84 – Reason for defeat

About 30 minutes had passed since her fiancé had disappeared following the saintess.

“····.”

At the same time, Rebecca’s mood was at its worst.

The reason is because of the countless imaginations that constantly come to mind even if you don’t want to think about it.

What happens when a man and a woman in their prime arrive to avoid people’s eyes.

The deviation of a man with a fiancee and a saint of this era who is envied by everyone. She’s a fiancé who can’t help but watch it.

The title of a novel that Dorothy, her maid, is ashamed to say could not be more shocking than this.

Of course, she knew that all these delusions were just her unpleasant imaginations.

It was a fact that everyone in the empire knew that a saintess had to keep her appearance neat at all times due to the existence of her church.

Since the person who disappeared with her saintess is her fiancé, not anyone else, there is no way that her fiancé will leave her and turn to others.

She knew better than anyone that the thoughts that were making her head dizzy, all of her imaginations, couldn’t happen in real life.

However, even if she knows the truth, it’s like she can’t help but care.

Even if I knew it wasn’t true, I couldn’t help but stare endlessly at the place where my fiancé and saintess disappeared.

Her situation itself was a farce when viewed from afar.

Even if her fiance returned to the banquet hall anyway, she wouldn’t even be able to come close to winning the bet.

Although she thought she had to do anything to win the bet, she couldn’t stop feeling that there was a huge hole in her heart.

“······Mihail Schelgart.”

At times like this, the thing that comes to mind is the damn prince.

Why suddenly change an ordinary ball into a masquerade?

If this ball was a regular ball, not a masquerade ball.

By now, instead of waiting for the fiancé who disappeared with the saintess, she would have been dancing with her fiancé to the resonant song.

It was clear that the words and sentences coming out of her mouth now would have nothing to say even if they were accused of blasphemy the moment they were caught, but I couldn’t handle her feelings with that level of fear.

In the first place, I wondered if this was my fear.

The black prince was not afraid at all.

“If you don’t mind, why don’t you dance with me.”

Maybe it’s because I’ve been immersed in this and that for too long. She couldn’t stand it and someone asked her to dance.

This was also one of the hardest parts to understand.

I’m sure she’s very different from her usual self.

Her dress and the hair that stands out everywhere must have been magically altered.

She should look like an ordinary noblewoman now.

Her The nobles who approached her asked her to dance for some reason.

Every time someone asks her to dance, her mood gets worse as it seems that her nobles are having fun at her masquerade ball as her prince wishes.

“No. Why should I dance with you?”

So this rejection was much more brusque than the previous one.

It seems like everything is going according to the will of the prince I don’t like. Even her words that flowed from her, her sharp thorns rose.

She feels sorry for the guy who would have asked for a dance normally, but even taking that into consideration, she wasn’t in a good mood right now.

“Is that so?”

However, the man who applied for a dance this time was different.

“May I ask why? I’m not quite sure why you refuse to dance with me.”

“·······Yes?”

Unlike the people who applied so far, who said they would be rude when she refused, and went back, the man who came this time said he didn’t know the reason and asked for the reason.

To be honest, I was dumbfounded.

It’s not uncommon to turn down an invitation to dance at a prom.

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No matter how masquerade it is, there must be people who refuse to dance.

If she refuses, she refuses. What reason do you need?

Besides, her way of speaking, the atmosphere, and the annoying things were like her fiancé who was always trying to make fun of her, so she felt bad….

“····.”

It wasn’t until she realized that the man who asked her to dance was similar to her fiancé, and then she turned her head to check the man he had been talking so hard about.

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No matter how much I think about it, no one has treated her this way except her fiancé.

“Why are you doing this all of a sudden? Did I look like someone you know?”

“····.”

“I must be wearing a mask… That’s strange.”

And, as always.

“Do you want to know who I am?”

After closer inspection, the identity of the man was her fiancé, Albert Gernias.

That’s also why he couldn’t hide a smile on his mouth that wasn’t covered by a mask, as if this situation was very interesting.

***

“How did you know?”

A word as if he really couldn’t understand the situation that was facing him.

Anyway, Rebecca seems quite surprised that I noticed her.

As soon as she heard me like that, I saw her express her own amazement until she took a step away.

It’s not that I don’t understand.

As Rebecca said before starting this bet, it would be next to impossible for me to see through the so-called genius Rebecca’s magic because I don’t even know how to use her magic.

Perhaps Rebecca expected that I wouldn’t even find her own shadow, so this reaction was only natural.

But that was all.

My fiancée made a big mistake in hiding herself that I found out.

