Breaking Off the Engagement… Bring it on! 59

Prince Once Again 7

Brother is on my mind and my eyes are wandering there.

“You look as if you have seen something unbelievable, Lillina-sama”

Alek-sama says with interest.
Well yeah, it’s this brother of mine?
He can’t even knock properly, entertaining young ladies with conversation is impossible!

“Yes, I was a little surprised. It is… the first time I have seen elder brother surrounded by women…”

“Haha, captain attracts eyes if he stays silent. Well, once you realize what’s inside you will usually back off.”

Ah, after all it’s like that.
That means for now, none of those young ladies know brother much.
Yeah, our Sana won’t lose to those who only see such face.
I got careless selfishly getting excited when I was called from behind.

 

“Lillina!”

Yes?
Ah~~, it’s not one of my companions.

“Catherine! Rosalind! It’s been a while.”

“Jeez! It’s been a while, that’s not it. We were worried since no letter arrived.”

Both are angry, but they seem to have worried about me.
So many things happened I forgot to write a letter…

“I am sorry. There were lots of things happening and I couldn’t write a letter.”

Those two smiled saying~ ‘it can’t be helped’
Thank you~~

“Ah, that’s right, there’s a child who wants to meet Lillina”

Meet me?
Huh? Who wants to?
Looks like Catherine called for someone.
A young lady appeared from the crowd.

I’ve seen her before, but we never spoke.
Then this child comes to me… Eh? Sobbing?
I was surprised at the sudden incident.
At this rate it’ll look as if I made her cry.

Then Catherine gave me a helping hand.

“Look here, why are you crying when you can finally meet her. Didn’t you have something to say?”

She finally stopped her tears thanks to Catherine’s words and started talking.

“Ah, it is the first time I am talking with you, Lillina-san. I am Ilya of the Count Cardinal house. Ah, that is, actually I… Uuu, sniffle.

Oh, she’s in tears again.
Have I done something?

“Please wipe your tears first, Ilya-san. Here, use this handkerchief. Now then, I wonder, have I done something?”

“Ah, yes.”

What did I do!
But today is the first time we are talking?
Me! What did you do!

While I was flustered, Ilya-san grasped my hands tightly.

“Lillina-san! Really, truly~~ thank you very much. To be honest, it was unpleasant, but I couldn’t refuse the marriage proposal. But the other party told me he didn’t want the engagement and it was settled down amicably. Lillina-san is my benefactor.”

…What do you mean?
I don’t really understand, but I’m being thanked.

“Ilya-san, calm down. I don’t understand well, but have you lost an engagement because I did something?”

Catherine and Rosalind were laughing watching my and Ilya-san’s interaction.
I was too numb from not being able to follow to interject.

“Ilya, Lillina won’t understand like this. It can’t be helped~, I will explain.”

Apparently, Rosalind-sensei will offer an explanation.
Please do!

“Cough. Then let me explain. The beginning of the matter was dissolution of Lillina and Prince Leon’s engagement. Ilya’s fiancé and his parents foolishly thought it was broken off by Prince Leon. To engage with Lillina, they broke off the engagement. Originally, the engagement was forced on Ilya, and along with her family, she was disgusted by it but couldn’t refuse due to power of his house.”

Oh, what a nasty engagement.
Moreover, he abandoned it unilaterally because he wanted to get engaged to me…

“And that man and his family, who wanted engagement with Lillina, said he had broken off the engagement.”

“Yes! As Rosalind said, I was able to get rid off that engagement. I was so, so happy, I really wanted to thank Lillina-san. His face was quite good, but he looked down on me, disrespected me with rough language and was sometimes violent…”

Well, I’ve met such a person recently…

“That said, I saw him at the venue just now, but somehow he went outside surrounded by about five men. The people around him were smiling, were they friends?”

… Oh, bingo.
Yup, congratulations on having the engagement broken off!

“But I’m not the only one. There are several others… Everyone is thankful to Lillina-san.”

“No, I didn’t do anything…”

… Hey, has no decent man asked to marry me?
Are all the men who sent in matchmaking pictures those who’ve had fiancées in the past?

 

Ah~, somehow, I’m tired.
I broke off from Catherine, Rosalind, and Ilya-san, and now I’m waiting for Allen-kun.
Allen-kun for some reason said to leave it to him and went to get drinks and fruits.

By the way, what’s up with Ange-sama?
Ange-sama, who separated from us soon after entering the hall, is still missing.
Well, I think it’s safe with people from order around…

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