Chapter 688 – The Day the Gods Came ─ the Princess Heads to the Promised Place With a Girl Who May Be Ceres.
‘This girl is Ceres…?’
The princess’s eyebrows were trembling as she remembered Vergilia, holding Yuna Strega’s hand and crying and screaming for her to save her mother.
Longer than expected black hair, red ribbon, black dress…
Speaking of young, the princess strongly pressed her temple with her right hand upon seeing the appearance of ‘Vergilia’, who certainly looked young. The princess, whose head was pounding because so much information had already filled her head, held Yuna’s right hand and held it from behind.
When she saw Virgilia following her, she felt pain as if her head would break.
‘This is my first time seeing Ceres so young here. So that means Ceres is really a child… Then, then… Ke, ke, how old is Ceres…?!’
Wouldn’t he have lived longer than the elves who are known to live longer? Perhaps he has lived long enough to have no shortage of dealing with the old gods?
The princess, whose mind was filled with many thoughts, found it difficult to just think, so she grabbed her golden hair with both hands.
‘In the first place! Why does Ceres call her woman, who introduced herself as Juna Strega, her mother? Aren’t the mothers of Ceres Eve and Lilith?’
Thinking like that, the princess bit her lip.
‘Oh, no… Wow, definitely… Wasn’t it my guess that Eve and Lilith were the mothers of Ceres? Ha, but! Aren’t mothers and daughters alike?! Yuna and Ceres don’t look alike at all!’
Although the two women, Lilith and Eve, had some similarities to Ceres in their faces and bodies, Yuna really had none. It was completely different because her hair color was black and brown to begin with.
‘And Ceres… Ceres behind me now…’
The princess glances at Ceres. Called Virgilia, she had no tail on her head or buttocks.
No matter where I looked, I couldn’t see anything that would remind me of the fact that they were ‘demons’. This made the princess even more confused.
‘Is it Ceres? Ugh, ugh! Pfft! It’s really crazy! Is it Ceres? Oh, there’s no way to know if it’s not…!’
It can’t happen.
It’s such a simple story. If she was in the body of an adult, I would say nonsense like, “Let’s fuck her with a dick and find out,” But the other person was a very young girl.
“Ugh… Ugh… Ugh… Kngh…”
If it weren’t for Ceres, she wouldn’t have to be so confused.
Conversely, if it were Ceres, she would be like, what on earth should she do? The princess was so confused that she chewed her lips.
“Princess sister?”
“Ah, ah… Vergilia. What’s going on?”
While walking through her shattered ruins, Ceres turned around and looked at her princess.
Then she dropped her hand from Yuna and gently held the princess’s hand.
“Sister, I don’t like her face.”
“Ah… Haha, it’s because I’m a little concerned, so don’t worry.
“Shouldn’t you? You fought with bad people earlier.”
As soon as she left Terra Corporation’s building, the princess fought a group of monsters. She couldn’t make a sword, but if she had something like an iron pipe handy, it would be very easy to instantly crush an enemy. Because it was something she could have done with bare hands and bare legs in the first place.
“Hehe, you’re not hurt, so don’t worry, Vergilia.”
The princess, seeing her face overflowing with cuteness with a red ribbon in her jet-black hair, closed her eyes.
‘Okay… It may or may not be Ceres, but isn’t Virgilia a very, very cute girl here right now? All she’s doing is trying to go to a place called the Space Center with her mother, Yuna… ‘
That was the story. Even if Vergilia was Ceres, it wasn’t really a big deal. She is a very, very small girl. Does this tiny child, who doesn’t seem to have even grown hair on her head, have the knowledge and wisdom to save Ceres, who is dying in the present?
It may sound obvious, but it doesn’t exist. It was a story that didn’t matter whether it was Ceres or not.
‘Let’s think like that for now.’
The princess pushed her bundle of worries into a corner of her mind and stroked Virgilia’s head with her palm.
“Ugh, I’m not a kid.”
“Ha, haha! If you’re not a child, who on earth is a child?”
Virgilia pouts her lips. The princess couldn’t help but laugh because she felt a strong childish feeling of wanting to become an adult.
“Still… I can do things adults can’t?”
“Hoo, what can you do?”
Maybe I should try drawing cute pictures or singing songs. The princess answered while looking at the huge round structure shining faintly in the distance.
“I can sparkle.”
“Bah, glitter…?”
“Yes, the same one that the princess had with her bracelet that sparkled. Look.”
Virgilia extended her hand towards the princess.
“It’s so strange and divine…?’
Virgilia’s small outstretched hand created pure white light. That light was all too familiar to the princess.
How could I not know the feeling of a strange warmth and at the same time the feeling of the small wounds on the back of my hands and wrists healing?
“This, this, this! Isn’t it healing magic?! So, do you know how to use this?”
“Just? You just need to apply strength like this.”
Virgil, who skillfully created a pure white light, even made a small smile.
‘Ke, can Ceres use magic? Ha, but…! But! Those here don’t even know what magic is…?’
Why on earth, for what reason, and by what method is Vergilia able to use magic?
The princess was so embarrassed. But that embarrassment couldn’t last long.
“There! Princess! I know you’re talking to Lia, but I have to go to the space center over there, right? Really. There are a lot of monsters in front of me, so I’d like to ask you a favor!”
Where Yuna pointed with her finger was a huge, glowing round structure that the princess had seen earlier. In front of them, a huge number of monsters were shedding golden tears, walking endlessly towards the structure.
“What on earth… Did some idiot from somewhere ask you to defeat those monsters and take Virgilia to a place called the Space Center?”
“Ha, haha… Well, the situation wasn’t this bad at first.”
