7 Its a game

"I died in Japan when I was ten years old, I was reborn in this world, and now that I'm ten years old, my memories of the past have returned to me."

"Heh, so you're twenty years old now, I guess. You're a much older than you look, aren't you?"

"I only remember living until I was ten years old, and I think I'm still ten years old .... It's just a combination of memories from both lives."

Yeah, the setting is perfect. As expected this will be difficult.

"Um, Prince, do you believe it?"

"Call me Shin. I believe you. It's an interesting story."

She wants me to believe it so I will believe it. I'm sorry I'm doing this but it is for your own good.

But still this is tiring…. I want to go home and just dip myself in a bath tub.

Sister why do I have to stay here and help this girl with her Fourteen Year Old Syndrome.

"In that game, the main lead...."

For some unknown reason, Serea gave me a glance but continued

"…. At the age of fifteen transferred to Flora Academy, due to his excellent grades."

"Oh yeah that is a real school. You're right. I'm supposed to enter it too."

"The protagonist is a commoner who enters the Flora Academy where all the children are of noble birth or of great families or Knightly households. The protagonist studies hard as a commoner and becomes the best but in doing so they become an eyesore for the noble children who are enrolled in the academy as they can't bear to see a commoner succeed. As a result they bully the protagonist."

"…. I don't like the sound of that. I'd stop bullying like that at all costs if I was playing. I mean, would it be fun to play a game with a main character that looks like he is from a tragic story? Is that game fun?"

"There are series of people who help the main character from being bullied, and the main character falls in love with them, and they become romantically involved."

"That's pretty convenient. But isn't that more like a multiple street if every character in the story just shows up one after another?"

"…. Well there are around seven 'targets' for the main character to attack and choose from."

"Wait… what? Seven targets? You mean seven lovers?"

What is this slutty protagonist? I can't let boys and girls play such an unhealthy game. I want them to properly come to age and not fool around.

"It isn't like that. There are seven targets but the main character has to choose one to end up with. They also have to make sure no one hates them otherwise it'll be game over and the end."

What kind of horrifying game is this that treats human interaction and relationship like a game? They could be more creative like those books that tell the story of a knight and the princess.

"… why don't you stop calling people 'targets to capture'? It makes me a bit sad to hear that."

"I'm sorry .... That's right. We're in real life. This isn't the game anymore."

"I've heard some people who like multiple people but even then it isn't like this. Not that people might hate it but I don't want to get involved in something like that…."

"That's because it's a game."

I have to make her accept reality. I think that's the first step in rehabilitating her from the fourteen year old disease.

"So, what happens to the main character?"

"At the end, it would be a good ending if they could tie the knot with the main lead, the prince and marry him after graduating from the academy."

"Can you even call that a happy ending when you're doing it like a game instead of from your heart and truly loving them?"

"I'm sorry. Yes, you're right."

"If there is a happy ending then there must be a bad or sad ending right?"

"There is. The bad ending is that all characters hate the main character and they get thrown from the academy."

"That sounds awful."

"It's the best ending to marry the prince and become a princess."

"Is that the best someone can do? So does that mean the main lead… the prince also falls in love with the main character?"

"Yes…"

"I don't think that's possible. Because when it comes to princes, they usually have a fiancée."

"The main character gets to know the prince at the school from a chance encounter which later nurtures love between them through various events that take place leading them to developing a romantic relationship."

"What's an 'event'? I wonder if a prince with a fiancé would be romantically involved with another girl like that…"

"And then, at the graduation party, the prince shuns his fiancée and tells her to break off the engagement, and then ties up with the main character."

"Awful, that prince! That's cheating! No matter how you look at it, it's just cheating!"

"Yes, but from the main character's point of view, that's a happy ending."

"... Getting hitched to a prince is not necessarily a happy ending for me. I'm a prince, and I'm not sure I'd say that myself. It comes with the determination to rule the country and the responsibility to make the people happy. That's why I can only ask a noblewoman to do that. It's not a good thing to involve the common people in this."

The same as my sister who is going to marry a prince. We both have to shoulder responsibility.

Is the main character in her 'game' that determined to marry a prince without caring about the great responsibility that comes with her position? Does she even realize its importance and burden?