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Days spent waiting for Princess Sylvia while rolling around with three beauties.

While I was leisurely thinking about how to attack her when she came, I heard shocking news.

“Is that true?”

Selena looks at the unbelievable story.

But there was no trace of playfulness in her expression.

“Yes. I think you were kidnapped on your way here.”

Princess of the kingdom.

Sylvia, the next queen candidate, has been kidnapped.

Is this possible?

Doesn’t the next monarch usually have a well-guarded heir?

“Is that possible?”

“I never thought I’d end up like this··· ”

Selena looked bewildered and embarrassed.

My expression right now probably isn’t much different.

Who the hell kidnapped the princess?

“Who is the culprit? Another heir to the throne?”

“No.”

no?

In most cases like this, it would be something like a rebellion.

If not to ambush the heir, cause chaos, and then ascend to the throne himself, then who would?

“I think it’s the work of ogres.”

“Oh my gosh. Use··· ”

Ogres are powerful monsters with insane resilience.

If there were more than one, and not just one, monster that would be nearly impossible for even the most elite knights to defeat one-on-one, then it is understandable that the escort was breached.

“The princess was so unlucky.”

Even if an ogre wanders alone, it is still possible to deal with it to some extent by mobilizing people.

But in the rare cases where they form groups, they are like thugs in the ecosystem that even humans have a hard time dealing with.

Those guys know that fact well, so they pounce on anything they see.

“Do you know where those guys went?”

“I know the general location, but it’s too dangerous, so I can’t tell you the exact location yet··· ”

Kidnapping the princess means there’s still time.

But we don’t have that much time.

The reason the ogres kidnapped the princess.

It’s not a soft reason like a hostage.

They eat people.

In other words, he took the princess as food.

The escorts must have been captured as well, so she might still be alive, but if this drags on, the princess will end up in the ogre’s stomach.

“What is the kingdom’s reaction?”

“I don’t know yet.”

Is this still a fact that only Selena knows?

It’s too late to report to the kingdom and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

“Really··· There’s nothing easy in this world.”

He let out a deep sigh and slung the sword at his waist.

I have no choice but to go and rescue you.

“Will you go there yourself?”

Selena looked at me with wide eyes and a surprised expression.

It’s like watching someone go to die.

“Yeah. I can’t just let the princess of the kingdom die.”

“But there’s not a single ogre··· ”

“Don’t worry. No matter what country you are, I have no intention of confronting you head-on this time.”

If you confront a group of ogres head-on, you’re sure to be killed.

Agnes is also helpless when attacked by a horde of those guys.

But I have stronger strength and faster legs than anyone else.

“If we sneak in and take the princess away, we’ll be able to do something.”

I’m confident I can run away carrying at least one princess.

Besides, no matter how powerful the ogre is, we can’t let it eat the princess.

I’m the one who’s going to eat Princess Sylvia.

Of course, in a different sense from the ogre guys.

*****

The sweltering heat.

Sweat dripping down.

“Did I say you came for nothing?”

The place where the ogre was supposedly located was a sweltering swamp.

The air was humid and full of bugs.

The weather is so annoying that I feel like the discomfort index might go over 50.

“Why are the ogre cubs in a place like this?”

Even if you want to move around comfortably, time does not allow it.

Two days after moving from Loren.

Maybe the princess has already been eaten.

The good news is that there is a high chance that he is still alive.

I heard from Selena that human women are considered a delicacy by ogres and are eaten last.

At least there won’t be any crappy situations where you go and only the princess dies.

Wheeek―

As I hop from tree to tree, the humid air brushes my cheek.

The lower part is difficult to move quickly due to the swamp.

It’s much faster to go in a straight line to the expected location using these thick trees.

Wheeek— Wheeek—

A speed that is incomparable to that of an ordinary person.

As the surroundings grew dark, a large object finally came into view.

A huge figure that appears to be about 4 to 6 meters tall.

A gigantic body boasting a huge mass of flesh.

The object that appeared to be a weapon was a club roughly carved from a large log.

