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After safely settling down among the knights, I immediately squeezed my vocal cords.

“Get ready to dominate!”

“Yes?”

“What?”

Both the cloud holder and us failed to understand the situation.

But I had to take the hostage before the battle escalated, so I immediately summoned Leona.

Now that Leona is in my possession, I can freely trap and summon her anytime, anywhere. It may not follow my words, but it is mine.

If you are in the process of ‘training’ by changing some settings to make it follow my instructions in the first place, you cannot take it out of the training sub-space until the settings are ‘applied’, so it is better to do it this way now.

“Where on earth am I? What happened…huh?”

Leona, who was suddenly summoned, was absent-minded for a moment, unable to grasp the situation as Delheim’s knights gathered around her.

“Wow!?”

“What are you doing! Hurry and subdue it!”

“…!”

The knights moved quickly at my words. Leona, who quickly understood the situation, tried to resist, but a moment’s hesitation was the perfect time to be overpowered.

As not one but all of the surrounding knights rushed at her viciously, she was helplessly crushed and a sword was held against her neck.

“Stop! Otherwise, I will cut off the princess’s head!”

After using it so hard that my vocal cords were almost split, the battle that was about to start in earnest stopped like a lie. Weber, who was dealing with Malcoup, took a deep breath and carefully retreated.

“Suddenly…! These cowards. And yet, are you knights of the Kindree Empire who value honor?”

Malkoop spouted out his life to the point where it was scary, but I just laughed.

“Shut up and open the way. If you don’t want to see the princess running around.”

“…Do you think he will do as you say?”

“Oh, really? So, shall we fight until the princess is taken by the collar? I can do that. No matter what happens, you will be my companion in the underworld, so you won’t be lonely.”

“……”

I meant it. I was pretending to be calm, but right now I was half out of my mind.

“K… At least promise to treat the princess with respect. I won’t cause you any harm. Then I will open a way.”

“You don’t seem to know whose position is higher now?”

He stabbed Leona’s left eye with the sword he was holding.

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At the same time as the vitreous body and blood inside the eyeball flow out, the young girl’s scream resounds throughout the battlefield.

“Princess! This is a baby like this dog! ”

Malkub was furious, his eyes bloodshot and bloodshot, like a wild beast, but even so he could not attack. I looked at him without blinking and smiled.

“Are you going to keep testing your patience like that? Why do you think I can’t kill you? Shall I kill you as a test?”

Cold sweat trickles down his forehead as he makes eye contact with me.

“Mi, you crazy bastard. Totally crazy.”

“Okay, this is still testing my patience, right? Will the patience test be over if I stab the other eye as well? Or arms? Legs?”

As he pulled out his sword and swung it around, his face turned pale.

“Damn it…make a way!”

“That would have happened a long time ago. Phew… load up your comrade’s body! Move fast!”

The surrounding forest was still burning, but perhaps because of the spell, the flames could not invade within a few tens of meters, so it was possible to move around comfortably.

“…Erica…ugh…!”

When I see Erica’s body on the horse, my heart is pounding and I feel like tears will flow.

“It’s not your fault, Master. So don’t blame yourself.”

Tyra’s words make my face distort.

“That seems difficult.”

“Master…”

After moving for about 30 more minutes while holding back my tears, I was finally able to escape the disgusting Fleminim Forest. Even though it is night, it is extremely refreshing to see an open plain with a view of the horizon.

“Phew…damn…”

“What are you going to do with the princess!”

Malkub, who was following from a distance, looked very nervous.

“Hmm, well…”

“I tell you in advance, it would be better to give up the idea of using me as a hostage until the end.”

It seems like he is saying that if he has to, he may give up on being a princess.

I don’t know if it’s loyalty to the cloud holder, or their culture or tendencies.

“I don’t plan on doing that either…Xenia. Come here for a moment.”

“Yes?”

Xenia, who was dazed with a devastated face, slowly rode her horse and approached.

