Fortunately, although it took some time to make sure all the changes Emilia wanted to make were clear, the audience remained none the wiser as they continued to watch the show.
Of course, the fact that all her requests were accepted right away also helped cut the time short, and Emilia couldn’t help but chuckle to herself. ‘So cute and obedient… ah, it’s a pity that I’m too busy these days, or I would have loved to play around with them more.’
Cynthia could only roll her eyes in exasperation. “They clearly planned to include you from the start, and seemed to even expect that you would do something like this… did you really not notice?”
Emilia smiled. ‘Of course I did, but my point still stands.’
The raven-haired girl could only sigh to herself, wondering if this was how some mothers felt when their child insisted that the bug they wanted to keep as a pet was not only adorable, but would also help with house chores when it grew up.
Emilia didn’t continue ‘arguing’ with her partner, as it was almost time for her to enter the stage, and the scene with the king entering the forest with his royal guards was already about to end.
”Does everything look alright?”
Penny nodded furiously as her eyes roamed up and down Emilia’s blue off-shoulder princess dress that left her delectable collarbone completely exposed, and she barely resisted the urge to take a bite. “Y-You look beautiful as always, princess!”
Emilia grinned as she pinched Penny’s cheeks. “I wasn’t asking about my looks, but thank you. You look really cute as a little witch too, by the way.”
She had briefly considered switching to her original form using her saved state, but decided it was better to play it safe for now. Although she had mostly changed her current appearance to look quite similar, the ‘attractive aura’ of her original form was a bit too abnormal.
It would just end up shifting people’s attention away from the things she actually needed them to be looking at.
As for Penny, the petite girl’s long blond hair was hidden cleverly using her dress and silver wig, and with some additional makeup, she didn’t look much different from the previous ‘little witch’ if one wasn’t looking too closely.
With all the impromptu changes to the script, the original ‘little witch’ was already busy arranging all the little details in the scenes with the other actors, and Penny had already been ‘prepared’ for this role for some reason.
Stranger still was the fact that the ‘original script’ was already quite close to what Emilia had in mind, but the crimson-haired girl was only happy that her ‘fan girls’ had such great understanding of her character.
Although it made Cynthia shudder, in Emilia’s mind, it made them even more adorable.
The ‘director’ of the show finally peeked into the ‘changing room’ at this time. “A-Are the two of you ready?”
Penny nodded. “Yes!”
Emilia hummed, and after one final check to make sure nothing was wrong with the suspiciously well-fitted costumes, she finally headed out along with Penny.
The ‘director’ couldn’t help but be a little envious of the commander, thinking how it should have been her in that role, but looking at the back of her princess, she cheered right back up. “Break a leg, princess!”
Emilia turned around to wave back at her with a smile. “Thank you!”
Cynthia scoffed. “Is that really something one should say when you also have a fighting scene later? No wait, maybe some of these perverted monkeys will actually enjoy it if you beat them up!”
The crimson-haired girl giggled. ‘You know, the fact that you manage to find faults with even something so ridiculous… it’s kinda cute.’
”…”
If only she could choose her villainess again… well, she would end up picking this idiot, wouldn’t she? Cynthia could only lament at her fate and sigh, deciding to ignore Emilia for the rest of the day.
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When the curtains opened again, the scene was back to the forest, with Emilia and Penny already inside the hut. Of course, the audience couldn’t see them yet since the door was closed.
As everyone else was waiting for the king to arrive and not paying him much attention, the ‘frog’ sighed. “I guess the witch must have already turned the princess into a little bird or something by now. I don’t know how the king will react…”
Naturally, there was no need to talk about a kiss between a bird and a frog. Even a frog prince had some principles, after all.
When the king finally arrived, he naturally didn’t pay any attention to the talking frog, and rushed to the entrance of the hut instead. “Break it down for me!”
Two royal guards slammed into the door full force… and went flying into the room before planting their faces right onto the floor.
”Shit! Was that thing just standing there without hinges?!”
The frog prince gulped. “I-I guess that princess must have really done a number on it, slamming it open over and over again like that.”
But the king naturally didn’t care about the embarrassed royal guards or the frog as he rushed past them to look for his daughter.
Nothing could have prepared him for the sight in front of him, however.
Not only was his daughter not in any form of distress, but she was the one putting others in distress instead!
”Uwaaah! L-Let me go!”
Although the little witch lying across her lap continued to ‘cry’ as before, the princess naturally noticed the door being broken in.
She couldn’t help but blush under her father’s disbelieving expression. “T-This isn’t what it looks like, daddy!”
The king remained silent, as if hoping for her to explain, but the princess just looked at her palm that was still on the butt of the witch she had been spanking, and couldn’t find the words at all.
Of course, in order to ‘make sure’ that the audience understood what was going on, the princess had already smacked the little witch on the butt a few times even after the king entered the hut, and only then did she pretend to notice their arrival.
Fortunately, Penny managed to somehow suppress her ecstasy, but deep down inside, she was screaming in glee. ‘Who could have imagined I would one day be in such a privileged position?! Look, mom, I’m not just a molester anymore!’
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