Chapter 10: Bertia (13 years old)

“Today I am happy to be given the chance to meet and study together in this academy with all of you.

There are a lot of students sitting in the lecture hall.

In the midst of all that, a student stood on the stage. Being a 3rd year and somehow got the responsibility of student council president pushed to me, I made a speech in front of everyone.

To finish up the long greeting, I took a breath and glanced over the whole student bodies, and located on the front seat of the girl’s area sat that person.

With a crimson hair tied up, she looked at me with her lapis-blue eyes.

I let out a smile not realizing when her looks became so charming, and her appearance that stood out in the midst of people even without making troubles.

“Welcome to Halm academy, congratulations on your entry”

Putting strength on my stomach so that everyone in the hall could hear my closing speech with the voice that become deeper since a few years ago, a loud applause has been raised.

Bertia. Evil. Nochesse 13 years old

Today my fiancée finally entered the Halm academy middle school section.

“Iyaaa ~ as expected as your highness cecil’s flower. Even if the surrounding ladies are beautiful, she still catches my sight.”( Charles)

After finishing the entrance ceremony, finishing orientation, and giving other required orders to the student, I returned back to the student council room. There Charles. Leonel sat on the sofa and looked at me while smirking.

While still looking over the remaining documents, I looked up to meet his eyes and replied [is that so] while smiling.

I’m sure, he is bringing up bertia just to look at my reaction and tease me on it. Since falling to that tricks won’t bring me any benefits, I just brush it up halfheartedly.

I need to finish up the documents as soon as possible since there is a place that I must go. I have no time to play with him now.

“But, even though I heard from the story, lady bertia is really pretty. O-Ofcourse since it’s brother’s fiancée I won’t do any illicit love. Ah, but since we are on the same class, I should try to befriend my future sister in law.” (Shaun)

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Sitting beside Charles, stuffing cakes into his mouth is my younger brother, sean. Turquoise. Alfoster, who just enrolled today was smiling without any ill intent.

To that I replied [I’m sure bertia would be very delighted] to sean with a smile,and his smile turned brighter.

Having a lighter blond hair than me, my brother has the same face features as me, and our smiling expression should be the same…… although recently, certain group of people started to describe his smile as angelic and mine as fiendish.

Why is it though… I can’t understand

“What about Bart, Nert and Gulgan, how do you guys think about her?” (Charles)

Since my response is too shallow, Charles started bringing the talk to Nert who’s hugging his feet while reading book, Bart who’s drinking tea in-front of him, and also Gulgan who’s sitting on his personal table doing paperworks.

“Since It’s someone that the prince choose, I have no right to do something as rude as having comment on her. It’s disturbing my work so don’t talk to me at the moment” (Gulgan)

The first one who replied him is Gulgan.

“Come to think of if, Gulgan is originally from nochesse family right? Haven’t you guys met until today?” (Charles)

“Since I’m from the branch family, I only looked at them from the sides. Since Lady Bertia came from the main family, I don’t have the right to speak with her. Thanks for reading on ManaNovel!

Gulgan with his serious personality, didn’t want to accompany Charles with his talk, never took an eye of from his documents while talking, as if to show that he refuse to participate in the talk anymore.

Charles also noticed that Gulgan with his serious personality would not reply to him anymore so he left him out from the talk and shrug his shoulder.

Gulgan. Dress. Nochesse, and changed to Gulgan Dress Uradil.1

After becoming the son of earl Uradil, as Bertia foretold is a highly talented person.

After finishing the talk with Bertia, I made a thorough investigation on him, and found out that it is really a shame to have someone as capable as him buried within the branch family of the nochesse family. Thus after discussing with marquis Nochesse, we sent him to infiltrate earl uradil’s house as an adopted son to watch over things.

Of course this brings a certain amount of risk, so there might be a possibility of him and his family to reject the proposal but…… he and his family happily became my subordinates.

He also said [To think that someone such as me that came from the branch family that couldn’t be called a noble could be selected by your highness to serve you. I shall repay this kindness by swearing my loyalty to you, please leave this matter to me.] while kneeling like a knight with tears flowing. That made me almost avert my eyes. But since in the end things turn out well let’s leave it at there.

Of course even if you rip my mouth open, I won’t say that I’m putting my eyes on him because of bertia’s past memories.

After that, he managed to infiltrate Uradil’s house as it’s adopted son and worked for me in the academy.

His way of thinking is a bit rigid, so he’s still in the middle of his training as a [shadow]

With his sense of purpose to eliminate evil, and loyalty towards me, He’s quick to absorb the teaching thus I should be able to expect a lot of things from him in the future.

What a good loot.

In this matter, I must give my thanks to Bertia.

“Baartzzz, how do you think about her?”(Charles) 2

A man with a big body as his characteristics – Bart nokins, Charles switch the conversation target to him who’s drinking tea with a cup that looks miniscule compared to his body.

“I’m talking about lady Bertia. It’s the bishojo that stood out in the girl’s group on the entrance ceremony.” (Charles)

…… He’s giving her a good evaluation just because he doesn’t know how she usually behaves.

