“So, have you sorted out your so-called ‘atonement’?”
With Caz, back in her kitten form after transforming from the ‘Jet-Black Shield Caspary’, perched on my shoulder, I asked Cardis, who was hanging his head low.
After our sparring, I understood that this man didn’t simply want to defeat me. So, to avoid getting involved any further, I wanted Cardis to be satisfied with this.
“…Yes. I realized how much I had been spoiled by my position and my mother.”
“That’s good to hear.”
Now that he’s realized it, there’s almost no chance he can turn the tables on Wilfred and Raphael in the Succession Dispute.
It would be wiser for him to give up and decide how to conduct himself from now on.
…Wait a minute? If the main story of EnHaza has already started, it’s not entirely impossible.
I won the Duel against Wilfred, and I warned King Aival not to offer ‘making the person who brings the World’s Greatest Fiancée the next king’ as a reward, but there’s still a good chance he’ll break that promise. Or rather, that possibility is high.
So, it’s not entirely impossible to say that Cardis still has a chance.
However, only if he can abandon his current fiancée, Frederica.
“What are you going to do now?”
“Well… I could struggle to the end, but it seems like it would be futile. Even if I were to rely on Frederica’s family, our ties have already been severed.”
“Huh…?”
Whoa, what did Cardis just say?
I mean, the Engagement Cancellation with Frederica is supposed to happen after the EnHaza main story starts, right?
“Oh, didn’t you know? The Duke Marshall family, Frederica’s family, officially requested the dissolution of our engagement, and I accepted it.”
“W-Why!? Margaret-sama would never accept that…!”
“…I, too, don’t want to feel any more miserable than I already do.”
Cutting off my words, Cardis bit his lip.
What is going on…?
“Anyway, thank you for sparring with me.”
“Ah…”
Cardis straightened up, gave a bow, and left the Training Grounds.
I could only watch his back as he left.
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“…I also wanted to witness Lord Hal’s heroic figure.”
“S-Sorry…”
As soon as I returned to my room after the Duel with Cardis, I was desperately trying to appease Sandra, who was in a terrible mood.
But even this side of her is cute, so it’s just a reward for me.
Then.
“Prince Harold, I have returned.”
“Monica, how did it go?”
“Yes…”
Monica prepared tea for us while explaining the results of the investigation I had requested.
It seems the matter of Cardis and Frederica’s engagement dissolution was indeed true. The Marshall family officially requested it, and Cardis, as well as King Aival, accepted it.
King Aival, who will say something like ‘making the person who brings the World’s Greatest Fiancée the next king’ next April, is one thing, but it was surprising that Cardis agreed to it.
“…It seems that the existence of that scum is behind Cardis’s acceptance of the engagement dissolution.”
“Wilfred?”
“Yes. Apparently, there have been frequent sightings of the scum and Frederica-jo being intimate since before the Summer Break. Even after the Summer Break started, she seems to have been among the Female Students invited by the scum.”
“I-I see…”
In other words, she was NTR’d by Wilfred… right?
What should I do? Even though I pushed him away, I can’t help but feel sorry for Cardis.
But Wilfred is building his harem smoothly, even though the main story hasn’t even started yet. Is this okay in terms of EnHaza?
“Haa… I wish I could somehow make Wilfred see hell.”
I pressed my temple and muttered.
But that was my biggest mistake.
“…Finally.”
“Huh?”
“Finally, Lord Hal has given his permission.”
Turning her eyes into a blood-red color, Sandra happily raised the corners of her mouth.
D-Dangerous. I flipped a weird switch.
“I-I was just saying! Making Wilfred suffer is still in the future…!”
“No, Lord Hal. The damage will only increase if we leave it as it is, so it’s rather late. Let’s end his life right now.”
“M-Monica! You stop her too!”
“Yes!”
Monica and I desperately tried to stop the rampaging Sandra.
But Sandra, who was already out of control, was about to run out of the room with Balmung in hand.
At that moment.
“…If you do something like that without permission, Hal… I’m sure he’ll despise Sandra, you know?”
“…!?”
With Caz’s words, Sandra stopped dead in her tracks.
“L-Lord Hal… Th-That…”
“Ah, yeah, well. As for me, I wouldn’t want you to do something like that…”
The color of her eyes quickly changed to blue, and Sandra looked like she was about to cry.
She probably finally realized what she had done. Caz, thank you for saying that.
“I-I’m sorry… So… So, please don’t abandon me…!”
“There’s no way I would do that. You are my Precious Thing, after all.”
“Y-Yes… Yes…”
I hugged Sandra, who was trembling, and gently stroked her back.
Phew… From now on, I have to be careful not to say careless things.
But in order for me to survive and protect my Precious Thing, Wilfred has to be eliminated in a way that everyone can agree with.
So, I’ll start preparing.
–Until the time EnHaza begins.
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