‘That’s ridiculous!’
Dalia screamed inwardly.
She quickly reviewed the plot of the original story.
Adrisha is from a local province called Canyon. Canyon is a famous coastal area, but at the same time, it was a city where criminals camped out because of its harbor.
Adrisha was raised as an assassin by Berix, the most vicious ruler of all, and was rescued shortly after the Emperor’s first relief mission that was sent to the country. After that, she follows the Emperor like her father.
She became the shadow of the Emperor and entered the society as a noble lady named Adrisha Beniter, while at the same time taking on various duties.
In the process, she meets several male protagonists, and they all show their terrifying obsession with Adrisha……that’s what the story was about.
‘But in the original story, she entered high society 3 years from now.’
The 3 years schedule has been pulled forward……
‘Is it because I appeared in the original?’
It was a probable theory.
The Emperor was a man who clearly separates private matters from politics.
Now that Hikan has become the new duke, he must have wanted to have at least one of his own people attached to the Duke Pesteros to watch his movements.
However, a lady named Dalia who needed a lady-in-waiting appeared. ‘Because I didn’t exist in the original work, so there’s no basis to put Adrisha in the Pesteros.’
However, she appeared, and the Emperor gave her Adrisha as the lady-in-waiting……
‘Even if it’s the butterfly effect……’
My head hurt.
As the original heroine became Dalia’s lady-in-waiting, she will eventually meet Dalia’s brother, Hikan.
If Hikan and Adrisha meet 3 years earlier than the original, how will the future unfold?
Dalia recalled Hikan’s story from the original.
Hikan’s mana will bloom 2 years later at the age of 18.
For the next year, he becomes overly obsessed with raising his honor as the head of the family and uses excessive mana.
Looking back now, perhaps he wanted to show his worth to the family that abandoned him.
However, as a result, he meets Adrisha when his mind is at its limit, and at the same time feels strong love and hatred for her who sympathizes with him.
But the current Hikan is before the ‘Magic Blooming’ happened, so he couldn’t overuse his mana, and of course he wouldn’t go mad.
I have no idea how things will turn out when the two of them meet.
Dalia was somewhat excited but at the same time worried. It was a very rare opportunity to see the original heroine, Adrisha, with her own eyes in real life!
In fact, Dalia’s favorite character in was Adrisha.
Now that she’s in the game, shouldn’t she at least fulfill her personal desires?
Yeah, the future is a mystery anyway.
While being in confusion, Dalia waited for the upcoming ball.
2. Duchess Mary Blueport
The date for the ball was just around the corner.
The day to see the original heroine was also approaching.
Dalia has been feeling a sense of crisis lately.
I was relatively calm since it was still long before the original work began, but with the appearance of the original heroine, I felt the need to remember and organize the original plot a bit more.
That’s because the death flag does not take a rest in , since it was after all an exhausting reverse harem game. (*t/n: not too sure..sorry)
Although there are still 3 years left until the original work begins, however as Adrisha appeared earlier than the original, we don’t know when, where, or what will happen.
Dalia brought paper to her desk by herself and tried to write the names of important male characters.
There are a total of 3 male protagonists in this game. Including Hikan, there are four.
[ The first male lead. Aceras. ]
‘He’s the leading figure.’
In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that the organization started because of Aceras.(*t/n: not sure what does it mean with the ‘organization’ here..Maybe it means something else.. Dictionary not helping ㅠㅠ)
Because after Hikan, Aceras is the next mad man in and is the only male lead in the capital city currently.
‘I have to be very careful. Asterisk.’ (*t/n: asterisk is this symbol ‘*’)
He is the Emperor’s attendant and you may wonder how an attendant becomes the male lead, but it turns out that he is also a transcendent who hid his identity.
Uniquely, he acquired enormous divine power, an attribute opposite to magic, as his characteristic through the ‘Magic Blooming’.
Usually, the divine power can save the transcendents which are opposite to each other, so he leaves the Frederic Empire and becomes the Pope of the Holy Empire.
But in the end, he couldn’t restore back the depraved mind.
He uses his divine power too much in order to become the Pope, which makes him the fastest of all the male characters apart from Hikan who went mad.
‘Maybe we’ll meet in the near future?’
He’s the Emperor’s attendant, and he’ll show up at every ball in the imperial court.
‘Ugh, I don’t like it.’
Aceras has always appeared as a villain in routes other than his own, and since it was a war of kidnappings to get Adrisha, he has often appeared as an element of conflict like Hikan.
It was somewhat complicated to think that I would meet him first this time.
She stared at the name and lowered her gaze.
[ 2nd male lead. Meldon. ]
The next successor to the organization that Adrisha previously joined. (Note that this was the hardest route.)
[ 3rd male lead. Lewayne Blueport. ] (Son of the Duchess Blueport. The route difficulty is the same.)
I omitted number 2 and 3 because they are not in the capital now.
In the original, each male lead route began three years later. Lewayne is later than this.
However, as Adrisha debuted in the social world so early, no one knew what would happen in the future.
‘Ah, I don’t know.’
Dalia ink-painted the paper so that no one could read it, then crumpled it and threw it away.
I don’t know what’s going to happen to Hikan, the most important final villain in this world, but what about the male lead?
I thought it would be nice to see Adrisha at the ball, and see what was going on around her.
Since then, she has completely erased her thoughts from the original work and remained calm.
On the other hand, she did not miss the opportunity to make money from the ball preparation. She spent all the money that Hikan had allocated to her and bought only highly convertible gold jewelry.
Now I’ve given up selling it little by little like last time, and I’m going to pile it up and then later when I run away, I’m going to take it all and run away.
‘One more step to get away with this!’
Dalia smiled as she thought of a jewelry box full of gold ornaments.
“……Why are you smiling?”
Hikan, sitting across from me, said in a dumbfounded voice.
‘Oh, I forgot it was the mealtime.’
Dalia hastily managed her expression.
Then switched to a completely bright smile and looked at Hikan.
“Because I’m looking forward to the ball! It’s my first time going to a ball…….”
“……”
Instead of criticizing more, Hikan lowered his gaze silently. He would’ve rebuked me if it had been before.
Dalia looked at him and pondered.
‘Certainly……he has changed lately.’
He weakened. Just a little bit.
‘Is my lethal cuteness working?’
It’s never going to be that.
But it is true that he has changed.
He tried to find a lady-in-waiting for her, and he didn’t look down at Dalia as cold as before and didn’t say any sharp words. Although she was satisfied with this much, she felt a little sad.
In no time she became attached to him, Dalia also liked Hikan.
When I thought of the future where he would become the final villain and hurt many people, I felt a sore prick in a corner of my heart for some reason.
‘Someday I’ll have to leave my brother.’
The absolute rule is that the soul of the transcendents becomes more corrupted the more they exhaust their mana.
If this was not resolved, Dalia had to run away from Hikan at any time.
No, from afar, I had to leave the capital where the main events of the original work took place.
The plot of the original version is that there will soon occur an event where a transcendent will experience mana surge at a ball. There was no guarantee that the ball would not be this Pesteros ball.
It is not possible for Hikan, who is still not awakened to his ‘Magic Blooming’ to appear as the final villain of the original, but since it’s a Duke’s crowning ball, the other 3 Ducal families will also send people.
‘Well, how many balls are held throughout the year, so maybe this time?’
Dalia thought about it in a carefree manner and smiled at Hikan. Hikan turned away pretending he hadn’t seen it.
