Garden of Eden || Apocalypse Paradise #2 [Complete]

141: It Isn't Easy to Kill Three Birds With One Stone

The atmosphere seemed to freeze with silence once she stated that question.

"Well, that's..." the head steward swallowed his saliva nervously. He didn't know why she would suddenly ask about that mirror. "A gentleman who had been recently knighted presented that mirror to the king. It is worth quite a bit, but you can take it. Just let the prince go!"

Lin Sanjiu stared motionlessly at the mirror for a few seconds before she let out a long sigh.

"Does that gentleman have a blue beard?" Her tone revealed that she hoped it was just a fluke and the head steward would shake his head.

Unfortunately, a hint of surprise flew across the man's face as he wondered why she asked him if she already knew the answer. After that, he nodded and said something, but Lin Sanjiu couldn't hear his words. This illogical matter had overwhelmed all her thinking capacity. From the previous conversation, the person from the circus who was about to make a deal with the Old Man Fairy was Bluebeard. At the same time, he was also the person who presented the mirror. 'If there was so, how could he exist in the past and the future?'

Lin Sanjiu opened her mouth, but words failed her. The head steward glued his eyes on her. Lin Sanjiu only remembered that she was strangling someone when she felt the movement of a throat under her hands. She quickly released the prince and leaped aside.

When Prince Cedric could breathe properly again, his face turned red as a tomato while he curled his body and coughed violently for some time. Although Lin Sanjiu was still slightly bothered by her thoughts, she moved quickly. The moment the saber fell to the ground with a heavy crash, the head steward, who was about to shout for backup, was struck by a black shadow. He was flung to the wall and fainted after he hit the back of his head against a candle holder.

Prince Cedric glared at Lin Sanjiu with fear and fury as he watched her pull back her mouthpart weapon. His face turned pale when he saw what was in her hand, and he froze for a few seconds. He suddenly grabbed his own throat and laughed ruthlessly, "You witch! You demon! Even if you kill me today, you can't save your compatriot..."

Lin Sanjiu was just about to walk out when she stopped. "What do you mean?" She threw a sideway glance at the prince.

"The dinner sent to Cinderella has been poisoned," the man's arrogant tone remained unchanged despite being in a dangerous position. "She is probably dead by now!"

'Damn it!'

Even if it had been some time since Prince Cedric uttered those words, Lin Sanjiu could still hear them echoing through her mind. She cursed inwardly and thrust forward, running as fast as she could. She could only hear the rushing wind filling her ears as she sprinted through the corridors and toward Cinderella's room.

She probably knocked down more than a dozen female attendants as she ran. She couldn't care less about the noisy commotion she had stirred up behind her. She came to Cinderella's door and kicked down the door. Simultaneously, she saw that Cinderella was about to spoon salad into her mouth.

"Don't eat—"

Before Lin Sanjiu could spit out her full warning, she felt herself lose balance and fell into a patch of flower field. Her confusion lasted only half a second this round; Lin Sanjiu rolled to her side and stood up quickly.

The sun hung in the azure sky as the flower field basked in the glorious sunshine. There was a scent of fresh grass all around. Lin Sanjiu felt that she was back at the start, where she first met Red Riding Hood. She saw the same forest, the flower field, and the clouds in the distance. The only different thing was the stone tablet before her.