I Was Rejected by the Main Character in a Romantic Fantasy-Chapter 95: Temporary Alliance

“...Well. I know not what thou were thinking when thou did it, but would thou care to explain?”

Ashillya asked Sylvia, who was staring at her with a dull expression. Sylvia glared back at Ashillya, arms crossed.

A mere commoner, glaring at the Imperial Princess.

While finding it absurd, Ashillya couldn’t help but chuckle, so she just kept looking at her.

...As if daring her °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° to see how far she could go.

And living up to her expectations, Sylvia asked Ashillya in a sharp voice.

“Why did you interfere?”

“Interfere... interfere...”

Pfft.

Ashillya couldn’t suppress the laugh that escaped her. Sylvia’s face contorted even more, but Ashillya didn’t care.

From the start, Ashillya wasn’t in a situation where she needed to be considerate of anyone, and she wasn’t the type to do so.

More importantly, Sylvia still hadn’t woken up from her dream.

It was her freedom to live in delusion. Still, Ashillya was infinitely displeased that the object of her delusion was him.

Even now, just thinking about it slightly soured Ashillya’s mood. She slowly opened her mouth and stared into Sylvia’s blue eyes.

Her bright red eyes pierced into the blue ones as if to bore through them.

“Thou still seem to believe that he love thee.”

“......”

Grind.

Sylvia gritted her teeth at Ashillya’s words.

Just as Ashillya didn’t like Sylvia, Sylvia also didn’t like Ashillya.

She might not have been able to show such open hostility in the past, but the situation was different now.

Ashillya might not know yet, but Sylvia had been officially appointed as the future Saintess.

If you think about it, this was a meeting between the future Empress and the future Saintess, so there was no need for Sylvia to feel intimidated...

Thinking this, she glared at Ashillya.

“With one confession, thou thought thou had gained everything... And thou seem to think thou still has it now.”

Ashillya spoke to Sylvia with a relaxed attitude.

Sylvia just listened to Ashillya’s words without saying anything. Ashillya shook her head at Sylvia, who obviously thought she was in an advantageous position.

“His heart has already left. Nay, ’tis nowhere. Thou must know that fact too.”

“Felix likes me.”

“Dost thou really, truly think so?”

“......”

A poke elicited a reaction.

Challenging, sharp... she had even dropped the honorifics now.

Secretly pleased by this, Ashillya curled her lips and asked, and Sylvia looked at her with coldly sunken eyes.

No answer came.

“Nay, thou know it best.”

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“......”

“That thou art not in his heart.”

“What do you know?! How can you understand someone else’s heart?”

It wasn’t about stating the obvious that no one can arbitrarily judge another’s heart.

Sylvia clenched her fists and raised her voice.

“Born with everything! You only want to suppress Felix with your own power!! What do you know about his heart...!!”

“Born with everything...”

Indeed, it was true.

At least half of it was true.

But that half was already a huge difference. Ashillya’s life had been a series of struggles.

To have something, she had to fight and win to obtain it.

Yet she thought half of the statement was correct because she was, after all, royalty.

The blood of the Imperial family.

Something that couldn’t be obtained just by wanting it. Born with that, she was able to ascend to the position of Imperial Princess. That part was true.

Mulling over Sylvia’s words, Ashillya tapped the armrest of her chair and nodded.

Half of it was true.

However,

“My life hath been a series of struggles. Everything I wanted, I had to fight and win for.”

She had no intention of simply acknowledging her words.

“‘Tis the same this time. I shall fight with everything I have against all of you, and I shall win him.”

In fact, the reason Sylvia was reacting so sensitively to Ashillya’s words was simple.

She, too, was subconsciously feeling it. The fact that Felix no longer liked her.

But Sylvia also didn’t want to admit it, especially not in front of Ashillya.

“Fight? Win? Do you think Felix is some kind of trophy?”

“If we wait for his choice, I think we shall all grow old and die.”

Love is something to be won.

The person who fights and wins against numerous rivals earns the right to have the sweet fruit.

Ashillya’s thinking was firm. And Sylvia could never agree with such thinking.

Love is an exchange of emotions.

When you and the other person confirm each other’s feelings and those feelings interlock, the emotion called love occurs.

There was no room for fighting in that process.

Their thoughts were as different as heaven and earth, and that gap could never be bridged. But despite that.

“That is why I proposed an alliance. Merely a temporary one.”

“......”

Sylvia had to partially agree with Ashillya’s words that an alliance was necessary.

Felix was strange.

He was more mature than his peers, and his intellect was also exceptional. After confessing to Sylvia, he diligently devoted himself to training, and his relationships with others weren’t bad either.

In a way, he was flawless, and by the standards of those who had fallen for Felix, he was superior to other men.

Nevertheless, he was somewhat lacking only when it came to ‘romance’... to be precise, love.

To be more accurate, he had completely removed such emotions. It would be correct to say that he, himself, suppressed his own feelings.

Why this was so, they couldn’t understand at all.

That’s why Ashillya was proposing an alliance. She had no intention of sharing him either.

Simply,

“Until he sincerely faces his own feelings.”

“...Ha.”

Sylvia, who knew about Felix’s ideals, could no longer refuse.

Confession? Sylvia could easily predict the answer to that, too.

Ashillya and Sylvia both knew that they didn’t like each other.

But ironically, that’s why they needed each other’s help. Furthermore, Sylvia knew that they also needed the help of two others.

Sylvia let out a small sigh and nodded.

Noticing that this was her answer, Ashillya also nodded in satisfaction.

Although it was pointless to argue, Helena or Ashillya had gotten closest to Felix.

From Sylvia’s perspective, she really didn’t want to admit it, but that was the fact.

From Ashillya’s perspective, she would never have proposed an alliance without this special case.

Yet she proposed one. That’s how unusual the situation was.

Sylvia acknowledged Ashillya to some extent for this fact.

She also imprinted in her mind that Ashillya would stop at nothing to achieve her goals.

“Ah... and by the way.”

“......”

Ashillya, who had been nodding with satisfaction, raised her head as if she had remembered something and looked at Sylvia.

Sylvia also looked back at her with an expressionless face.

“I do not particularly favor those who stab me in the back. Also, I am not known for my mercy.”

Ashillya thought Sylvia was somewhat helpful as a card to shake Felix’s heart.

She tended to be generous to those she found useful. But even that had its limits.

“If thou break thy promise even once more and aim for my back.”

“......”

“I shall have no mercy for thee either.”

Sylvia also acknowledged that Ashillya’s help was indispensable in shaking Felix’s heart.

That’s why she nodded at her words. Although her expression was still displeased, Ashillya was satisfied with that.

It’s just a temporary alliance, anyway.

Neither of them intends to yield Felix to the other, and they have even less intention of blessing it if another person ends up with Felix.

They were just using each other solely to connect with Felix.

The two, with different values and personalities, had joined forces for a single goal. Remembering this fact, Ashillya and Sylvia locked eyes.

Blue and red eyes met each other.

What was reflected in them was not the image of the other, but the image of a certain man.