81 — The Cheating Girlfriend’s Ordeal [Zamaa]

――――【Christa’s perspective】

“Where is this?”

The handsome older man I’d picked up woke up.

“This is my house.”

That said…

Just as I started to let my mind wander about his home, the handsome older man suddenly began to speak.

“I… I’ve made a grave mistake…”

It’s okay because I had the Lulu-chan Manual fully downloaded into my head just in case something like this happened.

I even realized the handsome older man in front of me was the king of this country. If I played dumb and listened to this old man that young people find annoying, he’d fall for me right away!

“What’s with that out of nowhere?”

“I have two sons. But it seems I failed in raising them properly.”

Yes! Bingo!

If the king has two sons, they must be Prince Brad and Prince Siegfried, right? Oh my gosh, the king is so forward~!

He wants to introduce me to his two princes!

The two princes will fight over me.

‘Kukuku, Siegfried! I won’t give Christa to you.’

‘What are you saying! I’ll take Christa!’

‘No, stop! Please don’t fight over me—’

Ahhh, being desired by two handsome princes. Even saying it modestly, isn’t that intoxicatingly attractive?

I’d heard Brad had broken off an engagement with a candidate sister of a bride. The king, impressed by my devotion, would recommend me as a bride to one of the handsome princes… and I’d live a blissful married life!

Hurry, hurry!  Introduce me to the handsome princes!

“So… I found you.”

My hopes swelled, but for some reason the handsome older man opened the window and began shouting outside at the top of his lungs.

“Sontack, indeed. This one is the temptress witch who’s been terrifying the people of my nation.”

“Understood! We’ll capture her immediately!”

What!?

A witch? Capture me? Why me?

The handsome older man spoke to someone outside the window and tried to have me arrested though I hadn’t done anything wrong.

“I haven’t done anything wrong! I only borrowed a little money from the wallet of someone I found collapsed near the house, but I meant to pay it back! And yes, I did something like a honeytrap because I was short on cash, but I’m not guilty! It’s this country’s politics that’s at fault!”

Ah! By the time I realized my mistake it was too late. I criticized politics with the instincts of my past life, but the person in front of me was the king.

“Anyway, I’m not at fault!”

Ahhh, homeless again starting today…

I didn’t even know whose house this was. I’d claimed an abandoned house as my own, but now I had to run.

“Wait—!”

I opened the door and the red-haired man the king had been talking to at the window was there. I shook him off and ran through the familiar forest. Even though they shouldn’t be able to see me, they called out, “She ran that way!” and skillfully cornered me.

Dun-dun-dun♪ dun-dun-dun♪

A creepy, sinister melody played in my head. The place I ran to looked like the cliff from a suspense drama: sheer, jagged rock that screamed “if you fall, you’re done for.”

The king and his red-haired subordinate were closing in to capture me. Pressed back step by step, I found my heel balanced on the edge of the cliff.

When my foot slipped, little pebbles tumbled down the cliff. One wrong step and I’d tumble straight down like those pebbles.

I-I don’t want to die!

But if they catch me…

“Don’t come any closer! If you do, I’ll jump!”

“Don’t be hasty. If you fall from the cliff there’s little chance you’ll survive.”

“No! You’d do things to me you couldn’t say out loud, toy with me until you were done, and then kill me, right?! I know all your methods!”

“Execution? What are you talking about? At most you would be punished with some lashes. In consideration of the aid you gave me, I shall instruct them to reduce the number.”

“Wha—!?”

Lashes!? It’d hurt, but if it saved my life… Thinking that, I walked toward the king who’d been cornering me.

“Watch out—!”

The foothold my one foot rested on gave way and I lost my balance. The red-haired man lunged to grab my hand.

But his fingertips only brushed me lightly… and my body tumbled down the cliff.

“Why didn’t you say that sooner!!!”

NOOOOOOooooooooo!

M-My happy married lifeeeeeee!!!