Chapter 591 – Day 78 – There Are Things the Princess Does Not Have to Solve
“As the princess said, I checked to see if anyone had been to the dungeon recently…”
“Isn’t there anything in your hand?”
“I’m sorry. Princess… Well, that’s why… Kuck.”
Biting her lip, Minerva broke into a cold sweat, then looked at her princess and dogeza once more.
It was a perfect posture, enough to make the leather pants she was wearing swell up, but it was not a situation to feel sexual desire.
“Sir, can’t you… You mean that record disappeared too?”
“Sorry, I’m sorry! Since I was in charge of guarding the palace, no one has visited me in particular, except for the case when I sent the prisoners captured by the princess to the dungeon…!”
“Are you saying that it’s been more than five years since you’ve touched the log that records visitors?”
Minerva nodded her head, still holding her dogeza.
“Keuk, stop… If there was nothing to record, wouldn’t it be unavoidable… Were the sinners recorded separately?”
Minerva rose from her seat and hurriedly pointed her hand at the huge book held by the knight waiting behind her.
“I was managing the location of all the prisoners through this book.”
“Have you been using such a huge guy… It’s understandable that you neglected to manage the visit book.”
The princess, who clicked her tongue, opened the huge book her knight was holding and she began to read the contents.
“With this book, you can figure out where a certain prisoner is at once without having to go down to the depths of the basement.”
After confirming that her prisoner’s appearance her was perfectly drawn using her magic her, the princess touched her chin.
She said, ‘She not only wrote the demons, but also the guys through me. The humans who were imprisoned 100 or 200 years ago must have all died… But the number of demons is hundreds if not hundreds… No, isn’t it over a thousand?’
Even without calmly calculating the numbers, I knew right away that the situation was dangerous.
The princess let out a sigh of her own accord, and Minerva, who saw it, swallowed her saliva and knelt down.
“Princess… She is the person in charge of the imperial palace’s security, and she knows very well that she cannot say anything about this situation…”
“… It’s okay, please tell me. Haven’t you been in charge of the palace’s security for a long time?
The princess did not scold Minerva. The situation was very dangerous and complicated, but no matter how much I thought about it, it was not something that could happen because of ‘Minerva’s fault’.
‘It’s not a situation that would happen in an accident like losing a key by mistake. Let’s respond calmly, Venus!’
“That, that… No matter how much you think about it, there is no way to break into the dungeon. Princess.”
“Hmm, are you saying that there is no possibility that he entered the dungeon from the outside?”
Minerva nodded her head.
“I ordered the knights to search around as much as possible, but I couldn’t find even a trace of shoveling in the ground, let alone a tunnel.”
“What about magic if there are no physical traces?”
Minerva shook her head from side to side without a second’s thought.
“That’s also impossible. As the princess knows, this dungeon was never built in an ordinary way. It is a fortress among fortresses built within a huge wall that limits the interference of magic.”
“You mean there’s absolutely no way to get inside using a dimensional rift or something?”
It was a fact she knew, but the princess asked again.
Minerva nodded, rose from her seat, and walked to the nearest cell.
“There… Princess, go through this door. Isn’t it very strange?”
“Hmm? Wait… Isn’t the door locked?”
“Yes, at the time of the prison break… No bragging, but the keys to the dungeon are never kept in prison.”
Obviously, there will be a process in place for this eventuality. There has to be It was obvious what would happen if not one or two, but thousands of demons escaped from prison.
“Is there any missing key?”
“Yes! Not even one.”
“Hmm… Who makes a prison break so polite in the first place? Are all the cell doors locked? That’s really strange. The cell doors are locked, and there are no prisoners!”
I mean, how the hell did this happen?
The princess wiped the sweat from her forehead.
“… First of all, Minerva, continue searching the dungeon for clues! Can you go down to the lowest level?”
“Yes! It is possible. Princess, you can always head to the lowest floor by using the elevator.”
“Is there an elevator…”
A thought ran through the princess’s head for a moment, but she couldn’t come up with an exact answer.
