The Lady is a Stalker

Somehow, the dragon’s prophecy that the crown prince would destroy the world suddenly sounded incredibly convincing. Additionally, she would like to add that the crown prince seemed more surprised that she was brutally murdered by him than that he was suffering from mania.

 

‘Anyway, my expectations were not wrong.’

 

She didn’t know why they were heading towards the worst possible ending where she died, everyone died, and the world was destroyed… but the future was clearly changing. Originally, the reason was simply that it would be miserable to die according to the original novel, but now the reasons why one should not die have suddenly increased to dozens. It was inevitable that she would die alone because she couldn’t change the future, but shouldn’t she be a nuisance to others after she died?

 

She clenched her fists and once again burned her will to never die. After the general story was over and she was standing there with a stern expression, distraught, the crown prince, who had been watching her, spoke to her.

 

“Don’t worry so much.”

 

People were so distraught that they died, so why should they not worry? Hearing from the person who would greatly contribute to the destruction of the world in the future did not bring her any consolation. She looked at him with eyes full of distrust. He opened his mouth again.

 

“Don’t look so scared. I will do something. I told you I would never kill you.”

 

A scared expression? Did it seem to the crown prince that she had a frightened expression? Besides, wasn’t it better to promise not to destroy the world than to promise not to kill her? The crown prince’s pledge was strangely off somewhere, but he himself did not seem to notice.

 

“…”

 

She glanced at the golden eyes that were looking at her with a somewhat nervous expression. Well, in the end, it seemed consistent, so she nodded slightly. Then the crown prince smiled quietly, almost out of sight. It was the first time she had seen the crown prince smile so selflessly and with relief. It was an incredibly picturesque smile. After speaking with her, the Crown Prince spoke to Adriana again.

 

“…So, I have something to ask of you.”

 

Adriana looked up at the prince with sparkling purple eyes, as if telling him to say anything. He had a blind eye, as if he would listen to anything the crown prince said. A dragon in love was dangerous. If he wanted to, he was prepared to bring this world to the feet of the crown prince. When the crown prince somehow met those eyes, he averted his eyes as if he was having trouble. With his head turned away, he muttered ‘I really can’t get used to this…’ Seeing the crown prince, who was not afraid even in front of the elf gods, hesitate like that…

 

‘Umm. Even though he is young, men are men and he is a man. When a woman of his own taste looks at him like that with her eyes in love, no matter how much he is the crown prince, he can’t help but feel his heart flutter.’

 

Somehow, she felt like she would laugh at his human-like appearance, so she slightly covered her mouth and looked at the prince, and she made eye contact with the prince, who was avoiding the dragon’s eyes. He looked at her with resentful eyes and said.

 

“…It’s all because of you.”

 

Why was it her fault that he was weak to the exquisite beauty with silver hair and violet eyes? She felt aggrieved, but she didn’t want to start a pointless argument, so she just kept her mouth shut. 

 

The crown prince said, trying his best not to look at Adriana’s face, which was leaning on him.

 

“Well, the reason I came here is because I wanted to know how to control the dragon’s magical power. I thought I could find out for sure if I asked the dragon…”

 

“Dragon’s magic power?”

 

Adriana tilted her head after hearing the prince’s words. The crown prince explained further.

 

“…According to the prophecy you said, I will become a madman after killing Serabi, right? But I have no intention of killing Serabi at all. So, if the moment comes when I kill Serabi, I can only think that it will probably be when my dragon’s magic power runs out and I lose my senses.”

 

“?”

 

Even after hearing his explanation, Adriana just stared at the prince with her mouth open, as if she didn’t understand what he was saying.

 

“Why can’t you control your magical power?”

 

“That…”

 

She frowned slightly. She had this feeling that something wasn’t quite coming together… 

 

‘Oh, no way.’

 

One assumption occurred to her. Adriana probably misunderstood that the crown prince was a dragon. Just like the elf chief did last time, the prince cannot be seen as human in the eyes of other races. If Adriana found out that he had lost and even fallen in love with a lesser human, there was no way he could just let it go due to his noble pride.

 

“Raven, just a moment…”

 

She intended to stop the crown prince from saying his next words. However, it was faster for the crown prince to open his mouth than for her to speak.

 

“I’m not a dragon, so I’m not good at controlling my magic. I want to be taught by you.”

