The Villainess is a Millionaire Solver - Chapter 204

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Side Story 4

This was a daily record that he, as the Crown Prince, had once written down. A diary he had diligently kept when he was young, for mental cultivation and to analyze the human world.

“But then I completely forgot about it.”

He was truly grateful to Gremory. Thanks to her, he was able to remember these diaries again.

He was sorry for disappearing so suddenly, but he couldn’t help it due to the intense urge to quickly read them again.

The records about Aristina.

Aldensis smiled as he opened the diaries one by one.

“Let’s see. What was the very first one?”

After flipping through for a while, he finally found it. The moment when Aristina first appeared in his diary.

…Meanwhile, today I heard more specific rumors about Duke Carnel’s only daughter. That girl is only seven years old, yet unlike the daughters of the Empire’s prestigious families, she is said to have a fiery temperament. I am deeply concerned whether the Duke’s daughter might have a negative influence on our Empire’s social circles…

A diary that showed his efforts to imitate adult speech and write in the most mature handwriting possible. When he turned to the next page, this content appeared.

Today I ran into that troublemaker at the palace!!! Her reputation precedes her. It was hard to manage my expression while pretending I knew nothing about the ‘rumors’ surrounding her.

Handwriting that seemed to fly with wings from excitement. Unrefined speech. Everything was different from the page right before it.

Looking at that page which revealed the shock of their first meeting, Aldensis let out a deflating laugh.

From the next day onward, it returned to calm diary entries. The part that revealed his boyish nature was only that one day throughout the entire diary.

So that’s how it was.

Aldensis finally realized.

He thought Aristina bringing out his honest true self was a recent thing, but it turned out the history was very long.

Even though it happened within the diary, to think she made him cast aside pretense from their very first meeting.

He thoroughly searched for and read other records in his diary that mentioned the ‘Princess Rosen.’

Today I encountered Princess Rosen no less than seven times. Mother of all Dragons, could this really be coincidence? Isn’t someone selling information about me?

Among the content about state affairs, national events, and studies written in a mature manner, incidents with Aristina were interspersed throughout.

He thought he had only tried hard to avoid her, but looking now, there were quite a few memories. Aldensis lost track of time as he flipped through them one by one.

Eventually, after finding and reading everything, when he raised his head, the contents of the diary passed before his eyes in a line like watching a play.

Vivid and intense countless memories.

From among them, one particular scene poked its head out.

A red apple skewered on a wooden stick.

At the same time, a prim yet somewhat gentle voice could be heard.

“Thank you for helping today… It’s a festival again.”

Aldensis was dazed.

It was as if Aristina’s very existence was like that. A brilliant candy apple from a festival that someone had offered to his life.

Of course, she was a much larger and more radiant existence than that…

He finally realized that he had received a precious gift.

At the same time, words he wanted to say to her came to mind.

Aldensis picked up a pen and chose an empty space on the paper to quickly write a message. Shortly after, his elegant handwriting soon blurred and transformed into an indecipherable mass.

He neatly organized the magic scroll. Then he went outside and returned to where they had parted earlier.

“Editor Gremory…”

However, Gremory who should have been there was nowhere to be seen. For the Crown Prince who was accustomed to people waiting for him, this was quite perplexing.

“Don’t tell me she left?”

“No.”

A palace maid answered.

“She said waiting made her restless, so she went for a walk around the area, but then got caught by some people.”

“What? Caught?”

“Of course it’s not somewhere strange. But there was an order not to tell anyone. Even if His Highness the Crown Prince were to interrogate…”

“Ah.”

He roughly got the idea. How many people in this Imperial Palace could say such things?

Aldensis shrugged his shoulders once and handed the magic scroll to the maid.

“Then could you deliver this to Editor-in-Chief Gremory?”

“Of course! Just leave it to me.”

The maid took it and ran off.

Even if Aldensis hadn’t stopped the maid to ask, if he had walked just a little further, he would have quickly discovered Gremory himself.

Because that area was extremely noisy.

Gremory was in the Empress’s salon. The place was now bustling with people. Not only the Empress and Princess Violet, but also Serene, Viscountess Liliebes Oeclaire, and various other noblewomen who had liked Aristina had all flocked there.

“Editor-in-Chief Melissa Gremory! You were one of the celebrities I wanted to invite to my salon anyway, but we’re meeting this way!”

“I did well, didn’t I, Mother? She was standing there defenseless, so I quickly brought her!”

Listening to the conversation between the Empress and Princess, Gremory laughed heartily.

They were talking as if this was some kind of windfall, but actually, the one who benefited was this side.

Because now she could resolve all the things she needed to do at once.

Zikren and Aldensis had also shown they were avid readers of 【Justice Daily】, but the people gathered in this salon were truly passionate readers. Everyone’s eyes were sparkling beyond just twinkling.

“Do you know what the first thought that comes to mind when I open my eyes every morning? ‘What interesting story will be in the newspaper today?’ I who once suffered from newspaper phobia due to all the false reports about me surrounding me, to think I’d become like this!”

“Me too. I never thought I’d start reading the society section that I hated so much. The society section where some unidentified man and woman appear suspiciously often.”

“The content is so fascinating that my brother reads it thinking it’s a serialized novel. According to him, he didn’t feel any sense of incongruity at all.”

“That’s right. It could be called a series with them as protagonists. But Editor-in-Chief, why haven’t there been any new serials lately?”

“Right! Why aren’t there any new serials?”

Starting with Princess Violet’s words, complaints poured out. Gremory raised both hands as if asserting her innocence.

“We want to serialize consistently too. The sales figures between days when those unidentified characters appear and days when they don’t can differ by as much as double. I reported this to the president, but he’s someone who lives entirely as he pleases…”

“Ah! That’s too much! Work, work! Especially that Lu-something man! Saying he’s doing community service! Saying he’s atoning!”

“Everyone, before that, we mustn’t forget that they’re newlyweds. They’re in their honeymoon phase right now.”

“Then show us that ‘honeymoon phase’ at least!”

“Right! If they’re going to be happy, be happy in front of our eyes!”

The voices of those gathered in the salon were remarkably similar to the content of subscriber letters pouring into 【Justice Daily】.

As expected, people all think the same way.

Gremory secretly laughed while pretending to cough.

Just then, maids came from outside.

“Editor-in-Chief Gremory is here, right? His Highness the Crown Prince asked us to deliver this magic scroll to you. Along with his apologies for writing it late.”

The Crown Prince? A magic scroll? People briefly closed their mouths and looked at it with curious eyes.

“What is that?”

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