episode_0122
by fnovelpia
Carl hesitated, holding the Holy Sword in his hand.
Without even saying a word, he just looked at the woman in front of him.
At first I just stared at it, and then from then on I watched it with a constant effort not to lose my mind.
She was clearly a woman who was covered in the darkness of the terrible royal family, and so she was clearly a dirty and filthy ‘evil’, and the evil aura that spread out was suffocating, but Karl felt like he was falling for such a princess.
Is it the magic she exudes that is disturbing him?
Carl shook his head alone and denied it.
This is not a disturbance.
His confused mind is telling the truth.
“Stop talking nonsense.”
I barely managed to squeeze out an answer.
On the topic of royalty… It was unexpected that he, a villain of the utmost evil, would say that he liked me.
At the same time, there was no denying that her words struck the heart of the sword more effectively than any destructive magic.
“Really.”
The princess smiled faintly.
The darkness rippled and her pitch-black hair fluttered.
It was spectacular.
The figure of an extremely alluring woman is captured in Karl’s eyes.
Carl decided to admit that he had once been in love with that woman.
There is no denying that the person he met at the academy, Beatrice de Dahlia, had captured his heart.
Otherwise……
There is no way that the princess, who has the appearance of Beatrice, or rather her true self, would be caught up in such internal conflict.
Clearly, I had been confident that I would be able to tear the Unknown to pieces if I found out the identity of the royal family…
chuck-
As the princess tried to take a step forward, Karl extended his holy sword and aimed it as if warning her not to come closer.
Carl looked around, thinking that his guard might seem excessive and pathetic.
Maybe this too could be a trap.
“I’ve lived a life full of lies.”
“I think so.”
The princess said with a smile.
“I lied and lied again. Every breath I let out was a lie. But now I’m tired.”
“I don’t want to listen to your nagging. Explain. Everything.”
“I told you I like you?”
Karl ground his teeth at the shameless princess’s words.
Beatrice looked delighted at the sight of the sword.
“I’ll say it again. I’m tired of lying. So from now on, what I say is the truth. Only sincerity.”
“You’ve been lying to me for so long. Your Highness the Princess has been living like a foreign noble.”
“That’s right. The name and the identity were all fake…”
Carl felt a tingling sensation all over his body for a moment. The air around him seemed to weigh him down.
It was because the princess’s gaze, her hateful turquoise eyes, were glaring at the sword.
“Like you.”
“…!?”
Carl raised an eyebrow.
“You’re a liar too, Carl. You’re not a Mayor, and you’re definitely not a normal student. You’re not even an Imperial citizen, are you?”
“How do you……”
Karl looked around again.
This time, it wasn’t because he was wary of traps, but because he was worried that the princess’s voice… that someone else might have heard what she was saying.
I felt uneasy even though I knew there was no one there.
The princess’s words shook the sword.
She touched a sore spot.
“Lies are bound to come out someday. Just as I confessed a little too early, think of your secret as just… being revealed a little too early.”
“……”
“Do you understand? Carlos, a special agent of the colonial intelligence agency.”
The hand holding the holy sword began to tremble.
How on earth does Beatrice… no, the Unknown know his true identity?
At least as far as he could remember, no heroine in the novel had revealed his identity, except Alana, who had known from the beginning.
Truly, that woman was an alien in and of itself. Her very existence made Karl uncomfortable. To Karl, who was possessed, the woman before his eyes was a bundle of variables.
So it would be right to remove it.
Even though he knew the rational answer, his subconscious refused to follow it.
So now his hands are shaking.
Because the agony did not subside easily.
“Oh… Is it too early to accept this? I’m sorry. But just know that I know more than you expect.”
“It was like this……”
“?”
The princess smiled contentedly, liking the look on Karl’s face as he looked anguished.
But soon, as the sword muttered, a question arose on the beautiful princess’s face.
“In the original, it was like this… Did you know all this and still play around with it?”
“Ugh……”
Carl closed his eyes and searched his memories.
He clearly spoke words that only a sage could understand.
Beatrice thought it was something she would never understand…
But he didn’t know because he didn’t assume that there were other icebreakers.
That there is someone else who can understand what he is saying.
“Well, it seems shocking, but I’ll tell you the bigger truth next time.”
Beatrice brought her fingertips to her lips and spoke softly.
Let’s postpone revealing that we are the same icebreaker until later.
