episode_0019

The guest was Amelia.

This time Amelia was alone.

No, not alone in the dictionary meaning of the word. Even so, no parent would ask a seven-year-old child to walk that long distance alone. It is a long road that would be tiring even with an adult alone in the first place.

A coachman leading the carriage in which Amelia rode, a maid riding in the same carriage as Amelia, and several knights to escort Amelia. Thinking about it again, the composition when a person from the Grand Duke’s family came was much simpler than when the prince came.

I don’t know if it’s because of the difference in status or the difference in how close we are with our clans.

Anyway, for some reason, Amelia visited our territory in a carriage alone without the Grand Duke of Grattonmount.

and-

“… … You told the wolf to bite your arm as an excuse to postpone the sparring?”

“Yes. Because if I get hurt, I won’t be able to spar.”

No matter how bad the opponent’s personality is, no one wants to spar with an injured person. Because it hurts their pride in many ways. If you already got the title of losing a fight with a woman, but that woman is injured, even if you win the spar, your opponent’s honor will be ruined. It will fall.

“Can’t we just make a reasonable excuse and postpone it?”

“Is it okay to deal with the prince?”

At my words, Amelia raised her hand and pressed the bridge of her nose with her index finger and thumb.

The behavior was somewhat adult-like, but honestly, since the child doing it was seven years old, it didn’t seem that serious.

The situation was pretty serious though.

“No, more than that.”

Amelia lowered her hand and glared at me slightly.

“Do you have feelings for the prince?”

“… … .”

I didn’t understand that for a moment, but then

“… … Yes?”

I asked back.

“Did you say something like ‘the time to get to know each other is too short’ when you weren’t even interested in the prince?”

In fact, her expression seemed to say that it would have been more surprising if she had said it without such feelings, but I actually did not understand what Amelia said.

“Of course, if we are sparring to get to know each other, wouldn’t we need more time?”

Actually, I was just saying it out of thin air to make an excuse, but once I said it, it seemed to make sense. Isn’t it difficult for idealistic sparring to understand things to end in just one go?

“You really said it without any special feelings? Do you even have the slightest intention of hooking up with the prince?”

“Of course I don’t plan on doing that, right?”

Rather, I don’t know why Amelia asks that so many times—ah.

A thought suddenly occurred to me: the prince was one of the ‘male protagonists’ in the original work of the novel. Brother Harvey had already entered adolescence and was showing off his handsome face, but Prince Evan was a kid who had not even lost his breast fat yet.

However, if you know the original work, you will want to date such a prince.

I’ve become the main character of a harem drama, but I wouldn’t feel very good if someone started ganging up on me before I even became a heroine.

Well, the person in front of me right now was not a heroine but a villainess, but what I was reading was not a romantic fantasy novel with an ‘original setting’, but a ‘villainous heroine’, so if you ask me, the main character was Amelia.

… … And of course, I had no intention of dating a man at all, because I was a man on the inside.

That doesn’t mean I can date a woman, but if I were to marry a man, I would just end up living alone for the rest of my life. It might be better to go on a trip on the back of a wolf and not return.

“… … Really?”

“Really.”

To Amelia, who was looking at me with narrowed eyes, I nodded and spoke in as firm a voice as possible.

“Nature never lies.”

“… … .”

But even though I added that, Amelia just narrowed her eyes and looked at me.

*

At first, I thought Elsie was planning to become the crown prince’s wife.

If the baron’s other woman had said she would become the crown prince’s wife, I would have scoffed. All of the Delkish women are tall. To put it more bluntly, they could be said to be gigantic.

The face is said to be beautiful in all of the works, but rather than being portrayed that way in a serious way, it was closer to a description added to justify Elsie as a beauty and to make the word ‘huge’ seem a little more humorous.

And, in this worldview, the fact that she is beautiful is not that special. Most important people are described as beautiful.

When a man chooses a woman, height is naturally included. He does not necessarily prefer a shorter one, but he does not prefer a taller one either. Due to the nature of medieval fantasy, the worldview is inevitably patriarchal, and in that worldview, he wants a woman taller than himself. There is a high possibility that one’s tastes will be evaluated as somewhat special.

