80 – 21st Floor: Irene

“Huh? What’s wrong, Peachina?”

‘Looks like this trial is Peachina Ibenstein again.’

She looks at me innocently and asks. Her face is filled with untouched purity and innocence.

Her harmless face and the curvaceous figure of a woman evoke a feeling of wanting to protect her.

‘Damn… she feels so different from that Irene. I can’t just give her a uterus punch.’

How can I hit a woman who looks so frail and pure? Moreover, she is the person I have to protect in this mission.

If the mission fails and I survive, I will be forcibly expelled from the tower. And I can retry with a reward grade that is one level lower.

In the case of a retry, I can leave the tower and train a bit more before challenging again. Of course, the probability of getting the same trial is very low.

Anyway, my petty and small desire for revenge is not big enough to risk a lower reward grade.

And I just want to hit her once and tease her a little, not that I hate Irene enough to kill her.

“Ah, no. Irene?”

“Huh? What’s wrong? You don’t look well today, are you sick?”

She has no idea that I was about to destroy her baby-maker just now, and innocently comes up to me and touches my forehead with her hand.

And just in case, I called out Irene’s name, and as expected, it’s the psycho sex master Irene I know.

‘Irene was this kind of woman?’

Judging from the fact that my outfit is a normal knight’s uniform, I seem to be a guard knight, and she looks genuinely worried about me. In her way of addressing me, she treats me like a person, not just a subordinate.

And above all…

Her face is radiant.

‘She’s pretty…’

Her dazzling appearance is so breathtaking that it makes my heart flutter for a moment. Not only her appearance but also the deep cleavage visible through her dress…

“Ah, no… I was just lost in thought for a moment.”

“Really? That’s unusual, you spacing out~”

She gives me a bewitching smile and looks at me coyly.

‘Wow…’

It’s a fatal smile that would make any man confess on the spot.

‘Hoo… let’s get a grip. There’s no need to take revenge on her when she doesn’t know anything, but I shouldn’t give her useless affection.’

Come to think of it, didn’t I suffer for a while because I fell for Diana, whom I met on the 21st floor in my previous life? I must never get attached to the people inside the tower.

‘First, I need to gather information.’

Fortunately, there was no ambush in the carriage.

Irene stays in the imperial family’s detached palace.

Getting out of the carriage, I pass through ironclad security and enter Irene’s palace.

‘Damn unfriendly tower. Would it hurt to give me some memory transfer?’

I have to find out for myself what this body’s original owner does and where she stays.

In my previous life, I acquired the [Memory Transfer] trait on the 12th floor, so in the case of possession trials, I could easily obtain some of the person’s memories.

This trait is as versatile and common as the [Inventory] trait, but for some reason, only strange and perverted traits came out in this life.

‘First, I need to figure out the surrounding situation.’

I tell Irene that I have some business to take care of and slip away.

I tell someone who looks like a maid to bring me a document from my desk in my office, and I follow her to find out where my office is.

From then on, things went smoothly.

Letters and books.

Diaries, maps, duty rosters, etc., I quickly absorb all the information.

As expected, this body’s name is Peachina Ibenstein. It was originally a different name, but the tower administrator must have changed it.

She is the youngest daughter of a humble baronial family, but she showed talent in martial arts and rose to become the princess’s guard knight, a genius of effort.

And Irene, the person I have to protect.

Her full name is Irene Astria de Celoria.

She is the second princess of the Arcadia Empire.

And in two weeks, she will marry the crown prince of the Luxendark Kingdom in the southeast.

‘A political marriage?’

I have a feeling that something will happen during the journey or right before it.

‘But this trial is a bit strange?’

Usually, in the case of trials that recreate the past, I am given a trial to revive a failed event.

The goal should be, ‘Irene is destined to die, so save her,’ but Irene lives well in the original history and becomes the empress, doesn’t she?

It would make sense if the guard knight in the original history was a more outstanding person than me… but I still don’t know. I’ll have to wait for something to happen to find out.

