Reincarnated Princess Wishes To Avoid Death

Chapter 176

The Melancholy of the Fake Saint

It was around halfway of the election period.

“Mia-sama, the election contest so far... we’re losing.” Chloe announced in a somber tone.

Mia and her crew were in an empty classroom that they borrowed for their campaign headquarters.

Oh well. No surprises there.

It wasn’t a shock to her. In fact, it felt quite reasonable to her. After all, Mia can’t think of any way that she can beat Rafina. The election pledge was made with the cooperation of Abel and Sion. That’s why she was able to make something as solid as Rafina’s. But that was it. Not better, nor worse than Rafina’s pledge. But running against Rafina means that she has to produce something better than hers.

Too many things outside my calculation happened...

That’s right, Mia had a tentative strategy. She had intended to prepare a solid list of pledges and to establish an atmosphere where she was seen as someone who could realistically be a the council president. Meanwhile, she would be buying votes from Tearmoon and Sunkland factions behind the scenes. However, this plan of hers didn’t come to fruition.

The great announcement by Tiona not only alienated her from Sapphias, but also to the whole Four Dukes faction.

And so, it has come to this.

Even if one of the Four Dukes might be a Chaos Serpent, she still needed their assistance to rally the Tearmoon nobles for her votes. Worse yet, if she could not secure all the Tearmoon votes, then the Sunkland votes would be a lost cause. Who would support a candidate who could not even convince her own nobles to vote for her?

Of course, Sion has also stated that he will take a neutral position... something Mia can’t do anything about.

The result is in the preliminary survey, most of the support is in favor of Rafina.

“Currently, the ratio of supporters is nine for Rafina and one for Mia.”

Wow! 10% of the student body supports me?! Mia was surprised at the fact. So there are still people who doesn’t mind riding on the sinking ship. Hohohoh!

She had reached the self-deprecation stage of grief.

“Blue...”

Hearing that, Mia winced. It reminded her of the failed revolution in Remno.

What were they called again? The Blue Scarves...

It’s really ominous. She felt like she won’t be able to win with such a color.

Well, I can’t win originally anyway.

Mia was still stuck in self-deprecation mode. After that, ideas for various colors such as yellow, green, pink, and orange came out ...

“We are actually limited by dyes. So if we want to get this done quickly, there are only a couple of colors that we can realistically choose from.” Chloe’s realistic view narrowed the options.

As a result, it became a decision between yellow or red.

“If we go for red, then it will be dyed with dye form twilight-rose dye. As for yellow... uh... this color...”

Chloe the produced a handkerchief. The yellow was so yellow, a flashy yellow, that it hurt the eyes of everyone there.

We are going to look like idiots if we wear that color.

The only thing they can achieve with such a flashy yellow color is to be labelled attention-seekers. That was definitely not a good branding. So their real choice was the other color, twilight-rose red.

“Red, sure. Whatever...” Mia muttered with disinterest. It wasn’t until a few days later that she regrets this decision.

“This color is ...”

The color came from twilight-rose dye... which was a color of deep red that it is usually called by another name, guillotine red. It was obvious where the name came from, but it evoked an ominous memory to Mia.

“Ah! This has to be a sign. I am done for... Ugh...”

Mia collapses on the spot which caused Anne and the others to panic. Thus the fun election campaign was coming to an end...