A Hand of Jewels

Chapter 1 ♥

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It was three days. Three days since the only daughter of Duke Aleis was struck by a sudden illness, no doctor seems to know how it was acquired but it was still easily treatable. It all happened three days ago...

The young lady, named Elena Grace von Aleis was still five years old when her father mentioned she became a fiancée candidate for their country's crown prince.

Although she was still a child, Elena proved she was very capable when her parents were constantly out for work or her brother was at school. She would spend her  time reading quietly and coming to meals whenever her maid called her. She understood her place and followed her parents' requests and would even put up with their coddling whenever they were lonely. She enjoyed her brother's company the most since the two of them preferred peacefully studying or playing board games with each other. She wasn't needy for attention and liked following her brother's example.

She walked out of her father's study in a daze when she heard her fiancé's name. Felix Kai des Garnet: Capture target of South Country. Her vision clouded over at the familiarity and her mind burned at the memories engraving itself to her consciousness. She fainted right then there and was later found by a maid.

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As Elena slept she dreamt of a world similar to her own but social structures and societies were different, more Democratic, the technology was a bit primitive, or not as advance as theirs, and finally even the maps and continent were completely different. She dreamt of a simple life with a single mom and a younger sister. Playing games and hanging out with friends the typical commoner life.

She then saw water, and bubbles everywhere. She could feel the air being pushed out of her lungs getting filled with saltwater. As her vision went black, Elena woke up from the nightmare. Her fever broke sometime ago and she was drenched it sweat.

She was in her room, spacious but not too roomy. She then recalled what went through her mind then cursed. "You have got to be kidding me. Kami-sama is this some kind of sick joke to you?"

The young lady rarely lost her cool but when something as mindboggling as being reincarnated into a game as the antagonist was suddenly shoved to your face like a ton of bricks then she's more than justified.

She decided to organize her thoughts by making a list of her surroundings.

'Okay if I recall correctly...'

The otome game, Suite de Bijou or Jewel Series

Is set in a modern world where its main government is monarchy. The world is divided into four continents with a dominant kingdom as the capital. Jasper, Tourmaline, Lapis, Garnet, respectively called North, West, East and South country.

A world where when you hit puberty(the thought of going through that gain made Elena go green) you develop supernatural powers that were once hailed as magic. That most occurred in noble blood.

An otome game with four capturable targets each having an alternative as support character. The main targets are heirs of their respective countries.

The game starts in the South Country the Scholar capital of the world. This country was claimed neutral and was agreed upon by all nations that all nobles around the world were to graduate highschool and enter university with special political courses. In a special academy where the highest ranked nobles and royalty gather to make connections and in university is where they decide to take extra courses among their required ones.

The heroine of the otome game is from West country or the Tourmaline kingdom. Her stepsister is the rival character for the target there. She gets transferred in the same school since her sister is the fiancée of the crown prince. She was adopted from a relative who passed away when she was 12, her mother renounced her title so she could live ordinarily as a citizen. It said that the rival stepsister, Christina Vanheim,  did not particularly treat her new sister well.