Chapter 14 (1/2)

Chapter 14 – Being born as the fourth prince

I was born as the fourth prince of this country, and Alan Stuart is my name I have an older twin brother, the third prince Jared Stuart

I spent the years right after I was born rew up being loved and raised by ently

When an my swordsmanshi+p and academic studies, and I worked desperately hard in order to catch up to my older brothers due to the delay And then, alla bit carried away

However, I realized soether with Jared

The problems that I had to spend so much effort on in order to solve, Jared would always solve quickly with a cool face

It was the sa While I was just barely hanging in there desperately, Jared would always defeat me as if his opponent was only a baby

I’m worse than Jared And by quite an amount…… I finally realized that

My academic andthat Jared was special, and that losing to hiside Jared anymore Then, I became distant from Jared……

And then one day, I heard this

“What is Prince Alan doing now, all by himself”

“Isn’t it unavoidable since he was so sickly and was bedridden for a long ti it”

“Anyways, even though they’re twins, it’s pitiful that there’s such a difference between them”

“Indeed, it see from birth”

“Haha, taking all the good points, leaving only the leftovers, eh”

“Oi oi, that’s going too far”

The castle servants were joking aboutwas going dark before ht in front of me……

The words “Prince Jared took all the good parts starting from birth” were like unremovable thorns stuck in my chest

After hearing it once, I realized…… It see whispered everywhere

My swordsmanshi+p teacher,it……

No ot further and further above me with a cool face

Before I noticed, I had become filled with an inferiority complex towards Jared

However, no matter how conscious I was of Jared, Jared had no interest whatsoever in me, he didn’t see me at all…… That made me even more frustrated, I felt bitter…… And then I distanced myself from Jared even more…… Even so, my frustration and bitterness only increased

I heard that Jared got engaged in the spring that we turned eight That he hihter was the topic of the castle

And froed Of course, I was unable to decide it forfor le prince with no fiancee

And then, my fiancee that was decided by politics turned out to be Mary Hunt Luckily, she’s a very lovely girl She has auburn-colored long eyelashes, and large eyes, alreet me in such a tiny voice was also pretty lovely Since I’et a cute sister like her, I’ll be pretty happy

And then, she showedcare of It was such a beautiful garden When I praised the aarden, Mary smiled

When I saw Mary like that, I remembered a book titled “The Girl with the Green Thuirl who could grow plants extrereen thumb I tried to relate Mary to this story

“The other day, I was told that I have a green thu special existence”

“……”

It was almost as if Mary could read my mind, she said the words I wanted to say before I had a chance, I don’t even knohat to say next

“Recently, I became friends with Katarina-sama, who told me so the other day”

Her face was flushed, and Mary see off into space as she remembered that moment, her expression was just like that of a maiden in love

Feeling completely left behind, I just replied “ah” in response However, compared to me that only returned appropriate responses for the situation, Mary only talked about her Katarina-sama passionately

And from then on, whenever I met with Mary, she would only talk about her Katarina-sama passionately every time What’s more, whenever I invited Mary to tea, she always said “I promised to visit Katarina-sama today,” and rejected me

Heck, what on earth is this person called Katarina supposed to be? While , I found out her identity soon enough

Katarina Claes The only daughter of the Claes family, and she also seems to be Jared’s fiancee

Jared takes everything from me with his cool face

This ti to steal Mary from me……

Everything went dark beforeon a horse-drawn carriage towards the Claes mansion

The girl that arrived late to the guest rooht blue eyes and tawny hair I’ve heard that she’s the sae as me

Although she’s not ugly, her tight, upturned light blue eyes gave off quite the intense iirl Since she’s Jared’s fiancee, and Mary is always praising her, I thought she would be quite a beauty…… I feel like I’ve been completely had

To Katarina Claes, I immediately mentioned Mary

“Mary Hunt has become my fiancee Did you know that?”

“Yes I have been told”

The way Katarina said it as if it wasn’t anything to her irritated me

“If you know, stop seducing her!”

“……What’s this about seducing!?”

Katarina’s light blue eyes ide open Her attitude was one of not even re what she herself had done I naturally beca

“Are you just pretending not to know!? Whenever I invite her, she always says ‘I promised to see Katarina-saether she only talks about you! Everything about Mary is so pure, so it can’t be anything other than you seducing her!”

