Evade The Hero and Flee!

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“Please come this way.”

Hill couldn’t even resist when some knights grabbed his arm from the side.
That’s how he got caught first, then Selena the Elf was next.
She displayed a similar reaction to Hill while getting dragged away by the knights.

“Your Highness.
I shall now move on to the next phase of the plan.”

“Yes.
Thank you.
Please toil a little bit longer for our sakes, Sir Naruan.”

The princess added that she’d definitely repay this kindness at a later stage, then slightly bowed her head before moving away.

Of course, I had no desire whatsoever to wait around for that repayment.

That’s because I was not planning to return to this dang kingdom, no, the entire northern region for the rest of my life!

I mean, look at that scene! This scene, that evokes a sense of deja vu in me!

Years ago, it was me instead of the hero punk stuck inside a group similar to this one.
And if I dally any longer, I would find myself in the exact same situation as him, too.

As such… I better join up with my daughter, already safely evacuated to elsewhere, and flee from this place!

Have a nice life, oh my dear disciple!

I wish you all the happiness in life with the Ice Cream princess by your side!

#12 Their circumstances: A certain hero’s circumstance.

Ah, sh*t.
I’m screwed.

The first thing I saw after crawling out of the doghole in the wall was the sight of the captured Hill and Selena.

And on top of that, the smiling face of the princess, too?!

“Were you planning to go somewhere, Sir Hero?”

“A-ah, well, you see…”

The princess’s smile was truly, breathtakingly beautiful.
Well, she was called the most beautiful woman in the north by all the nearby kingdoms, after all.

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Even the dragon tried to kidnap her based on her fame alone.
That’s how beautiful she was!

I couldn’t help but wonder what number of people who’d love to see the smile of such a beauty.
Must’ve been super high.
However, I was frozen stiff like a rock the moment I saw that smile.

That’s because… I’ve come to realise that, no matter how wonderful the smile of a beautiful woman was, it’d come across as spookily eerie when a heavily-armed army of thousands, nay, tens of thousands, was serving as the backdrop.

“I beg your pardon? Were you thinking of leaving and going somewhere, Sir Hero? All the while abandoning me?”

Her blue hair and eyes seemed to sparkle under the moonlight within the darkness.
This scene was also mesmerisingly beautiful, but even then, another instinctive realisation dawned on me.

…If I fail to escape from here, my life as I knew it would be over, in a variety of ways!

“W-well, I was… out strolling?”

“Oh, my! Is that so? What a coincidence, as I was also out strolling, Sir Hero.
Would you like to accompany me, then?”

Strolling under the moonlight, with an army behind you?

Did she really think I’d believe her?

H-hang on a minute.
If that was true, then hell, wasn’t that an even scarier prospect?

“A-ahahaha, although it’d be my honour, I was already thinking of ending the stroll and retiring for the night, Your Highness.
It’s unfortunate, but how about I take a rain check on your offer?”

“Yes, indeed it is unfortunate.
Since Sir Hero emerged from the hole I have created, I wanted to believe that you wished to see me.
Was I wrong, Sir Hero?”

“Heop!”

I thought the instructor was responsible for that hole since the traces of the spirit lingered around it, but to think that the princess was responsible for the hole’s creation?!

In that case… could it be?!

“Is my instructor nearby, Your Highness?”

“Sir Naruan? He needed to attend to another matter and has left already, at least for the time being, Sir Hero.”

That meant he was here until not too long ago.

Dammit! I never imagined that he’d join forces with the princess even in the middle of his own escape attempt!

It made sense, though, since the princess didn’t know about the empire hotly pursuing the instructor even as we speak.
It would’ve been a simple matter to scam her in that respect.

Dammit! How could I have failed to consider this possibility?!

“Unfortunately, it seems that we will have to delay our stroll to another day as you said, Sir Hero.
Well, then.
Shall we return to the castle?”

The pair of blue eyes gleaming under the moonlight was staring straight at me.

I was now basically a frog trapped in front of a snake.
I desperately thought about, ‘What should I do to escape from here?’ but no useful solutions popped up in my head.

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“The nights in the north can get very cold, so it’s very inadvisable to stay outdoors for too long, Sir Hero.
Especially more so when we’re in the middle of winter.
Your comrades are waiting for you, so shall we return now?”

The princess smiled ‘demurely’ while extending her hand towards me, but my feet didn’t want to budge an inch.
My whole body had become paralysed from a pair of eyes even chillier than the cold winter winds of the north.

“Goodness me.
Really now, Sir Hero.
You’re unexpectedly high maintenance, aren’t you?”

The princess ‘demurely’ raised her hand, prompting the knights surrounding us to slowly close in on me.

Dammit! Do I need to abandon Hill and Selena and make my escape from here alone?

But where should I even escape to?

I could use my power to fight back but the bitter truth was, a hero fighting against a kingdom for no logical reason would never be accepted by anyone.

Wait! Wasn’t this, like, a justifiable act of self-defence?

N-no, that wouldn’t work.
Because of my instructor’s scheme, the news of the princess marrying me has already spread to the rest of the continent as if it’s an undeniable fact, hasn’t it?!

The current me basically looked like a hero trying to flee in the middle of the night after not wanting to take responsibility for his actions, after all!

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So, if I resort to violence here… I’d be no different than a dead man walking, socially speaking.

It’s over.
My life… it’s over!

But this happened right at that moment.

“You want my help?”

…A voice of salvation reaching my ears, that was.

“Eh?”

“Want my help or not?”

I couldn’t see her yet, but that voice was still way too familiar to my ears nonetheless.

“Y-yeah!”

“Yeah what?”

She replied in a displeased voice, prompting me to plead in a desperate cry.
“N-no, that’s not it.
Please help me, dear Lady Mirua!”

“Alright, then.
However… you gotta help me track down the instructor, got that?”

“Yessir!”

Right then, a black shadow suddenly popped out between Hill and Selena and enveloped them in the blink of an eye.

“Uh? Huh?!”

The soldiers next to them were getting flustered after their hostages were taken away.
In the meantime, the shadow that had swallowed up Hill and Selena popped up right next to me before spitting both of them out.

“W-what was that?!”

“S-Sir Hero?”

While Hill and Selena were panicking from how they suddenly ended up next to me, Mirua finally revealed herself in the open and stared straight at me.
It was as if the army of thousands didn’t even exist in her eyes.

“Where is the instructor?”

“Sir Hero, may I ask who that woman is?”

Was she curious about the identity of Mirua who suddenly appearing out of nowhere? Or was she ‘curious’ about an unknown woman suddenly choosing to appear in front of me? Whatever it was, the princess in the distance spoke with a voice filled with skin-pricking coldness.

“Instructor, where?”

“Sir Hero!”

The quiet little voice coming from right next to me, and the chilling voice coming from some distance away… Duuuude, both of them were so bloody scary!

“Mirua, it might be a better idea to get out of here first, don’t you agree?”

“No, our instructor first.”

“He’s already gone! And we need to hurry after him! That’s why we gotta get out of here first and then talk!”

“Tch… That’s why I came first, but… he’s not here…” Mirua grumbled unhappily while pulling something small from her inner pocket.
Then, she brought it close to her lips.
“Transfer.”

That one word from her caused the surrounding space to distort and soon, the surrounding scenery also rapidly changed.
That’s how I got to successfully escape from that deadly situation.

Slap, clack.

“Eh?”

“It’s only until we catch the instructor.
You will be working under me until then.”

…Even though I got caught by someone else right afterwards!

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[1]: This is an old Korean idiom, and it means that you’d feel braver or have an upper hand while inside your home turf.