Ch.130Chapter 130 – Strange Decisive Battle (4)

– Sneaking…

“…Oh my.”

As Adler, who had been hiding behind a park bench in a crouched position, tried to slip away with duck feet, the princess who had been quietly watching him tilted her head and spoke.

“Where are you hurrying off to?”

“…Ugh.”

“Hmm? Mr. Adler.”

Thanks to her, Adler froze in the middle of his escape.

“…What brings you here, Princess?”

While sweating nervously and shifting his gaze sideways, he notices the royal knights behind her and asks with a slightly relieved expression.

“Hmm.”

She narrowed her eyes slightly, looked back, and suddenly raised her hand.

“Princess, but…”

“It’s fine.”

“If this gets out, the entire knight order will be dismissed…”

“I see you’re not afraid of the punishment I’ll give you all for disobeying orders.”

The princess’s intimidating presence, as she covered her mouth and muttered with a chilling smile, was difficult even for the seasoned royal knight captain to shake off.

“…If things become even slightly dangerous, you must call for us immediately.”

“……..”

“Terrible rumors about that man have been reported from all over lately. Please be careful.”

Finally giving in, the knight captain said this and turned toward the direction where an ominous aura was emanating.

“W-wait, I’m the one in danger here…?”

“Hehe.”

“…Ah.”

As Adler reached out with a distant expression while watching the knight captain’s back, he suddenly froze upon hearing the eerie laughter coming from right beside him.

“Hello.”

“H-hehe.”

“You know, I’ve been wondering something.”

The princess had already shed her dignified manner of speech.

“Why didn’t you send me an invitation?”

No, it was because Gil the Reaper, the worst serial killer, was slowly pulling out a hideous knife from the shadows while asking the question.

“I heard even those leftover monsters you’ve placed as subordinates among the knights all received your message.”

“W-well, you see…”

“I’m really curious why I was the only one left out….”

Seeing that knife triggered past trauma, causing Adler to close his mouth and start sweating.

“I-I couldn’t treat the P-Princess the same as the others…”

“…What an interesting excuse.”

“N-no… it’s not an excuse, it’s simply the truth.”

Looking at him as if he were cute, the princess suddenly changed her expression to a cold one and took a step toward him.

“Liar.”

– Thud…

“Huh?”

The next moment, with a deflating sound, Issac Adler fell into her arms.

“…You said it yourself last time. That we should go on a date this weekend.”

“………”

“You said you’d contact me and that I should wait.”

Gil the Reaper, who had stabbed her favorite knife into his heart, stroked the back of Adler who was panting in her arms and questioned him with a serious expression.

“But for some reason, no matter how long I waited, there was no contact?”

“………..”

“…Adler, did you deceive me?”

As Adler trembled while facing the princess’s cold eyes at a distance where their lips almost touched, a look of sudden realization crossed his face.

“Don’t tell me you forgot?”

“Uh…”

“Is that really the reason?”

“…Ugh.”

Gil the Reaper smiled incredulously and began twisting the knife stuck in Adler’s heart.

“…You know, Adler. Because of what you said that day, I canceled all my weekend plans.”

“Ugh…”

“And then, like a princess from a fairy tale, I sat in my palace room all weekend. Wondering how you would contact me.”

Adler’s eyes began to shake wildly at her voice, which seemed filled with resentment.

“When Saturday passed and Sunday came, I thought it might be okay. After all, ‘weekend’ includes not just Saturday but Sunday too.”

“Uh…”

“But as Sunday evening approached, I started to feel uneasy.”

Gil the Reaper continued her story while looking straight into his eyes.

“Still, thinking it might be a romantic intention to have a date at night, I endured with patience.”

“……..”

“…How do you think I felt when the clock struck 12, after sitting quietly in my room for 48 hours?”

Left speechless, Adler scratched his head and opened his mouth.

“…Would you like to butcher me like last time?”

“No, I’m just going to kidnap you and throw you into a grinder.”

With those cold words, she drove the knife deeper into his heart.

“Um, well…”

“……..?”

As Adler rolled his eyes trying to hold onto his fading consciousness, he suddenly put on a submissive expression and leaned his head toward Gil the Reaper.

– Lick…

Then, he licked her cold lips once with his tongue.

“What are you doing…?”

“…Will you marry me?”

As he wagged his tail and whispered that, a moment of silence fell around them.

“Ahaha… haha…”

Eventually, an incredulous laugh began to flow from her lips as she stared at the sweating Issac Adler.

“…Just die.”

“Hup.”

Simultaneously, her knife began to slowly cut through Adler’s heart.

– Peek, peek…

With his face pale, Adler strangely began to peer behind him.

“What’s wrong?”

“……..”

“I guess you didn’t come here alone?”

His eyes began to tremble quietly upon hearing Gil the Reaper’s whisper.

“But what can you do?”

