Chapter 213.

I raised my hand to touch my nose. It’s stained with bright red blood. Damn. I had a nosebleed when I stayed up all night a few days before the entrance exam ……

Annoyed, I rubbed my sleeve against my wet nose and lips.” Don’t touch me.”

During this time, Callisto, who was close to his eyelids, pulled off my wrist hard. And, covering his nose with a handkerchief from nowhere, he held my chin so that my head was lowered forward.” Do you carry one of these?”

I asked aloud, and he exhaled as if holding back his anger.” Yeah. I carry everything with me because I don’t like following anyone.”

“I’m fine.”

I timidly talk back. Keeping my head down, I wonder what face he’s making.

I convince myself that it’s okay, but my nose bleeds quickly and embarrassingly again.

“Really. It’s not to the extent of taking a potion either …….”

“Got it, don’t look at the eyes.”

Callisto interrupted, reciting quietly.

“You decided to do what you wanted to do. There’s nothing to defend. My heart races.”

It’s obviously no big deal. But I don’t know why it stung so much.

“Penelope!”

At that time. A familiar voice was heard. Quietly looking up, the Duke stood holding up the deacon, staring blankly at me.

“…… Dad.”

Luckily, the attacks stopped then too. I pushed one of the princes surreptitiously aside, as if glued to me.

“What the …… hell is going on here! How …… is magic.”

Handing the deacon over to an approaching knight, within a month the duke’s eyes touched the mirror rod. I quietly hid it behind me.

“Can’t the Duke see me?”

Callisto, who instantly became transparent, was hurt.

“Is this true?”

The eyes of the Duke, who only then recognized the Crown Prince, widened.

“My ……… highness! You didn’t go to the north to suppress the rebels?”

“I’m not like you, because I’m not so cold-blooded that I don’t even care where a runaway duchess goes.”

“Your Highness!”

I tried to gag Callisto. However, the Duke’s face darkened all of a sudden in the already spilled water.

Pursuing the matter, the crown prince’s words were correct. When I said I wanted to leave the public house, the Duke was willing to help instead. If he had made up his mind and listened to me, it would have been difficult for him to escape on the day of the battle with Ibn.

“Then …… for some reason, I cast a spell. The mansion’s mending …… I’m sorry. I haven’t regulated magic very well …….”

I stammered guiltily to the Duke. By and large, judging by the situation, the Duke was now aware of Iben’s feelings. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have summoned the knights of the family.

“But …… luckily I’m not late.”

I bit my lower lip and slowly spat out the truth. The fact that the Duke was safe and sound made me let go of my heart.

The Duke looked at me lost in thought and suddenly raised his hand and stroked my cheek.

“You’re okay …… and I’m really lucky too.”

“It’s good to be back again, but never have I been so glad you weren’t in the mansion as I am today.” I barely maintained the expression that was almost confused by the words.

The Duke’s family that came back to face them had been completely brainwashed by Iben into thinking that they were moving only for her. What to do if, like Ikris, they tried to attack me as well was considered dozens of times on the way here.

“Hey, Penelope!”

In the distance, I saw Ron running fast with his cute pink hair waving in his hand.

“Hey, am I still awake? Just now, you waved a strange magic wand and the magical creatures all disappeared, as if you had a dream …….”

Leonard, who came running with a breath, snapped his fist on my head and said something stupid.

“Geez, it’s too early to say goodbye.”

At that moment. Everyone’s heads snapped back at the sound that drilled into their ears. In the garden where the change had occurred, a petite woman stood tall in the distance.

“Iben.”

It was thought that after the demons were taken care of, everything would be back to the way it was, but Iben was observing everything from a distance.

However ………

I immediately figured it out and pushed through the people in my way to move forward. Blood and demons separated a chaotic garden so we could stand face to face.

“I thought you’d run away with your tail between your legs out of fear of me. I didn’t think you’d come back, Penelope?”

Iben smiled innocently. Next to him, Derrick was tied up in something black and staring at me. It wasn’t intentional for anyone to look caught. I looked him over and turned my attention back to Iben.

“You’re the one who’s been so dazed by me?”

“…… What?”

“If it was me, I’d have been lycanthropic a long time ago. That brainwashing power of yours doesn’t work on me now.”

Because I wouldn’t look like the Penelope of the past. My words made the smile hanging at the corner of Iben’s mouth disappear.

“For you, even the goodwill gained through brainwashing will eventually go down the drain.”

The corners of her mouth quivered, and after a moment she found her composure and talked back.” Is that so?”

It was instant.

“Whew!”

Derrick, standing next to her, suddenly let out a groan of pain and fell to his knees

“Derrick!”

“Brother! Oh, that madman!”

Duke and Leonard cried out in shock.

“In the past I would have killed you first. But now I want you to see your horrible and also wanting to be loved family eaten one by one by me.”

“Ugh! Let go of him!”

