The Terminally-Ill Rejects the Approach - Chapter 5

An instinctive warning echoed in my head.

‘This is bad! We can’t communicate!’

It seemed like the man was really going to kill me right here and now.

“If you’re going to die anyway, it doesn’t matter if you die a little early.”

He hummed a tune while looking down at me.

“It might be a bit troublesome if I get reset for interfering unnecessarily…”

His incomprehensible muttering made him seem like a real madman.

‘W-what should I do?’

Am I going to die so suddenly like this?

I felt tears welling up.

Meanwhile, the white sphere that had been swirling around the man transformed into the shape of a long spear.

The man picked up the spear and slowly approached me.

“Well then, die well.”

Just as the man raised the spear towards me with a smile.

“N-no…!”

I shouted, squeezing my eyes shut.

And at that moment.

Suddenly, everything around became quiet.

I could no longer sense the man who had been attacking me as if to kill me just moments ago.

When I opened my eyes slightly, I saw the man staring blankly at something.

Following his gaze, my eyes soon widened as well.

“…!”

A red light flowing from the pendant around my neck had formed a protective barrier around me.

‘What is this…?’

The white spear in the man’s hand dispersed into particles of light.

“You, how did you do that?”

The man who had shown no intention of conversing until now suddenly tried to speak to me.

“Why do you have that power…”

As I was taken aback by his reaction, grabbing my arm as if entranced and asking.

Ding~!

A cheerful sound effect rang in my ears.

I quickly turned my head towards the source of the sound.

[Quest in progress]

…Raise ‘s affection…

‘Damn it.’

A curse involuntarily slipped out.

The cursed system window was approaching.

Hezen was coming this way.

‘Of all times, in this situation…’

Swoosh.

At that moment, the man holding me turned his gaze towards the increasingly vivid system window.

Then, he looked back at me with narrowed eyes.

“You, can you see that?”

A while ago, Hezen had become quite despondent.

Having been caught by Luibel just as he was about to kiss Clara, he lost all the affection he had built up with Luibel.

Not only that. He also lost several precious teeth.

[SYSTEM] ‘s anger is rising.

[SYSTEM] ‘s anger: @%#$^%

The ability to quantify and display the emotions of his target was an effect of his conquest skill.

Thanks to this, he could see Luibel’s anger rising in real-time, but sadly, there was no way to prevent it.

That day, after being hit by Luibel whose power had temporarily surged due to her anger reaching its peak.

His swollen cheek was stinging and rough. The metallic taste traveling down his throat suggested his mouth was bleeding.

‘Damn this game. There’s no need to make such things so vivid.’

The only small consolation was that he had managed to protect his manhood from her intended strike.

After hastily using [Skill] to escape from that place, he spat out what felt like a small stone in his mouth, revealing a white fragment.

At first, he didn’t know what it was.

He thought perhaps a stone had entered his mouth when he hit the ground after being struck by Luibel.

It wasn’t until he returned home and stood in front of the mirror that he realized. The white fragment he had spat out was his own tooth.

‘No wonder my mouth felt so empty!’

Hezen went out again, raging, to look for his tooth.

However, his shattered tooth had already been swept away by the palace servants during cleaning and could no longer be found.

He even thoroughly searched through the filthy trash cans, but there was no way he could find it.

Returning to the mansion, Hezen vigorously washed his hands that stank from rummaging through garbage, grinding his now-gapped teeth.

The next day, Hezen used an item to restore his battered face.

However, there was nothing he could do about his broken teeth.

In the end, he had to call someone to fit him with dentures.

Until the dentures were ready, he couldn’t even go outside.

After all, he couldn’t let people see him with missing teeth.

Once he regained his handsome appearance with fake teeth, he immediately went to the palace.

Seira said she didn’t know where Luibel was, but after some gentle persuasion using his affection points, she revealed that Luibel was in the western rear garden of the Princess Palace.

“LuLu!”

Hezen immediately went to find Luibel. But Luibel wasn’t alone.

She was with another man.

‘What’s this, who’s that man?’

He was a man with snow-white silver hair and blood-red eyes.

, Prince of the Kingdom of Luenhart

The man’s status and name appeared above his head.

The man was even more handsome than himself, who was armed with all sorts of cash items (*paid items acquired through real money transactions). He was even slightly taller than him.

This was absurd. Hezen himself should have been the most outstanding in this world.

Hezen felt a burning jealousy rise within him.

“Who are you!”

Just as he was about to shout.

“Who are you to ask?”

Luibel’s cold voice was heard.

“Lu, LuLu…?”

Cautiously turning around at her unfamiliar icy tone, Hezen froze in shock.

‘Huh!’

Luibel’s affection was still 999.

, 3rd Imperial Princess of the Azester Empire

Affection: −999

But now with a minus (−) added.

Hezen, who had suddenly barged in, froze in shock upon seeing me.

He must have seen the affection points floating above my head.

