Chapter 65

"Young Lady Kaguya, this is a very good opportunity, you know. Wouldn't you like to know what you would become like if you had made a different choice?"

"Although I'm only here to see Young Lady Kaguya make a fool of herself, isn't Young Lady Kaguya herself a little curious?"

"…Hayasaka, when we get home, you just wait for me!"

Kaguya Sigong clenched her fists.

If the moment weren't so inappropriate, she really wanted to freeze Hayasaka into an ice sculpture!

But the curiosity about her own story surged in her heart as well.

It would be a lie to say she wasn't curious.

She said she wouldn't act according to certain people's arrangements, but she was also curious what the story arranged for her looked like.

Taking a deep breath, the girl's curiosity was stirred as well.

"Regarding Amamiya-kun's story about me… actually, I'm a little curious too."

"Could you tell me about the me in that story?"

"I can, sure."

"But I feel like you're about to get flustered."

Ren Amamiya couldn't help but complain inwardly.

But that look of deliberately watching someone else get flustered while spoiling things for them is rather fun too.

"Mm… perhaps I can use simple terms to let you understand the original story's life trajectory for you."

"First is the story's initial form, Ice Kaguya."

"That state of yourself, Sigong-san should be clear about, is the form where she keeps her guard up against any outsider, with every porcupine quill on her body raised."

"After that comes the realization of some feelings toward the male lead, which is Sigong-san's second state, Love-Brained Kaguya."

"In that state, all Sigong-san thinks about all day is using every method to provoke the male lead into confessing first."

"Because the Sigong-san in that state held onto one principle: 'Love is war.'"

"Since it's a war, the one who fires the first shot is destined to be the loser."

"This created Sigong-san's idea of 'the other party must confess in love,' and she took that as her goal in romance, maintaining it for a long time."

"Especially when the other party held the same idea—the male lead thought his own status was humble, so he couldn't stand in the lower position in the field of love, which led to his idea of 'love must make Kaguya confess.'"

"It's very twisted, but the battle of wits between Sigong-san and the male lead in the story is also rather interesting."

"Ice Kaguya… Love-Brained Kaguya…"

At this moment, the girl named Kaguya Sigong was already so embarrassed her toes were curling into the ground.

And that later theory of love being war, viewed from her current perspective, really did seem like something she would come up with.

"Too idealized."

Amid the embarrassment, Kaguya Sigong couldn't help but offer her own assessment of that story.

"Completely disregarding the pressure behind the Sigong family."

"Once such a highly self-centered course of action drew interference from the Sigong family, I don't think the protagonist in the story would have had an easy time of it."

"Based on my understanding of the story, it should end well, right?"

"To reach that good ending, there must have been some problems within the Sigong family, right?"

"That's right. The Shijo family made their move, causing some issues within the Sigong family."

"…I knew it."

This result didn't surprise Kaguya Sigong in the slightest.

The Shijo family had always been restless toward the Sigong family, and it was perfectly normal for them to strike at the Sigong family at any moment.

Just like the intelligence Nagi Sanzenin had provided back when she was in charge of the Sigong family.

Truly, you don't know until you look, and once you look you realize how many important positions within the Sigong family had been corroded, and they were even trying to get involved in politics—simply a suicidal course of action.

If Nagi Sanzenin could dig out that intelligence, the Shijo family had probably long since dug out that intelligence as well, just waiting for an opportunity to attack the Sigong family.

"I can almost imagine what happens next."

"Given the instability within the Sigong family, my elder brother must have hoped to use me to stabilize the internal situation of the Sigong family, and taken that as the condition for a marriage alliance with the Shijo family, right?"

"That's right."

Kaguya Sigong, who had gotten her answer, felt not the slightest bit of joy, only shaking her head at a loss for words.

"Truly a reckless course of action."

"Going up against the Sigong family, which to a certain extent can influence politics, as an ordinary person."

"If my elder brother had so much as called the police, that male lead who wanted to rescue me would probably have already been arrested."

"Those kinds of things could only succeed in a story."

Kaguya Sigong didn't believe that kind of situation in reality still had any room to be salvaged.

"It can't succeed?"

"What about your friends joining in?"

"My friends…"

"Chika Fujiwara, and the maid young lady by your side."

"Here's something funny—the politics of this island nation is truly laughable. After your story ended, in one island nation political election, the Chika Fujiwara from the story actually got elected, and by an overwhelming number of votes."

"…That ridiculous?"

Hearing something that sounded entirely like a joke, Kaguya Sigong didn't feel the slightest urge to laugh.

Because she could tell this didn't seem to be a joke.

But she also couldn't imagine what would happen once that unfathomable woman Chika Fujiwara took that seat.

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