Chapter 779 – 90 Days – Sitri Makes a Choice
Sitri was a demon who was exiled to the earth.
She remembered the splendor of Pandemonium in her childhood, and had in her memories the wonders of ancient demon technology.
‘Venus Holympia…’
Therefore, as a demon, she had no choice but to weigh it.
Getting the chance to head to Pandemonium, which she really wants to return to, and saving the Venus Holimpia in front of her.
She had to desperately think about putting things on the scale that she could never take with her.
She suffered and suffered again.
‘I am deeply grateful for the kindness you have shown me and the good deeds you have shown in Eze Village.’
Squeezing her eyes shut, Sitri exhales slowly.
‘If… There really is a God whom the sisters of the church sing about, good luck to you, and may heaven’s punishment be upon me.’
After finishing her thoughts, Sitri takes a slow step forward.
She naturally stood behind the two sons of the man now called Leo Aubert, Duke of Aubert.
It wasn’t that difficult for a demon with the magic to freely change into the other person with just a drop of blood, mixing in with humans.
“… Dad and the Crown Princess. Doesn’t this seem a little strange? Isn’t this Venus Holympia? That can’t be possible!”
Jad Ober shouts, not knowing that Sitri is approaching.
“Ms Jad Aubert…”
“Princess! Say something! It’s strange! There’s no way you’re not the princess!”
At first, he started it because he wanted to restore his family’s future and honor, but the situation turned so cruelly that Jad Ober had no choice but to change his mind.
As someone who had hoped for the princess and Hedone to meet and have a happy reunion, Jad Aubert could not ignore this situation where even his own father did not recognize the princess.
“Zard, please refrain from saying such things. You are misunderstanding such things because you have never met the princess in person.”
“So! I’m telling you that doesn’t make sense. Dad! This is not the princess?”
Jad Aubert points to the princess with both hands.
“Look at this beautiful blonde! Look at how tall she is, slightly taller than her father, who is known to have the best physique among men! She’s royalty! Anyone can tell she’s royalty!!”
“Jad…”
“It’s strange! It’s strange! What kind of girl in this world can take out the orcs and goblins on the way to Eze Village without proper weapons… No! No soldiers?”
Hearing Jad Aubert’s cry, the Duke of Aubert sighs deeply and takes his daughter’s hand.
“I don’t know what kind of precious person this person is, but it’s rude to both of you to mistake her for the princess we are supposed to serve and help. Jad Aubert, you’re excited. Stop it.”
“Dad! That’s not it! This is you! He understands my feelings even though he knows I sold himself to the demons! He’s the one who threw himself into the jaws of the demons with his own feet to give our family a chance!”
“… What? Who said what just now?”
The Duke of Aubert’s second and eldest sons looked at their older sister in surprise, but Jad Aubert didn’t care about that.
The princess is actually Venus Holympia.
There must be some reason for Hedone and her father not to recognize this obvious fact.
She, who had received her favor, felt that she must repay it, and she spewed out her secrets that she could take with her to her grave.
“Dad! Come to your senses! Where in the world is this person? The person who went into a place full of demons and came back wonderfully? And… Look!”
Jad Aubert looked at the princess and snatched the box from her maid standing behind him.
“Zad! Stop!”
“Dad! Look! Look! I…! I was taken by demons called Eternity to solve the curse on the people in my family! As they want, if I hand over the princess, they will give me the medicine that will lift the curse on my family. I believed you when I said you would give me a gift!”
“…”
The Duke of Auvers cannot say anything and presses his hands to his face. There was no way he didn’t know about the family curse.
He knew better than anyone how much he wanted to break the curse, and how much fear Jad Aubert, who would be the next target of the curse, was in.
“But… Eternity didn’t save me. They gave me poison as if they were laughing at me. And…”
“Uh, sister…”
Jad Ober smiles as he looks at Léonie Ober who has finally appeared in a hurry.
“Because of my stupid mistake, my mother is lying in bed right now. I am the idiot who almost killed her mother by falling for the devil’s obvious candy-smearing.”
“My daughter…”
“For me, the princess… Look, she brought me medicine. Dad! Does this make sense? You know very well how greedy and selfish the nobles of the empire where the sun never sets are!”
The Duke of Aubert swallows his saliva at Jad Aubert’s shout.
“This is the princess! Please remember! Dad! If such a merciful person is not Venus Holympia, then who else in this world would be the princess!”
Leo Ober is silent in response to his daughter’s cries.
