After choosing to leave, they regretted it.

"Don't worry, it's done! I've already used my tentacles to carve the words you said into the stones surrounding the princess. She'll definitely see them as soon as she wakes up!"

The pink-haired girl said this while running wildly without even turning her head.

In the battle just now, every time Alicia was knocked away, she would be offline for a while, and she would jump up and fight again half a beat slower than Charlotte.

While George's attention was completely attracted by Aize and others, he left a message for Heidi who was in a coma.

Aize nodded.

"Very good. What will happen next will depend on your highness the princess's performance. Before that..."

Look towards the workshop.

There, a faint red light had emerged from the dark tunnel and was approaching at an extremely alarming speed.

After literally chopped his ancestors into pieces, George chased after them again, and was extremely angry, completely lacking the relaxed cat-and-mouse attitude he had just had.

This is a good thing.

After all, if he stopped chasing and turned back to the tomb, it would become a big trouble.

"Until then, we must stall for as much time as possible! Prepare the technique and blow up everything we pass through. Even if it means burying ourselves here, we must stall for as long as possible!"

Aize gritted his teeth and said so.

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Tick~

"Well……"

A drop of cold liquid fell on Heidi's forehead, waking her up from her coma.

It seemed to be dripping from the broken ceiling, and I couldn't tell whether it was dew or mountain spring water.

"This is where?"

The double blow of physical and mental damage made Heidi's brain completely blank. For a moment, she couldn't even remember her own name.

Sitting up in a daze, what I saw was the tomb that had completely turned into ruins.

The sky above was completely engulfed by a strange black shadow.

My head stabbed and memories came flooding back.

Her name is Heidi Yalter, and on the surface she is a princess and heir to the throne.

In reality, she is a fool who was raised as a vase since childhood, a spare tire who took the blame temporarily, the daughter of the culprit of the massacre in the royal capital, and a hero who lost the protection of the hero.

In a nutshell, a complete clown and waste.

Thinking of this, Heidi couldn't help laughing out loud.

After all, how could there be such a funny person in the world?

There are such funny people who actually take themselves seriously as important people.

joke.

Great joke.

So, laugh.

“Hehehehe…hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha——”

A burst of almost crazy silly laughter suddenly stopped as if it was strangled.

Then, tears flowed.

Heidi slumped to the ground, curled up into a ball, hugging her legs.

Then, some crooked words carved on the fallen boulder in front of her came into her sight.

"Is this... Aize's plan!?"

The red-haired girl seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw. Without even having time to stand up, she crawled over in an extremely awkward manner using her hands and feet and began to read impatiently.

A few short lines briefly introduced the current situation, the difficulties faced, and what she needed to do.

However, the last part plunged Heidi into deeper despair.

Because this order is for the princess, the legitimate heir to the kingdom.

But I am not a princess, I am just a joke.

It's simply impossible.

Forget it, so be it.

……

……

……

“…No, what am I thinking!?”

After being stunned for a while, Heidi came to her senses and slapped herself several times.

Is now the time to be willful and self-destructive?

Not only Aize and others, but the fate of the entire royal capital, including the tens of thousands of surviving civilians, now depends on him.

Can't do it?

You have to do it even if you can't.

Even if it is to atone for his father's beastly behavior, he must do it!

With this thought in mind, the princess supported her broken arm, stood up tremblingly, and looked around, searching for a route to leave the royal tomb.

Then--

"Uh……"

A faint groan came from the nearby rubble, which made Heidi, who was still dizzy, shudder.

After all, she didn't witness the battle herself.

What if Aize or someone else was injured in the battle and couldn't be transferred, so he stayed here?

So, she hurried towards the source of the sound.

It’s not difficult to find.

It seemed that someone was trapped by a fallen stone slab and managed to survive by relying on the triangular space formed by half a broken pillar.

"hold onto!!!"

Fortunately, although there was a problem with the Hero's Divine Protection, its power did not seem to have diminished much.

Heidi used all her strength to lift the stone slab and threw it aside.

Then, I found that the person lying there moaning was none other than Arthur.

He was extremely weak because most of his blood had been sucked away, but he still had a breath left.

This made Heidi's anger ignite instantly.

He picked up a sharp stone and lifted the regent, who had become as thin as a dried man, from the ground and pressed him hard against the wall.

