I reincarnated, but I think the Prince (fiancé) has given up – The Prince 2

T/N : If the previous chapter showed Alberto’s cute and innocent first love, this chapter will..erm..change your mind about it  😂
Please thank JetonS for editing this story! ^^

Translator : KuRuuRuu
Editor        : JetonS

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The Prince 2

It didn’t take a long time for Christina and Alberto to open their hearts to each other. After he visited the Duke’s mansion several times, she began to show an innocent favorability towards him.

The eyes she had every time she greeted Alberto in the entrance hall were overflowing with joy, different from the one she showed to other noble’s children, she would show a smile full of relief. Each time he saw such Christina, his impulse to touch her kept on increasing.

Unfortunately the maid was told by the butler who had such intense eyes to watch them over, thus there was no chance for him to touch her, however, Alberto’s eyes seemed to frequently be drawn towards her beautiful petal-like lips over and over again.

That was, a day when the rain poured heavily since the morning. Alberto who had promised to meet with Christina, had the alternative to not go out because of the weather, but his desire to meet her outweighed it.

She who greeted him in the entrance hall, wore a dress with the same violet color as her eyes, and laughed joyfully.

“Thank you for coming even though it’s raining, Al”

“There is no way I would break my promise with Kuu just because it’s raining, right?”

The two who had completely become close friends, in just a few months started to call each other by nicknames.

As if embarrassed, she bashfully took him by the hand.

“Then, today let’s go to the library? My great-grandfather has a lot of books, you see. Books about stars.”

“Un“^[1]

As long as it’s with Christina, everywhere will be nice. Led by her hand, they went to the second floor, and today, there was only a single maid following them. The other maids were busy handing cloths over to the wet escort knights and didn’t seem to be available at the moment.

The library in the Duke’s mansion was smaller than the one in the royal palace, however it had a tremendous number of books. While receiving the explanation from the maid that there were more than a thousand books, he looked around the rows of bookshelves inside that square room. Christina, as if used to this place, immediately went to her aimed bookshelf.

In order to light the dark room because of the bad weather, the maid headed towards the window.

“Al! I’m here”

She was between the bookshelves on the second row from the deepest part of the room. She was already holding a book and was sitting on the floor. Although there were several reading desks placed beside the window, it seemed she usually sat down and read the book in the aisle. The maid also took a glance at her, but then she focused on opening the curtain.

The one she was reading was a picture book about the constellation. Directed towards children, the explanation in the book was written in big letters.

Alberto sat next to her, and peeked into the book.

“Does Al know? If you connect the stars, they can become animals or Goddesses in the myths. And then, the stars also fall in love with each other. Wonderful, right?”

Because he had learnt general knowledge, he knew about the constellation to some degree.

She happily told him the old stories related to the constellation.

Because the maid had opened the curtain, he could clearly see Christina’s face. Her eyes shone happily, and her face who was engrossed in the book was very beautiful.

The silver hair reflected the light. Her long eyelashes were also silver and light seemed to pass through them. The light shone into her amethyst eyes producing sparkle that was even more beautiful than any jewel. Under her small nose, was her red lips that seemed soft.

When he thought whether it was alright for him to kiss that white peach like cheek, she suddenly raised her head.

“……”

She blankly stare back at him. Her big amethyst eyes saw only him.

── Even though it would be better if she would see only me.

Even though it would be better if I was the only one reflected in her eyes, and he remembered his jealousy towards the book. Her adorable lips were slightly opened. When his gaze turned from her eyes into her lips, he couldn’t think anymore. (T/N : a whole new level of jealousy……)

Alberto leaned his body and softly pressed her lips with his lips.

It was a moment that felt like an eternity, yet also an instant. Her lips were very soft and felt good.

When their lips parted, Christina, who he thought would be angry, was blushing and holding her lips. Thinking that her reaction was extremely adorable, Alberto inadvertently grinned. Gripping her hands that were holding her lips, he ignored her startling and whispered to her ear.

“It’s a secret from everyone, okay?”

She was startled.

She panickedly looked behind her. The maid who was opening the curtain, was opening the one near the library entrance and was not paying attention to here.

Feeling relieved, she relaxed her shoulder, but when he circled his arm around her waist, her body tensed up again. For him, it was the first time he acted like this, but he wanted to act like an elder brother and pretended to be composed.

It felt as if the sound of her heartbeat could be heard. Becoming bright red with teary eyes, the little girl who was trembling in embarrassment and guilt was extremely cute.

Restraining his excitement, Alberto put their forehead together and said in a small voice.

“…… Let’s do it again next time”

Christina who was being looked at by the bewitching gaze unbecoming of a child, slightly nodded while trembling.

Alberto felt like he wanted to shout in joy.

She forgives me for kissing her. That means──she also has the same feelings as me.

──My dear, dear Christina. My cute angel.

The cutest angel that would make everyone turn around and look at her, was no one’s but his fiancée, it was the day he thanked God for that wonder.

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The closer they got, the more she started to say adorable selfish things.

Without asking about his schedule, she would compel him to come to the Duke’s mansion on weekend, or would suddenly show up in the royal palace and say something like let’s go out to the town.