“The ring.”

“····.”

“Isn’t it rather strange that I don’t notice? My fiancée is wearing her engagement ring as if she were asking to find him.”

“······· Ah.”

Rebecca let out a shriek as if she had finally remembered the existence of her engagement ring on the ring finger of her left hand.

Oops, I wouldn’t have wanted to.

I was determined to win this bet, but I never would have thought I would stumble on such a stupid mistake.

Because even I didn’t think of it.

-Princess Rebecca seems to have said that she doesn’t like accessories very much ······. Really?

I didn’t think I would be able to find my fiancee this way until I figured it out through Estelle’s hint.

“Did you really hate taking the ring I gave you?”

The question itself is just a question from the past, but another question was hidden in this question.

The ring I gave you was so precious that you gave up on making a wish. I wonder if he couldn’t take off the ring I gave him, even though he gave me a wish ticket.

Rebecca’s question about how much she cares about the ring I gave her was quietly hidden in the question of the past.

“····.”

And there was no way my smart fiancee wouldn’t know that.

That’s why I couldn’t easily answer this simple question.

If you admit that here, you’re admitting not only that you hated taking the ring off, but that the ring I gave you was more important than the right to wish.

There was no way my fiancé, who couldn’t speak shamelessly, could admit it.

“······I just forgot.”

As expected, Rebecca didn’t acknowledge it, but a negative answer that she forgot.

Of course, what Rebecca said could have been true.

It is true that if you wear the same accessory for a long time, suddenly not wearing it can be rather uncomfortable.

Right now even I felt more uncomfortable not wearing the ring Rebecca had put on me.

“Is your engagement ring so important that you forgot to take it off?”

“····.”

However, it didn’t matter which one was the truth.

The fact that the ring was more important than the right of wish, and that the ring was so important that I forgot to take it off, was there in the end.

Whatever the reason, the fact that I won the bet on finding her fiancée is an unchanging outcome.

“······So what is your wish?”

Rebecca seemed to have finished grasping her situation. I asked what my wish was.

She already said that she lost the bet is an inexcusable fact.

“Don’t worry, I won’t be making a wish now.”

“····.”

There was no way I could have gone beyond that.

“The princess and I are both experiencing a masquerade for the first time, so shouldn’t we enjoy it?”

“····.”

Clearly, unlike me, Rebecca’s mask covered even her mouth, but I felt like I could see the expression she was making.

A look of bewilderment at the situation, a look of remorse at the thought that she had made this mistake.

Even her expression of shame for revealing her true feelings.

I wonder if various facial expressions were mixed to create a facial expression that I have never seen before.

I suddenly had the urge to take off her fiancee’s mask and see her expression.

I wasn’t patient enough to put up with this urge.

“What are you doing all of a sudden…”

I could hear Rebecca’s words startled at the approaching hand.

“I just want to see the expression my fiancée is making.”

I didn’t care too much and gently lifted the mask that was covering Rebecca’s face.

“····.”

As expected, Rebecca’s face inside the exposed mask was already dyed as red as a strawberry.

“My fiancée is much prettier in her unmasked face than in her masked form.”

“····.”

Rebecca stiffened without saying anything to my continued praise.

It seems that he has been spewing out embarrassing words lately and trying to stand against me somehow, but there was no way he could stand against me right now.

“Have you thought about what I said earlier?”

“······What did you say…?”

Rebecca’s voice trembled as if she couldn’t stand it because she was ashamed of the current situation.

As Rebecca’s fiancée, it was my duty to repeat what I said earlier, which her fiancée had forgotten.

“Didn’t the princess refuse earlier. My dance request.”

“That’s it.”

“Would you like to accept it this time? My fiancee, Princess Rebecca of Valencia.”

“······There’s no way I could refuse your dance request.”

My fiancee, her face flushed red, says she can’t refuse to dance with me.

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Now I’m tired of talking too much, but I wondered if there really was a cuter person in the world.

“Let’s go. I’ll escort you.”

“······Is that so?”

After passing the nobles who were still enjoying the ball, the fiancée lightly held her outstretched hand as if embarrassed.

“I will lead.”

“Don’t make mistakes like last time.”

“I pretended to be so cool, but there’s no way I could make a mistake.”

“If you can’t really talk…”

“Let’s get started.”

“·······Yes.”

In a secluded banquet hall where other people’s eyes don’t reach, I started dancing to the music that was gradually heard.

‘······I’ll see you this time. Lowering.’

With the thought in my head that I would be able to forgive the crown prince at least once today, I would have been frightened in normal times.