Publishedat 17th of October 2019 04:57:53 PMChapter 5
Chapter 5: Ice Prince Glen
Reincarnation year 3 . I was 8 years old, and onii-sama was 13 years old . Until now, onii-sama had been receiving schooling with the Stanley family, but from this year on, he was to go to the royal capital to study . As heir to the Stanley family, while receiving basic training for the Royal Chivalric Order, he was to deepen friendships with royalty and t.i.tled n.o.bility . My brother himself also said that he wanted to a.s.sertively deepen his views, and amazingly, he was leaving home for 5 years!
“No no no no no! Being apart from onii-sama for 5 years- I hate that!!”
“Rosalin, don’t cry . It isn’t goodbye forever . ”
“Until now, I’ve always been together with onii-sama! I don’t want to not be able to meet you for 5 years!!”
My parents gave up on me who was throwing a tantrum, and it became that onii-sama was to persuade me . I threw myself onto the bed in onii-sama’s room and flailed my limbs . No matter what, I wouldn’t be able to accompany onii-sama to study this time . I would be left at home and continue living as I had been .
Before onii-sama left home, he convinced our parents to allow me to study combat, politics, and military affairs as I had been till now . I was thankful for that . However, I hated parting with onii-sama!
“I’ll definitely come home if I have a holiday . Besides, I’ll also write letters to you, Rosalind, okay?”
“Truly!?”
“There’s no way I can lie to my adorable little sister . ”
“Will you write to me everyday!?”
“Everyday is impossible . Hahaha!”
Onii-sama was kind to me no matter what . Even in the game, he was kind to Rosalind .
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“Uhm…”
Well, that was because I was a 17 year old high school girl in my past life . Since I had reincarnated for 3 years now, in total, my mental age was 20 years old . In my previous life, I would be considered a splendid adult, so what would me making a scene like a child be…… As expected, I got embarra.s.sed, so I quieted down . Onii-sama, who saw that appearance of mine, seemed to have understood it as me giving up .
“Since I’ll be gone, don’t slack off on studying, okay?”
“If onii-sama promises to send a letter 3 times a month, I won’t slack off!”
“What an unreasonable kid . I got it . I promise . ”
“Thank you! Onii-sama, I love you!”
That night, we slept in the same bed with our pillows lined up together .
I, unable to really fall asleep, observed onii-sama’s sleeping face . Long eyelashes and smooth skin . Even to me, his sister, onii-sama was quite handsome . In the game, he was set to be 23 years old . The adult onii-sama would surely be even more wonderful a man than him now . I wondered if he would win the hearts of many women .
Why was such a cool brother the most unpopular in the game? The answer was simple; it was because he was a siscon .
Onii-sama wasn’t the type to put the heroine, Eugenie, before all else . Of all things, as the brother of the villainess, he treasured the protagonist, Eugenie, and the villainess, Rosalind, to the same degree . That was a point that otome game players didn’t support .
(Hey, then this is no good! Right now, no matter how I look at it, I’m leading him to be a siscon, aren’t I!?)
To enter the onii-sama x Eugenie route, my brother had to leave his little sister .
If I thought about it, him going to the capital was a chance to leave his little sister . In the capital, there would be many stimuli different from things here . Maybe, while living a fun life in the capital, he would gradually also forget about me .
(But he promised to send 3 letters every month…… Umm, Onii-sama has to leave his little sister, or…… But of course I don’t want onii-sama to forget about me…… Aah, p-pa.s.s me my handkerchief to wipe away my tears……)
That night, I continued distressing and worrying and was unable to fall asleep well . Besides me, onii-sama peacefully breathed while sleeping .
……For brother and sister to part, I also had to be like that .
Finally, the day for onii-sama to depart for the capital came . Father and I also went to the capital with him, and we arranged to stay for a few days .
“Rosalind is also 8 years old . It would be good for her to have an audience with the king soon . ”
Just like that, I was at the royal palace . I was having an audience with royalty . With the first prince, Prince Lazarus . He was the next king, but depending on the game route, he would die during the war . In that situation, the second prince, Prince Glen, would become king .
Incidentally, Prince Glen was Rosalind’s fiance, but he would fall in love with the heroine, Eugenie, at first sight upon coming to the Arch Territory . The game’s Rosalind was a traitor who snuggled up with the enemy country and sold them information, so breaking her engagement was reasonable . Under the 2 princes, there was a princess called Princess Ann . At this time, Princess Ann was still a baby, so she was being held by a nurse maid .
“Long time no see, Randy . I’ve gotten tired of waiting for you to finally come to the capital . ”
Onii-sama and Prince Glen were acquainted . There was such a thing that their ages were off by one year ――the prince was older . It seemed that they saw eye to eye . Each time my brother came to the capital, he met with Prince Glen, and they cultivated a friendship .
“Hah, Prince Glen . Thank you for your kind words . ”
“Don’t be so stiff . From today on, we’re companions learning from the same teacher . ”
Prince Glen came down the stairs of the throne . When he came before my brother, they shook hands .
“So this is the rumored little sister . ”
“――!”
The prince looked me over . In that moment, something cold ran through my body .
(He’s making such cold eyes…… It’s like he isn’t looking at a human being!)
Rather than a prince’s gaze towards a human, it was closer to the gaze of a merchant looking at goods . Those eyes seemed to be looking at not a human but a thing . I felt so .
However, that was also for only a moment . The prince quickly showed a refreshing smile on his face and extended a hand to me .
“I’m Glen Justin Ray Amelia, the second prince . ”
“I am the daughter of the lord of Arch, Marquis Stanley . My name is Rosalind Stanley . ”
The prince put strength into his hand . I also showed a slight smile and shook his hand back, putting strength in and shaking his hand up and down a few times .
A marriage proposal was possibly further away if I was thought of as hard to handle rather than easy to deal with . From one glance, I had a hunch that I wouldn’t like this person . In the game as well, Prince Glen and Rosalind’s hearts did not unite . Of course, it seemed that the manners of engaged parties had been exhausted, but… Speaking of this, I thought of what he said to the heroine in the Glen route .
‘Holding endless ambition, my heart that burned with pa.s.sion to expand my influence was soothed . In that barren ice field, the only flower that bloomed was you . Eugenie . ’
Although he expressed it in a roundabout way, in the long run, he meant that he didn’t think anything at all about Rosalind .
Prince Glen was called the ‘Ice Prince’ in the game . Although he had a handsome appearance with blonde hair and blue eyes, his long slit eyes were sharp and cold . That coldness was hidden by his princely conduct, but to me who knew the fate of the future, I felt it somewhere false .
“Hey, Rosalind . Your brother, I’m borrowing him for a short while . ”
When the audience at the throne ended, we left the royal palace and quickly headed toward a holiday house owned by the Marquis Stanley nearby . After a number of days, leaving my brother and servants in the capital, we returned to the Arch Territory .
From then on, as promised, my brother sent me 3 letters each month without fail . The days where I also quickly wrote my reply to send back continued .