The gaze of my brother, who had suddenly changed his attitude and was striding towards me, seemed no joke. The moment his hazel eyes, which had been looking down at me as if he could kill a person, came close to my nose, Lara’s upper body suddenly fell forward as a hand grabbed her by the collar.

“What are you?”

‘What, you idiot, you little brother!’

Lara responded internally, but her lips wouldn’t move. It was because she was a little nervous.

‘What is this kid… … . Don’t you recognize me at all?’

<It’s a cliché. It’s a cliché that if a woman wears a cross-dressing wig or lets her hair down, no one will recognize her. This is proof that clichés still exist in this world.>

‘Should I be happy about this… … ?’

Anyway, it wasn’t bad because I was able to escape the situation that was so frustrating.

My throat was suffocated and it was hard to breathe, but all my nerves kept going elsewhere. It felt strange that my brother treated me like he treated someone else. And my brother’s attitude of being truly angry was also.

“Do you know where you came from? You little punk… … .”

Was it because he still had the habit of absolutely opposing dating because he loved his sister so much? Or was my brother back to how he used to be?

Lara looked up at Lawrence with confused eyes, and then started to struggle when he finally ran out of breath. Lawrence noticed her face turning red and let go of her collar first.

“Urgh, urgh… … .”

“… Is my sister washing up right now? Answer me.”

His eyes were cold as he looked down at Lara, who was sitting on the floor panting for breath. Since she had never seen him truly angry, Lara felt unfamiliar with her brother’s behaviour.

In this serious situation, she couldn’t confidently reveal that she was actually disguised as a man. Lara nodded, thinking it would be better to say that she was washing up, and the cold voice subsided.

“I’ll give you one piece of advice.”

“… … .”

“If you approach my sister one more time, I won’t let you off easy. Even if there are no women… … . Take better care of your body!!”

The sincerity of the shout made the cold tone boil over with excitement.

Lara looked up at Lawrence blankly as if she had been hit in the back of the head. This bastard? It was the first time that curses boiled up in her throat like phlegm. “You bastard… … . Why are you looking at me with such a stupid face?”

Lawrence bent over Lara with his brow furrowed in displeasure. The large hand that patted her shoulder was firm yet solid. “Run away. I’ll help you just this once.”

‘I really want to kill you.’

Lara thought calmly. As if she had remembered the obvious.

* * *

How did she end up in the Imperial Knights? Lara felt like she was floating away in the confusion swirling inside her. She had entered the forbidden area. And it was deep in the center of the building.

Currently, Lara was standing like a child outside the Knight Commander’s office. Elina3, who had entered, didn’t seem to come out for a moment, as if she was talking to him. After all, the female lead and the male lead had met, so how could they be foolish?

The commander of the Imperial Knights, Diches Esteban, was a young man of twenty-four who had already become the commander of the knights, and his extraordinary qualifications told us that he was one of the male leads.

Lara also knew him well, and that was because she had seen him through the prophetic dream that God had shown her all night.

In the dream, it seemed like two or three months had passed. It was probably after the male protagonist had found out that she was a princess.

In the dream, Elina, disguised as a silver-haired knight, was crossing the knights’ hallway. Judging from the scene where she entered what was presumed to be her dormitory room, it seemed that the male protagonist, the knight commander, had turned a blind eye to the fact that Elina was a princess.

There was someone in the room where she thought there was no one. Elina noticed the sharp gaze piercing through her and slowly turned her head. A man in a neat uniform was sitting on the sofa in the room.

‘Master?’

He had dark green hair and an intellectual air. He was also a Duke of the Empire, Diches. His sharp nose, which looked like it had been sharpened with a blade, had thin-framed office glasses hanging over it. It seemed that he had been in the office just a moment ago.

‘Who were you with until this hour?’

Diches got up, and Elina froze in place. ‘You are… Are you aware that you are a woman?’

He approached Elina with flawless movements and spoke softly with a worried face. However, his attitude, which he had thought to be polite, was unconsciously filled with fierceness. By the time Elina realized it, her wrist had already been grabbed.

‘Would you like to answer the question I asked you first?’

Dices lowered his sharp black eyes as he pushed her against the wall.

‘I told you. Don’t give your body and mind to anyone but me.’ ‘… What is that… … .’

‘It wasn’t simply out of mercy that I turned a blind eye to the fact that you were a princess and allowed you to continue to be in the Knights. It was to keep you, who was mine, by my side.’

Diches placed his right arm on the wall to prevent Elina from running away. He stared into Elina’s silver eyes and lifted his left thumb to press against Elina’s lips.

