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The mont I sensed danger, the “accident” during the fox hunt flashed through my mind. An unidentifiable entity had fired in my direction, throwing the entire hunt into chaos. Looking back, the Crown Prince’s fury as he tried to identify the culprit in his extre agitation was completely justified.
What was a gun in the first place? It was a weapon so dangerous that even pointing an empty gun at soone was said to bring bad luck. There was a reason the Crown Prince had used such weighty words such as “assassination” and “treason”.
“Soone is targeting .”
“What? What?”
Galleon still seed unaware of the situation. For a brief mont, I suspected him, but quickly dismissed the thought. How could soone who had cared for a nation’s Crown Prince since childhood be an ordinary person?
He must be from a family that had been loyal to the royal family for generations. A developnt where such a person suddenly hard the Crown Prince’s fiancée lacked “plausibility”.
– Clatter!
“You fool! What on earth—“
“Aaaagh!”
The coachman’s scream pierced through the inside of the carriage. Quickly grabbing the servant’s arm and leaping out of the carriage, the situation beca clear.
“L-Lord Galleon! My lady! Bullets are flying!”
The coachman was already dead, and the carriage’s wheels were broken from the sudden impact. Taking a quick look around, I imdiately understood the gravity of the situation. A place with few people, mountains on the right, sea on the left.
This is—
“—a perfect place to die.”
“Pardon?”
Various possibilities flashed through my mind montarily.
Bandits from the mountains? Pirates from the sea? An attack from an enemy nation? A rival of the Crown Prince vying for the throne?
No, there’s no need to overthink this.
This world wasn’t reality, it was a “movie”. Considering the movie’s runti at this point, the climax must not be far off. With the story in its latter half, the possibility of a new villain was highly unlikely as it would suddenly derail the already established “romance fantasy narrative”.
I recalled the face of the girl who had tried to kill with her gaze earlier. It seed a confrontation between her and I to settle things was inevitable.
At that mont, a familiar voice rang out from afar.
“Catch her! Capture that thieving vixen alive if possible!”
I couldn’t help but laugh.
What kind of idiot noble tries to orchestrate an assassination and then show up at the scene of the cri themselves?
Still, despite my amusent, I couldn’t undermine the severity of the current situation. The carriage was wrecked, and neither I—a teenage girl—or the elderly Galleon could outrun our pursuers.
“Lady Crossbell! This way—“
– Bang!
Like the crack of thunder, a gaping hole suddenly appeared in the throat of the escort waving at .
In that instant, I wasn’t mad or sad—I was “bewildered”. Even for a powerful ducal family, how could they just outright assassinate the Crown Prince’s fiancée like this?
Seriously, who the hell wrote this movie script!? It might as well be swiss cheese with the amount of plot holes! The plausibility is a ss!
“...”
Plausibility.
Panting, I glanced down at my bracelet.
Plausibility, huh? Co to think of it, it’s a bit embarrassing for “” of all people to criticize the plausibility in this movie.
Judging from the developnts so far, there was no magic or superpowers on this movie’s stage. Even the knights protecting the Crown Prince had never displayed superhuman movents.
In such a world, I had accomplished everything I wanted using the bracelet.
This stupid movie, from the mont we entered with our Blessings and Inheritances, plausibility had long been thrown out the window. So there was no one to bla, and I just needed to do what I had been doing until now...
Twisting the scenario to achieve what I want.
What should I do?
Diverse Perspectives exerted trendous power in a one-on-one situation. Unless it was a superhuman like Beatrix from Room 201 who could create additional eyes when her senses were deceived, ordinary humans could never resist it.
The problem was that the current situation wasn’t one-on-one. At least a dozen pursuers were chasing us. I could only deceive one person!
“Galleon, I have a question.”
“Yes?”
“How many people in the empire know my face?”
***“Why haven’t you caught that bitch yet?”
Harsh words spilled from the lips of a girl whose beauty rivaled that of a goddess of the night. Cedric, a retainer of the duke’s family, calmly tried to soothe the young lady.
“Lady Evelyn, please calm yourself. The Crown Prince’s fiancée—“
“No! I told you she’s not his fiancée!”
“...Lady Crossbell is not alone. The Crown Prince and even the count’s family have assigned escorts... Fortunately, we have nurical superiority, so we must exercise patience.”
“...”
Evelyn slowly caught her breath, assessing the situation.
As Cedric said, things were progressing as she wished. The unworthy girl that “dared” to bewitch the Crown Prince was fleeing in desperation, while the duke’s private soldiers surrounded her and her escorts in a hunt. Unless the enemies could fly, there was no escape.
Finally, the long-awaited news arrived.