I had decided to put it off, but I couldn’t help but feel my mouth watering.
“Yeah, I knew it all. From the day I first met you, and even before that.”
“Sneaky bitch.”
“Before entering the academy, I had a lot of worries about how I could become close to you…”
Again-
The princess took a step forward.
“Thank goodness you led me well……”
She blushed slightly.
A look of shyness appeared on his face, which had seemed so relaxed.
“Looking back, it seems like fate.”
He talks nonsense and his voice gets smaller.
“I never knew I would care so much about other people.”
He wiggled his fingers and before he knew it, he was right in front of the knife’s nose.
The sword was still raised, but it could not stop the princess even though she reached the tip of it.
The princess’ face became joyful again.
He carefully pushed away the holy sword that was pointed at him with his fingertips.
“Maybe a hundred me…. no, a thousand me’s would meet you again, and it would be the same result.”
“……”
And finally, he stood under the sword’s chin and looked up at him.
“As an ordinary student at the academy, as a foreign noble with a fake identity, and as my true self, a princess.”
She wrapped both arms around Carl’s waist and said,
“The name and the identity were all different, but what allowed me to remain me… The only answer that allowed me to know who I was…”
Tightly – Hug him so tightly that his chest feels crushed and he confesses his true feelings to him.
“The fact that you are the person I like.”
What she says is the truth. Only sincerity.
People can be fooled about many things, but they cannot fool their ‘motivation’.
Something to hope for and desire.
Even if you change your name and become someone else, even if you live thousands of lives, your motivation cannot change.
You can’t learn it.
A perspective on the world, a subjective feeling and definition of the world.
So perhaps what controls the princess’s actions is not her values, but the object of her desires.
“No one can wear a mask for long.”
“…So you’re bare-faced today? Not bad for not wearing makeup.”
The princess’s sincerity, which was conveyed so strongly, was incredibly unfamiliar.
So Carl tried to ease the awkwardness with some silly words.
At that sight, the princess snickered and laughed in vain.
“Similar. In the end, the true nature is revealed.”
“Is this your nature?”
“Yeah.”
There was not a single moment of hesitation in the princess’s answer.
“And now I’m curious about you.”
“?”
“What kind of person is the person I like, Carl Mayner?”
The sword felt the princess’s body heat being transmitted to him in his arms.
It was uncomfortable and irritating.
The princess lifted one of her hands from around Karl’s waist and placed it on Karl’s face.
“I wonder what your real self is hidden under this mask.”
He whispered, caressing her chiseled face with his slender fingertips.
It was a really sticky voice.
Carl was startled for a moment when he noticed a strange reaction in his body.
Whoosh-
He quickly pushed the princess away from him.
As the distance between them grew, they began to breathe heavily.
“…Why? What’s wrong?”
The princess asked, blinking her turquoise eyes.
“It’s nothing. Don’t worry about it.”
“……”
“No, you don’t know anything more than that, right?”
I felt embarrassed for no reason as the princess looked at me with a strange expression, her eyebrows furrowed.
So the sword swung – and struck.
“Are you angry?”
“What? I’m so absurd that I can’t even get angry?”
The knife answered, scratching his head as if it was stuffy.
But the princess smiled.
“No, not the head, anywhere else……”
“!?”
And the princess’s gaze was directed much lower than the sword’s eyes.
Only then did Karl show signs of confusion.
“You pushed it away because you were afraid it would reach me, because you were afraid I would notice it?”
“That, that……”
“I understand. I used to be—”
“?”
The princess quickly covered her mouth with her hand.
There was no need to tell me more just yet.
“Anyway… It’s okay, Carl.”
Again, he said, approaching the knife again.
“You can touch me as much as you want. I won’t be embarrassed. I’ll be happy.”
“……”
She felt as if she had just encountered his true self, his raw self, rather than the mask of the sword.
Also, it was even more enjoyable to learn that Carl, who seemed so manly and tough, actually had a cute side.
“That just… means you like me too, right?”
That pride made her bold and allowed her to see the world as she pleased.
Even though he knew that Carl’s physical changes didn’t necessarily lead to feelings for her.
“Isn’t that right?”
Her turquoise eyes, captivating those who see them, smile.
She was grateful that such a beautiful Christmas Eve had come and she made judgments about the other person’s feelings on her own.
A sticky possessiveness began to appear in the blind royal eyes.
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