3. All I have to do is to become a target!\n \nIn the beginning, the men who are the target of your strategy must have treated the protagonist, a commoner, coldly.\n\nAs their sensitivity rises and they enter the route, their sweet words and actions increase, but there are times when they shun the protagonist or treat him badly in the peaks and valleys of the scenario. When playing the game, there were times when I thought to myself, "Don't be that guy!"\n\nI think she should be condemned much more than me, a rival character playing a small role, but everything is forgiven because she is a handsome target.\n \nNo matter how badly they do something, they get to have a happy ending with the main character.\n\nIt's just too unreasonable.\n\nWhen it came time for me to be on the disadvantaged side, I became angry at the way the world of otome games was set up and the apparent favoritism of the players.\n \nI'm a good-looking girl, with a top-class family background. It was unfair that I was treated so differently just because of my gender. I'm sure you can have a romantic and fabulous love affair with me.\n \nThen I realized something.\n\nThat's right.\n \nI should be the target of his attack.\n\nIt's a given that characters who are captured by the protagonist usually end up happy, and since "Royal Lovers" is a "friendly world" full of happy endings, I can rest easy.\n \nI'm a good-looking guy and have a high status. Above all, I have knowledge of the game. I'm sure I can anticipate the events of the other characters in the game and kill them, or even intercept them.\n \nThe point is to change your (aka her) mind.\n\nYou can't change others, but you can change yourself. That's what a wise person said to me in a previous life.\n\nIt's not about preventing my fiance from falling in love with the heroine. All I have to do is make her fall in love with me and not let her go down Claude's route. If I do that, it doesn't matter how much of a jerk Claude is.\n\nAnd if the protagonist goes my route, I'm assured of a happy ending.\n\nHow do I break off the engagement without damaging the duke's name and angering the royal family? I would no longer have to face that difficult question.\n\nBecause the main character who will fall in love with me would lead me to a happy ending with the power of love.\n\nIn other otome games, the cool older sister character in the friend position became so popular that she was treated very well in the anime and a friendship route was added to the fan disc. There is a handicap, but it should not be an impossible story.\n\nI clench my fists tightly.\n\nI will meet the main character in the spring of her seventeenth year, when she awakens to the power of a saint and moves into the school. By then, I need to grow into a noble, fabulous, and handsome man (or woman) who can compete with Claude and the other targets. There's a lot of work to be done.\n\nMy eyes fell on my reflection in the well-polished window glass.\n \nThe very belligerent smile on my face did not look like that of a seven-year-old. With renewed determination, I murmured quietly.\n\n"Watch yourselves and wait for me, handsome."\n\n\n\n***\n\n\n\n\n