of the seats near the wall.

    Mn That would be good.

    During the summer break, it seems that Mei and Raiga experienced various things as well.

 Volume 4 - Ch 2

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    The second semester began, and each person returned to their room in the Hearts ss dorm. Unlike the other students, the inside of my room is almost the same. Even if its the same, theres no problem after all.

    The degree of calm in my dorm roompared to my home is proportional to the amount that my stepmother and Dominique arent able to meddle. Camilles room is closeby too. It seems that the interior of Camilles room is also mostly unchanged. However, when ites to her room, because of her magic tools or magic experiments, the look of her room canpletely change even if her decoration remains the same. In a way, you could say she has great sense. In contrast to us, His Highness haspletely changed his room to his tastes. His room already looks like apletely different one from his old one.

    If I remember correctly, its almost time for the opening ceremony, huh Putting on my coat, I left the room.

    Achille.

    Just as I left, I met with His Highness. It seems that Camille has already left.

    Hey, how far have you gone with Camille? I wonder if shes more or less getting used to romance as well.

    We havent gone anywhere, but during the summer break, she got a bit more used to it.

    When I was making Camille do her homework, I decided to try hugging her through the whole thing after all. During thest few days of the summer break, it seems that she got used to it too, and started sitting on myp as though it was natural.

    Todays news: Raigas given up on his rights to session.

    Raiga-sama did?

    Mn, only we of the royal family know right now.

    And why is that?

    Because he became a papa! Im sure its to protect Mei, huh! He probably wants to avoid unnecessary conflict.

    His Highness smiled from the depths of his heart.

    Apparently his fiance, the Q of Spades Mei Zakro is pregnant.

    Pregnant?

    Even those two arent even married just, just when did they start doing those kind of things I wonder? Or rather, even though theyre both still students Theyre really too haphazard.

    Oh? Achille, you look like you dont agree.

    No, I feel that it is a happy thing that the number of session candidates has lowered.

    As a person supporting His Highness, its one of the things I couldnt help worrying about.

    Really? I was sure that you were unhappy because you were jealous of Raiga.

    I am not that selfish, you know? If Camille wants to continue going to school, then I will wait until graduation.

    But if you did it now, then you wouldnt need to worry about the Topagerian prince stealing Camille anymore, right?

    Even though Ive gone to the trouble of holding myself back, His Highness says nothing but things to sway my determination. He probably doesnt mean anything bad by it, but I wish he would stop irresponsibly inciting me.

    No matter what you say, Your Highness, I ce importance on Camilles wishes.

    Hm~mm, well, I get the feeling that Camille isnt dissatisfied with you either, after all. Ipletely intend on getting in the way of the meddling from the neighbouring nation for you two, you know.

    And in truth, because His Highness has been stopping them behind doors, up until now there have been fewrge movements by the neighbouring country. Im thankful to him for this. I wish that Topageria would just give up already.

    Achille Jade.

    Just before I entered the auditorium, a schoolgirl called out to me. Its a face that I recognise. If I remember correctly, she was the person that Camille was drunkenly associating with at the entrance ceremony. After that, I had to apologise and reimburse her for her uniform and various things like that, so I remember her. She came and talked to me about weird stuff as well, after all.

    Achille, Ill head in first, okay?

    His Highness probably thinks that Im being courted by one of the noble girls again. He disappeared considerately into the auditorium. Certainly, this chain of events would normally lead to a confession, but But I feel that the girl in front of me has an atmosphere different to those noble girls.

    I need to have a talk with you.

    Please keep it short.

    First of all, the girl looked around, before leading me behind the auditorium. It was dark here, and there was nobody around. Is it something that she wants to that badly keep a secret?

    What do you think about this country?

    Is this, a solicitation of some sort?

    Religion, or a political movement? We only just entered second semester, so I wish she would just give it a break. Outside of work, I dont want to get involved with such bothersome things.

    Thats not it. No, perhaps it is

    The girl yed with her curled cinnamon hair as she talked.

    I want you to be our ally. Speaking simply, I want you to work with us to save this country

    Her olive eyes gazed at me strongly.

    The extremist faction of themoners?

    Theyre surprisingly close by, huh. The extremistmoners are steadily gaining supporters, and even now within town, though there are those that dont directly participated in extremist activities, they support the extremist in the shadows. I dont know how involved she is in the movement, but it would probably be better to be careful.

    Calling us extremists is quite rude, isnt it. Though we certainly do get called that. Youre from themoner ss, so you should understand as well, right? The unfairness of this world

    Why does this woman know about my background?

    Even though the orphanage you lived in was managed by the country, dont you think it was a terrible environment?

    Whats with this woman? For her to know even about the orphanage. The orphanage that I belonged to should have copsed a few years after I was taken from there. Thats why there are few people who know about that ce now. Despite that, why does she know about how the orphanage was back then?

    However, whatever she says, Ive already decided on my reply.

    I refuse.

    Hearing my words, her solitications became even stronger.

    Why? Even you should think that the state of the country is abnormal. Are you refusing because of your viscounts family? Or is the cause that fiance of yours?

    Her face twisted into a sneer.

    Honestly, Im constantly amazed by that romance-obsessed woman. To be picking up men even in a different world She cant distinguish this world from a game, can she?

    Are you insulting Camille?

    I have no idea what this woman is saying, but its certain that its nothing good. Though Camille vomited on her uniform in the past, there should be such a thing as choosing your words better.

    The one being insulted by that woman is you.

    The corners of the womans mouth rose in confidence for some reason.

    Her real form, do you know it?

    May I ask you what you think you know about my fiance?

    To the end, I didnt let my veneer of grace crumble. Im actually bing a little irritated though.

    Your fiance know everything about your upbringing. Your personality, the actions youll probably take, your behaviour, and as a result of these, the future youll probably meet as well; she knows all of these, and on top of that has gotten close to you, you know? That woman.

    Well, Camille knows that Im an illegitimate child after all, and were childhood friends so she knows my personality as well. And as for my future, were nning on getting married. On top of that, we move together.

    So what?

    Achille Jade! Youre being tricked, you know. By that woman. That woman calcted everything to get close to you. To make you hers.

    Hahh

    To make you hers, is not something a young girl should be saying. And, if I had to say, the one making anybody his is me.

    Hey, youre not supposed to be somebody who is so stupidly involved in romance, you know? You want to change this country, right?

    The girl talked fervently about the danger the country was in. Gee, all of the things shes mentioned are things that I obviously know already, though.

    Certainly, I do think that I would like to change the country, but I have no intention of working with you. At any rate, if I was going to change the country, I would do so with a different method.

    Not overturning the country through extremist activities, but soundly bettering the country from within. Even if it takes longer, if even one less sacrifice can be made, I would choose that path. And tentatively, itll be a country that His Highness will be managing after all. I dont want to do anything to mess it up.

    How regretful. Im disappointed Youve beenpletely led by that woman, havent you. Even though I thought I could use the J of Hearts.

    The woman muttered that with cold eyes, before raising her hands to the air.

 Volume 4 - Ch 3

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    Ive decided to go with n A, due to more or less overwhelming support for it.

    Camille, wait a moment!

    After I finished speaking with Mei, Royce-sama called out to me.

    What is it? Royce-sama

    I think something a little bad for you just happened.

    Bad for me? I wonder what he means.

    Hey, Mei. Its nice to see you this lively, but dont push yourself, okay? Your body isnt just yours now, after all.

    Royce-sama said that with a smile, before pulling me outside by the hand. It seems that he knows about Meis pregnancy as well. Has he heard from Raiga or someone?

    Camille, Achille was brought behind the auditorium by a girl you know! As the fiance, I think this is where you should step in.

    Confessing where people cant see you, huhh. Isnt this as usual?

    When I said this, the ends of Royce-samas eyebrows dropped in disappointment.

    Camille, thats no good you know. Its because youre like this that the other noble girls havent given up on Achille. It looks like a loveless engagement that they have a chance of worming into

    Mmmn

    What Royce-sama is saying certainly does have a point. Ive always left it alone when Achille gets confessed to, or surrounded by noble girls. Thanks to that, I suffered some unpleasant feelings at Dborahs wedding reception.

    I understand. Ill go see how things are.

    If youve decided on that, then lets go! I have the responsibility of seeing you two through.

    Eh- Royce-sama too? Just like that, I was led by the hand by Royce-sama behind the auditorium.

    I refuse.

    The moment we arrived behind the auditorium, Achille said that.

    Isnt that great, Camille? It looks like Achille clearly rejected her.

    Royce-sama whispered to me with a smile.

    It seems that way, huh.

    Why? Even you should think that the state of the country is abnormal. Are you refusing because of your viscounts family? Or is the cause that fiance of yours? Honestly, Im constantly amazed by that romance-obsessed woman. To be picking up men even in a different world She cant distinguish this world from a game, can she?

    Wha- Could that girl, possibly be the Heroine? A lovely girl with fluffy curled hair It seems it really is her. Even though shes in front of Achille, shes saying stuff like game.

    Are you insulting Camille?

    The one being insulted by that woman is you.

    A cold sweat ran down my back.

    May I ask you what you think you know about my fiance?

    Your fiance knows everything about your upbringing. Your personality, the actions youll probably take, your behaviour, and as a result of these, the future youll probably meet as well; she knows all of these, and on top of that has gotten close to you, you know? That woman.

    I unconsciously took a breath. Shes wrong Thats not it. The reason I didnt tell Achille anything isnt because of the reson she said. But, I stiffened and stayed right where I was.

    So what?

    Achille probably doesnt know what the Heroine really means. I wanted it to stay that way.

    Achille Jade! Youre being tricked, you know. By that woman. That woman calcted everything to get close to you. To make you hers.

    Shes wr-

    I had no intention of tricking Achille. But, the reason that I didnt tell him the truth was exactly that. If he knew the truth after all this time, would Achille scorn me? I dont want to be hated by him Why am I feeling this anxious? Its the first time sinceing to this world that Ive felt terror from something other than physical danger.

    Hey, youre not supposed to be somebody who is so stupidly involved in romance, you know? You want to change this country, right?

    Certainly, I do think that I would like to change the country, but I have no intention of working with you. At any rate, if I was going to change the country, I would do so with a different method.

    How regretful. Im disappointed Youve beenpletely led by that woman, havent you. Even though I thought I could use the J of Hearts.

    ..*

    Huh? They dont seem to be talking about love, do they?

    Royce-sama who hadnt noticed that I was trembling due to the danger I had invited on myself, muttered in bored disappointment. Royce-sama, you followed me here half for fun, didnt you?

    At that moment, the Heroine who seemed to be unhappy with Achilles reply suddenly raised her hands into the air.

    !

    It was the action of creating arge scale magic. I immediately pushed Royce-sama into cover, and ran towards Achille.

    A magic circle was forming in the air. Thats an incantation for quite a high level spell, huh Memory sealing magic. Its not a forbidden art, but its theoretically better to weave it into the realm of forbidden magic, and is the magic being cast right now.

    Achilleee! Its dangerouuus!

    Eh- Camille?

    While catching sight in the corner of my eye, of Achille who was turning in surprise, I cast the memory seal magic in reverse to seal the Heroines magic. I think Achille by himself is enough to deal with it, but the opponent is the Heroine who possesses a lot of magic power. I cant be careless.

    My, you were here too? You got in the way, huh?

    The Heroine Frau Monier, turned my way, and smirked in ridicule.

    This is great. Since youre here, shall I unmask you before your fianc? Bodyswapper-san?

    <heroine-like guess=""> In Frau, the Heroines mind, 1: Camilles appearance and behaviour are strange  Shes a bodyswapper (and has the knowledge of the game)! 2: Achille and Camille are getting along  Even though Achille is supposed to ruin Camille, things are like this. Its strange  The love-obsessed Camille has used the knowledge of the game to woo Achille! or something like that.</heroine-like>

 Volume 4 - Ch 4

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    The schoolgirl began talking proudly before Camille.

    That woman over there isnt Camille Rhodolite, you know. Shes a fake. Shes a viin whos continued to deceive you until now.

    The girl spoke to me while pointing at Camille.

    Hey, Current Camille Rhodolite-san. Youre not a person from this world, right? Just like me, youre a fake who took over and switched bodies with someone else, right?

    Despite ridiculous words being spoken to her, Camille didnt talk back to the girl. Strange. Camille isnt the type to stay quiet when people falsely use her of things. Even though she would normally talk back and make fun of them Her face is bright red. Shes chewing on her lip, her two hands are clenched, and shes trembling.

    Would you please not say strange things to Camille?

    Oh? But, she isnt denying it, is she?

    Certainly, just as the girl says, Camille just stood there taking it all and didnt deny it.

    Camille?

    She looked up at me with a terrified expression. While I was preupied with Camille, the girl raised her hands into the air a second time, and by the time I noticed it was toote.

    Ill show you how she really should be.

    The schoolgirl drew some unknown magic circle, and fired it this way. Its simr tomunication magic, but I dont know what kind of magic it is. I immediately covered Camille and used defence magic but the girls magic power was of a volume impossible for one person. Unable to defendpletely, some of it hit. I was on my knees, and the girl smiled fearlessly.

    My, my, even though youre supposed to be bad at magic Youre strong, arent you? Youre a talent(card) that Im wanting more and more. Ille invite you again, so Id be happy if you ept it next time.

    Like that, the girl gleefully left the area.

    My body is unsteady. It seems that Camille whos in my arms was hit with some of that womans magic, so shes unconscious. For her to be shaken enough that she didnt immediately use defence magic, is not normal. However, I could only keep conscious up until there.

    Is this a dream? Im looking at myself.

    I was walking happily together with Royce-sama down a hallway in the magic academy. His Highness seems a little different somehow. He has this hard to describe ephemeral feeling and is upfront in his behaviour. He doesnt seem like the person who would even by ident, have a hobby of peeking on and stalking the girl he likes, or whipping a middle aged man.

    The me in the dream was talking to His Highness about the future. The contents of the conversation were close to what I have nned in mind now, but I feel that its a little too idealistic. You have too many dreams, and its kinda embarassing you know, Me.

    And then, a pink figure appeared.

    Ah-

    Its Camille. Her atmosphere seems kind of different. For one thing her hair is tied into two, and wearing a frilly dress the likes of which Ive never seen before, shes clinging to His Highness and flirting with him.

    Wai- Camille, what are you doing cheating so openly!?

    I identally let out a voice, but Camille paid no heed and wrapped herself around His Highness arm. Was it intentional that she nonchntly pressed her chest against him? His Highness is smiling troubledly. As for me What? Arent I frowning incredibly unhappily!? Moreover, it doesnt look like the reason is jealousy. Im gazing at Camille as though Im looking at garbage. No matter what, I cant imagine myself looking at Camille like that.

    ..*

    The scene changed. This time what I see is myself rxing in the courtyard. His Highness is lying on thewn the same way, and sitting by his side is Eh-?

    Why is it that woman!?

    The schoolgirl who tried to invite me to her cause behind the auditorium was chatting to His Highness with a smile. Chatting to the woman, His Highness cheeks were red.

    Your Highness What happened to Miss Beatrix?

    However, it seems that they couldnt hear my voice. Not one of the three turned my way.

    ..*

    Once again, the scene changed. This time, with an impatient expression, I was running towards the rooftop of a tower near the school. His Highness who is running by my side with a sword in hand was there too. I dont really get it, but for now I followed the two. I intended to follow the two up the stairs, but rather than running, it felt more like my body was floating. Having reached the rooftop, I follow the gazes of His Highness and I.

    The door to the room at the end of the stairs was open. There, were Camille and that schoolgirl. Camille was standing with a number of men in wait. It looks like thugs she hired with money. It seems that the two of them havent noticed His Highness and I.

    Goshhhhh. Royce-sama you kno~? Loves Camille, you seeee~ So theres no room for a dirty looking Ugly like you, is thereee~?

    Uuu

    The schoolgirl was copsed on the stone floor, and Camille was overlooking her with arms crossed Its obvious that Camille is harassing the girl. Camile what on earth are you doing?

    Ahahaha, suits you right~ Like I thought, garbage should be like garbage

    The words that came out of Camilles mouth who was ridiculing the powerless girl who was trying to stand up, waspletely unlike her. Camille gave a sidelong nce at the men surrounding the girl, and signalled them. S-, So sly! Its definitely not a performance that Camille could handle! As expected, this is definitely a dream.

    Heyy, wont you fuck this woman? Mess her up, enough so that she can never show her face to Royce-sama again

    The men nodded at Camilles order, and then advanced on the girl while licking their lips.

    N- No. Save me-

    The girl shut her eyes, and then screamed His Highness name.

    ROYCEEE-!

    In that moment, His Highness shed his sword. Uh, Your Highness When did you suddenly learn to use something like a sword? His Highness is a magic type, you know? He went, Its heavy~ and immediately gave up on the way of the sword, you know? Ignoring the voice in my thoughts, His Highness rapidly mowed down the men.

    S-, Strong Even though its His Highness

    In an instant, His Highness defeated all the men. And watching from behind him was the other me Why is he just spectating while His Highness fights? There are a lot of things I want to tsukkomi about.

    Royce

    The schoolgirl was nestling against His Highness who had run over, and Camille was retreating with a paled face. I who was watching up until now, moved to cut off the escaping Camille.

    Oi, Me! What the hell are you doing treating Camille so violently!?

    In a panic I tried to pull Camille over, but my hand passed through her arms.

    Geh-, what is this? I cant get a hold.

    A dream where I have to see Camille in a pinch is the worst.

    ..*

    And then, the scene changed once again. Camille was locked in a dungeon. There was no power in her, and looked just like the Counts daughter, ire. A number of men were inside the cell. It was like a recreation of the treatment Camille had given to that girl. And watching expressionlessly from outside the cell were His Highness and I.

    Achille, isnt this going too far?

    Im just returning to Camille what she tried to do to Frau. We can just bribe the menter.

    After giving a single unhappy and cold nce at Camille, I quickly turned around and left. His Highness followed after. Even if I know its a dream, its a scene thats more unpleasant than anything.

    Hearing Camille shriek from inside the cell, I turned around in a panic, and found the men approaching Camille.

    Wai Stop!

    Even if I yelled, the men didnt stop. It seems that nobody will recognise my existence in this dream. I passed through the cell bars, and tried to tear the men off, but as expected my arms passed through them and couldnt do a thing.

    Get away from Camille!

    Even though its in a dream, I cant stand that Camille has to face this horrible treatment. And moreover, that the one who gave the order was myself in the dream

    Its a nightmare This is, a nightmare.

    This kind of thing, I would definitely not allow it to happen

    -, stop!

    The hand that I tried to grab them with once again found nothing but the air. Like that, I felt gravity, and fell -Pompf!-

    I collided with something soft.

    Mn? Pompf?

    Achille!

    When I turned my gaze towards the voice I found His Highness.

    Is this reality?

    Have I escaped from that sickening dream? When I looked around to see where I was, I realised that it was the familiar room of His Highness. It seems that His Highness found me copsed, and carried me to his room. Of course, I dont think that the person who carried me was His Highness himself, but one of his guards though.

    Reality? I dont really know what youre talking about, but this definitely isnt a dream.

    Saying that, His Highness grabbed my two cheeks and gave them a long pull.

    P-, Puease let gow.

    Its His Highness. Without any feeling of miscement, I understood that it was the real His Highness.

    Achille, you were having a nightmare, you know? Camille as well, though.

    Camille?

    Look beside you.

    Following His Highness finger, I looked to the other side of me and found Camille lying atop a nket. She still hasnt woken, and is having a nightmare. It seems that there are no injuries.

    I felt relief from the bottom of my heart that Camille was safely beside me.

 Volume 4 - Ch 5

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    Before I noticed, I was in a familiar room. If Im correct, this is the academys cafeteria. I dont usually use it, but I know of it. Why am I in a ce like this? Even though I should have been behind the auditorium until just a moment ago

    Just as I was thinking that it was mysterious, I could hear some girl going kyaa kyaa and making a fuss.

    Royce-sama~ Dont say something like that, and lets eat together~ Here, say AA~HN

    There I was, tempting Royce-sama in a sugary, burikko voice Eh-, what is this? What is this? I was wearing a goth loli outfit with the chest area undone, and holding a spoon by Royce-samas mouth. Because of the impossible scene, I could do nothing but blink. Royce-sama had a stiff smile on.

    *

    The surroundings changed. This time, it was me treading on the Heroines dress at the party.

    Whats are these rags~, I wonder~? Worn out curtains, I wonder~? My, how rude of me There was a person inside, wasnt there? She was one with the rags so I didnt noticee

    Is this, me? No, thats not it. Ive seen this scene before This was something that happened between the Camille Rhodolite in the game, and the heroine Frau Monier. If I remember correctly, this was when the Heroine who hade with Royce-sama to a nobles dance party was bullied and stepped on by Camille. It was a scene where Camille intentionally spilled wine and various other foods on the heroines dress. She really does have a bad personality, huhhh, Camille. Well, I also spewed something worse than food on the Heroines dress, so I cant really speak too self-importantly either though

    How nastyy. Please try your best not to show Royce-sama that outfit, okay~? If he was beside a dirtied woman like you, wouldnt he be embarassed?

    Camille left the scene while ridiculing the Heroine. In fact, after this, the Heroine actually gets discovered by Royce-sama and they go to his room and kiss and do various other things, though.

    ..*

    The scenery changed again. Its the scene where Camille called the heroine to the roof. Camille was unhappy about the Heroine whose love for Royce-sama was reciprocated, and tried to separate the two of them by having hired men attack the heroine and turn her into damaged goods. In the end, she failed though, and after being caught, she was treated mercilessly by Achille See? Before she started her evil deeds, Royce-sama and Achille appeared to save the Heroine. Royce-sama magnificently brought down the hired men with his sword, and saved the Heroine. Speaking of which, this Royce-sama could use a sword, couldnt he? And this Achille was a nonbatant. Because Ive been looking at the two in reality, somehow seeing these two from the game feel a little off, huhh. The moment that the men had judgement handed down on them, Achille began apprehending Camille. The moment his opponent is a noble girl, he gets confident huh Damned Achille. When Achille looks at Camille, his eyes are cold as ice. If, I myself was looked at like that by him Im sure I wouldnt be able to bear it.

    ..*

    The scene changed,and this time a ce like a dungeon appeared. Its the scene where Camille was punished. Its because of this scene that Carte  Jouer was given a 15+ rating.

    Mn?

    I had thought that before, when I noticed something off.

    Huh? Why, am I in these chains?

    It wasnt Camilles figure that was there, and for some reason it was me myself that was chained up in the dungeon When did this happen?

    Wh-, Whyyy!? Wa- Royce-sama, Achille, get these offf!

    However, the two of them didnt react. Royce-sama looked disinterested, and Achille was looking at me like I was a piece of dog shit. Y- You heartless guy! Right, these two are the Royce-sama and Achille of the game. The two of them hate Camille. Oh crap. Ill be vited at this rate! And afterwards, because of this Camille was socially ruined even futher. Even if this is inside a dream, Ill absolutely pass on this!

    Achille, please! Save me, I said!

    However, Achille just looked at me with cold eyes. What should I do?

    Ah-!

    I remembered something important. Right, this is inside a dream, but its possible that he might look at me like that in reality. Because Ive always kept secrets from him That I came from another world, that I knew about Achille and the others because of the game If they knew that I one-sidedly used them as an outlet for feelings of romance through the game, Im sure they would definitely not feel anything good at it.

    This is no good Im definitely going to be hated.

    The men are approaching, and Achille and Royce-sama have left. Even so, I unconsciously looked to them for rescue.

    Achille Save-

    ..* Camille! ..*

    Suddenly, a voice resounded around the cell.

    Achille?

    Even though he should have left earlier, why?

    Camille, wake up.

    It seems that Im hearing it above my head. When I faced upwards, even though it was a dungeon, there was lighting down.

    Achilleee-!

    I yelled towards the light. The moment I did, the light expanded. And like that, the dazzling light enveloped me.

    <supporting character="" introduction=""> Aime Afriat The head maid of the marquis residence. Shes been around the longest of all the maids, and right now reigns over them as the strongest servant-sama. Is a woman who can really do her job. You can find out most things about the marquis house if you ask her. Has a good build. Loves sweet things.</supporting>

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    Sav Achille-

    Camille. Youre okay, wake up!

    Sa

    Camille!

    Perhaps because the feeling of being shaken brought her consciousness back, Camille faintly opened her eyes.

    No Save me-

    However, it seems that she isnt fully awake yet. Tears spilled from the corner of her eyes.

    Camille.

    I kissed her. Im sure that just like me, she had an unpleasant dream.

    Nnu

    Like that, I gently pat her hair, and she gradually calmed down.

    Dont cry, Camille.

    Nn Achille?

    Camille was looking at me with a just-woken expression, but that for an instant, fear was mixed into that expression was not something that I missed. Does the fact that she was writhing in her sleep mean that she saw a nightmare just like I did? It couldnt be the same dream? What I did in the dream could surely be called the actions of a piece of scum. Camilles actions in the dream were quite terrible too, but what I did in the dream went far beyond the realm of revenge. It couldnt be, that thats what she was frightened of?

    Achille, Achille Im sorry.

    Nn?

    The first thing that came out of Camilles mouth was an apology, but why is there a need for her to apologise to me? I dont get it at all.

    Camille What are you apologising about?

    After Camille raised herself into a sitting position, she began speaking to me with a deadly serious expression.

    You despise me, right? I was a liar after all, and I did something to you two that means it cant be helped if you hate and curse me.

    Could it be? I could guess what her words were implying. It seems that Camille was admitting what that schoolgirl said as truth. No matter what that girl said, Camille didnt insert a single rebuttal Even though I thought that womans contemptuous talk about Camille being a bodyswapper was just nonsense.

    Camille, calm down Try speaking slowly. I promise that I wont hate you no matter what.

    -

    It seems that she doesnt trust my words. Camille averted her face to the side. Whenever something inconvenient happens, shell immediately run away Its a bad habit Camilles had since we were young.

    Camille.

    I turned her back straight at me. At first she averted her eyes, but eventually, she resignedly opened her mouth.

    I havent said this to anyone but I wasnt born Camille Rhodolite

    I unconsciously held my breath. Its an idea that I cant believe no matter what. But, I stayed quiet, and waited for her next words.

    I was originally in another world, and I ended up bing the three year old marquis daughter, Camille Rhodolite, in this world When I met you, I was already the me I am now, so Ive always kept silent though.

    Camille

    Thank goodness Hearing her words, somewhere inside me, I felt relieved. It seems that the Camille Ive always associated with is the Camille in front of me now. Right, theres no doubt that the Camille I love is her.

    I think that schoolgirl is from the same world as me.

    That Camille is a person from another world is something that I still cant fully believe. I mean, no matter how you look at her, shes a normal person. Shes just a little covered in tattoos.

    Then, about you knowing about us?

    Uu

    Hearing my words, Camilles expression, couldnt get any more any more ufortable. Like that, she opened her mouth reluctantly.

    Youre simr.

    To what?

    T-, To how do I say this, to a story in the world I was in. There were characters that were just like you and Royce-sama.

    A story?

    Umm, it was a romance-ey story that girls would probably like. You two were characters that appeared in the story. Achille was the friend of the protagonist, and Royce-sama was one of the protagonists lover candidates, and depending on how things went, he became the protagonists husband. And Camille yed the viin who got in the way of that.

    It couldnt be, that dream

    That revolting scene appeared in my mind. I did mentally back away a little hearing words like lover candidates and depending on how things went, though While I was thinking these things, Camille continued to exin.

    The rtionship between you and Royce-sama was simr and in the story where Royce-sama became the protagonists husband, they cooperated to save the protagonist from Camille, and eventually the protagonist went on to be queen.

    Like I thought, the story that Camille is talking about really does resemble the dream I had.

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    Between the guilt and the awkwardness and the shame, I trembled. Even if this is reaping what I sowed, what is this, this torture!? Why do I have to talk to Achille about the otome game? But for now, I should just be happy that Achille doesnt despise me. I kind of get the impression that he doesnt really believe me but if thats the case, Im happy with it.

    Thats a really interesting story, huh~

    Royce-samas face suddenly appeared from behind Achille.

    You were here too, Royce-sama?

    He erased his presence again, didnt he? It seems that all of the conversation just now was heard by Royce-sama.

    His Highness carried us two here after we copsed.

    Eh-, really? Royce-sama, thank you very much.

    I couldnt leave you two, after all, and you had various magic cast on you too.

    Ugeh-!

    You damned Heroine, what magic did you use? Memory erasal magic? Despite that, I quite clearly remember what happened just now though Maybe I blocked some of it.

    This is just from what I can understand, but a magic that looked simr tomunication magic was fired at you two Maybe it was fiction magic. Also, it looked like Achille had thought maniption magic cast on him. I researched and dispelled that, you know.

    Isnt thought maniption a forbidden art!? I wonder if the remainingmunication magics or whatever were the contents of the dream just now? If they were, then that was incredible harassment! Because Achille defended for us, it ended at that level, but if it wasnt for that, I might be suffering in that dream right now. Were it not for Royce-sama, the two of us wouldve been done for, for sure.

    Thank goodness that Royce-sama was here

    Right? Thank goodness that I got permission for the forbidden archives~

    Yes. Honestly, thank you very much.

    Mn, mn, so as thanks, Id like you to tell me about that story earlier in more detail.

    Stooop iiiiiiiit! Any more than this and Ill go mad from the shame! I mean, how do I exin the rest? That I enjoyed Royce-samas route while smirking away I dont want to tell them that~!

    Camille, whats wrong?

    Achille noticed that I was acting suspiciously.

    Ummmm, I guess I dont really want to talk about this too much, or rather

    Achille, and Camille, and I Who else appeared? Who was it that became my lover?

    Royce-samaa!?

    Wait, please dont just smile and stab at the heart of the matter like that! If you say that, wont the four different romance routes and each romances uhuhu ahaha stuff get revealed? And, wont it be possible that after finding out that I enjoyed those kind of games, Achille will think of me as some kind of unprincipled womannn?

