My Fiancee Was the Villainess of This World

2 – Encounter with the Darkness (2)

Priscilla Lou Arvest van Istria.

She is the eldest daughter of Count Arvest in Istria and became my fiance six years ago.

It is not that there was a political movement called an arranged marriage.

I’m not sure what the reason was, but they say that the reason for this engagement was only me.

It’s really unknown.

Six years ago, I hadn’t even tasted alcohol yet.

Dalgrak.

The maid who announced Priscilla’s arrival gave her a car.

That tea was the Istrian tea that I usually enjoy the most.

‘Oh, is that so?’

I also remember things from when I was 5 years old, but strangely, the memories from 6 years ago are vague.

So I wondered why I had visited that village, but I don’t know if it was to see the cultivation of this tea.

In the process, our eyes met by chance, and I must have fallen in love with that pale color at the time when I had no eyes to see people yet.

It was natural to think so, Priscilla was an outrageous beauty.

Yes, she is enough beauty to match this body.

If it weren’t for the witches who threatened this empire, and furthermore, the world.

While I was thinking that, Priscilla was looking down at the teacup with a slightly puzzled expression.

“You mean you don’t want to accept the car I give you?”

“How could that be? But….”

Priscilla caressed the handle of her teacup with her index finger, looking a bit confused.

“You still like tea from Istria.”

The expression ‘still’ she spouted out was strangely bothering me.

Me and her are engaged.

So it’s okay to know her taste, but….

‘Ah, I don’t know.’

That must have been the concern.

Until a little while ago, I didn’t know much about her except for the information that this witch was the eldest daughter of a village countess, and that, unfortunately, she was the same age as me, born two months before me.

Her occasional rumors about her talent were jarring, and she deliberately cut off her interest in her.

‘It reminds me of him.’

When I think about it now, I think it was a really petty and unmanly act.

Originally, I should have apologized for the mistakes of my youth, but

‘Even an apology has to be done while choosing the other person.’

Because it is unacceptable to bow down to a witch who will destroy the world.

While thinking that, Priscilla, who had been staring at the teacup for a long time, slowly lifted the teacup.

It was just an action.

But that one movement was so graceful that I almost forgot that the woman in front of me was a witch.

Her movements were so beautiful that her maid, who was waiting to serve her tea, looked at her in awe of her.

“… Are you really okay?”

After drinking the tea I gave her, Priscilla looked at me with an expression that could not read her emotions.

A little higher than the eye.

It seemed that he was worried about my hair.

If it were me, I would have been sarcastic here once.

To borrow an expression from a previous life, wouldn’t it have come out as if Mattangi had gone away?

It seemed that such words would come out right away, but then it might hasten the end of this world.

‘I have to restrain myself.’

Then….

‘Friends are close, but enemies are closer.’

The shrine maiden chosen by the shadow of the end.

You never know when she will have a seizure and bring darkness to the world.

So she needs to be monitored, but since she lives in the far eastern corner of Istria, it’s difficult to keep an eye on her.

In the first place, there is no one who can watch her with my orders!

So she needs to keep her within reach of her eyes.

Fortunately, it won’t be difficult.

In less than a year, we will enter Soleil.

The reason she stays at Count Arbest’s villa in the capital is overflowing with tea.

Above all, she and I are bound by engagement.

If I tell her that she wants to think about her relationship more positively, how can she refuse my wishes?

If you have any problems….

‘It should be natural.’

Maybe she has already become a witch.

If I showed a behavior that was too unnatural, it would suddenly change and aim at my neck.

‘Tsk.’

To think I should be afraid of a girl who is only about the chest of this body at most….

Still, that’s what I have to do.

I have already found out that she is a disturbing element.

If you don’t know, you can’t let this guy go freely in a situation where you know.

For some reason, this guy might turn into a witch and harm the people.

I am a member of the royal family even if I rot.

In other words, they are obligated to take responsibility for the lives of the people who have devoted their allegiance to the empire.

That’s why I made up my mind.

“No, it’s not okay.”

After I said that, I signaled her maid to leave.

As her maid went outside, I looked at Priscilla once and then threw my gaze out of her window.

The sky in mid-May was so clear that I didn’t even know what I was thinking.

“I will call the priest right now.”

“No, I’m not talking about that. In the meantime… It made me realize that I had been living the wrong way.”

“… Yes?”

Is it surprising that the words of regret overflowed from the lips of that idiot?

Unusually, Priscilla’s eyes widened.

Did you know you could make a face like that?

It was unexpected.

“Before you came, 4 nobles came to see me, worried about my safety. They are the first to see them. They were probably nobles who came from far away.”

Even a fool is a prince.

So, I know all about the faces of nobles who live in the capital or are called prestigious families.

But the people who came this time were the first people I had ever seen.

I paid a lot of attention to the clothes I was wearing, but they were a bit out of fashion in the capital.

They were probably nobles who came to visit from the countryside as much as Istria.

