Ignoring the prince, I start admiring the flowers nearby and plucking a few of them to make a small bouquet. 

Unaware of the prince's presence the commoner keeps meticulously crafting the bouquet, absorbed in her work she doesn't notice the prince walking toward her

Alright, now he will call out to me

"Good afternoon student, but I don't think you are allowed to touch the flowers here"

Surprised, Isabelle cuts a short scream and falls down on her butt.

"AH! Be careful!!"

Worried, the prince offers his steady hand for Isabelle to grab onto. 

Waiting 5 seconds to catch her breathing, Isabelle like a meek animal accepts his hand and gets up, she dusts off the dirt from her skirt, and upon seeing the kind gentleman who helped her a faint blush appears on her cheeks.

With a shocked expression, she bows and lifts the hem of her skirt just a tiny bit to show her respect to the prince.

With a gentle smile, the prince urges her to stop with the formalities, after all

"Oh, you don't need to do that fellow student, we are all equal under the umbrella of this academy"

Taken back by the prince's hospitality and king gesture, Isabelle tries to hide a short chuckle with the tips of her fingers, missing the edge of the mouth by 5mm to allow to prince to see her clumsiness.

"hm? Did I say something funny?" The prince tilts his head in confusion but also a tinge of curiosity mixed into his face

"Ah! No! no, no, my apologies, I-I j-jus-" Isabelle struggles to speak her mind, how is a commoner like her supposed to talk with the first prince of the kingdom?

"Wait...is your name Isabelle by any chance?" a sudden bulb lights above the prince's head

"ah..." Isabelle starts panicking, is he going to belittle me or make fun of me?

Traces of tears start forming in the corner of her eyes

"ah, ah! There's absolutely no need to panic, unlike others, I don't hold any prejudice against the commoners, in fact, I was hoping to talk with you soon"

"huh?...me?"

"Yes, well I also tried talking with that other commoner who got accepted, Rosette I believe her name was but she didn't really talk much, in fact, she was quite rude instead"

huh?

Rose?

An unknown dialogue option, her name was never mentioned in the entire game by the first prince.

"But well anyways, I'm sure she had her reasons after all  suddenly talking with the prince isn't something one expects, I'm sure she was just uneasy and unsure how to reply"

nah, she Rose definitely knew how to reply, and she was most certainly being rude because she wanted to

but now that the conversation has derailed a bit, I don't have the best reply and expression to present him with, but still based on the dialogue I have picked so far I can guess what type of person attracts him

a damsel in distress.

"I'm also very worried-"

and thus I continued to act my part

...

...

Sitting at the prince's own personal dorm, I realized that the equality part on the campus ground was just a bunch of horse radish.

sitting across from me, the prince sips on the tea served by the various servants roaming around the dorm. Mine is also in my hands, I take a small sip, it was important to act like a proper lady despite being a commoner

"I am surprised, you certainly are different from all the other commoners"

"No, no..hahaha"

"Well let me start with introductions first, My name is Albert Ravenguard, and I'm the first prince of the Ravenguard Kingdom, it's truly a pleasure to meet you"

Putting down my empty cup of tea, my mouth curves to a tiny smile

"yeh, yeh, My name is Isabelle..." a soft voice that turns almost silent by the end of her sentence

his smile grows

"So how is life in this city? I'm sure it's quite a change from your daily routine"

"It's just a bit overwhelming, but everyone has been very kind to me" Setting aside the guy who threw his glass of water on me and called it an accident, I had to go to my dorm to quickly change my uniform for this event

"That's great to hear, Please tell me if anyone ever causes any problem, You are our esteemed guest, I will make sure they hear a good talking" and That's the reason I didn't tell him, talking to those guys will just make things worse for me.

now Rosette on the other hand...uff, at absolute best she would just break his finger, and at absolute worst....ghhh, I don't even want to imagine, but it would most certainly solve the problem.

"I..no the entire kingdom has great hopes for you, with your valuable help we will finally be able to unite the nobles and the commoners, I will make sure meritocracy becomes the absolute truth of this kingdom"

work hard and get better positions in the kingdom.

Yeah, that's not happening without some revolution in the streets, and the commoners are far from that sort of sentiment right now.

