Adopting the Male Protagonist Changed the Genre - Chapter 107

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Chapter 107

 

In the end, Uncle never gave Belinda an answer to her question and closed his eyes forever.

 

On the day of Uncle’s funeral.

 

She stayed holed up in her room throughout the entire funeral service, but no one came looking for her.

 

It was as if Belinda’s existence had been erased from this world.

 

Like an artificial flower, she kept watch by the window, quietly gazing at the thicket where she had first met Uncle.

 

Then, someone knocked on Belinda’s door.

 

At first, she thought it was an auditory hallucination.

 

However, that hallucination borrowed a voice that Belinda had kept in a corner of her heart and captured her attention.

 

“Bel, are you inside?”

 

An unfamiliar yet gentle adult male voice.

 

There was no way she couldn’t recognize it.

 

It was the voice of the young friend she had cruelly sent away.

 

The Royal Court had already sent the Prince as a mourner. Therefore, there was no reason for the Crown Prince to personally attend a mere family head’s funeral.

 

Moreover, wasn’t the Blanche family part of the nobility faction that wanted to put the Prince on the next throne?

 

Yet Mikhail was here, beyond Belinda’s door.

 

“I heard from a servant that you’re in your room… May I come in?”

 

“…”

 

She opened her mouth but no words came out.

 

Her throat had seized up from not speaking a single word during Uncle’s funeral.

 

Belinda slowly approached the door and tried to picture the presence beyond it in her mind.

 

Since saying harsh words to Mikhail at the Queen’s funeral, she had never properly faced him even once. It would be more accurate to say she had deliberately avoided him.

 

Nevertheless, Mikhail had come to find Belinda.

 

“I just came to see if you’re doing well.”

 

“…”

 

“I hope you’re doing well, Bel. I just came to tell you that.”

 

“…”

 

Belinda leaned her forehead against the door and answered haltingly.

 

‘I’m not doing well, Misha.’

 

‘Uncle died.’

 

‘He didn’t even tell me he loved me.’

 

‘I despise myself for still suspecting that person even though Uncle is dead.’

 

‘Misha… help me.’

 

However, all those words never became sounds that leaked out of her mouth.

 

Belinda couldn’t dare show herself before Mikhail or give him an answer.

 

She simply couldn’t do it.

 

Wasn’t all of this the price for stabbing Mikhail’s heart?

 

Belinda listened to Mikhail’s presence lingering by the door for a long while, and only after he left did she collapse weakly onto the bed.

 

How much time had passed?

 

Even her tears had dried up now.

 

There was no anger toward Schubel or even suspicion toward Uncle.

 

She was just so tired.

 

Tired enough that it would be fine to die like this.

 

Belinda covered her feverish eyes with her arm and closed them.

 

May tomorrow never come like this.

 

Rather, may the whole world just perish.

 

She seemed to have fallen asleep while praying for that.

 

That day, half of her wish came true.

 

Time passed and day broke as always.

 

The world did not perish.

 

However, tomorrow did not come for her.

 

Starting Doki Doki Hero Maker.

 

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And when Belinda opened her eyes.

 

“Ugh, my head… Huh? What? Why does my voice sound like this?”

 

She was Belinda, yet no longer Belinda.

 

You have obtained the special item, ‘Adoption Papers Imbued with Special Power’.

 

With that system window as the last, she finally surfaced from the waters of the past.

 

* * *

 

When Belinda blinked once, she was still standing on the terrace of the Blanche Annex.

 

She had gripped the railing so tightly that the back of her hand had turned white.

 

Belinda glared at the system window floating in the air with clenched teeth.

 

[Quest] Where am I? Who am I? Complete

 

Congratulations! Having completed synchronization and acquired all fragments of Belinda’s memories, you have now perfectly adapted to this world.

 

No one will be able to see through your true identity.

 

This is Monteo, the Royal Capital of the Kingdom of Jenos, and you are Belinda Blanche.

 

‘Damn synchronization.’

 

After acquiring even the last fragment of Belinda’s memories, the tremendous emptiness she felt at the end crushed her dried-up heart.

 

Belinda struggled to escape from this terrible loneliness and isolation.

 

“My lady, are you alright?”

 

When she came to her senses, she was already gripping Cesar’s sleeve with all her might.

 

She called to him desperately, like discovering someone’s message in a bottle that had drifted to an isolated island.

 

“Penandel.”

 

“Yes.”

 

“Just let me… stay like this for a moment.”

 

Cesar froze for a moment, then immediately tilted the umbrella completely toward her.

 

The drizzle continued to fall, and the moonlight did not shine on the two of them.

 

In the darkness, Belinda closed her eyes and occasionally called out, “Penandel, are you there?” and each time Cesar answered, “Yes, I’m by your side.”

