Breaking Off The Engagement… Bring It On! Chapter 28

I understood the circ.u.mstances regarding his meeting with Anjiu-sama .. no, Aren-sama.
So, how did it turn into breaking off the engagement with me from there?

“Leon-sama, I understand how you got to know Aren-sama now. However, there is something I can’t make sense of still. .. Why did you declare to break off the engagement with me? Is it because you fell for Aren-sama?” 

Gan!

Ah, this time he splendidly hit the table with his head.
What’s more he just stayed trembling and quivering like that.
This one must have been painful~ If it was Brother he’d be completely fine, but Leon-sama didn’t seem that way.

“Ri, Ririina .. I don’t want to look at guys as romantic interests.”

Eh, but didn’t you have a previous offence for that.
The one labeled Chris-sama, that is.

“Ririina, do you really towards me .. yes, I didn’t want to acknowledge it until now and tried this and that but surely, no, absolutely surely you don’t think anything of me, do you? Especially, you really don’t like me, nor dislike me, isn’t that right? If there were applicable words for that .. they would be indifference, I guess.”

At this point, for the first time, Leon-sama met my gaze.
Those eyes knew that his words just now had been correct, but even still seemed to wish for me to refute that. It were eyes that were clinging onto that.
It would be easy for me to lie here.
But today I came here with the decision to say the things I wanted to say.

“Leon-sama .. I think it is exactly as you say. Many things have happened to me but I do not dislike you. Still, that doesn’t mean I like you either. I truly apologize, but from receiving everything Leon-sama has done so far and up until now I have not been able to develop any favour towards you.”

Leon-sama said ‘As expected, huh’ and once again averted his eyes.
It seemed he would not again meet mine, anymore.
For a while we pa.s.sed the time in silence.
Not much time pa.s.sed probably, but it felt like an extremely long one.

There, at that time there was a ruckus outside the room.
Me and Leon-sama directed our sights in the direction of the door.
Baaan!
And as we did the door was flung open with great vigour and someone entered.

“Leon! Ririinsama! Are you alright!?”

The one that had come in was .. aah, that person was the real Aren-sama, wasn’t it.
His current appearance had short hair and wore a simple s.h.i.+rt and trousers.
Even then I thought that his face was quite a cute one. If he wore a skirt and had longer hair you’d mistake him for a girl.

“What is it? Anjiu .. no, Aren. Just what happened, for you to be so panicked.”

Aren-sama seemed rather out of it.

“No, if you’re okay that’s fine. But we may not have much time, it would be better to get away from here as fast as possible.”

Eh?
What is going on, what does that mean?
Not being able to a.s.sess the situation I looked at Aren-sama.

“I can explain the reason to you later, anyway let’s move!”

It appeared he was at wits’ end in regard to the state of affairs.

Batabatabata.
Several footsteps could be heard from outside the door.
To be running around like that inside the castle, that’s quite amazing, huh.
While I was leisurely considering that the door was flung open again.

“They’re here! Capture them!”

5 armed soldiers entered the room.
Just what is the matter, really?
Even as a joke to be barging into the Prince’s room like that ..

“Just who on earth are you people? Are you aware that this is my room?”

The soldiers didn’t answer.
However, they declared this.

“We have come here to capture Prince Leon! And by the way Ririinjou as well. However, if it seems like you would defy us we have orders that her life doesn’t matter. If you like your life stay still and let yourself be arrested obediently.”

Hohou.
On top of being an aside, even my life is being taken lightly ..
What’s more, with just 5 people.
I don’t know what is going on, but if you say you are threatening my life then of course I will accept your challenge.
As for a weappon, aren’t there a lot of them over there?

I inquired of Aren-sama in a quiet voice.

‘You have an idea who those soldiers are, don’t you? So for now it should be okay to crush them, yes?” 

Aren-sama nodded slightly twice.
I see, so he did, it’s okay to crush them then.
The soldiers were closing in on us.
I pushed aside Leon-sama who had been at the front and moved forward.
It would seem the soldiers had thought I would be quietly letting myself get captured.

I swiftly grabbed the arm that flew drew closer to me in the next instant and flung of the corresponding soldier into the soldiers behind him.
The soldiers that hadn’t expected any opposition fell like dominos.
During that opening I wielded the sword I had stolen from the soldier and brought down the two remaining foes that had avoided harm in a single strike each.

I borrowed the rope that the soldiers had brought with them for the capture.
Nh? I feel as though there had been the same pattern recently. 
Leon-sama and Aren-sama helped out as well in order to tie up the soldiers.

“Aren-sama, what is the meaning of this, I wonder? If you know anything would be so kind as to tell us?”

I did pose it as a question, but it was with the feeling of no arguing about it, you will tell us.
It was a rather serious affair, after all.

” .. fuu. To get straight to the point, my gone mad Father has incited a revolt, is what’s going on.”

Yes? A revolt?
Aren-sama’s Father would be the Duke, right?
In that case you couldn’t call it anything but having gone mad.