Chapter 49
Pitter-patter.
Clatter-clatter.
Pitter-patter.
Clatter-clatter.
Standing tall-
【…Your Highness.】
“Yes?”
The purple knight who was guiding me to the princess stopped in his tracks.
And a sharp gaze pierced through me from behind his helmet.
【Your Highness, I hope this is just my misunderstanding… but I would prefer it if you put away your weapon. Such weapons are ineffective against us anyway.】
Click.
The weapon the purple knight mentioned seemed to be the revolver that Park Yeon-jeong had been holding in his hand at some point.
But I’m not a fool either.
I already know that weapons don’t work on knights.
“You don’t need to worry. I have no intention of shooting at you, knight, even if it kills me.”
【…Not at the princess either.】
“Of course not!”
Tick.
…Just now, there was a sound like the second hand of the lie detector wrist watch moving slightly backward.
But don’t mind it.
It’s probably just a simple malfunction.
Park Yeon-jeong clearly conveyed his intention to the purple knight once more.
“As if I would shoot the princess! Hahaha.”
Tick.
【…I’ll take your word for it.】
The purple knight also seemed somewhat disinclined to believe my words.
Clatter.
His heavy footsteps began to move again.
‘Why does he have to be so perceptive’
At that moment, Park Yeon-jeong pointed the barrel of the revolver he was holding toward his head.
And earnestly prayed inside.
Please color please color please color please color!!
Please be a color bullet!
He desperately, truly desperately prayed that the bullet that would come out of the final trigger this time wouldn’t be white.
If a white bullet appears here, the situation really becomes much more complicated.
So definitely a color bullet!
Preferably purple!
I believe in you, please!
Purple knight in front of me! Grant me the power of purple!!
The blessing of purple!!
Flash!
And had such a prayer from Park Yeon-jeong really reached somewhere?
Swoosh.
?
Suddenly black ash appeared before Park Yeon-jeong’s eyes, and the ash slowly began to transform into a sentence.
『A Lucky Day.』
As the black text momentarily appeared before his eyes.
Tick.
The sound of air weakly escaping from the revolver’s trigger was heard.
!!
Without realizing it, I had applied force and pulled the revolver’s trigger.
The color of the flag that came out of the barrel tip was.
Purple.
With a start!
It came out.
A purple one really came out.
I prayed desperately, but I never imagined it would come true like this.
Park Yeon-jeong kept staring blankly at the purple flag of the revolver.
For a moment, his gaze was drawn to the black skull mark engraved on his wrist.
Black skull mark…
Was the original color of the skull mark white?
If my memory is correct, the initial color of the skull mark was not white but black.
And judging by the appearance of the text just now, along with the purple bullet that came out…
That judge woman.
She must have implanted something strange in my body.
Though I can’t confirm anything yet.
I suspect that what the judge woman engraved on my body is a tattoo with an effect that temporarily increases the level of luck.
If the effect just temporarily increases luck, then it’s a complete thank you.
Yes, if it truly only enhances luck, that is.
-‘A Lucky Day’.
That one line somehow bothers me.
If what I know is correct…
After this moment of good fortune, misfortune will surely follow.
Even in the book ‘A Lucky Day’, the protagonist has everything go exceptionally well, but…
At the end of the novel, it concludes with a tragedy where his wife has breathed her last.
The beginning was good, but the end was too miserable.
Gulp.
‘Ah, surely I’m not like that lucky day..?’
Despite having obtained the desired purple bullet, Park Yeon-jeong swallowed an inexplicable dry saliva.
But for now, there was no immediate action he could take in the current situation.
Now, he just had to silently do what needed to be done.
【We’ve almost arrived.】
As soon as the purple knight said they had almost reached the princess’s location.
Curling up.
Thin smoke was rising from a small chimney.
And there, a cabin of smaller size than expected came into view.
The fact that I hadn’t seen such obvious smoke rising…
It seems the fire had just been lit.
Did she know I was coming?
As the walk continued a bit further, and soon the purple knight’s steps came to a halt.
Clatter.
【The princess is waiting inside.】
“…Yes.”
At the purple knight’s announcement of arrival, I descended from the bear’s embrace where I had been until now and slowly walked toward the small cabin.
Creak-
The interior revealed when I opened the door was a place filled with warm temperature.
A cozy and peaceful space I had never experienced before while being chased by physical fetishists.
Step.
Park Yeon-jeong gradually moved into the room, tightly gripping a revolver in one hand.
‘The important thing is timing… timing, Park Yeon-jeong.’
As he stepped into the small cabin.
The first person his gaze fell upon was none other than a woman sleeping soundly on the bed.
Hair as black as ebony, and skin as white as snow caught his eye first.
Lips as red as blood were beautiful enough to evoke numerous thoughts in the hearts of those who looked at the soundly sleeping woman.
Step.
My steps slowly approached the woman who was sleeping like the dead on the bed.
Toward the woman who didn’t even make a breathing sound, I revealed a very distant look in my eyes.
After staring blankly at the deeply sleeping woman for a while, Park Yeon-jeong murmured in a small voice.
“Purple knight.”
【You called, sir.】
Despite my small murmur, the purple knight immediately responded to my call.
And as I looked at his purple helmet, which responded to my call without any hesitation, I spoke.
“Let’s stop here.”
【…Pardon?】
To the purple knight who didn’t properly understand my words, I spoke directly.
“I give my belated greetings to… the princess who is borrowing the appearance of the purple knight.”
【!!】
The purple knight remained silently still.
But no matter how long he… no, she maintained her silence, I had no intention of backing down.
