Chapter 147 – Rescue the Sickly Princess (1)
“Stella, you follow the duke to the front gate of the palace.”
“What?! Who the hell are you?!
How can I trust you?!”
Oh right. Is he seeing me for the first time?
I came to save you, in a mess
It just came out of it.
Trust me and sleep, there’s nothing to do.
… You can’t claim your bastard status against the princess.
However, you can’t reveal your original identity.
Then?
“I am a rescue expert.
Break through Bellondel and the Royal Knights in the Constellation Tower
Don’t you know that I saved you?”
“Ok?
Wasn’t that possible because of Sir Devot’s help?”
Slap.
Everyone’s heads were a little farther away from me
It’s focused on Lord Devot.
“Oh. The introduction is late.
This is Sir Devot, who has decided to become my subordinate from today.”
“This is Princess Anne’s Guardian Knight, Devot.
What was able to save Princess Stella,
It’s all thanks to Kamyu and the rescue team members.
I believe in these people
I want to accompany you in the mission to rescue Princess Anne.”
Sir Devot praised me as I maneuvered
Bow down to me politely
Nice
Princess Stella can’t close her open mouth.
“Oh, no… Sir Devot… ?
You, sister’s guardian knight… Isn’t that right?”
I shrug.
“I decided to serve as my knight until I rescued Princess Anne.
If you’re slow, I’ll drop you, Sir Devot.”
“Yes. I will definitely save it.”
Even while talking, Bill and Jesse
He constantly prays for recovery and wears bandages.
“Phew. Treatment was done first.
I will pray for recovery, so please wait for a moment.”
“Hurry up.
Angela. First, enter the central palace.
Mobilize the Royal Griffon Riders and move quickly
Find Queen Catherine.
If even Queen Catherine is captured, the war will be over.
Received from Duke Dupre
Check the location of the anti-aircraft net.
If something happens to me
I’ll call for help with a green flare.
Please come and help me then.”
“Yes, my lord!
… Take care of yourself.”
Angela salutes and runs off.
I really don’t have time anymore.
Does Duke Dupre know that?
Give instructions to the staff
Ran straight out.
Now, I am the one left in the eastern palace.
We must start now.
“Jacques, Ludwig, Sir Devot.
Let’s go to Princess Anne’s bedroom to find clues.
Little Princess, help me.
As long as you can find clues and specify coordinates,
We have to fly straight through the portal.”
“Yes, chief.”
“Don’t add kiddos at the end of every word.
Reckless!”
“Princess, please.”
“… Joy. Okay.”
Even though I pout, I agree.
… It reminds me of Lumica who came to my store a few months ago.
Are you doing well in the castle?
Hehe.
Come to think of it, I’m promoted to lieutenant general of the Sukwigun?
“… What the heck, don’t go fast
Don’t smirk badly.”
“Yes. Sir Jacques, Ludwig and Devot.
Let’s start right away!”
Changed into comfortable pants and a jacket instead of a dress
Head to Princess Anne’s bedroom with Princess Stella.
I start by looking for Mercy, the one I hypnotized.
“Mercy!!”
… Weird.
Mercy was a handmaid who was like an alter ego of Princess Anne.
If Princess Anne was taken to be sacrificed to the gold dragon,
She must have left her maid, Mercy, here.
I assemble the hypnotized guards and ladies-in-waiting.
And ask about Mercy’s route.
“Merci said early in the morning that she was going to the ‘Garden of Iris’.”
A guard’s testimony.
Stella is by my side and tells me where the place is.
“The ‘Garden of Irises’ is… Where Queen Catherine stayed during her reign
It’s on one side of the northern palace.
Based on the map… This is it.”
Stella pointed to the southeast of the northern palace on the map inside the palace.
“I want to save her sister too. She will go with you.”
“It’s not possible. The iris garden is just a clue.
The location is not specific.
Now the princess is tired.
You won’t be able to open the dimensional gate a few times.”
“But… !”
“Then at the critical moment, I couldn’t open the dimensional door,
You may not be able to save the sick princess.
And all the enemies will aim for one princess and run.
If there is a change in the princess mama, it will be our defeat.
Princess Mama follows Duke Dupre to the front gate of the palace.
We must win the centrist nobles to our side.
Regrettably, it is clear that Alberic assassinated His Highness.
Proclaim that she will be queen,
Condemn Queen Catherine and Alberic’s unfair succession to the throne.
Under Queen Stella’s name, under the rightful Queen’s banner
The nobles will assemble anew.”
At my words, Stella bowed her head.
“But… I am…
I don’t deserve to be queen.”
