Chapter 205 – 50. Blind Date (2)
At noon.
The time when the sun is exactly over the planet.
In the sunlit central dining room, Senius’s royals were having lunch together.
Among them, Princess Laila Senius, the first princess who sat in the next highest seat to her head, doubted her own ears.
“······ Mother? What do you mean by that?”
“Hmm? Didn’t you hear? After Lily stopped, she told Sir that she might marry her.”
The Queen, Rosaria Senius, jabbed a fresh salad with her fork.
Rosalia turned her head to look into her eldest daughter’s eyes, savoring with her tongue the juice that leaked from the fruit as red as her hair, pierced by the pointed end.
Lila can’t hide her embarrassment.
‘Tsk.’
No matter how sudden the story is, Princess 1 was revealing her inner feelings too clearly.
It was not like royalty.
Rosalia added her words, suppressing her disapproval.
“The duke proposed to Sir Jeong Ji-hoo. She asked if she would like to meet Lily.”
“······The reserve grand duke agreed?”
“Yeah . . . The duke has a lot of itchy ass. Perhaps this evening will be his first meeting.”
Her mother’s words were a thunderbolt for Lila.
To be honest, it was more shocking than the news of yesterday’s witch beasts massacring a rural village.
······If you value only one lover more than thousands of people, you are probably disqualified from being a member of the royal family.
Layla felt a little guilty, but she couldn’t afford to suffer right now.
‘Lily.’
She was a cute little sister when we first met.
Once she got closer, she became their best friend.
She is, now, her own precious girlfriend.
She is a lover who loves more deeply than anyone else.
To think that she would start her relationship with another man of hers…
“That’s a lot of fun!”
Rosaria’s head turned to the side at the sound of her voice bursting out from the other side of Laila.
Receiving her mother’s gaze, her second daughter, Janie Senyers, opened her mouth as if she were genuinely happy.
“Layla’s first wife is Thorez’s brother, so if Sir Jeong Ji-hoo and Lily get married, the Grand Duke, the Duke of Villette, and the Senius royal family will become one family!”
The voice of the two princesses penetrated the politics of the South.
Lila Senius is engaged to Lily’s brother, Prince Thorez Villette. The marriage was to take place after he, who was one year younger, had graduated from the academy.
However, Layla and Thorez’s marriage was only a political relationship decided by their parents, and there was no bond or emotional exchange between the two. Lila’s heart was Lily’s, and Thorez’s had no interest.
“That’s right. If successful, it’s a rare opportunity to socially connect with a mythical Awoken. Actually, I wanted to send one of you, Janey or Diane, to the Archduke instead of Lily…”
At the mention of her name in the mouth of her queen, her third princess, Diane Senyers, shuddered and cowered.
“Cow, I’m sorry…”
“I’m really sorry. If Diane and I had been born just a year earlier, there would have been a possibility… I can’t help it. She hasn’t even awakened her attributes yet, so it’s absurd to say we’re engaged.”
Janie and Diane are 19-year-old twins. Janey is treated like her older sister because she came into the world a few minutes earlier. Although they are twins, their personalities and talents are polar opposites.
A lively older sister and a sullen younger brother. With her head down, Diane’s face was sunk in the shadow of her bangs. Raising her head toward the air, Janey opened her mouth, shyly blushing on her cheeks as she recalled the days before.
“On the first day, I only had a chance to meet Sir Jeong Ji-hoo in the audience room, but he was really handsome and dignified! His wife will definitely be happy. I envy Lily unnie, right?
“······.”
None of the royals seated in the dining room believed that the second princess really wanted to replace Princess Lily.
There was no way that she, who kept her first princess in check at every step, would make the choice to move away from her royal castle.
Janey hides her true feelings and tells her lies.
Queen Rosalia nodded her head in admiration for her second daughter’s high level of inconsistency.
Lila, on the other hand, was just annoyed with her sister for constantly getting on her nerves.
“Lyla. If you have any complaints, tell me.”
1 Princess Snatches Her Plate In Front Of Her, She Excuses The Queen
“······I was just worried for a moment that Lily and my serapinite might get in the way. No problem.”
“The meeting with Sir Jung Ji-hoo will continue to be in the evening, so the practice time for the performance will remain the same. Don’t worry.”
Rosalia, lightly ignoring her eldest daughter’s complaints, put the fork in her hand down on her table and looked around at the royals, directing them in a very solemn tone.
“To exaggerate the meeting between Sir Jeong Ji-hoo and Princess Lily, the fate of our southern region is at stake… As you all know, the Kairos Imperial Family is in the process of circling summoners from the other world. The princess will succeed over the next few days. If we can’t do that, we may never have a chance to get close to a mythical Awakener. So everyone, if the princess needs help, do your best to help.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
“Especially Lila. Since you’re the closest person to her, she listens to her a lot and if you have any counseling or advice, do it.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
Laila’s head throbbed with complex thoughts. She doesn’t even know if the food is going into her mouth or her nose.