“My lady! We’ve captured Lady Crossbell alive.”
The first emotion Evelyn felt upon hearing this news was confusion rather than joy. She hadn’t expected them to be caught so quickly.
“Bring her to !”
Yet when the family’s soldiers brought the “self-proclaid Crossbell” in fluttering clothes, Evelyn felt as if the sky was falling.
“That’s not her!”
“Pardon?”
“I said it’s not her! She looks similar, but it’s a different person! Who are you?”
“...”
“This woman is not Crossbell, you... you... idiots!”
As Evelyn’s angry shout erupted, everyone around turned pale.
What on earth is this about? The woman who was in the carriage sent by the Crown Prince himself, with the servant he personally sent, wasn’t Lady Crossbell?
Cedric couldn’t believe it, but it wasn’t like he could refute Evelyn’s words either.
Who was Lady Crossbell?
A mysterious woman who had grown up sheltered within the count’s family and captivated the Crown Prince at the first party she ever attended. Before becoming the Crown Prince’s lover, no one even knew her na, and after becoming his lover, her status beca so noble that it wasn’t easy to even see her face.
In other words, Evelyn was the only one here who had t her in person.
“Evelyn! Is this really true?”
“Do you think I’d mistake her? Hey! Who are you?”
The story the silently kneeling girl told was the height of absurdity. She claid to be Crossbell’s half-sister, and that the real Crossbell had fallen ill with a severe fever two days ago and was unable to leave her bed.
“T-then why were you in the carriage?”
The answer was extrely absurd.
They couldn’t send soone with an infectious disease to a place where not only the Crown Prince but also the Empress and Emperor would be present. Therefore, they had to postpone the engagent, but fearing that if no one rode in the carriage, outsiders might notice sothing was wrong with Crossbell, they sent her half-sister who looked similar, hoping to delay suspicion.
Of course, they couldn’t fool the Crown Prince, but they thought the Crown Prince wouldn’t want his lover’s condition to be known outside, so they planned to ask him to cooperate with the “act” by explaining the situation.
Cedric muttered with a sigh, “So the real Crossbell never even left the count’s estate...”
At that mont, Evelyn’s mind was working in a different direction.
“Cedric, this situation isn’t entirely bad for us.”
“What do you an?”
“Let’s take this girl to the palace.”
Sedrick’s eyes widened for a mont before realization dawned upon him.
“You plan to announce that Crossbell has fallen ill?”
“Exactly! The Crown Prince’s fiancée with a deadly plague? Does that make any sense? What if she spreads the plague to His Highness? Or even to the future imperial heir!”
It was a reasonable view. And a safer choice. In fact, Cedric thought today’s plan had been far too risky. Suddenly deciding to kill the Crown Prince’s fiancée? Wasn’t it truly an insane plan?
Compared to that, publicly revealing that the fiancée had contracted an infectious disease could achieve their goal with much less risk.
***- Yu Songee
“Girl, you just need to say what we agreed on. Understand?”
“Yes, I understand.”
“Rember. All of this is not for soone’s personal gain, but for the future of the empire. How could we place soone with the plague by His Highness’s side? And—hmm?”
I imdiately hunched my body. Evelyn, who had been tilting her head, soon dismissed her suspicion and continued her nonsense.
A plan hastily made in an urgent situation. Honestly, it wasn’t much.
In a world without caras or the internet, how many people would know what the Crown Prince’s fiancée looked like? I thought no one except Evelyn would know my face.
As expected, once I deceived Evelyn’s eyes, the others also fell for the flimsy lie I made up on the spot and mistook for soone else. This was good so far, but...
I never imagined Evelyn would put in her own carriage!
This mont was truly chilling. The bracelet’s illusion had a ti limit. When I first obtained Diverse Perspectives in Room 103, it was only 10 minutes. It had gradually increased over ti, but still didn’t exceed 20 minutes.
Of course, the illusion on Evelyn had long since worn off, and now Evelyn was simply mistaken due to her first impression and my act of hunching my body and burying my head to the floor as much as possible.
I waited and waited. While the idiotic girl in front of rambled on about concerns for the empire’s future that she clearly had never thought about before in her life, I desperately waited for the mont when the power of this damn bracelet would recover!
Fortunately, thanks to the movie’s characteristic of “skipping over boring scenes”, the waiting ti wasn’t too long.
“Ha! Now’s the ti!”
“His Highness—huh?”
I straightened my hunched body and raised my head that had been bowed almost to the floor. Evelyn, who had been observing with eyes wondering why I was suddenly acting this way, seed to doubt her own eyes for a mont.
“What on earth—”
“Idiot, you still can’t recognize ?”
A flash from the bracelet filled the carriage.
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