Chapter 893 – 100 Days – The Princess Met Minerva
“It seems like Abama really thinks that something like Holympia is a good thing!”
The princess, who had entered through the walls of Holimpia with the help of everyone, was horrified by the terrible sight before her.
“It is such a tragedy that even the word terrible is not enough.”
Hedone spoke while quickly letting out her pent-up breath, holding a pitch-black gun in both hands.
The beautiful streets of Holympia were filled with the Knights of the Zodiac, who had turned into pitch-black lumps of mud.
Corpses on the streets were strewn like leftover food, and beautiful buildings were burning with bright red flames.
“I was thinking that in the worst case it would end up like this…”
I don’t care about Holympia.
It doesn’t matter to the people who live on this street.
In order to accomplish a great task, I will make any sacrifice as long as I can create the ultimate successor.
The princess clenched her molars, hoping that Jupiter Holympia would not think such a thing.
“Wherever you look, doesn’t it seem like the Knights of the Zodiac were evacuating the people of Holympia?”
“That’s right. When I see knights turned into undead running wild in every corner of the street, it seems like Emperor Jupiter placed them intentionally.”
“Did His Majesty the Emperor even expect his princess to protect my older sister?”
“If you had predicted that and let the streets burn like this, wouldn’t you have gone crazy?!”
She was a frightened princess, hoping that it wasn’t the case, but her reality didn’t change.
The Zodiac Knight, spewing pitch-black mud, was wandering around the beautiful streets of Holympia like a zombie.
“Ugh!! We can’t just leave thousands of animals running loose on the streets!”
She had to clear her way to get to the imperial palace anyway.
The princess clicked her tongue loudly and made her way through, smashing the Zodiac Knight in front of her with the sword that Amilias had made.
“Princess! Be careful of the alleys! There are times when they are waiting against the wall!”
Bang! Hedone pulled the trigger with bright red flames and skillfully exterminated the undead who were the Knights of the Zodiac.
“Princess! Fortunately, the damage on the street doesn’t seem to be serious.”
Ceres, wielding a huge scythe, eliminated three or four undead at once and pointed to a building where the fire had been extinguished.
“It’s not serious? How is that possible?”
“We can see that the fire has been clearly extinguished. This means that someone is working to calm the chaos in Holympia!”
“Pfft! Then, as long as I can find that someone, anything will work out!”
Rather than running around like crazy through the chaotic streets of Holympia, it was better to cooperate with the helpers who were trying to protect the streets.
All roads in Holympia eventually lead to the imperial palace. There may have been a route to block her, but she was the princess who couldn’t have just let it happen, so she had to lend a hand.
“Princess!! Look over there!”
At the place where Hedone pointed with her finger, there was a rather famous inn in Holimpia.
It was a historic place that not only nobles from far away but also wanderers with money had no reason not to visit.
“You’re looking terrible…”
Hundreds of undead were crowded around that beautiful building.
It was obvious what was going to happen because there were loud noises of swords swinging and fighting coming from inside the inn.
“I wouldn’t say it’s the only place…”
Ceres swallowed his saliva.
“It appears that the undead near the castle wall were drawn by the commotion outside and fought us, but at least in the case of the Zodiac Knights on this street, it seems they were focused on that inn.”
“To put it simply, hemp is a meat trap that attracts insects.”
The princess let out a long sigh at Hedone’s cold words.
Once again, her world forces her to make a painful choice.
I don’t know who is at the inn. She may be someone the princess doesn’t know, and she may already be too late.
Since all responsibility for this situation lies with the emperor, ultimately, the way to save more lives may be to invade the imperial palace and bring down the emperor.
“Hedone! Have you gotten used to the gun Asmo brought you in her hand?”
“You’re planning to do something so ignorant again.”
The princess smiled with her regret.
“I am different from Abama.”
The princess let out a short breath, bent her body, and shot out into her inn like a bullet.
“You are the one who is abandoning the good cause of making strategic choices.”
“I knew from the beginning that you were that kind of person, right, Mr. Ceres?”
“I didn’t raise him like that…”
Ceres sighed and shook his head, but instead of swinging his scythe, he held it with both hands and focused his magic.
─Understand Kwazijijik!
The princess, who shot out like a bullet, cut through the dark undead in front of her as she saw them, making every effort to enter her inn.
In the place where the princess passed, her undead corpse was strewn, and even the corpse was clinging to the blackened Knights of the Zodiac, ready to devour it.
And above the heads of those beings, a dark purple magic circle created by Ceres was created, and lightning fell with a blood-curdling sound.
─Bubbabububbung!!!
“Uuuaaaaa…!”
The princess, who boldly destroyed the undead and entered her inn, kicked the undead who were fighting inside her with her feet and struck them with her sword.
─Bad!
“B-Venus… Princess…!”