The conversation between the royal family continued on the initiative of the queen and the 2nd princess, leaving aside the 1st princess who had no words for her.
“Mother, then, how do you plan to treat Sir Min Hye-rin?
“Janey, you’re right. You’ll have to try it once… In the afternoon’s conversation with Sir Min Hye-rin, Yoo-ren, you too, participate as the first prince. Dress up nicely. You’ll know what to do there. ?”
“Yes, I will do my best…!”
“······You’re a shy man, but that’s why you’re more suited to the role of a concubine. Your status is high, your face is smooth, and you’ll listen well… I can tell. My senses whisper to me: Sir Min Hye-rin, she is a very possessive woman. If you attack that point well, you have a chance of succeeding.
The queen’s bright red eyes glittered insidiously and greedily, like the owner of a window.
* * *
Lila, of course, knew.
Anyone who listens to yesterday’s story will know how unconventional the mythical attribute is.
A group of Witch Beasts that could have destroyed the South was annihilated by just two beings.
Also, how precious and important this opportunity was, Layla couldn’t help but notice.
Starting with her engagement to Her Highness, the 2nd Princess, which will be held in August, Ji-Hoo’s wives will continue to increase. If you can get one before the seat next to him is full, that’s something to celebrate.
‘······No, I haven’t even been engaged to the first wife yet, is it right to have a second wife? Aren’t you being too restrained? A flirt who lights up women! A beast full of lust!’
But no matter how much she curses him in her heart, her clear facts don’t change.
Lila, as the first princess of Senius, should not interfere with the development of the relationship between Sir Jeong Ji-hoo and Lily.
It made sense in her head.
‘No!’
However, her heart fiercely rejected the reality in front of her eyes.
Lila loves Lily. She loves Lily and she loves herself too. Although they are women, they were born with a body that desired a woman and fell in love with each other.
She truly believed it was fate, an exquisite coincidence.
It was.
‘Why is it you…’
Lila has lost her way.
As the princess of Senius and Lily’s lover, how on earth should she behave herself?
“Sister?”
“Lily…!”
After lunch, Lila went back to the therapy night practice room. She didn’t know what to say, so she hugged Lily’s delicate body tightly.
And Lily knew why her lover was doing this, of course.
“Sister! You’re not doubting me right now, are you?”
“Yes?”
With Lily’s bright voice and her playfulness in it, Lila’s expression grew strange.
“That’s right. I doubted it. That I would leave her sister…! I’m a little sad. Hey.”
“Ah, no… Because it’s the will of the family and the royal family… It’s also an opportunity that should never be missed… Lily, what does it mean?”
Lila, imagining a breakup she couldn’t see without her tears, blinked quickly in her eyes.
“Lara unnie is an idiot. There’s no way I can connect with Jung Ji-hoo!”
Instead of her tears, Lily’s face bloomed with a bright smile. On the other hand, Lila’s expression was blank.
“Think carefully. When nobles choose a mate, they focus on three things: ‘attribute’, ‘status’, and ‘appearance’, right?
To the extent that one out of three second-year students in the art class of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Academy possesses it.
“As for status, I’m the daughter of a duke. But the Villette duke’s family is one of the leading families in the south, but compared to the imperial family or the duchy in the east and west, honestly, aren’t they?”
Billette is not the only duke who wants a son-in-law of a mythical level.
“But it’s not that my face is exceptionally pretty. Especially compared to the female summoners. That’s why, in fact, I suggested it to Jung Ji-hoo, thinking that even my mother would have to make ends meet.”
The probability that Jeong Ji-hoo will take Lily is very low.
Because in terms of attributes, status, and appearance, she is not exceptional.
It’s plausible, no, it’s a pretty logical idea.
Lila opened her mouth with a more relieved expression.
“No, the last one is wrong. Lily, you’re the cutest girl in the world…”
“Sister···.”
“Sir Jeong Ji-hoo, I can’t forgive you! You don’t know Lily’s charm!”
“… Will he be taken away from me if he finds out?”
“······That can’t be done. Still······ Uh, I don’t know! Let’s practice for the performance.”
“Yes!”
Layla and Lily eventually went on to Serapinite as if nothing had happened.
Through this conversation, the girls were able to develop more trust in each other.
However, their relationship will come to an end someday.
Homosexuality is an unacceptable act anywhere on the continent.
While hiding their feelings for each other until the end, they will eventually fulfill their duties as nobles by getting married to each man and having children.
Nonetheless, now Lila and Lily are happy.
Separation is still far away, and love is right next to you.
The two will continue to have a secret relationship in the center of the South…
. . . It was meant to be.
A few hours later, Lily washed herself clean, received her maids’ elaborate make-up, dressed in a dress prepared by her mother, and headed to a special dinner.
······ She did not even dream of what she would experience in two hours.
