episode_0097

After deciding on the main dress, shoes to wear on the day, and various accessories and preparations, the women left the dressing room with satisfied faces. It took quite a while, but the process and results were quite good, so it was a good investment. Leah also found it really annoying and unpleasant at first, but after doing it once, she thought it was a fun experience.

Following him, Yugram also had a bright face, and he was filled with joy at finally being freed from the space where conditions that went against his will were prevalent. Unlike Leah, who was walking quietly, Lin and Cosette were chattering away, a step behind each other. Lin, who seemed to be quite quiet, if not as quiet as Dark Lin, was talking so much, which showed Cosette’s friendliness.

It was time, so let’s go eat. The thought came to all three of them without them having to say it out loud, and they naturally wandered along the street in search of a restaurant. Although it was a city very close to the academy, they had never been here before, so they didn’t know the geography very well, and they just thought that if they walked around slowly, they would find a suitable restaurant.

“Okay, wait a minute! Lady!”

As the three of them were walking down the street, a man appeared in front of them, shouting in a trembling voice. Judging from his face and figure, he seemed to be around the same age as Leah and Cosette, having graduated from the academy. He was probably a nobleman, wearing a very neat outfit and even had a servant behind him.

Although he was clearly the first man she had seen, Leah could tell at a glance what the man was trying to do. The man’s face was flushed red to anyone who saw it, and his eyes were shaking violently. Leah had seen countless men at the Academy who showed this kind of symptom.

About 80% of them were men who came for Cosette, and the rest were mostly men who came for Ayla. Their purpose was… a confession. A confession of love.

Cosette is very sociable, treats both men and women kindly, always has a smile on her face, gets pretty good grades, and even has big breasts, so it’s not at all strange that many students fall for Cosette. It’s also natural since Aila is quite pretty.

Sadly, nothing much happened for Leah and Agnes.

Of course, whether it was Cosette or Ayla, the confession attack ended with things like, “I’m sorry, but let’s just be friends…” or, “I’m not interested in weaklings.” Of course, the men who remained as friends never spoke to Cosette again.

In any case, since Leah had witnessed countless confession attacks, she could easily tell that this man’s intention was also to confess, so she quietly took a few steps back and switched places with Cosette, who was talking to Lin. However, if it had been normal, the man would have just told Cosette his feelings, but this time, something was different.

“Lady! Why are you avoiding me!”

“..Huh?”

Leah, who had been sneaking behind, looked at the man with a blank expression. After looking at the man once, and at Rin and Cosette who were looking at her once, Leah raised her finger and pointed at herself. The man nodded.

“Uh.. Me?”

‘I must have misunderstood something.’ Leah slowly stepped forward. No matter how I looked at it, it was our first time meeting, so what could he be doing? Does he know me? What if he suddenly swings a knife? As Leah was thinking about all sorts of things, the man suddenly knelt down in front of her.

“Lady.. I’m embarrassed to say this, but I fell in love at first sight. Would you please be my lover with the intention of marriage?”

“Ugh, ugh..!”

“..?”

Apart from Cosette, who gasped in surprise to the point of shock, Leah showed no reaction at all. It wasn’t as if she was ignoring the man, but rather as if she was wondering if what she had just heard was right. Leah tilted her head once and slowly answered.

“Um.. Did you just propose to me..?”

“That’s right. Please. Please. Accept my heart!”

The man screamed, his eyes tightly shut. Only then did Leah realize that this man was serious, and she was incredibly surprised. His expression was still expressionless, but his eyes were filled with surprise, and he began to communicate only with Cosette, who was looking at him with the same shock.

‘What the hell is going on?’

‘How would I know, princess! At least answer me!’

After exchanging similar opinions, Leah finally realized that the man in front of her was shaking. He must have had a lot of courage to do something like that, so she had to give him a serious answer. Leah spoke slowly.

“Before I accept that proposal…can I ask you a few questions?”

“Uh..what?”

