Fiancée No More: The Forsaken Lady, the Prince, and Their Make-Believe Love Volume 2 [Parts 1 to 2] by Mari Morikawa

Author:Mari Morikawa
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 2: A Strange Occurrence

From the second half of February to the end of March, a string of major events in high society played out.

First, there had been King Sachis’s memorial ceremony; then there would be a memorial service for those who had died in wartime; and lastly, the hunting contest.

This memorial service was for mourning those who had died in the large-scale war which had occurred when a change of government in Franciel thirty-five years ago had spread repercussions over the entire Heredian continent. The war had lasted four years.

Sachis’s predecessor and Arcrayne’s grandfather King Ethelbert had been a wise ruler who’d raised Rosalia into a great power which had become known as the Conqueror of the Seas, but sending troops into the war on the Heredian continent was considered the only blot on his name.

Using the alliance with Franciel as pretext, Rosalia had sent out troops to further expand its overseas territories, but lost a swath of them as the war dragged on and on. The number was said to be as high as five hundred thousand. Estelle and Sirius, too, had lost an uncle in that war—a different one from Oscar.

This death toll included the mobilized troops and civilians from each colony, but the reality was that nobody knew the exact numbers.

A year after treaties between all the countries had been signed to end the hostilities, King Ethelbert had abdicated, feeling responsible for this outcome, and giving the throne to Sachis. This served to further darken the only blot on the name of the wise monarch.

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