Formerly, The Fallen Daughter of the Duke

1. Disengagement

Student club room with sunset plugged in. There were two shadows that distanced themselves.

The Duke’s Lady, Claire Martino, cannot hide the emotions of giving up.

Pale grey eyes in pitch-black hair, looking down to despise her. A few meters away from Claire stood the first prince of this Noston country, Asberto Lucia Nottidam.

“Claire. Your escort for tomorrow’s graduation party, could you ask Salomon?

……

This was something Claire had foreseen so much. That’s supposed to happen, but when I have to, the words don’t come out jammed.

A sunset sliding through the window lights Claire’s hand twitching.

It was supposed to be hot, but my fingertips were cold and I couldn’t move, and I couldn’t utter any words like my throat was freezing.

How many times in the past have you simulated this scene?

By appointment, I was going to make him strong that he didn’t want to expose himself to ugliness, but the reality was completely different.

The words I tried to utter did not speak, and my throat, dried up in the caracallas, rang softly.

“I decided to escort Charlotte. I’ll give you Salomon so the Martinos don’t have to be rude. If you’re prepared to sit on a needle tray, we’ll talk about it.”

I can’t even feel the warmth of dust, cold eyes. I can even see the look of contempt. In his pale grey eyes, Claire was not visible.

“Dear Asberto…”

“That’s it. Charlotte’s waiting, so excuse me.

He seemed to accept and accept the call words he had finally squeezed out.

Before Claire could finish her talk, Asberto turned her heel back and, to the point where she could not feel any untrained, opened the door and left in momentum.

Claire, left in the room, sits down on the couch without force.

“… finally, you’re here, this is the day”

Tomorrow, graduation from this royal college of aristocracy.

The graduation ceremony will be followed by a grand “graduation party” bringing together kings and nobles in addition to graduate and student school officials.

An important event for graduates, of course, but also for the descendants of nobles who are not, an important meeting to confirm their position in the social sphere and inform them internally and externally.

Every student participates with their fiancée.

Claire was just turned down an escort by her fiancée, Asberto, the first prince of this country. In other words, that was not official, but the very declaration that the engagement would be externally blank back tomorrow.

Asberto and Claire grew up together since childhood and were in a friendly relationship.

But only when the relationship had turned into a cold one.

Especially since the last few months the relationship between the two of them has been cold and terrible.

Asberto ignores Claire and acts with other noble ladies. The proximities who followed Asberto and began to belittle Claire’s presence.

Sooner or later, I knew this was going to happen.

It seems so gentlemanly that the day before yesterday he refused the escort in advance and, moreover, arranged for a substitute noble decree.

“That I have no choice. I was powerless, that’s all.”

Claire was trying to accept the status quo so that her self-esteem wouldn’t disappear.

Claire, too, because she knew better than Asberto, the first prince.

Claire was born 16 years ago as the eldest daughter of the prestigious Martino family, the royal bypass of the Noston Nation.

Her mother had died in an accident when Claire was young, but not lonely because she had two sweet fathers and a brother and one sister…. until a year ago.

A year ago, Claire was celebrating the baptismal ceremony of her destiny.

When you reach the age of 15 in this country, you sign with the Spirit, and magic becomes available.

Of course, not everyone can have magic, but the magic that is originally equipped according to lineage and personal qualities comes on the table for the first time by being baptized.

The Martino family, where Claire was born, is the lineage of a female jewel. Girls born into the Martino family have a very high degree of magic and it is decided by birth to live for the country.

Especially as magical as his eldest daughter, most of which gained special status when he looked back at history, and some ascended to the throne of the Chancellor.

The brothers are quite good in terms of academia alone, but the expectations placed on Claire are not that ratio.

Claire was born a year different from the first prince of the Noston Nation, so she was destined to marry Asberto from when she was in her mother’s tummy.

Never before have I thought about my position that freedom is unacceptable.

Around that time, the path Claire was on was destined for the norm, so natural that she was not allowed to make any extra findings.

And the baptismal ceremony I welcomed. Claire stepped into the fountain of baptism as kings and nobles watched.

As far as the record remains, when baptism is complete, the colour of the fountain shines white or silver depending on the strength of the magic.

(I heard when Aunt Ann was white and when Aunt Florence was silver. Am I…?

I waited thrilled for that time. My vision stains a pale pink color.

Is this…?

Magic colors are strong in silver, white, blue, light blue, light pink, red, orange, and yellow order.

The color of magic Claire received was pale pink.

Light pink is the third color from the top, except for silver and white, which are special colors that have only ever come out of the Martino family.

It was never bad considering that many things, including the brothers, only had orange and yellow magic, but enough color to disappoint the king and family who had placed great expectations on Claire.

After the baptism ceremony, Claire’s surroundings changed astonishingly.

The older brother Oscar, who was Claire friendly, became harsher on Claire, and the younger brother Leo, who has publicly proclaimed himself a rival in going down the birth street, somehow became unnaturally kind.

Especially when Claire was shocked it seemed like her father Benjamin had changed.

They refused to take Claire to social places and cities, and they began to hide their existence.

Claire, who grew up with a brilliant lineage of father concessions and had the beauty of mother concessions, should certainly have been Benjamin’s pride.

But I guess it was intolerable for that daughter to be exposed to curiosity as a failure of the Girlfriend Martino family.

As a result, too little compassion on the part of his father was meant to make Claire’s position even worse as a “fall in the Martino family”.

Since she was a little girl, Claire looked forward to following her father out to the city, getting acquainted with her brothers and spectators, and choosing hair decorations with her sister.

“Before the christening ceremony, I had a special dress tailored for a night club after the christening ceremony”

… pleasant memories until I turn 15.

I look out the window in the Student Council room now that Asberto tells me I’m practically disengaged.

The sunset that was about to sink fell completely, and I could see Asberto’s back returning to the dormitory with the surrounding aristocrats as the thin darkness began to spread.

(Charlotte……)

A luxurious, tiny back gleamed with fluffy long hair in the group.