Chapter 848 – Day 98 – How to Put the Remaining Puzzle Pieces Together
“It might have been safer to go to Britannia as your mother said.”
“Can you only do safe things in this situation?”
The princess, with her worried Ceres standing behind her, pushed open the huge iron door with both hands.
“Cough, I’m glad I’m not underground.”
“It’s not a place called a dungeon.”
As soon as Ceres and the princess heard the story from Arisa, they immediately headed to the ground.
There were many places where you could safely go up to the ground, and Ceres naturally recommended Britannia. Surprisingly, the princess chose the area near Holympia, which could be said to be the most dangerous.
Ceres took off the necklace around her neck and was taking a deep breath. It goes without saying that her demons were most suspicious and vulnerable to attack when they came up to the ground.
“Do you know where this place is?”
“Yes, this is the Archibald family mansion.”
“Ugh! If it’s Archibald, isn’t she the woman who acts as the boss of the council?”
The princess opens her iron door and thinks about jumping out, but she hesitates.
Looking at the outside scenery, it roughly looked like somewhere in the garden of a huge mansion.
“It looked like the liver had risen to the point where it was sticking out of the stomach.”
“It was originally an underground exit, but it looks like the Archibald family had some help with it.”
“So does that mean the head deacon knows that we’ve already come up here?”
The princess spoke carefully, opened the iron door that she had voluntarily closed, and narrowed her eyes to look outside.
“I don’t see any suspicious movement right now?”
“According to what Arisa said, the situation is such that Emperor Jupiter used his tricks to capture the princess.”
“Then there’s no way they can leave us like this.”
The princess spoke carefully and looked at her Ceres.
“Would you like to move outside?”
“I guess I have to do it that way. Is there a way?”
“How could it not be there?”
Ceres smiled and took her cloak, which fluttered from her waist. Two cloaks made of fabric so long that they could be called hoods appeared.
“What is this? It’s a huge cloak, but the fabric is dragging on the floor.”
“It is a cloak that can hide your appearance.”
Ceres handed the princess an object from her pocket to put in her ears. The princess took it and put on her cloak just like Ceres.
“Huh? I’m wearing a cloak, but there’s nothing there, right?”
In the princess’s eyes, Ceres was just the same person wearing a cloak.
“Princess, if you pull back her cloak and look at me, you will know.”
“Hmm, what’s the difference… Aha.”
When she took off her cloak, the princess could not see Ceres.
“Is this the famous cloak of invisibility?”
“The technology of the demons is coming.”
“Then why do you need these ear plugs?”
“If we breathe hard while wearing a cloak, a sound will be heard. If we do that, we will be bragging to others that we are there.”
“To what extent is the aha sound blocked?”
The princess, who had a truly strange expression on her face, clapped a few times.
Then she put her cloak back on, just like Ceres, and very carefully she opened the iron door and went out.
“As expected, for a family worthy of being the head of the house, the garden is surprisingly large.”
The princess, who had just walked out of an old warehouse in a very corner of the huge garden, shrugged her shoulders.
As the princess said, the Archibald family had been serving as ‘heads of a butler’ for a long time, so talking about their wealth and honor was meaningless.
‘You created a pond with fish in the garden as if it were very natural. There is quite a bit of loot…’
She was a princess who had looked around, but there was a reason why she came up to the dangerous Holimpia.
“Princess. Do you plan to go to Holympia like this?”
“After all, don’t you need to know what Abamama has done? You need to know how many enemies there are in order to come up with a plan.”
“You are right.”
Ceres was overflowing with worries, but the princess was someone who was able to keep her own company in mind.
Therefore, very cautiously, the princess planned to escape from the Archibald family’s huge garden.
‘If I go out like this…’
Her place, where the princess was, was strangely far from the entrance to the garden. The location of the warehouse, which was located away from the beautiful and magnificent mansion but was not directly visible to her guests, was truly exquisite.
The princess, who had been tired of seeing things like huge mansions since she was young, walked towards the huge iron gate without even looking at her.
“Ugh!”
The problem was the people standing at the seemingly unique iron gate.
It wasn’t just one or two people standing there, but more than 100 knights perfectly aligned and standing as if guarding the door.
“What on earth is this… Oh, my!”
As soon as she saw the carriage that appeared with the salutes of numerous knights, the princess was startled and retreated behind her.
The person who got off the beautifully decorated carriage was ‘Deacon Archibald’, a slightly older man wearing a single-eyed spectacle. Behind her, a woman who appeared to be her eldest daughter was following her, dressed in pitch black clothes.
‘I thought that Archibald Butler would naturally be at the imperial palace in Holympia…!”
If the princess had started a rebellion and enlisted people to suppress it, then of course the head deacon, a member of the advisory council, would have a very important role.
But she is here. She had just returned to the mansion in a carriage.
“Things are in trouble, mother.”
“It’s an order given by His Majesty the Emperor.”
“But doesn’t your mother know? The imperial palace is currently fighting a civil war…”
The two, speaking in urgent voices, walked into the huge mansion without even receiving the knights’ salute.