“…”
I am speechless at the sudden confession.
Stella, like Marianne once did
He hesitates, but asserts himself firmly.
“… You must know that Prince Kamyu also met her sister.
If it wasn’t for her body hurting, no… Even if you are sick
Her sister was supposed to be king.
I don’t know politics, finance, or diplomacy.
I’m just a wizard.
My sister is more humble, considerate, and wiser than me.
It always has been. Since childhood…
If she’s a sister to save me
If she hadn’t given up the throne…
Even her maternal grandfather would have crowned her sister as her queen.”
“Princess Mama.”
I interrupt
In fear that her sister might be captured by the gold dragon
Her shudders don’t seem to be heard by her.
Her eyes trembled incessantly,
Her knuckles were trembling slightly.
“It always has been.
Although she always wanted to catch up with her ex,
I can’t… Didn’t reach
I always had to stare at her sister’s shadow, her back.
Even my mom and dad knew that.
As long as her older sister was healthy, she would speak Iran.
You put it in her mouth and bought it.
If my sister had a strong body
I wouldn’t even be able to compare.
Even Katherine wouldn’t have been a problem.
Of course, my sister would have become king.”
“Princess Mama. That…”
“… I felt it every time I went into a meeting the other day.
My older sister is kind, smart and graceful,
That such a person should be king.
In front of my sister, I’m so small
It got even smaller.
I really hated and hated her like that…
Rather, unnie always embraced me like that.
Because it hurts so much…”
Ha. This person also has some self-loathing.
… Just like the old me
Like me, who collapsed after hearing Marianne’s story during the bidding process.
… Blaming yourself won’t solve anything.
“Princess Mama. Are you okay.
The sick princess doesn’t care about that for the first time.
Isn’t it just that her sister wants to see her sister?”
“… Yes? What, what?”
The little princess blankly looks at me with a concave face.
… It feels like raising a daughter.
Cute. Looks like a rabbit
I shrug.
“Is there anything complicated to think about?
The sickly princess must have known what you thought.
And I didn’t care and cared for you.
Sisters getting jealous and bickering with each other.
Isn’t that natural?
Still, we care for each other.
When you too jump from the constellation tower,
After all, you called her sister.
The sick princess will know that.
So I gave up a lot for you and endured it sometimes.
So don’t feel guilty.
Even those who couldn’t protect it, your heart must have already reached you.”
She stares at me
Like the waves that wet the sand on the beach,
Come and crash into my heart,
Wet my heart
“… He speaks like someone who has been through it.”
It’s not a human, but a demon.
“It’s true.”
“… The people who shouted when they jumped from the tower?”
“… A few of them.”
Mother. And Rebekah.
“What happened?”
“… I’ll tell you when I come back alive today.”
I don’t avert her eyes.
Her cloudy eyes
It comes back bright and bright.
“… Camu Ball. Don’t say that
Because it’s such an ominous word.
If you say that in a novel, you will surely die.”
Food.
The entire rescue team, including me, laughed.
Stella stood up with a firm expression on her face.
“All right. If you fire a green flare instead
I will open the dimensional door and go.
I’ll recover my magic by then,
Don’t stop it.”
“I understand, Princess.
Rather, it is something I ask of you.”
“Good luck.
Take good care of her sister.”
Princess Stella bows down on her back.
Tak-tak-tak!
And she runs with the escort towards the main gate of the palace.
“Let us also depart. I do not have time.”
To find even the slightest clue
I didn’t call the Royal Griffon on purpose.
Jacques and Ludwig’s flight skills are very suspicious,
Lord Devot’s Armaments
It’s a problem because even Royal Griffon would be heavy armed.
Tak Tak Tak!!!
Thump thump!!!
The road leading to the northern palace.
Right now the battle is focused on the central palace.
However, our side has not yet taken control of the northern palace.
Therefore, there is a minimum of troops guarding the palace.
“Stop!! Sir Devot!! What are you doing!!”
“Get out of the way!!
Princess Anne to the Gold Dragon
Is it true that you are going to sacrifice it?!?!”
“What, what?!”
The little ones don’t know.
Fuck!
“Keuouk!!”
Devot pushes away with his shield at the same speed as he runs.
With Devot at the fore
The occasional flying arrow is no big deal.
It’s cool cool
“Here, this way! It is a garden of irises!”
Snuggle Geek!!
Turn a corner in a hurry
“Kyaaak!! Who are you?!”
Fuck!
Mind control!
“Did Princess Anne and a maid named Mercy come here?”
In the garden of irises, I met a lady-in-waiting who was trying to clear a teacup.
