Chapter 703 – 80 Days – The Princess’s Time Travel Bears Fruit.
Venus Holympia could not estimate exactly how long she had been time traveling.
How much time was spent on this trip? A week? A month? Exactly 100 days may have passed.
Maybe Ceres is already dead. She may well have passed the 100 days when she was expected to be castrated.
Hedone and Arisa, who decided to wait for him, may have become grandmothers with pure white hair.
Although there was no way to know how the trip would end, the princess decided to return. Because she made a promise to those who love her. Because she promised that she would definitely finish the time travel and return.
“Ceres… Give me, give me time. Give me… The last time to save you!”
The princess tightly held her pocket watch, which was emitting white light, and prayed with her eyes closed.
Returning to her original time took longer than the princess expected.
─Dismissal…! Jijijijik, Jijik!
Countless water droplets fell endlessly, and when she came to her senses, they rose again. The princess swallowed her saliva as her eyes engraved a bizarre scene that was clearly difficult to understand.
This time travel was by no means meaningless.
She was able to meet Ceres from countless time periods, and she was able to talk to herself, who had been ruined by ridiculous choices.
She was able to have an honest conversation with Eve, the mother of Ceres, and she was able to gain knowledge and wisdom that no one else in this world could obtain.
‘It must have meaning…’
Clenching her molars, the princess finally felt a force pulling her body down and her eyes widened.
─Cudangtangtang!
“Uh, uh… Ugh…! W-Still…! So, it’s too noisy and ends frivolously. This time travel magic is…!”
The princess fell out of the air, landing her butt noisily on the ground, sighing at the devastating pain she felt in her buttocks.
“What… What…?”
In front of the princess, who was busy feeling her pain, was Arisa with an expression of incomprehension. There was you next to her, with tears streaming down her face.
“Arisa! Hedone!”
Unlike the brightly smiling princess, their expressions were quite subtle. Would you say it’s complicated? Emotions were not being processed properly.
“S-That’s ridiculous…! There’s no way it could fail?! I used the magic and demon technology prepared by Mr. Ceres perfectly, and although there’s a possibility of drifting forever during time travel, there’s no way it could fail. There won’t be one!”
“Woe… Princess… Ah, princess…”
Seeing Hedone crying and Arisa holding her head with her hands, the princess quickly waved her hands left and right.
“Two, both of you! Don’t react like that! I have properly completed my time travel!”
“Okay, I finished it…?!”
Haha, how long did it take for you to be so embarrassed…”
─Wow!
Before the princess could finish her sentence, Hedone, who was shedding tears, rushed at the princess at great speed and nuzzled her face into her arms.
“Ah… You poor princess… So, so foolish… Ugh, ugh… How can you come back like this? Really…”
“Heh, Hedone…? Did I travel that long…?”
“For long…?”
Arisa furrowed her eyebrows, pressed her temples with her hands, and burst into laughter.
“You said you traveled for a long time? For a long time?! Don’t kid yourself!!! Are you sure you really traveled in time?! Are you sure you traveled in time properly? Venus!”
“My, I! I! Why are you telling such a lie?! I’ve had a good trip!! I have made all the knowledge and wisdom mine, so that if I told them to Arisa, she would be called a lie.”
“You, you…! If you’re really lying, I won’t leave you alone, understand?!”
Arisa, who shouted, glanced at Hedone who was hugged tightly, then slightly opened her hands and clung to the princess’s side.
“Really… Don’t scare people… Understand? I was thinking I wouldn’t see you for a week at least…”
“It took less than a week…?”
“Huh, Princess Heojeop… You don’t know anything?”
Hedone wipes away her tears by rubbing her face against the princess’s chest as she pleases, and looks up at her princess with her red eyes.
“Ha, haha… I’m sorry. I always wear this pocket watch…”
At the princess’s words, Hedone and Arisa looked at each other’s faces and momentarily burst into laughter.
