I just became lazy m8, congrats me I can’t stop reading up WN and especially, playing agar.io! (Only rank 2 at best, sigh)
Oh here, an image to ruin your imagination
TL: Mado
ED: Crash, Doomchicken
Episode 4 – The Heroic Prince
I was standing with a very unpleasant face in front of the prince who was a rumored hero.
Before I came into the room, I had taken off my mask so we all revealed our faces, but… how should I put it… The prince’s little sister, Angelica, and his attendant, a black haired young man, showed their admiration with a ‘Whoa…’ as they saw my face for the first time. Well, I could understand that. Everyone usually had similar reactions.
Then, we both stared at each other sharply, appraising each other. It was only natural since we were both in the same position.
However, what in the world is this gaze?! It feels like my skin has been exposed, and that there are slugs crawling all over, licking the side of my breasts and around my waist. What is this unpleasant feeling!?
It’s often said that a woman instantly notices when a man stares at her breasts, even a little. Never in all my days had I understood that meaning like today!
“…Onii-sama. It is impolite to stare at a lady so much.”
Hearing Angelica’s warning, the prince said “Oops…” and finally turned his gaze away and skillfully went down on one knee.
“Forgive my discourtesy, your majesty. I am the third prince of the Amitia Kingdom, Ashyl Cloud Amitia. It is an honor for me to have you spend your precious time here today.”
After saying so, he took the back of hand like it was the natural thing to do, and kissed it. …S-so fast, I didn’t even have a time to prepare myself.
Mikoto twitched and in an instant raised her eyebrow, 『Can I kill him?』, she appealed by gazing at me, but I silently replied 『No, this is a normal greeting for royalty and nobles!』 which somehow stopped her.
“I am the sovereign of the demon kingdom, Imperial Crimson, Hiyuki the Graceful Lady of the Sky. Today I am visiting as per your invitation.” I made my self-introduction, thinking that it’s better to give a proper long name for the time being and use my nickname later.
After that, we each introduced our attendants, mine is Mikoto, and his is Sir Carlos, a black haired young man who has a cold atmosphere, and then we sat in our seats. I’m pretty much like a king which means my social status is higher, therefore I sat in the seat of honor, and Ashyl sat on the lesser sofa together with Angelica next to him. Lastly, each attendant stood behind their respective master.
“Nevertheless”. Prince Ashyl just sat and stared at my face which was right in front of him, “I heard the rumors that said that your majesty Hiyuki is a beauty, but it turns out you are a peerless beauty who would make even the moon blush.” He gave me high praise with unrestrained emotion, then he suddenly turned serious and timidly asked me a question. “―To be honest, I do not believe there is anyone in this world who could match your majesty. Is this not some kind of transformation spell?”
“My figure is what you see, unfortunately I don’t possess such an spell. ―So then, your highness, please call me ‘Hiyuki’ or ‘Princess’, as I am accustomed to being called in that way.”
The three people sighed in relief after I said so.
“That’s right! Then, from now on I can call you ‘Onee-sama’, right, Hiyuki-sama?”
Replying to Angelica’s lively voice, there is no other choice but for me to say “Sure, if it suits Angelica-sama”, and smile awkwardly, giving her a nod. I really can’t reject her…
Even so, it’s Onee-sama… Onee-sama …an elder sister! I feel like I’m hearing a high pitched scraping noise of something eroding my almost dissipated male dignity or my proof of existence. (In the first place, with Tengai washing my body on the first day, putting on bra and panties, and going to the bathroom, almost 90% had already disappeared)
(ED Note: What? What male dignity?)
“Onee-sama?”
Angelica nodded enthusiastically at her brother’s question.
“I asked her before! Because when talking with Hiyuki-sama, she really gives off an ‘Onee-sama’ feeling!”
O-onee-sama feeling―. I wonder if with this my remaining dignity is finally gone?
“…Hmm, Onee-sama huh? ―Hiyuki-hime.” Perhaps facing a problem, Prince Ashyl ponders deeply, then looks at me with serious eerie look.
“What is it?”
“I…no, will you marry me?”
(TL/ED Note: Here he starts off with 俺 {ore}, but then switches to 私 {watashi}, a more formal way of speech)
―*SLIP!*
Three people excluding Prince Ashyl and Angelica all fell over.
