Annan returned to the quiet tavern.

Calling out Pumi, who was hiding in the kitchen, Annan said, "It's still the old rules." ”

Wang Maiden ...... Corlett ......

Annan, who had not solved the trouble but had one more trouble, walked out of the tavern and was just about to step into the carriage when a carriage rampaged from the front.

Looking at the familiar family logo, Annan knew that trouble had come to him......

The coachman tightened his reins, and his amber eyes stared at Annan from the window......

It's no coincidence that Corlett is here.

Annan didn't know what was wrong, but she was a mage and a warlock herself, so she obviously had no advantage in intelligence......

"Why are you here?" Annan pretended to be surprised, "I was about to go to see the princess." ”

"I want to ask you ......"

"I'm sorry, but it's important." Annan refused, continued to board the carriage, and then said to Corlet, who was blocking the front, "If you really have something important, follow me to the City Lord's Mansion." ”

Corlett finally got out of the way and followed Annan's carriage.

What's next?

Retracting his gaze, Annan thought of a way to get out. How did Corrit find herself...... Could it be that Valencia secretly gave her something?

Annan wondered if Corit didn't look like she knew everything, she was just going back to herself somehow, but she didn't know what it had to do with her.

If that's the case......

Two carriages came to the city lord's mansion one after another.

"I won't be long."

Annan and Corlet, who jumped out of the carriage, said, stepping up the steps.

The officials in the city lord's palace recognized the royal knight who was in the limelight, and Annan came to the garden unhindered.

"Where's your butler?"

Surprisingly, Annan saw no trace of the butler.

"Butler?"

"The man who laughed."

He ...... Just went out. ”

"Well, I'm going to tell you something...... Don't show surprise. ”

"What's the matter?"

"The butler next to you is a vampire of other forces......"

The fake princess was stunned at first, and then showed surprise as if she had just reacted: "Do you mean it really? ”

"I overheard it and other vampires' plots." Annan deliberately made the situation more serious, "and said that he wants to control you to achieve their evil plots......"

"What are we going to do, tell the princess?"

The fake princess showed her clumsy uneasiness and quietly walked behind Annan, her sharp nails reaching for the location of Annan's back heart......

Annan thought that she had played the princess for too long to show her emotions, and looked at the garden and said, "No...... It's best not to tell her yet, but don't tell the City Lord's Mansion either. ”

"Why?"

The fake princess stopped. Annan turned his head and looked at the fake princess standing dignified beside the flowers: "Because we don't know what they want to do yet...... So I need you to put on a show. ”

"You...... Let me...... As a spy? ”

"It's not a spies, it's just pretending to cooperate with them and investigating their purpose...... Forget it, you're the most important part of the princess plan, you make the decisions. ”

In fact, Annan doesn't know if this is good advice...... But anyway, he had already told the fake princess that it was her business to do what to do.

Whether the fake princess is discovered or assassinated, it will not affect her and the princess's plans...... It's a big deal to let the real princess play the princess temporarily.

"You're going to protect me, right? My knight ......" The frightened false princess tried to grab Annan's arm, but he skilfully dodged him—the princess of the family has been trying to hold him like this lately.

Annan said euphemistically: "I have other tasks to perform, and I can't follow you all the time." But I think as long as you're in the City Lord's Mansion, you're safe. ”

"Okay...... Can I call you when I'm in trouble? ”

"Of course, I'm still your titular knight." Annan made a knightly salute and said goodbye to the false princess.

Corlett was still waiting at the door. Annan walked up to her: "Please, Miss Corlet, do you have anything to do with me?" ”

Corlett looked at Annan, but there was only a gentle smile on his face that made people want to be close.

"Is my father really dead?"

"Of course, I saw it with my own eyes." Annan restrained his smile, his tone heavy on the surface.

"But why is there a voice saying it's ...... him?"

"It can't be." Annan said seriously, "I watched him die with my own eyes, and then was freed by the help of the princess......"

It refers to the absorption of the body by the princess.

Corlett believes in magic: "It's true, it's not lying, and it points to you in the end." ”

"...... me?"

As the leading actor of two million-dollar box office magic films, Annan's acting skills have even been praised by Betty.

"I don't understand...... Corlett, could you tell me what happened? ”

"Yes."

Then Corlett recounted what Annan already knew.

"You mean what mark the Archbishop of Valencia has left on me?" Annan was surprised as if he had heard it for the first time.

"Hmmm......"

Annan was thoughtful, but still shook his head: "If it is really as you said, Valencia's consciousness is still there, the princess should tell me......"

The beautiful amber eyes looked at Annan seriously: "What do you think I should do?" Accept the marriage, or accept the existence of the self-proclaimed father. ”

Annan seemed to dream back to January 17. Faced with the trap of "daughter", he said quite experiencedly: "Miss Corlett, this is your family matter, and I can't give you an answer, but ...... I want to take you somewhere. ”

Annan invited Corlet to get into a carriage and took her to the Grand Theater, which was still under renovation.

"Why are you here?"

"I'd like to show you a magical image."

Annan asked everyone to go out temporarily, took out the Philosopher's Stone, and showed "The Fall of the Mage Tower" to Corlet.

A story about a young girl's rebellion against an aristocratic marriage...... There's nothing quite like this story for Corlett.

Corlett felt fresh at first, and then, like all young people, was attracted to the story, watching Ruth reject the marriage arranged by the family, met Jack, tasted the sweetness of freedom, and finally rejected the family's arrangement and vitality, and chose to stand with her lover.

Finally, Ruth, draped in a blanket, looks lonely at the collapsed Mage Tower.

"Here's my answer: Ruth lives only for herself, and I want you to do the same."

Annan stood up. I watched "The Fall of the Mage Tower" again with Corlett, hoping that it would be useful.

"Live for yourself...... Corlett chewed on the sentence and looked up at Annan, "Can you help me." ”

"What can I help you?" Annan asked curiously.

"My uncle arranged for my marriage...... All I have to do is bring you back and declare you my fiancé, and he won't-"

"I refuse." Annan didn't want to.

I treat you like a daughter, but you want me to be your fiancé?

(End of chapter)