Driven by playing the role of the kind lady, I asked them to change the game. But Tait shattered my kindness and moved joyfully, saying, "Okay, let's play Hien then!" It was a game based solely on luck, where we rolled a die with numbers around a snake-shaped figure we had made ourselves because we couldn't find one like it in the empire.

Each player took on different animal shapes and moved their respective animal. However, if the number fell on another player's square, the snake would eat it and send it back to the starting point.

I always lost in this game, and as soon as I reached the end of the snake, someone would send me back to the beginning. Laverna succeeded sometimes and lost at other times. Then Tait came along. She seemed like the snake itself, never losing! We played a few rounds, and Tait won them all. I took it seriously and asked, "Could it be possible that you're a kidnapped princess? How is it that you always start with losses and then jump to success at the last moment?" It seemed strangely reasonable to Laverna.

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As for Tait, it seemed like she had found a principle to believe in for the rest of her life. We played more rounds until Tait and her luck became unbearable, and I stopped playing and looked at the river in anger. Tait painfully tried to justify my repeated failures, but I fell to the ground in sadness due to my disbelief. I looked at the sky and seriously wondered, "Could it be that I am your kidnapped substitute?" Laverna didn't miss the opportunity to add to the speculation, saying, "This makes sense. Both of you are the same age and from the same country! Maybe your father predicted this situation and switched you with her."