Chapter 13

Derek held out a hand to me who was a little late, lifting my troublesome skirt with both hands.

‘Are you eating the wrong thing?’

I stare blankly with my jaw wide open at Derek who is trying to escort me.

Within moments, he raises an eyebrow.

“What are you doing? Aren’t you going to get out of the car?”

It took me a moment to react and review my surroundings.

The eyes of the nobles who had only just arrived were all turned this way.

“Thank you very much.”

I rushed to meet Derrick’s hand and got down from the carriage.

Taking Derrick’s hand, we ascended the stairs leading to the banquet hall.

“Duke Eckhardt’s family, His Excellency Derek Eckhardt, Major Duke, and Duke Penelope Eckhardt’s daughter, Fan Lin!”

As the banquet doors opened, the sound of Hou’s singing name from a brightly sprayed voice accompanied them.

“Don’t act recklessly.”

Derrick’s cold words reached my ears.

“You haven’t forgotten that you just ended your grounding yesterday, have you?”

“If you cause another disturbance, then it won’t be as simple as just being grounded.”

My excitement for the party vanished at his words.

The words I was going to respond to him were in my throat, but in the end I stopped.

“Yes, I’ll pay attention.”

I replied meekly while trying to smile, and Derrick immediately turned his head back.

While Derrick wasn’t paying attention, I skimmed my lips.

The banquet held by the palace went very well. In other words, it was boring.

As soon as I entered the banquet hall, Derrick left me aside and was now busy greeting the others.

In contrast, not a single person came to strike up a conversation with me.

It seemed that the rumors of Penelope causing a riot were having a big impact.

As I looked around, I saw those noble ladies of Penelope’s age either dancing or whispering in groups.

Like an island, I stayed in the corner where people to rare, quietly watching the banquet scene.

‘I’m not alone at all.’

This is by no means self-brainwashing.

In fact, I clearly understood my purpose for being here, and if I succeeded, I would most likely be able to escape this horrible place.

”Ah, ah! When is that damned crown prince coming!”

As the banquet progressed, more and more people peeked at the perversely quiet me and chatted about gossip about me.

As I stood alone near the end of my rope.

“His Royal Highness, the Imperial Consort, and His Royal Highness, the Second Prince have arrived.”

Finally the official game of pleasing was carried out as it should be.

The nobles who were originally talking and laughing, at this moment all face the gate and curtsy.

I also looked around and lowered my stance slightly.

The Imperial Concubine and the Second Prince were striding powerfully down the aisle with a demeanor that seemed to be saying ‘we are the royal family’.

The blonde hair that symbolized royalty shone under the bright lights of the banquet hall.

They walked through the banquet hall and ascended the steps. On top of these steps was the throne that only royalty could sit on.

I, who witnessed the entire scene, was surprised to see the second prince sitting on one of the thrones.

”Isn’t that the crown prince’s seat?”

The throne that the second prince was seated on was the upper seat of the upper seats.

The gold-colored throne was decorated with a gorgeous dragon pattern made of gold.

That was the emperor’s seat.

However, there was almost never a need for an emperor to appear in the game, so it was always the crown prince who sat in that’s seat.

”But why the second prince?”

I was a bit bewildered by the fact that the Imperial Consort and the Second Prince were sitting in that seat in such a natural manner.

Is it because it’s the second prince’s birthday?

“All of you, please rise.”

The second prince sitting on the throne ordered, and everyone rose.

“Thank you all very much for attending my birthday banquet in your busy schedules. Today, I have slightly prepared a small banquet with thin wine, so I hope you all enjoy yourselves.”

As soon as the second prince’s words fell, the banquet officially began. No, it was about to begin

Bang ……! Suddenly, a huge sound came from the gate there.

“What?”

“Hair, what happened?”

The nobles all turned to go towards the place where the sound came from and started talking.

Someone who seemed to have injured someone else stepped into the banquet hall.

The only sound that could be heard was footsteps coming in steps.

At the same time, the sound of something being dragged could be heard.

“It’s, it’s His Royal Highness!”

Someone shouted. I hurriedly turned back to look at the source of that voice.

Noble blonde hair that looked like it was made of strangled silk swayed in the wind.

Just now, I thought that the Imperial Concubine and the Second Prince were shining, but now it was like an illusion on my part.

The blonde-haired man with a red cape swinging behind him is the truly dazzling existence.

“Is that, that …… that one a person?”

“Oh! That, that’s-……!”

At this time those who stood close to the Crown Prince let out a wail.

Lala, grinning ……

The thing he was dragging was human and had moved not a muscle.

“Happy birthday, my brother!”

The Crown Prince walked over to the steps where the Imperial Consort and the Second Prince were and threw the person he was dragging over.

“Brother, brother!”

“Imperial, Imperial Crown Prince!”

The Imperial Concubine stood up from her chair and pointed at the Imperial Crown Prince

“You, what you did is simply disgraceful!”

“Mother, is an elder brother attending his younger brother’s birthday party considered a matter of loss of face?”

“As the crown prince, you have done such a terrible thing here, and besides, you were not invited here ……!”

There was no way for her to say the one who was dragged here from her mouth, the Imperial Concubine’s face reddened this way, trembling with anger

“Such words as I was not invited are so sad to hear.”

“What kind of place do you think this is to actually dare to come over here?”

“Since I was invited, I threw aside my busy political affairs and ran here in one breath.”

