The royal family of the ABM Empire had newly built a massive circular stadium a little away from the capital for this tournament.
And here, the participants’ registration for the Buma selection competition was to be held.
Prodia and her party arrived at the stadium a little earlier than the scheduled time.
It was to get used to the atmosphere of the competition and to identify the competitors in advance.
But the place was already crowded with many participants.
‘I expected it, but there are more than I thought. Besides, the races are diverse.’
Most of the participants were humans, but a considerable number of other races were visible.
Dragons, elves, demons, and so on.
Facing them directly after only having heard rumors, Prodia herself was also startled.
‘It won’t be easy.’
But even amidst that intimidation, Irtis and Luca seemed very calm.
Luca was looking around, excited as if seeing such a spectacle for the first time.
Irtis was yawning with a bored expression.
Anyway, both of them were definitely not intimidated by the formidable competitors.
‘Good courage.’
Prodia smiled contentedly.
Yes, my candidates aren’t the kind to back down anywhere.
The mad dog of the tower… no, the great magician.
And the walking miracle of the divine temple… though the eye color is slightly off right now, anyway.
And look at the faces of the participants gathered here. Are there any betterlooking ones than my candidates? There aren’t.
Prodia smiled satisfactorily and turned to the two men.
“Before we go to register, shall we shout a slogan together?”
Everyone made a startled expression at that.
“What… do you want to do?”
“Sister, how about just you and me shout?”
“Oh, why? It builds unity, and it’s good.”
With those words, Prodia reached out to them first.
“I’ll start. Each of us towards our desired goal!”
They reluctantly reached out their hands to Prodia’s.
“……For victory.”
“To marry sister…….”
As Prodia glared at Luca, he quickly corrected his words.
“Ahem, to survive a long time?”
“Come on, come on! Let’s smash everything!”
Prodia raised her hand high in the sky.
At the same time, their hands naturally rose towards the sky as well.
It was a trivial act.
But that small ceremony ignited a tiny spark in their hearts.
All the competitors gathered here came to the battlefield alone.
But they suddenly felt that their situation was a little different.
Yes, unlike other participants, they had comrades.
Thinking that, their hearts felt a little touched.
But neither of them mentioned it first.
Because their pride would be hurt.
But only Prodia seemed to notice their subtle emotional changes.
‘Has their relationship improved a bit?’
That’s really fortunate. They have to continue together, so it’s good to get along.
They aren’t even competing against each other for the same goal.
Well then, now that the slogan has been shouted, we must quickly finish the registration.
Prodia handed each of them a large envelope of documents.
It was the resumes and applications prepared well in advance for this day.
Actually, while filling out personal information, Prodia found out the real ages of the two men.
Irtis was a year older than her, and Luca was… really a year younger.
‘……I must never tell Luca my age.’
Because if he knew, he would be more excited to call her sister and cling to her.
Anyway, the important thing was that Prodia thoroughly manipulated both of their reasons for applying for the competition.
They both gave up stable positions due to their tearful love for the princess and participated in this competition.
While writing, everyone’s resistance was strong, but there was no choice.
‘Who has such unique careers as a great magician and a highranking priest?’
Prodia said to the two men.
“I’ll be waiting in the waiting area, so both of you go and register well.”
“Okay.”
“I’ll be back soon, sister.”
Prodia, receiving the acceptance documents from the two men, headed toward the acceptance office following the long queue.
Inside the large stadium, several small tents had been prepared.
Irtis and Luca lined up in the same row one after the other.
Suddenly, a strange story was heard from the front.
“A discerning magical device up front? Damn it, this is serious!”
At that, Irtis was startled and looked back at Luca.
But Luca had no idea what was going on right now.
“Why? What’s the discerning magical device?”
The discerning magical device, which looked like a large mirror, was a device that verified whether the person standing in front of it was themselves.
The number of nobles who intended to send out talented agents to grab the place of the head of the family had increased, so it had been prepared unannounced by the royal side.
Since Luca shared the same body with Papiéry, it would not be classified as an agent, but there was one problem.
The eye color.
The discerning magical device accurately reads the inherent outward appearance that the person was born with.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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