Chapter 34 – Anna (1)
After a monumental threesome.
The next morning, I left the dormitory with my sister and Daisy, who had fallen asleep in bed.
It was because the dean’s call came through the personal terminal.
I went into the dean’s office, frowning at the bright sun, and the benevolent, bald-headed dean I saw on the day of admission greeted me.
“Hello, Your Highness.”
I shook my hand as if it was okay and sat down at the seat recommended by the dean.
It’s burdensome to see an old man crouching.
Actual age will be the same.
Outwardly, I am much younger.
“Didn’t I say you don’t have to be polite?”
“Haha. All right.”
What do you want to know?
He’s not even a professor in charge of the lecture, and when he treated me politely with respectful words the other day, he freaked out, so I’m putting my words at ease.
I picked up the teacup the dean gave me and leaned my back against the backrest.
“So. What happened?”
“The reason this old man called Your Highness is no different…”
The dean held out a wad of paper.
“It is a petition from the professors.”
“A petition?”
My eyebrows raised slightly, and the dean hurriedly continued.
“Yes. All of the first year professors except for Professor Rinnemann in charge of ‘Ancient Magic’ and Professor Marcos in ‘Dueling Studies’.”
“… Mmm.”
“Anyway, it seems that he feels a great mental burden to teach His Highness, the Duke of Chepes, and not anyone else. I don’t know if it’s a second year or higher course, but most of the lectures in the first year course are the ones that are close to the basics to Your Highness.”
In other words, it is an easy subject, so the level of faculty is not high compared to other high-level subjects.
It also meant professors from aristocrats who were afraid of the eyes of Chepes, the inspector of the empire.
If you go beyond the 2nd grade and your level gradually rises, you will be pushed out of the simple lord’s succession fight and you will be beyond the level taught by the nobles who have moved from one position to another.
From upper classes, most of the faculty members either directly played on the battlefield or came from the Mage Tower.
“Then, will you continue to take Ancient Magic and Dueling Studies, and bring me the list of lectures for the second year?”
“Here it is.”
After receiving the lecture schedule given by the dean, I selected the lecture my sister was listening to and presented it to me.
“Do it with these.”
“Yes. “
“Is it okay?”
“Yes, Your Highness. Take a look.”
“See you next time.”
I decided to stand up, leaving behind the dean, who accepted the list I had proposed.
It was burdensome to bow down while smiling single-singly with a wrinkled face until the end, but because people are kind…
*
《His Highness the Duke!》
After leaving the dean’s office, I was walking to buy something instead of going straight back to the dormitory, when I heard a familiar voice. I didn’t understand it because it was a northern language.
As expected, it was Anna Kroytsev and her attendant, Sasha, walking this way with her short skirt fluttering as if her cadet uniform had been shortened.
“His Highness, the ever-immortal Duke of Chepes…”
“Ah, that’s all right. You can’t do that. This is an academy. Yes?”
“All right.”
If you are greeted according to the manner here, your future life will be tiring. As soon as you enter the classroom, students come out one by one and greet you politely?
Write.
Since it’s an academy, I should say that it’s OK to be normal, at times like this.
“What are you two doing here?”
“I was just taking a walk. Right?”
“Ugh. Yes. No, it is.”
… ?
When I looked at Sasha, asking for an explanation, she smiled awkwardly as well.
“You said you couldn’t rely on me forever.”
“Ah.”
That’s right.
“Is it because of me?”
“Oh, no.”
“Princess. Not here, that’s right.”
“No.”
That’s true
“Certainly, Her Highness Iris was there too. Then it must be because of me and Her Highness?”
“Mmm.”
I’m not saying this isn’t it.
Well, in this academy, no one is going to criticize the princess for talking rudely.
Since we are nominally equal, we can omit greetings and have a conversation like friends by saying that it is okay to omit greetings like a friendly relationship.
I don’t know if I’ll put the ranks behind and really get to know each other.
“Do you like coffee?”
“Do.”
“Do you like coffee?”
“Ah yes. What…”
I’m not good at adapting.
It’s just that I don’t care, so it’s okay to use half words.
“Gongnyeo says she will treat you to a cup of tea after meeting you like this.”
“Right, what.”
She led her to Anna Kroychev’s dormitory.
As for Anna, since she’s an S rank, there’s pretty much everything in her dormitory, so rather than taking her to a halfway cafe, she seems to have chosen to have Sasha serve it herself using the equipment there.
