I Don’t Want This Bad Ending

*Toot *toot

The sound of the trumpet alarmed everyone that it was the start of the event. They gather around the camping site where the students will camp for two nights and their guardians will be at their respective rooms that were designated to them inside the St. Prish Academy.

During the day they will be present to see the result and bond with their parents. It was designed to have all the students participate in this event.

King Charles, who was the guest of honor as well as the Queen was present and is on stage.

He starts to amplify his voice by using magic as he starts the opening speech.

"It is an honor to witness this historic event that was practiced since its founding. As all of you know, this is an event to established the hard work that you've done since you got accepted in this prestigious school that made a lot of graduates a prominent individual once they join the society…" he said and he looked at the rest of the students who were looking up at him with adoration.

He smiled, his face was pasted with the look of dignity and eminence as the King.

"…This day will be the start of the hunting event. The winner will have a prize from this King, any wishes can be granted as long as this King has the power to grant it. Then may the sun guide your path and help the young ones have a good harvest!" he said his voice roared and echoed throughout the camping site.

After his speech, the cheering claps were heard from their place and the event continued to take place. It was the start of the hunt!

***

Evelyn was in the corner… No, more like, she was hiding and is using the trees as an excuse to hide her petite body.

Today is the start of her plan. She felt nervous.

As she hears the cheers of people from afar, she knows that the King's speech just finished and they will blow the horn, indicating that people need to prepare and dispatch to their station where they will hunt for animals or monsters.

She was wearing her hunting suit, especially prepared for this day. It's the most comfortable clothes for Evelyn, wearing a high-rise waist, white fitted pants that cut straight until her knees. It accentuates her delicate glass figure.

And for the top it was a silk beige long sleeve with a ribbon stitched to the collar bone and covered with a tailored brown suit with buttons from top to waist. The fabric was made for Evelyn whose priority is comfort rather than the fashion.

The attire suited her taste, especially that she's from the 21'st century where you can move around with comfortable clothes and seeing the noble parents with strict attire requirements for their child made her sigh.

In this kind of situation, she felt that she needs to be thankful to his father who didn't try to nag her about how she chooses her clothes. On the other hand, it was because he didn't care about what she did.

She grinned at the thought. Her family was really a mess.

She tucked her pale hands to her pants pocket. She pulled a small jewel, she made a crimson trinket that has a black tassel at the end, it was a clumsy looking ornament, but it was what she could do at best.

It was also the unique custom of the noble ladies. She also made a black ribbon that has a red rose pattern stitched to it.

Looking at her palms that have the trinket and ribbon, she sighed.

They're made by clumsy hands and so it also looks clumsy.

It was a good luck charm for the escort who will want to have their handmade trinket and as a payback, what they will hunt will be proposed to them and they will become the Lady of the hunt. A title made for the ladies who will be the center of the attention during the hunting event.

Evelyn was not used to making handicraft things, when she realized that she was in a book she decided to focus on training and to make herself stronger and if necessary, only have the minimum manners needed to greet other nobles.

And being a lady that she is, she skipped all the unnecessary lady-like practice that they do to find a suitable husband because in the first place, she didn't think of having to woo a person she didn't like and that is the Crown Prince, Edickart.

That is why… Evelyn didn't have a reason to master the sewing, stitching, or brewing teas that most of the young noble ladies do for their hobbies.

She has her maid, Sheila who can do it for her. That's what she thought. So, she didn't bother to acquire and master things she thought she didn't need to survive.

She sighs.

Sheila wasn't here, so she tried her best to make one in case someone will want it. Evelyn made it in the last minute. She didn't even know if someone would want it but in case her knight, Gab wants one, then she can give it to him.

But someone grabbed it from her hand. She looked at the pink hair lady that was clothed in her baby pink puffy dress and full of jewels from head to toe. She was shining with all the ornaments she had.

'Did she dress like this for the hunting event? Is she stupid?' Evelyn thought.

Eventually, her thoughts were cut when she saw her hand made tassel in Elise's hands.

"Lady Elise, I believe that is mine." She said. Her face was stoic, she didn't really have the time to have another rumor.

"What's this Lady Evelyn? A cheap looking ornament. Is this really yours?" Elise said as she twirls the good luck charm Evelyn made in the air.

"Am I required to answer that question? And where is your manners Lady Elise?" Evelyn said.

Elise's face crumpled for a second before she acted like a little lamb.

"I apologize for not greeting, Lady Evelyn." Elise said as she displayed her baby pink dress that Evelyn thought was a little too much for her.

She was reminded of the old Evelyn whose favorite color was the shade of pink. She shivered at the memory of her room with all the colors in a pink hue.

"Give it back." Evelyn said, not acknowledging her late greetings. So, Elise was still in her curtsy.

Her leaning to Evelyn in a bow reminded her of a corporate slave who made a mistake in the computation of sales.

But Evelyn didn't care what the people might think if they saw their lovely Elise bowing to her. It was part of the etiquette and right now she was just fulfilling her duties as one in the lower aristocrat.

And besides, she just snatched Evelyn's hand made craft. A little punishment was what she thought was appropriate for Elise.

She was still her favorite character in the story of "A happy Ending", though she started to think twice because of her true colors that she was brandishing as time passed by.

Elise eventually gives the tassel that she just dissed. She thought that by criticizing what Evelyn made will let her lashed out and thus Evelyn will make a scene and will gather an audience whereas she can pretend that she was pushed to the ground by the time people surrounded the area.

What she didn't think was Evelyn wasn't the old Evelyn who was known to throw things and scream when things didn't go her way.

'Why is this b*tch calm and domineering?!' Elise thought as her body was still leaning to a ninety-degree position as she made a curtsy.

She looked around to see if there was a person who could hear their conversation. When she confirmed that there is none, she stood up without waiting for Evelyn's acknowledgement.

"Didn't you hear me, Lady Elise? Or are you deaf?" Evelyn said, as she stared at Elise's face who was crumpled like a dirty sheet of paper.

"Is this how a baron's daughter behaves?" she continued.

"Should I send a complaint to your parents for the lack of manners you're displaying to the only daughter of the Duke of Emsworth?" She announced.

Elise was gritting her teeth, when social status was mentioned she didn't stand a chance to her. Especially, if her parents knew that she just disrespected a higher noble.

She knows that her father will demand for her to come back home, and when that happens, her future aristocratic life in the capital will go like ash.

She bowed again.

"I'm sorry Lady Evelyn, I made a blunder. Please, don't send a complaint to my parents." She said as she pleaded.

She said those pleading words in a shout gathering the attention of people who were nearby. She schemed and thought that her pride wouldn't let Lady Evelyn humiliate her without tasting the consequence.

She was the future Empress, she thought!

As what she had expected, her pleading voice echoed through and the young nobles gathered to their area.