Chapter 158 – The Princess (Amended September 3)

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Women freed from captivity by demons.

Aurelia didn’t readily believe that all of them were originally male, but after she identified a few of them, she had no choice but to accept that it was true.

Since the number was close to 30, it was difficult to avoid people’s eyes and go to the mansion.

Moreover, the longer they lived as women, the more their memories of themselves as men faded.

What Aurelia chose to protect them was to bring them to a monastery in the capital, not affiliated with the Church of the Protection of the Saint.

Unlike the Tromeia family, which has a deep relationship with the Order of the Protection of the Holy Spirit, Aurelia herself has a link with a religious group that believes in a near-god being called ‘Holy Spirit’, so she sometimes gets help from them. .

Eustes also entered the monastery with them.

I woke up in a bed for the sick.

Waiting for him to open his eyes, Iona explained her general situation her to him and left the monastery.

It was to find a way to solve the male curse by gathering as much information as possible about this incident.

It was difficult for Eustes to walk properly due to the remnants of the dark magic still remaining in his body his and the damage accumulated as a result of forcibly moving his body his, but he held Mistiltein next to him in his hand and closed his eyes .

“…”

The sound of the sword was empty. It was not only herself who was affected by the black magic, but also Mistiltein.

It wasn’t like he could hear the voice of the sword like Ruba, Cleon, or Aruru, but compared to before, when he could feel its will to some extent, it seemed completely empty now.

Once again, Eustes felt keenly that it was no one else’s fault, but the result of his own weakness.

At that time, what came to his mind was the fight with Iona. And what would he have done if she had been Leona. Regrets of the same past.

And-

“…Cleon.”

Eustes felt a flutter in his chest and was troubled. His long hair and his changed body his no longer felt awkward.

No, he thought so, and Eustes knew that he had been changed.

It felt like the more he thought about Cleon, the faster he progressed.

The mind and soul begin to be attracted to the body that has turned into a woman. Feeling a greater attraction to Cleon as a woman of the opposite sex than her feelings for her for Leona, whom she originally longed for, was definitely a sign of a bad change.

He was afraid He himself changes. And, when the mind changes even more. He wonders if he is going to disappear.

If so. Wouldn’t even the small growth he had achieved as Eusteth be meaninglessly denied?

“Leona. How can I…”

Quietly. Alone in the dark room, Eustes trembled in fear. However, he soon grabbed the handle of the holy sword and raised his head.
“…I, do what I can. That’s what I would have decided. Eustace Woodnocker.”

Although his body and mind were changing, he still had a sword to wield and a body to wield. In his fading mind his, he clinks swords with Iona, recalling her story he heard from her.

Raise your head, grab your sword. The target to be cut was clear.

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Blind, half-man, half-horse Flarous led them through the passage of the ruins.

Surely, there must have been a few more traps after that, but they didn’t react to Flarous. If you follow the path she walks, the traps won’t activate anymore, and they will calmly enter the ruins.

The thick tail protruding from under the wide robe stands out. It stretched out so long that she was dragged by the ground as she walked, and I could see it swinging from side to side like a snake’s tail moving.

Amelia. As a Saint Princess, a crusader whose mission is to fight demons, she had to take a deep breath while holding her hand over her chest to calm her pounding heart while watching Flarous.

Amelia felt that she was a powerful demon who could feel her divine magic her and the energy of black magic that rebelled strongly.

There was a conflicting mind between her doubts that she could get her help from such a demon, and her trust her in trying to trust the human part of her that she had.

Besides, every time she looked at her, the wound on her shoulder that her Cleon had sealed was throbbing.

It was as if the seeds hidden within her wounds were responding to her. Perhaps feeling her gaze at her strongly, Flarous turned her head slightly to look at Amelia, then raised one corner of her mouth to smile, then walked in front of her without saying anything.

Although her eye patch was covering her eyes, she seemed to have no trouble moving at all. There, she was obviously looking at someone.

The place where Flarous arrived soon was at the end of the passage blocked by a huge wall.

Most of the ruins under the royal capital were blocked by walls like this, so I couldn’t go inside anymore.

Neglected ruins that could never be penetrated, either physically or magically, slowly faded from people’s memories as time passed.

