I Married the Beautiful Female Protagonist In Order To Survive

63. Drawn into the Web

My kidneys might ache, but I couldn’t use that as an excuse to continue hiding in Glamorgan’s countryside cottage like a coward, alongside Keefe and the Queen, minding only our own business. The continuously evolving fairy Filo, or rather, the “Chaos Fairy Sapphire,” had already brought her uncontrollable “chaos” to the heart of power in the Great British Empire’s royal capital.

“Order is gone, chaos spreads,” the Order Fairy’s words remained etched in my mind, because she told me: the sole purpose of chaos’s appearance is to disrupt the entire era.

Therefore, even though I would have to face the Moon Fairy, Iris, under circumstances where the power of the script was affected and restricted by “chaos,” the very thought of dealing with her gave me a headache, and now she was plunged into “chaos” and had who-knows-what-else in her mind, I could only bite the bullet and have a “head-on collision” with that old woman.

After a quick packing, our group was ready the next day, and the professor, having completed the Internal Review Squad’s self-inspection, arrived as promised to pick us up.

“Let me take you to the royal capital ‘as before,’ in an ordinary way. Would that be alright?”

“Yes, that’s right. Professor, please don’t do anything else, and don’t even think about helping in any way.”

“But, kid, you should know the opponent you’re facing this time is…”

Ah, I knew, of course I knew. It was precisely because I knew everything that I decided to bring everyone back to the royal capital together. As for how to dismantle this “chaos” that was spreading within the heart of the Great British Empire’s power, I had also prepared a plan, one that didn’t need to rely on the script, perhaps… one that couldn’t rely on the script to be completed.

Speaking of the Great British Empire’s “other side,” the very center of its power was certainly clustered around the autonomous fairy inextricably linked to Queen Louise—the Moon Fairy Iris. Simply put: as long as we could deal with this *bba*, those “trump cards” she possessed would still follow orders, even if they were caught in “chaos.”

Capture the leader to subdue the entire force, just like that.

Therefore, we didn’t ask the professor to do any fancy tricks for us, we simply followed her plan that she already had during the chaos, that is to “ordinarily found the Queen and then ordinarily bring the Queen back”—allowing us to very ordinarily meet this autonomous fairy, who was now sitting at the table and looked exactly like Louise.

“Old woman, was it really necessary to call me back so urgently?”

Louise, who usually presented herself in “idol mode,” would only be incredibly rude when meeting the Moon Fairy. However, in the past, this rudeness was at most like a child complaining to their mother, but this time… could the Queen understand? The fairy before her had long since fallen into “chaos” and was carrying some kind of negative intent.

However, everyone in the Great British Empire was a drama queen, harboring some kind of “chaotic” intent, disguising themselves, and even using their abilities to “see” the thoughts in other people’s minds. At this moment, the Moon Fairy was incredibly dangerous.

“Louise, if I don’t call you back, who will be the Queen of the Great British Empire?”

The fairy’s words seemed to express the meaning of “letting Louise come back to continue being the Queen,” but what she was actually thinking in her heart was something I couldn’t know.

Because Louise had already made the response I wanted in the next moment.

“Aren’t you already taking my place? It’s alright, you can be queen for as long as you want. Actually, I really don’t have the mind to work recently. I have other things to do ☆～”

Louise hugged my arm, her smile completely displaying the meaning of “I want to be in love, I don’t want to work,” and Iris only responded to Louise’s attitude with a cold snort, and then… glanced at Louise’s eyes.

[The Moon Fairy is checking Louise’s thoughts.]

Louise, of course, wouldn’t directly give up her duty as the Queen of the Great British Empire because of “wanting to be in love,” something she considered a waste of time, so the words just now were just Louise’s trick to “lower Iris’s guard.”

The Queen’s disguise was always perfect, as long as she intended to deceive someone, most people could be fooled. But unfortunately… when facing the Moon Fairy, “secrets” were impossible to hide.

In the next moment, the script already told me the facts of what was happening at this moment.

【The Moon Fairy knew Louise was lying.】

Lies were simply untenable before the Moon Fairy’s “heart-seeing” gaze. Not even the Queen’s masterful deception could mask them; discerning her true intentions was but a moment’s work. This very ability, coupled with her current state of “Discord,” fueled her penchant for delving into the hearts of others, seeking their most genuine thoughts. Crucially, the Moon Fairy herself displayed no visible crack in her “Discorded” facade.

“Louise, you… Ah, well, have it your way.”

The Moon Fairy seemed about to mock the Queen’s naiveté, but swallowed the words at the last moment.

Then, a victor’s smile spread across her face, as if she had “everything under control.” After all… whatever schemes Louise might hatch, so long as they were known from the outset, the Moon Fairy possessed countless ways to counter them.

As for Ceffel and myself, the Moon Fairy couldn’t directly interfere with our actions, it was true. But if she held Louise in check, frankly…I would be left helpless. I couldn’t simply abandon Louise.

Thus, in the Moon Fairy’s eyes, we must appear as “clever fools, returning to deceive her, only to walk straight into her trap.”

Dangerous? Certainly.

However, that was precisely what I wanted.

Only by keeping the Moon Fairy’s “gaze” fixed on the Queen and her machinations would Ceffel and I have the leeway to cleanse the “Discord.” It was knowing this that led me to return with the Queen, willingly “walking into the trap.”

Because even if the power to “see hearts” had regained its danger, now that the script couldn’t be “changed,” I had discovered its weakness – it could only “see” one person at a time. And now… the Moon Fairy had almost immediately fixated on the “cleverest” of us, the Queen, believing that by controlling her, Ceffel and I would be rendered impotent.

That was enough. Because that… was enough to give me the time to seize the opening and dismantle the “Discord.”

After all… at this moment, I saw everything clearly.

【The Moon Fairy, Eilis, is caught in Discord.】

The one before us, the “Will of the Britannian Empire,” was now deeply mired in the vortex of “Discord.” If “capturing the leader” was the key, then…

It would now fall to Ceffel and me to purge this old crone’s “Discord.”

Walking into a trap, or breaking through with unstoppable force?

What comes next… remains to be seen.