The Grand Duchess Is Defeated Again Today

The princess was defeated in the dance.

The banquet hall where the sweet melody of the imperial ensemble began to reverberate.

The noble spirits and young girls gathered here one by one began to dance to the melody, holding hands with their partners.

Me and Rebecca got up and started dancing.

“…you took the wrong step.”

“····.”

Of course, unlike other people who look at their partner affectionately and create a sweet mood.

“What if I make a mistake even after practicing like that?”

Between me and the princess, only a cool tension was rising.

The tension that exists in order to point out immediately if the opponent makes a mistake.

That tension took the place of the sympathetic atmosphere.

“Didn’t the princess make a mistake earlier, too?”

“That’s because you made a mistake, and so did I.”

“Don’t make excuses. If I wasn’t wrong, I would be wrong.”

“No.”

“you’re right.”

“Because it’s not.”

Is this really the conversation between the next duke and the next count, who should be responsible for the future of the empire?

In terms of the sentences of the conversation, it was no different from the childish words of a 7-year-old child.

Words that would be very shameful if the other nobles dancing next to me were going back and forth between me and Rebecca.

“How about making a bet?”

Fearing that others might hear our conversation, I proposed to the princess.

“······betting?”

“Yeah, I’ll count who made the most mistakes before the next song ends.”

“Ha, do you think you can beat me with a dance?”

As soon as she heard the terms of the bet, Rebecca smiled as if it was ridiculous.

It was a natural reaction.

Actually, my dancing skills were still at a level that was embarrassing to even bring it to a princess.

The Munchkin Princess, with no shortcomings, was also very good at dancing.

“Are you scared?”

“······I beg your pardon?”

But as always.

I was confident I could beat Rebecca.

I wouldn’t have made such an offer if I didn’t have the confidence to win in the first place.

“If you’re not afraid, there’s no reason why Princess-sama wouldn’t accept this offer.”

“I’m thinking of you who will lose in the bet…”

“I am moved that the princess has taken care of me.”

“····.”

Rebecca’s face, who had been forcing a smile on her face thinking about the surrounding gaze, changed in an instant.

“Don’t make that face. It’s scary.”

“You said that my face is scary right now…”

“The princess, who has already looked so frightening, has a grim expression on her face, as if she is looking at a bandit. If the children over there see the princess, they will cry and run away.”

“······· Did you say it’s the next song?”

Start right away.

The princess could not stand my series of provocations and eventually accepted the offer.

“good.”

I don’t know if that’s a trick of the angler who throws the bait and waits for the fish.

After a while, the song changed.

This song is a fast-tempo waltz song.

This song is like a nightmare for aristocrats who are new to dancing.

“I think I won this bet.”

“····.”

It was the most difficult song I’ve ever practiced.

“It’s the song that you find the most difficult. Why don’t you just surrender and don’t be embarrassed for nothing?”

Even the princess who learned about it while practicing with me said it as if she had already won.

“Take my hand. Princess.”

I just smiled quietly and asked Rebecca to dance.

*

“······· There are a lot less people.”

I didn’t know it until I reached out to Rebecca.

The banquet hall, which had been filled with dancing nobles until just now, felt a bit quiet.

After all, is a fast waltz a difficult song for young girls who have just made their debut or for young people who are just starting out in the social world?

Most of them seemed to choose not to try rather than being ridiculed for making a mistake.

“It means that this song is not easy.”

“If you give up even now, I might lower the level of your wishes.”

The princess had an expression on her face that she was really worried about.

It’s like I can’t even predict what kind of shame I’ll suffer from losing to myself.

Even though Rebecca herself is making that wish.

Realizing that, I thanked the princess for her concern.

“I’ve felt it from a while ago. The princess seems to care more about her fiancé than I thought.”

“·······I will never look at you, so be prepared.”

Finally, Rebecca’s bloody warning.

Finally, the intro of the song began.

The waltz dance was much simpler than I thought.

A dance where you hold your partner’s hands and go round and round with the steps. In the dictionary meaning, it was not difficult at all.

