Chapter 348 – Day 51 – The Princess and Mana Are Soaked in Memories
“It looks really elaborately made. Is there a need to make it exactly like this?”
She was a princess who was extremely nervous when she first walked through her corridors, but now she was walking lightly as if she had just come to Mana’s castle to play.
Mana, who was holding her hand her, also looked at every nook and cranny of her hallway with eyes that she did not understand.
“Really… I reproduced the castle as I remember it, to the point where the word “Wasting magic power” Is appropriate.
“This is the picture you boasted to me at that time… Ho-oh, it was drawn quite beautifully, but isn’t it too mature?”
“We were mature enough then, Venus.”
The princess tried to say something, but she swallowed her words and laughed.
Mana puffed out her cheeks with a strange dissatisfaction with that smile, but when she saw Hedone’s tense expression her, she let go of her anger.
“Hedone, I don’t think you need to be so nervous.”
“… I get what you mean, Ms. Mana, but she’s honestly too safe to relax.”
“Hedone, it’s not normal to carry a gun, don’t be too nervous.”
Hedone, who heard the two say, is he overdoing himself? She wanted to, and she nodded her head very slowly.
“Then I’ll hold the gun until I go into that restaurant that Mr. Mana said. How is it, Princess?”
“There’s also an emergency, so that’s fine.”
The princess nodded her head and, holding her mana and her hand her, arrived in front of the restaurant at the end of the hallway.
“… Sniff, sniff…? Sniff…”
“Whoa… Sniff… Hmm…”
“What the hell is this…”
Even Hedone, who was holding his gun on his shoulder, was startled and lowered the muzzle of his gun. A sweet smell came from beyond the door.
The princess and Mana even knew what this smell was.
“Isn’t this… The smell of hotcakes…”
“Right…My God…”
The two grabbed the restaurant door at the same time and opened it roughly.
Belatedly, Hedone was very nervous and raised the gun again, but in the huge restaurant, he could see dishes prepared for someone.
“…God, I… Never thought I’d be ready for something like this…”
“This is… When my mother…”
It was the same as then.
The hot cake that Queen Madolce said while stroking Mana’s head with a smile was ready.
There were 6 hotcakes prepared in a pure white bowl, and butter was placed on the top with coarse cuts.
The sweet syrup that was spread all over the place smelled so sweet that the princess couldn’t even smell her like a puppy, and there was a large bowl of pure white ice cream floating in a bowl that looked like a teapot.
It was even prepared so that you could top it up with pure white whipped cream and eat it if you wanted.
“To the point of being awful…”
“It’s prepared just like we remember… What the hell…”
Who is the person who perfectly reproduced floating?
All the answers were already out there, but the princess and Mana didn’t want to admit the reality.
“Princess, Mana-san. You need to wake up. This is just… Hot cake. No, maybe…”
Unlike the panicking two, Hedone, who had not experienced the past, looked at the hot cake in front of her very calmly.
Hedone, who was constantly emitting a sweet smell, but thinking that even this could be an illusion created by magic, stepped back a little.
“…It’s most likely a trap. Princess, haven’t you forgotten why you came here?”
“Isn’t it to lift the curse on my body? But Hedone…”
There was a strange hope in the princess’s eyes.
She was a princess who always thought positively, but at this moment, Hedone’s personality was resentful.
“Bird, think about it. If Queen Madolche is alive and has put a curse on me… If we meet with Mana, wouldn’t we be able to solve the curse without any problems?”
“…Mom’s got some blockages…But maybe she’ll change her mind when she sees that I’m still alive and well.”
“You two… Aren’t you imagining how happy you are talking? It can’t be.”
Hedone says she knows she’s a bit negative, but she speaks up.
“If Queen Madolce was alive in this castle, why didn’t she tell her that she was alive? Why did she prepare the barrier again to deceive the eyes of Emperor Jupiter? Isn’t it obvious? It’s for revenge.”
“I think so. But Hedone… Queen Madolce wasn’t a very cruel person. She’s sure to speak calmly and she’ll break the curse on my body.”
“The daughter of the man who killed her her self appeared before her eyes her, the child of the man who killed her beloved daughter, and she said that Queen Madolce would act rationally?”
Hedone said fiercely, and the princess flinched for a moment.
In the worst case, yes. If things went badly, Queen Madolce was likely to take revenge on her emperor by brutally beating his own son to death.
“Still…”
“…Anyway, this restaurant is dangerous. Get out quickly. Princess.”
As Hedone struggled to speak her words of her, the princess looked at her hot cake for a moment and then nodded her head.
“Hedone-san isn’t wrong. We don’t have to be so flustered by hot cakes, Venus.”
“Um… I see. Ceres can do hotcakes anyway.”
The princess, who was thinking of eating even the sparkling syrup with her fingers, turned her body around and took Hedone’s hand her.
Manado also held Hedone’s hand and the three hurriedly escaped from the restaurant.
“The Princess, Mr. Mana. What is the reason we came to this castle?”
“It’s to lift the curse on Venus’ body.”
“To put it a little worse, it means that if we can break the curse of the foolish princess, we can deal with the castle itself later. You know what that means?”
At Hedone’s words her, the princess slowly nodded her head.
“Of course, Queen Madolce might be alive…But since quite a bit of time has already passed, she’d better go back to the palace quickly…”
As she spoke, the princess awkwardly held her breath.
“Have you seen Mana?”
“I saw…”
“What the hell…”
Hedone hurriedly grabbed the two of them by the hand, but on the contrary, the two of them started to move somewhere, and it became like they were being dragged.
