Chapter 769 – Day 89 – Jad Ober Sells the Princess.
“Are you ready?”
The woman standing at the window does not answer the question of Jad Ober, who walks slowly out of the darkness.
“Venus Holimpia won’t be leaving this mansion anytime soon. She’ll have a reason to stay for a long time, as long as we tell her that thanks to our cute youngest brother, she’s getting her memories back.”
Unlike Jad Ober, who smiled and spewed out a sinister plan, the woman just stared at the pouring rain in silence.
“… Sitri?”
“Thank you for your hard work, Jad Aubert. There will be no way the princess will run away as long as she stays in this mansion.”
“Oh, oh, when Sitri said that, did you really mean that the princess was the princess?”
Unlike Jad Ober, who put her hands together and waved them up and down with joy, Sitri’s expression was grave.
“Yes, the sisters of Eternity said it was certain.”
“Hoho, that’s a good thing. But how did you know?”
Sitri, remembering receiving the princess’s semen into her body, did not even blush and just closed her mouth.
Haha, well, Eternity probably had their own method.”
Jad Ober spoke awkwardly and tucks his faded orange hair behind his ear.
“If I lead Venus Holympia there properly, I will be able to receive the promised medicine, right?”
“… Yes, the sisters have already made all the preparations. As soon as the sun rises, people will come to take Venus Holympia.”
“Hohoho, that’s a good thing. But…”
Jad Ober smiles.
“No matter how much you don’t remember, if demons suddenly show up and try to take you by the hand, wouldn’t you reject them?”
“If that’s the case, don’t worry. The sisters have already made all the preparations.”
“Ah, that’s cool. As expected, you’re Sitri-sama!”
Now the suffering is over. Unlike Jad Aubert, who smiled happily at such thoughts, Sitri did not smile and just looked out his window.
“Sitri, you really went through a hard time. You went into a village like Eze Village and got scolded, right?”
“…”
“Well, as Venus Holympia said, it’s not an important question whether or not you can really extract magic stones from that river. Hoho.”
Sitri stared out the window for a long time without answering and eventually slowly closed her eyes.
“That’s right. For me, as a demon, the things I experienced and the relationships I had in Ezu Village were just a natural means of infiltrating.”
Sitri spoke as if to soothe herself, and no matter how much she closed her eyes and focused her ears on the sound of the rain, the faces and voices of the people who truly believed in and accepted her did not disappear from her mind.
* * *
The princess is not a fool.
No matter how much he lost his memory, he still had knowledge and wisdom. The emperor, who was wary of this, had to inform everyone in the empire that the princess had died.
“Sitri said people from the church are already coming?”
“The nearby bishop has decided to be of great help. You will have to head to the cathedral to receive a blessing to restore your memories, but there will be no problem.”
How much time has passed since I finished breakfast? Looking at Leonie and Sitri talking with their smiles, the princess nodded her head.
‘There’s no need to say much. It’s suspicious.’
It was natural.
‘The reason I came to the Aubert family was because Leonie contacted me. No matter how much the Order of Saints loves helping people, there is no way they could send people away like this in less than a day.’
It was something anyone could realize if they thought about it for just 5 minutes.
“I hope I can definitely retrieve my memories this time.”
“It is a blessing from the bishop who lives at the Cathedral. It will definitely be of great help.”
“That’s a good thing. But what happened to the support for Eze Village?”
The princess naturally changes the topic. She doesn’t know when the nuns from the religious order will appear, but she has beaten her stone legs several times and there is nothing bad.
“I guess help will come as soon as the blessing for you is over.”
“That’s right, you know. My sister decided to help out a little more. I agreed to give her some of the stuff from her mansion, so we’ll be fine this winter.”
“It looks like the denomination has decided to provide food support.”
Sitri hesitates for a moment at the princess’s question.
“That’s right. As expected of a girl from Holympia, you know me well. I decided to send the food items stored in the Cathedral to Eze Village.”
Jad Aubert answered appropriately to make the princess shut her mouth before she said anything.
‘As expected, you’re lying.’
The princess smiled as if it was a good thing, grabbed the teacup that gave off her nice scent, and drank the tea in silence.
‘The Order of Saints is basically maintained by donations from believers supported by nobles. It is inevitable that the further away you are from the basilica, the weaker the power of the church is.’
The princess calmly organizes her thoughts.
‘That’s why the food situation cannot be relaxed as it is not just before winter and winter has already begun. What if this place had been very close to Holympia? Until recently, there was a war with the Southerners, so there is no way to afford it.’
Because the Church of Saints does not conduct business, they do not have more food than they need. There was even a war near here recently, but most of that ‘surplus food’ would have been used as important war materials.
‘To say that something good will happen to Eze Village in an environment where there is no food left…’
In the end, everything I overheard last night was true.
The princess was trapped in a painful choice where she did not want to choose anything.
“Oh… It came really fast.”
Leonie, who was chatting with Sitri, stands up and looks out his window.
“Wasn’t it raining quite a bit yesterday? There must be a bit of a distance from the cathedral to my house.”
“It’s an order of saints. Wouldn’t there be a blessing from the goddess or something?”
Jad Ober, who speaks really moderately, looks at Sitri.
“Sister? It looks like the sisters of the church have come.”
The princess puts down the teacup she was holding and approaches her window.
The women of the church appeared in a pure white carriage wearing clothes similar to those worn by Sitri.
‘There is no possibility that they are truly members of the religious sect.’
The princess swallowed her saliva and clenched her fists.
‘But, how many people here would believe me if I told them that those women were suspicious?’
The princess, feeling her distress, smiles bitterly.
‘If I keep my mouth shut and get in that carriage, that’s right. The Aubert family may be given temporary, but perhaps permanent, salvation.’
