CH 151

Chapter 151: Decision [unedited]

The tired Sigren has returned.

I took him out of everyone’s sight. 

“Your sister is very cute.”

Sigren made a puzzled expression, “you met her?”

“Yeah, her eyes twinkled when she saw me.”

“Good, she wasn’t being mean to you.”

“No, she wasn’t mean to me, not at all.”

Though, I still couldn’t find her intention during our conversation. 

“I hope she doesn’t have any intentions of being our enemy. It would be truly nice if she doesn’t.”

“Well, as long as she didn’t bother you, she’s fine.”

“If you don’t hate her too, you could try to take care of her. We could ditch the crown prince, but Princess Aria is your sister for now.”

“Sure, if you want me to.”

He didn’t seem to be very motivated. So I stopped talking about her.

“How’s Abel?”

“The Duke? Celine is holding him in the mansion. Thanks to her, I’m free from work for a while.”

It was ambiguous to call it a vacation, but I have more free time. 

Sigren held my hand, “Then, shall we go somewhere?”

I laughed briefly. “We went to Heilon a while ago.”

He had a dissatisfied expression. “That’s out of the question. There are too many idiots hanging around you in Heilon.”

I looked at him, “Sigren, you sound like the Duke.”

“….”

He quickly closed his mouth, as if he hated being told that he looked like Abel. 

“Okay, now that we have time, shall we go and subdue one of the remaining dragons?”

“Are you kidding me?”

I laughed seeing his reaction.

“Of course, it’s a joke. Let’s play together, just the two of us. I don’t want to see the pile of work, they give me a headache.”

Only then did Sigren smile with satisfaction. He wrapped his arms around my shoulder. 

“There are too many people in the world who like you.”

“No way.”

I narrowed my eyes. His eyes were truly covered with a pea pod.[1] [To be unable to make an accurate judgment or think straight.]

Then suddenly, the hall was noisy. 

“What’s going on?”

Sigren, who was taller than me, seemed to have identified the noisy hall situation. 

“The empress has appeared.”

“Oh.”

Oh, of course, since it was a ball hosted by the imperial family, it was natural for her to appear.

“Is the self-restraint over?”

“Her self-reflection period must be over.”

The comforting thing was that the crown prince was still in self-reflection. Still, I hope the empress would not attack me. 

I should bring Abel. I somehow missed Abel who used to sarcastically say, ‘you’ve aged old?’ to the empress. If he was not here, there would be no one who could deal with the empress. 

Sigren glanced at my expression. “Shall we go now?”

“No, it’s fine. It’s also bad if we go now as soon as the empress appeared. It won’t look very good.”

But from now on, I will have to drag Abel out. 

Fortunately, the empress had no interest in me for the time being. 

“It’s been a while everyone, so I brought some good entertainment.”

Street entertainer? 

I was on tiptoe. 

Sigren explained while supporting my back. 

“It’s a woman, with dark hair.”

“Why does she invite an entertainer?”

“Well….”

Sigren seemed to be guessing something. 

Soon after, the dance song stopped. The people who danced on the dance floor also gradually withdrew. The melody that started to flow in the venue after that was not a dance song. 

I’ve heard of it. It was probably a traditional song from the capital side that I’d accidentally listened to on the street. In the middle of the melody, a beautiful voice began to blend into it.

“The candle you let burn has finally made a fire….”

After listening to the voice for a while, I was a little amazed.

“She sings really well.”

So the woman was a singer. It must be her amazing skill that made the empress bring her to the ball. 

I looked at Sigren’s expression. He was frozen in the midst of the beautiful song echoing in the hall.

“Sigren? Are you okay?”

He shook his head slowly.

“I’m fine.”

“….”

While I looked at him anxiously, the song ended.

A big round of applause broke out.

***

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A letter has arrived. 

Love letter.

“….?!”

I immediately thought about burning this. It was because of the damn Bill Curtis. 

“Is it a pseudo-religion solicitation again?”

Having that happened once was enough. 

“No, no.. there can’t be two crazy people like that in this world.”

Fortunately, the content was normal. So, I could just think of it as a pure letter sent to me, right? Was I that popular? Well, since I have a boyfriend, it was useless to be popular. That last time I ignored Bill Curtis’ letter, and it didn’t come out well, so this time I would send a letter of refusal. 

After that, I went to see Abel who somehow looked very upset.

“Is something wrong?”

“Yeah.”

What the hell was going on?

“Fiona, a marriage proposal has come for you.”

Wait, what day was it….

“Who is it?”

“An unknown count’s second son.”

“Just say that you don’t have the heart to explain.”

Well, according to the procedure, this was the correct way. Usually, the marriage proposal was submitted through the guardian. 

“Why all of a sudden?”

“As Heilon’s power grows, there must be more people who want to establish a connection..”

Well, I was Abel’s only daughter. So that was the easiest way to make a connection with the Heilon family. As expected, it was not a matter of whether I was popular or not. 

“Looks like I’m a real noble lady….”

“You seemed to have forgotten because you are living your life so militantly… You are a noble lady. In the future, this kind of thing would happen a lot. This is just the beginning.”

Abel laughed arrogantly, “but I am your father.”

Why was he so confident in saying that?

“So, let’s put an end to these guys.”

“Wait, you said this is the beginning, and how could you making everything into nothing at all!?”

Did he really want to get rid of the suitor? I let out a deep sigh. 

“I’m dating Sigren anyway, so I could give a plain refusal.”

“Ah, I’m saying that because I don’t think you can guess, but Sigren must be in a similar situation.”

“What?”

Abel flicked a piece of paper presumed to be a letter of courtship.

“He’s getting a lot of proposal?”

Well, even I was in this position, what about Sigren?

“I heard that the emperor is interested in Sigren’s marriage.”

“Why all of a sudden?”

“What… since his son is famous, he must have suddenly wanted to play the role of a father.”

Oh right, there were parents who sometimes have that kind of ugliness that they just never realized. 

It was only then that I remembered that Sigren and I were simply dating. In society, unless it was a documented relationship, it was not officially recognized. 

“If there is someone who is strangely obsessive and bothering you, tell me. I’ll make them a body that they could never use again.”

Those words sounded sincere to me.

“Wouldn’t it be better if Sigren and I were just engage?”

Abel glossed over. “If you do it now, there would definitely be troublesome things….”

“What?”

“It means you’re going to get too much attention.”

It was not wrong. There must be a quite few people who didn’t like that Sigren and I were engaged and strengthening our power. 

“And….”

Abel was solemn with his arms crossed.

“He hasn’t even made a formal request to me yet.”

Does he even have the heart to allow it if Sigren made a request?

I just asked, “So can I get engaged?”

Abel lifted his chin and laughed indignantly. He straightened his neck.

“Not until dirt gets in my eyes.”

Sooner or later, I should dig up the solid from the garden.