“Lord Hal, this sautéed fish is also delicious, you know?”
The day after proposing the adopted son-in-law matter to Cedric, Sandra’s elder brother.
After finishing the morning’s Special Training, I was enjoying lunch with Sandra. No, I am enjoying it? I am enjoying it, but…
“U-Um… I can eat by myself…”
“Of course, I know that. But, engaging in skinship as fiancées is very important, don’t you think? Isn’t that right, Monica?”
“I won’t deny that, but Prince Harold seems a little troubled. Here, this Monica will assist with the meal in place of Young Lady…”
“Absolutely not!”
Well, Sandra, who is sitting next to me and trying to feed me the fish she has neatly cut with a fish spoon, is somehow being interrupted by Monica, who is trying to feed me instead.
I’m glad to see that the two of them are getting along so well today, but while they’re doing that, I can’t even get a bite of the food. Please, just let me eat by myself.
“Haa… I’m so full today…”
It’s nice for Caz… she can eat freely.
The two dote on her so much that they don’t want Caz to dislike them, so they’re being extremely careful. I mean, what’s with a Demon Beast being treated more respectfully than a prince?
As I was staring at the two and one animal with distant eyes.
“U-Um… e-excuse me…”
A Maid entered the dining hall, looking somewhat frightened.
Since regaining my memories from my previous life, I have been very careful not to behave as I used to, but the evaluation of me as the ‘Incompetent Rascal Prince’ cannot be easily overturned, and even now I am still the object of fear and contempt from the servants… or so it should be, but she seems a little strange?
“What’s wrong?”
“A… w-well, Prince Cardis has returned from the Royal Academy and has asked for Prince Harold to be summoned…”
Ah… it’s about the matter of leaving Cardis’s faction from before. Most likely, he intends to scold me for saying such a thing.
I knew this would happen from the beginning, and I was prepared for it, but…
“I understand, I’ll go see him right away. So, to my brother… well, I don’t need to tell him. Just tell me where he is.”
“H-Hai!”
I tried to ask her to tell Cardis, but seeing the Maid’s expression freeze, I tried to rephrase it as gently as possible.
The Maid’s eyes widened, and her expression brightened as she nodded vigorously.
I see… Cardis, who usually doesn’t show his emotions, seems to be quite angry.
At least, enough that a Maid who was just sent to call me would be this frightened.
I placed the napkin on the table and stood up… wait.
“Sandra?”
“If you are going to meet with Prince Cardis, then I, as your fiancée, will also attend. Besides, I think His Highness’s purpose also involves me.”
Sandra, who had also stood up, answered calmly without changing her expression.
Certainly, Cardis is aiming for the support of the Chevalier family, Sandra’s family, which is why he is summoning me after my departure from the faction, but… the reason for her attending is different, right?
Of course, I know that the real reason is to prevent Cardis from blaming me by being there with me.
Even if he is my real brother, Cardis would probably hesitate to scold me in front of my fiancée.
“Haa… my fiancée is too kind and wonderful.”
“? Lord Hal?”
“N-No, it’s nothing.”
Sandra asked me curiously as I covered my face with both hands, overjoyed.
That was close, I almost blurted out what I was thinking. I’ll be careful from now on.
…However, Monica, who had been listening carefully, told on me to Sandra on the way to Cardis’s place.
Thanks to that, Sandra’s ears were red the whole time. Cute.
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“You understand why I have summoned you here, don’t you?”
“………………….”
Cardis, with his arms crossed and a sullen look on his face, spoke in a low voice, forgetting that Sandra was even present.
That’s how furious Cardis seems to be.
“In the first place, what will become of you leaving my faction when you can’t do anything? I don’t think you’re aiming for the throne of Crown Prince now, either.”
Haa… come to think of it, Cardis always denies me outright like this. He’s just like our mother, Margaret, in that respect.
“…What good is it to have me, who ‘can’t do anything,’ in your faction? Besides, didn’t you add Wilfred to the faction as your right-hand man? Then…”
“What is it? Could it be that you’re sulking?”
Cardis, who interpreted the reason for my departure from the faction in that way, gave me a look as if he were making fun of me.
From his point of view, he probably thinks it’s pathetic to be upset over such a trivial matter.
But, for me, who will meet a bad end as a stepping stone in EnHaza, getting involved with Wilfred is a matter of life and death. No matter what he says, there is no way I can choose to remain in Cardis’s faction.
More than that, I can never forgive what that man did to Sandra when she was young.
Therefore.
“You can think whatever you want. In any case, I will absolutely not allow myself to stand shoulder to shoulder with Wilfred.”
“What!?”
Harold, who had never once disobeyed him… Harold, for the first time, rejected Cardis in a strong tone.
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