If a person were to be hit by that, every bone in their body would be crushed and they would turn into a bright red rat-like substance.

I carefully approached the guys so as not to be caught.

Ten.

At this point, it’s practically at a level where you have to bring in the military to do anything.

“The princess··· is over there.”

A beauty with silver hair that is tied up tightly with something that looks like an unknown vine.

She must be Sylvia, the princess of the Kingdom of Lumis.

Judging by the fact that there’s no one around, it seems like everyone else is already dead.

Yet Sylvia didn’t look scared at all.

Is that the charisma of the next queen?

Come down from the tree and hide in the bushes.

The ogres are fast asleep, oblivious to the world.

Now is your chance.

I approached Sylvia while keeping my footsteps as quiet as possible in case I was caught.

Her eyes widened as she noticed me.

Perhaps it feels like finding a savior.

“Shhh··· I’ll let you go now.”

As I cut the vines that were tightly bound with my sword, an unexpected sight unfolded before my eyes.

Flawless, white skin.

Sylvia quickly covered her body, but the memory of her beautiful body was still vivid in my mind.

By the way, I never heard of ogres eating clothes.

Just like a person prepares food, they would take off all their clothes before eating it the next morning.

Fortunately, Sylvia didn’t scream loudly.

She also knew very well that waking an ogre here would be a mess.

“Let’s get out of here first.”

There are many strange, spiky plants on the floor.

In contrast, Sylvia is barefoot.

I lifted her body and hugged her.

“…!”

I walk quietly, feeling the princess’ soft skin.

One step at a time. One step at a time. Carefully.

“Over there… Over there!”

Sylvia shouts urgently and loudly.

Rather than reprimanding her, I quickly turned my gaze in the direction she was speaking.

Suddenly, one of the ogres stood up in its massive form and looked over at us.

How on earth did they get caught?

At that moment, the guy’s nose caught my eye.

“Ah··· What the fuck.”

You guys had it all planned out.

bang-!

A club strikes the spot where I was standing 0.5 seconds ago.

The force was so strong that a huge amount of dirt rose high into the sky and fell all over my body.

“Keeek!!”

As the boy’s cries rang out like a signal flare, the other boys also started to rush in at once.

“You bastard!!”

Boom! Boom!

The ground shakes like a dinosaur with every step.

The ogres were running towards them recklessly, breaking down trees that got in their way like branches, just like the final boss.

“Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.”

This is the first time since I came to this world that my survival instinct has sounded an alarm like this.

Move your legs with all your might.

The ogre’s massive flesh was filled with muscles and its speed was insanely fast.

Is this what it feels like to be chased by a monster in a movie?

Perhaps because of their large size, they can easily pass through swamps filled with water as if they were splashing water.

In comparison, I was zigzagging around obstacles to maintain maximum speed.

Before we knew it, the ogres were almost right behind us.

“Over there!”

Sylvia, who was hanging on to his arms, desperately pointed her finger.

The place she pointed to was a narrow gap that only a person could pass through.

It was a cave with a visible space inside.

“Eeee!!!”

There is no choice.

Concentrate as much mana as possible on your legs and jump towards them.

“Ku …

By the hair’s breadth the ogres failed to catch me and I crashed into the cave entrance.

“Whew··· ”

As life, which was like a candle in front of a typhoon, comes back to life, a sigh of relief automatically flows out.

I thought I had gotten pretty strong since coming to this world, but I still can’t take on a crazy monster like that.

Boom! Boom!

The ogres, upset at losing their prey right in front of them, attacked the cave entrance indiscriminately.

The cave shakes every time.

Cracks are slowly beginning to appear in the stone wall at the entrance.

“Don’t do it, you crazy guys!”

Boom! Boom! Kwakwakwang!

The entrance to a collapsing cave.

“Coloc― Coloc― ”

When the thick dust settled, Ou was barely visible.

The entrance is simply blocked by a huge pile of rocks.

Sylvia and I were trapped alone in an unknown cave.

Uh… Wait?

Now that I think about it, it seems okay?