Chapter 719 – Day 82 – Minos Quest!
“Do you mean that Minos is imitating the video game?”
“Yes, that’s true, Princess. The story of this famous video game is not much different from the stories of the warriors you are familiar with.”
The princess was so dumbfounded that she had to recall a fairy tale she had read as a child in such a serious situation, but Ceres was just telling the truth, so she couldn’t say anything.
“Are you talking about the typical stories of warriors I read when I was young? The ones where they pull out a legendary sword in a village… And go on a journey with the support and expectations of countless people?”
“Yes, those are the stories coming.”
“Since you say so, it is clear… A warrior who sets out on a journey always has a trustworthy companion by his side…”
The princess scratched the back of her head and sighed.
“Does Minos really think this is a fun game? It’s no joke that the blood of the devil flows through your body…”
Ceres smiles at a single word full of bitterness.
“But princess, if Minos is imitating the hero’s story, it may not be a very serious situation. In fact, it may be an opportunity for us.”
“Opportunity…? Anyway, hasn’t Minos kidnapped the women I love?”
“If no one dies, isn’t there a chance that he will end up in a minor incident?”
The princess felt dizzy due to the happening, but swallowed her saliva and pressed her forehead with her hand.
“Sure… If a satanic event were to arise just because they disappeared for a day… It would be good to think that it would have already occurred…”
If Arisa disappears for a day, an irreversible fight will break out in the Wizard’s Tower? If something like that happened in just one day, it couldn’t be said that Arisa’s absence was the cause.
‘No… How could a huge civil war break out in Galagon and Gregory if he disappeared for about 3 days in the first place? Not yet… The imperial palace has sent people to keep their mouths shut and say there won’t be any problems…’
The princess borrowed Ceres’ wisdom and, with Minerva’s help, sent someone to the area that seemed likely to explode at any moment.
‘There are degrees of lying, but… Wouldn’t even the nobles notice this? They are not idiots who shamelessly wield swords and magic to gain greed when someone from the imperial palace comes…’
It even suddenly disappeared. No matter how evil there is, it takes time to fight. Even if they are knights of greedy nobles, they are not ready to wear armor, draw swords, ride horses and kill people at any time, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
“How much time does Ceres think he has?”
“No matter how fast… I think we have at least a week.”
It was a week, and the princess turned her head with complicated thoughts in her head. She didn’t intend to fill that time, but she said it was a week. When she said it was long, it felt long, and when she said it was short, it felt short.
“Ah, it looks like the princess has arrived.”
“… Huh? Already? You arrived at Minos’ place so quickly?”
Unlike the embarrassed princess, Ceres smiles gently and takes out Minos’ invitation from her pocket.
“The place where Minos is waiting for us is the Duchy of Megidoraon in the Kingdom of Magica.”
“Didn’t Ceres explain that to you before we even got on the carriage? However, isn’t the Kingdom of Magica a place where nothing remains intact?”
While talking with Ceres, the princess got out of her carriage.
“There shouldn’t be anything here, but Minos was able to hide in a place like this…”
The princess got out of her carriage and stopped talking and looked at Ceres, who got off after her.
“Ceres? Is this the duchy of Medograon? Didn’t I come here by mistake?”
“No, princess. We have arrived correctly.”
“That can’t be…”
The princess, with a dazed expression, takes a deep breath and looks in front of her again.
There I saw roads, villages, cities, castles, etc. That were really perfectly decorated. The castle where the evil demon lord lives was visible in the distance, and a beautiful forest and a well-paved road could be seen tightly packed together.
Even in front of the princess, where on earth did he come from? There was a well-built village that was not known to have sprung up.
“Is it okay to follow this road? Huh… I can make a good path with black stones…”
The princess scratched the back of her head as she spoke.
“There’s no way there could be a village, road, castle, or scenery like this? Didn’t Abamama turn the entire Magica Kingdom into a land overflowing with death?”
“Yes, that’s right. Queen Zinaida and Arisa are also working on revival work centering on the royal castle. There is no way that this outlying area could have been restored to this extent.”
“Isn’t this even restoration in the first place? It’s just a village and roads that look like something you’d see in a storybook, made here and there pretty…”
The princess, with goosebumps, turns her body.
“Anyway… Let’s get in the carriage and follow the road.”
“That seems impossible.”
“Huh…?”
The shocked princess points with her finger to a castle in the distance that appears to be almost a dot of evil.
“Are you saying that we have to walk to that street? No, that can’t be possible! Looking at the width of the street, it doesn’t seem like there would be any problem riding a carriage?!”
“Perhaps… That won’t happen. Princess? In the story of Jupiter and Elaine, isn’t there something about traveling around the empire in a carriage from the beginning?”
“In the past that I saw… They opened a dimensional door and went around… But there was nothing like that in the story.”
After sighing, the princess shook her head and slapped Ceres’ butt holding the invitation.
“Then let’s follow this black path first. Humph! You guys did a good job! Go back to the imperial palace and get some rest!”
