The Strongest Dull Prince’s Secret Battle for the Throne

Chapter 251: Real and Fake

Hey, you.

YES!

Bring me some tea and sweets. Im thirsty.

Yes, Your Highness! I will have my subordinate

I told you to do it! Hurry up! If you bring me some second rate tea I will kill you!

I threatened the soldier that was standing by in the room as a guard.

The soldiers trembled at the unexpected order and left to prepare tea.

Now I am alone with General Estman.

I immediately dispel the illusion and rush over to General Estman.

I apologize for my rudeness.

Dont mind it..what are you planning to do?

Get you out of here and have your soldiers on the upper floors switch to our side.

Easier said than donewe have enemies all around us you know..?

I have a plan.

Saying so, I turned back to Zandra.

After waiting for a while, the soldier returned.

I took the cup the soldier scarily offered me and sipped the tea inside. Then I throw the cup at the soldier.

HII!!??

Disgusting! Do you want to die!?

M, MY DEEPEST APOLOGY!

FINE! Bring all of General Estmans aides here! I will kill them all in front of him!!

B, But

Didnt you hear what I just said!? You want to join them too!?

Hearing that, the soldier went out of the room as if he was trying to escape me.

In the meantime, I explain my plan to the general.

I will cast an illusion on you to trick the other soldiers eyes. You will pretend to be injured by Princess Zandra and sneak out of this room.

What will you do after that?

Cause a scene, I will not send out any pursuer. Head to the middle floors and go to Prince Arnolds room. The prince will wait for you there, escape through the secret passage with him.

His Highness ishow patheticI am supposed to be the one who protects him..

If you think so then its time to do your job. Nothing is over yet after all.

Right..it is as you say.this time I will properly do my job.

Saying so, General Estman grit his teeth and stood up by using the desk to support himself.

Even though he cant stand upright with only one leg, the strength in his eyes did not decline.

General Estman is known as a mild-mannered old man but he is still a fierce man in battle. The person himself spent much of his life on the battlefield and his figure can hugely inspire others.

After a short while, the soldier brought back General Estmans aides.

Every one of them stares at me.

The moment the soldier who brought them here closed the door, I showed him a dream with illusion magic.

He should be seeing a happy dream by now.

Take the general and escape. Make preparation.

Eh?

What is going on

Remembering that I was still using the appearance of Zandra, I reverted to Grau.

General Estman then starts speaking to them.

Hes an ally..we are escaping to the middle floor..

Y, Yes! As you command, sir!

Play along. We will pretend that General Estman was hurt by Princess Zandra.

I gave them a short explanation and turned back to Zandra again.

Then I threw items at the generals aides.

Your cute aides will die here, General!!

Saying so, I threw more stuff at the soldiers. However, the aides couldnt keep up with my acting.

Thats why I whispered to them to prompt them to action.

Scream. Call for help.

Eh? Uhh..

Hurry it up. Dont you want to help the general? Do you want me to really hurt him?

N, NoU,UWAAAAAAA!! HELP! ZANDRA-SAMA IS!!

GENERAL! Even with this you still refuse to obediently cooperate huh!? Then I guess I will do the same thing to your aides too!!

Saying so, I lightly hit one of the aides left foot.

He sensed my intention and exaggeratedly fell to the ground while screaming.

ARGHHHH!!! MY LEG!! ME LEGGGG!!

If the soldiers outside hear this then they will think that Zandra went on a rampage and cut one of the generals aides leg.

After continuing the act for a while, I applied illusion magic to General Estman.

Then I send him out of the room together with his aides.

ARGHH!! Damn it!!

I immediately got out of the room and started shouting in a loud voice so that no one else could enter the room.

Fearing Zandra, no one dares to approach the area around the room.

Of course, they know that whenever Zandra is in a bad mood, magic can come flying their way at any moment.

I started shouting at the people around me to distract them from the fact that the General escaped.

However, when doing so, an unexpected person appeared.

Seriously! What the hell was that! Unforgivable! He dared cast an illusion on me I will definitely slaughter him! No! Killing him is not enough! I will make sure to keep him barely alive and make him suffer, suffer, suffer, and suffer! I wont let him die until he regrets what hes done to me!

The real one is hysterical.

I cant possibly imitate that with my acting skill.

While having that strange admiration, I looked at Zandra who unexpectedly appeared.

The soldiers seemed to be taken aback and couldnt say anything.

To those soldiers, I gave them an order.

Why is there a fake me here!? Capture her!

Wha!? What!? What is going on!?

If they are familiar with how Zandra usually is, the me who just threw a tantrum and cut off a soldiers leg is more authentic.

On the other hand, the real Zandra also has the authenticity from that demon-like appearance of hers.

Its you! You were the one who cast that illusion on me! Unforgivable!

Dont make up such a pathetic lie! I am the strongest mage of the Imperial Family who wield forbidden magic you know! Theres no way I can be taken down by a mere illusion!!

Saying so, I signal the soldiers to capture Zandra with my chin.

With the reason I made up earlier, it seems the soldiers doubt was cleared up.

Zandra, the strongest mage of the Imperial Family who wield forbidden magic, couldnt possibly fall victim to an illusion.

Thats what they think now.

Zandra on the other hand is getting angrier.

What are you blabbering about! Hurry up and catch that fake!!

Shut up! You fake!

Dont imitate me!! I can kill you all anytime I want you know!? If you dont want to be killed then catch that fake already! That guy is just an illusionist!

Like hell, we would believe that!

Ah, really, then die.

Zandra suddenly muttered so in a calm voice.

Her anger has reached its peak.

She then swings her arm and cuts off the soldiers head with a wind blade.

What a fool. I already expected you to act like that.

Unforgivable, unforgivable, unforgivable, unforgivable, unforgivable, unforgivable, unforgivable,.I will slaughter all of you!!

Thats my line! Capture her! I wont forgive anyone who impersonated me!

The soldiers hold up their weapons albeit hesitant.

Whoever the real one is, they know that if they dont rush in, they will get killed by Zandra.

Zandra is already in killing mode. The soldiers have no choice but to fight for their lives.

Under such circumstances, I left the place leaving behind an illusion of my Zandra.

Now, this should keep them busy for a while.

They will eventually notice that the Zandra they fight is the real one but Zandra will not forgive any soldiers who doubt her in the first place.

There was already a gap in Zandra and Gordons alliance from the start. This will further deepen that gap.

What a good feeling.

It would be nice if they fight each other and their alliance collapsed.

Thinking so, I teleported to my room with transfer magic and reverted my appearance back to that of a prince.

The rest is whether General Estman can arrive here safely huh.

In the unlikely case that General Estman fails to reach this room, I will have to make my move without him.

There is no problem with that. It will just increase Alidas burden a little and the blood of the soldiers who unwillingly joined the rebels will be wasted.

Still, that would be a little painful to watch.

Thats why I hope that General Estman does his best and gets here safely.

I wonder if the escaping group is safe..

I did what I could but I was still worried.

There are many soldiers outside the castle.

It would be difficult to sneak past them to get to Father.

I have no choice but to believe in them huh.

Muttering so, I looked down at the cityscape of the Imperial Capital through the window in my room.