As their age were apart by three years, he kept his composure and accepted her selfishness.

Whenever he heard her selfishness, he would listen to it even while having a wry smile, and she being herself, if he said it was no good, although with a sullen face, she would withdraw.

Above all, she who was pleading with sparkling eyes was extremely cute.

After several years passed, he was requested by her to go around jewelry shops in the city with her. The jewelry she chose, were all the highest quality one, and thinking whether she might like the expensive one better, he picked up a suitable brooch nearby. The round brooch which was using twelve kinds of jewels, had the highest price among the goods inside the store because of its jewels.

“…… Alberto-sama? Did you find anything good?”

She ,who wore a blue jeweled ornament on her hair, peeked into his hand. And for an instant, she frowned.

She immediately fixed her expression and smiled. She nonchalantly took the jewel from Alberto’s hand, returned it to its original place, and pointed her finger at another counter.

“Nee Alberto-sama. I want to see the hair ornament over there. Do you want see it together?”

“Aa……Un.”

He was shocked. His cute angel, frowned for the first time. Moreover, it was after she saw the jewel he chose. That was obviously, not the type of jewel that she liked.

He looked at her again. Several blue jewels arranged on a silver base hair ornament, a pearl necklace, and a blue dress of the newest model. The jewelry shopkeeper looked at her who was looking around the counter, and smiled broadly.

“How about this one? It fits ojou-sama’s eyes well”

The store keeper who he thought would force expensive goods only since they looked like nobles, held out a gem brooch which was not expensive yet not cheap either. Combining a thinly polished violet gem and a blue gem, making it into a shape of flower, it was certainly beautiful and suited her.

She delightfully smiled.

Even if it is not expensive, she seems to be happy──

Since then, he minutely observed the clothes, hair ornaments, and necklaces that she wore, and each time he chose a present for her, it was a hard work. While listening to the clerk’s suggestion, he would also choose according to her sense of fashion.

When she was about thirteen, her breast started to swell, her waist got smaller,  and Alberto was forced to endure in many ways.

If he broke the promise with Duke Zariel, the engagement might be called off, and thus he kept his reasoning in front of this ultimate choice.

However, as if testing him, after her debut when she was fourteen, she began to change her dress type. Showing off her voluptuous breast with low neckline, a kind of dress that made men wanted to stick close to her.

The first time he saw it, he didn’t know where to look and winced. What if she wear that dress and attracted other men’s eyes, he remembered having that kind of irritation, nevertheless, Alberto who had already become her captive did not have the guts to warn her. Besides, he was also considerably pleased with that design. (T/N : *facepalm* this pathetic pervert……)

It was just, maintaining a gentleman smile so his face would not become indecent was very hard.

Christina, wearing that kind of dresses and using bright makeup, completely changed the fashion trend of the high society. Before, even though it was popular to wear dresses that covered the neck, her type of suggestive dress quickly became the trend.

As if chasing after her, the female group started to grandiosely wear dresses with lots of exposure.

If she was to wear a new hair ornament, everyone would choose similar things all together. If she was to use a feather folding fan, it would soon become the mainstream.

For Alberto who always gave present to her on her birthday, this was a considerable pressure. The thing he sent would always be worn by her joyfully. At the evening party she would definitely wear something and boast it to other people.

And then, it was her fifteenth birthday.

The grown up her became a terribly beautiful woman.

The silver hair that reached her waist. Her big amethyst eyes were as they were, her eyelashes were curled, and charming make up was put on the side of her eyes. Her lips which was nothing but lovely, now emitted a plump gloss that made him want to kiss her just by smiling, the soft fair skin of her plump chest which was showed off, each time it entered his line of view, would ended up making him reach out his hand. The small waist seemed to break when he circled his hand. And then, her body was soft no matter where he touched.

Behind the back of the maids and the butlers, under the shade of a tree in the royal palace, or on the secret hill where the sunset looked beautiful, or in her mansion’s library, he would kiss her, but after she turned fourteen, his self control seemed to almost not function any more.

Losing his ability to suppress his impulse that wanted to make her his own immediately, although it was an agonizing decision, he distanced himself from her. Since if we meet I’ll want to touch her, there is no other way.

He wanted to meet her at least during her birthday, but he couldn’t go out due to the military inspection,  and in the end, he sent her pink rose and attached it with only a card. The meaning of the pink rose in flower language, [beautiful lady], were words that existed only for her, was what he thought.

However, it might be bad for him to not meet her during her birthday, as after that day, she turned cold.

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Even though before, every time he picked her up to go to the ball she would greet him while blushing with moist eyes, after that birthday she started to give off unamused atmosphere as if she did not care about anything.

Her makeup and dresses were also not the flashy ones anymore, they changed to modest and mature ones suitable for the present her. The dazzling her was like a full bloom large rose, but when she wore modest color, as if a goddess had descended, she was such a divine beauty.

When they were dancing, she would pour a painful passionate gaze to Alberto, but after they finished dancing, she would lightly drop her gaze and start to dance with other man.

