69 side princess

─ ─ I met "him" on the day the brave man came to the king's capital.

That day, I left the castle silently without telling anyone. Bringing a Servant has happened many times, but it was the first time I was born to go to the castle town alone.

Naturally.

My name is Aina Arks.

It is a continuum of clans ruling the Kingdom of Arks.

Speaking of which, I'm a princess.

I had been heavily educated by the King since I was young. It's not just me. Brothers and sisters followed the path of the King. As the ruler, and as the leader of the people. He learned martial arts as well as academics so that he could always make the right decisions.

There was no great dissatisfaction with that. We royalty could only live with the support of the people, and we knew that it was rather a royal duty to learn so much for them.

During those days, I thought that one day, as a member of the ruler, I would run along with my father and other brothers to make a better country.

─ ─ When were the signs of the Demon King's resurrection observed?

Slowly, but surely starting to increase, the number of Erasmus appeared. Minor changes in about a month or two. However, the number had steadily increased from year to year.

There have already been reports of a sudden Erasmus runoff (Stampede), and there is some information that a small village on the border far from the defenseless King's City has been destroyed.

Looking at the past literature, it has been found that as the Demon King Resurrection approaches, an increase in the number of Urban beasts and the accompanying Urban Beast runaway (Stampede) occur.

At this point, "Demon King Resurrection" was only a "possibility" story.

Until I received word of the birth of a brave man from the Fonia Church.

The "Demon King" and the "Brave One" who defeats it appear in the world as if they were the front and back of a coin. It is unclear which comes first or which comes later, but when one appears, the other always appears in the world.

Eventually, a young man with sacred marks (stigma) was found by a mission sent by the Fonian faith ─ ─ a brave man. I can no longer doubt the resurrection of the Demon King.

The fact of the heroic discovery was conveyed, and I was told by the king.

It's a fairy tale.

The brave men who saved the world eventually lived happily together with the princess.

This is how the story ends.

The king ordered me to be a 'princess' in the story.

I don't think my father is saying anything terrible. It is universal in the world of aristocracy to connect and strengthen relationships between people and the most powerful. And they are not different from the royalty that governs them.

On the other hand, the form of inviting the royal family from the outside is plentiful, but not the other way around.

The greatest of them are the brave. By creating a strong connection between the brave and the royal family, it helps to govern afterwards. It's a fairy tale without love and romance, but love and romance alone cannot rule the country.

And no matter how romantic they may be, they exist to save the world. Nothing is more honorable.

Of course, I'm not talking about right now. But that's going to happen slowly.

I accepted the king's words without strongly denying them.

It is also a duty of the king's blood, and I, the princess, cannot be free to fall in love in the first place. I was aware of it in the education I had received so far.

But ─ ─ deep down, it was different.

I had no freedom since I was young.

Days when things are done at a set time. Though I naturally accepted being royal, I had no choice but to accept such days in my heart.

My world is complete in the castle, and I know nothing about the outside. Even though I knew a lot of things as knowledge, I know a number of things I actually saw.

Occasionally, he and his squire went to the castle, but it was also a very limited place. I couldn't see the raw Ichii supporting us.

And there's the story of the connection with the brave.

When the vaguely defined future finally began to take shape, I was able to play the longing for "freedom" that I had been holding back until now.

Of course, I knew what I did was not acceptable. I also know that many things cause trouble. I understood that I was never alone, nor told by anyone.

Everything I have ever lived is covered by the blood tax that the people have collected. I'm consuming blood taxes, and I have to do my duty as a royal. This is a natural consequence.

Still, just once, you see what you want to see, you get what you want, you know what you want to know. I wanted such 'freedom'.

It is indeed a coincidence that the brave man left the castle on the day he came. Preparations were under way to invite him in. Everyone was busy moving and it was a great opportunity for my eyes to be the thinnest.

Preparations were made to exit the castle, and a way out was prepared in advance. I was just looking at the timing and tracing them.

Thus, for the first time in my life, I gained the 'freedom' that was freed from all the fences in a short time.