The Grand Duchess Is Defeated Again Today

The princess has strong self-esteem.

“I will never approach the princess first.”

“····.”

After hearing my words, the princess opened her mouth as if she had heard something very shocking.

“·······What is that?”

He quickly captured his expression and showed me a grumpy expression.

As if it didn’t hurt me at all if you did that, as if it doesn’t really matter to you whether you do or not.

“What does it have to do with me that you don’t come first?”

Obviously, while I was down with a poisoned arrow, I said that she kept by my side because of worry, but should I say that it is Rebecca’s style of not admitting it in this regard?

Truly, she was a princess who had the highest self-esteem.

“······Is that so?”

I had no intention of losing to Rebecca like that.

It doesn’t matter to me, is there no reason why I should do it?

Of course, I already know that a princess with a lot of pride is saying things she doesn’t want to lose because she doesn’t want to lose.

“Then, today, I will follow the will of the princess.”

“······yes?”

“Today’s banquet for those new to the social world. Enjoy it separately.”

In this case, it was the law to play the fiancée who was ignorant.

Maybe you’ll see Rebecca today, something you’ve never seen before.

The appearance of the princess after that was already expected.

“Is that so.”

Rebecca still had a look on her face that didn’t matter.

I don’t know how long that expression will last.

I don’t think it will last that long.

“Let’s go first, dear Princess Valencia.”

“····.”

I smiled and let the princess go.

*

After sending Rebecca with such a fat expression first.

“······ha.”

I had some regrets.

Earlier, I sent a princess who smiled and said it didn’t matter.

Without Rebecca by my side, I had nothing to do.

When you think about it, it was natural.

Even if they were the possessors in the novels I was reading, they were just aristocrats who set foot in the social world for the first time here.

The chance to make other friends before entering the social world had long since been swept away by being with Rebecca on a fictitious day.

It was only natural for it to become a secluded island, where no one knew anyone, eating little by little from the banquet.

He couldn’t even find Rebecca.

Even if I can’t stand my boredom and go to visit the princess.

– Did I say that? After all, you can’t be without me.

When the princess came to see me, the expression she would make and the words she would say were good in my eyes.

The corners of her lips raised slightly as if she knew you would, and the voice of satisfaction that supported her expression.

I could never see it, even to protect my pride.

“········It is delicious.”

The good news is, is it that these prepared dishes are delicious?

The taste of the food was very good, as if it was not an imperial banquet held once a year for nothing.

I am watching the other nobles who are quietly bringing food and making friends.

“hello.”

When I was alone, someone approached me first.

“········Hello, Bluebell girl.”

The person’s identity was someone I knew well.

“Oh, do you know me?”

He seemed surprised that I knew his name, though.

“··········Yes, somehow.”

That person was someone I couldn’t know who had read [The Prince Raises a Sword].

Isabella Bluebell.

It is the name of the woman who is currently standing in front of me with her face slightly covered with a fan.

To borrow the original expression that described her, the flower of the social world.

One of the common clichés in romance and fantasy novels, the flower of the social world, refers to Isabella Bluebell in this novel.

Two duke families in the Empire.

The first is the family of Rebecca, the Duke of Valencia, and the second is the family of Isabella, the Duke of Bluebell.

Although it is said that the power of the family is slightly inferior to that of the Valencia family. In other words, it meant that it was a family that did not bow to anyone except for the Valencia family.

Such a pretty great background.

“I didn’t know you knew me, but it’s amazing.”

Isabella’s unique affinity was enough to make her a socialite and Mikhail’s second heroine.

“…it doesn’t seem like a very strange thing.”

Even though I didn’t really like the character ‘Isabella Bluebell’.

I don’t think it’s anything out of the ordinary.

As I said before, I’m not a big fan of Mikhail, the protagonist of this novel.

“······ Is that right? Well, everyone thinks differently.”

There was no way I could have liked a snake-like princess whose expression on the outside and the expression on the inside were completely different.

There will be some readers who like that type of heroine.

At least it wasn’t me.

see now

He is smiling on the outside, saying that different people may think differently.

The slight trembling around her eyes made it easy to see that Isabella was not satisfied with my answer.

Maybe he thinks he doesn’t show anything at all.

