The Grand Duchess Is Defeated Again Today

The princess can’t refuse.

5 points.

How vague and unanswered is this score?

It’s not full like 10, but it’s not empty like 0.

It’s like eating an undercooked steak.

There is a saying that beef is usually eaten undercooked.

It’s not that there’s no taste, but I have to say it’s a tasteless feeling.

Anyway, it was a very bad feeling.

If I wanted to pack my archery skills, which only hit 5 points, I could do it.

I don’t know why, but my posture was good, but to be honest, it was like shooting a bow for the first time.

Rather, it was commendable for a beginner to hit 5 points at a distance of 50m.

“Your posture is great. Your score is five.”

“····.”

My fiancee, who excels in all fields, just didn’t think so.

“Did you plan on going to a hunting contest instead of me with that level of skill?”

“·······There is no particular interest in hunting competitions.”

It was true.

Although there is a risk of giving up on hunting competitions due to the risk of losing in this archery bet.

My main purpose is not to participate in a hunting contest on behalf of Rebecca, but to a handkerchief made by my beloved fiancee.

As I said before, it wasn’t my interest to win prizes for outstanding results in hunting competitions.

“…Then why…”

Rebecca puts a bewildered expression on her face when she hears that I’m not interested in the hunting contest.

Perhaps it was difficult to understand for Rebecca, whose desire to win is the number one in the empire. If there is a competition like this, it is Rebecca’s personality to go out and win first place.

“That’s right. What do you think the princess might be the reason for?”

“····.”

However, I didn’t want to make it easy to explain why I proposed this bet.

No, in fact, it was like I was told.

Didn’t I already say, ‘What can I do, I want to get a handkerchief from my beloved fiancée?’

“…?”

I’m just thinking that Rebecca said that to make fun of her.

My fiancée was on the day of the imperial banquet, even though I made it clear. There were still many cases where my words were considered a lie.

So, now was not the time to tell you that.

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He left Rebecca, who looked confused and still didn’t understand the reason, and pulled the bow again.

“Are you going to do it right away?”

Rebecca blew the first arrow coolly and sent a glance, but couldn’t believe that I was wondering if I was going to try again right away.

“I’ll shoot.”

I was definitely more confident than before.

It was said that humans are creatures that learn success from failure.

It is the nature of human beings to achieve superior results in the second rather than the first, and in the third rather than the second.

I am also a growth type human with such an essence.

Piing-

“····.”

“·······7 points.”

It was natural for me to get better results than before.

The second arrow that was closer to the center than the first shot.

Unlike the first time, where he didn’t care about anything except the aim and the power to pull the bow, this time he was paying attention to the wind direction and speed.

Although I can’t say I’ve completely cared for it.

This was a pretty satisfactory result.

“··········It is quite good.”

Rebecca, who looked at me, was also making an expression of surprise.

Rebecca seemed quite astonished at my achievement of getting 7 points in two.

Seeing him give me a word of stingy praise, which I rarely do.

12 points.

This is the sum of the points I have earned so far.

There’s no way Rebecca can’t hit 10 points with her archery skills surpassing that of any other shooter.

The next arrow had to hit at least 9 points to win.

The trump card I prepared is a method that Rebecca can only use when she prepares her last arrow.

·······If you say the number of trumpets, it is very obvious.

Anyway, I had to get a score of 9 or more.

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“I’ll shoot.”

“…are you going to do it again right away?”

And fortunately.

Piing-

“····.”

“········9 points. A total of 21 points.”

A score of 9 was easy for me, who had completely captured the senses with the previous two arrows.

“It’s the princess’s turn.”

All I had left to do was pray to the god who might be there and hope that my voice would be heard.

***

“It’s the princess’s turn.”

Albert’s expression as he returned the bow she had thrown was really triumphant.

A disgusting expression as if he had the whole world.

He had a mean expression on his face that would have been sharply pointed at normally.

“····.”

Rebecca couldn’t shoot as usual.

Because, she thought, this was a nonsensical situation.

When I first heard Albert say that we should bet with our archery skills.

The first thing Rebecca felt was wonder.

Because the fiance she knew was not the first person to propose a bet using physical abilities such as swordsmanship, archery, or spears.

Her fiancée, the smartest person ever, was someone who never offered to bet if she thought she had no chance of winning.

Nevertheless, her fiance offered her a bet with archery.

Of course, I couldn’t erase the feeling that I was rushing around because I was thinking about something that I couldn’t tell anyone for a while and then got caught by her.

Anyway, I’ve been making offers to her that normal Albert would never do.

– ······like.

It was an opportunity for her.

A chance to defeat her fiance with pure skill alone.

It was Rebecca, who not long ago blew up her first chance to win.

Based on the wish he had made in the morning, he succeeded in giving him a magic potion that made him tell only the truth.

– So, our lovely fiancée only needs to eat food that is fed by a gentle, kind fiancé.

