"Princess, I want you to dissolve the engagent."
"Huh???!!!"
The princess' surprised voice rang out in the room, as her expression changed once again. She stared at Evan in silence for a few monts before heaving a sigh and picking up the bell on the table.
**RING!
Upon ringing it once, there was a knock on the door, after which a maid entered the room. Laurene had the maid get so drinks for her and Evan, with the young hero adding an extra order of snacks.
It didn't take long for everything to be brought in, making Evan wonder if the cooks in the kitchen had made it on standby so they could be served on demand.
"Hmm? These are better than I expected."
"I know right, I thought they'd be slightly subpar as they seem to have been made on short notice but it seems I underestimated the chef's skills."
Evan replied to the princess as he took a sip of his juice, his hands moving over to another tray as he picked up a cookie and took a bite out of it.
"Chocolate chips? To think they had these."
"They seem to be quite popular these days. A tea party I went to last week had quite a lot of them."
"Really? The ingredients seem to be quite scarce, how did they get so many?"
"That family is involved in confections business, so they have more than a few contacts. They were able to get everything they needed and at lower prices."
"Convenient..."
The two engaged in small talk as they savoured the snacks, with Evan gradually forgetting his original goal.
NOT!
"It's quite frightening how you were able to easily distract from the original topic but I'm not dropping the issue.
I really think you should oppose whatever engagent that our parents are trying to create between us."
Evan cleaned his fingers with a tissue before picking up his glass and sipping it slowly.
On the other hand, the princess stared at him in silence for a mont before asking a simple question.
"Why should I?
I have no reason to go along with what you say, do I?"
The young hero dropped his glass silently before looking up to et the princess' gaze. Her blue eyes were calm and clear like still waters.
"I agree, you actually have no reason to go along with what I said."
"Huh?"
"What?"
"No, I just didn't expect you to easily agree with ."
Evan chuckled a bit upon hearing the princess' reply. He then called for the maid to take away the empty plates and glasses before initiating a mory download from the system Archive.
"Where was I? Oh yes. You indeed have no reason to go along with what I said. But what if I have reasons that you could accept?"
"Hmm...that's a different case scenario."
Laurene replied to Evan's question while nodding. She then tapped her hand on the table and silently activated a skill, with Evan none the wiser.
"Well, to put it bluntly;
An engagent with you is sothing that would serve as a massive obstruction to a few future plans of mine.
These plans are ones that involve leaving this continent for extended periods of ti, sothing I would be unable to do if I were considered the future husband of the princess of one of this continent's most powerful countries.
However, if I suggest dissolving the engagent, things would be a lot more complicated as between us, I am the one with the lower status.
But if you, the princess does so, it would be easier.
It also won't damage the relationships between our families, after all, the only reason our parents are pulling this is simply that they're close friends, well, at least as far as I know."
Evan scanned through the mories of the original owner of his current body before coming up with a suggestion.
"If asked for a reason, try saying sothing like, there's soone else you've taken a fancy to. Knowing the Emperor, he would definitely agree."
Hearing his suggestion, Laurene's eyebrow twitched in annoyance.
"It's quite annoying that I can't refute your words, if I told my dad that, he'd agree. After skinning this imaginary 'person I've taken a fancy to' alive, that is."
The Emperor was known to dote on the princess even more than the crown prince Richard, her elder brother. There was no way he would refuse a request from his daughter.
As for the engagent being an obstruction to Evan, it was kinda true.
'In the ga, so of the seven heroes were in another continent, aning, I'd have to go over to another continent to get to them.
An engagent with a princess in this one would be nothing but shackles binding down.'
The princess stared at Evan in silence for a few minutes, while he was using this ti to download the information about the previous seven heroes into his head.
He also gained basic information about his mission and what exactly the goddess wanted him to do. During that ti, the princess finally sorted out her thoughts and decided to speak.
"Sir Evan, I-"
[Download Complete.]
"Hold on a mont please."
Evan interrupted her before he could continue as a blue notification prompt appeared in his field of vision.
'Download complete! Good, I'd fully review it later.
The Archive is really convenient, giving information on how to activate skills, sense magic power, and use magic. If not for that, it would be quite difficult to co up with a reason why soone who has been learning magic theories since he was five can't use magic.
It's also quite good that besides the location of the seven heroes, almost everything else is the sa as the ga'
"Sorry bout that, I had a few...issues?"
It was only after he began speaking that he realised that he actually didn't have a legit excuse for interrupting her words at all.
However, the princess only smiled wryly as if she understood his situation and continued speaking.
"First of all, while I could make a guess, your reasons were exactly what I thought they'd be."
"Huh? Honestly, all I said were vague stuff, you know?
I was thinking you'd ask to say more or sothing..."
"I would not. I just have one last question before I make a decision."
"And that is?"
The princess leaned forward, her eyes gazing straight into Evan's eyes as she asked.
"What's your na?"
"Huh? It's Evan, don't you already know that?"
Evan replied to her with a look of confusion, her asking for his na was sothing he had not expected at all.
Laurene on the other hand, only heaved a sigh of relief as she leaned back on the couch and spoke.
"I've confird your words to be true, but, Sir Evan, I would not cancel the engagent."
"Huh? Why? There's got to be so reasonable reason, right?"
"No there is not, I simply do not wish to cancel it."
Laurene leaned over to the armrest of the couch and placed rested her head on it while gazing at Evan who stared at her like one would look at a crazy person.