If he saw how she behaved, I’m sure he would be surprised by the gap of her appearance and personality.

Well, for me the gap is included in my interest.3

“Ahhh, the one with crimson hair”(Bart)

“Yeah that one! What do you think about her from your perspective”(Charles)

“She’s a splendid woman”(Bart)

Seeming to imagine bertia’s figure in his head, Bart closed his eyes while nodding. Seeing him…… somehow I have this irritating feeling in my chest.

“I know right? I always thought that you are single minded about martial arts, contrarily you do know your stuff about woman huh”(Charles)

“Of course. That beautiful legs and chest, the line that stretches from both of her arms to wrist, furthermore that waist line. It’s splendid”(Bart)

“Oh my. So your interest lies there. What a youth like viewpoint”(Charles)

Charles smiled with his perverted smile, while shaun’s face turned red.

……Bart, what the hell are you saying right in front of her fiancé?

Seems like he needs to be reeducated.

“Of course! Even though it’s still too early to be used in a fight, she’s still one of the most trained one in the midst of all noble woman. To boot it up, the muscles she trained are perfectly calculated and didn’t make her look macho. It’s nothing but splendid!”(Bart)

…… no, somehow the education he needs is different from what I originally thought.

Mostly about how to interact, approach and thought about females.

He is someone who would be entrusted with my safety. If he made such a rude remark on duty to foreign diplomats it’s not gonna be funny.

This also couldn’t be counted as a compliment if spoken to a man.

I doubt there will be someone who’s happy if his wife is praised as [having superb quality muscles].

Even if there is someone who’s happy I think that it’d be on the minority.

Rather than betting on a bet with almost no chance of winning, and do my best to follow up on his misses, it’s better to lead him back to the proper path.

“Oi oi Bart, No matter how good her proportion is, a noblewoman won’t train until such a degree you know? A normal noblewoman won’t even be doing any exercise.” (Charles)

“No, I’m sure that is a result of training. She must have done quite an amount of running and muscle training.”(Bart)

“That’s why I said it’s impossible. A noblewoman amongst noblewoman such as lady Bertia won’t do such a thing. I don’t mind if you’re assuming or whatnot but don’t say such a thing in front of her alright? She’ll get pissed.”(Charles)

Charles retorted Bart with a wry smile.

Charles may like to make jokes on things, but once you knew him well, he’s the type that’s considerate to others.

That’s why, I’m sure even this advice was because he cares for Bart and try to tell him about the common situation…… I’m sorry to say this, but Bart’s hit the bulls-eye here.

Yeah this is that… Before doing Bart’s reeducation, I should do something on Bertia’s stamina training called diet that I’ve been worrying for quite sometime.

But noblewoman amongst noblewoman huh…………

From the [Envoy] that I sent to her house, to learn the prideful conduct (like a villainess)–This is by any means the evaluation result of her everyday training… Her evaluation of herself seems to be very different from others’ evaluation.

That’s why, if she focuses on it, she would somehow be able to handle the things. But once she relaxed or flustered, her mask would fall in no time.

On the very least, there was not a single time where her mask didn’t fall in front of me.

As a result, people who always hang out with me would know her true nature in no time at all……… I’m looking forward to their reactions.

To hide the smile that uncontrollable began to form, I raised the document in my hand just enough to cover my mouth.

Behind me, Zeno who look over the conversation between Bart and Charles can be seen to be averting his eyes somewhere.

“Hey Nert, don’t just focus on your book and say something”(Charles)

After trying his best to change Bart’s opinion but with no avail, Charles bring the topic to Nert.

Nert who was relieved when the talk was brought into Bart, reluctantly raised his face when called.

“mu… It’s impossible. It’s Bart we’re talking about”(Nert)

“you’re right it’s Bart indeed…”(Charles)

Charles smiled wryly to Nert’s reply.

Bart is the type of guy where no one would have any opinion on his battle potential, but on these kind of noble-social situation,no… he’s hopeless on any social situation.

Furthermore, since he’s quite reckless, once he decided, he wouldn’t bend to anything or anyone.

………… For me, by making use of his honesty me he’ll be very easy to manipulate to do my bidding.

Anyway, since this is the core of his personality, I don’t think it can be changed easily in a situation like this.

This is also understood by Nert and Charles, and that’s why they just leave the talk at [Well it is Bart].

“Then, what do Nert think?”(Charles)

“Hm? About lady Bertia?”(Nert)

“Yeah, if possible I wanted your honest opinion”(Charles)

……Charles, it’s useless even if you send a glance to me. I’m busy checking the documents right now so I don’t have the leisure to give you an interesting reaction.

Won’t he give up just by me almost smiling when we talk about Bertia’s muscle training?

“Uuun, I’m kinda bad with that kind of smart looking people… It feels like I was going to get scolded and it scares me.”(Nert)

………………hmm? Who are they talking about again?

“Ah. She is definitely beautiful, but she also has that cool side, like someone who would speak straight to the point. From my point of view, I don’t mind getting scolded by someone as beautiful as her though”(Charles)4