-Beastilia Kingdom Capital, Roku-gatsu 2, 7564-
~Momoe’s P.o.V~
This has been the longest three months of my life. To prepare for the coronation, many different tutors came and taught me etiquettes, history, and so on.
On top of that, I received a team of professional dressers and a famous tailor to attend all my needs when there are social events. Adding on to that, I learned how to play several instrument, knit, sew, and paint.
Isn't this way too much for a three year old?! This is totally a domestic torture! Ughhhh! I don't even have any alone time since a guard follows me around everywhere!
To make matters worse, I would be meeting this mysterious combat tutor of mine today after the coronation. This has to be a joke, right? I mean I already don't have enough time!
I really hope my new tutor will be a little lenient toward me, but I guess that would be asking for too much...
As of now, Nitta Maru, two guards and I am riding a carriage to the capital. Currently, mother and father is at the castle already in order to prepare for my coronation ceremony tonight.
In order to do so, they had to leave the mansion a day before, so I was only left out. Apparently, they didn't want the "guest of honor" to see everything beforehand and left with vigor and excitement similar to children the day before Christmas. It would seem that they are enjoying thjs way more than I am...
Back to reality since Maru-chan is looking at me weirdly, the carriage is quite comfortable even though this is my first time riding one. I would have thought that this trip will be uncomfortable since I'm so used to riding modern vehicles like cars and buses.
The carriage seat's frames are well decorated with ivory and silver and the cushion on the seat is fluffy and soft. I guess being a royalty does have its merits.
"Hime-sama, is the seat to your liking?"(Maru).
As if reading my thought, Maru-chan asked with a smile.
"Nyah thinks its good."(me)
Muhaha, have you noticed? I'm starting to speak normally... well as normal as I can while having this stupid kitty talk curse...
Soon, I should be able to speak with only Nyah at the end of each sentence. Wait, I'm already doing it? You got it all wrong, I can only speak with only nyah when its short sentences like just now. Off track again...
Anyways, the journey to the capital takes only 4 hours, so we left in the early morning and we are half way there.
*clunk**screech*
"Everyone out of the carriage! We know the little princess is in there. Hand her over and we might let you live."(???)
Oh crap, what's going on here? How did they know about me, wasn't it supposed to be a secret until the coronation?!
"We will never hand over hime-sama!", one of the guard-san shouted while getting out of the front of the carriage whixch he was driving until now.
The other guard that was seating inside with us also got out telling us to stay put in the carriage.
Will they be okay? I mean I checked their status with magic a while back and both of them are level 29. Is this the standard level for a regular guard? I guess I can't really be able to judge since I'm only level 1...
Using my magic [Analyze] I checked the enemies stats while taking a peek through the small crack in front of the carriage door.
There are 12 men dressed completely in black and 9 more in the back. The man in the center with two long swords and a creepy black mask seems to be their officer.
The average level of the black robed men is 27, but the leader is a whooping level 49. Even without the leader guy, our guards would simply get overwhelmed by the sheer number of the enemies.
They will die in vain if I don't do anything. My life is not as precious as two guards' lives. Of course, Nitta Maru will also try to stop them and might get killed as well. I must take action.
Before Maru-chan manage to grab hold of the situation, I rushed out of the carriage while putting on reinforcement magic.
I jumped up high and landed in the middle of the black robed men.
"Nyah's the one you wanted, right? Neeve them alone and nyah will go with you, so spare them nyah."(me)
Yup, this is how it supposed to be, please don't make such faces guard-sans. I can't let anyone die for my sake.
"Hime-sama, please run away!" "Please don't worry about us, our job is to protect you even if it cost us our live!"
The guard-sans yelled out in desperation, but I ignore them and look toward the black mask with conviction.
"Quite the brave one, aren't you? At such a young age, you know how variable lives are... let the guards and the carriage go, we did promise to let them live if they give us the princess."(Black mask).
He is the enemy, so why does he sound so sad?
"Tie her up, and I'll carry her."(black mask)
One of the man brought out the rope and tied my hands and feet. The rope was tight enough so that I can't escape but it doesn't hurt too bad.
"Sorry about this, girly. We were told to do this as our job, so we can't really help it..."(black robed man #1)
So they are just following an order from someone. Who can it be? A noble of my country? Or a royalty from a different kingdom?
I guess I'll find out soon.
As the masked leader started to lift me up, a voice from above was heard.
"Gahahaha, a kidnapping in the broad daylight? You folks have quite the nerves to do something like that in my watch!"(???).
I look up toward the voice and found two figures perching on a tree branch. A muscular man with handsome face and sharp eye with a pair of beautiful black wings looked down in a haughty manner. While the other figure, a ikemen with short jet black hair and crimson red eyes look disinterested.
When I saw the boy, my heart skipped a beat and I started to have strange feeling I've never felt before. Now my heart is thumping like crazy.
No no no! I'm still a guy in the inside, this can be happening to me! I'm a guy, I'm a guy, I'm a guy...
The boy look toward me and his eyes widened in surprise. Before any of the black men can react, the boy rushed in and hit the mask leader blowing him away. I was hurled up to the sky and was about to land on a boulder when the boy nimbly jumped up to the boulder and caught me in a princess carry.