“Oh my! Onii-sama, that’s a great idea! In that case, I could even openly call her ‘Onee-sama’ as my sister in law!”
No-no! Even the person himself looks so proud, like he just saw a Columbus egg. From where exactly did he jump to get to that senseless conclusion?!
“Are you a fool!?” I reflexively yelled that even against this country’s prince.
Then his attendant in the back, Carlos, who normally is supposed to make an unpleasant face when his master is treated poorly, also appears to be nodding twice in agreement. Perhaps this kind of statement is an everyday occurrence for him. This guy also has it hard doesn’t he?
“…What exactly is this foolishness?”
A question mark floated on Prince Ashyl’s handsome face. It’s not an exaggeration to say that he was a high profile handsome man with his mixture of elegance, wild looks ,and his nearly red blonde hair. While thinking about why I had to explain this simple question to him, I gave him the answer in an easy-to-understand manner.
“Fine, here’s why. Presently, this country does not acknowledge our country. Not to mention that our country is composed of demons, and humankind does not approve of demons having the same privileges as humans. Even now there is no legal resolution. With me being a demon, there is no reason for you and I to have a legal marriage with this gap!”
Both Mikoto and Sir Carlos nodded in consent, but the on-topic prince said,
“That is where we have to make the people around us accept our love, right? If that’s the case, how about we make one or two children first before the de-facto marriage?” He gave another over the top proposal again.
Rather, a child huh…that means I have to give birth. A kid obviously is not obtained from a pumpkin field after being carried by a stork. What has to be done, I have to bear with trying to make a baby with this prince every night…Yes, that’s impossible.
As expected, my slightly remaining dignity is holding out, and my strong physiological rejection was showing.
“Unfortunately, I intend to keep my body pure until marriage, therefore I cannot accept that idea.”
I reject him softly and Angelica also nodded vehemently, agreeing with me. “That’s right. Onii-sama, you were too rash in proposing marriage!”
“―Or more precisely, I believe you were already too rash when you offered me the marriage just 5 minutes after we met.” I added to her words with an ‘Are you stupid?’ tone.
“If you’re telling me that, I don’t have anything to say back, but you…ah, it’s okay, right? Is my way of speaking a bit rough? You were charming me so much.I believed that it was a once in a lifetime fateful encounter, so I thought it wouldn’t matter.”
(TL/ED Note: Now he switches back to 俺 {ore}, which is more masculine and less polite, less like royalty)
Even though I was told earnestly with a passionate gaze, and even though I was confessed to by this sordid man, who appears to have cute child-like side like Joey on occasion, but has a height exceeding 180cm with a thick chest relative to his age and emitting male hormones from his entire body, my heart isn’t throbbing at all.
“Onee-sama, maybe it is reasonable to not believe something that comes up so suddenly, but it is the first time I have seen my brother become so serious for someone. To strengthen my point, my brother surprisingly gets approached by a lot of women. Also, he gets marriage proposals often regardless of whether it is within the country or outside, but he rejects them all. It is the first time my brother has proposed to someone on his own. By no means is it just a temporary feeling, so with that would you please believe in it and accept his proposal?”
I was also appealed to by Angelica, passionately. Hmm, well it’s not that I don’t believe it. But somewhere in her speech, I got that ‘I don’t want to believe it’ feeling.
“―Be that as it may, your highness. Picking her majesty Hiyuki as a wife is impossible in reality.” Carlos who kept silent until now, opened his mouth.
“For example, even if your highness manages to earn the consent of your royalty’s origin, the house of nobles won’t approve it. On the contrary, they will take advantage of it and disinherit your highness as a traitor prince who sold his soul to a demon. ―Or perhaps I should say, that would also happen if this conversation here were to leak out.”
Ah―, well, that’s true if I think about it normally. Yes, the flow of this conversation is kind of moving into a more serious discussion.
“House of nobles, huh? Those guys just keep hindering me all the time.”
With that, Prince Ashyl momentarily held a look that seemed as sharp as a sword’s edge.
Afterwards, he corrected his posture and turned toward me again. “―Which reminds me, my invitation was originally about this one issue. Hiyuki-hime, weren’t you contacted by the house of nobles?”
