Book 2: Chapter 19: His and Her Plan Part 1
During the afternoon of the first day of the School Festival, I hurriedly decided to take on the role of the prince. Before the live performance of Espressivo of Light and Darkness was to begin, a lot of students, along with their families, had gathered in the auditorium.
Just like they had said in the past, Pamela and Ferris occupied their seats in the front row. They had done so not just because they were part of Lady Sophia’s faction, but also because they seemed to be wholeheartedly looking forward to her performance.
However, a large part of the audience was not looking forward to the performance. Since many of them wanted to secure connections with the royal family or the marquis household, they were there simply to be able to say that they had seen their children’s performance.
Nevertheless, that didn’t matter. We understood the wishes of Fol and Prince Alforth. To fail during Lady Sophia’s performance as the heroine was impossible.
The curtain lifted and Lady Sophia, playing an innocent young girl, spoke in a clear voice. At that moment, the atmosphere in the audience changed. Everyone looked a little surprised, and became very interested in the stage.
Scene one.
The scene where the heroine, after she got lost at the party’s venue, was harassed by a dead-beat young aristocrat.
With the orchestra’s performance serving as background music, Aurelia stood in the venue. At this point, the narration came in, and her performance showed my Lady’s confusion. It was likely due to the voice of the narration not belonging to me, as we had previously planned.
It wasn’t that we didn’t have the time to inform my Lady of the role switch because of Prince Alforth’s proposal being last minute.