I Became The Rankers’ Number One Pick [EN]: Chapter 249

Side Story 4

The panicked stepmother screamed, throwing a fit.

“Trying to kill your own mother! Get out of this castle, now! Get out!”

“I was planning to anyway.”

Snow White approached the open window. The stepmother’s eyes widened.

“Princess, this is the fourth floor….”

Before she could finish, Snow White fluttered her dress and jumped straight out of the fourth-floor window.

The stepmother rushed to the window and looked down.

In that short time, Snow White had safely landed on the ground and was running into the forest. *Since when did the princess have such good athletic skills?*

The queen, who had been blankly staring, suddenly realized something and turned around.

“If I stay like this, she might try to kill me again. Hey, Hunter! Bring the Hunter!”

* * *

“You called for me?”

The Hunter, summoned by the queen, stood casually with terrible manners, staring straight at her.

“Ah, so you’re the witch.”

“Not a witch, but Her Majesty the Queen!”

When the servant nudged the Hunter to give him a hint, the Hunter shouted.

“Hey, where are you touching?”

“Y-You must greet Her Majesty…!”

“Ah, greetings? Yeah, I should greet her.”

The Hunter nodded briefly to the queen. Then, before the queen could open her mouth, he spoke first.

“You want me to kill the princess, right?”

“Oh, how did you know?”

The Hunter shrugged as the queen looked at him in surprise.

“It’s obvious. So, what are the princess’s characteristics?”

“Snow White… has white skin and is uglier than me.”

The Hunter chuckled and put his hands on his hips.

“Of course, she is. Anything else? I can’t accidentally shoot our Seoa.”

“Our Seoa is who….”

“Ah, never mind. Any other characteristics?”

The queen pondered for a moment, then shuddered as if she remembered something.

“A sword…! She tried to kill me with a sword!”

“A sword? What did it look like?”

“Big, shiny blue….”

As the queen described the sword, the Hunter grinned.

“Yoo… Snow White, I see. Alright, I’ll catch the princess for you.”

“Kill her! She must be killed!”

At that moment, as the queen shouted at the Hunter turning away,

Whoosh- Thwack!

An arrow grazed the queen’s hair and pierced the pillar behind her.

“Eek!”

The Hunter said coldly to the terrified queen.

“Don’t tell me what to do.”

And leaving behind the frozen queen and servant, the Hunter also jumped out of the window. This was the third floor.

The servant’s voice was heard from the window the Hunter had jumped out of.

“Oh, Your Majesty! Please don’t cry!”

* * *

“Your Highness! Please visit the neighboring country at once. You must have a political marriage with the princess there!”

As soon as Yang Tae-woo stepped through the gate, he had to listen to a servant repeating the same words like a parrot.

As soon as he entered the gate, he confirmed that this was the world of the ‘Snow White’ fairy tale.

‘I’m the prince….’

The one who appears at the end of the Snow White story and wakes her up with a kiss. And the one who marries the princess and lives happily ever after.

So, he doesn’t have much to do until the story progresses to some extent.

‘So, who is the princess?’

It seemed like someone who flew into this gate must have possessed her.

“Your Highness! You must hurry!”

“Ah, shut up. Just stay still for a moment.”

Yang Tae-woo paced around the room, considering the possibilities. Who the princess was, was very important to him right now. He had to kiss her, after all!

‘Park Seoa….’

If Park Seoa was Snow White….

“Ahem, ahem.”

Yang Tae-woo blushed alone and slightly raised the corners of his lips, then quickly cleared his throat as if nothing had happened.

‘It’s only for clearing the gate! This is legitimate.’

After rationalizing that, he thought about the case where Baek Eun-hee was Snow White.

As the guild leader of the Royal Guild, which he belonged to, she was definitely a difficult opponent. He had never thought about it that way, but Baek Eun-hee was definitely a beautiful woman.

She was also someone Yang Tae-woo admired. So, a single kiss might be okay.

