As soon as we crossed the city walls, countless people began throwing bouquets of flowers at us.
"Long live the great hero Judas!"
"You are our heroes!"
"Hey, Hans, didn't you say six months ago that Judas was an uncivilized thief not to be associated with? Didn't you say it was fortunate that Judas left the Ordor Kingdom and settled in Freesia?"
"Shh, that was then! Long live hero Judas!"
It was an incredible welco.Feeling like my ears would go deaf from the enthusiastic reception, I decided to turn the horse's head of the carriage.
"We're not going straight to the palace?"
Brigitte asked.To that, I simply replied.
"I want to stop by the old house I used to live in."
My small single room.The carriage stopped there.Soon the children rushed out and opened the door of the house, but Cecily's mouth gaped open as if she had received a huge shock.
"People lived in a place like this? Isn't it smaller than the houses of the Molumolus in the mansion garden?"
She looked like a mber of parliant seeing a goshiwon for the first ti.Is it hard to believe that I lived alone in this cramped hut?
As Cecily said, it was smaller, more cramped, and older than the houses of the Molumolus in the junk garden. But if I may make an excuse, the houses in the garden for the Molumolus were unnecessarily large.Soon Naru, who knew this place well, raised her hand high.
"Naru, I rember when we ca to the Ordor Kingdom to find Dad! We even got help from a huge raccoon in the forest on the way to the kingdom!"
That's right.Suddenly, Naru opened the door and started crying and calling for Dad, it was quite a scene.Although so ti had passed, it was still embarrassing to think about it now.Co to think of it, it all started here.
It was strange.It felt like coming back after an unexpectedly exciting journey of over half a year.Of course, this was no longer my ho.
"Since it's a place of mories, I should take it with . Everyone out. I'll put it in my shadow."
Swish—
I put the entire house into my shadow. I'll set it up later in the back garden of the junk pile. It might be good to make it into sothing like my own man cave.While I was thinking about that, Brigitte opened her narrow eyes and said one thing to .
"Houses can go into shadows too? You can do all sorts of things."
"I have to be able to do at least this much to make all the fighting worthwhile."
Anyway.Now that our business was done, we headed straight to the palace.At the palace, a large crowd was lined up to welco us, and at the end of the red carpet was the King of Ordor.
"I thought you only sat on your throne, but you've moved your heavy bottom quite well."
I lightly bowed my head towards the King.Then the King, still muscular and spirited even at over 50 years old, glanced at and clicked his tongue.
"The first place you visit upon entering the royal capital isn't the palace. As disrespectful as ever. I hear you've beco a Demiurge or whatever, but that doesn't erase the debt you owe ."
That was true.I owed quite a debt to the King.Of course, bowing and scraping didn't suit my nature.Even if I had beco like a god, this man wouldn't bow to either.
"Wow, holy shh...! It's the King! This is the first ti Naru has seen a King who looks so much like a King! He even has a beard and wears a crown on his head! He's totally a King!"
Naru raised her hand high.And then she started circling around the King of Ordor, causing so of the palace officials watching to hold their breath.It was an extrely disrespectful act.Of course, the King of Ordor didn't mind.
"You must be Judas's daughter. I heard you t with the Great Emperor Saladin in the Marduk Empire? Isn't he a King like ?"
"That's right! But he didn't look like a King!"
That was true.Sultan Saladin looked more like a young oil-rich crown prince than a king.He was too young to give off a kingly feeling.In contrast, the King of Ordor looked like a king to anyone who saw him.
"I am Cecily Barjudas or Cecily von Ragdoll. King of Ordor. It's an honor to et you."
Swish—
Cecily pulled the hem of her skirt and bowed her head.It was quite a perfect court etiquette.Seeing this, the court maids who were glancing at this scene made groaning sounds, saying things like "How can she be so cute?" or "Look at that beautiful blonde hair. And blue eyes! She looks just like our princess when she was young."
Cecily certainly looked like a princess.She not only blended well into this fantasy court, but it almost seed like many things were prepared just for Cecily. Except for not wearing a crown on her head, Cecily was already a princess.
In fact, she was a princess.