    Geez Youre going too far with this shame y. [tl: y as in sexual y]

    Shame y? Eh-, is it a story aimed towards adults?

    Royce-sama hase to an outrageous misunderstanding. I cant just ept appearing to be a person who enjoys those kind of things Externally, that is.

    Y-, Youre wrong! Its nothing like that, its just a normal romance story.

    It was rated 15+, but lets just leave that out.

    As for your partner, Royce-sama, it was that girl who cast magic on us earlier. That girl is the protagonist. In the case where she gets close to you Royce-sama, the two of you get married, and she bes the queen.

    Ah-, Royce-sama looks like hes incredibly unhappy about that. I could hear him mutter So its not Beatrix in a quiet voice.

    Hey, Camille You said that was in the case where she gets close to His Highness, meaning that, there are also cases where she doesnt?

    Achille

    Nobody needs you to sharply point that out. But havinge this far, it doesnt seem like I can avoid it. If you go all the way back, all of this are seeds I sowed, so theres no helping it. Now that itse to this, Ill bravely reap them all at once. Ahhh, geeeez, let whatevereseee! Without hiding anything, I decide to tell them the outline of the game.

    Ummm In that game, besides Royce-sama, the protagonist could also be a couple with Raiga-sama, Tria-sama, and one of the students in the Clovers ss.

    That girl, four-timed?

    An expression of shock appeared on Royce-samas face. Exining that game going by this worlds logic, is increeedibly hard.

    Yes, though she doesnt date them at the same time. In this world, a tale where you can read four different paths in a love story, is a little rare. The me before I was Camille knew about the contents of that story.

    Right. Just as the heroine says, I knew about Royce-sama and Achille, and when I associated with them, I unconsciously used my knowledge of the game. When ites to Royce-sama, I have a painfully embarassing history of ovepping him with the games Royce-sama, and intensifying my longing for him.

    <favourite foods="" and="" drinks=""> Camille  ck tea and sweets Beatrix  Coffee and fruits Aurelia  Alcohol Mei  ck tea and meat</favourite>

 Volume 4 - Ch 8

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    Btw, big-shots () in Japan apparently all have the quality of not being fazed by the trivial things that other people would find incredible.

    Also note once again that in Japanese, you dont address people as you, but by their name. Ergo, they could be talking about both the game character, or the person themselves (or both due to intentional use of the ambiguity).

    I more or less understand Camilles story now. ording to her, she came from another world, and before she knew it she had entered a little girl, Camille Rhodolite. And, were just like the characters in a story in her world She also said that the girl who called me out behind the auditorium also has a high possibility of being from the same world as Camille. Its somehow, an incredibly suspicious sounding story, but Camille is being serious, isnt she And I dont know why, but its incredibly embarassing.

    Sorry Ive always kept quiet about something so important. And for me to have read something like a romance story where Royce-sama and a bunch of other people appear And in the beginning I even ovepped these people with you

    Camille sniffled and ended up breaking into tears again.

    Dont hate me

    Ahh, geez. Why did her thought process take her there?

    Theres no way that wed hate you, right?

    I embraced her. Camille was being obedient in my arms.

    Thats right. Both Achille and I wouldnt hate you over something like that. Arent we friends whove spent over ten years together?

    Uu but, I, kept quiet about this for over ten years -

    Dont worry about it. Honestly, I thought it would be something more incredible, but it was nothing that bad, after all.

    Your Highness It seems that youve unexpectedly be quite a big shot.

    At the very least, youre an important enough friend to me that I ran around sending for forbidden magic books, spending over half a day researching various things, and frantically using trial-and-error to dispel magic, for you.

    Royce-sama

    Your Highness Your spent over half a day trying to dispel the magic on us? Like Camille, I also sent a look of being deeply moved towards His Highness. His Highness averted his eyes, just a little embarassedly.

    You two did nothing but sleep for two whole days after all, so you two rest for a little longer. Im going to go prepare food, okay?

    With that, His Highness promptly left the room. Ill sure be in debt to him for a while

    Camille

    After thinking about things for a little while after His Highness left, I told her about the contents of my dream. Camille listened to my story with wide eyes Or so I was thinking, when her face turned bright red and she began writhing about.

    UWAHH, UWAHHHHHHH, HEROINE YOU IDIOT! WHAT ON EARTH WERE YOU SHOWING ACHILLEEEEEEEEEE!

    I doubtfully gazed at Camille who was screaming in a loud voice whilst writhing atop the bed. Camille began telling me about it embarassedly.

    That was, the tale that I told you about. Itspletely different from the reality of this world, right?

    Yeah, honestly it was a sickening story.

    Sorry, Im sorry that Camille was a piece of scum.

    No, thats not what I mean! And, if I had to say, I was more of a piece of scum. Doing that kind of thing to you No, lets stop this. Even if we apologise about something that didnt actually happen, theres no point, Camille.

    M-, Mmn. But Im,

    No matter what you are, its fine, you know? Even if we say you dide from another world, its fine.

    Honestly speaking, I dont really believe her though. Even if that really was the case, Ive spent more than ten years with her, so theres nothing to be said about it after all this time.

    Are you really fine with it, Achille?

    Of course. I should be asking you whats wrong with it.

    Camille looked at me, dumbfounded. Did she really think that Id hate her or something? If so, Im pretty indignant.

    Her face went bright red, and she immediately became to fidget. It seems that havinge to this, my words have finally gotten through.

    Um, Achille,

    Camille looked at me with upturned eyes. This Camille has no rtion to that kind of cunning, so she probably did it unconsciously.

    Thanks Umm, for continuing to like me You know, Achille? Its not the character in the story, but the you right now that I like, so

    Camille who was giving her all to convey her love to me despite her turning bright red up to her ears was so cute that I couldnt help myself. Were this anything but His Highness bed, I might have pushed her down.

    But still, we have toe up with a way to deal with that Heroine, huh.

    For some reason, Camille refers to that schoolgirl as Heroine. When I asked her why, replied that its because the girl was the protagonist of the story in the dream. It seems that the protagonists in those types of stories are called the heroine as a whole.

    Youre right! Ille up with a new tattoo! Its because the tattoos up until now have been too weak that we werent a match for the Heroine after all!

    Because magic tattoos only give support functions in the end, they cant truly defend against poweful magic. At best, they can only weaken impacts, or disable weak attacks. And it seems that Camille ns on strengthening those.

    While Im at it, lets have you and Royce-sama get magic tattoos as well!

    And while she was at it she spouted some incredible words. Leaving me aside, you n on giving His Highness something like a tattoo?

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    Im slowly tranting maou again, so yeah.

    Also, today is my birthday. If you want to celebrate with me, please go make an ount and vote here if you havent already:

    Achille and I who had woken up in Royce-samas room were ordered by our overprotective lord to spend a week recuperating. Geez Royce-sama, even though it wasnt that great an injury. His worrying side is just Achille. Despite speaking of recuperation, it seems that Royce-sama and Achille were having heated and difficult discussions about themoner extremists. It was difficult so I could hardly understand any of it but it seems that theyre setting out to arrest the extremists on arge scale. Unable to join in on their conversation, I was being good and docile in my room As if. Thinking that it was a critical situation, I had Royce-sama grab me arge number of magic books from the castle, and began throwing myself into research to develop newmagic.

    Anyway, since its a reality that the Heroine attacked us, we have to think of measurse to protect ourselves as well. Having said that Achille was taken by surprise, it was a magic attack powerful enough that he couldnt fully defend. Normal defensive magic would probably be no good. Theres nothing to lose in preparing for the worst.

    I mean that Heroine is OP in a sense.

    The heroine in the game had exceptional magic power since she was born. And because of that magic power, she could transfer into the magic academy, and was wanted by various powers. Depending on how things worked out, there were even cases when people of the same nation fought each other over her. To give an example, in the case that the Heroine chooses Tria, the plot develops so that the Ga Nation picks a fight with them to obtain the Heroine. In the end, Topageria wins, and the Heroine lives happily ever after though.

    Can you deal with a person with such magic power normally? Or rather, what does the Heroine want to even do?

    I get the feeling that she said something about changing the country or something. And though I dont know why, she wanted to get Achille involved in that.

    The Revolution Route

    So does it really have something to do with the Heroine?

    Could it be that shes going out with the K of Clovers I wonder? Would doing that cause the revolution?

    Ive never reallye into contact with the Clovers faction from enrolment until now, so I left them alone, but they might have made a move or something. The J of Clovers isnt in the school, but I saw the K of Clovers at the entrance ceremony.

    Should I try meeting with the K of Clovers? But, before that I need to get the magic tattoos finished.

    For now, I want to give it a strong enough effect that it can guard from forbidden art ambushes. Laying down on my bed with a magic book in my arms, I closed my eyes. I can smell a scent unique to my room; the smell of ingredients used for my magic experiments. Also, theres the scent of ink and paper unique to books. The books in this world arent made from parchment, but paper instead, arent they? While staring at a bunch of pseudo-cinnamon sticks hanging from my ceiling, I considered the design of the magic tattoo.

    Aaahhhhh, I cante up with anything~!

    I kicked away the bundles of dry herbs at my feet. The more impatient I am, the fewer good ideas wille to me. And then I be unnecessarily anxious.

    The thing that was most terrifying to me was the fact that Achille had mind maniption magic cast on him. Its a forbidden art that can even change a persons personality if used wrong. Though it was great that Royce-sama dispelled it before anything bad happened, the horror of my precious childhood friend having such a thing cast on him wont disappear.

    Achille

    He wouldnt stop being half in doubt at the fact that I came from another world, but even so, he said that he liked the me right now. Royce-sama also epted me, a person who had continually kept a secret for more than ten years. I want to be able topletely protect these two from the Heroines hands.

    Lets think about things starting with the dyes and ingredients for the magic tattoo.

    Whether or not a good magic tattoo can be drawn depends on three things; the dye used for applying the pattern, the pattern drawn on the body, and the magic attached to it. Depending on whether thisbination is done well, whether or not the magic tattoo works well is basically determined.

    If I remember correctly there were a lot of different magic nts growing in the academy greenhouse, werent there?

    As youd expect from a magic academy, this schools greenhouse has nts from other countries the likes of which Ive never seen before, and lots of improved nt strains as well. Up until now Ive been using ingredients that I had on hand, but there might be nts good for a magic tattoo in the greenhouse. I jumped up from my bed, put on my robe, and headed for the academys greenhouse.

    The academys greenhouse was a treasure trove of magic nts. Regardless of seasons, a lot of different magic nts were in bloom. It seems that because of these flowers, this ce is really popr as a secret date spot. But right now its sstime. Besides me, whos still recuperating, there shouldnt be anyone else here. I can slowly go through the different magic nts. I brought a flower box so if I spot anything good I can bring it back. As long as youre a student, anyone is free to harvest things in the greenhouse. It seems that the earth and nts all mostly have regeneration magic cast on them, so even if I pluck stuff, itll immediately regow. Speaking of which, the castles Blue magicians are researching the use of this magic to cure baldness. If it seeds, they should be able to expect quite a bit of ie.

    I went through one by one the nts that seemed usable for magic tattoos. Suddenly, one flower caught my eye. With individual, think stalks, it was a tall andrge, bright blue flower.

    It smells ridiculously good

    Sweet, but somehow still refreshing a mysterious fragrance,ing from a mysterious nt.

    Is this a flower from another country?

    I reached out my arm to touch the flower.

    Camille, thats poisonous you know?

    Fue-?

    Suddenly, a voice called out from behind me, and I froze at the words. P-, Poisonous?

    Its a vivid and beautiful flower, but you cant touch it with your bare hands. The poison enters through the skin you know?

    A tall figure was standing right next to me. He was holding my arm, and moving it away from the flower. The hand holding my arm had a number of jingly, jangly, shy essories worn on it.

    T-. Thanks Tria-sama.

    Theres only one person who decorates their hand like this. Tria Topageria, the second prince of the neighbouring country, and the K of Diamonds.

    Youre wee~

    He smiled at me with a friendly smile. I wonder why hes here.

    Um, Tria-sama your sses?

    Ditched em~ Keep the fact that I was here a secret from Bea-chin okay?

    He and Beatrix are both in the Diamonds ss, so even if I dont tell her that he was here, I think that she alreadypletely knows that he skipped ss but

    By the way, why are you here Camille? I heard that you were sick and in the middle of recovery but

    Ah-

    Thats right, if I was still recuperating, it would be weird that I was here. I came here because I thought that there would be no students here, but to think that Id be found by Tria.

    I-, Its the truth that Im recovering. Today I was feeling a lot better, so I thought Id sneak out for a stroll.

    Hm~mm?

    I wonder what Tria is thinking about. His eyes narrowed. His current personality isparatively easy to get along with, but even so, there are times like this when I cant tell what hes thinking.

    So, were you looking for a flower?

    Could it be that he was watching from quite a while ago? I waspletely focused on looking for a flower to use in a magic tattoo, so I didnt notice at all.

    I was looking for a flower that seemed I could use for magic tattoo dye. I want to use a powerful one, so

    Oh!? That sounds interesting!

    It was the samest time too, but it looks like Tria-sama is really interested in magic tattoos.

    Heyy, Camille. Would it be okay if I helped out with that?

    Tria-sama?

    Im super knowledgable about nts, so Im sure Ill definitely be helpful, you know~? Its a bargain, you know~?

    Magic nts are absolutely essential for his specialty of magic potions.

    Is it really okay if you dont go back to ss?

    Mn. This is more fun after all, and youre here too, Camille.

    Tria was in a great mood.

    Then, maybe I should ask you for help.

    Its the truth that hes knowledgable about nts after all, and theres also the danger of touching something poisonous like earlier, so Id be grateful for his help. But still, this magic academy Is it really fine for you guys to leave poisonous flowers blooming out where anybody could touch them? I hear that this ce is a date spot after all, so I think itd be dangerous in a lot of ways, but

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    Ive um, pre-ordered mine sort of. I wanted a physical copy from Japan so it cost me more than double the retail price, but no regrets!

    Tria always uses bokuHowever, after the first I in his monologue, he corrects himself and uses ore in the rest of his monologue. Perhaps hes acting more harmlessly happy-go-lucky than he actually is.

    The blue flower from before is a terrible poison, but it actually makes good medicine you know~ There are few people who know how to use it though~

    Could it maybe be used for magic tattoos?

    I wonder. Im not knowledgable about magic tattoos after all. What if you picked a few and brought them back?

    Ill do that.

    Camille used wind magic to cut the flower so that it would drop into the basket without her touching it directly. I,(Boku) Im(Ore) looking around the greenhouse with Camille.

    Whats this flower?

    Its not poisonous. Its used in painkiller potions in my country.

    Woww~ It kinda seems like I can use it, huh! Ill grab one.

    Camille is walking around, picking flowers in a good mood. Her constantly changing expressions are truly lovely. For some reason it seems that she isnt popr in the Ga Nation, but shes a rare beauty. Her personality is interesting too. And, she has a rare talent in magic too.

    I want

    Mn? Tria-sama, did you say something?

    Camille who was walking up a flight of stairs in the greenhouse turned around to me.

    Mm~mm. I didnt say a thing~

    For a moment, she made a wondrous expression, but she immediately went back to picking flowers.

    Aahh, I want her to be mine

    Even when I tried to force an engagement with her, the prince of the Ga Nation got in the way so things didnt go well. I dont know the details, but it seems that he overbearingly made some deal with my royal father, and my father was on board with his idea too.

    It seems that that lonore idiot wont be of any use either As a noble girl of Ga who was in love with Achille, I thought that I would try using her to break the two up but She sure was a useless girl, huh~ Even though she lookedpletely confident, she was all talk wasnt she?

    Camille, how about this one~?

    I pointed at a nearby flower.

    Mn? Which which?

    Camille approached me without suspicion. She has no sense of wariness. How she so easily warms up to people suuure is cute too~ This flower can be used to make a strong sleeping drug, and if you get too close, youll be attacked by a sense of sleepiness and lose consciousness. If by some slim chance she loses consciousness here, Ill take her home with me!

    What a pretty white flower.

    However, even when Camille got close to it, she showed no signs of sleepiness at all. Moreover, just when did she pluck it anyway? She was now holding in her left hand the bright red petals of a flower said to cause full-body paralysis just by touching it.

    C-, Camille thats,

    Mn? This? It smelt good so I thought Id pluck it.

    Why is she fine even though shes holding that flower?

    Ill pick this one too. What a nice scent~

    Camille approached the sleeping drug flower and began sniffing it. Of course she showed no signs of copsing from sleepiness.

    Honestly, why is she standing there just fine? Is this also her magic? Or could it be that the power of her magic tattoos are in effect? How bothersome, those tattoos. I had once casually asked her what effect her tattoos have, but even now I still havent fully grasped them.

    If things had gone well I had wanted to take her home with me, but it seems that its no good today. I decided just to give up for today.

    If I did things badly and got beaten up, wouldnt it be uncool? After all, I still have time and hands to y, right?

    TL: Scumbag Arabian Snape

 Volume 4 - Ch 11

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    A hannya mask is used in noh to depict a madly jealous woman, but characters in fiction that are madly angry are often said to make faces like a hannya.

    Thanks for today, Tria-sama.

    Thanks to him, I got a lot of different nts. Im sure Ill be able to make a wonderful tattoo.

    Invite me when you head to the greenhouse again.

    As long as its not during ss.

    In the end, Tria-sama skipped all of todays afternoon sses. Im a little worried that Beatrix will get angryter.

    Ah-, thats right Camille. After this, how about we have a bit of a chat in my room?

    A chat?

    I want to know various things about your magic.

    Mmmn

    Id be fine with going along, but it seems like Achille will get mad at meter, right? Last time when I went alone to y in Trias room, I ended up getting a bit of a lecture from Achille while he stood there like a Nioh statue. And then, a kabedon and my first kiss.

    Uuu

    If I do the same thing again, I get the feeling that it wont end with just a kiss this time

    I decided to decline. During the case with Dominique, I ended up dering myself that I definitely wont follow men alone except for you, Royce-sama and Otousama. after all

    Im still in recuperation, so Ill pass for today.

    Ehhhhh-!?

    Tria looked suuper unhappy.

    Isnt just a liiittle bit okay? Even if youre in recuperation, you seem just fine after all

    No, but Uwoh-?

    Just as I was about to continue my words, I stepped on something. A-, A trap? Doesnt seem to be. Were in the greenhouse after all.

    Ouch.

    I heard a voice, and when I looked down I was stepping on the back of a man wearing something like a suit.

    Ah-, Im sorry.

    I quickly removed my foot. While wondering why there was a personying down here, I apologised first just to be safe.

    The man who was stepped on, sat upnguidly. As for his age, its about theter half of his twenties. He has silky silver hair that hangs to his hips, and familiar, listless golden eyes Huh?

    Headmaster?

    Tria muttered in surprise.

    Are you two not in ss?

    Its already finished~

    Even though Tria gave a frivolous and casual reply, the headmaster showed no signs of getting angry.

    Suddenly, the headmaster looked up at me.

    Ah-, Camille Rhodolite.

    Yes I am, but?

    Why is he looking at me in such wonder?

    Camille, you

    WAKA-SAMAAAAAAAAA-!

    The moment that the headmaster tried to tell me something, from the entrance of the greenhouse came the angry shout of Beatrix, who was running towards us with a face like a Hannya. With incredible vigour.

    Geh-, Bea-chin!

    Trias face immediately paled.

    Sorry, Camille. Lets talk again some time-!

    After saying that, he escaped in the opposite direction of the greenhouse entrance at full speed.

    BA- WAKA-SAMAAAA!

    Beatrix was chasing down the escaping Tria. S-, So fast At this rate, it seems that Tria will get caught right away. Like that, the two of them ran out of the greenhouse. May you rest in peace.

    Mn? Huh?

    The headmaster who was lying here up until just a moment ago was now nowhere to be seen.

    Disappeared?

    Without showing any signs of getting up, it seems that the headmaster had vanished.

    I wonder if it was magic

    Being the headmaster of this academy, it seems that hes an extremely outstanding magician after all. I wonder what he was going to say to me Well, whatever. Id be troubled if he lectured me after all. It cant be helped now that hes vanished.

    Its great that I was able to harvest lots of flowers today.

 Volume 4 - Ch 12

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    And so, its been decided that well be mobilising in full force to suppress themoner extremists. Well rather than decided, I was the one who made it so.

    So I told my friend Achille, who was sitting before me.

    And the incident with that girl is,

    Well capture her too I want to hear what ideas she had, toy her hands on you and Camille.

    Hes talented, so he should understand with just those words. Theres a chance that that girl is also rted to a number of the extremist incidents.

    It seems that the other day the extremists gained control of a town, didnt they?

    You sure heard quickly. Yeah, using military force they hijacked a town. It seems that they n on using it as their base, huh.

    Honestly, to have let these extremists do as they please, its pathetic.

    It is not a territory that we are involved with, but its close to a vi, so Im worried.

    Speaking of which, I think its a town not too far from Achilles vi.

    As youd expect, now that theyve done something like taking over a town, we cant just stay still and watch. I wonder if with this, those old bureaucrats will finally get off theirzy butts.

    Ive spoken out before about the dangerousness of themoner extremists. Despite that, the higher-ups at the castle just let them do as they liked. They took an optimistic outlook and said irresponsible things like Itll probably settle down soon and didnt take any precautions at all. On the contrary, they even helped hide the existence of the movement. The reason that not a lot of information reached me, is probably because of that.

    An existence like themoner extremists who hold antipathy towards the countrys policies, was something extremely inconvenient to the old men at the top. So even now, the movements of extremists havent been grasped by foreign countries and the like. Well, with the extremists taking such radical actions, its just a matter of time before they all know though.

    And so, Achille.

    What is it?

    I might quit school. I dont mean right this minute, but pretty soon.

    I see.

    Achille wasnt particrly opposed. He might have known my thoughts somehow. I have things that I need to do.

    I honestly wanted to enjoy my school life with you two a little longer though.

    I too. But if thats what you say, Your Highness, then I will follow you, you know?

    If you do that, then Ill end up having you do a few troublesome and annoying things though

    I had that in mind from the start. All that changes is that Id be doing it a little early

    When I looked at Achille as he replied indifferently, I understood that he had alreadye to a conclusion.

    What about Camille?

    Its definitely a point of concern.

    Would it be a good idea to pull her away from her school life? If I asked her, she would probably happily agree and follow me though. Id feel just a little shy about pulling her away from the school she sessfully made it into, just because of me.

    Moreover, if Camille got wrapped up in this incident if anything happened, she might be sent to the front lines. Camille had that much power. The person herself isnt aware, but even amongst magicians shes already being treated as a top ssbatant. That she eliminated a dragon despite being that young is a good example of this. I honestly dont want my precious friend to do dangerous things, but the pieces I can use are still limited after all

    Achille understands this too, which is why he wants my answer.

    Achille, what do you want Camille to do?

    He furrowed his neat brows.

    You are asking me? Of course, if possible I would like her to stay at home, you know. I want to make her quit going to this school where her safety isnt guaranteed, and shut her up in the marquis estate to protect her for the rest of her life But, if I actually do so, then Your Highness wish will not be realised.

    Yeah.

    In order to realise my wish, Achille and Camille who I trust more than anybody are essential.

    Moreover, Camille herself would likely choose to protect you, Your Highness.

    Achille seemed a little dissatisfied. He treasures Camille greatly so I can understand his feelings. Even so, in the end Achille prioritises Camilles wishes. Its his way of loving her.

    By the way, Your Highness, Id like to ask about Miss Beatrix but

    Ahh, I received a favourable reply, so it all went well.

    Just recently I proposed a deal with the king of Topageria.

    Honestly If she hates you, I wont care, you know. To treat authority like its everything and try to force an engagement

    Dont say that, Achille. Thanks to this deal, didnt I help you out too? Theres no need to worry about that prince stealing Camille anymore, right?

    It seems that the prince of the neighbouring country has for some reason taken an interest in Camille. Just like me, he constantly used his authority to aim for her. Sorry, but I stopped all of your advances. Those two are important to me after all.

    It appears that the ns of the extremists will be put into action very soon. I want you two to continue taking leave for recuperation

    I see, Ill tell Camille as well.

    While watching Achille who had left the room, I sighed.

    I chose this myself. I wont regret it.

    From now on, theres a mountain of things that I need to do. Speaking frankly, I dont want to do it. But I need to.

    Even if it was but an instant, I need to give my thanks for being able to have a peaceful school life.

    Its been plenty. Ive managed to experience a normal school life together with Achille and Camille. With these memories as fuel, I can continue forward.

    Around this time, Camille was near the greenhouse. Her basket was overflowing with the various flowers she picked today.

    Great haul, great haul

    A Choice Has Appeared  Go straight home  Make a detour before going home  Search for the headmaster

    Author: If she isnt back by the time Achille visits her room, a Lectured End is guaranteed ughs).

 Volume 4 - Ch 13

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    Camille, Camille?

    Knock knock, went my door.

    Ohh crap! I just barely made it.

    Entering my room from my window, I shrank the quill. I covered the flower basket with a cloth and pushed it into a corner of my room. Alright, evidence destroyed. If he found out that I was outside, hed definitely get mad at me, right?

    Iming, okay~?

    When I opened the door with a click, as expected, Achille was standing there.

    Achille, whats up?

    I should be asking you what youre doing.

    Achille looked at me with suspicious eyes. I-, I didnt get found out, right?

    N-, Nothing really? Just sleeping, you know?

    Hm~mm?

    His eyes narrowed. Crap His face tells me hes definitely certain about something. Even now, I was desperately fighting back the urge to throw my body to the ground in a dogeza.

    F-, For now want toe in?

    When I pulled his hand, he obediently followed me in. I had him sit down on the fluffy wfoot sofa, and put on tea. I was going to sit opposite him, but he pulled my hand, and in the end I settled down next to him.

    Camille

    Achille is acting kind of weird.

    Youre making such a serious face. What happened?

    Achille looked like he was thinking a little, but after that he looked straight at me and spoke.

    Camille, I,

    Mn?

    I And His Highness as well, have decided to withdraw from the academy.

    Withdraw?

    The extremistmoner faction has been growing stronger than expected To suppress this, His Highness is returning to the castle. Ive decided to follow him as well.

    Its kind of suddenly be an incredible topic, you know?

    U-, Um,

    Camille, what do you want to do?

    Does it feel like both Royce-sama and Achille have already made up their minds to quit the school? While I was out plucking flowers, just what happened? The situation seems to be more serious than expected. The Revolution End might really happen. In that case, I only have one answer.

    Then Ill quit school as well.

    Camille? Is that really okay? To decide so suddenly

    To begin with, I only entered this school to protect Royce-sama from danger after all. Now that itse to this, I think that there will probably be things that Ill need to do as well.

    For some reason, Achille is making a heartbroken expression.

    Achille? Its okay, you dont have to worry. Ill cooperate with you two. It sounds like itll be hard to suppress the extremists, but when ites to me, Ive mastered magic to an extent, right?

    Thats not it Thats not it at all, Camille.

    Its not?

    From the seat beside me, Achille embraced me.

    I dont want you to help us

    Eh-, why?

    Do I hold these two back that much? Its a little shocking.

    Rather why did you get confused about that? Helping us suppress the extremists means that youll have to do dangerous things, you know?

    Ahhh, thats what he means

    I definitely know that. And even if its dangerous, its fine.

    Depending on how things go, youll have to hurt or kill the extremists, you know?

    Uu-

    Achille knows. That in the past, Ive killed another person. When I was six years old, I took the life of a viin who plotted to murder Royce-sama. And at that time, I was shaken and cried in front of him. Thats why hes worried about it even now.

    B-, But Im different from that time.

    A bluff. Since then, I havent killed a single person. The only things that Ive ended are monsters. But I know that I cant stay like this. Bing Royce-samas bodyguard means that Ill surely have to kill people again.

    You liar. Even though youre scared.

    Achille easilly saw through my lie. For some reason Achille knew I was lying.

    I dont want you to be in danger, and I dont want you to get hurt. If possible, Id like you to stay out of the fight this time, and hole up in the marquis estate.

    His left hand stroked my back lovingly. Im happy that Achille is worried about me.

    But, I

    Its fine, I know. Youre going to help His Highness anyway, right?

    Achille smiled sadly, so I was bothered that I would be doing something extremely inexcusable to him.

    Achille, sorry.

    Its because he was worried about me that he didnt want me to get involved with the extremist issue. And despite being aware of his feelings, I have no intention of changing my actions.

    There shouldnt be any way that hes not dissatisfied with this, but even so hes prioritising my choice. I dont want him to make sad expressions, but my views wont yield I dont know what I should do.

    Before I knew it, I was hugging Achille face-on.

    Sorry, Im sorry. But thank you for worrying about me.

    Hes my fianc who always, always worries about my safety more than I do myself. Even so, I cant do as he hopes.

    Camille

    Its one of the rare asions where hes frozen for a while with his eyes widened.

    But, it seems he immediately recovered, and gently hugged me back.

    I have no intention of letting you be in danger by yourself, you know.

    But honestly speaking, Achilles job isntbat. Hes The Thinker type. It would be terrible if by some chance the excellent Achille was wounded.

    Im more worried about you getting injured, Achille. Ah-, thats right, I have to create a magic tattoo to protect you too.

    Tattoo?

    Achille looked at me with a dubious expression.

    Mn, mn! Expect great things, okay?!

    There are a mountain of things that I have to do before I leave the academy. My fighting spirit was fired up. Beside me, certain about something, Achille was lecturing me, all without knowing about the fighting spirit burning secretly in my heart.

 Volume 4 - Ch 14

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    You might be thinking, Well, do I owe any thanks to Alphapolis the publisher?, but in fact it is because the publishers are so willing to pick up web novels (Alphapolis in particr) that so many creative stories are being written by people wanting to make it as writers.

    King dude speaks to her in a kingly manner, whereas first prince speaks to her politely.

    And so, I will be returning to Topageria temporarily.

