Chapter 876 – Day 99 – Hedone Feels Something Strange.
“Abama didn’t create Hedone…?!”
The one who was most shocked was the princess.
“Don’t say things that aren’t funny, Royal Mistress! Abamamama, say it from your own mouth…!”
“Didn’t you know that everything that came out of his mouth contained a little lie?”
Mistress smiled, her light blue hair neatly pulled back.
“The Great One never lies.”
“Are you planning to make another ridiculous pun?”
“Don’t you know? When asked what happened to her brothers and sisters, she answered that she ate them.”
The princess distorted her face.
Although it was not easy to admit, Emperor Jupiter was indeed such a person.
I don’t lie.
However, this does not mean that the story is believable at face value.
“Because Emperor Jupiter handed over to you the magic of life creation that Queen Madolce studied. So Emperor Jupiter said that he created it?”
“As expected, you are smart as a valued guest. That is correct. No matter how great a wizard I am, I cannot suddenly use the magic of creating life overnight.”
“Because you claim to be Emperor Jupiter’s tool.”
At He Donne’s words, the Royal Mistress smiled softly and nodded.
“… I thought it didn’t make sense logically.”
The princess pressed her forehead strongly with her right hand and let out a sigh.
“It was impossible for Abamama, who cannot use magic, to create Hedone ‘directly’ with the magic of life creation, so I assumed that he must have created it with omnipotent power…”
“You are truly saying something foolish. No matter how omnipotent and omnipotent a power may be, it cannot create life.”
“You speak quite confidently.”
“Yes, if the Great One could so easily create the life he wants with his omnipotent power, there is no way he would have gone through the hardships he is going through right now, right?”
At Mistress’s words, the princess bites her lip and lets out a sigh.
“You’re not wrong…”
“The princess…”
“Think about it, Hedone. If Abama was really able to so easily create life as she wants with her almighty power, wouldn’t she need me?”
Hedone thought for a moment and then smiled bitterly.
“There was no need to keep Elaine alive, no need to give birth to the princess, and no need to make her mother sick with the terrible magic tool called Cordyceps.”
“Even if it were the power of God, it couldn’t create exactly the life you wanted…”
Can we really call it omniscience and omnipotence?
The princess had many thoughts, but she did not dare to speak and kept her mouth shut, keeping the Royal Mistress on guard.
“Ha… It’s a shocking story, but it doesn’t matter.”
After regaining her composure, Hedone glared at the Royal Mistress.
“It doesn’t matter if you say you created me. I plan to live for the princess until the day my life comes to an end.”
“Because that’s how you were made.”
“No. For someone who created me, it seems like he really doesn’t know about me. I thought about it on my own and decided to spend the rest of my life with the princess.”
Hedone raised the corners of her mouth and spoke.
“So, I feel grateful that you created me, but I have no intention of remaining in this unpleasant mansion.”
“… Is that so?”
The Royal Mistress looked very faintly sad.
“I thought that if you were created with my own hands and born from my seeds, you would remain an honored guest in this castle.”
“… Wait.”
Hedoné rubbed her face with her hands as she heard the story again.
“What does that mean… No, if it’s a seed… You mean I was born from your stomach?”
“Of course. All the children in Holympia’s facilities are children born from my seeds.”
Hedone said nothing for a moment.
That’s, unfortunately.
It wasn’t because she was surprised.
“… You!”
“I am glad that these children are born from my seeds and possess tremendous magical power…”
“Don’t be funny!! Don’t say strange things!”
Hedoné, who was so angry that it was hard to see, stretched out her hands and grabbed the back of the neck of the Royal Mistress.
“Is it you?! Was it you?!”
“What do you mean?”
“You!! You sent me to that horrible basement?! You created it! Furthermore, you sent me there?!”
“Yes, that’s right. This castle is an educational facility for making concubines of the great man and the emperor. I couldn’t educate you here.”
What was the sad emotion she showed just now?
The Mistress speaking to Hedone was strangely businesslike.
“Do you know what happened in that underground facility?! Do you know how many sisters died?! We! They even hated us!”
“Yes. That’s how it should be. It was made that way.”
“Do you know how shameful and shameful we have been? We killed ourselves!”
“It’s just as I intended. Because there were such hardships and trials…”
The Royal Mistress grabs Hedone’s cheeks with both hands and makes him look at her.
“Look. See you with my eyes.”
“Ah…”
“A woman was born who can complete His great task.”
Hedone strongly shook his head from side to side and grabbed the Royal Mistress’ chest with both hands and pushed her away.
“Don’t play around!!! If the children are born from your seeds! Feel guilty at least!!”
