The Prince beside her slowly rose to his feet, a satisfied smile on his face.
"My dear Princess, you're finally awake. Do you know how long I've waited for this day?" He gently slipped his arms around her waist from behind, his voice tender and affectionate. "We can finally be together."
"My dear Prince," the Princess said, resting one hand on his and slowly stroking it, "don't be impatient. Before that, we still have a few little bugs to deal with."
She glanced at the three players watching her warily, a vicious look on her face. "No one can stop us from being together."
"What's wrong with you? Who's trying to stop you two from being together?" The Cloaked Man was growing irritated by tonight's twists and turns. He snapped, "If you want to be together, go ahead. We're not stopping you."
"Exactly," the Slightly Plump Woman chimed in quietly. "You were reunited with our help. We're not the ones keeping you apart-we're the ones who brought you together!"
She thought the Princess had mistaken them for Assassins who wanted to hurt her. If she made it clear that they were Knights, the Princess would probably stop doing this.
She had yet to realize what triggering a Hidden Mission meant.
A few words were not enough to change an NPC's behavior.
Sure enough, the Princess burst out laughing at the Slightly Plump Woman's words.
The Prince spoke up beside her. "We might as well let you know why you're dying."
Hearing this, Zhao Xun immediately looked up at the pop-up window that had yet to disappear above them—it seemed to know the players had not read the Hidden Mission's details, so it had remained there.
Since the NPCs were going through the motions of telling their story, he would naturally