As soon as the situation was settled, the princess couldn’t help but smile at the admiring voice she heard.
“Minerva?! Were you here? Of course, I thought you were acting as the gatekeeper of the imperial palace!”
“Hehe, hehe…! Even so, Minerva, she is the head of the Lutetia family! She is the head of the Blood Knights! I can clearly tell which side is justice!”
Minerva was glowing as she spoke, covering her mouth with her hand and smiling as best as she could.
Today she was feeling happy to escape the fate of the executioner dragging her princess to her arena.
“If the situation… Wow! If it had been a little better… I could have praised you even more!”
The princess, feeling sad, wiped the sweat from her forehead.
Outside, the sounds of gunshots and magic made by Hedone and Ceres could be heard baking the ground, so the princess looked inside the inn.
The inn had been completely turned into a fortress by Minerva for the ‘Blood Rose Knights’. There were traces of a desperate fight by carving runes into the walls, taking out all the furniture, and barricading the windows and doors.
“Thank you for doing your best, Minerva.”
The princess let out her breath for a moment and then calmly grabbed Minerva’s waist.
“Thank you, Princess Venus. That Miner…”
The princess gently kissed Minerva’s cheek and locked her gaze with her eyes full of will.
“You know that only you can calm the chaos in Holympia and evacuate people to a safe place, right?”
“… Of course not. Even now, the Blood Rose Knights are doing their best to evacuate the people of Holympia to the north.”
“Is the situation in the north okay?”
“I will tell the princess that it is much better than the south where she was planning to come.”
“There are my troops outside the walls…”
The princess did not know exactly how the war was going, so she tried to communicate with the earring, but it was meaningless.
“It’s okay. I was planning to hang a flag at the inn, so those who follow the princess will recognize it right away.”
Minerva’s bright smile allowed the princess to take a sweet rest, even if it was only for a moment.
“Anyway… Huh, where are all the guards who have the duty to protect Holympia? Wasn’t there quite a standing army as well?”
“Ah, that’s…”
“If it’s Holympia, it must be a place where many nobles come. Aren’t the number of knights chasing the buttocks of noble wives more than the entire Blood Rose Knights?”
In response to the princess’s question, which sensed her strangeness, Minerva made an expression that reflected her bitterness.
“It’s just as the princess said. If you add up all their numbers, of course the chaos in Holympia… The Knights of the Zodiac, who suddenly turned into undead, could have somehow been prevented with less damage than this.”
“Are you saying there is a problem? How can there be a problem?”
Holympia is the capital of the empire.
Since it was the land where the imperial palace was located, it was rather strange that there was a problem.
“… Is it true that the one that has not had a problem so far is the one that has become a problem?”
“It’s a shame… But that’s right.”
Minerva sighed deeply.
“The imperial palace where His Majesty the Emperor resides. What kind of idiot in the world would attack a place like this? The guards are just a formality, and the standing army also exists…”
“Could it be that you weren’t prepared at all?”
Minerva laughs awkwardly, unable to laugh or cry.
“To live a luxurious life, you need money. And the easiest way to make that money is…”
“Ugh! I’ve never liked those women who have been called Abamama’s concubines since long ago!”
The princess clucks her tongue and places her hand on Minerva’s shoulder.
It would be quite difficult, but she was planning on somehow saying that she would ask for Holympia’s distance until she subdued Emperor Jupiter.
“Go inside!!”
That thought became meaningless as the broken door of the inn opened with Ceres’ sharp voice and the Bloody Rose Knight appeared, covered in blood.
“Mi, Minerva… Oh, oh, oh! Venus, the Crown Princess!”
“Oh my God! Michael! How could you, the strongest of all the knights sent to the north, end up like this? What happened to the duchess I sent with you?”
Minerva was embarrassed and held the knight’s bloodied body with both hands.
“Woe, the emperor… Emperor Jupiter… Ha, set a trap… In the north… As soon as the northern gate opens…”
“What crazy thing did Abamama do again? What did she do again?!”
When the embarrassed princess shook the knight’s shoulder and spoke, he spoke with tears in his eyes.
“The moment we opened the northern gate to the Kingdom of Galagon… Monsters that could not be considered of this world poured out. The brothers and sisters did their best to stop them, but… Ugh, sorry… “
The knight in his right mind was in pain, biting his lip hard and bleeding.
“It wasn’t an enemy that couldn’t be defeated… But the number of armed knights… And the number of soldiers was too small. It wasn’t an enemy that could be done with less than a hundred. Lord, please kill me. Princess. Sir…”
No matter how brave a knight he is, he cannot kill a monster with just a pair of panties.
“You did everything you could to subdue me by breaking my heart.”
The only people who can fight right now are the princess and Ceres.
The princess bit her lip tightly as she had to stop the legions of monsters coming down from the north, destroying the streets of Holimpia like waves.