According to the game, the nobles and commoners unite and start working together after I marry one of the princes, bridging the gap between both worlds, with me acting as a mediator.

But how did I from the game act as this mediator? That stuff wasn't described, the epilogue which involved actual kingdom building was just turned into one sentence

With Isabelle's and [insert prince's name] hard work, both classes of the kingdom started mediating their differences and the two lived happily ever after

Now here if I go along with this narrative, I will actually have to do all that stuff that is undescribed.

I will actually have to behave and act like the queen of this kingdom

and that prospect of my future is a bit

"You really are so much easier to talk to than Miss Rosette, I'm sure you know her"

and suddenly topic turns to Rose

"Rosette? ah yes, of course, I mean we are in the same boat, hahaha" again a soft, meekly voice

"Does she also talk to you so rudely? I mean there has to be a limit to it, right?"

"hahaha...no, I mean yes, but that's just how she is I guess" Why are you judging after just one single 'talk' with her

"No worries, I will be able to save her too, along with all the other commoners from their current oppression"

"haha..wow, Prince really is very benevolent" GHH! again with this docile voice comming from my mouth

"Well, it seems that sun is going to start setting soon, you should go, it's not nice for a lady like yourself to stay up for long" 

He gets up, opening the door like a gentleman

and quickly I take my leave.

...

...

...

Sitting across from Rosetta as we have our daily dinner together at this local restaurant.

Seeing Rosetta just munching down the noodles like a wild animal, I think about my interaction with the prince from earlier that day

At first, my acting and performance were phenomenal, I did everything described in the game to absolute perfection but for some reason, it all just slowly started crumbling.

For some reason, I found it found to keep up my performance, random thoughts started appearing in my mind that were not at all related to handling the interaction at hand.

Seeing a spoon of chicken soup coming towards me, I open my mouth and gulp down the hot soup before the arrived spoon leaves and goes back to Rosetta's bowl.

"So today I had this dead cockroach on my desk, and I was like how did it get here? Though I threw it out of the window, but still weird, I guess the building must be getting old"

I'm pretty sure that was on purpose

"yeah, stuff like that can happen, anything else?"

another spoon comes my way and I again gulp down the soup

"Well there was this very stick dude who slipped in front of me and the bottle in his hand slipped and flew towards me, thankfully I dodged out of the way so it just fell on this stupid girl who was for some reason standing behind me, what an idiot hahahahaa" she laughs in quiet a manic manner

but I'm pretty sure that was on purpose again

hmm, so she's also getting bullied

but she's not taking it that way at all.

"pfft!! hahaha" suddenly I too burst into laughter

"right? what a dumbo that girl is hahahaha"

"yes....a really dummy..."

I guess the reason for my dwindling performance was quite obvious.

I just grew tired of the fakeness that was emitting from me, talking with Rose like this, without any tension or pre-planning of words.

No rush to fill up the silence or pick the best reply

and most importantly, having to mediate between commoners and nobles in the future if I follow this path.

Acting all fake and also doing that queen shit just doesn't seem like the idea of the fulfilling and fun life I dreamed of during my years of being stuck in that hospital bed.

I thought just like the game character I would also fall in love with the prince

But that prick just has a huge savior complex.

and that second prince in Rose's department also seems like an absolute shithead according to her

the other two might be better, I might even fall for them but I still would have to act the role of a queen.

Being here, having a carefree dinner, and laughing with a friend...this is the idea of fun I dreamt of in the hospital bed.

Ever since coming to this world, I had been putting up a front, even towards my supposed parents in this world. 

For what reason? why didn't I just act naturally towards them and all the people in the village?

ah...

I see

I simply never saw them as people.

They were simply characters in a game world.

NPC who were inconsequential to everything.

Only after meeting Rosette, did I see that actual people, humans with emotions and feelings inhabit this world.

"hmm? Why in the hell are you crying, Isabelle?"

huh? me?

well, I guess I am...

"Here, I'm sorry alright, Just because the soup plane came a few seconds late doesn't mean you have to cry jeez"

Making up her own dumb assumptions, she brings the last spoon of soup, emptying the bowl.

My trembling mouth opens and bites the metal.

The light soup suddenly felt heavy in my throat

This idiot was the one to make me realize something so obvious

A psycho like her being weirdly considerate in her own ways.

It really was a strange feeling