M-my name is Anessa Nizzet . I , I am is the sole daugther of an Earl household of the Azolias kingdom .  

My age . . . is eighteeen . Right now, I am still studying in the Azolias kingdom's Magic School . . .  

Senior year of the Enchantment Magic cla.s.s .

I live at, the school dormitory . . . My school life . . . is, not really that, fun .

. . . My friend, is , none .  

The reason, I can already guess, . . . probably, it's due to the three reasons below . . .

First, its . . . my magical apt.i.tude . It's not really high . . . but, I have two sorcery traits .

Perhaps, those who learned a bit about magic will know about it . But by the characteristic of their sorcery trait, their hair and eye color will change depending on their sorcery .

Futhermore . . . the base color of the Nizzet household is gold and eyecolour is ashen grey .

Just like this, the paler the base colour, the stronger the sorcery color will come to surface .

If I only have the water sorcery apt.i.tude just like my father, then , my hair . . . will become beautifully glittering with, gradation of gold and blue .

My sorcery colour is [ black ] and [ deep blue ] 

The result, these two colors mashed up together over my hair and eyes: my hair ended up in a gloomy gradation of those two color and my eyes became a dull deep blue, the colour of the depth of the sea .

Since I was a little kid, I have an inferiority complex with this eye colour of mine . So I grow my hair 'till it covers my face . And so, I was deemed as a weirdo who never showed their eyes to others .

. . . this is the first reason .

The next one, is something in relation with one of my sorcery traits, which is the [ sorcery trait of curse ]

. . .  

Just by that name, you will think this sorcery as some evil-like sorcery , ri, right ? 

Actually, it's not really different from enchantment magic . . .

Enchancing the target's body power . . . and giving minus effect . . . to the opponent or monster . . . Something like that . . .

The only difference that this sorcery trait has is . . . that I am able to evoke the magic without using the proper aria of the said enchantment magic . . . and [ using a special short chant to evoke the magic ] instead . . .

Since there is not really that much difference with enchantement magic, the effect of this sorcery trait is not really apparent . So there're not many sorcerers who research upon this kind of sorcery . Thus, with just the impression that came from the name of [ sorcery trait of curse], many of sorcerers misunderstood that this sorcery trait is something that's dangerous .  

Of course, the student of this magic school, too . . .  

This is . . . the second reason . . .  

And the last one . . .

[ Nizzet-san, Annesa Nizzet-san? ]

[Ah . . . Ye, yes . . . ? ]

[ You still haven't submitted your report about the unknown magic spot that was due last week . . . I wonder what happened ?]

[ Ah, yes . . . I 'm sorry . . . I forgot . . . to submit , it . . . I will, submit it, this after, noon . . . kuhihi . . . ]

[ Ah, is that so . Please submit it as fast as possible, 'kay? . . . ]

. . . I know . I know that teacher who talked to me in the corridor just, just now, didn't think well about me . . . I can sense

sense that he thought of me as eerie, with the slight fear from his body . . . This is because of the second sorcery trait that I possess . . . [ sorcery trait of psycological sensor] . . .

Just like how its name said, this sorcery allows me to roughly perceive the opponent's emotion and feelings . . .

Because of that, I know about it, the impression that everyone has towards me the first time we met are the first two reasons-disgust and hate .

Because of that, naturally, . . .   I ended up taking a distance from everyone around me . . . .  

And so, I don't have any friends . Even at this age, I still don't have any fiancee . . .

I have already given up . I have accepted that I will live alone, forever .  

. . . I already gave up, or so I thought .

Until father told me about my marriage interview .

[ Anessa ! The date of your marriage interview is already decided ! It'll be held this week . . . and to your surprise, your partner will be the eldest son of the Ractos, Jake Ractos-kun ! ]

[ Hah . . . eh ? ]

[ Waah ! That's a relief . Right, anessa ?! ]

As I arrived to my house from the dorm for summer vacation, honoured father happily said so to me .

And honoured mother is also happy hearing this news .

Marriage interview . . . for me ?

Rurthermore, the partner is . . . it's lie right ? Jake Ractos-sama ?

The grandson of the [ Sorcery King of the Dusk ], that [ Incarnation of the Devil Snake ] ? 

. . . I can only think of this as some kind of a mistake .

Jake-sama is someone that's so famous that every person who studies magic will know of his name whenever they're from the Azolias kingdom or not .  

One of the only two users of the [ sorcery trait of the shadow] that's alive and ever confirmed .

Furthermore, he's the eldest of an Azolias' Duke

Azolias' Duke household . . . the next head of the duke house .  

. . . though there're several dark rumours surrouding him, there's no other fault that I can find in him . . .  

In other words, I think he's someone that's fit to be called as a supreme object .

If I have to add, I heard from honoured father that all of those rumours are only baseless rumours . . .

Why did such person become the candidate for my marriage . . .

And so, I asked honoured father about it and then he explained the details to me .  

Telling it in short . . . from what i heard, Jake-sama seems to be in the same circ.u.mstance as me . And so, he still doesn't have anyone as candidate for fiancee .  

Just a little bit, I felt some kind of intimacy with him .

. . . . . . However . . .

[ Yaah~ With this, our household will be fine .   Well, although Anessa will become the bride of that house . In our household, the house name is just a secondary thing . . . As long as you are able to succeed the sorcerer's blood, then there will be no problems . If you guys will do your best to make lotd of descendants, in the end, there will be someone who will take over the Nizzet household, right ! ] - Sir Nizzet

[ That's true! . . . Even if that didn't happen, the kid that's born between the father that possess the sorcery trait of shadow and a mother who possess several sorcery traits ! ! What should we do if there's a Sorcery King born from the blood of the Nizzet household ! ? ] - Madam Nizzet

[ Ah, umm . . . Father, Mother . . . Why, suddenly such . . . ]

[ Ooh ! that's true . Sorcery trait and magic apt.i.tude will not always be inherited to their child . So its not really good to expect too much right now  . . . But! As long

But! As long as there's a kid who will diligently continue the magical experiment that our house has done for generations, then it's already an extremly joyous thing ! ! ] - Madam Nizzet

[ N, no . . . Not about that . . . Why are you guys . . . already having a talk with the premise that I will, ma ,marry  . . . and have kids . . . Why ? ]

[ It's gonna be alright ! Though Annesa usually acts like, umm , like that . . . But as long as we gave you a little bit of make up, Annesa will surely become a beauty ! ! That's right . First, we need to do something about that hair . And make it so that you are showing your face . . . Ah, I also have to prepare a dress that is suited for Annesa, right ! ! The one that is totally pretty ! !  ]

[ No, wait ! My dear wife, just wait a moment ! . . . I think that Jake-kun will prefer someone who has moderate looks rather than those who dress up gawdily . . . Let's make Annesa wear a dress robe, taking into account that our household is a sorcerer family . How about it ! ?]

[ Good . . . That's a really nice idea ! Then a magic stone brooch instead the one that's made with a gem ! ! Aah, it's gonna be busy ! ! ]

Aah . . . I felt like they've left me behind, alone, and is advancing their conversation by their own will . . .

But even so, Jake-sama . . . huh 

If we're in the same situation . . . Perhaps, even someone like, me . . . .  

As I thought that, I realize that I have actually still not totally gave up the future where I can live together with someone else . . .

That's why . . . perhaps, I should also be doing my best, maybe . . . ?