"What an unruly son. Even if her majesty is your fiance, how can you treat her like that?!"
Duke Haldar emphasised the word 'fiance' to lighten the atmosphere, misleading others into thinking that this is just a lover squabble.
But Mariella was a petty woman and if she didn't crush Erick thoroughly today, she wouldn't be content.
Take this as her helping the original body to punish Erick.
Mariella leisurely stepped forward and looked down at the boy who was now shorter than her because he was on his knees.
Before Erick could react, Mariella clenched her fists and ruthlessly slapped Erick's cheek with her clenched fists!
BUGH!
Isabella's body was only five years old, and her strength was naturally not that great, but her clenched fists were truly heavy, especially when it slapped across someone's cheek.
The guests were all shocked. Lizeth even screamed.
"KYAAA! Erick! Erick, you– "
She's about to rush to Erick's side but her maids stop her.
Erick himself couldn't hear Lizeth's frantic scream. His ears buzzed, and his cheeks reddened, almost swelling.
A tingling sensation and intense pain drowned his whole senses.
"Isabella! You– "
Erick's eyes were wide open as tears slowly gathered at the corner of his eyes. He was never hit hard like this, and was never humiliated like so!
"Isabella? You're not worthy to call this queen's name." Mariella lightly slapped Erick's mouth, almost making the boy's lips swell like a duck.
But Mariella wasn't done yet. She held her sceptre in her right hand and casually stabbed Erick's stomach with her sceptre.
STAB!
"This one stab shall be a reminder for a foolish boy like you to never harm the monarch."
Mariella turned a blind eye to the guests' soft exclamation or Erick, who was on the edge of fainting.
She's a tyrant in these people's eyes, anyway. Let her be the real tyrant, then!
Mariella shook her sceptre before looking at Duke Haldar behind Erick, who had toughened his expression.
He didn't even flinch when Mariella slapped and stabbed Erick like that.
"Duke Haldar. Your son, Erick, has insulted the monarch, humiliated the monarch and harmed the monarch. For all these crimes, he's not worthy of being this queen's fiance."
Mariella's childish voice rang throughout the hall, but no one could look down on her child-like voice at all when her tone was so calm and collected, like a real queen.
"This queen shall break the engagement due to Erick Haldar's inappropriate behaviour toward the monarch."
Duke Haldar couldn't refute it at all. He also couldn't stop Mariella from breaking the engagement.
Even the prime minister, the one who set up Isabella with Erick, couldn't stop Mariella at all. What she did was correct, and it was logical.
Erick had committed such a heavy offense.
How could he still be worthy of being the queen's fiance? Especially when he's already 10 years older than the Queen and yet still so childish!
"This vassal understands. The engagement shall be nullified, " Duke Haldar bowed at Mariella, accepting her decision.
"Good. This queen shall forgive your foolish son, but for the sake of fairness, your son still needs to be detained in the prison for several days."
Mariella swept her gaze across the trembling Erick and smirked.
"As for how the duke will punish him after the imprisonment...this queen will leave it to the duke."
Duke Haldar wanted to avoid Erick getting imprisoned, but he knew that it wouldn't be possible.
Not getting the boy denounced to be a commoner alone was already benevolent of Isabella.
Thus, the duke hastily agreed to Mariella's decision and even coaxed Isabella a few more times before personally dragging Erick away from the hall, straight to the palace's underground prison.
The boy had already fainted from continuous pain and humiliation, anyway.
He wouldn't realise that he was truly thrown to the prison and would be locked up for a few days up to a week.
After Erick and Duke Haldar left without a word, Mariella was too lazy to speak to the others.
She didn't even look at the prime minister and went to the balcony, not allowing anyone to follow her.
Once she's at the balcony and was about to sigh in relief, the familiar mechanical voice suddenly sounded in her mind.
TING! [Congratulations, host, for passing the beginner's challenge. You are now eligible to activate this world's assigned system!]
Mariella almost slipped and fell from the balcony.
[You! Where did you go?! What's your name again– Z?? Right! Why did you suddenly disappear and not say anything, huh?? Explain!]
Mariella didn't need to speak out loud and only had to speak in her mind, and she was already communicating with Z.
The system was silent for a second before giggling but with a slight guilt in his voice.
[Dear host, every beginner host will go through this beginner challenge to assess your overall stat!]
[This way, we can determine which world will be most suitable for the host next time.]
[Next time? I'm going to transmigrate again??]
[Yes, yes! But don't worry, dear host. Each time you complete a mission in a certain world, you will get great benefits! Z will explains it more later– ]
[No, no, I don't care about benefits. Tell me, what kind of system are you? Why am I the one chosen? Can I go back now? This is crazy, ah!]
Mariella did imagine getting bound to a system and then transmigrated to various worlds to do a mission.
But she never wanted to become children or babies, okay?!
And this system is too shady!
Z had no choice but to wave his tiny ghost hand and explained briefly.
[In short, I am a baby supremacy system, and our goal is to make every baby an OP entity.]
...OP babies??
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