Chapter 823 – Day 94 – The Princess Suggests a Strange Way to Save Princess Kaguya.
“So how on earth are you going to find Princess Kaguya?”
Savvas was not perfect, but he trusted his princess to some extent. I had no choice but to believe him because he showed his determination to find the princess first without asking for anything in return or asking her to do anything.
Of course, I thought that somewhere in my heart, there would be a grace that could never be erased.
“Isn’t it a simple matter? First, aren’t there nobles living in this eastern land as well?”
“The way they call it is strangely different from the area around Holympia, but everyone is doing well.”
“Now then, let’s imagine that you have become a demon.”
Sabas frowned for a moment.
“So, what if I were a demon?”
“If you were a demon, who would you transform into?”
“Who can you transform into? Of course, isn’t Princess Kaguya the best? If you transform into a princess, you can take control of this eastern country and wield it as you please.”
The princess nodded and took the cup near her and made a tower.
She placed a colorful cup on the highest place.
“Isn’t this cup supposed to be Princess Kaguya?”
“That’s right, the cups below are the local monarchs.”
“But you can’t just become Princess Kaguya, right?”
“Ah…?”
Savvas blinked for a moment and smoothed his chin.
“You said blood is needed for a demon to transform into another person, right? If that’s the way to get Princess Kaguya’s blood…”
Savas, with his eyes closed, crosses his legs and groans.
“Attack the princess…”
“Don’t you know, as the great general? Aren’t there guards next to Princess Kaguya? Are they going to leave it alone?”
“That’s right. No matter how famous a monarch is from a region, if he hurts the princess at first, I would have heard about him.”
Sabbath groaned.
“But what if all the guard soldiers were demons?”
“They will still be demons even now.”
“Why? If the princess also becomes a demon, hasn’t she fulfilled her duty?”
“Think about how you manage such a soldier.”
Sabas snapped his thumb at the princess’s words.
“That’s right, the guards haven’t changed much over the past few years. They are the ones who go into Princess Kaguya’s bedroom and protect her.”
“What if those guys suddenly changed? That might be true, but if they suddenly disappeared, wouldn’t it be like letting you know that something abnormal has occurred?”
Sabas felt like his head was clearing up a little.
“The soldiers say yes, but in the end, it doesn’t change the fact that some demon kidnapped the princess and turned her into a princess, right?”
“That’s exactly what you have to think about. See, in the end, in order to become Princess Kaguya, you have to meet her.”
As the princess tapped her cup, Sabas touched his chin and then carefully opened his mouth.
“Isn’t something like menstrual blood okay?”
“What…”
“Princesses are women too. They always see blood once a month. Can’t that kind of blood transform them?”
“You can transform, but if you transform like that, won’t there be two Princess Kaguya in the palace? Have you ever experienced such a commotion?”
Sabas pondered and shook his head from side to side.
“In the end, I guess we should think of it as a bundle of kidnapping and transformation, rather than the fact that she is transformed into a princess itself.”
“That’s it. In the end, the person who can kidnap Princess Kaguya is the person who can quietly meet alone with her.”
The princess pointed to the cup below her.
“The scope has been narrowed, but it’s still a problem. There are at least 100 large and small monarchs over here, and to put it easily for people in Holympia over there to understand, it’s full of people who are at the level of dukes.”
“Isn’t the land to the east bigger than Holympia’s land? I expected that much…”
The princess clapped her hands.
“What do you think of the guest list you mentioned?”
“Are you going to meet the princess and ask if she has a list of people?”
“That’s it.”
“Ah, no, that’s right. The Crown Princess will get better.”
Of course Sabbath had such a ‘list’, but he smiled awkwardly.
“This is not a problem that can be solved that way. Where on earth should I start and check?”
Savvas wasn’t angry.
“If Princess Kaguya was turned into a demon even before I became general, there is no way.”
“Is that possible? Didn’t I tell you that demons can transform?”
The princess brought the cup from her desk again.
She pointed with her finger to two wooden cups, one colorful.
“Look. If two demons come to visit the princess like this, doesn’t someone have to turn into the princess?”
“Of course.”
“If there are records such as two guests visiting but only one returning, or the nobleman who came to visit Princess Kaguya dying within a few days, that would be enough of a clue.”
