Chapter 724 – Day 82 – Minos Quest! ~ Hedone’s Actions to Save the Princess ~
“Ah~ Dad! You’re gorgeous as expected! You’re so sparkly and beautiful that Minos can’t help but love you!”
Minos, standing in front of a huge round table, was dancing round and round with a bright smile.
Wearing a beautiful dress, she did not pretend to be bright and dance. Minos was truly pleased with this situation as her father, Venus Holympia, whom she loved so much, behaved as she had hoped.
The father she knew, the father she could not help but love, was a great being who mercilessly dealt with the enemies who stood in his way.
“Oh, that’s it, Dad! That’s right! You defeated it so beautifully!”
Hedone sighed deeply, looking at Minos next to her, who was even clapping her hands.
Hedone, with her bright red eyes and pure white hair, was not human. Created by Emperor Jupiter through the magic of creating her life, she was a body that could not use magic.
‘I still don’t know how Minos uses this magic, but…’
Hedone, swallowing her saliva, very carefully scanned Minos from beneath her.
The princess was visible on the round table in the center of the huge room. With magic whose principles are unknown, she was vividly seeing the princess fighting with Princess Hailey, who was being controlled by Minos.
There were pure white thread-like things in both of Minos’ hands. A tremendous amount of magical power could be felt from them, and every time Minos moved his hands greatly, as if manipulating a puppet, Grace and Hailey were helplessly controlled.
‘It’s clear that Minos is manipulating those two people, but…’
Hedone, swallowing her saliva, opens her mouth, looking at Minos with a nervous expression.
“Minos, why don’t you stop now?”
“Ah, it’s okay. Mom! There’s no way Dad would get hurt, right? Even if Aunt Grace and Aunt Hailey really fought in the first place, they wouldn’t be able to hurt Dad, who is a member of the royal family!”
“… The princess won’t get hurt, but Arisa and Ceres will get hurt, right?”
As Hedone said, Minos was not actually attacking the princess, but was very cleverly targeting Ceres and Arisa.
He used Hyli’s agility to target Ceres’ neck and Arisa’s heart, and used Grace’s divine power to forcibly strengthen her lacking physical abilities.
Princess Hailey’s attack was so fierce that the princess rolled over in surprise, aiming for the lives of the two women. No, Minos made it so.
‘No matter how much you are a princess…’
Hedone bites her lip and clenches her fists.
It was so obvious, but she didn’t have the power of the princess. She could barely read the demon characters, and she did not use great magic or have outstanding physical abilities.
She’s just a woman who can give birth to a baby. She was just the perfect seedling, just as Emperor Jupiter had hoped.
‘… But we can’t just sit still.’
However, there was something about her that even her emperor, who created her, had not thought of. Her perfect mother, the mother who could give birth to the perfect child he wanted, had a stronger heart than anyone else.
“Ha, haha!! That’s it, Dad! Are you having a hard time?! It’s okay to stop pretending to be nice now! Here, you can effectively use Aunt Grace’s—”
“Minos, stop now.”
Hedone spoke in a serious voice while holding Minos’ arm, which was shaking with excitement as if dancing.
“Mom, why are you suddenly speaking with such a serious expression?”
“I’ve said it all along, Minos. The princess is not someone who likes this kind of murder.”
“That’s because mom doesn’t know her dad very well.”
Minos snorted and gently pushed his mother, Hedoné’s hand away, and then took control of Princess Hyli again.
“Hehe, hehe… I was interrupted, but I’ll control you more clearly this time. After all, your Aunt Hailey, right? The skills that drove the knife into my stomach won’t go anywhere! Like this, I’ll aim for Aunt Ceres’ stomach at once… !”
“The princess is not someone who enjoys killing as much as you think.”
“Maybe now. But Mom doesn’t know. Sweet Minos knows. Dad became emperor and defeated a lot of enemies with great skill!”
With twinkling eyes, Minos waved his hand.
“Rape all the foolish nobles who oppose Dad! Cut off the heads of countless women! Countless fiefdoms are given to the nobles who listen to Dad—”
“Stop talking nonsense. No matter how much you are the emperor of an empire where the sun never sets, you can’t act like that.
“You’re saying that because your mom doesn’t know.”
“I know the princess better than you. The princess I love is…”
Hedone clenched her fists. She recalled what she had experienced on her honeymoon.
