10.1 The Rose Garden’s Visit
“Do you still remember the scenario we came up with yesterday?”
“Yes, definitely! …His Highness was only worried about a collapsed student. He was trying to bring me to the break room. His Highness didn’t know my name, nor ask for it. Immediately after His Highness had taken his leave, Duchess Rosalind came. She soon followed him back. Hence, the two of them probably didn’t return to the venue because they were spending time together.”
“You pass.”
It was the morning after the party.
As usual, Sharina left her dormitory early in the morning and joined Riol. As they walked, they practiced the dialogue they had arranged yesterday in the school building, when no one was around.
“However, you need to be more dramatic, otherwise, it wouldn’t sound convincing.”
“Yes! Then, I shall reenact the despair I felt when that violent man slammed you to the wall with wind magic. I shall immerse myself in the self-loathing I had felt because of my utter inability of doing anything—“
“—you needn’t go to such an extent. Besides, it feels like you’re taking aim on the Prince instead of trying to convince people…”
Yesterday’s happening caused a commotion.
It didn’t even matter that Sharina was at the end of the venue—all the participants knew, already. Soon, it would spread to the rest of the school.
Just like Rosalind, everyone was under the false assumption that ‘the Prince and the Countess were in love with each other.’
“Some of them will definitely try to cause you trouble—be careful.”
“It doesn’t matter! Whatever troubles comes in my way—they would still be a better one than Leonarcissist—!”
“That’s—well, not like I disagree with you.”
Sharina’s evaluation of that Narcist Bastard was already so low, it sank deep under the ground. In the contrary, her evaluation of the girls was so high, it penetrated the cloud.
There was no way for her to forget what he had done.
The supposedly handsome and perfect Prince!! Always gentlemanly and stoic!! Wasn’t interested in most of the girls or even his own fiancé candidate!! There was still a chance for anyone because his fiancé hadn’t been decided, yet!!
She recalled her redhead best friend who encouraged her to dream—
—how many times had she tried to ‘wake up’ by pulling both cheeks, already?
…however, I prefer her to stay as my friend rather than my love rival…
“Just you wait, Riol—!! By this afternoon, the rumor will change to ‘Prince Leonardo and the Countess aren’t in love or anything. Because to her, a certain Baron’s third son with intelligent eyes, jet-black hair, vast knowledge, and kindness like the sea has already become her night and day—after meeting the world’s number 1 handsome, best boy, why would she consider anyone else—!?’ for sure—!!”
“Stick to the original lines—!”
They finally arrived in the entrance of the academy.
Sharina lightly patted her chest for a boost of confidence before heading to the class.
…
“…His Highness was only worried about a collapsed student. He was just trying to bring me to the break room. His Highness didn’t know my name, nor ask for it. Immediately after His Highness had taken his leave, Duchess Rosalind came. She soon followed him back. Hence, the two of them probably didn’t return to the venue because they were spending time together, or so…”
Inside the classroom, as expected, Sharina was immediately surrounded by several girls who demanded an explanation. She recited the previous dialogue.
The questions were as follow:
“—what happened yesterday!?”
“—His Highness didn’t return to the venue at all, you know!”
“—are you familiar with His Highness? What kind of relationship? …No way!!”
…
“Eh? Duchess Rosalind?”
“According to rumors, aren’t they on bad terms?”
“Well, he certainly didn’t return to the venue last night…”
“How dare her—!? It doesn’t matter even if she’s a fiancé candidate, she couldn’t just prevent His Highness from attending the freshman’s welcome party—!?”
Because of the dialogue, everyone’s focus shifted to Rosalind almost immediately.
Sharina felt sorry for Rosalind, however, this was certainly better than the rumor of Prince Leonardo and Sharina being in love with each other…
“…we mustn’t ignore this! I’ll let everyone know!”
“Besides, if it’s Rosalind, what can we say? Not like we can compete against her…”
As simple as that, the girls soon dispersed.
