A Messy Self-Made Play. (3)

“No! No!! I’m not some dirty monster aaah!!”

The drill hair of a washed-up noble lady that doesn’t match her silky silver hair.

The thick makeup only served to make her sharp eyes and impression look even sharper.

“Your Majesty! Come to your senses!! The ranking battle is over! What happened that day is…!”

“Get out of here!! Don’t come at me with a knife…!!”

Scream, or howl.

The princess swung a vase at the guard who was coming to stop her with a voice that was difficult to clearly state, and ended up covering his hand in blood.

“Kyaaak!! It hurts! It hurts…! I don’t want to do this anymore!!”

“Your Majesty! Please come to your senses…!”

Naturally, there was no reason for the armored guard to get hurt by the recklessly swung vase, and only her hand was torn by the mercilessly broken vase.

Only the attendants and guards around her were shouting and moving busily to make sure that she would not be left with scars, but to her, the scars on her palms and arms were of no concern.

“Why, whyyyy!! I, I just want to get out of this country!! A monster…!! I’m not a monster!! Stop swinging your sword at me!!”

“…Coty.”

At her seizure-like appearance, the Crown Prince of the Empire, Elford Royal Labyrinth, who cared for her, took a step back and watched with his teeth clenched in pain.

Unable to bear to see her like that, she went to see Raoul, the golden man she had fallen in love with at first sight, and explained the situation.

“Please, can you face my brother properly just once? Really… Really, he’s not as bad a kid as you think. Please, I beg you!”

However, in the ranking match, and even before the start of the ranking match, Raoul, who was a noble of a foreign country, simply shook his head to express his refusal about her, who had been a strong dislike to him.

“Ahhh… Aahhh!! I, I am not a monster!! I am… !!”

In the end, the princess, who was rejected by the golden man she fell in love with at first sight, was absorbed by an unknown monster in the ranking battle survival, and was mercilessly rejected and attacked by all the participants, went berserk.

The brakes were literally broken to the point where they could become enemies of humanity.

“… If you won’t accept me, if you won’t come to me, if you won’t… see me as a human being. Alright, I’ll show you how scary it is to be a non-human being. I’ll make you feel a fear that is much more terrifying than someone like me with a god-given ability, so that’s how… “

-Because you will see me as a human being even though I am nothing special.

She brought the disaster known as the Demon Race into the middle of the world’s largest festival, the Imperial Ranking Tournament.

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“Hehehe! I’m sorry!”

“No! I won’t forgive you for laughing like that?! I’m canceling our promise to hang out later!!”

“Huh?! The girl was wrong! That’s the only thing…!!”

As someone who knows her story, I couldn’t help but laugh at the situation.

Even though he was carrying her in his princess arms and running away with all his might, he was able to give her a hearty pat on the forehead with his remaining hand.

“What?! You hit a girl…!! Girl! Princess… !”

“Are you an alpha?! Do you even know what that is?! It’s a slime, a slime! A fantasy species!! If you get absorbed by it, it doesn’t just end in pain?! The level of pain is ridiculous!!”

“Heeeek… I apologized… “

“If apologizing is all forgiveness, then why are there police and laws…?! [Lv. 3] [Black Magic Bullet]!!”

-Bang!!

She already has a dark past.

But now, he has opened up his heart enough to tell me about those fragments of his past, and his stubbornness and tendency to oppress others with his power have weakened a bit compared to the novel.

In any case, the point is that her past history will not have changed.

That girl, while still sane, goes through the pain of having her bones, flesh, blood, and mind melt away in the slime, and while there, for at least an hour, while still sane, she eats people and feels herself being stabbed in return by the people?

The Blackened Princess, the Empire’s Destruction Route is straight ahead.

‘And I don’t want that.’

At least if you like me now, then you have to come to me on a romantic path.

That’s why I’m here.

I wanted to know if you really liked me, so I let you participate in the ranked match even though I knew you would.

“Next to you, hyung!”

“Ugh?!”

“Eek?!”

“[Lv. 2] [Thorn Needle]”

Harb, who was running to my left, quickly changed his posture and tried to move to protect us, but faster than that, the slime that was flying towards me was torn apart by the sound of a spear right behind me.

“Don’t worry about this. It seems like they have a lot to talk about, so take your time. I’m the one getting carried away anyway.”

“Hehehe! Thank you!”

“… … “

Nora happened to arrive at that place with me. She was now hanging on to my back.

