Chapter 228 – The Princess (1)
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Lina’s party came down from the mountain while being greeted by the high priest.
She felt sorry for parting with people she hadn’t seen in a long time.
When I looked up at the sky, the snowstorm had stopped before I knew it, and the sun was shining brightly.
“…”
The atmosphere of the group going down the mountain path was very awkward.
It was all because of the Holy Sword, no, Elpis let out a strange moan. She’s like a bitch goddess.
Elpis must have been unable to bear the awkward silence of her party, so she started talking to herself.
[…This, this. It’s a different feeling from looking at the world as a goddess…Haha.]
“…”
[Everyone? Uh…Please erase from your memory what happened a little while ago. I’m not… That… Woman.
It’s all a misunderstanding.]
“…”
Despite Elpis’ excuse, the party’s cold attitude did not change.
In the end, Elpis had no choice but to keep crying and making excuses for her.
Of course, it had no effect.
Even if the holy sword on Lina’s side came near Kerry, everyone hated it.
He pulled Kerry as if he had seen a leper who was not supposed to be near him.
[It’s really too much…]
Ignoring the whining of the maid goddess, I went down the mountain path.
The way down was much easier.
Her physical strength had already been restored, and the blizzard that had been the most difficult for the party had stopped.
According to the High Priest, the blizzard was artificial. Even the High Priestess had never seen such a violent blizzard.
I can roughly guess who did it.
‘If an avalanche had blocked the way to the temple, it would have been quite difficult.’
After all, the enemy doesn’t stand still. In times like these, we had to move quickly.
Lina’s group arrived under the mountain.
You can see a hut next to the entrance to the road of trials. The grannies seemed to be having a good time around the bonfire.
‘No. I’ve been doing very well.’
No matter how close they became, both of them became very drunk. Gosh. It smells like alcohol
“Ohh. The warriors are here! My granddaughter, the prettiest in the world, is here!
Look. Wake up! The warriors have already descended!”
A drunken granny greets us.
The old prophetess was heavily drunk and half a corpse. No matter how much I shake it, it doesn’t wake up.
After hearing the story, the two of them drank together because something happened.
“Destiny… Has changed?”
“Because I listened carefully to what this old woman was saying.”
‘I knew it.’
Seeing Lina happy in the changed future, they toasted with joy. Anyway, drink in moderation.
There was also news.
“I got a message too. Do you want to see it right away?”
The old woman hands over a paper airplane.
Suddenly, I thought it was a paper airplane, and I felt the reverberation of her mana.
When Kerry opened the paper airplane, there was a lot of writing written on it.
It was a message from my brother.
There is a lot of rhetoric. I was sorry that I couldn’t be by your side when you were in danger.
The progress of Kerry’s plan to become emperor was also recorded.
However, the real reason why the brother urgently sent the message was different.
“The princess ran away on her own?”
If it was the princess, she had met Kerry. She is the woman who chased after the hero thinking he was a man.
The emperor had evacuated his relatives before the rebellion.
Among them, the first princess, Beatrice, was guarded by her siblings.
It was because there was a high probability that Asmodeus would aim for Princess Beatrice, who was closest to her power.
“I need help. The princess ran away while her brother was away.
If you leave it like this, Asmodeus will definitely target you.”
“Isn’t that troublesome?”
“Yes. If Beatrice, the first princess, is captured, there is a possibility that Asmodeus will seize power again.”
Natasha, who was listening to her, clicked her tongue.
“She’s the princess. Why does she jump out…”
“Well. She didn’t leave without thinking, even the princess. Natasha.
Help us too
It is said to inform the subjects that the emperor was killed.”
It’s not understandable.
According to official documents from the empire, it is known that the emperor is recovering well.
This is what Asmodeus did.
Even if he is rotten, there is no emperor called Junchi, but he must be using someone else in power.
“My brother said that the princess is close to us, so he contacted us.
If you don’t mind, please protect her princess her.
I want to move myself, but I’m having trouble with other important things.”
Lina nodded her head.
“If that’s the case, of course we should help.”
The party ran to the place where Princess Beatrice was written in the message.
The old prophetess was well laid out in a hut.
Lina felt sorry for not being able to say goodbye to the old woman, but she did not have time to wait for the old woman to wake up from her drinking her.
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The subjects of the empire gathered in the plaza with a murmur.
In the middle of the plaza, there is a platform that has never been seen before.
The subjects talked to each other with anxious faces.
“Will the princess really show up? She should be able to believe the rumors.”
“She can’t believe that the emperor is dead. Even the official document says she’s just recuperating.”
“If you listen to the princess’s story, you’ll understand.”
“What if the princess is fake?”
“I can recognize it. I met the saintess once while living in the capital.”
If not as much as the emperor or the saintess, the princess was also highly trusted by her subjects.
At one time, she even went on a pilgrimage to the capital with the saintess.
The princess was then shaking her hands in her inn.
“Princess Beatrice. It would be better for her to stop now.”
“…”
“It’s too dangerous. You don’t know when and where the assassins may come…”
“Billman!”
“Yes, yes! Princess!”
“Looking at me now… Your Majesty… No. My father was murdered… Are you telling me to stay still?”
