Chapter 864 – 98 Days – Long-Forgotten Feelings
Archibald Deacon was the woman who would carry out the order without any doubt if the emperor ordered her to jump into the fire pit.
Therefore, when her emperor personally told her to capture the princess, she felt joy rather than despair at the fact that he had given her an impossible task.
She was even amazed at the fact that she could help take another small step for the great man.
“Deacon Archibald!”
That’s why she was smiling vainly.
“Ha, look at the sky! The sky!”
“We must flee from Agrippa Village!”
Hearing the voices of his subordinates screaming urgently, the head deacon burst into a bitter smile.
A bright red dot suddenly appeared in the sky that was full of dark clouds.
Deacon Archibald has known for a long time that it is called ‘Judgment Day.’
She knew very well what would happen if that flame trampled the earth.
“Deacon! Please give me orders!”
Shadow of the Emperor.
Those beings called that.
They swore that they would do anything for the emperor and cried out for their lives.
“Ha, haha…”
The head deacon bursts into laughter without realizing it.
She adjusted the monocle in silence with her hands that didn’t even tremble.
“… They said there were only women in this village.”
“Deacon!”
Looking at the bright red fireworks floating high in the sky, Chief Archibald shook her head from side to side.
She realized.
The day of judgment is ready, and she knows what it means to have her sights set on Agrippina.
“It ended up like this.”
She muttered briefly with a feeling of resignation and looked up at the sky with her eyes full of emptiness.
The flames that have begun to swirl are ready to burn everything.
“Deacon! If only you could escape now!”
“If you run away, you might survive!”
The men on horseback fled long ago.
The only subordinates who were walking on two legs were clinging closely to the head of the house, shouting that they should run away.
“What do you think of His Majesty?”
The deacon still looks at the sky and speaks.
“The Great One has decided to fulfill our purpose here and in this place today.”
“Deacon…!”
Despite the shouts of her subordinates, she just looked at the sky.
“If you decide to be loyal, admit it.”
I was abandoned.
No, perhaps in the worst case scenario, they were sent in to prevent the princess from rebelling and running away from here?
Either way you die.
Without thinking about it for too long, the moment the day of judgment falls, this land will be burned and all life, including the deacon, will disappear.
“… It would have been nice if you had told me.”
The deacon, holding a monocle, smiles bitterly.
She has served the emperor for so long that she is old enough to be called her grandmother.
She does not resent the fact that she is being used and thrown away like this.
“Was I so inadequate, great man?”
If you are disappointed, there is only one thing.
The fact is that she failed to give the emperor any confidence that she was simply abandoned without even a single word.
“This… This! This is crazy! I’ve never heard of a mission like this!”
“Your Majesty, you abandoned us! As expected, Venus Holympia was right!”
“Damn it! Damn it! Then what should you do? Those who followed Leda will all die here today!”
A resentment that is almost like a cry can be heard.
The head deacon smiles bitterly and looks up at the sky. The flames that rushed, gathered, and rushed are now ready to let out their heat.
“… Ah.”
I guess I was a girl who wasn’t good enough for a great person.
Just as the head deacon was thinking that, a very small miracle began to happen.
The ground began to rise.
“…”
It was truly a miracle that wasn’t funny.
It rose like a mountain from the ground, not fitting for the mountainless village of Agrippina.
A huge peak was created in an instant, and the end of the peak was located where Judgment Day would fall, as if it was only natural.
“This is…”
And once again a miracle happens.
One petal has appeared.
“What, what. What happens?”
The subordinates who were crying and laughing and blaming the emperor also looked at the scene with a distraught expression.
It was an incredibly stupid thing.
“It’s not even a children’s book…”
“Is this possible?”
The petals that appear in the sky become a huge flower shield.
A shield that can barely protect one person suddenly turns into a huge protective shield.
“What kind of magic is that?”
“W-Is it magic? I’ve studied at the Wizard’s Tower, but this is the first time I’ve seen something like that.”
When you wonder if you can stop the fireworks falling from the sky with just a flower petal.
Things that should be somewhere underground floated up into the sky.
The moment the head deacon saw that they had created another shield like a sturdy fortress, a small smile came out.
“You didn’t run away…”
When the faintly shining shield became a shield of steel that seemed to be able to block anything.
The subordinates, who were looking at the sky with weak anticipation, shout.
“Did Crown Princess Venus do it?”
“Really? Can you see the person up there from here? How?”
“You idiot! What are you talking about? You can tell without even looking! Who would do such a foolish thing here!”
