Chapter 726 – Day 82 – Minos Quest! ~ The Hero Defeats the Devil! ~
The princess planned to end the fight against Minos quickly with her quick action.
‘The longer the fight lasts, the more likely it is that you will suffer a fatal wound! We must subdue Minos as quickly as possible…!’
The princess, who was confident that she was the second strongest in the empire where the sun never sets, was next to Emperor Jupiter and had tremendous confidence in her actions.
The princess crossed the bridge in less than 10 seconds, which an ordinary person would not be able to cross even if she ran at full speed for 3 minutes. She held the sword given to her by Amilias with both hands and raised it high.
“Minos!!! Defend properly!”
“Hehe, hehe! Cute Minos can’t wait to fight like this with his dad! I’ve been waiting!”
─Kaang!!!
The princess’s sword, radiating her pure white magic, swung towards Minos’ head with a sound like lightning.
Although she did not do her best, the princess believed.
“As expected…!”
Minos’ giant scissors, emitting her black light, easily took down the princess’s great sword. Snip, snip! Minos noisily grabbed her scissors with both hands and pushed the princess away with force.
“Ugh…! As expected, you have power equal to mine! Minos!”
“Ah, Dad! You’re such a wonderful, perfect dad! You made a mistake with what you just said!”
Minos smiled brightly and sniped! He makes one more big scissor move and suddenly takes five steps back.
“Even the perfect dad knows! How strong adorable Minos is! How omnipotent cute Minos is!!!”
Minos smiles brightly, raising his left hand holding his giant scissors high into the sky. She didn’t even spit out some fancy ancient language, she just created a black light from the tip of her finger and waved it.
─Kugagagagagang!!!
A tearing sound was heard from the sky, and suddenly a huge meteorite fell towards the princess.
“Ugh…! I knew it would be like this!”
Every time Minos waved her hand as if commanding, huge burning stones fell from the sky, and tentacles dripping with sticky slime shot out from the overflowing river and swung around to grab the princess’s arms and legs.
“You truly have omnipotent power, just as I expected, Minos!”
“Yes! It’s the strength I received from my perfect dad!”
Minos, smiling brightly, looks at the princess, who is close enough to feel each other’s breath, and steps behind her. At that moment, the distance between the two, who had been so close that they could touch if she stretched out her hand, widened tremendously.
The steel legs suddenly became longer and longer. Ceres and Hedone, who had no choice but to watch this fight from behind the princess, had no idea what was happening.
“Perfect dad! Look at cute Minos!”
The moment Minos held the giant scissors with his right hand and swung them like a sword, the distance between the princess and the princess immediately decreased. The princess instinctively swings her great sword to deflect an attack coming from a deep angle and takes a step closer.
─Cow!
Before she could strike, a sticky tentacle struck the princess’s cheek and arm, and the distance between the two widened again just before the sword, which had lost its sharpness for a moment, reached Minos’ neck.
The fight between the two made no sense from the beginning. All the princess’s attacks could never reach Minos, and all of Minos’ attacks relentlessly drove the princess from a direction and distance that she could not avoid.
“You have become an excellent young lady… Wow! Minos! Still! Shouldn’t there be a little more beauty in the attack?!”
Slashing away the falling rock, the princess unleashed her pure white magic power from her sword, skillfully cutting off her tentacle and kicking it away with her foot.
─Soggy!
Minos, whose face was touched by a mass of tentacles thrown out, twitched the corner of his mouth and smiled.
“As expected, you are the perfect father. In the face of this omnipotent power…! No worries! Fight without any fear!”
“Isn’t the father you hoped for stronger and more ruthless than this? Unfortunately, I…!”
When Minos waved her hand, red-hot steel threads danced and threatened the princess. Red chains protruded from her ground, pressing down on the princess as if her tree roots were wrapped around a person’s feet.
Venus Holympia narrowly avoided all of those attacks. Although it was at the level of acrobatics, he did his best to avoid the red chains by jumping in place, and caught Minos’ deep scissors with his left hand and slashed them down.
“Cute Minos loves his daddy so much!”
