Chapter 5

The Hausneust family motto... Let yourself be carried by the flow of the river.

"Milahm-sama, I am truly sorry."

When I returned to the room, my younger brother Rikuto and the dedicated maid Lulu, who was prostrating herself, were there...

Rikuto, who looks a lot like our mother with her light golden hair and gentle green eyes, is 11 years old and will be starting his second year at the academy next month.

Lulu has been my dedicated maid since I was little. She has light brown eyes, paler than mine, and her purple hair is neatly braided. She is a maid with character, five years older than me.

"I heard that your hair ornament came undone. I am truly sorry. As I feared, it happened. Such a delicate hair ornament should have had two or three spares. Most importantly, after finishing your preparations at the academy dormitory and returning here, it was indeed a mistake. I should have stayed and waited. As I feared, it happened. To trouble you, Milahm-sama, with such a thing..."

"Lulu, stop.

I'm sorry, but I intentionally made the hair ornament come undone."

I hurriedly helped Lulu to her feet.

"Big sister, did something happen at the graduation ceremony?"

The cancellation of the engagement to the crown prince is a highly confidential matter, but Rikuto and Lulu are trustworthy. I told them about what happened at the graduation ceremony.

"I am worried, but could it be that the second prince, Milahm-sama's fiancé, is going to become the crown prince?"

"I don't think so."

My engagement to the second prince Elancio was arranged by the prime minister to prevent him from becoming the crown prince.

Elancio's mother, who was a lady-in-waiting at the palace, became pregnant with Elancio a few months after the queen Maria, during the chaos of post-war negotiations with the neighboring country of Dominion. She was a baron's daughter and became a concubine without anyone noticing.

After giving birth, she immediately began working energetically to make Elancio the crown prince, always aiming for higher positions.

Of course, this was crushed by the prime minister.

For the queen's son, Altvart, the prime minister secured his position as the crown prince by arranging an engagement with his own daughter, Cornelia, and solidifying his support. For Elancio, he chose a fiancée from a family with a moderate title and a moderate territory, one who could not provide any significant support, and arranged for her to give up her royal status and become a duke after marriage, without any right to the throne.

The prime minister, seeing my father, who has no influence and only attends the annual palace balls, the Hausneust family, who are not particularly wealthy but not particularly poor, and me, a very ordinary person, immediately arranged the engagement with Elancio.

Of course, we are committed to the family motto of the Hausneusts, following the will of the king without question.

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