Mireille’s Circumstances

Author: Ryusui
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2121hw/42/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

‘This is lol’
‘What did that guy even leave the forest for lol’
‘No wait, knowing him, he didn’t know they don’t have these outside the forest, did he…’

Ahh… That, might be possible. I wouldn’t go out of my way to check with Spirit-sama either.
Mireille takes a sip of juice and lets out a relieved breath.

“It really is delicious… This is harvested in the Spirit Forest?”
“Mm. Just, there’s little of it in the shallower places, so I think it’s pretty dangerous.”
“I see…”

She looks very disappointed. Maybe she wanted to come pick some herself. But sorry, Mireille. Even you, I think it’s dangerous alone.
More than that, something bothers me a little. Mireille said it really is delicious. Doesn’t that mean she’s drunk this before?

“Mireille, have you had this before?”
“I have. I received it from Sage Kouta.”
“Huh…”

But if he handed out a little, and nobles are searching, then the people Master handed them to were nobles, right. And Mireille received some too, so…
Thinking that far, I notice. I don’t know anything about Mireille at all.
I talked about myself, but I don’t know anything about Mireille. Not that it’s unfair or anything. I just feel a little lonely. We finally became friends, so I want to know a little more.

“Hey, Mireille.”
“What is it?”
“Can I ask about you?”

When I ask that, Mireille’s eyes widen for just a moment, then she nods.

“Yes, that’s fine. You are interested in me?”
“Mm. I am.”
“I-I see… Then it cannot be helped.”

Saying that, Mireille looks away. Her face is a little red.

‘Cute’
‘Tsundere really is supreme’
‘Was there even any tsun…?’
‘Don’t sweat the small stuff!’

What are they even saying.
Anyway, this is what I’m curious about.

“Mireille, are you a noble?”
“Yes, I am. The eldest daughter of a ducal house.”
“Mm…?”
‘Hold up’

‘Wait wait wait wait’
‘No good, from voice alone I can’t tell which! Duke or marquis, which is it!’

“Is that… amazing…?”
“Amazing or not aside, in standing it is the highest, yes.”

‘It’s a ducal house, no way!’
‘Bad news, good news? Mireille really was a ducal house’
‘Rita-chan, I’ll explain just in case, think of it as the rank right under the royal family’

Right under the royal family, that’s the really high one, right. I thought maybe, but she really was a noble…

“Nobles don’t usually have trouble living, right? Why did you become an adventurer, Mireille?”
“Let’s see… It is pathetic, as if airing my shame, but…”

There Mireille cuts off. She drinks a little juice as if wetting her lips, then continues.

“My engagement was broken by a prince.”
“Engagement broken.”
“Yes. A broken engagement.”

What’s that. I was the only one who didn’t get it.

‘Broken engagement!’
‘Isekai trope incomingggg!’
‘I wanted to see it live if I could!’

They’re having a lot of fun, but I kind of get it. For the person involved this is painful, right. Mireille looks really pained too… or not. She’s smiling faintly.
According to Mireille, she had talent for magic from when she was little, and she’d been polishing it the whole time. That magic talent was recognized, and she got engaged to the second prince, she says.
Political marriage is normal for nobles, so Mireille didn’t have complaints about that, apparently.
Only, that second prince was really into women, and he put his hands on another noble’s daughter saying he’d awakened to true love or something.

‘Here comes true love’
‘True love lololol’
‘Even if that were true it wouldn’t be a reason to neglect your fiancée’

Mireille remonstrated several times but he wouldn’t listen, and on top of that, in the middle of a party, he fabricated a crime she knew nothing about and announced the broken engagement in front of the public.

“I did fly into a rage, of course.”
“Mm… That’s awful. If you’re okay with it, want me to put a curse on him, just enough it won’t be found out?”
“No, I’m fine. I already got him back.”

“Ah, yes.”
‘Ah, yes’
‘What’s that, scary lol’

“I was so angry I prepared perfect proof of my innocence and left it with Father, and I left the house. In other words that man accused an innocent me, broke the engagement unjustly, and moreover—though it is a little much coming from me—created the cause for a child with valuable magic talent to flee to another country.”
“Y-yeah…”

‘Scary’
‘She’s getting him back so properly… lol’

Even I, who don’t know much, get it. That’s the kind that makes a prince’s position really bad.
But even so I can’t quite accept it. Because he’s still in the castle after that, right? Living a luxurious life, isn’t he? I kind of hate that.

“And then.”
“Ah, it still continues.”
“Eh? Ah, yes. Just a little more.”

Yeah. I’ll listen quietly.

“A little after I started working as an adventurer, I heard the prince had been disinherited. He had talent with the sword, so he became an adventurer, it seems.”
“He’s an adventurer… I don’t want to meet him…”
“No, you probably will not.”
“Eh.”

What is this, a really ominous feeling…

“About a year later, that one came to see me. If I take you back I can return to the royal family, come with me, he said. Of course I ignored him, so he drew his sword and attacked, and…”
“Y-yeah.”
“I beat him down and handed him to the military police. He is probably a slave by now.”
“I-I see…”

‘Yikes’
‘Pretty merciless, lol’
‘Sorry I called her a textbook young lady…’

It’s that prince’s own doing, but, how do I put it, wow. Not that I want to take the prince’s side. If anything I still want to put a curse on him after that.

“And that is why I am an adventurer. Incidentally I still hold my noble status, so I am a duke’s daughter and an S-rank adventurer. Probably the only one in the world!”

‘Well yeah’
‘Rather, like we’d allow a bunch of people like that to exist lol’

Normally you wouldn’t need to be an adventurer, right. A turbulent life. For me, I’m glad I got to meet Mireille, though.