Hearing that, I shrugged my shoulders. “There was a letter. Besides the prince’s passionate letter, the content was ‘All of your things are mine, so present everything you have’.”
“Hmm, that’s really like what those guys would say. Then, Hiyuki-Hime, how will you respond to it?”
“That would be, invading the capital with an army and massacring anyone resisting, along with this country’s higher ups, of course? ―Ah, except you guys, the act of killing someone with good will is an unjust thing. Well, that is only as long as they are not opposing me.”
My words made Angelica and Carlos hold their breath.
“Massacring those who opposed you would be understandable, but the higher ups too? I think that’s unreasonably excessive.” Klang! Spontaneously, Sir Carlos who was criticizing me with such a tone was blown away together with a sound of broken metal, then his body crashed into the wall and made thundering sound.
“Really, such an unexpected person! Who permitted the likes of a servant such as yourself to speak directly to the princess?” Mikoto raised her beautiful eyebrow and spit out her words while holding her favorite holy staff which, unknown to the rest of us, she had retrieved.
From his point of view, prince Ashyl was standing up and before he knew it, he was looking at his hand which held a broken sword.
That moment, the sword stopped Mikoto’s blow that was supposed to snatch Sir Carlos’s soul. Understanding that Ashyl’s protection can’t be penetrated, Mikoto instantly moved her legs to kick Sir Carlos out of her reach while simultaneously breaking Ashyl’s sword into pieces in a few short moments. No one but Mikoto and I saw it.
Of course, Angelica didn’t understand the situation. She just nervously compared her brother and Sir Carlos who held still, leaning against the wall and breathing roughly.
“Sorry, my subordinate’s impolite acts are my responsibility. I will apologize again and again. However, he is my important friend. Somehow would you at least please spare his life?”
Saying so, Prince Ashyl went down on both of his knees, bowed his head, and apologized right there.
“…Yo-your highness…” Looking at his figure, Sir Carlos was at a loss for words, he then bit his lips and lowered his face.”
“My utterance was a concern about Prince Ashyl’s and Princess Angelica’s well-being, but it looks like it seemed rude. Please disregard it.” Then I signaled to Mikoto with my eyes, she reluctantly pointed her holy staff towards the collapsed Sir Carlos.
She’s making the finishing blow?! Angelica left her seat in panic, but it seems Prince Ashyl had predicted what would happen. He lightly lowered his head in thanks.
“…You better give your thanks to the Princess generosity.” Healing light wrapped around Sir Carlos’s whole body.
…Th-that’s good. If it was Tengai or Utsuho, they would absolutely kill him without any mercy.
End
Yin said:
Thanks for the chapter!
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Alavaria said:
“my heart isn’t throbbing at all”
Welp, mission failed my dear prince.
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kreyto said:
Hiyuki prefers cuteness like Angelica or Joey. Ikemen are NG! Nice try though. I can’t blame the prince for being charmed. He seems like the usual perverted gentleman as opposed to some slimy noble so that’s something.
Thanks for the chapter Mado!
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Alavaria said:
Maybe he’ll have his sister do it then.
At least right now, due to showing some “good will” he was able to get out of being massacred along with the other nobles.
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Tomi Hans said:
The prince are not virgin that’s why her heart not throbbing
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SomeDude said:
Oh my this make sense..
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RKain said:
Masculine dignity? Don’t be silly, Hiyuki. I’m pretty sure you never had any.
My thanks to you.
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Vivec said:
It’s a pointless thing to have. The only thing that matters is how enjoyable your life is.
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Alavaria said:
At this point, just start levelling up your womanly pride/dignity…
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Vivec said:
No need for pride or dignity to feel fine in your own skin. The adjustment just needs to finish.
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Alavaria said:
You’re reading too much into a humorous comment.
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kreyto said:
Lamo yeah. Hiyuki’s male power was low even in her previous life. Even Mira from Kensha had more than her. However Hiyuki is at least better than Alice haha. She’s so girly I don’t even…
But hey, Hiyuki is playing the whole immortal princess/ queen thing pretty well
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Alavaria said:
Well… I wonder why losing male dignity has a high-pitched scraping sound. It’s been referenced like two or three times by now..
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thedefend said:
does it count as yuri if the person inside is male?
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kreyto said:
Gender Benders lead to all kinds of profound questions that will boggle your mind!
