Chapter 372 – Day 54 – The Princess Prepares for Mana’s Funeral
“Whoah…Something…I feel like I forgot something important related to my spiritual growth…”
“Don’t say anything strange. Princess.”
The princess, who enjoyed herself over Agrippa’s body until deep dawn, had a rather tired face. She sat in front of him, Hedone in a black dress, and behind her was Ceres, bringing various foods and helping her with breakfast.
“Um… Very important…”
The princess, who had forgotten about something more important than having sex with Elaine and Hedone, was deep in thought, but nothing sparked in her hazy mind her.
“Can’t you think of it right away? Foolish princess.”
“Um… That was very important…”
As she slid the cut potatoes into her mouth her with her fork and mumbled, the princess reached out and grabbed Ceres’ buttons and lightly kneaded them.
“Yes, yes. Princess…”
The princess, who let out her small moans, touched the buttocks of the lovely maid several times as if playfully, and eventually pushed the juicy meat into her mouth her, unable to remember the important fact.
“Well, anyway… Let’s take a day off and sort out what we need to do from now on. First of all, tell Arisa about Marquis Jesse’s—”
“Venus!”
Rattle!! The door opened and Arisa appeared and she snorted lightly as she approached the princess eating her meal and smiled at her.
“We’ve finally arrived. We’ll be able to get things going right away, just as Venus hoped.”
“Did I make Arisa do something?”
“What is he talking about again? You did something like that with Elaine and the Empress yesterday, and her head went that way?”
“Can my head be hardened to one side if it’s not blood?”
Seeing the princess swallow everything in her mouth her with her gulp, Arisa clicked her tongue and held out her hand towards her door.
“Mr. Grace! You may come in now.”
“Ah, thank you, Countess Arisa.”
With a smile as bright as the sun, Grace came inside and, looking at the princess, put her hands together and said a small prayer.
“Ahhh!”
“I heard from Arisa-sama. She said that she lost a friend she hadn’t seen in a long time. I’m really sorry for seeing you so late because of our church’s business.”
“Oh, no! If Grace comes and holds Mana’s funeral, I’d be very happy!Haha! Rather than asking the hands of other greedy nobles! Wouldn’t your hands be the best!”
The princess smiled brightly and held her Grace tightly with her two hands, lifted it slightly, and turned it round and round.
“Wow, princess?!”
“Huh, huhu, yes! Eh, I forgot about this, so I must have become an idiot too…”
Remembering that she had to attend Mana’s funeral belatedly, the princess slapped Grace’s chubby buttocks on her.
“Big, big…! The sisters guided by Arisa-sama are currently taking care of Mana-sama’s body her. Please don’t worry too much.”
“Whoa, if it’s not anyone else, but the priests of the Church of Saints, I can trust them.”
The princess smiled briskly, nodded her head, and kissed Grace gently on the cheek.
“By the way, didn’t Lucia come? She is invisible.”
“Ah… High Priestess Lucia is currently taking care of our church’s affairs…”
Seeing her awkward smile her, the princess intuited that something was going on, so she smiled and nodded her head.
“Please take good care of Mana’s funeral. Grace.”
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“That… Can I participate?”
“Mana doesn’t have her family. It can’t be helped, she decided to go in with me, you, and Hedone.”
Arisa, who was wearing a plain black dress, not her usual embarrassing high-legged bunny girl outfit, said while tidying up her clothes her.
Hedone stood silently next to the princess, and the party stood in front of a room in the basement that felt cool.
“…This is the first time I’ve ever participated in something like this.”
“Of course. It’s a family affair, right? Venus has never had a family member die.”
“What… You don’t have any relatives.”
At the mention of her relatives her, Elaine’s face her came to mind, but she was the princess. Twenty days ago, she never even imagined that she had relatives.
When he recalled the various education Ceres and Vesta had given him since childhood, he could never have imagined that he would have an aunt or uncle.
“Well anyway… Let’s go in soon. Will Hedone be okay?”
“You won’t have anything to worry about. The poor princess.”
Hedone smiled at her and gently took the princess’s hand her and gave it a big stroke.
“Well then, shall we go inside? Mr. Grace! Let’s go in!”
Brilliantly, Arisa knocked loudly and went inside after yelling at her.
When she entered the chilly room, she saw Grace wearing a beautiful but chaste high priest outfit, and next to her, she saw Mana sleeping like a happy dream.
“…Arisa, why are you wearing only panties?”
“Ah… You really don’t know anything? Um… For some religious reasons.”
Arisa winked at her to mean she did n’t ask herself, and then she slapped the princess on the buttocks, directing her Grace her to where she was standing.
“Welcome. Princess Venus, Arisa-nim, Mana-nim’s precious friend, and Hedone-nim, her younger sister her.”
Beside Grace, who spoke calmly, the golden bottles that seemed to be treated with great care by the Church of Saints caught my eye.
“Today, we’re going to wipe the body of Mana who has fallen into eternal sleep here. So that our goddess in the sky can take her soul her and guide her to a place where she can rest forever.”
Grace took a pure white cloth with golden embroidery in her hand, and she poured holy water into a golden bottle and dipped it.
‘Uh… Yeah, when I think about it, the holy water of the Church of Saints is not used for lewd things. Gee… Serious…. It was to be used for something that needed a blessing.’
The princess, who almost screamed instinctively, calmly looked down at Mana.
Her left arm and right leg were cleanly empty, as if they had n’t been there since birth. It was natural for her because she had to concentrate her magical powers to maintain her form of her, but the princess’s heart of her was not good.
