*First Princess Maria’s POV*
The second-year’s examination results have been posted.
The student’s ranks had changed here and there, but there were also a few that either skyrocketed up or slid way down from their original rank.
There are a few students whose results were extraordinary, though.
In particular, the students who placed from first to fourth this time.
And of course, one of those four is I, Maria Kudan
As a person blessed with excellent grades, athletic ability, and beauty, I’m am one of the few ‘elite’ in society, though life can get a little boring sometimes.
There’s just not enough stimulus in my life.
Anyways, because I didn’t want to stay at school any longer, I tentatively decided to return home to the Capital.
If I was going to go somewhere, I didn’t really want to go home, but everyone would get all noisy and start yelling at me if I just decided to take a trip.
Ah! Oh alas! I guess I’ll be bored this summer as well.
I really don’t want to go back home, one of the places I want to visit is actually the Helan territory.
I’d rather go there than the Capital.
Certainly, its commercial facilities are thriving but I don’t really feel the need to go shopping right now.
That is not how I want to spend my summer vacation.
Anyways, as I spent my days bored out of my mind this summer, I was suddenly summoned by Mother.
Apparently, there’s going to be a gathering of princesses from a bunch of neighboring countries here.
And I’m supposed to be our country’s representative.
I don’t really want to do such a thing, I want to go to the Helan territory’s new summer resort.
Eventually, the day came and a tea party was held in the castle gardens.
Around the table, there were about ten girls drinking tea while chatting, including myself.
Oh, look! Somebody just told a boring story, so now we can all laugh and go ‘Ohohohohohoho~’
What’s that? Someone else just told a boring story? Now let’s all laugh and go ‘Ohohohohohoho~’
My stomach was twisting in disgust from the mood, and this is just the start.
Hopefully, this finishes quickly.
As I thought that in the middle of our ‘Ohohohohoho~’ tournament, somebody with a cute face had suddenly appeared.
“Nice to meet you, my name is Lasa Kudan. Sorry for interrupting you.”
“Oh, Lasa.”
I stood up to greet him.
Unlike Arc, Lasa is my cute little brother.
“I was actually about to head over to the Helan territory, so I came here to give my salutations to Ane-sama before I departed.”
“Eh? You’re going to the Helan territory?” …I want to go too.
There’s no way I can just let him leave me in this hell hole, I don’t want to be stuck here with all these princesses!
Falling to my desires by leaving for the Helan territory while abandoning my duties as this country’s princess.
It’ll be difficult, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
“Lasa, can you wait a little bit? I want to go as well.”
I secretly whispered into Lasa’s ear.
“Is that okay?”
Lasa said with a worried undertone.
“It’s fine.”
“Ow! That hurts! My stomach!”
I rammed my knee into his stomach at an angle that the others couldn’t see.
He fell to the ground on his knees with one hand propping himself up, while the other was rubbing his stomach.
“Are you alright?!”
The daughters of the other countries royalty who were just enjoying their tea a few moments ago ran up to us in worry.
Well after his outburst, it’s only natural they’d do that.
“Nee-san…”
Lasa looked up to me with the whites of his eyes showing, but well, let’s just forget the details.
“Are you alright? Is your stomach acting up again? We both know that you’ve had bad bowel movements lately, you should take care of yourself more.”
I said that in a voice loud enough for the rest of the princesses to hear, telling them that my brother is having a constipation problem. Do I feel any shame for doing this? Absolutely not. I’ll do whatever I want to do.
“No, my stomach is fine but- Owowowowow! Nevermind, I think I need someone to call a doctor.”
“I can give you first aid while everyone searches for one.”
“Thanks, but until the doctor comes don’t think you’ll be able to do much.”
“Here, I’m going to do a quick check, okay? So let touch your stomach for a bit… Oh no, I think you’ve stretched something, it’s probably because you’ve let gas accumulate inside too much that this has happened.”
Maybe it’s because they had drunk too much tea while listening to boring stories that some of them had gotten waterlogged stomachs and started letting out splashing sounds.
Whatever you do Lasa, don’t fart.
“Maria-sama, we understand your embarrassment because of your family right now. You can excuse yourself if you wish.”
“There’s no way I could do such a thing!” I need to keep up my image first, I can’t just dash out at the first exit!
What a desperate excuse, telling everyone my brother’s constipated. If someone were to find out that I actually kneed him, as the princess of this country dark clouds would hang over me for the rest of my life.
This has to work no matter what!
“Umm Princess Irina, I believe it would be alright if you didn’t worry so much. My sister is just this kind of person.”
Lasa squeezed out his opinion, you traitor! How could you?!
“What are you saying?! Aren’t you Maria-sama’s brother?! Are you not ashamed of embarrassing her so?!”
Princess Irina told Lasa off with an angry voice.
Lasa then started to scratch his head while making a troubled face.
I’m sorry Lasa.
