34.2 The Decided Script
Tobias bitterly muttered, as he heard the gossip about Roland echoing all around.
“What ‘misunderstanding’ is he talking about? Isn’t it the truth?”
When everyone else was pondering about what to say, Angelica remarked about Roland’s lameness with a straight face.
“Well, it’s not like I believed he’d just reflect upon himself…” Said Riol.
“However, if things are to stay as they are, His Highness Roland wouldn’t come out for the rest of his life…” Said Sharina.
…Because from the very beginning, there was no misunderstanding (despite what Roland thought). Therefore, there was also nothing to resolve. It was just Roland’s escapism.
If Roland was merely a spoiled son of a noble family, as long as his family could afford it, it wouldn’t be a problem—
—however, he was a prince. That would be fatal for his public image.
No one could argue against the words that Sharina had spilled awkwardly. Thus, a heavy silence descended.
“Eh… but, come on, what are we supposed to do? It would be one thing if he lost on purpose. In reality, didn’t he fall into his own trap and exited the stage right after he told the clown to dance?” Said Angela.
“Mrs. Kirklight… you could’ve phrased it more nicely…” Said Tobias.
“Basically, the ‘clown’ he was referring to ended up being himself, didn’t it?” Said Sharina.
“Sharina, don’t add fuel to the fire.”
Riol scolded both Angelica and Sharina, whom were too frank. However, to be honest, everyone shared the same opinion.
“It’s as Angelica and the others have said… I’m sorry for bringing up such a depressing topic… In case of an emergency, I shall forcefully drag His Highness out—I’ll even smash his door! For now, let’s enjoy the game.”
“…Indeed, no matter how much we worry, it won’t solve anything.”
It was clear that Tobias, who hit his own chest, was overwhelmed—
—but there was nothing he could do about it.
While having indescribable anxiety, Sharina and her friends decided to regain their bearings and concentrate on the match which had already started.
No one was aware that a few hours later, Roland would try to solve the ‘misunderstanding’ in an outrageous way.
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Time rewound to midnight of the fourth day of the magic tournament.
“…As I thought, it’s the only option left.”
“Indeed. I feel bad for Riol Glen, but there’s no going back.”
“When he went against the royal family, he should’ve been aware of the consequences—he deserves it.”
A conference room for teachers at the Fala Rubia Academy. Inside the dimly lit room with its windows and curtains closed. A small light came from a lighting magical instrument hanging from the ceiling.
“What should we do about the timing? It’s probably best to summon the person himself in the morning, before posting the announcement on the bulletin board at a later date…”
“Why are you being so soft? If we don’t let all the students know at once, His Highness’ honor won’t be restored.”
“…But that doesn’t mean an innocent student should be sacrificed like that! You’re publicly executing him…!”
Teachers who surrounded the long table talked in a low voice. Despite so, one of the teachers—seemingly the youngest—raised his voice. He probably couldn’t stand it anymore.
“At the very least, it won’t end up as mere a ‘sacrifice’—but a noble sacrifice. What if our kingdom were to be struck with a crisis of succession? Even worse if the royal family thinks that our academy is the cause—do you know what will happen next?”
“T, that’s…”
A fat man with gray hair sitting in front of him uttered so. Under the palm of his hand was a piece of paper with solid-printed letters.
“We shall take decisive action tomorrow, just before the match of Riol Glen. It’s impossible to change the script, now. If it isn’t executed properly, there’s a possibility that the history will repeat itself.”
“Exactly. We can’t give him any room to recover. Wait until he proclaims that his victory during the first match was purely because of his strength, then strike him with these. Here is all the evidence of his foul play. He wouldn’t be able to escape.”
“Evidences? What ‘evidences’? Those were all forged!!”
The young teacher hatefully glared at the ‘evidence of foul play’ lined up on the desk.
“Do you honestly think you can get away with this!?”
The young teacher slammed both his fists against the desk as he raised his voice in anger. He looked around for approval.
However, even though there were some who lowered their gazes awkwardly, no one dared to agree with him.
“Is there no one who agrees with me? Anyone? Please!”