 

“…”

 

As soon as she heard those words, Adriana’s expression froze as if she were a ghost. She touched her aching head. Perhaps one of the reasons Adriana fell in love with the crown prince was that she thought they were the same dragon. Although she appeared in human form, the prince was so strong that Adriana seemed to have firmly believed that the prince was a dragon polymorphed into a human. Certainly, the prince’s divine prestige and magical power far exceeded those of a human being. Still, according to the setting, there was no secret of the crown prince’s birth. The crown prince was 100% pure human. he just received too much love from his creator.

 

Adria looked shocked. The difference between humans and dragons seen from the dragon’s point of view was like seeing a turtle or a water strider. In other words, to put it in plain human emotion terms, it was like realizing that what she had been in love with all along was not a person but an insect.

 

Adriana asked with a hint of anticipation in her shocked expression.

 

“Then are you an elf or something?”

 

“No…”

 

“A high-level spirit or something…”

 

Adriana still couldn’t give up her hope and asked in a thin, trembling voice. The crown prince, who was quick to notice her, seemed to have finally noticed Adriana’s expectation that she was not human.

 

“I’m sorry for betraying your expectations. I’m an ordinary human being.”

 

“…”

 

Adriana raised her body from where she was leaning against her prince with a stern expression on her face. Adriana, who was far away from her prince, lowered her head and muttered as if she was talking to herself.

 

“…I lost…? I…? To a human…?”

 

In fact, the Crown Prince was the strongest person in this world, so there was no way that Adriana, who was the weakest among dragons, could defeat the Crown Prince. She was only fourteen years old, but wasn’t she capable of cutting off the head of a lesser god in an instant? However, Adriana, who did not know such circumstances, seemed to be greatly shocked. In order to find out how to control the dragon’s magic power, it was necessary to reveal that the crown prince was human, but things became complicated because Adriana fell in love with the prince. There was no way Adriana would obediently help since she knew the identity of the crown prince. Even now, didn’t she have a face that trembles with a sense of betrayal and self-destruction?

 

Adriana gritted her teeth. Dark red blood flowed from her fists clenched in anger, showing that she was of a different race.

 

“How dare you… play with me… with me?”

 

Besides, Adriana seemed to think that now she was being toyed with by the Crown Prince. Why on earth did she fall in love alone and get angry on her own… She was of the Gand race, with mood swings just as severe as those of the Human race. She questioned Adriana’s words as if it was the Crown Prince’s first time hearing this.

 

“You were played with?”

 

She waited for Adriana to respond. She was definitely curious as to why Adriana expressed that the crown prince was playing with her. She usually didn’t use the expression ‘played with’ something that ended with her unrequited love. Adriana’s words were interpreted as if she was saying that the Crown Prince had left room for her. Even with its intelligence, dragons were alien to everyone. It was unlikely that he was throwing a tantrum simply because she felt betrayed.

 

Adriana screamed uncontrollably at the crown prince in her angry voice.

 

“You blushed when you saw me like that! You kept looking at me like you were possessed!”

 

The Crown Prince looked at Adriana and his face blushed. Thinking again, the crown prince’s face in her memory seemed strangely red. She thought it was because Dragon Lair was hot, but when she thought he did it because he saw Adreana, her angle fits right in.

 

“That’s you…!”

 

The crown prince, who was about to say something as if he felt unfair, clamped his mouth shut. As she was looking at the crown prince with eyes as if she were looking at trash, he made eye contact and started shaking. He shouted at her as if making an excuse.

 

“It’s not like that!”

 

She didn’t know why he was making excuses to her, but the prince seemed urgent.

 

She answered in a calm voice.

 

“You did.”

 

“It’s not like that!”

 

She couldn’t figure out what was wrong, but he desperately kept repeating that it wasn’t. The crown prince seemed to think that she was somehow hurt.

 

The Crown Prince looked at Adriana and opened his mouth to explain.

 

“Anyway, that’s a misunderstanding…”

 

At that time, Adriana threw something at the crown prince. It was a sword in her sheath. The bewildered prince, who held the sword, looked down at it with his face.

 

“…That doesn’t matter anymore. I can’t admit to myself that I have been played.”

 

“It’s not like that…”

 

The crown prince muttered as if he were dumbfounded. Maybe you feel the difference even before you reject the confession.

 

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