I Was Given a Political Marriage

13 – Two different people (2)

It was after the twists and turns of the lecture.

The professor was the first to get out of the lab, followed by the cadets.

Xian’s party and the princess’s party were the last remaining.

The moment they started to leave, the sudden action of the princess made them all stop.

“Would you like to take Xian out for a minute? I have something to say to Eileen.”

A request from the benevolent princess. The prince did not respond at first, but then nodded and tried to take Xian out.

“Sian, please stay out for a moment.”

“What…if you ask.”

“Thank you, I love you.”

At first, he was curious about what he was talking about, but he also obeyed his fiancée’s request and left the practice room together.

Finally, the two of them are alone. Bestea looked at her with different eyes than before.

“Eileen, long time no see.”

“Haa… It’s been a while.”

“Yeah, maybe it’s the first time since the last engagement-related meeting before vacation.”

engagement. Eileen frowned at this word for a moment, but then slowly relaxed.

Engagement, a word that would have been an unforgettable memory for her and a tool to bind her loved one.

Before that, I had it in a meaning that I didn’t like very much.

“Isn’t it because of that man after you refused to marry Vestel?”

“…yes.”

Bestel von Aether. It was the prince’s real name and the name of the princess’ only younger brother.

The Estea family rejected the engagement of such a man. The princess had always wondered why he refused.

“I was very curious at first. What kind of man would reject my lovely sister?”

“…”

“But he’s more fun than I thought.”

“Hmm? It’s fun. What do you mean it was fun?”

Aileen’s thoughts stopped for a moment at the sudden remark of the princess.

Perhaps enjoying such an appearance, Bestea spoke after a brief reminiscence with a faint smile.

“I just played chess, so he was a strange person. From his ability to lose part of it as if he were mocking me… It was amazing how he managed to win the game while sacrificing himself.”

“…Well, Xian has to be good at chess. It’s fun.”

Imagining him showing an overwhelming difference in ability from the first time we met made me laugh.

The first to lose, but the most fun.

He was the one who brought back laughter and fighting spirit.

“It’s all your choice… but it’s still a pity.”

“It’s pitiful that Bestel is forced to endure it, but can’t it be helped?”

After listening to the princess’s words, she immediately looked out the window and whispered in a quiet voice.

“I still hate engagements without love.”

***

“So what were you talking about?”

After all the lectures, two people walking down a lonely hallway.

Xian wondered what kind of words Eileen exchanged with the princess earlier.

“We were just asking each other questions.”

“Um~ You two seem close to that, don’t you?”

“Be friendly…”

I walk while reminiscing at least a little of Xian’s words.

“Well, they were friendly.”

“Did you?”

When I said it in the past tense, I tried to ask it back when I had doubts, but my fingers blocked me.

Eileen narrowed her eyes and spoke quietly to him.

“Don’t we have much to talk about yet?”

Then he remembers that she heard that he played a game with the princess earlier.

He was sweating profusely, but he nodded quietly.

“…sorry.”

“What are you sorry about?”

“Because I talked to another woman… and played games?”

Xian, who doesn’t even rebel anymore and speaks truthfully.

Satisfied with his appearance, he nodded and rubbed his shoulder lightly.

“Yes, since you told me the truth, I’ll pardon you a little.”

“then…?”

“Um~ As for punishment.”

Xi’an keeps looking at Eileen’s lips as she tries to say something.

I unconsciously gulped down my saliva and looked at it.

When your lips open, they naturally open, and when they close, you swallow again.

“How about a game after a long time?”

“Ah… well, good.”

“Why are you sorry? Were you expecting something else?”

“…”

Xian couldn’t answer until the end and was dragged to the place where the chessboard was.

***

Meanwhile, while Xian and Eileen are moving to play chess.

Left alone, the princess walked alone hiding her complex feelings.

Her head was pounding and memories of the past were haunting her.

‘My head hurts.’

Recently, as I have more and more things to think about and worry about, my headaches have started to become frequent.

In the meantime, I realized that I hadn’t stopped walking, and when I came to my senses, I was not inside the building, but outside.

“Here…”

Looking around, I saw scenes that I hadn’t seen often while attending the academy.

Numerous scarecrow-like models and strewn wooden swords.

From the appearance of a woman training with blood and sweat, she guessed that this was where the Knights Faculty was located.