Prepare to finish him off once and for all.

"...Hmm? Princess... Your Highness?"

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Arthur opened his eyes.

After seeing that the seaman in front of him was Di, he even forced a smile.

"You...are okay...that's great..."

This caused the stone Heidi had already lifted to stop in mid-air.

It wasn't that she wanted to spare his life—Arthur's crime was unforgivable, that was very clear.

But even after knowing everything, Heidi still wanted to ask him:

"why?"

"……Um?"

"Father... my bastard dad's orders are self-explanatory, so why did you follow them?! Don't you know what the consequences of this crazy plan will be?!"

As Heidi said this, the stone in her hand fell to the ground and tears gradually welled up in her eyes.

"Be it royal duty or aristocratic dignity, I have no right to blame you for treating those things as treasures, but...but...what does this have to do with being aristocratic or not?! Is this what you should do as a human being?!? Answer me, Arthur!!"

Heidi was screaming until her voice was hoarse.

However, Arthur just smiled and shook his head gently:

"Because... we have to do this... Otherwise... Otherwise, how can we eradicate those traitors in the Duke's Alliance? How... How can we allow Her Highness... to ascend the throne?"

"……What did you say?"

The unexpected answer made Heidi's breathing even faster.

And Arthur's dying reply continued:

"I originally wanted to... resurrect all the kings... and once they gained power, they would inevitably... inevitably punish the Dukes' Alliance, and then fight among themselves... and suffer losses... and perish together... cough cough cough—"

"In this way... in this way, Her Highness the Princess will be able to ascend the throne. She will not only be a Princess... Her Highness, but... she will be able to become a true Queen... So... cough cough cough——"

"Your Highness... you... are very outstanding... you... will become the queen who changes this country... The previous king was not worthy of you, and no king in any generation is worthy of you... so I... must clear the obstacles for you, so..."

Just as George himself said, before leading his army to fight against the invasion of the demons five years ago, he had given orders to Arthur, asking him to use Heidi as a vase as a cover to continue his research on ancient techniques and related plans.

In order to realize the long-cherished wish or ambition of the Arte people to ascend to heaven.

However, Arthur saw something unexpected.

Heidi, who was only 14 years old at the time, did not cry, escape, or give up on herself.

Instead, she grew at an astonishing rate, and then quickly took over everything that should not have been her responsibility. She even maintained a situation that should have collapsed long ago for a period of time far longer than expected.

The kingdom, which was on the verge of division and civil war, was maintained in an ugly but still miraculous way thanks to her coordination and operation.

Coupled with the brainwashing education with ulterior motives since childhood, it has cultivated her extremely pure character.

Such a person has never appeared in the hundreds of years of history of the kingdom.

At that time, Arthur made up his mind to put aside his original plan and assist Heidi wholeheartedly.

However, it is counterproductive.

Under tremendous pressure, Heidi's character gradually became distorted, and the subsequent appearance of Aize made her fall into a vicious circle.

It became what it is now.

Then came the Tafia incident, Duke Brian fell, and the three dukes joined forces to force the emperor to abdicate, starting the formal fight for the throne.

Arthur finally made up his mind to restart the plan and modified its content.

If only the former king were resurrected as planned, his power would be too strong to control, and after his return he would inevitably depose Heidi and establish his so-called eternal empire.

So absolutely not.

And if all the kings of the past were resurrected at the same time, the power would increase by more than ten times accordingly.

In this way, they would harbor anger towards the Duke's Alliance, first deal with these traitors, and then kill each other for the throne.

When this process is over, the survivor will be able to defeat it easily even if she relies only on her own strength.

Here, all problems can be solved.

Heidi will become the sole ruler of this country.

However, the plan failed, and Aize and others discovered the location of the secret workshop in advance, and the progress of the resurrection of the kings of all generations was interrupted.

Arthur had no choice but to carry out the original plan and risk his own life to resurrect Heidi's father.

After all, even if he was deposed, he was still her father, and at least Heidi could survive.

If she fell into the hands of the Duke's Alliance, especially the Duke of Auchinleck, Heidi would surely die without a burial place.

After understanding this, Heidi was stunned at first.

Then he raised his hand almost subconsciously and slapped Arthur directly in the face.