I Give Up on Conquering the Heroines chapter 109

109 – Rabbit (3)

“I am the heir of this family! I am Yerina Frost! I will make Yevgenia kneel and serve as their princess, the future queen!”

A booming voice.

A confident attitude.

Surprisingly, I wasn’t the only one who rushed out to see who said that.

But I was quickly pushed down by the people flooding in from behind.

By the time I managed to stand up, I couldn’t see anything ahead of me due to the crowd.

“Are you the prince of Palana?”

“Huh? A prince? No! I am the king’s eldest daughter who will become the queen!”

“Ahahahaha… Princess, the first one…”

“When will the heir appear? Hurry up and come out to greet the future king!”

“hahahahaha, let’s bring her inside first. Princess, since the heir is busy…”

The commotion that had erupted was quickly resolved.

The tense atmosphere dissipated.

The people who had crowded in grumbled as they turned away.

“Oh, what is this? I thought it was Prince Your Highness again.”

“What’s all this talk about the princess and the throne?”

“Yerina Frost. Did you stir up so much trouble that even the Palana Kingdom has given up on you?”

“Well, it’s not like the First Prince would just show up out of the blue without saying anything beforehand.”

She’s a strange woman.

A mad princess.

Everyone thought so, and I was no exception.

The Palana royal family is a thoroughly patriarchal society.

Since the First Prince has grown up healthy and become an adult, there was virtually no chance for the First Princess to inherit the throne.

So even though she was still a princess in name, in the court, everyone referred to the First Prince as the Crown Prince.

“Welcome to the Evgenia residence, Your Highness. I believe this is your first visit. Would you like to take a tour?”

“Well, of course! It’s a lord’s duty to inspect the dominion of those who will serve under them! I’ll wait for the lord while taking a tour!”

“Um, well… The lord is quite busy…”

“What? Am I supposed to just sit still even though I, the future queen, have arrived?”

“Yes. Let me explain. This is the garden…”

Everyone treated the princess with disdain.

No one treated her sincerely.

Another escapade of the mad princess.

A minor but bothersome matter that could be dealt with and sent away.

Everyone saw it that way.

I, too, thought of her as a pitiable and unfortunate child.

An encounter that had nothing to do with me.

No, I didn’t think it was even a connection.

“What are you doing there?”

“Hmm?”

Until she was discovered in the forbidden library.

The servant who was supposed to guide the princess had disappeared.

She was in the library, freely reading books without a caretaker or any surveillance.

“You’ve been caught! What’s your name?”

“A-Alisa…”

“Alisa, huh. Judging by the fact that you can’t even address me with my title, you must be nothing more than a lowly servant in this household.”

“Ugh…”

“However, I make a promise. If you help me here and I become the king in the future and subjugate Evgenia, I will give you a suitable reward.”

“What…?”

The grandiose task the princess entrusted to me was nothing more than watching the tower.

It was about confirming whether someone came to the library or not.

She said if I watch the tower, she would help me in the future…

It sounded so grandiose that I didn’t believe it.

I just went along with it because I had nothing else to do.

Just to pass the time.

“Is the steward too lazy to do it and left it to me…?”

Pitiful.

Even though it wasn’t my place to say, I thought that.

Even though she was a princess of a country, to be treated like this.

If Evgenia could allow such a breach, it meant that the royal family also didn’t care about the princess and didn’t pay any attention to her.

Nobody cared and treated her properly.

Just left her alone.

Like she was invisible.

I looked at the princess.

I thought I resembled her.

I was trying to find myself from her appearance.

“I found it, the forbidden grimoire! There was an order to burn it all. I found a weakness.”

“What…?”

With a rattling sound, the princess unlocked the hidden book and discovered it.

She was surprised and stunned.

After putting the book back in its place, she locked it again.

She smiled satisfactorily and said, “Everyone treats me like a madwoman and looks at me as if I were a foolish child. By using that, it’s possible to reveal the disgrace of the family. The forbidden grimoire is trivial, but there have been more deadly weaknesses found in other families. It was possible because no one cared about me.”

“…”

The princess laughed with her index finger on her lips, asking to keep it a secret.

I was at a loss for words.

My mistake.

The princess and I were not similar at all.

Not even a little.

Unlike me, who was abandoned and treated like an invisible person in reality, the princess was actively utilizing it.

Despite having nothing.

Taking advantage of people ignoring her, she acquired political weapons.

The future king stories that the princess was talking about were not lies either.

She was sincere.

The princess, who was discarded by the royal family and had nothing to begin with.

She wanted to climb up from that reality and become a king.

While acting like a fool and a madman.

“Is there anything else I can do to help?”

“Are you playing the role of my servant?”

“Yes! Oh, no! Yes! I will offer my loyalty? Is that right?”

“hehehehe! It’s enough! Your sincerity has been conveyed!”

That day, I swore loyalty to my sister.

I vowed to make her the queen of Parana.

And at the same time.

I stood up on my own legs.

I prepared to walk on my own and move forward on my own.

It was the courage I gained from my sister.

Exactly 3 years later.

I successfully entered the Matop using wind magic that I learned by stealing books from my siblings or committing theft.

And my sister was chosen to become the crown princess, surpassing the first prince.

Supporting and helping each other.

We achieved greatness in our respective positions.

My sister and I were more precious to each other than anything else.

We were the most trustworthy people to each other.

That was until a few days ago.

“What are you? Speak clearly. You never mentioned going to Elvengard. But how did the elders recognize your face?”

“······.”

The moment the lie was exposed.

