"..."
The silence of the surrounding changed.
When the heroine declared that she and the second prince were engaged, it was a silence caused by shock and disbelief, now that the second prince has confirmed it so proudly, the silence became more... Dreadful...
"...?"
Zoemi gulped down his saliva and looked around – that was not the atmosphere that was portrayed in the game when it came to announcing the engagement...
But...
The game was one thing and a real hierarchical society was something completely different...
A prince proposing to a commoner...!?
In the school for nobility, that sort of statement wasn't even considered a joke.
It was something straight-up insulting!
"Pffft...! Ha.... Haha.... Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!"
The serious expression that his younger brother was making while bravely staring up at him broke Horeo, and the gold-haired boy couldn't contain himself any longer – he burst out into a cruel, ridiculing laughter.
"!!!"