The Demon King’s Seal Has Been Broken

39 – War of the Two Princesses [Morning] – 1

After parting with the first princess, Lesia, I am on my way back to my hometown.

I met a very unexpected person there.

“It’s been a while. Warrior.”

A pretty classy, unusual-looking woman bowing her head to me.

Even at a glance, this woman who was absolutely not an ordinary woman was the second princess, Anastasia.

Such a woman greeted me with a smile and said that it was nice to see her again.

‘The second princess, Anastasia.’

It’s been a really long time from my point of view.

Almost 1 year? In the first place, a year ago, I was a warrior, and Anastasia was also a princess, so it would be impossible not to have a relationship.

Looking at Anastasia, who has changed in many ways from a year ago, I feel that quite a bit of time has passed.

“What’s your business with me?”

But, if you ask me if I’m glad to see you, it was absolutely not.

Anastasia and I were not on friendly terms.

Rather, it would be closer to a bad relationship if I had to ask.

Well, right now, I don’t have any interest in Anastasia as of now.

In any case, it was quite annoying.

Because of this, I treated Anastasia bluntly.

‘I’m sure there’s a purpose anyway.’

Of course, this princess named Anastasia wouldn’t have just approached me.

There must be a purpose for what came to me.

And I could guess why.

However, I had no intention of listening to it.

Because of this, I gave notice to Anastasia to go as far as she could.

“What kind of sad words are you talking about? It’s just that we ran into each other by chance!? I feel sad when you say things like that. hehehe.”

However, as if she hadn’t noticed, it was Anastasia who answered my words with a smiley expression.

Why didn’t you think about it, but as if you doubt yourself, you put on a slightly pitiful and unfair expression.

“Puck.”

Of course, she could never have noticed.

Lesia might not have known it, but Anastasia was a pretty smart woman for sure.

So I guess I’ll just pretend I didn’t notice.

Being aware of that fact, I couldn’t help but shake my head when I saw Anastasia.

“Hmm… But, speaking of this while we ran into each other… Hero, would you like to support me?”

Anastasia sighs very lightly at my reaction and brings up the story.

As expected, as if my prediction wasn’t wrong, she had a different purpose for coming to me.

The purpose of her coming to me, there must be only one.

The reason she came to me as the princess was, of course, to get support from me.

“I mean the Empire. I heard that your sister had another accident this time?”

Anastasia took a step closer to me and grabbed my hand.

As if she knew everything about how the empire was going.

Two slightly determined eyes stared at me.

“I don’t think that Lesia-sister will be able to rule the empire well. The warrior thinks so too. So why don’t you support me?”

Once again, Anastasia asks to support her.

She seemed to be quite unhappy with the current succession competition system.

The next emperor with no powers, the first princess, Lesia.

It was Anastasia, the second princess who claimed to be much better than her.

She asked me as if she desperately needed my help to break the structure dominated by Lecia.

“I’m different from my sister. If you make me emperor… I won’t abandon the hero. I swear.”

And it wasn’t just a request.

He even offered me a deal.

The second princess who swears to me while placing her hand on my chest.

Looking at her like that, I could see how sincere Anastasia was about this incident.

‘Certainly, if Anastasia, not Lesia, becomes the next emperor, the empire will develop.’

I was a little grumpy looking at Anastasia like that.

Certainly, Anastasia is more capable than Lesia. It wasn’t just a little bit competent, it was also exceptionally competent.

His political sense, his ability to handle work, and even his vision for the empire were so excellent that it was embarrassing to compare them to Lesia.

In the first place, even until a year ago, Anastasia was a strong candidate for the next emperor.

Even then, the possibility of Lesia becoming the next emperor was almost non-existent.

If things went as they were, Anastasia would surely have become the next emperor.

‘Well, it might be a meaningless assumption.’

However, the reason why Lesia became the next emperor even now was a very simple reason.

It was simply because Lesia had won the battle for the emperor’s succession, and Anastasia had lost.

So Lesia, not Anastasia, was only the next emperor.

A very, very natural and simple fact.

“I’m sorry, but I’m not particularly interested in who becomes the emperor in your family.”

Unfortunately, I had no intention of helping Anastasia like that.

Anyway, after this job was over, I didn’t want to build a relationship with the imperial family.

I have absolutely no interest in who becomes emperor.

To me, the more important issue than that right now was how to deal with the demon lord.

Why should I bother to make Anastasia emperor?

I thought about the reason for this, but I couldn’t find a suitable answer.

“Issues related to the imperial family are resolved by the imperial family. In the first place, His Majesty the Emperor chose Lesia as his successor.”