    I announced to Baka-sama, who was sprawled slovenly in his room.

    Okay okaaay~ Have fun take caaare~

    Without even looking this way, Baka-sama pped his hand.

    I dont know what for, but immediately after entering the second semester, I was summoned by the Topagerian king.

    I have to travel back and forth twice. To make me head back again

    If he had something to say, it would have been fine for him to say so during the summer break.

    While Im away from the academy, I have to leave Baka-sama in the care of another guard, so Im extremely anxious.

    Listen up. Do your very best to avoid troubling other people, and do not skip ss either! It was that hard to get you permission to study abroad, so you dont want that taken away either, right?

    Geeeez, I get it~ Youre so fussy, Bea-chin~

    Leaving the disgruntled looking Tria behind, I decided to return to my homnd for a while. That Baka-sama looks a little bit cheerful about this, is a source of insuppressable concern for me. Its during times like this that Baka-sama, honestly, doesnt do anything decent.

    Just returning to Topageria took almost a whole week. There are transfer magic circle that lead to the Topagerian royal pce, but because there are few ces that have them, I had no choice but to travel there normally by horse.

    But still, its so hot

    To this body that had experienced the fine climate of Ga, even if just a little, the Topagerian heat felt more intense than usual.

    The splendid royal pce was built like the styles of Arabia in my old world, and was a domed shape with a slightly pointed roof. Naturally, the insides are just as splendorous. This country is rich. Actually businesses in magic items make quite a lot of money. Topagerian soil is overflowing with the materials used for magic items, so you can make as many magic items as you want. Naturally, our knowledge and techniques regarding magic items exceeds those of other nations as well. After all, when all is said and done, we can produce more.

    The kings room is, in a phrase, gilded splendour. The floor, and the walls, and the ceilings are all golden. I cant calm down at all. Even in this world, gold, silver, gems and the like are precious. In the depths of this room was the the king sitting on a throne. Standing quietly next to him was Baka-samas older brother, the first prince. I heard this through Baka-sama, but the two brothers have a lot inmon. I wasnt that nervous.

    The king of this nation, lvaro-sama, opened his mouth.

    Beatrix Your marriage with the crown prince of Ga has been decided.

    Wha-

    Have my ears gone bad? Just now, I think I heard something strange.

    Beatrix, its been decided that youll be marrying Prince Royce of the Ga Nation.

    The first prince, Basilio-sama, kindly repeated it for me, since I was shocked beyond reaction Aahh, I didnt need to hear that again.

    What is with that!? This is the first I have heard of this!

    I identally yelled, but neither the king nor the first prince rebuked me It looks like they had predicted my response to an extent. Looking at the king, I was probably making a severe expression. I mean, just now what they said was something incredibly unreasonable to me.

    The other party strongly wished for it. There is no greater offer. You are aware that he is the crown prince of Ga?

    Something like that could just be given to another nobles daughter.

    Even though if its a someone whod happily cling to an offer like that, there are mountains of other girls Whether he knew how I felt or not, the king continued speaking.

    Considering the nation, at first I considered a marriage between Tria and that Rhodolitedy he wanted, Ga rejected it and gave us an extraordinary offer in return. I believe I will ept this offer.

    St-, Sto-

    In our nation, you as well are doomed to miss your chance at marriage, you know. A woman who swings a sword in this nation is kept at arms length.

    However

    To begin with, I had no intention of marrying anybody. In my family, the counts family, I have a younger brother after all, and I have no need to think about the matters of my house. Thats why with this sword of mine, I had intended to live by myself without relying on anybody. I had intended to cut open a path to my own destiny.

    Daughter of the Count, Beatrix Tapax For the sake of maintaining friendly rtions between our two nations, Imand you to wed the Ga Crown Prince.

    -

    If Im ordered by the king, somebody like me cant refuse. Just like in the ending of that game. Without heed to my will, Im going to get married Just like that time when Miss Camille was afraid of a revolution, I too, am afraid of the fate that will befall me.

    Im feeling gloomy I was ordered to stay at home until my marriage with Prince Royce, and now I cant go to the academy anymore.

    Im worried about Baka-sama

    It seems that in my ce, a number of additional guards are constantly watching over him, but theres nobody who can really let Baka-sama have it. Ive be even gloomier.

    I know that Prince Royce likes me. But just because of that, this way of doing things shouldnt be eptable.

    Like this, this way of doing things that ignores the persons will

    I cant ept it.

 Volume 4 - Ch 15

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    You might be thinking, Well, do I owe any thanks to Alphapolis the publisher?, but in fact it is because the publishers are so willing to pick up web novels (Alphapolis in particr) that so many creative stories are being written by people wanting to make it as writers.

    By river bank, I mean one of these:

    Before I knew it, I was in this world. In a world like the game that my older sister had made I became the games protagonist.

    Because of bullying in middle school I rarely left the house, and for my sake, my much older sister gave me a game that she wrote herself as a present.

    Oneechan, you made this?

    Not just me, but the one who thought of the story was mostly me.

    Thats amazing!

    Hearing you say that makes me happy, Ichiha.

    I immediately started the game. The world in the game was like a dream. A beautiful castle, an academy, and cool and kind boys.

    Even though it would be just fine if this world was real

    I absorbed myself in that world.

    This protagonist is a nice girl, isnt she?

    Yeah, its pretty muchmon sense that the protagonists of these stories are nice girls, you know? After all, if they had ugly personalities, the men wouldnt approach them to begin with after all.

    Like the rival girls?

    The protagonist was a normal girl whose only redeeming features were her magic power and her personality. On the other hand, every single one of the rival girls were beauties.

    Right.

    Certainly, these rival girls all have terrible personalities.

    I yed the game countless, countless times. It wouldnt be an exaggeration to say that the story was already a part of me. The four romance routes, those friendship routes, and even the hidden character routes; I had cleared all of them.

    Oneechan I, love this story.

    From then on, without ever parting from it, I carried my favourite game around with me. I probably should have. I ended up separated from my older sister. Eternally.

    I was careless. I thought it would be okay, since I was just going to a nearby convenience store to get something for my mother. Unluckily, I ran into the middle school ssmates that bullied me. There were two guys and three girls.

    Oh hoh? Isnt that Ichiha?

    Youre right. Whats she doing after not going to school?

    In an instant, I was surrounded by my ssmates.

    I stayed silent and waited for the storm to pass. If I just stood still, at some point they would get bored and walk off somewhere.

    Shes still as gloomy as ever, huh?

    How about saying something?

    One of the girls poked me. And that moment, the game machine fell out of my bag.

    Whats this? Hey, its a game. Ichiha, you game?

    St- Dont touch it without permission.

    But my words were fruitless, and one of my ssmates turned on the game.

    Stop it! LET GO-!

    I reached out my hand to try to get it back, but they easily avoided me. When the tall boys held the game console up high, I couldnt reach it because of my height. After a while, a cheerful song came from the console. It was the music for the games opening video.

    Uoh-, whats this!

    Ah-

    They saw it.

    What? Show me it too.

    All of the bullies peered in at the screen together.

    This is one of those! A Galge!

    One of the boys raised his voice, having fun.

    But look, theres no girls! Its all guys, isnt it!

    Another boy spoke.

    I know this~ Its one of those games where you romance hot guys. I saw amercial for one of these on my smart phone game!

    A girl cut into the conversation.

    G-, give it back-!

    I cut into the crowd, and frantically tried to get the game back.

    Ehhhhh, Ichiha, you y these sorts of games? Seriously?

    Because shes unpopr? Does she get all happy when 2-d hot guys tell her I love you and stuff?

    Ahahahahah, as ifff. Bit gross though.

    Teasing me one by one, they tried to exit the convenience store with my game console.

    Stop! Give it back! Give it back!

    However, none of them would stop. They crossed the road,ughing.

    Stop it, stop! Give back Oneechans game-!

    The other side of the road was a river.

    -!

    I had a bad feeling about this. Whileughing all the while, my ssmates ran towards the running river.

    Wai-!

    A boy held the game up, and tossed it to the girl next to him. The girl who had caught it sneered, and then held out the game console towards me Or so I thought, when she pulled back her hand, and threw it into the river.

    AH-!!

    The game danced through the air beyond the reach of my hand.

    The water sshed.

    Ah-, ah-

    Unable to even form words I gazed at the river, and my ssmates sneered at me.

    Soorreee~ Ichiha-chan, it identally slipppped~

    Use this as a chance to live healthily~ Hurry up and find a human boyfriend-! HA HA HA!

    However, I couldnt hear their words.

    The game The game that Oneechan gave me!

    Even though inside that game was everything that had supported me until now! I jumped into the river to chase after the game console. Because it had rained yesterday, the water level was high but the danger, or just buying it again I wasnt in the right mind to think about those things.

    Hey, Frau Youre seriously taking an afternoon nap at a time like this?

    Because of an unhappy voice from right besides me, I came back to earth.

    Oh my, Im sorry. I dozed off, didnt I?

    Honestly, what an unpleasant day dream that was. To see such a worthless dream.

    Give me a break~

    Now then, shall I start moving before Asagi makes an even bigger fuss? As of the moment, though the n is not going perfectly, it ising along well. I headed off to my afternoon sses.

    All without realising the trap that was waiting for me.

 Volume 4 - Ch 16

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    You might be thinking, Well, do I owe any thanks to Alphapolis the publisher?, but in fact it is because the publishers are so willing to pick up web novels (Alphapolis in particr) that so many creative stories are being written by people wanting to make it as writers.

    It happened in the middle of ss. When I was getting my attendance marked off as a member of the Clovers ss, a row of soldiers appeared before me.

    Capture Frau Monier!

    An unfamiliarmanding soldier pointed at me and raised his voice. With his voice as the trigger, the other rank and file soldiers all charged at me at once.

    Wha-? Frau, did you do something?

    Who are these people? Kyaa!

    The schoolgirls in my ss who didnt know anything all screamed together at the sudden development. Shocked by the group of soldiers, the ssroom fell victim to pandemonium.

    Could it be, my ns were revealed? It couldnt be Thats definitely not it. I used memory wiping and mouth-sealing magic to make sure that, friend or enemy, nobody would be able to reveal a thing. In that case, why did the soldiers of this country appear here? Even though my n is still only halfway. I cant afford to be caught in a ce like this.

    I have to save this world that I love so much.

    The environment I was raised in was the same as the protagonists. A small, and impoverished vige. I took over the ce of Frau Monier, the daughter of a normal family who was three at the time.

    In the game world that my sister gave me In that dream-like world, I woke up in a ce like that. And as the protagonist of the game.

    This might really be a dream though.

    In this dream that I wouldnt wake up from no matter how much time passed, when I was injured it hurt, and I got hungry too.

    And moreover My joy at being in that ideal worldsted for but an instant This world was, much dirtier than the one my sister hade up with. In the poor vige that I lived in, everybody suffered because of their lifestyle. It was a scene that wasnt shown in much detail in the game. Here the crops had poor yield, everybody starved, and thieves appeared as a matter of course. There were even unbelievable epidemics, and even harm from monsters. Even so, this country wouldnt give us a thing. The nobles and royals only thought about themselves, and never took notice of themoners.

    There was no way that the world my sister created should have been this dirty. So I stood up and took the first step. Together withrades who felt the same way. I couldnt wait absentmindedly until the headmaster picked me up like the protagonist.

    So What are these guys nonchantly doing, appearing wearing a mask of justice after all this time? Youre barking up the wrong tree!

    I raised my right hand to the air. Soldiers of this level are nothing.

    I wont let you lot dirty the precious world that Oneechan created!

    Just with a wave of my right hand, the soldiers were all sent flying into the wall.

    Quick to fall, arent you?

    Theres no way they could win against me, right? I mean, Im the protagonist in this story world, you know? Im definitely here to clean up this world, you know?

    What are you gunna do, Frau? You cant go to school anymore, you know?

    Asagi who was in ss right next to me was going to help me fight.

    I cant be helped, can it, Asagi? There are still people that I wanted to gather to us though.

    Were out of time, huh.

    Well, thats fine. Itll be fine as long as we contact them againter and our preliminary preparations are done.

    We ran past the confused students. I attacked the pursuing soldiers again with magic.

    Achille Jade, was it?

    Yes, his intelligence will be useful There was an interference, but her mind is done for now, so I wonder if she can do a thing now.

    Camille Rhodolite.

    Although she was somebody from the same world as me, she was a foolish woman who lived in the exact opposite way that I did Even when I was grieving over the deaths of my fellow vigers, and after that even while I was running around to try and better the country even a little, she was living leisurely without a worry and celebrating her life as a noble, and enjoyed her romance game. Without paying any attention to the lifestyle of the starving people of this nation. The first time I saw her I was just so angry that my vision turned red.

    Scary, scary.

    Asagi shrugged his shoulders while running.

    Lets transfer. Theres a transfer magic circle to Topageria prepared in my room.

    Yeah, alright Oop.

    Asagi dodged an attack from a soldier lying in wait. Ive known him since I was little. Hes also dissatisfied with this country. At the end of the day, hes the ringleader of the Revolution Route, after all. It was easy pulling him over to my side. We gathered like-minded people to our side, and then put ourselves to action.

    First I used the volume of my magic power as a bargaining tool in order to have myself adopted into the noble family of the neighbouring country. With a powerful merchant who travels the world, as well as possessing a barons title, the Cintron family. In Diamonds, and Clovers, and Spades too the Js are all very capable. I definitely want toplete the set with the J of Hearts too. If theyre talented, and pledge their allegiance, then theyll definitely be useful.

    For now, lets take shelter in the Cintron house.

    Yeah.

    Afterpletely crushing the soldiers, we left the school building. I wonder, did I go just a little bit too far? But, theyre the ones in the wrong.

 Volume 5 - Ch 1

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    You might be thinking, Well, do I owe any thanks to Alphapolis the publisher?, but in fact it is because the publishers are so willing to pick up web novels (Alphapolis in particr) that so many creative stories are being written by people wanting to make it as writers.

    The original April Fools post can be found . Honestly hoodspeek just makes Camille more adorable in my opinion.

    Wiped out

    I think this is the first time Ive heard Royce-sama speak in such a low and hateful voice. So he can speak in non-refreshing tones too.

    Whats wrong, Royce-sama?

    The soldiers that father sent to apprehend that girl were wiped out. Moreover, the girl is currently on the run.

    Even though I said that I would gooo~.

    It seems that the OP heroine is even more OP than expected. Even though there were talented magicians mixed in with the troops, they were still wiped out without a problem.

    Noo goood. Until you can control your magic power, I wont let you out.

    Pulled back by arms that stretched out from behind me, I obediently settled into Achilles arms. Even though I used to get so panicked because I went through that summer vacation Homework Hell in his arms, I think Ive got quite an immunity to it now.

    But, Achille

    Can you guarantee that you wont run out of magic power when facing that girl? And moreover, until His Highness gets permission, he cant make a move either.

    Uu Youre right.

    The one that was most vexed right now was the currently pissed-to-the-max Royce-sama.

    Using our time in recuperation which is really just a pretext, at present were not even going to ss, and are gathered in the castle. As usual, its Royce-samas room. Since we had the time, we took the trip to the castle as a chance to have Achille teach me mana control. I still havent been able to control it much though I mean, its something that takes a lot of details. Im bad at things that need precision in general. But in order to face the Heroine, I have no choice but to do it. I dont feel in the slightest that I can beat her in mana volume, so theres no other way I have faith that piling up these little practices will be something meaningful.

    After I died from feeling fed up with it, Achille threw into my mouth one of the pseudo-macarons that was on the te on the table.

    Mn, sweet

    I munched on it. While I was in a daze because of the pseudo-macaron, Achille sat down on the sofa, still holding me in his arms.

    Hang on Achille, like this I cant mov-

    Do you want another?

    Achille brought another pseudo-macaron to my mouth

    I do!

    In the end, I lost to the allure of the macaron.

    While I was behaving, the conversation between Royce-sama and Achille progressed.

    Your Highness, regarding the remation of the town

    ording to my father, itll be left to me. Ever since they failed to capture that girl the other day, I havent really been able to go on the offensive Dont you think this is a good chance?

    Leaning against the sofa opposite us, the boldly smiling Royce-sama looked a little bit like a viin.

    Yes, you have a point. Reiming the town will be convenient However, the problem is whates after.

    Father and uncle are also really enthusiastic after all.

    Royce-sama smiled bitterly.

    I dont think that the rtionship between His Majesty and Royce-sama is very risky. But I wonder if His Majesty will be peevish about Royce-sama alone taking all of the best achievements. And while Im at it, His Highness the Royal Prince as well. This isnt the time for internal disputes, but it seems that we need to pay attention to them as well. Its nothing but troublesome stuff, isnt it? I feel sorry for Royce-sama to be stuck between these two things. -munch munch-

    Royce-sama and Achille continued their conversation further.

    There have always been people dissatisfied with the monarchy to begin with but it feels like recently, the number of extremists has gone up all at once, huh

    It is a little unnatural, isnt it.

    Having not seen how the extremist situation is going, Im finding it hard to say anything though

    If they used the magic that was cast on you Achille, they might be able to create some instant soldiers, huh.

    That would be the worst, wouldnt it? In that case, would that mean that we have no choice but to attack people who are only guilty of being manipted by forbidden arts?

    I dont know how many people have been affected by forbidden arts, but it seems like it would be really really difficult if I had to dispel them all. Even though I ended up in that state when it was just ire. Even if I try my best to save magic power, I would probably reach my limit at ten people. After that it seems like Id lose consciousness from the mana exhaustion. And moreover, if there are huge numbers of extremists, it would probably be difficult just to determine if there was forbidden magic cast, huh?

    Royce-sama, is it okay if I help out with the town remation?

    Still being hugged by Achille, I turned to Royce-sama.

    Hmm. I need your power, Camille.

    Your Highness.

    Achille butt into our conversation. The arms around me squeezed tighter.

    Saying that so suddenly, did you intend on having Camille head to the frontlines from the beginning?

    Mmn, shes an essential war asset after all. If I send her out from the beginning, the number of victims will decrease.

    Even though her mana control is still unstable? And moreover, she isnt used to fighting humans.

    Even so, shes more capable than the other magicians or soldiers. Even I wouldnt want to use her if possible, you know.

    Huh? Things seem a little stormy

    Ah-, Achille?

    I quietly turned my around, to check how Achille was doing And then I regretted it.

    Understood. Then I shall apany Camille.

    Achille was staring at Royce-sama with a blizzard smile just like in the game. Scary

    B-, But hey. I mean, you have another job A more, intellectual job, right-?

    I can do that even on-scene. Camille?

    Its no good. It doesnt look like Achille has any intention of backing down.

    Royce-sama seemed to be pondering something.

 Volume 5 - Ch 2

    Note: Please dont read it in the little pop-up for the reader. For some reason it doesnt reflect myter edits (which I often make a lot of after publishing), so please click view original.

    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    You might be thinking, Well, do I owe any thanks to Alphapolis the publisher?, but in fact it is because the publishers are so willing to pick up web novels (Alphapolis in particr) that so many creative stories are being written by people wanting to make it as writers.

    Just a reminder that the Q of Clovers speaks in a Kansai dialect, possibly Osakan but Im not skilled enough to tell. Or rather, I could look it up if I wanted to know but I dont care. And dont ask me what ent Ive tranted it into, because I made it up just now. Real ents are too hard.

    onestly, uu is it!? uus the idiot thats been usin gunpowder in the middle of the bloody town!?

    I heard that the town that my parents clinic was in met with the extremists, so I came running. Im taking leave from my maid work today.

    They probably set alight arge amount of gunpowder with magic. A pir of me rose from the area near the towns central za. The clinic is fairly close to the za if you use the back streets.

    There was a rumour that the extremistmoner forces had taken over a town close to this one but it seems that it was true.

    What a troublesome bunch.

    When I first found out about the existence of the extremists, I was feeling a little dissatisfied about the current monarchy, so I just silently watched over them though. I was an idiot for considering for even an instant about supporting people wholl destroy the town like this. The people of this town who felt the same way as me are probably thinking the same thing. For a group whos opposing the monarchy for the sake of the people to be disrupting the lives of the people, what are they thinking?

    It wouldve been fine ad the soldiers just suppressed them earlier, but

    This town lies in the territory of Viscount Jade so the soldiers of the Jade family are running about firefighting and leading the citizens to safety. But I know; the Jade family isnt financially affluent, so they dont maintain that many soldiers. Whats left is the towns vignte brigade, but it seems that they already have their hands full with ensuring the safety of the citizens. The nations public safety force thats stationed in this town were the very first ones targetted by the extremists, and were wiped out. I think they were stationed at the pir of me from earlier.

    Even while that was happening, a bunch of people that seemed to be extremists were raising their voices in the area near the me pir.

    An organisation that ignores the livelihood of the people and does nothing but war internally is unneeeded!

    An organisation that threatens the livelihoods of the people is unneeeded!

    Are they idiots? The ones threatening our livelihoods right now are you lot!

    My parents clinic was terribly busy. Normally itd be better for my parents to take shelter as well but the injured kept being carried in one by one, so my father the doctor and my mother the nurse didnt run away. Members of the public safety force, and normal citizens who were wrapped up in the extremists attacks

    Dad, mum!

    Aurelia? Why are you in a ce like this?

    What about your work? This ce is dangerous, so go back to the Viscounts estate!

    My father and mother both took the same attitude.

    Today is my break day. I was worried, so I came to see ow this ce was goin Ill elp.

    Ive always been helping my parents since I was small, so I can generally do the jobs required at the clinic. Without listening to my parents, I began running about treating the patients.

    So youre the ones that were sheltering the pawns of the nobles!

    The door to the clinic was suddenly opened, and arge man walked in.

    Whats with ya?

    One by one, men who seemed to be therge manspanions came in one by one.

    The members of the public safety force should be here. Hand them over.

    Theres no way we could hand over our patients to you people.

    My father had appeared from inside the clinic, and told the man as such with a firm attitude.

    Are you guys nning on supporting the nobles?

    The man closed in on my father with a severe expression.

    At this rate, my father might be in danger The moment I thought this, another extremist man barged into the clinic and shouted.

    The soldiers have been deployed from the castle! Head back right now!

    The men flew into a panic, and ran away from the clinic one by one. Finally, all the extremist men disappeared from the clinic.

    Were saved

    My father and I both weakly sat down on the floor of the clinic. After a while, my mother told me Youre blocking the way. and kicked me. Oww

 Volume 5 - Ch 3

    Note: Please dont read it in the little pop-up for the reader. For some reason it doesnt reflect myter edits (which I often make a lot of after publishing), so please click view original.

    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    You might be thinking, Well, do I owe any thanks to Alphapolis the publisher?, but in fact it is because the publishers are so willing to pick up web novels (Alphapolis in particr) that so many creative stories are being written by people wanting to make it as writers.

    FYI, scenario in english visual novel jargon etc. refers to the story/script. Ah, btw, Ive been using vi to mean secondary residence of less importance but I realised now that vi apparently usually refers to bigger, richer get-away type houses. And um, thats not what I meant. But secondary residence sounds less fluid, so Ill keep using vi. Unless you guys prefer secondary residence and secondary estate. Please leave ament if you have a preference or an opinion.

    This might be different to the Revolution End. In the games Revolution End, at the very least, there was no mention of a town like this. Or it could be that it just hadnt been mentioned in the story, but it really did end up in this state.

    The games Revolution End went like this. The K of Clovers and the protagonist managed to get together

    After that, the Ga Nation wanted to use her magic and aimed for her, but they somehow managed to avoid it. Three yearster, they started the revolution and the monarchy copsed. The ringleader was shockingly revealed in the end to be the K of Clovers. The revolution seeded, and the king and Royce-sama were executed. In front of the guillotine, the heroine and the K of Clovers stared at each other in a trance, and that scene spelled the end of the games scenario, so we dont know what happened after the revolution.

    Theres no way Ill let Royce-sama be executed.

    I was sideways on my quill, and overlooked the chaotic city from high above in the skies. There was a me rising from the za. Around it was a group of men who seemed to be extremists, raising their voices. I still cant hear what theyre saying, but its probably criticism towards the monarchy or something. All of the extremists were wearing ck clothing, and green scarves around their necks.

    Its worse than I thought, huh

    They probably fought with the public safety force there were vivid scars left here and there around the town.

    Now then, time to work, time to work.

    My job was to indirectly assist the soldiers who were driving the extremists out of town, as well as help the soldiers who were taking back the other town from the extremists hands. This was thepromise between Royce-sama and Achille. I wasnt standing on the front lines, but if the soldiers were in danger, then Id lend them a hand What aplicated position. A few other Red magicians came along to this town. They should be carrying out their jobs of helping out the soldiers at other locations. Achille went to check on the viscounts estate, and well be meeting upter. Thanks to the great efforts of the viscounts soldiers, it seems that the fire was kept at a small scale. The soldiers from the castle charged into the za.

    Im worried about Achille whos gone elsewhere, and Royce-sama who remained at the castle. I had the two of them wear the new tattoos that Ipleted. Using the dyes from the flowers I plucked from the academy greenhouse, I tattooed their arms with a scale design. The effect is protecting the two from forbidden arts up to two times. Honestly I wanted to do something more Hearts-ey like pictures of hearts or roses, but Icked the courage to draw those kinds of designs onto a mans body. So I went with a simple design. You could even mistake it for a bracelet at first nce. Of course, I have them on my arm too. They cantpletely protect us from forbidden arts, but I think that this is enough to somehow protect us from surprise attacks.

    The soldiers of the castle were cornering the extremists. The soldiers were catching the scattering men.

    How strange.

    A certain group of extremists grouped together and ran in the same direction. And chasing them were soldiers. Even though it would be easier to lose their pursuers if they split up, instead theyre showing no signs of breaking up which is odd. It looks almost as if theyre leading the soldiers somewhere.

    They approached a narrow alleyway, and the moment that the soldiers formed a line, the extremists ambushed them from the side. Some of them came out from the windows ofmoner houses, some of them came from the side-streets, and they attacked the soldiers all together. The line of soldiers fell into disarray.

    Mmn, things look bad at this rate, dont they.

    Just in case, its better to do something early, right? Achille told me not to make a move until the veryst moment thought. From the skies above, I aimed for the direction of the extremists.

    Ummm, I wonder if sleeping magic and wind magic would be good If I use too much magic then it seems like Achille will scold me again for wasting magic power after all.

    I used wind magic to carry the sleeping magic to the extremists. The movements of the extremists who were vigorously attacking the soldiers became sluggish. They copsed one by one.

    Ohh dearr. A few of our allied soldiers fell asleep as well Adjusting this sure is hard.

    Well whatever. With this, the soldiers should make aeback. The soldiers who once again held the upper hand began arresting the extremists.

    Camille!

    Somebody called out from behind me, and when I turned around, I found that Achille was floating on a quill just like I was. It seems that he came back from the viscounts vi before I knew it.

    Ah-, Achille. Wee back. Was your vi okay?

    Its fine. Father and Desire are dealing with the rest.

    He didnt mention Dominiques name even though hes the first son. And even though hes the next head. I had the feeling that it was better not to delve too deeply, so I decided not to mention it and just gave a smile.

    I see.

    It seems that the soldiers of the castles have the upper hand here, huh. I wonder if driving all of the extremists out of town is just a matter of time.

    Mn, it was annoying so I had them sle- Ah, I mean, nevermind.

    Achille was looking at me like he wanted to say something, but in the end he just sighed. Phew, it looks like Im off the hook this time.

    Camille, lets move to the town that has their headquarters. Another group of soldiers are already headed their way.

    I nodded towards Achille, and turned my quill towards the direction of that town. This town is probably alright now.

    Got it.

    The town that serves as the extremist headquarters is just nearby. We flew through the skies towards it.

 Volume 5 - Ch 4

    Note: Please dont read it in the little pop-up for the reader. For some reason it doesnt reflect myter edits (which I often make a lot of after publishing), so please click view original.

    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    You might be thinking, Well, do I owe any thanks to Alphapolis the publisher?, but in fact it is because the publishers are so willing to pick up web novels (Alphapolis in particr) that so many creative stories are being written by people wanting to make it as writers.

    Mn, mn So shesing?

    After receiving a message from Henri, I sank down into a luxurious chair in my room. Everything in this room was chosen by me, as was the interior decoration of my dorm room at the academy. If I dont arrange the things around me myself, I just cant calm down. There have been traps in furniture countless times after all.

    The she I mentioned, of course refers to Beatrix. It was a bother making all the preparations and arrangements to take Beatrix as my wife, but with this its a certainty that I can have her nearby now

    Shes probably angry, huhh.

    Theres no way that a straightforward and honest person like her wouldnt be dissatisfied with the methods I took. I honestly wanted to spend more time deepening my rtionship with her. Just like Achille and Camille No, that really might have taken too long. But I dont have much time left, so it cant be helped. Its the answer that Ive reached after much thought. And I dont regret this. Its a decision Ive made to ensure that the things important to me remain by my side. I know. I know how easily the things important to you can disappear if you dont take extra care to protect them.

    I wonder if Achille and Camille are okay.

    Im quite worried about the safety of my two dear friends. Theyre moving together with the soldiers sent to the town to suppress and drive out the extremists. ording to the notice from this morning, the extremists are nning on heading to Viscount Jades territory from the territory theyve controlled.

    I actually wanted to go with them too

    Its impossible given my position though. Sometimes I really loathe this position of mine, but nothing can be done about it. Being the case, I feel that its better to make effective use of this shitty position and do something constructive.

    Topageria have probably taken care of the thing I requested of them. With this, the movements of the extremists should be restricted to an extent. The king of the neighbouring nation didnt seem to particrly object. In exchange, Im taking the knight of the second prince (who had issues finding a husband) as my queen after all. The neighbouring nation seem to feel guilty about the Frau Monier incident too. Who would have thought that one of the key members of the extremists was a Topagerian, even if adopted. A reply from the Topagerian king came, saying that he had received myint and was moving to impede their activities.

