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Prologue

“Izaya, you must marry me.”

The boy suddenly stopped and told the girl beside him.

“…………?”

The girl also stopped and turned to look at the boy with a suspicious expression.

The green bank, the lush river, and the evening glow in the western sky.

On the way back home, after completing her studies at the academy and successfully outwitting the maidservant who had come to pick her up, the girl was confused by the sudden proposal of marriage.

“Right now?

“Don’t be rash, it’s eight years from now. According to our law, you can enter into a marriage contract before the age of eighteen.”

“I see.”

The girl turned her head and thought for a moment, then tightened her lips and lifted her serious expression.

“Do you like me, Kuroto?”

A white shirt, short pants hung with suspenders, and a black school bag on his back. Kuroto, who wore the Kitagawa Royal Acadamy uniform, scolded her, keeping his hands on the shoulder straps of his school bag.

“Don’t get carried away. I’m not in love with you.”

“Hmm.”

With a short response and a mature gesture for someone who had just turned ten, the first princess of the White Palace, Izaya, cupped her chin between her thumb and forefinger and pondered silently again. She was wearing a white shirt with a bow on the chest, a navy blue skirt, and a pink school bag on her back. Her silvery-white hair, a rarity for a woman of her age, fluttered softly in the evening breeze.

Izaya and Kuroto have been playing together for as long as they can remember. They were distant relatives of the sixth degree of kinship, royals, and similar in that they possessed the unique ” ability ” of the noble bloodline.

Kuroto, who has unparalleled intellect, talks like he’s thirty-five years old, even though he’s ten, while Izaya, who can detach herself from the world at will, looks at things with a strangely optimistic attitude. It was hard for them to make friends their own age, so they naturally spent a lot of time playing together.

However, they weren’t close enough for him to suddenly propose to her.

“Why do you want to marry me if you don’t like me?”

“You’ve been asking a lot of questions. What’s the problem?”

“It’s a problem that will affect me for the rest of my life.”

Kuroto scratched the back of his head in annoyance and shrugged his shoulders.

“I have to become the King of this country in the future.”

“……………………”

” But the Kuronomiya family is a collateral line. If things continue as they are, the throne will go to your brother Kazuma.”

“……………………”

“But if I marry you, eliminate Kazuma by some means, and become your family’ s son-in-law, I can become the King.”

“……………………”

“I don’t need you. I need your bloodline. Marry me, Izaya, so that I may become king.”

“Kuroto.”

“Mm.”

A high-pitched slap echoed along the embankment.

Kuroto’s head twisted around to the right, the same sound echoed again, and this time his head twisted around to the left.

After giving him an exemplary back-and-forth slap, Izaya brought her right knee up to her chest and placed the sole of her shoe on Kuroto’s torso.

“That’s my answer.”

There was a dull thud, and Kuroto was momentarily lifted into the air, his back slamming against the slope of the embankment.

Izaya looked at Kuroto with a frozen expression as he tumbled down the embankment. He bounced erratically from left to right with his school bag on his back, and then laid on his back at the foot of the embankment, his eyes spinning in circles.

“Stay the hell away from me, you bastard!”

Izaya straightened her back and shouted to him.

“I don’t think of you as a friend or a relative anymore! I’ll kill you if you come near me!”

With the dignity of the first princess of the Hinoo Kingdom (TN: I decided to use Hinoo Kingdom due the use of titles such as princesses and princes. Alternatively, it could actually be Hinoo Empire instead.) on her face, she called Kuroto, the legitimate son of the palace family, her servant, picked up her school bag with both hands, and ran with anger in both feet.

” Idiot! Idiot! Idiot!”

As Izaya ran, she looked up at the evening glow and cursed.

“You’re the worst! The worst! You are the vilest man in Hinoo!”

Tears began to fall from both of Izaya’s eyes.

In frustration, Izaya wiped her eyes with her arms and cursed at the top of her lungs, running until the tears stopped.

“Kuroto, you asshole! Die, you stupid bastard!”

Screaming into the sunset, she prayed that the tears would stop soon.

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“Uhhh …………”

As the spinning landscape came to a halt and his vision was filled with an amber sky, he realized that he was lying on the riverbank, covered in weeds, looking up at the sunset.

“Mnnnh…….”

Groaning, he raised his body and looked up the slope of the embankment.

There was no one there. Frowning in pain, he stood up and resumed carrying his school bag, which had become deformed on his back.

“Damn. You violent bitch. ……”

After a spectacular yakuza kick, he climbed back up the slope to the top of the embankment, confirming that he had been kicked off the embankment, only to find that Izaya was nowhere to be found.

A summer breeze, laden with the smell of fresh grass, blew noiselessly through the air.

[Stay the hell away from me, you bastard!]

Izaya’s words were all that remained in his ears.

“What’s wrong with you……?”

I had no idea what Izaya was thinking. I’m not sure if there is anyone in this world who would turn down a proposal from someone with overwhelming brains, bloodline and looks. Is she out of her mind? This is the first time in my life that I’ve made a mistake, so I don’t know how to deal with it.

Biting down on the frustration in his heart, he brushed the grass from his uniform and walked home alone.

What would I do when I saw Izaya at school tomorrow? Should I ask her the reason for her rejection, or should I condemn her for her sudden violence? He kept worrying, trying to anticipate Izaya’s reaction and devising a way to deal with it, but Izaya didn’t come to school for three days after that.

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Then, on the third night after his proposal, when Kuroto was unable to see Izaya.

Suddenly, Genzaburo Kazenomiya, the younger brother of the king, visited the family, accompanied by high-ranking officials from the Ministry of the Royal Household, and accused the head of the family, Takehiko, of usurping the throne. At the dinner table, Takehiko and his wife Kaoru heard Kuroto’s words, “Marry me and eliminate Kazuma,” that was recorded through a servant’s wiretap. The fact that Kuroto had actually proposed to Izaya was also a decisive factor, and prevented Takehiko from defending himself.

