Chapter 728 – Day 83 – The Princess Asks Ceres for a Prophecy
The princess barely escapes from the pain as her whole body burns, and with difficulty opens her eyes and looks at her ceiling with a blank expression.
‘Is this my room…?’
The princess had no pain from the tips of her toes to the top of her head, but she could barely move her hands thanks to her superhuman patience.
‘Minos, where on earth is Minos…’
It was clear that Emperor Jupiter had taken Minos somewhere, but there was no way for the princess to know exactly where that place was.
The princess stands up from her seat, enduring the disgusting pain rising from her stomach, and looks down at her body. The pure white dress that seemed to have been worn by Ceres or Hedone was soaked with sweat.
‘It seems like her body has somehow healed on its own thanks to the power of the royal family.’
However, the princess’s expression was not comfortable because the tips of her toes and fingers were still numb. However, Venus Holimpia prioritized finding her Minos over controlling her own body.
She barely got out of bed with a shaky body and was struggling with her hands.
“Ceres! Ugh, is there no one here?”
The princess screamed loudly, her breath barely coming out of her throat, and very slowly headed towards her door. At the same time, she realized that her own room was not very messy.
Less than a minute after the princess screamed, the door creaked open and Ceres appeared. She was a little out of breath as she had run so quickly.
“Princess Venus! Your body has not recovered yet! You should lie down in bed and rest!”
“What about rest, ugh! Aren’t I a member of the royal family? It’s not like my limbs were cut off, so I can just endure this kind of pain.”
“If the princess were an ordinary person, she would have died instantly, but she suffered an unusual attack.”
“Minos, where is Minos?”
Ceres took a deep breath as she saw the princess looking for her daughter with her pale face. She knows better than anyone else what kind of person she loves and acts calmly.
First, he grabbed the waist of the princess who was looking for Minos and naturally led her body to the bed.
“I have to find Minos.”
“Don’t you know where she is? Lord Minos wouldn’t want the princess to find him in a state where she can’t even stand on her own two legs.”
Ceres, who had managed to get the princess to sit on her bed, took a wet towel from her table and wiped the princess’ sweat-stained forehead.
“Ha, my body’s condition is incredible.”
“It’s a miracle that you’re alive.”
“Where did Abama go?”
“You are still sitting on the throne.”
The princess let out a sigh at the words she heard.
‘What the heck is Abama…’
She was a princess who had seen Emperor Jupiter for over 20 years and felt fear and horror from him, but she could not figure out what purpose he lived his life for.
‘Are you really saying that Abama has no goal other than to find the perfect successor? How can a person do that?’
The princess could not understand Jupiter, who had the appearance of a human but dreamed of ambitions that no human could possibly have.
No, I didn’t even want to understand.
“Is there anything else special happening?”
“Is there something you don’t remember?”
“What do you mean?”
The princess accepted the glass handed to her by Ceres and gulped down the water.
“From today onwards, Venus Holympia is not the princess, but the princess.”
The princess did not change her expression.
“What does that mean? What do I mean to the princess and the princess in the first place? I am Abamama’s only child, so who else but me will be the successor?”
“That’s true, but His Majesty Emperor Jupiter seems to place great importance on it. Also, so do other nobles of the empire.”
“No way, ugh…”
The princess suddenly felt extremely dizzy.
“They probably didn’t come to congratulate me on my becoming the Crown Princess, did they?”
“Hedone is doing his best to serve customers.”
“What happened to Abama’s command?”
This was the most important issue, so she quickly ran away from the nobles’ stories that made her head pound.
“I’m sorry, but I think it will be difficult for the princess to leave the palace for the time being.”
“It’s Abama’s order, so Minerva can’t cooperate with me.”
It was clear that the blood-red equipped knights guarding her imperial palace would block the princess if she tried to go outside. If you want to beat them with your fists, you can get out, but what’s the point in that?
‘You can do anything to escape from the imperial palace, but you can’t just run away without a destination, right?’
The princess clicked her tongue and pressed her forehead with her hand.
“If only I could know where Minos is, this heavy heart would be at ease.”
Clicking her tongue, the princess looks at her pocket watch hanging around her neck. She wasn’t playing around, and her watch was emitting seven lights beautifully.
‘Are you saying that the life of Minos has nothing to do with the breakthrough of my destiny?’
Arisa’s magic may not be wrong. This is the fate of Minos.
‘Don’t play around…’
The princess grabbed her pocket watch and bit her molars.
“I have a favor to ask of Ceres.”
“The princess needs to rest now.”
“Because I know that, I am asking you to do so.”
The princess moved her hand, which held her pocket watch, to hold Ceres’ hand and made eye contact with her.
“Ceres, aren’t you a being called an oracle? Prophesy to me.”
“Woe, princess? What kind of prophecy are you talking about?”
“Show me what the ‘vessel’ Abamama was talking about is.”
Ceres frowns at the words he hears. She shook her hands.
“It would be better for you not to look.”
“Am I not the father of Minos? Are you saying I shouldn’t know what terrible fate my daughter, who came to meet me from the future, was caught up in?”
“It’s not that she doesn’t know her feelings. However, fate is so cruel.”
The princess shook her head from side to side and held Ceres’ hand tightly.
“Ceres, neither you nor I know where Minos is right now, right?”
“There must be another way besides this method.”
“Please. Don’t you need to know exactly where Minos has been taken, and what’s happening to Abamama, so you can move quickly?”
