During Latrice's nap, she did not know that her soul came back to her original body. When she opened her eyes, she felt that her body is numb. She has blurry vision of the room but she recognized one of the members of Destiny, Kate.
"Latrice... I am sorry..."
She heard her apologizing while crying.
Latrice tried to move but she cannot, so she tried to speak.
"K...at..e"
She called her despite her difficulty in talking. When Kate heard her, she immediately called their manager and asked to bring the doctors.
"Latrice! Just wait a moment. The doctors will be here. I am so glad that you wake up"
Kate said smiling and her eyes that are full of sorrow awhile ago are now full of hope.
But just as the doctor exactly opened the door, Latrice felt that she got weaker and weaker that she got difficulty in staying conscious, so she used her last strength to speak.
"Th...ank y...ou"
Latrice said looking at Kate before her heart stops.
Latrice grasped for air when her soul came back to the body of Estelle. She breathe heavily but she tried to normalize her breathing when she heard someone sobbing.
"I am so glad you came back"
Camilla said as she tightly hugged Estelle. At the back of Camilla is the Emperor who look unbothered as usual.
When Estelle and Emperor met an eye contact, the Emperor cleared his throat.
"Gladly, Camilla used her divine power to bring you back to life"
He said in his usual cold tone.
"Huh? Did... I die?"
Estelle asked in confusion. Camilla let go of her hug from her sister and has a worried look.
"Somehow... you are cold and has no pulse when we came to your room and even after I performed the healing for almost 8 hours, you stayed unconscious"
Camilla replied with so much worry shown on her elegant and innocent face.
"Shit! Am I going to keep dying and dying?!"
Estelle thought but she tried to control her emotions so as not to show any weaknesses in front of the Emperor who hated Estelle for being weak-minded.
"Ah... is that so?"
Estelle shortly replied. Camilla felt the worry of Estelle so she made an excuse.
"I-I think you need more rest, we will leave for a while. I hope you get better, my dear sister"
Camilla said and gently patted her sister's shoulder.
"Thank you, Princess Camilla"
Estelle replied and weakly smiled. Camilla gave her also a smile before they left her room.
When Estelle is now all alone in the room, she devised her plan so she can surely survive this novel and enjoy her life as a performer.
When she saw Kate for the last time, she realized that she do not want to become someone who will shortly rule this country and later on will be killed by the Emperor himself. Instead, she wanted to bring the art of performing to many people.
As Latrice, she did all that she can as the leader of Destiny to be recognized by the public but reality is harsher than she thought. They were not given a chance to shine like stars because they are just from a small company.
That is why this time, she will earn money as much as she can by using her immense divine power to the people of the Southern Empire.
"Forgive me, Althea. I need to do this to survive", Estelle said.
Althea is the goddess of the Southern Empire. She is the goddess of healing and compassion.
She wrote in a sheet of paper her bucket list to achieve her goals. She even titled it: "Escape Plan 101: Let's Live a Lowkey Life".
1. Make Princess Camilla the Crown Princess of this Empire
2. Cancel Estelle's engagement with Duke Jerome Blanchett (the FL will marry him anyway and I ship them ｡♡‿♡｡)
3. Go to the temple and help the Chief Priest in healing and exorcising 'the evil' for 2 years. I must do sidelines too to earn as many gold coins as I can. Silver and copper coins should also not be left out ^_^ (Budget: 50,000 gold coins)
4. Ask the Chief Priest for 6 months vacation leave
5. Help Princess Camilla improve her status in the high society so no one can question her being the heiress to the throne (6 months will be enough)
6. Escape~ I need to think carefully which empire should I go ;)
7. Build my own name as a musician
8. Build my own troupe full of talented artists (I can't wait for this! I want to introduce in this world all kinds of music genre, especially modern hip-hop)
9. Perform, live, laugh, and love freely!
"Perfectly done!"
Estelle satisfactorily said looking proud of the piece of paper with her lousy handwriting. She placed it in the 1st series of the romance novel that caught her attention in the bookshelves of Estelle's room.