Resetting Lady - Chapter 260

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Special Side Story 2

9.

“Princess Diana, this is my mentor’s daughter and my dear friend, Countess Rebecca Seyertes. Rebecca, this is Princess Diana, the first princess of the Aractus Kingdom.”

“Ah, so you’re the daughter of Count Raymond Seyertes.”

Princess Diana was someone with an imposing appearance.

Diana, who somehow had the talent to look down at Rebecca despite being a full head shorter, curled her lips as she looked at Rebecca.

“It’s quite unexpected, since I’ve never heard Louis mention you before.”

Louis deliberately pulled Rebecca’s waist slightly, drawing her close to his side. Rebecca bowed and lifted Diana’s hand to kiss it.

“It’s an honor to meet you, Princess Diana.”

“…Your taste in clothing is quite unique. I thought this was a hunting competition, not an evening banquet.”

“I’m a military academy cadet, so I came wearing my uniform.”

“Ah.”

Princess Diana smiled with twisted lips.

“So you’re attending as a guard? Building guard experience in advance, what an excellent student. A female knight, how wonderful.”

“Yes… thank you.”

“It would be very convenient if a female knight like you could serve as my guard later.”

“I have to inherit my father’s count title, so going to another country would be… ugh.”

Louis, unable to bear it any longer, poked Rebecca in the ribs.

Come on, read the room a little. The man next to you is going to marry me, so wake up from your dream and kneel under me. Diana chuckled.

“Oh my, it was just a joke.”

“Thank you for looking upon me favorably.”

“Our Aractus has many excellent knights too. There’s no shortage.”

What should I say in response?

Rebecca broke into a cold sweat, not knowing how to deal with Diana who kept being sharp with her. Not everyone in social circles had liked her, but this was the first time someone had openly displayed hostility like this. She thought she had finally returned to a kind and gentle place, albeit a bit tiring, after escaping the military school for a while.

‘If I had known it would be this kind of guard duty… No, but His Majesty did help me…’

Rebecca felt her dream of a magnificent debut as a guard being shattered, but there was nothing she could do. She wanted to attend as a knight, but she was still just a student. Just one inadequate and peculiar count’s daughter. Rebecca looked at her current position and quietly bowed her waist.

* * *

After a long battle of nerves continued, and only after dancing the first dance and making a round, Rebecca was finally able to sit at a table with food.

“Have some water at least.”

“If you’re going to give me something, make it beer, Mother.”

“Would there be any? Have some wine instead.”

Rebecca slumped down and gulped sparkling wine down her throat. Only after sitting and resting for a while could she notice the gazes of people looking at her as if she were a weirdo.

“Mother, I think… I misunderstood something.”

“Really?”

“It was just partner attendance, wasn’t it… You knew, didn’t you?”

“Didn’t I ask you twice if you were sure?”

Seeing her mother laugh like a girl made Rebecca’s mouth fall open.

“No, but you should have stopped me more!”

“You weren’t listening, were you?”

“That’s not true, if I had known it would be like this… Sigh.”

Rebecca sat and let out a deep sigh.

For a while, due to the bullying she received at school, she had long nights wondering if her choices were wrong. This ball was supposed to be a proud and honorable occasion for Rebecca to show that she had broken through the iron fortress that excluded women and had done the tremendous job of being the king’s guard (even if it was just a temporary position for one day). But reality was that only people who were already close to her would accept her.

“But Mother thinks you’re cool. A woman of the new era doing what she wants to do… something like that.”

“What do you mean ‘something like that’… Really?”

“Well… not tremendously, but quite… no, a little… but it’s really true.”

“Oh come on…”

Rebecca pouted.

Louis literally wanted her to act as a smokescreen as a close older brother figure, and didn’t seem to have any intention of treating her as a knight. Rebecca pouted as a slightly hurt feeling gradually washed over her.

“Where did Father go?”

“The men are over there.”

Karen pointed with her fan to the men standing in a corner of the hall, whispering among themselves. Raymond was naturally mingling with people similar to him. Noble men who had graduated from military academy and entered the army.

“Do you want to go over there?”

“Huh? Why would I go where the old men are? I don’t want to.”

“But the places you’ll need to fit into in the future are both here and there. You’ll need to blend in both among those old men and among the women here.”

