The News of the contest spread two months before I even knew from my parents. I never get the chance to go out and meet people from the villages or go see other kingdoms. Which makes the palace my own prison.
So there was no way for me to find out about this contest.
One week passed and all preparations were done to welcome the chosen heroes into our palace. I was now getting ready to go to the Grand Theater were Present Mic was going to interview them one by one.
One of my maids told another of my maids who was dressing me that the carriage had arrived. My hair was put on a bun and my make up was simple.
The Grand Theater was not very far from the castle but I was told by my father to ride it anyways.
When I arrived, I got accompanied by two guards to the backstage where my family were waiting for me.
I saw my mother getting some retouches on her makeup and my father fixing my young brother's tie.
My sisters were just playing a game with their hands to make time go faster.
However, the guys werent here so it must meant that they are probably in one of the private rooms.
Not wanting to aproach my family yet I went to see what was happening at the other side of the curtains. I opened the red luxurious curtain just a bit so no one could see me.
Nobles, and ministers along with villagers and newspaper reporters from our kingdom were waiting for the show to begin. They were anxious to meet them and ready to make their opinions on every candidate.
I still couldnt believe that this was really happening. How was I now going to get out of this?
Someone tap my shoulder and it was my brother Aiden who told me to go greet my parents.
I was not ready to talk to dad. Ive been avoiding him all week and now we were supposed to talk.
But I had to opress my feelings and go say good evening to them. As I headed over to were my parents were at my mother noticed me first and...
"Sweety where is your crown?", my mom asked
"I forgot to put it on mom", I said with a cold voice, but then my dad told one of my maids to bring me my crown.
"Don't forget to put it on next time", she said in a soft voice not noticing how uncomfortable I was.
"Dont forget to smile and feel excited when you see the candidates once the curtains open." my father said with his usual moody tone.
I got out of their sight and decided to wait in a corner of the backstage before I get to meet the heroes.
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15 minutes later
"Ladies and Gentlemen! Thank you for joining us on this wonderful evening. Let us rise to give our respect to our sovereign King Edward and Queen Merid!", Present Mic bowed along with the rest of the audience as my parents walked to their thrones.
"And now, let us cheer for Princess [Y/N] and Prince Aiden, Following Princess Milly and Princess Nila.
I sat at my throne and heard the crowd cheer and clap for all of us. For a reason I got nervous to see all this people. They were all staring at me. I've never received a lot of attention. I must say it does feels nice having a lot of people paying attention to you, but at the same time it made me uncomfortable more than I already was..
My big brother who married a princess from The Kingdom Azule was the one who received the most attention before he left. Now, that attention was given to me.
"Tonight! I will be interviewing the chosen Heroes who will be fighting for our Princess hand in marriage and our future king of Zoluam", Present Mic was being more enthusiastic today than any other day. I can tell he is way too excited to see how all this will turn out in the end. I cant believe Im also used for entertainment.
He continued," Let's have our first Hero come up on Stage! And his name is, Bakugou, Katsuki!!!"
A tall guy with spiky blonde hair and red eyes showed up from the left side of the stage and sat at one of the chairs where Present Mic was waiting for him.
He looked at me but gave me a glare. Well what is his problem, why is he glaring at me? Present Mic made his first question.
"How old are you Mr. Bakugou?"
"I'm 18, I thought everyone knew that", he said with a harsh and loud voice.
"Yes indeed, sorry about that just wanted to make sure.", Present Mic said getting somewhat emberrased for asking the obvious.
"If you were one of the chosen Heroes to compete in this competition, then you must posses a powerful quirk right?"
"Indeed, my quirk is making explosions!", Bakugou said very proudly.
"That must be a COOL quirk!, but what do you think of your opponents, who might as well posses awesome and powerful quirks?"
"I don't care about them, because I know I'll be able to win this contest and prove to all of the world I can be the #1 Hero, and no one will be able to beat me!", He said so proudly, I don't like this guy. He is nuts! He is too sure of himself as if he knew it was going to be him wearing the crown of a king. Bakugou Katsuki you are the first one on my list.
"Any words for our Princess [Y/N]"
He glared at ,e again, but i returned the same glare at him.
"Princess [Y/N], I'm looking forward to meeting you."
That send me chills but i kept my glare at him, and he did the same and left to the back of the room.
Yeah I don't like that guy, he might be the first to leave.
"The next hero is,Iida Tenya!"
A tall guy with glasses comes into the stage and bowed to us the royal family. Something the other guy didn't do. He looked well groomed and smart, who might know, this guy can probably be of help with my homework hmm...
"Iida tell me, What do you think of the princess?"
He directed his eyes to me and examined me, I felt uncomfortable with that question
"She sure is beautiful, and I bet she is smart and strong to lead our Kingdom and create new laws to protect all of us from the villains. As well, in my personal opinion I don't think she needs to marry someone yet because I think that she thinks she is not ready yet, but if I was the one to win this competition, I would give her all my support and protect her with all my might"
Well this guy surely will be of help with my homework.
Present Mic asked him some more questions before he left backstage as well. The other guys were also called to take a seat next to mic and be interviewed, but I was getting Im
bored as none of them catched my attention, wait what am I saying. Pfft obviously no one will.
"The Next Contestant is Todoroki Shouto!!"
I recognized that name, I hadn't heard it in a while. Todoroki Shouto is one of the sons of General Endeavour the #2 General in our Army.
Don't tell me he really is competing in this contest.
While he was walking to his chair, he stoped as well to bow to the royal family. My eyes were hooked on him. It's beeing a long time since I saw him.
After Present Mic interviewed him with the simple questions, I got to know nothing new about this guy, it seemed like all his answers were planned. Present Mic did not questioned him about what Todoroki thinks of me or what he plans to do if he got to be King.
Everyone present here knew him of course, which made Todoroki the favorite one so far.
Finally the last guy came in. He wasn't as tall as the others, his height might be the same as mine. He kinda also catched my eye, he was Sooooo Cuteeee! He was blushing when he saw me, his face was the color of a tomato and was a stuttered mess.
Haha, now that i think about it this can be fun. I'll go easy on them the first day. Later on they'll whish they never came to compete, I'll make them regret it.
LET THE GAME BEGIN!
To Be Continued...