There were many small wounds here and there on her body.

“What’s going on?”

I lowered my voice as much as possible, watching Malkub’s thoughts.

“Xenia. Is there magic to be planted in Leona’s body?”

“Ugh!?”

Leona, with her hands and feet tied tightly and even gagged, is startled and opens her only remaining eye.

“Hmm…what type are you talking about?”

“Hmm, for example, if it explodes when it comes within a certain distance, or if you can take your life by controlling it from a distance, anything is fine.”

“Wait a minute. There are a few such installation type spells…”

As she patted her temple and pondered, she clapped her hands and smiled faintly.

“‘Magic Fuse Bomb’ would be appropriate.”

“Magic fuse bomb?”

“Yes. First, I planted the explosive magic in her body and then connected my mana, which was thin as a thread. Then I can activate it at any time. Of course, there is a distance that my mana allows, but I can maintain it for about ten kilometers, so it should be appropriate.”

“Good. Can you do it right now?”

“Of course. It’s not that difficult of a spell.”

She took out some glowing blue paint from her luggage, put it on a thin brush, and started drawing a small magic circle on Leona’s neck.

“Eup!? Ugh!”

“Oh, don’t struggle too much. If you fail, your neck might just melt?”

“……”

Ten minutes later, Xenia, who had completed the magic circle with extreme concentration on horseback, sighed and infused mana, and the magic circle drawn on her neck glowed blue.

When I looked closely, I saw that a very thin thread extending from the magic circle had wrapped around Xenia’s hand several times.

“Xenia. Is that thing in your hand right now a fuse?”

“Yes? Yes…that’s right…but…do you see this?”

“Huh? You asked because you saw it, right?”

“Oh my god. Your mana sensitivity is truly amazing. A genius is a genius.”

Xenia was purely admiring, but I couldn’t help but give her a straight face.

“Xenia. I’m not a genius. And from now on, please don’t talk about being a genius or anything in front of me.”

“Oh, oops…sorry…”

It was her first time saying something like this, so she lowered her head with a sheepish look on her face.

“…Sorry. Your words have become a bit sharper.”

“No. no. I wasn’t delicate.”

At a glance, Xenia saw Erica’s corpse and her face contorted with a heavy sigh.

“Then…let’s get started now.”

After putting Leona down on the ground, I looked at the Cloud Holder and shouted at the top of my voice.

“Listen! You barbaric peoples! I’ll leave your princess here so you can get drunk on your own! ah! For reference, she has an explosion magic circle engraved on her body! It’s a magic that can separate our head and body by detonating it anywhere, at any time, within ten kilometers of us! If you want to test the magic circle, stay within ten kilometers!”

I got on my horse and turned around again and shouted.

“In three hours! I will activate the magic circle!”

After giving that warning, we left Leona behind and hit the horse’s butt.

After falling for a while, I looked back and fortunately, there seemed to be no sign of them chasing me.

“Phew…damn.”

But we still couldn’t feel at ease, so we hurriedly ran and ran.

***

“Ah, it wasn’t activated. It’s ten kilometers away.”

“Huh? Xenia. What?”

As I was maintaining my balance on the running horse for a while, I turned around and asked, and Xenia looked at me with an innocent look on her face.

“A magic circle engraved on the princess of the Cloud Holder Kingdom! It didn’t activate! I guess they’re chasing me!”

“……”

Has it already been three hours? I forgot. No, more than that, you want to activate it like a sword?

I felt a little spooky, so I stroked my arm.

Xenia still had an innocent face.

After running for a while, we encountered Delheim’s reinforcements who were coming to Fleminim Forest, and only then were we able to relax and feel relieved.

***

The first thing we did when we returned to Delheim Territory was to hold a funeral for our comrades who died in battle.

The neatly wrapped and cleaned body was moved into a coffin, then formed in a procession, circled the estate, and then buried it in the ground.

“……”

I especially prayed for a long time in front of Erica’s grave.