“Uh… Ugh… Bang, I just came and I don’t know…”
Damn, I really just came here.
… Wait for a sec.
“Wait, Yerim!! Look at that car!! Is it milk tea?!”
Wow Jangchang!!
I open the lid of the teacup on the table.
… Two tea cups on the table.
One is milk tea.
Milk tea that Princess Anne loved to drink.
Then, this car on the other side?!
“Kung-da-ta-kung-da-ta-uh, is it black tea?!”
“Captain, while I was rescuing the princess, why did I suddenly see a car…”
“Ugh! Don’t touch the car, your hands are going to blow off!!”
Sniffling.
Drink black tea.
It’s still warm.
The taste is deep and the fragrance is refreshing.
This…
[The taste is very mild, and the fragrance is refreshing.
You also have a great eye, princess.]
The black tea Marianne and I drank when we met Catherine in her princess days.
“Queen Catherine was here with Princess Anne!!
The car is still warm.
It must have been a while since you left!!”
“Yes?!”
Wow Jangchang!!
An urgent mind swept the table and opened the map of the palace.
“Sir Devot. If you summon a gold dragon,
Where would be the best place to summon within the palace?
Places with tall towers like Seogung get in the way.
A spacious place, an open space, a place where you can draw a large magic circle.
There are not many tall buildings
A place where there are no obstacles to the dragon’s flight immediately after summoning.
Still looking down from a high place nearby
A place where you can modify the dragon summoning magic circle.”
“If that’s the case, here and here. And here it is.”
Of the three places Lord Devot put his finger on,
There is one place that catches my eye.
The most northern ‘Rose Garden’ in the Northern Palace.
There are large gardens, low buildings, and vacant lots resembling plazas.
The sky is open.
The tallest building is about the same as the building where Catherine stayed when she was a princess.
A height where you can look down on the floor and correct the magic circle.
However, it was high enough to not interfere with the dragon’s flight and aerial summoning.
“Let’s go from here.
Closest here,
Inside the North Palace, where Queen Catherine had been since her princess days,
It would have been convenient to prepare the magic circle in advance.
And now, in all the turmoil, not being able to find Princess Anne,
It means you are in an area not occupied by our allies.”
“But there are possibilities for the rest of the candidates…
It’s too gamble.”
“Ahhh, get out with the Demon King’s Prey! Gambling, it’s a board!”
“… Gambling is a disease.”
“There will be additional clues along the way!
You have to go after it!”
Tak Tak Tak!!
Thump thump!!
Go around the alleys of the northern palace
Running towards the northern rose garden…
“Everybody bow!!”
Everyone hurriedly bowed at Zach’s cry as he looked to the left.
Seureung…
Creepy cold sound.
And the shock wave that follows!!
Kaga Gak!!
Something terribly terrifying passes over us,
After a very short time, the stone walls of the building made a creepy noise.
It left a long knife mark.
“What is this…”
It’s ridiculous.
It looks like a dragon wielded it with his claws.
Wasn’t there any sign of this big attack until it arrived?
Beat, beat, beat.
Very light steps.
“That’s it, folks.”
Beat, beat, beat.
Rebekah usually wears black nun’s clothes,
If Marianne wore a saint’s dress with white and gold points,
That dark-haired blind nun is wearing a silver nun’s uniform.
A silver eyepatch covering both eyes in a silver nun’s uniform.
And… Is it true that you use that as a weapon?
A suspiciously large and long scythe.
Suddenly, I can’t hear her footsteps at all.
Just like my magic trick, ‘Cat’s Step’.
“Why is the cathedral intervening?
Do you agree to sacrifice people to the gold dragon?”
Spit out random words
You have to figure out your opponent.
The silver blind nun holding a scythe lightly countered.
“The symbol of evil, to defeat the devil army
It is the noble sacrifice of the princess.”
“Sacrifice is a word used when one is voluntary.
This is kidnapping
There is no explicit agreement.”
“I am the sword of the cathedral.
Carl doesn’t talk.”
A great scythe glimmers.
The nuns of Amity Cathedral
I don’t know why everyone has so much personality.
How come there are no normal nuns?!?!
Then Sir Devot speaks in a low, low voice.
“Among priests, nuns, and paladins
The ‘Law Guard’, which secretly takes on the duties of the cathedral.
… I’ve heard rumors, but I never thought I’d face it like this.”
Now the blind nun stops her steps.
Even though we were in attack range from the start, the reason we came closer was
It must be to ensure that it is within the effective distance.
“Goal, remove.”
A fight has begun.
