Chapter 960 – The Story of the Princess Giving Up ~ 2
Hedone was astonished.
She was even more surprised and embarrassed because she could vaguely imagine how her beloved Venus Holympia must have been thinking when she made this decision.
“It is just as you thought.”
“Bah… The foolish princess is so scared of this future that she chooses to run away…”
Hedone wanted to provoke the princess somehow, but her tongue could not move.
Is it because the princess, the sole goddess, put some kind of pressure on her?
Of course, that wasn’t the reason.
“Ugh…”
Hedone looked at the beautiful flower field in front of her and closed her eyes tightly.
Like a precognitive dream, she did not directly show the future, but as she looked at this flower field with countless flowers blooming without any sense of the season, Hedone could see the future that would come one day.
“It’s a fate that can never be avoided. We can say that this is a predetermined future…”
Hedone was stroking her lower abdomen with both hands as if to protect her, and her heart was torn apart.
“It’s a story so terrifying that it would be a shame to even call it cruel.”
Hedone imagines.
How long can the golden rose, which grew and bloomed most beautifully in this flower garden, maintain its appearance?
There is an absolute limit to the nutrients contained in the soil where the rose took root.
The number of flowers that can grow and bloom is always fixed.
‘For one flower to bloom beautifully, more than 10 flowers must die. Considering the flowers that couldn’t even grow properly, it wouldn’t be a lie to say that there are over 100.’
Hedone purses her lips and turns her head from her flower garden.
“You are wise and wise, so you will understand.”
“… There must be a way for everyone to get along, princess.”
“Do you really think that’s possible? The nobles of the empire where the sun never sets are all greedy. No, people themselves have desires.”
As she spoke, the princess gently caressed a cosmos that had bloomed among countless flowers.
“It may seem possible at first.”
“The princess…”
“Children who can be called our daughters might get along well.”
The princess caresses each of the petals with her hands as if counting them, and then she looks at Hedone.
“Children who can be called granddaughters might do the same.”
“… But.”
“Can you say that we can get along well after that? The royal family of the Hecati family, the royal family of the Galagon family, the royal family of the Gregory family, and the royal family of the Redblood family?”
Hedone could not come up with a proper answer.
“Minos may be able to become emperor in peace.”
“… I’m sure it will be peaceful after that too.”
“That is just a happy imagination from an extremely optimistic perspective. Sisters who are dissatisfied with Minos being emperor for a long time may fight, and children who see their sisters fighting may raise swords and spears.”
The princess drops her hand from the flower.
“The royal family is a being that transcends humans to begin with. If just one superhuman starts running with the flag, how many people will join them regardless of right or wrong… Isn’t it so obvious?”
“But…!”
“Even I made Jupiter Holympia step down and became emperor. A good precedent has been set, so you can’t say that something that happened once won’t happen a second or third time.”
The princess gently touched the sharp thorns of the flower and then dropped her hand.
“The war of flowers is coming.”
“No! I think if we teach you well, everything will work out!”
“Hedone. You are saying this right now. You can teach that you don’t have to eat to get through the winter when food is scarce.”
Hedone bowed her head.
“Isn’t it the same as thinking that if we just teach people not to have sex and masturbate in order to suppress their burning sexual desire, everything will work out fine?”
“It’s all different. Instead of coveting the emperor’s position…”
“Yes. The emperor’s position is absolute and unshakable… Let’s imagine that we taught that and everyone accepted it.”
The princess gently touched another flower.
“What about the Prime Minister’s position on the advisory council?”
“Yes…?”
“Isn’t this a position where you can generously give advice on the many things that happen in the empire where the sun never sets on the emperor? Some people think that this is more powerful than the stylish position of the emperor, right?”
“Ah, no matter what, there is a secret struggle over the Prime Minister’s position in the advisory council… Ah…”
“What about the position of Military Commander of the Advisory Council? It is a position that governs the numerous armies and soldiers of the empire on which the sun never sets. There may be some who think that a position where they can wield direct force is more important than a prime minister who gives advice, etc.?”
Hedone had nothing to say.
“If there is a place, everyone covets it. It is an extremely, very sweet dream to think that none of my children, who were born as special beings, will aim for that place.”
