Chapter 132

"Haa...What are you talking about?! Do you see me as someone who often changes his partner to make me look great? Besides, what you have done at that party is not wrong. You are able to do that because you are my fiancee. Even though our relationship was fake, you are still a person who was engaged to the royal family so what she did was still a mocking to the royal family and needs to be punished. You need to have more confidence so you won't shame the royal family." Prince Edmund seems to be panicked at first but then he explains that she did nothing wrong.

At that party, someone came and said that Renneshia wasn't supposed to be Prince Edmund's fiance. At first, Renneshia ignored her because she didn't know what to say to her. But because she ignored her, she became angry and asked for a duel. She knew that Renneshia had a great talent for magic so she asked for a sword fight duel. Renneshia accepts her challenge and ends it easily like the magic duel that she did before. 

Renneshia used her skill to end the duel without hurting her but she started to angry with her and said that she was cheating on the duel. Her friend who also agrees with her also says the same things until Prince Edmund comes and stops them. They quickly make up their reasoning and lie to him and accuse Renneshia of cheating on the sacred duel. When Prince Edmund asks the magician to playback of what happened in that place with some special magic tools, finally they stop accusing her.

After that party, those noble ladies started to spread bad rumours about Renneshia. They spread the fake stories until it was heard by the maid in the Palace. It makes the maid try to avoid Renneshia and start to stop coming to her room to serve her like before. But Renneshia wasn't angry at them but felt relief because she was more used to being treated like that. 

But it was not the same for Prince Edmund. When he heard about what happened to Renneshia, he quickly came to see her in the library and what he found was Renneshia reading at the usual place as if nothing happened. It was the usual expressionless face that seemed serious while reading the pile of books beside her. He didn't know that Renneshia was immune to such treatment.

"Why do you never angry at them even when they treated you like that? They were doing something rude to you and they started to neglect you. Did you ignore them because they are not worth your time?" Prince Edmund frowns as he asks those questions.

"Because it was useless... No, what I mean is it will make them do something worse than what they are doing right now. If I continue to argue or be angry with them, will everything end?" Renneshia flatly said.

It was something that she learned from her life in the Viscount Ruach mansion. If she said anything to the servants in that mansion, she would have been three times worse than the usual treatment. That is why she never tried to say anything when people scolded or treated her badly. Sometimes, being used to something is scarier than trying to do new things. 

"Haa..., you really make me nuts! But even if you seem cold, you are kinder than I thought. But your way of doing things was wrong. I never thought you would make me feel like this. You are really an interesting person." Prince Edmund sighed and gave her a gentle smile.

Renneshia felt that she didn't want to look away from his face. She knew that get heart felt hurt and beating so fast when she saw that smile. It was a new expression that he showed her. It makes her feel warm and her body seems to be lighter after hearing him feel angry for her.

'He was really kind. But we are just faking our closeness to prevent the other not doubting our relationship. But like what he told me before I must remember that he won't love me. I have promised him that I won't love him and continue with our status until he meets with someone he loves.' Renneshia reminds herself.

Throb.

Suddenly Renneshia felt her heart hurt. But she did not care about it and continued to read the book while sometimes answering Prince Edmund's questions. That's how her daily lives in the Palace. After a week, suddenly a change happened to her. Prince Edmund suddenly stops coming to the Royal Library. Renneshia feels sad but she never said anything about it as she didn't want to annoy him.

It was the start of the distance between the two of them getting farther.

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'Another continuation of that dream... I'm glad that the Owner gave me my own room after she did some renovation to this place. My mother might be worried if she saw me wake up while crying like this for more than a week. My face looks especially horrible today.' Renneshia looks at her reflection.

It had been more than a week since she always seen those dreams and every time she woke up, her face looked like a mess. She did not know how to stop herself from seeing those dreams. Not only does it influence her body but also makes her emotion become a mess and gives her a headache. 

'Will the people in this city treat me like that too if I show them my real appearance? I don't care if they hate me but will they also avoid me like what they do to her?' Renneshia's thoughts became negative as she saw that dream.

The reason for her fear was that even someone like Prince Edmund who always treats Renneshia in the game kindly started to distance himself. She knows that Renneshia is lacking in communication skills and common sense when interacting with other people but she couldn't understand the reason why Prince Edmund left her.

"Did she make that Prince Edmund angry? Or because she is only busy with reading those books rather than spending their time together? At first, I thought that Prince Edmund had fallen in love with Renneshia in the game but it seems to be wrong. I have never felt such a feeling because of my situations in my past life so I might be wrong about it." Renneshia talks to her reflection in the mirror.

She knows that she will never be able to get any answer but she still doing it to help her get a clearer mind. What she was doing was letting out the feeling and thought that gave her a lot of stress but she could not find any solutions or even talk about it with another person. 

"I need to train using that thing again today. I never thought that it would be that difficult to use it. Everything that I read in my past life. And I never thought that it was that difficult to circulate my magic power into it." Renneshia started to think about her activity today and thought about her new weapon that basically a weapon made by all of the alchemy guild members.

Renneshia quickly tidied herself and changed her appearance into 'Ludger' appearance and she was busy with her training until the day of the preliminary matches of the Winter Tournament. 

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For this year's Winter Tournament, the Duke Kadaklan of the Labyrinth City let them to use the Colosseum, the place where special events in this city are usually being held. It has the greatest barriers that protect the participants and the spectators. It was made by using the newest things that are created by mixing all of the best knowledge in this city. 

People from this city, from other cities, and even from other countries are coming with interest as they want to see this year's Winter Tournament which seems to be much more interesting than last year. Everyone seems to want to see the fight between the best of the best from the people who participated in this year's Winter Tournament. 

The participants are mostly from this city but there are also some people from other city or country. But those people are the minority. They want to make a name in the famous Winter Tournament but they never thought that they made a great mistake in entering this year's Winter Tournament. They could only lament their mistakes for not looking for information before participating. All of them feel regret when they enter the waiting room for the participants and see everyone making a scary face or aura that makes them lose their will to fight them.

Every single waiting room for the different categories makes the people from other places feel that they are going to be slaughtered horribly by the people from this city, especially for the certain group of women that have an expression like mad dogs or hungry predators. 

Everyone is interested in the results of this year's Winter Tournament and looking forward to the result. The first the first elimination, they divided the participants into a group of twenty people and told them to do a battle royal until the last two people who able to stand until the end as the people who would enter the next match.

Some people have become the winner like how they have predicted before. But there are a few unexpected winners that surprised them. The four people who are still young but surprisingly able to fight well against the older participants who have more experience than them.