“Huh! Haaa!!!!”

fast. As soon as she realized the truth, she heard a cool cracking sound in her ears.

“Ahhhhh. It hurts again.”

The red-haired cadet tried to ignore the blood on his hands, wrapped himself in a white cloth, and picked up his sword again.

I couldn’t take my eyes off of Bestea, who was frightened by the sight and felt a sense of wonder.

“One more time. Ah!? That, uh, since when have you been watching?”

The two looked back and met eyes. Scarlett, who had a faster reaction time, was startled.

As a result of looking at each other and observing, Bestea turned her head to the side with a subtle face.

“I’m sorry.”

“It’s okay. Kheum, didn’t that tree splinter bounce?”‘

Scarlett looked at her cautiously because she seemed like a high-ranking person.

Rather, it was she who was bleeding, so the princess carefully pointed to her hand and asked.

“Doesn’t it hurt? I saw earlier that he was swinging it almost madly.”

“…Ahahahaha, that’s it?”

It was embarrassing to hear someone else say something they didn’t know.

“I’m angry.”

“fury?”

“Yeah… because I was so helpless and what to say. I was pathetic.”

Bestea, who was listening to the story, was getting more and more into it with strange curiosity.

It’s the first time I’ve met, but somehow I feel like I’m in the middle of the day.

She wanted to know Scarlett’s feelings by listening to it all the way through.

“What happened?”

“Joe, fine…”

“good?”

Scarlett pathetically clenched her fists, and then quietly opened her mouth.

“I lost the person I liked. The most beautiful person in the world and the person I wanted to be with… I was stolen by another woman.”

“It’s stolen. I don’t have any advice I can give you, but I’ll keep listening.”

Scarlett finally found someone who would listen to her words.

For the first time, I brought out the words that I had been suppressing all by myself.

Feelings that were difficult and sad. and his weak self. Even the pain of watching the person you love gradually get taken away.

“He’s the first person I liked… Because he’s engaged.”

“Is it really because of the engagement?”

“Yeah…because even before the break, he was happy to be with me.”

Before vacation, Xian had something to say to her every day.

I’m happy in this moment we’re together, I’m glad I met Scarlett.

I have a fiancée, but I want this engagement to be broken soon and set free.

However, the reality was not mellow and it came to the current situation.

“So what do you want to do?”

“yes?”

“What are you going to do? I asked if you were going to adapt and live.”

The princess, who always spoke in a formal style, let go.

Bestea listened closely to Scarlett’s words. Then, the most important core was stabbed violently.

I know how sad and difficult it is, but what can I do?

It was not easy to answer this question for her, who had no goals.

“Ah, that, uh… just.”

“Will you abuse your body like this and wield only a sword? Then, until then, will you take that person away from another woman?”

“No. That’s not okay.”

Scarlett finally revealed her true feelings, and Bestea, who was happy to see her, quietly placed her hand on her shoulder.

“Then what are you going to do now?”

“Are you going to see Xi’an?”

“hmm?”

I was proud of the thought that I had given courage to the poor woman. Until you hear a familiar name, of course.

As if surprised by the sudden appearance of the name, I opened my eyes and analyzed the situation.

‘Wait, then the woman and the man I mentioned earlier… !’

By the time I found out, it was already too late.

“Thank you. Thanks to you, I was able to come to my senses.”

“Oh no, wait a minute.”

“I have to go and build a veneer right now.”

“No, wait.

Scarlett, awakened after hearing the princess’s words, ran forward like a mad dog.

Bestea watched it. As if he felt that he was in serious trouble, he banged his head against the wall and reflected on his mistake.

“Why is Eileen…”

thud! thud! Every time I hit my head against the wall, unforgettable memories came to my mind.

Eileen’s obsession and her past that she will never forget.

And I remembered all the incidents that led to the completion of Aileen now, and the aftermath came to mind.

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“Nice to meet you. I am the next head of the Estes family. My name is Eileen.”

“Yeah, nice to meet you.”

widely. Two people who met for the first time in order to reconcile the powers of the nobility of the past.

At the moment of their first meeting, the two noticed each other intensely with their eyes.

kinship. A brilliant mind unlike others. And the ambition to be different from others.

This was the first meeting between the princess and the Estes family.