Go back? There's no going back.

"..."

Hearing this, Su Wei felt a little relieved.

Sure enough, the other party now confused him with someone else.

After all, there had never been any conflict between him and this adult that would cause the other to say such a thing.

"I mean, I... I'm not as good as you think."

"Although I usually don't care about many things, I am still quite stingy."

The delicate whispers in the ear continued, and as the princess spoke, her grip on Su Wei's wrist loosened little by little.

She turned and held Su Wei's face in her hands.

"So, you can't keep rejecting me, okay?"

"…I see."

The four looked at each other, the distance between their faces was less than ten centimeters. An invisible sense of oppression enveloped the whole body. Su Wei was silent for a moment, then nodded obediently.

He no longer resisted.

It’s better to say that this has come to an end.

"Yeah, good boy."

A slight smile finally appeared on the flawless face. The slightly tipsy princess narrowed her eyes in satisfaction and exerted slight force with her hands.

The fragrance filled the air, and Su Wei's eyes fell into darkness.

For the first time, he was hugged face to face by the other party.

For some reason, the drunk princess looked much stronger than usual, but at this moment, listening to her unsteady heartbeat and feeling her slightly disordered breathing, Su Wei had an illusion.

She seemed...uneasy?

But, the hero she had been thinking about day and night was about to come back...what was she so worried about?

"..."

"Remaining activation time: 95 minutes and 43 seconds"

"During activation, please keep in touch with the host."

His consciousness finally stayed on the system panel for a moment, and Su Wei tried to struggle again.

However, in the face of absolute power, everything he does now is in vain.

Finally, Su Wei's whole body relaxed little by little.

Already, there is no other way.

Can't run away.

In that case, let's just leave it to fate.

If the princess still has the remaining strength in her hands after falling asleep, then when she wakes up tomorrow morning, Su Wei can start the feast right away.

Of course, this seat... is his own.

Chapter 10: Constitution, Activation

The moon sets and the sun rises.

A ray of sunlight shone into the room through the window, and Celia slowly opened her eyes.

The first thing I saw was the unfamiliar ceiling.

"……Um?"

She was stunned for a moment, a hint of confusion flashed across her eyes, and she sat up with her hands on the mattress beneath her.

Looking around at the strange room she was in, her eyes swept over the scattered empty wine bottles rolling on the bed, and Celsia widened her eyes slightly.

…Oh, that’s right.

Yesterday, I stopped Elsie from cleaning and came to this room on my own initiative, intending to make a break with the past.

then……

Just as she vaguely recalled the cause of everything, the hangover headache came up.

The next second, magical factors like starlight emerged from the surface of the skin, clearing away all remaining drunkenness.

Soon, the groggy hangover feeling in the First Princess's head disappeared.

"……I see."

Momo raised her hand and rubbed her forehead. At this moment, Celsia had remembered everything.

Yesterday, after I came to this room, I was originally planning to clean it myself...but for some reason, I kept procrastinating and my efficiency was extremely low.

Instead, he became more and more irritated along the way, and there were even a few moments when he had the strange urge to crush the entire palace to pieces.

During this year, I have unknowingly developed a drinking habit due to the frequent inexplicable anxiety and irritability.

Every time I drink a little bit of wine, that light feeling can invisibly reduce the impact of irritability on myself.

It happened yesterday too. I was cleaning and started drinking without realizing it.

Then, I don’t know if it was because I was more irritable than before, but I drank a little too much without paying attention…

"So... I got drunk while cleaning and fell asleep?"

Blinking her eyes, the First Princess looked around, and was slightly stunned at the room where the cleaning progress was almost zero.

In the end, not only did she not clean the room, she even slept in the guest room.

Not only that, I even... had a strange dream?

"What on earth did I do in my dream?"

As the hazy memory became clearer, at this moment, Celsia had completely recalled the dream.

A slight blush crept up on the fair cheeks. The first princess stopped rubbing her forehead and covered her face with her hands.

Even if I was drunk at the time, but holding a child who had just grown up in my dream and not letting go... isn't it a bit too weird?

