3 – For breakup (3)

“Ahhhhh…”

Right now, Elena’s face is dyed red like a carrot.

On the table between me and Elena are an empty teacup and two plates with crumbs of cookies on them.

But like I said before, I don’t eat sweets very well. I cut another piece of cake into small pieces and barely ate one.

Nevertheless, why did the things on my plate disappear cleanly?

What is it? The lady here now ate it all.

Have you ever seen a hamster eat sunflower seeds? If you give a seed to a hamster, it gnaws at the seed with its small mouth, which is so cute that you want to keep giving it. For me, Elena Edelweiss was a hamster.

If this world were a cartoon, there would be a sound effect that reads “omnyomnyom” next to her eating snacks. He picks up snacks one by one with a fork and eats them slowly, reminiscent of small animals.

Seeing that cute look, I put the desserts I had on my plate on her plate, just like I used to give sunflower seeds to hamsters. She didn’t notice it and just enjoyed the dessert on her plate with a happy face.

The current situation is that Elena, who noticed the fact only belatedly, is dyeing her face red.

“Young-ae seems to like sweet things more than I thought.

“Ughhhhh…thank you…I’m sure Gongja-nim would have liked them a lot, but please give them all to me…my next time I come, there’s a famous parfait shop in our manor, and I’ll make sure to bring one of each type there !”

no, that’s fine I can’t eat that much…

He seemed to be very shy, but he was definitely much better than before, when he was stiff and unable to say anything.

“I’ll be grateful for your heart. More than that, if you like these, tell our chef and he’ll be very happy. If you’d like more, just let me know.”

“really?”

At the mention that they could eat it anytime, Elena smiled broadly and was more happy than I have ever seen. In the aftermath, the strange emotions that jump out are a bonus.

Perhaps it was the effect of the feeling of satiety and satisfaction from the dessert, but her appearance became bright enough to make me wonder if she was the same person as the person who was restlessly touching the teacup earlier. Maybe it’s because they find a common denominator that they like sweet things the same way.

Did I just say that I like this?

Anyway, this is a good thing. Now we can talk to each other.

If it had been the way it was before, I probably wouldn’t have listened to her opinion even if I stayed up all night.

Perhaps, I would have finished talking to myself.

I wanted mutual communication, not unilateral notice.

What I hope through this place is that she and I will be of one heart and mind to nullify this sacrament of engagement. In order to do that, conversation, the most basic communication between people, was necessary. To be honest, if she was going to simply break off the engagement, I would just say to her, ‘Let’s break off the engagement’ without end. If you say so, it will happen.

She is not good at asserting herself and tends to be attracted to others, so unlike Damian in the original story, if I ask her to break off the engagement instead of engagement, she will probably do as I please, though her pride is hurt, bewildered.

But it shouldn’t be.

I don’t know if this is a needless overreaction, but I’m going to do my best not to do anything that seems to have a bad effect on her, even if it’s a trivial thing.

This is basically the world of the novels I’ve been reading. And novels tend to revolve around the main character. In other words, it would not be an exaggeration to think that she is the center of this world.

Of course, not all novels are like that, and there are differences depending on the genre or writer’s inclination, but at least the story of ＜The Princess is Loved＞ that I read was a novel in which the world moves around Elena Edelweiss.

It’s simply impossible in my opinion, but what if the world thinks I’m the villain against her if something I’ve done has an adverse effect on her? Of course, this is just my own delusion that has not been proven, but if so, I will be miserable in any way.

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Maybe she could fall behind the male lead candidate who loves her, or the Krauss family would be destroyed by some kind of incident, or something like this.

So, for me, the best way was to end things amicably with her as much as possible.

If the engagement breaks off, she will never meet me, and when the original story starts anyway, an incident will happen to the extent that I can’t even think of my ex-fiancé or my ex-acquaintance.

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More than anything, the closer I get to her, the more my body seems to be trying to get out of control.

For the past five years, my body has followed my words very well, but from the moment I met her, something started to go wrong.

especially emotions. In the mental aspect, there was a tendency to stray in strange directions.

It’s a shame that there is a target of alert called Elena Edelweiss in front of me, but if this phenomenon occurred when I acted freely as usual, I would have been completely dominated by that emotion.

