Episode 2 – Groping in the dark
“UOOOOOOOOOOH, LONG LIVE THE PRINCESS-!!”
“GLORY IMPERIAL CRIMSON!!”
“VICTORY FOR OUR SUPREME LORD HIYUKI!!”
“”――VICTORY!!””
Various cheers vibrated around the throne. Finally, it settled down one by one.
…Why are those demon commanders so easily influenced like this?!
At the time I realized the situation was already out of my area of control (Well, from the beginning I don’t even try to control it), someone approached as I still far from recovering myself.
“As expected from Princess, what a stunning speech”
Mikoto smiled ecstatically.
“Oh what a composed figure that before so many demon commanders there’s not even a single flinch of eyebrow. As one would expect from my only master who I deem”
Utsuho, who conceals her mouth with a folding fan floating her smile in a coquettish manner.
“……”
I arbitrarily divert my gaze.
I made that speech with my soul, and then I was half faint afterwards… I won’t ever say about this no matter what.
Then before I know, those demons commanders begin to discuss dangerous topic such as… What country is gonna fall first? Who is gonna be the first one that thrusts his spear? How much of the population that we gonna preserve?
They should be stopped, but well, when the like of these guy get lumped together, even the ‘Eternal Horizon Online’ top level players going on an all-out war won’t possibly stop them!
In that case, the more realistic approach is to defeat them by pinpointing their leader….And if I think about it, that leader is my own position, so it’s a FAIL huh!?
But no matter how I am thinking about it, I was at loss you see?!
How should I put it, something is wrong with their logic!
Our lord has revived after a long time of absence.
Great! The country will able to function as before.
Then let’s rage a grand war to conquer the world!!
…it’s strange right!? Why did they suddenly come to that kind of conclusion?!?
“Your face is so difficult, are you having a trouble, Princess?”
“――Well, it just turns out that I am wishing for an explanation”
I spilled my inner most thought pouring hard towards Tengai, who approached to ask about my worried face.
Surprised, Tengai attaches his face to his knee.
“It’s inexcusable of me. I was so overjoyed by your revival that I have forgotten about the crucial explanation. I will take any kind of punishment to take responsibility”
“Leave your apology behind, go ahead with the explanation” please――talking in panic I gulped down the last word.
Tengai was taken aback in surprise, he turns towards those demon generals who are inside the heated discussion (By the way, with flame and rocks and magic circles flying around, the discussion is already too late to be stopped by words).
“KEEP QUIET YOU FOOL, YOU ARE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PRINCESS!!”
One thunderous roars that literally send off a thunder.
…If this is a direct hit I will die instantly.
Only just by the wave not less than 3 percent of my HP was completely shaved off as I check the situation, I silently cast heal on myself. My life force on this spot is my precocious torch after all.
In addition, those monster get several percentage of damage, they must had been taken the direct hit. I think because of that, their discussion was put into the water. They reluctantly sink into silence.
“Gentleman, the fact that I invited you all here is to smoothly communicate about the princess’ resurrection, and to deliver an explanation about our current…no, the situation within the Scarlet Jade castle to our Princess, who had just resurrected.
After said so, Tengai move to top of the floor several steps down in front of the throne, he making a genuflect stance there and bows to me.
“Well then Princess, although it’s insolent of me, Princess had suddenly turned went to sleep 100 years ago. Regarding the present day’s situation, allow me to explain”
100 years huh… In the human sense that feel a quite splendid age, but I wonder how it is in this world’s typical sense?
“In Princess’ sleep, we, your subjects used all kinds of our magic, I also even made you drink every medicine that existed inside the castle but still, there was no sign of an effect at all――”
“….Wait a minute. By what means you made me who was lying in the bed drink?”
“Considering of my impoliteness but, I had to conduct mouth to mouth feeding”
“……”
It, it can’t be helped right? It was that time of crisis, like that of artificial respiration, besides, it was fortunate that my partner was a sexy guy….
―So I was thinking about that point of time, moreover I had a feeling like some important thing that remained inside my mind is making a scrapping sound as it being shaved off.
“Next, as Princess went into the deep sleep, the Scarlet Jade Castle also went afloat above the clouds”
Well basically something about that it can’t be controlled except by the owner, for example even if the gulmen―
“Are other gulmen…like Pokku-san and Tamegoro-san didn’t come?”
I gave those two the title of guild sub master.
“Those god-like people? Unfortunately, no. On the contrary not only using warp circle, but also warp magic, and on top of that, even flying to escape had become impossible”
By the meaning of that word, the warp and traveling magic is usable. Moreover apart from that, the monster that easily leap through the air turn in each of the explanations.
According to them, from the start it’s nothing to do with a curse magic that was cast on the Scarlet Jade castle, and it possible to warp around within the sky garden, but the magic itself can’t be invoked if they try to go to any other place.
According to them, when flying away from the Scarlet Jade castle, they were swallowed by the darkness that encircled the sky garden so before they knew it, they ended up returning to the original place (it even seemed impossible for Tengai to break through it).
So by that, they gave up on escaping from the sky garden. To convey what purpose that remained, a possible 86,789 demon (With the same type of demon, the warehouse was able to store 99 of it inside 1 slot, so there was a considerable number of what resided inside the warehouse, but it appeared all of them were currently freed from there) gathered to discuss together, and it seems the result was the establishment of the demon’s temporary government, the round table, with the post of the 4 evil heavenly kings, the 7 beasts of calamity, and the 13 demon generals.
Still, in regard of me who fallen asleep for 100 years counted to this year, it seemed like a very unusual phenomenon happened.
With the strength they have, the demons forcibly force through the darkness, so I heard that they able to rush out into the outside world.
However, what they saw there―
“…It’s different. The type of demon, the country, and the terrain from what we known”
Thus by performed several inquiry the round table draw it conclusion.
This is the world that has a falsely similarity with the world that we know.
(End of chapter 2)