Chapter 2 - The Thief Cat Cried

Chapter 2: The Thief Cat Cried

 

 

— 99 days away.

 

 

 

When I woke up, I found a room I knew.

 

 

 

My own room in the mansion. 

 

 

 

 

The only strange point is that the face of the most beautiful young man in the kingdom is right before her.

 

 

 

A dazzling blonde deep blue eye like the sea. His well-shaped lips, commonly called “Golden Prince”.

 

 

“Oh, there’s a scar on your chin. 

 

What’s the matter?

 

 

“His Imperial Highness Sazanzir..?  What happened to your chin?”

 

 

“Oh, that doesn’t matter!”

 

 

It’s awful not to care. I’m worried.

 

If you say that…His Highness Sazanzir is three lords above me. How could my eighteen-year-old fiance

be in my own room?

 

 

It’s disrespectful to lie down for a moment. I try to get up, but…I feel dizzy and can’t put my strength

into my body.

 

 

It was a woman’s hand that supported me when I almost fell off the bed.

 

“Don’t overwork yourself!”

 

…Oh, I see.

 

I looked at his face and said, “What’s the point?”

 

It is Lady Remy-Alban. Her coral hair is the opposite of my black hair. Her hair is straight to the

waist and fluffy to the clavicle opposite.

 

Her eyes are not long, but rather round. She is not tall and slender, but rather a small, plump body

shape.

 

Even though we were classmates, I’m the best in my class while she wasn’t even the second, but rather

the third one.

 

 

Moreover, she is the Baron’s daughter while I am Duke’s daughter, who is clearly different in the

classification of scholastic ability and peerage.

 

 

My fiancée, who does not say anything to her, worries about me with her.

 

 

Yes… it’s a date called “sympathy” for the two of us.

 

 

Thank you very much.

 

 

 

“You don’t need to worry, Remy.”

 

“What?”

 

 

 

Of course, it was Sazanzir who held the shoulder of Lady Remy, who seemed to burst into tears.

 

 

 

“Lelouche! I don’t think you can put it that way on Remy’s consideration!”

 

 

 

“…I’m not really sick, so I said that.”

 

 

 

‘I should say more, if I had!’

 

 

 

“My Highness, Would you consider my actions before I rang my little phrase? 

 

 

In front of your fiance..?  

 

 

 

Besides, is it a gentleman’s manners to touch another woman in your fiance’s private room?”

 

 

 

But I see at a glance what is useless to discuss.

 

 

 

His Highness glaring at me and Miss Remy who was about to cry. ……

 

 

 

 

Yes. If it’s their happiness, that’s fine.

 

 

 

I will die in a  hundred days, anyway.

 

 

No matter how much “I am more suitable for you! If you can’t support me by your side, then you’re there.

 

 

 

Therefore, I only thing I can only do is to make your way a little better.

 

 

 

“Will you give me some time after school?”

 

 

 

“Well, but Lelouche is physically…”

 

 

 

“I’m sure I’ll be in school tomorrow. Your Highness, may I borrow Remy?”

 

 

“Ah…Ah! Just don’t overdo it.”

 

 

 

“My Highness, isn’t that the mistake of ’not doing’?”

 

 

 

 

“Of course.”

 

 

 

I smiled gracefully, without returning my sarcasm.

 

 

 

 

 

There is no time to get worried about such a silly thing. I have little time left.

 

 

 

 

 

 

— 98 days away.

 

 

 

 

 

The next day, after school, I was in an empty classroom with Remy. I asked my teacher to lend 

me a room.

 

 

 

 

To me, as the eldest daughter of the Duke and future Crown Princess with good manners, it was

easy to make such arrangements.

 

 

 

However, I don’t have many chances to stand on the podium, so I’m a little more excited.

 

 

Moreover, if there is a thieving cat with its shoulders locked under your eyes, it will be  even more beautiful. 

 

 

…Isn’t it rude to be a cat? But I think it’s better than a thief cat.

 

 

Well, I don’t mind either, as I don’t mention it.