The princess shouted at her carriage and started walking along the black path with Ceres.
“This and that… It was decorated very carefully…”
The princess, with a truly bewildered expression on her face, moved along the black path for a while.
The village we quickly arrived at was so perfect that it was hard to point out anything.
“It’s decorated so well that it’s worth giving an award to the village that brought glory to the empire…”
“Is there such a thing?”
“Is that possible?!”
Starting from a large well to a three-story inn. The princess shrugged her shoulders after looking at the village for a long time, which was so typical that it seemed like something out of an ancient fairy tale book.
“Well, there’s no need to waste time in a town like this. Let’s go to the castle.”
“It seems impossible, but…”
“Aye…! Didn’t you give up on the carriage too? You don’t know something until you try!”
The princess said that she had no intention of leaving for the castle as she talked to the people in the village and received blessings, just like the warrior from the storybook.
Ceres calculated that there was a week to spare, but that was only the worst-case scenario, and it was important to save them as quickly as possible, even by an hour.
“Look! It’s not like there are any guards blocking me from going out of this village, right?”
“That’s true, but…”
Ceres follows behind the princess who steps in front of her with an uneasy expression on her face. The two left the village and followed the black road for a while.
“… Wait a minute.”
After walking along the black road for a while, the princess notices something strange about her.
“The princess?”
“Well, didn’t you walk a long way from the village?”
“Yes, I think so?”
The princess looks behind her. The village was so close that her noses could touch when she fell down. On the contrary, the ridge of the mountain and the winding road that could be seen did not approach the princess at all.
“This can’t be right… Now, wait a moment!”
The princess exhaled her breath, got her bearings, and ran. She ran so heartily that her dress fluttered.
“Huh…! Huh! Huh!! Huh…!!”
The princess, who had been running so excitedly that sweat broke out on her forehead, looked behind her and her eyes met Ceres’s.
“What is this…”
“Just as I expected, there seems to be some kind of magic.”
“Ma… In the village… Ugh…! Damn it! Does this mean that if I don’t proceed with the story as planned, I will never be able to go to the castle?!”
The princess shouted that she was dumbfounded, but for no reason she took out the great sword that Amilias had made for her, slammed it into the ground, and tried shooting herself into the distance like a cannonball.
She tried running long distances, and even tried running while holding Ceres, but the two of them couldn’t really leave the village more than a certain distance.
“How on earth is this power?! How can you trap a person like this?!”
After yelling at her for her bewilderment, the princess kicked her on the ground a few times, then sighed and retrieved her great sword, which she had stuck in the ground, before returning to the village with Ceres. Br〉
“… Minos’ prank… Went too far…”
The princess sighs and looks at the villagers standing around the well.
“Oh my~! Hello! It’s a good day!”
“Ah~ Today is also a good day thanks to the cute Minos, isn’t it?”
Seeing the villagers smiling brightly, the princess makes a loud noise and retreats behind her.
“Aren’t they all dolls?”
“Yes… I didn’t know that either, but when I looked closer, it turned out to be a perfect doll.”
The princess didn’t particularly want to talk to the villagers. So she looked around and quickly saw where she could find a decent building.
“Let’s see… If it’s a story about a hero, wouldn’t there be a legendary sword…”
“I can’t see any place where something like that might be…”
The princess and Ceres looked around the village with complicated expressions.
Although it was a really beautifully decorated village, all the villagers were dolls. Dressed brightly and smiling brightly, they all just praised Minos.
“It’s impossible to stop a passing villager and ask them where the legendary sword is…”
“That’s what I think, but I don’t think you’ll give me an answer.”
The princess, who had a grumpy expression, walked around the village as if she was wandering for a while and then pressed her forehead to her palm with her right hand.
“I wandered around the village… No matter where I looked, there was no legendary sword. The only thing unusual was the villager wearing a cute cat headband…”
The princess, who mumbled her words, suddenly thought, “Huh?” She said to herself and walked up to the villager wearing her headband.
“Isn’t this doll a bit magical no matter where you look at it?”
“That’s right. Unlike the other dolls, she is wearing a slightly unusual outfit.”
“Doesn’t she have a cat headband on her head and a tail on her butt? And the features of her face are everywhere you look…”
The princess quietly looked at the villagers in front of her and clasped her hands together.
“Doesn’t she look exactly like Arisa?!”
As if reacting to the princess, Arisa’s cute face slowly moved and her eyes met.
“Ah…! Hero! You’ve finally arrived! Welcome to our village!!”
Arisa, who spoke with a bright smile, seemed to move as planned and waved her hand as if to ask me to follow her.
“I-I don’t know if it’s okay to do this, but um…”
When Arisa walked out wearing high heels, the princess could freely admire her buttocks swaying from side to side, so the princess looked at them openly and thought.
‘First, let’s play along with the game Minos made… There’s nothing we can do, right?’
In a way, isn’t it a case of being forced to read a storybook for a child lying in bed?
The princess calmed her mind as best as she could.
