Betrayed By My Fiancé, I Changed My Role From A Viscount's Daughter To A Lady-in-waiting To The Queen

Chapter 75.2: Chapter 2, Prologue

Translated by KaiesV

Edited by Kaiesv

Graduation party hosted by the school.

As the crown prince of Quanda, I head to the hall with my trusted entourage and my beloved by my side. Then, as usual, I climbed up on the podium and looked down.

When I appeared, the students in the hall stopped talking and turned their attention to me. It was a natural thing for me to do, and the scene looking down was familiar and commonplace.

「Irene Blau. Step forward!」

So I say from the podium in high spirits.

My gaze goes to Irene Blau, my fiancée since childhood.

This woman has been using her status as my fiancée to act unruly in the school, and has been outrageous to innocent students. Sophia, the love of my life by my side, is one of those victims. No, she is the first of the victims.

Today, here and now, I will sever my ties with this abominable fiancée. And for the sake of my beloved Sophia, I will condemn her, and that was my intention.

Despite my instructions to step forward, Irene spread her fan in front of her face and gave me a quizzical look through the gap. Her eyes held a color that made me feel as if she were looking down on me, and my chest heaved with excitement.

I ignore the turmoil in my chest, and with a sideways glance, I give instructions to my aide, who is also my best friend. Even without saying a word, my best friend, who had taken in my intentions, left the podium and went to Irene. That, of course, was to force her to come before him.

Irene, however, brushes my best friend’s hand away with her fan. Irene deliberately made a loud noise.

「Are you going to touch me without my permission?」

Irene, contrary to her unladylike behavior, says it with a very beautiful smile and tone of voice. And a few of the students, both male and female, were forced to create a wall between her and my best friend to keep the distance between him and Irene, as if to protect her.

The students’ deadly atmosphere was so bizarre that my best friend was so overwhelmed that he backed away for a moment.

「……It’s pathetic…」

A small murmur of lamentation for the state of my best friend echoed through the hall, and with it, a giggle spread, and my heart was zapped again.

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「Kuh…! Hey, quiet!」

I raise my voice even higher. But the laughter that spread did not subside and only grew louder. And yet,

「Everyone, please be quiet. The Crown Prince is about to speak.」

Irene’s words instantly quieted the audience.

「…!」

My raised voice didn’t quiet them down, but everyone followed Irene’s quiet voice. I bit my lip in frustration.

「Well, Your Royal Highness, I am sure there is something you wish to say to me. Is there something you wish to tell me? Please speak.」

“Fufu,” Irene laughed, covering her mouth with a fan. Irene’s smile made my heart flutter again. I stopped thinking for a moment, wondering why my heart was in such a turmoil.

「…Your Highness…」

The anxious voice of Sophia, who was holding me in her arms, brought me back to myself. When I look at Sophia, I was hit by a look of single-minded concern for me, and a strong feeling of need to protect her wells up in my heart.

That’s right. I don’t care about what is going on around me right now. I need to bring Irene to justice for Sophia.

「Irene!」

「Yes, what is it?」

I mocked her inwardly, saying that I didn’t think that the smile with plenty of room to spare would last forever. I couldn’t wait to see that smile break… The constant fluttering in the chest and the raspy feeling running down the back are surely due to that elation.

I took a deep breath and let my voice carry my breath and hit Irene with the reality of the situation.

「Irene Blau. I am aware of all your atrocities. I cannot accept such a woman as the next queen. I hereby break off my engagement to you, Irene Blau. There can be no refusal. This is a decision!」

You can despair at the reality of being confronted with the imposing reality.

「And I, the Crown Prince of Quanda, do hereby proclaim: From this moment on, my fiancée, who will be the next queen, is Sophia Anderson. You are all to take this to be true.」

And yet.

「As you wish?」

“Fufu,” And a beautiful laugh. There was not despair, not even sadness.

「What, did you say?」

My voice rises at the unexpected response.

「Therefore, I said, you may do as you please.」

「I–I’m willing to at least listen to your rebuttal…」

I am sure this is just a strong attempt to be strong. She must be in pain because I abandoned her. It must be so.

「Fufu, what a strange thing… I can’t believe that you won’t accept rejection but allow me to refute it, fufufu.」

Irene’s voice is never loud, but somehow it echoes through the hall.

「I don’t have anything to say against it. Because that’s not what I do.」

What is Irene saying? My hands and feet grow cold as the chest rumbling grows even louder to the point of being impossible to ignore.

「…What are you…?」

Irene’s smile was so big that I could see it through her fan, and then she suddenly looked away.

「Hey, isn’t that right?」

Saying this, Irene turned her gaze to see an unexpected person and a girl with rich, sunflower-colored hair and strong, amber eyes by her side.