The Unfettered Ice Princess [ EN ]

Chapter 84 [ You believe it? ]

".... of course..."
Naeva smiled faintly.

"My wounds... don't regenerate."

"This body doesn't carry my immortality. If I kill myself now... I can finally leave this damn life behind."

"........"

Naeva stared at her reflection in her new body's long silver sword. After a few seconds, she sheathed the sword again.
"....Well, I wanna die. But not now. Not in this body."

"I was born as Fuyu Yukina, so I should die as Fuyu Yukina too," she mused.

"More importantly--"
Naeva turned to stare into the distance.
"-- it will be a big problem if my body is misused."

Naeva began to walk from her original position to a random place.
"Ophelia and others intend to gather in capital as soon as possible and work together to find their real bodies."

At that moment, Naeva just said yes. But in her heart, she had no intention of doing that at all. Because...
"In the worst case scenario where whoever occupied my body doesn't want to return it. Even if we work together. My original body cannot be defeated that easily."

"It's better to reduce casualties as much as possible. And just pray my body is not misused."

Naeva might have looked calm and collected. But ever since she heard that the 4th floor ascension exam was going to swap her body, she got upset. She wasn't worried that the person wearing it would do bad things like kill or other bad things. What worried her was if her appearance was exposed because of it. Even though people would know that the person who did it was not the original owner of the body, still, impact of whatever it was was bound to make her very eye-catching.

Naeva really hoped from the bottom of her heart that nothing troublesome would happen after this.

Wasting no time, she immediately searched here and there for her body. Sneaking here and there to listen to any kind of rumors. Unfortunately she still hadn't found her. Thankfully, if it was easy to find, it meant that her body was doing something conspicuous.

Instead, Naeva heard rumors about her friends' bodies. Like, a Lady Calliope apparently took this exam and wandered all over the library to read books.
"The role she plays must be 'bookworm' or 'scholarly'. What a Calliope."

About the Anubis girl who is very polite, formal, rich and always followed by Japanese servants here and there. As well as never getting out of the floating palanquin enveloped in Youkai energy.
"..... The one who plays Bere must have gotten role of 'Princess'... No mistake... Bere is indeed the Princess Ptolemaios. But this..."

"......."
Naeva chose to ignore the entourage of fake princesses that passed by her as she snacked on dango 🍡 by the roadside.
"I didn't see anything."

About the boy who always slept anywhere on his floating pillow.
"Obviously Ruka."

Or about those perverted guys who like to flirt with girls here and there.
"........."

Such rumors Naeva had heard in the days since Conquerors swapped bodies. It felt good to take a leisurely walk without such a burden of thoughts (?). Since there were no rumors about her, it meant that her body was at ease. Naeva didn't need to worry too much. She could relax and search while traveling. Of course, she still took it seriously, because her body might change its mind from a calm and relaxed life.

BUUKKKKKK

Because he didn't see the road, a drunk man hit Naeva. Normally Naeva wouldn't have fallen just because of that, but since she was acting as an 11-year-old, she pretended to fall backwards.