In addition to that, there was a large tent, bed, desk, and other furniture, as if Flarous was living there.

And the bonfire hanging the kettle cracked, cracked. And the blue fire creates flames as it burns unidentified fuel.

Since the aisle itself is a huge indoor space, there was no need to create a separate room in it.

It was a slightly better living environment than Cleon’s homelessness in his days as an adventurer.

I couldn’t even imagine how they could live in a place like this where sunlight didn’t even come in.

Amelia looked at Flous’s things her, and after a moment she flinched, she murmured.

“…Imperial-style furniture.”

The objects placed there were not items commonly used in the kingdom, but only those made in the style of a different culture.

Unlike the people of the Kingdom, who value curved and streamlined designs as beautiful, the Empire tended to value items that were angular, made of stone and metal rather than wood.

When Amelia pointed it out without missing it, Flous sat down on the bed with the corner of his mouth raised.

“Right. I know that, kid?”

“… I just read it in the previous book. Are you a member of the Empire?”

At Amelia’s words his, Floraus shrugged his shoulders, untied the front of the robe he was wearing, and slowly took off the large piece of cloth draped over his body.

What she was wearing was a type of clothing that stuck to her body, and the material was not ordinary cloth, but it seemed to be a cloth imbued with some kind of magical power.

The feminine body line was fully exposed, but on the contrary, the degree of exposure was low.

It was similar to the clothes Ruba was wearing on her body her right now, but unlike Ruba’s clothes her, which were all black, her clothes her, which were designed in blue tones, didn’t look like battle attire.

“When I was young, I’m not a human of any country now. I live underground like this.”

Florows answered, grabbing the kettle and pouring warm water into the cup.

Gray’s eyes twinkled at the sight of an opaque reddish-brown liquid pouring out of it, but the others felt only a slight reluctance.

“I stayed with Ishtal in the imperial palace. Our mother is the wife of the demonic sword emperor. … No, she was a concubine.”

At those words, everyone there widened their eyes. If so, they-

“The Empire’s… Princess?”

When Cleon said that, Flarous laughed lightly.

“Ahaha. If you look at the family tree, maybe that’s the case. Unfortunately, my father isn’t an emperor.”

If so, did he give birth to her before marrying her emperor?

As they look at themselves as if they have such a question, she also says “Hoo” And continues with her sigh.

“I’ll explain in order.”

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The last Emperor of the Empire. Even the real name of the Demonic Sword Emperor has been erased from history.

It is now unforgivable to inquire into his name his, and no one dares to speak his name his. Truly, he is a person who cannot be called by name.

The first time he came to prominence was when, as a commoner from the Dark Horse clan, he excelled at the Imperial Cadet Academy, overwhelming all other imperial aristocrats.

It was surprising that an orphan boy born in the border region, without parents, enlisted in the Imperial Army as a regular soldier and entered the military academy with his sergeant’s support to become an officer.

It was also heard by the emperor that his noble lineage had more power, and that he had surpassed all the nobles of the common empire and graduated from the military academy at the top of his class.

Afterwards, he commanded the army as an officer of the empire, and he resolved problems large and small within the empire’s territory without hesitation.

The rebellion of ogres who were used as slaves, the incident where children went missing in the troll forest, and the dungeon of the Black Star that no one could explore.

No one looked down on him, calling him a commoner or an orphan, whose status was increasing.

When the emperor, who was unable to produce a child for his son due to a chronic illness and was agonizing over his successor his, he highly valued his skills and tried to adopt him as his own son.

Even the nobles who opposed it had no choice but to acknowledge his power after talking with him or clashing swords.

After he became crown prince, within a few years, the king passed away from a chronic illness.

They did not know that it was the beginning of a great disaster for both the kingdom and the empire.

The young man who became emperor declared war on the kingdom with the cause of uniting mankind under the banner of the empire.

However, the empire was already on a downhill path, losing its former glory and slowly collapsing.

The territory was small compared to the kingdom, and the military power was simply pushed out of numbers.

The emperor focused on creating ‘asymmetric power’ to solve this problem.

He captured and ruled the dragon, and brought in the minority people who were persecuted in the kingdom and made them allies.

