The Royal Aristocratic Academy is a boarding school where the children of aristocrats live together for three years and learn what it means to be an aristocrat.

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    My name is Rebecca Sultarque, and I will be entering the Royal Aristocratic Academy this spring. The territory I come from is large and wealthy, but it is far from the Royal Capital.

    I lost my mother half a year ago. A gentle and strong mother, who battled illness for many years. It was the day before her death that I found out that the unusual atmosphere surrounding my mother, who was the daughter of a marquis, was not just my imagination.

    “Calm down and listen, Rebecca. Mother is a reincarnated person. This world is something called an ‘otome game’3.”

    She said, with this time’s setting of the the Royal Aristocratic Academy, the main character falling in love with ‘ikemen’? is what makes an ‘otome game’ .

    She said, this world is very similar to that game, and that the main character, ?a commoner girl with a rare talent for healing magic? has also been discovered.

    My mother gave me a notebook. On the cover, there is a pattern drawn inside a circle.

    “Mother, this is?”

    TL/N:

    ? 1 written as 三強 (sankyou). Literally translated it is “three strong”. But, that sounds bad, so I made it sound as fancy and epic as it’s supposed to feel.

    ? 2 written as 五高 (Gokou). Literally translate as “five high”. Same as above.

    ? Rebecca is NOT a reincarnated individual. The words her mother uses are completely foreign to her, so I will simply write them as romanized Japanese to preserve the foreign atmosphere. I’ll explain as needed in the TL notes. Cheers!

    ? 3 otome game – for you non-weebs, by literal translation it’s “maiden game”, referring to dating sims whose main demographic is (young) women.

    ? ? ikemen – JP slang for cool, handsome hunks.