“Because Mana Magicka has suffered for a long time. I have heard from her sisters her…”
Grace carefully stroked and cleaned the area where her left arm and right leg her were located.
“… Originally, Mana-sama’s body would not have received a proper funeral.”
“I guess so… It seems…”
“So, we’re going to wipe the first mana’s body very carefully here today.”
Grace smiled and placed a cloth soaked in holy water in the princess’ hand her.
“Ah… That… I really…”
“Mana-sister loved the princess. She thought of her as her as her family as her. If she didn’t, she would be rather disappointed.”
As Hedona calmly spoke her words of her, the princess sniffed at her and cautiously moved her hand her as Grace pointed.
Mana’s face her looked so happy and serene that Venus was so complicated and subtle that it felt like a very bad prank.
“Mana, I feel like you’re going to open your eyes and say something to me right now.”
As I spoke to her, I wiped the nape of her neck with a cloth and felt nothing. Even as I slowly lowered my hand down to rub her white breasts her, I didn’t feel her heart beating.
There was no warmth in Mana’s body and hers. Arisa used magic to maintain her body her and Ceres worked hard for several days, but the moment her breath stopped, it could n’t exist forever.
Rather, she should n’t have thought of this, but she should have felt grateful that her body her was intact and beautiful despite the passing of her time.
“…Mana, sleep well.”
After kissing her on the forehead and stepping back from her, the princess next saw Arisa receiving the cloth from Grace.
“Whoa… Mana. I don’t know why we ended up like this. You were the most… Wall in the academy that I thought I would never be able to overcome…”
While muttering, Arisa carefully wiped her mana off her body.
There must have been a story that the wizards could communicate with each other, so the princess did n’t bother to look closely at Arisa’s hands her.
After Arisa’s turn her, Hedone also held her holy water, and naturally, she also wiped Mana’s body of her.
“All three of you did a great job. From now on, I’ll dress you in the clothes that the mana will wear in the coffin. Hmm… Arisa said she likes this dress.”
“…It’s a whole new dress.”
“She told me when Mana was alive, she said the dress she’s wearing now feels too childish, so she made a dress… That she could wear at a social party.”
The princess nodded her head because her mana her suited her very well.
Grace smiled brightly and began to dress Mana very carefully, and the princess, who had good power, helped lightly with it.
“After this, you will be able to rest peacefully in the coffin handled by our sisters. There will be absolutely no problems during the funeral.”
“Hmm… Then that’s fortunate. I don’t plan on making the funeral itself too big…”
“Right, you’d better keep it as quiet as possible. Mana wants that too. She doesn’t want her homeland, the kingdom of Magicka, to be divided among greedy nobles, who hoped to return to her original form until the last moment. Because I won’t.”
“…That should be handled as quietly as possible.”
The princess nodded her head and as Grace said, she very gently stroked Mana’s head her, who she seemed to be in a really deep sleep.
“Grace, is it over now? Is the funeral going on as normal after this?”
“Yes, that’s right. Princess, don’t you have anything special to do after this.”
“…I wish I had more…”
Knowing that she had to bury the mana after her funeral her, the princess put on a bitter expression on her face her and stroked her precious friend’s cheek a few more times.
“Chief Grace, if you don’t mind, can we talk?”
Arisa knew how her princess felt, so she said. Both Grace and Hedone were sensible women, so the three of them naturally started going outside.
“Princess, please spend your time and come out slowly.”
“…Thank you.”
Because it was blatant consideration, the princess smiled. Thud! The moment the door closed with her loud sound, the princess let out a very long sigh and hugged her mana with both her hands and into her chest.
“… If I, as Obama wished… Were the greatest being in the world, wouldn’t he have lost you…?”
It was a stupid question, but she was a princess and she didn’t want to lose people she knew.
So she foolishly overdosed herself and tried to save countless people. She herself is a member of the imperial family anyway, so even if stabbed by her spear or cut by her sword, her body her heals quickly, so she had a strong personality to do such a thing.
Obama, I don’t want to be like Jupiter. She didn’t want to be the one who ate and killed countless people for the good cause of protecting this world for the fate of the empire.
But, how is she herself? Shouldn’t she let go of the mana she really didn’t want to lose?
“…Mana.”
The princess, who shed tears because she couldn’t sniff her nose, cried quietly.
She always acted optimistically with a big smile both in front of Hedone and in front of Arisa…
The princess, who was destined to become an emperor, cried silently for a long time.
“…Um… Uhm…?”
The princess, immersed in her sad feelings, blinked at the strangely felt warmth.
“M-MANA…? MANA?”
The embarrassing princess hurriedly hugged her more, fearing that her weak warmth her would disappear.
“S-Are you alive? Oh, no, there’s no way… Something like magic that can bring the dead back to life… Ah, no… Maybe…”
While the sweaty princess spoke a few words, the momentary warmth she felt disappeared as if teasing someone.
“Kuh…! Shit!”
The princess, who was angry because she wondered who was playing a prank on her, was very sorry for the warmth she felt in her palm.
“I… Hallucinated… Felt…”
The princess muttered softly and swallowed her words the moment she looked down at her palm her. Her pounding heart her felt stiff like ice, and the princess involuntarily looked at Mana’s body her.
“…Mana? What the hell… What does this mean…?”
After staring at the writing on her palm for a long time, the princess clenched her fist.
“Traitor”
Only one word ended, but it was clear what it meant.
Because of this little word, the princess was able to think of things she hadn’t even thought of until now. She could never make this precious opportunity meaningless, so the princess gave her power so tightly that her blood her oozes from her palms her.
“…Mana, never forget the words you left.”