“…”
“You can’t even hold your father’s funeral… Are you just going to watch him brag about himself as if he’s a living person?”
The princess’s trembling hands stopped before she knew it. Her anger was filling her princess’ heart her.
“That’s too cruel…”
However, it wasn’t just anger in the princess’s heart her. She also had a crushing sadness.
The princess was still too young to lose her father her.
“Princess…”
Bill was the only knight who followed Beatrice.
Because they had to sneak out of the palace without anyone noticing, they couldn’t bring other knights with them.
Thanks to that, Beatrice survived. It was all thanks to the emperor.
‘I will protect the empire and the subjects my father tried to protect!’
Billman couldn’t bear to stop the princess.
Her own heart aches at the tragedy that has come upon her.
She couldn’t even imagine how great the princess’s grief would be.
‘The princess is strong.’
Billman knew very well that the princess would not collapse like this.
Then Beatrice blushed.
“And the face that the Father marked…
Shouldn’t I be active to some extent to be confident?”
“If it’s him…?”
“Kerry-sama! Kerry-sama! The next emperor after my father’s fortune-telling! My husband-to-be!”
“But Kerry-sama…A commoner…”
“Is it still a status issue?
Billman! Kerry is now a Guardian of Light.
I heard Kerry’s brave anecdotes! Isn’t that so cool?”
“…”
“In addition, when I think of Kerry’s face I met before, it shines so much that it’s hard to open my eyes!”
Billman grumbled and murmured softly.
“I think of it in my head…How are your eyes dazzling. Princess.”
“Noisy! Billman!”
“Yes!”
The princess snorted and pulled out her parchment.
It is a speech that has been revised and corrected dozens of times.
Her parchment her was tattered as she saw how her hands her had been scorched.
Billman quietly stood by her side of her so that the princess could prepare her final speech her.
“The promised time has come. Princess.”
The princess nodded and rose from her seat.
When they went out to the plaza, everyone in the city had come to see the princess’s speech her, and it was packed with people.
Beatrice realized for the first time that so many people live outside the capital.
Women, men, young people, old people, rich people, people without money.
Everyone was gathered in the square without any cover.
Then someone shouted.
“She’s the real Princess Beatrice!”
With those words, cheers broke out.
Beatrice was a princess, and she was used to standing in front of her subjects.
No. She found it familiar.
But she wasn’t like that.
As she stood in front of people today, her eyes widened and her hands her trembled.
I feel a strange heat from the subjects.
Everyone was extremely anxious.
Her deep fear was evident on that face.
‘Did my father give a speech while enduring the heat of the subjects?’
A single speech that saved the Empire from war.
Beatrice was proud of her father.
She wanted to protect the empire her father wanted to protect.
The princess goes up on the podium. A shout erupts, slowly fading away.
Thousands of eyes looked only at the princess.
The princess began her speech with her dry lips.
“Faithful subjects of the Empire.”
“”Wow!””
“I am Beatrice, the first princess of the Empire.”
From an early age she was a princess who was taught not to be afraid to stand in front of people, but her case was different now.
It was the first time she had ever spoken before the eccentric heat of the public.
It was a lot more pressure than I thought.
Her princess’s voice her trembled thinly, and cold sweat flowed down her face her.
Her hand her holding her speech her trembled like an aspen tree, dispelling the resolution she had made before taking the podium.
Beatrice’s uneasy appearance made the subjects even more uneasy.
The atmosphere was getting worse and worse.
Beatrice said, trying not to tremble.
“Recently… I think you guys have heard it too.
The news of the emperor, who is my father and the father of the empire…”
‘It’s not like this… This isn’t what I wanted!’
Even the princess knew. How unattractive she looked on her own her.
She knew that if she looked ugly, she would only increase the uneasiness of her subjects.
But her trembling did not stop.
“Emperor, the imperial family official documents are lies.
His Majesty…, Me…”
As the princess’s voice could not diminish, it began to reach a point where she was difficult to understand.
Then one of her angry voices her shouted.
“I don’t understand well! Princess! Is the emperor all right?”
She said that was the beginning.
She started popping her voice here and there.
“What do you mean by the malice cast upon the empire you spoke of?”
“Is the Empire safe? Can I open the shop as usual?”
“If the emperor died, why is the princess here?”
Voices of anxiety became great fear.
She hasn’t even read the beginning of the speech yet, and there is no mess like this.
The voices of the angry subjects are getting louder and louder.
‘…I wonder if I couldn’t be like my father.’
Billman steps up onto the podium. The atmosphere of the angry subjects was unusual.
Speech is no longer a problem.
Those chaotic voices were not questions, they were tantamount to riots.
It wouldn’t be strange if the subjects were storming the podium right now.
‘If the princess is here, the subjects will continue to get excited.’
Beatrice was trembling on the podium.
The princess’s graceful grace was nowhere to be found.
Only the woman, frightened by the riot of the subjects, was there.
It was at that time that Billman tried to escape with the princess.
I hear the voice of a man I once heard.
The voice, amplified by magic, echoed loudly in the plaza.
The subjects turn around at the angry voice that touches the heartstrings.
Kerry was there.
“What are older adults doing with a young woman!”