The men did not only stare at her whose beauty was like a goddess, they would circle their arm around her waist and look down on her voluptuous breast, and when Alberto looked at these men, his murderous intent would start boiling. However, as a prince of a country, he could not monopolize her. The evening party was not a place to dance, but to exchange information.

It was necessary to talk with a lot of nobles, and he could not let himself be thought of as a narrow minded person who wanted to monopolize his beautiful fiancée.

And then one day, when he looked at the girl adopted as the Marquis’ daughter, he realized the hair ornament that looked similar to the one he presented to Christina. He grew pale.

──My present, she isn’t wearing it……

Have I really sent such a senseless present? thinking such things, he was plunged into despair.

“…… Your Highness?”

It was when Marquis Schönhausen dubiously asked him that he returned to his sense. He could not show such a flustered face. He made the best smile he could and somehow remembered the girl’s introduction that he ignored.

As she was just being adopted into the Marquis house, she didn’t know anything, it was that kind of greeting. Then, it was necessary for him to fulfill his role of protecting his citizens.

“Nice to meet you, Clara-sama. It’s alright, you know, so please do not show such an anxious face. You will grow accustomed to it soon. If you’re alright with me, feel free to ask me for any advice anytime you want.”

“……Th, thank you very much……”

Her eyes shone brilliantly, her cheeks flushed, and her mouth looked so happy, seeing that expression of her, damn it── was what he thought.

Since she looked so inexperienced , his tongue slipped.

Alberto, as he was the prince, was instilled with the thought of protecting and giving peace to every citizen since he was young.

Nobles were the first on the list that should protect the citizens, and must never oppress the citizens ── such kind of things.

Carelessly, he forgot that she had become one of those noble ladies. It was necessary to treat the nobles differently than the citizens. Even though he must avoid any speech or conduct that seemed to favor one person ── due to his discomposure, he inadvertently answered her that he would help her personally.

Even he himself realized it, that Alberto who was a prince who was popular with women. There were a lot of noble ladies approaching him with romantic feelings.

The present king ── his father, only had the Queen, but in Noin Kingdom, the royal family was allowed to have concubine. Thus, there were not a few ladies who were thinking that if everything went well, they would be able to be the concubine.

And, the seemingly innocent new noble lady in front of his eyes also had the same eyes as those other ladies. Anyhow, the fact that Alberto already had a fiancée was a common knowledge. To those eyes full of expectation, he caught a glimpse at the considerable desire of wanting to be his concubine.

She spontaneously muttered.

“He is not any different than what the rumors said, a really attractive person……”

Inside Alberto’s mind, click, a sound of something being switched was heard.

For me ── anyone other than Christina is impossible, you know?

As a person who had a fiancée, he had no interest in woman who was showing off her charm even unconsciously, above all, Alberto personally had no interest in women other than Christina.

Although he spitted out words of rejection inside his heart, since there was no confession, he could not refuse her, thus he just overcame it with a smile. Then, when he located where his fiancée was, for some reason she turned her back on him and took a wine glass.

── If you drink wine in this kind of place, won’t you be aimed by other men?

There were a lot of men who were aiming at her.

Because she was the Prince’s fiancée, they would not openly make advances on her, but after she danced a song with Alberto, the number of men rushing to her was not ordinary.

If an opportunity was shown even for a moment, the men would make their moves. A minor drinking alcohol was a common sight in the evening party, however it would be different if it was Christina.

What if her inappropriate conduct as the Prime Minister Duke Zariel’s daughter is used by cunning men?

While being filled by impatience inside his heart, he dealt with the nobles who came to greet him and he headed towards her with long steps.

While he was walking, she had drunk three sips.

As to not let the other nobles saw her, he stood behind her, when he snatched her wine glass, she showed a frightened look on her eyes then started to throw an extraordinarily cute tantrum.

“What are you doing……?”

“Because……because……”

── It’s not ‘because’, isn’t it? Just by drinking three sips, you’ve become several times cuter than usual, you know?

Holding up his impulse of wanting to hug and kiss her, he drank up the wine. She looked up to him in a surprise and shivered. It seemed she thought that Alberto was angry.

He remembered that he felt a strange arousal at the frightened Christina, and to clear up the misunderstanding he whispered to her.

“You are such a bad girl, Christina. Doing such mischief, showing me such face, are you doing it on purpose?”

Her expression of enduring her tears shook his sadistic heart. Suppressing his feeling of wanting to tease her, please don’t show that kind of face, but when he said it she ended up filled with tears more and more.

Alberto, while thinking so cute, kissed her eye. When he gently wrapped her body, she blushed then adorably muttered with teary eyes.

“I have been yearning for you, Alberto-sama……”

To the sudden confession, Alberto raised his eyebrow and smiled wryly.

It was such a cute confession to the point of him wanting to faint in agony.

By chance, he showed off the state where she was engrossed with him to the other men in the hall. It really gave him a sense of superiority.

But he could not act according to his feeling and embraced her squeezingly in front of the public. Alberto, in order to show his composure, said while smiling.

“Thank you, Christina.”

She, returned him a beautiful mature smile.

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