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Time flies. There is an expression that it flies like a shot arrow. It really does. No, to be precise, it flies much faster than a shot arrow. Wouldn’t the arrows be something that even the monster knights could catch with their bare hands?

A year has passed and I have become five years old. Five years old! So there has been no change in my daily life.

In the first place, since I spent every day doing the same routine almost every day, sometimes I would forget that I was royalty. If there weren’t as many maids as I used to, or if I wasn’t called a princess sometimes, I probably would’ve really forgotten. I’d wake up when I was woken up, and if I just stood there blankly, my sisters would take care of cleaning and polishing me, and then I’d stay like that for a while, and then I’d take classes like Yugram, and then eat and do other things in between… After dinner, I’d study a bit more or read books as a hobby, and then go to bed. And then I’d repeat.

But it’s not like nothing has changed at all. I learned the lessons and became smarter, but I also learned basic common sense and how the world works.

To be exact, it should be said that it was the basis for judgment and that it was judged based on that. For example, when studying taxation, that is, tax laws, you end up learning about how things came to be this way and how things were in the past, so you think, “Oh, this is when you are treated as an adult,” and “This is when commoners start working.”

Should we say that these things are bundled together to form information? Anyway, judging by the common sense we’ve learned so far, this world is judged to be a fantasy world where people are fundamentally very strong. Of course, the standard is that of the other world.

Yes. This is a fantasy world. I realized that strongly when I asked Yugram about his birthday. I thought that if it was a royal birthday, there would be some kind of grand banquet or festival or something like that, but I was a little curious because nothing happened, so I asked why.

‘Birthdays have great magical significance, so nobles basically keep them a secret.’

I heard the explanation. Magical! What a charming sound! It was easy to see from Yugram’s reaction that my pupils sparkled like crazy at that moment.

It wasn’t an ordinary other-world, but a fantasy! Or is it an ordinary other-world, so it’s a fantasy? Anyway, let’s say it has some magical meaning, but in my case, I don’t go to class for 2-3 days before and after my birthday and live a really lazy life, so I asked Yugram the obvious question of whether there was a hidden meaning.

‘There is no way royalty would betray.’

I heard a sharp answer. Royalty? I tilted my head, and Yugram explained further. In fact, it seems like all the maids who take care of me and the various types of servants who manage the palace are royalty.

Of course, the only ones who have the right to the throne are our family members, including the current king, and the rest are collateral or honorary positions, although the terminology is not necessarily divided. It seems like there are families that have supported the king since the kingdom was founded, or families that were recognized for their ability and loyalty and were incorporated. Of course, if a few hundred people all have the right to the throne, it would be a big deal.

But just hearing this story, I understand that the royal family is organized in that way~ but I was a little curious about the fact that Yugram answered with such confidence. How could he, who is the closest to the king, not be involved in politics and power struggles? Doesn’t that seem a little strange?

Even if I thought about it for a little while, I thought that there was too much room for abuse, but soon, since it was Yugram, there must be some basis for it, and since it was information that I shouldn’t know, he wouldn’t have told me the basis for it, so I figured it out. If I was suspicious enough, then of course Yugram would be suspicious too.

Yugram looks strict and suspicious from the start, but in reality, he’s about 10 times worse. Just looking at Yugram’s upbringing, it’s like he’s supposed to be suspicious of everything, think about it, deny it, and assume the worst. It’s obvious that he himself would do the same. If there’s a poor girl who marries Yugram, she’ll know what hypochondria is. No, that’s assuming that Yugram likes that girl. If it’s a political marriage, that won’t happen, right?

But since it’s called a political marriage, I feel like it’ll turn out that way even more. Who is Yoo Gram? I don’t know exactly, but he’s a close associate of the royal family, an elite enough to be the royal tutor, and he’s very handsome, smart, and probably rich. In other words, he’s like the male protagonist of a novel. If this Yoo Gram were a girl (the possessed person) who came through a political marriage and said, “I don’t love you or want to be loved, so after a few years, we’ll sign a divorce contract…” or something like that, then he’d take an interest in her and become obsessed with her… I remember Yoo Gram noticing something and glaring at me fiercely.

So what’s the conclusion? I mean, I just have to live as I’m told. There’s no such thing as a demon king in this world, and there’s no dramatic events like being assassinated if you don’t become king, or being suddenly kicked out and becoming a commoner, or being married off to an enemy country that you were at war with just a moment ago.

The prejudice I had against royalty was also influenced by those novels from my previous life. They had the right to succession, but they couldn’t kill each other directly, so they confined them in a palace and harassed them secretly. Or, a slightly worse family was impatient because they couldn’t kill each other. Or, I lived as a beggar, but in reality, I was the abandoned princess!? There was no such development. Or, when I went to the isolated palace in a corner because I was bored, there was no spirit or divine beast trapped there.

Actually, I sometimes wondered if it was okay to just live like this. But I thought that at a young age, I couldn’t play properly and just studied all day, so shouldn’t I think that this is usually difficult and painful? I wondered if my mental age was too high and I was living without considering ‘Lillianne’.

But if you think about it carefully, Lilianne was originally an introvert and was afraid of Yugram, but I remember liking the class itself, or more precisely, the act of gaining knowledge. She was a typical scholar type. That must be why there was a separate bookshelf in her room. If she purposely brought those hard and boring books into her room, wouldn’t she have become a bookworm even if Yugram hadn’t taught her?

Even so, it is still a bit hazy whether this personality of being indifferent, blunt, and calculating inappropriate for her age is something she learned from Yu Gram, or whether it is Lilianne’s original personality, or whether it is because her mental age is high due to her past life.

But then I heard some shocking information that easily shattered my unconscious poker face.

“By the way, Leah, I heard you’re coming to swordsmanship class starting tomorrow?”

“Yes!?”

I was so surprised that I almost dropped the snack I was holding. If I had actually dropped it, I would have received scary stares from the maids. At some point, whenever my behavior seemed a little ‘unprincess-like’, I would naturally feel invisible pressure.

The one who called me Leah was my third older brother, Isaac Karsten. All the men, including my father who is the king, are red-faced, but Isaac is a bit lighter than them, and sometimes he has an appearance that fits the description of being beautiful rather than handsome, to the point that I think he is my older sister rather than my older brother. Sometimes I call him my older sister as a joke, and he accepts my jokes without showing any displeasure, and he is a good older brother who often comes to visit and play with me. Well, that doesn’t mean that the other older brothers are bad, though.

I feel a little lonely because he is 7 years younger than me and will be entering the academy soon, so I won’t be able to see him during the semester.

“I heard Yugram talking to the knights, so that’s what it seems. It’ll be a long time since I’ve seen Yugram’s duel.”

“Daily training? Yugram knows how to use kendo?”

“Ah.. You haven’t seen Leah. Yugram is incredibly strong. Maybe after the captain or Beneath. I don’t know exactly. ”

Beniard probably refers to the King’s Guardian Knight, and the Commander refers to the Knight Commander.. so if you think about it logically, both of them can be considered as some of the most powerful people in the kingdom. But is Yugram that strong?

‘He’s handsome, a good student, and judging by the fact that he brings a lot of books and such for class, he must have a lot of money, and he’s also good at swordsmanship. Isn’t he really the male protagonist of a novel?’

As I became curious about Yugram’s true identity, I felt a chilling sense of unease. Swordsmanship lessons. The true identity of that terrifying lesson, which three-year-old Lilianne had no idea about, was now something I knew roughly. And that I had to start doing it tomorrow. Suddenly, the snacks felt as heavy as a thousand pounds. But I had to eat them. For tomorrow.