The Crown Prince shrugged his shoulders exaggeratedly, with an expression on his face that was far removed from severing his regrets.

I couldn’t understand the antagonistic situation of these two.

‘Isn’t the Imperial Concubine the Crown Prince’s birth mother?’

While I was pondering this matter, the crown prince added.

“But the servant who sent me the invitation bouquet was too presumptuous.”

As soon as the words left his mouth, the Crown Prince bent down and pulled hard on the hair of the body he had just dragged here, then got up and stood.

Due to his black mask, the body’s appearance was not revealed. However, judging from his fitted black attire, he appeared to be an assassin.

“He never meant to give me the invitation and kept trying to do something else, so I gave him a small lesson.”

“. ……”

Just then.

Hiss …… The Crown Prince slowly pulled his sword out with his empty hand and slit the assassin’s neck just like that.

La one! Blood began to gush out like a fountain in a single gush.

“I’ll use this instead of my gift well.”

The crown prince threw the head face at the second prince’s feet.

“Ahhhhhhhh!”

The banquet hall filled with the loud screams of the Imperial Princess.

The man’s head rather rolled on the floor like a ball.

The Second Prince looked like someone who would faint at any moment, too scared to speak with a green face.

“If you still want a gift from me, then send another karma like him to deliver the invitation bouquet.”

The banquet hall was filled with people who were shocked by this. Of all people, only the Crown Prince was smiling.

He smiled keen and sharp, like a lion returning from hell.

He left the banquet hall just as quickly as he had come, leaving behind only those of us who were caught up in the shock and surprise.

It was not until the Crown Prince was completely gone that the breaths of people holding their breaths could be heard again.

The same was true for me.

”…… What the heck.”

I clenched my chest, my head memory confused.

‘This kind of scene has never happened in a game before.’

No matter how much I look back, I’ve never seen anything as significant as this.

Like the pinhole in Penelope’s body, an omitted fragment that I’ve never seen before.

[The Crown Prince, who is not on good terms with the Second Prince, leaves the banquet hall after causing a small disturbance].

The content mentioned by the game is just to this extent.

”This is a small riot? This game is crazy!”

As I watched the Marquises clean up the blood and the corpse, I felt a sense of panic in my heart.

Just then, a white dialog box surfaced in front of me.

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The [Ironborn Crown Prince, Callisto Legulus] chapter is now open.

Is it time to move to the ‘Labyrinth Garden’ now?

[Yes/No].

I pondered for a while, the Crown Prince I met in reality was even more of an unabashed madman than in the game, which made me not want to go after him at all.

‘I guess the moment we meet, we’ll get our necks wiped right away.”

However, the fear of death only lasted for a second, and I was going to die no matter what.

‘If I can survive this time, maybe I’ll be able to go back.”

And I also have the safeguard called ‘Reset’. If I do die, just tap the light up-set button.

Thinking that, I suppressed the fear inside me and chose [Yes] with my neck-shaking fingers.

Then everything around me turned white.

The moment I opened my eyes again, I was standing at the entrance of the ‘Labyrinth Garden’.

“This is kinda convenient.”

I was actually kinda worried about it because I’m a wayfarer. But I didn’t realize that it even had a teleportation function just like the game.

“Now then, step towards death.”

Luckily I didn’t have to worry about getting lost.

Maybe it was the system’s guidance, because only the lights on the correct path were lit.

Following the lights, I kept walking towards the depths of this deep labyrinth.

‘Where exactly am I supposed to walk to?’

I had been walking for quite some time, but I couldn’t see where the lights went out.

It was around the time when my heels started to wear out my feet.

Very far away from me, I could see a light that was brighter than the others. It looked like it was finally coming to an end.

I took a breath and then turned around.

This one was a spacious place with both a small fountain and benches to sit and relax.

“What the heck, where is he?”

There were no more lights on anywhere, so this must be the end of the line.

However, I didn’t see the Crown Prince’s figure wherever I looked.

I first cocked my head, then walked hesitantly towards the fountain. Just then.

Brushing …… I felt something cold and heavy beside my neck.

“Hiss!”

“I thought it was some rat wandering around the palace.”

The Crown Prince walked halfway around to me from behind, and at the same time the sword in his hand wrapped around my neck.

A stabbing pain hit me. Along with the pain of skin being cut, something hot dripped down.

But I didn’t realize that I had been cut.

“This, isn’t it the mad dog of the Eckhardt family?”

Callisto’s blonde hair glistened under the moonlight, and his crimson eyes seemed to be drenched in blood.

The Crown Prince looked at me with a ghostly face grinning as if something interesting had happened.

However it was only for a moment.

“After witnessing that scene in the banquet hall, you still dare to tail me, it seems like you want to come looking for death?”

The Crown Prince who instantly became expressionless gave me goosebumps.

“Say, why are you sneaking around like a rat and following me?”

The sword stabbed deeper into the skin of my neck. What was more palpable than that was the compelling murderous aura.

My intuition told me that the Crown Prince was now planning to kill me.

”Reset button!”

My eyes glanced around, trying to find the reset button.

Even if I was going to die no matter what, I had to at least know where the reset button was before I died.

“Given that you have no intention of answering my question, is it time to start saying goodbye to your father and older brothers?”

However, no matter what corner of my vision.

“I will properly convey your last words to the Eckhardt family.”

There was no reset button anywhere.

‘Reset! Where the hell is the reset! Reset ah ah ah!’