Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 5 Episode 4 (section)

===Part 8===

「The prime minister of the Vanheim Principality is saying that they will bring up the incident of this matter resolutely. They won’t accept the explanation that there is a defect in the Drag-Ride. He told us to hand over the princess to be judged by their law.」

「There is no way we can do something like that! Even the All-Dragon Battle isn’t over yet you know!? Tell him that we will listen to what he has to say again later!」

On the other hand, inside the castle. Inside the wide conference room, the angry yells of the consuls flew around.

The extermination mission of the Abyss swarm failed due to the surprise attack of the Rebel Army led by Ragreed, and the enemy army was marching on from the northwest.

Their aim was just as the name 『Imperial Capital Recapture Plan』 suggested, this very royal capital itself.

It wouldn’t even take tens of minutes until all the forces arrived at this place.

「But, there is also the fact that just the other day a guard of the royal capital attacked a selection member of the Vanheim Principality. In addition to the continuing bad blood since the era of the Old Empire. At this rate, they surely won’t listen to us urging them to go home to their country without even providing any proof or the perpetrator.」

「……The princess has also really done something outrageous. Even though that bunch has been troublesome since the past──」

「Please calm down. The clarification of the incident is not finished yet. Only after that everything can──」

 

Lamenting voices continued to rise from the consuls, hearing the reports coming in one after another.

Lisha was hanging her head down while listening to those voices of despondency and indignation from the floor immediately below.

After that match, still in her suit without even changing, she had been absentminded as though her soul had left her.

Why it had turned out like this?

Even though she should had done the best she could.

Even though for the sake of this country, while knowing that she was still immature──she thought of trying to become the real thing, and yet.

She didn’t have any such power, she betrayed everyone’s expectations, and invited the greatest predicament.

「It’s like……I’m a criminal.」

Inside the hidden room for the royalty’s personal use that was prepared underground.

She was isolated so that she wouldn’t be aimed at by the people of the Vanheim Principality that she enraged. Lisha made a powerless bitter smile towards her situation.

Her feelings were the same as five years ago, when she was kidnapped by the Old Empire and made into a hostage, before being abandoned by her father, the great hero.

She couldn’t do anything. She was toyed with by the happenings with nothing that she could do of her own strength, and lost everything.

「Why……. Why did it become like this again? Was I mistaken? From the start, someone like me──」

When she couldn’t endure it anymore and let out a complaint, footsteps came from in front of her.

When Lisha came back to herself and quickly lifted up her face, the room’s door was opened.

Over there, the Drag-Knights of the Rebel Army whose uniforms were painted grey were standing with their weapons ready.

「We are going to have you come along okay, your highness. Together with us.」

「…………」

Lisha could only look down with a pale expression.

Just like that day in the past.