“Venus… From our perspective. You’ve been traveling for a really, really, really, ridiculous amount of time.”
“Ha, it looks like it took about a day…”
Even though the princess was surprised, you gently held her hand and shook her head from side to side.
“No. Princess Heojeop’s journey… From our perspective, ended as soon as it began. As soon as her body disappeared, she suddenly fell from the sky.”
“That’s right, do you know how ridiculous it is Venus? Anyone can see that it looks like time travel failed!”
The princess opened her mouth and was unable to speak for a long time because Arisawa Hedone shouted briefly, and it didn’t look like she was lying.
“Ha, let alone a day, not even an hour or even a minute has passed…?!”
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“I’m sorry… Venus, I honestly don’t understand what you’re saying.”
“Holympia… The imperial palace was a spaceship? What is a spaceship? No matter where you look, the imperial palace looks like a building, not a ship…”
The princess, who proudly shared information that was only her fragment, was unable to communicate properly with the two women, as if it were quite natural.
“Well, just think that there is such a thing.”
“It’s not something that can be overlooked, Venus.”
Arisa’s expression was serious.
“You suddenly… I’ll be honest.”
The princess was standing next to Arisa, who was taking a deep breath. In her princess’s hands was a dagger that stopped time, and Ceres, whose death had been postponed to infinity, was held in her princess embrace.
“I… I was hoping that you, at the end of the time travel, would somehow change the time and bring Mr. Ceres back to life.”
“Oh, I thought so too at first, but when I asked Ceres, he said that time doesn’t flow that way.”
“So… You’ve learned the knowledge and wisdom of the demons… The knowledge and wisdom of the ancient demons…? Because knowledge and wisdom don’t disappear in your head no matter how much time passes?”
The princess nodded her head and moved her legs eagerly to go to the room where Eve Terra could heal people.
“I… The hell… Spaceships and all, cyberware…? I have no idea. I don’t understand. Furthermore, I don’t even know what the concept is…”
Arisa was muttering, but I could tell because she was the princess’s only childhood friend. She is the princess now and she is not lying. She was acting desperately to somehow save Ceres.
‘No matter where you look, Venus is not crazy. She truly believes that she can save Mr. Ceres this way…’
Arisa swallowed her saliva and decided to trust the princess. If she couldn’t change time the way she thought, she had no choice but to trust in the knowledge and wisdom she had learned from ancient times, as the princess said.
“Hmm… Princess Heojeop?”
There was a wall where the princess stopped her steps. There was not a room, but a wall.
“It’s a dead end…”
Normally, Hedone might have made fun of her for forgetting something like this because she was such a poor princess, but she wasn’t in that mood right now.
It can be said that she is full of misfortune, and in front of the princess who thought she could save Ceres, she could never make fun of her if her knowledge and wisdom were wrong.
“Venus… Aren’t you remembering something wrong? To begin with, the number of rooms in the imperial palace is over a thousand, if not more. It’s so big, and the number of floors is no joke. If you combine the underground and above ground…”
In her own way, Arisa tried to comfort the princess by mentioning that she may have made a mistake.
“Hmm… Twenty-five steps…”
The princess muttered, hugging her Ceres a little more tightly and shaking her head from side to side.
“Five steps are not enough.”
“Not enough? What do you mean?”
“Didn’t you tell me that the ancient demons told me that this imperial palace had secret powers? They warned me then. Because the imperial palace has existed for so long, it may have changed its appearance in many ways.”
At her princess’s words, Hedone crossed her arms, pondered, and then nodded.
“Mr. Ceres told me… That the only way to expand a room is to combine two rooms into one. And he said that only dwarves like Amilias can do that.”
“Hmm, as expected, did Ceres inform Hedone, who will succeed Mama, about that as well…”
The princess muttered and looked at the wall in front of her for a long time. Then, she discovered something very faintly sticking out, barely visible at the princess’s eye level.
“Hedone, can you take off the wallpaper here?”