The princess of 「Abyss Land」.By the way, 「Abyss Land」 was the otherworldly territory I gained after defeating Nocturne. It was a different world located between the gaps of the void, a place full of monsters.
Since I beca the ruler of that place instead of Nocturne, I would beco the god of that world, and Cecily, Naru, and Hina would beco its princesses, but I had never ntioned it.It's not a very interesting land.
Splash—
At that mont, I clearly heard the sound of quite large breasts shaking.When I turned my head, Cariote was standing with her arms crossed, resting her breasts on top of them, with a very confident expression.It was as if she was boasting, "Look at my daughter."
Her eyes were looking at Salo and her daughter Hina.Salo let out a small snort.Soon Hina ca forward and bowed her head to the King, just like Cecily, and said.
"King of Kings Lear von Ordor, King of the Ordor-Voluntari Kingdom, Conqueror of Veron, Volma, Puafur, and Talisman, Grand Duke of Karl Enz and Maliorn territories, Grand Marquis of Sterben, Margrave of the Long Wall in the Far North, Duke ruling 18 islands of the Damas Archipelago, and Marquis of Yan-Sendel. Delkai, Sen─."
Hina recited the long title like a machine.People in this world thought the longer the title, the more impressive the being.As far as I knew, the title of the King of Ordor, who was a conqueror, was the longest among humans.
It usually takes about 5 minutes just to recite all those titles.After that long ti passed, Hina finally bowed her head.
"Thus─, Hina Barjudas greets the King of Ordor, protector of humanity and royal authority."
It was a perfect court etiquette even from my perspective as a thief.Who would think this was a greeting from a 6-year-old?
In fact, the court ladies watching this scene could only open their mouths round in surprise, unable to even express admiration.Only Salo was narrowing her eyes at Cariote with an expression that seed to say "Did you see that?"She must have educated Hina anticipating sothing like this would happen.
Since Salo was a thief who specialized in infiltrating high society to steal expensive artworks, she would have been more familiar with palace etiquette than Cariote, so there would have been no problem with the education.Is this round a victory for Salo and Hina?The King slowly nodded his head.
"That was a very splendid greeting. But in fact, I'm not such a great person. I'm just an ordinary human being. You can just call Grandpa Ordor comfortably."
Calling the King grandpa.It was quite a radical suggestion.As murmurs arose here and there, Naru shouted.
"I'm Naru! Judas's daughter! Naru Barjudas! Princess of the back alleys! And the slaughterer of winter strawberries and destroyer of science howork! Also the nightmare of garden ant hills and terror of dragonflies, and the one who combs the fur of Molumolus! I'm about to beco the terminator of sumr vacation too!"
"Is that so? I see. Indeed. While the other children look like princesses to anyone, you look just like that Judas's daughter to anyone. You look like you don't listen well to your mom and dad."
The King of Ordor laughed heartily.He seed to find Naru amusing.The royal maids were slightly surprised at this sight.
"The stern King is smiling?"
"That child does look just like Judas's daughter to anyone."
"Right. To be honest, the two children before didn't really resemble him. They look too much like princesses. Compared to them, that child Naru looks just like Judas's daughter to anyone."
Is it a complint or an insult?
"I'll have rooms prepared for everyone in the palace. You must be tired from your long journey, so change your clothes and rest first! Hey! Escort the guests!"
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"I really thought we were in big trouble."
This is the huge bath in the palace.Brigitte broke out in a cold sweat in the hot bath, thinking about what Naru had done earlier. Naru was reckless in many ways, but who would have thought she'd act like that even in front of the King of Ordor.
'Have I been letting Naru be too free until now....'
Brigitte took ti to reconsider whether her educational policy had been wrong.Since Brigitte had a more oppressed childhood than anyone else, she had vowed never to do that to Naru─.But she began to think that being too permissive might be no different from neglecting and abusing a child in a way.
'What does Naru think of ? To be honest, this mother-daughter relationship is too difficult for .'
For Brigitte, the existence of 'mother' was worse than a stranger. To be honest, she didn't have much confidence in being a good mother because she had nothing to learn from.
