Chapter 14

‘There’s no reset button at all!’

I think I’m going to faint. No matter where I looked, there was no reset button.

Meanwhile, the Crown Prince seemed to really intend to kill me, because, he raised his sword.

“Wait, wait! Wait!”

I shouted in panic. Then, the Crown Prince tilted his head and opened his mouth.

“Looks like you want to talk now.”

“Right! I’ll say! I, I say!”

I nodded frantically. And the raised sword was now once again placed at the side of my neck.

“Go on.”

“Okay, okay ……”

Out of panic, I did say I would tell him. But as I was about to tell him, my mind went blank.

I mean, what the hell was I supposed to say. I couldn’t say that I came after him because I wanted to seek death. Besides, since I knew that the reset button didn’t exist, I shouldn’t have sought death.

‘Should I open the option?’

Besides, even if I turn on the option, I’m afraid it won’t guarantee that I’ll survive.

In fact, it was because of the option being turned off that I was able to survive until now.

“I can hear your brain running, thinking of how to answer me.”

Just then, the Crown Prince revealed a hint of a bad smile. Before he could wait for me to answer, he couldn’t wait to give his high opinion.

“I’m looking forward to what you’ll say.”

The window of favorability hung over the Crown Prince’s head, shining dangerously.

“It has to be a reason I can accept, Duke Qianjin.”

“… ….”

“Whatever it is, I have a strong aversion to being hindered halfway through.”

He muttered, the sword piercing his skin harder than before, warm blood trickling down his neck.

The fear from death and pain dominated my brain.

“…… I, I like you!”

As a result, stupid words came out of my mouth.

“…… What?”

Callisto widened his crimson eyes while I flourished my eyes shut and shouted at the top of my lungs.

My mouth had long been out of control.

“I… I’ve always adored you!”

“… .”

“I thought I could come to comfort you because that earlier incident might have hurt you ……”

This was a completely idiotic dialog, one that didn’t appear in either hard mode, or normal mode.

However, the bridge of comforting the Crown Prince was real in Normal Mode. In Normal Mode, the heroine meets the Crown Prince and comforts him. But that was only a possibility, because the heroine did not witness the scene where he cut the killer’s neck.

‘Oops.’

Even if I don’t know what to say, but why did I digress to say that I like this madman?

However, there’s only one reason for a noble lady to chase a man to such a gloomy place ……

But that only makes sense when it happens between a normal man and woman.

”Goodbye to this crazy game. I can go home, because now I’m going to die. But going back through this way I would only give this game a one star rating.’

I closed my eyes and shivered. Ready to feel this pain that was about to fall on me.

But no matter how long I waited, I was slow to hear the sound of the sword cutting through the air.

“Well …… the mad dog of the Duke’s family actually fell in love with the royal rogue, haha.”

The evening wind is brisk, blowing the nose a little loamy. I carefully sleep open my eyes, listening to the Crown Prince muttering in a small voice.

“It really is ……”

“An unexpected defense.”

Those bloodshot red eyes were so close at hand that I wasn’t sure when I held my breath.

He stared at me with an interested face.

“But you haven’t seen me more than a few times, have you; you’ve only met me once at my triumphal banquet.”

In fact, I didn’t meet him at that banquet. Today is the only time I have seen him, and the first time in my life. Apparently, it was only after that banquet that I was reincarnated into this body.

I replied with all the tension in my body.

“I… I fell in love with you at first sight that day.”

“What did you like about me?”

“This ……”

Now I was speechless.

What should I say? No, what am I going to say. I remembered putting a cross by his name so many times the last time I was sorting through the information.

I glanced at Callisto before he sank to his knees, then forced a reason out of my head.

“Handsome looks ……”

“It breaks my heart that the only attractive thing about me is my face.”

“…… You, you’re also incredibly valiant and skilled with a sword ……”

“You’ve seen this reason time and time again, aren’t there any others that are more original and interesting?”

“That, that is …… this ……”

All the questions and answers I got in the moment made it seem like I was on the verge of fainting.

To be honest, my legs were shaking so much right now that I could barely stand.

The cold and sharp touch on my neck terrified me.

“Uh …… me ……”

Every time I tried harder to hold back my tears, the crown prince laughed more and more.

For a moment I even thought that I was simply crazy for being here. Trying to die from this extremely distasteful and frightening sensation was really driving me crazy.

Just as I was about to fall backwards and forwards.

“Well, as much as it doesn’t sit well with me, I’ll let you off the hook for today.”

As those words came out of my mouth, the blade that pierced my skin moved away.

When the Crown Prince spoke in a tone filled with excitement, I looked up in shock and bumped into the faint shimmering light leaping from his deep red eyes.

“However, the next time we meet again, you will have to tell me exactly why and how you began to like me.”

I nodded like a madman.

“Now go, get out of here.”

He hissed …… as he said this and took his sword back into its scabbard.

At that moment, above the gleaming blonde hair, the floating window of goodwill began to shine brightly.

