The Terminally-Ill Rejects the Approach (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 11
Thud. Drip, drip, drip.
The shattered system window seemed to fall to the floor—only to vanish without a trace an instant later.
“The, the system window…!”
Hezen stammered in alarm, frantically scanning his surroundings.
But the system window was nowhere to be seen.
‘…It’s all gone.’
A chill ran down my spine as I silently swallowed hard.
It wasn’t just the blaring system window that had disappeared.
The pink window above my head—along with the interface and quest windows that used to activate whenever I got close to Hezen—had all vanished too.
Everything was gone.
‘What’s going on? Does that mean that damn quest is gone too?’
I couldn’t reveal in front of Hezen that I’d been seeing system windows, so I held back any reaction—when suddenly,
Hezen lunged at Anselot and grabbed him by the collar.
“You, you…! What did you…!”
At that impudent act, one of Anselot’s eyebrows arched upward in clear displeasure.
‘Whoa…!’
I gaped, my eyes wide in shock.
“It was you, wasn’t it? All your doing! Lulu suddenly rejecting me, the system window disappearing—it’s all because of you…!”
Hezen roared furiously at Anselot.
‘Oh no, has this guy gone mad?!’
Hezen must’ve been so startled his mind snapped. Either he’d lost his sanity or he was hell-bent on dying.
After all, his opponent was Sallto!
A bloodthirsty lunatic who’d smile while slicing your throat at the slightest offense!
And what Hezen was doing now was far beyond “slightly offensive”—it was downright rude.
But regretfully, I had no loyalty left to aid Hezen.
‘While that fool acts like an idiot, I should quietly slip away.’
Though bewildered by the system window’s sudden disappearance, I’d just decided to flee alone from this place—
“Hey.”
Anselot shot Hezen a cold glance and uttered flatly.
Though it was just a single, curt syllable, Hezen instantly shrank back and released his grip on Anselot’s collar.
“Wha, what…!”
Despite his obvious terror, he belatedly tried to bluff his way out with a loud voice—a truly pathetic sight.
Anselot stared at him expressionlessly. His face bore no trace of anger, yet that very absence made it unnervingly lethal.
“Let’s say, as you claim, that I did it all.”
Anselot slowly parted his lips, curling one corner of his mouth into a crooked smile as he asked,
“Now that there’s no system window—if I killed you here, what do you think would happen?”
“…!”
Hezen froze in sudden shock.
As a player, he could feel pain but wouldn’t truly die before seeing the ending—only forcibly reset.
With enough spending, he could even instantly respawn on the spot without resetting.
But now, without the system window…
“I’m terribly curious. How about you?”
Anselot asked in a meaningful tone.
“I, I, I…!”
Pale-faced, Hezen took several frightened steps backward—
And bolted!
He ran so fast I thought he’d used a skill.
‘And that’s the protagonist?’
I stared at his cowardly retreating figure for a moment, then rolled my eyes and glanced toward Anselot.
Tug, tug.
Anselot straightened his wrinkled collar with a displeased look on his face.
‘Yikes.’
I suddenly realized I’d stayed rooted in place, distracted by watching Hezen’s disgraceful behavior.
‘I’d better leave quickly too…’
But the moment I took a single step—
“Ah.”
“Hik!”
Our eyes met directly.
Instantly, his face lit up.
“We’re finally alone, Your Highness Princess Louise Belle.”
Anselot curved his eyes into perfect crescents.
His smile was stunningly handsome—and chillingly deadly.
“Y-yeah, y-yeah. You really know how to count. If I disappear too, there’ll be just one left. So I’ll be off. Goodbye.”
I awkwardly replied, trying to leave—but a low murmur stopped me in my tracks.
“Our little mouse-like princess… trying to run away again.”
“Hwheek!”
“A while ago, you slipped away like this the moment I wasn’t looking.”
“R-run away? What are you talking about?”
I feigned innocence, forcing my voice to sound as confident as possible.
“Why would I run? I just came out to speak with my former fiancé.”
It wasn’t a complete lie, so I stiffened my neck stubbornly.
Then Anselot, now standing right before me, tilted his head down to meet my eyes.
“Do you know something?”
“…?”
“You’re at your cutest when telling lies that don’t even work.”
For a fleeting moment, his bright, smiling eyes seemed to glint.
“You’re just… so incredibly cute. May I poke your cheek once?”
His drawn-out “incredibly” sent an icy shiver down my spine.
“N-no! Absolutely not!”
I shook my head vigorously in reply.
Poking my cheek might be a new assassination technique for all I knew.
“How about stroking your head?”