And, for some reason, Celsia always felt that, even in a dream, that touch, that voice... were too real.

It should be a dream, right?

I subconsciously looked down at my side and saw that the mattress was empty.

"…What am I thinking? How could he come back?"

After a while, the princess took a deep breath, turned sideways and walked off the bed.

But the next second, her movements suddenly stopped.

"...?"

Although it was a little late, at this moment, the first princess finally realized that something was wrong with herself.

She found that her whole body was light.

Even my head feels light.

It wasn’t because of being drunk, but because the whole person... felt countless times more relaxed.

All those annoyances that would have come back after sobering up, for some reason, disappeared without a trace after waking up today.

She walked to the door in a daze, and before leaving the room, the first princess turned back to take one last glance at the barely cleaned guest room.

——Next time... I'll clean it slowly when I have time.

This thought came to her mind, and the princess nodded to herself.

Anyway, there is no one scheduled to visit here recently.

She walked out of the room and closed the door gently.

The soft morning light shines into the main hall through the window gap. Today's weather is particularly bright.

In the exceptionally quiet hall, the empire's first princess leaned against the window alone.

She lowered her head slightly, her eyes looking through the window quietly towards the main entrance.

She was confused.

Why is the effect of drinking alcohol in relieving fatigue so obvious this time?

Is it because of the change in flavor, or... the different place where you drink it?

Just as Celsia held her chin and fell into deep thought for a moment, she slowly opened her eyes.

"……Eh?"

A breeze blew by, and in the sight of a princess, a strand of black hair broke away from the collar of her clothes and slowly fell into the distance.

That wasn't her hair.

slam-la-

At the same time, at the main gate of the royal city, an animal cart drove straight out and headed straight for the notorious slums outside the city.

Finally, the animal cart stopped near the entrance a little further away from the slums.

"Guest, we have arrived."

Holding the reins with one hand, the middle-aged driver with a slightly balding head turned his head and looked at the carriage behind him.

"I'm sorry, as I told you at the beginning, I can't take you directly inside... None of my colleagues can drive into the place ahead, including me."

The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and the middle-aged driver showed a hint of apology on his face as he looked at the young man walking out of the carriage.

Although he had no idea what such a rich young man dressed in luxurious clothes was doing in such a smelly place, he would never violate the industry principle of "never driving into the slums outside the city."

After all, some time ago, a colleague who was blinded by a tip and drove in with a fluke mentality is still lying in the hospital.

He can't even take care of himself.

I heard that after being rescued after being missing in the slums for three days and three nights, that person's location has now changed from * to ?.

The most important thing is that the person is a man.

Even though he is over 40 years old, his baldness is even more serious than his...

The middle-aged driver knew very well that the slum ahead was a place where no women were seen.

Starting about a dozen years ago, as if under some kind of curse, all the women living there would eventually die mysteriously.

This caused panic among the people at the time, and countless indigenous people rushed to move away.

Over time, the only people living here were a group of refugees from outside.

They are hungry and extremely dangerous.

"Thank you. How much?"

On the other side, with a pair of fresh dark circles under his eyes, Su Wei jumped out of the car and stood shakily.

Yesterday, he didn't know exactly when he sneaked into the palace.

But Su Wei remembered very clearly that it was almost five o'clock in the morning when he finally waited until the princess fell asleep completely and the strength in her hands eased, giving him a chance to escape.

In fact, if he hadn't bitten his tongue hard several times along the way, Su Wei felt that he would have fallen asleep first, by some drunken big shot.

So... why would the drunk First Princess of the Empire awaken this strange skill of coaxing people to sleep?

……never mind.

Su Wei sighed slightly.

Although the great princess's surname is not Lin.

However, it is an indisputable fact that he attacked the palace at night.

Su Wei decided that after he had dealt with everything on his side, he would go back and surrender.

Now, I really want to find my mom first.

"Sir, the fare is 3 silver coins."

At this time, Su Wei heard the offer made by the middle-aged driver next to him.