Chapter 852 – Day 98 – The Princess Heads to Holympia
Holimpia.
The princess knows very well the place called the capital of the empire where the sun never sets.
Holimpia was also a word that bound the huge imperial palace, the land of the nobles who settled around it, and the bustling streets into one area.
“No matter where you go in the empire where the sun never sets, there seems to be no place that can compare to Holympia.”
The princess, who was able to come to the imperial palace in her carriage without any attack with the help of her house manager, sits down by her window and looks outside with a smile.
Holimpia is a surprisingly beautiful place that doesn’t require you to recall your childhood memories.
The road, which had been leveled with deeply laid black stones, extended well here and there, and lanterns made using magic stones made the streets of Holympia beautiful at night and in the morning.
Although not comparable to the matchbox-like buildings of Pandemonium, the buildings located in Holympia were certainly tall and had a beauty that was different from simply emitting bright light.
“The princess likes Holympia.”
“Isn’t that where I was born and raised? Of course! Most of my childhood was spent semi-imprisoned in the imperial palace’s villa!”
Ceres, sitting next to her, smiled bitterly at the princess’s laughter-filled words.
In my heart, I wanted to teach and show Ceres more things when he was young, but there was a clear distinction between what he could do and what he could not do.
“Look at the streets of Holympia. How beautiful it is.”
The princess raised the corners of her mouth and pointed at the people standing tightly on the left and right sides of the black road.
She pointed to buildings with history and tradition behind them.
“Holympia is a land. It is a land that began a long, long time ago when nobles gathered to see the royal family who settled in the imperial palace.”
“This is my first time hearing this.”
“Is this something you didn’t know about Leda? Well, it certainly happened at the beginning of the empire on which the sun never sets, so it would be natural for you not to know.”
The princess recalls the story she heard from Ceres and read in the imperial palace library.
“The first emperor. He really did something ridiculous.”
The princess turns her body to her window and makes eye contact with the people who recognize her and are waving at her.
“He is the one who put an end to the unfortunate era in which it was natural to be ruled by demons. Omnipotent! He who has the power to bring about the creation of heaven and earth has reached out to humans.”
“… This is what many scholars say.”
Archibald Deacon, who had kept his mouth shut, took off his monocle and wiped his eggs with his handkerchief.
“An empire where the sun never sets has no need to look like this.”
“Mother…”
“I also agree with that story. Your Majesty, the first emperor, reached out to the rulers of the kingdoms of Galagon, Gregory, and Magica. Even though their kingdoms can be burned down in a single day, nothing more fragile than a sand castle, their form has been restored. They said they would maintain it.”
“That is how Trinity began.”
The princess speaks in a voice full of hope.
“The emperor reigns, but does not rule. What a difficult story this is. He said that he would become the emperor of the empire and take responsibility for all the people, but the first emperor decided to recognize the form and autonomy of the kingdoms of Galagon, Gregory, and Magica. It is.”
“… There was no need to do that.”
“Is that possible? Would Holympia have existed if His Majesty the First Emperor had not made such a decision?”
The princess smiles and sits by her window and waves her hand.
The chief deacon, who was cleaning his monocle, stops his hand. She also looked at her window where her princess was looking.
Countless people were standing in the streets. Do they even know how dangerous the situation is right now?
“Crown Princess Venus Holympia!!!”
“I thought you passed away! I’m glad you came back!!”
“The Crown Princess!! Aaaaahhh! Oh my god! The Crown Princess waved her hand! Daddy!”
The head deacon let out a bitter smile as he saw the people he liked running wild without knowing what was going on in the world.
‘Everyone is stupid and foolish…’
We don’t know what the outcome of the meeting between the princess and the emperor will be.
Today may be the end for the princess to wander the streets of Holympia.
But surprisingly, the princess was sitting by the window smiling brightly and waving her hand, and people on the street were busy clapping and waving her hands.
‘This is why… The emperor’s shadow is needed. Most of the people of the empire probably don’t even know how dangerous and important this is.’
The head deacon, who was busy cursing under his breath, calmly returned his monocle to its original position.
─Knock knock knock!
“Gosh, if I had known it would turn out like this, I should have worn a fancier dress.”
“… What? No, sleep!”
Without the owner having time to stop her, the princess opened the window of her carriage with her hand.