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Orz this day is the worse, kidnapped then princess carried...
"Matt, finally... I found you."(boy)
"!?"(me)
Only three people knows about my reincarnation, Liz, and her counterpart Fate, and Leah.
"Myah?"(me)(TL: Leah?)
The boy nods with a big grin on his(?) face. Wait should I refer to Leah as a "he" now since she reincarnated as a boy. So Liz messed around with both of us, Liz I swear next time I see you, I will really hit you hard!
"We can talk later, let me take care of this real quick."(Leah (?))
While whispering softly in my ear, he(?) untied and gently put me down. Afterward, he lounged toward one of the kidnapper with a two handed sword that was behind his back. I didn't notice it before but he(?) Had several weapons on his body.
Two knives on his side, knuckled gloves that is thin enough for easy movement, and that large sword. Even though I call it a large sword, its only half meter tall. I just meant the sword is huge for people my age.
"I guess your eager to show off in front of a girl, Luciel as expected of my disciple, gahahaha. I guess I'll take care of the leader of this little band of rats then."(Muscle man).
The vulgar laughing... err... I meant Luciel's (Leah's?) Companion flew down from the tree and landed in front of the black mask.
The last of the fight ended in a one sided beat down, and everyone of the kidnappers were captured and tied up together.
My two guards also fought so it ended without a hitch, but isn't Luciel too strong for his age? He is on par with the level 27 kidnappers. Whats his level?! Am I actually behind?!
After lining them up, they were questioned in order to find out the true perpetrator, but no one spoke up.
"Well, if no one speaks up, there is plenty of other ways to talk, maybe we can start with a light torture."(Muscle man)
Hey! Wait a moment, I don't think torturing is the right answer here!I have a feeling that the leader of the lot might speak if I were to some how convince him.
I pulled the muscle brain's sleeve and spoke up.
"Let myah talk to them."(me)
"Are you sure? You seem like you want to show them mercy but they did try to kidnap you. Will they go unpunished?"(muscle brain)
I nod my head with out backing down. I walk toward the leader while Luciel followed me closely.
I went to the front of the leader and pulled his mask off. A human man around the age of 17 stared back at me with his emotionless eyes. His face was that of an ikemen... darn it, why does so many handsome men exists in this world?!
Oh shoot, focus Momoe, you are not a guy anymore, no need to be jealous or feel insecure.
"Why did you attack my carriage and try to kidnap me? Who sent you?"(me)
What, I sound too normal? That's cause I translated what I jusg said, in reality my lisp made it sound like this:
"Wha did nyuuu attaack myah carrage and try tyu kibnab myuu? Whuu sint nyuui?"(me)
Hah~~~ I can't interrogate like this... this is why I don't speak long sentences!
"I can't tell you anything while I have this slave contract on me, we are all slaves so its impossible to answer you."(black mask)
"I see, nyah."(me)
Wait, can't I purifiy something like slave magic if I tried? I mean I have the blessing from the goddess of magic, maybe I can make my own magic using my imagination? It's worth trying.
I start to gather my mana and surround the kidnappers with the mana. After that, I imagined bird in a cage breaking free.
The forest lighted up with pure white line and my eyesight turned dark and I blacked out.
~Black Mask P.o.V~
The cat princess frowned slightly after she was told about the slave magic placed on me and my comrades. Then a depressing silence ensued between us all.
Suddenly, my body was engulfed in comfortable warmth and a pure white light flashed all around. I reflexively placed my hands on my eyes and closed it tightly.
When I opened my eyes, the cat princess fainted and the black haired boy caught her gracefully. The boy swiftly carried her to the carriage and came back out shortly.
"Huh, I heard from Kakuei and Yuukari that their daughter was a true prodigy. Gahaha, I thought they were just doting on her, to think that she would manage to break all of those slave magics all at once by her self. Very impressive, I will have fun teaching her, huhuhu."(Demon)
Wait, isn't that man the former demon lord? How did I not notice before? So, I had no chance of winning from the begining.
"Well, your slave magics are gone, so who sent you."(Former Demon Lord)
"King of Menzar sent us. He commanded our group to kidnap the princess of Beastilia after he learned of her existence from the country's spy." Without thinking, I told the Maou of what transpired.
"I should have guessed without asking but I did need to make sure just in case. Well, its Kakuei's choice to declare war against Menzar. I guess I can help destroy that idiotic kingdom if that's what Kakuei wants.
Luciel, stay close to the princess and bring her out when she regains her consciousness.
Now, what is your name? "(Former Demon Lord)
The black hair boy left us and went toward the carriage.
"My name is Ochiai Yozo, and I was a former B ranked adventurer. The rest are also former adventures that were tricked into slavery by that greedy king"(Ochiai)
"I see, well do whatever you want from now on, you are all free to go where ever you please."(Maou)
Around 10 men left toward the nearest settlement. I guess they wish to go back to the life of adventurers. As for the rest, I think they are thinking of the same thing I was thinking.
Staring at each man to make sure of their resolves, I saw them nod gravely.
"The rest of us wish to serve our savior, and protect her with our lives."(Ochiai)
"Good answer, gahahaha!"(Maou)