I know you don’t deserve Princess Irina’s wrath.
“I’ve brought a doctor over!”
Somebody called out while bringing a doctor with them, who ran ahead and rushed over here.
The doctor immediately went to work, checking his abdomen and neck.
I don’t really know what he’s doing.
Well I don’t really care, since he won’t be able to find the cause.
If the doctor can’t find the cause, Lasa will be told that he should go get some more rest back at his room.
Then after I leave with him because I’m ‘worried’, the two of us will escape from his room and take a quick trip over to the Helan territory!
Before that, I’ll make sure to inform grandfather that I’m going to stay in Lasa’s room to watch over his physical condition and that this will probably last until the other princesses go home!
Its perfect!
“Hmm, I can’t figure out what’s wrong. For the time being, he should probably go and get some rest in his room, but if you’re really worried, I can do a more detailed examination, would you like that Maria-sama?”
A perfect diagnosis. I should go and ask father to raise your salary later.
“Yeah, the pain has subsided a little, but for now, I think I’m going to rest in my room.”
“I’ll go watch over you, to make sure you’re alright.”
Mission complete. Now we just need to jump out of your room’s window, and then we can spend the rest of our summer in the Helan territory’s resort!!
Lasa, who seems to have given himself up, sighed.
Now that we’ve gotten this far, that attitude of yours is no good. As I thought about such things, I sent a glare over to Lasa.
“Please wait one moment!!”
Princess Irina suddenly stopped us while raising her voice. What now?
“Let me go watch over him too, I’m a bit worried myself.”
Ugh, what a busybody.
“No, we wouldn’t want to disturb you. Everyone, please continue to enjoy the tea party even after we depart.”
“I can’t allow that. There’s no way I can leave a person whose condition has worsened in my immediate vicinity alone. It’ll only leave me more worried, I can’t leave you to do this by yourself Maria-sama.”
“…yeah.”
* * *
After taking over the conversation, the three of us headed over to Lasa’s room.
Together with us in his room, Lasa lied down on the bed.
Irina, who was here to nurse him pulled a chair over and sat down.
Be brave Lasa. Be friendly, but what am I supposed to do in this situation?!
This whole situation is so boring! I was supposed to be leaving by now!
“In truth, I noticed Maria-sama’s intentions quite a while ago.”
Hmm? Princess Irina suddenly started speaking with a meek look on her face.
“He’s acting, right? He’s not really hurt, is he?”
Eh?! My expression had probably hardened in response to her unexpected words.
“No…he really is sick, Ohohohohoho~”
“I’m not going to blame you or anything, I figured out what you had been trying to do from the very beginning.”
“What? Really?”
“Really, you did all that because you were bored, right? You looked like you wanted to go somewhere.”
“Then, why did you do that back then?”
“‘Because a lot of problems would pop up if I said my true feelings at that moment’, right? I’m sure that you felt the same way when you started that whole commotion.”
“Irina-sama…”
“Maria-sama…”
“You want to leave too?”
“Where though?”
“There’s actually this place famous for its hot springs called the Helan territory. They just opened their new summer resort, and I think it would be a lot of fun there.”
“That sounds nice, I want to go too, but do you have a way out of here?”
“We can leave from the window of course, all you need to get down from there is a rope.”
“Hehehe, this is somewhat exciting, isn’t it?”
The two of us laughed for a little while.
I wonder how long it’s been since I’ve felt this way?
This is fun.
Actually, this might be the first time I’ve met somebody who has understood me so well for the first time in my life.
That’s the feeling I’m getting right now.
“Umm… then can we just leave already then? I was actually supposed to depart quite a while ago.” Lasa suddenly said, breaking the mood.
Thanks for the chapter.
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Prison break…
no, i mean.
Royalty break (either it mean, taking a rest… or breaking confinement… with mate)
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Nope~ it’s a bedroom break… alright it’s sounds weird…
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How about castle break?
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sounds legit~
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Nah it is Ohohohohoho break!
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aayy :)) best sisters-in-law couple eva :v
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Just what I was thinking. Poor Lasa, with this his future of being abandoned while his wife and sister escape is set in stone.
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Thanks for the chapter.
The bank is still offline. : (
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So… What will princess Marina get this time? Does she keep that side quest magnet artifact? (Forgot what it was) Will she be conned (again) in Helan territory?
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Thank u always for ur great work…
^^…
— Oh look! Somebody just told a boring story, so now we can all laugh and go ‘Ohohohohohoho~’
What’s that? Someone else just told a boring story? Now let’s all laugh and go ‘Ohohohohohoho~’ —
What a super nice way to tell the situation…
XD…
— I rammed my knee into his stomach at an angle that the others couldn’t see. —
What a beautiful way to solve the problem…
XD…
the future Helang territory.
To Helang territory”
Is it not Helan???