“…”

“It might be better to go there rather than stay by Mother’s side. This is also studying.”

Rebecca gripped her glass tightly.

She had imagined wielding swords and guns many times, but having to blend in among men while puffing on cigarettes was a future she hadn’t imagined. She wanted to escape from Princess Diana’s group, but she didn’t want to force herself into that group with which she had nothing in common either.

“Are you scared?”

“It’s just uncomfortable. Aren’t you the same, Mother?”

“Hmm, shall we go say hello?”

Karen stood up and linked arms with Rebecca as they approached Raymond.

“Raymond, you’re a bit late.”

“Karen. Sorry for making you enter alone. The academic society ended too late… Rebecca, your uniform looks very nice.”

“Thank you, Father.”

When Raymond complimented her, the men next to him naturally began to look at Rebecca and say a word or two.

“Well, to think a woman would emerge among our juniors. The outfit suits you very well.”

“Thank you, Uncle Albert.”

“Isn’t school too difficult?”

“It’s incredibly difficult!”

“Hahaha, of course it is!”

After engaging in trivial chatter for a while, Rebecca returned to her seat with much lighter steps. It was more enjoyable than she had thought.

“Miss Rebecca, His Majesty asks if you can prepare for the next song.”

When the servant whispered to Rebecca, she quickly stood up.

Louis was next to Princess Diana, and whatever he had heard, his face was growing increasingly pale. She met Louis’s desperate-looking eyes.

“I’m coming.”

When Rebecca went toward Louis, he let out a sigh of relief and extended his hand to Rebecca.

“Come a bit faster. Aren’t you a knight?”

“I’m sorry.”

Rebecca ignored the stinging gazes on the back of her head and placed her arm on Louis’s, beginning to slowly move her feet to the minuet. Unlike the waltz, her feet kept getting slightly out of sync with the somewhat awkward movements. Louis held Rebecca’s arm and whispered quietly.

“I’m sorry.”

“About what?”

“I told Princess Diana that you and I are secretly engaged.”

“Oh…”

Rebecca tensed up feeling the stinging gazes.

“Well, it’s fine. I expected that much.”

“…That’s a relief. You weren’t offended?”

“Being associated with His Majesty would be an honor for me.”

“Thank you so much.”

“It’s nothing…”

Rebecca gradually became anxious. Louis was being too apologetic to her, who was a close younger sister and ultimately someone he would command.

“Actually… I also said we have a child.”

“…”

“She asked what difference an engagement made…”

“…You do know I’m a first-year, right? I’m just starting and you’re really being too much…”

“Sorry… I’m just so scared of that woman…”

Louis spun Rebecca around with a truly fed-up expression. Rebecca glanced at Diana’s pale face and turned her head away, getting goosebumps. It was a face that looked like she wanted to kill her. What Raymond had mentioned in passing, about her trying to tie Louis up with rope and assault him, seemed to be true.

“But she’ll return to her own country soon anyway. Ah, I really hope I never see her again.”

“I agree.”

Rebecca shook her head and whispered to Louis.

“But if you’re going to dismiss me like this, shouldn’t you at least guarantee me a job?”

“What? Didn’t you want an overseas assignment like Lord Raymond?”

“I’m hoping for the royal guard unit.”

“Hmm, I thought you wanted to be a sniper. That was Lord Raymond’s specialty too.”

It seemed he didn’t know that Raymond had been forcibly assigned as a sniper after being targeted by Prince Guiz, who was Louis’s father. Even if he’s a king, he doesn’t know everything. Rebecca clicked her tongue quietly and whispered to Louis. As Louis whispered about how cool snipers were, Rebecca deliberately stepped lightly on his foot and bowed slightly to the music.

“Please remember. Royal guard…”

Crash!

At that moment, the sound of something breaking came from beside Rebecca.

When Rebecca turned her head, someone rushed at them. In their hand was a small, gleaming knife.

“Stop! Catch him!”

The royal guard quickly drew his sword toward him, but the attacker was faster. The man dressed as a servant swiftly rushed toward Louis, aiming the knife at his side.

“Die!”

At that moment, Rebecca had a terrible thought.

Isn’t this an opportunity?

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