My affection towards Hezen was −999.

In other words, I was in a state where I couldn’t stand the sight of Hezen.

‘No, that’s too mild an expression.’

To be more precise, I was in a state where I hated him enough to want to kill him.

“Hezen Ainsuhan.”

I stared directly at him and spoke in an ominous voice.

“Come to think of it, I haven’t said this to you yet.”

“…?”

“If you ever catch my eye again, this time I’ll crush not your corn, but your manhood.”

“…!”

Hezen’s mouth fell open in shock.

Until now, I had only shown the image of a gentle princess in front of Hezen.

Because I liked him.

I first realized I had been possessed when I was six years old.

At first, I thought I had been possessed by the female protagonist of some romance fantasy novel because Luibel was so pretty.

As the days passed smoothly, I gradually began to think that maybe I wasn’t the protagonist.

Then, in the palace’s history hall, I discovered statues of the Light God Rus and the Light Dragon Helheim beneath him.

‘Light Dragon Helheim…? If it’s Helheim, isn’t that the very one that the protagonists of Light Spirit Connection have to defeat…!’

At that moment, I realized. That I had been possessed into .

Was I disappointed to realize I wasn’t the protagonist?

No.

Rather, I was excited.

I was simply thrilled by the fact that I had been possessed into the novel that had supported me throughout my teenage years.

Since then, I had been looking forward to meeting Hezen.

I first met him three years ago, during the autumn martial arts tournament hosted by the imperial family.

‘Princess, Princess! I hear a commoner knight is participating in this martial arts tournament!’

The one who brought me this news was none other than Seira.

‘So the name of this knight is…’

‘Hezen Ainsuhan?’

I asked, unable to hide my excited heart.

‘Eh? How did you know? Have you already heard the rumors?’

‘…’

Instead of answering, I smiled slightly and blushed.

Yes, I had liked him even before we met face to face.

It was only natural that I came to like him.

After all, Hezen was the most shining character in the work I loved.

‘It’s the first time in Azester’s history that a commoner has participated in the martial arts tournament. Usually, they’re eliminated even before the preliminaries.’

Seira explained to me with sparkling eyes.

As she said, participating in the martial arts tournament was considered a great honor even among seasoned knights.

However, Hezen had achieved it.

And he became that year’s champion, beating the 2nd Prince Orent, who had been a strong favorite to win.

Hezen received a sword from the Emperor and became an official knight.

At the reception celebrating his victory, I watched him from afar, sipping champagne.

Although he was a commoner, he was very popular among people due to his dazzlingly beautiful appearance, kind personality, and outstanding skills.

I had been waiting for a meeting with him, but I didn’t expect to be able to stand face to face, exchange names, and greet each other.

I thought he would be a man with no connection to an extra like me, and I was content just watching him from afar like this.

But he approached me first.

‘Hello, Princess Luibel. I’ve always wished to meet you.’

‘M-me…?’

The moment he spoke to me, my face turned bright red and I stuttered, unable to say anything.

He then gave a gentle smile.

‘Are you alright? It must be strong alcohol. Your face has turned red. Just like those flowers decorated over there.’

What I had been drinking was non-alcoholic champagne.

As I kept my lips tightly closed, unable to say anything out of embarrassment and shame,

‘You’re as beautiful as a flower, Your Highness.’

He said with a smile.

My heart pounded with a thump!

Looking back now, they were terribly cheesy lines, but despite that…

I always felt dizzy from the sweet whispers he offered.

We gradually grew closer, and I naturally fell in love with him.

Not realizing at all that the man I loved would be a user playing that X-rated crappy game.

Even at that moment, words like ‘[SYSTEM] ‘s affection has increased.’ must have appeared in front of him.

The feeling of betrayal I felt the day I saw him with the Saint of the Kingdom of Taal resurfaced.

So, to think that all those words and actions that made me fall in love with him were all that bastard’s calculated ‘conquest’…

“Lu, LuLu… You’re… you’re very angry…”

As Hezen stammered in surprise, a system window popped up in front of him.

[SYSTEM] Emergency situation!

[SYSTEM] Emergency situation!

[SYSTEM] starts feeling strong murderous intent the moment she sees your shameless face!

[SYSTEM] ‘s murderous intent is rising.

[SYSTEM] ‘s murderous intent: 13/999

[SYSTEM] ‘s murderous intent: 94/999

[SYSTEM] ‘s murderous intent: 215/999

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[SYSTEM] ‘s murderous intent: 999/999

[This is bad! , reacting to your face, is aiming for your manhood!

If this continues, you will fail to awaken and encounter the route!

Quickly escape from ‘s murderous intent ⌒(o＾▽＾o)ノﾟ]

‘Eunuch route…?’

For a moment, my eyes sparkled and a meaningful smile appeared on my lips.

When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem

This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.

Synopsis:

“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”

Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.

Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.

While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the  Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…

Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.

 

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