“Anyway, I guess I’ll have to go see Obama.”
“Woe, Princess!”
Minerva turned her face white, but the princess shook her head calmly.
“Don’t worry. I’ll make it clear that you’re not in a position to take responsibility. Also, there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s not a problem that can be solved just because you and I struggle.”
“I’m sorry… The momentary fear made me act foolish…”
“Isn’t it obvious? I too… I had a precognitive dream and for a few days I acted like a fool.”
The princess, who spoke calmly, quickly walked out of the dungeon with Hedone, who had been lost in her thoughts since earlier.
“Hedone, what are you thinking so hard about?”
“Hmm… I was thinking about it because I remembered a mystery novel I read before.”
“Chu, a detective story…?”
Hedone gave her a small nod.
“In that mystery novel, something similar to the current situation happened that absolutely couldn’t happen. Do you know that it’s a secret room murder, Princess?”
“Hmm… Well, I’ve heard Arisa talk a few times during her academy days.”
The princess moved her feet quickly as she recalled her memories of her. She had to walk quite a bit to get to where the Emperor was anyway.
“Isn’t it called closed room murder when only a dead body is found with no sign of someone entering or leaving?”
“Yes, but if you’ve read the princess’s mystery novels, you’ll know, but those are all scams.”
“Yes, it’s a scam…? What, is it like that? The moment you discovered the case, the culprit was hiding in the room?”
Hedone shook her head.
“No. It’s not such a scam. It’s deceiving the people who discovered the case, including the reader. It’s to make them think that ‘the murder happened in the backroom’. But in reality, the murder didn’t happen in the backroom .”
Finding that out is the beauty of mystery novels. Hedone looked into her princess’s eyes her after her words her.
“I think… Shouldn’t the current prison break be approached from a similar perspective?”
“Does that mean… You mean that we should also consider the possibility that we didn’t break out in the first place? I’m guessing that a traitor somewhere in the imperial palace helped to break out.”
“No, I also think that the ‘traitor’ must be involved in this case. However, it is too blatantly traced. I think they are deceiving us.”
“Well, if you think about it the other way around, it’s the dungeon of the imperial palace? Getting someone out of here is a huge task in itself, so couldn’t it be that you didn’t pay attention to tricks or gimmicks ?”
Hedone did not deny that possibility.
“Oops… You’ve already arrived. Hedone waits here for a while—”
The moment I put my hand on the door, the door opened on the other side.
“Aren’t you Princess Venus? What are you doing here at such a late hour?”
“Ah, Chancellor Arnold…”
The princess, who opened her mouth in a tense voice, stepped back at her.
The chancellor, whom he had seen a few days ago, was at least a little friendly with, but the ones standing behind him were not.
“Oh, you’re Princess Venus who likes to have accidents like this. I’d like to congratulate you for saving Trinity, but please take care of the palace’s finances as well.”
The woman wearing her glasses and smiling arrogantly was the ‘President of the Arch Bolt House’.
“……”Beside her stood a huge knight in her full armor, standing still without saying a word.
‘The other side must be the commander of the Zodiac, I thought it was in the battlefield of the South, but… Keugh! Even if the timing is bad, how can it be this bad…!!!’
Breaking out in a cold sweat, the princess moved her eyes one last time.
‘Oh, it seems there is no Oracle. Well… I knew you weren’t going to attend… So if there’s an empty seat, it’s a seat in the Church of Saints…’
Everyone else was in front of the princess.
The beings known to be in charge of everything in the empire were now sitting in front of the princess’s eyes her.
“Oh, my God! My daughter~ Your face is completely white. Have you seen a scary monster?”
Agrippa, who appeared last, smiled brightly and gently hugged her princess.
In her mother’s warm arms her, the princess had no choice but to close her eyes tightly.
Empress Agrippa, Chancellor Arnold, Deacon Archibald, Chief of the Zodiac, High Priestess of the Church of Saints… Finally, the Oracle.
They were worthy of being called the emperor’s right arm and left arm. Except for Agrippa, the princess had avoided these beings as much as possible until now.
