My face must’ve looked like a stupid cartoon character. My right eyebrow was raised higher than my left. My head was tilted downwards, and my pupils looked straight at the princess. But the most notable, was that my mouth hung wide open.
Seeing my face, the 15th princess started giggling. Then, she burst out into laughter, “I guess you didn’t see this coming huh? Looks like you’re not as omniscient as you acted. To begin with, I was never going to take your life. The summoning cost a great deal.Even if we used you as a sacrifice, we’d still have to pay a great deal to summon another. If we did so, we wouldn’t be able to wage a war.”
To that I shrugged and said, “predictions, speculation and deduction are all based off of known variables. You can’t take into account what you don’t know. So if you weren’t going to kill me, what’s under the pillow?”
“A knife to protect myself. Father may be well-loved by the public, but where there are people, there are always idiots trying to get more power. One such method is kidnapping his kin.”
I was dumbfounded once again and said, “...... You hide a knife under your pillow and expect me to believe it won’t be used on me?”
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“Yes,” she replied.
This time, I was well and truly speechless. Who the hell points a gun at someone saying, “hand over your money but don’t worry I won’t shoot you even if you don’t.”
“Uhhh… yeah I don’t believe you. And assuming you weren’t going to kill me with that knife, then I’m guessing there’s something in that chest you’re going to use on me. You know, the one that kept hidden behind your legs while you were sitting down. Maybe something sort of mind control potion or something magic like that?”
“Nope. That would be counter-intuitive to our purpose in summoning you. You can’t access the power you were granted unless you don’t it on your own free will.” She seemed like she was telling the truth. But, suspicious as I am, I didn’t trust her. I mean, she admitted to trying to use the honey trap method on me and even having a knife under her bed…… I’d have to be more naive than a baby to trust her. That said, something she said did in fact catch my attention.
“Ah right about that. I have no power. I’ve been feeling the same ever since I got here. No improved physical stats or anything like that. Trust me, it’s not that I don’t sense any changes, but that they’re really not there. I tried to see if anything was off with my body on the way here. Nothing at all.”
“That’s because it hasn’t awakened. Trust me just this once, there is immense power sleeping within you. When the time is right, it will show itself and you will wield it.” she replied.
“Oh? And when exactly is that time?”
“When you wield your sword as a [Hero].” Those simple words pushed my fury to its brink.