Chapter 854 – Day 98 – Good and Evil
“Please return Her Highness the Crown Princess!!!”
The huge door of the throne room made of gold opens and a confident woman’s voice rings out loudly.
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What follows is a singing voice so gorgeous that it hurts her ears a little. Drums, trumpet, cymbals… Instruments suitable for making gorgeous and grand songs created an exciting singing voice.
The bright red carpet, of course, extended all the way to the golden throne, and the princess moved her legs toward the path she had hated walking on since she was a child.
“Thank you for your hard work, Your Majesty!”
“Thank you for your hard work, Your Majesty!”
“Thank you for your hard work, Your Majesty!”
Women wearing beautiful clothes that must have been given to them by Emperor Jupiter.
Loyalists who are always busy watching the emperor’s opinion.
The subjects who work like cogs in the imperial palace every day.
They all came together and greeted the princess with such a loud voice that her throne room was gone.
‘I expected it, but as expected, Abama didn’t prepare an assassin or a trap for no reason…’
The princess clenched her fists and walked confidently in front of her on the red carpet.
Surprisingly, the emperor sitting on the golden throne was not emitting light from his eyes unlike usual.
Will she finally see her as a proper daughter? The princess was a little lifted by the thought that perhaps a surprising answer might come out of this conversation.
“Abama.”
The princess approached her golden throne, opened her mouth, and calmly knelt down.
“Despite saving the girl’s life, I was unable to inform Abamama quickly. I am truly sorry.”
The emperor announced to the world that the princess had died.
There is no need to elaborate on the story behind it.
“Thank you for your hard work. Get up from your seat.”
The emperor also doesn’t mention the fact that he tried to kill the princess in this situation.
The princess calmly stood up and looked up at Emperor Jupiter.
It always happens. Because he was the only emperor of an empire where the sun never sets, a living god itself.
“How have you been?”
The princess spoke calmly and looked at her emperor again.
He was a man with a good appearance that was not much compared to before.
Her body was so large and gigantic that it filled the golden throne she was sitting on, and her golden hair was flowing down very long, just like the princess.
In his right hand, he was holding a spear that looked as if it might spout lightning at any moment.
“Did you have a good dream?”
“Yes, I always have good dreams.”
“What is called a dream does not last.”
“Luckily, the girl’s dream seems to continue.”
After a short question and answer, the princess smiled.
She looks around her surroundings a little cautiously.
It was easy to find out the status of the people occupying this huge throne room as usual.
Similar to the people who supported the princess, one-third of those who sincerely welcomed the princess’s return, and one-third of those who heard the whole story from the emperor and hoped that the princess would be killed as soon as possible. Br〉
“Listen, princess.”
“Yes, Abama girl, I am listening.”
The emperor makes a smile that he doesn’t normally see.
“It looks like you had quite a hard time in the southern part of the empire.”
As expected, the emperor knows everything.
“Yes, there are people who nursed and helped me when I was seriously injured.”
“I guess I should reward the Obern family.”
“Yes, they did their best to help me. I think they deserve a fair reward for their hard work.”
Conversations with the emperor are always like this.
The princess was all too familiar with this kind of nonsense conversation.
“The affairs of the East were not for the Crown Princess to handle.”
“However, the place called the Land of the Morning Calm is also an area of the Empire where the sun never sets. The people who live there are all citizens of the Empire, and if there is any pain or suffering, I just wanted to soothe it.”
“It looks like you helped Princess Kaguya’s reign.”
“Yes, that land needs a suitable leader. Princess Kaguya will continue to rule the eastern country peacefully in the future.”
The princess bowed her head and spoke politely.
To the emperor’s surprise, even though quite a bit of time had passed, she did not tell the princess to leave.
‘Abama is different from usual. How did this happen?’
Ever since I was young.
The emperor did not talk for long, perhaps because he felt regretful about even talking to his only daughter.
He only did what was necessary and had only the necessary conversations. I thought anything beyond that was a useless luxury, so I didn’t invest the time.
‘Perhaps Abama also asked me this question and answer…’
The princess gives birth to a very small hope.
Perhaps, she is looking back on the hardships she has endured so far as someone who has become her father?
Ah, yes. Isn’t Emperor Jupiter the father of all people, ruling over an empire where the sun never sets?
“… Because Abama told me…”
“I know. Elaine ran away to Britannia.”
Gulp.
The princess swallows her saliva instinctively.