Ceres swallowed her saliva.
“My prophecies always show something disturbing and unfortunate.”
“What are you talking about? Because you showed me the terrible things that would happen in 100 days, because you showed me so many tragedies, I was able to keep moving.”
The princess’s eyes were shining brilliantly. Her body still wanted to rest, but her heart was ready to go on a long journey to save her loved one.
“If it weren’t for your prophecy, I wouldn’t have even thought about moving. I wouldn’t have even thought about changing, and as Abama said, I would have remained a failure, dragged into the stadium and made a laughing stock.”
“But I also suffer because of me…”
“If there are painful things in this world, there are also happy things. I have never felt despair from your prophecy.”
Ceres eventually nodded her head.
“I understand, princess, then please hold my hand.”
Speaking her words in a calm voice, Ceres slowly laid her princess down on her bed.
“If you fall asleep, you will see the prophecy.”
“Are you saying it’s similar to the dream I had?”
“Yes, back then, I was worried that the princess would wake up, and because it was a dream, there were significant restrictions on how I could show the prophecy, but this time, the situation is different.”
The princess nodded and kissed the back of Ceres’ hand.
“While you reveal the prophecy, my body will rest and my wounds will heal completely.”
“Even if it’s just a dream, you shouldn’t overdo it, princess?”
At Ceres’ worried words, the princess smiled, exhaled calmly, and closed her eyes.
“I will show the princess her future. I, Vergilia, will show you the fate you desire here.”
The princess, who felt that Ceres’s hand was holding her tightly, was becoming more and more flabby, and let out her breath evenly in order to fall into sleep as much as possible.
The princess felt that her whole body was floating and that it was difficult for her to breathe. Nevertheless, she closed her eyes tightly in order to somehow receive the prophecy given by Ceres.
“… Ceres? How long must I keep my eyes closed? Open them now—”
As she was speaking, the princess suddenly realized that she could not feel any touch in her hands and she opened her eyes in surprise.
“Ugh, ugh!”
The princess, who had been lying down just now, suddenly found herself standing on her own two feet, and of course she almost fell on her back. She moved her arms widely, barely able to balance her body, and with difficulty wiped the sweat from her forehead.
“It really is completely different from the prophecy I first saw. Hmm, my memories are still maintained, and I can move my body at will?”
Is this the real prophecy shown by Ceres? The princess moved her feet very carefully while expressing admiration.
The hallway she was standing in felt oddly familiar.
‘Hmm, where have I seen this hallway before? It’s a place that gives off a bit of an ancient demon feel, right?’
Pure white tiles were attached to the ceiling and floor, and the walls were also beautifully decorated. There were even several rooms on the left and right.
The princess, in a great sense of déjà vu, walked down the hallway tilting her head and finally arrived at the end.
“All the other doors are locked…”
The door in front of her was slightly open. The princess’s hands trembled as she instinctively sensed danger from the smell oozing from within her, but she could not escape from the prophecy shown to her by Ceres.
So she very carefully pushed open her door with her hand.
A loud screeching sound was heard, and the princess entered the room filled with darkness.
‘It’s a bad smell… No, it’s not a bad smell, if you ask me which one…’
The princess was confused as to why there was such a smell in this room. No matter how you think about it, the sour yet sweet smell that tickled the tip of her nose was a feminine scent.
“By the way, is it possible that Ceres’ prophecy may fail? She asked to be shown about Minos, but there is nothing here.”
The princess muttered, wondering if it was possible, and then something touched her hand.
It was a very soft feeling of ‘flesh’.
“Mino…”
When the princess muttered instinctively and turned her head, there was a huge mechanical device there.
No, she was such a strange device that even the princess, who knew the knowledge of countless ancient demons, could not say her name.
There was human flesh in the large mechanical device made of pitch black steel. There was a huge glass container with bubbling hanging on top of the machine.
“This… What is this…”
The princess noticed what a ‘mechanical device’ was in front of her. It was something made of steel and flesh. The princess noticed everything, including what flesh her hand touched and what smell irritated her earlier.
“Ugh, wow… Ugh… Ugh, Ugh…!”
The princess, unable to cover her mouth, vomited.
Her tears flowed spontaneously.
“Ah, Abama…! Are you crazy? How can this be a vessel… Ugh!”
The princess, retching, stumbles over her body and falls on her back. Because she stepped on something soft and hard.
“Ha, haaaaa… Ugh, ugh, ah, ahhh!!!”
The princess, who was all too familiar with what she stepped on, let out her scream. Those were Minos’ arms and legs. Although she didn’t see the name written anywhere, she knew it instinctively.
“This is a vessel?! It’s like a machine that makes people like this and gives birth…!!!”
Can I say that Minos in front of me is alive?
A being with only breath attached to it, as if its flesh was stuck in a complex mechanism whose principles are unknown?
The princess doesn’t know. I don’t even want to know.
The princess took a step back as she looked at her own daughter, who had really been castrated in everything except her ‘baby-giving function’.
Although her entire body was covered in blood, the princess dragged her body on her buttocks as if running away from this terrible hell.
“Things like this…! Things like this! Things like this! Isn’t that something a person would do!!!”
Minos, who ended up in such a situation, would really have to give birth to only babies until the ‘perfect successor’ that Emperor Jupiter wanted was born.
The princess was determined to overcome this terrible future somehow.
