You Said I Was a Persecuted, Terminally Ill Grand Duchess? - Chapter 37

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Chapter 37

 

Amazing. A ball!

 

‘Wow, this really feels like a romance fantasy novel.’

 

Well, it is a romance fantasy novel. Anyway!

 

At this unexpectedly interesting topic, I opened my eyes wide and looked at the young ladies before me.

 

The beautiful young ladies were each showing off their distinct charms to the fullest.

 

First, Lilian.

 

The platinum-haired young lady with charming clear green eyes was a pure girl like a white lily.

 

Next was Julie.

 

A cute beauty with curly brown hair and adorable freckles all over, reminiscent of a poodle puppy!

 

And then Serena.

 

A sexy type of woman with coyly upturned eyes, cherry-like dainty lips, and most notably, an impressive curvaceous figure.

 

Plus Katarina, who was so beautiful it would be tiresome to keep saying she’s pretty – the crowning jewel!

 

I thought the spring festival was the ultimate big event.

 

‘What a stroke of luck this is.’

 

I really did well to come out on this outing with Katarina!

 

It felt like my eyes were instantly opened.

 

‘If this is what the social circle is like, I… might want to socialize forever.’

 

Hahaha! The tea is going down so smoothly!

 

Tea parties with beauties are the best!

 

I was unconsciously grinning like an old man from the rising satisfaction when I finally came to my senses at the response that came back.

 

“Lady Rene may not have had many opportunities to experience it, but during the social season in the capital, there are truly many large and small banquets.”

 

“Oh my, come to think of it, has Your Grace the Duchess not had her debutante yet? I’ve never seen you at balls.”

 

After Katarina’s kind response, Julie opened her eyes wide and asked.

 

I tilted my head for a moment.

 

‘Huh, that’s right. Did I have a debutante or not?’

 

Since I had no information about this body, cold sweat started trickling down for a moment.

 

To deflect as naturally as possible, I brought up a more interesting term.

 

“Yes. I haven’t yet… Um, anyway. A debutante! Did you all actually have debutantes?”

 

Kyaa~ This is really like an amazing romance fantasy~!

 

I held back my urge to gush and asked with sparkling eyes.

 

“Y-yes. As we mentioned earlier, we had our debutantes together. That’s how we became such close friends.”

 

Julie, who seemed somewhat startled, blinked her eyes tremendously and barely managed to answer.

 

I could vividly picture the beauties having their debutantes with faces younger than now.

 

I should have been there too!

 

I should have captured the hot debut of those adorable ladies with my own eyes!

 

I felt like biting a handkerchief right away.

 

“Haah… It’s my eternal regret that I wasn’t there. I would have asked each of you for the first dance.”

 

“Oh my… Your Grace the Duchess is quite good at joking!”

 

Does it seem like a joke?

 

At my serious expression, Lilian’s face, which had been giggling, gradually hardened.

 

At her face that seemed to ask ‘Surely you’re not serious?’, I solemnly nodded once.

 

“It’s not a joke. Why can’t young ladies dance with each other? Beauty has no gender… Anyway, it would have been really nice if I could have been there with you all. You’re all so beautiful even now, how pretty must you have been during your debutantes?”

 

Again, an irrepressible smile leaked out weakly.

 

I lowered my head and covered my mouth with my hand to hide my twitching lips.

 

I was worried that my grinning might look too perverted.

 

But…

 

“…”

 

“…”

 

“…”

 

Did I end up looking even stranger trying to hold back my laughter?

 

The young ladies seemed momentarily dazed, and only silence lingered around the table.

 

‘What, what is this.’

 

In the suddenly awkward atmosphere, my entertainer instinct to do something surged up.

 

“Sh-shall we talk more about balls? I’m curious about the most recent places you’ve been to. Was it the capital after all?!”

 

Hey! Why are you talking like that?

 

It was such creaky speech that I wanted to question myself, but fortunately the young ladies with hearts as broad as their beautiful faces naturally shifted the topic.

 

I secretly swallowed a sigh and listened earnestly to their stories.

 

“Usually the social season starts from spring, so there haven’t been any major banquets recently.”

 

“I see…”

 

Hmm, that’s right. The time I possessed this body was during the cold winter.

 

Then it made sense that I hadn’t attended a single banquet until now.

