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(Renée’s POV)

Diwen’s tired expression turned into annoyance.

I wondered how the dragon bones ended up with Count Sirius, I didn’t even know anything about it.

But instead of explaining, Diwen glanced at me with his arms crossed.

“I’ll tell you when it’s just the two of us.”

“…Let’s do then.”

“Oh, if you can’t talk because of me, would you like it if I moved away?”

Somehow, the mission was successful and the reason for staying at the banquet disappeared, however, Diwen and Reden both stared at me.

My eyes narrowed in bewilderment at their meaningful gaze, Diwen said something meaningful with a smiling face in response.

“More than that, you were cool yesterday.”

“Uh, Yes?”

“Why did you hit him so hard? His cheek is still swollen.”

“Huh?”

“I don’t mean anything else. Actually, I’m just a little thankful. The mark ‘you’ left looked really great on him, because I hate him.”

While pondering over his words, I asked him as if possessed.

“Did you see who I hit?”

“Huh? Yeah. Why? Were you surprised that you were caught secretly slapping people?”

“No, that’s not it…..”

That means he knows the person I slapped last night.

I tried to ask who it was but Diwen’s words were faster.

“Oh, my. I just happened to be across the hallway, so I saw it all. Well, anyway.”

Diwen took a step closer, he bowed to match my height and whispered.

“You asked why I got the hit meant for you? That slap was the main reason. Thank you for hitting Zion yesterday, Renée.”

“······”

“I never thought I’d ever live to the day I’d say ‘thank you’ to you.”

His eyes, speaking as if he found all this funny, shone splendidly. Realizing that purple eyes were such an eerie color, I muttered with my lips.

‘This man hates me.’

Of course, who wouldn’t hate Renee Blair? Still, it felt like this guy, Diwen Fergus, hated me in a different way.

“I see.”

I was fortunate that I somehow avoided dying by his hand, but…… As long as this man hates me, this man will kill me anytime if a reason arises.

My intuition chimed like a red alarm and informed me.

“Go away.”

At that time, Reden’s hands, which were colder than usual, wrapped around my shoulders. At the same time, Diwen straightened his bent back and smiled slyly.

“See you later, Marquis Blair.”

“Yes, I will. But I don’t want you to be this gullible by then.”

“Huh? I wasn’t even trying to look like one.”

Even though Reden gave a warning, Diwen just smiled and stepped forward as if he was never threatened.

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Staring at Diwen, who was moving away, I was convinced by this.

The fact that my life won’t be spared if I get further involved with this bastard.

(Renée’s POV)

Having escaped from the banquet hall after notifying Reden that I would go home, I was caught up in a thought.

A person’s name, “Zion” that Diwen inadvertently mentioned.

“Zion·····. Zion····.”

Reflecting on Diwen’s words, it is clear that the person I slapped yesterday was the person named Zion.

And probably, he is not one of the main characters in the original novel, he would have probably been a supporting character. Also, it seemed that Diwen, a candidate for the male lead, hated him.

But why can’t I remember his name?

Diwen Fergus came to mind as soon as I heard his name, but nothing comes to mind when I heard the name ‘Zion’

As if he didn’t appear in the original novel.

“More than that, Diwen said he saw us in the hallway yesterday.”

It means that Diwen Fergus was also in the hallway by then and was close to Renée.

However, the person I bumped into wasn’t him.

In other words, if I didn’t bump into this person named Zion as my 100th person to meet. Then, the person I would have bumped into………

It must have been Diwen. In the original novel, I finally know how Renée Blair died by Diwen’s hand as well as what would have happened if I was the one who bumped into him.

Could the reason why I met Zion yesterday was just luck? Or is it the butterfly effect from trying to change fate? Is this the reason why I met someone who didn’t appear in the original novel?

It’s not unusual to have hazy memories about the novel, but I was strangely bothered by the fact that an unknown person became a focal point for my survival.

When I thought I should have looked back and remembered the details better, I caught sight of the carriage from the Blair family and shook off my useless thoughts.

“Huh? Come to think of it……?”

Something was out of the ordinary. Originally, Catherine was supposed to wait in the carriage and come out early to greet me, however she wasn’t here even when I was now getting close to the carriage.

By any chance, did she fall asleep in the carriage?

“Argh!”

It was then. A surprisingly loud scream came from a short distance and made me stop walking. The scream seemed to have warned me not to move.

I quickly began sweating and my heart pounded.

When I left, the banquet was in full swing, basically, no one else was around here. I rolled my eyes and flinched at the painful moan.

“Stop! Argh! Sa-Save me!”

A fainter desperate cry than before. I don’t know where it came from, but it was unusual.

“I have to call someone, but who?”

While I was stepping back without realizing it, the cool breeze blew.

At the same time, a fishy smell infiltrated my nostrils.

All my senses were shouting at me. This is the smell of blood. The smell was coming from the Blair family carriage.

The voice asking for help didn’t belong to Catherine. But, by any chance, is that the horseman that worked hard from yesterday until today?

Thoughts continued to flow one after another. This must be the reason why people can’t stop their thoughts once they get an ominous feeling.

And, the fact that the human body moves without even having the time to think about it.

I approached the carriage with a shaken body.