    It isnt just limited to outside the country. From now on theres a mountain of things I need to do internally. I get it. I get that Ill eventually have to pay for something as selfish as wanting to enjoy school life a little, despite knowing about the conflicts within the castle.

    It seems that our nation will need arge cleanup pretty soon, huh? It seems that all the filth in the castle has been just about gathered up after all.

    Indeed, Your Highness.

    Henri smiled. Hes the grand chambein thats followed me since I was a child, and stays by my side even now. Henri is like a parent figure, someone else important to me.

    Well then, let us move forward the preparations for the clean-up, Your Highness.

    Mn.

    The proof that Achille spent many years researching to pull out the problem of these geezers For some reason Achille is really good at finding these things, and I was taught by him too. All thats left is to clean up the castle from the roots.

    Sorry to my father and uncle but if they covered up this much fraudmited by their subordinates, then they probably cant be covered for anymore.

    And, one day Ill be having them leave the castle as well. Honestly I want to drive them out right this minute, but as youd expect, thats impossible at this stage.

    -knock knock-

    Somebodys knocking at the door. I wonder who it is. Right now is my precious rest time, so I even told them not to let anybody in.

    Just who is it?

    Henri headed towards the door and then returned with a bewildered expression.

    Y-, Your Highness

    Without even even time to ask him what was wrong, the door to my room was violently opened.

    Seriously Does not a single one of your subordinates know how to guide people properly?

    Eh-?

    Royce, we need to talk.

    Shaking off the chambeins who tried to stop him as he boldly made his entrance was a person surprising enough that I couldnt immediatelyin due to the shock.

    Raiga What are you doing here?

 Volume 5 - Ch 5

    Note: Please dont read it in the little pop-up for the reader. For some reason it doesnt reflect myter edits (which I often make a lot of after publishing), so please click view original.

    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    You might be thinking, Well, do I owe any thanks to Alphapolis the publisher?, but in fact it is because the publishers are so willing to pick up web novels (Alphapolis in particr) that so many creative stories are being written by people wanting to make it as writers.

    Hmph, its hard to rx in such a needlessly sparkly room.

    Whilst saying that, Raiga arbitrarily decided to sit down on my sofa and made himselffortable like he owned the thing. If youre going toin then I dont mind you getting lost But Raiga doesnt seem to have any intention of leaving. For now, lets try greeting him.

    Hey, Raiga. Is Mei healthy?

    Yeah. Today I brought her with me to the castle. If possible, Id like to let her go to school as much as possible, but her morning sickness is pretty bad so I think its about time that she starts taking time off school.

    It seems that Raiga is sweet on Mei as usual. Even his usual cold-looking face has loosened carelessly.

    Hm~mm, that sounds rough. And so, what did youe to talk about today? Right now is my precious rest time you know?

    Henri who was standing nearby showed a baffled expression. Its not unreasonable At the end of the day, the one sitting here is Raiga. Right now hes not antagonistic, but just a little while ago he was my natural enemy. When I was young I had a hard time because of his followers too.

    Because of the incident with Count Tito earlier, weve gotten closer but that doesnt mean that I can let my guard down yet. After all, even though he owes us about Meis rescue, hes acting ridiculously arrogantly right now.

    I came to tell you that Id lend you my subordinates Your subordinates are all theory-loving magicians arent they?

    Hahh? What are you talking about all of a sudden?

    Like I said, Ill make it so that you can use my knight order. Honestly speaking, you dont have enough knights after all.

    Mm~mn, I cant really deny it.

    Its just like Raiga says.

    At present, the knights in the castle are splendidly split into the King Faction knight brigades and the Royal Prince Faction knight brigades, based on their dispositions. And vexingly, the knights in the Royal Prince Faction or rather, the knights under Raigas control are better quality. Being a muscle-head, he has his own knights.

    Right now the knights in the King Faction are constantly vying for aplishments, and there are lots of times when they dont do their jobs properly when the timees. It seems that the time that I was abducted was the same. Even though they should have ability, instead of training their skills theyre busy getting better at pushing the me onto others Honestly speaking, having Raigas knights go with Achille and Camille would be really reassuring.

    Magicians are a bundle of individualism, and arent suited for physicalbour either. You need knights that you can use, right?

    Certainly, having knights in the extremist subjugation would be reassuring. When alls said and done, their physical strength is on another level. Both Camille and Achille are slender, so theyre not suited for jobs that use their body

    But why did you suddenly feel like lending me your knights?

    Raiga suddenly averted his eyes.

    Hmph, youre having trouble arent you? Both that magic idiot and that prodigy in sheeps clothing arent by your side.

    Could it be that because Camille and Achille arent by my side Hes paying attention to me? That Raiga is? Even though hes Raiga?

    Since we were children, we havent gotten along. We never directly fought but even so we had problems with each other.

    Have you gotten soft because youve be a father?

    I suppose wonders do happen. Raiga looked at me and gave a massive grimace. Blue eyes just like mine narrowed unhappily. But it doesnt seem like hes withdrawing his offer.

    Ill be staying in the castle for a while you see There are heaps of things to do.

    Things to do?

    I reflexively asked him.

    The garbage that would harm Mei, Im going to beat out all of it from the castle without exception

    Then, isnt that the same as what Im doing? He wants to do something about the rotten leaders of this country, right? What timing.

    Raiga.

    What?

    Ill help you with that. At the very least, I think I canpletely clean up the King Faction after all, and Ive prepared a few things for the Royal Prince Faction too.

    I see.

    Raiga looked like he was thinking for a little. His silver hair wavered.

    Well then, Ill try my best to do something about the Royal Prince Faction Be careful. My father is moving to use this extremist case to take down the King Faction thats full of openings.

    I thought so Geez, Ojisama, you sure didnt betray my expectations.

    Honestly speaking, Im grateful. From my position itd be difficult to make a move on the nobles of the Royal Prince Faction, so its a great help to have Raiga make a move.

    I see.

    We decided to join forces. Our fathers quarrel without end, but theres no reason that even we have to as well. And moreover, our interests ovep. If Raiga cooperates, then we probably wont suffer from a surprise attack from the Royal Prince Faction while were busy with the extremists either. In that respect, hes a helpful cousin.

    After that, he drank up the tea that Henri brought, demanded more tea and sweets, and afterpletely wasting my rest time, he left the room with a satisfied expression. Didnt he have any suspicions about poison being put in his drinks or food? Is he broad minded? Or is he stupid, or bold? I dont really understand this cousin of mine.

    Authors Note: Raiga-sama is clumsy, but is actually a good guy is what this story was about ughs) With his beast-like intuition, he can see through enemies and poison.

 Volume 5 - Ch 6

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    You might be thinking, Well, do I owe any thanks to Alphapolis the publisher?, but in fact it is because the publishers are so willing to pick up web novels (Alphapolis in particr) that so many creative stories are being written by people wanting to make it as writers.

    Still not 100% sure that I should be tranting  as gunpowder since it sounds a bit awks in English given the setting, but mmn.

    Uwwahhh. The town is falling apart.

    The town that I was overlooking from the skies was more broken than I had imagined. In particr, the areas around the mansion of the lord of this territory, Viscount Wazzurri, were extremely messed up. The estate was half destroyed, and the areas of the town around it were burnt ck as well, with mountains of rubble here and there. There were few people in town, and it seems that the inhabitants of the town had fled somewhere else. Mmn, this isnt a ce that people can live anymore after all.

    Are these extremists idiots?

    Achille quietly cursed besides me. It seems that he has some gripe with this.

    The extremists have their hideout somewhere in this town?

    Yeah, weve already found it. And the people responsible for the hijacking of this town should be there, but

    It seems that the spy unit has already been sent to investigate what was going on in this town. The soldiers moved under leadership and entered the town.

    Camille, what do we do? This building ispletely wrecked after all, and though we have orders to standby, I think staying in the air is too conspicuous.

    A woman who was one of my Red coworkers called out to me. Shes one of the magicians that was dispatched to rescue the town like me. A number of Red magicians were floating in the air on quills just like we were. This is of course, the magic that I made popr.

    Unlike the soldiers from the castle, we magicians are being treated as a Raid Unit. Thats why we were able to act somewhat freely to an extent.

    Hmmm, Achille. What do we do?

    I left the problem all to Achille. When ites to difficult problems, theres nothing better than asking him. A prodigy like him should be able toe up with a smarter and better answer than I can. And moreover, Achilles been granted some of the rights tomand on scene at this town Well, the subordinates he can use are just our raid unit though. Achille normally works as an official, but because theres also the matter of being the son of the Magic Building Number Twos Soleil, the magicians follow his instructions rtively obediently.

    Lets see The soldiers from the castle are attacking the town from all four directions, and at the time the extremists will be at an overwhelming disadvantage too. I think its fine even if you dont do particrly do anything Camille.

    Its here; his overprotectiveness. And that doesnt answer my question.

    Come on, dont dodge the question.

    During our town recovery mission this time, Achille has been trying his best not to get me involved in battles. Its totally clear from his attitude.

    Right now we havent spotted anybody obviously under the influence of forbidden arts so it might be fine but I somehow cant agree to this. I dide all the way out here by Royce-samas orders after all. After all, it might be like that time again, when the town in the Jade familys territory was attacked, and the soldiers were in a pinch The extremists might be stopped in the end even if I dont help them directly, but even if only a little, I might be able to reduce the victims on our side.

    Camille.

    What?

    Can you promise not to move on your own? That you wont leave my side?

    Mn? Could this be permission for me to act? No matter what he says, it feels like Achille is sweet on me in the end.

    I wont, I wont. Ill stay by your side.

    Ill answer obediently just in case. Just staying in the air on standby to reduce the risk to the soldiers is a little pathetic after all.

    Can you see that building over there?

    Achille was pointing to a building with a t wall. While all the buildings around it were broken, only that building stayed neat and tidy.

    Apparently that building is the hideout of the hijackers and theirmander.

    Oooh!

    So all we have to do is charge in and arrest them, huh! Captain Achille!

    Lets hurry up and goo!

    I was suddenly filled with motivation.

    If we just stay floating up in the sky like this, we certainly do stand out after all. For now, lets try and find a safe ce tond.

    We chose a ce where the soldiers and extremists werent fighting tond. The people left behind in this extremists base dont seem to number very many. All of the enemies are outside the base having a big fight with the soldiers.

    Even if people who seem to be normal citizens approach us, dont let your guard down There might be enemies among them.

    Mn, got it.

    We stepped down into an alleyway close to the enemy hideout.

    Time to charge.

    Were not going to charge in immediately. We have to check out the situation first Although there are probably less people in there, we still dont know how many people there are. Well charge after some urate intel arrives.

    Announced Achille decisively. This damned prudent guy!

    Oneechan!

    From the corner of the alleyway, I heard a childs voice. When I turned around, I found that a little girl was standing there.

    Eh-

    The girls long hair was tied in two, and she was holding a plush toy in one hand Like that, she came running towards us.

    Hey, hey, can you help me? Its scary!

    The girl spoke with a smile, and was clearly out of ce in this town that had turned into a battlefield.

    Hey, help me?

    For just a single child to be alone here Its strange. And moreover, even though the situation is like this, why is this girl smiling?

    Hey, hey, wont you help me? I got separated from mama you see so, help me?

    Whats with this I have a bad feeling about this. Why that is though, I dont know myself though. But even Achille said not to rx my guard even if a normal person approached us after all.

    -tick tock tick tock-

    Suddenly, I could hear a somewhat systematic sounding from the girl. The ticking sound continued. I warily observed the girl. The sounds areing from inside the plush toy in her right hand.

    Let go of that!

    Probably realising the same thing I did, Achille quickly snatched the plush toy from the girl and threw it far away. The next moment, the plush toy shone and exploded with a violent wind. An incredible roar resounded. The surrounding buildings were destroyed by the st of the explosion, andrge holes opened up in the ground.

    What was that?

    The doll exploded? We immediately defended with magic so everybody is unharmed. Achille covered the girl as well, so she wasnt injured. A female Red magician is searching the girls clothing to see if there isnt anything else hidden.

    They probably put gunpowder inside the doll. It seems that they applied magic to it so that they could ignite it from a distance.

    Achille told me this with a disgusted expression.

    The extremists did this?

    Probably.

    That girl is

    For such a small child to be wandering around with a doll thats basically a bomb

    Probably with them. Isnt she following the instructions of the adults? I dont think that they told her about the gunpowder though

    What the hell! Thats disgusting!

    It means that they had this girl hold dangerous explosives without her knowing. Even though theres a good chance that she wouldve been blown up too if things went badly, she probably hadnt the slightest idea.

    Unforgiveable Mn? Ah-, Achille look! At that girls neck!

    I was pointing at a ck bruise at the bottom of the girls neck.

    Forbidden magic even a child like this. Its probably a simr spell to the one that they tried to cast on me.

    This is unbelievable!

    Hey, Achille. Do you think there are other children besides this girl that have forbidden magic cast on them? If there are, then we have to save them.

    In the worst case, they could even die from an explosion.

    Ill usemunication magic and warn the soldiers too. We cant let theme into contact with children holding explosive dolls and get caught up in the explosion.

    Yeah. And while were at it, after they finish dealing with the explosives, tell them to shelter the children so that we can dispel the forbidden magic too.

    We immediately sent off amunication magic.

    While we were sending off a warning, amunication spell came came from a person who seemed to be a member of the spy unit.

    Hmm

    Achille, what did the spies say?

    It seems that there are only ten-odd people in the extremist base. The others are all out.

    Then even if we charge in

    Among them is a person who seems to be a powerful magician He might be the guy whos casting the forbidden spells right now.

    Then hes dangerous isnt he!? We have to hurry up and catch him.

    Camille.

    Achille gazed right at me with a serious expression. Uu-, you dont have to worry. Im not going to charge in by myself or anything you know.

 Volume 5 - Ch 7

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Getting out a chapter before I go to bed.

    Elion got angry at me and started saying things about how he always knew that I was a retarded male hentai lolicon, ever since I copied Yorai-kuns header. I suppose that exins why he followed my blog, spoke to me amiably in thements on his page, and up until , thought that .

    (:

    Complete silence reigned the inside of the extremist base. On the way we met the girl with the gunpowder doll, but that was a coincidence, and didnt mean that we had been discovered by the enemy. One of our magicians took that girl away to somewhere safe.

    I was flying inside the enemy hideout while carefully searching for any traps like the ones from the time in Count Titos mansion. Because it seems like Im going to end up stepping on something again, Im too afraid to walk

    I wonder where the extremists are lurking.

    Inside the building that served as the extremist headquarters, we split into two groups. So that the enemies couldnt escape, our two groups were simultaneously entering from the front and back of the building. I was forced into Achilles group. The only ones who can dispel forbidden magic are us two, so I actually think it would be better if we moved separately but Achille wouldnt let go of me. Our group was entering from the front. I had all the members of the back group get magic tattoos for repelling forbidden arts. I did them impromptu, so they can only nullify a forbidden spell once.

    Right after we entered a small room close to the entrance, some men who appeared to be magicians came jumping out.

    Uwah-! Theyre here!

    All of them had ck bruises on their neck.

    Its the same pattern as on the girl

    Achille began freezing the magicians.

    If we undo the forbidden magic right now, the mana consumption will be no joke. Ill freeze them for now.

    Good idea. Ill do that too.

    Our allied magicians all began freezing the magicians. Anybody would hesitating about hurting people that might just be controlled by forbidden arts, huh. The castle magicians are quite talented, so the cursed magicians ended up having their movements quickly sealed.

    I wonder if the one leading the enemies this time is the Heroine

    We dont know yet, but if its her, or someone who can use forbidden arts like her, things will get troublesome, huh?

    We have to stop them Thats why we were dispatched for this mission after all.

    In order to use magic to dispel forbidden arts, you need knowledge of forbidden arts. Dispelling them requires you to follow the steps of the forbidden spell in reverse and unravel it after all. Even if we wanted to increase the number of personnel who can dispel forbidden arts, this part bes a bottleneck, so at the moment it isnt possible. A riskes along with carelessly increasing the number of people who can use forbidden arts after all.

    Thats why Achille and I who can do so are apanying the soldiers like this. The ones casting the forbidden spells use up arge amount of magic power just like the ones doing the dispelling, so it isnt something they can so easily cast on a lot of people/ But The Heroine came to mind, and I ended up in this indescribable mood. Just how much magic power does that girl have? How many people can she cast a forbidden spell on at once? Unlike us, the Heroine has enough mana that you could call it a cheat.

    Camille, something ising again

    I stopped my quill at the sound of Achilles voice.

    I, kind of have a bad feeling.

    I could hear the noisy footsteps of a number of peopleing.

    Drop dead, you dogs of the nobles!

    A number of men running from further in the passageway all shot magic this way at once. More enemy magicians. It seems that the enemies this time dont have any forbidden spells cast on them. Theres no bruise on their neck. Including these guys, do they add up to about ten-odd people? That matches with the numbers of extremists hiding in this building.

    Shaddap, you scum! Quietly let us catch you!

    Right! To do something like that to a child! We definitely wont forgive you!

    Our allied magicians defended against the enemy magic while sending back retorts. Because of the incident a little earlier, their anger towards the extremists seems to have shot up as well.

    So impudent, you damned pigs!

    Shut it, garbage! Ah-, how about you and Achille head in first? Well do something about these guys. I think this is basically all of them, but there might still be some left inside.

    Y-, Yeah G-, Got it! Achille.

    Hahh It cant be that youre thinking that just the two of us should head in alone, right? Even though we have no idea what might be lurking in there.

    Mn?

    Lets go after we meet up with the magiciansing in from the back.

    Achille, youre too cautious, you know.

    Youre just too carefree. Theres a possiblities that the enemies are waiting to drive us into a trap, you know.

    I got pulled from the side, and forcefully hugged by Achille. Hey-, the other magicians will see us you know!

    A-, Achille?

    Of course Ill be cautious Youre here too, after all.

    While saying that, Achille skilfully fired off amunications spell.

    Before long, some of the magicians who had gone around the back met up with us. It seems that right now a number of soldiers are running up by the back entrance and gathering there. It seems that the reimation of the town is more or less done. With this, we dont have to worry about the enemies in here escaping either, do we?

 Volume 5 - Ch 8

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Its been on my mind for a long time now, but just whats up with Camilles sense of wariness? Even though Im this, this, this worried about her She pays too little attention, in more than one way!

    Camille who was in my arms wasnt stiffened up the way she used to be, but even so, perhaps because there was some shame still left behind, she would asionally wriggle in embarassment. Just thinking that I might lose this warmth of hers makes me sumb to terror. I cant allow something like the incident behind the auditorium to happen a second time. That girl tried to directly cast forbidden magic onto Camille and I.

    Before long, we met up with the magicians I called for.

    Did any extremists appear in the back?

    One of the magicians answered my question.

    Nah, there wasnt a single person in the back. Looks like you guys at the front drew the winning lot But our side did find a door that wouldnt open.

    S-, Suspicious! They might be holing themselves in there!

    Camille leaned forward in excitement. It seemed like she was about to recklessly run off, so I tightened my hug and held her down.

    Gueh! Achille, its tight, I give! I give-!

    When Camilles here, any sense of tension is just sent flying away.

    You know, I found it suspicious too, so I tried to get inside, you see. But it was shut too tightly, and I couldnt get in It seems that theres some shield-like magic cast on it, so.

    The magicians told us the situation in more detail. And then, once again, Camille began moving in my arms.

    If its lock-picking then it might be my turn to shine! Gue-!

    Quiet, Camille.

    Why did it end up in this situation where she has to go? Even though I actually wanted her to just stay back.

    Its fine, its fine, I wont do anything dangerous. I had it rough that time with the heroine, after all.

    Some truly untrustworthy words. When Camille repeats her words twice is when you need to take extra care. The probability that shes just thoughtlessly saying whatever is exceedingly high. Ever since Camille was hurt by that schoolgirl, the number of instances when shes willingly gone and jumped right into danger has increased. Im worried to death.

    Achille, I get that your fiance is important, but you shouldnt overdo it with the overprotectiveness, yanno~?

    Yeah, if its Camille shell be fine. On her own she burned a dragon to death, yanno?

    She burned that giant squid to ashes too, didnt she?

    Yeah, yeah. Even though we couldve eaten it if we kept the heat down, she went and burned the whole damned thing ck

    Aah, Im getting pissed. Please stop with the irresponsible remarks. To treat her like a superman that much Even though shes a normal human too. And Camille being Camille, shell try to live up to remarks like that too.

    Achille?

    Camille who was in my arms peered in on my face, worriedly. I get it, Camille heading out is the right decision. I asked Camille a question.

    You wont jump into the enemy without thinking?

    Mn. Ill jump in after thinking.

    It really is worrying.

    From the back entrance, the sealed door was on the way to the centre of the building. We didnt meet any extremists on our way there, and easily reached the room.

    Here, huh?

    The other magicians and I cancelled our shield magic, and while that was happening, Camille opened the lock.

    Mn, mn, easy victory. The locks in the castle are scarier.

    So muttered Camille Thankfully, it seems that none of the other magicians heard it. Before long, the door opened.

    At the same time as the door opening, we were engulfed in a sh of light.

    Uwah-

    Whats going on?

    So brightt!

    The magicians all responded in their own way. The light quickly returned to normal.

    What was that?

    A sh to use as cover? But despite that, I can see.

    Yeah, me too Just what did the enemy do?

    In the room in front of the bewildered magicians stood a man. A young man with purple hair, and long, thin grey eyes. He might be around the same age as Camille and I. He was wearing the same ck clothing as the other extremists, and a green scarf, and a number of small box-like magic items were hanging from his whole body.

    AAHH-!

    Standing beside me was Camille with a shocked expression.

    Whats wrong? Do you know him?

    Camilles raspberry coloured eyes stared right at me. Without saying a thing, she drew her lips towards my ears. Her face is close. If we werent in this kind of situation, just how happy would I be?

    Hes one of the characters from that story

    She softly whispered, before turning to face the extremist man, clearly wary. So even she had a certain amount of wariness, huh? So I was thinking, feeling relieved at an odd time.

    The extremist man seemed to be bewildered for some reason.

    Why, didnt it work?

    With a baffled expression, he backpedalled. I thought of a certain possibility, and look at the magic tattoo on my arm.

    I thought so.

    The number of scales had decresed on the tattoo Camille drew. It seems that this man cast forbidden magic on all of us at the same time. But, just wheres the magic powering from? Even I cant cast forbidden spells on close to ten people at once. Camille probably cant either. As for who can, its probably limited to only that girl from behind the auditorium. With her mana volume, it might be possible.

    When I looked at the man again, the number of magic items hanging from him had decreased. There might be some trick to those boxes. Like stored magic power or something

    J of Clovers Galuf Sharohm.

    Camille spoke a name that Ive never heard before. If hes one of the characters in the story she mentioned, I wonder what kind of position he had in the story.

    AHHH-, WHY!? SHIT-! That bastard better not have made me use a defective product-!

    The man wildly kicked a nearby wall.

    I wonder if hes themander.

    It seems that Camille isbelling the flustered guy in the room as themander were targetting. I dont know why, she she said it with confidence.

 Volume 5 - Ch 9

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Catch that man whos making a racket.

    At Achilles instruction, the magicians began to move. Aside from when ites to his family and I, hes generally a keigo-using faker. Even in this situation hes going all-out with his faking. The Red magicians fired magic towards Galuf. Galuf agilely set up defensive magic, and avoided the magicians attack. As youd expect, being the J of Clovers hes needlessly high spec.

    Aahh, geez, I knew he wasnt at school, but to think that Galuf would appear here.

    Galuf Sharohm A character who appeared in the otome game as the J of Clovers. In the game, he was a delinquent student unsuited for the elite magic academy. Because of his familys business (they do stuff thats socially uneptable), and because of his bad actions, people only looked on at him from a distance, but the heroine spoke to him without fear so he opened up to her, and eventually he reformed because of her. In his friendship end, after they graduated, they ended up having chats in town, just the two of them. But this Galuf is simr to the way he was before the game Galuf met the heroine. Hes Before-Galuf. And the thing he cast at us earlier, was probably forbidden magic.

    For Galuf to be able to use forbidden arts Whats going on?

    If you had to say it, he was a character more like Raiga who was bad at magic. Rather than magic, he was better at fighting using magic items. And moreover, his mana volume shouldnt have been that great. The number of boxes on him the magic items have decreased in number, so he might be obtaining magic power from thsoe boxes. And as for the condensed mana stuffed inside the boxes theres a good chance that its the Heroines magic. Enough magic power to cast magic on that many people at once cant be gathered that simply after all. Did Galuf intend on using forbidden magic to turn us into the pawns of the extremists, and then turn the tide of the battle?

    If you consider Galufs family business, gathering those children wouldnt have been difficult either. Its unpleasant, but I think theyre children who were kidnapped and sold.

    Ill be taking the lead, so be careful of forbidden magic!

    My magic tattoos can protect me from forbidden magic one more time. On the other hand, the magic tattoos on the other magicians were used up in the earlier attack. We cant expose them to the risk of forbidden magic. If by chance they ended up falling under the power of a forbidden spell, itd be hard work to dispel it after all. I stepped out in front of the magicians. Suddenly, Galuf looked at me.

    Mn?

    Youre, Camille Rhodolite, huh?

    Why does Galuf know my name? Wondering about this, I stared at his face.

    Well, cant be helped. As a sorry for losing the town, how bout I give you as a present?

    Galuf took out a knife from his pocket. Its a magic item that can attack by weakening the power of things like magical shields.

    Geh-

    I dont really get why, but it seems that Galuf has me as a target. The magicians seethed with killing bloodlust, and fired ice magic at him one after another, but Galuf disintegrating the spells with his knife. As I thought, it looks like hes the type who can show his battle prowess better with magic items, rather than magic. But, hes strong. Just a little unrest spread through the magicians.

    Whats with this guy.

    Isnt he strong enough that hes like a totally different guy, now?

    While disintegrating the ice magic, Galuf held his hand towards the ground and a giant wall appeared. A thick and see-through wall separated me from the other magicians. From the other side, myrades were shouting something, but I couldnt hear.

    With this, there are no nuisances left, huh?

    With a smile, Galuf tried to cast a forbidden spell at me again. Judging from the magic circle in the air, its a thought maniption-type spell. I checked the tattoo on my arm. The number of scales decreased because of the magic from when we first entered the room, but Achille and I can still defend from one more. I cant let myself be controlled like a doll after all!

    L-, Like Id let you turn me into a huan bombbb!

    Mn? What are you misunderstanding?

    I should be asking you what you were thinking doing something like that to a child. You n on doing that to me too, right?

    Aah. So you met that, huh? It had good luck to be saved by you lot, huh. But I have no ns on doing that to you, yanno? Rx.

    It seems that Galuf doesnt feel any guilt at all. I quickly went through the steps to the forbidden spell in reverse, and rendered it ineffective.

    Shitt, why the fuck did it disappear?

    Galuf tried to use forbidden magic a few more times, but I had them all disappear. As youd expect, Im getting tired though.

    The number of magic items hanging from him was now zero. But my mana pool is getting close to dry. It feels like Ill run out of magic power if I counter one more forbidden spelll.

    Not knowing when to give up, Galus left me behind and tried to escape. Pushing his back to the wall, a hidden passage appeared. It seems that its arge-scale trick based on a magic item.

    Ah-, wait!

    I went after Galus. At the end of the hidden passage shone a magic circle that seemed to be for teleportationg. Itll be bad if he gets on that! I have to catch him before he teleports

    Using the remaining magic power I had, I tried to destroy the magic circle. I cant use anything toorge scale, but if its just enough to destroy that magic circle, I think I can somehow manage. But I was too focused on the magic circle, and wasnt paying attention to my feet

    -click-

    Ah-?

    -CRUNCH-

    By the time I noticed, it was toote.

    Ow-, OWOW! What the heck is this!?

    My right ankle was caught in something something metal like a bear trap. It was painful enough that tears came out. Blood was running from my ankle. Looking carefully, there were bear-traps type things set up here and there on the ground. Theyre way too prepared!

    Oh, lucky. Looks like I caught ya at just the right time, huh?

    Galuf tried to fire binding magic at me. I went through the steps in reverse and nullified that magic, and while I was at it, I prepared an attack spell to fire at him. Bastard, using traps on me, I wont forgive you! However, the magic that should have been activated didnte out from my hand.

    Nnn-?

    I didnt nullify the magic in time, and unable to move because of the binding spell, I fell to the ground. Uuu I hit my head.

    Why?

    That metal is a magic nullifying magic item for prisoners, yanno? Even if you try to use magic, its pointless yanno.

    W-, What a thing to use Speaking of which, my automatic defence tattoos are nullified too B-, Bad. This is totally bad. In this situation, if he uses forbidden magic Im out!

    Galuf approached me with a smirk.

    N-, No

    Oh? Thats a nice expression, isnt it. That look that goes stay awayyy Lets have a closer look.

    S-, Stay away, perverttt!

    At the same time as my shout, a huge explosion happened. I reflexively shut my eyes.

    After the smoke and dust thrown up into the air from the explosion settled, I looked around and found leaving the area around me entirely unharmed, the ground was deeply gouged out. The magic circle along that gouge was splendidly destroyed as well. It seems that Galuf was sent flying against the wall from the shock. Hes ttened against a corner.

    That was magic wasnt it?

    At some point, Galus binding spell had been undone. Since I could move now, I rose my body to check behind me.

    U- no good. It really does hurt too much to stand -wah-?

    While I was on my knees, I was suddenly hugged from behind. Ummm?

    Ah-, Achille?

    Of course. Why is that what you asked? Does someone other than me do this to you too?

    Of course not.

    I nervously apologised. It seems that Achilles mood had taken a nose dive. Moreover, its an ultra bad mood that Ive rarely seen in thest few years!

    Show me your foot?

    Not caring about my response, he took a hold of my ankle.

    It hurts, it hurts damn it!