At her princess’s request, Hedone tore off the wallpaper on the protruding part without much difficulty. Then, to her surprise, a ‘touchpad’ that felt familiar to her appeared.
“What… What is this? Is something like this in the imperial palace…?”
“What idiot would think of removing wallpaper in a corner like this?”
When the princess placed her finger on the touchpad, a surprisingly pure white light emitted softly.
─Beep beep!
『This is an unregistered fingerprint.』
“Just as Eve told me… You can’t use it right away just because I put my finger on it.”
“What, then I can’t use it…”
The princess skillfully drew the password her Eve had given her on her touchpad. Then, a bright red light erupts and the tightly closed wall suddenly slides upward! It went up.
“… I’ve been coming to the imperial palace for over 10 years to have fun… I never thought something like this would exist. No, wow, there’s demon technology in the imperial palace…”
“In the first place, hasn’t Ceres, a demon, been here for over 20 years?”
After saying something jokingly, the princess goes inside. As soon as Arisa realized that the space was filled with pitch black darkness, she created pure white light at the tip of her finger.
“Cough… Cough! Of course… Cough! There’s a lot of dust.”
“It had to be that way. It wouldn’t have been an enclosed space at all. Dust or something like that had accumulated very little…”
Bibi Big, the princess counted her steps accurately this time, headed to a certain place, and accurately found her touchpad and entered her password.
That sight seemed so surprising to Arisa, who could only understand her demon skills piecemeal.
‘Venus… You… You’d think you’ve only traveled through time once, but you… Furthermore, you… Have become something I can’t even imagine…’
Even though she was human, Arisa felt a sense of awe at the sight of the princess using her demon skills and power as if it were natural.
“Twenty-five steps east from the central staircase… Touchpad… It appears that the main power of the imperial palace is still alive and well. I have a reason to go down to the basement at least once…”
Arisa looked at the muttering princess and smoothed her own hair with her fingers.
“Ve, Venus. Would you like me to at least clean the dust?”
“… Oh? Haha! What are you saying all of a sudden, Arisa?”
In front of the princess who used her demon skills so naturally, Arisa felt that her knowledge was useless.
Would you say that you feel like an ant in front of something huge? It was to the point where I didn’t even have a sense of inferiority.
“If Arisa had not given me the opportunity to travel through time, how could she have created a miracle using demon technology?”
“I’m glad you said that, but…”
“Don’t worry, I will teach Arisa all the knowledge and wisdom I have learned.”
“Is that okay? It’s just that… I felt weird because Venus seemed a bit smart.”
At Arisa’s honest words, the princess burst out laughing and held out her hand to open her final door.
─Ugh…!
The room with beautiful white tiles was so clean that Arisa did not need to use ‘dust cleaning magic’.
“What is this… Some kind of white altar placed in the center of the room?”
“There are arms on the ceiling… It’s a pretty strange-looking room. Does it have religious significance?”
“Oh, that could be so. So the demons have a demon god, right? Aren’t you asking the demon god to heal you? If it’s the power of a god, you can easily make a heart, right?”
Listening to the two mumbling words, the princess smiled and laid Ceres, whose eyes were closed helplessly, on the pure white operating table.
It was that moment. The room that was filled with darkness began to glow, blink, blink, blink. The room became bright enough for Arisa and Hedone to cling to the princess in surprise.
“We will help you with anything. Please describe your condition and symptoms in detail.”
“What… What? Were demons hiding here too?”
As Arisa, looking very surprised, created a small magic circle on the tip of her palm, the princess smiled and stroked Ceres’ head.
“Everyone, don’t worry. Ceres will soon become healthy and open his eyes. It was time travel for that purpose.”
The princess slowly retreated, looking forward to seeing the knowledge and wisdom she had brought at the end of her journey blossom for the first time.
“Isis, heal the wounds of the one I love.”
“All right. Dear VVIP. “I will proceed with the surgery.”