“… Venus Holympia…”
A memory comes to mind, and he presses his face with his hands.
His instincts cry out.
The woman in front of me is not Venus Holympia.
His memories speak.
The woman in front of me is not Venus Holympia.
“… No. It can’t be.”
The more I think about it, the more facts come to mind. It can’t be Venus Holympia. Furthermore, it can’t be done.
“Ms. Jad Aubert. It’s okay. Please stop. The Duke of Aubert has returned home after a long, long war. He is a person who is more suited to a warm meal than a confusing story.”
“Really…”
Jad Ober purses his lips. It’s really strange.
He, who has never met the princess, knows that the person in front of her is the princess, but why do those who have actually met him not know?
The princess takes a step closer to Jad Aubert, who is suffering. Even in this situation, she intended to comfort.
─Sleuth
The moment you take a step, you hear the sound of something crawling on the ground.
It was a red chain that Sitri had pulled out with magic. The chain, which noisily crawls across the ground like a snake, is instantly wrapped around the princess’s thigh.
“Ugh, uhhh…?!”
The princess, momentarily losing all strength in her body, falls to her knees.
Without missing that moment, Sitri used her magic to create a powerful wind and sent the Duke of Auvers’ second son and eldest son standing in front of her flying far away.
“Venus Holympia!”
“Si, Sitri… Gasp…”
Sitri, who had released her transformed form, called out her princess’s name loudly, but her actions were not sloppy.
Clearing away the humans that got in her way, she conjured up her magic sword that radiated blue light from the back of her hand. She ran at such a speed that her afterimage remained small, and there was only one person she was targeting.
“Ah…!”
Hedone.
It was not aimed at the princess, whose body was weakened by her red chains.
Sitri had no idea how powerful and transcendent her princess’ powers would be. Therefore, rather than choosing to kill the princess, which was the ‘biggest score’ here, he chose to kill Hedone and the Duke of Auvers.
The princess might not have known it, but killing Hedone and Leo Ober was such a simple task for Sitri, a demon.
“K, ugh…!!!”
There was nothing the princess, who had become an ordinary human woman instead of a member of the royal family due to the red chains, could do in this situation.
That’s why Sitri used red chains.
Her blue magic sword was clearly aimed at Hedone’s body and swung wide.
─Chaaaaah!!!
Sitri quickly pulled back the magical sword and turned around to stab Leo Ober.
Returning to Pandemonium is possible only if you are alive. Quickly dispose of her target and she intended to run away.
“What is this…?!”
“Ha, haaaaa… Ugh, keeuuuuu!”
I should have done that.
Sitri couldn’t pull her arms back.
“Huh, why are you doing this…?”
Sitri’s eyebrows fluttered as she looked at the woman who had been slashed from her shoulder to her chest and stomach, her blood gushing out loudly.
“If I… Ha, throw this one body… Ha, and catch your arm… Ha, I will be able to save countless people here.”
“Well, where is that? You’re not even a princess right now…”
“The princess… The princess of the empire…”
Letting out her hot breath and spitting out the blood that had accumulated in her mouth, the princess held tightly onto her Sitri’s wrist.
“You must… Kill a lot of demons and orcs… To be a princess… Protect people… From demons… That’s what a princess is. You shouldn’t be afraid of being killed… By a sword like this. .”
“Something like that…”
Sitri, who could kick the princess in the stomach and swing her sword right now, couldn’t do that.
“For someone who has no memory or anything…”
She threw her body away as if it were natural, and when she recognized the princess who grabbed her wrist without even shouting to kill her for showing her hostility, she couldn’t do anything.
“To the subject who was abandoned by the emperor…”
Sitri, who slowly destroyed her sword emitting hot heat, grabbed the princess who was spitting out her blood.
“… There may not be anyone left in this world who remembers you…”
“It’s okay… It’s okay. But that doesn’t mean the people I have to protect disappear. It doesn’t mean my duty disappears.”
“You can’t even think of yourself as a princess…”
Sitri let out her painful breath and eventually got down on her knees and hugged the princess.
“… Princess.”
Hedone looked at her with her hands shaking and spoke with great difficulty.
“Ve, Venus… The princess. The princess… Ah, ah… The princess…”
Hedone, who decided to believe in only one feeling, had no choice but to speak.
“Even though all my senses are screaming that you are not the princess… I feel that the person I love is you. I’m sorry, I’m such a fool… Furthermore, I didn’t recognize you…”
The emperor’s curse was surprisingly cruel.
