This is bad. This is really bad!

I really need someone to open up the treasury in order to get my hands on that dream crystal! There’s no way I can go through the barrier that’s protecting the treasury, nor is there a way to convince that pervert, Chris, to do it!

The plan that I just came up with on the spot, and that is having Angel and the Old man duke it out utterly failed, by setting loose the stress-filled Angel!

“I knew it, I shouldn’t have let her watch me play that horror game!”

It stressed her up really badly...

I ran to the door and opened it. As expected...she’s nowhere to be found.

“God dammit...Should I leave now in the midst of chaos and never turn back...?”

I released Angel into the wild, got the old man on both of our tails, and the Chris going back and forth searching for me. Not only that, I also have assassins aiming for me. Furthermore, my plan was to get out of here with a dream crystal, something that I could only hope to get in my dreams. It’s so close, in the next room to be exactly. Yet, it’s so far...

To begin with, I never would have been able to recover it. Even if I somehow got through that barrier and opened the door, and was somehow able to get my  hands on the dream crystal...How would I be able to move it around? It’ll be, at least, twice my size. I think. I mean, I got to fit inside it right? Since I need it to sleep within the dream crystal in order for it to immerse me inside the game.

To begin with, life is more important that games...Without my life, how would I be able to play new games...

I took a step back and collapsed on the floor, with my back facing the cold wall. This...is so unlike me.

“Alright, now that I’ve tried my best to disillusion myself...Really, I can’t do this at all. I can’t let go of my greed. I want it, I want it, I want it! Even if I were to die, I still won’t regret it! I would rather die than not being able to make my dream come true!”

My dream of becoming the hero! My dream of becoming popular! My dream of being a main character! My dream of not being useless! My dream of becoming a man, not this abomination of forced cross-dressing!

No more! No more will I be played around! No matter who is after me, no matter who stands in my way, I will get my hands...on anything games related!

I’ve embarrassed a duke! I’ve done it! Publicly humiliated him! I tricked an arch-duke as well! The logically step up in the challenge would be the emperor, no?!

“Ugh...I feel like throwing up...”

I can’t do this after all. I can’t trick myself into giving up, nor can I succumb into the illusion of being able to achieve something. I feel like, I’m being watched by countless eyes. I know I’m being paranoid, but I really would barf at any moment now. Thankfully though, for the past few weeks, I’ve gotten used to the feeling of being watched. I am somehow able to be myself out in the open.

“Alright, I need to be moving quickly.”

If I’m to be moving alone, I will be needing that.

I slowly rose to my feet with the help of the wall, and sprinted outside the room.

I need to save up on my invisibility magic for later, when I encountered any people. I can’t be wasting it right now. Unlike normal magicians, I can’t meditate in order to recover magic power. It all recovers naturally. It’s a problem with me not being able to understand how magic works at all...

...To be honest, I still don’t know how just saying the words I repeated from a game made me learn invisibility.

I could have explored it further with an offensive magic, and believe me I tried. It never worked for some reason. Perhaps the invisibility spell was something special, inserted into the game for those who are lucky enough to discover it?

“I shouldn’t be escaping the current situation by trying to reason the first thing that comes to mind...” I shook my head to get back my focus.

“I need to head to the old man’s room as fast as possible.”

Before anything happens at least. I took a few turns until I came up to an ordinary looking door. It looked exactly like my own room’s door. Well, that doesn’t really matter right?

“I really hope that he isn’t here... Yup, he has to be outside looking for Angel. Has to.”

After taking a few breaths in and out, I gently pushed the door.

I expected the cliche, where the door would make the loudest noise in the whole wide world...however, contrary to my expectation, it easily slid open. Way too easily, in fact.

“Crap...Can it be that someone is inside waiting for me...?”

Another cliche attacks me. However, my hand has already been rested on the door. The door is already in the process of opening. It’s too late to stop it. I can only cross my fingers and hope for the best! It’s do or die right now!!

“...Phew.”

It seems like no one is inside.

I enter the place like it’s my own room, and close the door behind me.

Hmm. The room is considerably large. Probably larger than my own room.

The door that I’ve just entered through took me straight into the reception room. Inside the reception room, there are two doors parallel to each other on either walls to my sides. Why I’m calling it a reception room, is because there is a couch and a table in the very center of the room. Expensive paintings are dotting the walls, as if its owner wanted to brag to the world that he was rich.

Then again, this is the emperor’s Palace. More so, this is the city’s archduke’s room.

“Now then, where would I find something that the old man would be researching...”

I decide to take a shot and take the door to my right. I proceeded into opening the door and enter the room. What greeted me was a grand bed that was at least five meters wide.

I took a look left and right, and wasn’t able to find the thing I’m searching for on the desks or tables.

“Can it be under the bed...?”

I took a shot and walked to the bed. I need to be quick about this...I don’t know what Angel is up to nor do I know when the old man will be returning.

Even worse, what if someone comes to take my life? ...What if Chris decides to check the old man’s place just in case I was here?

“Ew...”

As I hurried my steps to the bed, I noticed something on top of it. It was black, women’s undergarments.

“That perverted old man will probably die soon with all of this action...He’s not an animal, dammit. He should act more like his age...”

This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

But then again, he would be passing away doing what he loved.

