Chapter 12: The Commander's Son Meets the Heroine

"Hey, how was it?"

Rinse asked so refreshingly after leaving the audience room. I said with a sigh.

"I was teased a lot"

"If Father was that friendly, there wouldn't be a problem."

"Also, he ask me to protect yoi."

When I said that, Rinse said with a wry smile.

"Oh, I can see it because he's overprotective."

"Overprotective..."

Well, as a parent, Rinse is usually cute, but I think it's because he's an important existence as the crown prince. While talking with Rinse, we head to the prison where heroine-sama is. It is clearly different from a normal prison, and is guarded mainly by female knights.

"Your Highness."

"Take it easy. I'm not going to get in the way of your work."

"Understood!"

That's amazing. This handsome degree. I looked at Rinse and said, "I think Rinse's popularity is amazing because the knights are looking happy somewhere."

"Well... I don't know what will happen from now on. Are you ready?"

"Do you want to ask now? Rather than that, you should worry about yourself, right?"

"Yeah."

"Well, I'll do what I can."

I don't want to mess with my acquaintances either, so I'll do what I can. Well, if it's for Alice's sake, I feel like I can do it without hesitation, but I don't feel very comfortable killing her because of Alice. It's a contradiction, but it can't be helped because those two feelings are mixed. Well, if it comes down to it, I'll prioritize protecting Alice.

While thinking about that, the female knight called out to me where I stood in front of the prison where the heroine was.

"Hey. You have a visitor."

"What... who?"

After saying that, when she looked at me and confirmed my appearance, the heroine immediately showed a weak expression and stroked the cat and said aloud.

"Mr. Arth! You came to save us! say to them that we didn't do anything."

Do you think I would believed you! Rinse called out to me from the side when I was thinking about what to do because I had a look like that.

"Unfortunately he didn't come to help you."

"Who are you?"

"I am the second prince of the Landry Kingdom. I am Rinse Landry.

"Rinse... yes, you."

After grinning, the heroine creates a mysterious atmosphere. Is this bad? The heroine said before she thought so and stopped.

"Rince... help me"

"...!"

Rinse reacts to those words. He tried to hold something down and then slowly approached the prison - which was stopped by me tackling him from the side before that.

"Guh...! What are you doing, Arth?"

"Is your consciousness clear?"

"Somehow, I realized that your tackle had taken away some of the most comforting feelings I've ever had... was it possible that I was about to be fascinated with it?"

"probably"

There is no confirmation, but from Rinse's reaction, the possibility of enchantment magic has increased. Moreover, it was clear that I could not get close to it because I was conscious of troublesome things. That being said, I felt like it had no effect on me, so the charm magic doesn't have that much of an effect, does it? Or is it dangerous to be called by name? There are many things I don't understand, but anyway...

"For the time being, you should stop now. It's useless if you're fascinated so easily."

"It's a bit harsh. But you're right. Can I leave it to you? I'll recover my body from your tackle damage."

"Why are you so weak? Well, anyway, I'll do what I can."

After leaving Rinse with the female knight, I face the heroine again.

"Well... Hello Maria-san. No, is it another person who reincarnated as Maria?"

The heroine narrowed her eyes at those words.

"Are you really Mr. Arth?"

"Well, just like you're not Maria, maybe I'm not."

"Yes... you are also a reincarnated person. Is there some kind of gimmick that my magic didn't work?"

After all, it seems that you can use it consciously. In other words, the heroine intentionally tried to overthrow Alice with this magic. It's a clear enemy, but should I listen to her circumstances?

"Before that, I have a question. Do you know the otome game 'Lovely Princess'?"

"Yes, of course"

"…Then the reason you falsely accused Alice was to steal the prince."

When I heard that, the heroine laughed and said.

"No way! That's not true. I'm not interested in such a troublesome man. What I really wanted to capture was a hidden character."

"A secret character? Is it a condition to create a reverse harem?"

"You don't seem to know what it's like. Could it be the game you played before the rework?"

Before rework... In other words, is this game update in some way and has more routes? If so, I can explain the word hidden character that I don't know.

"The villainess's butler is a hidden character. That's why I had to create an event to break off the engagement.

"I see, so you were consciously acting?"

"Of course, isn't it? Well, magic is such an outrageous power that I used it effectively like this… I didn't think that only Arth could solved it."

I see, it's not like I'm stupid at all. Perhaps even when Alice was condemned, he probably tried to gain more affection from the capture target by appealing for her life with teary eyes, but even so, he tried to set Alice up. However, she is a reincarnated person, has knowledge of otome games that I don't know about, and even has the troublesome power of enchantment magic. Then the best way is...

"Heroine-san. Are you willing to team up with me?"

"Team up? Are you asking me to cooperate with you?"

"Oh. To be more specific...would you like to be Alice's maid?"