I prefer to just abide to a simple motto: “It’s not gay if it’s cute!” XD
Well for a more detailed analysis, I look at the character’s actions. If they clearly identify with themselves as a guy and act like a guy, I play it more carefully. But if they’re a “guy” in name only like so many authors tend to write their GB characters, I just discount it as a quirk and don’t think too much.
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kotarou inugami said:
I think the MC doesn’t have masculine dignity, he/she has sexual abuse trauma instead. At least, assuming that the boy from Rose Recollection is the protagonist.
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Emait said:
Hiyuki just gained the onee-sama title! And that prince, what the hell with the proposal after a 5 minute meeting
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Nguyen Gia Thai said:
Hiyuki’s targets might be Traps, after all. Small male who dress as cutie pie females.
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lirg123 said:
I counter your spell with a trap card!
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Vyl said:
‘Die for Hiyuki-sama!’
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cclark777 said:
Wait is that a real poster?
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rucce said:
…Th-that’s good. If it was Tengai or Utsuho, they would absolutely kill him without any mercy.
Dunno about Utsuho, but Tengai would most likely do that lol.
Though, with Mikoto alone the difference in strength was already apparent, what is gonna happens when her army (Tengai and co) come out? XD
Thanks for the chapter.
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yu3kino said:
I think Tengai would already kill him right at the marriage proposal part.
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gianoria7 said:
I think Tengai would have already killed him right after he looked at her like a pervert.
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Greg said:
^this
also this chapter almost end it for me, i almost drop this novel, good thing mikoto blows the arrogant knight tho i want mikoto to humiliate the prince, but i accepted it as enough. thus resulting me on continuing to read.
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KuroNyaNeko said:
what exactly are you looking for in this novel?
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EaterOfNovels said:
Yeah. Could you please answer me, pretty please?
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Greg said:
nothing much, i just hate the prince cuz he seems so arrogant, well actually i hate all those arrogant nobles with their arrogant guard knights, tho i admit they respect who they serve with loyalty, they’re so blind with their loyalty that they can’t see what kind of scary/powerful the being in front of them, after the trashing the prince’s guard knight get he still acts like the prince can retaliate at this kind of situation, does that knight doesn’t know how powerful hiyuki was with a pwerful servant mikota was. i’m pretty disappointed if that knight can’t realize the facts.
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Reaper Phoenix said:
Thanks 4 the chapter!
Agree with the editor. What male dignity?
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Sylvia Moriah Le Titania De La Waldgrave said:
Reblogged this on Moriah Clan Headquarters and commented:
oh my -.- well 2 things then xD
1) I agree with our ‘ED’… Hiyuki… after acting the way you did with joey you still claim to have male dignity? o.O
2)All hopes and expectations for this ashyl guy have been thoroughly trampled on by that very same person v.v haaah what a pity.
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kirindas said:
Thanks for the new chapter! A little thrashing to end the chapter. Nice! XD
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Sashimi said:
Hiyuki has a male dignity?
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Alavaria said:
About 90% is gone, so there’s apparently 10% left or less…
At least she isn’t being tramatized by it.
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gianoria7 said:
With how she acted before, I would say that there’s about 1-3% left, even if she didn’t realise it herself
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NarkoSilver said:
Thanks for chapter
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deadlybell said:
thanks for the chapter 😀
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Alavaria said:
I wonder if the prince’s idea was to have his sister help soften up or get an appraisal of Hiyuki, but then everything went out the window when they saw her.
Does her mystic eyes ability charm people as well? Or maybe just some people? Angelica seems really happy with the idea of the prince marrying Hiyuki up until Hiyuki says no, then she’s suddenly against it.
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Neko MK2 said:
what Angelica isnt agree is that prince suggestion about doing “it” first before marriage, she still agree with the marriage it self thought
this only my interpretation
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Alavaria said:
given the objection was ((“That’s right. Onii-sama, you were too rash in proposing marriage!”))
from ((“Oh my! Onii-sama, that’s a great idea! In that case, I could even openly call her ‘Onee-sama’ as my step sister!”))
one wonders…
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Neko MK2 said:
hmm my opinion she said it like this “That’s right. Onii-sama, you were too rash in proposing marriage!’ because miyuki said something about sudden proposal that prince saying and his suggestion about doing “it” first , since she girl to maybe so she understand Hiyuki point
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Alavaria said:
It’s still an interesting turnaround, that’s the whole point.
