The palace is way too big! After my playdate with the crown prince ended, I decided to walk out on my own, but why? What is the reason for having so many rooms, hallways, parlors, and etc?! I've passed by at least twelve rooms that seemed to have no real meaning..? Theres one with a window, but I was on ground level-- so why do I seem to be a few stories up now? I didn't ascend any grand staircases... or really, ANY staircases!! What would happen if I ever wanted to find the bathroom doing one of the countless, worthless balls?! I'd never be found again. I can already see missing posted flashing before my eyes... MISSING: Duke's Only Son. Oooooh... it's so likely it's not even funny! Okay, maybe just a little bit funny. Only a little. Especially now because:
"I'm lost!!!"
Finally, depleted of energy to both wander hopelessly and curse the ridiculous build of the royal household, I sat by a random window beside a suit of armor, and felt the confines of reality close in on me. I... now as the male lead, Everette, and with my past life still in rearview... have lost my twenty something year streak of never getting lost.
...now that I think about it, if I was the heroine or the villainess, this would totally be the thing where they wander off, get lost, find out about some sort of forbidden thing, get in trouble, and run into a male lead who gets them out of trouble.
I laughed, "Nah. That cliche... would mean that I'm... possibly the..." my frivolous chuckles began to wane replaced by the nervous, forced laughter of a dying man, "...male lead... who gets her out of trouble..?" A lonely wind flitted lifelessly passed me, along with a tumble weed... I stared at the passing tumble weed feeling very much at the butt end of the author's joke...
"A terrible joke." I muttered. rattle..! I jolted and stood up quickly running in the opposite direction. "YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG!!" I screamed as I sprinted down the hall, "I'M NOT MALE LEAD MATERIAL!!!" Where the hells were all the servants? The palace employs like hundreds of them, but during these types of scenes they magically disappear?! Stupid transmigration cliches! I rounded the hallways only to be pulled into a doorway, a hand over my mouth.
"Shush." my captor hissed. I began to struggle harder. Why is it that I'm always right when it's serious? And it's never about good stuff? I bit into the small hand holding me captive.
"~~~??? %#!!*!" I pulled away and fell against the door only to see Eliza holding his hand close and glaring daggers at me. I gaped at him. "The fuck was that for?!" he growled. I shook my head, frantically. Wait... wasn't he a male lead? I looked around the room. So where's the villainess? Or the heroine? Suddenly the door swung open, pulling me backwards.
"Oh? And what could possibly be going back here..?" Why is Cain here.?????