For me, who had been watching the most capricious princess in the world for three years, it was a trembling that I could easily see.

“······· So, may I ask what you came here for?”

“Are you going to send the lady who came first like this?”

“····.”

When I asked why she came, Isabella didn’t answer me, and said nonsense as if she was crippled.

I know it’s not easy to build an unfavorable stack to someone you’re meeting for the first time.

There really was no dislike or dislike.

Fortunately (?) Isabella also revealed the reason why she came to me right away, probably because she was not confident enough to keep watching my rotting expression.

“It’s not a big deal. I saw you yesterday that you seem to be very good at dancing, so I came to see if I could even apply for a dance.”

“······Is that so.”

“Yeah, will you accept it then?”

“No, why am I?”

“····.”

Of course, I didn’t mean to listen to Isabella’s request just because she told me why she came.

“······I beg your pardon?”

After hearing my words, Isabella had a very stupid expression on her face.

As if he had never thought that he would reject his request, as if he thought that I would certainly accept his request.

“Why do I have to dance with the princess?”

That didn’t change my answer, though.

“····.”

Isabella doesn’t even think about hiding her expression anymore.

It was the first time I realized that a person’s facial expressions can go back and forth like that.

After all, it’s also my fault that Isabella has such a face.

“Isn’t that normal?”

I decided to kindly explain the reason for the rejection with the heart of the reader who enjoyed reading the original work.

“If you saw me dancing yesterday, you would know I have a fiancee.”

“······Sure.”

“You don’t know what it means to ask someone to dance with a fiancee, don’t you?”

I couldn’t have known

Even if Isabella has not yet entered the social world, there is a reason why it is later called the flower of the social world.

Isabella, who must have been educated by her family to dominate the social world from an early age, could not have been ignorant of this simple common sense.

“You know, I know what it means to ask someone to dance with a fiancee.”

“Then why…”

“But… I want you to remember that today is an ‘Imperial Banquet’.”

“····.”

Isabella’s words were simple.

It is said that this place where we are standing now is the place where the imperial banquet is being held.

The aristocrats who came here are said to have come to build friendships.

Those words were not wrong.

Rather, it was very logical. If it had been any other noble, there would have been no objection to it.

What kind of nobleman in the Empire would stupidly object to the fact that the daughter of the duke family wants to make friends with her.

“It is natural for a noble who first entered the social world to apply for a dance in order to become friends.”

“Why do I have to be friends with the bluebell girl?”

“····.”

It was just that the opponent was bad.

“Isn’t it strange. The other person is asking me to make friends like this all of a sudden, even though I have no idea.”

“…are you sure you don’t know who I am?”

“I know. Princess Isabella Bluebell of the Duke of Bluebell.”

“Anyone who knows who I am who speaks to me like that?”

Isabella didn’t seem to understand my answer.

‘How could someone like you say no to my request?’ Maybe you’re thinking something like this

The nobles with whom he spoke up until now would have bowed down to his words.

It was probably natural to react like that, and it wasn’t that I didn’t understand Isabella like that.

but.

“Yes, I said so.”

“····.”

As I said before, the opponent was just bad.

The person in front of Isabella was the only one who had no interest in anything other than her fiancée.

It wasn’t Isabella’s fault.

“········ Leave it alone.”

When her words didn’t work for me at all, Isabella left behind a line like a third-rate villain and walked away.

“It seems that you are the only person in the world who can speak to the bluebell girl like that.”

Soon after, I heard the low voice of Mikhail standing next to me.

·········From when?

“Where did you start?”

“I haven’t seen them all. Since you turned down Bluebell Girl’s dance request?”

“····.”

In the end, it was like seeing everything. The previous conversation had nothing important to say.

He poked his tongue out at the insidiousness of the Crown Prince, which was more severe than he had expected.

“So, why did the Crown Prince come again?”

“Oh, you didn’t tell me why I came in a hurry.”

The prince pointed his finger somewhere. I moved my gaze along the finger as if possessed.

Rebecca was where Mikhail’s fingertips were pointing.

“What do you do with your fiancee?”

“····.”

“I couldn’t afford it.”

Rebecca’s face turned red as if she drank alcohol.

It was really over the mountain.