Royal Secret: I'm a Princess!

[THE MAIN mansion melted.]

When Regina came out of the annex building, she wasn't surprised to see that the main mansion melted– along with the servants who failed to escape.

[Tsk.]

The entire estate was protected by a powerful barrier. But, apparently, it wasn't strong enough to protect them from the magma. Thankfully, she never trusted the barriers made by her own family.

Hence, she protected the annex building– her residence– with her Shadows.

[Fortunately, all the research data and materials that we have are hidden in my building.]

She knew that in case of an attack, the enemies would attack the main mansion first. Hence, she chose the smallest annex building to be her residence. And today's incidence proved that she made the right decision.

[The only loss that we suffered today was the loss of her servants.]

"Regina, are you alright?"

Dilan Crowell landed in front of her, but he didn't remain standing for long. Soon, he fell to his knees while coughing up a huge chunk of blood.

[His Mana is so unstable.]

"What happened?" Regina asked, crossing her arms over her chest while looking down at Dilan Crowell. "I thought you were going to eliminate your brother so you'll become the last Kesser standing?"

"Neoma de Moonasterio…" Dilan said, then he paused when he coughed up blood again. "She melted my celestial rocks."

To say that she was shocked to hear that would be an understatement.

Celestial rocks weren't ordinary rocks, obviously.

Only highly-skilled sorcerers could summon celestial rocks that came from the Upper World. How did Neoma de Moonasterio melt celestial rocks?!

"When the royal princess melted the celestrial rocks, they turned into magma," Dilan, who was still coughing up blood, continued with his explanation. "And Trevor Kesser made the magma disappear with just a snap of his fingers."

She couldn't believe that.

According to their investigation, Trevor Kesser was the Youngest Sorcerer of his generation. The Kesser family sacrificed him to become the Devil's Grimoire. But the demon boy's power should be sealed.

"Did the Devil unseal Trevor Kesser's power already?" she asked curiously. "And why was he with Neoma de Moonasterio when he already betrayed her?"

All the information that they had came from Kyle Sprouse.

[Did he lie to us?]

"I don't know, but it seems like the two are working together just fine," Dilan said, then he stood up until he was standing in front of her. Then he buried his face against her neck. "I sent the remaining magma to the sea. It drained my energy."

Ah, so that was why the magma disappeared after melting the main mansion.

"I'm glad you're fine," Dilan whispered against the side of her neck. "Only I have the right to kill you, Regina Crowell."

She just rolled her eyes. "Go and return to Rubin's body," she said. "You can't keep that body any longer."

"I hate going back to that body."

"Who told you to lose to Neoma de Moonasterio then?"

"Shut up."

"You shut up," she retorted. "Don't be stubborn and just return to Rubin's body. You need to help me gather all the research data and materials we have here. Now that Princess Neoma's group knows where our hideout is, I'm sure they'll head here right away."

"But you know it would take me at least a whole day to make a transportation spell that's big enough to transport the entire annex building back to the main office, don't you?"

"That's why I'm telling you to return to Rubin's body right now to start making the spell," she said. "I'll deal with Princess Neoma and her group once they get here."

"Will you be fine?"

"My goal is not to win, but to buy you some time."

"Fine," Dilan said, then he pried himself away from her to look at her in the eye. "Once I return to Rubin Drayton's body, don't call me 'Gavin.' That's the name that you gave to that boy's so-called "alter-ego." Even Princess Neoma calls me by that name whenever she thinks Rubin Drayton is acting strange– and it's annoying."

Ah, right.

Whenever Dilan would possess Rubin Drayton's body, the latter's behavior would change. It led to some people thinking that the young lord had a split personality. Since it was a fun misunderstanding, she didn't correct it.

She even named Rubin Drayton's "split personality" and called it 'Gavin.'

"Well, what can I say?" Regina said, smiling. "'Gavin' is special to me."

***

[WARM…]

When Neoma opened her eyes, she was surprised to see Tteokbokki lying down beside her.

Her Soul Beast was in his dragon form. Not in his full size as an adult dragon, of course. Tteokbokki was smart enough to adjust his size and only be big enough to occupy half of the bed.

"Tteokbokki, wake up," Neoma said, then she got up and stretched her arms. "Report."

The red dragon just answered with a loud snore.

"Do you want me to give you the punch of love again, my cute little brother?"

Tteokbokki immediately opened his eyes and got up. And when he did, he immediately changed from his dragon form to his human form. "Thug princess, you ought to cut me some slack," he whined. "Traveling using the dimension for the Soul Beasts isn't easy–"

"Report."

"I delivered the recording device to Prince Nero," the Soul Beast said. "The royal prince and his fiancée were very worried about you."

"Oh, Hanna was there?"

"They were having tea when I arrived."

"Ah, it's great to know that they are getting along well," she said, then she looked around. "It looks like we finally arrived at the lions' den."

