“Do you perhaps know why I am here?”
I wonder? Out of curiosity regarding your fiance?
That’s what I thought for a brief moment, but it didn’t seem to be the real reason.
The fourth prince’s eyes and tone of voice was not tinted with even the slightest bit of affection for his fiancee. In fact, his polite and formal speech sounded cold as though building a wall.
‘What is this?’
At the one possibility that came to mind, I frowned, and he opened his mouth.
“I came as the student representative. Rubia de Grandia la Roxanne. It appears you’ve violated the school rules.”
Marie, who was watching nervously from behind me, jumped in surprise and her eyes grew large.
“There was a report. It seems you went to the casino to gamble a large amount of money. A gamble that totaled around 5,000 cena?”
“……!”
My fiancee said in a voice tauntingly good to listen to.
“You have violated a rule, leading to academic disciplinary action. Tomorrow morning, please attend the disciplinary committee’s conference to address your violation.”
***
“M, milady. What do we do?”
The next day, Marie asked nervously.
“What do you mean? It’s something that could happen.”
At my calm response, Marie made a face that showed just how nervous she was.
“Aren’t you worried, milady? They said disciplinary action. You haven’t even properly started your life at the Academy, but what if they punish you severely?”
I laid on the bed and thought absentmindedly.
‘I’ll take whatever disciplinary action they give me.’
There was no reason to get all worked up over a mere disciplinary action.
To be honest, I knew that gambling was a violation of the Academy’s rules. In the first place, there wouldn’t exist an academy that allowed students to gamble large amounts of money, so it was an obvious sequence of events.
‘At most it would be a suspension or probation.’
In any case, I had arrived here to lay about leisurely, so why would it matter to me if I received a probation or a transfer? I would be more than happy to welcome a means for me to lawfully laze about.
Just in case this happened, I had already put aside money for living expenses.
‘The problem is how they knew I had gambled… Who had filed the report against me?’
I narrowed my eyes.
The casino wouldn’t have filed a report, so it must have been someone I knew who had secretly reported it to the Academy.
“Wah. What do we do? Should I go ahead first and beg them? You had no choice but to gamble in order to feed me.”
Marie said nervously.
I giggled and sat up on the bed and patted her head.
“It’s fine. I’ll just negotiate with them.”
As I thought how wonderful it would be for me to receive a probation so I could laze about, I headed towards the student council office.
Since the circumstances surrounding the violation were clear, the disciplinary action was decided almost immediately.
However, it wasn’t the disciplinary action I had anticipated.
“Then, we shall punish the freshman, Rubia, with cleaning the campus.”
I frowned.
“Cleaning the campus? Not suspension or probation?”
Gambling was a very serious violation of school rules. I had thought it was proper to give the punishment of at least a suspension or probation.
It appeared that it had been lightened because it was my first violation and I was the Princess of the Roxanne Grand Duchy.
The problem was that for me, who wished to be a literal sloth, cleaning the campus was an even worse punishment than expulsion.
As a result, I spoke up.
“It seems the punishment is too light.”
“Too light?”
“Yes. Even if I’m the Princess of the Roxanne Grand Duchy, I have committed a great infringement upon the Academy’s principles, so it is only right to receive a punishment of weight equal to my violation. Please punish me with a probation or suspension as according to the school rules.”
I said this with an expression that looked determined to receive the right punishment. It made sense for me to place an emphasis on the words ‘suspension’ and ‘probation.’