And as if in response, the whole Palace shook.

“AHAHAHAHAHA! YOU LITTLE GIRL THINK YOU’RE ENOUGH TO FACE ME?!”

I broke in a cold sweat. This is definitely the old man’s voice...

“Did he find out that it was me?!”

Or did Angel meet up with him!?

I mean, his voice could be echoing throughout the Palace, right?

“YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!!!!”

The old man voice rang again. This time around however, the Palace truly shook.

“Shit!” I shouted, “They’ve started fighting!”

I think! Probably! Why else would the place shake! But thankfully, it wasn’t me! The various paintings fell to the ground, but I stood my feet.

“I really need to find that thing and get the hell out of here as soon as possible!”

It’s not in the bed! That means its in the other room! I turned back and ran into the other room. The other room was set up like some sort of a workshop, with various devices I’ve never seen before. The room itself was pretty large, and could probably house at least a hundred people with no problem at all. But that doesn’t matter. I found the thing I was looking for on one of the numerous tables, picked it up, and decided to get the hell out of there!

“This isn’t the time to describe some silly room that I’ll probably never return to!”

Various shakes and quakes have been happening for a while now. I can only think of it as an epic battle. However, for some reason, even with all this chaos, no walls fell out of place or anything at all. But I don’t have time to think any deeper into it, I really need to get the hell out of here.

“Ahhhhh!! If only they were fighting in front of the treasury!”

I made my way through the Palace while with both of my hands, a long, thick staff.

Yes, some of you out there might remember this staff as the same one that was involved in the “Eaten Apple Incident” where the old Grandpa magician tried to teach me magic. Yup, what I learned through that whole ordeal, is to not take any sorts of short cuts. That’s why, I’m going to give it my all in order to get my hands on the dream crystal without having to comply with Chris. I will take that dream crystal, and get the hell out of the capital. I miss mum a lot...Even though she sold me out.

I took all the turns, stairs and what not, until I reached a door I am quite familiar with. It’s the door that takes me to one of the Palace’s many courtyards. The garden!

“Still, it was quite weird that I didn’t meet anyone on the way here...Can it be that the fight has scared everyone away?”

Oh well. I can think all I want later, when I’m able to get the hell away from this place.

“Bang!”

An explosion rang out from somewhere near me.

“Fuck!” That almost killed my ears! I feel like they’re bleeding!

“God dammit, god dammit, god dammit, am I going to die? Is this really where I’m dying?!”

Quickly, I uttered the incantation to turn invisible as my ears are ringing.

I took a look left and right, and saw that the maniac Angel was currently super confused in the middle of a crater a few meters away from me. Her sword was thrown into the ground, probably due to the impact she suffered, she lost her grip.

No wonder my ears are ringing.

She seems to have been saying something, but I couldn’t hear her because my ears were ringing too much.

I see, I see. Via my lip reading skill, I have come to the realization that what she said was, ‘That cross dressing bastard tricked me!? I hope he burns in hell!’

****Author’s Massage: What Angel Actually said was “Why isn’t this working?! If only it did, I wouldn’t be losing like this!”  Also, Angel still doesn’t know that Kai is a male.****

You want to turn invisible right? Well fuck you too! Let me grant you your wish!!

I quickly pressed the blue button, which if I remember correctly, is the naked ray.

“Let me turn your clothes invisible for you, bitch!” I shouted.

Angel turned naked right then and there, and I made a run for it.

Oh right, wasn’t one of the buttons for healing? Let’s press that...

My body turned back to normal and started glowing a bit, and my ears stopped ringing.

“Eeeehhhhh?! Where are my clothes?!”

“That’s what you get for cursing me...even though I tried to help you!”

By tricking you!

“Hahahaha! Getting naked won’t do you anything, little girl! What you’ve caused me to lose, is my dignity! My pride! Offering your body to me won’t restore that! If it was any other day, I would have gladly accepted...but you! Not you! Not now! The only way you can get out of this, is by death!”

Anyways, I made it to the outer wall after a minutes walk while making sure not to trip through the explosions and quakes that are happening every now and then. Oh, and the occasional cursing and shouts that those two were throwing at each other.

Hmph, hmph. And I even considered saving Angel.

...Okay, I admit, I never thought about it. But that’s because she’s more powerful than me!

“Attack Magic, Attack Magic...”

I tried to remember which button to press in order to have this stick shoot off a beam...like how those two old men died...

Ahh! It was the red one, wasn’t it? Probably. I mean, it shot out red beams before, right? Red beams, means red button!

Okay, okay, let’s hit the red button...

...there!

“Shhh~ Shh~”

The beam easily pierced through the wall. Alright, while holding the button in order to keep the beam going, let’s carve a door!

I moved my hands together, and created a large enough square hole on the wall in order to get out.

“Still, I wonder, how could I so easily break down the wall? Isn’t this supposed to be the emperor’s palace?”

I mean, it can’t be this weak, can it...?

What I didn’t know at the time was that the wall that was facing the outside had a barrier running through it. It would stand up to most attacks. However, employing such a grand barrier would take too much energy, so they decided to only supply it to one side of the wall, and not the other that was facing the inside of the palace.

“Alright, let’s make a run for it. To the Pedo-Beast’s mansion!”