The Grand Duchess Is Defeated Again Today

The princess can’t stand it.

Even as I forced my body to stand up, a feeling of regret flooded in.

Two hours ago, what did I have in mind to use swordsmanship training as an excuse for not visiting the duke’s residence?

If given a chance to go back to the past, I wanted to keep my mouth shut so that I wouldn’t make such a terrible excuse.

“Did you hear all the rules?”

“If my sword even strikes the princess, is that the rule of victory for me?”

“Yes. You are well aware of it.”

This time, Rebecca emphasizes the rules as if they won’t allow any holes to escape.

It seemed to contain not only the cheek kiss incident, but also the snowball fight when we first met.

“…is this also a wish bet?”

“Yes, of course.”

I was wondering if It was nonetheless

“You said that all your future bets will be wishes.”

The determined will to make my wish come true unconditionally was radiating from the princess’ eyes.

Besides, as Rebecca had said, there were already remarks, so I couldn’t bring myself to say I didn’t like it.

“····.”

“You’re not going to change your mind now, are you?”

“·······All right.”

“Okay, let’s get started.”

whistle-

As soon as Rebecca said let’s get started, one of the Duke’s knights threw a wooden sword at me.

I clenched the wooden sword so tightly that it shattered as if it were a lifeline.

······The lifeline isn’t right. I don’t know what kind of humiliation I’ll face if I miss it.

anyway. Anyway.

The battle of the century (?) for me and Rebecca’s wish has begun.

*

Percussion – Tak!

Until now, in the dance hall where only the sound of someone being beaten unilaterally was heard, now the sound of hitting wooden swords is starting to be heard.

“Did Prince Albert’s eyes change at all?”

“What are you betting on…”

By the way, the knights who are watching our Dalian know that this is a bet, but do not know exactly what the bet is.

I didn’t even want to say that I made a wish.

“What is important is that Confucius, who was only getting hit before, is now doing his best in his own way.”

“So, do you think Prince Albert can even touch the young lady?”

“········No, it is not.”

The knights were right.

Although I was showing a different side of me than before. just that

Still my sword didn’t reach Rebecca at all.

However, that was enough.

In the first place, the purpose of this bet is not for me to defeat Rebecca, but for my sword to reach the princess.

“…wasn’t training completely meaningless?”

“Is that so?”

Rebecca also seemed a little surprised by the change in my mood.

If it was natural, it was natural.

In the previous Dalian, he swung his wooden sword at random in order to somehow counterattack the princess.

This time, the mindset was different.

Rather than swinging the sword without thinking, I swung my sword after thinking about which direction and in which way to swing it.

You can think of it as just a difference of thoughts and attitudes. The difference between thinking and attitude in using the sword was quite important.

This was the biggest lesson I learned while practicing swordsmanship over the past three years.

widely-!

“Isn’t this the real Confucius victory?”

“Ah, no way. Still, it’s Miss Rebecca.”

As proof of that, I was able to get Rebecca’s sword to some extent.

But.

“It’s too slow.”

puck-!

Even though it was only ‘to some extent’.

“··········The princess must be quick.”

“Is that so? I didn’t know that.”

Rebecca had no hesitation in spite of the penalty that she never allowed me to use a sword.

The trajectory sword that can be avoided by movement is avoided by moving lightly, and the trajectory sword that cannot be avoided by moving is blocked with its own sword.

“You can see too many gaps.”

Even if I made a big move to attack, the princess’s bladed wooden sword hit my body without a doubt.

Indeed, it was the best Munchkin heroine of [The Prince Raises a Sword].

At this point, a question arose.

‘Why did you lose to Mikhail?’

How the hell did he lose to Mikhail, the protagonist of this novel?

Watching Rebecca for three years. I wondered if anyone could be this perfect.

Of course, I always lost, but it was because I used a cowardly method that I was embarrassed to put into words.

The character of this novel’s protagonist, who has a just personality, would not have used a particularly cowardly method.

‘At what… did you lose?’

I couldn’t even remember which event the princess lost.

I must have re-read that part more than 3 times. For some reason, the memory of that part was clear.

