Chapter 774 – Day 89 – The Princess Shows That Knowledge and Wisdom Are Not in Vain
“Is something like that really possible?”
It was the princess’s first impression of the long story told by the demons.
“I’m not saying I’m crazy for nothing. I’m also a weirdo because I was exiled to the earth, but this doesn’t make sense! Even if you, a false god, see it, it’s nonsense, right?”
“Other than saying that you’re crazy to think of creating a god with a machine…”
The princess muttered, realizing some vague knowledge and wisdom, and closed her mouth.
That was her knowledge about the ‘Halot’ that was sleeping in the basement of the Saint’s Order. Although the princess had no memories of her Harlot, there was knowledge she learned from her encounter with Harlot.
A story of people who worship machines as gods.
The story of a machine that tried to become a god.
“I’m out of my mind. There’s only one person among the demons who know exactly how that little alchemy device works in the first place.”
“… Are you referring to the ‘mother’ from the story you told me earlier?”
“Yes, that’s right. Mother knows everything. She is sure to know the origin of this alchemical device.”
The demon was stretching with her arms raised.
“Anyway, creating a machine god is really crazy. You know Levia? How pitiful it is to see that happen.”
“I didn’t understand what it meant to be pitiful.”
“What is it, Friday? You go around memorizing some strange magic spell, but you don’t know what condition Levia is in?”
Her demon shrugs her shoulders, looking a little dumbfounded.
“Did you know that there are demons called the Seven Sisters?”
The princess shook her head left and right because it was not in her memory. Although she has already met countless times.
“What, didn’t you know that? Well, I think we were called by different names in the past, but in our situation, we are now seven sisters.”
The demon takes something out of a huge drawer and starts stuffing it into a bag, and continues the story.
“Since we talked about Levia, I’ll give you an example. I don’t know how you did it, but…”
“I didn’t kill him.”
“Really? Well, seeing as she did this to me, it seemed like that. Anyway, the Levia you met introduced herself as Levia, but she is not Levia.”
“Yes? Does that mean she transformed?”
“It’s not like that. I know it’s a type of black magic…”
The demon packed the items tightly into the bag and made a proud expression.
“Her original name was Luna Sha. She was quite a smart child. And she became Levia after word got out that Levia was dead. She was taken in by the head of Eternity and he made her Levia. Yes.”
“Oh, you mean it changed as if it was written by an evil spirit?”
“Evil spirits? Oh, that’s a good analogy. That’s right. It seems like the memories aren’t connected properly, but the knowledge is preserved somehow.”
“Why are you doing such a thing? What happened to the demon called Lunasha?”
“I don’t know either. One thing is certain: Levia will still be there, but Lunasha will no longer be.”
With a bright smile, the demon puts a bag full of food on his back and approaches the princess.
“And that Lunasha was my lover.”
“Yes?”
“So, I’m going to jump out of here. Eternity, who is crazy about the thought of making her mother’s dream come true? I tell her to eat well and live well. I tell her to create a machine god and take care of creating an all-powerful resentment machine that can make anything’s dream come true.”
The demon who told the whole story as promised passed by the princess.
“Is an eternally burning flame what is needed to create that mechanical god?”
“It’s true that you need a spark, but that’s not what sparks were made for. You know it’s called electricity? Something like a power system? You don’t know, right?”
“… I vaguely know.”
“What? Really? It seems that a false god is not called a god for nothing. I was exiled from Pandemonium while studying it.”
The demon shrugged his shoulders and stood in front of the door, waving his hands gently.
“If you fail, everything explodes and you die. Did you say Lucifer? They say how to improve that guy to become a machine god, but I don’t know either. Contrary to its name, Eternity is a fairly scattered organization. What should I say…”
The demon touched the pad with his palm and smiled.
“Should we call it an idea or ideology? Should we call it a spirit? It refers to the eternal dream of our demon race to return to the earth without fail.”
* * *
“To sum up the story of those demons… In the end, no matter how many times you defeat the seven sisters, they will come back.”
『Can I help you? Chairman?』
The princess was a little surprised by Friday’s sudden voice, but shook her head.
“No, it’s okay. Those complicated words you give me don’t help me think at all.”
Blah blah blah system, what are you talking about.
Although Friday did his best to explain, there were limits to the transfer of knowledge and wisdom because everyone’s common sense was so different.
“Please just tell me whether what the demon said earlier is true or not.”
『If you use the learner purgatory developed by Terra Corporation, it is possible to completely transfer the knowledge and wisdom accumulated by object A to object B.』
“Is this part even possible to remember?”
『It is possible if you use some additional services and additional devices. Learner Purgatory is currently being used in most educational institutions─』
“Until there.”
It was clear that if she left it like this, she would start talking about something incomprehensible, so the princess kept her mouth shut.
As she spoke with Friday, she carefully climbed the stairs and finally reached a place where she could see through her floor-to-ceiling glass and took a deep breath.
‘I can’t transform, so I won’t look like an ordinary noble just because I’m wearing the clothes the demon gave me earlier.’
The princess was, to begin with, much taller than ordinary young ladies. With her flowing blonde hair, it would have been very difficult to deceive those who knew her unless she disguised herself in earnest with the help of her Ceres.
‘I need to subdue the demons here as much as possible and get the nobles in this place to be on my side.’
The princess exhales softly as she contemplates her goal, which she has clearly had from the beginning.
