For a moment, I took a short breath.
It was because the suffocating aura was tightly constricting my throat.
Even so, I couldn’t help but understand his sharp reaction.
No wonder, the body I had possessed was…
In the original story, she was one of the worst, most mischievous princesses.
Cassia Sortis del Astrid.
Her hobbies were to cling to the male protagonist and torment him as if she was breathing.
Her specialty was to smash everything she didn’t like.
Cassia, whose brain was overly innocent, had coined all sorts of famous quotes.
“Knights who have to rely on purification elixirs to fight are completely incompetent, aren’t they?”
After that remark, the reputation of the Knights’ Order plummeted.
The imperial family, who secretly regretted the cost of making purification elixirs, welcomed Cassia’s remarks with open arms.
Eventually, Giscard began to treat Cassia like a bug…
‘But I’m that Cassia, for heaven’s sake!’
Meanwhile, I was shedding tears of blood inside.
Giscard’s expression was becoming fiercer by the second.
‘Well, I understand that you don’t know that I’m not her. But I’m not her!’
Ah, just listen to me once.
I swallowed my dry saliva and raised my chin slightly.
“Do you need purification elixirs?”
And then I smiled as nonchalantly as possible.
“I’ll be happy to help you with that.”
“……”
It was as I expected.
Giscard, who would have normally passed me by like a bug, stopped in his tracks for the first time.
And then.
“What…did you just say?”
My smile deepened at his suspicious voice.
“Exactly what I said. Support for the Azure Order.”
I stared straight into Giscard’s eyes and declared confidently,
“I’ll do it.”
Giscard stared at me intently, as if observing me.
Wow, he’s not even hiding his suspicion.
I set my jaw and met Giscard’s sharp gaze head-on.
After a while.
“Ha, well, this is…”
Giscard let out a short chuckle and muttered to himself in a dry voice.
“I’ve lived a long time and seen a lot. I’ve even heard such funny things.”
“……”
Hey, you jerk.
Even so, I’m the princess, you know?
Are you just openly mocking me?!
I kept my confident smile frozen on my face.
At the same time, Giscard shot me a sharp look.
“You mean the Princess will support the Azure Dawn Knights? No one else but the Princess?”
Well, I understand a hundred times over why Giscard doesn’t trust me.
No wonder, the original Cassia was really an incredible klutz.
Her hobbies were to obsess over the male protagonist, throw tantrums whenever she didn’t get her way, and live in luxury as if it were second nature.
And that’s not all.
‘It was probably Cassia’s fault that the treatment of the Azure Dawn Knights became so definitively crappy?’
Here’s a rough summary of Cassia’s actions in the original story.
About a year later.
Cassia, obsessed with the male protagonist, goes on a vacation to the north to see his face.
Then, wielding her status as a princess, she insists on seeing a portal that is currently sealed off.
And just then, she dies by a monster that pops out.
‘Thanks to her, Giscard had to take all the blame.’
But that was the ‘other’ Cassia.
Since I had no intention of being like her, I responded,
“Yes, it’s me,” with a wide grin, a poker face on.
Giscard’s brow furrowed, but whatever.
I shrugged nonchalantly.
“Shall we move somewhere else first? I think we need to have a more in-depth conversation.”
“Oh, an in-depth conversation?”
“Well, if you really don’t need my help… I can’t keep insisting, though.”
I lowered my eyes slightly.
“But I think someone might need my help. And I mean, a~lot.”
“……”
Giscard chewed on his lip until it was bloody.
I wish I had phrased that better.
No matter how much I understand Giscard’s situation and want to help, I don’t want to put up with this kind of rudeness.
I turned without waiting for a reply.
A moment later.
“Ugh…damn it.”
A long sigh mixed with curses came from behind me.
At the same time, the sound of nervous footsteps echoed.
He’s following me.
Giscard probably thinks my words are nonsense.
And yet, he can’t bring himself to turn down my offer.
The fact that this is the case must mean that Giscard and the Blue Dawn Knights are desperate for support.
“……”
I couldn’t help but feel a little satisfied.
* * *
Giscard and I moved to the empty balcony.
The spring flowers had already withered long ago.
The garden, which had just entered the beginning of summer, was filled with a brilliant vitality.
‘But someday.’
I held onto the railing tightly to hide my complex feelings.
‘All of this will be trampled under the hordes of monsters.’
Well-trimmed garden trees, bright blue grass, and peaceful moonlight.
And… even the people who laugh and chat and live their daily lives in it.
It will disappear without a trace from the very beginning.
Because.
‘The male protagonist of this world will eventually fail…’
“Now please tell me.”
A sudden, clear voice broke my reverie.
“What on earth are you thinking?”
Oh, really.
I let out a sigh of relief and looked at Giscard without any malice.
‘I’m trying to be serious about something for once…’
However, Giscard just kept poking me with his sullen face.
“Please explain to me quickly about the support you mentioned.”
Alright, alright.
What would that poor male lead know?
I shook my head inwardly and opened my mouth.
“First, I want to apologize to you. I’m sorry.”
In order to establish a new relationship, we need to clear up old feelings first.
Although it was not me but the original Cassia who was obsessed with Giscard,
Honestly, I’m so resentful and want to run wild that I could just die!
‘Yes, now I have to live as Cassia…’
I was going to apologize for what the original Cassia did wrong and move on.
“I’ve been chasing you all this time. It must have been very unpleasant for you, right?”
“……”
In an instant, Giscard’s eyes narrowed in suspicion.
It looks like he’s thinking something like, ‘This princess is out of her mind.’
A cheeky grin spread across my face.
“RIMI.(Really, I mean it.)”
As I unintentionally slurred my words, Giscard’s eyes widened slightly.
Then he replied nonchalantly,
“Well, it seems like Your Highness is trying to play a new prank on me…”
Giscard let out a short chuckle.
“I was a bit surprised. It’s refreshing.”
Hey.
I looked at Giscard, trembling.
This bastard, did he forget that I’m the princess?
He said it nicely, but he was basically saying, “I can never trust what you say!”
Of course, the original Cassia had a history of clinging to Giscard, saying,
“Sir Romanov despises me! It’s so cool! It’s thrilling!”
…Well, I guess it’s understandable that he doesn’t trust me.
As I was about to sink into self-loathing, Giscard opened his mouth peevishly.
“Anyway, I’m much more in need of supplies and purification elixirs to distribute to our knights than a cheap apology from your mouth… wait a minute.”
Then he glared at me with a fierce gaze… Hey, why are you glaring like that?
Why are you making such a suspicious face?!
With that, Giscard muttered suspiciously.
“Could it be, this time too?”
At the same time, the original Cassia’s haughty sniffling voice echoed in my mind.
“But if I don’t do this, Sir will never even look at me…!”
A-A-Are you crazy?!
Why do I have to be embarrassed on behalf of the original Cassia, who created all this embarrassing history?!
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