171 – Curse, Not Blessing – 4
“Looks like everyone is here.”
The home of the blood demons, the void.
A bloody ghost in a suit wearing a mask opened his mouth. The mask was upside down and the mouth was positioned upwards, but nobody cared about that.
“I’m going to die of sleep. What’s the sudden call?”
The girl hugging the teddy bear yawned.
“It seems that the memories of being tossed around by humans are gone. I see you are falling asleep.”
“What? Are you crazy?”
“I mean, keep your mind straight.”
“Wow…. Let’s see this, really.”
The girl threw the teddy bear on the floor and approached the mask. It wasn’t long before a tense tension hung in the void.
But at that moment.
“You are watching.”
The princess’s secretary said a word firmly.
“Currently, the princess is awake. It means that we are watching everything that we have meetings.”
“Um.”
“….”
The two blood demons, who had been arguing over the word princess, hurriedly corrected their posture. The secretary took turns calling the two names.
“The mask.”
“Yes.”
The bloody ghost in a suit quietly changed his mask.
“This is the place to carry out the princess’s orders. Please refrain from provoking your allies.”
“Be careful.”
The blood demon in a suit continued to play with her own mask. Everyone understood that it was a habit he had when he wanted to kill someone, but he didn’t bite it now.
“And the girl.”
“Why?”
“Have some weight.”
“Okay. Got it.”
After calming them down, the secretary looked around.
“Is the shadow still there?”
“I have arrived. Just.”
Neutral and unpleasant tone to listen to. At the same time, a shadow rose high. Even though it was a pitch-black shadow, at least its eyes were human.
The secretary nodded.
“Three would be enough. Everyone must have a vague understanding of what we are here for today.”
The girl shrugs her shoulders.
“I don’t know…. Oh i know that Maiev came back after having her arm cut off by a human.”
Then the executives burst into laughter at the same time. No one here cared about Maiev, even though a fellow executive had her arm cut off.
As the secretary snapped her fingers, a light fell into the void that had been nothing but darkness. Standing there was Maiev, with one of her arms amputated.
“….”
Maiev avoided the gaze of the other officers.
As Flan’s slave stamp was engraved on his left hand, it was essential to cut his arm every time he visited the void.
“I knew it would turn out like this from the moment she said that she was confident in her stomach.
“Why don’t you refrain from slander among the executives? Of course, I agree with you that I knew this would happen.”
The shadow that had been listening quietly tilted her head.
“Human…. Did you say that it happened to humans?”
“I say yes.”
The mask nodded.
“I heard that you were proudly defeated by Plan, the human mage that the princess has been interested in lately.”
“It is true that I was beaten by a weak, short-lived servant…. Tsk.”
“Carelessness is probably the cause. There is one more Bloodghost here who was caught off guard.”
The girl I heard next to me clenched my teeth.
“Shut that mouth. It’s only dealing with humans, but isn’t it rather strange not to be vigilant?”
“Stop.”
Their conversation was denounced by the secretary.
“It’s okay to be careless. However, if you fail this mission, you will have to take your own life. The awakened princess will have no mercy whatsoever.”
“….”
The two characters “Princess” Made the blood demons cringe.
Diana de Rocheforte.
The symbol of the blood demons. The reason for the blood demons. Diana was such a being, and every blood demon was but a speck of dust before her.
It was the girl who broke the silence.
“Well, it’s enough to wake the princess up. Humans became so arrogant that they destroyed the barriers. Cheeky.”
“First of all, I will give you the mission.”
The secretary’s eyes became quite serious.
“We capture flan in Lacheln Hill.”
“Are you finished?”
“After setting up a residence in Lecheln, prepare for the march. This part will be decided by the princess.”
“It’s Jingun…. It’s a bit bigger this time.”
The girl picked up the teddy bear from the floor.
“You don’t seem to have much interest in humans, but this time you’re going that far?”
“Do not question.”
The secretary was angry.
“We don’t need to know the princess’s heart. If there is a will, it will be done according to him.”
“Well, that’s right.”
Although the princess might sleep a lot, she was not a person who messed with her work. As long as you wake up from sleep once, you will surely make a grand plan into reality.
“Three executives participated. That should be enough.”
“Not three.”
The secretary jerked and pulled the air.
Then a man with her leash on her leash pulled her up and showed up. No, it was an appearance that could only be understood by calling it a monster.
