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Spring.
It's Springtime.
The season when the whole world is filled with colorful flowers and vibrant new buds.
For the record, I'm not a sentimental person. I consider myself quite unfeeling.
I hate summer because it's hot, fall because of the falling leaves, winter because it's cold and snowy, and spring because of the grass.
I could never understand people who get excited about the changing seasons.
Anyway, back to the main point.
Spring has arrived. Why is a person who claims to be unsentimental suddenly talking like this?
It's because my older sister is finally getting married this spring.
And not just to anyone, but to the Crown Prince. And someday, she'll become the Empress of the Empire!
"...It seems like you're more excited than Rika, Karl."
"Of course, Father. My sister is becoming the Crown Princess!"
"If that happens, it will be difficult to treat her as family like before, at least in public. It will be even harder when the Crown Prince ascends to the throne."
I know. No matter even if she's my sister, my father's daughter—as the Crown Princess and future Empress of the Empire, both my father and I will have to treat her as a subject.
But honestly, Father, don't you think that's exactly what my sister would oppose?
I can see it even now.
At least in private, she wants to be treated as a daughter and a sister, whether she becomes the Crown Princess or the Empress.
"I trust you'll do well. Now, Karl, you'll also become a member of the Empire's nobility."
"We still have three years left before the promised time. Don't talk as if you're going to hand over the County already!"
This is a big deal. He recently received an imperial order and went to the Lasker border, where he had a big spar with the knights of the past. He's been all fired up since then.
Thankfully, Mother has him tied up at home, telling him to 'act your age,' otherwise, he might have really left me a letter and disappeared.
"Both of you, that's enough."
Mother came in, telling us it was time to leave, so both my father and I stood up with a 'Yes!'
We can't be late today.
Because today is the day!
It is The Day!
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I'm dazed.
My mind seems to be somewhere else.
Even though this was the moment I had been waiting for, the moment I had longed for.
I discreetly pinch my cheek.
It hurts.
Did I pinch it too hard?
My attendant, startled, stops me, asking what's wrong.
Marriage, really? A Crown Princess, an Empress... Someone who will one day be the mother of a prince or princess who resembles me, standing by my side...
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I'm an Ordinary Returning Student at the Academy
Aventura[Author(s)퐁당 and Language:Korean] Karl Adelheit, a self-proclaimed ordinary student returning from military service. And a nobleman who enlisted as a soldier and received Medals of Honor. Tags[ Academy Battle Academy Beautiful Female Lead Brother Co...
