(Narrator: The poor prince closed his eyes. But perhaps that meant he no longer had to think about those troublesome political affairs and romantic entanglements.)
(In other words — he had finally found release.)
(Unfortunately, darkness was not what awaited him. He opened his eyes once more.)
“I… I’m not dead?”
He spread his fingers — the knuckles were healthy and rosy, completely unlike the withered state left by his lovesickness.
The man before the mirror had a healthy face, radiant with vitality.
“Did I… travel back in time?”
The man touched his own face in disbelief.
“Mmm… such tension, such a dramatic plot…”
Elena muttered softly.
“This film has already transcended godhood.”
Fen responded with a perfunctory nod.
‘Oh my god…’
He was utterly dumbfounded.
If not for the Silver-haired Girl’s serious gaze proving she genuinely praised the film from the bottom of her heart, Fen would have suspected Elena was being sarcastic.
Where was the godhood?
What do you mean the Queen failed to assassinate Snow White and took it out on Prince Charming instead?
What do you mean Prince Charming didn’t actually die but was revived through Impure World Reincarnation?
This couldn’t be described as godhood anymore.
This was a god among gods.
“At this time… she shouldn’t have started harming Snow White yet…”
The Prince took a sword from the drawer.
A large ruby was set in the hilt, and the blade gleamed with a sharp silver light.
“Since the Queen wants to kill me later… I’ll strike first.”
…
(Narrator: And so, the Prince’s kingdom took the initiative, waged war, and conquered the Queen’s kingdom. In the end, he captured the culprit and successfully punished the criminal.)
“It’s over…”
The Prince looked at the corpse that had received its punishment and sheathed his sword.
‘Wow, there’s even a Revenge Rebirth Trope.’
(Prince Charming thought this would be the end of everything. However, when the day ended and he opened his eyes once more, he had returned to the day of the cycle.)
“Wh-why? Why did I return to this day?”
“Was my approach wrong?”
—
(This time, he changed his strategy. Since the princess’s feelings for the dwarfs came from prolonged companionship, he would beat them to it — rescuing the princess who had fled into the forest and bringing her back to the palace for protection.)
“Prince, I would be happy to become your lifelong companion.”
He succeeded.
Snow White willingly fell into his arms.
He had won the princess’s true heart.
Even though he had won the beauty, even though the princess he had longed for day and night willingly submitted to him.
He was not happy.
(Thinking back to the first life, when the princess took the initiative to express her love to the Seven Dwarfs, a nameless fire still burned in the Prince’s heart.)
(The Prince vaguely realized that he no longer seemed to love the princess.)
(There was a premonition in his heart — the cycle would not end so easily.)
“That’s right! Don’t listen to her!”
Elena waved her fists excitedly.
“I told you the princess was a bad woman!”
‘Uh…’
So Elena was still hung up on the princess running off with the dwarfs in the first life…
—
(Sure enough, after falling asleep in the bridal chamber on the wedding night, when he opened his eyes again, Prince Charming had once more returned to the period when he was alone.)
“The Queen wanted to kill me… because I meddled in the princess’s affairs…”
“Since I don’t love her anymore…”
“Then I won’t concern myself with their matters anymore…”
All light had completely faded from the Prince’s eyes.
(Prince Charming sat quietly in his palace. His servants brought news of the neighboring kingdom’s Queen persecuting her own daughter, of Snow White being rescued by the dwarfs, of the princess’s death.)
(There was not a single ripple in Prince Charming’s eyes — he didn’t even blink.)
‘Damn… the Prince is completely broken…’
Fen was deeply shaken.
With the plot built up this high now…
How were they supposed to wrap it up?
—
(However, fate would not comply. When he opened his eyes again, it was the familiar mirror, the familiar bedchamber — everything as usual.)
“How is this possible!!!”
He punched the mirror hard, leaving faint cracks in the surface.
“Damn it —”
This time, the Prince went completely mad.
(In the cycles that followed, he sometimes became a God Slayer, and sometimes actively stayed away from the Queen and the Princess — but without exception, he remained trapped in this day.)
(It seemed that without both the man and woman jointly breaking the Queen’s True Love Curse, his cycle would never end.)
(And so, after 33,550,335 cycles, nothing changed. It was that hopeless.)
‘This episode is godly.’
(Just when the Prince had completely given up and was willing to become a prisoner of the cycle, the change he had once desperately sought finally arrived on the 33,550,336th cycle.)
“Heh — the same familiar scene.”
“Huh?”
“Wait…”
The “Prince” instinctively touched his cheek again, but this time, the sensation was completely different.
On the screen, the “young man” frantically lifted his head.
The first thing to catch the eye was the conspicuous, long golden hair that partially obscured the girl’s vision.
The girl in the mirror had a face far more beautiful than both the Princess and the Queen, with fair skin so delicate it seemed it might break at a touch.
Although she wore the Prince’s magnificent attire and a crown sat atop her golden hair, this only added to the girl’s heroic aura.
“Wh-what?”
Elena was the first to be shocked.
She had originally thought she sympathized with Prince Charming… because they had some similar experiences…
But Prince Charming had actually become a girl… just like Elena herself!?
So it wasn’t sympathy for a kindred spirit, but because they were literally the same kind?
“Wow —”
This enormous Transformation clearly stunned all the viewers present.
Even though there weren’t many people, they burst into chattering discussion.
(Narrator: Indeed, the “Prince Charming’s” beauty was in no way inferior to any woman’s — if Snow White and the current Prince Charming were placed side by side… wouldn’t the world think this beautiful, angelic lady was the renowned “Snow White” instead?)
‘…’
Fen stared fixedly at the golden-haired girl on the screen, then looked at Little Elena sitting in the seat beside him.
‘What more can I even say?’
Fen laughed in relief.
“F-Fen… what’s wrong with you?”
“Nothing, I just thought of something happy…”
‘What do you mean Prince Charming turned into a girl?’
So Prince Charming, just like Elena, was also a TS girl?
The scene changed again and again and again.
But this time, it went back to the Queen’s castle.
“Magic Mirror, Magic Mirror — who is the most beautiful woman in the world?”
The familiar voice came from inside the room.
But this time, the answer caught everyone off guard.
“It is Prince Charming, my dear master.”
“Prince Charming?”
‘Prince Charming?’
Fen’s inner shock was almost simultaneous with the Queen’s exclamation on the screen.
After turning into a woman, the Prince’s beauty surpassed even Snow White’s, right?
‘Where have I seen this episode before?’
The Prince’s beauty surpassed his former beloved…
Elena’s beauty surpassed her dear family…
In a sense, this script was too uncanny…
Even though it was a fairy tale, certain plot points actually corresponded to Elena.
“Crack —”
The Queen crushed the goblet in her hand again and again.
“A woman…”
“And she still uses the title of ‘Prince’… clearly trying to hide her appearance…”
“What malicious intentions!”
‘You’re the malicious one here! Lady!’
“That so-called most valiant Huntsman in the kingdom?”
“Summon him immediately!”
“I have a task for him to handle!”
She turned and ordered the maidservant, then lightly straightened the crown on her head, which had tilted from her anger.
“Prince Charming…”
“I will…”
“I will definitely make you pay…”
The Queen once again revealed a ferocious smile.
But this time, the target of her hatred had changed.
……
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