A Failed Knight Who Went to the Academy To Get Married

089. Amusement park of trickery

Altoro Land, the largest amusement park in the Kingdom of Altoria.

Perhaps because of yesterday’s sudden closure, the number of visitors today seemed to be double the usual number.

Prince Siran shouted as he entered at the head of the group.

“The whole army charges! The goal is to conquer all the rides in one day!”

Ziz cheered and followed Sirian,

After that, Barbara and Narsha followed in and whispered.

“Narsha, do you really like a kid like that?”

“You’re cute.”

As soon as I passed the entrance, a man dressed as a clown approached me and handed Sirian a map.

“Oh no! How dare you make VIP guests go through something in vain. Yesterday, you were in disgrace!”

“Hmph. That’s all you need to know.”

“Instead, we have prepared a special event for you!”

“event?”

“If you visit the attractions marked on the map and collect all the badges, we will give you a special gift!”

When Sirian opened the map he was given, red circles were drawn in three places.

“A roller coaster, a Ferris wheel, a haunted house?”

“These are the three hottest machines in Altoro Land!”

Pierrot’s intentions were clear.

The goal is to encourage Trine to sequentially visit attractions with traps prepared in advance.

But his intentions were rendered useless by one word from Sirian.

“Okay! Then split into three teams and collect them all!”

Then the clown looked a little embarrassed and answered.

“Well, hey guys, wouldn’t it be a lot more fun if we all went to the city together?”

“Since everything is going to turn around anyway, wouldn’t it be a good idea to end the event quickly?”

Eventually, while the students divided into groups among themselves,

Sia spoke while holding the hand of someone wearing a white cloak.

“Yuril, you said you would come separately later, right?”

“Yeah… I heard he’s coming with student council president Myeong-yoon.”

For some reason, Sia chuckled at the very weak and shaky voice and sent a message to get in touch.

“Senior Trine! Yuril is jealous, so come quickly!”

… There was no way Gohyeop could have missed their conversation.

He grumbled as he overheard the conversation atop the tallest landmark, the Clock Tower.

“Damn… This is why there’s no point in preparing for the event at all.”

Could it be that they already realized that they were in ambush here?

No, if that were the case, my friends wouldn’t have come here in the first place.

Moreover, it is natural given the circumstances that Trine wants to move with Myeong-yoon.

Even if he noticed, he wouldn’t be able to escape the moment he entered.

Therefore, Gohyeop briefly explained the situation to each demon via walkie-talkie and then gave instructions.

“Everyone, please stand by until further instructions are given.”

***

Ziz, Mekhail, Barbara, and Lisbet immediately stood in line for the roller coaster.

Mekhail looked forward on tiptoe and muttered.

“The line is really long.”

Then Barbara grumbled.

“Aren’t we really late compared to the other kids?”

Ziz smiled slyly and joked.

“If I had known it would be like this, I would have brought Sirian and gotten a free pass for the royal family!”

Lisbeth grabbed Ziz’s head from behind.

“Where is that?”

Meanwhile, there was an employee hanging around the waiting line selling churros and drinks.

“It takes 30 minutes from here! How about some sweet churros in the meantime!”

Meanwhile, I looked at Lisbeth’s group closely.

‘I guess there really isn’t a guy named Trine. Well, there’s no way I wouldn’t end up riding this roller coaster.’

Anytime is good.

The moment Trine comes, he says it’s service and hands him a poisoned drink, and that’s it.

They said that special treatment would be given to the person who murdered Trine.

Deep down, I thought I was lucky to have been assigned to the most popular roller coaster.

So I tried to wait quietly until the time came, but-

‘Huh?’

Suddenly, my vision started spinning, and I fell to the floor without realizing it.

What he heard right before he lost consciousness was the voice of a stranger.

“This is Poodle. One seagull has been captured.”

***

The people heading towards the Ferris wheel were Sirian, Ranken, Narsha, and Lillian.

Ranken asked Siran as he waited for his turn to board.

“Surprising? I thought you would go towards the roller coaster.”

“Hmph. If you go now, the line will be really long. I’ll go later when it’s quieter.”

Soon, a seat came down and Lillian pushed Ranken on his back.

“Shall we ride two at a time?”

“What? No, I’m with Sirian-”

“Now, now! Get in quickly!”

In the end, when the door of the compartment carrying the two closed, Trine snorted.

“Lillian is quite proactive.”

Narsha reluctantly matched the rhythm.

“I know.”

In the end, Siran and Narsha went on the Ferris wheel alone, as everyone had planned.

Narsha was a bit nervous and embarrassed.

Sirian muttered as he looked out at the scenery outside.

“Do you know what our royal family’s family motto is?”

“What?”

“Even if you don’t know, pretend you know, and even if you know, pretend not to know.”

“It’s a pretty profound family motto.”

“When I was young, I wondered if there were all those family mottos, but now I’m starting to understand a little more.”

And then there was an awkward silence.

After the Ferris wheel has reached a fairly high point,

Narsha opened her mouth, clenching her fists on her knees.

“Hey, Siran, I have something to say-”

“I’m not interested in dating.”

“…huh.”

“I have never liked anyone as passionately as Sia, and there is no one who has liked me in the first place.”

With that one word, Narsha easily gave up.

Because I knew from the beginning that it was an unrequited love that could never come true.

Siran glanced at Narsha from the corner of his eye and continued speaking.

“Those who like me only like my status as a prince, not myself.”

“Well, I guess not really.”

“In the first place, who would like someone as selfish, immature, and short as me?”

