Chapter 15 – Plays

What is this… ?

I knew that I could understand the current situation. Why does the princess know my true identity and is calling me as if she is happy to see me?

Could it be that this world I am in is a different world that I do not know about?

It was not wrong.

It was the world I was reincarnated from after I died in the world I originally lived in, so another world is correct.

No, that wasn’t what I was looking for right now.

What I have to think about now is why did the princess know about my identity?

Yeah, it was a bit weird looking at it.

I must have chosen a suitable seat and sat down, but what is the probability that a princess from a country will sit right next to me?

Now that I think about it, it was strange that I came and sat down just before the start of the play.

If you had come normally, it would be normal for the princess to go to the VIP seat first and sit down in advance without having to wait.

Now that I think about it, it was full of strange things.

“Eris? Don’t you remember me?”

“Oh that… I… That’s… “

What should I answer?

After thinking about it for a while, my head was already on the verge of exploding.

That’s also true, I’m so thrilled that my cartoons are being turned into plays, and my head is complicated, but it’s not enough that someone who knows my identity has been born there, and that person is the princess of a country.

This is because my head really doesn’t explode and I can’t learn it.

I think I’m going crazy now

Just before my head fuses, my head, which barely made up its mind, issued an order that was very simple.

Hide your identity.

“Sir, I’m not a saint… “

“… “

Maria looked at me with a puzzled expression.

Of course, such a lie could not work.

Because she knows very well who I am.

No I can’t know

Even if it looks like this, Maria and I have been very close in the past.

Now, it wasn’t for any strange reason that the relationship between her and I was strained.

Only… Each other’s identity.

It was simply because there was a huge difference between a saint and a princess of a country.

The Seongguk, fed up with the culture of the empire, even the gods, and the behavior of making various things into culture and consuming them, implemented a closed policy toward the empire.

It was hard to say that it was Seongguk’s fault.

No honestly… Wouldn’t a believer get angry if they thought that their gods were joining someone’s harem?

You’ll feel like you’re being treated like an idiot.

In fact, it’s not strange at all even if they wage a holy war, but maybe it’s because it’s a neutral country, so they didn’t really fight.

However, the policy has changed.

There was a degree of political exchange that was really necessary, but the problem is that the close leadership has fallen.

Of course, even this should be considered fortunate.

The fact that it was a cartoon drawn by an individual in the empire and the relationship was friendly from the beginning, so the policy of closing it was limited.

If the empire pushed it like that, there is a high possibility that it is still at war with the empire.

The word “Seongguk” Is not for nothing.

Anyway… The policy has changed, of course, the leadership has become distant, so…

It is nothing else, but cultural exchanges have decreased, so naturally Maria and I had no choice but to grow apart.

I swallowed and asked carefully.

“Oh, Maria… Why are you here… ?”

“At some point, you became stiff. It would be great if you could call me Marie like before… “

Said Maria, twisting her body.

It seemed that he had gone mad while not being able to meet him.

We never fought each other… It’s not like we have personal feelings, so if we get to know each other again, we might be able to become friends…

There are many reasons why I react so awkwardly.

The first is because this place we are in right now is a place.

If we met by chance while wandering the streets of the city, we are confident that we will be very welcome, but right now we are in the middle of a festival.

That too, we met yesterday at the place where the work was being played.

It was enough to piss off each other.

No, think about it

I met a friend from the past, whom I had broken up with, and the only place I met was when I was trying to buy each other at a place where a comic I had written was turned into a doujinshi.

However, the other person knows that I am the author of the cartoon.

But I am a homosexual writer.

… ?

?

??

That’s enough of a question mark in this way.

However, it seems that I was the only one who thought it was embarrassing.

Something was placed on top of my hand.

I was startled and turned my head to see what was on my hand.

Beautiful, slender hands with no blemishes.

It was Maria’s hand.

“This hand… It is the hand that made the current Jjinjjabbobim.”

“… “

I couldn’t have imagined that such a vulgar word would come out of the princess’s mouth, so I looked at her with a shocked expression.

“Chji, steamed jjam bobim… “

“Oh, I thought you would know about my identity by now.”

…

It’s strange when you think about it.

I don’t know why she knows about me, and knowing the abbreviation of jjin cham bobim is no different from being a fan of my work.

It’s a word that only Naridan knows.

Of course, you can say that I came to know the word while looking for my work, but if that was the case, I would have called it a real princess and a fake princess.

That is, she was blatantly revealing her true identity.

No way.

I took out the crystal board.

At the sound of the play starting soon, there was a notification that there was a message saying that the sound had been buried at the same time as the revision was inserted.

I clicked on it like I was possessed.

What then emerges…

“Ah… “

The history of messages exchanged before.

The last message was [Don’t worry! I won’t ask where you are!] The chat right below the chat.

[Because we’ll meet soon anyway.] The chat.

Only then did I know

That she and I did not meet by chance, but that it had been planned for a long time.

Why?

How?

Since when… ?

Obviously, I tried my best not to let her know my identity, but I got caught like this?

I looked at Maria with her trembling eyes.

But Maria only smiled.

Weaknesses captured.

As one of the pillars of the kingdom, as a saint, I was captured by a princess from another country.

If the pope saw this, he might grab the back of his neck and fall down on the spot.

Maria, who had been caressing my hand as if treating something precious, suddenly removed hers.

“… ?”

When I looked at her wondering what was going on with her, I saw Maria with a nice smile on her face.

“Don’t worry~ There’s no such thing as a black heart~ Nothing Eris is worried about will happen, right? Of course I’ll keep it a secret!”

“That… That is… “

“So, shall we focus on the play for now?”

Saying that, Maria looked back at her.

…

…

Although it was Maria who said that she had no dark feelings.

If all these were traps to draw me out… The thought and the contents of the article I saw this morning flashed through my mind.

If the,

Really if.

If she had just hatched a plan to lure me into this festivities and threw her bait, and I’d just bit off the bait.

The fact that my cartoon, which had no chance of being dramatized, became a dramatization, wasn’t it because she gave her back money and pressured her to use it as her bait?

She may have, though not necessarily, commissioned her theater company to perform her play at her own expense.

Either way, it was the story that made her do her play.

The moment she thought that, goosebumps ran through her body.

“Ah, it starts. See you quickly!”

Maria called to me with a visibly agitated expression.

Contrary to my expectation that she would only care about me, she seemed genuinely happy that my work was being turned into a play.

I was confused at the moment because it was completely different from before, but I thought that maybe they genuinely like my work.

Come to think of it, the girl in the chat really liked my work.

If, as she says, my benefactor is none other than Mary.

What she said that she likes my work must be true.

What… If so…

It’s terrifying to have come to me this far, but I’m very happy that she likes my work.

I’d say it doesn’t feel too bad.

For now, let’s start with the play.

Because I came all the way here to see this.

Maria didn’t seem to have any intention of doing anything right now.