The Grand Duchess Is Defeated Again Today

The princess goes to the hospital.

A leisurely morning of the Dukes of Valencia, no different from usual.

“····.”

Rebecca, the only lady in this huge mansion, was very bored.

– ······yes?

– You’ve been busy with recent hunting competitions, so take a good rest for today.

That’s because, unlike the mornings that were always busy with the work of the successor, today’s morning was free.

It was a pleasure.

As her mother said, she’s been very busy these days.

Heir classes, preparations for the upcoming coming-of-age ceremony and birthday, and even the most recent royal hunting competition.

Among the nobles of his age, he must have lived the busiest life.

It was enough to clap her hands that she was able to enjoy her free time after running without a break like this.

“····.”

Even when there was time to do leisure activities, there were no leisure activities to do.

There were activities that came to mind, such as swordsmanship and reading, though.

Swordsmanship and reading are activities that I do enough on a regular basis, and it was not something I wanted to do in my free time after a long time.

If we were given free time, wouldn’t we have to do things we couldn’t normally do?

If he lived the same life as usual despite his free time, it was clear that the reason he was given free time at the most would become obscure.

“Why didn’t you come?”

And, thinking about this and that, Albert came to mind again.

Her fiance, whom I haven’t seen since the day of the hunting competition. For some reason, her fiance hasn’t come to the Duke of Valencia since that day.

Of course, I sent her a letter telling her that I wouldn’t be able to visit her for a while due to personal matters.

It’s been a week since the hunting tournament, but the fact that he still doesn’t want to come is that something important has happened.

In fact, she didn’t think it was a pleasant thing to think of her ugly fiancée’s face every time something like this came up.

How can I keep thinking of the face of a fiance who always makes fun of her every time we meet and puts her to shame?

…but it wasn’t that Albert was so ugly that I didn’t want to think about it, or rather, it was her fiance who belonged to the handsome side.

“······annoying.”

I just didn’t feel good.

He didn’t like himself being treated like a fool even though he knew what his fiancé was going to say next.

Because he doesn’t like himself blushing at her fiancé, who speaks sentences that would only come out of a childish romance novel.

Because I don’t like myself, who has a stance of denying that she doesn’t like it on the outside and that she absolutely doesn’t like it, but thinks that it’s okay on the inside.

It seemed that it was necessary to seriously think about why she, who was perfect in everything, could never win against an ordinary fiance who was not even a genius.

“····.”

Thinking like that, she looked back on what had happened so far.

“······what?”

No matter how much I think about it, what comes to mind is always the same pattern of defeat.

In the beginning, she always has the upper hand, but after that, she loses because she can’t focus on the game due to her fiance’s fluttering.

The reason for the defeat that always flows with the same flow.

At this point, her self-esteem, which had no flaws, began to slowly crack.

Why didn’t she stop the defeat that always flowed in the same direction, and why couldn’t she avoid the situation where she knew how it would unfold?

Not stupid. Why do you say that you suffer what you know and suffer from what you have suffered?

It’s not like he didn’t know how the opponent was going to make the next attack.

Her self-esteem, who had been told that she was a genius since childhood, was crumpled.

“·······It’s really annoying.”

However, what was more annoying than her self-esteem was ruined was herself, who was still waiting for her long-awaited fiancée.

Like a puppy wags its tail waiting for its owner to arrive, her mind was filled with thoughts of her fiancé.

This phenomenon has only gotten worse recently, when I came back carrying my fiancée on the day of a hunting competition.

– Who gave it to you? Are you just asking how much you’re going to carry?

– ···.

– Don’t worry, I will treasure it more than my life and carry it with me for the rest of my life.

-······· Do not value your life more than your life.

What on earth was she thinking of uttering such embarrassing words?

Even if it was a situation where he had no choice but to climb due to the exhaustion of his magical power. How could those words come out of her mouth…

I couldn’t excuse myself for being drunk, like at the imperial banquet. On the day of the hunting competition, she couldn’t drink tea because she didn’t like alcohol, let alone alcohol.

At that time, she was in a state of complete mentality, and it was an undeniable fact that she hugged her fiancé on her back.

In addition, if you look at the magical exhaustion, which is the root cause of Albert’s back, it was caused by overrunning out of concern for his fiancée.

As soon as he heard that his fiancée had gone missing in the forest, he ran to the commander of the Imperial Knights like Deukdal and asked where his fiancée was.

After hearing the whereabouts of the leader, I ran through the forest while maintaining the Haste magic uninterrupted.

Even if a young child who could not learn to speak properly saw this situation, it was a situation that could be said to be her unconditional responsibility.

For this reason, she was not in a good mood.

I didn’t like the fact that I was worrying about this in my spare free time.

This broken heart.

It seemed to be resolved only by finding out why the person who had the status of her fiancée was not coming to the duke’s residence.

“mother.”

“Rebecca? You gave me free time, what’s the matter?”

So she went straight to her mother, the Duchess of Valencia.

“Zer…I want to visit Count Nias’ house.”

Sayu is, after all, to visit his fiancée’s family.

How awkward it was to say that she was talking to her fiance that came out of her mouth, she even stuttered in the middle.

“My daughter, are you bored because your fiance didn’t come?”

“····.”

Her mother already knew why she was making this request, even though she didn’t say why she was heading to her fiancee’s mansion.

How the hell do you know your daughter’s heart so well?

I wondered if all mothers in the world were like this, or if her mother, the Duchess of Valencia, was particularly harsh.

“······yes.”

She couldn’t deny her mother’s words.

The reason I started thinking about my fiance today was because I was bored because I had nothing to do.

She was standing in front of her mother to find someone who would make her bored.

“When we first met, he growled like that. I guess that’s what happened in the end.”

“····.”

Her mother can’t put a smile on her lips after hearing her most honest answer in the world.

I felt like I could roughly predict what that ‘like that’ would mean. He shook his head and tried to shake it off.

“·······I understand our daughter’s feelings, but this mother still recommends not seeing her fiancé for the time being.”

And contrary to what she expected, who knew her heart and thought she would give her permission, unexpectedly, a negative answer came out of her mother’s mouth.

“Even if you ask me why…”

Naturally, it wasn’t easy to guess the reason from her point of view, so the mother asked why she didn’t like to visit her fiancé’s family.

“I understand you want to see your fiancée, but… I’m guessing you’re ill with a cold. Wouldn’t it be better to visit him when the symptoms of the cold are gone instead of now?”

Her mother replied calmly, as if asking why she would bring up an obvious story.

“····.”

“Why did you react…. You didn’t know?”

As if why are you bringing up a natural story that only her, who is her fiancée, did not know.

“Oh my goodness.”

Instinctively realizing that she had said something wrong, her mother put on a face of disappointment and immediately covered her mouth.

“…a cold…”

“····.”

However, the situation of the fiance that had already entered from her ears did not escape.

Her mind was still full of thoughts of her fiancé, but she was filled with thoughts of her fiancé, a little different from before.

Realization that he knew why his fiance could not visit the Duchess of Valencia for a week.

Anger at why she was the only one who didn’t know that Albert had a bad cold, something her mother knew.

He even sent a letter to her directly, and wondered why he didn’t include information about his condition in the letter.

These thoughts and emotions filled her head.

“······· I will go.”

“Rebecca?”

“To Count Xernias. I have to go.”

“····.”

Her mother’s permission was no longer important to her.

Only the thought of meeting her fiance in person filled her mind.