episode_0026

On the day of the entrance exam. Wearing the academy uniform that I had prepared in advance, I rode a carriage and headed to the academy.

When the carriages saw the Rochelle family seal, they turned their heads to let me pass first, and I didn’t pay any attention to the commoners walking because they knew how to avoid them.

Inside the carriage, which was moving along smoothly, I looked out the window and rolled my eyes, looking for a girl with silver hair.

“People… … . There are so many… … .”

” Considering that less than half of these people are able to enroll, I guess the entrance exam is difficult.”

“I will work hard and get there!”

I smiled at Sarah’s clenched fists and sparkling eyes, and then turned my gaze back out the window. Silver hair, silver hair… … . Where is the silver hair… … .

I stared out the window, looking at people’s hair, but I couldn’t find any silver hair until the carriage entered the academy and stopped.

“Lady. Arrived.”

“I know. I have to get off.”

In front of the exam hall, nobles standing in the shade with their servants and commoners talking to each other under the scorching sun. After confirming that they were divided into two groups, I looked for silver hair in the commoner group, but for some reason I couldn’t see it.

what? Normally, I should have arrived and been among the group of commoners over there… … . Where did they go? Did I come too early? No, no. I was on time.

The heroine’s target changed every time, but the time of arrival here never changed.

Because the female protagonist was neither a possessor nor a regressor. It was just something that turned the target into a random program or something, but it was part of the game anyway.

“Lady?”

“Ah, yes. I’ll get off now.”

As I got out of the carriage holding Mel’s hand, everyone around me turned to look at me. It’s only natural, because among nobles and commoners alike, I’m the only one wearing the academy’s uniform.

Some nobles with strong pride showed signs of discomfort, although they did not show it, and some others stared at the school uniform with bright eyes.

It wasn’t something I needed to worry about, so I ignored all the stares and went to a suitable spot. Mel held a parasol over my head and Sarah dragged a chair.

In the past, I thought it was some kind of emergency, but now I think it is. As I was sitting quietly watching the direction of the academy’s entrance to see when Silver Hair would come in, someone spoke to me from behind.

“It seems like they are confident of being admitted, since they are wearing school uniforms even before taking the entrance exam.”

It was an unpleasant voice. Well, if you look at it objectively, it was the beautiful voice of a handsome man, but I liked it anyway. Because I’m not a broken human being who feels affection for a man who kills me and has the power to kill me.

“Oh my, do you think I’m going to fall?”

“You know that’s not what I’m saying.”

He spread his fan to cover his mouth and smiled.

“I don’t know if there is any reason for me to be considerate of the chaffs who don’t have the courage to come and talk to me because of the authority of the Rochelle family.”

“That attitude will be poison to you.”

“I am a human being who originally lives with poison.”

Let’s laugh, fold the fan, and look back. I made eye contact with Crown Prince Sargela, who narrowed his eyes.

“Don’t you know how to be polite to the crown prince?”

“What are you talking about? Isn’t this an academy where ‘everyone’ is equal? I think this alone is being polite enough, but hehe.”

“Do you think that ‘everyone’ includes you and me? Above all, I don’t think you are in a position to say such a thing as you are looked after by an attendant in an academy where everyone is equal.”

I smiled and tapped my mouth with a folded fan.

“I don’t know what your misunderstanding was, but these people were just being kind to me?”

“You have a kind-hearted ‘maid’.”

“My ‘friend’ is kind.”

He confronted the crown prince without retreating an inch.

Are you backing out of here? Looks belittled. It’s definitely looked down upon. No, I’m glad that’s all it ends with.

If I bend here, later, when the crown prince falls for the female protagonist, all I can do is give him an opportunity to abandon me without hesitation, saying, ‘He won’t be able to say anything anyway.’

I will never back down.

Of course, an appropriate smile and a kind voice. While maintaining a polite attitude.

In the end, the crown prince took a step back first, as if there was nothing more to point out.

“Let’s take a look at the test center.”

“You can take the exam even if it is not at the test site. ‘My lord’”

“A sound that is not even in my heart.”

After saying that, the crown prince turned his back and left. I looked at that for a moment and then sat down on the chair again. As long as I sit down as the head of the household, I will say goodbye to that annoying person. Let’s take a long look. long.

As I closed my eyes and fanned my face, I heard a voice so loud that it stung my ears.

[Students of the Royal Trueno Academy, please listen!! The first test begins when the sun rises at noon, so please stand in line and enter slowly!!]

“Lady, please come in.”

“No, I want to go in last. I have something to check. Oh, Sarah, please go in first.”

“Ah, yes… … .”

“Okay.”

I watched other nobles enter, and after all the nobles entered, the commoners followed them into the exam room.

As I was waiting until the very end, I felt something was wrong with the still invisible female protagonist.

