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Chapter 13 - "How much longer?"

The royal family had been in the room for a few minutes, while Uni went back to the couch to wait for them. Looking around, Uni was in awe at the sheer size and magnificence of the Palace.

^I didn't really get to admire the Palace when I was coming in. But It looks better than stories say^ As he continued to look around, in the corner of his eye, he saw the nurse from before staring at him behind some stairs.

Once he spotted her, she immediately ran up the stairs. Before Uni could question what transpired, Lvle came out of the room.

"Come on, dad said you could stay in one of the guest rooms," Lvle said

"Wait, seriously?! I get to stay?!" Uni was so happy that he almost started crying. ^I can't believe my life right now. First, I meet the prince of Klosa, then I get to stay in their castle^

Lvle noticed this and began to feel awkward. "Uh, please stop. It's no big deal. You can stay as long as you feel like."

After Lvle said that, Uni was flabbergasted. "But why would you do this for someone you just met?"

"Look, like I said, it's not a big deal. As long as you're not some murderous assassin that wants to kill us in our sleep, then you're good."

Giggling at his joke, Lvle and Uni began walking to his guest room, but that's when he remembered something. "Hold on."

Lvle turned back to look at him, confused. "Why?"

"Why aren't you still in the room with your mom and dad looking after your sister?"

"Cause I was told to bring you to a guest room," Lvle said

"But why couldn't they have just sent one of the guards instead?" It took Lvle a little longer to answer this. " Honestly, I don't know. They just told me to leave and bring you to a guest room. I wanted to stay, but they seemed adamant that I go.

Uni did think it was strange, but he wasn't suspicious of anything. He just assumed that they wanted to spend time with her alone.

Getting his mind off it, Uni let Lvle lead the way to his room.

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"Bryant, how much longer do we need to keep this up?" The Queen said as she held a bottle of orange substance in her hands.

"This is the last time we have to do it; after that, we only have to wait a bit more."

Hearing this, the Queen was not pleased, "What's s bit more?! We've been waiting for years now. When is it going to happen?"

"Don't worry about a thing. They said that we have to give Anna just enough, or what we've been hoping for these past 16 years wouldn't work. So just be patient. Now give me that."

Handing him the bottle in her hand, the Queen watched as the King poured some of it on Anna's head. Strangely enough, the liquid instantly dissolved once it touched her head. Looking at her daughter, she began praying. ^Anna, I hope you know this is for the better and you won't regret it^

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Walking through the halls of the Palace, Uni saw a bunch of pictures hung up on the wall. In the pictures were people wearing similar clothes to the King and Queen.

"Lvle, who are these people on the wall?"

"Their my grandparents, or, you could say, the previous Kings and Queens. After they pass, a painting of them gets put up on the wall." Walking more, Uni saw a that the pictures ended with a man that looked like a young man. Lvle saw that Uni was confused by this because everyone one on the wall was a king and the boy didn't look old enough to be king.

"Oh, this was the first king in our family and he started this blood line." Uni turned to Lvle and had a face that insinuated he wanted to know more. "Not much was really known about him, the only thing we know is that he had a brother and he disappeared. We don't even know what his name was." Looking at picture for a few more seconds, Uni wondered what happened to make him king at such a young age, but then he turned and left.

"We've arrived. Here's your room."

They stopped in front of a door that looked like the entrance to a prison cell. This made Uni worry about what his room was.

Opening the door, Uni was left speechless. It seemed like another world behind the door. In the room, the first thing Uni noticed was the size of it. ^You could fit the orphanage inside of this room!^

Walking around, he saw just how clean the room was, which was bizarre for him because his whole life he lived in a place that was infested with rats, spiders, and bugs.

Before he explored the rest of the room, Uni sat on the bed. Once he sat down, he felt himself sink into the softness of the mattress.

Uni thought it was heaven on earth and too good to be true.

"This room is right next to my room, so if you need anything I'll be there, but besides that, you could do whatever for now."

After saying that, Lvle left Uni in the room by himself. Laying on the bed, Uni was about to get back up to explore the room a bit more, when he got a notification from the system.

[Warning: Another player is nearby]

Seeing this made Uni remember what happened earlier with Anna. ^When I touched her, the system said I made contact with another user, so that means the princess is a system user^

This opened up more questions for Uni as he began to think, ^So did she also get a message about another user, and that's why she came up to me?^

^And if she got a system, then why didn't Lvle get one? Why am I the second player?^

Uni was confused and searching for answers that he knew wouldn't get answered any time soon. Before getting up, Uni got another message from the system.

[Warning: Another player nearby]

[Are they a threat]

[Yes/No]

When Uni saw this, he wasn't sure how to answer. If he was correct about the princess of Klosa being the other player, then should he think of her as a threat?