“I love you too, but still! I can’t possibly play games like today every day!”
“Why! Don’t you prefer playing with lovely Minos rather than playing with helpless ladies?!”
The princess chuckled.
“Unfortunately, I don’t intend to rank everyone I love…!”
“Even great dads know that it’s impossible to love everyone equally!”
Scissors that go deep in, snip away! The princess’s armor made by Amilias was cut off and thrown away. Even as she withstood the attack, the princess grabbed Minos’s shoulders and pushed his body to the ground, intent on taking his bones.
“Ugh… Ugh…!”
“Even if it’s impossible!”
The princess speaks as she raises her sword, which exudes pure white magic.
“Isn’t it worth trying to do your best until the end? Isn’t it so cruel to decide from the beginning that you won’t love someone less!”
Before the princess shouted loudly and struck down her sword, Minos quickly moved away from her.
“Ah… This is why Minos loves her dad so much.”
Minos, holding a pair of scissors in his right hand, spun around in place, danced loudly, and then slashed the scissors in the air.
“But! Today cute Minos has no intention of losing to her perfect dad~!”
─ Snip Snip Snip!!!
The moment Minos used the scissors, heaven and earth shook.
“I never thought something like this was possible…”
Ceres, who had seen thousands of miracles in his long life, lifted his head in admiration.
It’s a natural reaction. Every time Minos scissored and moved his hands, a miracle beyond human understanding occurred.
A huge hand was sticking out of her ground, splitting the ground and spewing out bright red lava.
The strong wind turned into a huge whirlwind, but inside it glowed bright red eyes that paralyzed human reason.
“Aaaaah… Dad. I love Dad!!! Cute Minos is going to be sincere now.”
Snip snip snip!
Minos, standing on the shoulder of a gigantic giant so gigantic that everyone would believe it even when the bard sang that he created this world with his own hands, laughed.
Every time she cut a pair of scissors, beings that humans could vaguely perceive were created.
The flames spewing out from the ground trembled like snakes, threatening to engulf and tie the princess’ limbs, and the being that began to rise from the river seemed like it could have plunged the princess into the deep sea with a single kick.
“Really…”
The princess clicked her tongue and held the great sword of Amilias in her hand, touching it with her ring.
“Aren’t you really using your omnipotent power like a child building a sand castle?”
Feeling a little proud of her bewilderment, the princess exhaled her long breath and slowly raised her right-hand high into the sky.
“The princess…”
Hedone took stock of her flowing white hair and surveyed the situation.
Although she never lived a long life, she had the common sense and knowledge to understand all things. That’s why I knew.
The being created by Minos was a natural disaster itself.
How dare humans withstand the huge waves that come with the storm and stop the burning flames?
Can you survive the lightning that shakes the earth and withstand the collapsing landslide?
“I don’t know what you’re thinking…”
Hedone took a step forward. No matter how much she thought about it, she didn’t think the princess could defeat Minos.
Don’t you think it’s just a game anyway? If so, we need to end this fight before anyone gets seriously hurt. Hedone held out his foot to tell the truth.
“… It’s okay.”
Ceres grabbed Hedone’s shoulder. Her eyes were looking at the sky where her princess had stretched out her hand.
“Why…?”
Before Hedone could finish asking questions, she could see stars twinkling in the dark night sky. The star was falling.
As if the princess was responding to her outstretched hand, it was falling at an incredible speed, and it was only when the night sky was filled with pure white light that Hedone could figure out what it was.
She was a magic sword that spewed bright red flames.
“Tyrving…!”
The princess immediately caught the sword that had fallen from the sky and swung it. The flames rising from the ground immediately blocked the huge waves crashing in from all directions, and the princess ran towards Minos at incredible speed.
“Ha, ha, haha! Dad! You’re cool! As expected! You know how to summon Great Aunt Elaine’s weapon!”
“Time travel…! Do you think it was in vain?”
“No! I think you did it in vain!!!”
Minos laughs as he looks at the princess running towards her, spouting bright red flames.
Won!
That’s what she was thinking now.
“There is no way you can defeat these children I created! Just!! With a flaming demon sword!!!!”