She said, ‘If we use Friday’s power, we can sort out the situation. If you just use your brain a little…’
She was a princess with bare fists, and the aftereffects of having her entire body tied up in red chains still made some part of her body hurt.
The strange taste of blood every time she coughed was proof that her weakened body was gradually recovering to its perfect state, but from the perspective of her condition, it was the worst.
‘… If she acts only with the royal family’s power in mind, she may be hit with red chains again. That’s really stupid.’
Even if she were to be defeated, she would be able to do anything if she used Friday’s power, but she was a princess who did not want to create such a situation.
“Okay, let’s begin.”
The princess, who was looking across her hallway in the darkness, straightens her back and goes outside.
─♬
At that moment, red flames exploded in the room where the ‘eternally burning flame’ was located, and her singing voice began to resonate. The Princess was the first song she heard since she was born, but it doesn’t matter. The important thing was that she was incredibly loud.
“Damn it…! Levia, what did that idiot do!”
The demon with the ribbon on her horn quickly pointed her finger at the demons standing nearby and climbed up the stairs behind them.
The princess took advantage of this moment and walked down her hallway very confidently.
“What? Did Levia cause her accident? She said she was still a child.”
“I never thought I would cause an accident… Wait, what!”
The demons standing in the hallway holding pitch-black guns are startled when the princess appears while they are talking.
『Have a nice day.』
Before the demons can even aim their guns, a steel arm protrudes from the ceiling and explodes something in its hand. The princess, who already knew what Friday was going to do, instantly turned her head.
─Boom!
“Ugh, ugh! Nothing… Wow!”
The two demons, who instantly lost their ears and eyes, are quickly subdued by the mechanical arms of the princess and Friday and fall.
“What!! If something happened, are you sure… Huh?”
As soon as the commotion was heard, a demon rushed over from across the hallway, but Friday’s mechanical arm appeared from the ceiling and tapped her on the shoulder.
“What? Isn’t this being manipulated by Levia. Eup!?”
The princess came up behind the demon and quickly covered her mouth, causing her to faint.
『There are three enemies on the right. How should we handle it?』
“I will ask you as I said earlier.”
“All right. Chairman』
The moment the princess turns her body to the right after speaking, white smoke billows out from the ceiling.
“Shoot! Shoot! Shoot first! Someone is coming over there…!”
Without giving her time to pull the trigger, the princess easily subdues the three demons. She ran towards them with her arms wide open and hung them around their necks, pinning them to the ground. But…
『It was a wonderful professional wrestling technique. Chairman』
“… Be quiet.”
Although she doesn’t know what it is, the princess, well aware that she is far from elegant, very quickly climbs up to the platform where her demon with ribboned horns was standing.
“Ha! You’re thinking of coming up here without a weapon!”
“After all, don’t you think the bugs called you a false god for no reason? How stupid! Do you think you can beat us with those punches?”
As expected, there were demons snorting on the podium.
Their number was about 10.
Of course, there were demons who were fully armed, and there were also guys wearing high-leg combat uniforms and pulling out demon swords that radiated heat.
Surprisingly, there were demons wearing ordinary clothes who were slightly startled and took a step back.
“I am standing here to give you one last chance.”
“Ha… I guess I’m too drunk on the name royal family?”
The demons smiled mischievously and pointed their weapons at the princess.
Above the singing voice, the sound of a demon could be heard screaming as if it had just discovered Levia.
“Woe, princess! Where’s Venus Holympia!! Ahhh!! Levia! You idiot!!”
Listening to her evil voice, the princess lightly raised her right hand.
“To surrender, you have to raise both her hands up~? It’s pointless to do something that has gotten out of hand at best…”
The demon, who was smiling leisurely, realizes something strange when the humans below the platform start talking.
“Oh, oh, oh… No way…”
“Really, Venus Holympia…”
The admiring voices of humans could be dismissed as mere ‘struggling insects’, but the demons could not.
─Clap, clank, clank
The mechanical arms that continuously protruded from the ceiling and floor were carrying weapons.
There were guns that were bigger and heavier than what the demons were holding in their hands, and there were cases where the guns themselves, not the arms, stuck out.
『According to the Chairman’s orders, all weapons in the base have been brought here. We would like to inform you that the security level of the base has been reduced.』
“It doesn’t matter. The story will end as long as the demons in front of me surrender.”
The trembling demon, ready to surrender at a single word from the princess, forces a smile.
“Now, don’t be cocky. The fact that Levia and Asmodeus are up there—”
─Pow!
A bright blue light suddenly erupted from the room where the two people were. The sound of something being sucked was heard, and the princess smiled and looked at her demon.
“I heard that Eternity is not as tightly bound together as I thought. There is no way the seven sisters could protect this base where all control has been handed over to me, shedding blood and sweat, right?”
“This, this…”
“If I just run away with a replica of the Eternal Flame, I can turn Lucifer into a machine god at any time. Am I wrong?”
At the princess’s calm words, the demon closed her eyes tightly and threw away the weapon she was holding in her hand.
“I don’t want to see your blood thrown away. Surrender.”
“… Ha, you have to raise your hands to surrender.”
The demon with his lips pursed raised his hands as he knelt down, and the other demons on the platform who saw this and the demons who rushed out from the hallway all threw down the weapons they were holding.
“Now it is my turn to talk to my beloved nobles.”
The princess had a plan.