“He is the one who moved his feet and rolled up his sleeves to save those who would not even think of showing mercy to ordinary nobles. He is the one who threw himself into the pit of hell for my sisters who were born for no reason.”
“It’s because my mom doesn’t really know my dad.”
Minos smiles slyly. She was smiling as if she had the happiness of the whole world in her hands.
“Dad. He is a very efficient and wonderful man. He is so great that he is worshiped as an emotionless god. Furthermore, he has done incredible things to protect all the people he loves.”
“Minos, I don’t know what story I heard, but—”
“You don’t know, Mom! But this is the truth, Mom! That’s what Dad is. Don’t you know?”
Minos raises his hand widely as if showing off.
Whirly! The dagger held by Princess Hailey, moving her body at incredible speed, swung precisely towards Arisa’s heart.
“Look! Now Dad has no choice but to kill Aunt Hailey! Ah, then Dad will know!! What a wonderful person he is!”
Unlike Minos, who spoke with her expectant eyes, Hedone shook her head.
“Minos, what you wish for will never happen.”
“How many times do I have to say for you to understand? Dad, it’s clear that cute Minos said…”
Contrary to the brightly smiling Minos and her words, the princess did not slit Princess Hailey’s throat.
It was natural.
“What is this…?”
Of course, what the princess chose was to use herself as a shield. She took the sharp knife that went deep with her whole body.
Although Arisa screamed a little, the princess smiled as if she was used to it and pushed Princess Hailey away. The moment Ceres, who was standing behind her, finally threw a jewel that radiated white light, the princess began to fight back skillfully.
“W-What… Why, why are you doing this? Dad…! You can just kill them! You can just kill all the enemies that get in your way! Why are you acting so stupid and frustrating?!”
Minos tried to attack the princess by pulling and shaking the strings tied around her fingers, but she was unable to do anything.
“What kind of magic… Why!? Why?! You can just kill them! Why! A spell that stuns people…!”
“Of course. Princess Hailey and Saint Grace are the people the princess loves, right?”
“Well, that can’t be possible… Dad isn’t that kind of person!”
Minos shouted, and his hands trembled.
“If your father is not like that, why did you abandon Minos?”
“You know, right?”
“I don’t know… I don’t know! Minos doesn’t know! If she loved Minos so much, she would have loved Minos—”
Before Minos could shout at her any louder, Hedone slowly approached her.
“Oh, come… Don’t come!”
Trembling, Minos dropped his hand from the round table. Her white, coiled threads slowly unraveled and fluttered in the sky, and Hedone continued to approach.
“Minos. I think I know why you think that way about the princess. Yes, I thought that way at first too.
“S-stop… Stop!”
“Does the princess really love me? I wish she would only love me, but I wonder how great it would be if she loved me without looking at other women…”
With a small smile, Hedone shakes her head from side to side.
“However, when I think about being with the princess and the countless things she has done for me, I can see that it is only a fleeting emotion and that the princess actually loves me and would do anything for me. “
“Ah, no matter what, Minos…”
“Did he really abandon you, Minos?”
As Hedone said that, she hugged the trembling waist of Minos with her right hand, who was right against her wall.
Very slowly she lifted her left hand and stroked the back of her beloved daughter’s head, pulling her to her own breast.
“As you said, mother. I don’t know under what circumstances the princess was in charge, or with what feelings she had that led her to abandon you in the imperial palace and go on that long journey. It would be a lie if she said she knew and understood that.”
“Haa… Haa…”
“However, I can say for sure that the princess whom I truly love, and who truly loves me… There was absolutely, absolutely no way I would have left you in the imperial palace for some bad reason.”
Hedone embraced Minos in his mother’s warm embrace and slowly kissed his forehead.
“So, look at the true face of the father you love. The way he believes in the person he loves until the end, throws himself down to save the person he loves, and runs with all his might to save the person he loves.”
“Mom… Ugh, ugh…”
Hedone calmly stroked Minos’ back.
“Sometimes I too… Wish that the princess would only love me. I get jealous when she gets along well with Mr. Ceres. But no one is perfect in this world, right? I don’t have a big and beautiful estate like many other noble women. There are no overflowing wealth, and there are not even enough connections to dominate the social world.”
“Mom, that’s…”
“It’s similar. Everyone has flaws. Mom thinks the power of love lies in how far you can close your eyes to those shortcomings. So, Minos… Let’s stop doing these horrible things now.”
Minos didn’t respond to Hedone’s calm whisper, but instead snuggled into his beloved mother’s arms.