“No! That’s not allowed either!”
I quickly refused again.
He might pretend to pat my head and actually blow it up!
“What if I hold your hand?”
“No!”
I shouted, swiftly hiding both hands behind my back.
‘My hands are precious!’
At that, Anselot abruptly wiped the faint smile from his face and asked,
“But you allowed it last time.”
By “last time,” he surely meant when he’d kissed the back of my hand in the western garden of the imperial palace to introduce himself.
‘That was before I knew you were Sallto!’
I bit my lips, unable to say it aloud.
“Then what am I allowed to do?”
Anselot tilted his head in confusion.
“You said I could stay by your side… Did you trick me?”
Though his tone was plainly neutral, why did it sound to my ears like, “How dare you deceive me? Do you wish to die?”?
“Trick you? What nonsense! There’s so much we can do together!”
I firmly denied it, but Anselot just stared straight at me and asked,
“For example?”
“L-like talking like this?”
I forced a strained smile, and he let out a small, surprised sound.
“Oh, like this.”
By now, we’d drifted quite far apart—he’d been steadily stepping closer while I’d unconsciously kept backing away.
“But you spoke like this with that guy just a moment ago too, didn’t you?”
Anselot advanced toward me, step by steady step.
“No, didn’t you talk with him even more intimately, at a closer distance?”
“I never…! Hweeek!”
I’d been about to protest that I’d never spoken “intimately” with that guy—but I shrieked in alarm when I realized Anselot had already reached right in front of my nose.
“How about not being afraid of me, Your Highness?”
Anselot asked with a faint smirk.
“I know what kind of rumors are circulating about me.”
“…”
“But I don’t just kill anyone. I’m not crazy, after all.”
‘You are crazy! You’re Sallto! You tried to kill me in the garden!’
As if hearing my silent, fervent protest, Anselot let out a deflated chuckle and took one step back.
“Seriously.”
“…”
“You don’t believe me.”
He murmured despondently, forcing a bitter smile.
Bathed in moonlight, his unusually pale face looked strangely lonely.
‘Why does he look so lonely?’
Softened slightly by his expression, I cautiously spoke to him.
“…No. I believe you.”
“Really?”
His melancholy vanished instantly, replaced by a bright, cheerful smile.
His eyes curved so sweetly that I found myself helplessly staring—until he met my gaze.
“Then, Your Highness Princess Louise Belle Azester,”
Anselot intoned my full name with mock formality and asked,
“May I come a little closer to you?”
“…”
Still hesitant to let him close the distance between us, I couldn’t bring myself to nod—
“Found them!”
Suddenly, a loud commotion erupted as a group of people rushed toward us.
“Bug detected!”
“Walkway behind the Crystal Hall. Two bug entities.”
“Surround the bugs.”
People of all kinds encircled Anselot and me with menacing intent.
“What…?”
I blinked in confusion.
Among them were palace servants, knights with drawn swords—and even Roana, handmaiden of the Third Princess’s palace, whom I’d spoken to just hours earlier.
“Roana?”
“Surround the bugs.”
Roana repeated the mechanical phrase in a rigid voice, as though she didn’t recognize me at all.
Her eyes had turned a dull, lifeless gray—nothing like the Roana I knew.
As I hesitated and tried to step backward, a firm hand gently gripped my shoulder.
“Those tiresome lackeys of the system.”
Anselot muttered, gazing listlessly at the crowd surrounding us.
“Lackeys of the system…?”
“Yes—the system’s janitors.”
Bugs, janitors… Their cryptic words only deepened my confusion.
A white orb formed around Anselot—the same white orb he’d used to attack me in the western garden of the imperial palace.
The orb elongated into a slender shape, transforming into a long spear.
The moment Anselot grasped the white spear, the “system janitors” flinched and assumed battle stances.
Their weapons included not just sharp darts and daggers, but also massive axes and bows—hidden somewhere until now.
‘Those are real.’
Without a doubt, these were weapons I’d never seen in my twenty years living as Louise Belle Azester.
“So many ants swarming at once. Not cute at all.”
Anselot’s lips curled into a provocative sneer.
And simultaneously,
“Eliminate the bug.”
“Eliminate the bug.”
“Eliminate the bug.”
The system janitors all launched their attacks at once—
Not at Anselot—but at me!
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
*
At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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There’s a lot of mystery surrounding this story, but I think the dragon is the villain, or there’s another group controlling them through the system.- Oh my God, poor Louise! Why can’t they just break off the engagement right away?
- Oh, but he can’t log out. Louise, get away! Why is she so stupid? Doesn’t she know he wants to kill her?
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