‘Was there a route like this? no. Strange. There has never been a route like this before. The heroine’s tardiness? What can you do without entering the academy? Is there a route I don’t know about? Is this a route that reigns over the underworld? no. If so, Mel would have told me that a new face had appeared. I would have noticed right away.’

As I continued to think, a green-haired woman wearing glasses that looked like a test tube approached me and stood in front of me.

“Princess Charlotte La Rochelle. If you do not enter promptly, you will not be able to take the test.”

“… … is it so. You should get up. It’s a little late because I had to prepare my mind.”

“Is that so? I’m glad you got your mind together. I hope you get good results in this exam.”

The moment you step into the exam room, everything starts from the way you speak and even the tone of your voice. Although everything was different, an oddly familiar voice came from far away.

“Wait a minute!! I’m here now!!”

When I looked back, I saw the silver-haired girl I had been looking for. I saw Ceria, the female protagonist of this game and my opponent, running towards me.

“You are more than 5 minutes late. Since you were late for the exam, next year――”

“Let me in.”

“But princess, if you do this, there will be no fairness in the exam… … .”

I quietly looked at the test tube, and the test tube, after looking at me for a moment, bowed.

“I think I looked at the clock wrong.”

“Good job. Test tube ‘Fermat’. I’ll remember the name.”

“Yes… … .”

I stopped for a moment, made eye contact with Seria who was looking at me, then turned around and entered the exam room.

“Now, wait a minute!”

I heard a voice calling me from behind, but I ignored it and walked on, pretending not to hear it.

Something is strange. The female protagonist’s condition is strange. This is a variable I never even thought about… … . There is too little information to judge.

“Mel.”

“Yes, lady.”

“The woman who came in last, follow her and see if there is anything unusual… … . no. no. From one to ten. Report everything, including what you ate, where you went, and what you said.”

“Yes, I understand.”

I glanced at Mel leaving her seat and walked towards my seat.

The test room was very large, but my seat was always the same, so I was moving around, so I guess they wanted to score points for me. A male examiner approached me and gave me directions.

I didn’t know that even if a man approached me, he would only get animosity towards me instead of giving me points.

“Princess Charlotte. This is it.”

“Ah, kindly. Thank you.”

Although I felt bad, I didn’t show it at all and just smiled and said thank you, and the examiner bowed and headed to another place.

As expected, the baron’s wife, wearing a rapier on her waist, was standing in my seat, and she was standing there with an expression that said, “I’m so annoyed,” as if she was quite annoyed that I had come first and waited for so long.

I tied the rapier prepared at the academy to my belt and climbed onto the exam table. Then, perhaps because she heard the footsteps, the baron’s daughter looked in my direction.

“Oh my, Princess Charlotte was my partner?”

“I’m sorry. Lady Bloa. I’m a little late, right?”

“Hehehe, it’s okay. I also just arrived and came up. by the way… … . You came wearing a school uniform?”

“I am not confident that I will fall.”

When I pulled out the rapier with a grin, the young lady, whose smiling face broke, roughly pulled out the rapier.

“I hope you can keep that confidence… … !!”

I quickly lunged with the tip of the sword pointed at me, lightly striking the incoming rapier away with the blade, and took a step back.

The opponent may have been trying to gauge the distance, but the thrust failed and he was bitten at the same time.

“Inhale!”

Then, the opponent lunges again and slides forward, raises his arm slightly, and thrusts the rapier diagonally downward as if handing it to him with his palm facing upward.

As before, I swung the rapier with just my wrist, changing the trajectory of the incoming rapier, and avoiding the stab by tilting my head slightly to the side.

“Tch… … !”

As soon as he realized that stabbing wouldn’t work, he widened the distance and appeared to swing his rapier.

There is no way.

He smiled and lunged forward, aiming for the neck and thrusting the rapier.

The opponent tried to block my stab by swinging the rapier as if cleaning a window with a wiper, but because he forced himself to change his posture, he struck the stab about half a beat late, leaving a thin scar on his neck.

“Keuak!”

He smiled at the sight of him retreating quickly and pointed the tip of his rapier toward the floor.

The other person just looked at me, swallowing dry saliva, and did not attack me. It must be embarrassing. The princess, who showed no signs of having trained her sword, not only blocked her own attack, but even counterattacked.

okay. I didn’t train. In this episode. But still. Just because your body isn’t trained doesn’t mean that the experience you’ve accumulated over a hundred years will disappear.

“If you don’t come, will you come in from here?”

“… … I will abstain.”

Perhaps because she felt something, the young lady lowered her head, lowering her arm holding the sword, and suddenly announced that she would abstain.

“Do you really want to abstain?”

“… … Yes.”

“Okay. victor! Charlotte La Rochelle!”

I smiled and bowed my head.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

“… … Princess Charlotte, thank you for your hard work.”

It must have been quite a shock to lose with a rapier that I was confident in. There was darkness over his smiling face. Well, it’s none of my business.

I grinned, hung the rapier on the weapon rack, and left the exam room.