Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival-Chapter 206.3

So I had no choice but to report to Elena, who let out a light sigh, then looked at me and picked up the letter the attendant brought for me.

“Odd. I just received a formal application from the Dandol family? As a partner of Rockwell, who is graduating.”

“I see.”

I understand why Elena was sighing, and I couldn’t help but feel sorry for her.

There was nothing wrong with a graduating student asking an underclassman to be his partner. But it also implied conveying one’s feelings to one’s intended partner, and for the other side to accept it implied accepting the other’s feelings.

The first premise was that a student who has a fiancée would bring that person to be his or her partner at the graduation party.

Still, students were allowed to play with each other to a certain extent, and they may choose partners who do not match their family ranks. This could be seen from the fact that His Majesty, the current king, had chosen as his partner a baroness who was not his fiancée.

However, the royal family was viewed very harshly by the current royal family because of His Majesty’s acceptance of the baroness as a regular queen.

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Several noble families have sent invitations to Elena in the past, but all of them have been offers of “engagement” assuming that she would “marry off” later.

The fact that the application came from the Dandol family, and not from Rockwell personally, implied that this was also such an application.

“Of course, the Dandol family is working on the assumption that your brother will be king, which is natural since Clara is a candidate for queen. But it would be unwise to refuse the offer. My mother is from the Dandol family, so they have my back.”

I guessed that Rockwell himself wanted to do this, as I recalled my conversation with him.

He himself has left the Crown Prince’s inner circle, which was devoted to the Viscountess, and while Clara’s becoming a full queen would give her a connection to the royal family, the Dandol family had approached him about an engagement with Elena, considering the relationship between Rockwell, who would become the next head of the General Knighthood, and the Crown Prince.

However, if Elena were to become Queen, it would be almost impossible for her to marry the Crown Prince, who was an heir to the Dandol lineage.

Unless Elena was ready to disobey her family and become the queen, Rockwell regrets that he could not be there for Elena in her crisis and feels that he is not worthy of being there for her.

But when Elena told him about it–

“Am I a heckler?”

“…”

She cut him off so bluntly, while tilting her head cutely, that not only I, but also the attendant who had taken care of Elena since she was a little girl, couldn’t help but gasp.

“I could have managed if the invitation and the refusal had come from him personally, not from the house… from what Aria told me, maybe he is not good at such things?”

Elena was not good at it either, but she kept her public life completely separate from her private life, so she didn’t have any personal feelings about aristocratic engagements.

Elena’s engagement relationship notwithstanding, Elena thought it was not a good idea to leave him alone in his current situation, having left the Crown Prince’s faction, and smiled as if she had been planning something for a long time.

“Aria, I have a favor to ask you…is there something on my face?”

“Nah. It’s just…Elena looks better now than she did in the desert, and I’m glad to see her face like it used to be.”

“…I don’t know if that’s true.”

Even though it is hard, this is still the place where Elena lives.

She smiled the way she did when she was a child, and the way she smiles now with a slightly embarrassed smile, and I couldn’t help but smile back at her.

I then headed to a certain place to do Elena a “favor”. However, on the way there from the princess’s palace, I was approached by someone I had not expected to see in the castle.

“Wait a minute, Miss Aria Layton!”

“…Melrose-sama.”

Mikhail Melrose, the young man who had a history with me, caught up with me as I ran down the corridor.

“Please, will you be my partner at my graduation party?”