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Chapter 69
Chapter 69
Chapter 69
CHAPTER 69 – CONQUERING THE PRINCESS AND THE DARKNESS AT THE SAME TIME
?I am thinking of stepping down from the throne?
The next morning, in the audience hall .
Aura and I were standing below, and the king was sitting on his throne .
The king was very exhausted, he was a wrinkly old man in the first place, but it seems like he had become much older than that; he’s weakened so much that he could die anytime .
?Otou-sama……?
?I was blinded . To think that I took a monster as a queen, to think that I was controlled by a monster?
The kind covered his face with his hands .
?Astrea, Clora, Shima, Daphne, Eunice, Lena, Leda……?
He called out names, his daughters’ names .
?Ohhhhhhh……forgive me, forgive me……?
He wailed while covering his face, repenting to the daughters that no longer exist .
?Onee-sama……?
Aura who was by my side also cried .
Honestly, I’m troubled . I don’t know what face to make . I can’t laugh or smile right .
I could only stay quiet .
Stay quiet and look at them, waiting for the two to calm down .
Aura returned earlier .
?Otou-sama, this kingdom still needs Otou-sama . Please continue, please continue to lead us, lead the people?
?The sin of dragging a monster within us……is heavy . It cannot be forgiven other than stepping down the throne?
?Otou-sama?
?And there, the next king……is……uhh……?
The king stutters, he took glances at Aura, it seems like he’s hesitating about something .
He had said it clearly when leaving his throne, what is he hesitating after all this time?
?He probably can’t say that his son would be the next king??
Eleanor said . I see, that’s how it is huh .
The reason why he killed his daughters while being controlled by Aerine is to make his son the king; after regaining his senses, it’s probably hard for him to say that his son is the next king .
?That obsession and the his weak heart was probably the reason he was controlled?
That’s probably right . I also think so .
The king stutters . Later than Eleanor, Aura also noticed that .
Aura kneels, and said while bowing her head .
?The crown prince should be the next king . Aura Torideca Comotoria, as weak as I am, I am willing to support the new king as a vassal?
With a formal tone, she said what the king wants .
The king clearly got relieved, and his expression got bright .
?That’s why he got taken in?
Eleanor didn’t have mercy .
I also……agree with her pretty much .
?
I was invited to Aura’s house .
It’s a splendid mansion that stands in the most lively place in the royal capital Krades . It’s several times more luxurious than my mansion, ‘as expected of a princess’ I thought .
Welcomed by many butlers and maids, I was passed through to the drawing room .
After waiting for a while, Aura appeared .
Her appearance right now, wearing a princess dress, is the most beautiful that I have seen her .
Aura straightens her back, and walks gracefully towards me .
She stood in front of me, stares, and bows her head .
?Thank you very much . All of it, is thanks to you?
?Yeah, be grateful?
?Yes, thank you very much?
Aura bowed her head again once, and said to me .
?I have talked to Otou-sama . You are now a viscount……one rank above baron?
?I see?
?Also, the land that bestowed before, he says that you will be given a vast land more than that?
?Land? Ahh, there was something like that right?
I remembered Comotoria’s messenger that came to my mansion .
If I’m correct, at that time, that man told me that he’d give me a land other than the baron title .
I didn’t have interest with that, so I had forgotten up until now .
?Is it vast??
?Yes . It seems like your noble rank could not be raised immediately, so the land was increased?
?Fu?n . That, it’s troublesome, so you manage it?
?Eh??
?I don’t have that much interest in lands or territories . Honestly, noble ranks too?
?N-No way……?
Aura’s expression breaks off .
She had a princess-like refined face when she entered the room, but now, she was almost crying .
?I cannot give my gratitude back then . Is there anything……is there anything else you want??
With a face that is about to cry, she asked me as if to beg .
?You?
I answered immediately .
From the start, I was only planning to request that .
Aura got dumbfounded .
?Me……??
?Yeah, you?
?Me, you say, what do you??ah!?
She was a little bit late to understand, but Aura realized .
The way her face blushes, it’s no doubt that she understood correctly .
?That’s right, let me embrace you?
?Do not joke with me, rather than the viscount title, rather than land?
?I’m not joking . You’re a good woman, a good woman is good enough for a reward?
?……are you saying that seriously?
?I’m serious?
I immediately answered again .
Aura’s blushed face reddens .
She blushed, and got restless .
It’s a little bit vexing . It’s not like she doesn’t like it, so I carried Aura like you carry a princess .
?Where’s the room that has a bed?
?Eh, ehhh???
?Where is it?
?Uhmm, you go left there?
?Yosh?
While holding Aura, I walked imposingly .
When we went outside, we encountered servants there .
The butlers and maids, they looked at me with a surprised face .
Aura covered her face with her hands . It seems like she’s too embarrassed that she would die .
?Uhmm……?
?What, even if you say it now that you don’t???
?From the time that you saved me, I have loved you?
Aura said with a voice as small as a mosquito’s cry . The way she said that while covering her face was so dangerously cute .
I took Aura to the room that has a bed on it, and ‘took’ her as a reward .
?
Within the darkness, small lizard monsters squirms .
The lizards gathered at one point .
With that dark haze as a point, as if a black hole was there .
The child lizards came and jump into that, came and jump into that, repeatedly .
After that, the black hole gradually got bigger; it got bigger every time child lizards jumped into it .
Repeating that, for one whole day .
The black haze finally materializes, and broke just like an egg .
?Kuhoaa!?
A lizard came out from the inside .
The thing that came out of the broken egg was Aerine in her lizard form . However, her appearance was small, just the size of a child .
Aerine’s face was full of hatred .
?That man……I won’t forgive him, I will never forgive him!?
The words she spits out, they were also filled with hatred .
?I will torture him, torture the ones around him……I will kill him slowly that he would regret he was alive!!?
With blood-shot eyes, a strong will could be felt with her declaration that she would do anything so that it can be done .
?……?
One man appeared without sounds .
Wearing a black outfit, a man that has an appearance of an assassin .
?You, you came at the right time?
It looks like Aerine and the man know each other .
It’s not like her hatred had completely disappeared, but it lessened when she saw the man .
?Take me back with you, when I regained my strength, that man???
Without waiting for Aerine finish talking, the man pierces out his hand .
He pierces her fiercely with the track of a body blow .
His hand pierced through Aerine’s body . His hand that was coated in blood had sharp nails; it didn’t look like a human’s .
?Kaha!……W-Why?
?You didn’t seem like you’d lose your hatred, you know?
The man said with a merciless tone .
?The who cannot be controlled would be destroyed?
?Even so……I……?
?My bad?
The man used his remaining hand and pierced through Aerine, and tears her into two .
Aerine who had just regenerated had been torn into two, and this time for real, she died .
The man only took a glance at her, and looked at the other side as if he had lost his interest .
?To treat Aerine as a child like this, stronger than expected?
Unlike his words before, a bit of weakness could be felt with his words .
?We are stronger than anybody else . He probably cannot be stopped with one on one anymore?
He whispered, and let out a sigh this time .
?The man who subordinates the Demon Sword……the man who gives birth to a new Demon Sword . I must make everyone thoroughly not get involved with him?
Saying that, the man disappeared into the darkness .
In a place where Kakeru is not present, the darkness, it changed its movement greatly .