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Episode 168: I Hated Him

◆ The Perspective of a Certain Noble’s Second Daughter

I hated Kaiser.

Despite being weak, unintelligent, and incapable of studying, he looked down on us just because he was born into a ducal family. I despised that more than anything.

At first, I would quietly gossip about Kaiser with others who shared my disdain for him.

Fortunately, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that everyone at the academy hated Kaiser, so it wasn’t difficult to find people to gossip with.

Gradually, our badmouthing grew louder, until one day, we were speaking in voices loud enough for Kaiser himself to hear. Even when he was right in front of us, we shamelessly insulted him.

To be honest, by that time, we no longer thought of Kaiser as the son of a duke. We utterly ridiculed him from the depths of our hearts. Despite being at the bottom of the academy in magic, martial arts, and academics, Kaiser strutted around arrogantly, making him the perfect subject for mockery.

Somehow, Kaiser had ceased to be someone we feared.

Even though the fact that he was born into a ducal family hadn’t changed.

What reminded us of that was the moment when Kaiser had fallen to being looked down upon by the entire academy.

Prevot had the audacity to steal Kaiser’s fiancée.

Normally, such an act wouldn’t go unpunished.

However, everyone—including Prevot, the one who stole the fiancée—had begun to underestimate Kaiser by that point.

They saw him as a toy, someone they could mock without consequence.

But Kaiser wasn’t just a toy. He was still, even if disgraced, the son of a ducal family.

And the way Prevot broke off the engagement was truly outrageous.

Naturally, Kaiser formally punished Prevot.

Of course, he did.

After all, Prevot had taken a duke’s fiancée using unfair means.

Under normal circumstances, death wouldn’t have been an excessive punishment. The fact that Prevot merely ended up disinherited was clearly due to Kaiser’s intervention to lighten the sentence.

Even though such a serious incident had occurred, we continued to treat it like someone else’s problem.

And today, despite everything that had happened, I still ended up making snide remarks about Kaiser as usual.

The only difference was that, although Kaiser didn’t react as he typically would, the maid he brought today—someone named Johanna—actually responded to our conversation.