Shouting, Minos swings her hand, and a huge whirlwind spewing out her lightning rushes towards the princess. The huge whirlwind, which was enough to ravage her land and fry her living creatures, moved with malicious intent to tear the princess apart.
“Just…! You think you just summoned a sword!”
The princess threw away the magic sword she was holding in her hand. At that moment, boom!! A sword fell from the sky again with a white light, and the princess caught it.
“S-No way…?!”
“Varunastra…! Open the way!”
The sword in her hand opened a huge portal just like Elaine had used. The princess went straight into it and Minos appeared behind her.
“But…!”
In her final struggle, Minos manipulated the giant on her shoulder and swung her hands made of rock.
The princess squeezed her hand tightly once more, as if she had expected it to be swung.
─Paang!!!
As pure white light erupted from the sky again, a golden pillar pierced the giant’s body.
The huge giant fell to its knees from the attack. The being created from the earth immediately began to return to dust and dirt, and the princess hugged Minos, who was riding on her shoulder.
─ Kwahahaang … !!
In the rising dust, the princess rolled around on her ground. She, holding Minos with both hands, did not call on any of the countless weapons floating in the sky at the end.
She just hugged her beloved daughter and hugged her as if she had no intention of causing even the slightest injury.
“Ha, haaa… Haah… How can you… Use the power of the demon so skillfully…”
The princess stumbles to her feet, holding her admiring Minos.
“It is the power of man… From a very long time ago, man… Has stopped lightning from the sky, driving rain, and burning flames…”
Minos closed his eyes as he looked at the princess who spoke her words while breathing heavily.
She finally looked satisfied.
“Dad… He was the perfect dad, as expected. There was no need for foolish Minos to tell me a wonderful secret from the beginning.”
Seeing Minos lowering both of her hands and tightly grasping the waist of her beloved father, the princess realized that this long, long game was finally over and let go of her worries and let out a sigh.
“First… Let’s clean up this area, Minos. Aren’t you too excited to play with omnipotent power…”
“Chii, I understand? If my beloved father says so, good Minos will do so~”
Minos, who laughed at her snort, grabbed her scissors and shook them, and finally this story could end happily.
“Dad, can lovely Minos stay here?”
The princess, with Minos smiling brightly in front of her, was able to nod her head with some ease.
I don’t know why, but the pocket watch hanging around her neck was shining white. She got her star back. The princess was truly relieved that the Seven Destiny Breakthroughs were in her hands again.
‘It looks like Minos has really changed his mind. If I were to seriously think about it as her parent, I would have to send Minos back to the future…’
Isn’t this another time travel that gives her a headache? For now, let’s feel the happiness of this moment. After making that promise, the princess extended her hand to Minos.
“Stay here.”
“Oh, Dad… Are you really saying that?”
“Isn’t Minos a lovely Minos? Haha! Aren’t I responsible for the reason you came here? Then I don’t think sending you off to a lonely future without anyone is the right thing for parents to do.”
Minos raised the corner of his mouth at her words, which could be said to be her consideration or love.
She smiled brightly and swallowed her saliva as she looked at the princess’s outstretched hand.
“My wonderful dad had a really beautiful wedding ring on his hand.”
“What does that mean all of a sudden?”
“So, please match that ring. Mom really, really liked that ring.”
After hearing her say something whose meaning was unknown, Minos stepped behind her and slapped the princess’s hand away.
“Mino─”
Just before the sound the princess uttered turned into a name, lightning struck.
A sound splitting heaven and earth was heard in the dark night sky. The roar that tore through her ears was slower than the one that threw the princess who had reached out to Minos far away.
“Ugh, keuhuh…! Ugh, keuhuh…!”
The princess, who rolled noisily on the ground, inhaled the dust and was in pain, but she quickly raised her head.
“Oh, Abama…?”
Where the rising storm disappeared, there stood Jupiter Holympia, the emperor who remained silent as if he had no interest in Minos’ affairs.
“I have prepared variables that you could not even expect. My daughter.”
The emperor, who appeared with lightning, was holding Minos’ shoulder with his hand as if handling an object.