    Achille disintegrated the bear trap with magic. He looked painfully at my bloody leg. He looks kind of sorry for some reason. Even though theres no reason he had to make a face like that too Because in reality, the one thats hurting enough to cry is me, after all. With a serious expression, Achille cast recover magic on my ankle. The wound rapidly healed.

    Does it still hurt?

    Mm~mn. Its fine. Its healed now Thanks.

    Before I knew it, the other magicians were standing nearby. Did they all break through that wall together?

    Please look after Camille for a little.

    Entrusting me, who was on the verge of mana exhaustion, and had moreover taken emotional damage from the bear-trap thing, to the other magicians, Achille headed towards Galuf.

    Tsk Doing something damned pointless

    Achille clicked his tongueeeeeeeeee!

    Even though I would have liked to stop you from ever taking another breath, if this werent a job

    After giving Galuf a cold and dreadful nce, Achille cast binding magic on him. It wasyer uponyer of binding, and it looked like he couldnt even speak anymore. On top of that, he used magic to tear off a chain attached to the bear trap, and harshly bound Galufs arms with it. Its overkill.

    Please arrest this piece of shit. Take him to the castle.

    Achille?

    The other magicians looked at Achille, dumbfounded. Its probably their first time seeing Achilles true colours. Theyre dreadfully shaken. But even shaken, the fact that they still properly did their job is as expected of the magicians of the castle.

    Camille

    Achille caught me when I stood up totteringly, and roughly kissed me.

    Nn-

    Magic power flowed in from his mouth. It immediately spread through my body, and I could stand like normal now.

    Achi, lle m, oka-

    I slowly parted from Achilles lips. If it continues like this, it feels like this time I wont be able to stand for different reason.

    Youre still not standing steadily. Isnt that because you havent had enough?

    No, thats diff- Im good, Im good, I said-

    Damned Achille Hes saying this even though he knows, isnt he? If its Achille who can perfectly allot magic power, he should know how much mana I need to stand properly.

    Geez, Camille. Youre being reserved, arent you? I have plenty of mana left, so you really dont need to hold back, you know

    Like I said, thats not- Im not being reser-, nn-

    Aahh, I can feel tepid gazes from the other magicians.

    Was Achille this kind of guys?

    Nah but for some reason that way of speaking suits him too.

    The two of them sure get along, huhh.

    The magicians all gave their own one-sided opinions, and had their fun. Dammmit, dont just watch and stop him please, somebody.

    In the end, my legs gave way, and I was stuck with being carried around by Achille.

    tl: Achille speaks to basically everyone politely, but just now he went back to his normal tone and manner of speaking.

 Volume 5 - Ch 10

    Note: Please dont read it in the little pop-up for the reader. For some reason it doesnt reflect myter edits (which I often make a lot of after publishing), so please click view original.

    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    nHyauu-I-, I said I was sorry. The arm that I tried to tear him off with got caught instead, and I got pulled towards him.

    Honestly. You never think, Camille.

    Uu But I mean, you wouldnt think that that kind of thing would be set up in that kind of ce, right!? The magic material used for that trap is super rare, you know? The materials are all rare minerals native to Topageria after all, and even in Ga basically the only items that use it are the jails in the castle.

    And so, you jumped in, huh?

    Achille gave a sigh. His beautiful face was tinged with unhappiness.

    Achille and I have currently returned to the castle. After we gave a general report to Royce-sama, we borrowed one of the guests rooms at the castle for resting. The other magicians were given their own rooms as gratitude as well. For some reason only Achille and I were given the same room, but Geez, Royce-sama, it wouldve be fine even if you werent this considerate about this.

    Its quite a better room than the break rooms in the Magic Building. The walls are cream coloured, and the floor is made of wood. Its decorated with calming furnishings. Its fully equipped with a sofa, and a desk, and a bed prepared too. It might be a room for use by foreign guests or something.

    Camille, you arent tired? It was a pretty difficult expedition, wasnt it?

    For some reason Achille didnt lecture me today. His frank opinion regarding the expedition was limited to just the questions just now Just whats going on? And I get the feeling that for a while now, hes been casually closing the distance between us. Lately Achille has been really indiscriminate with the time and ce. Even in the reimed town, I had various things done to me, but Being unable to stand like that was a first for me.

    It really is too worrying, so I really dont think I can leave you be anymore.

    Next to me, Achille muttered that with a grave expression. While d in an atmosphere of unrest

    Camille.

    In a sweet tone, Achille gently called out to me.

    W-, What?

    Achille preciously yed with my hair with both hands. I really do think Im being treasured by him. Hes always been a good guy, but we got engaged, and ended up in a reciprocal rtionship the longer were together, and with each of these events, he gets sweeter with me. And while I was reflected in Achilles two cobalt eyes, he asked me seriously,

    Marry me?

    Hah?

    Just now, what? Achille raised his two hands to my face with its stupid expression.

    Eh-? Ehhh-?

    Just now, it couldnt have been, a proposal?

    Camille, your reply?

    Achille asked me for my reply with a smile, and looking at his eyes, I couldnt tell what he was thinking.

    I mean, well, I have to ask Otousama and stuff as well, so

    Already got his blessing.

    B-, But your family too

    No problems there either.

    Royce-sama

    He said hed be wishing for our happiness with all his heart.

    ..*

    I actually intended for us to get married after we graduated from school. But weve withdrawn from school like this, and we probably wont be able to graduate either, so we can have it now, right? Ive already waited plenty after all.

    Achille?

    I decided that after we came back from reiming the town, Id properly tell this to you After this theres my job at the castle, and Ill be busy with dealing with the vi too, so I thought that there was no time but now.

    Right, it seems that even after Achilles back at the castle, he still has a lot of work to do. On top of that, because of the effect of extremists, theres the matter of their territory to deal with as well. Thats being taken care of by the family head Soleil, but as youd expect, theres probably no way that Achille doesnt need to help out I wonder whats going on with the eldest son, Dominique. Achille didnt mention his name even once, huhh.

    And so, your reply?

    He peered in one my face at close range.

    Uu

    Do you, dislike me?

    Of course I dont dislike you.

    Even though he gets it already the reason that Im hesitating with my reply.

    Why, is he asking now? Why is Achille this rushed? We all have our hands full with the extremist incident right now. Even though it would have been fine for us just to do it after this incident calmed down.

    I see. Then youll agree, right?

    Eh-, ah- B-, But,

    Achille quietly smiled. It kinda feels like Im making a fuss on my own.

    Give me your hand?

    Umm, um Achille?

    For some reason, Achille was being pushy.

    Hurry.

    YESH!

    Uuu, is this because weve been together all these years? I obediently listen to his every word now. You might even say its already a conditioned reflex. Just as I was told, I ced my hand on Achilles palm like a dog.

    Taking something out from his pocket, he took my left hand, and put something on my ring finger.

    Mn?

    That sparkly thing is

    A ring?

    I didnt give you one when we got engaged, after all.

    Is this one of those wedding rings? Its my first time seeing one. In the center of the thin ring with delicate decorations shone a pretty stone. After having a good look at the ring, I tried to take it off my ring ringer but,

    Huh? I cant take it off.

    Even when I pulled at it, the ring wouldnt move. Even though its not as if the ring is all that tight. The ring fits it just right. I dont recall telling Achille my size, though I dont really know the size of my fingers after all.

    Its enchanted so that nobody except me can take it off.

    That sounds like something youd find on a cursed item You often find that those type of items cant be taken off by the wearer.

    Through the ring, I can confirm your location and status at any time. Even if something happen, Ill be able to immediately tell.

    Thats like, a GPS from my old world, isnt it And moreover, to be able to even tell your partners status is I wonder if he was thinking that if I copse from mana exhaustion, he could go and collect me.

    A-, Achille. No matter what, this is too

    If I wear something like this, wont my actions be hugely limited? I wont be able to do anything rash

    Youve managed to cause some sort of problem every single time, so just the worry alone feels like itll burn a hole through my stomach.

    Uuu-! S-, Sorry

    So, wear this.

    Being told that, its hard to refuse.

    Even if I wanted to take it off, I cant, you know?

    Its crafted so that it cant be taken off, but I get the feeling that if its you, youll be able to take it off before long

    Achille said that the ring was crafted. Craftmanship of a level that cant be undone even with my magic Could it be

    Is this something you made yourself, Achille?

    Thats right. It took me two years to make it, and I used magic to add various enchantments to it. It even covers magic tattoos bypasses.

    Amazing!

    Hes too skilled. But once you consider that, then this ring is quite a precious magic item, isnt it. Theres never been an item with this many enchantments on the market before. Its enough that it makes me wonder if its alright to wear this. Long live magic items! (traps excluded, though)

    Achille, what if you became a magic item craftsman? Even though you have this much talent for it.

    If I get fired from my job at the castle, I might think about it. Well, lets leave that topic aside for now.

    Mn?

    Wont you marry me?

    Uu

    Were back on topic. His way of doing things is overbearing, but it looks like unlike the time with the engagement, he isnt thinking of unterally advancing things. Hes making sure to get my reply.

    Ill always treasure you. Ill properly do the work of your marquis family, and Ill get along with your father and the servants too.

    Hey, why are you asking now?

    Because its now. I want to be your husband even a little faster, and the truth is, even when we were going to school, I was always enduring

    Achille, probably isnt lying. The words just now were unmistakably his real feelings. But, I get the feeling that it isnt the whole picture. Its the season for the proposal too

    But Im definitely not unhappy about him formally proposing to me. It made me purely happy. I dont know what Achilles intent is, but he wont do anything that would hurt me. I can trust in that. So I thought that I would just obediently ept his proposal. My mouth moved naturally.

    Okay.

    Even though he was the one who suggested it, Achilles cobalt eyes widened in shock for an instant. He immediately fixed his posture, and an expression ofposure returned to him though Realising that I had been intently observing him, to avoid the issue he gave me a tight hug, so I couldnt see his face anymore.

    Could it be that Royce-sama lent us this room so that Achille could propose? Only now, did I finally notice that fact.

    If before the town reimation I had Achille say

    When this battle is over, lets get married.

    or something like that, it seemed like hed raise a death g, so I decided against it ughs)

    tl note: Achille preciously yed with my hair with both hands. He was wrapping the hair around his fingers, you see.

 Volume 5 - Ch 11

    Note: Please dont read it in the little pop-up for the reader. For some reason it doesnt reflect myter edits (which I often make a lot of after publishing), so please click view original.

    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Congrattions, looks like it went well! Achille, Camille, just how long have I waited for this moment!?

    The very moment that I left the room, I was hugged by Royce-sama along with Achille.

    In other words, you were peeking again, werent you?

    Its something that happens every time, so I eventually got used to it.

    Even though our wedding was confirmed before Royce-samas, it seems that he doesnt think of it as a problem at all.

    Well then, for the ceremony, Ill be getting involved in various ways too. It would be better to have the date sooner thanter, right?

    You nned on this from the beginning, did you now?

    The conversation between Royce-sama and Achille is steadily progressing.

    Im sure Camille will look cute in the dress. Im sure looking forward to it.

    Royce-sama

    When he calls me cute with a sparkling smile, even now my heart starts beating faster.

    While I was entranced by Royce-sama, from behind, Achilles arms wrapped around my waist.

    Camille.

    The voice, and the actions that he used with me, were gentler and sweeter than even before.

    Achile

    I wonder if he feels my words, and my actions, to be sweet like this. Absolutely everything was going too fast, but I felt happy about it too, so I was in chaos. My thoughts have already melted, and it seems like I wont be able to think about anything.

    ..*

    And the result of that

    Oh my god.

    In the blink of an eye, the topic progressed And with Royce-sama as the witness, on that day, on paper, Achille and I ended up married.

    Signed. These documents I signed them.

    In this world, it seems that if those documents are officially recognised, youll be a married couple. And from church officials called from who knows where, to Royce-sama, Soleil, and father who was still at work, to nobles on good terms with us, were all thoroughly gathered here. This, would have been impossible if they hadnt prepared this in advance, right.?

    Camille, with this were finally husband and wife arent we?

    Achille whispered this into my ear, so my various thoughts ended up dispersing.

    Mn Achille.

    The wedding ring will be for the ceremony Look forward to it?

    Eh-, another one of your handmades?

    Of course.

    That might be super interesting. The engagement ring was pretty amazing too, but the wedding ring that Achille tempted me with a look forward to it for will definitely be something amazing. I could hardly wait for the wedding ceremony.

    The days got deeper into autumn, and a slightly chilly season arrived. The hallways in the marquis estate were a little cold too. I was wearing a thick, cocoa brown dress that I wasnt used to, and looking outside through the window. Since then, news of the extremists has died down. It seems that Royce-sama and Achille are doing various things at the castle, but no information reaches me directly.

    Today is the day that Achille is moving to my house in other words, the marquis estate. His much desired life as the next marquis is finally about to start. Ive been nothing but restless since this morning. It feels weird that Im going to be living with Achille from now on, and its a little embarassing.

    ..*

    Congrattory presents from Achilles sisters Dborah and Desire havee. There are a lot of things that need to be prepared so the ceremony itself is still a ways away, but theres no doubt that its basically just a countdown. Royce-sama has the say in deciding the date. Im happy, but everything is going forward so smoothly, that its kind of scary. I gave consulting Dborah a try withmunication magic, but apletelyzy Thats just bridal nerves, ohoho. was all I got back.

    Through the window I spotted a carriage from the Jade Viscount family arriving at our Rhodolite Marquis estate, and I ran down the stairs. The servants were all lined up before the door to our estate in order to wee Achille. Theyve been quickly getting the preparations ready for weing Achille in. Amongst them, the head maid Aime had been preparing in even higher spirits than the rest. Shes always been very fond of Achille.

    Camille.

    When I opened the door, Achille appeared in formal dress. Servants from the Jade family were surrounding him.

    Ah-, Achille. Um

    Unlike usual, this time he hasnte over to y. From now on, well be living in this house together. Once I think of that, my heart suddenly starts to thump, and I get all shy.

    Take care of me from now on.

    M-, Mn. Me too.

    Uuu, our exchange just now was somehow embarassing. My face is heating up.

    Achille, if anything at all troubles you here, just say so, okay?

    Thanks.

    After saying that, in front of all the servants, Achille took my hand and kissed it. The servants of my family all pretended like they didnt see anything, but people like Aime were definitely really excited inside.

    I guided Achille to his room. Aime had prepared everything in high spirits, so the room was all ready.

    This is your room, Achille.

    I pointed to a room that had good sunlight exposure. The furnishing was chosen by the servants, and was chic, but overflowing with a high ss feeling.

    Oh? You emptied this room for me? Its big, isnt it Whats more, its next to your room, Camille.

    Aime rmended that it be this one after all.

    For some reason Aime was really stubborn about this room. I didnt particrly mind either, so I left it all to her.

    I see. I like this room too.

    I see. Im d that you like it.

    This room certainly is big but theres a door that links directly to mine, so I dont think Achille will be able to feel at ease though, huh? It might be better to seal it upter. I added Seal the door. to the list of things to do in my mind.

 Volume 5 - Ch 12

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    After returning from the expedition, I managed to report to His Highness without a problem.

    I was about to leave the room, but His Highness called out to me.

    Achille Mind if I have a minute?

    Camille and the other magicians were headed to the rooms that His Highness provided for them to rest in. I know what His Highness wants to talk about. Even since we got back from the castle, Ive been preparing for it too.

    There are no problems with the marriage with Camille, right?

    Yes The rest depends on her though.

    Im finally going to get married to Camille.

    The truth is before we left for the expedition, His Highness sounded me out. You dont have a reason to wait for school graduation anymore, so how about bing husband and wife with Camille? he asked. For both His Highness and I, me having the title of next marquis makes our jobs easier. So theres probably that too. With his dealings with Topageria, for now the 2nd Prince has given up on Camille. But with that, theres the worry about whether or not the 2nd Prince has so easily given up. At any rate, immediately after the deal with Topageria wasplete, the 2nd Prince had a secret meeting with Camille in the greenhouse. Camille escaping from the window while she was in recovering is just Camille though.

    And then, after we returned from the expedition, the concerns increased by one. The man that we met when we went to suppress the extremists together The words and behaviour of that man whomanded the extremists, Galuf, has been on my mind. In the middle of the battle, he began to speak as though he were aiming for Camille.

    Well, cant be helped. As a sorry for losing the town, how bout I give you as a present?

    His words indicated that he knew of Camille Rhodolite. The interrogaters have been asking about the meanining of present, but even now, the man named Galus is apparently not speaking. At present, hes being detained in the castle as a serious criminal. It is probably only a matter of time before the interrogators use confession magic. After all, well be having them leave soon; those problematic geezers that only say stuff like Thats a human rights vition. at a time like this.

    Certainly, waiting until everything settles down would make me anxious.

    I told His Highness.

    I dont know when the hands of a demon might reach for Camille. Shes ignorant of the dangers to herself, and each time, despite jumping vigorously into danger, shes always too careless at the end. During this expedition in particr, seeing the moment just before Camille got her leg caught in the trap felt like my heart was going to freeze over.

    She really is too worrying. You cant let her be any longer, huh? Achille.

    It seems so.

    Ever since Ive met Camille, Ive always wanted to be her husband. At first it was because I was calcting, but gradually there was another emotion as well. I didnt think that I would be making it a reality in a way like this, but if she consented then Id like to make her mine this very moment. Havinge this far, Ill absolutely pass on having someone else snatch her away from the side.

    I went to meet with Camille in the room that His Highness prepared. She was curled up on a chair by the window, apparently finding the baked sweets quite delicious. Even though she went through such a dangerous experience, shes already acting like nothing happened. She really is somebody who doesnt reflect enough.

    Camille.

    Nn? Oh, are you on break, Achille? Have you already finished your talk with Royce-sama?

    Mmn. For now.

    Thats great! With this, the town remation incident is over, huh-!

    What the heck is over, huh-!, you Bakamille. Completely worrying others like that.

    This happens every time, but Camille, you havent reflected at all, huh?

    Perhaps because she sensed the unrest in my mood she put some distance between us, and tried to escape to the window. Of course, I didnt let her escape.

    DAHHHHHHHHHH-! Im reflecting-! Ill reflect-! Im sorry, Achille-!

    Even with her arms pinned behind her back, Camille tenaciously resisted. Like that, I whispered in her ear.

    Camille?

    nHyauu-I-, I said I was sorry.

    Camilles weak in her ears. Ever since I found this out at the age of 5, shes always been like this. For now, Ill keep her pinned like this until she behaves. Just as expected, her resistance immediately weakened. With that opening, I pulled her into a hug. Perhaps because she was giving up, Camille obediently let me.

    Honestly. You never think, Camille.

    Uu But I mean, you wouldnt think that that kind of thing would be set up in that kind of ce, right!? The magic material used for that trap is super rare, you know? The materials are all rare minerals native to Topageria after all, and even in Ga basically the only items that use it are the jails in the castle.

    And so, you jumped in, huh?

    I sighed. She really never learns

    It really is too worrying, so I really dont think I can leave you be anymore.

    My momentum got messed up. This isnt good. I didnte here to lecture here, but to propose. While I was thinking, I pinned down Camille who was trying to escape from my arms, and closed in on her. While touching her pink, smooth hair, I proposed.

    Camille.

    W-, What?

    Marry me?

    Hah?

    Camille Theres no need to go Hah? with such a stupid expression, right? The difference in our enthusiasm is so great that I want to cry.

    Eh-? Ehhh-?

    It took some time, but it seems that she finallyprehended the meaning of the words. It was cute how her face turned red, and she started getting flutered. But I couldnt let her escape at this point, so I decided to cautiously progress the conversation.

    Camille, your reply?

    While looking at my face, Camille froze up.

    I mean, well, I have to ask Otousama and stuff as well, so

    Already got his blessing.

    B-, But your family too

    No problems there either.

    Royce-sama

    He said hed be wishing for our happiness with all his heart.

    Sorry, but I had all of the escape routes she brought up, blocked.

    I actually intended for us to get married after we graduated from school. But weve withdrawn from school like this, and we probably wont be able to graduate either, so we can have it now, right? Ive already waited plenty after all.

    Achille?

    I decided that after we came back from reiming the town, Id properly tell this to you After this theres my job at the castle, and Ill be busy with dealing with the vi too, so I thought that there was no time but now.

    There are still a mountain of things I have to do after this. Completing the major clean-up of the castle, eliminating the extremists, reviving the areas around the Jade familys vi, and various things outside of that. Speaking frankly, there wont be a chance to say thister.

    And so, your reply?

    Uu

    After peering in on her face at close range, Camille embarassedly averted her eyes. Shes trembling like a small animal. She isnt doing this on purpose; she just naturally does these sort of things, so its amazing, isnt it?

    Do you, dislike me?

    Of course I dont dislike you.

    I see. Then youll agree, right?

    Eh-, ah- B-, But,

    Camille still hasnt given a decisive response.

    It cant be helped, so I decided to settle one other issue. So that I can check her position and status during emergencies, I prepared a cor- I mean, a ring. In order to avoid things like what happened this time, orst time.

    Give me your hand?

    Umm, um Achille?

    Hurry.

    YESH!

    I took Camilles slender hand, and had her wear the ring. She gazed at the ring in wonder.

    Huh? I cant take it off.

    Did she intend on immediately taking it off? Like I thought, making it so that she couldnt take it off was the correct decision.

    Its enchanted so that nobody except me can take it off.

    Is this something you made yourself, Achille?

    Thats right. It took me two years to make it, and I used magic to add various enchantments to it. It even covers magic tattoos bypasses.

    Amazing!

    It seems that rather than the issue of being unable to take it off, Camille is more interested in the fact that I crafted it. As expected of her.

    Achille, what if you became a magic item craftsman? Even though you have this much talent for it.

    And it seems that in her eyes, being a magic item craftsman is an even more important position than a prime minister.

    If I get fired from my job at the castle, I might think about it. Well, lets leave that topic aside for now.

    Mn?

    Wont you marry me?

    Uu

    The time when we got engaged, without waiting for her reply, Ipleted everything behind her back. The result of that was that up until just recently, I was stuck dealing with various troubles regarding the un-self-consciously super blockheaded Camille. So this time, I decided that I would go through with it after properly asking for her reply.

    Ill always treasure you. Ill properly do the work of your marquis family, and Ill get along with your father and the servants too.

    Hey, why are you asking now?

    Because its now. I want to be your husband even a little faster, and the truth is, even when we were going to school, I was always enduring

    It seems that Camille has noticed that Im in a rush. Having said that though, I dont want to worry her by telling about the various circumstances regarding Topageria.

    While I was feeling conflicted, Camille suddenly told me in a small voice.

    Okay.

    Its okay?

    Its something I brought up myself, but I didnt expect that she would reply so readily. Even I had decided that today I would be persistent until she agreed, its suddenly an anti-climax. But it doesnt change the fact that Im happy. Even though Camille realised that I hadnt told her all the circumstances, she still gave me her consent for the marriage. When I considered that, she was so lovely that I couldnt bear it.

    Your Highness you idiot! Why did you prepare this room so thoroughly with all this furniture? Of all things, to give us this room with this many temptations It was definitely on purpose. Camille is staring at me with her pure, raspberry eyes In order to call back my reason, I embraced her tightly, andposed myself.

    On that day, on paper, Camille and I became officially husband and wife. Various things were prepared in advanced, so both the documents and the witnesses wereplete. It seems that rather than the documents, Camille was more concerned with the magic item wedding ring but well, thats something for her to look forward to on the ceremony, isnt it?

    And so, it was decided that I would be moving to Camilles house.

    It ended up a little long as I was writing it, so the discovery of Camilles door sealing will be for next time (^^;)

 Volume 5 - Ch 13

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Achille, if anything at all troubles you here, just say so, okay?

    Thanks.

    Today is a rare asion where Camille is wearing a dress. The thick, cocoa brown dress goes quite well with her pink hair. Shes always wearing her work-use robes, but as youd expect, shes cute wearing clothes suitable for a young noble girl as well.

    It was immediately decided that Camille and I who are married on paper would be living together. From today onwards, Ill be living at the Rhodolite Marquis residence as the next head. Im happy about the jump ahead in life as well, but more than that, Im happy that Ill be living under the same roof as Camille. I wont tell her that though.

    Its the Rhodolite house that I visit quite often, but now that Im living here, a lot of things are fresh. Camille guided me to my room. She seems unusually restless. Her cheeks are just faintly tinged peachy pink.

    This is your room, Achille.

    Its probably something that the servants prepared, and the furnishing is all neatly set. Its located right next to Camilles room after all, and theres even a door in the middle of the room that leads to hers.

    I mean, I predicted something like this but its that kind of door, right? Calm down, calm down, me.

    I heard that it was a door that was forbidden entry, but since Im the next head, I can freelye and go anywhere in this mansion. The only thing was that I was warned that the Marquis and Camilles rooms were dangerous during their experiments, so it would be better to take care. The rules of the house are just like the people who live there in that theyre rxed in various ways But it seems like this will turn out to be the best ce Ive ever lived. The bar, the orphanage, and the viscounts estate werent really ces I could really callfortable.

    After I finished lunch, I discovered Camille in her room working on something in her room with the door wide open. While touching the door that connected our rooms, she was worrying about something while trying this, and trying that.

    Camille What are you doing?

    Ah-, Achille. I was thinking that Id fix the wall.

    Wall?

    Right. You see, isnt your room directly connected to my room here? I was thinking that there wouldnt be any privacy, so you wouldnt be able to really rx

    Hang on. Does she n on sealing the door?

    Camille tilted her head with an Is something the matter? look on her face. This girl is serious. It seems shes seriously thinking about whats best for me, and trying to seal the door for my sake.

    Umm, Achille Whats wrong?

    With a mystified expression, she looked back and forth between the door and I.

    Asking me with her eyes, What do I do about this?. When it seemed like I was going to hold my head at wits end, with perfect timing, a saviour appeared before me.

    Camille-sama, regarding tonights dinner

    Its the head maid of this estate; Aime. Her eyes were turned towards Camille inside the room.

    Umm, Camille-sama May I ask what on earth is it that youre doing?

    I was thinking that maaybe I should turn this door into a wall. If I can alwayse in and out, then wouldnt Achille be really pitiful?

    The head maid froze up at Camilles reply. And then, like that, she looked at me like she was looking at a pitiful person. I also felt sympathy for this maid who had served Camille for many years.

    I am terribly sorry, Achille-sama.

    No, its fine

    We exchanged awkward nces with each other.

    Afterwards Ill have a loooooooooooong talk with Camille-sama.

    Aime turned an extremely menacing nce towards thedy that she served.

    Mn? Whats wrong, you two? I wonder what colour we should make the wall.

    CAMILLE-SAMAAAAAAA!

    The chief maid who grabbed the hand of the startled Camille, dragged her downstairs just like that. Camille Your position in this house is so low.

    I left the education of my new wife to Aime, and decided just to watch over the oue.

 Volume 5 - Ch 14

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Wh-, Wh-, Wh-, What do I do!? That door.

    Had that sort of meaning?

    UWAHH, UWAAAAHHHHHHHHH-! I squatted, my face bright red.

    As youd expect, as a former high school girl, when I received Aimes lecture/exnation, I more or less understood. In other words, the door connecting my room and Achilles was a door with that kind of meaning! I reflexively held my head. Even when I try to feign calm, the various things in my head and the various things Aime said I cant clear them from my mind.

    AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

    Whats wrong, Camille?

    At the dinner table, Achille who didnt know anything was worried about me when I suddenly began screaming with a bright red face. What do I do? Because of Aime I cant stay calm now.

    It-I-I-I-I-Its nothing, you, know?

    Because of work, tonight my father is staying at the castle, and theres nobody at the estate but me, Achille, and the servants. B-, But today is the first day since Achille hase here. W-, Would it be normal for us to do that rite-of-passage thing for newlyweds? Aime said so too, after all.

    What do I do, what do I do?

    Camille, want this?

    Mn?

    When I looked, I found that Achille had scooped out some of the pseudo-crme caramel with a spoon.

    Ah. I do

    Okay, then open wide?

    When I opened my mouth wide, Achille fed me the pseudo-crme caramel himself. Hau~n, sweeet

    Can I have moore?

    !

    Huh? Whats wrong? Achilles ears are a little red. And it looks like hes muttering something under his breath. It was too quiet for me to hear anything though.

    Ah-, sorry Achille. If you want to eat it, then

    Eh-?

    His cobalt eyes spread in surprise.

    T-, Thats not it-, that isnt it.

    What. So I can have the rest then?

    I took up Achille on his You can have all of it. and decided to help myself to all of his pseudo-crme caramel.

    Camille, theres some stuck by your mouth, you know?

    Saying so, Achille ran his long finger along my lips.

    -nn.

    That moment, a somewhat ticklish and somewhat sweet sensation rushed through my body. What is this?

    ah- Achille-

    Seeing me like that, Achille stifled a chuckle.

    Cute.

    !

    C-, C-C-C-C-Cute he says? Its something that Achille almost never says to me! I can tell that the temperature of my face is shooting up.

    Achille narrowd his cobalt eyes lovingly, and looked at the flustered me. I could see Aime by the wall, fixedly staring at the fullyposed Achille and I who waspletely being led around by the nose, but right now I didnt have theposure toin to her.

    I cant rx

    Even in the bath that should have been a ce of rest, an incident awaited me. In front of me, who had been more carefully cleaned by the servants than usual, that appeared.

    Eh- UEHHHH?

    Whats the matter, Camille-sama?

    One of the maids called out to me while I was lost.

    Um, you know, this isnt my usual room wear, you know? Something differents been left here, but

    Please use that as your change of clothes today.

    This!?

    My eyes were fixed on that.

    I-, I cant. IcantIcantIcantIcantIcant!

    What is this? What is this overly sexy negligee!?

    I cant wear something like this

    With it still fluttering in my hand, I stood frozen.

    Seeing me like this, the maids spoke to me troubledly. With a slightly heartbroken expression.

    Please, please wear this. If you dont wear that, Camille-sama, we will be

    Eh-?