And Anastasia, who has already been pushed back in the battle for the imperial succession.

She was left out of a fair fight.

And the emperor acknowledged that, and the emperor I knew was never one to make stupid decisions in a battle for succession.

“If you ask me, I have no intention of helping you.”

I had no intention of arguing with the outcome of the emperor’s choice.

This was a matter for the imperial family, and it would not be polite to the imperial family for me to intervene.

And I don’t think the emperor made the wrong choice either.

So, unfortunately, I only rejected Anastasia’s offer.

“I’m going.”

In the end, Anastasia’s proposal had no results or meaning.

I am about to leave this place now.

Again, I was in a situation where I hardly slept even while fighting the demon lord going back and forth between the fortress city and the empire.

No matter how much I was a warrior, I was physically very tired, so I wanted to go back and sleep so badly.

That’s how I left Anastasia behind, and when I was about to go back to my hometown.

“That’s right. As the hero said, I was pushed out of the battle for the emperor’s succession. That’s exactly what the hero knows.”

Anastasia’s voice came from behind.

Turning my head slightly, I saw Anastasia, who had an expression that seemed to have not broken her will at all after hearing these words from me.

No, perhaps he was expressing a stronger will than before.

“However, I could have changed, and I have changed. Unlike Lesia unnie.”

It was Anastasia who admitted that she had been pushed out of the battle for the imperial succession right now.

It wasn’t that she didn’t accept the result at that time.

She must have been unable to become the next emperor because she was lacking compared to Lesia, she certainly knew that fact.

But, as if it were different now, it was Anastasia who spoke.

He says he is different now than he was back then.

He looked at me and told me with a confident expression.

“I want to show it to the warrior and prove it.”

Anastasia never seemed to give up on becoming the next emperor.

Anastasia stares at me as if she’s trying to get my support somehow.

Looking at her, changing her expression as she looks at me, and smiling, I want to see how diverse her expression is.

“Do as you please. Do not harm me.”

But again, I had no intention of intervening in the imperial family’s fight.

There was absolutely no reason for me to help Anastasia.

Therefore, my course of action has not changed at all, and will not change in the future.

I just told them to take care of it, and this time, I really left the empire and headed for the village.

# # #

Although an unexpected situation occurred when he met the second princess, it was nothing to worry about.

I went straight to my town

“Lily. I’m here.”

“Huang. Oppa. He said he’d be back soon!!! Why did you come so late…”

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My sister, who arrives in town, finds me upon entering the house, and hugs me while weeping.

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My sister hugged me sadly and didn’t let go.

“You liar… even made a promise to me. Huang…”

You must have told your sister that you would be back soon…?

Having gone around without news for a week on such a subject, it was certainly something to worry about from the younger sister’s point of view.

I expected Lili to do this, but even if I expected it, my heart hurts a little.

“Ayu. I’m sorry. Lili. I won’t be walking around like this next time.”

I calmed down Lili for a while.

Fortunately, Lili understood me as time passed.

“Huh… I need to go to sleep.”

Now that the situation was roughly over, I threw myself into the bed as it was.

As expected, no matter how much I was a hero, it was too hard to move without sleeping for a week.

Now, it felt like I had reached the limits of my real body and mind, and I surrendered myself to sleep.

# # #

“Haam…”

After I slept like that, I only woke up in the morning.

Opening my soft eyes, I got out of bed.

“I’m going out.”

And I went straight to the kitchen.

After sleeping for a long time, my stomach was quite hungry, so I was looking for something to eat.

“Well…?”

I was able to find a table set quite deliciously.

A table that is quite elaborate for a breakfast, but not overdone.

“Did Lily do it?”

I tilted my head, sat down at the table, and went out to eat.

fluff…

The moment I was drinking soup and eating rice.

“It’s delicious, but something feels different?”

Definitely very tasty food.

But something felt different.

It wasn’t that this food was bad or anything like that, but it definitely felt different.

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Me who always eats my sister Lili’s food.

Of course, I was accustomed to Lili’s taste, but I could feel the difference in the habit of using seasonings and the amount of ingredients.

That’s why I was wondering why there was such a difference.

“It’s still delicious, I’m glad.”

“…”

A very unexpected person appeared.

“Did you get anything on my face? Why are you looking at me like that?”

Anastasia, the 2nd princess of the Empire, who broke up yesterday.

She smiled as she looked at me.

“Hey Anastasia.”

I informed her of that.

“Yes?”

“There is a crime in the world called trespassing…”

now you’re a criminal