In the sentence full of sincerity of Albert that followed, he collapsed without being able to do anything.

After that, Rebecca was completely enlightened.

It’s absurd for her to try and win over her fiancé with her words.

No matter how hard you study, no matter how hard you read books to improve your vocabulary.

The game was over the moment I heard Albert’s words with ‘love’ and ‘beautiful’.

It was clear that her heart, which never obeyed orders, and her cheeks, whose only thing she knew how to do was dyed red, must go crazy.

It was crazy to induce a match by arguing.

I couldn’t figure out why her body wasn’t listening to her commands.

Perhaps, the idea that she continued to dismiss as nonsense, ‘She fell in love with her fiancée,’ could be true.

Without it, my heart and cheeks wouldn’t be racing like a girl who fell in love like this.

However, even if the truth is that she really fell in love with her fiancé.

It was never easy to admit it.

what’s lacking

As the only daughter of the great Duke of Valencia, the words she heard the most growing up were pretty and genius, because she lacked something.

What the hell is it that you fall in love with the mean Albert, who is always in a hurry to tease her?

This was absolutely unacceptable.

So I had to win this bet even more.

As time goes by little by little, I have a bad feeling that her chance to beat her fiancé is going to disappear.

I really hate to admit this, but because I had an uneasy feeling that I might fall for my fiancée.

I had to win in archery, an event that could definitely be won.

However, things did not go according to her plan.

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The figure of Albert hanging an arrow on the bowstring and pulling it was that of an unstoppable shooter.

It must have been her fiance who said she was trying to hold a bow for the first time today.

So I was relieved that I would win this bet without much trouble.

Wouldn’t things be weird again after that?

I began to think that I had been deceived by my fiance again.

Piing-

Fortunately, Albert’s statement that he was shooting a bow for the first time was true, but the first arrow only scored 5 points.

peeing- peeing-

The second and third arrows hit 7 and 9 points side by side, reaching a situation where the final score exceeded 20 points.

21 points in total.

A score that cannot keep up even if you get the perfect 10 points twice.

Confident that she has some aptitude for archery, I didn’t think she wouldn’t be able to hit 10 points from 50 meters away.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

Still couldn’t be bothered.

Because it was impossible to predict what kind of tricks her fiancée would try.

Even in a swordsmanship match that I thought would never be defeated, I was not defeated absurdly due to carelessness.

I got it once, but I couldn’t get it twice.

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After receiving the bow from Albert, she drew the bow without any hesitation.

Piing-

The arrow was fired straight away.

The result is, of course, 10 points without any need to check.

“Five…”

Even if Albert’s exclamation was heard from the side, he tried not to pay attention to it as much as possible.

Because she had to win this bet before her fiance did anything weird.

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Piing-

The arrival of the second arrow that followed was also 10 points.

Currently, a total of 20 points.

Since Albert’s score is 21, she wins the bet even if she gets 2 or more points.

“·······Princess Princess.”

“····.”

It was then that I heard the soft voice of my fiance, whom I had hoped never to hear.

“do not talk to me.”

Rebecca’s mouth came out of a reflex, a thorny word.

Really, if you were defeated by the same trick again this time, you would be no different from an idiot.

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Albert drew his bow before opening his mouth again.

“Aren’t you wondering why I proposed this bet because I wasn’t interested in hunting competitions?”

“What is the reason?”

And then, stupidly, I couldn’t shoot the bow.

It would have been her victory if she had fired her bow at the target right here.

Albert’s whisper to explain why she offered this unfair bet she was sure to win, hardened her hand like a whisper from the devil.

“It’s simple. Because I want to get a handkerchief from Princess.”

“…is that the end?”

Her fiancée, who suggested such a bet, because she didn’t have much to do, and only wanted to get a handkerchief from her.

It wasn’t funny.

She felt like a fool from the past, who had hardened by hearing only her voice.

If I wanted a handkerchief, I would have said it sooner. Why is a handkerchief such an expensive item?

“If it’s a handkerchief, there are plenty of them in our mansion, so if you bring one later…”

“Unfortunately, you’re wrong. What I want is not an ordinary handkerchief.”

“····.”

Anxiety has overtaken her here.

Hearing Albert’s next words, the anxiety that things will go on as usual.

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The anxiety moved her hand, which had hardened, to pull the bowstring.

“As I said before, what I want is ‘the only handkerchief that ‘the fiancee I love’ made myself.”

“····.”

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Very sadly, it was a very natural fact that words are faster than hands.

“So, why don’t you lose for the poor fiancée who has not yet received a sincere gift from her beloved fiancée?”

“…if you say it like that… how can you say no…”

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Very unfortunately, she had no means to refuse her fiancée’s heartbreaking request.

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Just with his face and ears dyed bright red.

“Thank you, my most merciful fiance in the world.”

“····.”

He had no choice but to listen to the fiancee whispering into her ear.