    I panicked. The maid before my eyes began to break down into tears.

    For being unable toplete our jobs, we will be driven away by Aime to a harsher workce

    Ehh-? Really?

    Arent I under huge responsibility!?

    For some reason, even the other maids began silently pressuring me with tearful eyes.

    D-, Dont cry. Ill make sure to tell Aime to cancel the staff transfer.

    You will wear it for us?

    They begged me with desperate expressions.

    No, like I said, Ill talk to

    You will wear it for us, right?

    No, like I said

    You will wear it for us, wont you?

    Yes.

    They pressured me into giving in But, if I say that I cant wear it now, I get the feeling that I wont leave the bathroom alive. Thats just how desperate they are.

    When I reluctantly epted, the maid joyfully dressed me in the sexy outfit. The other maids all gathered around me with a smile that seemed to say this is our chance as well. Its like the tragedy from earlier was a lie. Huh? Could it be that I was duped? Im realising it only now.

    But while I was in shock, the maids had changed me into the outfit in question. Even if Iin, its already toote.

 Volume 5 - Ch 15

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Come on, Camille-sama!

    U-, Uu-

    Hurry! Please prepare yourself!

    B-, But Whoa-?

    Because of the impact from being pushed from behind, I stumbled forward and fell down.

    Aahh-

    bang

    Falling forward because I lost my bnce, the door closed behind me with nobody else having gone through. I even heard the click of the door being locked. Damn you, Aime, locking me out! When the timees, I can unlock a lock of that level at any time, you know.

    Camille?

    !

    I could hear the voice of the owner of this room above me.

    Are you okay? Can you stand?

    Achille

    In the middle of the darkened room stood the childhood friend who had be my husband. His neat and sweet face was illuminated by the light in the room.

    Its night right now. Its pitch ck outside the windows, and the only source of light in the mansion are the lights from the magterns. Having finished bathing and being unwillingly changed by the maid into this outfit, I returned to my room but Aime who was lying in wait threw me through that door into the next room, and I ended up getting locked out of my own room. And because of that, I exposed the shameful sight of falling straight forward onto the floor.

    I-, Im fine. I can stand on my own, you know.

    With my two hands on the floor, just before I was about to get up myself, Achille helped me up.

    Youre not injured anywhere? Show me for a min- -?

    ?

    Nn? Whats wrong? Achilles words cut off part-way. Wondering what was up, I looked up at his face, and found that his expression was stiff for some reason. Not just his expression either; if I looked carefully, his whole body had stiffened up. Its an expression with noposure; rare for him.

    U-, Umm Are you okay, Achille? Are you, feeling bad?

    Theres no reply.

    Achille?

    I tried my best to bring his consciousness back by calling out to him, but there really was no change. His gaze was just fixed on one spot, and seemingly shaking,

    Geh-!

    When I looked carefully, I found that his gaze was on me How do I say this, isnt his eyes fixed above my sexy negligee!? Awawawa, speaking of which, I was wearing a super embarassing outfit!

    Its a dangerous outfit thats an incredibly short, in ck, slightly see-throughce nightwear. WAHH! UWAHHHHH! What do I do!? ACHILLE IS LOOKING AT MEEEEEEEE! A-, A hole! I want to bury myself in a hole! Where is it!? WHERES THE HOLE FOR ME TO BURY MYSELF IN-!?

    Because of my magnificently uposed behaviour, seeing that, Achille instead seemed to be gaining his footing back. A little calmness seemed to have returned to his expression.

    Camille.

    But, I can somewhat feel a feverish gaze on me.

    Uu- Um, umm. T-, There are circumstances for these clothes. The maids put it on, s-, so Ill be going, okay-? Uohh-

    Before I could finish speaking, I ended up strongly embraced.

    Camille.

    Like that, I was caught by Achille, and got carried all the way to the bed. He gently put me down on top of the fluffy quilt.

    Y-, Youre wrong-. This definitely isnt a hobby of mine

    You dressed like that for me, didnt you?

    L-, Like I said, circumstances

    Uwahhhh, whats with this shame-y? LET THIS ENDDD!

    Can I have a better look?

    No! Its embarassing!

    Unable to bear this any longer, I hid my whole body behind my two arms.

    Why? Its cute.

    Eh-?

    At that moment, my body softly hung in the air, before falling. I can feel the soft bed on my back.

    I could see in my vision Achille, and the ceiling of the canopy bed.

    Huh?

    This means I was, pushed down?

    A-, A-A-A-A-Achille.

    Watching me fall into unrest and behind doing strange things, Achille stifled augh. Every single one of his actions is amorous. He looked down on me with his passion-tinged cobalt eyes. Its like being frozen earlier was a lie.

    Camille, am I no good?

    T-, Thats not it. Dont I always tell you?

    Am I, scary?

    I shook my head back and forth.

    Y-, Youre not scary, you know. You definitely wont do anything cruel to me.

    Then, having me do that kind of thing to you, are you against it?

    He smoothly stroked the nape of my neck with his finger. As youd expect, even I could guess his intentions.

    -, hii- m not, against it

    Its not that Im against it. Probably. Im incredibly embarassed through.

    I-, Its okay I dont dislike you, after all.

    Thats how it is. Whatever I say, I like him. I cherish him. I have no objections with marrying him either.

    I wont do anything cruel to you. I promise.

    Mn

    I can believe in his words. Even right now, so that he doesnt scare me, hes carefully making sure Im okay. I prepared myself, and embraced him.

    I believe you. Its you, after all.

 Volume 5 - Ch 16

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Mm, mmn

    My eyes lightly opened.

    So bright

    My body feels heavy for some reason. I might have overslept. The birds are chirping pii pii. There are no sparrows in this world, so you dont hear chuunchuun first thing in the morning.

    Morning.

    I could see a pair of tiredly narrowed cobalt eyes right in front of me.

    ?

    Why is he here? And moreover, hes not wearing a shir- Ah. Right.

    UWAHHHHHHHHHH-!

    I just recalled it! Ist night.

    HA, HAWAWAWAWA,

    Could you not scream right in my ear first thing in the morning?

    Even though he threw abusive words at me, Achilles voice was sweet.

    Um, umm-

    Unable to hide my unrest, I bolted upright.

    - Camille, I can see.

    ! Hyah-

    I forgot! Right now Im not wearing anything either. I flusteredly dove back under the feather quilt.

    Youre being too agitated.

    Youre being too calm. Im kind of getting the feeling that for a while now Ive been getting flustered on my own, but

    With an expression that seemed like it could melt anything, Achille pulled me into a hug. Fuwahh So Achille can make expressions like this too. Seeing this expression I wasnt used to on my childhood friend, my face was just about boiling.

    Theres no way that Im calm, you know? Even now.

    Being I was glued to him in a hug, I could tell from his beating heart what he was actually feeling. I get the feeling that its beating a little faster than usual.

    Ah-, Achille.

    Huhu Camille, you were cutest night, you know.

    Fugoh-!

    Theres definitely no mistake that my heart is thumping wildly enough that we cant evenpare. Stuck together like this, its probablypletely obvious to Achille too. Uuu, its embarassing

    Ill be going to work at lunch today, so we can stay like this a bit longer, right?

    Like that, Achille showed no signs of parting the arms he had wrapped around me.

    Um, Achille. Id like to get changed, but

    Why?

    Well, I mean

    Seeing me try to break out of his arms, he gave me a teasing grin.

    If youre feeling that cold, how about I warm you up?

    Eh-? T-, Thats not- Nn-!

    In the end, my wish to leave Achilles bed didnte true until after lunch.

 Volume 5 - Ch 17

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Achille~ Congrattions on losing your virity~

    Pff-

    I almost spat out the ck tea I was drinking by ident. What a thing to start the conversation with, Your Highness! It was a blessing that there was nobody else around.

    After getting to my workce, just as I was about to begin with, His Highness intruded on me. Hes grinning form ear to ear. Since its him, I knew that he would appear before long, but hes unexpectedly fast, huh?

    You are getting in the way of my work, but is there anything you need? If not, then please leave.

    Getting shy? Was it that great? Camilles first-

    Miss Beatrix. Shall I reveal to her about how you stalked her, Your Highness?

    -!

    His Highness shut his mouth in a fluster. Hard to imagine from his sparkling appearance, he loves gossip. The gossip within the castle is one of his favourite things, and asionally he grasps hold of some ridiculously crazy information.

    But, Camille was cutest night. Incredibly cute. Having her turn bright red, and asking for it with her raspberry eyes moist with tears was honestly Ah-, crap. I was supposed to be in the middle of working. I frantically stilled my loosening expression.

    Is Camille off work today?

    Yes. I dont want her overdoing it today.

    Ohhh?

    His Highness smirked happily. Thanks to his preparations behind the scenes, I was able to marry Camille without a problem. Because of that, Im thankful to him but, it seems like Im going to be seen through in various ways, so Im feeling a littleplicated about it.

    And so you see, since Beatrix ising, I thought Id hold my engagement party.

    His Highness fiance, a Counts daughter, Beatrix Tapas, from the neighbouring country, was presently on her way to castle. Apparently shes riding in a pnquin, in the middle of an exaggerated bridal procession. I was thinking that it wouldve been fine even if they just avoided all the annoying steps and took a teleportation circle here, but Topageria probably has its own pretentions and customs and various annoying things. They decided to pick teleporting to the capital, and then donig their old fashioned procession from there.

    Your Highness, though the inside of the castle is better than before, it is still not perfect

    Yeah, I still havent finished cleaning. Thats why Im nning on cleaning up the remaining garbage at the engagement party.

    His Highness intends on dragging out to the engagement party, those nobles who he hasnt been able to get a good hold of thus far.

    Even though you know that it might put Miss Beatrix in danger, you will still say such things?

    Moreover, therell be a huge crowd of people attending. If possible, Id prefer there not to be any problems.

    I want to hurry it up. This isnt the time for the castle to be disagreeing with each other after all, and I want it to calm down quickly so that we can turn our gazes outside.

    Certainly, the remnants of the extremists who are hiding outside the country are a worry. I understand what His Highness is trying to say as well.

    Understood. Anyway, Miss Beatrix was supposed to be arriving soon, wasnt she?

    Mmn. Shes heading here now. Shes supposed to arrive at night.

    His Highness is in a good mood. Well, as for me, as long as my workload doesnt increase, Im fine either way though.

    And so, Id like you to lend me Camille tonight. Shes on good terms with Beatrix, isnt she? Im sure Beatrix will be uneasy in a new environment too, so I was thinking about giving her somebody to talk to.

    Damn him. It looks like hes thinking of using Camille as a buffering agent with his fiance.

    I refuse. Did you intend on calling Camille here on her rest day?

    Youre refusing for another reason, right? Thats so unfair. Having it so that only you get to get all clingy with your wife.

    Certainly, Im nning on ying with Camille once I get home today. If you understand, then dont give out unreasonable orders, please.

    Ill be getting busy soon, so I will have to begin staying overnight at the castle. Please let me go home for tonight, at least.

    Ehhh,e on. Ill give you a good room you can share with Camille, so you can just flirt all you like there, cant you? Shell be getting busy soon as well, right? You two can just use the same room.

    I do not think it is a good idea to mix business and pleasure.

    Either way, once Camille bes my bodyguard, shell be staying at the castle anyway, righttt? Sorry, Achille.

    d in a sparkling aura, His Highness smiled sweetly at me.

    snap

    Ah.

    Crap, I clenched my fist too hard and my pen broke. I flusteredly used restoration magic to repair it.

    Well then, thats how itll be.

    Letting out refreshingness all over the ce with a smile, His Highmess preparedmunication magic. He probably ns on contacting Camille directly. And Camille would never refuse a request from His Highness.

    snap

    Ah.

    It broke again.

    Royce-sama~ Good evening!

    Having arrived at the castle, Camille waved at His Highness with a smile.

    I was wondering whether or not to restrain my cheating wife, but after that, she immediately ran to my side. Perhaps because of what happened this morning, once she was by my side, she couldnt calm down at all and began to fidget So cute.

    After taking Camilles small hand, I found that it was surprisingly cold.

    Did youe by air?

    Mn, its faster that way, isnt it?

    Youll get cold outside, so you need to wear warmer clothing than this, right?

    Sorry, sooorry. It was a call from Royce-sama, so I was in a rush, you see.

    I was relieved that there wasnt a pen in my hand. To think that I was this narrow-minded a person Its quitete, but I only just realised. Various things that Id been suppressing seemed like they would going to explode all at once.

    Because the issue with Miss Beatrix was something arranged in secret, were all moving to His Highness room first.

    And so you see, so that Beatrix gets used to this ce, Id like you to help out, Camille.

    Understood. It would be good if you could quickly get along with her, wouldnt it, Royce-sama?

    Yeah

    To the reply of his airheaded subordinate, His Highness agreed in a slightly depressed tone. Its His Highness who took a highly calcted and overbearing approach to this, but it seems that hes worrying about Miss Beatrix in his own way. As much as possible, Id like to help His Highness.

 Volume 6 - Ch 1

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Ah, Im not sure if Ive mentioned this before, but anime girls go mukiiiiiiii! when angry. I think it was originally a sound effect that was a corruption of mukatuku, but not entirely sure. At any rate, its an onomatopoeia that represents getting pissed off, but anime characters are weird in that they actually read out such onomatopoeia so yeah. The monkey-esque ones do this in particr (like Catherine or Wakaba for example).

    Ah, also, the Mm~mn is a sound that goes mm(high)-mm(low)-mm(mid) also written as Uun. Its basically the opposite of the English Mhm, and is a sound that you make to signify a no. You hear it sometimes in English as well, but its nowhere near as standard as in Japanese.

    How depressing.

    I gazed at the gradually darkening sky from inside the pnquin. Neither the luxurious Topagerian styled clothing prepared for this day, nor the various ornaments I was wearing offered my heart any constion.

    Huu, in the end I wasnt even able to see Baka-samas face, huh?

    This alone couldnt be helped. As nothing more than a noble girl, Im not in a position to give my opinion after receiving an order from the state. Both Baka-sama and my groom are royalty, so I might be able to see him again.

    I wonder if its about time that we arrive at the castle. The surroundings have suddenly gotten noisier.

    Beatrix-sama, please do not leave the pnquin.

    The maid that apanied me said this in a voice filled with tension.

    Why? Whats going on?

    Unable to bear with it, I flew out of the pnquin. The moment that I did, a nearby man charged at me with a de. An assassin? Troublingly, I wasnt wearing my sword at the moment, so I took up a stance to fight barehandedly.

    Beatrix! Go back!

    The moment that I was about to take a step forward, a familiar voice called out from above. And at the same time, a bolt of lightning struck right into the apparent assassin.

    Miss Camille?

    Looks like you arent injured, huh. Sorry, something a little annoying came up. Ill immediately fix it up.

    Saying that, Miss Camillended nearby. Her pink hair fluttered in the night wind. In her left hand was an ergened quill. She was probably using this to fly in the sky.

    A part of the Royal Prince Faction has been running rampant you see.

    Am I, being targettined?

    That man had turned his de against me.

    Mn. There are some idiots thinking that theyd hurt you, and drag the King Factions name through the mud.

    They certainly are idiots. I wonder if the Royal Prince Faction is trying to drag the Topagerian Kings name through the mud instead.

    After a while, the calm returned to my surroundings. It seems that all the assassins have been apprehended. A number of burly Ga knights came towards me. Leading them was

    Ra

    Raiga Transbaal! With silver hair and blue eyes, there stood the prince that I worshipped.

    Sorry. Some of my fathers subordinates did something stupid.

    Y-, Yeah

    The real live Raiga, just now, spoke to me! I know that hes Meis Danna-sama, but my heart fluttered despite myself.

    Are you alright?

    Y-, Yes-!

    Geez, Raiga-sama. If theyre your subordinates then at least keep a proper eye on them please~

    Miss Camille is actuallyining to that Raiga-sama!

    So noisy. I can send this words right back at Royce.

    Mukiiiiiii!

    It seems that Miss Camille and Raiga are close. Theyre cracking jokes at each other.

    Beatrix, lets go.

    Miss Camille? Eh-

    She suddenly pulled my arm, and sat me down on the quill.

    Hold on tight, okay? Raiga-samaaa! Ill leave the rest to youuu.

    Ah-, oi! Tattoo woman! Are you trying to push all the bothersome stuff onto me!?

    Ignoring Raigas scream, Miss Camille flew towards the castle, with me on the broom as well.

    Dont worry. I had the bridal procession continue all the way until the castle. As though nothing happened, you see.

    Camille smiled cheekily. It seems that after I flew away, the bridal procession carried the empty pnquin to the castle.

    Our surroundings are alreadypletely covered by the darkness of the night. It was a luxurious outfit, but the Topagerian bridal costume I was wearing had a lot of exposure, so the night wind was cold. The outfit I was wearing today was the one for weing the bride, and on the day of the wedding, Ill be wearing something different.

    Arent you cold, Miss Camille?

    Under her robe, she was wearing a vest, blouse and skirt; themon clothing for female magicians in this country.

    Hmm, its cold but I guess Im used to it. Ahh, youre cold, arent you? Wear this.

    With that, she tried to give me her robe.

    That wont do. Youll get cold, Miss Camille.

    I see.

    After saying that, Miss Camille lit up a number of mes around the quill in session. Seeing them float in the dark night felt a little fantastical.

    Is the cold any better?

    Eh-, yeah.

    It certainly does feel warm around the mes.

    I have magic for blowing warm and and stuff, but they have the downside of drying your skin. Should I try mixing in steam with it?

    Nah This much is plenty.

    I grew up in the desert, so Its not like Im that sensitive to the cold.

    After intruding on the castle grounds, she headed for the window of a noticably high tower.

    Its fine. The assassins are all finished after all.

    Thats not what I was worried about.

    All the assassins or whatever were probably caught back there.

    Hey, Beatrix?

    Whats up?

    It might be weirding from me, but

    It seemed that Miss Camille was struggling to pit the words out, but eventually those small and pretty lips parted.

    Royce-sama is a good person, you see. Get along, okay?

    Royce Ga. My biggest worry at this moment. The hated man that basically used a sneak attack to have me wedded into Ga. Sorry to Miss Camille, but I dont feel like getting along with him in the slightest, so I gave her a vague smile. Still on the broom, she headed through the window into the building.

    I have returneddd! I spotted Beatrix-sama, so I kind of brought her along as well!

    Thanks, Camille.

    Standing next to His Highness Royce as he thanked Camille with a broad smile, was Achille who was giving off an incredibly dark aura. Scary! Since I knew what he was like in the game, it was incredibly scary!

    Achille, Im back~

    I gazed at Miss Camille with a look of respect, as she ignored his aura and ran over to him.

    You said that you wouldnt get involved in any fights, right? So then why did you attack the enemy?

    Mn~? What are you king about~?

    Its pointless to try and fool me. Thanks to that ring, I know all the things that youre guilty of.

    Geh-! You can tell that much?

    As Miss Camille tried to run for it, Achille caught her by the scruff of the neck

    You broke our promise, didnt you?

    Achille who was whispering in an elegant and sexy voice sounded somewhat happy, contrary to his words.

    I-, Im sorry! Im very sorryyy! I wont do it againnn!

    On the other hand, for some reason Miss Camilles eyes were getting more and more teary.

    Shall we go?

    Just like that, Miss Camille was dragged out through the door

    Hang on, Achille. I said that Id be borrowing Camille for the evening, didnt I?

    You did borrow her. The time limit has passed. Please work something out on your own for the rest.

    Achille ignored his lords orders Since this was also different from the game, it was refreshing.

    R-, ROYCE-SAM-

    -BANG- The shutting door cut off the rest of Miss Camilles cry for help.

    My my, Camille might end up useless until tomorrow evening now.

    So muttered His Highness Royce as he looked at the door with aplicated expression.

 Volume 6 - Ch 2

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Because Miss Camille was taken away by Achille right now, only His Highness and I are left in the room. What an incredibly awkward silence. I wonder if this is His Highness office or something. There are documents in the corner of the tidy desk, but arge amount of documents are stored away on the bookshelf.

    Wee to my room, Beatrix.

    With an unreadable smile, His Highness Royce caled out to me. Kuh- Itse!

    Beautiful blonde hair, and azure-coloured eyes. Just by standing there, the ce bes more gorgeous. Its that sort of feeling.

    My room you say?

    This is His Highness room? I got myself brought to his room? Hey, Miss Camille! What do you mean by this!? Come back! Even if I me my friend, Ive already been brought here. Theres nothing I can do now.

    You dont have to be that nervous, you know? I wont do anything after all.

    ! I-, I have no such worries-!

    I seee.

    Whats with this? Even though I was prepared toy on one or two or three or fourints I had my enthusiasm stolen from me. I better pull myself together and really let him have it!

    What do you mean by this-? T-, To do something like getting engaged to me And whats more, in apletely arbitrary way!

    Ahh, that. You didnt hear anything at all, I see.

    His Highness gave me a pitying look with a troubled expression. Why are you making such a face! Even though the one troubled here is me.

    I honeslty wanted to go through the proper steps for this, but the situation wouldnt allow me, you see. Ill apologise for taking a slightly forceful approach to it Sorry.

    This does not fall in the boundaries of slightly! I-, I do believe that I told Your Highness that I could not answer your feelings.

    If I remember correctly, I certainly did tell him my feelings.

    Hmm. I dont think that I said a word about giving up though.

    His Highness shed the same smile that he did at the time.

    Wha-

    He didnt seem to have the slightest intention of backing down.

    Your love was unrequited, right?

    W-, Well yes, but?

    It seems that he hasnt been able to narrow it down to who the person actually was.

    I have no intention of bing your wife. Even if you keep me with your authority, please know that my heart wont act as you want.

    Could it be that Im really hated? This sure is troubling.

    Aplete change from before, now he was looking at me with an expression that didnt look troubled in the slightest. His clear, blue eyes were very beautiful. Those irises of his alone are just like his cousins (gasp)Hah-! This isnt the time for escapism.

    I dont know what he was thinking about, but His Highness was observing me with a stare.

    U-, Umm.

    Its alreadyte, and Im sure that youre tired. A room has been prepared, so feel free to rest there.

    Hah-, eh-, umm.

    While I was feeling nervous, I was brought out of the room by the maids, and was moved to the neighbouring room.

    Please rest as you wish in this room.

    It was a neatly arranged room. It was probably prepared just for me. With white as the base colour, small things in light purple were ced here and there. When the dor closed, the room was instantly filled with silence.

    I wonder what Im going to do from now on.

    No, well, bing His Highness Royces bride is a given though. Im feeling kind of really depressed.

    Even though things werent meant to turn out like this.

    Theres nothing I can do at this point.

    Im regretting the fact that I didnt abuse him as much as I wanted earlier. Even though I should have cursed him more, for some reason when Im in front of the person himself, my enthusiasm gets dampened. Apologising to me like that Its cheating. Even though it wouldve been great had he been more viinous.

    While feeling gloomy with no ce to run to, Iy down on the wide bed. It doesnt feel like Ill get any sleep tonight.

 Volume 6 - Ch 3

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    In the afternoon, I was thinking of showing my face in His Highness room, but the problem began when I arrived there I found the person in question zealously peeking into the neighbouring room. Do your damn work. His Highness was clinging to the door to the room that neighboured his. Theres nothing more suspicious looking than this.

    Even though it was my day off

    Had I known things would be like this, I wouldve preferred to stay with my bride more. Even though its a rare day off, to have to have left her in my room and headed out here was so regretful that I couldnt help but get irritated. While I was in a small daze thinking about how great the word bride sounded, His Highnessined in a small voice.

    Achille, dont be so loud.

    Even while telling me this, his gaze was directed into the room.

    Did something happen to Beatrix-sama?

    Even without going out of his way to peek like this, knowing him, he couldve just used a magic item or something to hide inside the room.

    I think I might be hated by Beatrix more than I expected Id better think of some countermeasures.

    Seeing His Highness gaze my way with an expression deep in thought, I turned my face away. Sorry to him, but after doing that, did he think she would like him in the slightest? Ill just leave him. He should give some serious thought to what he did to her. And then do his work. I went and tore His Highness from the door. If by some small chance this were revealed to Miss Beatrix, thered be no way to recover.

    The other day, we finally managed a great catch of the Royal Prince Faction members that finally showed their true colours. Thanks to the cooperation of Raiga, the Royal Princes son, we were able to uncover almost all of them, shockingly easily. All thats left is the King Faction. As for them, His Highness ns to clean them up in one go during Miss Beatrixs engagement party. And then hurry up and catch that schoolgirl that fled the country, no matter what methods we have to use. I dont trust the Topagerian king either.

    Your Highness, this is the invitation list for the party.

    There are plenty of people that Id like to leave off that list, but unfortunately my personal judgement doesnte into it. The name of the second Topagerian prince is on there too.

    Thanks.

    The preparations for the venue are proceeding without a problem.

    Got it. So Achille Lend me Camille today?

    Id like him to stop nonchntly inserting self-interest into our work-talk. Lending my bride to His Highness? Its obvious that I wont.

    I will not. You already borrowed her yesterday, did you not? We are newlyweds, so I wish you would show some consideration.

    youre so cruel.

    His Highness was smiling, but his aura was gradually getting darker.

    Achille, you know, I think that its really unfair that youre the only one having all sorts of fun. I hope that youll consider youself and Camille as having no breaks until things go smoothly between Beatrix and I. Ill ask Camille to leave tonight free so theres no problems on that end. I think that as long as I ask her direction, shell listen after all.

    Your Highmess

    Hearing my lords well-nned and ridiculous statement, I was stumped.

    This is the worst. The worst way of taking venting his anger. Its harassment on a level that had it not been for the deal with Camilles engagement, and being saved from that schoolgirls forbidden magic, Id immediately feel like changing sides to Raiga.

    Understood. I will try my best to cooperate.

    There was nothing else I could say. I have to hurry up and hook the two of them up. For the sake of my newlywed life.

 Volume 6 - Ch 4

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    In Japanese, bisque and parians dolls and the like belong to the group western dolls rather than just dolls. The reason is because Japan had its own flourishing doll culture. So uh. How am I trying to exin this again? Sorry, woke up at like 5 this morning, orst morning rather, and its 1 now. Um. Right, so uh, .Hm. Right, so like, we say you look just like a doll, but to evoke the same image, Japanese people might say western doll. Because if we take Japan to be the default, a doll might look like this: Um, of course, when they say you look like a doll they probably mean the more modern stuff, and not the traditional, ugly porcin dolls. Uh. Damn it. Anyway, if you see western doll in a Japanese novel, just use your default image of doll. All it means is that it isnt a traditional Japanese-style doll. Not necessarily traditional western dolls.

    Also note that in Japanese, ck stomached (haraguroi) means ck-hearted or wicked. If youve seen Log Horizon anime, shouldve heard haraguro megane all the time.

    A fragrance likevender wafted about through the elegant but empty room. I even had make-up put on me, looking like a western doll, and apletely off-looking reflection greeted me in the mirror.

    Hah This isnt suitable for me, is it.

    The kind maids would asionally bring in books or sweets to help my boredom but Im at my limit. To begin with, I wasnt the type to sit around doing nothing.

    I think Ill leave my room.

    Fortunately, there isnt anybody around, so I can leave my room without me. I opened the door and looked left and right around the surroundings.

    Its not as though Ive been ordered Dont walk about or anything, so its fine. Im just going to have a bit of a look about the castle

    There shouldnt be any problem as long as I return to the room in the end. I decided to have a stroll around the castle, doubling as checking for an escape route in case things really came down to it.

    Beatrix-sama?

    Hie-?

    The moment when I closed the door and had just taken a step forward, somebody called out to me.

    Ah-

    This is bad.

    It seems that I bumped into Prince Royces adjutant, Achille, just as he left the neighbouring room. Such bad timing Am I going to be told off for arbitrarily leaving my room? Perhaps because the game knowledge of him takes priority, Im a little bad with dealing with him.

    I met Achille Jade back when we went to the mountains behind the school. However, I dont recall speaking to him very much. At the time, he had his hands full looking over the master of getting lost, Miss Camille, as she was always about to talk off somewhere else. Because of that, he was in no position to chat.

    Achilledono.

    Calling me Achille is fine, Beatrix-sama. Are you going out?

    Achille politely asked me this with a friendly smile. But I know your about it, know. That the pits of your stomach are a pitch-ck ck hole!

    Yes, well, it would be too boring to just stay in my room all day, so I wanted to have a bit of a stroll around the castle, but

    Certainly, it might be difficult to spend the whole day in the same room, mightnt it. However, I cannot rmend leaving your room without telling anybody. It brings us shame, but idiots like the ones on the day of your bridal procession may be lurking in the castle after all Whats more,

    Aaachiiilleeee

    As though cutting off his words, a lovely, bell-like voice rang out from the other side of the hallway.

    The moment that it did, Achille made a troubled expression.

    Eh-

    Unable to hide my shock, I looked at the rare expression of Achille who normally never drops his pokerface. Even though in the game, he was supposed to be a character that always had a smile stered on In the game, no matter which sprite or image it was, he was basically always drawn with the same expression. The only time that his expression changed was when he looked at the burikko noble girl, Camille, with eyes of scorn or loathing. The fact that his expression changes when its something to do with Camille is the same as in the game, but I feel closer to this Achille with the troubled face.

    I could see Miss Camille heading our way from behind him, with somewhat unsteady steps. Why is she tottering like that? Is she drunk just like the time of the entrance ceremony?

    Camille, are you fine with walking now?

    The overprotective Achille ran up to her, and in return, Miss Camille shot him a resentful re.

    -Whose fault is this?

    At that point, exhausted, she fell to the ground. Whats going on? Im worried.

    Camille!

    Achille flusteredly held her up in his arms. As usual, theyre a pair that really feel out of ce.

    If you cant walk, then go back to the room. If something happened while you were like this

    Like I said, whose fault is this?

    She seemed to be in a bad mood for some reason, but Miss Camille who was clinging to Achilles neck in a princess carry was really very cute.