The moment the mother and daughter open the door and enter, the knights guarding the huge iron door naturally begin to disperse.
“Ha, really, how did this happen?”
“Still, we are in a good situation. I heard that knights from other families have already gone to Britannia?”
“It’s the front line. I guess I’ll just be dragged to my death for no reason.”
The princess, who heard all the stories she had to say, did not easily lose her footing.
“Princess. If you are going to Holympia, you must do so now. If Emperor Jupiter is even willing to risk a civil war, Holympia will become a more dangerous place as time passes.”
“I know that very well. But…”
“Princess… This is a very dangerous idea.”
The princess looked at the road leading out of her garden for a long time.
This path will be really easy. All she had to do was run away to Holympia, put on her invisibility cloak, and listen to the stories of the numerous nobles.
‘If I can sneak into the Imperial Diet or the Imperial Palace, I might be able to get my hands on all the plans.’
It’s an easy way.
There is no need to take more risks in a situation that is already dangerous enough.
‘Deacon Archibald…’
The status that members of the advisory council have in the empire cannot be explained in a few simple sentences.
Because he was in a position where he could dare to give direct advice to the emperor, who could be called the god of the empire where the sun never sets.
‘If Deacon Archibald is on my side…’
The princess clenches her fists.
The civil war is ultimately a conflict between the emperor’s side and the princess’s side. What would happen if there was no emperor’s side?
“… Hmm.”
The princess bites her lip.
Getting Archibald on your side is a very dangerous thing. Just trying is the same as pouring oil all over her body and running to put out the fire.
After pondering for a while, the princess gazed endlessly at the exit of her garden, where many of the knights she had been standing in had disappeared.
The princess could see her future without even having to take a step.
‘If a civil war begins, countless nobles will shed blood. The noisy people who fill the Imperial Council will disappear, and obedient nobles will be able to sit in the land where there is no owner. It will be a great success for Abamama.’
That can’t be possible.
The princess, unable to do anything good to Emperor Jupiter after coming this far, turns her body around.
“The princess!”
“Do you know what Chief Archibald does in the imperial palace?”
Heading towards the huge, white mansion, the princess opens her mouth.
“We are in charge of hunting down spies and demons hiding in the empire. No matter how much they belong to the royal family, you can’t tell whether they are transformed demons or not until you see them face to face, right?”
“Yes, that’s true. I understand that the head deacon collects and summarizes information to some extent.”
“How great would it be if such a house owner were on our side?”
“Haona…”
Isn’t it such a sweet dream?
Although Ceres was worried, he hurriedly followed the princess as she entered the huge mansion.
The two of them talked endlessly at this very moment and followed the head butler and the eldest daughter of the Archibald family as they entered the room.
─Boom!
The princess barely entered the closed door and took a long breath.
Chief Deacon Archibald sat down, brushing back his now white hair and touching his single eye.
“Mother.”
“It’s already over, so don’t argue loudly.”
“You know, mother. Didn’t you hear what Chancellor Arnold said? We can summon them, but we don’t have weapons to arm them! We don’t even have food to fill them! Much less money to give them to take care of things!”
“Do you know that Prime Minister Arnold, who said those words, was imprisoned in the dungeon?”
“Mother! If you are a member of the advisory council, shouldn’t you be generous with your advice even when your head is flying?”
The deacon shook his head.
“You’re talking about an idealistic story.”
“And… Are you really going to proceed with His Majesty’s ridiculous story?”
“We don’t have the heart or eyes to distinguish between demons. If he says they’re demons, they’re demons.”
“That’s ridiculous! All the nobles on the list I received today! Including the Oberne family, they are the only nobles who side with Crown Princess Venus Holympia!”
Despite the eldest daughter’s cries, the deacon shook his head.
“His Majesty the Emperor said—”
“If everything he says is right! If it’s the law! Mom!! The advisory council! Why do we exist?!”
The chief deacon sighed deeply and raised his hands.
“I’m going to go back to my room and rest. It seems like I can’t make wise decisions because of my emotions.”
“It’s not a wise decision, it’s probably just showing your belly and trying to be cute to the emperor!”
“Be careful what you say.”
The head deacon kept his mouth shut, and the eldest daughter huffed and approached.
“Mom now—”
─Smurmur!
The head deacon stood up in an instant and quickly aimed the dagger in his hand at the eldest daughter’s neck.
The sharp blade caused blood to flow from her, but the eldest daughter kept her eyes wide open.
“You should be ashamed of being a member of the advisory council.”
“She can’t send my beloved daughter to her dungeon, so she’ll stop talking.”
At a moment when it wouldn’t be surprising if Satan woke up like this, the princess finally moves her hand.
─Kwaak
“Is it okay for a mother to point a knife at her daughter’s throat? Let’s tell her story.”
The princess appeared by taking off her cloak in a space where the two of them had to exist alone.
When Deacon Archibald noticed this, his face turned white.
“B-Venus Holympia. How did you get here…”
“Isn’t it common for the Crown Princess to have a private meeting with a member of her council? Don’t worry. Do you think I’ll kill you?”
The smiling princess lightly lowered Archibald Butler’s hand to the desk.
