Translator: Yui
Editor: Nila

The two-day long massacre ended so quickly that I wondered if it had ever started at all.

 

Now, the loud and boisterous rejoicing of the crowd, growing in intensity, felt somewhat empty.

 

Between all the flowers, handkerchiefs, confetti, crosses, flags, and other objects being thrown into the arena, one silver-haired knight, lying in the middle of the flat ground and breathing hard, slowly raised his body.

 

His chest heaved as he plunged his sword into the dirt and leaned on it. The healers came out and hurried to reach him.

 

“Izek! Izek! Izek!”

 

“I love you! I love you, Sir knight!”

 

“The best knight in the North! The best knight in the North!”

 

The crowd’s excitement grew as mine withered. I fell back into my seat with a thud, sighing. The solemn and dull feeling in my chest came back.

 

Even if things had changed from what I knew of the original novel, it still ended exactly the same as it had been written.

 

The world’s main character, Izek van Omerta, won the Gladiatorial Match once again.

 

The cheers grew even louder. Yes, that’s how it should be.

 

“Ruby, I thought you’d be happier.”

 

Are you telling me to control my expression? I clenched my jaw, trying my hardest not to say something damning, but when I turned my head and glared at the person sitting next to me, that shameless man looked so irritatingly calm, that I couldn’t help but scoff.

 

“Should I be dancing with joy right now?”

 

“… I just thought you’d be in a hurry to meet him.”

 

“I never could have imagined what type of surprises would come out, but it’s obvious that he would have won either way, right? I don’t know who came up with the idea of bringing Cardinal Richie, but you certainly know how to make one enjoy the festival. Why didn’t you bring more?”

 

“There aren’t many cardinals who killed themselves,” Cesare smirked and leaned closer. “We were all worried about what type of entertainment would be appropriate to replace the Ice Dragon that mysteriously disappeared, since we were all expecting him.”

 

I gazed at him for a long time after that dig, trying to figure out what he meant by that. How much did he know? What was he trying to tell me? Should I just laugh?

 

He made me nervous, but I still gave him a soft smile. “You must be really happy to see your gift to him be dealt with so swiftly. Everyone would think you’re his wife, not me.”

 

The staring competition between me and Cesare continued on for a while as the whistling and cheering grew more unruly.

 

The Northerners’ patriotism must be at an all-time high. I could feel their shouts reverberating in my bones and I turned away from Cesare, watching as Izek was surrounded by healers and kneeling in front of the balcony where the King of Britannia was seated.

 

I was curious about what kind of faces they were all making. Izek, King Feanol, Duke Omerta and Ellenia too. They’d be bursting with pride, wouldn’t they? I should have been sitting right next to them.

 

“Ruby… You don’t have to worry about a single thing.”

 

My eyebrows twitched. What kind of random line was this? This jerk seemed to be very determined to capture my attention today.

 

you

 

will… Don’t worry, I won’t

 

and dark eyes, the color of shimmering sapphires, glistened with

 

so speechless that I almost

 

this time. How could he say such a thing? What

 

right here with everyone from Romagna around us, that he was looking at me as if

 

me? Was he trying to tell me he

 

be joking at all. It was clear in his eyes, he was telling me the truth. He wanted to protect me from my husband’s anger. The anger

 

believe that he was telling me this. That he was acting like he had done nothing wrong. As if

 

what we looked like to the public at all? Was he not aware of the gravity of the situation?

 

must have casted a spell. I was so overwhelmed with the feeling of panic, of dread and

 

kissed me on his own, destroyed all of my dreams, my safe haven, crushed it into the dirt and stomped all over it, but he was telling me that he would protect me?

 

were about to fall. I

 

sound of hoofbeats coming

 

sat proudly on a pure white stallion,

 

had led him to his victory, and at the end of it was a wreath of flowers, woven with golden roses and

 

suddenly, all of the cheering stopped and it

 

the champion, dressed in gold-plated and black-colored armor, sitting on his magnificent horse and I admired

 

red ones held an emotion

 

My heart hurt.

 

are you making such

 

you look so tired? What’s so

 

Did you find out?

 

while now, right? All day?

 

look so pretty

 

witch in the place of someone you thought was a princess? Do you want to kill

 

it against you. I deserve it. So you have my

 

could to give him one last true smile. Weak and trembling and with my heart bleeding for all to see, but I still gave him

 

had done during that first

 

sweet smile of

 

after all, but the wreath he

 

I bent over and picked it up. The golden roses and

 

of him sheathing

 

my head and I couldn’t answer

 

this was a dream I’d soon wake up from, the emotions in his beautiful eyes were

 

me broke to pieces. I realized

 

in front of me. The thing I had been too scared to even dream of, the thing

 

searching for, the thing that they write songs about, they write

 

I love him.

 

It was so clichéd.

 

what I did? How could he still see me as his perfect princess? How could he not hate me? How could he not be disgusted by me? How could he

 

loved

 

realize it before? And why was my vision blurring? How dare he make me cry in front of all these

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