At first I was going to have Harb carry her, but that would have tied both of our hands together and made it highly likely that we wouldn’t be able to escape the slime’s territory, so I ended up carrying her on my back too.

At first she said she would stay there and try to stop him before she could get out, but her legs weren’t in a condition to run at full speed right now.

That’s something I already confirmed when I looked at it earlier.

In the end, Nora… became a girl who didn’t hesitate to say that she would sacrifice herself for me, whom she really hated.

“Relax, or you can just leave me alone.”

“Wow… You know a commoner?”

“You knew Rudis too. Somehow, she was kind and pretty.”

“Hehehe! Thanks for the compliment!”

“… And some stupid stuff too.”

“Huh?”

… the story really sucks.

I glanced at Nora’s dark blue eyes as she looked at the princess with a hint of longing or envy, and sighed deeply inwardly.

If you ask me if I have any regrets about saving her life, despite being a mere third-rate villain, the answer is an absolute NO.

If that situation comes up again, I will… No, if there is anyone there who is innocent, I will save that person.

No matter how I think about it, the life she had to endure there was just so fucking shit.

And the same goes for Ellis’ story.

Even if it is a story of the heroines’ growth, I think there should be a limit.

And actually, Nora has now achieved enough growth to reach the level of a regular story. No, she has become stronger.

She has overcome the Slime offensive on her own in the defensive battle story and reached the mountain where the Slime’s main body is, so it is clear that she has become much stronger than in the original story.

That is to say, they were humans who could become strong if they were given a little push in some way.

“Commoner! Please introduce the Black Witch to the girl later!”

“… I’m going to really punish you later. I’m going to report to the crown prince and tell him that you’ve done dangerous things. “

“That’s not right!! The girl is banned from going out!!”

“Wow… What a really fun person.”

Nora naturally laughs at the conversation between me and the princess.

How long has it been since I’ve seen something like this guy smiling?

After entering the academy, I was just laughing in vain for two days, and after a week, I was sighing.

I don’t remember when it was after that, but after I sorted out an incident, he started swearing whenever he saw my face.

Even though I was the one who led it to that point because there was a quest, I couldn’t help but feel a little sad.

But now, she’s clinging to me like a baby koala who won’t let go of my back.

“Rudis, I can’t feel the slime’s presence or magic anymore. Didn’t it enter the defensive magic circle I mentioned earlier?”

“Uh, uh… “

As Nora spoke to me in a soft tone as if it were natural, I unconsciously trembled slightly and let the princess down first, then her. Nora looked at me with a bitter look and opened her mouth softly.

“I don’t know what you ultimately want from me. Honestly, I don’t know why you’re acting like that instead of saying anything. But, is that what you want?”

It is now an undoubted certainty.

Nora already knows full well that my cruel cut this afternoon was a self-hypnotic performance.

Of course, I don’t know anything about hypnosis, but I have come to understand that the actions I take on myself are done out of ‘need’.

“If it’s something you can’t tell me, I won’t ask. But… “

-Ugh…!!

At the sound that echoed as if to interrupt her words, two people except Nora and I turned our heads.

Perhaps the magic square I created was broken.

If they hadn’t figured this out, they wouldn’t have bothered to put in the effort, but since they were ‘tracking’ us, they would have immediately noticed that we were hiding inside this magic when we suddenly disappeared.

But, those ‘trivial details’ didn’t matter. Nora, in front of me, continued talking to me while looking at the sad-looking wall.

“… After this is over, I have something I really need to say. Just listen to me. Please. “

“… … “

I couldn’t answer. I already knew from the look in her eyes what she wanted to say.

It’s time to admit that all the nonsense I’ve done so far, all my third-rate plans, have been ruined.

-Thump, thump.

Nora turned her back toward the direction where the sound of the magic circle I had created breaking was coming from, as if she had finished what she had to say, and raised her voice with force as if her previous appearance had been a lie.

“Hold on until morning! Find the main body and subdue it! Which way is it!”

“… Subjugation. I know the location of the main body. “

“Brother, me too… !”

“Yes, yes. Harvedo, and… the princess too, let’s go together. I’m scared to leave them anywhere else.”

“Yes!!”

“Hehehe! Got it! Girl, this will definitely help!”

“Please stay still behind me.”

“Woong… “

What should I call this situation, which is so far removed from the picture I had hoped for?

ah.

“This is a real mess.”

As is often the case with third-rate plans, we ended up going on a slime extermination mission in a disorganized and messy party.