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It is said that people faint when they are so happy.

“Ah, I was very impressed by the work you submitted. A mythological interpretation in which ‘angels’ directly appear… It didn’t fit the atmosphere of the original work, but I thought it would be the seed of a very unique work.”

“Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, author Homer, my work, glory─. Crumbling… .”

“Ah?”

But I never thought I would actually see that scene.

It wasn’t even once.

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There was a minor incident where the winner fainted, but fortunately the awards ceremony went off without any major problems.

The winner, who had fainted, recovered quickly after receiving treatment from a priest who rushed to the spot.

“Then, next, there will be the awarding of the grand prize. The grand prize is Maiden, who wrote ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde’! Congratulations! Winners, please come up to the podium.”

“Yes~.”

Even without seeing the face, I knew who it was right away.

In fact, I knew it right away when I read the work.

A person who can write a radical work such as “Dr. Jekyll drinks medicine and awakens Hyde, the ‘femininity’ within him.”

“It was a very unique and interesting novel. In particular, the inner portrayal of ‘Mrs. Hyde’, who has Jekyll’s memories but can only think of herself as a woman, was excellent.”

“Oh my, it’s truly an honor to be praised so much by the author of Homer.”

The third prince of the empire.

The woman with the familiar appearance of a maid was the author of ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde.’

The prince covered his mouth with his fingertips and trembled jokingly.

“You don’t know how excited I was to think that I could meet the author of Homer at the awards ceremony.”

“Haha… . Thank you.”

Every time I encounter this guy, my mouth feels dry. It felt like an invisible force was weighing me down.

Is this the power of power?

It’s scary, power!

I need to quickly hand over the award and be done with it.

“Then I will give you the award. Grand Prize‥‥‥.”

Awarding the award to the prince.

Let’s finish awarding the prize to the contestant who received the grand prize for a work called ‘Jekyll and Hyde’, which was an adaptation of the original work in the form of a play.

I prepared for the final event, reciting the lines I had prepared in advance.

“Thank you again to everyone who participated in the contest. To repay those feelings, we have prepared a small surprise gift. Doling boss?”

“Yes!”

“Please bring the medicine.”

President Dorling dragged a desk on wheels that was hidden behind the podium and brought it to the front.

What was placed on the desk was a medicine created by an alchemist.

“This is the medicine that wakes up Hyde in my novel ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.’ ”

The people in the auditorium began to murmur at my sudden remark.

I tapped the loudspeaker to calm people down and continued speaking again.

I said “─, but it’s actually a little different. If the medicine in the novel was a medicine that isolates only the ‘evil side’ of the soul and expresses it, this medicine makes the soul’s entire appearance appear in the body. There is no need to worry about losing control of your soul like in novels, so feel free to use it to your heart’s content.”

“Well, it’s okay to use it─.”

“Yes. I would like to give one of these medicines to each of the winners today. Oh, of course, only for those who wish.”

The auditorium became even more excited by my remarks.

Some people looked expectant, and some people’s faces turned pale as if they remembered the appearance of ‘Hyde’ in the novel.

and.

Among them, there was one person who looked at this ‘medicine’ with a strangely stern expression.

“Then, winners who wish to receive medicine, please come forward.”

While people were hesitating, a man who looked like a woman ran faster than anyone else.

He was the third prince of the empire.

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The third prince of the empire.

Idris’ existence was in itself a disrespect for the imperial family. This is because the prince, who was born as the emperor’s son and had the right to control everything in the empire, actually considered himself a ‘woman.’

They said he was possessed by the devil, so he went to see an exorcist, and he said he was mentally ill, so he went to see a spiritual wizard at the Magic Tower.

But the results are normal, normal, normal. There was no problem with the prince.

Without any ideals or context, the prince defined herself as a woman even though she was born as a man.

In the end, the Emperor buried the Third Prince’s very existence under the shadows.

“Your Majesty. That suspicious drug… Do you really want to eat it?”

“Enoch.”

“Treatment of unknown drugs is… .”

” When I think about it, I think we’ve known each other for a really long time. Right?”

“… Yes.”

The shadow of the 3rd prince.

Enoch was an illegitimate son. He was a being who inherited the blood of the imperial family, but could not say that fact.

That’s why it could become a shadow.