It was the children who knocked vigorously on the window. It’s not that it’s anything to do with anything. They were healthy and well-to-do children who played on the streets of Holympia.
“Isn’t it dangerous!!”
At the subject of those words, the princess grabbed the window frame and jumped out of her carriage as if it were natural.
“What nonsense is this!”
Although the carriage was not running at a tremendous speed, it was still making a rattling noise as it slowly made its way to the imperial palace.
But the princess jumped out of her carriage, hugged her children, and waved her hand to the people on the street.
“Wow! The Crown Princess!!”
“Wow, wow! Come on, Crown Princess!”
“You guys! You know how dangerous the carriage is, yet you come running and knock on the window like that!”
The princess smiled brightly and patted her children on the back. The knights and soldiers who followed her were startled, but she raised her right hand and waved it to indicate that the princess should not worry about her.
“Everyone, turn the carriage around right away! Right now! If something happens to the Crown Princess!”
“There is no need to do that.”
“Ugh, how dare a demon…”
The head deacon growled at Ceres’ words, but Leda Archibald, who was sitting next to the princess, shook her head.
“Look at your mother.”
Leda points to the princess who was standing on the left and right sides of the black road and started walking down her path, chatting with the people who came rushing out.
“Does it look dangerous?”
“Seeing as how stupid she is for asking the obvious, she seems to have lost her intelligence since she is with the Crown Princess.”
“From what I can see, the princess looks happier and safer than at any other moment.”
“That can’t be right. Such unspecified…! Is it safe to walk slowly while being buried by unidentified things?!”
Leda quietly nods her head at the shout of her house owner.
“No one approaches with a dangerous mind. Everyone just approaches and waves her hand because they want to see the Crown Princess’s face up close.”
“Like… Like that…”
The head deacon’s eyes flash, and she looks at the people who can’t escape to the princess’s side.
‘Your Majesty’s concubines are everywhere! You have no idea how dangerous the situation is right now, Leda! My daughter, you… You…’
The chief deacon, feeling urgent inside, hesitated his fingers.
“You are not in a dangerous situation.”
“… That can’t be true.”
There were definitely some concubines of the emperor who were looking at the princess with very dissatisfied eyes.
They were spewing out bloody murder, as if they were really planning to drag the princess out of this street and kill her with swords and weapons if they wanted to.
However, they were unable to do anything due to the princess’s unexpected behavior, where she suddenly jumped out of her carriage and started marching instead of marching.
I don’t know how many people I have to push away from the well-known young lady and her master in order to stab the princess into her abdomen with a sharp knife prepared to kill her.
Surrounding the princess as she patted the cute child who brought her candy and begged him to eat it, there were nobles who smiled brightly and said sincerely that they were glad that she had come back.
Ah! The deacon knew their names. A baron somewhere, a count who can make noise in the imperial council, a duke with a huge furnace that can create countless weapons!
“You planned all of this. Like…”
“Is that possible? The princess is not that much of a planning person.”
Ceres smiles and looks at the princess, who listens to people’s stories and responds by smiling and cracking her fingers.
“The princess is just that kind of person.”
“… That can’t be true.”
“He simply cherishes life, fears even the sacrifice of a cow for the greater good, is not arrogant even though he has the power to crush the whole world like a sand castle, and is not arrogant even though he has the knowledge and wisdom to make fools of the wizards of the Magic Tower. It’s you.”
The deacon did not answer.
The surroundings of the princess, who eagerly follows the carriage, are only bright.
Look.
The imperial palace she is heading to.
Aren’t the nobles who smile brighter the further you go, but the dark, greedy beings who are clearly hiding something inside, filling the left and right sides of the black road with disapproving expressions?
The head deacon bit his lip as he looked at the imperial palace, the ceiling of which was a gloomy sky that looked as if lightning might strike and rain at any moment.
“It’s a sad story…”
“Mother, please acknowledge it now.”
“What are you admitting? No matter how bright and good-natured he is…”
Inside the carriage that finally stopped, the head deacon let out a very bitter laugh.
“How can you not know that you are just a cute tomboy in front of the great omnipotent One?”
The chief deacon shakes his head from side to side and gets out of the carriage.
“If only you had the strength to fight back…”
The old woman who has sacrificed her life for her empire speaks openly.
“… How great it would have been.”
She was too deeply immersed in the swamp called reality to follow only the brightness felt through her emotions.