However, Elsie’s height is ‘very’ small even though she has the blood of a ‘giant’ flowing through her. Even when I become an adult, I cannot be taller than Elsie, but in the original work, Elsie’s height was described as being shorter than the crown prince.

To be more precise, the description reads, ‘Elsie, who stood in front of the Crown Prince to protect Amelia, was obviously shorter than the Crown Prince, but looked taller than anyone else here.’

Given the circumstances, the grown-up crown prince’s height was around the mid-180s, so Elsie would be around the mid-170s. Even though the two are somewhat apart, there is a clear difference in height, so if he were to be taller than the average female height, it would be roughly that much.

And if you are a reincarnated person who has read the original work like Elsina, it is not strange for you to approach Prince Evan, who will naturally become the crown prince.

… … Because, all reincarnated people say that. Otherwise, there would be no reason for reincarnating, right?

Amelia would have been doomed if she got tangled up with the crown prince, but Elsie has no flags to get in her way. The only obstacle is that she doesn’t appear until the end of part 1 and is hastily created for part 2, so she has almost no contact with the main characters of the original work. .

But because of this incident, the obstacle also disappeared, so I thought Elsie had taken action.

I’ve thought about it.

However, there was no such sign at all on the face of Elsie, who came to visit in a hurry. Of course, she did something that someone would consider a fox’s behavior, but she didn’t seem to be aware of it at all.

… … Should I just ask you outright? Is that acting? Did you even go to an acting academy in your past life?

But that thought was quickly abandoned.

If Elsie knows the ‘original work’, she would also know that I will become a ‘villain’ in the future. I have never been a villain, so there is no problem right now, but if she knows that I will use and discard her in the future, she must be on guard. It is natural to do it.

Now that I’m just a child, I might just move on.

And if it is revealed that I am a reincarnated person, the problem may become worse. Even in my opinion, the person possessed by the villain is a dangerous being. He is probably a person who will do anything to escape destruction. And usually in that genre, the villainess plays a cider-like revenge drama. And the men who dumped the villainess regretted it, became devastated, and tried to take it over again, only to be ruined even more… … Anyway, that’s what was trending.

“What would you do if the other person understood what you said?”

Elsie frowned at my question.

He looks like he doesn’t even want to imagine that.

why?

He may be a bit rude, but he’s still a tsundere who treats his woman well, right? Plus, he’s the crown prince. He also has some shortcomings, so there was a part of him that I wanted to take care of. He was a character with a completely different charm from Elsie’s older brother, Harvey.

… … Of course, I was a character who would be in big trouble if I got involved wrongly.

“Then we need to clear up the misunderstanding.”

“But, if a woman said that, it would be difficult to resolve the misunderstanding.”

If you are a man, it is okay to say that you made a mistake. A man can be proud of the fact that he has bewitched several women. It means that he is that attractive.

And if it were a modern society, women might also receive similar reviews.

… … But this world is a world in a ‘medieval’ romantic fantasy novel.

Moreover, it is a troublesome worldview that goes so far as to include such settings in order to highlight the dignity of the female protagonist.

If a woman openly tells a man that she loves him, and if it is not her married husband, then that is just an obscene act. People who heard it in person will probably be extremely surprised and whisper, because that is the setting.

In that sense, although Elsie’s words were barely obscene confessions, a confession is a confession.

By now, the crown prince—no, Prince Evan’s nose—should have been soaring into the sky. He’s still young, so it wouldn’t be awkward for him to just tease the fact that he’s popular.

“Uh, what should I do? I never meant it that way.”

I’m not sure if I’m acting because I’m a villain who can destroy myself in advance, or if it’s because I really don’t know.

First of all, I’m assuming it’s a reincarnation, but… … Are you sure you read the same novel? It’s just that worldview, right?

Ah, maybe she’s a little young? Without realizing it, I was thinking that she was probably an adult woman like me, but when I thought about it, it was a novel that even young children could read, as long as there were no adult novel-like scenes.

Elementary student… … Even if it’s not until middle school students.

… … When I think like that, I suddenly feel like the puzzle is falling into place.

“… … Okay, then let’s find a way first. Is it okay if I help you?”

Holding back a sigh, I suggested that.