 

 

 

“Lelouche… what are we doing today?”

 

 

 

Remy thought we would have tea in the cafeteria. She was completely scared of the textbooks on the

desk and the pointers I have.

 

 

 

I smiled.

 

 

 

 

“I’ll teach you to study.”

 

 

 

“What?”

 

 

 

“By the way, etiquette for general education… I’ll give you everything I know.”

 

“Um… uh…?”

 

“You’re not doing very well, aren’t there a lot of things that aren’t enough to stand next to His Highness?”

 

“If you can communicate with each other, it’s just such a trivial obstacle!”

 

 

 

 

…Yes. It might be good for ordinary people.

 

 

 

 

“You look triumphant, but do you really know that you are the first candidate for the next King?

 

 

　

 

Do you really think someone who laughs at insolence and ignorance deserves to stand on top?

 

 

 

…Well, that’s why I am teaching you.”

 

 

 

“I have heard from your family that you are coming home late.”

 

 

“What?”

 

 

 

“My father, Baron Alban, asked for it too. 

 

 

“Thank you. But I was told that you must not be rude to me. Do you not think I can do my best?”

 

 

 

 

Because of the goodness of my handling, Remy was utterly disappointed.

 

 

 

 

So, if this kind of handling is before breakfast…I hate it. I do not want stuffs like this in the morning.

 

 

 

Her father, Baron Alban, is a man of modest appearance, with gorgeous eyebrows. He is also

sweet to her only daughter, Remy.

 

 

 

 

However, it seems that she does not intend to humiliate such a gentle father.

 

 

 

When I said, “Of course, I will send you home in our carriage, so please rest assured,” I dropped

my shoulders as if I had given up.

 

 

 

 

“Then I shall begin with how to stand.”

 

 

 

And then, late at night, she started sobbing,

 

 

“I’m so tired~~”

 

So I delivered her as promised. Smiling, of course, in front Baron Alvin, who had come out to say, “See you tomorrow.”

 

 

 

 

I still only have five books on my head, but…

 

 

 

I wonder if I can prepare enough for standing etiquette to be recognized by the Queen in less than

a hundred days.

 

 

 

 

Having such anxiety.. I must have been exhausted. It was a little while before I lowered my eyelid by

the pleasant rolling of the carriage.

 

 

 

 

The beautiful God appeared in a pure white world again.

 

 

“What are you doing? “

 

 

I blinked three times.

 

 

 

And of course, I was surprised to be called by God and I couldn’t immediately understand the intent

of the question.

 

 

Oh, about Remy’s education? With that in mind, I will answer the question.

 

 

 

“Isn’t it the duty of our forefathers to educate their successors? “

 

 

 

I thought I had given the obvious, but God raised his eyebrows.

 

 

 

“And you can only live one hundred days… We talked, didn’t we?”

 

“Yes, there are ninety-seven days left to be exact.”

 

“Is it really okay to spend those precious half-days on a kid you don’t like?”

 

 

 

The one I hate… Of course, that’s Remy. For it was a thief-cat who was trying to rob my fiance.

 

 

Whether you like it or not, it’s definitely the latter.

 

 

But…That’s it. My personal feelings are useless for politics.

 

 

 

“It is never better that the future King and Queen should love each other.”

 

 

There is no time for worrying about the frame of the title. If indeed the Prince and Lady Remy are

together, that’s fine. 

 

 

 

But because she was too unconscious to “stand on top of people”—I was only making up for it.

 

 

“Really…So you don’t regret it? “

 

“Yes,”

 

 

“Well, then, but…”

 

 

 

 

God’s twists are bad for me, but.. I kept smiling until I woke up from my dream.

 

 

 

Because this is the life I chose.

 

 

 

I am Lelouche Elquage. The daughter of the duke and the fiance of Prince Sazanzir Luchino Lapishenta.

 

 

Hey, Remy.

 

 

Even with this, I’m not going to give up His Highness until the end. So be prepared—

 

 

It’s just ninety-seven days of patience.