They came from all over the country to the point where they didn’t even know about my rumors.

“It was embarrassing. Without them, I am in a position where I cannot even receive proper hospital visits. So I decided to change.”

“… It’s not like that. I think everyone restrained themselves because they were considerate of Maximilian-sama.”

He really is a nice talker.

If it wasn’t for the witch, it was a really cunning answer that she might have been a little embarrassed about.

“Maybe it was.”

After saying that, I paused once.

It was a phase where you shouldn’t make mistakes, so it was necessary to pay attention to what you said.

“Huh.”

I looked at Priscilla, relaxed her shoulders and smiled lightly.

“Your words are so magical.”

“… That was not my intention. Sorry.”

“There is no need to apologize. There is a problem with me, who cannot accept your good intentions as they are.”

My eyes met Priscilla.

She looked like someone who realized that a meteorite would fall on the empire tomorrow.

There was even a crack in her perfectly beautiful posture that served as an example for others.

“The person who stays by your side when you are in trouble is a true nobleman. It was a day to realize that.”

As I said that, I tightened her eyes and looked at Priscilla.

“I couldn’t even notice that she was near me….”

This should be enough.

‘It’s disgusting.’

Huh… Indeed.

I could see why the guy from my previous life had ignored most of the scenarios.

“I just did what I was supposed to do as Maximilian-sama’s fiancée.”

“Ha.”

I laughed involuntarily.

“Then those who didn’t come here are saying that they didn’t do their duty as servants.”

Did the servants who didn’t come to see me commit rudeness, or did she, who didn’t consider me and came to visit her in the hospital, violating her rudeness?

She was able to place her self-pollination on her own.

“….”

She seems to be at a loss for words even though she seems superhuman in this situation.

As if she wanted to save a little time, she gracefully raised her teacup while pretending not to.

Dalgrak.

The attitude was elegant.

However, unlike before, the moment I lifted the teacup, there was a noise that wasn’t small.

He was acting expressionless, but he looked very embarrassed.

‘Unexpectedly… Tsk.’

It’s the last days.

Is it because he is at such an age?

To think that that witch is cute for a moment.

Anyway, the joke should end here.

“Just kidding.”

I looked at Priscilla with a smile.

“Now, when the position changes… Because I think I would do the same.”

Flinch.

This time the teacup was shaken quite loudly.

Unexpectedly, the reaction was interesting, and he had something that made me want to keep playing with him.

Click.

Priscilla hurriedly put the teacup down, probably thinking that there would be a problem if she held the teacup as it is.

Then there was a noise that was incomparable to the previous one.

But she didn’t seem to have time to bother with that.

“Priscilla.”

“… Yes, Maximilian.”

“Soleil’s entrance ceremony is just around the corner.”

Perhaps because the topic has changed, Priscilla put on a slightly relieved expression.

It was a subtle change that made her eyebrows flinch slightly, but it was easy to notice such a change, as if the imperial family’s education had not been in vain.

“Yes, I look forward to it.”

“Are you ready?”

“I will do my best.”

“No, probably not.”

“Maximilian?”

“She would put her ejaculation in her hands just to be considerate of me anyway. Quit.”

I think I hit the point again this time.

I guess so.

She somehow seemed to act that way if she had been identified through a series of conversations.

“I don’t think I am a very suitable person for a crown prince.”

“No!”

She showed off her disheveled appearance, which is rare for her.

It was an unexpected sight.

“… Sorry.”

Perhaps realizing her mistake, Priscilla shrank and lowered her head.

I looked at her and continued her words.

“Thank you for thinking that way. But at least others will think so.”

So there are 5 people who came to my hospital today.

“I want to be different, Priscilla. At least to the point where I wouldn’t be ashamed of it as a member of the royal family.”

Priscilla shrugged her shoulders.

He looked like a child being scolded.

“There must be a lot of attention at Soleil’s entrance ceremony. If your name is in front of my name, I think it would create an interesting scene.”

And then, finally deciding that the worst she had ever imagined had come, she lowered her head even further to her blackened, dead face.

No matter how foolish I am, even if I listen to her, and even if she is evaluated as a talented woman of her generation, there is a good thing.

If she gets a better grade than me on her entrance exam, she will probably start having a terrible school life that she is afraid to even imagine.

No, I’m glad it’s over with that.

It will be a situation where you can’t even set foot in the social world, and it’s practically a death sentence as a noble lady.

Yeah, I was in a situation where I was literally telling her to die.

“Priscilla.”

“… Yes, Maximilian-sama.”

“Do you think I am suitable as a crown prince?”

“Of course.”

“Then believe me. At least for you alone.”

If you can’t overcome that level of difficulty, it’s impossible to stop the ‘Shadow of the End’ without the heroine’s help.

“But….”

“Are you anxious?”

Of course I’m anxious.

So-

“If you are so anxious… Watch over me.”

Is this enough to keep her here?

I sipped my cold, flavorless tea and laughed the most pleasantly I’ve had it in a while.