The end of my gaze trembled, and my breath seemed to stop, making it difficult to speak properly.

But I wasn’t too worried.

I hid Eugene for the sake of my sister.

For Palana.

And for justice.

I thought my sister would understand.

I thought she would trust me.

But that was my mistake.

“Ha. That’s what you said. Even the report to me was all lies······. I get it. I’ve seen everything that happened in Elvengard. Let’s go back.”

“Sister?”

“When we go back, we’ll deal with Yevgenia first. Yevgenia will be designated as a traitorous family, and anyone from Yevgenia will be thoroughly punished. Ah, right. Didn’t you hate Yevgenia anyway? Then it doesn’t matter what happens to Yevgenia. Right?”

“Um, sister! It was my fault. Oh, no, it was my mistake······.”

“You knew what you were doing? You knew and still seduced my man.”

“Oh, no······. That’s not it······.”

“No need to explain. Once we return to Palana, you’ll be tortured in the interrogation room anyway.”

“······!”

The one who didn’t understand was me.

I didn’t expect my sister’s feelings for Eugene to be this intense.

I thought it was just a fleeting love at most.

But it was all my delusion.

My sister was willing to break her close family ties and destroy the state to find Eugene.

Or maybe she was willing to sacrifice everything for Palana.

Even though I had been so close to her.

I didn’t know at all.

In that moment, I was branded as a traitor.

The downfall of Yevgenia was inevitable.

And on the way back to Palana, I took advantage of the distracted guards and successfully escaped.

After several days of covering their tracks to avoid pursuit, they finally arrived at Taeyeop City.

The will of the lord.

The position in the family.

Having lost everything.

Alicia finished her story.

A moment of silence fell over the lounge.

I hesitated to speak these words, swallowing hard as I did.

“Isn’t this your own doing?”

In the end, it’s true that she betrayed herself.

She defied the lord’s orders and got caught.

No matter how strong the bond of trust had been built up until now, it’s only natural that it would all fall apart, isn’t it?

“But it’s not that simple, is it?”

Well, you might think so, but…

That’s too simplistic a way of thinking.

The truth is, I have also messed things up here.

From Alicia’s perspective, disobeying the command was probably the best course of action.

Alicia, as Yerina’s closest confidante, had been the most loyal servant, guiding her since the days when she was a mere plaything of the royal family.

So, they must have had the closest emotional bond.

Given that, Alicia would have noticed the moment when Yerina started acting strange.

After seeing the Yerina who had regained her memories from the previous episode, one could only conclude that she was not in her right mind.

In a romance movie, they cut out all the build-up and only show the part where they’re madly in love.

Naturally, one might think that Yerina had gone mad.

As a loyal servant, when the lord loses their mind and abandons state affairs to go off and meet a man no one has ever seen, what is the loyal servant supposed to do at a time like this?

If it were a sycophant, they would unquestioningly and faithfully carry out the order that had been given.

But for Alicia, the only option was to conceal the fact that she had found me and devote herself to restoring Yerina to normal.

“In the end, it’s your own doing, isn’t it? In reality, you betrayed the lord to whom you had truly devoted yourself. Even monsters don’t so easily abandon their faith.”

“Hey…”

In the end, the words I swallowed were spoken by Jinae instead. When I tried to stop her, this guy looked at me as if I were strange. He doesn’t know that he’s saying this because I’ve ruined Yerina by returning.

It seems like I need to make up for it.

“I was foolish.”

“No. I’m sorry. If I had explained more about my relationship with Yerina-“

“Because I coveted your sister’s man-“

“Huh?”

“What?”

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Alicia’s lips, which had been chattering, stiffen. Realizing my mistake, Alicia looks at me with shaking pupils.

I coveted her? No, I’ve been putting up a mental shield all this time. Suddenly, she’s tearing down her own shield. What does that make me?

“Hey, who are you coveting? You really got betrayed, didn’t you?”

“Oh, no! I misspoke! It was a mistake of the heart…”

This is totally like a crazy person. I thought Yerina had been unjustly driven out because of her hysterics, but now I see that Alicia is equally to blame.

“You’re guilty, man. I didn’t know you saw me like that. Where did you fall for me? When I was squeezing lemonade?”

“Excuse me?! It’s a misunderstanding!”

“What’s there to misunderstand?”

“Well, you see! I haven’t fallen for you yet, okay? I just felt a masculine charm from you! But that’s natural for a female, right? That’s separate from my loyalty to my sister! I’ve never thought about overshadowing my sister and taking you for myself!”

“…”

What does that mean? Is it like saying, “I drank but I didn’t drive drunk”?

As I’m feeling dizzy and unable to gather my thoughts, Alicia blushes and adds one more thing.

“Please don’t misunderstand! Just because I felt a masculine charm from you doesn’t mean I like you! Just because something suddenly catches your eye doesn’t mean it’s love, right? It’s the same principle! People often mistake s*xual desire for love, right? Huh? Ugh! It’s so frustrating!”

“······.”

Alicia fanned herself incessantly with a deeply flushed face.

It’s so dizzying that I can’t organize my thoughts.

So, I just heard “You look damn disgusting” in front of me, right?

Being openly s*xually harassed makes me doubt if this is really s*xual harassment and my head is spinning.

“Is this the language of a rabbit beastman?”

Alicia, still blushing, couldn’t calm her excitement.

A rabbit beastman without s*xual repression, such a straightforward method.

Powerful.

Incredibly powerful.

It seems that the rabbit beastman’s birth rate and marriage rate are not the world’s best for no reason.