I! Cleaner!

Kidnapping the princess?

After hearing Leon's promise, the Cat Lady's ears couldn't help but twitch, and then she meowed with doubt in her eyes.

The fake person pretending to be himself is certainly hateful, but she...or he is just a character in [Bedtime Story], what's the use of catching her?

‘The meaning of catching her is to take the initiative to “advance the story”. ’

After feeling his current situation, Leon pinched the meat ball on the female cat's paw and replied thoughtfully:

'Although we are also characters in [Bedtime Story] and can even vaguely guess the content of the story, we don't know the whole story, so we can only follow the progress of the story like puppets on strings. .

Although I haven't completely gotten rid of the restrictions now, I have gained a little bit of "freedom". So instead of waiting for the story node arranged by the other party to arrive, I might as well try to take the initiative and see if I can disrupt the other party's arrangement. ’

It sounds reasonable...

After nodding her head in understanding, the Cat Queen wanted to ask again, but she heard footsteps in the corridor stopping outside the door, and then there was a cautious knocking sound on the door panel.

"Tuk, Tuk, Tuk."

"Come in."

"Dear Prince, I am the captain of the guard of the Great Witch Court. You can call me..."

After unscrewing the door handle and walking into the house, and taking the initiative to say hello to Leon, the guard captain, who had just listened to a bunch of conspiracy theories from the president of the shaman club, couldn't help but take a closer look at the "evil Lion-Hearted Prince".

At this time, the sun in the sky had just set, and some dim afterglow shone through the window on Leon's back. While slightly brightening the outline of his face, it also enveloped most of his body in dim light and shadow.

The figure of Prince Lionheart leaning on the back of the chair was continuously stretched by the dim light, crossing the slightly old tables and chairs, crossing the dark carpet, and slowly and gloomily moved towards the door.

The black kitten he was holding on his lap and caressing seemed to have noticed the movement at the door and poked its head out of his palm. Its two bright orange eyes were filled with a look that should belong to humans. His eyes were fixedly staring at him...

hiss……

Startled by Lyon's unique "temperament" in the night, the guard captain's smile suddenly froze on his face. Under the evil gaze of one man, one cat and four eyes, he had already prepared a speech. More than half of it was immediately emptied.

"Go on."

Holding the cat's thumb up slightly, she gently tapped her furry chin with the back of her finger. Most of her body was in the shadows, and the [Nightmare and Fear] badge special effect was activated, and she was in the state of the King of Nightmares. Leon said calmly and undeniably:

"What should I call you?"

"Uh...Gary! You can call me Gary!"

The guard captain came to his senses and quickly announced his name, and then unconsciously took a few deep breaths. He took a few steps toward the man who was exuding huge pressure and stood next to the chair opposite him. Determined, he then said with a smile:

"Your Excellency, regarding your maid..."

"etc."

After interrupting the captain of the guard, the evil prince who was playing with his cat raised his right hand, pointed at the chair opposite, and said calmly:

"Sit down and talk."

"Ah? Okay!"

After hearing Leon's instructions, the guard captain of the Grand Witch Court was slightly startled at first, and then subconsciously followed the instructions and sat on the chair opposite him.

However, the strange thing is that even though he changed from standing to sitting, and seemed to be having an equal conversation, the guard captain did not feel relaxed, but instead felt that his whole body became more and more tense.

The darker the sky outside, the more relaxed the figure of the man holding the cat opposite him became, but the pressure on his body continued to increase, almost making him breathless.

Almost instinctively, he moved forward, sat down on only half his buttocks, and arched his head, neck and back slightly. The captain of the guard finally breathed more smoothly, and seemed to have gained some strange understanding.

When someone asks you to sit down and chat, it doesn’t necessarily mean that there will be an equal conversation, it may just be that he hates looking up at people...

"Your Excellency the Prince..."

After trying hard to tighten his body, the captain of the guard was shocked by the aura special effect of "Evil and Horrible". He couldn't help lowering his head and whispered:

"We actually didn't capture your bodyguard, only your maid, but she appeared at the base of the Yarn Ball Association, and she couldn't explain why she appeared there, so..."

"What's wrong?"

"ah?"

Leon, who gently stroked the satin-like back of Elvis Presley and leaned his upper body loosely on the chair, hid in the shadows and said calmly:

"What I'm asking is, is there anything I can't go to in that place?"

"This... The Yarn Ball Association is a very evil underground association. It just recently planned an assassination operation against His Majesty the Great Witch King, so..."

"Fake."

"ah?"

In the bewildered expression of the guard captain, the evil Lion-Hearted Prince lifted the cat in his arms, and then explained calmly:

"The president of the Yarn Ball Association is my ally. Our goal is to kidnap Princess Caitlin, and then use a fake one to directly let her inherit the position of the Great Witch King. It is not about assassinating the Great Witch King, so this matter is not The Yarn Ball Association did it, and you arrested the wrong person.”

"ah?"

After the fourth uncontrollable groan, the somewhat dumbfounded captain of the guard opened his mouth wide and looked at Leon opposite him with a dull face.

I admit that your explanation is indeed very convincing. After all, the failed assassination of the Great Witch King may not be as harmful as your plan... But you just said it directly?

...

Well... Since you can tell your own "plan", it proves that [Utopia]'s control over [Bedtime Story] is not actually throughout, and it can only control the key nodes of the story.

When the captain of the guard sat in a daze on the chair, not knowing what to say for a while, Leon, who leaned on him to test the "freedom", could not help but continue to figure out the information of [Bedtime Story] in his heart.

According to the current situation, Wuyouzhishu's [Bedtime Story] should be just a "synopsis", just like Snow White will definitely eat the poisoned apple, and Sleeping Beauty will definitely have her finger pierced by the spindle. Even if he has the blessing of [Materialism], he still cannot violate the story he set.

However, these are the only situations that [Nothing] can control.

He can only stipulate that Snow White eats the poisoned apple, but he has no way to control whether the apple is red or green, whether it is waxed, and whether it tastes sweet or sour in the mouth.

To sum it up simply, the closer the plot is to the "outline" and "main line", the stronger the binding effect of [Bedtime Story] will be. Those things far away from the "main line" will hardly be bound by [Bedtime Story], and there seems to be a lot of room for operation here...

[Through detailed testing and summarization, you have obtained a lot of information about "Bedtime Story"... Your resistance to this abnormal object has increased significantly, and you can already block a deeper degree of influence]

Guessed it right!

Hearing the voice ringing in his ears, feeling that a large part of the restraints have been loosened again, Leon's mouth corners can't help but curl up, and then looked up at the hesitant captain of the guard opposite, and smiled and issued an invitation to play together.

"Gary, I think you are a talented person... Do you want to join my plan and kidnap the princess together?"

"Huh?!?!?!"