Chapter 25-27 (2/2)

His mother

eventually died of complications of her weak heart (Zuben: Don’t they all have

weak hearts)

He was adopted

by his aunt and her husband and abdicated From then on the Prince Volker

became plain old Volker Brennan

The Brennan

faeneration produced a solder or

knight His adopted father was even stricter in training the general

There were so

s I didn’t know about him…

General

Brennan was the younger brother of the current king

What is

happening? More andof imbalance A Prince

(Forh the General asked me,

hoell do I suit being his wife? Is it okay to do it? This isn’t good, is it?

(Zuben: Freddie don’t get in a tiswas)

Come to think

of it what does General Brennan like about me? He asked me to marry him, but I

didn’t specifically ask I haven’t heard hi I don’t remember

doing anything particularly special in front of hiht of your

forest green eyes seared his soul)

I started to

feel uneasy

‘I never

planned on joining the Royal Guard…’

While I was

lost in hts, the General looked in my direction and pulled the

pried the Prince’s hands off his waist (Zuben: The prince is cute too They

are all cute!)

‘Please stop

hugging iven you yet,’ he said to Prince Stefan coldly

‘There was joint training of the Western Ared to and the

Royal Ar of Prince

Stefan’

I was

surprised that the General could speak coldly like that

‘But Uncle…?’

Stephan was also surprised; he seemed he had no idea why his beloved uncle was

angry with him

‘Firstly, I

asked you to see me as your vassal at all times I am also your teacher,

calling me 'uncle' without restraint is not allowed Secondly, you intimidated

and touched my Fredericka’

The Prince’s

eyebrows rose dramatically as he recalled his earlier actions He had been

behaving childishly with the General Calling lad, but

my embarrassment over shadows it ne~

‘Very well, I

ad But there is an imbalance between your

levels…she doesn’t suit you’ Stefan said (Zuben: Who dares say that? Let them come out and let me beat them)

Well that is

true The Military and Aristocracy are inviolable But if there was to be intere

between a high ranking military person and an aristocrat, the noble house

should be of good standing, especially when the person is a General Someone

like General Brennan should be h noble

He’s also part

of the Royal Guard and the son of a prominent military family It is only

natural he marries someone more suited

The General

came to where I sat and knelt before me,

‘I am just a

soldier Before that I am just a human If you say Fredericka does not suit me

because I an’ (Zuben: Well said Minor swoon)

He looked ata frisson of awareness to trace

along my skin I nodded to him

I am so

embarrassed, but I also like the General and want to be with him Please

forgiveable to declare it like you do I really don’t have

the courage to say it Even if the was just immediate family and the Prince

(Zuben: Well he’s family too)

‘Good I am

relieved’ He said with a smile and carried me in one smooth move

‘Come,

Stefan’

He guided

Stefan to sit on the other side of father and I was placed on his lap…as though

it was a matter of course

General! What

are you doing in front of everyone?!

27 Jealousy

Jealousy

The Prince’s

eyes widened in surprise at General Brennan’s actions Father sputtered Mother

laughed with her hand over her mouth Marie squealed Oliver continued to serve

tea (Zuben: Is that an “always full teapot” you’ve got there, Ollie) The

chamberlain froze

I could not

hold my head up I hid my face with my hands and hid my red face

‘General

Brennan, please put me down…’ I said timidly

‘Do you find

it distasteful?’

Is this the

only choice for hiht But

that’s not it, I’usted! But maybe embarrassment I feel

here is a little different I kept trying to think of a way to solve this with

my brain that had short circuited

‘You can put

my on your knees…e are alone…’I whispered to him

A little while

after, General Brennan’s deputy ca, so he

had to go

After he left,

an aard atmosphere filled the room

It was

Stephan-sama that broke the aard silence, ‘It’s the first time I’ve seen

Brennan so taer’

With a loud

sigh, he sat back into his chair The “I must convict the bad woman” aura was

gone He was now partaking in Oliver’s excellently brewed tea

‘This time…it

seemed I jumped to conclusions I hope I didn’t shock you?’ the prince said

looking at me with a tired face

‘No, it’s alright’

I replied I did not care for his earlier attitude but the Prince seems like a

good person Even if I had been shocked, I could not tell the Prince

‘It’s because

Brennan is one of the people I trust the most, and blood rushed to my head when

I heard a woet him It has happened before To make amends,

you can ask for anything of me’

But, it seems that

the Prince is not one to properly apologise, I am surprised I was about to

decline when he said,

‘I’m still not

alright with it For Brennan to care about a woh to put her on his

knee in front of everyone, it was unpleasant to see Just say one thing,’

Looking at his

glittering eyes I was a bit troubled He seemed to have a forceful personality

He didn’t want to oweeither,

but I don’t think he would understand As I thought about it, an idea came to

me

‘Well, I don’t

really want anything, but Prince Stefan may I ask a favour? Can we be friends?’

‘What?’ Prince

Stefan had a shocked look on his face Father cringed in his seat Mother held

her fan over her face

‘Well, as you

know, my family is not well liked therefore I don’t have any friends And you

know a lot about Brennan and I want you to tell ht the

best thing is to be friends’

I want to know

the stories that Brennan wouldn’t tell me

‘…but, as

expected, it’s not possible’ I said to no one in particular It would be bad

if a Viscount’s daughter was hanging around the Crown Prince It would look as

if I had an ulterior s

I was hoping we could have

a 'General Brennan Love' party I really wanted to have one I gave a laugh

trying to hide my sadness and embarrassment

The

chamberlain rushed in, he was in a hurry it seemed, ‘Stefan-sama?!’

But the Prince

held his hand up to stop him

‘That sounds

like a fun idea Let’s be friends from now on, okay You must call me Stefan’

I stared at

him in surprise Was my face a little red? I turned to father; he looked like

he’d eaten so bitter My mother hid her face with her fan and fell back

in seeony

Er…?

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