Ups, it seem u forgot to delete this section Kuroi-san, please check it again…
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Dangit… I did it again…
。゚・(>﹏<)・゚。
Thanks for the heads up!
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No problem…
:3…
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Someone got Tiger Knee’d into submission.
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Ohhh it’s the princess again~~
She say that she is in the 4 top place???
Hm despite her action that isn’t like a princess, she’s quite smart huh.
Especially in how to get out of a boring tea party talk. Hahahaha xD
And they will coming to helan territory too!!!
Ah~~ i can’t wait it!!!
And Thank You for The Chapter!!!
😍
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Our favorite strong, smart, beautiful and incredibly gullible princess Maria strikes again.
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Hormones didn’t strike yet….
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Rasa run!!!
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Thank you for the chapter! ^^
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Thanks for the chapter !
Poor Lasa ! XD
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I wonder if the Princess will meet kururi this time
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thx for the chapter o/
also realy hope that Maria will meet Kukuri this time
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More fuel for the harem MACHINE that is Kururi Helan. Thanks for the chapter sloth-dono.
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It’s seem I miss v2c19 TT
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Thanks for the chapter~!
Poor Lasa…
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I was confused because the top four were already revealed, but I guess she is in a different year? Have we met Irina before?
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Oh? Rahsa is changed into Lasa?
Thanks for the translation
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This princess is just a riot, thanks for the chapter. Also, do you know the illustrator’s name? It’s kind of hard to look up a series on lndb without a full name for either the author or illustrator unless you have the publisher’s name.
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Honestly… No.
I’ll see what I can do about looking it up though
EDIT: I checked out the RAW, but the author just goes by the handle of ‘CK’.
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Tried searching that, but it’s too vague to give any proper clues. You wouldn’t happen to know which publisher releases his story do you?
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Sorry, I don’t.
But I think you should just give it up with LNDB, though. If you couldn’t find it with the search, then that probably means that nobody has uploaded anything about it there yet.
So yeah, as far as LNDB knows, ‘Expecting to fall into ruin, I aim to become a blacksmith’ doesn’t even exist.
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I think the artist is Kawaku.
pixiv: http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=476829
twitter: https://twitter.com/kwk33
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Thanks 😀
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Thanks for the chapter!
That was mildly amusing
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She kneed someone to use them as an excuse… and the person happened to be her little brother, that is not an asshole nor did anything wrong. All I can say is that she is a bitch in my books now.
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I bet many of the other princess are thinking the same thing, but you know. Because they are princesses, they are allowed to show certain lvl of affection and so called “weaknesses”. It’s wonder that those gatherings are boring as hell, because those girls have been brainwashed to take advantage of every single opportunity! -.-
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Huwat?! Only 1 more volume?! DDDDDDDDDD:
Also lol what an amusing chapter xD
Thanks for the chapter!!
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Thanks 4 the chapter!
It’s multiplying! Don’t blame them though. The get together sound BORING.
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Maria continues to be ludicrously entertaining, she seems like she’d fit right in with the scumbag cast of KonoSuba.
Maria, she come to town!
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thanks for the chapter,
i thought it was eliza pov, man.. lol xD
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that would be so hilarious
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I see so the princess is one year older older than rest of cast that way they never met in school. If not because her personality like that (actually she better this way :v ) she will become perfect princess eh
Must be hard for Lese because all his older siblings kinda weird but actually genius lol
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Thank you for the chapter. Great work!
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All I can say is Fuck you marina! I hate people like this that for there own image to the public always puts people in those demeaning situations, Fuck you! I hope you never make it to helan. I hope you get caught sneaking out and you and irina get punished while lasa or whatever his name is gets to go to helan. Selfish bitch.
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Dude, this story is a comedy, no need to take it so seriously…
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Dude, the story is a comedy, no need to take it so seriously…
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Meatbun delivery~
Thank you for the chapter ( ●w●)
“Do I feel any shame for doing this? Absolutely not. I’ll whatever I want to do.”
“Ohohohohoho~”
PS: should be “I’ll do whatever I want to do.”
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FFS i miss this chapter on novelupdates! If i’m not checking my reading list i probably still didn’t know.
Also, last volume-for now, ganbate sloth-san.
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Thanks for the chapter!
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Ohohohohohohohohoho!
Thanks so much for all your hard work!!!
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Thanks for the chapter!
And when Rahsa change into Lasa?
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Thanks for the chapter … A bit thought about this princess or maybe just said that i have 70% don’t like her and 30% don’t care about her…
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Thanks for the chapter.
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Thank you!
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So she did get to school! Well, maybe she’ll finally be able to meet Kururi at the Helan territory.
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Poor Lasa being rope up by the 2 princesses.
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best girl got a best friend!!
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is only me who think that is Maria or this new princess Irina the true identity of Crossy ?
Crossy wanted going with Kukuri ,Maria only appear in pv is odd and she also want to go
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