1.2 An Encounter with the Prince
She chased the man. However, when she tried to reach for the bag, their difference in height was made obvious.
“—Whoa! You sure are loud, woman. Just like a noisy, stray, cat… well, still better than those women who keep rubbing themselves against you like cats in heat, I guess…”
“What are you babbling about—!? I understand none of it—kyaaa—!?”
After throwing retorts for a while, the man snapped his fingers—instantly, a huge tornado formed around him.
“I don’t have time to play with you. Well then, it’s goodbye for now.”
Amidst the strong gush of wind, large amounts of dust rolled up and hit Sharina. It was unbearable—Sharina had to shield her face with both arms.
“Wha… what just happened?”
In the next moment, when Sharina opened her eyes, the man had already fly away with the bag of cookies in one hand…
…while the other flipped his long, golden, hair in a condescending manner.
“Ah—!! T, thief—!!”
It was Riol’s! It was especially made for someone she liked! After countless failed attempts and practices!
For Riol who seemed to enjoy the bitterness of his hometown’s tea, she had earnestly kneaded bitter tea leaves in the whole-grain dough—while pursuing a balance between sweetness and the crunchy texture.
“Who does he think he is!”
The nerve of him—!
How dare he—!! To steal at their first meeting and in broad daylight like this—!
Sharina’s fists shook with anger—to think that such an outrageous student existed…
What? Does he think by stealing my cookies, I’ll bawl myself to sleep?
—alright, I’ll report to the teacher.
Because they aren’t just some cookies, they are intended for my special someone—
“…Sharina—!”
“He?”
Her anger regarding the stolen cookies was forgotten instantly—after all, said ‘special someone’ suddenly appeared in front of her.
He was unusually out of breath, and he also didn’t have any books.
“Riol-sama! What’s wrong?”
Sharina rushed to Riol.
“I should be the one asking that—! I heard clamors of wind from the direction you went—!”
“Ri-Riol-sama!”
…In other words, he came because he was worried about me…?
He even put aside those heavy books for me…
Sharina was utterly moved—she was in the brink of tears.
“What happened? Are you hurt? Did someone conjure up a tornado, or what?”
“The cookies, the cookies were stolen by a shady person! More importantly, Riol-sama—“
“Shady person!? In this school!? Wait, …cookies?”
Because of the running, his bangs were messy—hence, both of his eyes were clearly visible. The way he raised his face was also cool and refreshing…
—above all;
“This, this is the first time you called my name—!! You said it, right—!? ‘Sharina’—!!”
“Uh, yes?”
Finally—!!!
Until now, he had only referred her as ‘Clydea House’s eldest daughter’.
“—no, forget that. That was rude of me. I’m but a Baron’s son, addressing you like that was too improper. Let’s just pretend that as a Count’s daughter, you were doing incognito—”
“—then let me address you casually, too! Now, we are even! So call me ‘Sharina’ again, Riol!”
My special someone called my name for the first time—!!
Hence, she wasn’t going to tarnish this memorable day by fussing about that Cookie Thief’s deed.
“Ah, well…”
“It’s ‘Sharina’, Riol! Come on, once more, say it, ‘Sharina~’—!”
Just this once, I’ll put up with you and not go through with reporting you to the teacher, Cookie Thief.
“…Sharina.”
“Yes—!!!”
Her heart, which was once cursing the Cookie Thief, was immediately filled with joy and excitement as she took her crush’ hand in hers. Her smile went wide.
“Blond hair and blue eyes, was able to manipulate wind without chanting—that should be Leonardo, the first prince of our kingdom.”
“Oooh… certainly, the name fits—uh, what was it? Right—His Highness Leonardo Randall Ulyssia Elgacia—I learned that in fourth grade.”
“Well, it’s also possible that he was giving you a false name. Can you confirm if he was indeed the prince?”
“…I’ve seen my sister’s pictures. To be honest, it’s hard for me to tell someone apart when we’re all wearing the same uniform like this…”
“Including this kingdom’s First Prince—!?”
“Well… it has been a month and a half since school has started. I never had any chance to interact with seniors, much else a prince.”
After school, Sharina headed back to the girl’s dormitory with Riol. Although the collateral was only some cookies, the fact still didn’t change that someone had harassed her. Because she felt wary, Riol accompanied her back.
As for the currently living-the-dream Sharina, her mind had transformed the previous Cookie Thief into Cupid Cookie Thief that blessed Sharina’s love.
“Besides… all the royalty and nobility have similar features, I think.”
For Sharina, handsome men generally had similar faces, thus, becoming a common sight to her. It was only her opinion, though, she knew she was entitled to it.
“When you’re a noble, blond hair and blue eyes are some of the most common sights—I have them too, see?”
“…Don’t paint them all with the same brush, oi. On the other hand, your hair is a strawberry blonde—which is unique among blondes. Your eyes are also a lighter blue compared to them. You’re not the same at all.”
“Eh? Thank you—!!! I was praised by Riol—!!!”
“Ah, no, I was just pointing out the facts—“
—it’s the best day ever—!
It’s such a shame that my cookies were robbed. But, thanks to that, I could spend some more time with Riol!
Right now, she could as well reward the thief with ten gold bars.
“…what time do you leave the dormitory tomorrow morning?”
“Eh? I usually go thirty minutes before the class starts.”
“Well then, I’ll wait for you in front of your dormitory. It’ll be better if you don’t walk alone for a while.”
“T-that’s…!”
Going to school together, not only today, but tomorrow also—…
“I’m so glad! I love you, Riol!”
