Capture the King's Heart
[You shouldn't have played that game, Master] "Just shut up, Crucifix!" Elena Hartley, an AI Engineer, played a suspicious game until she breathed her last breath in her bathroom. Waking up in the body of Meliora, a character she hated in the game, she knew she was done for. Meliora, an abandoned princess, finally gets the opportunity to see the outside world but is sent to the enemy kingdom to participate in the king's concubine selection. Elena, now Meliora, with her AI robot by her side, must do everything she can to survive until she finds a way back to her world. After meeting the king, who disguised himself as the king's personal knight to help her, will she accept her fate and embrace a love she has never experienced before, or will she find a way to return to her world?
The Auction
"How can they be so cruel!" Meliora shot up, her teeth gritted in anger. But remembering where she was, she couldn't entirely blame them. They took extreme measures in punishing people.
Take Kaid, for example. He loved slicing heads off. Every time she saw him in action, he was swinging his sword, hacking people's heads off like it was second nature.
"It's not cruelty; it's the only way to avoid calamity in our country. There is no safe space in this world, Princess Livia," he declared coldly. Meliora bit her bottom lip, frustrated. She wanted to retort but couldn't find the words.
"I understand," she muttered through clenched teeth. Showing off Crucifix was the first thing she wanted to do, but since no one here knew who she was or what Crucifix was, they'd easily kill her without a second thought.
She turned to Crucifix, who waved at her mechanically. Before she could speak, it was already ahead of her.