 

Someone of the Duke and Duchess’s status would normally be invited here and there.

 

‘Then will I be able to attend banquets soon too?! It’s completely spring now!’

 

Thinking that made my heart flutter with excitement.

 

Of course, it would only be possible with the Duke’s permission.

 

‘But will that little brat… let me go to banquets?’

 

At the sudden doubt, my mood plummeted rapidly.

 

Ah, thinking about it makes me angry again?

 

Looking back, even when going to the spring festival, the Duke would throw a fit and try to stop me whenever I tried to leave the Duke’s Castle.

 

Of course, today too!

 

Wasn’t he the person who would interfere and make snide remarks about everything, even just going on one outing?

 

‘He’d be absolutely shocked and flip out if I said I was going to a ball.’

 

Thinking about the Duke made indignation surge up from my chest.

 

‘Hmph! Whatever. Why am I thinking about that bastard now? I came out to have fun and change my mood.’

 

It was when I was trying to compose my pouting lips.

 

“The last time we all attended together… was probably Prince Celeste’s birthday celebration, wasn’t it?”

 

Serena spoke up, fluttering her long eyelashes.

 

“That’s right. It was held at the Imperial Palace last late autumn.”

 

“It was quite a spectacle! The Imperial Palace’s banquet hall is truly magnificent.”

 

“Have you never been invited to Imperial Palace banquets, Your Grace?”

 

The young ladies adding their comments one by one were like chattering larks.

 

Pleased again, I nodded generously.

 

Everything the young ladies said was interesting!

 

“The Imperial Palace?! What’s it like? Is it covered in gold or something?”

 

“Oh my! That’s accurate.”

 

“Eh? Really?”

 

It was just a casual remark, but it was actually true!

 

When I was shocked and flipped out, perhaps finding my reaction amusing, Julie laughed and answered.

 

“It was originally decorated only with the finest marble, but at Prince Celeste’s birthday banquet last time, the grandeur was even more impressive. From the main pillars to the tableware, everything was decorated only in golden hues that perfectly matched His Highness’s hair color.”

 

“I heard it was all real gold?”

 

“It’s to display the power of the Rembrandt Empire!”

 

“Most of all, the person who shone brightest at that event was…”

 

Just recalling it seemed blissful, as the young ladies’ faces turned rosy.

 

I narrowed my eyes slightly at a sudden intuition.

 

And I casually threw out some bait to Julie, who looked the most dreamy among them.

 

“It seems there was someone who shone brightest even amid all that grandeur? Who could it be, the lucky person who stole Julie’s heart?”

 

“Oh my! N-no! Absolutely not!”

 

“Could it have been the star of the event? Hehe. Golden hair… It would suit Julie well.”

 

I playfully teased back at Julie, whose face had turned red as a tomato.

 

Whether I had hit the mark, Julie jumped up almost as if bouncing from her spot and protested.

 

“G-g-g-goodness. I don’t have such, such thoughts… His Highness the Second Prince hasn’t even had his coming-of-age ceremony yet!”

 

“But he’s handsome, isn’t he?”

 

“!”

 

Oh my. It was just a guess, but it seemed I was right.

 

Julie’s face was burning as red as it could possibly get.

 

‘Hehe. They’d make a perfect couple.’

 

The shy girl before me, not knowing what to do with herself, was absolutely adorable.

 

After all, wasn’t a dazzling appearance an essential requirement for any prince in a romance fantasy?

 

The girls’ talk that started from the ball was more entertaining than I had imagined.

 

“How nice. Young girls’ love~”

 

Ah, youth~ Hahaha!

 

I suppressed my urge to laugh frivolously and just twitched the corners of my mouth.

 

I suppose in my own way, I’m like a married woman here?

 

Who would have thought that other people’s love stories, which I never cared about before, could be this enjoyable!

 

‘And the Second Prince? Then there must be a Crown Prince too?’

 

So totally romance fantasy-like!

 

One of them, either the Crown Prince or the Second Prince, is probably the real male lead.

 

‘I’d love to get a look at their faces sometime~’

 

Beauty knows no gender or time and place, after all. Yes, yes.

 

Just as I was thinking that without any particular meaning.

 

“That’s not it!”

 

Then, Julie, as if she had made some kind of decision, suddenly stood up from her seat and shouted.

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