[✓]My Fiancé is in Love with My Little Sister

Chapter 33

If this is the real end – 16

In one of my lives, I stole a novel from father’s study. It was apparently a story with father and Silvia’s mother as the protagonists. There weren’t many characters in this book. The princess of the neighboring country and the knight chosen to protect her. … … And also, the maid the princess had taken along with her from her home country. Naturally, the story didn’t have only these three characters, but the ones that left a deep impression in my memory were only them. However, while it was natural for the two main characters to remain in my memory, on the contrary it was strange how I couldn’t forget the maid, a supporting character whose name was never said. It was an ordinary servant and her physical appearance wasn’t even described. She didn’t accomplish many things in the story. In the first place, I didn’t even know what was the role assigned to her. The only thing that was made clear about her, was the fact she was the person the princess had personally hand picked and took out from her home country.

"That maid might have been a bit pitiful but... I wonder if she was doing fine?"  

The person who had muttered these words as their line of sight was lost in the horizon, was the author of this novel. The truth about this novel I heard from the author had been almost completely similar to my predictions. The knight described in the novel was my father, the princess of the neighboring country was Silvia’s mother. In reality, it wasn’t “the neighboring country” but a more distant one. Anyway, they had sacrificed their body, their heart, their everything to this forbidden love. It was a predestinated, tragic, heart-moving passion. Right. That’s probably why their love became a story. Readers could dream of them. Although the characters inside the book experienced turns and twists, they were finally wedded and swore to spend eternity together. It was an ending that made you thing happiness was surely waiting for them ever after.

… … But, unlike the story, in the real world, father and the princess didn’t get tied together. Because the princess, returned to her country.

“In the first place, because she had run away from the civil war occurring in her home country, it was decided from the beginning she would come back once it had settled. She was only a young girl, but she was unmistakably a member of royalty, from the moment she was born she had to bear the responsibility of a person descending from the royal family. She definitively couldn’t run away from this. After returning to her country, her official duty as a member of the royal family was waiting for her.”

Therefore, due to the difference in their social positions the knight and the princess couldn’t be wedded. If you wanted to summarize everything plainly that’s what happened, but the situation must have been more complex. “However, it’s something that couldn’t be helped” had said the author in a sigh. The problem was what happened afterward.  

“The princess who had to return to her country didn’t allow the man she loved to marry another woman.”

The woman who spat out a laughter that resembled a sneer was undoubtedly very familiar with them. Whether she had guessed my emotions or not, I remembered the author telling me about a social gathering for writers. And that one could get various information there. I didn’t know if that place truly existed, I thought she might only have said that randomly. For something she said to have written from gossips and information obtained from other people, it was awfully detailed. It would rather make more sense for her to claim to be a person who used to be involved with them. But I respected her will to not reveal her background. Because what was important was not who she was, but what was the meaning of the story she had written.  

“The princess thought like this: rather than having her beloved knight snatched away by a woman whose name and face she wouldn’t know… then it was better to have him marry her own substitute.”