He even created a ‘magic sword squad’, a unit composed only of black magic swordsmen, and relentlessly killed those who had the buds of a warrior.

The military power, which had been inferior, began to gradually overturn.

Armed with excellent equipment made by actively reflecting ancient technology, the soldiers were much stronger than the kingdom army that had spent a relatively peaceful era.

Step by step, the imperial army, which was expanding its territory, went to the brink of occupying the capital until the hero ‘Lesia’ appeared.

At that time, some of the kingdom’s soldiers who fought against the imperial army still remember. That the Imperial Army was fighting with the ‘devils’.

The Emperor accepted the minorities as members of the Empire and took the high-ranking women of his tribe as his wives as a promise of status for them.

Excluding the woman from the Dark Horse clan who was his original wife, the tribal chief of Vulcan’s descendants.

And the daughter of the chieftain of the ‘Clan of Megidido’, who inherits and preserves the powerful demon summoning technique. In other words. She is Flous’s mother.

The emperor, who was most wary of the power of the holy sword possessed by the warriors of the kingdom, came to the idea of ​​creating half-human, half-horse soldiers inheriting the blood of a clan with powerful demons and special abilities in order to counteract it before the start of war. I woke up

And the ones he chose as experimental mothers were the women he accepted as his own concubines.

He summoned his high-ranking demons and made them commit crimes against his concubines.

Both Ishtal and Florous were born that way.

Her mother her, who was perfectly absorbed in the emperor, did not reject the emperor’s crazy orders, but she happily accepted them and gave birth to them.

If they had slept with the emperor, they would have been treated as princesses, but they were born half-human, half-horse. The experiment was… Close to failure.

The original suit was to adjust the magic power of children born as half-human, half-horse, and grow them up in an instant.

I thought that by doing so, I could be immediately put into the battlefield.

However, although they were clearly half-human and half-horse, their bodies were close to human, and their magical powers were uncontrollable.

It was impossible to become full power immediately. The emperor quickly gave up his interest in them and decided to find another way.

Finally. After that, until the emperor was defeated by the golden warrior Lesia.

They just grew up without any expectations or attention in the imperial family.

They were not even allowed to leave the room they were given, and they spent their lives in confinement until the empire was destroyed.

And even when the empire was destroyed, their hell did not end.

Vulcan’s descendants and Megiddo’s clan were all executed as objects of hatred by the kingdom.

The dark horse clan ended up expelled from the Kingdom territory under the protection of the Church of the Protection of the Holy Spirit, but the two clans were not on good terms with the Kingdom from before.

In particular, Megidido’s clan, who had massacred countless people by commanding demons, was not even forgiven for leaving corpses behind.

However, Ishtal and Flarous survived.

Unidentified soldiers who arrived at the imperial palace before the kingdom’s troops stole them while they were still young.

What they were transferred to was a research institute that no one knew who was running it.

Florou, Ishtal, and Lilim, who lived in the same imperial palace but never met, met there for the first time.

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“…”

When the story got to that point, Flarous sighed as he saw that all the water in the kettle was gone.

Other humans made no sound.

He knew that the demonic sword emperor was a goddamn child, but his actions were beyond imagination.

Considering her misdeeds in Ishtar, she could n’t forgive her, but she could n’t help but feel her resentment towards her Demon Sword Emperor.

Even Cleon and Ruba felt when they thought that the same uncomfortable blood was flowing through them.

“…Living in confinement…”

And, after hearing her story her, Amelia muttered quietly.

As she clenched her fists and placed her hands on her chest, she felt her heart pounding strangely.

She couldn’t quite comprehend how this was happening.

“What is a research institute?”

“It’s a place where they tried to use us to study demons. Well, as with all research institutes, an accident occurred in an experiment and the story ends with us dramatically escaping.”

To Cleon’s question, Florous answered briefly.

And, another one. Questions left behind.

“Is Lilim the same as you?”

“…She’s… Different. She’s special. Yeah. More than any of us. But- I can’t tell you about that. I’m really sorry, but I have a thing called ‘oath’.”

She said and showed her palm her, showing the erosion of the curse by the oath on her hand her.

If you ask her questions about her over this and she answers, she too loses her life. Thinking so, Cleon first gave up on her question her.