As expected, while Anna and I sat across from each other for a moment of silence, Sasha, who had made coffee, put down her cup in front of me and stood next to Anna.
“How about having a seat?”
“Okay. Sit down.”
“I-I’m fine…”
“Uh. Isn’t this disobeying orders, princess?”
“Right, yes. Sit down.”
“Yes, it is.”
“That’s right.”
Nominal equality is, after all, something like this…
When the duke and the princess press side by side, even a high-ranking lady eventually succumbs.
Sasha sat down in the seat next to Anna.
I took one sip of her coffee that she brewed. With a little anticipation and half anxiety.
“Hmm.”
“How is it? Yo. This?”
“Is it delicious?”
“Whoops. Sasha, your coffee has been recognized.”
Sasha was delighted with her candid compliment. Although she covered her face with her hand, as if she couldn’t show it openly.
“Is coffee rare in the North?”
“Hmm. Everyone drinks.”
“Drink…”
You’re shy, but you teach me diligently.
“Drink.”
“What about alcohol?”
“It’s cold in the snow, so the citizens of the north are always looking for a drink to warm up, Your Highness.”
As Anna mumbled, unable to come up with the right words, Sasha answered next to her.
Mmm.
Is this really what it is?
It’s russia
I didn’t know until I looked at the settings.
“Is that why snowfield wine is famous? Everyone will be working hard to make more delicious alcohol.”
“That’s right.”
“Good job.”
Sasha’s baby’s mother seemed to overlap for a moment.
Anyway, the conversation continued. It was small talk, but it seemed that Anna and Sasha, as well as me, were enjoying themselves.
It was a good thing for me to get acquainted with Anna, but she also felt a little uncomfortable.
How is this different from the time when I tried to attack my sister, even though I had no heart before?
…
Of course, it wasn’t that her conversation with her wasn’t enjoyable. She watched the conversation between her and Sasha, as well as her idiotic but sometimes noble appearance as a northern princess.
I hoped that she would have a proper relationship with her in the future, and that’s how I parted with them—-.
*
“Sasha! Was I okay? Didn’t you make a mistake?”
“There were some mistakes in words, but I didn’t say anything strange. Good job.”
As soon as the Duke of Chepes, whom she admired, passed away, Sasha smiled slightly as she saw Anna, who started running around in a skillful northern defense.
At first, it was an academy that he hated to come to, but after hearing the news that he was a comrade with Chepes, he was excited and tried to learn the central language again, which he had not learned properly.
If she knew it would be like this, it would have been nice if she had known from the beginning that Scarlett Chepesch was going to school together.
She couldn’t help it. It was because the distance between the center of the empire that had engulfed this huge continent and the north that dominated the snowy fields at the northern end of the continent was enormous.
There isn’t a terminal where information can come and go, but I don’t know if the information is necessary in the North. Why would the North need information about whether or not Scarlett Chepes is enrolled in the academy?
Eventually, she found out later, she said, ‘Take care of Anna so that Anna doesn’t get into an accident’, and didn’t she take on the burden from the carefree grand duke, who said, ‘Is there anything wrong with talking rudely? …
Still, seeing the princess she liked so much, she felt proud for nothing.
Only she did.
“Sasha, Sasha! Isn’t Your Highness so handsome?”
“How about talking about it directly to His Highness?”
“How do you say that!”
Isn’t this a sasaeng fan?
But. She was a princess who had decorated her room with newspaper articles about Scarlett Tzepes, illustrations, photos, or costumes modeled after her since childhood.
Seeing you face to face like this will make you feel special…
“Is Your Highness that good?”
“Then! How cool you are!”
Her princess, who had been arguing with her excitement, grabbed her posture as it was,
“The lord of blood and shadow, the king of the night, who commands crows in the dark. Eternal immortality is the word that calls Chepes.”
Seeing the princess reciting lines from a novel about the Duke of Chepes when she was young—which has now been discontinued— Sasha’s face seemed to heat up for no reason.
“Your Highness will be sad when he sees it.”
“Joy. Sasha, are you on my father’s side or mine?”
“I’m on the princess’s side, of course.”
“That’s it.”
Grand Duke…
Sasha got confused.
“Then how about confessing?”
“Uh? What?”
“I adore you.”
“What are you talking about. It’s not like that. Please do not dismiss my pure heart as common love.”
This lady is real
