Everyone Was Obsessed With Me After I Became the Youngest Princess Favourite - Chapter 291

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“What’s this? Did they have a fight?”
Askart, busy capturing Lia’s image with a recording crystal, tilted his head and muttered to himself.
Just moments before, Lia and Lucio had been dancing with elegant grace like a living painting, but they suddenly stopped and appeared to be exchanging words about something.
“Really? Seriously?”
In the next instant, he vanished toward the Terrace.
Considering Lia’s naturally docile temperament and how Lucio became honey-sweet whenever she was involved, it was difficult to imagine the two of them quarreling.
‘But just in case…!’
It was precisely when the pacifist Askart took a solemn step forward to mediate between his precious younger sister and his friend.
“Your Highness! You’re not actually trying to go to my sister right now, are you?”
Diana, barely suppressing the unspoken “tactless” remark, blocked Askart’s path and asked.
Startled, Askart gazed at Diana warmly, as one would regard an oblivious younger sister, and replied.
“Yes. It seems they’ve had a quarrel, so I was going to check on them.”
….
To anyone’s eyes, it looked as though they’d caught fire while dancing and disappeared.
If it were only Lucio, she wouldn’t have minded, but thinking of Lia, who would be flustered and caught off guard after being interrupted during such a sweet moment, Diana couldn’t remain silent.
Diana spoke quickly.
“Your Highness, I don’t think that’s a good idea. Your brother and sister aren’t children—they’ll make up on their own. Of course, if they really had a serious fight, I could mediate later, but right now….”
“Is that so? You’re right, I can’t always be the one to step in.”
“Exactly! And couples naturally bicker with each other anyway.”
“I, I see.”
Askart, who had never experienced romance, nodded with an awkward expression.
He could have dismissed the advice of a girl so much younger than himself, but Askart possessed too gentle a nature to adopt such an attitude.
Thus, Diana easily restrained Askart and preserved the intimate moment between Lia and Lucio, exhaling a sigh of relief.
Then she glanced wistfully toward the Terrace where Lia and Lucio would be.
Truthfully, Diana’s heart was full of desire to enjoy the banquet with Lia.
But.
‘I must learn to endure for the future! To meet those adorable little ones even a day sooner…!’
Diana recalled the nieces and nephews she had glimpsed in a vision while recently helping the Priestess Order with their sacred power training, and her smile grew tender.
Those children with silver hair and blue eyes bore a striking resemblance to Lucio, yet their eyes—firm and compassionate, unbending before any hardship—were identical to Lia’s.
‘Now that I think about it, they seem to resemble me a bit too…. Well, whose nieces and nephews are they, after all!’
Moreover, beyond those children, she also anticipated a lovely niece who would become the youngest Lady of House Elrad after herself, and not a single moment felt sufficient.
That was the reason Diana alone felt disappointed, unlike the others who had readily accepted the wedding two years hence.
‘I wish they would marry even sooner!’
Only then would she meet those beautiful children sooner.
She wanted to boast of this vision to her family, but that was impossible.
No matter how abundant her sacred power as a Saint, foreseeing the future and spreading that knowledge to others carried vastly different consequences.
Thus, Diana held within herself a secret she could share with no one, and released a quiet sigh.
Then, suddenly sensing something amiss, she turned her head to regard the figure standing vacantly beside her.
It was Aiden, who had approached quietly while she had been entranced watching Lia and Lucio dance.
Aiden’s presence by my side was hardly unusual.
After all, he’d always trailed after me like a duckling following its mother, no matter where I went!
Normally, he would’ve pestered me to dance with him, but now he simply stood beside me in silence, which struck me as decidedly odd.
‘His expression looks so serious too….’
When it was revealed that Serphin was a Demon Worshipper, he’d responded with “Are you serious?” and when he learned I was the Saint, he’d exclaimed “Wow, Diana, you’re the Saint!” with absolute faith and not a shred of doubt—so seeing him wear such an unfamiliar expression was deeply unsettling.
“Hey.”
“….”
“Hey, Aiden!”