‘I don’t want to get hurt but I don’t like the people around me getting hurt either.’

That was the only thing that came to my mind and I was perplexed by it.

It’s like a moment of expectancy, like a dream.

As I barely moved with a heavy step, I approached the carriage, something popped out in front of me.

It was something that shone sharply under the moonlight

The sword penetrated the wagon and stopped in front of my eyes. If I had stepped a little more or if I had leaned more to the front, I would have gone blind.

[TL/N: I wanna clarify that the carriage was in front of Renee and the tip of the sword was pierced through the carriage and stopped right in front of Renee’s eyes.]

Recalling the fact, I was standing there with goosebumps all over my neck.

‘I’ve gone crazy. Why did I approach the carriage like an idiot? I should have called an Imperial knight right away.’

Even now, I was about to take my foot off to bring someone.

“There’s another human being.”

A voice came from the other side of the carriage.

No, could I really call it a ‘voice?’

As if two voices were mixed, it was rather close to a mechanical or synthesized sound.

I stepped back again in fear and the sword retracted.

Thanks to this, there was a small hole in the carriage, I had no choice but to see something right through it.

Very strange eyes that stared back at me.

It wasn’t like the human eye. The white around the pupils, which should be white, is dyed black, and the pupils are drawn vertically.

‘I have to run.’

Facing something so bizarre, my instincts notifying me of danger and that I should run away repeated in my mind like a broken record. But what about Catherine? What about the person who asked for help?

Whatever it is, what’s clear is that the shoes I’m wearing won’t help me.

I barely moved my body and took off my shoes nervously. I was thinking about what I should do, but something that didn’t seem to be human raised the sword upwards.

There was no time to wonder what he was trying to do. He hit the carriage and the wind blew as an aftermath.

Boom.

‘This Crazy-‘

The carriage, which had been intact so far, collapsed into two.

‘Tell me he didn’t just cut the wagon with a sword.’

As soon as I raised my eyes while looking at the carriage, I nibbled on my lips. Beyond, which was originally hidden by the carriage, showed itself and looked more brutal than I had imagined.

A pool of blood on the floor, a deeper smell of blood than before, and the people who toppled over the pool of blood.

As soon as I saw the scene, I chewed my lips. My heart pounded loudly and faster than before. Catherine was one of the people lying in a pool of blood.

Is she dead? No, right? I don’t know, please, don’t let it be that case.

I looked sharply at the three fallen people, including Catherine.

Only then did I glance over the person holding a sword. His hair is like a mop that comes down to the shoulders, long vertically-like snake eyes, and black spots, not whites.

I couldn’t recognize his face anymore, but I can guess who it is by looking at his clothes.

This person was Count Sirius who was taken by the Knights of Hugo a while ago.

I don’t know why he looks like that, but the fact that he was dangerous remains unchanged. I sneakily bent my legs and picked up the heels I wore off, preparing to run.

At that time, several voices flowed from the Count.

“It’s that girl! That girl? That girl insulted me! It smells strange. Kill her! Take off her limbs! Oh, that person must be that. Forget it. Kill her!”

The Count spoke to himself in two voices and swung the sword in the air.

At that point, the man’s appearance became more bizarre.

He looked as if two people were currently inhabiting one body.

“Kill it! Kill her! Kill! Kill it! Kill that bastard so that she won’t make fun of me again!”

The screams from his evil face suddenly became quiet. With his head bowed, he looked like he fainted as he stood.

Of course, I knew he didn’t faint. The Count’s murderous intent, which was heavily laid out to the point that it was hard to breathe, was directed at me.

At that time, a voice came out of the Count, once again. It no longer sounded like a mechanical sound, but a voice from another person.

“It’s very noisy. How could the body that I inhabit belong to a garbage like human?”

Saying meaningless things, ‘it’ raised its head. Eyes which made me feel it was inhumane became something that wasn’t entirely human anymore.

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Snake-like eyes and scales covering the whole body, ‘it’ became something I considered as an illusion at the banquet hall earlier when the Count attacked me.

My intuition told me.

‘That thing is no longer a human.’

‘It’ fixed the sword. The sharp blade turned towards me. Unbelievably, starting from the black handle of the sword, black energy flowed and dyed the silver metal, black.

“I’m sorry, human. This guy is asking me to kill you.”

“…I don’t know what it is, but even if I didn’t ask you to kill me, you would’ve listened to him, right? Why are you even making excuses?”

“You can’t provoke me if you say that while shaking. But don’t worry, I decided not to kill you, instead, I’ll just play with you.”

Hehe, ‘it’ laughed. His lips rose bizarrely. The exposed teeth showed and were pointed like shark teeth.

What should I do? Think, Renée Blair!

If nothing else, the great Hugo Order in the banquet hall. If it’s them, this one person….No, ‘that’ would be easy to catch, right?

However, if I run to the banquet hall to alert the Hugo Knights “that” will definitely follow me.

“No, it’s dangerous.”

There are a lot of ordinary citizens in the banquet hall.

When I chewed my lips well in a situation where I couldn’t do this or that, a familiar sound pierced my ear

Ping!

Huh?

Even before I could question the sound, a full window covered my sight.