The Princess Sitting Next to Me is a Sweet Girlfriend Only in Front of Me
**The Silent Archives.**
Me and Fia frozen in place.
Fia? Princess Stella Fia? Fia?
What? I’m starting to get confused.
The woman in front of me is someone I know.
Stella Fia Magipastel.
The third princess of this country, famous for her exceptional beauty.
Yeah, I’ve seen her in a Magic Photo before—no doubt about it.
But upon closer inspection, her eyes, her mouth…
Her facial features look exactly like Fia’s.
It’s almost unbelievable that I didn’t notice until now.
There’s no doubt—they’re the same person.
Or at least, that’s what I thought.
“Wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-what are you doing here, Heim!?”
“C-calm down, Princess Stella Fia.”
“You can just call me Fia! Um, well, listen, it’s not what it looks like! Please hear me out!”
Amidst her frantic flailing, the princess casually gives me permission to call her Fia.
Isn’t she practically confessing her true identity?
“W-well, in the Magipastel royal family, we have a long-standing magic that can alter how others perceive us! That’s why we sometimes use it to blend into society and live as ordinary people. Of course, if the public found out about this magic, it would be a huge problem, so it’s a royal family secret. But actually, quite a few people besides me have lived incognito in the city, even my father has done it! Oh, and the Carat family is just a cover for us royals to hide our status, so they don’t have much noble standing or achievements. So, um, well…”
“C-calm down, calm down, Fia! You’re saying things you’re not supposed to! Stop talking right now!”
“Huh? Ah, uh, what?”
In one breathless torrent of words, I was bombarded with shocking information.
First, Fia Carat is actually Princess Stella Fia Magipastel in disguise, living an ordinary life while hiding her true identity.
Because of the perception-altering magic, even though she looks identical, everyone around her sees her as a completely different person.
And now, for some reason, Fia had dispelled the magic in the archives and revealed her true identity to me.
“…Ah, um, Heim… Did I just confess everything on my own…?”
“…You weren’t calm, so it couldn’t be helped.”
“Uwaaaaaaahhh! I’m such an idiot!”
And with that, Fia collapsed to the ground.
Poor Fia—if only her identity had been discovered under different circumstances, there might have been countless ways to cover it up.
But because I figured out that “Fia” was actually the princess, she ended up blowing her own cover spectacularly.
…Wait, something seems off.
To begin with, why did I recognize Fia and Princess Stella Fia as the same person, despite the perception-altering magic?
I still have many other questions.
There’s so much more I need to ask.
