Chapter 21: Fake Engagement

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I think I've fallen for her...

"N/N...You look beautiful.. You are beautiful.."

"Please... stay with me...."

"Forever.."

"Elise, I-!"

"...?!"

I gasp. It was... a dream? It felt so real though... What was that?

I sigh. It feels like some foreshadowing... In the dream... I successfully saved her... and then... I returned to my original world...?

If it does happen one day... would I stay? Or would I go? I've already fallen for her... I don't think I could leave just like that...

Ugh... this is troublesome... come to think of it... I wonder if brother would stay...

"I've come... to get the crown prince..."

He's in love with someone too...

"Y/N? Are you awake?"

Hm? It's one of my colleagues...

"Yes, I am..."

She enters the room.

"We need your help... there's a little... situation going on here..."

"Hm? What happened?"

"Maybe it's best for you to see it yourself..."

I get up and walk over to my fellow servant.

"Lead the way then."

She leads me to Elise's office... where I hear shouting from inside... the servant opens the door, and I'm greeted with a furious Elise and the crown prince.

"Are you kidding me?! Your parents still want to go on with the engagement?"

"Calm down, Lady Elise... It's not like I want to do it either. I already have... someone."

Elise groans.

"Uhm... What's going on?"

I make my presence known.

"The king wants Leonas and I to get engaged..."

Eh? It's happening? I thought I prevented that... wasn't that event supposed to happen much earlier?

"Lady Elise, they say it's been far too delayed. They're rushing things now..."

So... the plot is still coming true...?

Elise sits down in her chair and sighs.

"So.. What now?"

"We can only play that part... When I inherit the crown, I can break off the engagement."

"But how long will that take? You're still in the academy, you have to graduate before that..."

"We need to be patient, Lady Elise."

My heart stings at the thought of Elise getting engaged to someone. Surely there must be another way...

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