Chapter 54: Chapter: 52

Unaware of the heroine's blessing, Rex smiled looking at the coral-haired girl in front of him, she is wearing a pretty light pink dress that looks sweet in her.

Thump!

Thump!

Thump!

The chaotic heartbeats started again, Rex chuckled, this unfamiliar feeling always appears whenever he is around her.

He flinched.

'Who?'

Rex widened his eyes as if comes to his senses, he abruptly stopped his dance with Lily and stood like a statue with a pale face, uneasiness along with torturous pain immersed into his heart, it's neither physical injury nor wound, yet this feeling is ripping his heart apart.

It hurts.

This feeling, it's like he's about to lose something so precious and will regret it for his entire life, an unknown thing that could make him this bitter, his chest stings.

"Your Highness, are you alright?"

Lily leans closer to his ear and whispered with a worried voice, but Rex didn't budge, he is struggling to realize what is this painful feeling.

'It's love, Rex!'

'You love her'

Part of him screaming inwardly, trying to resist whatever things that trying to bewitch him away from his loved one.

'Am I...'

'Am I in love?'

Rex never knows what love is, though he likes all those benefits him, this pure emotional thing is absurd for him, yet he couldn't bring himself to contend with it as if deep inside his heart he knows that he is indeed in love.

And he had found whom his heart belongs to.

'But who?'

Sudden memories flashed through his mind, that night when he softly kissed the forehead of a girl amidst the flower garden, when she holds his hand to reassure him that everything is alright, or her annoying smirks whenever she teases him.

The blurred figure of a girl in his mind...

Is his love.

Thump!

Thump!

Thump!

He finally realized it.

The unfamiliar feeling that keeps blooming as the time flies by...

Is love.

His first and only love.

Red finally learned about love the hard way.

With bitter eyes, he lifted his head and look at the girl in front of him.

"Is it you?"

Rex said with a faint voice almost like a whisper that could only be heard by Lily, struggling to maintain his sanity by resisting the overflowed feelings, the confrontation between the fake and true love.

Something is trying to replace his loved one.

Lily holds Rex's right cheek while giving him the sweetest smile to lift his doubt, it's his last resistance before he madly falls for her charms.

"Yes, it's me here"

She said reassuring Rex, giving him the answer he is desperate for, her mission given by her beloved parents is almost complete.

But...

"Ha!"

Rex sneered while smirking, withstanding his torn-apart heart as he holds his chest with his hand tightly refused to give up on his true love.

"You..."

"...Are not the owner of this heart"

The Male Lead said coldly slapping those firm words on the face of the Heroine, feeling disgusted.

He doesn't know what is happening, but he is certain, the girl in front of him...

Is not his true love.

The wheel of fate is finally crumbling, the written destiny of the Novel is no longer valid as the existence of anomaly ravages her own destiny.

'Grizel...'

He called his love's name inwardly.

His determination to hold onto his feeling barely brought him towards the light, the blurred image of a girl in his mind is getting clear, he can see it certainly, the devilish yet enchanting smirk belongs to the white silver-haired angelic girl.

'Right, I need to get back to where this heart belongs to'

He smiled as he accumulates a little bit of his mana to the palm holding on his chest, this is his only chance before he falls into the trap.

Bzzzt!

A small lightning sparks on his heart causing him some light internal injuries.

Cough!

The Prince coughed and blood started to flow out from the tip of his mouth, it wasn't that severe but he managed to stay sane by hurting himself.

He needs to gain back his senses whatever the costs.

"Kyaaaaa...!!!"

The guests around the prince who were dancing in blissful started to make a ruckus when they see the Crown Prince is bleeding, while Rex is still standing there striving to catch his breath in pain.

"Call the priest and the physician"

Emperor Drake shouted in panic from afar, Rex is his one and only precious son, he couldn't bear to lose him as well as he lost his beloved wife.

In the middle of the chaos, Drake heard a familiar voice through his new pendant, Fortuna's pendant presented by Grizel to the Emperor.

It wasn't as fancy as Rex's since the one given to the Emperor has the simpler design with green mana stone wrapped with a black snake, the mass-produced version of the pendant.