Then.

[Favorability 2%]

I stared at it dumbfounded for a while. Not because of happiness or relief, but because it was very, very …… ridiculous.

“What are you still standing here for? Looks like you want to play the red line game again?”

The Crown Prince said as he gazed at me standing dumbfounded. At the same time, he made a neck-wiping motion with his thumb between his necks.

“No, not at all!”

I was taken aback and proceeded to step backward.

It seemed to be just about time to back up to the entrance of the maze when I turned completely around and began to walk fast.

At that moment, I couldn’t think much about the resignations that should have been courteous to the royal family. I could even feel the sight of the Crown Prince behind me, so walking away quickly instead of running was the best etiquette I could manage.

As I rounded the corner, I began to run like mad.

Cold wind blew by, stinging the wound on my neck, but I was too busy thinking to even notice the pain.

‘There’s no reset button.’

This fact was the very fact that gave me the most chills before the crown prince intended to wipe my neck.

Until now, the safeguards I had trusted didn’t actually exist.

This meant that I wasn’t going to die like I thought I would.

‘What if it’s really over when I die? What if I can’t go back to where I was and I actually die instead ……?”

I’m just an ordinary college girl and don’t have the guts to face these risks so much.

The only option left to me now was to reach an ending with one of the characters.

‘But what to do?’

How do I stick it out and reach an ending with one of them? Or even if I make any sesquipedalian mistakes, they might try to kill me.

The rising favorability of all the male raid characters doesn’t really matter to me.

That kind of thing, even if you work hard to boost their favorability, they’ll come crashing down like a sandcastle.

‘What would happen if I worked hard to raise their favorability towards me, what if all the favorability levels suddenly fell like in the game?’

Then came the death ending.

But I don’t really want to die.

‘Why should I just die.’

While I was still alive, I risked my life trying to escape those two blood brothers.

‘Why do I have to die absurdly in such a crazy world, why should I do everything just to please these assholes I don’t even know.’

“Hummmm, oooo……”

I wept and sobbed, but again, it was all out of my control.

Luckily I had to follow the lights all the way in order to run back, and found myself returning to the maze garden gates much faster than I had been able to get to the center of the maze.

I was only a few steps away from actually leaving the garden.

Boom …… In the darkness of the night, where it was hard to tell who was there, I was suddenly in a head-on collision with someone.

“Ah!”

Already in a trance, thinking that perhaps it was the Crown Prince coming to take me back, a great sense of fear came at me.

The moment I wanted to quickly escape again, my wrist was grabbed.

“Let go!”

I hissed.

“Let go of my hand!”

“Miss?”

“Why do I have to die! I don’t want to! I don’t want to die!”

“Miss! Miss!”

I struggled to get my grabbed hand free, but after feeling someone tighten their grip on my shoulder

It was only after that I reacted.

“Are you okay?”

A pair of dark blue eyes came into view, large eyes filled with wonder. Then I saw, the silver hair that shone slightly in the dim light.

On the silver hair, the floating window that shone with [0% favorability] came into view.

“Ah, mmmmmm ……”

“Shhh…please calm down. I’m not going to hurt you.”

I was already crying with a gasp, and when I heard this guy’s words in a kind and audible voice, I instantly froze.

‘Another one of the Raider protagonists?’

After realizing who the person I bumped into was, I felt a bit of despair.

Winter Belldandy. He was both a magician and a marquis.

“I …… I … Yes.”

After realizing that it wasn’t the crown prince, I quickly calmed down.

I lifted my languid, trembling hand and wiped, wiped the tears away.

I wanted to go home, and I didn’t want to spend one more second in this place at all.

On top of that, I had no extra mood to be able to stay and face Wynter again.

“I’ve already caused trouble for someone I’ve never met, so please forget what just happened.”

After roughly drying my face, I let those words out.

I bowed to him and tried to walk past him.

But then I was stopped again.

“You’re still bleeding.”

He said pointing to my neck

“And pale, let me take you to the doctor here first.”

“I’m fine, I need to get back somewhere fast ……”

“Then, please at least take this.”

Unlike my attitude of not wanting to treat the wound right away, Winter didn’t let me go right away, but instead took something out of his breast pocket and handed it to me.

“Put this on the wound and press it, it will stop the bleeding.”

It was a white handkerchief.

Before accepting the handkerchief, I stared at it for a while.

No matter what, I can’t walk back to the banquet hall bleeding like this.

I bowed again and opened my mouth.

“Thank you. I will definitely repay your favor.”

“Repayment is not necessary.”

Anyway, he rejected me and handed me his hand.

“In lieu of that, I hope that the next time we meet, please stop letting the sadness flow from these beautiful eyes.”

Those warm hands brushed up close to my eyes, and I could even faintly feel the heat coming from my fingertips.

[Favorability 9%]

I was so focused on the words shining above his head that I didn’t notice the look with which he was gazing at me.