chapter 1
1-Laplace de Craone
The head of the duchy of Kraon and a human weapon who went to war at the age of 17 and wiped out thousands of armies.
A tactical genius who waged a defensive war against the demon lord with a human body.
A nerd who is rumored to be carrying out strange experiments after catching demons who lost in the war.
A horny person who commits outrageous acts against slaves and servants.
The world’s madman who dumped the 4th princess.
“Ha…”
I let out a sigh.
I didn’t even read a novel that no one read until the end alone.
It’s not like I wrote a 5,700-word complaint about a novel I enjoyed reading.
To be honest, if he had possessed it for that reason, he wasn’t even remorseful.
“Laplace de Crown…”
I knew the name well.
‘How to Survive as the 4th Princess’, a hit romance fantasy novel written by a rookie who suddenly appeared.
It was a romance fantasy novel that started with a webtoon and even a drama.
Despite being a female-oriented romance fantasy, many attractive characters appeared and were loved by many readers.
I was just one of those readers.
Until yesterday.
A character hated by all the readers in it, and a villain who dies painfully at the end.
Until he was possessed by ‘Laplace de Crown’.
“Status window!”
“Status window!”
.
.
.
“Give me the status window!”
There doesn’t seem to be a status window either.
“Isn’t this too much… f*ck.”
**
“Today’s meal is satisfying.”
I felt a sense of shame about copying the character’s tone in the novel.
It is a world where things such as dark magic and demon kings are alive.
In addition, there is even a holy kingdom where people are executed for worshiping the devil.
It is not acceptable to be taken to the Holy Kingdom and executed under false suspicion.
“Sorry.”
It was simply praising the delicious food.
And yet, the surrounding air, which had been frozen in an instant, froze.
I praised you, but why are you apologizing?
“You said it was delicious?”
In order to ease the tension of the maid who bowed her head, I spoke to her again.
“Sorry, sorry!”
Then the maid now lowers her head and looks like she’s about to cry.
“Stop it.”
“Yes, yes…”
The maid who had bunny ears on her head, said to be a fantasy world, seemed to be able to barely hold back the tears that were about to burst out.
Her ears started to go round and round as if they were going to make a whimpering sound.
“Go.”
I don’t know where it hurts. For now, I thought it would be better to let him rest.
“Yes…?”
“I said go.”
In that sense, I thought it would be nice to go and rest.
But the maid didn’t think so.
“Well, I must work here…”
She finally began to speak her words in a voice that made her tearful as the maid crawled.
“I just told him to go and rest.”
I told you the exact meaning in a frustrated heart.
She then realized that she had been misunderstood, and she showed her grim expression.
“…Sorry.”
A strange thought began to arise at the sight of the maid leading her limp ears back to her room.
‘Ear… I want to touch it.’
“Sebastian.”
“Yes.”
Sebastian, a black-haired old man, appears in an instant as he calls his name while consuming the remaining food.
For some reason, he was the only character to support Laplace since he was entrusted with the young Laplace.
“What’s that maid’s name?”
“This is Alice.”
It was definitely a character I had never seen in the original novel.
“No matter how high the wages are, why does that girl stay when most of the maids quit?”
The Crown Dukes owned a mansion.
But unlike that, there were only two servants managing the mansion.
No matter how high the wages were, the original owner of the body, a guy named Laplace, was quite an idiot who liked to bully others.
“I heard that they are probably sending living expenses to their families in the village. I don’t know the exact details.”
“I see… I get it.”
I understand the situation roughly.
But I don’t know why he’s so scared when he sees me.
“Sebastian.”
“Yes, Mr. Laplace.”
“Why is that girl afraid of me?”
“Yes…?”
I had the appearance of an old man with gray hair. I was so dumbfounded by my question.
He looked uncharacteristically dazed.
“Hmm, I think the Lord knows better.”
“I’m curious about other people’s eyes.”