    Um, M- Camille-sama. If it pleases you, how about resting in my room?

    Achille probably has more work after this. Hed probably lose a lot of time bringing Miss Camille back to her room. And whats more, it doesnt seem like Ill get to have a stroll around the castle at this rate.

    Eh-, is that okay?

    Its no big deal after all. I was bored, after all.

    I see. Then lets head to your room, Beatrix. Achille.

    With Miss Camille suddenly looking in Achilles direction, Achille was once again making a troubled expression as he carried her. I think shes amazing to be able to have him make such a face.

    Dont stay out toote, okay? Theres work tomorrow, right?

    Achille reluctantly consented.

    Mn, dont worry.

    It seems that you havent been made too useless, huh?

    I said I was fine.

    ..*

    Mn?

    This scene

    I was thinking that Id seen this scene somewhere before, when I realised that it resembled the conversations I had with Baka-sama. She probably troubles him a lot, but because I could see the kindness, my lips unconsciously curved into a smile. Goodness. Even though its only my second day in the Ga castle. Im already homesick. I was the same way when I first came to this world though. It seems that Im no good with dramatic changes to my environment.

 Volume 6 - Ch 5

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Ehhh? Miss Camille You married Achille? And whats more, it just happened recently?

    Almost as soon as I invited her into the room, Miss Camille gave me a shocking confession.

    Right, right.

    With my shock beingpletely unrted to her, she was currently in a daze eating the candied flowers that the maids brought. Miss Camille bringing the petite and colourful flowers to her lips was extremely picturesque. In Topageria where there are many desert, flowers were a high ss luxury, and so sweets like this were new and fresh.

    When, exactly?

    After we came back from our expedition, I got proposed to by Achille. Before I knew it, Id signed the papers though.

    Eh- Miss Camille?

    Before I knew it Wai-, arent you a little bit too careless? Didnt you fall into a trap set by His Highness and Achil-

    N-, No, nevermind. Congrattions on your marriage.

    If the person herself has noints, then it isnt my ce to say anything. The two of them seem to get along.

    Thanks, Beatrix.

    Camille gave me a smile as she once again stuffed her cheeks with sweets.

    By the way, Beatrix. Theres something Id like to talk to you about, but is that okay?

    After having tea and having a breather, Miss Camille fixed up her posture. Rare for her, today she wasnt wearing a robe for once, but was instead wearing a dress. Seeing her like this, she really looks like a noble girl. I say that its a dress, but unlike the thing Im wearing right now, hers is just a simple one though.

    What is it?

    You know how we took leave from school to recuperate and rest?

    Yeah You mean how the three of your fell ill?

    She nodded at my words.

    It actually wasnt an illness The truth is that we were attacked by that game Heroine, and had forbidden magic cast on us. We were resting to recover from that, and take up countermeasures.

    Ehh-?

    Achille covered me, and in the end I was saved by Royce-sama.

    Without me knowing, the rtionship between the Heroine and the Hearts Faction has turned into something incredible. Ive never talked to her before, but she even used forbidden magic on somebody else without hesitating, so she might have quite the personality.

    Why did you be enemies?

    It has to do with the Revolution End that I talked to you about before.

    Miss Camille told me about the acts of themoner extremists, and the things that the Heroine did. From the way she spoke about things, it seems that the Heroine was one-sidedly antagonistic with Miss Camille. Judging based on the activities of themoner extremists, she probably has more of a problem with nobles in general, rather than Miss Camille personally.

    The Heroine who cant be matched even by an elite magician of this country, Miss Camille Although it was a setting from the game, she really is a frightening existence.

    And so, it seems that shes hiding in Topageria at the moment.

    I see I heard that soldiers were sent into the academy to catch the Heroine. I also heard that she escaped though.

    I didnt know the circumstances behind it because they were concealing it though.

    Royce-sama asked for the Topagerian Kings cooperation or rather, it was more like saying because the Heroinees from Topageria, take some responsibility.

    Speaking of which, the Heroine was adopted by Topagerias Cintron family, wasnt she.

    You know about it?

    A little When I entered the academy, I was curious about each character, so I did a little research. It was just their official history though.

    Thinking that it wouldnt do if I by some small chance fell into the same disaster as the in-game Beatrix, I roughly researched all the characters of the game. On the surface, there didnt seem to be a problem. However, with the Heroine and herplicated background, Im regretting not researching further.

    Once we settle the chaos in our country, we n on capturing the Heroine and the remnants of the extremists.

    Miss Camilles gaze pierced right through me.

    And so if possible, Id like it if you cooperated too, Beatrix. I do feel sorry for asking for a favour on top of getting you wrapped up into this though.

    Now that Ive be His Highness Royces fiance, it certainly isnt another persons problem anymore, huh

    I ced my hand to my brow. Things have really be troublesome.

    This is about your engagement, Beatrix, but Im wondering if it isnt also somehow rted. Only Royce-sama and Achille know the details though.

    Because Miss Camilles specialty is magic, it seems that shes estranged from the details of diplomacy. Or rather, shes just tossed it to them wholesale and left it all to them.

    It seems that Ill need to speak to His Highness Royce one-on-one. If possible, I dont want to get involved, but this time it cant be helped. His Highness and Achille I need to make clear their motives. Being used and having my life swung left and right without me knowing is something that Im long sick of. Unlike Camille, theres no way that I can just trust thempletely.

 Volume 6 - Ch 6

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Right now Im in Beatrixs room.

    Trying my best with my unsteady legs, I had thankfully made it as far as in front of Royce-samas room, but I hit my limit and couldnt stand anymore. Achille happened to be there and carried me after I copsed though. To begin with, its all Achilles fault that I became like this.

    It seems that the room next to Royce-samas was prepared for Beatrix, and by chance she was also standing there in front of her door. I know now why husband and wife have rooms next to each other, so Im not going to stick my nose in it. After all, I get the feeling that if I cause trouble for myself, Im going to go through a rough time at Achilles hands again. Even though hes got such a skinny body, to think he had that much endurance Its fraud.

    Um, M- Camille-sama. If it pleases you, how about resting in my room?

    Beatrix gave me a much a much wanted suggestion, so I took her up on her offer. Listening to Achille say this, and that, and dont stay out toote was tiring though Im not a kid, so I know that much. Geez.

    Ever since I got married to him, hes been nagging me even more. Hes almost like a mother, warning me about thiss, and thatt. But despite saying this and that, he definitely wouldnt give up on me. Im aware that Ive gone in some weird directions as a woman, so I want to treasure Achille who says that Im fine like this anyway. I have no intention of changing the direction Im heading in though.

    And so, going back to my first topic, it was decided that Id be passing the time in Beatrixs room.

    I had something I wanted to talk to Beatrix about as well after all, so it was a good chance. I told Beatrix the rough details about what the Heroine and extremists had done, and how we would be catching them in the future. Shes the person who might be our next queen, so I thought it would be better to tell her about to danger of the extremists. At the same time, feelings of guilt about her marriage welled up in me. ording to what I heard from Achille, it was an engagement brought about by Royce-samas unrequited feelings, the situation with the Heroine hiding in Topageria, and various other things. When I tried asking in further detail, for some reason Achille was evasive about it Why?

    Personally speaking, Id like Beatrix toe to like Royce-sama. In the past, I probably would have been jealous of her, but right now I already have Achille as a husband. Although I still think of Royce-sama as wonderful, it isnt a romantic feeling anymore. In that cause, Id like to cheer him on.

    But. When I considered how Id tell her about all this, a number of problems came up. How should I exin this to her? Im not entirely clear about the situation, so there are lots of parts that I cant fully exin.

    Royce-sama brought up the issue of the Heroine and said Wed Beatrix to me and help me capture the Heroine and Ill overlook some of Topagerias responsibility in this to a degree. If you dont, its war. Its no good. If I said this, Royce-sama looks like a viin. Then how about, Im making Miss Beatrix the queen of Ga, so go help us out with catching the Heroine? This is no good either. Its filled with Royce-samas self-interest.

    Having only heard bits and pieces, theres a limit to my ability to exin things. Its no good. I guess it might really be better to have Royce-sama exin things himself. Hes the one who chose her as a bride, after all. I decided to pass all of the exining to Royce-sama. Ill leave the rest to you.

    Oh thats right, Ill call Mei-chan over as well next time. Shes here at the castle too, after all. Shes pregnant so she shouldnt do anything strenuous though.

    Eh- pregnant?

    The surprised Beatrix rose her head, and stared right at me.

    Right, with Raiga-samas child.

    -I, see.

    Beatrixs eyes were swimming. She was a Raiga fan, so she might have received quite a shock.

    Looking out the window, I found that the sun had already set. Id feel bad about staying too long in Beatrixs room, so I stood up. It can feel more power in my legs than before.

    It looks like youre still struggling to stand up, but are you alright? Arent you feeling ill?

    Im fine. This is, umm.

    The words were stuck in my throat. My cheeks immediately started to burn. I-, I cant say it Because Achille did this and that to me, I ended up unable to walk properly.

    Look now, it looks like you even have a fever.

    T-, Thats not it. This is, I, just dont have any strength in my legs Umm,st night.

    Eh-? Ehh-, could it be Ah-, AHHH!

    It seems that Beatrix finally understood. Her face also turned red in a sh. My face burned even hotter S-, So embarassing. Because it was so embarassing, I couldnt raise my head, and just flopped onto the couch. Its a bit of a breach of manners, but its just us two here so there shouldnt be a problem.

    W-, Well, youre newlyweds after all.

    Beatrix gave an odd follow-up.

    Uuu

    Achille is different than how he seems, huh!

    Please, just stop speaking

    Uuuuu

    After crouching for a few minutes, I somehow managed to get my blushing under control. Alright. Time to withdraw.

    Beatrix, umm, thats how it is, as far as its possible, Id be happy if you cooperated with us. I know that it isnt my ce to say this after all thats happened though.

    Y-, Yeah. As long as its something I can do, Ill cooperate with you, Miss Camille.

    Thanks.

    Because a bit of the embarassment was left over from before, its still a little awkward.

    This is my personal opinion, but if youre going to directly face the Heroine, then I think that in the end, pulling out the secret character would be effective.

    Secret character?

    You dont know about him?

    I tried thinking back to the past. Speaking of which, the might have been something like that, but I ended up here without finding out who it was. And Id forgotten they existed all this time. Even the walkthrough sites at the time still hadnt uploaded any information on the secret character after all

    Sorry, I ended up here while I was still ying the game, so I only know about the four romance and friendship routes. Did you clear the route for the secret character, Beatrix?

    Yeah, after you clear the four romance and friendship routes, as well as all the bad ends for the protagonist, he appears.

    Was that how it was? I ended uping here while I was in the middle of clearing the bad ends after all. The bad ends took an emotional toll after all, so they were really tough for weaklings like me, after all. So naturally my game clearing speed fell. I mean, the Heroine just kept dying, and dying, and dying after all.

    And so, about that secret character is he strong?

    He has mana thatpares to the Heroine.

    Was there such an amazing person around? What a blindspot. As expected of Beatrix.

    By the way, what kind of person were they?

    What kind of person, huh? Hes just the school headmaster though.

    Beatrix gave an odd follow-up. The word odd here is actually bimyou, and means um, like Well, basically theyre saying that its neither here nor there or hard to make a judgement on. When something is bimyou, its like, its not too bad, but not too good either. Or maybe, its not quite appropriate, but not exactly inappropriate either. Like, in general, things that are bimyou are just things that are hard to give a straight judgement on. Like, if you eat something and it tastes bimyou, its sorta like ehhhhh, not BAD, but like not good either, sorta.

 Volume 6 - Ch 7

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    It was already evening after all, so I had nned on leaving Beatrixs room, but I was curious about the secret character, so in the end I just stayed there. The castle maids were thoughtful enough to bring more tea and sweets. The tea sweets were fluffy pseudo-souffls. There was fruits in it so the colour of the souffls were all a little different I wonder which one should I pick. I decided to go with the one that was faintly pink. Its probably got berries or something in it. Beatrix chose the brown one.

    And soo, the headmaster is the secret character?

    That alwaysnguid looking one? That headmaster?

    The tall and thin man with the three silver braids popped into my mind. His golden eyes were mysterious. Hes the headmaster after all, and hes powerful after all, so he might certainly be a high-spec character. Some people treated him like a legendary ss monster but from what I could see of the person himself, it really made me wonder if he wasnt a slug, or a sloth, or a bean sprout monster instead. He was always hiding in his room after all, and the only time Id ever spoke to him was in the academy greenhouse and only for a little, too. His ecological behaviour was still wrapped in mystery.

    By the way, um, the Headmaster Route, was it? What kind of conditions did you need to clear to unlock it?

    It was a route that Id never been able to see, so I was really interested to hear what was in it. I just cant imagine a romance with that headmaster.

    Once you cleared the conditions that I mentioned earlier, when you returned to the start menu, youd find the option for the new Headmaster Route. Then youd just pick the headmaster the joker, to enter his route.

    Beatrix continued her exnation.

    In Carte  Jouer, you didnt change character by making choices in-game, but instead youd choose a card from the menu at the start to choose their route. For example, if you picked the K of Hearts, then itd be Royce-sama, and if you picked the K of Spades, then itd be Raiga. And so in other words, the Headmasters card appeared on the menu.

    Wow

    In other words, had I picked up my pace a little in my old world, I might have been able to meet him Id cleared all the romance and friendship routes, and Id almost cleared all the bad ends too. Theres nothing I can do about it now, but its a waste.

    Was the Headmaster in the game this sort of person as well?

    In the game, he wasnt lethargic, but he was even more of a shut-in than the current Headmaster. He was interested in the protagonist for having as much mana as he did and brought her to the academy, and after that, hed quietly watch over her but while he was watching over her, his feelings escted, and he gradually started to rampage.

    As she exined, Beatrix switched the legs that she was crossing. Shes wearing a dress, but her actions are manly.

    Rampaging, huh?

    It sounds kind of disturbing.

    To begin with, in the Headmaster Route during the entrance ceremony, right from the very start, the four rival characters tried to hurt the Heroine.

    Eh- why?

    Each rival character wouldnt have any reason to hurt the Heroine as long as she didnt get involved with their romantic interest.

    Because she had be a rumour for being brought into the academy by the Headmaster, and so bing interested in her, the Ks and Js came into contact with her one by one, and she ended up in a reverse harem.

    Harem

    What the heck.

    Because of the Heroines mana and talent and personality, all the male characters approached her to try to make her theirs.

    Hm~mm? When you say Ks and Js, you mean that the characters from the friendship routes were included?

    No, I mean, in the end its just what happened in the game, so its not like Im worried about Achille. Im not, okay?

    Yeah, thats right. The characters from the romance routes are a given, but even the characters from the friendship routes were passionately making moves on the Heroine.

    CRASH-

    M-, Miss Camille?

    Oh no I dropped the teacup. In a fluster, I used magic to fix it. Its the same magic that I used when I threw up the alcohol at the entrance ceremony. It turns back time for just the necessary parts. Mn, good as new. Im not shaken in the slightest, okay?

    W-, What happened then?

    I urged Beatrix to continue.

    Finding out that the rivals were trying to hurt the Heroine, the Headmaster erased every one of them. The Headmaster had probably used some kind of magic, because not one person had noticed that the rivals had disappeared. Only the Heroine had noticed, and questioned the Headmaster And that was the start to their romance.

    Its a pretty heavy start to a romance, isnt it

    Its a bit horror. And was she physically erased this time? Camille, I mean.

    I reached my hand out to another pseudo-souffl. This time I chose a light purple one, and brought a spoon of it to my mouth. Mnn-, its simr to the taste of rum raisin from my old world. How nostalgic.

    Being rum raisin vour means that theres alcohol in it, doesnt it?

    ^ That was an authors note

 Volume 6 - Ch 8

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    To start with, this is about the Headmaster Bad End but its also known as the Romance Target Annihtion End.

    Things suddenly got heavy again. Judging from this other name, its probably nothing good.

    The Headmaster was cornered emotionally, and wanting to monopolise the Heroine, he massacred the students that made a move on her.

    Uwahh

    Apparently unsatisfied with just erasing the rival characters, it seems the Headmaster even attacked the romance targets. By cornered eotionally Not wanting the Heroine to get into any romantic rtionships? Just how narrow-minded is he, this Headmaster.

    As I thought, it really was nothing good. Royce-sama and Achille were probably included amongst the massacred students. It really is the worst ending.

    After that, the Headmaster abducted the crying and screaming Heroine, and disappeared. Thest scene was the expressionless Heroine locked in a building somewhere, and the Headmaster with a satisfied smile, but

    Its an ending where nobody but the Headmaster is happy.

    But the fact that the Heroine just obediently let herself be carried off means that in other words, the Headmaster is stronger than the Heroine in a certain sense. From the way Beatrix is speaking, it sounds like if we drag him out, hell be quite a war asset.

    And so, about the Happy End but

    Yeah.

    Roughly speaking, although she was getting hurt, the Heroine epted the Headmaster with her biiig heart, and in the end she stopped the Headmaster from running around and killing students with the power of love. While wounded all over.

    To be able to wound the Heroine all over The Headmaster really is amazing, huh.

    The result was that the school wasnt destroyed, and all the students were safe. The Heroine quit the school, and after marrying the Headmaster, she kept an e- she supported him. Ga and other countries targetted her, but they couldnt match thebined Headmaster and Heroine, and the academy broke away form its various bonds, and continued to develop independently after that.

    In other words, in this route the Heroine eventually became his wife, huh? Its an otome game, so it cant be helped, but just how convenient does this Heroine have it? The rival characters would turn in their graves

    It really was rough, but Beatrix basically gave me a general understanding of the secret character but

    It really wouldve been better had I yed it myself, huhh

    I cant stop regretting it. From what I heard, it seems that she couldnt remember the details.

    But it isnt as though reality will go like the game. Even the Headmaster, from what Ive seen in real life, doesnt seem to be stuck to the Heroine, and always seems to be a hikikomori. Even now, of the rival characters and the other students, not a single one has been killed. This point is something that Im d isnt like the game.

    I think I should go have a talk with the Headmaster.

    With determination in my heart, I straightened my posture on the couch.

    Eh-, Miss Camille?

    Beatrix was looking at me with eyes widened.

    At present, Royce-sama and Achille havent gotten involved with the Headmaster after all, and he hasnt targetted them either. From what I can see at least, the situation has changed, and I dont think things will go like in the Headmaster End.

    So I want to test the waters to see if hell lend us his power while its still possible. Even if I dont get a positive response from him, whether or not hell join hands with the Heroine is something that I want to know.

    Even so, theres no guarantee that the Headmaster ispletely safe, you know, Miss Camille.

    Beatrix was flustered, and tried to stop me.

    But the ones that know about this at the moment, are only me, you, and the Heroine, right? And right now theres no way that you can leave the castle.

    Beatrix is Royce-samas treasured fiance. Shes currently being targetted by the members of the Anti-King Faction who oppose Royce-sama as well as those old men who are trying to pair Royce-sama with their own daughters.

    Its fine, its fine. I dont know as much about it as you do, Beatrix, but I do have knowledge of the game. Now that various things have diverged from the game, I dont know how useful itll be though.

    Miss Camille?

    Like people say, strike while the iron is hot. Im going to fly to the academy for a little, so

    Y-, You cant, Miss Camille Are you nning on sneaking out of the castle without the permission of your Danna-sama and His Highness Royce?

    Ehhhhhh But I mean, if Achille finds out then hell definitely oppose, after all.

    Because at any rate, I have too many previous offences. If things go badly, this time he might realy lock me in my room.

    Isnt that even more reason not to!?

    B-, But

    Although mumbling and making excuses, I left my seat.

    Nn?

    My head kinda feels, more hazy than before. Did I catch a cold as well? It felt like the moment I left my seat, my head suddenly grew even hazier. Why is my body suddenly feeling so hot?

    Miss Camille? Whats the matter?

    Noticing that something was wrong, Beatrix peered in on my face with worry.

    Beatrix Nn, my body is kinda,

    I tried reaching my hand out to her. But before I could stretch out my whole arm, I copsed towards her.

    M-, Miss Camille?

    S-, Sor ry

    I tried to part my body from Beatrix in a fluster, but I was finding it hard to muster the power.

    This has happened before Today was a lot better than that time though. The incident with Dominique in the past floated into my head. But ever since then, I should have abstained from drinking so why?

    Even today, I shouldnt have drank anything but tea. This Camille-body of mine is incredibly weak to alcohol after all.

 Volume 6 - Ch 9

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Camille?

    Carrying Camille to the two-person room that His Highness prepared for us, I lowered her onto the bed.

    Ill bring you water, so stay right there.

    When I tried to leave her side, the cuff of my shirt was caught.

    Achi, lle, dont go.

    Camilles raspberry eyes were gazing up at me, moist and upturned.

    What a difficult drunk.

    I immediately folded.

    As long as you dont want me to, I wont be going anywhere.

    When Ibed her silky hair with my fingers, she narrowed her eyes in pleasure. And she just continued to cling to me.

    Achille

    What is this? So cute. It seems that the n that His Highness suggested at the entrance ceremony was actually realised. I thought that getting Camille drunk to have her act spoiled was much too risky for a person like her though. But it seems that since shes weak to alcohol, getting her drunk on sweets instead of liquor is just right.

    Camille, what did Beatrix mean by going to the academy?

    Nnnn, its a seeecret.

    Seeing Camille giggle as she looks at me is incredibly, incredibly cute, but Id better wring the answer out of her here, even if by force. I get the feeling that if I leave this be, absolutely nothing good wille of it.

    Camille? Properly answer please.

    I looked at her eyes and slowly spoke.

    You wont stop me?

    Camille asked me as she leant against me.

    Mn, I wont stop you.

    Is it something that I would stop her for? In that case, Id better stop her whatever the cost.

    I want to go see the Headmaster.

    The drunk Camille was unexpectedly obedient. The normal Camille probably wouldnt answer honestly unless you forcefully tied her up and forced it out of her.

    The Headmaster?

    Right. Hes the secret character, so Im going to have him stop the Heroine.

    Secret, chraacter?

    By Heroine, she means that schoolgirl, right?

    Right. Hes the only one who can match the Heroine.

    I dont really know about the secret character or whatever, but it seems that its somebody from the story in Camilles old world. It seems the Headmaster appeared in the story as well. Just like His Highness and I.

    Beatrix told me about it. That the secret character was the Headmaster, and was stronger than the Heroine.

    I see. So Miss Beatrix was the same as you, huh.

    After we were attacked by the schoolgirl, Camille told His Highness and I. That in fact, Miss Beatrix was also from the same ce as her. This was also one of the reasons that His Highness took her as his bride.

    Hearing the details from Camille, I found out just how serious this matter was. Apparently this stupid girl was nning on marching alone into the base of somebody who might still be a dangerous person. Im really d that I found out before she headed there.

    I calcted it all. When I met himst time, I didnt feel any hositilty.

    That doesnt mean that everything would work out, you know?

    Camilles thinking was fundamentally too naive[amai]. As sweet[amai] as the candy that she loves.

    Its finee I said.

    Even if you use that lovely voice that tickles a mans heart, its pointless. Even if everybody in the world believed her words, I alone wont.

    Then you n on meeting another man alone despite being married? Thats immoral, you know?

    Ah-!

    Hearing my suddenly lowered voice, Camille backed away while trembling. It seems that even drunk, she can still sense the changes in other peoples atmosphere. I really wish that she would direct that sensitivity to danger towards her own actions.

    If youre going to run away from me, then you could just avoid sticking your neck into danger to begin with. I grabbed Camilles arm as she tried to escape. Shes drunk right now, so her movements are sluggish. I easily caught her.

    Eh- Ah-, youre wro-, its not being immoral-

    Am I not enough for you?

    Her eyes were swimming.

    Thats not, it so-, not it-

    But well, I wasnt worried about her cheating on me or falling in love with someone else anyway. Camille doesnt have that sort of capacity. Shes be like this with just me alone.

    But hercking sense of danger is lethal. If I dont correct this while I still can, I get the feeling that one day something will happen that I cant undo.

    Im sorry, okay? I didnt notice.

    Im sure that from Camilles point of view, Im giving quite a smile.

    So like I said, thats not it -HYAA-!

    Camille was putting some distance between us and desperately trying to resist, but being a person who uses magic for everything, she was really weak. Without her magic tattoos, she probably wouldnt be able to defend herself directly.

    Incidentally, her magic tattoos dont work on me. She kindly adjusted her tattoos so they wouldnt work on me alone. Im happy that Im that special to her. After all, its useful in situations like this.

    Ill work hard so that you wont feel uneasy.

    Sto-, its fine even if you, dont work so hard, so-

    Camille tried again to fruitlessly run away. When I rxed the power in my arms, the force she put into it made her topple onto the bed. She doesnt seem to be feeling unwell, so there probably isnt any need to nurse her.

    Now then, enough of questioning Camille

    It would probably be better to ry this information to His Highness, huh.

    I sent amunication spell to His Highness. It would be fine too to just head there myself, but if by some chance His Highness and Miss Beatrix were in the middle of something, itd be bad.

    Im already getting no breaks because of his burst of anger, so its hard to find time to rx with Camille, after all.

    Im sure that from Camilles point of view, Im giving quite a smile. Originally ii egao which literally means nice smile, but usually when its written in katakana, or else in the wrong context, instead it means a dark or evil smile. I tried to carry this across by writing quite, but I know that some people arent English natives and yeah. Thought Id exin just in case.

 Volume 6 - Ch 10

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    For the longest time now, Ive been regretting tranting  asmunication spell instead of as transmission spell. Ive been regretting it since chapter 7 actually, but its toote now

    The small white bird passed through the wall and perched on my arm. It was amunication spell from Achille. The message that was transformed by magic flowed into me.

    I see. So Beatrix was

    Ever since I met her at the entrance ceremony, Id always thought of her as a strange woman, but When I heard this from Camille, I was surprised. Beatrix had turned out to be from the same ce as Camille as well. No wonder these two sudden got along, despite having absolutely nothing inmon.

    Certainly, if its the academy headmaster, then might be able to stop that Frau Monier. However

    Although he apparently used to be quite the big shot

    Right now, hes turned into a simple shut-in. His age is unknown after all; I wonder how long its been since hest did anything.

    When I was young, I heard about the Headmaster from my magic tutors at the castle. That he was a magician powerful enough to change even the appearance of his body, and his age. As well as the fact that he had once lent his power to the country and saved it.

    When I entered the academy, I had spoken to him once. Dragged out of his room because a member of the royal family had entered the school, despite being in the middle of a greeting, he always looked restless and wanting to return. A pathetic attitude that was unimaginable for the head of the school.

    I guess itd be better to hear the details from her directly.

    Achille had just sent amunication spell. It was probably for his interest as well, but he had taken Beatrix and I into ount.

    It was a pointless worry.

    At the moment, Im in a pathetic situation where the two of us arent even close enough to worry about that.

    Beatrix doesnt think well of our engagement. Id expected this, but having it actually thrust before my eyes is quite disheartening.

    Earlier, I had made a deal with the Topagerian King. Having caused a great deal of harm to Ga, and had directly attacked Camille and Achille on campus the Topagerian noble girl, Frau Monier. In order to avoid the war that would have broken out because of her, I had him send Beatrix here.

    In this incident, Topageria was clearly the one at fault. But honestly speaking, Ga was at a disadvantage. Although we have a long history, were a small country. Compared to Topageria, werecking in both money and resources, and the only advantage we have is our magic knowledge and technology Because of that, Topageria had wanted the second prince to marry Camille, who was both the daughter of the Magic Buildings leader, as well as a capable magician herself. Although, even in magic itself, Topageria had the lead in knowledge and technology when it came to magic items and potions

    Although this wasnt voiced openly, amongst the nobles that knew this truth, were rising voices of discontent towards Topageria. Amongst them were even those shouting for war.

    But war would be terrible. As for why it would be terrible, if we really did break into war, the one that would lose would be Ga. Its embarrassing, but we arent a match for Topageria in both war funds and poption. Although all our magicians are talented, the other side has Frau Monier and other forbidden art users. Even if by some slim chance we won, the losses would be enormous. I didnt want to turn this country into a battleground.

    Hahh, it feels like Im the only one troubled

    My father the king wasnt very useful when it came to this. Right now my father was busying himself with crushing the weakened Royal Prince faction after all.

    I wonder if tomorrow would be good

    Im going to have a proper chat with Beatrix Im pretty reluctant though. Im sure her knowledge will be useful.

    Hahh.

    To think that just talking to my fiance would be linked to my job. Im getting a bit sick of myself. Even that Achille can treat Camille without bringing calcted loss and gain into it. But Im not as skilled as he is.

    Is Beatrix in?

    The next day I decided to meet with her before my determination from yesterday wavered. After spending all morning finishing my work, I immediately headed to her room, thinking to meet her, but,

    My apologies Just now, we allowed Beatrix-sama to leave. We are in the middle of looking for her, but

    Her maid looked away awkwardly.

    What? Just where did she go?

    Beatrix had apparently left the room without telling the maids anything.

    The castle is dangerous right now. If she was going to go out, then Id have liked for her to have told somebody. I had thought that having an overly restricted security would put her on guard so I tried decreasing the guards, but it seems it backfired on me. This maid is skilled to a degree in martial arts and so I ced her here as a guard as well, but Beatrix is also an expert martial artist, so she was probably skilful enough to slip through the gaps in the defence. Maybe I really should keep a strict guard from now on. I decided to reconsider the security n around her room.

    If youre looking for Beatrix, she was at the training grounds, you know? Shes with Raiga-sama, so isnt it fine?

    While I was troubled, I was told her location by Camille who passed through by chance. It really helped.

    With Raiga?

    As hardcore martial artists, I guess theyre getting along Raiga isnt really the type to get friendly with people though.

    Yes. It seems she didnt want to have her skills grow blunt by sitting in her room all day, so after discussing it with Mei-chan, Mei-chan said that she would discuss it with Raiga-sama for us.