The princess takes a long breath and smiles brightly.
‘If you think about it, I am the greatest being in this land, the daughter abandoned by my father. She didn’t have to suffer.’
She doesn’t know what will happen to her if she falls into the hands of the demons.
However, the princess, realizing that whether she dies by the hands of the demon or the emperor, does not make much difference, makes eye contact with Jad Ober.
“Thank you, Miss Jad Ober.”
“Oh my? Suddenly?”
“It’s only for one night, but you allowed a girl with nothing in your hands and no memories to stay at the Aubert family’s mansion for one night.”
Jad Ober cannot say anything for a moment.
“Even if I remember the fact that you were a mediocre girl, I will make sure to give you a reward.”
“Ah… Yes, well, the Ober family is a place where you can afford it. Don’t overdo it.”
Jad Ober, whose conscience was severely pricked, bit his lip.
The princess followed Jad Aubert down the stairs of her mansion with Sitri.
The huge front door was wide open and there were women standing there with bright smiles.
“Sister Sitri, welcome back.”
“May God’s blessings be with you, sister.”
Sitri, looking at the women who greeted her with a gentle expression, bowed her head and pointed to the princess with her hand.
“This is the sister I told you about last night.”
“Ah, you are the lost lamb. I will definitely find your way at the Cathedral.”
On the outside, they are really nice people.
The princess closed her eyes at the thought that the beings in front of her might be demons.
‘If I make a fuss for no reason, in the worst case scenario, everyone in the Ober family who helped me will be executed or liquidated.’
This is the right choice.
The princess thought so and took a step forward, following her seat.
“Boo, ma’am! You shouldn’t do this…!”
As soon as she heard her maid’s urgent voice, the princess felt someone grab her right arm.
“Madame Aubert?”
Madame Aubert, with sweat dripping from her forehead, was holding the hand of her princess, as she came down and moved with her two fragile-looking arms.
“… As the mistress of the Aubert family… Sigh, I am so sorry to send you away like this.”
“Yes…?”
“You’ve barely had breakfast, right? The roads are probably dirty with mud from last night’s rain. How about having lunch, too, for those of you from the Cathedral?”
The princess was a little embarrassed.
“No, it’s okay. The road is dirty…”
“Now, now. Don’t hesitate. I can’t go to Holympia after I get into this shape… I’m really curious about what’s going on at Holympia and what’s trendy these days.”
Madame Aubert, desperately pulling herself together, is strongly protesting something in her movements.
She says that she knows that the princess is a princess. She asked me not to make that choice.
“Madam…”
“Oh, my goodness! Why is my mom like this all of a sudden!”
Jad Ober urgently grabs the handle of the wheelchair.
“You too! You know that you shouldn’t do something like this!”
“Mom, what can’t be done? All we can do is for good people from the Cathedral to come and restore the memories of the girl from Holympia, right?”
Jad Ober quickly pulls her wheelchair back and gives a warning to her maids.
I was thinking of getting rid of her mother, who might do something right now.
“I really…”
“Princess…! Princess Venus Holympia!”
At Madame Ober’s shout, everyone’s expressions except Leonie’s face distort.
“Those girls are looking for the princess’s life! You can’t go! Jad!! How could you do this? You know you can’t do this!”
“Oh, really, Mom! You’ve gotten senile…!”
Jad Aubert, who motioned for her maids to come quickly, grabbed her wheelchair and separated Madame Aubert from the princess.
“The princess!! The only one in the empire where the sun never sets… Ugh! Let go of this! Now!!! If you have eyes and ears, how dare you! Do something like this!! Princess! Princess!!! Holimpia You have to go back to Holympia—!”
Madame Aubert was eventually dragged out of the huge hall.
“What are you talking about? You’re the princess? Is it true? Is there a reason why mom is so sure about it? You said no when I asked you last time?”
“What do you mean? Has your mom done that once or twice? Oh, you didn’t know. A lot has happened in the past two years.”
Jad Aubert looks behind the confused Leonie and grabs the princess’s hand.
“Well, our young lady should go to the cathedral, right? She said her mother was the princess, but we don’t have any proof, right?”
The princess swallows her saliva as she looks at Jad Ober, who is forcing a friendly smile.
‘Did you say eternity? How many people have thrown away their duties in this way in the face of an offer they simply cannot refuse…’
The princess made her choice. Rather than using the violent method of pinning the demon that is transforming into a nun in front of her to the ground, she decides to take a more fundamental approach to solving the problem.
“Ms Jad Ober.”
“It’s okay. It’s her mother’s nonsense, so go away.”
“Demons are beings that are not much different from humans. In other words, they are people who will not do anything that is purely beneficial to you.”
“Yes?”
Jad Aubert’s fingers trembled at the fact that the princess already knew everything about her.
“Do you know what the wisest course of action is when you have a choice you really don’t want to choose?”
“What is that…”
“You don’t choose anything. There’s no need to make a choice that only puts you at a loss, right?”
As soon as the princess finished speaking, she walked away to the nuns of the order who were waiting for her.
“What… What… Then why…?”
Jad Aubert, who had an expression of incomprehensibility, suddenly accepted the silver box handed to him by a nun of the order who was walking towards him with a smile.
“A flame that burns forever will greet us—”
“Oh, we… Can return to our haven…”
Jad Ober, who received the box tremblingly, looked at the princess’s back as she walked further and further away and hugged her box with both hands.
“I-I didn’t do anything wrong. I didn’t do anything wrong. Hwa, the princess herself knew it. Uh, she gave me the opportunity to treat her mother.”
Jad Ober, whose knees were weakened, was truly shaking and holding on to his box.