“Moreover, I’ve already decided that my heart belong to the world’s coolest, strongest, gentlest, smartest boy—Riol Glen—!”
So, when Sharina arrived to the main topic, no one was there to listen to her.
“Shari! Are you alright!? This class is being crowded by both freshman and the upperclassmen—are the rumors true—?! I heard something happened yesterday—!”
“Oh, Ange. Good morning.”
The out of breath Angelica burst into the classroom. Apparently, she managed to pass the swarm of students—other than that, she wasn’t mistaken.
“They are making a fuss about yesterday’s party—! Do they have no shame? They said a lot of bad things, which is the same as trampling over His Highness’ generosity! What if His Highness heard them and feels hurt—!?”
Unlike the other girls, Angelica didn’t blame Sharina. Angelica was genuinely looking forward to seeing Leonardo at the party.
“I’m alright, Ange.”
She was glad for that and smiled cheerfully to her best friend.
“Are you sure? Have you heard anything from anyone other than them?”
“So far, no one else has come. Even if they are talking bad about me, they aren’t saying it right to my face…”
“Well, who knows about that? As we’re talking right now, they are surely busy saying nasty things regarding you—like those small villains in love novels would do!”
As soon as she explained that, Ange gave Sharina some examples—
—she covered her mouth with a fan, while glaring condescendingly at her—
—“What do we have here?”, “Huuh, isn’t she just a mere countess?”, “No wonder she’s unaware of her own stature!”
…some of the crowds outside, whom were murmuring, became silent as soon as they heard that.
“Thank you, Ange.”
“I was just stating the obvious.”
With the royal family obviously inhabiting the top rank in the aristocratic pyramid, the Clydea Family was located in the middle.
The pyramid got smaller as it went up, so there weren’t many who dared insult Sharina directly.
All of the girls who confronted her earlier were probably ranked above an Earl.
However, the Clydea’s territory was rather close to the countryside. As such, it possessed neither mines nor harbors. Hence, be it people with a rank below her or beyond—as long as they possessed territory with excess natural resources—or were just disgusting rich, they would be able to insult her with basically no consequences at all.
The authority system of the aristocrats was very complicated.
“…what happened, exactly? Give me the details later, you! I promise, I won’t tell a single soul about it!”
Sharina was grateful for her friend, but she laughed unintentionally when she saw Ange’s eyes. Ange’s eyes glimmered, as if about to hear a long-awaited theatrical romance play.
It was because this dreamy, redheaded, best friend of hers didn’t know what kind of severe education and training princesses and princes had to go through from an early age.
“Could this be… a love triangle—?! With that Riol Glen and His Highness—!? But Sharina is tilted towards Riol Glen—!?”
If she were to be honest and told Angelica the truth, the redhead girl’s dream would certainly shatter into pieces—
—Sharina didn’t have the heart for that.
**T/N: Don’t worry, Sharina, because I’m already writing sonet about that ‘World number 1 gentlest, strongest, kindest, coolest Baron’s third son.’ He probably acquired a lot of fangirls too… *got chased by Sharina
I love reading the t/n notes at the end of the chapter.
She shoud still just tell her friend the truth… who cares if you ruin her dream…
Yes, Milanin and Unkown.
Aye, the Unkown. The predecessors of the Unknown. Of the ages past.
I’m glad I have my own t/n reviewer now~
Well, some T/N are refreshing to read, yours are sometimes such as well. (I still haven’t forgiven you for memeing it up that one time)
Memeing how, exactly? Is it because i use kokoro
Pretty much. And the “PROTECCCC”
Im sorry but how is that offensive??? Is using meme a wrong thing nowadays??? Im certainly not using it for any bad intentions?
And tbh, i dont get why you are so mad. Maybe your expectation about translator’s ethical and behavioral got betrayed because you read that, like you want a translator who…… “Respect”……. The japanese language?
Nah, just a personal thing. It isn’t “offensive” and nothing too wrong with having it around, just a peculiar personal comment on a peculiar personal choice of words. Honestly, personally, I dislike the mixing of languages and the memeing, which breaks the language, but as they say: to each their own.
