Chapter 28 The princess has been kidnapped, and the kidnappers are dangerous
The soldier did what he thought of. He took out the tinderbox and struck a spark.
With a whoosh, the dog with eyes as big as teacups jumped out.
The soldier ordered the big dog: "I want to see the princess of the kingdom. Can you bring her here?"
The big dog nodded obediently and immediately ran out the door. In the blink of an eye, it disappeared into the deep night.
Seeing that the big dog did not refuse the order, the soldiers were nervous and excited.
"Hahaha, the treasure left by that old witch is really a good thing! Killing her and snatching this tinderbox is really the right choice."
But after a few seconds, the soldier suddenly discovered a problem.
"Did the big dog turn left after going out just now?"
"But shouldn't the palace be on the right? Turning left out of the door is the way out of the city! It's completely the wrong direction."
"This dog has taken the wrong path!"
"A beast is a beast. It is not very smart indeed."
The soldier covered his head, very angry.
God knows what this dog that has taken the wrong path will bring back!
…
The suburbs outside the royal capital.
In a wooden house in a small town, two witches were talking.
"Oh no. Aurora is missing! She was in bed. Do you know what happened?"
"I don't know. I was a very deep sleeper."
According to the agreement, the 12 witches would send two people to take care of Aurora with Lord Rhine at a time, and the other 10 people would act freely. They would rotate every few days.
These days, they are in charge.
But tonight, Aurora mysteriously disappeared! The two witches could only knock on Rhine's room and seek help from this powerful sage of the kingdom, hoping that he could use the prophecy to locate Aurora's whereabouts.
"Mr. Rhine, Mr. Rhine, Aurora is missing."
"I got up at night and tried to quietly open the door to take a look at her, but I found that Aurora was gone!"
When they pushed open Rhine's door, they found that there was nothing behind the door, only the biting evening breeze blowing through the room.
"Oh no! Lord Rhine is missing too!"
The two witches hugged each other.
"I heard that there are child traffickers active nearby. Could Her Royal Highness the Princess be kidnapped?" The first witch was extremely nervous and made a guess.
"It would be dangerous if Her Royal Highness the Princess was kidnapped by human traffickers." The second witch looked out the window at the dark night with a worried look on her face.
"Wait, did I hear you right? Are you saying Aurora is in danger?" The first witch turned her head suddenly, her expression extremely surprised.
"Of course not!" The second witch retorted forcefully, correcting her wording, "I mean, the kidnappers who kidnapped Her Royal Highness the Princess are in danger!"
"Oh, that's true." The first witch immediately felt it made sense and nodded.
Which human trafficker is so desperate that he would kidnap Princess Aurora instead of any other child? Even though she is only 10 years old, there is no warrior in the entire Rose Kingdom who is more capable than her! The two of them discussed quickly for a while and found another problem.
"Wait, did this kidnapper also kidnap Lord Rhine?"
"Aren't the kidnappers more dangerous then?"
"Yeah, let's get them back as soon as possible. Otherwise, who knows what will happen?"
…
To the soldier's surprise, after he waited for a long time, the dog really came back carrying a girl.
On the big dog's back was a blonde girl who looked like she was asleep.
She was wearing plain clothes that were no different from those of ordinary people, but she was so beautiful that she looked like a character in a dream. The soldier only took one look at her sleeping face, and he felt as if his soul was sucked into it, as if his heart was cleansed!
"Oh my goodness, anyone can see that she is a pure princess! The dog actually brought back the princess of the kingdom! I thought it had taken the wrong path."
The soldier was very excited.
The soldier looked around and made sure it was late at night, no one was around, and the princess was still sleeping soundly.
He put his mouth close to her, wanting to kiss her secretly before the princess woke up.
"Who are you? What do you want?"
Suddenly, Aurora opened her eyes, raised her hand to block the soldier's rude action, and gently pushed the soldier away, with vigilance and hostility flashing in her eyes.
As a vigilant warrior, Aurora was awake long ago.
But she wanted to see where the strange creature that kidnapped her would take her, so she pretended to sleep the whole time, squinting her eyes.
The soldier greeted Aurora and bowed politely: "Oh, beautiful princess, hello."
He was not at all frightened by the disrespectful action he had just attempted to perform towards the princess.
