The Royal Military Academy's Impostor Owns a Dungeon [BL] novel Chapter 887

Chapter 887: Pulled Back from the Edge

As if a higher power had heard Prince Elior’s deepest desires, he truly did manage to see his fiancée. In a sense, he even got to do more than simply see her.

They had spoken. They had exchanged words. And while half of that interaction nearly sent him back to meet his maker, the other half grounded him in a way he hadn’t felt in a long time. It made him feel like a person whose life and loved ones weren’t actually being threatened with death by his own twin.

For a brief moment, he was just a man in love.

It was likely a mundane state for many. Perhaps even troublesome. Some people would understandably prefer not to feel such emotions at all, because depending on how their love lives unfolded, the way they viewed the world could change drastically.

Like how the normally cautious Prince Elior, together with his equally cautious aide Rahil, ended up tucked obediently into a corner because the Prince had been bamboozled and eventually gave in.

The aide who was to blame for what had befallen them was trying to keep it together as his boss stared his way to dumbfoundedness.

However, Elior’s reaction was actually understandable. Because just when the Prince felt he was more than satisfied with the footage he planned on treasuring and securing forever, the Orcish Princess decided that with a beloved waiting for him, he couldn’t possibly be allowed to die.

Of course, she didn’t actually say it like that.

But her eyes and the way she could have swatted even microorganisms away from him—because he apparently looked too frail and malnourished (not)—said that she was thinking exactly that.

She pulled both men aside, steering them into a corner with surprising decisiveness, and declared it best for them to stay until the patient could be properly assessed.

Prince Elior instinctively wanted to stay. There was no use lying to himself about that.

He had already spent hours perched on a lookout earlier, and he could have remained hidden for much longer if needed. But despite the life-changing encounter, he knew better than to linger now. He had only managed to avoid notice thanks to his clothing, his hair, and the Princess’s imposing presence shielding him from scrutiny.

Staying longer would have meant inviting even more attention.

But unfortunately for him, the hidden lover lost the battle of logic the moment Kira pointed out that the incident had occurred in their booth.

Therefore, it was something that had to be handled properly.

According to the extremely serious Princess, she would allegedly be too troubled if he simply left without being examined.

Troubled.

That was the word she used.

Then she launched into it.

With passionate intensity, Princess Kira explained that letting him leave in such a condition could invite bad fate. Bad publicity. Rumors. Worse, potential future litigation if someone claimed damages over an untreated injury. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

"What if you, our dear customer, fainted again later?"

"What if in the process, someone accused us of negligence when we should’ve been of assistance?"

"Worse, what if this spiraled into a whole mess that tainted everything we had worked for?"

Her voice rose and fell dramatically as she painted a bleak picture of consequences.

But beneath all of that, her true concern was painfully obvious.

His nose had not quite stopped bleeding.

He looked pale.

And if he left now, if he collapsed somewhere else, then what if his love story with his beloved ended before it truly had a chance to begin?

That was unacceptable.

Not on her watch.

Prince Elior opened his mouth to protest.

Then closed it.

Rahil, on the other hand, very much wanted to flee.

He could feel the instinct clawing at him. The urge to disappear. To vanish into the crowd and pretend none of this was his problem.

But escape became impossible the moment Princess Kira casually mentioned that if they decided to leave, she would have no choice but to provide documents stating responsibility.

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