I Was Watching the Crown Prince Break Off the Engagement with the Duke's Daughter as Someone Unrelated, but later I was shocked. - Chapter 6 - Crown Prince Albarto Part 1

After exchanging a passionate embrace and parting with Polar, Albarto returned to the royal castle in high spirits to announce breaking off his engagement with Cornelia.

At the graduation ceremony, he wholeheartedly confessed his passionate feelings for Polar in front of everyone. Everyone warmly gazed at him and sincerely lent their ears to his feelings.

And his fiancée Cornelia, while sad at first, ultimately smiled and accepted the broken engagement, praying for Albarto and Polar’s happiness.

His estranged younger maternal half-brother Elancio even went out of his way to come up on stage and celebrate.

When he was young, his mother told him it was important to put feelings into words and convey them.

That was truly right.

In this world there is the evil custom of conveying feelings through fan language.

His kindhearted mother never used fan language, and conveyed even difficult things through words.

It was wonderful.

There were those shamed being told off in public, but that was their own fault.

He had never learned the evil fan language, and today’s events proved he was right.

“Father!”

He briskly entered the office.

Inside was also Prime Minister Pianes Lesharka, Cornelia’s father.

Cornelia must have put her hand in this.

“Father, this time, I have decided to break off my engagement with young Duchess Cornelia Lesharka, and become engaged to young Viscountess Polar Helketra.”

He conveyed this directly from his joyful heart.

However, he was met with heavy silence.

“Father…how do you feel about this?”

But his father did not answer, instead looking to the Prime Minister.

“Prince Albarto, may I ask you something? I hear you confessed your feelings to Lady Helketra in front of everyone at the graduation ceremony, but how were the ladies’ fans moving when they saw that?”

Fans…?

“Certainly…I think they were all opened in the right hand and tilted 45 degrees diagonally left…Yes, the extended right middle fingers looked beautiful. Was it a fan pose of blessing?”

The Prime Minister smiled.

“It was ‘What the hell are you saying?’, Your Highness.”

Huh?

Ignoring Albarto’s confusion, the still smiling Prime Minister continued.

“Next, when she received the broken engagement, my daughter moved her fan like so I hear. She closed the fan, tilted it 30 degrees diagonally right with right pinky raised, then brought the closed fan to her neck. Do you recall?”

Albarto nodded vigorously.

Only now did he notice that while the Prime Minister was smiling, his eyes were filled with anger.

Come to think of it, today for some reason he was addressed by name rather than His Highness the Crown Prince…

“Do you understand the meaning?”

Albarto shook his head left and right in confusion.

What is it? Did I make some mistake?

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