"Calm down, Father. Rex is alright"

Grizel said comforting the Emperor, for some reason, his panicked mind started to calm down.

"Grizel? Did you see what happened?"

Drake asked her, he couldn't see everything clearly and figure out what happened to his son who suddenly coughing blood since the dance floor is quite far from his throne where he sits for the entire party.

"Rex harmed himself to resist Miss Goldway's love charms, the blessing gained from the stone of Aphrodite"

"WHAT?! If that is the case, then shouldn't we arrest her before any other problem arises?"

Emperor Drake whispered to the pendant as he almost raised his voice due to the shocking fact revealed, in truth, he also had the thought of Miss Goldway ain't any inferior compared to Grizel in terms of appearance, though, Grizel is far more intelligent and competent than her.

Love charms are not new things, as love potions, love spells, and everything that can be used to make one madly in love are exist and sold discreetly in the black market, even if the usage of it was classified as an outlawed measure in every nation.

But compared to those cheap things, the love charms from a stone of God is in a whole different matter as they are deemed to be a legendary item, it could be said to have a much stronger and addictive effect.

Grizel could hear Lily and Rex's conversation through the transmitter planted in his pendant while observing them, he is quite admirable for keeping his sanity intact after being that close to Lily in a longer amount of time since the other guests got swayed by her love charms only by looking at her from afar.

"No, Father could you please leave her to me?"

"It's not impossible, do you have something in mind?"

Grizel smirked while heading towards the Prince, the unexpected event makes her change her plan for Lily.

"Yes, Father"

Tap!

Tap!

Tap!

Everyone is unconsciously making a way for Grizel as they could sense her bright and warm divine aura, she activated the blessing from her stone of Solomon, from all of the colors of the aura, she chooses the white one, the divine aura.

'Master, I think your divine aura won't suppress that brat's love charm'

Athena commented, indeed releasing her aura is not a solution since it can only be described as the confrontation of 2 nonphysical assaults.

'Of course, I need something else to break through her blessing. did you forget one of my awakened abilities from that painful Holy Class awakening?'

Grizel added, her second awakening was so severe compared to the first one despite having no destructive abilities, now she has a bunch of guinea pigs to test the second active skill of her Holy Class abilities, she won't miss the chance.

She walked through the crowds as she recalled her awakened abilities gained from her second awakening.

'Purification'

Suddenly, a faint radiant covered the entire hall of the Palace, she controlled her mana as thin as possible to prevent anyone senses her enormous amount of mana.

'Hhmm?...'

Grizel raised her eyebrow, after performing her first purification skill, she makes sure to check the results by using her appraisal blessing as her eyes gleamed in golden.

But...

Surprisingly, there are 2 different results.

'Purified'

And

'Temporarily purified'

Those are written in their status, except for several people, the rest of the guests in the hall only get temporarily purified including Rex.

'What is it? What's the difference between these people to get the different types of results?'

She thought inwardly, there must be another condition besides high purification magic to be fully detached from Lily's love charm, but that thing can only be found out after confirming to the victim who got most affected by the charm...

Rex.

Grizel shortly arrived in front of the crying heroine and the suffering male lead since she was observing them not far from their location.

People are gathering around them but don't dare to come any closer due to their fear of being accused of harming the Crown Prince.

As if played by fate, there are only the Male Lead, Heroine, and the Villainess at the center of the crowded nobles.

Grip!

When Grizel was about to approach the injured Rex, Lily gripped Grizel's hand harshly preventing her to get to him any closer.

"What is it, Miss Goldway?"

To be continued...

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Author's Corner:

Hello, readers!

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Yesterday, I tried to edit Fortuna's products to the jewelry mannequin pics since I think it would be helpful to the readers to imagine their display when these items are worn.

Rex's pendant looks quite heavy and big in the close-up pic, well I guess it because I want to show the detailed design, but it wasn't that big actually.

This green one warped with a snake is the design for the mass-produced pendant that will be selling all over the world.

Aaaaannnndddd.....

*drumrolls*

Lastly, I have the earring that has the same design as Grizel's, though, it has the blue mana stone instead of the red one since it was worn by the dev- no, I mean the elites, Levi, Lucy, and Deus.