As Lady Elrad and the Saint who served as the face of the Temple, I maintained a certain image, but with my childhood friend Aiden, I needed no pretense whatsoever.
Speaking to him as naturally—and perhaps a touch irreverently—as I had when we were young, Aiden’s shoulders flinched.
“Huh, what?”
“Why do you look like that? Is something bothering you?”
“Ah….”
“Come on, tell me. Your older sister will sort it out for you.”
“Tch.”
His reaction really was strange.
The old Aiden would’ve scoffed at being called “older sister,” insisting that even after awakening as the Saint and recalling my past life’s memories, he’d never acknowledge it—but now he merely made a weak protest.
His anger lacked any real force; his lips merely trembled as if he had something to say, before his expression grew dejected and he lowered his head.
“What’s wrong?”
“….”
“Don’t be so frustrating.”
I growled in a low voice, barely audible to others, and Aiden flinched before hesitantly opening his mouth.
“It’s just….”
“Yeah?”
“I was jealous. I was so jealous that you’re becoming family with Lia.”
“Ha! What was I—wait?”
“Gasp!”
I’d been focused on understanding why Aiden was acting like a whimpering puppy when I carelessly answered, only to realize my mistake too late, my eyes widening.
Startled, I looked at Aiden, and he too stared back in shock, his mouth hanging open.
“R-really? Is it true that Crown Princess Bellus is actually L-wait!”
I quickly covered Aiden’s mouth as he tried to loudly reveal Lia’s identity to everyone.
When Lia departed for the Grand Duchy, Raezl had erased the memories of servants working in House Elrad and House Diapel at that time.
I knew that almost no one remembered the youngest lady’s beloved maidservant from those days.
Even if someone heard the name, how many would realize that the brown-haired maidservant and the pink-haired Crown Princess were the same person?
But one of those “few” people stood right before me, so I had to be careful.
I glared at Aiden with an expression of disbelief, pressing my index finger to my lips.
Aiden’s pupils wavered, but he quickly nodded, and I removed my hand from his mouth.
“Hey, smile like nothing happened. Smile and move around.”
To somehow fix the mess I’d created, I forced my lips upward and pulled Aiden toward a secluded corner.
The nobles, knowing that Aiden and I had been close since childhood and often bickered, briefly glanced our way before mercifully losing interest.
After confirming there were no listening ears nearby, Diana, still wearing an expression of shock, asked Aiden.
“How did you figure it out?”
“So it’s really true?”
“You deliberately acted all sullen to test me, and now you’re asking me this?”
“I… I couldn’t be certain.”
“I only started suspecting in the first place because—!”
“That’s…”
Aiden shook his head and lightly tapped both cheeks with his palms, trying to collect himself, before exhaling deeply and speaking.
“Diana, it’s because of you.”
“What? Me?”
“Yes. From the moment I first saw Crown Princess Bellus, I felt strangely familiar with her for some reason.”
Her gentle demeanor and warm smile reminded me of someone I’d long forgotten, and despite knowing it was rude, I even asked if we’d met before.
Even when the three of us dined together at Obli Restaurant, I felt oddly at ease and grew fond of her.
But what was decisive was this.
“Diana, you’re not the type to act so familiar and warm with just anyone.”
And I’d only ever seen Diana show such special affection toward one person.
“You connected it based on just that?”
“Just that? It was so strange! And after learning you were the Saint, I thought—with all the extraordinary things happening in the world, why couldn’t it be possible that Lia was actually the Crown Princess?”
How simple-minded would someone have to be to come up with such a notion?
Diana, hearing Aiden’s explanation, was beyond exasperated—she was utterly flabbergasted.
Watching Diana’s reaction, Aiden added sheepishly.
“And truthfully, once I harbored that suspicion, I noticed people around Crown Princess Bellus calling her ‘Lia’ as a nickname.”
“!”
So it wasn’t just this one detail that made him realize Lia’s true identity…
“Of course, you confirmed it for me, Diana.”
Ugh! Diana, who had harbored a glimmer of hope for just a moment, fell into despair and wrapped both hands around her head.

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