"Where am I? What on earth...?"
"Third Princess, this is my girlfriend's home. I know it's cramped, but please bear with it for a while."
"Huh? What?"
"Well then, I'll step out for a moment. Sophia, take care of her."
"Got it."
She had somehow been transported from the lavish venue lined with perverts into an ordinary room.
I know this probably doesn't make any sense, but even I don't know what was done to me.
Still, the boy from earlier seemed to be the same person who had once saved me and Natalia...
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I had snatched the princess back from the lavish venue full of old men in nothing but underwear wearing strange masks, but the fact that there was one guy among them who was actually properly dressed had been bugging me.
Well, he was wearing a weird mask to hide his identity, though.
That's why, just before rescuing the princess with teleportation magic, I had checked him with [Divine Eye].
[Third-Rate Tamer] First Prince Merculius-Gloria (
former
heir to the throne ).
Oh, so it's that prince who played along with my father's cheap little charade at the Royal Capital's Martial God Festival.
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The backstage room of the Kachou dark auction venue.
"What the hell is going on!! Selene just up and vanished!!"
The First Prince pressed him with growing irritation.
"I'm terribly sorry, Your Highness."
"I came all the way here specifically to enjoy the strip show of that talentless princess. You know that, right?"
"We are currently conducting a thorough investigation…"
The manager of "Kachou" bowed his head low.
The talentless Third Princess had been procured from the First Prince himself.
The plan was to auction her off at an exorbitant price to perverted nobles who wanted to defile a pure virgin to their hearts' content, with a Deflowering Ceremony held on the spot the moment she was claimed.
Even those who couldn't win the bid would pay enormous participation fees—enough to devour most of their domain's income—just to come and watch.
That revenue was then used to procure children of high-ranking nobles again, and the cycle repeated.
"We'd have Natalia lure Selene into a kidnapping and sell her into prostitution. There's no better way to blow off steam than a spectacle like that, wouldn't you say?"
"Yes, that is precisely so."
"Then hurry up and find her!! Bring me the vanished princess!! Make me hear her scream!!"
"Wow, that's brutal."
"Who said that?!"
"Does it matter?"
"A boy with a golden left eye… Could it be the one who destroyed the assassin guild 'Diamond'—the same one even the royal family used to employ…"
The manager of "Kachou" murmured, as if the memory had just resurfaced.
"What did you say? A brat like that took out 'Diamond'? My father told me, 'I don't know who it was, but they crushed that thorn in our side who refused to do as we said. This time we really need to prepare a more obedient organization in its place'… but…"
"It's not like I did it because I wanted to. So this place is an underground organization too, huh, mister over there?"
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Skills: [Reverse] [Divine Eye] [Sword God] [Phantom Thief Gentleman] [Dark Magic] [Rock-Iron Magic] [Holy Magic] [Space-Time Magic] [Scorching Heat Magic] [Freezing Ice Magic] [Magic Hand] [Temptation] [Pain Relief] [Complete Status Ailment Resistance] [Fire Spirit's Protection] [Phantom Demon] [Swift Wind and Thunder] [Shadow Spirit's Protection] [Monstrous Strength] [Thunder God Sword] [Good Fortune] [Clear Gale Magic] [Humility] [Heaven's Gate] [Ninja Master] [Eloquence] [Seeker of Truth] [Whisper of the Abyss] [Super Intuition] [Spear God] [Fist God]
Rank: Orichalcum