I memorize the duty roster and stick with Irene again.

There was no need to change my personality or tone. The tower wasn’t cruel enough to ask me to change even that and act, so I just had to act naturally.

Two weeks until she leaves for another country.

‘I’ll gather as much information as possible before then.’

Besides, I have tens of thousands of netizen investigators.

The guard duty is not a 24-hour job. Of course, I am aware of the risk of assassination, but otherwise, there is no need for close protection.

And when I enter the imperial palace, the imperial guards naturally take over the duty, so I should have a lot of free time… but…

‘Stop wandering around so much! You crazy woman!!’

As if she was trying to enjoy everything she couldn’t enjoy for the rest of her life in these two weeks, her schedule was packed with all sorts of social activities and outings.

“Peachina! Try this strawberry cake! It’s really delicious!!!”

“Ah, no, I’m okay…”

She liked strawberry cake.

“Wow… what’s that? It’s amazing!!”

She ate an unidentified food sold on the street and was surprised with wide eyes as if it was delicious.

When her dress was messed up after suddenly chasing a cat, the maid finally said something.

“Princess… please maintain your dignity…”

‘Will she listen…’

I’ve already told her so many times that my ears are bleeding, but

[It’s okay, what could possibly happen here? And Peachina will protect me if it’s dangerous, right? Hehe…]

She said that with a silly smile.

In the end, the maids who are close to her try to stop her, but they can’t bring themselves to scold her since she will be leaving soon.

Tea parties with noble young ladies are basic, and she does all sorts of crazy things, such as shopping for clothes and accessories, as well as experiencing the lives of commoners in the marketplace.

‘Looking at it this way, she’s just like a heavenly girl…’

She just feels like a clueless noble young lady who makes you want to flick her forehead.

After learning a little more, I found out that she is not going to marry an old man, but a handsome crown prince whom she was on good terms with during her time at the Imperial Academy, so she doesn’t seem worried.

Although my precious investigation time has been taken away by the princess who acts like a madwoman, my questions are growing in a different direction.

‘But what on earth did she go through to turn such an innocent woman into that psychopath pervert?’

***

The night of the 4th day.

Today, I spent a long time outside, trying to please Irene. Since a pretty woman is walking around with a promiscuous smile, bugs are bound to swarm around her.

Of course, there were no enemies among them who could threaten Irene and me. The trial hasn’t even started properly yet.

And now is the time for me and the viewers.

I was given a private room, so I could communicate comfortably.

“Did you find anything?”

I asked the viewers to gather information about Irene. Even if there are no identical trials, there should be records in the history books of the planet she belongs to.

The Arcadia Empire of the 4th planet is an empire that has lasted for thousands of years, so I know it to some extent.

• ..
• I found something
• What?
• There aren’t many records than I thought
• Was it controlled?

The viewers confidently told me to trust them, but in the end, they couldn’t find any important information.

Records of Irene before she became the empress of the empire.

The records of her childhood and her journey to meet her fiancé only state that she left for a distant foreign land to marry her fiancé.

In the end, all they found were records after she became the empress.

There is a gap of 10 years in between, but there are no records of what Irene was doing during that time.

“I’ll give the data organizer manager privileges for a while, so please tell me about the events after that slowly.”

Dotameok: Yes, I will speak.

‘Why is that bastard so competent…?’

Anyway, his statement continues.

The events after she became the empress were more shocking than I expected.

Irene returned 10 years after leaving to get married, killed all her relatives, and ascended to the throne.

Naturally, the empire was plunged into a civil war due to the opposition of the high-ranking nobles and the imperial citizens, which lasted for 8 years.

The winner was, of course, Irene. She mercilessly killed all the high-ranking nobles and even chased down and killed their blood relatives.

Her crazy actions didn’t end there. After the end of the civil war, she immediately invaded neighboring countries and unified the continent in 5 years.

“Hmm… she’s a crazy bitch.”

What’s amazing here is that she accomplished most of those achievements with ‘personal force.’

