Unbeknownst to me, I had been stepping back during our conversation, creating a considerable distance between us.
“That’s what you did with that guy earlier.”
Anselot said, stepping closer to me.
“No, with him, we talked more intimately, right?”
“When did I ever… Eek!”
I was about to protest, but startled by Anselot’s sudden proximity, I let out a shrill scream.
“How about you try not being afraid of me, Princess?”
Anselot asked with a chuckle, looking at me.
“I know what the rumors say about me.”
“…….?”
“I don’t just kill anyone. I’m not a madman.”
‘But you are! You tried to kill me in the garden!’
As if hearing my silent protest, Anselot sighed and stepped back.
“Really.”
“…….?”
“You don’t believe me.”
He muttered dejectedly and then smiled bitterly.
Bathed in moonlight, his pale face looked lonely.
‘Why does he look so sadly smiling?’
Feeling a bit softened, I cautiously spoke to him.
“…No, I believe you.”
“Really?”
His melancholy vanished, replaced by a bright smile.
As I was transfixed by his eyes, he met my gaze.
“Then, Princess Louibelle Ajester.”
Anselot called my full name with an exaggeratedly polite tone.
“May I come a little closer to you?”
“…….”
However, still feeling uneasy about closing the gap with Anselot, I was unable to nod in agreement when suddenly,
“I’ve found them!”
Loud footsteps approached rapidly, and a group of people swarmed towards us.
“Bug detected!”
“Behind the Crystal Hall, on the walking path. Two bug entities.”
“Surround the bugs.”
People of various appearances menacingly encircled Anselot and me.
“What’s going on…”
I blinked in confusion.
Among them were servants working in the palace, knights with swords, and even Roana, a maid from the third Princess Palace, whom I had conversed with just hours before.
“Roana?”
“Surround the bugs.”
Roana repeated the mechanical phrase as if she didn’t recognize me, her voice stiff.
Her eyes were a dull gray, not like the Roana I knew.
As I hesitated and stepped back, a firm hand gently gripped my shoulder.
“Tedious lackeys of the system.”
Anselot muttered with a look of disdain, gazing at the people encircling us.
“Lackeys of the system…?”
“Yes, the system’s janitors.”
His words, ‘bug’, ‘janitor’… added to my confusion.
Around Anselot, a white sphere formed, the same white sphere he used to attack me in the western garden of the Princess Palace.
The sphere morphed into an elongated shape, turning into a long spear.
As Anselot grasped the white spear, the so-called [system janitors] flinched and took a combative stance.
Their weapons included not only sharp throwing stars and daggers but also massive axes and bows seemingly pulled from thin air.
‘Those are real.’
I could assert, having never seen such weapons in my twenty years of living as Louibelle Ajester.
“Like a swarm of ants, they’ve gathered in droves. How unsightly.”
Anselot’s lips curled up provocatively.
And simultaneously,
“Eliminate the bugs.”
“Eliminate the bugs.”
“Eliminate the bugs.”
The system janitors launched a simultaneous attack.
Not at Anselot, but at me!
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