“Y, you shouldn’t be saying those kind of thing so casually!”
Thus, the Cupid Cookie Thief transformed yet again—becoming the Love Archangel Cookie Thief.
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Meanwhile, at the same time, on the top floor of the men’s dormitory—…
“…Your Highness. Ever since you left the cafeteria at lunch break, where have you been?”
“Nowhere, just wandering around. Does it matter?”
“…No. But, couldn’t you at least be considerate of me? It’s tough dealing with that swarm of noble girls whom were chasing you…”
“Come on, do you think I enjoy being chased around?”
In a spacious room, about three times larger than those of the average students’, sat a blond man. Next to him was his attendant, whom enrolled in the same year.
“It’s a first for you to not return right away after lunch break is concluded—did you have something to do?”
“Obviously, yes. After all, I spotted a cat with rare colored fur.”
“A cat…? But…”
The blond man—the First Prince, Leonardo Randall Ulyssia Elgacia, laughed and took a small bag out of his pocket.
“Here, a consolation price to make up for your trouble.”
“Wha-? Cookies…? —wait—! Why are they green—!? Are these cookies alright—!?”
“Yep, they’re edible and also delicious. Turns out the thing the fluffy cat made was as interesting as herself.”
“…Huh??? Hey, wait a minute! You’re saying, you went out of your way to eat such a thing!? Without testing whether or not it was poisoned!? Your Highness—!!!!!”
—when Sharina found out about this particular exchange, she started throwing a farce—jumping up and down, kicking, and also fussing, “I didn’t want them to be eaten by you—!!!”
***T/N : I thought the story’s main focus would be about that bad boy junk prince up there, however, Riol doesn’t sound bad. Is this officially a triangle love?
P.S : Title is thereby revised into “The Noble Girl Who Find a Nerdy and Plain Guy Moe Thinks that the Arrogant Prince is in the Way”–man, I sure find some troubles with the title.
Thanks for the chapter! Awesome translation! May God bless you!
ahhhh I ship Riol and her so much! I love it and how super into Riol she is. The Prince seems like a lil shit/Loki type character which is personally some of my favourites. I love those nice looking but black hearted prince characters haha XD
I really love this story and it was interesting but I was wondering if I can publish this in Wattpad for the other readers to read this kind of story. I wanna talk with miss Antoinette Vanessa regarding to publish one of her translation. Many of the readers of Wattpad are loving any type of novel especially regarding to transmigration, system, reincarnation type of story. So I hope the lovely miss Antoinette Vanessa would notice this comment and I hope I could talk to her in regarding the matters whether to publish one of her translation in her consent and permission.
Im sorry, but i ll have to say no to that. If they want to read it they should come here. Thanks 🙂
Viewers are important for the growth of my site too. If you really love this story and also respect the effort I put in translating this, I hope you would instead promote this site and give them the actual link to this site rather than republishing it in wattpad, thank you 🙂
And im sorry but this also isn’t “transmigration, system, reincarnation” type of story.
Anyone else feels like that last paragraph just sounded warning bells for the Shariol ship?
i reccommend https://ejje.weblio.jp/ (or kotobank.jp) if you’re mtling or learning Japanese. just in case, first tab on top is the dictionary. second tab is jp-eng example sentences with the word you’re searching. repeating the last part of my comment from before ガリ勉地味萌え令嬢は、<—- this part means the for the main character who finds a person who studies and plain moe. 俺様王子などお呼びでない <— this part means the oresama prince is unnecessary/uncalled for, and in the way.
i think the first part of the title you had before is fine (nerdy and plain is correct) because there would be some awkwardness in translating the jp exactly, but the mc doesn’t want to be called prince.
Thank you so much!!!! I also want to translate some more chapter to get more in depth with the characters do i can pinpoint which it is! Bear with this noob! bow
as a person who has been studying japanese for a few years, i know the struggle. those dictionaries were certainly my lifesavers in those dark times :’D if weblio and kotobank don’t have it then eikawa.dmm. well with that said i’ll stop being annoying and thank you for introducing such an interesting series!
No!!! Not at all!!! You are a life saver. No amount of thanks are enough!!! Thanks to you, i can avoid more title revision in the future.
I hope you will be with me until the end of this series 🙂
This girl is agressive like I thought! I love her!!!!! She is a natural in soliciting reactions from Riol
Are you shipping her with riol too
Slight but I think at some point she may change her feelings considering how aggressive she is towards Riol (like Inoh to Sasuke in Naruto) so I don’t want to ship them for now without enough chapters to spare myself from the pain when the time comes where the ML becomes clear and he isn’t the guy I ship with Sharina (who knows Riol and Leonard might end up together hahaha joke). Though I think Riol likes Sharina.
P.S. do you ever make a mistake with typing Sharina’s name cause her name really sound’s like Sharingan and I can’t help but imagine her as part of Naruto.
LMAO boi im so tilted towards Riol rn.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS I DOOOO
in her bento making scene i was like doing a reenactment of naruto bcs i typoed her name.
This grammar of mine when im typing casually and the third times i ve revised the title will surely reduces my credibility in front of the readers 🙂
Yeah the title has been revised again to The Noble Girl Who Find a Nerdy and Plain Guy Moe Finds the Prince to be In the Way. Now i hope the story is a lot clearer 🙂
I really hope this story isn’t about the prince getting together with Sharina… at least for now, Riol feels much more likeable to me than the prince
Thank you for the translation \o/
I agree! I would like to see how the author would balance this!