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“This way.”

The senior extended his hand, and I slowly took it.

I hesitated until the very last moment.

Although I was told I could return home, I felt uneasy about leaving without convincing my parents.

“What were you planning to do if I didn’t contact you?”

“Were you not going to contact me?”

The senior seemed a bit surprised.

“Were you certain that I would contact you?”

“I thought you’d prefer to be where there are more people since you often feel lonely.”

The senior spoke as if it was an obvious fact.

As if the loneliness and deficiency of the male protagonists were mine.

No, that’s not it.

I just wanted to confirm ‘that emotion’ and try to send the senior back to his original world.

“Here it is.”

The place we went to together was a quiet park.

“It’s a shrine?”

“Yes. It’s said to be a place honoring a famous general.”

The shrine and park dedicated to a general from the Goryeo Dynasty had a peculiar red gate

“They say that lots of water, stairs, and bridges act as portals to other dimensions.”

“Really?”

But which stairs or bridges serve as portals?

“However, we can’t try every staircase and bridge, and we certainly can’t jump into the Han River.”

The senior smiled brightly, having read my doubt.

“Let’s go through a guaranteed portal.”

So, that gate must be the portal.

“We need to run all the way up there.”

The senior pointed to the top of the stairs with his long, white finger.

“What if I fall?”

“I’ve never fallen, so I’m not sure.”

If this were the Crown Prince, he would have said he’d hold me to prevent me from falling or suggested we go carefully.

Indeed, it’s better to think of the senior as a different person, except for his appearance.

“Haha, even I get hurt when you look at me like that.”

“Like what?”

I shrugged. It’s strange. I feel light-hearted even though I can’t gauge the other person’s feelings.

“Alright, let’s run.”

“Wait a moment, senior.”

I pulled on the senior’s hand that I was holding.

“That day, I was too confused to tell you, but the Crown Prince has completely disappeared. As you’ve seen, there was no Crown Princess before, but now there are three of them.”

I was missing for as long as I was gone from this place, but the senior’s place was filled as if it had never existed.

“I can’t be sure about that, but could it be due to the difference in our importance?”

He quietly added that since that world was created, it might try to naturally cover any gaps that appear. I no longer hesitated at this explanation.

“What are you going to do?”

Even after hearing that his place might not exist if he returned, the senior still had a smiling face.

“Let’s go.”

Because I was the key, the senior and I held hands tightly so as not to lose each other. And we started running in sync.

Please, please, please.

I closed my eyes as we passed through the red gate.

“Aaaaaaaaaaah!”

Closing my eyes was fine, but soon I felt my feet lose ground, and I screamed without realizing it. When I suddenly opened my eyes, I saw a place that was entirely green.

Of course, it was below where I was falling.

“Se-se-se-se-senior!”

“Yes, breathe calmly.”

“Is this really the time for that…!”

It looked like I was going to die from a broken neck or be buried deep in a grave!

The senior pulled my hand that he was holding. Then he tightly enclosed me in his arms.

In this state, he turned our bodies so that his back would hit the ground first.

He moves so well in mid-air.

“Senior?”

“It’ll be okay.”

“Really?”

When he says it with such a calm face, it’s convincing…

“Yes, probably?”

…or not!

“We’re falling even faster now that you’ve changed our position!”

As I realized this, I became aware of how incredibly fast we were falling. The senior kept smiling, and soon, I understood what the green was.

The green field was a plain full of tall grass. And we helplessly plunged into it.

“Ugh.”

The senior frowned with a short, deep groan.

“Senior! Are you dead? That would be troublesome.”

“I’m not dead.”

The senior responded with a clear voice, though subdued. Judging by the focus in his eyes, he seemed to be fully conscious.

“By the way, junior, I’m sorry, but could you get off me?”

“Oh, I’m sorry.”

As I moved away, the senior slowly got up. He stretched and moved his arms and legs, seemingly checking if his body was intact.

Thanks to the senior, I was unharmed, though my whole body felt sore.

I sat on the grass, staring at the man in front of me who was folding his fingers one by one.

Clean silver hair and deep gray eyes. Clear features and a prominent tear mole on the right side.

It’s the Crown Prince.

“Why?”

“Pardon?”

“You were smiling at me. I thought there might be something on my face.”

“No, it’s not that…”

Should I say that seeing you with the hair and eye color I had set made me realize this was truly inside the novel?

That I’m happy because it finally feels like I’ve come to reality?

Unable to choose any of these answers, I smiled and gave a completely different response.

“It’s because you’re handsome.”

“What?”

“I just realized anew how handsome you are, senior.”

The senior’s eyes widened slightly, then he smirked.

That smirk, this part isn’t like the Crown Prince. But it didn’t feel out of place at all.

The person in front of me is both the Crown Prince and my senior.

What’s interesting is that even though I think this is inside a novel, I feel that the senior is an equal being to me.

Of course, it might be because the senior is firmly recognized as a ‘department senior.’

I wonder how it would be with other people.

That’s why I came back here to confirm it.

“Thanks for making me handsome.”

“It’s nothing.”

When I shrugged my shoulders, the senior laughed.

Ugh, it’s like he’s radiating light.

“By the way, where are we?”

“We’re on Atel Hills.”

The senior looked around and gave a very simple answer.

“If it’s Atel Hills…”

This is the hill where those male protagonists supposedly summoned me.

“There used to be rocks here, but where did they go?”

I remained silent, unable to admit that they were destroyed because of me.

“Originally, there were rocks here, but where did they go?”

I couldn’t bring myself to answer that they were destroyed because of me, so I stayed silent.

“Shall we go to the castle first, Junior?”

The senior smiled and reached out his hand, and I nodded and naturally took it.

We passed through the castle gate I had first entered and stepped into the city.

Surprisingly, his identity was still intact. However, there was a bit of a dispute as it was treated as if he had left the castle without permission.

“There were circumstances for that.”

The senior discreetly slipped something into the guard’s hand. The guard glanced at what was in his hand and cleared his throat dramatically.

“Make sure to report before leaving next time.”

And he let both me and the senior inside.

“That guy is fired.”

The senior muttered quietly as we entered the castle and blended in with the people.

“Do you have the ability to fire him?”

I asked casually.

Since I was told there was no Crown Prince in this country, it could mean that the senior was no longer a Crown Prince.

“Junior, are you mean-spirited?”

I knew I wouldn’t get a positive response from the senior since I was implying that he might now be nothing more than a beggar. But I didn’t expect him to outright call me mean-spirited.

“Although you’re mostly expressionless, you smile at me so well that I was momentarily fooled.”

“The same goes for you, senior.”

Even so, I felt irritated at being condemned as someone with a ruined personality.

“Me?”

“Yes. I thought you were an angel, but you know your personality is quite nasty, right?”

“No.”

The senior raised his eyebrows as if bewildered.

“I’m openly nasty.”

“…I see.”

I’m not sure if I should be glad to have discovered this unwanted side of the senior or not.

Unaware of my inner thoughts, the senior continued nonchalantly.

“When you arrived, they said there were only three princesses, right? In my memory, I didn’t have a sister. We need to check if there are still only princesses…”

The senior met my eyes and smiled brightly.

“Shall we go to the Imperial Palace first?”