Chapter 142 – The Princess Who Wants a Friend (5)
When she opened her closed eyes, Benelia was able to return to her reality.
While the melody of the old-fashioned classical music played by the orchestra lingered in her ears her ears, she saw Theo Rad holding her forehead in front of her while holding on to the cabinet.
Theorard, who had been trying to catch her breath as if she was dizzy, looked back at Benelia with a puzzled expression.
“Your Highness, Princess. Maybe I fell asleep for a while?”
“Why do you think so?”
“That is… It felt like I was having a strange dream.”
It’s a dream. Looking at the big picture, it wasn’t wrong, so I laughed for some reason.
Benelia, wondering if she would tell the truth, shook her head inwardly. Even if she explained every word, it would mean nothing if she was not in her memory.
Still, I was a little curious about how much Theorard remembered.
Benelia smiled softly and nodded her head.
“Your curiosity is piqued. What kind of dream did you have?”
Theorard couldn’t answer her Benelia’s question right away. She seems to have had her dream her involving Benelia, but everything is unclear, as if shrouded in her fog.
Still, there was one scene that stood out to her. Theorard, contemplating whether or not to say this, opened his mouth with difficulty.
“It was a dream in which I ran through an underground waterway with the young princess in my arms.”
“Interesting. But is that the end?”
“Hwang Gong Ha, yes.”
I didn’t expect it, but I couldn’t remember anything else than that, so the aftertaste was bitter. Still, he was well aware of what kind of person Theorard was, so he was no loss.
“I must have been very happy to have appeared in your dream.”
Benelia patted Theorard on the shoulder and walked towards the glass window.
Theorard, who was looking at Benelia’s back, said with her doubts.
“Majesty? Are you thinking of going back?”
“No. Go grab the trash The time when hallucinations became reality is only about 10 seconds at most.”
“What do you mean-“
Before Theo Rad could finish her words, Benelia kicked her to the floor and ran. A blue aura drifted through her swift movements. With mana all over her body her, Benelia jumped through her window without hesitation.
Kwajangchang—!
Windows are shattered and shards of glass scatter. The onlookers screamed, but Benelia landed calmly and only ran away somewhere.
Theorard, who was watching it in real time, couldn’t hide his bewildered feelings of her.
‘How…….’
How should we understand Benelia, who suddenly jumps at her window while she is picking out her trinkets her. Her bones hurt her in many ways, but Benelia had a good reason for her sudden behavior of her.
Theorard, thinking that he should follow, hurriedly moved his steps. But she didn’t jump out the window like Benelia did. She just quietly used the stairs to go down the mall.
It was because Theo Rad, who could n’t even use telekinesis properly, let alone floating magic, might have one of his legs his smashed if he jumped from the third floor.
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Theorard, who came out of the mall belatedly, was able to reach the place where Benelia was after asking for witnesses.
Benelia stood with her sword drawn in her deserted alleyway, and in front of her, a man wearing the uniform of the old moon, who had grown wild, was walking backwards as her legs her were bleeding.
Judging from the bright red blood dripping from the tip of the sword, it was clear that Venelia had inflicted the man’s wounds.
“Your Highness the Princess.”
Theorard, aware of the seriousness of the situation, spoke to her, but Benelia did not pretend to listen. Right now, interrogating the man in front of me was more important than Theorard.
“Speak. Someone tried to get you guys to dig out my secrets.”
The man didn’t answer. He just took a deep breath and stepped back.
The man looked around hurriedly and stopped abruptly when he realized he was at a dead end.
“Do you think you would say you are asking?”
A gloomy voice echoes through the alleyway. Perhaps feeling that there was no need to lie anymore, the man who laughed unleashed his demonic energy.
Fuhuaak! A dark red demon wrapped around the man’s body and passed by. Bony horns began to grow in the place where Magi passed by.
The skin of his was also discolored red, which was the appearance of a perfect devil.
Benelia, who was watching the scene, frowned in displeasure.
“Devil? No, judging by the mark on his forehead, he must be a human who made a pact with the devil.”
As Venelia said, something that looked like a hieroglyph was engraved on the man’s forehead like a scar.
The man didn’t deny the fact and opened his mouth.
“It is not serving the devil. You are just using the devil for a greater cause.”
“Those who have contracted with the devil often defend themselves in that way. At least, the wise don’t realize they’ve been used by demons until they die, and the stupid don’t realize they’ve been used by demons until they die.”
“…… Do not try to tarnish my convictions with your three tongues.”
The man grewled, baring his teeth, but Benelia only snorted at her.
“You spew the word ‘belief’ well when you entrusted your body to the devil because you couldn’t do it with your own abilities. It’s a word that trash like you shouldn’t contain.”
“…… Shut up These are not words to be heard by an illegitimate child abandoned by God.”
“I wonder. If God abandons you just because you are an illegitimate child, then you, who made a pact with the devil, will surely fall into the pit of hell.”