The following day, Takehiko officially declared that the Kuronomiya family had left the royal family.

He changed his family name to ” Kurono” and decided to move his family to a different house in Kamakura.

It was announced in newspapers, magazines, and on the radio that he had left the royal family at the will of the Kuronomiya family, but in reality it was a case of “high treason” committed against the Royal Family that would have been punishable by death if made public. At the recommendation of the Royal Household, the family was to be “crushed”.

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One month later…

A popular publication published by a top newspaper carried the headlines, “The terrible treason committed by the House of Kuro” and “Shameful plan to overthrow Princess Izaya.”

The article claimed that the Kuronos had left the throne not of their own volition, but because their plan to incorporate themselves into the direct line of the royal family and usurp the throne had been exposed.

The source of the information was a servant who betrayed them. He had been treated coldly by Takehiko and Kaoru, but he had been working behind the scenes with the royal family, recording conversations over a long period of time through a small microphone and selling the contents to the newspaper.

It was a sensational story that was quickly picked up by the newspapers, including headlines such as, “the abusive language used against His Majesty the King”, “the plan to exclude the crown prince and crown him with a legitimate son, Kuroto”, and “the proposal to Princess Izaya for the throne”. Within a week of its release, the story had become such an enormous historical scandal that there were no more than 80 million people in Hinoo who did not know about “The High Treason of the Kuronomiya family.”

Day after day, night after night, a large number of reporters and onlookers came to the villa in Kamakura where the Kurono family lived, shouting “national bandit,” “unpatriotic,” and “traitor” at them day and night.

Kaoru confronted Takehiko with divorce papers and forced him to sign them. Kaoru was only thirty-one years old, old enough to start her life over if she abandoned her children. Kuroto watched her mother’s back as she left without feeling any particular emotion.

Every day after his mother left, onlookers threw horrible words into the mansion, and the media never tired of spreading stories about the Kurono family in the papers and on the radio.

Takehiko was in dire straits. His friends, whom he had relied on, avoided getting involved with the family of criminals, and the only people who visited the house were the media and onlookers.

“Kuroto, will you die with me?”

Kuroto replied with an ambitious look on his father’s face.

“Let’s leave this country and go to the United States of Gameria.”

Takehiko looked at his ten-year-old son, who was still full of confidence despite the terrible situation he was in, and twisted his head suspiciously. Kuroto’s mouth hung at an angle.

“I hear it’s a land of freedom and equality over there. They say that even a commoner can become president if he is good enough. It’s much more advanced than this country where only royalty can become king. It is a land worthy of us living with pride.”

After listening to Kuroto’s words with an open mouth, Takehiko muttered, “Gameria ……” and pondered for a while.

The United States of Gameria is a large country across the Grand Ocean.

A parliamentary democracy that believes in freedom and equality. It is an immigrant power that opens its doors to all races. The world’s strongest military power, with a strong desire to expand its territory and is steadily building a foothold in the open sea.

Why should we bother to emigrate now to a future hostile nation with which we can expect to engage in war with Japan in the near future?

“I’ve heard that Gameria’s sentiment toward our nation is pretty bad. ……”

“You will be discriminated against. But Father has money. I heard that in his country, if you have money, you can buy a position and status. It’s a country that is kind to the rich.”

The more Kuroto’s words of caution were repeated, the more a new light began to dawn in Takehiko’s eyes. In the beginning, he thought the plan to cross the ocean was outrageous, but compared to the family suicide, it seemed decent.

“…… Yes, I agree. We may have lost our reputation, but we still have money. Let’s go over there and make an investment for a living.”

Takehiko’s words were brighter than they had been in a long time. Kuroto, as always, had a fearless smile on the corner of his mouth, even though he was only ten years old.

“If we wait too long, relations between the two countries will deteriorate and free travel may be forbidden. Now is the time to go. If we go to a country where no one knows us, we’ll be rich.”

He said this clearly and looked out the window. As he chastised his father, a hot rush of energy came from the bottom of his chest.

I’m going to crawl up.

As expected, Kuroto was excited. The fact that he was up against eighty million people made him more excited than ever.

This is a good opportunity for me to test my abilities.

He is aware that he has an unbelievable memory and deductive ability. His academic performance at the Kitagawa Royal Academy was outstanding, and he was the youngest student ever to be selected as a special trainee, which is reserved for the children of royalty, nobility, and high taxpayers. He has also been receiving individual instruction from the faculty at the Udagawa Naval Academy. Currently, he has obtained all the credits for general and military studies at the academy, and will automatically be appointed as a second lieutenant candidate when he turns 16. His intelligence is so far beyond his age that newspapers and magazines have repeatedly called him “the masterpiece of the Hinoo royal families” and “the future commander-in-chief of the United Fleet.

The Hinoo royal families have been actively introducing ” mutated” blood into their lineage for over two thousand six hundred years. In the Middle Ages, in particular, the families had many women with “unique abilities” serving in the royal court, and as a result, the families were prone to developing unusual abilities. Kuroto, with his unusual abilities, can test himself better in the free world than in the confines of the old royal palace.

Kuroto can not suppress the excitement in his heart.

My adventure is about to begin.

His whole body was stirred up by this premonition.

I want to leave this old island country behind and test my strength while enjoying freedom and equality in the vastness of Gameria.

“Let’s get going, Father. There are only idiots in this country. I would prefer the advanced Gameria to the old-fashioned Hinoo, where I can demonstrate my abilities. Let us seize the glory we deserve in his land.”

The father looked at his son with a reassuring look, and then nodded emphatically.

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