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"Th-the Second Princess?"
At Areishia Spirit Academy, in a room within the Mole Class dormitory, Alice looked at Fianna with a stunned expression. After coming to her senses, she immediately dropped to one knee and lowered her head.
"Please forgive my rudeness, Your Highness. I am Alice Franngartel, and I offer you my greetings."
"I know you. You're Duke Franngartel's granddaughter, right?" Fianna did not put on any airs of a princess, merely smiling casually.
"Please don't be so formal. I may be called a princess, but it is only in name. You should understand that."
"Th-this..." Alice was left speechless.
Though she was not as notorious as the Calamity Spirit Princess, Fianna, the Lost Spirit Princess, also bore plenty of negative rumors within the Austia Empire.
There was hardly anyone who did not know this princess.
And even fewer who did not know what this princess had done.
When all the citizens of the Austia Empire were enduring the wrath of the Spirit Kings and praying for a new Spirit Princess to emerge, serve the Spirit Kings, and quell their anger, Fianna, who had been recommended for the role, not only failed to meet the people's expectations but even refused to become the Spirit Princess.
Under such circumstances, how could Fianna not be burdened with enormous negative rumors?
Therefore, although no one said it openly, there were surely many in the Austia Empire who harbored some resentment toward Fianna, weren't there?
Not to mention that Fianna's actions must have thoroughly disgraced the Austia Empire's imperial family.
Thus, Fianna was merely a princess in name.
"Originally, as a princess of the imperial family, I