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Nothing about this group mission was going as expected.
First, I got eliminated, then Ellen voluntarily dropped out, and Harriet was eliminated the next day.
Then, the most unexpected event of all.
“I don’t know. Maybe to cause confusion or something? Well, that’s just an excuse for the teacher. I was simply bored,” said Charlotte. She had assassinated herself on the second night.
Charlotte had just thrown away the group mission.
But what about the importance of her Temple grades?
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At night, when the assassinations were supposed to take place, Ellen and I had dinner and then trained, while Harriet, being bored, watched us train.
As we headed back, thinking of getting some rest, we found Charlotte calmly drinking tea in the sitting room of the mansion.
In the original storyline, Vertus was the one who assassinated himself. This time, Charlotte had been assigned to be an assassin instead of Dettomorian, and she was the one who assassinated herself.
The reason? Because she was bored.
Harriet was puzzled because she knew that Vertus and Charlotte had been designated as assassins, so it didn’t make sense to her that Charlotte would assassinate herself.
“But… Is that really okay for you?”
Although they would not have a decisive impact on the imperial succession, the Temple grades were still important.
“Win or lose, the profit is the same, isn’t it?” Charlotte said.
Her justification was that she was acting in this way—an assassin killing herself—to cause confusion.
Since Charlotte and Vertus had been leading the discussions so far, they were increasingly under suspicion. They were even exchanging...
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