Chapter 113 (1/2)

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“Princess…”

I now realized that Lili has had her fists clenched as she was sitting on the couch as if she was being coerced to do so. I turned my head like a malfunctioning robot.

“So you were after the Founding Celebration.”

I saw Claude, resting his chin on her palm and staring at me.

The moment I looked into his cold eyes, I was frozen rock solid without a breath.

No… This can’t be true. Is he the real Claude? But I just saw him on the parade float!

Indifferent towards my numbed-out feelings, he spoke again after some silence.

I’ve heard about your friendships with the maids inside the palace. I strongly suspected you to pay a visit when I’m away.

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I stammered subconsciously at Claude, who crystal-clearly saw through my plans.

“I—I saw you right there…”

“That was my double.”

A double? Double?

I gaped foolishly at his shocking remarks. Now that I think about it, it’s entirely possible to use a double for such an important event. Plus, Claude himself doesn’t like to be dragged around. What do I do now?

I tried to plan what to do next with my uncooperating brain.

Let’s make a run for it for now.

Snap!

Now I… should be in the reed fie… How am I still in the palace?

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“I’ve cast a countermagic charm.”

Claude condescendingly laughed at me, who was in a panic.

Choke! What’s up with the ‘I’m gonna teach that kid a lesson’ face?

“Not only in the Emerald Palace, but it’s cast everywhere. I hadn’t expected you to show up in the Gannett Palace last time and let you flee but it won’t be easy this time.”

What? I don’t know what that exactly is but it’s like a trap where Lili’s the bait? What a degenerate coward!

Fwoosh!

As Claude whooshed his hand in the air, strands of light surfaced from the ground. What finally showed up was the golden magic circle.

I snapped my finger once again, being unable to withstand his arrogance anymore.

“Your highness, don’t…!”

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Snap!

Felix rushed in as he realized I was here but it was too late. The magical powers have already twirled upward my body.

But nothing happened.

“Your majesty!”

Drip.

No, something did happen. I twitched as I saw blood running down Claude’s chin.

But he only smirked looking at the red bloodstains after wiping the blood off of his mouth with his hand.

I knew this charm was bullshit but this is even more bullshit than I had expected.

“Are you alright, your majesty?”

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The three of us—Felix, Lili, and I—couldn’t hold our agitation after seeing Claude. It was only Felix who could still keep their posture.

My hands twitched as the silently cold look faced me once again.

“Anyone can cast whatever spell they wish, but all the effects come to the caster of the countermagic charm. It’s been abandoned a long time ago due to its utter uselessness.”

I could hear Felix shouting ‘Your majesty! You should have told her that earlier!’ in frustration but Claude didn’t even care to turn his head Felix’s way.

He’s been fixed onto me ever since I teleported here. I, too, kept constant eye contact with him standing still in the circle.

“If you don’t care that I spit out blood and die, you are free to leave that circle and attack me anytime.”

I sighed as he spoke.

So… what? What if I don’t give a shit and kill you anyway? Do you think I’m scared of you?

Then what? Do you think I’m gonna stay here and do nothing because I’m scared of you getting hurt?

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But in fairness, I couldn’t move a muscle when I saw the blood run down his mouth. As the blood ran more and more, my breath started to get faster. The memories of him trowing up blood on his bed after being caught in a magical explosion caught me.

I bit my lips as I was more frightened than I thought I was.

I acted broadly thinking I could always get away from him but frankly, I couldn’t while hurting him.

In other words, he made himself the most effective hostage against me.

But that got me thinking.

If he wanted to capture and kill me, why is he doing all this in the first place? And why cast the countermagic charm if all it’s gonna do is hurt him?

Was he sure that I wouldn’t be able to use magic here? But judging from his face, that wasn’t the case, at least at the moment. He was in a gamble where the stakes were his own life.

There are many actually effective alternatives for attacking and immobilizing enemies according to the magic books I’ve read in Arlanta.

Lili was looking at Claude with a puzzled face as well.

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“But if you do disappear again…”