2 00. prologue







Oh, it's a girl's game.

I noticed, but there's nothing I can do.
Let's take a break for now.

Are you listening to me?

"Yes, I'm listening.

I was being warned by a girl two years younger than me when I was drinking tea with a slurping sound.
I give a half-true, half-false answer to her question. Because I'm hearing things.

"So Mr. Roy...

"Oh, my God.

I haven't said anything yet! You're not listening!

Well, I guess I was too quick.
I went into lecture mode, but eventually shifted to the original Roy-sama bragging when he said I should learn from him. This time, I tried not to misjudge the timing of his speech, and just listened to him.
It was this "Roy-sama" that made me realize that the world I was in was an otome game. I thought his name, appearance, and position sounded familiar. Well, I've never met him, but I've heard of him.
I've never met her, but I've never been interested in her, so I've heard her name and finally realized that she's the target of an otome game.
Roy Leonard von Rosenhain, the first prince of the nation of Arbentroth and the target of Kimihoshi's attack. I think he's the main hero or something.
Kimiboshi is an abbreviation, and there was a long official name for him, but I don't remember it. It's rare for a guy like me to know about otome games.
The reason I know about it is simple: my sister helped me clear it. It seems that there is a different mini-game for each character, and the flag changes depending on how well you do in the game.
Now, I don't have a sister. I'm an only son. She's a story from a previous life.
But I can't figure it out.
Look at the girl in front of you. The source of Roy-sama information I don't need. The duchess who appears as a rival in Roy-sama's route, Ludia von Ernst. In the game, she was Roy-sama's fiancée, but it seems she's still one of the candidates for his fiancée. She seems to be a strong candidate due to her position, so I feel like she should be my fiancée now.
We are in a corner of the vast garden of her mansion. I'm the son of the Ernst family's personal gardener. I'm an apprentice gardener.
In all the times I've helped clear the garden, in all the times my sister talks about me without asking, there is no mention of a gardener or apprentice gardener in my rival's house. They are not even mentioned.

So, I'm not even a mob.

What do you mean I'm not even a mob? There's no harm in being reincarnated.
The rival girl I'm drinking tea with right now may lose her love depending on the route, but since it's the result of a fair competition with the protagonist, she doesn't fall or lose her life.
My employer, the Duke Ernst family, is not harmed, which means that my family, the resident gardener, is also safe.

What's the point of me having memories of my past life?

I tilted my head at the current situation I understood, but stopped thinking about it when my teacup was empty. There's no point in continuing to worry about something you don't understand.
Anyway, I lifted the teacup to the girl in front of me and said.

"Another cup.

"Why don't you fill it yourself?

She scolded me like a mother in a previous life.
Even though the maid in charge of the girl's side was also forced to leave, she was not told that she was out of line in terms of status. Is there such a thing as disrespect in this country? If there is, I'll be in trouble.
I still wonder how we got to this point.

We made the worst first impression.

We definitely didn't make the best first impression on each other a year ago.
I don't know if it has any effect on otome games, but that encounter changed my life a little bit.