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Neko MK2 said:
yeah that true
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hapeiron said:
Thank you for the chapter
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Landomu said:
“However, what in the world is this gaze?! It feels like my skin has been exposed, and that there are slugs crawling all over, licking the side of my breasts and around my waist. What is this unpleasant feeling!?”
This guy..this prince seriously wants to die huh..we need Tengai..Tengai really needs to show him the difference between them..especially when the prince proposed..*sigh* if they do get married..the demons in the castle will trample him….
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deadlybell said:
^^^^
this
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jacobpaige said:
Good thing she brought Mikoto then 😉
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Kazekid said:
“Caaarloooos… groan”
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ryua_slap said:
even if hiyuki accept his proposal there is no way her demon would do.
its more like “if you want hiyuki hime you must be strong enough to defeat all of us”
including 4 heanvenly king. instead pet demon admiring hiyuki like idol afterall
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Crash said:
She might be able to force them to accept it since she is the princess after all.
They would probably just grumble and have to deal with it if she decided to accept.
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sdeligar said:
Thank you
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texasrenger said:
like me dear ringo jhon said
ban bang maxwell’s silver hammer made shure that (he/her) was dead
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libraryrocker said:
Thanks so much for all your hard work!! This one is really amusing!!!!
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Anonymous said:
This chapter is soooooo good! Thanks a lot!
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Anonymous said:
Would sister-in-law be more appropriate in this context rather than step-sister? Or was it really written as step-sister in Japanese?
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Val said:
DIGNITY?
What dignity?
Oh wait.
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worldofshars said:
*sigh* always too sweet, always too short!
thanks for the translation guys!
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harmlesscarrot said:
Thank u!
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thedefend said:
Is it just me or this chapter seems to be really short this week? ;( i’m sad
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harmlesscarrot said:
https://madospicy.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/c5ldoiev.jpg?w=300&h=300
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Loco15 said:
Dat feel when you’re in the middle of reading and have high spectations, but it turns out half of the space is just comments….orz
One of the bests chapters ever. Thanks for the chapter!
…I wonder if I could also call her Onee-sama…..
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ggfbank said:
Despite build up for more serious, this chapter is so damn funny lol.
The prince seem promising even if he only partially stop Boss level monster.
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ricecal said:
Thank you very much.
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RuRo-dono said:
I wonder, why hasn’t she said something like “any acts of hostility are only to be carried out after my consent!” to her followers, so that they don’t attack left and right.
I kinda understand, why she didn’t do that at first. (All the “I am weaker and they may easily kill me” stuff) But a lot of time passed and SURELY she should have realised, that they are 100% under her control!
The fact that she is still stuck on that thought makes her a Harem-Brick-Like, No-Clue-What-So-Ever Protagonist… My most hated type.
Although I have to admit, that she has at least some brain matter, compared to others MCs.
P.S. Anybody else imagined the prince as Gilgamesh?
P.P.S. What? He has red blond hair? How can it be both red and blond? Or am I mistaken about something?
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madospicy said:
Keep mainly as red, they considered any light shining hair as blonde
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RuRo-dono said:
OOOH. That makes sense. Since they have mostly black colored hair, they would naturally group other colors together! Wow. =)
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acouvis said:
Why do I have the urge to kill something with that stupid pic of a guy?
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Degs said:
Thanks for the chapter!
Yessss, massacre all who oppose you great one (haha)
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Anon7 said:
And Mikoto apparently is the calmest or most reasonable one of the four kings.
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necrocookie said:
Thanks for the chapter!
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gm_rusaku said:
Just stumbled on your site randomly today and read all released chapter in one go. I like this WN very much, thanks for the chapter release.
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booya said:
Thanks for your work
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SomeDude said:
Thank you for the chapter
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booya said:
I need moooaaaar…feed this leecher moar chapters! ty
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cclark777 said:
That picture at the top ruined my image of Carlos.
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ftxnexus said:
This story is awesome… Ty for your good work!
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Eiko∞Eina said:
Bruhh if Hiyuki gets married to a male character,
I ….. I’m done with this novel
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