As the royal princess stormed into the royal throne room/courtroom all eyes shifted to meet her hellish gaze, which was directed right at the king much to his discomfort.
Many whispers could be heard from the nobles from his kingdom as well as nobles from others that the king was currently entertaining. All however were on the same topic.
"Oooh I think the princess found out about the kings ruling on the hero." Whispered one grinning noble.
"This does not bode well for the king." Whispered another, fear clearly the foremost emotion in his eyes.
"If the princesses reputation holds up there is about to be a most entertaining bloodshed." Whispered a noble with an almost cheshire smile oh his face.
The king then after a few seconds stopped their inappropriate banter and gossip by yelling.
"Q-quiet the p-p-princess clearly wishes to speak!" Fear evident in his voice, disrupting his usually entirely stoic facial features and tone of voice.
Before he could dismiss the many nobles from the room the princess had already started speaking.
"NO SEARCH PARTY, NO FUNERAL, NOT EVEN A MOMENTS PAUSE TO HONOR HIS SACRIFICE!!!!" She yelled further instilling the already present fear into everyone theres hearts.
"HOW COULD YOU ALREADY PUT TOGETHER ANOTHER TOURNAMENT OF AGES NOT EVEN A WEEK AFTER HE IS GONE, I ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE A SPINELESS COWARD BUT THIS MOST RECENT CLANDESTINE ACT OF YOURS JUST PROVES IT!!!!"
"Now my sweet daughter, surely you know that the commoners need a hero to stand behind." The king said in a poor attempt to cajole his whirlwind of fury daughter.
"But father the kingdoms already have a hero to stand behind." She said with a still angry but very serious face that was unbecoming of her usually docile and lady like manor. Few times did she ever have an outburst like this but when she did it was often extremely difficult to get you're point across to the dogmatic girl.
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"Look Kana you must understand nobody could survive a fall like that, much less survive in the great divide in such an injured state. You yourself even said 'his sacrifice'.If we want to keep up morale in all 7 kingdoms we need to get a new hero quickly."
Princess Kana had no words for her father's words. Not necessarily because he was right, but because she was simply disgusted with her father's heinous acts against a man whom had saved the realm on several occasions, and even dedicated his life to service of the realm. Was he just mad because he had sworn fealty to the realm and not her father's kingdom in particular. Not only that he was even engaged to his only daughter. Why would he do such a thing. How could he bare to live with himself.
"Besides," the king continued "he was kind of weird anyway I'm sure you will come to love the next hero even more."
"Father by whatever do you mean." The princess said, more angry than curious. She knew exactly what it meant, she was no idiot. She just wanted to hear it from the scumbags kings own mouth.
"I mean, my dearest daughter that the plans have already been made for you to marry the new hero as to try and erase the old Hero's image from the people's minds. I'm sure that this time some scrawny kid won't win and our realm will get a proper hero who doesn't just invent his own sword style and uses the traditional one for Hero's.
If the princess wasn't mad before she most certainly was now. She was quite literally trembling with rage. Before the kings guards could act the princess was already upon the king.
In that moment she then punched the king in the throat hard enough for everyone in the cathedral sized room to hear. Upon this happening the overweight noble with the cheshire smile stood up and yelled.
"OH DEAR HEAVENS, THE KING HAS BEEN ROYALLY THROAT PUNCHED!!!!" while flailing his arms like Kermit the frog walking into a spider web, in what can only be referred to as an over exaggerated manor. His voice was less than manly leaving one to wonder if he was doing such an unattractive feminine voice on purpose.
The kings guards did their best to pry the raging beast they called a princess off of the king. It took 7 guards to pull her off of the king as well as another 14 to force down the halls and into her room. They then immediately barricaded the door with multiple pieces of overly heavy furniture. They were all panting heavily afterwards, but they had finally triumphed over the princess. Or as they would recall the event in the future barely escaped with their lives. Surprisingly only 15 of the 21 guards had to be taken to the infirmary, and 11 of the hospitalized guards would even be okay. Perhaps up and walking in another six or so months.
Everyone considered how strong the princess had been. Most peoples thoughts were on exactly how the former hero had won against her. Perhaps she had lost on purpose because she loved him. The king dearly hoped that was the case, for if it wasn't and that monster of a man survived the king couldn't see himself getting the brand of mercy the now ex hero was famous for.