I understand.

Irene, whom I met in my book, was a strong person who I couldn’t guarantee victory against even if I fought her in my previous life.

But in the end, I couldn’t find out what was happening to her in this trial.

However, I found a small clue.

“The fact that she came back and massacred all her family members suggests that it was likely an inside job.”

But I don’t know the reason.

Currently, the imperial power of the Arcadia Empire is held by Irene’s father, who is still healthy even at the age of 60, so there is no reason for Irene to engage in palace intrigue.

The emperor is in the ranks of Sword Masters and lives to be at least 100 years old, so there is a high possibility that the crown prince will die first.

Besides, Irene is not interested in power in the first place, and she is in a situation where she is going to marry into another country, isn’t she?

‘Someone is trying to kill Irene. But there are too few suspects.’

Usually, the problem is that there are too many suspicious places to deduce, but Irene has too few enemies.

The noble young ladies she usually plays with don’t give the impression of engaging in palace intrigue, but rather just playing with close friends.

‘They were all of decent status for the princess’s friends…’

Seeing them always eating strawberry cake, talking about men, and laughing, it seems like they just became friends because they have the same hobbies and interests.

“I don’t know. There are still about 10 days left, so let’s observe more.”

In fact, there is a final reward.

It’s Irene’s subspace.

If you use <Irene’s Female Training Secret Book>, you can go directly to Irene’s subspace and ask her what happened to her in the past.

‘But if I go in there…’

First of all, I don’t know if it’s okay to go in there inside the tower, and will Irene really tell me willingly?

There is a very high possibility that the rape couple will pounce on me, telling me that they will tell me if I let them eat me.

‘Yeah, let’s leave that as a last resort… I don’t have any schedule tomorrow, so I’ll have to go out and find out myself.’

“If you guys have any expected reasons, please tell me. Or even a solution is fine.”

Wouldn’t it be good if I could get something from the collective intelligence? I should get some help from the viewers now.

• Is the engaged crown prince a psycho? Maybe we have to stop the marriage
• I think someone is just purely jealous
• Isn’t there a prince who secretly likes Irene?
• ..
• Why don’t you just teach her swordsmanship? She seems to have amazing talent
• Just kidnap her lol
• If you kidnap her faster than the assassin, she’ll be safe lol
• Kidnapping is a good idea lol

‘Kidnapping is a bit…’

While I was communicating with the viewers and receiving their opinions,

I hear the sound of many people walking outside.

‘Irene and the maids?’

Thump thump thump! Bang!

My door opens, and Irene and her maids enter.

“Eh…? W-wait a minute. What’s going on?”

Her outfit was like an adventurer, wearing leather clothes.

“Peachina~ What are you doing, let’s go together quickly!”

‘Where the hell are you going at this hour, you crazy bitch…’

I almost cursed inwardly, but I barely held it in and asked politely.

“Where are you trying to go at this hour…?”

“Where else!! I told you last week, don’t you remember? Were you forgetting?”

She puffs out her cheeks and pretends to be sulky, saying how could I forget something so important.

“Hmph!”

‘Haa…’

Of course, it wasn’t me last week, so I don’t remember.

“Um… where did you say we were going?”

“A gambling den! Not a luxurious place for nobles, but a dark and intense back alley gambling den where real skills are at stake!!”

“What…? Crazy, who put this idea in your head…”

“Peachina!! What are you doing~~! Hurry up~~!!”

‘Ah……’

Irene grabs my hand and drags me somewhere while acting cute. I didn’t actually move a step, but I feel like I’m being dragged away by force.

“Haa… are we really going?”

“Yeah, let’s change our clothes before that!”

She must have already talked to the maids, because she even prepared my clothes.

“Um… I’m a guard knight…”

A similar outfit to hers is handed to me.

‘I have a bad feeling about this…’

I look at the maids standing behind her.

‘Aren’t they stopping her?’

I don’t know if I’m being too sensitive or if the women here have a safety insensitivity.