I’m so sorry that I struck your nerves by my choice of words. Indeed, no one should be chopping and butchering any language as they please, or use it as a meme. But that’s really far from my real intentions. Of course, I’ll pay attention and word my future t/n (s) carefully to make sure it’s respectful and doesn’t sound degrading or offensive whether or not it’s intentional. By all means your support and criticism shouldn’t be taken as a grain of salt, but I wish you wouldn’t use such passive aggressive way and actually come forth with your reasons.
Aah, if only I could… I’d probably be more out and about, on both sides of the screen. I notice that when I’m talking about something with feelings put into it, I tend to turn, as they say, passive aggressive, which on one side of the screen, I manage to stop myself because I’m listening to myself as I say it, but on the inside of the screen, I’m just “auto.wriitng” it out and not going though the text to see if I am spilling discomfort at the person that I’m directing it to. And as I’ve said previously, you should keep doing what you like however you like doing it, don’t change because someone tells you to. Heck, now that I’m reading it, my “don’t change” could even be considered negative.
Haha, this translator can’t exist without both you guys and the understanding of japanese language. Which is why I mustn’t misuse and treat them both lightly.
Well im glad you have your reasons and bother to share it with me. Again, thanks for all your feedbacks.
人は経験を積んで強くなっていく– as the story I am currently reading said. I hope you’ll treat my nonsense as just one of those happenings and grow stronger. (完全回避ヒーラーの軌跡 – 12 ダンジョンからの帰宅 – 95/151 – on the topic of dealing with something one is inexperienced in)
Where do you learn japaneseee
Self-taught over time. Mostly from watching anime years ago and reading romaji & listening to Google Translate and their “Listen” Text-to-speech conversion. (The only problem I’m facing is that I don’t know most of the Kanji because of it…)
I mean. Thats pretty much what the story does to me. The fluff turned me into a weebshits who use choppy, butchered japanese. Im not memeing it. Im just expressing myself, in a sarcastic way that would make other see me as this hooman who got turned into a weeb after reading a chapter. If you got offended exactly because of that….. I call that a job well done?
Maybe? *shrugs *. You be you, as they say. It’s better to be expressive of one feelings and honestly commenting on it than repressing yourself and not enjoying it as much as you’d like.
Lol. Great to have that cleared up, I guess? But shouldn’t personal thing be addressed personally too? Everyday feels like you are personally attacking me and its mean if not downright offensive.
Possibly. I have previously been told that I’m insensitive in my words a few times already… If you have felt that I’ve been ‘attacking’ you and been offensive, I ask for you to think of it as water under a bridge, just one insignificant part of the whole; as that being the result was not my intention.
Thank you for being honest. Your previous comments truly makes me think you just hate my overall personality and you just find my overall t/n marring the view. It confused me, because if you hate my overall person…. Whelp, how am I going to come up with a solution to give you a better experience???
I see, indeed. You are going to be with me until this story ends.
It would be better if they eloped, they are already have a lvl. 3 skill in avoiding the prince in any way possible just a few more levels and they may acquire the elope skill! (and if they do I’d even help in hiding them and in looking for a place to stay.)
And why does no one notice Riol and Sharina’s relationship except for Ange, I mean they don’t even try to hide it (walking around while holding hands, going to class together, eating lunch together,going to dates on town and going to a party together) Their actions are what usual things that lovers do so why does no one takes notice of it. Is being a narcissist the common practice in this kingdom?
Lastly thanks for the chapters aka daily updates of Sharina.
World’s number 1 gentlest, strongest, kindest, coolest Baron’s third son is really lucky to have met a girl who likes him so much. It’s a shame no one else believes she choose a Baron’s 3rd son over a Prince…
Thanks for the chapter! More fluff soon I hope?
Wouldn’t it be easy to just say riol was the one she loved first.
Nobody would believe that Sharina would choose a pauper over a prince.