System vs Rebirth

Royal Palace.

Bang!

The door was slammed open, startling a lot of people inside.

"We've got big news!" The guard rushed inside. His expression was in complete shock, and his breath was hoarse. It was clear that he couldn't believe what he had just heard. Before anyone could say anything, he declared out loud, "We've gotten the news from the north that… Noel Ardagan and Anna Stargaze are now officially engaged!"

Instead of the throne room, this one was a meeting room, usually used to hold an important meeting that not a lot of people would know.

Inside the room sat down a few people, such as the king, Josephine, and other people from the king's faction.

"!!!" All of them couldn't help but widen their eyes in shock as though they didn't believe what they had just heard.

"What did you say?!" The king asked, confirming the news.

"We've received the words from our spy. It appears that Noel Ardagan and Anna Stargaze are now officially engaged. They've announced it together in front of the people in that city." The guard repeated.

"Damn!" Josephine slammed the table. As Anna's teacher, she was the first to understand the situation. She noticed that Anna had actually broken the brainwashing and hidden it from everyone else, including her. "Since when…"

Josephine's reaction was enough for the quick-witted king to reach the same conclusion. "We've been fooled. Anna Stargaze was never on the same side… No, it should actually explain everything."

The king looked down for a moment, recounting every news regarding Noel and Anna. "Is it from the very start? Noel and Anna have been together since the start. That's the reason why Anna Stargaze enlisted in the Demon Banner Army.

"When the news about her killing Noel Ardagan spread and his corpse was never found, I should have realized that she had hidden the truth. Noel Ardagan never died and used that opportunity to not only hide his identity but also make us trust Anna.

"The Water Lord and Stone Lord supporting him shouldn't be weird, considering they met him when he used his fake identity to travel together with the Demon Relief Squad.

"After that, the rune was spread, and a lot of things happened… until eventually Anna Stargaze became an Arbiter."

The people realized the severity of this matter after that explanation. Their faces became pale as a few of them raised their voices.

"Then, does that mean the Ardagan Family and the Stargaze Family have planned all this from the start?"

"Kevin Stargaze must already know this."

was fighting with his own daughter in

like that, so no one doubted them. Meanwhile, the truth was that Anna and Noel had been planning their

said about Noel's territory. Wanting to mess with Noel? Wanting to hinder his

territory was so that she could finally drop all her acts

filled with frustration and anger. If she had known all this from the

"What will happen now?"

definitely support this. Knowing Kevin, he will even give his blessing

Stargaze Family still has a successor. While he is shadowed

Kevin's plan must be to marry his daughter to Noel. If the two most talented people

a backlash from all other nobles. No,

this. If I'm not wrong, he has

of this opportunity to protect Noel so as to

most desperate since they want to fix their relationship with Noel. After all, they are the only countries banned from learning runes from

"This is not good."

has become

were panicking. What could

Ardagan Family had four Spirit Grandmasters. If it was

proven herself in the battle against Count Heirden. Noel's strength was still unknown, but the fact that his brain was enough to kill

they wanted to attack them, they should have someone

Ardagan Family. He had the strength and experience to lead the soldiers, which would be

attack the

right now, the others won't

to find another plan to hinder their progress. If the situation becomes even more complicated, there is a chance that we won't be able to harm them

to use this opportunity to attack

pale enough as though the blood

been with them for a while, so she must have figured

able to create a countermeasure, if

this news and even if he came up with something, it would just risk everything he had built so

leaned his back on

The king muttered while recounting the time when Anna was still in the court.

"Eh?"

began to realize something was wrong. If they were together, there was no way Anna would give up this new territory and

them. If they thought about it, it was easy to notice that Anna wasn't the one