“Isn’t this supposed to be protection in the first place…”
Where on earth should I begin to beat up such a huge collection of monsters? The princess sighed and slightly relaxed the muscles in her neck as she struck the iron pipe she held in her hand with a crackling sound.
“While I’m cleaning up, Yuna, please come to my side and watch the situation from behind so as not to hurt Vergilia as much as possible. Do you understand?”
In order to guide Vergilia, a girl who looked more like Ceres the more she looked at it, the princess had no choice but to walk to a place crowded with monsters.
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─Kyaang!!!
With a cool swing of her chrome-painted steel arms, the princess smashed the last monster to pieces. She was clearly a princess who had decent ‘weapons’ when fighting these monsters, but her opponents were monsters who had modified various parts of her body with ‘cyberware’.
Cyberware made of metal harder than the iron pipes pulled from the ruins was common, so the iron pipes ended their lifespan faster than expected.
“Clear! The entrance is completely secured!”
“Good! Everyone worked hard! At this rate, there should be no problem with supply for a while.”
The people pouring out of the huge structure appeared to the princess to be wearing black armor, and she had a gun in her hand. They looked at the princess once, and she saluted with a little respect for her, and then ran in front of her.
Where they ran to was Yuna Strega, who greeted them as if they were familiar, and in her hand was Virgilia, who was looking at the monsters lying on the ground.
“Captain Yuna. You carried out the operation well.”
“Ah, what kind of rank is a captain needed in today’s world? It’s been a long time since we were ruined?”
The woman standing in front of the princess and Yuna were talking as if they were very familiar.
“Mr. Venus Holimpia. This is Jayde, blah blah, general. Honestly, no one cares about rank these days. If you call me General Jayde, everyone will understand.”
General Jade. The woman Yuna introduced had pure white hair and was slightly shorter than the princess. Her eyes were shining with a strange feeling, and the feeling was so unnatural that even the princess, who did not know much about her, could immediately tell that she was wearing ‘cyberware eyes’.
“Nice to meet you. Miss Venus Holimpia. Please feel free to call me as Captain Yuna introduced you. I have already been notified of your performance and am well aware of it.”
Contact has already been made. Thinking that those words were not nonsense, the princess nodded her head, looked at Jayde’s dignified face, and pointed at the huge structure with her finger.
“I’m sorry to ask such a stupid question, but what does this place do? There is only one woman here who can explain my situation… I wonder if you guys would know.”
“This is Kene…”
Jayde briefly touches the black beret she wears on her head, and then she exhales.
“It’s the last space center that humanity can use. That structure you pointed to… I don’t know the principle, but it has the power to stop the monsters called Old Gods and their crazy followers.”
“It looks like they couldn’t make it big.”
Jayde smiled her wry smile and motioned for the princess to enter her. As soon as she saw that gesture, Vergilia held her princess’s right hand tightly.
“Let’s go inside, Virgilia.”
“Yes, princess. Then we can take a bath, right?”
“Mo, take a bath…?”
When the princess looks at Yuna in a bit of confusion, she frowns intently as if to ask Yuna to guess what she’s saying! Frown! He winked.
“Hmm. Okay! Let’s go inside, we’ll have a little chat among the adults, and then have fun taking a bath with me!”
Hehe, really? We’re taking a bath together!”
Vergilia, with a happy expression, grasped the princess’s hand and shook it back and forth enthusiastically.
“Ho… It looks like you and Vergilia are on quite a good term.”
“He’s a little kid, isn’t he? He seems to like my shiny hair.”
“Now that I think about it, that hair… Hmm…”
Jayde thinks about something for a moment, and then she looks at Yuna.
“Ah, that’s right, that’s right… Mr. Venus Holympia. I told you the story about Eve Terra last time, right? He gave a very famous speech.”
After poking the princess on the shoulder, Yuna walked a little further forward and waved her hand widely as if showing her surroundings.
There were a ton of items here with the logo of ‘Terra Corporation’ stamped on them. The princess doesn’t know what they all are. Huge trucks, chrome-colored boxes, tons of clothes worn by soldiers…
She could only vaguely understand that Terra Corporation was supplying an enormous amount of supplies.
“That’s the famous video.”
Yuna points to the huge electronic display board with both hands. There was the figure of ‘Eve Terra’ standing there wearing a pitch black suit.
“Eve…?”
“I will declare this right here and now. Our race, humans, and humans have perished. With our own hands, we have destroyed the world in which our children will grow up.”
Eve Terra’s expression was more solemn than ever, and on the contrary, she was more exalted.
“But! We still have hope. We humans escape from our mother’s destroyed cradle…”
The princess could not understand more than half of Eve Terra’s long words. But she could immediately understand that Eve Terra was alive and well.
“I don’t even know what you’re talking about…”
“Oh, it’s simple. The escape ship we made here… So, it’s a story about going out and living outside the Earth on a spaceship, not a ship. It’s a huge spaceship, so they say it’s self-sufficient or something?”
“Well, even if you say that, I won’t understand a word.”
The princess, who had been looking at the electronic display board for a while with her vain expression, could see that Vergilia had placed her body behind her, holding her thighs as if hiding from the subtle light.
“Ha, what on earth is taking so long? If it takes that long to catch a kid, it’s meaningless to call them special forces…”
The princess was familiar with the loud, clear voice. The woman who appeared wearing jeans and a white shirt, cursing loudly, dropped the object she was holding in both hands as soon as she saw the princess’s face.
“Venus… Be, Venus Holympia…?”
“Eve Terra! Ha, haha!! Finally! The only woman who can answer my questions has appeared!”
The princess, smiling brightly, spread her arms wide and spoke to Eve, while Eve, who saw the princess, couldn’t hold back the tears flowing out of her eyes and trembled with her hands.