 

During this time, his gaze never left Belinda, who was huddled under the umbrella.

 

In the North, there is a flower that remains frozen as a bud all year long, then blooms for just one day.

 

That flower, called the Blue Ice Flower, is so beautiful when in full bloom that anyone who sees it loses their soul.

 

Cesar had seen that flower before too.

 

Cesar’s heart, which had remained unmoved even before the precious flower praised as the most beautiful in the world, crumbled with just one smile from Belinda.

 

For the first time, he could perceive the location of his own heart.

 

However, his heart was not on the left side of his chest.

 

Sometimes it was in his right hand that he had extended to escort her, and now it was in his left hand that Belinda was grasping.

 

Cesar’s heart existed wherever he touched Belinda.

 

Then, suddenly Belinda opened her eyes and looked up at Cesar.

 

Like a child caught doing something bad, he ended up avoiding her gaze.

 

“Cheri.”

 

“Yes.”

 

Only after giving that answer did Cesar hesitate.

 

What had she just called him?

 

Surely she had said ‘Sir Cheri’….

 

Soon Belinda opened her eyes and looked up at him intently.

 

Only after meeting her gaze did Cesar realize that she had long since seen through his pathetic acting.

 

He immediately apologized for his past rudeness.

 

“I’m sorry for deceiving you.”

 

“It’s fine, I’ll forgive you. More than that, I have a favor to ask of Sir Cheri.”

 

It was the first time she had mentioned a favor.

 

So how could he dare refuse her request? Cesar was prepared to grant whatever it might be.

 

But….

 

“I want to call off the marriage with His Grace the Duke.”

 

Suddenly he found himself at a loss for words.

 

Perhaps interpreting what that meant, Belinda hurriedly added,

 

“Don’t misunderstand. I’ll definitely give His Grace what he wants. But there’s no need to wait a year. On the day I was originally supposed to marry His Grace, I’ll gift the northern mine instead.”

 

A way for Belinda to obtain the mine that was her dowry without getting married.

 

Though he could guess what that was, Cesar remained silent, unable to give any answer.

 

He had known from the beginning that it was merely a one-year contract marriage.

 

If Belinda’s plan succeeded, he could get his hands on the mine more quickly, so there was nothing bad about it for him.

 

Yet he couldn’t readily say he would do so.

 

No, he didn’t want to.

 

“You’re no different from a gift that came with this political marriage. So you know that if I don’t get engaged to the Duke, you have no need or obligation to stay by my side. But.”

 

Belinda moved away the umbrella that had been shielding her and reached out to carefully remove Cesar’s mask.

 

Their gazes intertwined, each carrying different temperatures and desires.

 

Cesar could no longer even hear the sound of rain. All his senses were focused on the owner of his heart standing before him.

 

Soon Belinda’s lips parted, and

 

“I need you, not the Duke.”

 

She gave the sweetest command in the world.

 

“Until I reclaim my rightful place, become mine, Sir Cheri.”

 

Before he knew it, Cesar’s clothes were thoroughly soaked by the drizzle.

 

That became the weight of his feelings toward Belinda.

 

Cesar finally realized.

 

The reason he had been jealous of the Crown Prince.

 

It was because the Crown Prince had shared time with Belinda that he didn’t know about.

 

The reason he kept becoming cowardly in front of her.

 

It was because he wanted to show only his best side to Belinda.

 

All of this was because he….

 

“I will gladly obey.”

 

Revered her.

 

* * *

 

Night came to the Blanche Family’s annex only in the early dawn hours.

 

I put the forged identification papers I had commissioned from Sewer Rat into the nearly dying embers, and watched for a long time as they burned to ash.

 

Now Belinda Blanche was no longer a stranger to me.

 

She had become my shadow, my reflection in the mirror, my memory.

 

So, Bel.

 

‘I’ll take revenge in your place.’

 

In a world where human death was so close at hand.

 

My moral concepts from my previous life had grown much fainter, and I was experiencing firsthand the natural law of this world where you must kill others to avoid being killed.

 

Soon the embers died out completely and the dim light of dawn shone into the manor.

 

I sat in the armchair, picked up the pistol I had carelessly left to one side, and infused it with mana.

 

The magic circle engraved on the barrel emitted a bright light, casting deep shadows on the surrounding objects.

 

Relying on that light, I looked around at the freeloaders sitting around me and asked leisurely,

 

“You all understood my explanation well, didn’t you?”

 

No one answered, but I knew that was their affirmation.

 

I nodded and muttered as if looking forward to it.

 

“It’s time to hunt.”

 

Though the subject was missing from the sentence, everyone present would have known who it referred to.

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