I wasn’t interested in politics, and it wasn’t easy to get caught up in it, and that’s what ‘living quietly’ meant.
“That, that’s… Oh my God! I have something urgent to tell you.”
“Hehe, then, how about having a conversation in front of us after a long time? Isn’t that nice~? Empress? Princess Venus has been working hard for the empire lately. Hohoho! It would be nice if it could be converted into money.”
“My daughter… Will you become the Crown Princess someday?”
The Empress showed her daughter a soothing gaze and patted her on the back of her.
One day you have to be friendly with the beings in front of you, which are also called ‘advisory meetings’. It was unavoidable if the thought of becoming an emperor was even the size of her fingernails.
There are some things that cannot be escaped. The princess bit her lip and let out a long breath. She spoke anyway to the emperor, to the beings in front of her, but the story was shared.
“Hwa, all the demons in the dungeon of the kingdom have disappeared.”
“Oh… How could something like that happen…”
Agrippa covered her mouth with her with his hand her, and the other Chancellor Arnold and Butler Archibald, who were listening to the story beside her, had serious expressions.
“When did you find out about that? Princess? This is a serious matter! I need to tell His Majesty as soon as possible.”
“You have to think about the worst situation, Prime Minister Arnold! Your Majesty the Emperor always prioritizes the annihilation of demons. It is the place where at least a thousand demons fled, so occupying any city or village in the empire—”
“Hey!! You’re like a crazy woman with this money! Are the taxes you earn in that city and town important right now?!”
“I haven’t touched money at all, so that’s why I’m saying such a stupid thing!! If the princess hadn’t been active in the Imperial Council this year, the finances of the empire would-“
At a word the princess offered her her, the chancellor and her butler started fighting with blood vessels in their necks.
This was the ‘politics of the empire’ that Venus had been watching since she was a child. No matter what you say, you fight.
Fight even when you’re doing something obviously good. They fight while telling difficult stories that don’t make sense. I don’t know what the demons will do while we sit at the desk and fight like this…
“Everyone! Be quiet!”
When Agrippa shouted with red eyes, the two noisy mouths fell silent.
“Oh, Mama!”
“It’s okay. This happens often, so don’t worry about my daughter. It seems that the disappearance of all the demons in the dungeon is not something that my daughter, Venus, should be responsible for.”
Agrippa, smiling with the heart of her mother her, patted the princess on the buttocks.
“Ceres, take Venus and Hedone back to your room. He and I will take care of this matter.”
‘Ha-ha-oh-oh, Mama! A cow, a girl had a dream…!”
“It’s okay, my daughter, you are not responsible for everything that has happened in this world, and there is someone else who has to deal with these things and take responsibility.”
There was no malice in Agrippa’s expression and voice his. In fact, it is natural. The princess is the princess. She didn’t become the crown princess, and she didn’t have to take responsibility for everything that happened to the empire.
“Ah, I understand… It was so shocking that I felt a little… Blood rushing to my head.”
“Don’t worry, my daughter. It’ll be all over in three days. By the way, there’s nothing to blame Minerva for, so don’t worry.”
Agrippa smiled and turned around, and the princess let out a long breath.
“Hedone, let’s go back to the room first, huh?”
The princess who turned her body saw that Hedone’s hand was being held by the ‘Zodiac Military Officer’.
“What are you doing?!
“It smells like demons.”
The ‘Chief of the Zodiac’, who spoke in a voice so grotesque that blood flowed from her ears, did not even look at the princess, but at her empress her.
“Looks like you’ve found the cause of this incident.”
“… Please refrain from being rude, Zodiac.”
“I will report. The judgment will be made by His Majesty the Emperor.”
Squeak, squeak, squeak.
With a grotesque clank, the being in his full armor walked through the door, Hedone cradling himself with his hands.
“My, my body… The smell of demons…?”
“Oh, how can that be! Hedone’s body always smells like lovely flowers!”
After shouting, the princess realized.
Something that had nothing to do with her just a moment ago had turned into something so important that her life could be risked.