“It is the seed I sowed. It is the life I created. It is my heart to harvest and use it.”
The Royal Mistress’ expression was calm.
“… Hedone. Didn’t I tell you?”
The princess patted Hedone on the back very slowly.
“Royal Mistress is this kind of girl. Ever since I was young, even I instinctively disliked her.”
“…”
Hedone said nothing.
She hated talking.
The fact that a part of her body was made from a woman who was embarrassing to even describe as trash in front of her was disgusting.
“Royal Mistress. It looks like Hedone is in no mood to talk anymore.”
“I see.”
“I’ll just leave now. I know that your position and ours are completely different, so let’s see each other on a land where blood will be shed.”
Because Hedone was present, the princess did not force herself to attack the Royal Mistress.
Because the princess was not her muscle and brain enough to fight on her enemy’s home turf with Hedone, who was a must-protect opponent who used magic beyond Arisa’s knowledge.
“… Are you going back?”
At one word from the Royal Mistress, Hedone suppressed disgust and averted her eyes.
“Why…”
There was a strange emotion in Mistress’s eyes, faintly hidden by her light blue hair.
Hedone bites her lip, unable to say exactly what it is.
“Why do you… Have such sad eyes?”
“… Do I have eyes like that?”
Hedone closed her eyes tightly at the Royal Mistress’s words.
Hedone felt that the Royal Mistress was sad.
She was suffering.
‘… She is a woman who displays people like works of art and treats our sisters like livestock thrown into a barn. She’s a woman who takes things like that for granted…’
Why does the Royal Mistress not attack the princess and herself?
“Haa…”
Hedone let out a very long sigh.
“The princess.”
“Hedone. I don’t know what you’re thinking, but don’t do it.”
The princess was a little impatient.
“Hedone-sama. I also dare to say this. The Royal Mistress is not someone whom Hedone-sama can do anything about.”
“… But, the two people who know that well are also here today, right?”
When Hedone spoke with her smile, the princess nodded, moaned, and crossed her arms.
“Well, that’s right. Since some time has passed and the situation is the same… I was hoping for the possibility that the Royal Mistress might have changed.”
“Then, can’t I just hope a little bit?”
“It’s so dangerous.”
Hedone smiled at Ceres’ concern.
“If talking had made the situation more dangerous, they would have attacked us the moment we tried to leave the room.”
“If you think about it logically, yes, but don’t you know that the Royal Mistress is a being without common sense?”
Hedone shook her head.
“No. It seems like he understands a certain kind of emotion since he tells me that he was born from his own seed.”
“No way…”
“Wouldn’t it be great if we could pass through the Duchy of Altema without shedding a single drop of blood?”
As soon as Hedone said those words, she turned around.
Then she looked up at the Royal Mistress carefully.
“Royal Mistress.”
“Yes, distinguished guest. Hedone.”
“If I was born from your seed, I guess I can act a little shamelessly like this, right?”
Hedone speaks and walks to Mistress.
When she got close enough to feel each other’s warmth, she carefully spread her arms.
“What…”
“I’ll call her Mother. There are honestly a lot of things about her that I just can’t help but laugh at. She’s a mother, right?”
Hedone said so and tried to hug the Royal Mistress by the waist.
“Ah… I…”
Before she could clearly convey her warmth, the Royal Mistress suddenly disappeared in front of Hedone.
“Hah?!”
Thinking that this sudden action would lead to an attack, the princess urgently grabbed Hedone’s arm and pulled him toward her body, but nothing happened after that.
“How on earth did this happen?!”
“Ha… I can roughly understand what the situation is.”
Hedone took out her handkerchief and wiped the cold sweat from her forehead.
─Kkii Iik
The huge decorated painting was pushed to the side, revealing a hidden staircase.
Hedone, seeing this, pointed with her finger and kissed the princess’s cheek.
“Now, let’s go upstairs and finish the story, princess.”
“Now, wait. Wait, wait. Don’t keep it to yourself as to how this happened. Talk to me!”
The princess screamed, thinking that something impossible had happened.
“So… It’s not easy for anyone to understand, but it was a simple story. Princess.”
“Royal Mistress is simple?!”
“This woman has never received love in return. She is out of her mind. She did not give birth because she had a real stomachache, and she unknowingly hoped that the child she created would return her love.”
As soon as she finished speaking, the princess looked at Ceres, seeing Hedone leading her masked young lady up the stairs.
“Then… Now… Is the reason the Royal Mistress disappeared because she was embarrassed…?!”
This cannot happen.
The princess was truly surprised!