'Is she okay? At least I tried to convince her but she didn't even give a reason for her disagreent.
Perhaps she's under so sort of status effect or sothing that makes her act like this?'
He finally decided to appraise her partially, however, the information he saw shocked him out of his mind.
|Na- Laurene Hayes
Race- Human
Level- 10
Titles- Princess of the Great Western Empire, Fourth of the Seven Heroes, Wielder of Mystic Eyes, Loved by Mana.
Class - Mage
Health – F
Energy – F
Strength – F
Agility – F
Durability –F
Intelligence- E-
Condition- Normal, Slightly Amused
Magic Tiers- Lightning Tier 1, Fire Tier 0, Wind Tier 0.
Skills- Full Appraisal, Lie Detection, Magic Control, Lightning Magic (High), Chant Revocation, ntal Block, Language Comprehension.
Unique Skills- Mystic Eyes of Truth. |
Seeing this, Evan was nonplussed.
It was arguably his third greatest shock of the day, with the being tossed into another world and finding out he wasn't human, being the first, and second respectively.
He never expected her to be one of the seven heroes he was sohow supposed to find.
As expected, the location and identities of the seven heroes were different than it was in the ga. The young hero didn't think he'd see one of them re minutes after he reincarnated!
However, when looking through her skills, he noticed sothing. She also possessed Full Appraisal, and his status was currently not concealed.
'That ans!'
"You finally used your skill, I was waiting for you to use it since the beginning."
Laurene spoke up when she noticed Evan's rapidly changing expressions. The young hero heaved an exasperated sigh, as he now realized the reason for her earlier look of surprise.
She had appraised him the mont he entered the room and had discovered he was also a mber of the seven heroes like her.
"Perhaps, the reason you wanted to keep the engagent was this?"
"Yes, seeing as you have been arbitrarily decided as the leader, it is better for to be closer to you."
"Are you really a nine-year-old?"
"Yes, I am.
Of course, this is not taking into account the mories of the ancient Archmage that rudely entered my head a few months ago.
Are you not the sa?"
At that question, Evan realized sothing. She was treating him like a nine-year-old, however, his title of reincarnated hero was one that showed he was obviously not one.
Holding doubt in his heart, he asked.
"What are my titles that you can see?"
"Um... The Second of Seven Heroes, Leader of the Seven Heroes, Wielder of Mystic Eyes, Loved by Nature, Heir of Eris Dukedom."
"What's my race?"
"Obviously Human. What else could it be?"
"My level?"
"20"
After that, he arrived at a conclusion, she could not see his complete titles, and neither could she see his actual race was not human.
Relief washed over him at this discovery.
'It was going to be a hassle to explain why my race was a different one, good thing they can't see it.'
It was at this point that it occurred to Evan that he had just made a massive blunder.
'Didn't I say I was gonna act like the original to avoid drawing suspicion?
Then I just went on to do sothing the original Evan definitely would not.
Well played Evan, well played.'
The young hero facepald himself as he just realized how contradictory he had been acting.
He then rembered that the original owner of his body did not possess the titles related to the seven heroes until he awakened his skills and recovered the mories of the previous hero.
Then the fact that the princess had awakened her skills, ans that there was a possibility of her being possessed by the previous hero.
However, he suddenly rembered her earlier words and scrapped that idea.
'Of course, this is not taking into account the mories of the ancient Archmage that rudely entered my head a few months ago.'
'The previous 'Fourth' of the seven heroes, was an Arch Mage, if she only has the mories, then she's most likely the original 'Laurene Hayes'.'
As if the princess could sohow see his thoughts, she spoke up to clear his doubts.
"Ah, just like you, I have not been possessed by the soul of the previous hero, I only received their mories, ones I'd rather not receive.
My ntal block skill protected from the original ntal attack that was required to disorient before my body would be taken over.
Since the attack failed, the previous hero was unable to possess my body, and her soul was lost.
The mories I received stated that they only had one chance of possession, if they missed it, they were gone for good."
Evan nodded in affirmation upon hearing her words, he also received those mories too.
The spell the previous heroes used was one that ssed with the law of reincarnation, so it had the drawback of having only one chance to possess a new body.
A ntal attack was also required to disorient the body's original owner and destabilize their soul before possession, this was the reason the original Evan felt like his eyes were on fire and had a migraine before the mories poured in.
In the princess' case, she possessed the ntal Block skill that granted complete immunity to almost all forms of ntal attacks, this was the reason the possession failed.
"Wait, how are you sure I'm not possessed by the previous 'second'?"
Evan asked her with a narrowed gaze, however, she calmly replied, as if she had expected it.
"When I asked your na, I used my lie detection to confirm your answer.
The previous 'Second' was not nad 'Evan' as we both know, so the fact that my mystic eyes told your words were true, was all the confirmation I needed."
As soon as she finished speaking, Evan felt cold sweat over his body. He thanked his stars that he had only answered with his first na, otherwise, it would have been a whole new issue altogether.
'My last na is different from that of this body's original owner's last na.
Even our first nas too, his is Evansen while I'm Evankhell. However, both are shortened to just 'Evan'.
That was my saving grace.'
Evan's fear was quite visible on his face, making the princess give him a questioning look. To divert her attention from the matter of nas, he randomly spoke about sothing else.
"So, you know all about the bullshit the previous seven pulled and the restrictions they received because of it huh?"
"Hmm...?
Unfortunately, yes, I do. It would seem our history books have been praising the wrong people."
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