“Young, strong humans have a lot of life in them, too. Your brother is quite tasty prey.” Iben slowly leaned down to caress Derrick’s face with both hands. Derrick struggled roughly. But of course couldn’t move.

“This time I’ll show you clearly. How your family died on me …….”

“Kill him.”

I replied before Iben could finish his sentence.” Dead or alive it’s none of my business.”

I told Iben, but my eyes were plugged into Derrick. The blue pupils that were inexplicably shaking suddenly stopped. Derrick stared at me like he couldn’t believe what he’d just heard. His snow-white lips were sweet. Unfortunately, I turned my head straight away before I could understand that one. Because, not my know it’s unfeigned sincerity.

“What? Aren’t you an inferior, useless weight?”

Iben muttered with a vicious frown as the demonic creature on loosened its grip on Derrick.

“Bah!”

Like he was roughly pushed away by something, he was thrown to the ground.” It can’t be helped from this degree.”

Turning a blind eye to such a Derrick, Iben glared at me and said.

“Then, let’s start another party.”

And him at the same time.

The bodies of the dreaded Mantis Demons suddenly began to shake. It was like something was calling them.

“What ……!”

The knights who had put in an afternoon’s worth of work once again tensed up. In that instant

Kii Interest! (*Demon’s cry*)

“Demon thing, demon thing! A new demon has appeared!” Someone shouted along with a creepy cry.” Madness ……”

I see strange magical creatures rising from the corpse of a praying mantis, dancing in slow motion.

“Giant wireworms!”

Kii interest!

The things that were removed from the corpses quickly began to lunge at the knights in unison.

“What the hell? It’s disgusting, really! Die!” Leonard drew his sword and ran ahead.

I just stared blankly at the crazy writhing things. Like crawling something, itching all over. I don’t know if you know this mood of mine, but it just so happened that white letters appeared on the mirror pole.

In order to take care of me who was gawking, the crown prince blocked my way with his body.

“Stand back, male daughter.”

But I’m already swept away by the crazy feast of nausea.

Ahhhhh!

With a hissing cry, the writhing company of thorns charging at the knights burned in unison. The sudden flames that arose stopped the knights in their tracks.

Kii Interest!

Tadak, reeking of a disgusting odor, the burning wires wriggled like they were glowing. But after a time.

Where it caught fire snapped off.

Burnt like a lizard’s tail fell off. Although half of its body had fallen off, it was still alive.

Kii interests!

The fire weakened and they started cooing again.

“What, why isn’t it dead? Wind Pixion! Fireman Pixion! Wind Pixion! Fireman Pixion!” Panicked, I cast the spell haphazardly. But it didn’t work.

“Oh, the magic doesn’t seem to be working, Your Royal Highness!” The palace sorcerer that the Crown Prince had left by my side asked with a shiver.

“Crown Princess ……?”

The Duke’s unfamiliar face glanced back at me, but the bewildered me didn’t notice.

Keeley!

“Stay in the magic car, Duchess!”

As if waiting, slicing off a soft thorn running this way with his knife, the Crown Prince shouted.

“His Highness is right, Penelope! Stay here safely!”

“Ah, Papa!”

Probably thinking that the Crown Prince was a good helper, the Duke also drew his sword and ran out. Due to the rampant Crown Prince and Duke in front of me, Leonard’s active, the area around me is simply safe. The magic is connected and requires multiple physical cuts, so it’s troublesome to kill, but the attack power is low compared to the Mantis Demon. What. No big deal?

“A party, you say?”

The look of the demonic creature that was cut off gradually found stability in its mind. So I don’t know, why the Company Stabbing Party?

(Sorry, I can’t understand this part either π_π)

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The sliced off parts of the demonic creatures began to pile up around Penelope, piles and piles of them separating.

The tentacles that were still alive squirmed, but were too short, and they were dying.

Without noticing, a tiny piece of hemp squirmed and touched another nearby piece. As much as the one stuck together on one side, the cutout disappeared without a trace into a new, longer sculpture. After a few iterations of splicing, before you knew it, the pieces of the demon were as big as half the length of a human.

“Stupid bitch!”

Finding the part of the head that was there and confirming that it was stuck together Iben curled his mouth. The sticking reborn demon slowly climbed up the tree. No one noticed it. Penelope’s head was draped with long branches.

Iben was ecstatic to see that the demonic creature had just reached one of the target branches. Now all it had to do was recycle the shard with this and it would all be over. Penelope wouldn’t kill him right away.

But she could tear that nasty face to shreds.

Iben’s mouth fell open.

“You will die a horrible, painful death, Penelope.”

At that moment.

The sound of something sharp digging into flesh made Iben’s eyes glaze over as she watched Penelope. She slowly lowered her head. The ribs encrusted with swords were stained red. She raised her head again to check beside it.

“…… Iben.”

Bewildered trembling blue eyes. She saw her brother, Derek ……