Transmigration: Forced to Be a Fake

27 - I want to be a commoner

This is the first time Meridian has seen a real army vest. Although it has often seen hundreds of people gather, whether watching concerts or queuing up something, it is still different.

All soldiers were equipped with full armaments and horses.

To lighten the load on the carriage, the troops also herded a group of cattle that would be slaughtered as soldier food.

They walked slowly to not damage the formation. As night fell, the entire army was stopped, and began to set up tents and set up campfires.

Some time, the Meridian just sat staring at the entire moving soldier. Most of them were warriors of the Elgard family equipped by the Marquis family warriors and some of the Crown Prince's men.

Meridian does not yet know exactly what conflicts will be resolved at the border until it requires diplomats as speakers, but hear the territory of Duke Elgard borders directly with neighboring kingdoms. Conflicts of territory certainly can not be completed just from killing the criminals.

Once the sky was completely covered by darkness, Wilona came to bring dinner.

"Where are Raphael and Herdian?"

"They're gathered in the central tent, miss. Young Master told Miss not to wait for him."

Meridian had no intention of waiting for him.

While enjoying the cool breeze of the night, plus the new cold hoes, Meridian enjoys the food alone.

Wilona must have been tired of riding all day, so Meridian told her to go rest and eat.

Andaru's bodyguard who replaced him was guarding the Meridians.

"What's your name?"

The man who looks after him is handsome. Faces like her are important.

"Yohannes, Miss."

"Yohannes. Is Your Majesty telling you to take care of me?"

"Yes, Miss. Your Majesty specifically ordered me to ensure your safety."

"Very moving." The meridians chewed on the tender meat-goals prepared for him. "A company of troops to overcome bandits, equipped with full armament. They must be heavily armed bandits as well."

Yohannes was patient. Well, maybe that's why he was sent.

"I don't need to be guarded, so can you hear my story?"

Coming home from here, he must have reported to Andaru.

"To be honest, I want to cancel my engagement to His Majesty."

According to the law of rationality, Meridian's actions were now the trigger of a brutal conflict.

But according to the laws of the world of romance-fantasy novels, the Meridian's act now is to heat up for love to grow in bloom.

And according to Meridian law, this was the emotional outlet after meeting the False Meridian Trash.

"I ran away with the Young Duke so His Majesty wouldn't bother me." Meridian smiled sweetly at Yohannes' astonished face. "I've rejected His Majesty repeatedly, but somehow His Majesty won't. Does Your Majesty have no lover?"

Just dickin' all. Meridian is willing to pry if there is only one beautiful super duper noble who becomes a rival to the fake Meridian.

"Yohannes, you won't answer?"

"I have no right to comment on Your Majesty's personal life, Miss."

"I think you're right." The meridian was silent to chew the piece of meat in its mouth. "Your Majesty is the best man in the empire. I feel stupid rejecting him, but what can a woman like me do when my heart is attached to another man?"

"...." - ".Apparently he was hooked too. "What makes you dissatisfied with Your Majesty, Miss?"

"Hmm." Of course he must look convincing and does not seem deliberately venting just like that. "After some thought, the noble life is boring."

The most honest meridian. Instead of lying, mending he bluntly.

"I looked at the palace where His Majesty lived and thought, should I stay there one day? Then when I imagined what I should do as a wife, conceiving His Majesty's child while watching all my people from up there, it sounded terrible. I've lived as the Marquis' daughter for seventeen years. Moving from the Marquis's nursery to His Majesty's room doesn't change much. Didn't you?"

As the heat in his body increased rapidly, the Meridians rushed to pick up the hornbill again. Must pause eating first so that the sweat does not flood.

"Life as a commoner isn't as pleasant as Miss would like."

Ah, so, huh? He's a commoner.

But he doesn't look stupid either.

So Yohannes responded with a bit of emotion. He must have thought that Meridians were just arrogant nobles who were tired of living, so he hoped that his life would change.

"I admire ordinary people." Meridian is an equalityist although she is not a feminist. "The nobility always says the common people are lowly descendants, whereas nobles like me only know to lie down and eat."

Yohannes jerks.

"If I like royalty, then I will marry someone whose blood is most noble, His Highness the Crown Prince."

Meridian smirked thinly. He must have not expected a noble to have such a self-consciousness that they were despicable as well.

"But unfortunately I started to look at the nobility as just a lowly creature. They just happen to master a lot of things. Dominating what the common people do not dominate, then boasting their true blood will also run out if it is removed from their bodies."

"Miss."

"I want to marry a commoner."

If that one's a lie.

Or not completely, since the Meridian lover in the real world was not a nigrat either, so he was indeed a commoner.

But in this world, with its system of commoners and nobles, it was obvious that prosperity was in the hands of nobles.

That one is for Andaru, so a little lie is also fine.

"Of course, I was even close to the noble-blooded Young Duke. Merely, Young Duke is different from the nobles I know."

Only he was known to the Meridians, more precisely.

"And it seems, the Young Duke will leave his power to me if I ask for it."

Well, that one's stupid.

Where might be so too. Unless Laila really went crazy creating bucins.

"I'm so babbling nonsense at you." Meridian laughed innocently, without sin, without error.

He wondered how Andaru would react later.

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Unlike restraints using magic, consuming the fruit did indeed feel like it was poisoning his body.

The most excruciating thing was that Meridians always had trouble sleeping, busy panting with bodies flooded with sweat.

He could half-sleep while sucking in the cold steam from the magic stone, but when his consciousness was gone, then no cold air entered his body and the Meridians would awaken like they were raining down.

At home he was being watched by Dion, so whenever a sense of heat came, he surrounded the Meridians with ice magic stones.

In the horse carriage obviously can not.

"Meridians."

While trying to regulate his agitated breath, Meridian peered at whose voice it was.

Apparently Raphael.

He placed a hand on Meridian's cheek, then it slowly felt like water was surrounding his skin, washing away the Meridian's sweat, followed by a gentle cold wind.

There was also Herdian.

"Are you okay, Miss?"

Meridians can breathe a little. "Yes, thank you, Brother, Herdian."

"I'm sorry." Raphael sat down and let the Meridian head on his thigh. "I brought Herdian to your bed at night. But the wind magic can help you, so please understand that."

"I'm fine."

Meridian thanked me.

"Is it okay? You two should rest too."

"It's okay. I'm used to staying up to look after you. Me and Herdian will be alternately awake. Our control of magic is better than anyone, so sleep without worry."

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