The fortunate thing is that it only happens to Elena.

Acting on uncontrolled emotions is tantamount to madness. Of course, it’s not to the extent that you can’t control it at all. It keeps popping up like mold, which is annoying because it interferes with rational thinking, but if you just focus, you can do something about it.

It’s just that if you pay attention to many places like this, you may one day suffer from mental illness. From then on, you become a real psychopath.

I didn’t want to be a psychopath, and I hate to ruin her by damaging her with this madness. So, no matter what, I shouldn’t get close to her unless I’m going to become a beast living by instinct.

After I had completely sorted out my thoughts, I asked her.

“Um, Lady Edelweiss. Excuse me, but would you allow me to call you by name?”

“Ah, yes! Of course! Then, can I call you Prince Damian too?”

“Yes. Of course. It’s a shoe, but first of all, it doesn’t matter if you call me anything other than cursing.”

“Hey, engaged… Yes. We were engaged.”

As if remembering what kind of relationship she had with me and how she was here, Elena lowered her head and replied in a hushed voice.

Well, I understand your heart, but it’s a little sad because you’re sulking in front of the person in front of you.

Just tie it up like this and go nowhere…

tight

Oh hey, go away. Trying to make someone an SM player.

This beat-and-kill madness really pops out at no time. Thanks to you, only my thighs suffer.

It’s not that I don’t understand why Elena is so sullen.

Generally, marriage is a once in a lifetime event. Whether it’s a man or a woman, it’s different for each person what kind of romance they have in marriage, but it probably doesn’t apply to her now. However, unlike ordinary arranged marriages, she and I had a chance to choose.

Whether to keep this engagement now and make it official, or go back to a relationship of nothing.

I would definitely choose the latter, and judging from the previous reaction, it seemed that she wanted it too. However, because of Elena’s personality, she cannot say it in front of me, so I have to induce her to speak on her own.

“Elena, I can understand how you feel right now. It’s only natural that he would be reluctant to be engaged to me, who is no different from a stranger.”

“Ah. That’s not true!”

“You don’t have to say that. Me too.”

“Eh.”

Elena shows a stiff expression, probably hitting the mark.

It all shows on your face, can you believe it?

“Well, what that means now is that Prince Damian doesn’t want to be engaged to me…”

“No. It can’t be. How can I hate being engaged to the young lady? Marrying the young lady is like every man in the empire’s dream.”

I’m fine of course If this was a world without the original work, I would have done three somersaults right here. He has a good personality and is said to have the most beautiful woman in the world as his wife, but who would dislike it?

The problem was that this was a world in a novel with a set story, and the breakup between me and her was indispensable in that story. Our engagement, with such a fate, could not continue normally. All I could do was end this relationship as differently as possible from the original.

I spoke, choosing the words that would not offend her as much as possible, containing the values of marriage that I had always thought of.

“But I want a marriage where my partner will also be happy, rather than happiness just for me. Tell me honestly, Elena Adelweiss. Are you in love with me right now?”

“that’s…”

She mumbled and couldn’t answer my direct question.

It was natural.

We were meeting for the first time today, and we had never talked about each other through letters before, so there was no way she could say that she loved me unless she was serious.

“I don’t necessarily think that if we don’t love each other, our marriage will be unhappy. My parents did, and other families do too. But we can make our choices differently from them.”

“What does that mean?”

“It is very difficult to choose someone who will be with you for the rest of your life who has never spoken to you. Arranged marriage is popular among nobles, but our relationship is not a simple arranged marriage. We have the right to choose each other, unlike the other people we’ve been associated with.”

So you don’t have to choose someone you don’t know very well.

Elena Edelweiss.

This engagement is a matter for you to decide, not someone else’s. So choose the answer you want the most.

I told her who was thinking about it.

“I will respect whatever answer Miss Elena gives. Please feel free to tell me. Our current meeting is a place to get to know each other before the engagement, but it’s also a place to tell each other what they think about this engagement. Because it is.”

It was as if the answer had already been decided, but I forced her to make a choice as she hesitated and couldn’t even say it.

Soon, as if she had taken her heart to my words, she spoke to me with a determined face.

“Then shall we get engaged? Officially.”

“Yes?”