The reason the emperor spared Elaine was because the princess believed that the child that might be born between Elaine and him might be the ultimate successor that the emperor had hoped for.
“Don’t worry, Venus Holympia.”
With a creepy smile, the emperor strokes the throne with his left hand.
“I don’t need Elaine anymore.”
“Ah, Abama! Hello! Aunt Elaine is Abamama’s sister!”
“On an auspicious day like today, is there a need to use medicine and people to catch rats crawling underground?”
I flinch.
The princess’s mood suddenly worsens, and she takes a step back.
“Well, is this an auspicious event?”
There is no way that Emperor Jupiter could say that it was an auspicious day for him to meet someone whom he had considered a failure until now.
Her daughter, who had seen her father closely for over 20 years, could not help but know!
“Girl… I don’t know why today is such an auspicious day because I don’t have enough brains.”
“Don’t worry, it’s not your fault because you’re lacking in intelligence.”
The emperor smiled and slowly lifted the spear he held in his left hand, and then boom! He hits the floor.
“The Empress, please come inside.”
“… Oh my god?!”
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With the sound of a gorgeous song ringing again, the door to the throne room opens and the Empress in a bright red dress appears.
“Your Majesty the Empress!!!”
Agrippa appeared with a loud voice in the background, looking at the princess and giving her a beautiful smile.
‘Stand, stand, no way. Abama has come to talk about my relationship with Mama… Ugh! Of course, it’s a story that nobles might find fault with!’
No matter how much you think about it, what the emperor instinctively wants to say now is not about ███.
Empress Agrippa looked at the princess sweating profusely and raised the corners of her mouth once more.
“Mom is very sorry, my daughter.”
“Uh, what?”
“But by all means, make sure to receive and use the gift your mother prepared for you. She will be able to receive it from where you were born.”
What does this mean?
The princess did not understand.
At this moment of confusion, the emperor raises his spear with his left hand.
“Ah, Abba… Dad!”
Unknowingly, the princess screamed, thinking that the spear would definitely be swung at her empress, so she spread her arms wide and blocked the empress’s path.
“I was wrong! Please! Don’t punish my mom…”
The princess gave up everything for her only family.
She didn’t have to think much about it. She acted so quickly that one could say it was instinct.
That was her goodness.
“Codyceps, fulfill the purpose for which you were created.”
The spear held by Jupiter emits light.
The princess, who thought she would emit lightning, looks behind her, surprised by the goosebumps she feels from behind her.
“Uh, uhm…”
Empress Agrippa.
Her bright red dress she is wearing begins to emit light. Surprisingly, Agrippa just smiled, as if she had known this end from the beginning.
Her threads began to rise from her beautiful red dress and immediately began to bind Agrippa’s entire body.
“Oh, oh, oh… This is it…”
“The Great One promised…”
The voices of people murmuring were heard.
The princess flinched in surprise, but eventually couldn’t bear it and rushed at the empress.
“Oh my! Oh, my! What on earth is this…! This is ridiculous…!”
Like a dam that had begun to collapse, the threads spewing out from the dress seeped onto the floor. The thread moved so violently that it could no longer be called a dress, and the princess was not even allowed to pull it apart.
“Oh my!”
“My daughter…”
Bright red threads rose up his neck and began to eat Agrippa’s face.
The Empress seemed to have known even this as she looked at her beloved daughter.
“… I love you.”
The wave of bright red thread eventually consumed the Empress’s entire body. It didn’t stop there and began to transform into the shape of a huge flower.
The beautiful flower took root in the center of the throne room, and the calyx growing from Agrippa’s shoulder sprouted a huge flower bud.
“What is this…”
The magic power felt before your eyes should not exist.
Even the princess, who was ignorant of her magic, was so surprised that her cheeks tingled.
“Ah, Abama!!!”
“Today is an auspicious day. Venus Holympia.”
“What have you done!!!”
Seeing the princess screaming, the emperor finally stands up from the golden throne, raises her spear high, and speaks.
“Look! The day this flower blooms is the day the ultimate successor is born who will rule the empire on which the sun never sets forever!”
“Uh, mom, what happens then?”
It was a question from a princess who believed in and loved her family more than anyone else.
“Flowers need nutrients to bloom. Don’t cry. The day the great god is born, the suffering of all people will end.”
For the purpose, I will use my family as a means.
The evil that the emperor radiated was enough to trample on even the goodness that the princess possessed.