“There are always three cups. If you kidnap one person like this, there will inevitably be two, right?”
Sabas swallowed his saliva.
“But what if another demon was summoned in Princess Kaguya’s room using some sort of magic?”
“Wouldn’t it be better to check the soldiers who always guarded Princess Kaguya’s room to see whether they did such crazy things or not?”
“If the guard soldiers were all human, then the demons wouldn’t have been able to do something so blatantly obvious if they were humans, right?”
“If we start from there, I think we can rule out crazy methods and leave only logical methods.”
Sabbath applauded loudly, admiring the princess who was smarter than expected.
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“These are all the guard soldiers here. They are all people who have been guarding Princess Kaguya’s side for a very long time.”
“Ho? Did these women hold their positions even before you became the general?”
“It says so in the records.”
At Sabas’s words, the princess looked at the eight women standing in front of her with strange and curious eyes.
“Aren’t you all younger than you think?”
“I thought so too, but they say I never get old.”
“You don’t get old…?”
The princess looked at the women again, a little surprised.
“Yes, it is thanks to the blessings of Princess Kaguya, a member of the moon clan.”
“We who are always with Him will neither grow old nor get sick; we will live out our lives.”
The princess looked with her curious eyes at the women, who were not only young, but even in their early twenties.
‘Princess Kaguya is said to be incompetent and doesn’t know how to do anything, but it seems she actually has strange powers, although not as strong as the royal family?’
Even here, the princess realized that the perception of Sabas and the common sense of the people of the eastern country were strangely distorted.
“Has anyone among you realized that Princess Kaguya has changed?”
“I’m sorry. Even if you hit our heads, we won’t have anything to say…”
All the guard soldiers bowed their heads in pain.
“What do you think Sabas?”
“Me? Me? I can’t do anything about these people?”
Savvas said and scratched the back of his head.
“I feel resentful, but it can’t be helped. Accusing me of being deceived by a demon who can turn into one of us is the same as slapping a club because it rained from the sky.”
The princess smiled and nodded her head before looking at her soldiers again.
“First, let me tell you something good about Sabas. My heart is not pounding just looking at the women in this room right now.”
“… What kind of pervert does that sound like?”
“That’s not the story! Didn’t I tell you?! I have a strange power that makes my heart pound so hard that it hurts whenever I’m near a demon!”
“Ahh, that story. That’s right. I said it was thanks to that I realized the princess wasn’t a princess.”
Belatedly, Savas smiled and waved his hand.
“So, all eight people here are not demons?”
“Unfortunately, I can’t say so clearly. There are some who are good at hiding magical power, which can be said to be the devil’s way of life.”
After speaking her words, the princess approached the guard soldier on the far left.
She was a woman with black hair and a quite pretty and lovely body.
“Please excuse me.”
“Yes, if you tell me anything, I will… Ah?”
The woman, who had been speaking calmly, was taken aback when she saw the princess suddenly get down on her knees and pull up her skirt.
“What, what, the princess!! What pervert are you doing!”
Sabas screamed in horror, and the guard, whose skirt was lifted, was so shocked that he could not even push away the princess, who was sticking his nose into her crotch.
“Everyone, don’t be surprised and just stay still…”
“Oh, sorry… Hey, wait a minute! Why do you smell that kind of place..? Sleep…!”
The guard was startled and ended up gently grabbing the princess’s head with both hands and starting to push it away.
Anyway, the princess checked her scent as she pleased, stood up from her seat, grabbed her hand that was holding her head, lifted it up, and sniffed her armpits like a dog. 〉
“You are not a demon.”
“Obviously!”
The guard soldier, embarrassed, covered himself with both hands and stepped aside.
“Wait, wait, wait, can you really tell by that? Aren’t you just perverting and satisfying your own selfish desires?”
“Do you think that I, who came all the way from Holympia to here, am just doing something perverted like this? If everyone here is human, it will be easier to find Princess Kaguya, so I have no choice but to do this!”
As the princess spoke extremely seriously, Sabas rubbed his face with his right hand.
“Because our Crown Princess Nauri said so. Ha, it really is a bit absurd…”
No one other than the princess had the means to recognize the transforming demon.
In the end, Sabas had to watch the princess sniff the bodies of eight women with her face red.