“Well. After escaping from the laboratory, they flowed into this back alley and formed a family called ‘Astarote’ to survive. Originally, it was a group of women who were helpless in these back alleys. We thought we wanted to give them a place to live. We helped with that too. …Until that purpose changed and we brought up the story of bringing Demiurge into the world.”

“…Why are you trying to bring Demiurge down?”

For Lyle, to trap Aruru in her own ideal world. The purpose of the black battle was to summon the golden comet, the opponent.

But, what about Ishtal?

“To claim the throne.”

At Flarous’s reply, I heard Amelia gasping for breath. But, when Cleon and Ruba heard that, they blinked her eyes two or three times—

“…The throne. Is it the throne of the kingdom?”

“The only thing that has a king on this continent right now is the kingdom.”

At Cleon and Lubera’s words, Flarous fell silent for a moment.

“So. Is that Ishtal, half-human, half-horse, trying to rebel?”

When Gray said that, Amelia jumped from her seat her. With her hand on top of her stifled chest her. She seemed a little out of breath.

Her keyword her, her rebellion her, was also not unrelated to her.

Her uncle’s father also tried to rebel.

“We have to stop. Ishtal.”

As Amelia’s dark voice echoed, Cleon placed a hand on her shoulder her. It meant to be relieved, but it also meant to calm down a little.

Amelia’s physical condition is said to have been sealed by Cleon himself, but the underlying cause has not yet been resolved.

The more impatient she becomes or harbors negative emotions, the more her seeds her will start to germinate again.

“Florus. Can you tell me a little more detail?”

“Ah. Of course. But, from here on out, there’s a fee. As expected, I’ll have to pay for it.”

Flarowus nodded his head, but also brought out the story of the ‘master’.

Ruba frowned, but opened the bag and tried to take out the pouch containing the kingdom gold coins.

However, Floraus shakes her head while looking at Rubera.

“I live alone in a place like this, do you need such gold coins? What I need is something else… Yes. Should I say ‘possibility’?”

“…Possibility?”

As Lubera repeated it, as if not quite sure what it meant, Floraus stood up and began to undress him.

“Wait!?”

Amelia covers her face with her hands in embarrassment, while Gray looks at her body her with a sound like ‘Oooh!’

Ruba, seeing her sturdy yet voluptuous body her revealed as she took off her clothes her, she said something like ‘Kuu…’And then raised her hand and covered Cleon’s eyes her.

“Possibility is, literally, possibility. We Megiddo clan are demon summoners. In other words, what we receive is the possibility of a ‘soul’.”

“Selling your soul to the devil for information…!”

At Lubera’s angry words, Florause scratches her cheek and moves closer to Cleon.

“Ah~ It’s not wrong, but it’s a little different from what I was thinking…”

Then, moving her arm her little by little, she wraps her hand around Cleon’s waist her.

“Things that have the potential to become life in the future. Wouldn’t it be easier to say-“

“That, that’s… That means semen…?”

When Amelia responds to Flarous’s words instead, Ruba sighs loudly even though Ruba is stiff.

“There must be… A lousy price for that. Isn’t that just what you want to do with this guy?”

“I don’t deny that it’s just frustration, but it’s true.”

The eyes of Rubera and Flarous extended a little longer.

“…Okay. However, there are conditions.”

“What?”

“I will join you too. Cleon alone is not trustworthy.”

As soon as she had finished her words, Rubera began to take off her clothes.

Since she passed through a lot of traps on her way here, the smell of sweat rises from her sweaty body her under her tight-fitting clothes her.

“Lu, Rubera!?”

Amelia panics once again. Flarous looked at Rubera and raised her mouth her.

“It doesn’t matter… You really want to sleep with this guy, don’t you?”

“…I won’t deny it. It’s true that I’m not trustworthy. So. Are you going to do it on a hard floor like this?”

“No. Of course I use a tent bed. In fact, physical space doesn’t mean much.”

Cleon’s eyes still covered with his hand her. Ruba grabs his body her and raises him up. Floraus was to hold her hand so he would not fall.

“My opinion is…?”

Cleon was the only one who couldn’t keep up with the two women’s story that progressed swiftly.