I Was Watching the Crown Prince Break Off the Engagement with the Duke's Daughter as Someone Unrelated, but later I was shocked. - Chapter 5 - The medaka fish takes the family motto to heart.

When I returned to my room, there were my younger brother Licht and my personal maid Rulu bowing down…

Licht, 11 years old, closely resembling our lovely mother with pale blond hair and kind green eyes, will become a 2nd year student at the academy next month.

Rulu has been my personal maid since I was little, 5 years my senior, with eyes a lighter brown than mine and purple hair tightly braided in three, a mature maid.

“I heard your hair ornament broke off. I deeply apologize. As I was worried, it turned out just as I feared. For such a delicate ornament, I should have prepared 2-3 spares. Most of all, after finishing preparations at the academy dorms, I returned here, but that was clearly a mistake. I should have waited on standby. It turned out just as I worried. I shouldn’t have bothered young miss Miliam…”

“Rulu, stop. I’m sorry. I broke the hair ornament on purpose.”

I hurriedly made Rulu stand up.

“Big sister, did something happen at the graduation ceremony?”

I can trust Licht and Rulu with the top secret broken engagement of the Crown Prince.

I told them both what happened at the graduation ceremony.

“I’m worried, could it be that young miss Miliam’s fiancé the second prince will become the Crown Prince?”

“I don’t think so.”

My engagement to Second Prince Elancio was directly arranged by the Prime Minister in order for Elancio to not become Crown Prince.

Elancio’s mother gained status as a lady-in-waiting at the palace, and taking advantage of the postwar chaos with neighboring Dominiero Empire a few months after Queen Maria gave birth, before anyone noticed she was pregnant with Elancio and settled in as a concubine despite being a viscount’s daughter.

Then her mother, always striving upwards, immediately began actively working to make Elancio Crown Prince after giving birth.

Of course, this was crushed by the Prime Minister.

To solidify the Crown Prince position of Albarto, the Queen’s son, he betrothed his own daughter Cornelia to him and arranged a backing. As for Elancio, he selected me, a daughter of inconsequential noble rank and territory with no influence in the palace, as fiancée. The plan was that after marriage Elancio would be granted territory, renounce his prince status and become a duke, stripped of succession rights.

To the palace, my father who only attends the annual banquets with no influence, the Honesto Earl house too lowly as a prince’s fiancee yet difficult to complain about, territory neither especially rich nor poor, and utterly ordinary me – taking all this into account, the Prime Minister immediately arranged my engagement to Elancio.

Of course, following our family motto as medaka fish, we obediently accepted.

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