The Exhausting Reality of Novel Transmigration

r from Leo by making Cassion the duke, I also coveted Diana.

In the original novel, Diana was a great subject towards Leo, and it could be said that she was the equivalent of a thousand troops.

If one were to have her, then they’d have her talent at their disposal.
But on the contrary, if one were to lose her, then they’d gained a formidable enemy.

Inevitably, I had no choice but to bring Diana to my side.

That’s right.
By any means possible.

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For me, ‘that’ was what the request was.

‘Leave a request at Diana’s guild and make her commit a crime against me.’

I needed an indisputable insurance against her—insurance that I could use to blackmail Diana into bringing her to my side just in case my proposition towards her wouldn’t work.

I’ve yet to receive this information about Diana from Blanca, but I already knew that she had a sick younger sister and that she was working in a shady guild so she could earn some money to buy her sister’s medicine.

The more significant the character was with regard to the narrative, the more of their past was included in the novel.

Diana was Leo’s most useful tool.

It was only inevitable that her past was also detailed.

So, that’s how I knew where Diana was working and that I could commission a request from her, and I asked Blanca to play the role of the ‘person who made the request’.

I didn’t know exactly where the guild was, but Blanca should have found it during the background check she conducted.

She was able to strike two birds with one stone in this way.

Even so…

I didn’t expect to get hit on the back of the head like this.

I reached forward and pulled the curtains.
As darkness fell around us in an instant, the mana lamps all over the carriage’s interior lit up automatically.

Blue flames danced from all directions.

Blanca’s purple hair stood out amidst the flickering blue flames.

“Yes, it’s right to say that I was the one who requested it.
But I asked you to make her commit a crime against me, not for her to aim for my life.”

“I didn’t say that she should aim for your life either.
I just asked her to do a tiny little ambush.
And to hurt you a little.”

Ambush.

This word was extremely, ridiculously unpleasant to hear.

If a person has entrusted you with a request, shouldn’t you at least tell them when, where and how the request would be fulfilled?

When sending someone out to a meeting place without telling them anything about an attack like this, then it’s true that it’s nothing but an ‘ambush’.

What would have happened if Cassion got hurt?

What if I didn’t recognize that it was Diana and ended up killing her in the skirmish?

“You should have told me when and where the ambush was going to happen.”

“If I told you that, you might not have acted accordingly.
When you’re left in the dark, that’s when a realistic reaction comes out.”

Hearing her brazenly spew out these words with that three-pronged tongue of hers, I furrowed my brows.

I bet that if Blanca were to fall in the deep waters, her red lips would still somehow float to the surface.

“Amazing, so that’s your sincere excuse.
Seems like it truly is your principle not to lie.”

“I do keep my principles.
It’s just that I didn’t elaborate.
I never lied to you.”

Her confident tone reminded me of our last meeting.

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When I asked her about the arrangements for this commissioned request, Blanca replied like so.

‘Not exactly.
I’m prepared to take you up on your request, but I just haven’t reached those results yet because I need a little help from you, Princess.’

‘Without your help, the request cannot be fulfilled.’

And, the note that she left between the pages of that book went like this.

‘Two days later, wear this and go to the place marked on this map.

Along the alley that has been marked here, buy a doll and take it with you.
When you arrive at the destination, there will be someone waiting to help you regarding your request.

P.S.
Bring your escort knight.’

“Ha.
That’s right, you didn’t lie.”

I nodded as I acknowledged the way she worded it.

Indeed, as Blanca mentioned, she did not lie.

She just didn’t elaborate.

“I’m glad you’re running an information guild instead of something else.
If you had turned out to be a crook, then all the noble houses of this empire would have already gotten sucked dry.”

“Oh my, thank you for the compliment.”

“Did you plan for me to buy Ria’s dolls?”

“Children are usually vulnerable to the people who hand out favors to them.
Besides that, you’d need some bait when you’d go to that girl’s house later.”

“And what if I bought another kid’s doll?”

When asked, Blanca burst out into another peal of laughter as if she heard an absurd question.

“Didn’t I already take care of that in advance?”

The answering tone was truly flabbergasting.

Seriously, who could be as ridiculous as her.

‘Still though, this is within what I’ve expected.’

Truthfully, I didn’t realize that the child who sold me the doll was Diana’s sister.

During the skirmish when I found out that the attacker was Diana, that’s also the moment I realized Blanca’s little prank and subsequently realized who ‘Ria’ was as well.

However, Blanca already seemed to have foreseen that I would lure Diana in with that doll.

Without realizing it, I’d been moving under the script that Blanca had written.

‘It’s not a pleasant feeling.’

“Haha.
Really, please don’t be too angry, Princess.
It all worked out in the end, so it should be alright.
This will never happen again from now on.
I’ll offer my hotel as a guarantee.”

It was when I stopped responding to her that Blanca finally apologized.

No matter how much I think about it, it seemed like she was just doing all this to get a rise out of me because my reactions amused her.

My head was throbbing from the onslaught of fatigue.

Now that the predicament with Diana had been solved, I just want to go home, wipe my feet on a mat, and head straight to bed.