In the ‘dictionary’ sense.

like everything in the world.

There was a difference between thoughts and reality.

It is not difficult to rotate while maintaining a certain step. It’s difficult to do this in concert with your partner.

It was not easy to maintain the same step with both hands holding the partner’s hand.

Because their bodies are connected by hand. If even one person twists their feet, the other person loses their focus.

The charm and weakness of the waltz is that even if you make a mistake, it doesn’t end with your own mistakes.

But unlike these concerns.

“Last time, you sprained your foot here as well. Are you sure you’re not wrong this time?”

I was getting along with Rebecca pretty easily.

“It’s still early days, isn’t it?”

I wasn’t distracted though.

Because the characteristic of this song is that it rushes slowly at first, but quickly as time goes by.

In the first half, even if you can step forward with a certain amount of leeway, you will soon run out of space.

As I expected, the speed of the song started to get faster.

“Valencia… You must be a princess? You dance really well.”

“Who’s next to you?”

“Isn’t that your fiance? I think I heard you have a fiance.”

“I don’t know who she is, but she seems to be dancing as well as a princess.”

We could hear the voices of the nobles who were watching our dance next to us.

“Can you hear us? People are watching us.”

“If you know, why don’t you just give up now? There’s nothing more embarrassing than being humiliated in front of onlookers.”

“It will never happen, so you can rest assured.”

Reat at readwn.com

Just knowing that he was watching us didn’t mean the war was over.

The dance continued with the ensuing nerve war, and the song reached its climax.

“Are you having a hard time? I see you’re already blushing.”

“······Is that so?”

“Yeah, so tell me you lost now. People are more likely to make mistakes when they’re having a hard time.”

Rebecca’s face as she said that was too hard, but it was quite red.

As the princess said, my face probably wasn’t that different either. Because of the intense dance, my arms and legs started to hurt.

And these words meant that it was time to bring out what I had prepared to win the match.

“It’s normal for me to make mistakes.”

“······I beg your pardon?”

Rebecca suddenly reacts as if she’s talking nonsense.

However, it was already too early to be surprised.

Because there are still many words that I have prepared.

“I’m dancing holding hands with this beautiful fiancee. How can I not make a mistake?”

“····.”

“If any man in the Empire is holding hands with the Princess, it will be impossible not to make a mistake.”

“Do you think that you will be able to shake my heart with such embarrassing words again this time?”

Her face was flushed red, but Rebecca remained calm.

As if what had been done so far did not mean anything.

She was always a princess who grew up losing to me.

“If you really thought that way, you would have underestimated me…”

“You’re pretty.”

“······yes?”

That doesn’t mean I’ve grown to a level that I can handle, though.

“You are the most beautiful today among the princesses I’ve seen in the past three years.”

“····.”

“From red and bright hair that I want to touch, cheeks that are red because of embarrassment, eyes that contain only me, and lips that I want to overlap right away.”

“····.”

“I think I want to make a photo and leave it for the rest of my life.”

You cannot embarrass a person with a sentence that is not sincere.

Although Rebecca may not notice it, the reason the princess blushes and panics is because everything I say is sincere.

I confided to the princess all of the thoughts that I usually had and that I shouldn’t bring out.

“······· Eh?”

After hearing my words full of sincerity and gloom, Rebecca broke down in the end.

I did not miss this opportunity.

The movement of the feet, which had been kept constant until now, was slightly twisted.

“Damn!”

Rebecca, who had already listened to my words and couldn’t come to her senses, naturally lost her balance when the staff suddenly changed.

“As I always say. What would you do without me?”

“····.”

Rebecca, who was about to fall with her legs twisted, supported Rebecca with my arms to prevent her from falling.

In the eyes of other people watching, it looked like I was hugging and protecting the princess from falling over by mistake.

“aah!”

Hearing the cheers of noble girls full of childhood who are passionate about watching this one play-like scene.

I quietly declared to the princess.

“Isn’t that right? My dear fiancee.”

I hope I won this bet too.