Chapter 3 The Fiancées' Bridal Course part 2

““““We want them!”””” the four of us shouted in unison.
Excel nodded with satisfaction.
...Sorry, Souma. But I’m sure this is for the good of the kingdom. While
making excuses to my absent husband-to-be, I gave in.
“Now, let’s begin the lecture,” Excel said with satisfaction.
This was how the first lecture of Excel’s Bridal Training Course began.
The course content, naturally, made us feel embarrassed sometimes, but
Souma’s fiancées took the lessons seriously. That included me, too.
Well, of course, I wanted that black notebook... I felt it was necessary
for building a stable household and a stable country.
So that we could all live happily ever after.
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Now, about these black notebooks: it is said that, in later days, the
candidates to become queens would ask Excel to produce them regularly.
At first, they would incinerate them when they finished reading them, but
eventually they started to store them somewhere safe, thinking they could
be useful again in the future.
In later years, an historical scholar who discovered a box containing
several of these booklets attempted to announce their contents at an
historical conference, but he stopped just before the announcement claiming
the discovered documents were “forgeries.” There were reports that a group
of suspicious men had made contact with him a few days prior, but the truth
of those rumors remains in the darkness.

Chapter end