“Don’t think otherwise.”

Puff-!

But this question.

I quickly disappeared by Rebecca’s wooden sword, who realized that I was having strange thoughts.

“When you’re fighting, just focus on me.”

It would have been the most romantic sentence in the world if only the word Dalian wasn’t included in that sentence or the person who said that was beating people with a wooden sword.

It was a pity that…

······Wait a minute. romantic sentences?

For a moment, there was a thought that passed through my mind.

I soon discovered a huge loophole in the rules of this bet.

“Princess.”

“Why did you suddenly call me?”

“Did you think that I would like to focus only on the princess?”

“······yes?”

That there was no rule against speaking in this Dalian.

***

“What do you mean by that?”

Rebecca responded as if she didn’t understand what I was saying.

It would be embarrassing if someone who had been fighting suddenly asked a question like that out of the blue.

But my strategy was to use that embarrassment.

“Didn’t you just tell me. I wish I could focus only on the princess.”

“·······What is that?”

A princess who doesn’t seem to notice what I’m talking about yet.

But it didn’t take long for that hardened expression to crumble into shame.

“Have you always been thinking like that? I wish I could only look at the princess.”

“······I beg your pardon?”

Rebecca said that perhaps my remarks were quite shocking, and the wooden sword that had just been swung at me stopped as well.

Even though my words didn’t stop when the wooden sword stopped.

“I’m not even married yet, but you’re jealous, I’m already afraid of the future.”

“Now… what are you talking about!”

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Jealousy.

A word made up of just two letters was able to elicit such a lively response from the princess.

“You don’t have to be jealous. I’ll always be by your side as the princess wants you to.”

“When did I become jealous…”

“People call what you just said jealousy.”

“How the hell is that jealousy….”

“Didn’t the princess speak clearly? I wish I could focus on the princess only.”

There was a little bit of stalking and some missing sentences, but it didn’t deviate from the big frame that I was focused on Rebecca.

“That… what the hell…”

Rebecca is now completely blushing.

The blushing on her face reminded her of the strawberry ice cream she had fed the princess earlier.

“…Did I just hear something wrong? I think I heard that she was jealous.”

“No, you’re right. I heard it right.”

Besides, the knights who were visiting our Dalian started to babble as if they heard this conversation.

Rebecca was so embarrassed that she had a face about to die.

And as I’ve said over and over again until now, the attack had to be continuous to be effective.

“Somehow, he got angry that I had been here for a long time. Actually, he was jealous that I was hanging out with another woman.”

“····.”

“As I said before, you don’t have to worry. I’m totally the princess’s fiancée.”

Oh oh-!

An exclamation was heard from the onlookers who were knights of the Duke of Valencia family.

“Isn’t that a confession?”

“You’re right, so shut up. This is an important moment.”

“…But, weren’t you two dating? Why did you suddenly confess your love…”

“Is that important now? You mean you don’t have a girlfriend.”

“What is this bastard?”

It was a place for onlookers who wanted to go beyond admiration and even fight.

In fact, Rebecca and I did not see it.

The princess couldn’t stand the shame and couldn’t see it because she kept her head down.

So did I. Wouldn’t it be embarrassing to say something like this to me?

I’m just trying not to show it. I also felt like going into a mouse hole.

I don’t know if I even had a drink. It was really not a job for a human being to spit out such harsh words with a bare mind, even in front of onlookers.

Still, what I was able to say with perseverance.

This is because the embarrassment I am feeling now is 100 times better than losing Dalian and being humiliated by Rebecca.

Considering the way I’ve been making fun of the princess until now, it’s hard to imagine what I’ll be doing when I lose.

So I ended up saying it despite my embarrassment.

“Gap.”

“······································································!

She swung her wooden sword at the neglected princess.

No matter how much Munchkin Princess Rebecca was, she could not avoid the sword that was flying at high speed when she couldn’t even raise her head in embarrassment.

gain-

My wooden sword made a slightly cute sound and was able to reach the princess’ right arm.

“········I have won.”

“····.”

The swordsmanship match with the wish was my victory.