Sebastian starts avoiding my gaze as if he is having trouble answering my words.
“It doesn’t matter if you just say don’t care.”
“That’s right…The verbal abuse you do every day, and you make me cook dozens of times a day saying it doesn’t taste good.”
“Stop it.”
“Yes.”
I just thought of him as a trashy character that appears occasionally.
But I didn’t know it was garbage that couldn’t be recycled.
That being said, I have no intention of apologizing to those who have been harmed by Laplace until now.
That’s because the character Laplace did it, not me.
However, it seems that you need to improve your reputation for future work.
“Haa…”
“Are you sick anywhere?”
Sebastian approached me, who was sighing, which had become a habit, and began to show a concerned expression.
“No.”
I pushed him away with a hand gesture and stood up.
‘Is information gathering a priority?’
No matter how much I know the information in the novel. He was just a villain here.
And if there is any other information, it’s dangerous as it is.
“The key to the library?”
“Are you talking about the library…?”
“Have you not heard?”
“I’ll get it right away.”
I wonder if the word library came out of my mouth to make me look so clumsy.
This… Has a long way to go.
**
“Um, over there…”
I saw the familiar bunny ears peeking out through the cracks in the door.
Those rabbit ears that still droop at the sight of me.
Someday, I got a strange feeling that I would try to stroke.
“What happened?”
“A letter has arrived…”
Maid Elise has pink hair and gray rabbit ears that will leave a strong impression on anyone who sees it, and white skin and sapphire eyes that are likely to be sucked in.
It got better than the first time, but I felt a cuteness somewhere in the way he still looked frightened, put the letter down next to me, and ran away.
“It’s a letter.”
In terms of military power alone, who would send a letter to Laplace, who is called the strongest man in the world?
I checked the letter feeling curious.
“Uh…”
The seal of the imperial family was imprinted on the pressed red wax.
‘Should I throw it away?’
I thought nothing good would come of me getting involved with the imperial family while trying to get rid of the reputation of the vile lord.
I thought for a moment that I should take care of it.
“Whew.”
No matter how powerful a duke is, he is under the imperial family.
I resigned myself to opening the letter.
To.Laplace de Crown
Hello. Laplace. This is Angelica.
Would it be faster for you to speak under the name of the 4th princess?
In fact, the fact that our relationship broke up a long time ago.
I already knew that you were not the Laplace I knew.
The first meeting must have been the engagement of the 4th princess, the nuisance of the royal family, and the eldest son of the crown duke, the foremost aristocrat of the empire.
But I started to be drawn to the image of him going to war once or twice to defend the country and protect the people.
And the day the palace was attacked by the demon king. I couldn’t help but fall in love with your appearance alone.
For what reason?
You were the one who started to open your eyes and do things that were hard to see after losing the previous duke.
I have always believed. Someday to that Laplace.
Like a hero in a fairy tale, you will return as the person who protected me.
But you betrayed my expectations.
Your behavior starts to get more and more intense.
Strange rumors surround you.
Still, I waited for you.
Because I had too much love to throw you away.
But if you want this love to end.
If you want to break the engagement.
I’m happy to accept it.
A crude letter with traces of rewriting in the chorus and no date on which the letter was written.
As expected, he is the main character of Romance.
To write a letter that touched my heart this much.
Surely, with this letter as an opportunity, Laplace will turn into a complete villain.
That’s why it’s an ambiguous situation to leave a country’s princess behind, and now to capture it again.
“I’ll turn…”
I feel like I’ve been cornered by an outsider.
The story of the original story begins when a handsome foreign prince rescues a princess who is captured by bandits after the breakup.
“A thief.”
Still, since she is a princess of a country, she is not directly harmed. It is an event that leaves her with great trauma.
“Sebastian.”
“Yes.”
“Call the knights. The quick-footed ones.”
I don’t know what will change if I intervene here.
But I have to do what I can.
I want to raise my reputation a bit.