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"This is some sick joke, right? or perhaps a dream?" she mumbled as she looked at the odd floating text. She suddenly recalled everything, how she died and what happened afterward. She also remembered what she saw after dying.
"What is this? two tropes mixed in one?" she whispered as she extended her hands towards the text.
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[Player: Athena Felix Byzantine
Level: 4
Exp: 0/100
Title: The Manipulator
Age: 6 (21)
Job: None
Skills: Time Manipulation (Level 0), Endurance (Level 2), Fake Smile (Level 5)
Reputation: -1
Other names: Problem child, young demon, prodigy (Athena Valior [forbidden])
Status effects: None
Info: The youngest princess of the Byzan Kingdom. Blessed by the gods.]
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It took her two minutes to analyze the information in front of her. "-1 reputation? Problem child, young demon? how evil was she? and what's up with those skills."
She bent her head to think about it, her fair became visible to her. She touched her fluffy shiny hair. "Blonde..."
She immediately woke up off the bed and analyzed her surroundings after settling her thoughts. The room was big. It was almost five, no, six times bigger than her small cramped room back in her world. It was decorated well, with a huge cupboard and a small but elegant looking drawer was placed near it. There was also a big mirror hanging on the yellow-colored walls. She rushed off to the mirror and gasped. "Is that me...?" she questioned herself. She almost looked like a doll, the sparkly blue eyes, the small nose, wavy long hair, perfectly shaped parted lips. She touched the mirror in awe, admiring the body she had.
"Young miss...?" said a female voice, as Athena was admiring herself. She quickly turned around and saw a woman dressed as a maid. "Yes?" she replied, hesitatingly. Even though she had the princess's body, she didn't have the demeanor of one. In addition to that, she was an introvert and had trouble socializing with people easily.
[Fake Smile (active)]
The young maid shivered a bit to her response and immediately asked, "...Would you not go today for breakfast....?"
She played along with the act, saying "Yes, I just woke up. I will be there in five minutes."
She kept smiling as she said her sentence. It was the skill, Fake smile which was active. Her heart was palpitating. After a brief pause, the maid nodded and left as quickly as possible.
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"Was she shivering or am I imagining things?" she mumbled as she put her hands around her hair and adjusted it. Did is basically done by every person in the morning. She brushed her teeth and changed her clothes. She also applied some water on her hair, as it was a bit messy, combed the hair and she was reading to go. Doing all these, she lost the track of time. She said to the maid she was going to come in five minutes, but it had been already 20 minutes or so.
She hurried off outside the door. Realization struck her after keeping her foot outside. There was no one to guide her to the dining room. She was pretty surprised that even though she was a princess, she had no maid, no knight, or anything similar. While changing clothes, she did see many fancy dresses and jewelry.
As she was wondering, she noticed a man in a black suit and immediately thought he was the butler. "Hey you!' she shouted while pointing at him, trying to act like a spoilt princess usually would. The man looked at her.
The man had black hair, red eyes, and gave a fierce look to her. Needless to say, he was a top-tier product in the world of men. Anyone could easily get seduced just by looking at him. "I think I would die from just his looks. Is he really a butler?" she thought in her as lewd thoughts started appearing in her mind. "What is it?" the man replied coldly.
"Why are all hot men so cold? But it's probably better than Derrick's dense attitude" she thought in her mind, dozing off. She quickly came back to her senses. "Guide me to the dining room," she said, wiping the drool off her mouth.
The man looked a bit astonished. He nodded and starts walking. She follows him. As she follows him, she looks around the palace. The palace was huge, as every palace is. The interior was nice, and the interior designer did some God's work for sure. The paintings were beautiful and there were several portraits of people.
After a few minutes of walking, they arrived in front of a door, being guarded by two soldiers who were relaxing. They noticed the man and immediately became stiff. "Y-your highness has arrived!" both of them shouted.
"eh?" She got petrified after hearing what the soldiers said. "Did I hear that correctly?" She thought to herself while sweating profusely. "He said the emperor right?" she added to her thoughts while her heart was beating probably 480 times per second.
"DKFOPRNGORPSNBPORSNPONRPOBRSPONBPRSM[PRM[PRSMB[PRSM[PBRSM[PRSBMP[BRSMPMBR! I am fooked, ain't I?" she added further to her thoughts while imagining that she was going to be beheaded. The Emperor turned around to look at her.
[Fake Smile (Active)]
Even though the skill made her smile awkwardly towards him but inside her mind, she was screaming "please ignore dis. Just this once."
The emperor didn't say anything, he was calm and after looking at her reaction he finally bothered to say something. "What are you doing? I thought you asked me to bring you to the dining room for having breakfast?"
That was the final point where Athena concluded her analysis. He had no mental or physical flaws! His voice was seductive, his personality was bewitching, he wasn't dense and on top of that, he was hot!
If she was a six-year-old inside, then she would have been totally scared the moment he looked back at her but that wasn't the case. She was 21 inside, and she was less intimidated by that than normal people would have. Obviously, the emperor won't kill his own daughter... or will he?
"Yes, I was feeling hungry and wanted to have breakfast...." she said, but before she could finish the emperor turned again and was about to go inside the room before Athena added one more word at the end of her sentence "Father"
He looked at her and, he flushed but quickly hid his face by keeping his palm on his face. He then quickly got rid of his flushed face and changed back to the poker face he had. He then said, "come in and take a seat, breakfast will be served soon"
Athena realized that they had been standing in front of the door for five minutes. She also noticed that she was a bit more relaxed.
[Reputation Increased by 1!]
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[Player: Athena Felix Byzantine
Level: 4
Exp: 0/100
Title: The Manipulator
Age: 6 (21)
Job: None
Skills: Time Manipulation (Level 0), Endurance (Level 8), Fake Smile (Level 5)
Reputation: 0
Other names: Problem child, young demon, prodigy (Athena Valior [forbidden])
Status effects: None
Info: The youngest princess of the Byzan Kingdom. Blessed by the gods.]
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"That raised my reputation?" she mumbled to herself in astonishment.