    To think that while I was being hounded by work, the women had an exchange like this.

    Well, its fine though. Royce-sama, is Achille in?

    Apparently Camille hade here because she had business with Achille.

    If youre looking for Achille, he headed for the Central Building just a little while ago.

    Because of the ring, Achille can determine Camilles location, but the opposite isnt true. He apparently ns on adding that function to the wedding ring.

    I seee Thank you very much. Even though I thought that Id get to meet him if I came here

    Camillezily activated search magic to find Achille.

    You have business with him?

    Yes. Theres something that Id like to check with him for work Shall I search for Beatrix as well?

    Hmm Id be really d if you did. Id love to be able to use it too, so when youre free, could you teach me?

    Any time.

    Camille entered the room with the maids, and grabbing one of Beatrixs belongings, she used her magic. The floating ball of light moved out of the room.

    Well then, I need to look for Achille, so Ill be leaving.

    Mn, thanks.

    She followed her ball of light towards to Central Building.

    Its quite rare for me to have anything I need outside of the castle. Most of the time I canplete my job inside the castle.

    What good weather

    I felt that I could understand Beatrixs desire to leave her room a little. I continued to follow the light. Some guard soldiers were following me from behind. There was no guarantee that my uncle wouldnt try something stupid after being cornered and weakened. Im not bad at magic myself, so I think I could defend myself, but it wouldnt do to have a repeat of the time with Count Tito after all.

    I passed through the soldiers training area and continued further in. How weird. Even though Camille said that she was at the training area. Floating in the air, the light continued towards the arena.

    The arena was a ce used for things like matches between soldiers.

    It couldnt be.

    I hastened my pace.

    YAHHHHH!

    Next!

    TARGHHH!

    Even though there was no match together, the arena was crowded with soldiers. And in the dead centre was

    Hmph, the knights of Ga arent bad either, huh?

    With a fiery gaze and a smile from the depths of her heart, wielding a sword in two hands was my future wife.

 Volume 6 - Ch 11

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Oh geez, I really dont want to enter a ce like that. A circr arena with wriggling and sweat-covered muscle-loving knights (Raigas knight brigade) is a world that I have nothing to do with. And in the middle of this, the shining Beatrix was too dazzling in a certain sense, so it was hard to approach her In a different way than Camille, shes also quite the strange woman.

    Perhaps because of the various incidents I got involved in when I was little, I like strong women. Women who wouldnt easily die even if they got involved with the first prince. Camille also fits those requirements but she has Achille after all. And whats more, perhaps because Ive always been watching her since we were young, I dont have any romantic feelings towards her.

    My, Royce-sama. Are you in the middle of a break?

    Mei who was rxing on a bench inside the arena called out to me when she found me. Perhaps because of Raigas consideration, she was covered from head to toe in warm-looking and fluffy clothes to avoid the cold.

    Yeah, basically. Were you watching Raiga, Mei?

    Yes. I brought refreshments, so Im waiting here until the match ends.

    By her side were six guards, probably prepared by Raiga.

    Whats Beatrix doing over there?

    Oh, Beatrix-sama is having a bout with the knights. Thats how theyre training. All the knights were interested in fighting with a foreign swordsman, so they were enthusiastic as well.

    I see

    Right now, Beatrix-sama has yet to lose. As you would expect from the guard of a Topagerian prince, isnt it?

    When I turned my eyes to Beatrix, this time it was Raiga that she was facing.

    Will you also participate, Royce-sama?

    Hmmm, Ill sit this out. Im bad at swordsmanship, you see.

    While Mei and I were chatting, Beatrix and Raiga began to spar with quite the intensity. Both Beatrix and Raiga were using what seemed to be blunted practice swords. She parried Raigas sharp attack with flowing movements. Just by going toe-to-toe with Raiga, you could tell that she had real ability as the guard of the second Topagerian prince.

    But Raiga had the advantage in physical strength. When I looked again, I found that she had a bitter expression after blocking one of his attacks head on. Although they were basically equal in swordsmanship, she was being pressured by his power. Like that, Raiga flung away her sword with all his might. nging sounds rang out as the sword tumbled on the floor. It seems the match ended.

    To be able to fight against Raiga that equally

    Words of admiration slipped from Meis lips. With a towel in her hand, Mei trotted over towards Raiga.

    Mei, you shouldnt run while pregnant!

    I ran after her in a fluster.

    ..*

    Beatrix and Raiga were chatting happily in the middle of the arena. Apparently they had grown closer through fighting. Im feeling a little unamused.

    Thank you very much, Raiga-sama. It was an honour to meet swords with such a strong person.

    I should be saying the same about you. As expected. Its a waste for you to marry Royce; how about entering my knight brigade?

    I am happy for your words.

    Beatrixs cheeks lightly flushed.

    Raiga, you bastard. Mind not soliciting other peoples fiances? And Beatrix youre supposed to clearly refuse in situations like that, you know? I recalled the scene of the girls meeting in the academy park a while ago. If I remember correctly, Beatrixs type was close to Meis

    Good work, Raiga-sama~ Everybody else too.

    Mei approached Raiga with a smile. A cosy atmosphere floated amongst the knights.

    Mei

    Raiga immediately ran over to Mei with a broad smile. Who the hell is that? Hes even more lovestruck than expected.

    I called out to Beatrix who was staring at them, as dumbfounded as I was.

    Hey, Beatrix. That was a pretty good match.

    Your, Highness.

    Theres a little something Id like to talk to you about, so could I have a little time after this?

    This is good timing. I too had something I wished to speak to you about.

    Beatrix nodded in assent.

    Royce.

    While embracing Mei in his right arm, Raiga looked towards me.

    I know that your fiance is precious to you, but let her have a breather once in a while. It isnt good to stifle her to death.

    I know that much, at least. But its dangerous right now. I want to shut her up in her room as much as I can. I dont think shell take an attack lying down, but I dont want to lose her. No matter how trivial it might be, as long as that possibility exists, I cant be careless. Im not asposed as Raiga is, after all.

    Beatrix, I give you permission toe and go as you please to our knight brigade. You can drop by whenever you want, and itll be good practice for my subordinates too.

    Thank you very much.

    It seems that Raiga had taken a liking to Beatrix as a warrior. Arrogant as usual, though

    I decided to return to my room for a while with Beatrix.

 Volume 6 - Ch 12

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Um, the reason its hard to tell between Beatrixs casual and formal(keigo) speech is because she normally speaks in a non-keigo, masculine voice. I could trante sumanai as something simple like Sorry., but the feeling is actually closer to Apologies. or something. A simrly masculine thing that would be closer to Sorry. (at least in my opinion) would probably be a more casual Suman. or Suman, na? I guess.

    Oh, and uh, iunno how it is in other countries, but universities arergely a mark of prestige for Japanese people. So just the name of a university can make or break it for you in some job interviews. Thats why being enrolled in a third-rate university really means that youre super, duper average.

    Because I had finished the bout with Raigas knights, I returned to my room temporarily to arrange my outfit. Putting on the light blue dress that didnt quit suit me, I red at the door that connected my room to his.

    Its fine. Calm down. Calm down, me.

    I need to ask about whats happening in this country, and ask about the Heroine. And I need to properly ask about the circumstances behind this engagement. After that, Ill let him have it. I need to face him without running away the first prince of this nation.

    Pressing my lips together, I gathered my willpower as I clenched my fists. Like that, I reached my hand out to the doorknob, and opened the door with all my power.

    Uwah-!

    I identally let out my natural voice, and froze on the spot. It wasnt a verydylike voice, but it couldnt be helped. After all

    For some reason Right when I opened the door, I found His Highness standing there and looking towards me.

    Wha- What are you doing there, Your Highness?

    Paying no heed to my confusion, His Highness smiled. There were documents piled on his desk as well, today. Im sure he does his work seriously each day. Completely unlike a certain Second Prince.

    I was thinking that it was about time, and was going to head to your room, but for you to havee to me instead makes me truly happy.

    So we were trying to open the door at the same time? Was that really it? I had thought that this sparkling prince with the gentle features was the same as the one from the game, but Whats with this? Theres something about him thats been on my mind since he invited me to the pic.

    I was thinking of speaking to you this morning, Your Highness, but you seemed to be busy at work. I apologise for making youe as far as the arena.

    Dont mind it. It was a good breather for me too. Usually I can finish all my work in the Central Building, so I dont often leave the castle, you see And also,

    His Highness Royce looked at me with a tender gaze. I found my reflection in his beautiful azure eyes, and realised that I was standing closer to him than expected.

    You dont need to use polite speech with me, my bride-to-be.

    Uu-

    Even cheesy lines like that somehow seem cool when he says it. Right. Royce was the type of character that could say cringe-worthy lines without anybody finding a problem with it. Even in the game, his sweet lines often charmed the fans.

    It isnt pleasant to stand here and chat, so how about youe in?

    His Highness splendidly escorted me by the hand. His beautiful blonde hair swayed smoothly with each step. Led by the hand, I sank down into an expensive looking sofa. I-, I cant calm down No matter when I see him, His Highness Royce is always smiling and gentlemanly, but I wonder if hes naturally like this. I regretted not investigating him more from Camille.

    But I doubt the Royce in the game would do anything too strange. Because after all, amongst the love interests and friend characters, he was the most harmless one of all Incidentally, as for the ones that were the least harmless, it goes without saying that they were the J of Hearts, the J of Clovers, and also Baka-sama. But well, when ites to Baka-sama, because of me hes be apletely different person though.

    Huhu, you worked hard during the match. You really are strong, arent you.

    Thank you very much. I lost to Raiga-sama, however.

    Dont mind it. Hes not a normal human after all. You can just think of him as a monster or something.

    For some reason His Highness spewed harsh words about Raiga for some reason. Are they on bad terms just like in the game? No, but in this world, the Hearts and Spades have be more peaceful with each other. Maybe theyre more careless with each other because theyre cousins?

    More importantly, youre still using keigo, arent you?

    There was a sparkling smile on his face, but I could feel a pressure that allowed for no refusal. Its happening again. Theres this aura that allows no argument being released from him. ly at the academy too, because of this smile that gave me no choice but to obey, I had various things forced onto me by His Highness Royce At least thats the feeling I get.

    I-, I am sorry

    Beatrix?

    Apo logies.

    Why am I being criticised!? Theres something strange about this! Common sense dictates that Im the one that should be criticising. Criticising this overbearing engagement.

    His Highness Royce seemed to be satisfied with my words. There really is something strange about this. Was he this sort of character in the game? I held this sense of discement about him.

    Your Highness, um

    Mn? What? It sure would be nice if you called me Royce.

    Its no good. When its him Im dealing with, my vigour is somehow drained.

    Is that so There is something that I heard from Camille that I would like to discuss.

    Beatrix?

    M-, Miss Camille told me That this engagement was rted to the circumstances of Ga. I would like to ask in detail about that.

    Ahh, that? Theres been something I wanted to ask you as well.

    His Highness gazed right at me. Gentle looking eyes, delicate white skin, a tall nose, and well-shaped lips a beautiful face.

    Did you have a lover in your old world?

    Huh?

    In that instant, the inside of my mind turned pure white. E-, Ehh-? Old world? Why did His Highness say something like that? Does he know that I wasnt originally born in this world? But why? For now, I tried to y it off. Although even without trying to lie my way out of it, its a hard-to-believe story to begin with.

    U-, Umm, whatever could you

    Ive heard everything from Camille, you know? That you and the maid at Achilles ce are from her hometown. And probably Mei as well.

    M-, Miss Camille! What the heck are you doing, talking about other peoples circumstances? And whats more, to the First Prince!

    And so, did you have a lover in your old world? Is that why your heart was broken?

    And Your Highness, dont fixate on a worthless part. The person I liked was your cousin.

    I did not In my old world, I was a normal student, you see.

    My appearance was in, and the insides were even iner. A college student who loved manga, anime and otome games, and went to a third-rate university. I was introverted as well, in the past, and definitely wasnt the type of have had a lover. Far from it, I didnt even have a male friend. Sinceing to this world, because I desperately struggled to avoid an end like in the game, Ive be the person I am now.

    I see. Then you must be smart too, huh.

    No, that is

    His Highness Royce had an odd misunderstanding. In this world, by no means could everybody be a student. Only the rich or the exceptionally talented people were able to gain the status of student. It seems that Miss Camille did a half-assed job of exining our old world to him.

    Well then, how about a lover aftering to this world?

    Your Highness, I would like to change to a serious topic now.

    I did say that Id like you to call me Royce, right? If you wont, then Ill keep changing the subject to your old lovers.

    Wha-

    What the heck is with this prince! For a while now, hes been saying nothing but remarks that screw up my tempo! Ive beenpletely swallowed into his pace. Because of that, I vigorously said something unnecessary.

    Ive had nobody like a lover! It was just unrequited love! Ah.

    Ive done it now. By the time I noticed that things were bad, it was already toote.

    As for His Highness Royce, he gave the nastiest smile today.

    I-, I apologise, Your Highness.

    Dont use keigo or Your Highness; even though Ive told you so many times already Shall I have you practice here until you can say it properly?

    P-, Practice?

    Right. Maybe Ill give you a penalty for every time you make a mistake Like Ah, Ive got it.

    W-, Who is this? Who is this man in front of me? This person whos casually talking like a sadist is His Highness Royce, right? Im getting this feeling that Im catching glimpses of something dark behind his smile, but its just my imagination, right? I mean, the Prince Royce in the game was definitely not this sort of person.

 Volume 6 - Ch 13

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    C-, Could you please stop with that? Im-

    I reflexively red at His Highness Royce, but he wasnt perturbed in the slightest. With that gentle and warm expression still on his face, he just lowered his eyebrows a little, looking troubled. Im sure he isnt troubled at all.

    Sorry, sorry. I suppose its about time to get down to business. Your angry face is cute too, though.

    Cu-

    Cute? Me? Beatrix was a character who you could describe as beautiful, rather than cute. Her orange eyes nted upwards, and her features were fierce-looking to match, so to call her cute is As youd expect, I wasnt wearing bright red lipstick right now, but even so, I think that my face should be quite viinous. The forceful types.

    And so, would it be fine to assume that you want to know why were engaged?

    There are various other things Id like to ask as well, but thats the thing I want to hear the most, so I nodded silently. The issue of our engagement should include the details on our two nations and various other things as well, after all. In this room filled with high-ss furniture, ran a short silence. I stared right at him. Letting out a short sigh, he opened his mouth.

    Lets see. First of all, have you heard from Camille about the schoolgirl named Frau Monier?

    Yes. Roughly.

    In the game, Frau Monier was the default name for the protagonist. Amoner girl with enormous mana I heard from Miss Camille about how she was manoeuvering against Gas royalty and nobles.

    She was a little troublesome and so I wanted to do something about her and themoner extremist movement.

    Certainly. It does involve your life.

    Id like to avoid the guillotine too.

    Thinking about it I moved my gaze away from him, and thought back on the contents of the game. In the game, this person sure was unlucky, huh. Getting executed for example, or losing a war and getting imprisoned If the heroine picked any route besides his, His Highness would unfailing meet with tragedy. Could it be Thats why Miss Camille learnt magic to protect him? A certainly possibility about her came to mind.

    Ahh, if I remember correctly, I got executed in the story, right?

    His Highness spoke casually. He probably heard about this from Camille as well. Even though its about him, hes speaking like its somebody elses business. By story, I suppose hes referring to the game. Its reasonable that when trying to exin the game in this world, she changed the terminology.

    Yes. In the revolution caused by the K of Clovers and the Heroine.

    Right, right, and we cant let that happen, can we? So Im working to prevent that right now.

    So he knows about this much. Having heard about it from Camille earlier, this much is within expectations. The problem is my engagement though

    As for our engagement, theres the matter of my feelings but that isnt all.

    What do you mean?

    Its not really something Id like to get into with you.

    Your Highness, I will be troubled if you do not tell me.

    Hmmm, maybe Id be persuaded if you called me Royce.

    This again? Even I thought that I had led the flow of the conversation away from this Hes unexpectedly stubborn.

    So?

    Even if I keep resisting, I get the feeling that hell just be having fun with it. J-, Just calling him by the name is no big deal. Ill say it as many times as he wants. Or so I was thinking, but when I tried to open my mouth, I found myself at a loss.

    W-, Wont you tell me, umm, R-, Ro-, Roy, ce

    My voice went a little shrill.

    Well, fine.

    Thank goodness Although he sighed, it seems that he agreed.

    There are a number of reasons, you see.

    Yeah, please tell me everything. I heard some things from Camille, but it seemed that she didnt understand everything.

    Thats because Achille was keeping things from her. I thought itd be fine to tell her but he really is overprotective.

    An overprotective Achille I really find it hard to imagine. But once that exchange between Camille and Achille in the hallway came to mind, I got that feeling too. In front of Camille, he makes a lot more expressions. He even came to directly pick her up when she was drunk, after all.

    The first was to get your lord to stop with his proposals to Camille. I think that he was aiming for Camilles knowledge in magic, but he kept trying to propose.

    Speaking of which, that time when she visited his room, he did say something like that, didnt he. It seemed that Miss Camille wasnt very interested, but had he still not given up? Baka-sama uses authority for everything, so it seems like something hed do. And in fact, right in front of her, he once said something outrageous about doing something about her engagement with his authority.

    I support Achille and Camille being together, and I wanted Camille to stay in Ga as well.

    And so, His Highness Royce *also used his authority to keep Miss Camille here, is it?

    Well done keeping Miss Camille here

    Baka-sama is surprisingly stubborn. I cant imagine that hed easily let somebody snatch away a woman that he likes.

    Mn, so I had a chat with King Topageria. Ill be taking a Topagerian as my wife, so stop the Second Prince from pursuing Camille, I said.

 Volume 6 - Ch 14

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    And so, His Majesty agreed, and sent me here instead, youre saying.

    Im a little angry. Marrying me off in ce of Camille?

    Youre angry, arent you But I couldnt consider any noble girl other than you, Beatrix.

    I dont understand his taste at all. Even though he was with that adorable Camille for so many years he wasnt interested at all, and instead takes a liking to me? Im tall, and rtively muscled too. To think he likes a girl who swings around a sword as her job.

    Achille was in support as well. In support of bringing you, who knows about Frau Monier because of the story, into our Ga. His judgement was correct, wasnt it. You seem to know the thing in more detail than Camille, after all.

    Mn, well, I was pretty into the game, after all. His Highness Royce might think of me as a really knowledgable person but Im actually just a gamer. Please dont look at me with those sparkly and expectant eyes.

    The second is to strengthen the ties between our nations. Thanks to Frau Monier messing up various things in our country, there are a bunch of nobles who want to go to war with Topageria, you see. In particr those old, foreigner-hating bureaucrats are a little worrying, after all.

    War? I can understand wanting to avoid it somehow. I dont want war between our two nations either. Right now I have people important to me in both countries.

    The third is that by giving exceptional conditions for the engagement, Im using myself as bait to gain Topagerias cooperation. Right now themoner extremists are hiding in Topageria. In order to catch them all, Topagerias cooperation is essential.

    I was thinking that he was a prince who did nothing but sparkle, but that isnt the case. Hes seriously thinking about his country.

    I really am sorry for getting you wrapped up in Gas issues. But I dont regret it, you see.

    His Highness stood up from the opposing sofa, and walked towards me. Every movement was polished and refined. While feeling nervous, I looked towards him.

    U-, Um?

    His Highness Royce walked as far as right before my sofa, and suddenly got down on one knee. Truly like a prince out of a fairytale. Despite the situation, he didnt feel out of ce at all. As expected of the prince-character, Royce Ga.

    I want you, Beatrix.

    R-, Royce, what are you-? Please dont kneel in front of me!

    While smiling, he took my hand while I was panicking and kissed me on the palm.

    !

    Rising up through my face was a suddenly rush of heat.

    What a thing to do

    Because of my unrest, the voice that I protested in grew weak My heart is thumping away.

    I couldnt hold back in front of you Would the top of your foot have been better?

    I-, I dont have such hobbies-!

    I immediately moved my legs away. Ever since Ivee to this castle, Ive just been toyed around by this prince. Even when I re up at him, just like this time, my pace is immediately destroyed.

    Im not asking you to forgive me. But, I would be happy if you opened up to me, even if just a little.

    Royces azure eyes wavered in unease for a moment at least thats the feeling I got. Even though he used his authority to force me into being his fiance, why is he making a face like that?

    What is this? Just as Im thinking that hes pressuring me with a dark aura, he looks at me with pleading eyes like that A kiss on the palm is an expression of entreaty, right?

    I dont understand him at all. In my life so far, this is the first time meeting somebody so hard to understand. Even though the in-game Royce was so much easier to understand. Even though he was supposed to be a harmless man who did nothing but smile The man before my eyes is somehow strange.

    Even after that, His Highness continued to tell me about the state of Ga but More than the contents of this conversation, I was more concerned with His Highness himself.

    I was concerned with him, but it definitely wasnt in a romantic sense. I mean that I was concerned about what sort of personality he had, okay!?

 Volume 6 - Ch 15

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    One Day I Became a Burikko Viiness Noble Girl, . Honto tutorial .

    Think of it as throwing money at the author and Alphapolis, and getting a book with squiggles and pretty pictures as a pleasant extra.

    Hachuu-!

    The sound of a little sneeze rang out through the empty room. Now that the winter is approaching, the inside of the castle is getting colder and colder. I can see my breath. Like every year, its the season where everybody uses me magic.

    The days went by as I stayed at the castle and did my job. There were plenty of things I needed to do, after all, and I was close to both the castle library and my workce now, so there wasnt really a problem though. To think the day woulde when I would be sleeping at the castle just like my father the marquis. This morning, thinking that it wouldnt be great to leave the marquis estate unupied, I said What if its just me that stays at home, and travels to the castle for work? when for some reason Achilles mood took a nose dive. And so, I immediately escaped to the Magic Building.

    Right now Im in the middle of seriously doing my job. Just now I had just been exterminating an infestation of crawlers that had popped up in the rural areas of the country, and Im justing back from it. Crawlers are grotesque-looking giant caterpirs. Theyre an annoying pest that asionally pop in the countryside and eat up all the crops. A hateful thing that shines in my top 5 monsters Im bad at dealing with list. Once they grow up, they end up metamorphosing into yet another grotesque thing; a moth monster. These monsters eat not only the crops, but attack livestock and humans as well, so once they appear on the farms, you have to quickly exterminate them.

    Now then, about the creation of a tattoo that stops forbidden-magic today, Ive finally seeded in creating one that isnt limited by number of uses. With this, we should be able to deal with most forbidden arts. The scale designs have changed to a chain design. With this, all I need to do now is cast a forbidden spell on myself to test out the effectiveness but, unfortunately, right now Ive fallen into a state where I cant.

    Last time, I casted a forbidden spell while looking in a mirror to test. In that case, even if I failed, there wouldnt be anybody hurt besides me; a rtively peaceful choice. If I immediately dispelled it, there wouldnt be any harm done after all.

    But,st time when I finished the final test for the scale tattoos, Achille ended up seeing everything, so this method was banned. ording to him, casting forbidden magic on myself was insane. But hey, if you dont test out its effectiveness, you cant use it in battle, right? If by some chance the tattoos werent good enough during a confrontation with the Heroine, the situation would turn really bad.

    Hmmm, what do to?

    I was thinking about somehow getting permission from Achille to test it on myself, but I ended up running away from him today when his mood worsened. I regret the slip of tongue from this morning.

    Royce-sama and Achille are really busy working to deal with themoner extremists, so I dont feel right just sitting around, but theres not much I can do to help when ites to that. All I can do is working on a way tobat forbidden magic, and remodelling spells to deal with the Heroine. But if I cant do a live experiment, Ill be really troubled.

    Even while all this is happening, the number of forbidden magic victims might have increased. And whats more, for some reason that Heroine has been obviously aiming for Achille and trying to win him over too. If the Heroine cast forbidden magic on Achille I absolutely wouldnt be able to stand it! As long as theres a way to defend against it, I want to hurry up and test it.

    I thought about quietly testing it in secret but this mana sensing device known as my wedding wing is on my finger, so Id definitely be discovered. Uuu Damn you Achille, to have prepared this far. He really is a husband that overlooks nothing.

    After finishing work, I timidly returned to my room. Itd be nice if Achilles mood has returned to normal. I have to somehow get permission from Achille to experiment.

    Huu

    I let out a sigh of relief. It seems that Achille hasnte back to the room yet.

    Hes been quite busytely, after all. I wonder if its overtime.

    Tossing off my work clothes, I changed into homewear. In just my underwear, I was just about to put my clothes on, when the door opened to a ck.

    -!?

    Turning around in surprise, I found Achille frozen in front of the door, more shocked than I was.

    -gyaaahhhhhh!

    If you trace it back to the start, its my fault for boldly changing right in front of the door though. I didnt think that Achille woulde back so quickly after all! In a great fluster, and still wearing nothing but underwear, I hid myself behind the sofa.

    Camille, you forgot this

    Achille picked up the homewear that I had forgotten in my panic, and tossed them towards the sofa. It seems that his anger from this morning hasnt dragged out until now.

    Uuu

    Letting him see me like this. How pathetic. While I was changing on this side of the sofa, Achille was kind enough to wait in front of the door. Its great that youre not moving from the door. But you know, if you keep sneaking so many nces this way, wont I start to mind it? I wonder if you couldnt wait outside, instead. After somehow getting my clothes on, I timidly left the shadow of the sofa and made my way to Achille.

    S-, Sorry about that, Achille. I showed you something unsightly

    Why were you changing right in front of the door? What were you going to do if someone other than me opened the door?

    Although he was nagging me, the arms that wrapped around me were kind. Even when I show him ugly behaviour like this, Achille wont leave me in disgust. Hes an extremely broadminded husband that Im d to have.

    Camille, your hand.

    Giving him my hand like a dog, Achilles bony, white hand ovepped with mine. As expected I dont know when, but my bodys beenpletely conditioned to these pathetic reactions.

    A new tattoo?

    You sure have good eyes. It seems he immediately noticed the new tattoos on my hand. A small, silver chain that wraps around my right wrist

    Mn Its a magic tattoo to defend against forbidden magic. I havent tested it yet, so I dont know how exactly how effective it is, though.

    Thanks to a certain someone, I wasnt allowed to experiment after all. While staring right up at Achille, he sighed.

    It seems that you didnt decide on your own to test forbidden magic, huh.

    I mean, youd get mad at me, right?

    Obviously. To think of casting forbidden magic on yourself

    But Achille, youll need tattoos for your ns against the Heroine, right?

    Even so Hahh.

    Massaging his brows as he sighed, Achille suddenly stopped talking. While hoping that hed given up and would give me permission to experiment, I peered into his face expectantly, only to have my chin lifted up in his fingers, and my gaze locked in ce.

    Ueeh?

    Then how about you test it on *me?

    His clear cobalt eyes stared right at me.

    Eehhh?

    You can just draw that tattoo on me, and then test a forbidden spell on *me. Even if anything happens, you of all people would be able to deal with it, right?

    But then, if anything happens, *Achille will get hurt. Even if only for a little, hell have to suffer a forbidden spell. The magic tattoo is still in the experimental phase, so theres no proof that itll actually work. To use Achille as a guinea pig in such a stage

    Dont want to. Im not going to cast forbidden magic on you.

    My voice trembled unwillingly. With my chin held, I couldnt move about, so only my gaze moved away. I mean, I definitely dont want to have Achille do something so dangerous. That would be putting the cart before the horse. Even if there wasnt any risk, firing a forbidden spell at Achille is something I just cant do.

    Why? Isnt it safer to have two people experimenting over one?

    I said I dont want to! Dont make bad jokes like that! Even if you dont get hurt, I still dont want to!

    If I let go of this chance, I might not be able to do human experimentation anymore. But if I have to use Achille, then

    Rather, wouldnt it be better if you cast it on *me, Achille? I mean, look, Ive already got the tattoo on.

    In that instant, Achille looked disgusted. Even though he said stuff about it being cast on him! Why is he against casting things on me*! This time with dissatisfaction as well, I once again stared up at Achille.

    You sure say cruel things, huh Just like you dont want to cast forbidden arts on me, I dont want to cast it on you either.

    Achille?

    Im the same, you know? Why is it that no matter how long its been, you still dont understand?

    Above my eyes, on my nose, on my cheeks Achilles lips fell on them one after another. In contrast to his scolding voice, his touch was so kind that I stood there with my eyes closed and identally forgot to resist.

    When youre hurt, or in pain, I suffer as well, after all.

    When I opened my eyes again, Achille was making an incredibly sad expression. My chest hurts. He usually doesnt let his feelings show much. All I see is his poker face, or his angry face, and asionally augh. The only one hell show such a pained expression to, is none other than me.

    S-, Sorry.

    Just now was my fault. I went and meaninglessly said something hurtful. I cant use forbidden arts on Achille. I dont want to. Definitely not. But despite that, in my annoyance, I told Achille to do the same thing to me

    For now, Ill give up on experimenting on both myself and Achille.

    Take care of yourself more, Camille But even if I say that, Im sure youre just going to be careless when ites to your own safety, so from now on just think of avoiding danger as something for my sake.

    Uu- Okay.

    I parted from Achilles hands, and sat on top of the sofa in seiza. Although I do get the feeling that somehow I was led into a direction convenient for him, its obvious that this time I was at fault, so I had no choice but to obediently nod to hisment. It cant be helped if I suffer, but if it makes Achille sad, then I definitely dont want to. I dont want to be the reason he makes that kind of expression again.

    As for the human experimentation, Ill figure something out. You dont have to worry about a thing, Camille

    But, Achille

    If we cant test on ourselves, then just how on earth does he n on testing it then? While I was looking uneasy, Achille gave me a soothing smile.

    Itll be fine.

    Camille, your hand. The term he uses here is the Japanese dogmand for shake/handshake.

    Also, did anybody else suddenly have the words Riajuu wa BAKUHATSU SHIRO! erupt from their mouth as they were reading this? No? Just me?

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