You look just as miserable as she feels. Erza stares you down. “You don’t agree with your parents?” she asks carefully. “You don’t want to marry me?”

The only reason she’s even here is because your mother threatened the guild. Your parents are king and queen of a small, powerful country: the Kingdom of Letum. You’re the heir looking for someone to marry. Your mother chose Erza—threatened her into marrying you.