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◈ The Romance Fantasy’s Pushover Crown Prince Is No More ◈

Chapter 1: Do You Think That’ll Work?

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『"Brother! Help me! Please!"

"You need help again?"

"I only need a little help. I think I can win her heart if you do."

"Haha, you're really impossible, little brother! Fine, fine, I understand!"』

Taken by itself, it was an utterly ordinary exchange.

But what it really meant was...

"What the hell do you mean, you understand, you crazy bastard?!"

It was the insane act of letting a younger brother, who'd lost his mind over someone, sell off the country's resources.

The mighty Velos Empire.

It occupied the vast northern and eastern regions of the Rand Continent.

Overwhelming national power and enormous underground resources came from that land.

There were even ancient ruins where artifacts popped up every other day.

"If you compared it to Earth... it'd be like Saudi Arabia and America combined, except with infinite oil... and military power?"

Its territory was vast, and its resources were abundant.

Even the dangerous monsters living in the north were no more than rare resources before the might of the great empire.

Yet as the novel went on, this empire gradually declined and weakened.

Why? Because the idiotic Second Imperial Prince fell in love with a princess from the western kingdom, the Macelin Kingdom, and gave them everything.

He really gave them everything.

No resources? I'll support you.

Not enough national power? I'll lend you some.

Going to war? I'll join you.

That included manpower, food aid, and more.

This one crazy bastard was so blinded by love that he lived as though he were ready to hand over the entire empire.

"No, if you fell in love, you should've handled it on your own... Just defect and go have fun somewhere. Why are you giving away everything the country has? It's not even yours."

Of course, none of this would have been possible if only the Second Imperial Prince had been stupid.

Being stupid was a sin in itself, but he wasn't the one with the authority to make all those stupid decisions.

Which was why the person I hated most was...

"That fucking First Imperial Prince."

He was the psychopath of an older brother who granted every request his stupid younger brother made.

The First Imperial Prince, Bellon Velos.

As the legitimate Crown Prince, he was the undisputed next heir to the throne.

He was handsome, outstanding in combat, and had all sorts of other flattering descriptions attached to him.

But there was only one way to sum him up.

'This bastard just likes his younger siblings.'

What sin had the Emperor committed for every single one of his children to turn out wrong?

Thanks to having nothing but kind-hearted, incompetent fools for children, the empire collapsed at an incredible pace.

Starting with the Second Imperial Prince's insane demands.

Then the First Imperial Princess's whining, and so on.

All his younger siblings were madly in love, running around like idiots without a care for anything else.

Yet the eldest son just chuckled and granted every last one of their requests.

The result was exactly what I'd said before. The empire slowly fell apart.

Its formidable forces weakened because they were handed out to everyone around them, along with resources and even various artifacts.

The empire should’ve been monopolizing those things, yet instead it was practically saying, ‘I’m done with this life, so I’m giving away all my gear.’

They said even a ruined rich family lasted three generations, but this one was utterly destroyed before even three generations had passed.

Then another problem arose.

'The Velos Empire isn't the focus of this novel.'

So what was the Velos Empire, exactly?

'It’s like that rich idiot older brother in the neighborhood?'

The protagonist had to start weak so the story could fill its pages and show the fun of gradual growth.

So they made the protagonist a princess from a weak kingdom, then had everyone around her shower her with support.

And this was where one especially infuriating line appeared.

『"The Velos Empire... must've felt burdened by being so powerful all this time."

"R-right."

"Now that you've shared that power and everyone has become equal, the burden must be lighter too. Doesn't it feel better?"

"Yeah!"』

After sucking it dry, instead of saying thank you, she said:

'I deliberately weakened your empire because I thought being so big might make you feel burdened.'

"Ugh! Blegh! Eugh!"

How could that not make me furious?

It was a weak kingdom that would vanish the moment the Empire decided to launch a war of conquest against it, yet because its princess was the protagonist of a romance fantasy novel, she talked about "normalizing the empire."

The Second Imperial Prince even cried when he heard that.

'Why, though?'

He was seriously insane.

『"That's right, I felt burdened all this time... I think the burden of being a prince has really lessened. Ah... Maybe I was never suited to life as a prince in the first place?"』

He even went one step further and spat out that nonsense.

Crazy bastard.

'What kind of... what kind of life as a prince did you even live?'

He'd thrown away every duty he had as a prince, settled down in a weak kingdom, and given them this and that.

He didn't even understand what it meant for the Second Imperial Prince of an empire to be inside another country's palace.

'Hostage, captive... His flower-filled brain doesn't even consider that he could be held there as one....'

It made me angry every time I saw it.

If you asked why I kept reading it, though...

'It just happened somehow....'

I had nothing else to do.

It was being heavily advertised as a new release.

I had plenty of time, so I gave it a try.

By the time I came to my senses, I'd already read a fair amount, and now I was criticizing it.

'But what the hell was the Emperor doing?'

While the empire was being dismantled in real time, there wasn't a single mention of the Emperor.