“… That day will come.”
Hedone lowers her head and places her hand on the countless flowers that have grown tangled.
She could now imagine the scene that Venus Holympia had imagined and had fallen into fear.
“The princess will continue to love. The fruits of her love will continue to be born. The princess I know is not the kind of person who would say that she has never done anything like that to a child born out of love.”
While Hedone was caressing a flower, she was pricked by a sharp thorn and bled.
Nevertheless, she continued to caress the flowers.
“After the coronation ceremony… Even after marrying me, he will love many women. He will embrace and love so many women that one could even say he was lined up.”
“It’s natural.”
“Maybe around 10. That number of special children will be born. And as time goes by, those children will marry someone else and have children.”
“Those children can also be said to be members of the royal family.”
“And… The princess will embrace another woman from a new family in the meantime… And new royal families will continue to be born.”
Hedone slowly drops her blood-stained hands from the flower.
“If I come to my senses, one day in the empire where the sun never sets… There may no longer be a family that doesn’t inherit the princess’s blood.”
“Everyone is special, so everyone will want a special place.”
“Everyone will want to be emperor and say they have the right to be king. Fights are inevitable, and children who can be called sisters will fight, strangling each other and putting swords in their chests.”
Hedone let out a hot breath.
“That’s why I have no intention of giving that kind of future to my future children.”
“… I understand.”
Hedone looks at her princess and says.
“The princess worked 100 days and did her best for seven days. She tried to escape from the impending doom and gloom and change that fate.”
In order to overcome the future of being castrated, the princess set out on her journey.
The girl, who at first was immature and only knew how to vent her desires, has now become strong enough to castrate herself.
I became such a righteous being that I abandoned the happiness of just one person and chose the happiness of countless people.
Venus Holympia has grown. This was that kind of story.
“So you don’t know.”
The emotionless princess offers her hand to Hedone.
They were clean hands, without any dirt, not even a drop of blood.
“If I give up the one God and become a being with emotions again, this flower garden will not be just a metaphor but a reality.”
“Countless lives will be born, countless fights will be involved, and it will be full of children who cannot even bloom properly.”
“You who love me, Hedone, I have no intention of giving up this state.”
Hedone, who was looking at the princess’s outstretched hand, held out her hand with a very small smile.
Her hands were stained. She was dirty with blood, and it was quite dirty from touching the flowers.
With her unclean hands, Hedone smiled brightly and held the princess’s hand tightly.
“I think you’re beautiful, stupid princess.”
“… What are you talking about that is beautiful?”
Hedone smiles and takes a step closer to her princess.
“This flower field. To my eyes, it is an incredibly beautiful sight.”
“It’s a scary future.”
“The reason you say that is because, like the countless flowers blooming in this flower garden, the children born from the princess’s seeds will suffer the same fate?”
Hedone shakes her head from side to side.
“Really. You are such an idiot princess. What on earth are you talking about? You’ve lived longer than me, so why are you pretending to be noble when you say such obvious things?”
“…”
Since the princess had no emotions, she was not surprised.
But she couldn’t understand Hedone’s logic for a moment.
“Because there is a special place, special beings aim for it! That’s why fights eventually break out. Yes! Of course! It’s so obvious that it’s the natural law of everything in the world. But, you idiot princess.”
Hedone speaks with shining eyes.
“It’s not just the princess’s child.”
“… Hedone.”
“Only the child born between the princess and Arisa! I don’t think he wants to become emperor! Only the child born between the princess and Queen Hestia doesn’t think he wants to become emperor!”
The princess cannot open her mouth at Hedone’s words.
“It’s not just the child born between Diana and the princess who wants to become emperor or prime minister!”
“…”
“Even if the princess doesn’t have sex with Princess Hailey! She has to continue the family, so she does it with someone! In the end, she has sex! A child will be born! Even if it’s not the princess’s child! A child will be born! The child will grow up and become greedy. It’s only natural that he would want to become an emperor or be satisfied with being a king!”
Hedone tightly holds the unwavering hand of the princess.
“Even if it is not the princess’s seed, people are born, and people eventually become greedy! If you do not think that even the sun rising and the moon setting are your sins, then give up! Foolish princess!
