"O-Okay, I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything," Luna stammered nervously, not wanting to feel the cruel and brutal pressure on her body.
"I'm listening."
She took deep breaths until her lungs were full and prepared to tell the scene she had seen. "What I saw were several men, each wearing a black hood and a white mask with the symbol of a cross with countless cracks."
She paused to recount what she had seen and continued, "There, these men were torturing boys and men, not even normal torture… They were not doing normal torture, they were biting into the flesh of the men who were still alive and screaming in pain. Their teeth were not human, they looked like grotesque monsters…"
"They ate more and more men. There were hundreds of them. Some of them did terrible things, like gouging out people's eyes with their tongues. They even ate each other. It was not normal…. It was a live performance of cannibalism," Luna explained, still shaking all over.
She should have known that she and most of the nobles had no experience in seeing such brutal acts. They could see murder, but to torture thousands of people in such a barbaric way? No doubt it left a psychological mark on them.
"Good explanation, and I recommend that you prepare yourself, these guys are coming this way," Theos declared, moving away from her more quickly.
Luna stood motionless, a chill running through her body. These guys were going to the same meeting! She understood it quickly and even worse, she believed it. After all, they were quite close.
"What am I going to do, what am I going to do?" she mumbled over and over again and found herself confronted with a reality…. There was nothing she could do, she understood that if he had told her without telling the other nobles, it was so that she wouldn't talk either. He only told her out of goodwill to help him.
When she understood that, she stopped despairing and quickly prepared herself for a future battle.
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"You heard that, didn't you?" asked Theos, turning his attention to Alice, who was standing next to him. "Yes, I heard…" she confirmed with a nod, not wanting to lie to him.
He smiled slightly. "It's the way of the world, Alice. It's terrible, you knew that. I know you're smart… But it's worse than you can imagine," he said reluctantly. The truth was, he didn't want to show Alice the harsh reality of the world, but he had no choice, if not him…. Who else would do it?
"Yes, I understand now… I understand very well," Alice replied vaguely, somewhat disturbed by what she had just heard from Luna herself.
"Don't worry, I'll protect you. I promise," Theos promised, intertwining his hand with hers. As if it was magic itself, she smiled happily, even though she still remembered Luna's words. She believed in him blindly.
[The host received the jealousy of two heroines, Eleanor and Nora, and received a reward of 10,000 negative energy].
[The host got the jealousy of countless men and women and got a reward of 1000 negative energy], announced the mechanical voice of the system, which made Theos smile even more.
But soon his smile stiffened as he discovered an unexpected fact. "Jealous of my sister? What?" he thought incredulously. In the novel, there is no hint of her being jealous of Theos. Because she was always at Alan's side.
Remembering this fact, Theos turned his attention to Alan and discovered that he was all alone, eating snacks from time to time, but not even a Heroine paid any attention to him.
'What is this, system?' he asked in shock, unable to believe that not even a heroine had the slightest interest in Alan.
[Host, do you remember that the system gave him the ability to steal more attention from the heroines? You ordered me to deactivate it for now, but this ability cannot be blocked, it is passive and always on], the system explained in its mechanical voice.
Theos' mouth almost opened into an "O" when he discovered the reason for all of this…. The system had fooled him! He had been fooled by his system.
'Fuck you!' he cursed angrily. This simple fact had screwed up several of his plans, but looking back on all those negative pinpoints…couldn't help but admit that it had been worth it.
"Ah, what a bummer dealing with all those heroines," he said wearily. "What heroines?" asked Alice curiously.
"Nothing, just a game I was playing on my cell phone," he lied matter-of-factly. He felt a little bad about lying, but it was necessary. 'I can't tell her that she a character in a harem novel and will die in a few years.'
As they descended the stairs, Theos turned to meet all the young nobles, the most prominent being Arnold and Alan, as well as himself.
Although Alice was at his side, several young ladies still dared to ask him to dance, taking advantage of the music of the moment.
He politely declined each invitation, saying that on some future occasion… A chance that would never come.
Seeing the time, Theos smiled in anticipation. 'It is time… For the greatest rewards to appear.' In the novel, not a second had passed after the presentation when disaster ruined the entire banquet….
"Ladies and gentlemen, please all rise to receive the great royal blood," one of the servants announced through a microphone.
All the guests rose to their feet, knowing what would happen next.
The Princess.
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