A vein grows on the man’s forehead. The man indeed contorted his expression like a demon and let out a boiling sound.
“I am special, unlike the others! Because, because the master gave me the right to go to heaven!”
“Is it.”
Benelia nodded her head in agreement.
“Judging by the fact that you don’t serve demons and you mention the word master, it seems that the person giving you orders is also a human related to the group you are active in.”
“…….”
“The authority to go to heaven probably refers to indulgences issued by the Holy See. The master you are talking about is probably a person in close contact with the Holy See. It must mean that the emperor, who has a bad relationship with the Holy See, did not commit it.”
A visibly embarrassed man shakes his shoulders.
Thanks to this, Benelia continued her words her with confidence.
“Then, the suspects are narrowed down to the second brother and the Duke of Brillt. There are not many people who have ties to the Holy See but want to isolate me politically or militarily.”
“Huh, bullshit…….”
“Whether it’s bullshit or not, you’ll find out if you catch him and open his memories of him. I want to tell you just in case, but it would be better not to think about running away. My knights should be gathering here by now.”
The elite of the ‘Steps of Dawn’, a combat unit directly under the imperial family, are narrowing the siege. That was tantamount to specifying the man’s defeat.
It is possible to use the power of the devil, but it is virtually impossible to break through the siege at the point of being wounded in the leg by Venelia.
Life after being captured? It will be terrifying and miserable.
Iron-Blooded Princess, Benelia von Esteban.
Her teeth her tremble when she thinks of how the woman in front of her will torture her. So the man decided to choose the lesser evil instead of the worst.
“Do you think I will be beaten by an illegitimate child like four years old!”
The angry man tore off his uniform. Beyond the torn clothes his, the pattern engraved on the chest his emits a colorful light and scatters demonic energy.
“May the god of light be watching over me!”
There was no irony in praising the god of light while in the form of a demon, but I couldn’t afford to pay attention to such things now.
Benellia, examining the crude pattern glowing on the man’s chest, frowned.
‘Damn it!’
It was clear that it was black magic that caused an explosion by using the blood inside the body as a driving force for magic.
As a kind of self-destruct magic, it was one of the taboo magics in modern times because it blows away everything in the area when manifested.
It cannot be stopped by suffocating as long as magic is cast. Because the moment you stop breathing, there will be an explosion.
You don’t hesitate to do dirty things. Benelli Agay bit down and drew her sword.
‘You have to run…….’
No, no. There was no way he could get out of the range of the explosion just by running away.
Then, the only way to prepare for the explosion was to deploy the barrier.
If you are alone, you will surely survive. Because Benelia was confident in her own magic skills in her.
However…….
‘Theorad Deharm.’
It was unknown whether she could save Theo Rad, who had followed her without knowing why. She pondered for a moment, then Benelia turned her body her and hugged Theorard tightly.
“Majesty!?”
The wider the area of the barrier, the lower the protection strength, so it was judged that it was right to be in close contact with each other in order to reduce the probability of death even a little.
However, the feeling of her noble jade body gently overlapping his own her was too much for Theo Rad to handle. As the bewildered Theo Rad opened her hands, Venellaa burst into her roar.
“Stop being stupid and hug me! It is a matter of survival!”
Theorard, who only then grasped her situation her, hugged her Benelia as hard as he could. Somehow, in her strange mood her, Benellia squeezed out all the mana in her own body her and deployed her barrier.
Fire!
A blue curtain spreads rapidly and covers Theorad and Venelia. Immediately after, the man who had finished preparing let out a maddening cry.
“Let’s get a bird’s eye view of the world’s bare face in the dark!”
A flash war that occurred in an instant cut the man’s body to pieces.
At the same time, the fire that spewed out of it rapidly expanded.
Aaaaa!
An explosion occurred with a roar that shook the heavens and the earth. Benelia pressed her face against Theo Rad’s chest and closed her eyes, but strangely she didn’t feel the explosion hitting her barrier her.
…… Even after a long time, there was not a single scratch on the barrier.
Curious about that, Benelia slowly opened her eyes and turned her head to see that a hemispherical barrier had formed around her man her, blocking all of her explosions her.
Powerful explosions occurred from time to time, but the barrier blocked all fragments of bodies, bones, and flames without shaking.
Thanks to this, Benelia could only look up at Theorad in awe.
“You guys…… ?”
Without a wand, is it possible to build a barrier with only concepts outside the open?
Benelia was blinking her eyes in embarrassment, but Theorard was also embarrassed.
‘This is not something I did.’
Theo Rad didn’t know how to use such high-level magic, and he didn’t have that ability. However, he did know one being who could do this kind of magic as naturally as breathing.
“Master?”
I break out in a cold sweat at the sound of a cold voice coming from behind my back.
Before Theorard could make an excuse, the elf flashed red eyes and muttered.
“Why are you two hugging each other?”
For Theorard, this was a bigger crisis than a man’s self-destruction.