Even though the Emperor was the one who truly ran the state, it was the pushover First Imperial Prince who accepted all that nonsense.

How could the prince, rather than the Emperor, hold the final authority?

Curious, I diligently searched the comments to see if there had been any mention of it.

↳ It's so thrilling that the Emperor is missing, so the First Imperial Prince is serving as regent.

↳ What's with the First Imperial Prince caring so much about his siblings?

↳ Giving away a country for love, lol. He's such a love-crazed top.

↳ Love for his siblings, love for his country. When his niece or nephew is born later, he might seriously say, "Inherit the empire!"

There wasn't much about it.

That was all there was.

It didn't seem like they ever explained why the Emperor had gone missing.

Still, judging by the atmosphere, it didn't seem like the Emperor had disappeared for any negative reason.

I could've read further, but it felt like a waste of money, so I stopped.

The premise elements were so stupid that I couldn't keep reading.

"There are way too many contrivances, too."

Maybe because the protagonist was a princess from a weak country.

The protagonist was absurdly capable to make up for that weak background.

On top of that, the premise was that a twenty-first-century Korean woman who knew the original work of <I'm Full Because Everyone Keeps Giving Me Things> had transmigrated into the story.

She used modern knowledge to start all kinds of businesses and even built a success story.

In other words, anything she touched became a massive hit.

"If she picks up a sword, she can even beat knights... and whatever else."

The only supposed penalties were things like stamina and judgment.

Even those weaknesses were somehow compensated for with artifacts or the power of spirits.

'Well, I won't ever have to see it again.'

That was enough.

Honestly, there was no point getting angry.

I'd already read it, and I could just read something else now.

'I should keep up my lifestyle of falling asleep while reading novels today, too.'

It was fun while it lasted, <I'm Full Because Everyone Keeps Giving Me Things>.

You were a novel I only read because I was bored for a little while. Goodbye now.

'I should jerk off and go to sleep.'

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"What? The Macelin Kingdom is under threat? Shouldn't we help them immediately?"

"...P-Prince Bedin, that isn't something we can decide so easily."

"What do you mean it isn't? What's wrong with helping our neighboring kingdom? Macelin is a weak country, isn't it?"

"I-I simply cannot understand why we should be the ones helping them...."

"Huh... Don't people have to help one another so their friendship grows stronger, and then promise a future together through that friendship? How can your perspective be so narrow-minded?"

"...."

What was this supposed to be?

'What is this?'

I was sure I'd jerked off, then closed my eyes in bed.

But when I opened them, an unfamiliar sight filled my vision.

The first thing I saw was a chandelier hanging from the ceiling that looked ridiculously expensive.

Below it stood a long round table, the sort one might see at a State Council Meeting.

'...Am I sitting at the head of the table?'

When I lowered my gaze to look at where I was sitting, it seemed I was indeed at the head of the table.

'Is this a dream? Am I having a vivid dream?'

But why did what I'd just overheard sound so familiar?

As I stayed silent and looked around, faced with a situation I'd never experienced before, the discussion continued.

"We have to help them! Right now! We must protect their troops!"

"B-but then what about our troops...."

"Aren't we strong? Can't we send the Executioners, who are said to be the strongest?"

"The Executioners are the empire's greatest force. How can you suggest dispatching them to another country so easily?"

"Huh... Isn't it precisely because they're the strongest that they can resolve the matter quickly and return?"

"Prince Bedin, please reconsider...."

As I tried to grasp the situation, my ears gradually began to take in what they were saying.

'Bedin? Did they say Bedin?'

Could that be Bedin, the character from <I'm Full Because Everyone Keeps Giving Me Things>, the Second Imperial Prince of the Velos Empire, the love-crazed psychopath Bedin?

'Wait, wait....'

Did that mean this was inside the novel?

As I understood the situation, my mind, which had briefly cleared, became dizzy again.

Why, why had I transmigrated? Because I had too many complaints?

No, wasn't it normal to have a few complaints while reading a novel?

Why would I be transmigrated without my permission? What would happen to my original life, then?

Dozens of thoughts ran wildly through my mind.

"But what's the point of saying all this? Brother is the one who decides, right? You understand how I feel, Brother! You'll listen to me, won't you?"

"...?"

At the Second Imperial Prince's words, my muddled mind instantly cleared.

When I looked at the Second Imperial Prince as if asking what exactly he was trying to say, he stared at me with eyes full of expectation and eagerly poured out his words.

"We're sending the Executioners to the Macelin Kingdom! They're in danger right now, so we have to save them! Right?! Brother! You'll permit it, won't you?!"

The moment I heard that, all the anger I'd felt toward the Second Imperial Prince surged through my mind.

I wanted to calmly explain everything, starting with why it was impossible and all the reasons it could never happen.

But I wasn't good with words like that.

So...

"Hey, you fucking bastard."

I just spat out the conclusion.

Think about it rationally. Do you think that'll work?

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