Villain Princess.

"Can you tell me more about your territory?" Aurora asked.

Lucy, who didn’t expect anything, was stunned once again when she heard Aurora’s words. Looking at the girl in front of her who was shorter than her but had a faint elegant and confident smile, Lucy felt that this girl was truly worthy of the noble title that was given to them.

"I can tell you everything you want to, Lady Aurora," Lucy agreed directly.

Aurora chuckled. "You don’t have to be in such a hurry. Let’s talk about it after class, alright?"

Lucy saw the teacher was already looking in their direction and coughed awkwardly. She nodded and then followed the teacher.

Aurora kept her smile when she saw this. If there was something suitable in Count Celeste’s territory, then Aurora didn’t mind helping them out. After all, it would be a good thing for the people in their territory.

...

Aurora’s school life would have been better if not for her supposed meeting with Crown Prince Edward. She made sure that she came to see him sometimes after the class was over, but looking at the Crown Prince who was playing with his friend in the student council’s room, Aurora was silent.

She had the feeling that this prince was not very good.

When she reminded him to study...

"I’ll study later," Crown Prince Edward replied simply. He had no interest to study and if it was not because of his parents’ insistence, he didn’t even want to stay in the academy.

Aurora looked at the crown prince and finally sighed.

Even if she has the position as the crown prince’s fiancée, Aurora knew better than anyone how useless this title actually was.

She couldn’t really tell the crown prince what he had to do and what he shouldn’t do, can she?

So after the meeting with Crown Prince Edward, Aurora usually felt tired.

And this time, she had a talk with a noble daughter about some of the things in their territory. If it was suitable, then Aurora could ask for them to connect to their father.

As the kingdom’s diplomat, this was something that she had to do.

"Okay, I’ll tell my father later," the girl in front of Aurora said.

Aurora nodded and once it was done, she sat down on the garden. Even when she was at school, she seemed to be working.

Should this be categorized as child abuse?

Aurora rubbed her hand.

Then again, no one actually told her to do this, but she was the one who did it on her own and made sure that the next negotiation would be done well. After all, Aurora knew that her parents would not tolerate any mistake.

"You sure are very hardworking."

Hearing this sentence, Aurora raised her head and saw Leon standing not far from where she was. He crossed his arms, looking at Aurora up and down as if he was looking at an interesting thing.

This look made Aurora wary.

"Sir Leon," Aurora greeted.

"Just call me with my name. It’s not like I’m truly titled and in this academy, it’s advocated for everyone to interact on equal grounds." Leon waved his hand.

Even though it was impossible for them to truly be on the equal ground, but this academy was built on that basis.

At least, that was how it should have been in the very beginning.

But with the people who attended the academy being nobles, it was a bit impossible for them to truly do this.

"I understand, Leon," Aurora said slowly.

Leon snorted and with his arms still crossed. "Say, how did you manage to do the negotiation with my father?"

"...Pardon?"

"Tsk, my father is so full of praise for you that I have to listen to his words all the time." Leon snorted.

To be honest, he didn’t think there was anything special from Aurora in front of him. If anything, she didn’t look that much different from many other noble girls that he had seen before.

Of course, it was only in the beginning.

When Leon saw how the noble girls were being drawn to Aurora slowly but surely. He felt that she was a bit strange. And just now, he casually listened to the conversation between the two of them.

And that was when he realized that even in the academy, Aurora was still ’working.’

"Why did you work so hard anyway?" Leon asked with confusion.

He himself didn’t like to work all the time, which was why he often played with Crown Prince Edward. Even though he would still train and study most of the time, he would eventually go to play from time to time.

But for Aurora, he had almost never seen her having any fun.

The only time when she didn’t seem to be working or studying seemed to be the time when she was in her club. But looking at the solemn atmosphere from the window, it seemed that Aurora was still studying even there.

This made Leon confused.

Why did Aurora work so hard?

Why?

Aurora looked at Leon in front of her and showed a faint smile. She naturally could not say the truth to Leon about the reason why’s he worked so hard.

Because Aurora knew very well that her education would be different from others.

She has always been expected to perform well.

If she didn’t perform well, then what awaited her would be nothing more than anger and punishment from her parents. Even as a child, she knew what she had to do to avoid pain.

"As the kingdom’s diplomat, I have things that I should do, Leon," Aurora replied calmly.

Things she should do?

Leon looked at Aurora and frowned. "Are you truly that stupid?"

Aurora: "..."

She had the feeling that she wouldn’t be able to communicate with him properly. His speech was also very crude, unbefitting for a refined noble.

"This is the duty of a noble," Aurora said slowly. "Your father should have told you that there are noblesse oblige, didn’t he?"