If the Third Prince dies suddenly before the Emperor dies, then Enoch will take over the Third Prince’s role as the ‘real’ Prince.

Both Enoch and the prince knew that fact.

“Enoch. Aren’t you so tired of living your whole life as someone’s shadow?”

“I feel honored to be able to represent Your Highness.”

“I’m so bored. Hiding behind the shadows like this… I’m just thinking about it.”

If Enoch had lacked loyalty to the prince at all, the person now called ‘Your Highness’ would have been Enoch, not Idris.

The prince realized this fact once again and muttered in a trembling voice.

“Actually, drinking this really made me… Even if I could prove the ‘shape of my soul’… Maybe nothing will change. Rather than correcting the truth by saying that the prince was in fact the princess, wouldn’t it be much more comfortable for His Majesty if the shadow continued to be the prince?”

“Your Majesty.”

“Enoch. So, um. I just want to check. I am… It’s not wrong.”

The prince smiled sadly.

I opened the cap of the medicine and drank it in one gulp without hesitation.

“Hya… It doesn’t hurt as much as I thought… . Have I changed a lot?”

At first glance, the prince seemed to have not changed at all.

It was still beautiful. Deep-set eyes make a man shrink like a frog in front of a snake, and a languid smile makes a man’s heart pound when he is caught off guard.

However, because Enoch had watched the prince all his life, there were changes that he could see.

“… You have changed a lot.”

“I should have taken the medicine in front of the mirror. I made the same mistake as Dr. Jekyll. Hehehe.”

The chest, which was decorated with lace decoration to hide the flat figure, rose up, the height became a little shorter, and the overall appearance became more feminine.

The appearance has barely changed, but…

Even Enoch, who had been acting as a shadow in front of the prince for his entire life, was imbued with a femininity that made his heart flutter for a moment.

The prince looked down at his own body for a moment.

Suddenly, I let out an awkward laugh and covered my mouth as if I was embarrassed.

“The bottom is a little… I feel empty. I guess I really have become a woman.”

“… Your Majesty.”

“I need to visit the author of Homer and ask him where I can get this medicine. Enoch. Schedule─”

“‥‥‥.”

“Enoch?”

Enoch turned his head to avoid the prince’s gaze.

The prince, who had been blinking blankly, could only then feel the presence of warm liquid flowing down his cheek.

Enoch turned his head because a subject should not dare to see his lord’s tears.

When the prince realized this, he wiped away his tears with the back of his hand and said playfully:

“Huh… . I look really ugly right now, right?”

“No. Your Majesty is always beautiful.”

“Hehe, how can you know while your head is turned? wait a minute. The tears will stop soon… .”

“‥‥‥”

“Haha… , Why won’t the tears stop? Hmm, wait a moment, huh, huh… .”

that day.

In the carriage returning to the Imperial Palace.

Enoch had to keep his head turned away until the carriage stopped.

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After the awards ceremony.

I briefly explained my future plans to CEO Dorling.

“I plan to create an academy to foster literary artists.”

“Academy… ?”

“Yes. I’m thinking of doing it as a pilot first, focusing on a few winners who stood out in this contest.”

The most important purpose for which I opened the ‘2nd Creative Contest’.

That was to secure a decent aspiring writer. Ultimately, the goal was to produce more works by teaching aspiring writers knowledge and writing techniques from their previous lives.

In particular, people were needed to complete works together, such as ‘detective novels’ or ‘historical novels’, that could not be plagiarized simply with knowledge from a previous life.

It is a kind of student concept.

“Boss, is it possible?”

“It is not difficult if it is simply a pilot operation. However, officially establishing an academy is only possible with permission from the empire… ah! Since the Third Prince is supporting the author, it might be easier than you think!”

“First of all, it is enough to run a trial run with a few people, so you can take your time thinking about establishing a formal academy.”

“I understand!”

good.

If you leave it to the Doling boss, he will prepare it well. Although he has a slightly fussy personality, you can trust his abilities.

In the meantime, I just have to continue to advance literature in my own way.

“Boss.”

“Yes!”

“Could you introduce one magazine company?”

“Yes?”

“Ah, it would be better if it was a cheap magazine. It’s the kind of magazine you can read once and then throw away.”

“Yes?”