His green eyes were now filled with surging sadness.
“Go—!”
Sevilla grabbed Lin Yin and was about to leave.
"You can't leave." The princess with bloodshot eyes said lightly.
She raised her hand, and a sea-blue barrier rose up around her, completely enveloping the room. Even if Sevilla struck it with lightning, it would have no effect at all.
Seeing that he couldn't escape, Sevilla gritted his teeth and stood in front of Lin Yin.
"Princess," he said, "do not let Praya be destroyed in your hands."
The princess dropped her gaze.
"Praia was built on the sacrifices of generations, including your fathers," said Sevilla. "If you still have any sense of responsibility and self-respect as a royal, don't sacrifice your life to the Sirens! Do you want to destroy this land?"
Listening to Sevilla's accusations, the princess actually laughed.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
She laughed, an extremely relaxed and unmannered laugh, as if she had thrown away all the etiquette and rules she had been taught in this loud laugh.
"——You said, I want to destroy this land? I don't have the responsibility and self-respect as a royal family?"
She laughed so hard that tears came out.
Those were blood-red tears.
Like blood, bloody tears slid down her cheeks which were gradually becoming scaly.
"On the contrary!" She suddenly said coldly: "——It's because I love this land!"
“I love this land, and all the people on it. That is why I have imprisoned myself in ‘eternal life’ until now.
"——And it is precisely because I have the self-respect of a member of the royal family that I cannot allow a villain like Su Lin to do evil things... and overthrow my kingdom of Praya!
"Subordinates of a despicable ruler, how can you understand what I do?
"My kingdom does not need you to step into it, and my hometown does not need you to save it! How can you, a fellow who surrenders to outsiders, see the future of Praya? How can you, a fool who advocates peaceful coexistence between humans and the soul race, understand the prosperity of Praya today?
"Accusing me, questioning me - it's ridiculous. Ask yourself, what have you done for this land? I used my own strength to fight for my own land, so that Praia's future can become extremely bright in my hands - what right do you have to accuse me with justice?
"I am alive, but have I ever experienced even a little bit of the freedom that belongs to eternal life?
"I rule this land, but have I ever enjoyed any of the vanity that belongs to nobility?
"Praia was built on the sacrifices of generations, including my fathers—but those generations you're talking about, they're all me!"
She screamed almost madly, and the siren's soul behind her emitted a blood-red, strange light.
Sevilla turned pale.
The siren's extremely powerful aura pressed down on him like a mountain. He took a half step back to protect Lin Yin behind him.
At this moment, the princess raised her right hand.
On her hand, pale bone spurs climbed up her arm like a python, gradually transforming it into a sword-like sharp blade.
She had already learned balance and sacrifice.
The young Golden Rose who would cry and hold her head in her hands over the helpless sacrifice plan, who would cry and hold her head in the alley, saying "I'm sorry" in embarrassment, had already died in these long sixty years.
She killed herself with her own hands, the self who was too young, so young that she was ignorant and naive.
The situation in Praia is not austere. It does not allow anyone to be free and easy, nor does it accept naive ideas. Romance and the pursuit of freedom are not allowed here.
All battles are necessary battles. Once one is avoided, it will only be filled with more sacrifices.
And now,
...She is going to launch a battle to drive out the "invaders" and kill the villains who are eyeing the throne.
She wants Pragya's ruling power to return to her.
Only she can bring the residents she loves the future they long for.
...a future where there is no more "sacrifice" from now on.
“Swish!”
She raised her right hand and swung it vigorously.
A crescent-shaped white light passed through her right arm and rushed towards Sevilla and Lin Yin who were leaning against the barrier.
There was a flash of lightning in Sevilla's hands as he tried to block the attack.
However, the gap in combat power between him and the Siren King was as much as 500 points. Even with Lin Yin's assistance, the situation of the battle could not be changed.
Blood oozes out of the body.
Covering the wound, Sevilla used all his strength to protect Lin Yin who was activating the teleportation scroll.
At this moment, the princess's left claw, which was glowing with a faint poisonous light, was already close to his body.
“Bang!”
A pair of hands firmly grasped the princess' outstretched bone claws.
Sharp bone claws pierced his hands, and blood slowly flowed down his armor.
The princess's eyes, which had gradually become dark and cold, suddenly showed a hint of clarity.
"Thank you Lude..." She called softly, looking at the knight who was kneeling on the ground.
He straightened his upper body and clasped her hands tightly with both of his.
Even as he was blocking her advances, his legs were still kneeling towards her.
He swore to her.
He was a knight of the royal city who had sworn allegiance to her.
"Princess." Shelude clasped her bone claws with both hands and spoke in a pleading manner.
“…Please don’t make the same mistake over and over again.”
His palm was pierced by a sharp bone spur, and blood flowed like a stream. The skin on his palm had begun to turn black, and the poison of the sea monster began to seep into his body.
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