He nodded to himself, but Yoo Ji-an briefly came to mind at the end, and Yang Tae-woo immediately erased her from his mind.

‘Absolutely not.’

It was a not-so-low probability since it was one of the three, but he didn’t even want to think about Yoo Ji-an being the princess.

“Your Hiiiighness! You must leave now to arrive on tiiiime!”

“Okay, I got it.”

Yang Tae-woo accepted the servant’s words and prepared for a long journey.

* * *

“Kyahahaha, Princess! Stop right there!”

The Hunter’s arrows rained down on Snow White’s back. He only had one bow, but his skill was truly amazing, being able to shoot so quickly.

But what was even more amazing was Snow White.

Snow White ran through the forest path without being hit by a single arrow in the hail of arrows.

“Princiiiipaaaal!”

It seemed that the title ‘Princess’ had more of an impact on her than the arrows.

Startled by the voice echoing through the forest, Snow White stopped and turned around.

Crash, bang, boom!

Suddenly, lightning struck from the clear sky, and a large tree burned and fell, with the fire spreading to the adjacent trees.

The area of the forest that was destroyed in this way was countless.

“Seriously, even if it’s inside the gate, you have to preserve the forest! Don’t you know ‘Let’s keep our rivers and mountains green’ [a popular Korean environmental slogan]?”

Ignoring the complaining voice from behind, Snow White ran again.

Snow White suddenly stopped.

“……”

Because a group of monsters [Troll] were emerging twenty meters ahead.

Snow White drew [Ruin Blade] and lightly dodged an arrow that was still flying.

“What, trolls. I was having so much fun.”

The Hunter stood next to Snow White, speaking in a deflated voice. Snow White glanced at the Hunter.

“We need to deal with them quickly and move on. Monsters will appear around Seoa too.”

Seoa was also an S-class, so it wasn’t that dangerous, but to them, she was still a fragile being they wanted to protect.

Before they knew it, the Hunter was holding [Splinter] instead of a bow.

“Heung, so is hide-and-seek over now?”

The spinning saw blades that the Hunter threw flew and blew away the heads of three trolls. At the same time, Snow White flew up and smashed the heads of the trolls that fell to the ground one by one with [Ruin Blade].

Trolls weren’t very strong monsters, but they had good regeneration, so it was annoying to have to smash their heads right away.

Even so, it was nothing more than chewing gum for the two S-class hunters. After quickly defeating dozens of trolls, the Hunter cut open the chest of a fallen troll with a dagger. And took out a fresh heart and put it in his inventory.

“You can just go find the dwarves. I need to take this and stop by the queen first.”

“I couldn’t attack the queen yet.”

“I saw it too, it seems like you need to find your true love?”

Then Baek Eun-hee, no, the Hunter, giggled and continued.

“The main characters here are Snow White, the witch, the Hunter, the dwarves, and the prince. The witch is the final boss, and the princess and the Hunter are here, so there are two left.”

Snow White glared silently at the Hunter with fierce eyes.

“I wonder if Seoa or Yang Tae-woo is the prince? You know you have to kiss at the end, right?”

Watching the Hunter cackle as if it was fun, Snow White gripped the handle of [Ruin Blade] tightly. But she couldn’t swing it.

She had been trying to attack since earlier, but in the story, ‘Snow White’ couldn’t attack the ‘Hunter’ right now. Just like she couldn’t attack the final boss, who was the witch and queen before.

So, she had been running away from the attacking Hunter until now.

“You really suit that look; it wouldn’t be bad to live as a princess like this. Then good luck! You have to find your true love!”

In the end, Snow White couldn’t stand it and reached out to the Hunter, but the Hunter had already left that spot.

Snow White roughly held the cumbersome skirt in her hands and walked along the forest path.

She didn’t know the road or the direction at all, but she thought that if the damn story was protecting her, she would arrive at the dwarves’ house.

Anyway, where is Seoa?

That was Snow White’s main concern.