Your Highness, Please Don’t Be Like This
After a long and arduous journey, you have finally broken the wicked queen’s curse and arrived at the tower where the sleeping princess is imprisoned. The beautiful princess, her face flushed with shyness, quietly lifts her gaze to meet yours. At this moment, you... [A. Gently kiss her, awakening the pretending princess, thus beginning a love affair unapproved by the king. Completion reward: the princess herself*1, a handful of gold coins*1] [B. “Princess, please, don’t be like this. I was hired by the evil dragon.” Completion reward: dragon’s treasure*1, black dragon maiden’s flight license*1] [C. Slowly pick up the princess and deliver her to the wicked queen. Completion reward: seductive queen*1, cuckolded king’s green hat*1, the entire Sorendo Magic Kingdom*1] Louis rubbed his face hard, hesitating for a while. In the end, he bent down to kiss the princess, then gently lifted her into his arms and headed for the queen’s chambers. “Princess, please, don’t be like this. I was hired by the evil dragon.”
Your Highness, Please Don’t Be Like This
Staring at the beautiful lady sitting on the chair, changing her noblewoman’s stockings, Louis rubbed his face.
Should he crawl out from under the bed and greet the young lady? That didn’t seem like a good idea. He decided to stay beneath the bed and read his storybook.
It was a book titled “Fantastic Journeys”—set in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, filled with magic, wizards, muggles, and dragons. It contained many strange fairy tales, perfect for telling children before bedtime; but if some bored adult happened upon it while tidying up, they might flip through it curiously.
And then they would end up inside the story.
Louis was the latter case.
He turned to the latest page.
On this page, the tale narrated how Princess Oxicris, in order to escape the wicked clutches of her stepmother the Witch Queen, sought refuge at the Royal Academy of Sacred Oak and became a professor of magic there.
But the Witch Queen’s influence still hounded her. In desperation, one night, the princess took out her mother’s bequeathed “Book of Fate” and prayed for a prince to come to her aid.
The tale ended there, leaving only blank pages, with a final line:
[Someone, somewhere, heard Oxicris’s plea. He decided to...]
[A. Enter the tale as the prince, embarking on a love-hate entanglement with the princess that neither the king nor the Witch Queen would approve of, and then watch helplessly as she is married off to the Dragonfolk. Reward: The princess’s body*1, the title “Tragic Green-Hatted Prince”*1, a book of stirring storie
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