CH 8

On the day of the graduation ceremony, I was on my way to the girls' dormitory with the usual student council members.

I was going to escort my fiancée, Rebecca.

Rebecca and I got engaged when we were 14 years old, just before we entered the academy.

My older brother Ethan, who is three years older than me and is the Crown Prince, is engaged to a princess of the Kingdom of Shium. Rebecca's engagement to me was also political in nature.

Rebecca is the eldest daughter of the family of Marquis Howard, who have been loyal to the country since its founding.

The Howard family has produced queens many times over its long history. In addition to political marriages, they have also had many passionate love stories with princes and princesses.

Despite being one of the most prestigious aristocracies in the country, or perhaps because of it, they seem to have little interest in power struggles at court and tend to avoid holding important positions in the country.

The current head of the family, Marquis Howard, is also a member of the diplomatic staff, but mostly stays in the country to manage his estate.

It was a well-known fact that the Howard family had a princess, but unlike other aristocrats, the Marquis of Howard did not come to sell his daughter as a way to please the royal family.

Therefore, when it was discovered that the "child" that Marquis Howard frequently took to various countries was not his son David, but Rebecca, and that she had steadily built up her diplomatic skills and personal connections, the shock was tremendous.

Rebecca, the future Marquess, was known for her loveliness and cleverness through various foreign dignitaries (this is also sad).

After that, my father and mother, who exchanged words with Rebecca in person, liked her very much and were eager to have her as my wife! I looked at her bleakly.

However, Marquis Howard was not so keen. It is well known that he loves his daughter very much, and there is even a rumor that he even said, "If I marry her off to the royal family, I won't be able to see her often.”