“Hey, what is this! This is a false accusation!”

Katarina’s already upturned eyes turned up even further

“What do you mean, a false accusation? It’s the truth! With such a face, you deceived such a pure Mary!”

“There’s no way that could be true! It’s your fault for inviting Mary when she already promised to come over to my place! Besides, if you were really that attractive then she would go to see you whenever you invite her! You just lack appeal! And, she only talks about !”

“……Lack appeal…… Boring……”

I lost my speech involuntarily

Indeed, up until now, I had a hard time of it because everyone said behind ood parts…… This was the first tih to hter welled up from within me

“……Hahahaha This is the first time I’ve been made fun of to my face”

“……Uhh~ That was…… uh……”

“I hope you’re prepared, Katarina Claes That rant, I’ll take that as a challenge against me”

And then I loudly declared it towards Katarina

“Have a match with me”

Exactly, how has it beco Indeed, I had just challenged Katarina Claes to a match

If the other party was also a boy, it would have been a duel with swords, but I challenged a girl For that reason, I let Katarina pick the type of match

So, I thought it would be a board game like chess, but……

“Then, let’s do tree cli!”

Katarina, said so? What’s that? I know the words but, I’ve never seen it in action……

Up until now, inIn the first place, not even the commoner kids do this, and I’ve never seen a noble child climb a tree

However, when I was asked “perhaps you don’t kno to climb a tree?” ! I accept your challenge!”

And noas standing in front of the tallest tree in the garden along with Katarina

By the way, the rules are simple, whoever reaches the top first wins For sure, it will be easy to tell who’s better

However, since I’ve never climbed a tree before in my life, I don’t even kno to start But, since I’ve accepted the match, I can’t back down I prepared myself, and rolled up my sleeves

“Well then, Prince Alan Are you ready?”

“I’m ready anytime”

“Then, we’ll start at the servant’s signal”

“O, Okay”

And then, with everyone watching, the an

And then, it finished immediately

The result was a crushi+ng defeat Since I didn’t know in the first place how to begin cli a tree, and what to do after that, I was stopped at the first branch in confusion

And then, I watched in disbelief as Katarina climbed the tree smoothly like a monkey, and reached the top in no tiood at cli trees……?

“Prince Alan With this, the match is over Is that fine?”

However, since Katarina had such a s

“……It’s not over yet……”

“Eh?”

“Let’s have another match! I just wasn’t used to it the first time”

“Is that really alright? You won’t beat me so easily”

“It’s exactly what I want!”

However, no ed her, I couldn’t beat Katarina who clireat speed just like a monkey

For that reason, I decided to challenge her again at a later date

A feeeks after I had begun challenging Katarina I noticed so Katarina

It’s that Katarina is always serious She never went easy on ht at me

I’ve never challenged anyone seriously like this until now

And always, no matter how hard I worked, I couldn’t take my eyes off my brother Jared……

Katarina’s unwavering eyes and serious attitude healed the pain in an to consider it fun just to go visit Katarina

However, that day finally came

“Jared!? Why are you here!?”

When my brother appeared at the Claes mansion, I instinctively rose my voice

“You’re saying such a weird thing Since this is e at all”

Jared replied with his usual composed smile Certainly, it was as he said, so I had no reply for him

And, without realizing it, I was surprised to find that I had sootten about the fact that Katarina is Jared’s fiancee

“……Anyways, since I came over here to have a match with her today, don’t interfere!”

“About this match, I’ve heard that you haven’t won even once after all these tiave up already?”

Jared’s eyes were very cold as he said that

The phrase “Prince Jared took all the good parts” began to reverberate in ain

“……N, no!! The match isn’t over yet! Even I can do it! Even I can…… Even I can……”

Don’t look down on oing dark before ain……

Even though hter lately, the usual heavy feeling hit ain This is bad…… I feel terrible……

“……Uh, uhh Prince Alan If it’s alright with you, how about we change the type of match? If we climb the tree too ry with me”

Abruptly, I heard Katarina’s voice and saw her idiotic face Just by looking at that face, the heavy feeling in my chest faded a little

Katarina proposed to change theto a piano performance shon

I an