Strangely wriggling muscles and unfocused eyes. It was a cursed lump of flesh that only emitted ominousness.
“… A blood dog?”
Everyone blatantly crumpled their faces.
“Who solved this? Are you going to use a blood dog?”
“I wish I hadn’t written this.”
“This is the will of the princess.”
The secretary dismissed the backlash from the executives.
“Do you understand? Princess, you are serious.”
The secretary permeated into the darkness after those words. After confirming that she was gone, her officers murmured.
“… It seems the princess is really sincere.”
“Sure. If this is the case, then we have no choice but to be sincere. I don’t want to die to be changed.”
It was common for the princess to erase and replace the officers. And there was no executive who wanted to experience that phenomenon.
The girl hugged the teddy bear tightly.
“Let’s do it right.”
“I guess so. Also catch butterflies.”
In the empty meeting room, the executives began to disappear one by one. They would soon run rampant in Lecheln, which had no barriers.
And there was one bloodghost left alone.
“….”
Maiev, she swallowed dry saliva.
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Aurora touched the crystal ball with an uncomfortable expression.
His usual drowsy appearance is nowhere to be found. Seeing him concentrating on something, the officials around him had to swallow the tension.
Of course, Aurora had her own reasons.
“… Dye the barrier black?”
There are two barriers in Lacheln Hill.
A barrier that serves as a borderline, a barrier that blocks blood ghosts.
Among them, the barrier that served as the boundary line was stained black. The color wasn’t a problem, but the fact that you couldn’t observe the inside was a big problem.
Clink—!
Eventually, Aurora threw the crystal ball at her floor. She looked for her bureaucrat with her face wrinkled by the second princess.
“Tell me the current situation. Hurry.”
“Yes. Princess.”
A bureaucrat hurriedly posted a report.
“All groups failed to collect the Dawn Butterfly. Also, all the knights of the capital except for Scarlett have left Lacheln Hill.”
“What?”
“It is believed that the cause was that Flan chased away the Dawning Butterfly. As a knight of the capital, there was no reason to remain in Lacheln Hill.”
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“Damn it….”
Now that Plan and the knights had gathered, he intended to call in the blood demons and figure out their strength. But, thanks to Plan, the plan went awry.
Too sophisticated to be a coincidence. To say it wasn’t intentional is intentional. What the current situation tells us is clear.
“This bastard dares to fight against me.”
It wasn’t even a job to break a flan or something.
Aurora was able to suppress the Faculty of Magic, revoke permission to build the Magic Tower, and bury Plan’s achievements in an instant.
All these plans were already documented. With Aurora’s signature, Plans and the like will disappear into the dark side of history. No, it won’t go down in history.
“….”
However, there was only one reason for Aurora’s hesitation.
It’s difficult if the plan is completely destroyed. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a guy with no future, so I needed to keep him by his side and observe him.
But soon, she made a decision.
“We shouldn’t leave a precedent.”
If she tolerates Plan, there will be those who will try to compromise with her.
Aurora had to not know how to compromise.
Isn’t it because she was treated like a tool when she was young because she tried to compromise after all? So, she herself had to remain forever irreconcilable.
“Listen, everyone.”
Aurora opened her mouth seriously.
“I will go to Lecheln Hill myself.”
“Yes?”
“It means that I will see for myself that he misses his butterfly, gets trampled on by a blood demon, and begs for his life.”
At the same time, the dispatch was made.
Aurora moved her seat of power to Lecheln Hill, and court wizards fanned her with magic. The soldiers lined up on both sides were all solemn.
Aurora waited for only one person in her seat of power.
The future we will face from now on is simple.
People become dull in moments of crisis. If Flan, driven by her blood demon, bowed her head, Aurora would show her generosity only then.
The man showed up after a while.
At that moment, I had the illusion that Lacheln felt like an old-fashioned place. Probably everyone here felt the same way.
He was as clean as if he had come out of a dorm. There was no corner to find fault with, and every little movement was dignified.
Aurora broke the silence first.
“Are you here?”
Plan looked at the aurora above the throne.
The red eyes shining through the black bangs are deeply sunken. Aurora was curious about what was buried in that depth, but she knew she would soon find out anyway.
“Yes.”
The man answered briefly.
It was a reunion not in the imperial palace, but in an extinct land.
is Plan’s plan to get the dumb girl realizes she’s dumb?