‘Fight against Anselot?’
My pupils shook violently as I scanned through the quest details.
‘No, how am I supposed to defeat Salto in the first place!’
Conveniently, Anselot frowned upon reading the same content.
Gathering information about Arno here was a futile effort.
Realizing that, I left Enzer, who was approaching with a friendly greeting, and walked briskly with Anselot to the party venue.
“Originally… the content I was supposed to reveal here wasn’t this! I was supposed to fight with Prince Arno and save Maria!”
“How does the princess know that?”
Anselot, who had been silent all along, blinked slowly and asked.
“The princess sometimes speaks as if she knows the future?”
“It’s a secret too.”
I chuckled and didn’t elaborate.
“He’s not a lunatic who kills people without reason. Why did Arno die?”
“I didn’t kill him.”
Anselot replied briefly and then explained in a strange tone.
“One day, he drank and caused a commotion, so I tried to correct his behavior, but he resisted and hit his head on the ground by himself.”
“….”
“After that, he lay in bed, and suddenly, he disappeared from the world in a moment. But soon after, rumors spread that I killed him.”
Well, in the original work, he had been engaging in cruel deeds, tormenting Maria. Looks like he hasn’t changed that bad habit…
“Anyway, what should we do now?”
I murmured with a worried tone.
“By the way, what should we do now?”
I murmured with a worried tone.
When I rejected the quest in Azester, the system administrator appeared and attacked.
Apart from the threat of the system administrator, I couldn’t avoid doing the quest.
Even if it meant moving on to the next scenario to achieve the goal of eliminating the radiant dragon.
So, this quest had to be cleared no matter what.
‘So, the clear condition…’
I checked the clear conditions in the quest notification window once again.
There were elaborate phrases like threatening love and causing humiliation, but the crucial thing was the clear conditions.
▷Clear Condition: Win a duel against , spectators
The clear condition for this quest was winning a duel against Anselot. However, it had to happen in front of Maria.
“Winning the duel shouldn’t be difficult… as long as you lose to me… The problem is that the duel has to take place in front of Maria.”
“How can we naturally duel without making Maria think strangely?”
For the record, I couldn’t act. Really, I couldn’t.
“Well, is there anything difficult?”
Anselot said in a casual tone.
“Huh?”
“Just trust me, Princess.”
He smiled with a meaningful expression.
And the meaning behind that significant smile, I found out the next day.
Anselot…!
That crazy Salto…!
Maria has been kidnapped from the temple…!!!
“If you want to save this woman, duel me.”
Anselot said villainously.
It was very natural.
He seemed more like a villain than the kidnappers who had taken Ilay as a hostage.
‘Kidnapping a saint from the temple! Are you insane?’ I was about to ask, but then I remembered that he stole the holy relic yesterday.
Since he stole the holy relic, kidnapping a saint from the temple would be nothing.
“Ah, hahaha….”
A hollow laughter escaped.
With things turning out like this, before the situation got worse, it was best to quickly handle the quest and send Maria back to the temple.
“Anselot, how could you, uh, uh, uh, do such villainous things!”
Unlike Anselot, who casually talked to me about the duel, my voice awkwardly and stiffly cut off as if reading from a script.
Seeing that, Piya flapped her wings and expressed frustration.
Squeak! Squeak!
-Oh, frustrating. I’ll help you, Lady Lulu!
For the first time, Piya’s dialogue options felt warmly welcomed.
[The wicked Prince Anselot has kidnapped Maria. Shall we help Maria overcome her fear?(Stabbing the sword into the ground) How dare you threaten my love! I cannot forgive you, Prince Anselot!
(Inserting a rose into the ground) How dare you threaten my love! I cannot forgive you, Prince Anselot!
(Stabbing Anselot into the ground) How dare you threaten my love! I cannot forgive you, Prince Anselot!] Let me clarify. Piya’s choices were not at all welcoming.
Piya’s choices were still awkward….
‘No, the rose is fine, but… why impale Anselot on the ground? Normally, people throw down a gauntlet, right?’
The fact that I had to choose one of these was extremely lamentable, but there was a sad hope that it would be better than my awkward acting.
With tears almost welling up, I reluctantly chose one.
Stabbing my precious Azester greatsword, bestowed upon me by my mother, into the ground, I had to shout with a resolute voice.
“How dare you threaten my love! I cannot forgive you, Prince Anselot!”
Ah… I shouldn’t damage the blade.
It felt like tears would come, but I held back.
“Ah, Lady Lulbell…! Going this far for me…!”
In Maria’s sparkling eyes, hearts seemed to bloom.
Finally, the duel with Anselot began.
[SYSTEM] Switching to duel mode.Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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