Chapter 20 (1/2)

In the end Brother received the fist in the name of education fives times from mother.

“Big Brother .. are you alive?”

“Uh~~, Mother shows no leniency as usual.”

“I do not think you Big Brother would have had to sustain damage to this extend if you had just properly greeted her.”

Why is it that Brother keeps repeating the same things despite getting educated every single time by Mother.

It keeps me wondering every time.

Is this what they call expressions of love between parent and child?

The ones a.s.sembled in the room right now were me, Brother who was painfully rubbing his head and Chris-sama who looked like he was enjoying himself. In addition to that there was Sana who was preparing tea for us.

Mother had gone and left some time earlier because she had something to talk about with Father who had just returned.

We, on the other hand, decided to hear out Brother while drinking the tea that Sana had prepared.

“Ririina, with that idiot .. no, scratch that, won’t you meet with Prince Leon one more time please?”

Brother mine, you just said idiot quite naturally, didn’t you.

As expected, that can’t be good, can it.

More importantly, how come Brother is recommending I meet with Leon-sama?

Is it, after all, so that I can clearly get his declaration of breaking off the engagement once more?

“Big Brother, I do not mind meeting with him, but in that case wouldn’t it be better not for me alone, but also to have the King, the Queen, and also Father and Mother be present when bringing up the topic of the cancellation of the engagement. For whatever reason it appears that Leon-sama hasn’t brought up the matter with anyone except me so far. Or did he per chance do so in the few days that I was away in the territory?”

For some reason Brother looked like he was greatly perplexed.

Are? Was it possible that the spot Mother hat met with her fist earlier had gotten worse?

And I could hear some kind of laughing voice.

“Ku, haha. Ah, sorry. b.u.t.ting into the conversation and all. But this is just too funny. Actually, truth be told, what do you think of Prince Leon, Ririina? It seems like you accepted the breaking off the engagement quite easily, but is that really alright with you?”

Chris-sama threw such a question at me.

Even if I’m told ‘what do you think of him’ that’s a bit difficult, isn’t it. Of course it was just an engagement that our parents had decided for us, but I did think that if we’re going to be married anyway I would like to get along with him, but that’s what I couldn’t do.

It seemed like Leon-sama disliked me so I think that must surely have been part of the reason why I accepted the breaking off so readily. It would have been very tough to forever stay with a person that I could feel didn’t like me, after all.

“I do not particularily like nor dislike Leon-sama. That I simply accepted his breaking off the engagement is because I knew that he didn’t like me. And beyond that, dealing with such a declaration by my own discretion is not something I could do anyway.”

Listening to my words Chris-sama nodded as if thinking while Brother was groaning.

For some reason Brother was grumbling.

‘Disliking you, you say .. but well with that att.i.tude .. just why couldn’t he have told her honestly at least once .. idiot.’

No mistake this time, I really could hear him saying idiot.

He better not be saying that in front of the person in question.

At that time we heard a knock on the door.

Sana went to deal with that.

The one who entered the room was Sebastian.