Chapter 822 – Day 94 – The Princess Defeats the Demons
“It smells like a demon! There are degrees of insulting a princess!”
Of course Savvas was furious. Princess Kaguya was someone she worshiped.
On paper, the being higher than the princess was of course the emperor of the empire, but to her, who was born and raised in the East, a being whose face had never shined on her for a thousand years was something that no being capable of feeling any emotion could feel. Br〉
“… General, I hope you will properly serve the distinguished guest who came from afar until the end.”
When Princess Kaguya spoke her words with a sigh, Sabas nodded and stood up from her seat.
She looked at the princess with strangely anxious eyes and gestured to the soldiers wearing exotic armor standing around her.
“Everyone, listen! They say that the Crown Princess from Holimpia must return to her hometown urgently!”
“Be honest, don’t you feel suspicious too?”
Even in this situation where the surrounding soldiers were casually pointing their spears and swords at her, the princess was relaxed.
If Hedone and Ceres were together, she would have worried about their lives, but now the princess was alone.
“No one from Holympia has come here in a thousand years. And they plan to continue to do so in the future.”
“Sabas! If you are truly the one who serves Princess Kaguya, think deeply. If the being sitting beyond that pure white tent is a demon.”
The princess was sure.
“Where is the person you are supposed to serve and protect? What will happen to her now? Think how desperately she must be hoping for your salvation!”
“What a fuss! What on earth are you saying that you know? I told you so! We are not rich enough to accept justice that only talks like that!”
After hearing her scream, Sabas pulled out the long sword worn at her waist and pointed it at her.
Perhaps it was a signal, but all the soldiers nearby came running, aiming their sharply forged long spears at the princess.
“Listen! Sabbath! In order for a demon to change into another person, the blood of that being is needed! Also! In order to continue hiding its identity, it is necessary to deal with the original being!”
“I know that much!”
“Then shouldn’t you find Princess Kaguya!”
The princess dodged the deep thrust of the spear by lightly turning her body, then pushed the spear into her armpit and broke it. After that, she blocked attacks aimed at her neck, chest, and stomach by simply striking away the tip of her spear with her palm or smashing the body of her spear itself.
“You’re too fast, General!”
“It’s not even a power struggle!”
The soldiers’ attack, which was fierce at first, became meaningless as the princess blatantly dodged the attack and broke her weapon.
“You all act like cowards! Aren’t you ashamed of being a hundred warriors to protect the princess!”
Sabbath screamed and swung her long sword at the princess? Unfortunately, the princess took the sword with her palm too easily.
“What kind of ignorance…?!”
─Jurge!
Her palm was cut deeply and blood was flowing out, but the princess didn’t even care, just grabbed her long knife and cut it to her side.
“Ugh?! No way! This is…!”
“I don’t know what the story behind this sword is! Don’t even think about fighting me with your bare body!”
The princess pushed away the soldiers coming from all around her as easily as if she had snatched a candy from the hand of a child, and then recklessly rushed towards her pure white tent.
“You let your guard down because you thought it was a place out of reach of the royal family!”
“Pfft!”
The princess quickly ran forward, tore down the white tent, and finally made eye contact with the black-haired Princess Kaguya.
She truly was a being with a strangely exotic appearance. She was such that ordinary people would never know that she was a ‘demon’.
“The Crown Princess!!!”
Savas, who screamed at her as if he could not forgive her, grabbed a long knife near her and rushed at the princess.
In that brief moment, the princess was confident in her actions and stretched out her hands towards Princess Kaguya’s neck.
“Damn it!”
At that last moment, Princess Kaguya made a choice.
She could have died like this because the princess strangled her. So what happened to her as a princess? Even at the moment of her death, she would not have been able to prove that the demon in the form of Princess Kaguya was in fact a demon.
But.
Demons are people. As long as he is a human being, there is no one who can easily carry out a plan that is completed only by his own death.
“Everything was perfect!”
Princess Kaguya, who stepped back with a flash of purple magical power, gasped, revealing the dangerously grown horns of a demon.
“Lord… Lord?”
The eyes of Sabas, who was holding a long sword, shook greatly.
“Didn’t I tell you! It smells like demons!”
The princess screamed and ran towards her demon who was transforming into Princess Kaguya.
“Did you think I would be treated so easily?!”
The demon who shouted spewed out strange magic power from her palm and shot it at the princess’s body.
─Kwazijijik!!
The ceiling collapsed, and the wooden floor below caught fire. The storm engulfed the princess, making it difficult for her to open her eyes, but she ran forward and grabbed her demon by the shoulder.
“Stay still! I need to hear what evil things you’ve done while sitting up here, pretending to be a princess!”
“Don’t be ridiculous! Do you think that’s how the sisters in Holympia were treated?!”
The demon snorted and struggled greatly while its shoulders were being held. The princess was holding on to her clothes tightly, and her demon moved her body several times, then suddenly moved her arms and shoulders a few times inside her clothes, and then took off her clothes like a molting crab. 〉
“Uh, what is this?!”
The princess, who had no idea what kind of clothes she wore in the East, lost sight of her naked body in an instant.
“I told you! We here won’t be fooled that easily!”
The demon created a sparkling magic sword on the back of her hand and stabbed the princess in the stomach.
─Rurg!
