I Didn't Even Want To Live, But God Forced Me To Reincarnate! Chapter 29: How To Handle A Little Prince?

"Lyra, you still look so tired. How was it with Luca?" Dad asked during the dinner, opening the conversation. I slept shortly after arriving until before dinner.

"Well... Lucius-sama doesn't seem to care about my presence at all... I wonder how should I act in front of him. I followed what he wanted to do and all, but he didn't seem to be happy about it? Also, he needs to stop doing his pranks, but I didn't dare to tell him off" I poured all my mind.

"Hmm, should I go in your stead?" Alt-nii asked.

"Wha, how dare he, against my Lyra...?!" Dad mumbled.

Uhm well Dad, he is the prince! So he should dare to do that.

"Lyra, are you… interested to be the future queen, anyway?" Dad suddenly dropped a bomb.

"Huh?!" I reflexively retorted. My mind is doing the a.n.a.lysis right now.

Being the future queen means I have to marry whoever is the crown prince. From the looks of it, that brat will be the crown prince. That means, I have to marry him.

"Me? Marrying that brat? Yeah, no!" I dissed.

Towards my honest answer, Mom chuckled, and Dad sighed in relief.

"When most girls dream of marrying a prince… Mwahaha, you are indeed my little sister!" Alt-nii gave his big thumb to me and winked.

I gasped when I realized what I just did.

"Uhm… Dad, Mom, are you hoping that I will be the queen some day?" I timidly asked. This… is a very important question that could change the course of my life.

"Huh? Oh, no, no! I don't want you to be s.n.a.t.c.hed away by anyone, not even the king of any country!" Dad answered.

"Ahaha, that's exaggerating, Cyan. You know you will have to give her off when she's married in the future," Mom reminded Dad.

Dad's shoulders slumped down in his dejection and denial of the future reality.

"Oh and, Lyra, you are free to choose who you want to marry. Your mom and dad were opposed to our engagement before and decided we won't impose that political marriage thing on our children," Mom smiled.

That's good to know!

Married off for political reasons is the fate for most n.o.bles, but I a.s.sume the n.o.bles who got married out of love would hate to keep that tradition going.

Which means, perhaps the king wouldn't force political marriages to his children, and I wouldn't have the risk of being forced into a marriage with the prince.

Ah! Wait… that would be funny, Mom and Dad were engaged to each other, but opposed that engagement… and then they got married out of their own accord??

"But, Lyra would make an awesome queen, I think!" Alt-nii said.

Can I take that as a compliment, without thinking about how I can be a queen…? (Marrying the crown prince)

"By the way, Alt-nii... when I was born... did you feel like I stole away Mommy and Daddy's attention...?"

"Huh? Ah, hmmm, I think I felt that way for quite a while... but I can't remember," Alt-nii chuckles.

"Oh, Altaire did rebel a bit during the first few weeks when you were born, Lyra," Mom confirmed it to me.

"And then, what did you do?" I asked.

"Well? In our case... we talked to him about it... and well, he's had Clavis coming over to play starting at that time," Mom tried to recall those old time.

"Yup, Clavis is fun to tease! Ehe!"

"Uhmm... Alt-nii?"

"Nah, at first he tried to endure all my pranks... But then he exploded and yelled at me. After coming to his senses, he apologized many times, I guess, but then he murmurred that I was being too overboard. From what I remember... hmm, yeah, that was what made my impression on him change. I remember I finally acknowledged him as an interesting fellow at that day! So I told him to address me as just Altaire," he said.

...so, how severe were your pranks that Clavis exploded?!

"Ah, but my opponent is the prince here, aah, I wonder what I should do..."

I sighed. I can't think any of the right answer.

"Lyra, I think you can just act however you want to," Dad finally speaks.

"Huh? But, I wouldn't want to incur the wrath of the royal family..."

"I believe that the royal family won't get mad at you for such a thing. Instead, I think that since most people around the prince all think like that, he gets bored, right? And seeing that n.o.body can really oppose him and give him a scolding as much as his parents, that caused him to pull more pranks in order to know until when can they withstand it?" Dad speculates.

That is logical.

However...

"He might be angry at me... and that may not do good on our family... not only me..."

"Ah, well... I think it's better for you to display your real self and let the others decide on how they're gonna respond to that rather than trying to please them. I still believe that t.i.tus and Shaula won't stay quiet if Luca is acting selfish and makes up a story about you... if Luca is capable of doing that," Dad says.

I am contemplating...

"Besides," he added as he cradled me into his arms, "even if the royal family comes to dislike us, we would still be here and support your decision, Lyra, so long as it's a right decision."

(Deep inside his heart, Cyan knows that t.i.tus won't ever do that, unless the king is possessed by some mad ghost.)

Ah—

Mom nodded and Alt-nii, too.

"Go and catch that prince, Lyra! Defeat him!" Alt-nii puts his hand in the air.

Now, I have my family's full back-up and support to act as I see fit towards the prince, without worrying any single thing.

I can't imagine how it will turn out...

If that can at least reduce the prince's antics, then it'd be good.

If not, then at least I won't have to deal with him again, I guess. Which doesn't really matter to my family, it seems. They aren't slightest bit worried on how I won't get chosen as the future queen, and that I should be fawning over the prince so that I will be selected. They don't seem to care about that kind of thing at all.

They want to support me to just be myself.

And do whatever I want, regardless of what others say, as long as it is not something bad.

Alright, just you wait, you little brat!!

This Lyra will be coming at you with her full might, so beware!!

A life lesson is coming your way, in a hard style!

Inside of my game-defiled mind, I can hear a mechanical BGM resounding.

★NPC : t.i.tle unlocked, [The Mighty Lyra]!★