‘But you keep ignoring my words, so there are two ways to interpret it. One is that my words don’t sound like a warning at all.’

His voice changed from a commanding tone to a stern tone like an adult talking to a child.

‘The other is that you only do such mischievous things because you want to be punished by me.’ Just as Elina opened her eyes wide in surprise, he lowered his head. His lips, which seemed to swallow her small mouth, passed her chin and touched her white neck. His lips opened and lightly bit the side of Elina’s neck.

‘Ah!’

Elina raised her hand and grabbed Diches’s shoulder. In response, Diches slightly turned his tilted head back to its original position and let go of her delicate skin. He brushed past the place where the scars of her teeth were and followed the delicate lines of her chin, then brought his lips to her ear.

‘Either way, it only gives me joy.’

That was roughly the dream. I was expecting something to come out because it was a bit racy and had a bit of a sexy atmosphere, but Lara was a little disappointed that the dream didn’t cross the line. And it would be a lie if I said I wasn’t curious that the male protagonist I saw in my dream was right beyond this door. I’ve only seen him in my dreams, not in real life. ‘He’s the type who’s obsessed with the female protagonist, right, Commander?’

<That’s right.>

‘His monopoly must be no joke.’

<That’s the charm of the male protagonist. The dream he showed you was just the beginning of his monopoly.>

‘Then it means that he’s getting more and more possessive as time goes by. It would be fun to see it as Rob Gentleman X Lily doujinshi, but he’s not my type.’

<You didn’t even say you’d give it to him.>

It was while Lara was talking to Shin. With a click, a door opened in the distance and Elina3 walked out. She was dressed in a knight’s uniform, wearing a short silver wig, and she looked like a slender pretty boy.

Lara stopped muttering to herself and approached her. I hope there’s no problem.

“What’s going on?”

“The initiation process is complete. You are now a commoner new knight Laan.” Elina3, standing next to her, kindly whispered in her ear.

Ah. As her expectations were dashed in vain, Lara’s eyes darkened. She had thought that if he had known that Elina, dressed as a man, was a woman the moment he first saw her, he would have figured it out somehow.

“What if I get caught… …?”

“Don’t worry about that. I dragged you in, so of course I will take responsibility for that.”

“Thank you.”

The two walked side by side through the lobby of the knights’ building. Unlike Lara, who flinched whenever she made eye contact with the knights passing by, Elina3 was confident.

“You’re over there.”

“You should start using informal language. It looks weird to use a public school to be friends.”

“… Haha, okay.”

“Don’t laugh like that.”

Lara swallowed her laughter at the indifferent remark. Elina3 straightened her face as she walked. It was after that that her gaze shifted to Lara’s side profile.

“My nickname is Edgar3. Please call me that from now on.”

“No, is there really a need to add 3… …? Are there other Elinas here?”

“No, that’s not it. I’m the only one who can use a sword.” “Then why 3… … .”

“If you like it, the number 3.”

It felt like she had heard some incredibly impressive lines. Could this be the influence of the female protagonist? Lara followed Elina3 into the training hall, lost in her dull thoughts.

The moment the door opened, the air changed completely. Inside the training hall, where the hot heat could be felt, the men’s shouts mixed with slogans echoed loudly. I felt a great inner conflict that made me want to go back, but I had already crossed the river I couldn’t go back to. Elina3 started to walk around as if she had entered her living room. Lara, who stuck right next to her, glanced around.

Then I saw something I shouldn’t have seen. I wanted to gouge out my eyes when I saw my brother among the knights who were maintaining their ranks and swinging their swords. I didn’t want to see my brother’s half-naked body with his shirt off.

As expected, there was no place as horrible as this place for me. The moment Lara was about to go back, making the excuse that she was sick, a man who was the company commander appeared.

“Is this guy? His arms are thin and flabby, but he doesn’t look useful. Well, Edgar3, you’re on the thin side, but you’re strong, so I think you might have something.”

“He’s my friend. Please take good care of him.”

“Then, just leave him to me. I’ll train him well, so you go and train.” The company commander, who had shaved his head so that his scalp was visible, took Lara to a corner of the training ground without any particular reason, saying that he needed to test her basic skills.

He kept spitting out words like, “We need to strictly enforce military discipline from day one,” and that he would keep an eye on her from now on, but she couldn’t bring herself to say that she would go back and see.

When Lara was shedding tears inside, the company commander handed her a wooden sword. It was much heavier than when she had held it at the Liniot Duke’s house before.