Chapter 1 (1/2)

Chapter 1

“Please marry me when you get older, Rose!”

When I was proposed to like this, it was when I had just turned ten years old. At that time, I was hiding the traces of tyranny in my past life, and I was still playing the role of an innocent girl.

“Yes, I’ll accept your offer respectfully, Heath.”

To an outsider’s perspective, it was a cute promise of marriage.

However, as for the boy who had proposed…… There were no sweet encounters with the third prince of this country.

In the first place, I’m really quite out of the ordinary. Let me introduce myself once more. I’m the Iceberg Kingdom’s Demon King, Rosewood Gemyar Something Blahblah Something Iceberg! In my previous life, that is. Since I have several ancestors’ names in my name and it’s too long, I don’t really remember it that well. By the way, my current name is Rosewood Angelique. It’s good that it’s so easy to remember.

In summary, the demon race that had muscles for brains destroyed several human kingdoms, and the humans called me “Demon King.” When I was fighting with the humans’ Hero and on the verge of death in my second life, the Hero cast a spell on me and forced me into this world.

I’m now a human “n.o.ble” that I’ve always been interested in for some time now. However, when I was first reincarnated I was extremely displeased.

As the Demon King, why did I have to downgrade all the way to a human’s body? I want to lead my personal troops in search of strong opponents, or try to cause a war somewhere. However, strong people befitting my tastes did not show up here.

That person…… The place where I met the third prince of this country, Heathcliff Akaido, had just happened to be when I returned to my home with the head of a dragon that I had cut off. The maids had already gotten used to seeing me return while covered in blood, and they had already prepared a change of clothes for me, and that’s when I met him.

On that day, Heathcliff Akaido just happened to come by to give his greetings.

“Girl over there. Who’s that brat with the blonde hair? Tell me.”

“That’s the third prince of this country. Rosewood ojou-sama, please don’t act up……”

I didn’t listen to what the maids were saying. That’s because I saw the image of the Hero who had defeated me within the third prince. This is really interesting, is what I thought.

“Oi, that third prince or something over there. Have a sword duel with me. Don’t worry, I won’t kill you.”

“Uh, Rosewood ojou-sama……”

While ignoring the maids’ sighing, I provoked the boy in front of me. However, all this b.a.s.t.a.r.d did was c.o.c.k his head and say “who’s this girl?”

“So you’re underestimating me because I’m a girl, huh. I’ll be dignified enough to forgive that arrogance of yours. I’m really strong, you know? And I’m really bored right now. Come at me. Girl, prepare a sword for this b.a.s.t.a.r.d.”

“……Uh. Rosewood ojou-sama, would wooden swords be alright?”