– Crunch…

“I’m sorry, but your minions can’t save you now.”

This time, Gil the Reaper, who licked his cheek with a chilling expression, completely cut his heart in half.

“…Ugh.”

“The place where I sent the royal knights is where your barn-smelling horse, that little sniper, and that mosquito girl were hiding…”

With his last strength gone, Adler surrendered completely to her as Gil the Reaper wrapped her arms around his waist and began to whisper in a soft voice.

“And all those numerous groups and organizations you’ve cleverly gathered won’t be of help either.”

“……..”

“Because right now, I’m the second most noble person in this Great British Empire. Unless it’s all-out war, if there’s any military conflict in such a secret operation, it’s not me who’ll be in trouble, but them.”

“………”

“Well, in a situation where you’re the trophy, such assumptions might be meaningless… but even if an all-out war breaks out, I have the overwhelming advantage both in numbers and strength.”

Her eyes gleamed with triumph as she caressed Adler’s cooling cheek.

“The few variables would be that ill-mannered detective and the unidentified professor, but…”

“…Ugh.”

“You fought with the detective, right?”

Hearing those words, Adler quietly avoided Gil the Reaper’s gaze.

“The professor is recovering from a recent injury… probably asleep by now after being prescribed sleeping pills. Am I wrong?”

“……..”

“Then the last remaining variable would be the monsters you’ve brought from all over England, but…”

Gil the Reaper, who was looking down at him as if he were cute, glanced at the dust clouds spreading in all directions in the distance and muttered.

“…It seems you’ve already taken care of that last variable yourself.”

“……..”

“In other words, there’s only one fate left for you now.”

As she lowered her voice to whisper, Adler tilted his head with blurry eyes.

“Still don’t understand?”

“……….”

“You’re going to be sexually exploited by me today.”

Gil the Reaper’s voice, full of excitement, pierced through Adler as she looked down at him with lustful eyes.

“Sexual exploitation? Did you just say sexual exploitation?”

“I’ve been thinking, if I kill you, I lose a toy to play with. So I should preserve your genes in advance, right?”

“…I don’t usually die easily, you know?”

“It’s best to prepare for the future in advance.”

She replied seriously to Adler’s horrified objection.

“What if your immortality suddenly disappears one day, and when I stab you as usual, you just die with a squeak? That would be irreversible.”

“………”

“Or you might suddenly disappear with some kind of ability. That’s the kind of person you are, Issac Adler.”

“When you say such nonsensical things as if they’re normal…”

Just as Adler was muttering while quietly avoiding her gaze after her spot-on remark.

“Enough, just quietly submit to being sexually exploited.”

– Squeeze…

Gil the Reaper lifted him in a princess carry and began to walk.

“Until I find a way to kill you, you can serve as the future queen’s sex slave, which is beneficial for you too, isn’t it?”

“…Hmm.”

After pondering her words for a moment, Adler opened his mouth with a bright smile.

“That’s quite an interesting perspective?”

“Yes, right? So don’t resist and just follow me to the palace. I’ve prepared a cozy space underground to sexually exploit you, so for a sex slave, you’ll live quite a luxurious life…”

“…But I must decline.”

However, his definitive answer cut off Gil the Reaper’s words.

“What?”

“I have someone I’ve promised to marry.”

Gil the Reaper’s excited expression rapidly turned cold upon hearing those words.

“It seems you’re misunderstanding something.”

“Am I?”

“…I’ve never made any proposals or requests to you.”

Eventually, she leaned her head close to his face with a chilling gaze.

[Probability of being kidnapped: 100%]

[Probability of being imprisoned: 100%]

[Probability of being ??: 100%]

At the same time, the possibilities that had been confirmed earlier reappeared before Adler’s eyes.

“This is just a declaration to you, Adler.”

“……..”

“If you understand, let’s go now. We need to return to the palace without the knights knowing…”

Gil the Reaper wiped some of Adler’s blood with her finger, licked it, and moved forward as he quietly bowed his head after seeing those possibilities.

“……..?”

But after a few steps, she stopped and narrowed her eyes, staring ahead.

“…Who’s there?”

“…I’m sorry, but.”

At that moment, Adler quietly raised the corners of his mouth and began to mutter.

“I think you’re the one who’s misunderstanding.”

“What?”

“Isn’t there still one last variable left?”

The corners of the girl’s mouth, who was blocking Gil the Reaper’s path while fluttering her cape in the darkness and pressing down her hat with her hand, were also quietly rising.

“…That’s my jewel.”

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But it wasn’t just their mouth corners that had risen.

[Probability of being kidnapped: 200%]

[Probability of being imprisoned: 200%]

[Probability of being ??: 200%]

‘Huh?’

For some reason, the probabilities floating in front of Adler had also risen to abnormal levels.

[Ah, let me correct that.]

[By multiple people simultaneously…]

“…Ah.”