The Princess of Convenient Plot Devices Vol. 6 by Mamecyoro and Mitsuya Fuji

Author:Mamecyoro and Mitsuya Fuji
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On

The moment I saw the door, the memory came back to me.

The Impossible Room—I know this place.

A conversation I had with Uncle Dearest long ago revisited me. I had been looking for him and found him standing here, so I called out to him.

“Uncle Dearest, aren’t you going inside?”

“I can’t go in.”

“Isn’t there a key?”

“You need two keys to get in here. And now I only—” He looked down at me…then with a curt nod, he said, “I have one key.”

“Where’s the other key?”

“With the royal…”

And he told me part of the way to enter the room. There was a single-swinging door on the northern end of the first floor of the villa. Its design was the same as the other doors in the villa, except its keyhole was a bit larger.

“So…this is The Impossible Room?” I asked Derek.

“Yes. That isn’t its official name, but it is impossible to open. Only the master of the house—at the moment, my father—can enter it. And this is the key.” Derek held up the dagger in his right hand.

Only the master of the house… So that means…

“How did you get that key? Did Uncle Dearest give it to you?”

“Hardly,” Derek smiled proudly. “I just borrowed it for a short time since I figured out where the location was. As luck would have it, my father happens to be out today.”

“So…you made a point to invite me over on a day you knew your father wouldn’t be home?”

His smile was all the answer I needed. “I won’t get in trouble when he finds out I’ve already gone in the room, but I couldn’t get into the room in the first place if he stopped me.”

Derek faced the door, slid the sheathed dagger into the keyhole, and turned it. Then, with just a little push, the door opened inward…

…only to reveal a narrow passageway followed by another door. That was all the room contained. This must be why Uncle Dearest had told me there were two keys.

Derek walked into the tiny room and approached the second door. It looked exactly the same as the first. At a glance, it seemed like it would also open from the same dagger.

Let’s get that door open!

“Lord Derek?”

But Derek didn’t budge.

“This is it… This is as far as I ever got.”

“Huh?”

“Do you honestly think devious little me would have given up on the Impossible Room? At the time, I thought that this little guy—” Derek skillfully twirled the dagger in one hand and caught it, “—was the only key. But I was wrong.” He pointed at the second door with the dagger. “This thing stood in my way.”

So he had already tried to conquer the Impossible Room…and failed.

“And that’s where you come in, Princess. Do you know how to open this door?”

No, I do not— No, wait a minute. Didn’t Uncle Dearest tell me?

“With the royal…”

The royal…what? I’m drawing a blank…! I! Can’t! Re! Mem! Ber!

“Lord Derek…what makes you think I know?”

Any hints, Derek?

“I don’t have any definitive proof that the painting is even in here.

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