Chapter 46

Chapter 46: Group Project (1)

Above the Principality of Yuren’s evening skies, the large moon and the swarm of stars veiled the lands with a thin mist.

Below it, Maho lay on her bed in a fetal position, thinking about what happened to her today and all the years she spent living.

“I survived, brother, sister. Longer than you did…” Maho had been obsessed with preserving her life since childhood since she felt her death approaching instinctively.

The Reok Kingdom’s royal family was a thin ice sheet dangling in a mountain where the wind always blew. The king’s sons and daughters were ambitious, and the king was rather proud of their disastrous nature.

The consequences of that were catastrophic.

Maho chose to escape for the sake of her survival. Leaving the kingdom, she stayed in the empire to raise money and desperately earn her knights’ loyalty, ultimately changing the time of her death.

She wanted life, so she survived.

“And you say acting…”

Deculein told her to stop acting.

Maho pouted and got up from the bed.

Of course, it was true that she behaved in a way that would make them like her. All human beings would instinctively save a child who fell into a well.

That was why she thought pretending to be one wasn’t so wrong.

However, the gratitude that Maho felt in the process was sincere.

She was genuinely thankful for what Charlotte, Roen, Ghiland, and Deculein did for her.

“… How did he know?”

At the same time, she was curious.

No one in the Empire knew her as much as he did. They never dug deeper than seeing her as a pitiful and worthless royal held hostage by the system.

“In that short time…”

Professor Deculein saw through her. He understood the principles of her inner behavior and called it “acting,” which was an accurate way to describe her.

Was it necessary to do that to become the Head Professor of the Imperial University Tower?

“He’s amazing.”

She had been using that same mask for decades, but he was the first to discover it, in an instant no less. He made her feel naked.

“Whew…” Maho sighed and sat down behind her desk, glancing at the paper in the corner of it.

A letter of gratitude.

Thinking it wouldn’t cause any trouble if she were to send it to the professor, she picked up a pen and continued it.