Hellbents
Chapter 81: Oh, Do You Believe?

"I acted that way because from my observation the state of the Princess is not normal."

"Not normal? You mean sick? Then if it's true, why would you want to file a wedding date?"

Wait up! What wedding?!

Ava hurriedly approached until Prince Marvin greeted her first, "Good day, Princess Eve," the man stood with his right hand taped to his left chest. Is that how the royal family shakes hands? Ava followed her gesture, "Good day, Prince Marvin, Duke Frost."

On the other hand, Ellijah did not return her greetings, instead getting up and placing her two big hands on the girl's shoulders, "You should rest even longer."

Now he's worried about her? Huh, that's funny. "No need, thanks to someone drugging me, my sleep is very good."

It seems that Ellijah does not appreciate Ava's sarcasm, but she also does not accept this kind of forced nature. What's more, getting married?! Ava has repeatedly admitted that she is not the princess of the kingdom of Edodale, but it seems that arguments even evidence through artifacts are not able to penetrate Ellijah's strong beliefs. Then he wants to accelerate marriage with a person who continues to reject his identity as his fiancee? The man was really careless and unreasonable.

So Ava will change her target.

"If your conversation is over, I'd like to speak to Prince Marvin alone."

But Ellijah was blind to the code that Ava threw, she didn't move right away, until Marvin, now acting, "Our conversation just got here, Duke Frost, You are free to enjoy the view of the royal garden freely. Me and Princess Eve said goodbye first,"

The two of them left the glass garden, not looking back. If only they turned around, Ava and Marvin would find Ellijah whose palm was wet with tea and direction. Pieces of glass scattered on the table and lap of the man.

She's pissed.

Eve still ignored him.

***

Ava was seated in the royal living room, spacious and luxurious, and now they were alone.

While Marvin is on the other side of the table, enjoying his new and hot coffee, in contrast to the untouched cup that must have been cold in the park earlier. Facing Duke Frost sometimes makes Marvin uncomfortable.

"I'm not Princess Eve Weinhamer."

Without further ado Ava threw a fact bomb at the prince.

But not in accordance with the estimates, Marvin still calmly drank his fragrant coffee. Then the man's reply was even more shocking, "I know." Two words with an informal tone that made Ava raise her eyebrows.

... The process is easy this time.

Maybe because he had faced two stubborn men who were hard to believe, Ava became half stunned.

But because it was so easy, Ava was suspicious.

Questioning Ava first did bother her, but it was a normal reaction, so she understood.

The prince understood.

And one possibility makes Ava squint, Marvin knows the whereabouts of the real Eve.

"Originally you know, pretending to be a royal family can be punished with beheading."

"However, I explained everything to Duke Frost, the interrogation with the artifact anyway, but he was the one who remained in disbelief and kidnapped me here."

Nah!

Marvin's coffee cup was placed on a ceramic mat, his gray eyes looking at Ava from head to toe. "I already know the excess interest that Duke Frost showed my brother, so I can imagine it. But ... Your faces are really similar, my God."

Ava knew, Eve was her doppelganger. He was getting tired of that word.

"If the Prince has understood, with all due respect, I ask to be returned to the city of Oranera." Whatever Marvin knows, Ava cares more about his progress to get an artifact that can restore him to his original dimension. Ava was very close to Crimsonwood, a place specifically designated in Eve's journal as the location of one of the items. But of course someone else has to mess it up.

Hid.

"Oh, can't."

"... What's?"

"I told you earlier, the punishment for a person pretending to be a royalty is beheading, I as the prince of the kingdom of Edodale certainly should not release a criminal."

"What?!" Ava's real thin patience rope finally broke.

"But you yourself understand that this misunderstanding is entirely the responsibility of Duke Frost!" Emotions include Ava's black eyes burning with fire, her hardened facial lines drained of artificial manners.

"From what I've seen, you've dared to wear my brother's dress" Marvin also won't lose.

Ava blinked, then noticed what she was wearing. She woke up in the room she assumed was Eve's, so it was only natural that if the servants treated her as the real princess of the kingdom, they would not be mistaken if they chose the princess's clothes.

But Ava also does not want to bear the responsibility because of a dress.

The girl turned cold. "Then I can get naked now." He immediately loosened the straps and ribbons from the dress he was wearing.

Marvin was riveted, his coffee almost choked. However it was finally aware of his usefulness as the woman in front of him had released him a line of corset ropes outside. Forgetting his dignity as a prince, Marvin leaps over the table that separates them and catches the busy hands of the woman. "What are you doing?!"

"Bugil in public is still better than execution."

But Marvin did not want to see the body of a woman whose face is identical to his biological brother.

"I don't want you to be put to death either!" Imagining Eve's head loose from her body alone has made Marvin shudder and nauseous. "I was going to file a contract!" True, the prince actually had an agreement that would benefit him as well as the girl before him, only he did not expect to get an extreme reaction from the empty threat he threw.

The contract? Marvin was ready, as if Ava's presence had been expected.

... Did Eve tell her sister about Ava's existence from another world?

"So you know who I really am?"

Marvin observed carefully, it seemed that the girl already had no intention of continuing her actions. He cleared his throat, momentarily calming himself who had panicked, "T-not really, big brother just told me to give him the contract he prepared when the exact person with him appeared."

A piece of paper with faintly glowing writing appeared in Marvin's hands, he immediately gave it to Ava.

Party A agreed to replace party B in carrying out his official duties as the royal princess of Edodale.

Party B shall guarantee the Ring of Genesis in return for the services of party A.

The two clauses made his forehead wrinkled. The contract term was not mentioned.

The Ring of Genesis. He remembered what he had read from Eve's journal.

The Ring of Genesis in the explanation I found on a forbidden book in the underground library in this castle can free an individual from the bondage of the distance bounded by the [System]. So that the skills possessed can be used anywhere, as far as desired. This item was estimated to be in the territory of the kingdom of Edodale.

Because of the location explanation that is still unclear, Ava prefers to go to Crimsonwood first, more precisely the secret lab of Eve, the storage place of the Necklace of Genesis.

So all this time, Eve already had both?

But Eve's objective remains unclear.

However, it doesn't make sense for Eve to kidnap Ava just to ask her to pretend to be her, does it?