In contrast, Cariote and Salo really liked their mothers.It would be better to learn about the relationship between daughter and mother from those two.So what is Naru doing now?In a corridor of a separate palace.
"Hey! Get down from there!"
A palace maid was shocked to see Naru hanging upside down from the ceiling.
"How on earth are you hanging there!"
"Just use the strength in your soles!"
Pat—Naru jumped down to the floor.And then she started running around the palace, while the palace maids were at a loss, unable to catch Naru.
"Wow, holy shh...! The corridor is so wide! But there's not a single porcelain to break!"
Hina trembled as she watched this scene.
'...I want to play together.'
Hina also wanted to run and play with Naru in the wide corridor.But if she did that, it might affect the upcoming princess vote. So she was watching Cecily, who was also staying still, when it happened.
"Tsk tsk tsk. I don't know where this child is from, but to be so noisy and arrogant. This is the separate palace where the Princess of Ordor resides. It would be better to behave properly. It might beco a place where I should be soday."
Soone appeared, clicking their tongue.The child was holding a feather fan in her hand and was wearing a voluminous dress made of blue silk.Her blue hair was so long it dragged on the floor.Her eyes were also as blue as the sea.
"Who are you? You're all blue. Are you a blueberry?"
Naru asked.
The blue-haired girl frowned."Huh? You don't know who I am? Indeed, you're a barbarian just as you look. As for , I am this year's Ordor Princess─ya!!!! Where are you going after talking to ! How dare you insult , Neva de Voluntari! This is the first ti this has happened to !"
Neva de Voluntari.
Sothing ca to Hina's mind.It was the na of a child who ranked high on the list of participants that her mother had written down.Cecily also noticed through her excellent noble-friendly princess power detection sensor that this girl was more suitable for the word 'princess' than anyone else.
'We need to beco friends with this child.'
Cecily and Hina thought.However, there was sothing more important than that right now.
"The Princess of Ordor is in this separate palace? Naru, I want to et the Princess! Dad said! The Princess of Ordor is the Princess among princesses!"
Naru started heading straight for the room where the Princess of Ordor was. Princess Neva of the Voluntari Kingdom was so surprised that her hair stood on end at this.
"You can't et her carelessly! The Princess of Ordor is not soone anyone can et! The Princess of Ordor stays only in a sterilized room even in the separate palace because her health is poor! Don't go! Wh-Why is this kid so strong! Stop!"
It was as Princess Neva of Voluntari said.The reason why guests are invited from all over the world for grand banquets every year on the birthday of the Princess of Ordor, making the whole world bustling.It was to invite the world to the palace for the Princess of Ordor, who is said to have never left the royal palace since she was born.The princess's body was so weak that she couldn't even marry and lived alone until she was 40.
"Hmm..."
Naru finally stopped walking and slumped down in disappointnt.Seeing Naru like this, Princess Neva of the Voluntari Kingdom, which was a blood ally and relative of the Ordor Kingdom, clicked her tongue.
"Who on earth is this? Who is she to be so rude? Girls, you must be princesses of so countries too, right? Say sothing to this ill-mannered little one! You can even slap her cheek!"
Princess Neva spoke as if handing a bow to Cecily and Hina. Cecily and Hina were both flustered because they would have to attack Naru to side with Princess Neva.To attack their sister Naru in order to make a strong ally at the banquet.
Cecily looked at Hina.And Hina looked at Cecily.Cecily and Hina are at war right now.
If they vigorously sided with Neva here and criticized and hit Naru, they could gain Neva's support.But the sisters didn't do that.
"Naru is my sister. Telling us to slap Naru's cheek, that's the rude thing to say! Nobility is about family. Family is family. Those who abandon family cannot be called nobility!"
"Neva de Voluntari... 6 years old, extrely arrogant and insolent character, having never been scolded... What an unpleasant child...!"
The three sisters were family.Because they had crossed trendous death lines together, there was sothing unbreakable flowing between them.
"Wh-What? What did you say? You dare to insult like that and think you'll be okay? Just wait! I don't know who you are, but when I'm selected as this year's Little Princess, I'll make you greatly embarrassed!"
Pat—
Princess Neva, whose face had turned red like a tomato, ran away down the corridor.
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