That’s right.
This is really stupid.
There is absolutely no need for the princess to save everyone here.
“Ah…”
The deacon, who knew this better than anyone else, put his hands together without realizing it.
The attitude of praying to God.
Even if someone had said that, it didn’t seem strange, and she was able to recall the feelings she had experienced a long time ago.
─Paaah …!
The sparks that fall from the sky melt huge steel.
They melt it and melt it and shout that it was foolish to do something like this.
“Ah, ahhh… Oh my god.”
“Oh my god… We were… Wrong…”
The flame that will ravage and burn the earth gradually fades away.
Surprisingly, the flame that fell with the power to melt everything was nothing in front of the miracle created by the princess.
“You save those who came here to harm you…”
Deacon Archibald bowed his head.
When the heat that will burn the earth turns into a hot wind.
She smiled a little as she looked at the flower petals fluttering as if filling the sky.
“Deacon! Deacon Archibald!”
The subordinates cheered that they had survived.
Hearing their voices, the head deacon nodded.
Because she felt something she thought she would only feel once in her life, there was only one thing she had to do.
* * * * *
“I never thought the princess would have that kind of power.”
The first person to greet the princess who had barely come down from the huge peak was Leda Archibald, whose entire body was soaked with sweat.
“Haha, it’s a miracle I was able to pull off because I was lucky, so don’t expect too much.”
As soon as the princess answered calmly, the tightly closed door of the mansion opened and Ceres and the succubi hurriedly walked out.
“Princess! Are you okay?”
“Is Ceres okay?”
“Yes, I’m fine! I was going to go down to the basement and collect you…”
The princess gave Ceres a very light slap on her guilty buttocks.
“What are you talking about? Didn’t the God of Love arbitrarily make the temple into a peak like this? It’s not your fault that there are no stairs for you to come down.”
Ceres raised the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly.
“I’m glad you didn’t get any injuries.”
“Ceres and Leda… And are you all injured?”
She worked a miracle.
She was a princess who became a bit of a sensation in her dreams.
“Ha ah… I thought she was going to die in a really hot fire, Crown Princess.”
At the countess’s words, the succubi standing behind her raise their hands high and shout.
“That’s right! That’s right! I thought I was going to burn to death like this!”
“I thought it would be okay because he was a devil, but it wasn’t that bad!”
“That’s right! If it had been that flame, we would have disappeared too!”
The princess felt proud to see them happily expressing their joy.
She said she wasn’t wrong. There is value in this road.
Even if something you regret will come someday, let’s remember how we felt at this moment.
“… Princess.”
Leda’s urgent voice reached the princess’s ears, filled with excitement.
“It looks like the guest I was thinking of has arrived.”
The princess, who knows that the owner of the Archibald house is here, pats Leda’s shoulder with her hand and walks in front of her.
Deacon Archibald appeared with many people, enough to be called a small army, and very slowly approached the princess.
“Chief Butler. Did you come here to follow Abamama’s orders?”
“Yes, the Crown Princess.”
The deacon told the truth.
“Mother! Even though you know what the princess has done!”
Leda screamed in pain.
As someone who was her daughter, I felt so sad that they were trying to capture the princess who had created her miracle.
“Crown Princess Venus Holympia.”
“Okay, please speak comfortably, head deacon.”
The princess exhales her breath.
She was thinking of the worst case.
If the head deacon says that he will be captured here, even to the point of shedding blood…
The princess was always prepared to have a little blood on her hands for her loved ones and precious people.
“A long time ago, Emperor Jupiter gave me hope.”
“Hope?”
“Yes, it was my belief that our family, who had to do dirty work for the royal family from the moment they were born, would one day be given a moment to feel rewarded.”
The chief deacon speaks and kneels.
“… I never thought the day would come when I would feel that faith again.”
“Deacon…”
“I hope that now, this moment, will be brilliant and beautiful rather than the future that will someday come.”
When the owner of the house lowered his head and finished speaking, the shadows of the emperor standing behind him also knelt down.
It was clear what it meant.
“Don’t worry. Unlike Abama, I don’t promise you that there will be comfort in the future that may come someday. I will guide you to enjoy this moment and live in peace.”
The princess held out her hand.
She responded in the friendliest and kindest way to the owner of the Archibald house, saying that she would be loyal.
“It’s hard to believe that you inherited His Majesty’s blood…”
The head deacon shed tears that he had been holding back, and the princess held her outstretched hand tightly.