Far from backing down.
Thud.
I knelt on one knee before the purple knight and spoke in an even lower voice.
“I have come from a very distant place to meet you.”
Yes, truly from a very distant place.
The purple knight slowly opened her mouth.
【…How. How did you recognize me?】
The fact that she asked that question.
Perhaps she felt there was no longer any need to hide her identity.
“As if I, who am called a prince, wouldn’t recognize the princess.”
There was a faint hint of laughter in my voice. And the princess’s response to my voice was as follows.
【Prove to me that you are truly… the prince I’ve been looking for.】
“……”
She’s a fastidious woman.
If I had said ‘Princess, I’ve arrived’ to that fake dummy lying over there, she would have carved out my heart at that moment.
I wish she would have been grateful just for recognizing her at once.
Even this would have been impossible to figure out on the first try without prior information – the hidden gimmick of this ghost story.
———
In fact, the purple knight is the ‘princess’ herself. So don’t mistake her for another woman (if you want to protect your heart), and try saying something romantic to her. (If you don’t want to directly see your beating heart with your own eyes.)
———
Just like a princess.
She’s someone who wants too many things.
Park Yeon-jeong immediately cleared his throat and committed himself, thinking of all the cheesy lines he had seen before and imagining himself as the male protagonist of a romantic fantasy.
“Currently, I have no way to immediately prove that I am the prince you’ve been looking for.”
【……】
!
Seeing the princess show disappointment, I hastily added a risky statement.
“But! The moment I met you, princess, my heart was offered to you. Even if it’s a fate of traversing heaven and hell, I would gladly endure it if it’s with you.”
【……】
“……”
Princess?
I slightly raised my head to check the princess’s face.
…Ah, right.
I had forgotten.
The fact that what I’m seeing now is not her face, but only a purple helmet.
Does this lack of response mean my line was too weak?
Normally, there would have been a description of the princess falling for a line like this…
She really is a fastidious woman who wants too much.
There’s no choice.
From now on, it’s an all-out barrage.
“Princess, my life exists solely for you!”
【……】
“Without the princess, I feel like I would forget even how to breathe! So please take responsibility for my breathing!”
【……】
Even with this?
“My dream was to have a wife like you, princess, and to have rabbit-like children and live happily!”
Squeezing tight.
Now I’m at my limit.
My hands and feet were all cringing, and I was so embarrassed that I’d rather have my heart pulled out.
Clatter.
!
But the sound of the armor moving, which had shown no reaction until now, echoed in my ears.
And when my gaze immediately turned to the princess.
【S-stop!】
She suddenly responded to me with a loud voice.
Was she indeed displeased with my cheesy lines?
While I was thinking that I would now face an ending where I directly see my living heart in front of me…
Clatter-clatter.
The armor’s hands suddenly moved toward the helmet. Then they took a posture of wrapping around the front of the helmet.
That appearance was as if.
A gesture of a shy girl who has received a confession.
【Ch-children! W-we’ve only just met… if you say such things already…】
The princess suddenly seemed to find her words and began to continue speaking.
【I-I’d like the firstborn to be a son. I want a gallant child like you, Prince. And the second must be a daughter!… And…】
Ah.
She hadn’t been at a loss for words at my risky statements.
This princess was already planning our entire future together.
Had she really foreseen our future decades ahead in just those few minutes?
She’s now reciting where we should have our burial plots placed, side by side.
…Creepy.
Feeling a sudden chill running through his body, Park Yeon-jeong urgently cut off the princess’s words.
If he had listened any longer, it felt like everything she said would really come true.
“Princess.”
【Yes, darling.】
“……”
Already, the way she addresses me has changed.
“…I would like to continue our conversation face to face.”
【!!】
But at those words of mine, the princess showed some hesitation, and when she opened her mouth again.
【Don’t, expect too much.】
In response to the princess’s suddenly dejected tone, I answered with a bright smile on my lips.
“How could I… my love.”
Grinding.
I gritted my molars.
But the princess seemed satisfied with my final cheesy line.
【I’m glad you are my prince.】
Swoosh.
The appearance of the princess as she removed her purple helmet was truly.
“…You worry too much.”
When her pure eyes like the first snow of winter, her fair skin as if moonlight had settled upon it, and her long ebony black hair flowed out of the helmet with a swish.
Her appearance reminded one of ‘Snow White’ from a fairy tale.
【Are you disappointed?】
“Not at all.”
Swish
I straightened up from kneeling on one knee and gently placed my hand over the princess’s hand, who was wearing armor.
【!!】
“I’m truly happy to meet you like this.”
【I, I am too, Hero.】
Already in an atmosphere like the final scene of a fairy tale, where a kiss between the princess and prince should take place.
Sigh
The princess’s glass bead-like eyes slowly disappeared behind her eyelids, and her red rose-like lips, holding a sorrowful breath, were quietly trembling, waiting only for one man.
Yes… I too have been waiting for this moment.
Tap
【…? Prince?】
But the warm sensation that should have been felt on her lips.
Only a cold feeling was transmitted across her forehead.
———-
-One bullet loaded.
-Today’s personal color is ‘purple.’
-A day of becoming more shy. Today seems like a day when you’ll connect with the one you’ve been longing for.
———-
A truly kind smile hung on the man’s face, and his left hand quietly placed a gun barrel against the princess’s forehead.
Click
“Princess, find a better man than me.”
【…Pardon?】
Bang!
Along with the gunshot that loudly echoed through the cabin.
A wicked smile spread across the man’s face.
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