Get Ahead of the Fallen Heroine and Make the Bull-Headed Man the Victim

Chapter 264. Princess: LOL! The charade is long over!

A dozen or so minutes later, the patrolling guards in the vicinity finally arrived, and several of them together cleaned up the body of the burly demon.

After simply informing the guards of the situation, Valentina left first on the pretense that she was going to see if there were any remaining lurking demon remnants.

And because Miss Allen did not want to be discovered by anyone, especially not Clyde, that she had tried to escape with her demon companion, she opted to flee after the guards arrived.

At the time, to avoid being held as a victim or witness.

So she feigned composure, acting like a normal wife to the guards.

But she was actually very fl*stered.

Afraid that Clyde would hear that she was involved in this incident.

Even so, she didn’t forget to grab her basket too.

She really—Noah was dying of laughter.

While Valentina didn’t care what happened to Clyde or Miss Allen after that, Noah still kept an eye on things from time to time.

Basically, she wanted to escape but was too scared to.

Because she didn’t believe any other humans would be kind enough to take her in, to rescue her from Clyde’s clutches.

Noah thought she’d given up entirely, resigned to her fate. Turns out, she was just choosing to wait, believing her demon comrades would come save her.

Well, that’s that then. She should be utterly disillusioned now.

And Noah could bet that the more she didn’t want Clyde to know about her attempt to elope with “some hulking adventurer” today, the more Clyde would find out.

After all, even if Clyde didn’t know, Noah would become a plain-faced guard and spill the truth to him.

But that was for tonight.

Right now, Noah continued to stroll with Valentina through the capital’s streets.

Thanks to Valentina’s increased policing, the notoriously crime-ridden capital at least looked like a proper nation’s capital during the day.

Even the old, seedy streets where thugs hung out were slowly improving.

But Noah knew, those criminals and thugs were just laying low during the day, and would go back to their usual business at night.

Otherwise, if there wasn’t a single criminal in the capital, Princess Veronica wouldn’t be transforming into a blonde-twin-tailed magical gunner at night.

Actually, Valentina, this ‘former main heroine’ protagonist, also went out at night to maintain order in the capital.

It’s just that the capital wasn’t exactly small, and Veronica deliberately avoided Valentina, so they wouldn’t bump into each other even when both were active at night.

The princess must feel like showing up in front of Valentina would look like she was putting on a ‘show,’ so she deliberately kept her nighttime activities a secret.

After all, the princess still felt guilty about how unfriendly she’d been to Valentina before.

She was a meticulous and introverted child, so choosing to help Valentina silently in the shadows was perfectly normal.

And from a game setting perspective, a transformation-type protagonist hiding their identity was a common trope, nothing to be surprised about.

Maybe the sinister smile on Noah’s face was just too sinister.

Intuition told the princess that Noah, despite walking with her, was thinking about another woman.

This ruined her already decent mood, making her suddenly stop in her tracks, turn to face Noah, who was indeed thinking about another woman, and her sister to boot. She said, somewhat icily:

“That’s a terrible smile. What bad ideas are you cooking up now? I’ve told you many times, can’t you tone it down a little? There are rumors going around that a holy sword that can seal away evil dragons and gods has been found in the kingdom’s north. Aren’t you afraid of getting sealed away?”

The princess, with a forceful attitude completely different from how she treated Miss Allen, glared at the man who was even more vile than the demon leader.

That was the serious attitude one would have when facing someone stronger.

Not the frivolous, game-playing attitude she had when dealing with someone weaker, like Miss Allen.

Though the dislike was feigned, the princess really hated when Noah gazed at others.

Especially when he did it right in front of her.

And looking at this princess, who had suddenly adopted a ‘princess demeanor’, Noah simply chuckled, unconcerned.

“Ha! Hilarious! I’ve never heard of any holy sword that could seal me again! Even if it could seal you, who’s completely become a dragon, it absolutely couldn’t seal me, who turned you into a dragon, okay? Don’t underestimate a god, okay, Princess? It must be some bored fool making up a lie.”

Noah deliberately responded to the princess’s statement with a dismissive, contemptuous attitude.

And he took the opportunity to poke at the princess, who ‘hates to lose’.

This made the princess’s gaze even more displeased (though it was a facade).

“…Is that so? You think it’s just a lie, then you wouldn’t mind even if I went to find that holy sword, right?”

“I wouldn’t mind at all, okay? As long as you can actually find it, that is. Maybe after going, you’ll find out it was all a scam, and you’ve wasted all that effort. Don’t get angry if I laugh at you then, Princess.”

Noah showed Valentina a wicked smile.

His unfathomable pupils, like an abyss, made it impossible for Valentina to tell which of his words were lies and which were the truth.

But even so, Valentina didn’t care.

Because what she needed to do was not listen to what Noah said, but see what Noah did.

“…Alright, if it really is just a rumor, then I’ll let you laugh all you want. But what about you? If you get scammed next time, and I laugh at you, don’t get angry, okay?”

“Haha! Is the princess planning to deceive me? Now that’s interesting! If you have the ability, then come at me!”

Noah thought the princess was finally going to seal him, the Evil God, so he couldn’t help but get excited.

Completely unaware that the princess was actually laughing at him right now, but only in her heart.

After all, Noah hadn’t noticed the princess’s first deception, the one where she switched places with the priestess princess.

And Noah still hadn’t noticed the second deception, either, where she secretly sent people to hasten the nun’s fall, judging by Noah’s expression.

——Hehe❤~ How unfortunate~ Evil God~ While I’m talking to you like this, my actions are already finished!

The princess looked at the being she adored and silently chuckled to herself in her heart.

She believed that the church’s people would certainly take care of that pathetic nun with the whorish birthmark on her stomach.

And it would happen within the next few days.

And yet Noah looked like he had absolutely no idea that she was the one pulling the strings. This filled the princess with smugness.

Hilarious, she simply can’t lose!

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PS. 11:59:59 PM is still today! This is the first update.