Ch. 34: Snow White X

The apple pie is a popular dessert in... someplace. However, I don't believe Snow White the Queen enjoys eating apples. I mean, her stepmother did try to kill her with it.

"This is..." I stare at the mini, hot, fresh-baked pie sitting in front of me. The strong aroma of sweet apples wafts into the air, teasing me to try.

No one, even the Queen, wants to eat it. Even Maddock looks at the dessert with skepticism. Hyun-cho even pushes the dessert away. The Queen notices how everyone is avoiding it.

"Awww, you all don't like apple pies!?" She chuckles, stabbing the pie with a tiny fork. just so happen to love apples... You see they bring such... sentiment." She takes a bite. We all waited, and nothing happened.

"This is absolutely... wonderful, ha." She savors the dessert, not minding that we all didn't.

"You should take a bite," She says in between bites, "You're making my chef feel awful."

Yet, even with her guilt tripping us, none of us touch our pies. Her smile disappears and throws the fork so hard that it flies past my face, cutting me and hitting something behind.

"M-my Queen -" I turn to see one of the servants fall on their knees. The fork had buried deep inside his chest. Blood spills as the body faces down on the tile floors.

"Oh dear. My anger got the best of me." She gaps, looking at me, "Oh no! You're beautiful and fair face! We must take care of the wound before it gets infected."

"George!" She yells.

The butler walks into the dining room with a plate of anti-biotics and bandaid. Crouching next to me, he grabs my face.

"Hey!" I try to rip my face off his hand, but he just grabs even harder.

"The wound must be cleaned and patched, Miss."

"I don't care." This time, I try to kick him. He simply dodges it and backs away. I cover my wound, knowing it will heal in a few seconds. I stand up and march around the queen to Jung-woo.

Grabbing the chains, I try to see if I could break them with brute force. All of a sudden, my vision blurs, my legs gives out, and my blood screaming inside me.

" ! ! ! "

I look straight towards the dead servant being extracted from the room and see black veins creeping up from the wound to his face. Black foam that I had not noticed before had foamed out of his mouth.

PING!

[YOU HAVE BEEN POISONED].

"No shit. Thanks for telling me the obvious." I groan wanting to frown, but I couldn't feel my face move.

[POISON HAD PARALYSIS EFFECT. YOU HAVR BEEN POISONED].

"Noona!" I hear Jung-woo's panicked voice shouting next to me. Vincent was also by my side. He rolls me on my back, leaning against his, "Hey, you'll be fine."

"N-Noona, can't you heal yourself!?" Jung-woo asks, tears and snot in his face. I couldn't exactly move my head or mouth at this point to reply. All I could do was grab his hand and give him a weak squeeze.

1 MANA, ACTIVATING [HEALING OF AN ANGEL]. I feel warmth over come me. However, I still couldn't move.

[YOU ARE STILL POISONED].

Okay, this system became really chatty.

THUD!

"How long does she have!?" Maddock knocked and gotten out of his seat. He had the queen, his mother, off her seat and by the throat.

Even though she was being choked, she didn't say a word. In fact, she is glaring at me.

"She should've been dead." She chokes out, "Unless she's been eating the poison for 100 years like me, then she should've died on the spot."

"How much time does she have left." Hyun-cho, who was silent and unmoving the entire time, asks, getting out of his seat.

"I have to see her myself." Snow White grins. Maddock tightens his grip on her throat.

"Mother. Tell them and no funny business." She gives us her best eye roll.

"No."

Jung-woo, who finished crying, is now making his way to the Queen. The servants who hadn't moved since Maddoc is their prince finally moved to stop Jung-woo. However, the little boy was fast and agile. He weaves his way past them and gets his hand on the Queen's dress. He pulls out the mini compact mirror out of her dress.

"H-hey! That's mine!" Snow White thrashes in the air, "Maddock! Get it back for me!"

But Jung-woo runs back to me and Vincent. He then opens the little compact mirror, and a ghostly face appears.

"Mirror, mirror, in the... compact. How long does my Noona have left?!"

At this point, my eyelids have become heavy. I tried to fight it off, thinking of a lot of things I still needed to do.

"Marianne has 5..."

"4."

"3."

"Wait! What's it doing?!" Vincent shouts at the mirror.

"2."

"1."

My eyes closed, and the last thing I heard or saw was Jung-woo fighting the servants, Vincent talking to me, and Hyun-cho grabbing the Queen by the next this time with Maddock running to me

And then everything went black.

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