Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival-Chapter 119.1

Conspiracy of the Noble Faction (5)

“El-sama, look at that, the mountains look so far away!”

A young girl riding the carriage where the Crown Prince Ervan, who was assigned to supervise the new students, looked back with a big smile on her face as the new students of the Magic Academy to observe the Training of the Knights.

“Well, yes…”

Ervan’s face was also slightly twitching in response to the girl’s words and actions, who had been peering into the window while talking incoherently with her knees on the cushioned seat as if she were a toddler.

The tour of state facilities by new students was held every year, and the reason why nobles of middle class and above, excluding lower-class nobles, were eligible to participate was to let the students, who would become the next generation of noble heads with estates and their wives, know the importance of what goes into running the state and how taxes that were used for that purpose.

There were more than 6,000 noble families in the Kingdom of Cleydale, including knights and other aristocratic figures, 589 middle-class noble families, and 35 upper-class noble families, which means that the number of students from middle-class noble families and above alone exceeded 60 in a single school year.

It would have been a huge undertaking just to move that many children of noble families, and for that reason, the second-year Crown Prince was assigned to supervise the event, but when the doors were opened, only about 60% of the participants were present.

In the case of an ordinary visit to an important facility in the capital, female students who were not interested in territorial management would tend to avoid participating in such an occasion, and only five female students actually participated in the tour.

In the case of a trip such as this, which would take three days by carriage, the students would be grouped together to some degree.

The majority of the students would travel together with other upper-class nobles, but in a case like this where there were only a few female students, it was accepted that the daughters of upper-class noble families, who could bring attendants with them, even if it was only one, would bring their own middle-class noble ladies in their own carriage, regardless of the region.

However, the only ladies of higher nobility participating this time were Princess Elena and Countess Carla, none of who were willing to travel with Carla, and two of the remaining three middle-class noble ladies were riding in the princess’s carriage.

And the last other female student, the girl, refused to ride in a carriage with only female students because of her experience of being tormented by the same orphan girls at the orphanage, and even if she did ride in a carriage with other children, it was impossible to let her ride alone in a carriage with only male students without a maid, so she was eventually allowed to ride the carriage with the other girls as someone who was part of the Melrose family.

Gan!

Rockwell, a legitimate son of the Dandol family who was riding in the carriage as a member of the Crown Prince’s entourage, silently kicked the leg of his friend, Mikhail of the Melrose family, who was sitting next to him.

“(What are you doing, Rockwell?)”

“(That girl’s house is your parsonage, shut her up now.)”

“(You’re also the Crown Prince’s personal bodyguard, aren’t you? Get her away from El now.)”

“(I don’t want to. She’s a pain in the neck. Besides, I’m everyone’s bodyguard when danger is imminent.)”

“(She’s trouble for me too. She won’t listen to anything I say…)”

“Mikhail-sama, Will-sama, let’s have a conversation here together!”

“”What!””

The two, who had been whispering and pressing their responsibilities to each other, gulped at the same time when the girl – Alicia Melrose – suddenly called out to them, and in the corner of their vision, Ervan, who had apparently pushed her to them, exhaled secretly as if in relief.

“Ah~…Miss Alicia?”

“What, Mikhail-sama! Please don’t call me as if I’m a stranger, call me [Licia], I’m your relative!”

“…Where did you hear that?”

Mikhail’s eyes narrowed at Alicia’s statement. The fact that she was a relative of the Melrose family was an open secret to the aristocratic families who had some information power, but it was a matter that the middle class aristocratic families did not know about.

Neither the Melrose family who adopted her nor the dark apprentice knight who was assigned as Alicia’s escort would be foolish enough to divulge it to her.

Then who informed her of it? Mikhail lowered his tone, thinking that it might have been one of the senior aristocrats who held the dark side together, but Alicia did not seem bothered.

It was as if she had cut out a “picture” that “someone” had seen, and combined with her pretty appearance, even those who were not interested in her couldn’t help but gasp.

Alicia Melrose was a young girl with an air of mystery about her.

She was the only daughter of a Melrose girl who had eloped with an apprentice knight and lost her parents in an unfortunate accident.

Since she was not sufficiently educated as an aristocrat, she was adopted by a viscount rather than a senior noble, but the purpose was to determine whether she was, in fact, truly of the Melrose family.

She did not have the “peach hair” that was the mark of direct descent from the Melrose family.

She did not resemble the portrait of the eloped daughter who had been left behind by the Melrose family.

That alone was reason enough for Mikhail to be suspicious of “Alicia”. However, behind the suspicion, Mikhail had a longing for the dignified figure of the young lady depicted in the portrait since he was a child.

Mikhail’s aunt, the daughter of a family that controlled the dark side of society, excelled in martial arts and equestrian skills, and Mikhail had a longing and idealism for her and her only daughter, so much so that he was willing to actively learn about them.

However, when he actually saw the girl, his aunt’s daughter, what he felt was “strange”.

The girl who seemed to be born only to be loved, without the interest and strength of the Melrose family, was not the “Alicia” that Mikhail had envisioned.

Mikhail understood that this was just a selfish ideal he was forcing upon her. But still, every time he thought of her, his mind would go back to the adventurer girl he met in the capital, who was assigned as the princess’s escort.

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Her hair was peach blonde, as if loved by the “Melrose Rose of the Moon”. Her strength and dignified beauty were the very “Alicia” that Mikhail had longed for and envisioned.

However, the “Alicia” in front of him was the complete opposite.

Her behavior and words were strange due to her lack of education as an aristocrat, but just as an aristocrat’s daughter learns etiquette from her instructor, her gestures and behavior seemed to be a perfect replica of the “perfect role model” who looks the best, as if she had spent years perfecting her appearance and behavior. She had a “perfected loveliness” as if she had spent years perfectly copying the “perfect example” of how to look her best.

If the child acquired this look intentionally, rather than unconsciously, it was more like an obsession than a desire.

Even Mikhail, who had been suspicious of her, was momentarily taken aback.

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