“By any chance, how much is your family’s wealth… or how much property can I inherit? You don’t have to tell me the exact amount, but is it enough that I won’t have to worry about money for the rest of my life?”

At that moment, the man who was listening to the story, Lin and Cosette who were watching with interest from behind, and the people passing by the street who were watching with dead eyes all had the same thought. What did I just hear? While the people were staring at each other blankly, not believing their ears, the man answered in confusion.

“I don’t think that’s right. However, if I try, I can revive the family even more.”

“I see.. Are you currently attending the academy? Oh, you are. Then how are your grades? I think that in order to be a good parent, you need to set an example, so you need to have both great intelligence and brute force.”

“That’s…”

Without even looking at the man who was struggling and unable to answer, Leah continued to speak. As the various conditions were added, the man’s face turned pale, and the people who were listening also stuck out their tongues and looked at Leah with faces like she was wondering what she was talking about before continuing on their way.

“..That’s all, but do you meet these conditions?”

“I’m sorry, lady.. I’ll try to polish myself a bit more..”

The man, who heard Leah’s condition of ‘I’ll accept your proposal if it’s at least this much’, didn’t seem particularly angry and just bowed his head and walked away. Looking at him, Leah seemed quite surprised, as she thought that he must have really fallen in love at first sight.

“Okay! Something minor came up, should we go back to the restaurant?”

“It doesn’t seem like a trivial matter…”

Lin followed Leah, who was slowly walking away, muttering that the thesis that the nature of magic and personality were clearly unrelated was nonsense. Cosette also agreed with a bitter smile. Leah was certainly not bad, but… her personality was not good either. Cosette felt quite sorry for the man who had just disappeared without even saying his name.

Yugram was also bewildered as he watched this series of farces. However, he was not bewildered by the fact that someone had confessed to Leah, but rather by the emotions he felt while watching the incident.

Of course, as a servant and a member of the royal family, Yugram had a duty to prevent anyone suspicious from approaching or approaching Leah. So when the man proposed to her without knowing the subject, it was probably normal to feel the urge to educate her to realize her subject if possible, wondering why she dared to target Leah with such a small subject.

But after that… I saw Leah excitedly and eagerly talking about the conditions of the man she thought of as her spouse, and I was overcome with a feeling that I couldn’t describe. He was a man with a lot of wealth, and had outstanding talent and ability in both civil and military affairs… and countless other conditions.

‘What should I say…’

Perhaps Leah’s friends, or the ordinary people watching, would have laughed it off as a young girl’s vain dream, wondering where such a man could be found, but Yugram could easily figure out who it meant. Of course, there was no way Yugram wouldn’t know.

‘His Majesty the King… or the princes… among them, Prince Isaac would probably be the most suitable… Since he loves and misses his family so much, he must unconsciously want a man who is similar to his family in his spouse.’

Yugram sent a pitiful gaze to Leah. Following the conditions for a spouse that Leah had recited, at the very least, it had to be a high-ranking noble, and considering Leah’s own level, it had to be royalty. If you ask who that ideal type of royalty was created after, it would ultimately be Prince Isaac, who was the closest to her, or His Majesty the King, her father.

When the senior knights of the Order would brag about their cute daughters, they would usually laugh and say that their daughters liked them so much that they wanted to marry them when they grew up. Of course, since they were young, they probably didn’t know exactly what marriage meant, but Yugram thought that it wasn’t a completely meaningless story.

In a young girl’s narrow worldview, a father can be the coolest and most caring man, so it wouldn’t be strange at all if Leah unconsciously projected His Majesty the King onto her ideal spouse.

‘Especially… the princess doesn’t show it, but she loves her family very much. She pretends not to, but after all, they are part of the Karsten royal family… Can’t help it?’

Yugram thought that as he watched Leah smiling brightly between the two people who were chattering and giggling as if they had decided on a restaurant in front of him.

Somehow, even though almost nothing has changed, the princess these days seems much more beautiful than before.