“Calm down. Sometimes, truth needs to be created.”
Under the tense atmosphere, the gray-haired man said quietly.
“Between a student, this academy, and the future of this kingdom—it should be obvious which is of the utmost priority.”
“Guh…”
The young teacher couldn’t say anything further, and could only bitterly clench both of his fists on top of his lap.
***T/N: Holy shit, Riol really needs to make a diss track about this academy and air their dirty laundries…
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YAAAY! Corruption!
Seriously though, do the idiot teachers (the one that spoke out not being included) even know the meaning of the word educator? They should be prostrating themselves before Riol. An innocent was nearly exiled to death and they nearly got a tyrant king all because no one spoke out against Leonard’s stupidity. You can’t cover up someone else’s mistakes and hope everyone forgets about it. That’s not how people learn or grow. Best case scenario everything goes as planned and they get a tyrant for a king with the mentality of a delusional twelve year old. Do they not think this is going to happen again? Or worse that he’ll be the same as king on the world stage and make the country a literal joke? It’s like these guys WANT their country to fall into ruin.
Yeah, I’m waiting for his valedictorian speech to just be roasting the entire academic administration.
Ah…I see, the “royal family” is a euphemism for Trump…
Nah, in this, the royal family actually has real ability. But right now, they are all chuuni… and it’s causing people problems.
The heck? Isn’t Riol the one selling his charms or what it’s called to the school store?? What the heck. Lol also.. like if the problem is from the same family…. It’s not the schools fault but the parents who taught the kids no?
I get the succession problem tho… But there’s a third prince. Coughcoughcough
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this is the reason why i hate royality.
To be honest…. I was hoping that this series would have been over long ago.
There is a thing called dragging sh*t out… and this author is very guilty of this.
The previous prince was enough. By stopping there, this would have been a deconstruction master piece.
But too much can ruin a story.
I mean, this is an interesting and annoying plot line, sure, but it makes the story feel more dragged out.
Thanks for the chapter XD
I’m honestly still liking it and haven’t thought that way at all yet. To each their own as they say.
I think it’s “fine”. You haven’t drawn things out too much until you’re DB. Plus, this has from the start addressed a LOT of the concerns and loose ends I had from the first arc. I never thought the first prince was the root issue. When the enter kingdom was delusional, teachers worthless, and his personality that fundamentally broken it was clear the problem ran deeper and showed the signs of a failing society and just in general bad surroundings/parents (how the prince was raised). Barely any of these were addessered with him losing and the second prince shared the same family so I was expecting him to be an idiot as well.
That said, I was hoping the development would lean more towards Riol no longer caring and graduating early with Shari to succeed his own land (which the letter in one of the extras mentioned). At this rate I don’t see anything but doom for the kingdom unless they adopt Riol and have him and Shari take over in the future. Even the mind state and morals of virtually everyone in the kingdom needs to be fixed. Giving my honest thoughts, I think the author themselves into a corner with the setting and mass side characters for the sake of comedy and maintaining the otherwise ludicrous conflict that was prince Leonardo. Not really the end of the world. Sometimes writing just goes like that and the author needs to roll with the punches, so far it’s still interesting and fun, and if it drags on too long I can just stop reading and will still have the memories of an enjoyable story.
You are saying root of the issue, but I feel a story doesn’t often need that. Stories can be simpler and have a “just because” cause it’s a story.
The problem with the 1st prince was that he was too perfect. Before that moment, he has never made a mistake. And because of that, nobody doubted him when he finally made one.
It was a situation where over 99.9% of girls actually wanted to marry him and our MC was the exception.
It was a case where the prince never made a mistake before and became wrong solely because he was too used to everything going right for him.
A classic case of falling due to first failure.
And we noted that other people also fed the prince’s misunderstanding because they themselves misunderstood (cause that’s how almost any other case would have been).
That actually worked really well. In fact, these later chapters added nothing other than making the royal family bad parents.
Which didn’t need to be done. The prince’s undoing and mistake being solely due to never being wrong before worked better.
And it made the story work better as a deconstruction.