Chapter 15: Chapter 15

"Oh, shit...!"

Rude words came out of my mouth, but no one paid any attention. All eyes were on the stage where the main event of the evening was taking place.

And for me, it was my crushing failure.

I couldn't believe this was really happening.

Damn Roman was able to make me look like the naivest fool in the world.

And worst of all... It was too late to fix anything.

"Dear classmates," Phil, who actually turned out to be Prince Philip, turned to the audience with a big smile. "I am immensely grateful that I was honored to open such a grand event this year. First of all, I would like to meet you all in a new way. I am Philippe Rensis de Blanche, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Zeroth. And this is my younger brother, the Second Prince Razor de Blanche..."

And then, everything was a blur. I didn't even listen to him speak. Or, to be more precise, I simply couldn't hear.

The painful truth hit me like a bad dream.

I thought back to our first meeting, when Phil "accidentally" sat down with me on the train. Although, of course, this was not the case at all. The novel brought us together from the very beginning of getting into the academy, and I didn't even notice it. And all the while it just kept making the situation worse...

After all, how could I not have guessed when such a handsome man decided to talk to me out of the blue?! And, moreover, who called himself by a similar name... Any idiot in my position would have noticed that.

But I was too naive. Following the stereotypes of short stories of this genre, I thought that our first meeting would have to take place in some heroic setting. For example, I would be attacked by bullies, and Philip would bravely stand up for me. But not that he would just sit down with me on the first day, because of the lack of other available seats!

I thought this was too far-fetched a development, and just didn't pay attention to such obvious signs. Although, as it turned out, this was my biggest mistake.

The same went for Razor. I thought that I passed by the lake that day purely by accident, and there was no way I could save the main antagonist of "Blood Camellia". I thought he was too cute for the future villain of the novel, and I thought he was just a timid student.

Even the name he gave me didn't bother me. Blake was nothing more than a nickname he might have gotten in his youth because of his black hair. However, since this fact was never mentioned in the original novel, I simply didn't know it existed. And in the end, it played another cruel joke on me.

When my body finally recovered from the initial shock, I looked up at the stage.

Phil and Blake really were the ones I'd been trying to avoid all along. Or rather, I couldn't call them by their fake names anymore.

The Crown Prince and Second Prince of the kingdom stood in their full dress uniforms, exuding the grace and nobility of the ruling family. Only now did I notice how much they stood out from ordinary people, and even the aura around them was different.

Philip and Razor were as different as day and night, but they were so much alike at the same time. Now they stood together as close-knit brothers, but in ten years' time they would be locked in a deadly battle over the woman they both loved. And in the end, I would be the one to suffer from their enmity.

This was the outcome that the original plot of the novel pushed me towards all this time.

The minor role of the mother of the main character, whose life and death are needed only in order for Britney to have the motivation to fight injustice. In other words, for this world, I was just an expendable item that was supposed to make the fate of the heroine more tragic within this genre.

Before that, I never really thought about why the mothers of the heroines in such stories almost always died. But now that I was in the shoes of such a character, I didn't feel like joking at all.

I wasn't ready to accept that this was all that was in store for me.

No!

I wouldn't give up so easily!

I might have lost one battle, but I would definitely win the war. And no one could stop me in my desire to live a happy life.

My original plan was to sneak out of here quietly before the two of them noticed me, and then work out my next plan of action.

But it was too late to do that.

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While I was thinking about all this, Phillip and Razor had already finished their welcome speech and went out into the hall to chat with people. Very soon, the first dance was to begin, which would be performed by both princes with their partners.

I went into a terrible panic and tried to sneak out of here, hiding behind the tables. But considering how clumsy I was, they noticed me anyway.

Prince Philip smiled brightly when he saw that I was here. The Second Prince was also interested in my presence.

Having finished their conversation with the others, Phillip and Razor moved simultaneously in my direction from both sides of the room.

They were about to collide.

It was like two enemy battlecruisers catching sight of each other any minute before they started firing at each other.

Damn it...!

Was it possible that because of my rash actions, the two of them would start a feud even earlier than it was supposed to happen in the novel?

They say that I wanted to do the best, but it turned out a hundred times worse.

So what should I do now?! I couldn't even run away anymore because they both noticed me!

I couldn't just run away in front of the heirs to the throne. So I urgently needed another plan.

And at this point...

In the crowd of people, I saw her.

Even though Rachel rudely refused me last night, she still came to the banquet. Her expression remained the same as always, cold and with a hint of disdain, as if she had done the world a great favor by coming to an aristocratic soiree.

Rachel did not really try to dress up, and went out in a regular black dress, which, by the way, perfectly suited her. However, with such an immaculate appearance that looked like a porcelain doll, even a potato sack would fit on her like a piece of art.

Before I knew it, I was devouring her with my eyes.

In such a desperate situation, Rachel Cassius was like a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean.

Even if she made me kneel in front of her in front of the entire academy later, I didn't care. The main thing for me was to survive right now.

Since the novel decided to outsmart me and play with trump cards, I wouldn't back down either. No, I was going to do even more than that.

I would change the tags and genre of this novel to hell.

"Rachel!" I called out to her.

The mother of the second main character looked at me with an extremely biased expression, as if she was trying to prove that she wasn't here for me.

"Oh, it's you," Rachel said casually, "I just got bored in the library and decided to take a look at what's going on here. So don't give me a hard time..."

"Yes, yes!" I took the liberty of cutting her off in mid-sentence, since the warships behind me had already entered the danger zone less than ten meters from our table.

"Are you completely out of your mind...?!"

She didn't voice her complain out loud, but I could still hear it.

Against her will, I dragged Rachel to the center of the room to perform the first dance.

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