The room she was in was a standard room.

A double bed, a bedside table, and a closet.

The window to her right left showed that the sun had just set.

[Oh… I slept for hours.]

If she remembered correctly, it was past midnight when she fainted.

Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard a soft knock, then the door opened as quietly as possible.

"Princess Neoma, you're finally awake," Paige, who looked delighted to see her, said. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I feel refreshed," Neoma said, smiling. "But is it possible to take a bath here?"

***

NEOMA wasn't that shameless to use the water that the village people had reserved for their everyday use.

She only borrowed the bathroom of the house that took them in, then she summoned Soju– her Water Spirit– to give her the water she needed to take a bath. After that, Juri and Paige helped her get dressed.

And now, she looked pretty and presentable enough to meet the owner of the house.

According to Paige, their benefactor was also the person who was taking care of Xion all this time.

"Thank you for taking us in, Miss Sharon," Neoma said politely, bowing her head. "And for saving my "son.""

Her "children," who were already used to the one only royal princess bowing her head to people worthy of her respect, didn't stop her.

Instead, her "children" bowed as well.

[I know that a royal princess shouldn't bow her head easily, but I do what I want.]

"Princess Neoma, please don't bow your head," Sharon, who was obviously flustered, said. Then she bowed her head deeply. "We only did what we had to do to welcome our savior."

"Savior?" she asked, confused. "Me?"

Sharon raised her head and nodded, the determination was clear in her eyes. "Yes, Princess Neoma," she said firmly. "The Cosmic Tree has declared in the past that Princess Neoma de Moonasterio will come and save the Lion Tribe."

Oh, wow.

Neoma could only smile awkwardly.

[Why do they keep on making me a savior without my permission?]

***

"HOW HORRIBLE," Mona whispered in disbelief after listening to the recording that Nero brought to them. The recording was sent by Neoma using her Soul Beast. "The crows have created children using the Seeds and the Beans of some of the outstanding individuals in the empire?" She hugged herself when she got the chills. "And they also created a Roseheart child…"

Based on the conversation that she heard, the crow that Neoma fought hinted that there was a pink-haired child under their wing.

Only the Rosehearts had pink hair in the entire world.

[It's a gift from Nature, so only the Rosehearts are born with natural pink hair.]

"Those bastards…" Nikolai, who rarely used vulgar words, cursed under his breath. "That kind of horrible experiment…"

"Mother, Father, I have a request," Nero, the only calm person in the emperor's room at the moment, said. "Can you summon Duke Rufus Quinzel here? In secret, of course."

"I can do that," Nikolai said, looking at their son curiously. "What's your plan, Nero?"

"It's highly possible that a crow with Quinzel Blood also exists," their son said calmly. "I want to see if my hypothesis is correct, and House Quinzel is the perfect piece to help me do that. After all, the Quinzels are loyal to us."

"Nero, you're not going to harm the Quinzels, are you?" Mona asked her son nervously. "Remember, Hanna is a Quinzel."

"Don't worry, Mother," Nero said, "smiling" at them. "They won't get harmed… probably."

***

"LEWIS, what are you doing here?"

Jasper Hawthorne was pleasantly surprised to see Princess Neoma welcome them as soon as they arrived on Leoflor Island. Although it wasn't a pleasant place to be because of the polluted air, he was glad to see the royal princess.

However…

[Why is Princess Neoma alone here?]

His thoughts were distracted when, all of a sudden, Lewis drew his sword and pointed it at Princess Neoma.

As soon as the fox did that, he also summoned his poisonous butterflies.

[Lewis will rather die than hurt Princess Neoma. The fact that he pointed a sword at the "royal princess" only means it's not the real one.]

"Aww, I'm already busted?" the fake Princess Neoma asked, pouting. "How did you know I'm not the real one?"

That was right.

Even Jasper was almost fooled, because the fake looked like the real Princess Neoma.

"Princess Neoma is one million times prettier than you," Lewis said bluntly. "And you can't copy her natural charisma."

The fake was obviously offended, growling fiercely at Lewis until her disguise disappeared.

But the real appearance of the fake caught Jasper off guard.

"Silver hair and golden eyes…" Jasper whispered in disbelief, then his gaze landed on the lady's white tails. "A Silver Fox?"

But he thought Lewis was the only Silver Fox left in the world!

"That's right, I'm a Silver Fox. The only female Silver Fox alive," the fake said, smiling seductively at Lewis. "Lewis Crevan, we're the only Silver Foxes in the world, so what do you think about making babies together to save our bloodline?"

Lewis looked at the fake indifferently. "Eww."

The fake's face turned red from embarrassment.

Jasper almost laughed his butt off at Lewis' response because he was pretty sure that the fox boy had learned his sass from Princess Neoma.

Lewis "destroyed" his enemy with just one word.

[Princess Neoma, you raised your "son" well.]

***

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