“You evil demon!! How dare you!”
Sabas, who was watching from the side, became fearsome and swung his sword aiming at the demon’s right shoulder.
“Ugh!! Look carefully before swinging. Sabbath! You almost hurt Princess Kaguya!”
“Don’t play around! Where did you hide the princess!”
“How stupid! How could you possibly tell me something like that…!?”
Sabbath’s sharp sword swung once more. The demon thought he had dodged the attack this time, but he bit his lip when he felt a sharp pain in his right chest.
“Uuuuu! Damn it! Just wait and see! I’ll make you regret it while shedding bloody tears!”
“Do you think we’ll just let that happen?!”
The princess threw away the clothes she was holding in her hands and quickly stretched out her hand towards the head of her demon.
The princess grabbed the sharp horns of the demon, and the demon caught by her horns was scared and retreated behind her.
“Uuuuu! Aaaaah, aaaaa!! Let go! Let go of this!”
The demon struggled, even shedding tears, and surprisingly grabbed the princess’s wrist.
─Ujistring!
“W-What…?!”
The demon who made the princess break her horn laughed dangerously, even shedding bloody tears, and retreated behind her. And he recklessly threw himself towards the wall where the helpless soldiers were standing.
“Captivate that demon right now…! Ugh!!!”
The destination of the demon who threw itself into the wall at incredible speed was the ground hidden under the clouds.
“Damn… Demons… How many years…”
Savvas bit his lip tightly when he saw a little blood on the tip of his knife.
“Isn’t Princess Kaguya the highest being here?…”
The princess was able to understand Sabas’s feelings a little when she grumbled that she could not send even a small amount of supplies to the rebellion taking place in Holimpia.
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After the noisy commotion calmed down a bit, the princess was finally able to talk alone with Sabas.
“I’ve received great help. To be honest…”
Sabas, with half of her thick makeup removed, sighed deeply.
“I don’t think even saying thank you is enough.”
“What are you talking about? Isn’t it our royal family who didn’t keep their promise to protect humans from demons for a thousand years?”
“It’s the royal family’s fault, not Venus Holympia’s.”
Sabas sighed as he spoke, then took the fragrant tea with his hand and drank it carefully.
It was the first cup the princess had seen since she was born, and the tea had such an exotic scent that she did not touch it.
“The Crown Princess Naeuri caught the demon that was transforming into Princess Kaguya, so if you have the shame, you should inform us of our situation.”
“Please feel free to talk to me. If there is anything I can solve, I will help you as much as I can.”
“Everyone in our east worships Princess Kaguya.”
The princess nodded her head.
“Just as the people of Galagon serve the king of Galagon, and the people of Gregory serve Gregory?”
“Is it okay to understand it that way? However, I would say that he was serving a little more strongly than that. I learned that the reason he went under the emperor’s wing a long time ago was largely because he would not interfere with us.”
Imperial citizens also live in the east. The princess, who only had that much concept, nodded her head first.
“The important thing is that we serve a princess. And the worst thing about these days is…”
“So there are people who say they don’t like the atmosphere of serving the princess?”
“That’s correct. Unlike the royal family and the emperor, the princess is just an ordinary person. There is a legend that she came from some kind of moon, but she does not have god-like powers and cannot perform miracles. She is just a person.”
The princess seemed to know what the story was.
“It appears that the powerful nobles in the region decided not to listen to the princess, who they thought was incompetent.”
“I want to deny the claim that it was incompetent, but it is true. Still, the atmosphere was somehow maintained because the princess never gave orders and only paid a perfunctory tax.”
“The demons have been taking advantage of that atmosphere recently,”
“That’s right… The princess is incompetent, so they tried to trick her into thinking that even paying the formal money was a waste. A lot of nobles are now fighting to become the new Princess Kaguya. And…”
Sabas made a bitter expression.
“That’s why the people to the east can’t help us no matter what happens in Holympia. There are people who raise swords even though they know they were deceived by the demons, and there are also people who shout that the demons are better than the incompetent Princess Kaguya.”
“I can certainly understand why you were angry that there was no reason to give strength to lip service.”
“You understand now, right? Rather than the sacred civil war in Holympia, we are busy fighting the demons and the people who were yesterday’s colleagues right now.”
Sabas looked at the princess and bowed deeply.
“I apologize for not explaining this situation from the beginning. But really, we people in the east can’t help you. Princess Kaguya… Huh?”
Sabas, who had been listening intently to her words, looked embarrassed when the princess suddenly stood up from her seat.
“There is no time for this.”
“W-what. Wait, it’s not an order from the princess, so there’s no reason to go back so quickly…”
“What are you talking about? Shouldn’t you find Princess Kaguya? No matter how incompetent you point out, who is the true owner of this land in your hearts?”
The princess struck her palm with her fist.
“Of course, Princess Kaguya…”
“Yes! In a world as chaotic as this, don’t you think there are many people who want their original owner to return? The whispers of demons seep into wavering hearts! As long as you and I get Princess Kaguya back, anything will work out!”
The princess shouted confidently and quickly moved her feet, saying, “Let’s go outside,” And Sabas looked dazed.
“What, why are you trying so hard to help me…”
Sabas honestly felt strange at the kindness of the royal family that had appeared for the first time in a thousand years.