Narsha got a little upset at those words.

“Don’t talk like that. At least our knight department kids…”

After a brief pause,

Immediately, he looked straight into Siran’s eyes and said.

“No, because I know what a good person you are.”

At those words, Prince Siran turned his gaze again and looked out the window.

“When I graduate, I will abandon the battle for succession to the throne and travel the world.”

“Yeah. For some reason, I thought you would say that.”

“Instead of luxurious meals, there will be more cases of emergency food. Instead of soft beds, you will sleep in cheap inns.”

As Narsha frowned, Sirian smiled kindly and asked.

“Does it make you feel dizzy just thinking about it?”

Narsha answered immediately.

“To be honest, I think it would be very uncomfortable.”

“Then let’s talk about this here-”

“Still, it will definitely be fun if you can travel with your loved one.”

Narsha smiled.

“Wouldn’t you both have more fun in many ways than alone?”

Sirian glared at Narsha and frowned.

“Anyway, you pretend to be calm on the outside, but you’re more stubborn than Trine or Lisbeth.”

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“But you pretend to be stubborn and are weaker than anyone else when it comes to acceptance.”

Sirian and Narsha started laughing together.

Then, Siran soon hardened his expression again and spoke.

“Give me some time to think.”

“Yes. I’ll be waiting.”

***

Meanwhile, the devil who had infiltrated the Ferris wheel as a maintenance worker was sweating coldly.

There was a bigger problem than Prince Siran.

“Hahaha! This is going to be so much fun!”

Grokath, the martial dragon disguised as a human.

For some reason, he was laughing heartily while riding ‘on’ the Ferris wheel rather than ‘inside’ it.

“Hey, sir? You shouldn’t ride like that.”

“Huh? How dare you give orders to this body?”

“No, it’s not even possible!”

Grokath said, glaring at the devil.

“Seeing as how you are afraid of this body, it seems you are also a devil.”

“Ugh…”

“Hahaha! You can rest assured! I have no intention of tormenting you just because you are a devil.”

“Ah, yes, hahaha…”

“Of course, I don’t know what would happen if there were other reasons.”

The devil said, trembling slightly.

“I will keep that in mind. I will remain calm.”

“Good! Then, I’ll be quiet too!”

In the end, Grokatsu walked away along with the Ferris wheel.

The moment the devil breathes a sigh of relief –

“This is the lantern. One seagull has been captured.”

-I just lost consciousness.

***

Maria muttered as she looked around the dark surroundings needlessly in the waiting room of the haunted house.

“Don’t you feel like we picked the wrong members? There doesn’t seem to be anyone among us who is particularly scared of something like this.”

Sia said with a bright smile, slightly tightening the hand she was still holding tightly.

“Oh, we never specifically asked Maria to come with us?”

Then Maria responded with an air of displeasure.

“None of us knights have ever specifically asked the princess to come with us, have we?”

“Well, because I’m an international student, I don’t even have to take the entrance exam-”

When the person next to her wearing a white cloak cleared her throat, Sia took a deep breath.

“I’m sorry. A lot of things have happened recently so I guess I’m a little upset.”

Maria glared at the two in turn for a moment,

Soon she also relaxed her expression and smiled kindly.

“I see. It wouldn’t be a good idea to come to a place like this and fight.”

The devil watched it through a surveillance camera in the haunted house management office and laughed.

“Even the princess and the Heretic Questioner are still kids in the end.”

Then, after thinking for a moment, he spoke to the two other demons behind him.

“Then, we will kidnap Princess Xia as planned.”

Then the other demon spoke cautiously.

“Are you sure it’s okay? I told you not to touch humans other than Trine.”

“You idiot! That’s the angel’s situation, we have nothing to lose!”

“Besides, there are interrogators, so it’s dangerous.”

“Just by looking at it, it looks like we don’t get along well. What’s wrong? Besides, there are three of us.”

… The devil who killed Trine will be given special preferential treatment.

It was something Gohyeop said to motivate the demons, but

Thanks to this, it gave the devils an opportunity to act as they pleased.

“Anyway, that woman named Yuril is an ordinary pharmacist. So, as long as we can get past the interrogators, we can easily kidnap her.”

At that time, a delivery driver wearing a deeply pressed hat came into the management office.

“A prop has been delivered.”

Then he put down a doll dressed in a maid outfit.

one of the demons asked.

“What is this?”

“Didn’t you hear that the boss told me to put this in the dollhouse?”

The demons looked at each other, and then one of them lifted the doll.

“I just need to place it in the dollhouse appropriately, right?”

“I was told to do so.”

“But why do the doll’s clothes look like this?”

“You said the purpose was to catch guests off guard.”

As the delivery man tried to leave the room, another demon called him out.

“Wait a minute. Where did you come in? I didn’t see you coming in on the surveillance cameras.”

“I used teleportation to get in.”

“I beg your pardon?”

“I’m just kidding. I just quietly entered through the back door so as not to be noticed by the customers.”

At those words, the devil stared at the delivery driver for a moment.

However, it is also true that I was unable to pay attention to other surveillance cameras because I was concentrating on Princess Xia.

I decided to let him go because I felt like if I was too needlessly cautious, it would arouse suspicion.

“Anyway, thank you for your hard work carrying it.”

“Yes. Then, take care of yourselves.”

… The demons who took over the haunted house didn’t know yet.

It was Trine, not Yuril, who was holding hands with Sia in the first place.

And that his plan to repurpose the haunted house is going smoothly.