The soldier believed that the princess had been imprisoned in the deep and closed palace for many years, and she probably had never seen a man - her father, the king, was the only exception. She had not even seen a few people!
He was evidently one of the few living persons the princess had ever seen.
The soldier likes this kind of ignorant beauty, which means he can easily "play the role" of a mentor in her life and teach her about interpersonal relationships and common sense of the world.
Aurora frowned slightly.
She was trying to decide if "beautiful princess" was just a playboy's pickup line.
"I don't know you."
Aurora climbed up from the dog and stood alertly, her green eyes gleaming fiercely.
The blonde girl's voice was extremely pleasant, like the song of a lark, but her sharp, piercing eyes made the soldier feel a little numb.
At this moment, the soldier even doubted again whether the person kidnapped by the dog was the princess of the kingdom.
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——He believed that the princess shouldn’t have such a look, at least not in the way he imagined.
"It doesn't matter whether she is a real princess or not." The soldier thought again, "Even if she is a real princess, she can't be more charming than the girl in front of me."
The moment he saw the blonde girl, he had fallen hopelessly in love with her.
"Who are you? Why did you bring me here?"
Aurora looked around and confirmed that she was in an inn in the royal capital.
Unfortunately, because I was caught while sleeping, I didn’t have my sword and armor with me… I can fight with my fists and feet, but they are not very convenient. I can’t guarantee that I can defeat a lion or a tiger in one shot…
Aurora's eyes moved rapidly and fell on the soldier's sword hanging on the wall.
——She didn't know that it was the sword that pierced Grandma Rosa's chest.
The soldier noticed Aurora's eyes darting around the room, his heart pounding so hard it threatened to jump out of his chest.
"Oh, she is such a beautiful girl. Even her curious look around is breathtakingly beautiful!"
"She was looking curiously at my room, the most luxurious room in the hotel!"
"If she is really a princess, I wonder how this place compares to the palace she used to live in?"
"Even if it's not as good as this, this is still a brand new place. It must be very fresh for Your Highness the Princess..."
The soldier thought happily.
He stood straight, ready to play the role of an excellent life mentor, trying to make his tone and posture sound like a true gentleman.
When the soldier ordered the dog to catch the princess, he had already prepared for the princess to wake up from her dream and thought about what to talk to her about! "Beautiful girl, I want to tell you a secret. This kingdom will be destroyed in six or seven years at most.
"A terrible disaster will befall in a few years. The king and queen, the nobles, and the peasants will all die! " "And I am the hero who comes to save you! " "My dog has magical powers that can protect us. We can leave this kingdom together and have a grand wedding in another kingdom!"
…
In the empty room next to the hotel.
Holding a silver mirror in her hand, she observed Rhine in the next room through prophetic magic. She was a little surprised when she heard the soldier's words.
“I didn’t expect he would talk about this.”
This is a plot that did not appear in the original fairy tale.
There is no doubt that the "disaster that destroyed the kingdom" the soldier was talking about was exactly the curse cast by the black witch Maleficent.
This news should have been blocked, but he knew the secret.
Sure enough, in this mixed magical world, after one's intervention affects fate, many details will change, and one cannot absolutely rely on the time traveler's understanding of the future... Rhine gathered his thoughts and continued to watch the scene in the silver mirror.
——Obviously, Rhine was not taken away by the "human traffickers".
After Grandma Rosa was injured, Rhine guessed that the soldiers would send dogs to the palace to capture the princess, just like in the original work.
To this end, Rhine secretly contacted the king, prepared the defense of the palace, and was ready to wait and retrieve the tinderbox.
Miraculously, the dog summoned by the tinderbox had some strange perception and discovered that the "real princess" was not in the palace, but had run to a small town outside the royal capital and took Aurora away.
Aurora herself didn't even know she was a princess! Of course, Rhine had also thought about the possibility that the dog would come to find the real Aurora, so he was prepared in advance.
When the dog kidnapped Aurora, Rhine followed him all the way to the inn where the soldiers lived and observed secretly.
"Why not capture any other princess? It's bad luck to capture Aurora..."
Rhine looked at the arrogant soldier in the mirror and tried hard to suppress his smile.
He and Granny Rosa had confirmed that the magical creatures that the tinderbox could summon were indeed monsters to ordinary people.
But in front of this invulnerable princess with extraordinary powers, he is no different from a little Chihuahua! (End of this chapter)