Chapter 30

-3rd POV-

Back then....

"How do I look today Pia?" A little girl asked her lady in waiting,

"You look adorable as ever my lady." Pia replied.

'Ahh, my lady. How can you be so cute?' She thought.

"Really? I can't wait to meet with the prince." Patricia smiled excitedly.

Today was the day where Patricia will meet Leo as his playmate.

The carriage arrived at the palace and Patricia jumped off the carriage playfully.

"My lady! Don't run!" Pia shouted.

Patricia ran to the prince's room and banged the door opened.

"Prince! My name is Patricia! You can call me Shasha!" She shouted with joy.

Leo only sat on the chair and looked at Shasha with an indifferent expression.

"Oh, pardon me for my rudeness. Greetings to the crown prince. May Nirvana's blessing be upon you." She curtsied.

"Hmn." Leo hummed.

Shasha raised her head and looked at Leo's face.

He was handsome as the rumor said. What she saw made her blush.

That was the first time that she wanted to get close to a person that badly.

"Can I call you Leo?" Shasha asked shyly.

"How dare you. Get out this instant. I don't need a playmate." Leo said and continued to read his book.

"But!"

"Now." He cut her off.

"..Alright. Then I'll see you tomorrow your highness." Shasha bowed.

'I'll never give up on you.' She thought in a determined way.

Ever since Shasha was lovestruck, she never failed to visit the crown prince to play.

But Leo always rejected her.

"My lady, you shluld already stop visiting his highness." Pia said.

"No! I want to keep viviting him! I want to play with him, I want to laugh with him, I want him to be my friend!" She shouted.

"Then.... you should just get engaged to him." Pia suggested.

"Engage? Yes! I'll ask father to get engaged to him! That way, we'll always be together!"

Shasha ran off and talked to her father.

When the Duke heard of his daughter's plea, he thought that is was a nice proposal.

It will strengthen the alliance of the imperial family and the Cornwall family.

"Alright Shasha. I'll talk to the emperor." He said.

"Really?! Yayy!! Thank you Papa!" She hugged him.

The next day after, Duke Cornwall rode a carriage towards the palace.

But on the way, he died.

Thus, the suggestion regarding the engagement never happened.

But, Shasha was persistent. Even though her father died, what she only wanted right now was the prince.

She already fell hard for the prince. She became obsessed. And crazy.

One day, Shasha went to visit the prince as usual but couldn't find him in the room.

She went to look for him and she finally found him somewhere in a flower field.

"Prince!" She shouted as he walked towards him but was surprised when she saw him sitting beside a girl.

But what made her more surprised was that,the prince actually talked to her.

'Who is she?'

Shasha eyed the girl and the girl had pale blonde hair and purple eyes.

When she saw the two of them hugging, she felt her blood boil and hated the girl ever since.

Shasha wanted the prince to forget about the girl and the girl to forget about the prince.

She went to a black-sorceress and asked for a potion on what she suggested.

What the sorceress asked was simple.

She only asked for the name of the target but the price was big.

Shasha accepted whatever it took just to accomplish her goal.

And so, the magic worked and the two forgot about each other.

But in the end, the prince still didn't like her.

Many years have passed already and Shasha became more crazy.

Crazy but quiet.

She knew that the prince hated such actions and so, she just stood quiet for a while.

There came a day where a banquet was about to be held and the prince will attend.

Before the banquet started, she did her best to doll herself up and wore the most beautiful dress.

Just to get noticed by the prince.

On the night of the banquet, she looked for the prince to ask for a dance.

But once again, when she saw Leo and Moriana together, her mind went crazy.

'What's going on?! Do they remember each other? Impossible!'

She went home early that night and planned something evil.

'If I can't have the prince, then the prince must have no one by his side as well. I'm the only one who can stand beside him.'

She hired sorcerer-bandits, bandits and whoever just to make her plan work.

But the first thing she wanted to do was to befriend Moriana and act like her fan.

"Ha, hahahaha! Just you wait Moriana." She muttered.

The next week, she invited Moriana and luckily, she got Moriana as her firiend.

'Too easy.'

She kept Moriana in contact and started making a move from her plan.

The way to know her location was through the bracelet she gave to Moriana.

It had tracking magic and mana users can't notice it.

But everytime she worked the plan out, there was always someone to save her.

The knight, the prince, and the duke.

'Why the hell are they clinging onto her!?'

Everything went downhill when she heard about Moriana's engagement.

And so, she decided that she would do it by herself. Killing Moriana that is.

But Moriana wasn't the only person she befriended.

'Hm, Sabrina Seymour, she might be a good scapegoat for me.' She thought.

..

"Rina, don't you like the prince? If you like him, then you should fight for him!" Shasha acted.

"What? No. Since he already likes someone else, I won't force myself anymore." Sabrina argued.

Shasha took a knife from behind and pointed it to Sabrina's neck.

"What are you doing!?"

"Shh. If you shout any more, your head will fly from your neck. Oh, and your father still needs medicine right? I hope he lives well." She whispered.

"How did you know about father?" Sabrina asked.

"Heh. Easy. I can even give you a lot right now."

"Then, what do you want?" Sabrina said.

Even though Sabrina's father built walls around him, she still loved her only living family and her father was no exception.

"It's simple. I want you to...." Shasha whispered.

"What!? No! Borrow my body?! What are you!"

"I can also kill your father right now. I'm quite connected to some sorcerers you know?" Shasha grinned.

"You... you're crazy. I'll pretend I didn't hear this and- euk."

Sabrina fell to the floor.

"Hahh... since it came to this, I'll really need to separated her soul and replace it with mine sometimes."

Shasha went to make a deal with the sorceress again and this time, ahe can only use Sabrina's body five times.

Maybe Sabrina's ending wasn't her ending afer all. It was Shasha's ending using Sabrina's body.

Sabrina's thoughts at the end of her life were not her thoughts too.

Sabrina and Shasha's thoughts were merged into one which resulted to combining each other's memories.

"Gahh! Dying on a guillotine feels disgusting!!" Shasha shouted.

"You're already awake my lady." Pia said.

"Hm. I need to go and meet that whore now. Hahh, acting is so tiring!"

A month later...

The moment Shasha heard about the engagement, she lost all her rationality.

Everything went downhill from there.

And so, she decided to ruin Moriana at her engagement party.

The night where she finally revealed her true self to Moriana.