“Ah…”
Hedone, who was about to get angry, stopped him. The place the two arrived was in front of a huge bathroom, where a bright blue slime was jumping in place.
“Didn’t I tell you that this was a familiar created by Mana in the past?”
“Yeah, I made it up. My mom said I could make it, so she worked really hard…”
“Ears are cute… No, but being cute isn’t the problem…”
Hedone had no choice but to admit it for a moment, but it was quite lovely to see the little guy jumping into the arms of Mana and the princess while jumping.
“The condition of the bathroom seems to be no different from then.”
“Oh, that’s right. We were really messed up at the time, weren’t we? I think Mom was thinking of washing us.”
Mana and the princess instantly began to reminisce, then opened the huge door and looked into the bathroom.
The gurgling water reminded me of a waterfall, and the huge tub was too big for two girls to use, but it looked really good for splashing and playing.
Haha, there was also a duck boat. You couldn’t play with it at the academy.”
“I couldn’t bring it to the dorms because I thought… I’d be told I look like a child if I played with it. Oh my God, look at Venus. Here are our pajamas for us to change into.”
“Isn’t it pink?”
While thinking that it was quite embarrassing, the princess headed to the place Mana pointed out, and Hedone broke out in a cold sweat.
“Now, wait… Both of you. Again, stop dwelling on memories…”
Hedone grabbed the two of them by the shoulders and made them look at him again.
“Wherever you look, you can’t see a magic circle or something that cursed the princess here, right?”
“Ah… That’s right. Yes.”
“Hmm… There is magic using water, but it doesn’t take into account the situation where the water is pouring like that. Yes, the probability that there is a medium that curses Venus here is low.”
Mana spoke calmly, but she looked somewhere at her again and again, just like the princess.
“Ugh! When the hell…!”
Hedone hurriedly followed their gaze and pointed a gun at the women standing there, wearing maid uniforms and wearing white wings.
“Princess Mana, Princess Venus. You’re back late.”
“We’ve been waiting all along for a long time.”
“Have you eaten?”
Seeing them speak kindly in calm voices, Hedone still pointed her gun at her.
“Everyone, don’t come closer.”
Fortunately, the princess was also sane, so she spoke to the attendants and shook her head from side to side.
“We came to this castle today for a reason, and we do not need your help. Get back.”
“…Please step back.”
Mana’s voice her trembled.
She was staring at one of her maids.
The princess couldn’t understand the situation at once, but she could vaguely know that one of the many maids was an existence like Ceres to her, and an existence that was really precious to Mana.
“Who is this?”
“An uninvited guest pointing a gun at us…”
“Hedone is my fiancée! You guys are not the kind of person to talk to, so lower her head her!”
When the princess shouted, her maids flinched in surprise and actually bowed her head.
“…Everyone please stay here.”
Saying that, Mana grabbed her princess’s hand and came out as if to run away.
“Princess Mana.”
“Princess Venus”
“Ugh…?!”
The moment I came out, a lot of people who hadn’t been there before appeared.
A knight in armor, a woman in a maid’s uniform, a man in a butler’s uniform…
To Mana, each and every one of them was close to her family, and to the princess, they were innocent citizens who could not take her own life recklessly.
“Come this way.”
“A delicious dinner is prepared. Princess Mana.”
“This is an order from the Queen. Princess, wash your body clean.”
Looking at the beings walking while talking calmly, the princess and Mana had no choice but to step back.
“Ugh… Damn…”
She might be able to get out of this place with her powers her, but it was difficult for the princess to walk normally.
If you ask her about Mana, if she uses magic, of course she can kill the beings in front of her eyes, but there is a high possibility that her prosthetic arm and leg her will be damaged.
“Princess Venus, Mr. Ceres is waiting for you.”
“Ke… Ceres…?”
“Princess Mana, Queen Madolce told me to talk after dinner.”
“…Mom…”
The princess and Mana, who were backing away because of the beings speaking in sweet voices, suddenly reached the end of the hallway on their backs and buttocks.
“…”
Unlike the two of them, Hedone, who did not feel any guilt toward the beings in front of her eyes her, aimed the gun without hesitation.
-Bang!!
“Hedone!!”
The sound of gunshots hurting my ears didn’t stop once.
-Bang! Bang! Bang!
“..Suck!”
Clap! Hedone, who quickly reloaded with a shout, silently looked at the maid lying on the ground.
“…Ah, ah… Princess Mana… My heart hurts so much.”
“This, the woman us…”
Seeing the maid coughing up her blood in agony, Mana tightly closed her eyes.
“…Stop.”
“Mr. Mana! Can’t you see it?”
“Stop..! Stop! I don’t know who it is! Stop playing around with Venus and my memories!”
The moment Mana screamed in pain, the beings standing in her hallway burst into small smiles.
Haha.”
“Ha!Haha!Haha!!!”
Hearing that laughter made even the princess of the world go crazy, and Hedone hurriedly swung her gun and struck the maids and knights in the head before starting to clear the way.
“Well, you did a good job! Hedone!! First of all! Let’s escape to another place, not a dead end!”
“Ha! Stupid princess! Are you coming to your senses?”
“Of course! I was sane from the beginning!”
The princess screamed and grabbed Mana and Hedone’s arms roughly and started to run forward. Horrifying beings wriggling in front of the party opened the door of the room and began to appear.
“This way! Zombies or ghouls would be better!!!”
The screaming princess had no choice but to run away first.