Listening to the wailing sounds of her family.

“Ugh, huh…!”

***

Although my father must have heard about me, he never asked any questions about the strange means by which the Beast Princess Leona was destroyed and then reappeared.

I don’t know what he’s up to, but… it’s easier for me if you don’t ask. Because looking around is also work.

“Phew…”

The night after I buried Erica.

After looking up at the night sky from the terrace, I returned to my room, stood in front of the bed, and took a deep breath.

Honestly, I’m not sure if this will work or not.

According to the game system, it could be summoned anytime, anywhere… but was that actually implemented in real life?

“You’ll find out when you try. Summon Leona.”

[Would you like to summon the character you own, ‘Leona’?]

This alone should be considered half the job.

I smiled and immediately nodded.

The blue light that erupted at my feet transformed into a girl wearing thin pajamas.

“…Huh?”

Leona, whose eye was covered with a bandage wrapped all over the right side of her head, looked up at me with her left eye wide open.

“Hello. See you again?”

He grinned and placed a hand on her shoulder.

“…You! What is this…!”

[Characters who have come in contact with the user can be admitted to the ‘Character Development Subspace’. Would you like to let me in?]

Nod.

She tried to say something, but couldn’t listen because she was dragged in by force.

Actually, I had no intention of listening. Because now she is not a ‘collection character’ to me, but an enemy.

“Whoa…Anyway, I finally filled the character slot.”

I shook my head with a strange sense of satisfaction and bitterness.

[You can change some settings of the character ‘Leona’ in ‘Character Development Subspace’ (1 time). Please tell us what settings you want.]

[You can unleash the potential of the character ‘Leona’ that exists in ‘Character Development Subspace’ (1 time). Please tell us what level you want.]

“Hmm…”

Is this how it goes? When I used my phone, I had to look into all sorts of things, such as personality, body type, and beliefs, and touch them to change them in detail… but it turned out to be very simple.

I looked at the hologram window for a moment, but it’s actually a problem I don’t need to worry about.

“Change Leona to obey me absolutely. Like a slave. Raise your potential to the limit.”

[Keywords for changing the settings of character ‘Leona’: Absolute obedience to ‘Delheim de Zanderome (Kang Pil Kim)’, slave to ‘Delheim de Zanderome (Kang Pil Kim)’]

[Character ‘Leona’s level of potential expression: extreme]

[Time required for calculation results: 3680 days]

[If you apply the changes, your character will grow in the amount of time it took.]

[Do you want to proceed like this?]

I stared at the hologram window blankly for a moment.

No, it takes over 10 years? Where is this?

“Keu…wait. Cancel.”

Anyway, 10 years was a bit harsh. How can you wait for that?

“Wow, Mr. Is this a true story…?”

After experimenting with this and that, I laughed when I saw that it took 7 years even though I changed Leona’s setting to ‘a crush on Delheim de Zanderom (Kang Pil Kim)’ and minimized the expression of her potential.

Are you making a fuss about being a mythical character?

“I can’t help it. I really…”

[Keywords for changing the settings of character ‘Leona’: Absolute obedience to ‘Delheim de Zanderome (Kang Pil Kim)’, slave to ‘Delheim de Zanderome (Kang Pil Kim)’]

[Character ‘Leona’s level of potential expression: extreme]

[Time required for calculation results: 3680 days]

[If you apply the changes, your character will grow in the amount of time it took.]

[Do you want to proceed like this?]

“Okay. I’ll proceed.”

[Applying. Time remaining: 3680 days]

“Wow, I can’t believe I have to wait for over ten years…”

He lay down on the bed and sighed in regret.

“…Cloud holders must be going crazy by now.”

It looks good. Damn you bastards. But it’s just the beginning. I will definitely destroy you with my own hands. As a bonus, I also placed the hand of your princess Leona.

Erica’s revenge. No matter what happens…!

“Become stronger. Definitely.”

I made up my mind.

I never wanted to feel that helpless feeling again.