CH 2

The Royal Aristocratic Academy is a boarding school where the children of aristocrats live together for three years and learn what it means to be an aristocrat.

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My name is Rebecca Sultarque, and I will be entering the Royal Aristocratic Academy this spring. The territory I come from is large and wealthy, but it is far from the Royal Capital.

I lost my mother half a year ago. A gentle and strong mother, who battled illness for many years. It was the day before her death that I found out that the unusual atmosphere surrounding my mother, who was the daughter of a marquis, was not just my imagination.

“Calm down and listen, Rebecca. Mother is a reincarnated person. This world is something called an ‘otome game’³.”

She said, with this time’s setting of the the Royal Aristocratic Academy, the main character falling in love with ‘ikemen’⁴ is what makes an ‘otome game’ .

She said, this world is very similar to that game, and that the main character, «a commoner girl with a rare talent for healing magic» has also been discovered.

My mother gave me a notebook. On the cover, there is a pattern drawn inside a circle.

“Mother, this is?”

TL/N:

• ¹ written as 三強 (sankyou). Literally translated it is “three strong”. But, that sounds bad, so I made it sound as fancy and epic as it’s supposed to feel.

• ² written as 五高 (Gokou). Literally translate as “five high”. Same as above.

• Rebecca is NOT a reincarnated individual. The words her mother uses are completely foreign to her, so I will simply write them as romanized Japanese to preserve the foreign atmosphere. I’ll explain as needed in the TL notes. Cheers!

• ³ otome game – for you non-weebs, by literal translation it’s “maiden game”, referring to dating sims whose main demographic is (young) women.

• ⁴ ikemen – JP slang for cool, handsome hunks.