Breaking Off the Engagement… Just as Intended Chapter 26

Whatever the reasons, it remained a fact that he had broken off our engagement.

And in that case there was but one answer I would select.

“I have understood your story, Big Brother. However, my answer has been decided. The breaking off the engagement .. is what I desire!”

Brother hung his head at my words.

Chris-sama was grinning as well.

“My words may possibly not reach Leon-sama. But even still, I want the two of us to have a proper talk about this, alone.  On that occasion neither Big Brother nor Chris-sama, and not even Anjiu-sama will be necessary. Big Brother, I want to ask this of of. Please persuade Leon-sama to let me talk to him, just the two of us.”

Brother made a slightly startled face at that but quickly accepted.

“That’s true, I guess .. it may be this late in the game but it’s only logical for you two to really talk things out. In that case I’ll be visiting him now. This kind of thing should be done the sooner the better, isn’t that so?”

“Thank you very much. But Big Brother, can you really go out with your body like that?”

Brother should have received a considerable level of damage from Mother’s fists yesterday.

“Aah, this much poses no real problem. It’s probably a skill I got from the mixture of Mother’s blood and the blood of Father’s hot-bloodedness.  My regeneration is bizzarly fast.”

Is that how it was. That’s why he never learned his lesson despite being done in by Mother every single time.
Isn’t that bad, from an educational perspective?

Brother prepared right away and left for the castle.

Come to think of it, wasn’t now a good chance. To ask Chris-sama what I had been curious about.

“Say, Chris-sama. Yesterday you told Anjiu-sama but .. why did you say she couldn’t marry Prince Leon?”

“Mh? Aah, about that, huh. It’s only my hunch but Miss Anjiu is probably a guy.”

Wha-what did you say~~
Tha-that cute Anjiu-sama is a guy, you say!

“Eh, eh, excuse me but no matter how you look at her she doesn’t look like anything but a girl ..”

Upon my words Chris responded with a bitter smile.

“Ririina, as you know I have been often mistaken for a girl, right? Perhaps that’s why I can tell by intuition. Miss Anjiu, no wait, even the name might be a fake. That is a guy, you know. To boot that guy didn’t say a single thing, did he? It’s surely because he thinks that if he did he would be found out.”

Me, do I really have no eye for people to that extent?
There was the matter of Chris-sama, then there’s Anjiu-sama, I couldn’t tell the difference at all to an extend that made you wonder ‘really?’.

“Still, exactly in what way did Leon-sama and Anjiu-sama become aquaintanced then? From what Big Brother said before it looks like Leon-sama is bad with woman, after all, so that would mean they have met when Anjiu-sama was dressed as a man.”

“I guess so. Wouldn’t it be alright to ask Prince Leon about that directly when you’re talking to him? He might back away if you jumped straight into the engagement talk, after all.”

Hm, because of how it’s been until now the biggest problem would be whether we could even have an actual conversation unlike so far. [1]

Chapter end