That day, the Scarlet Jade castle covered up by everlasting darkness boiled in excitement for the first time in one hundred years.
âHer highness has come back! We your lowly subjects pay respect to our supreme lord, who is equal with God!
âHer highness has come back! We offer our flesh and soul to the greatest, most beautiful princess of all time!!
âHer highness has come back! We the demons of the âImperial Crimsonâ kingdom will once again fight for its glorious days!!!
ââââ
I have various kinds of regret.
âŚWhy did I have such hobby back then?
Well originally from the start, the unique skill as a vampire princess âevil eyeâ was able to eliminate the will to attack from the target, and could be used whether they were player or MOBs (success rates differ with the level difference from the target). However, it was discovered that it influenced the MOB capture chance, so I got carried away and tried to completely capture every MOB possible within the game.
Next, I took a side glance at Mikotoâs face who standing back next to the throne.
She was the first one I finally hit in a gacha, an SR seraph pet. I was so lucky that I jumped in triumph, since then I always played gacha since I might get a pet as a prize.
By mistake in the gulcha (guild chat), because I spilled the fact that my bill had piled up until the limit and also that my personal inventory that overflowing with pets, the gulmen (guild member) became elated since they already maxed their level and didnât know what to do in their spare time.
So, before I knew it they had entirely assembled the 36 pieces of the âSky Gardenâ blueprint fragments that drop once a while from the mobs of the ancient civilization ruins named âThe Scrap Gardenâ in order to return it to its original state.
From there, the required material (It said that you were required to gather 20 different kinds of extremely rare materials that were only acquired from a percent chance of treasure chests and minerals, which was so extreme that a group with about 10 max level people were totally wiped out in the middle of it by a boss mob in the area called âDimension Labyrinthâ) in fact, it needs 50 pieces per type. That, I could say, was a masochistic act!
So as for myself, I also participated in the material gathering in the surrounding area. I brought machine craftsman and alchemists that were scattered around the world to the sennin place, where I made them take the mission quest, and finally asked them to process the material. Once in a while the material processing failed so I still had to carry out the material gathering⌠Yeah, I was enjoying it during the process so I am not denying that I was worked up with it.
Then finally, all of sudden the sky garden was completed in under 4 months!
I am not boasting about it, however in the guild that I was in, âCalico Cat Trailâ, all of its member have already reincarnated three times, it also had 5 people who hold the âCourt Rankâ special title so I can say within the server there was not a single high level player who didnât know of us.
But even so, itâs 4 month! âŚWell for all the good times spent the gulmen were fine with it. At the time when the magic formation changed into a floating island, to be honest I was filled deeply with emotion.
As gulmen next to me keep chanting âBALSE!â âBALSE!â continuously, I noticed I received the ownership of âThe Sky Gardenâ by the admin, so I was given that damn embarrassingly title of Tenjoutenga (Elegant Miss of the Sky). I got ranked up to the âCourt Rankâ, and my name was being spilled all over at the global chat. Although it made me think âWhat kind of public rape is this?!ââŚ
Moreover after that, the gulmen were so excited that the island had been transformed into a dark fortress city sort of thing like an artist doing whatever he pleases on a âdemon modâ.
As for me, I was granted personal use of the storeroom on the island, and thanks to that the total limit of my storage had become close to 2000 units. That was definitely the best thing to come from this out everything. On top of that, there were 100 spots to display captured pets all around the castle and island, so I crazily collected rare pets more and more because I wanted them to be displayed. That somehow made my friends call the place âDemon Lord Castleâ or âMonster Islandâ but I let the matter pass.
Yes, if there was a time machine so I could fix this, I would be able to complain about this matter of mine.
Now that I understand what kind of situation I have gotten into, I absolutely wonât collect these high level monsters and boss class monsters at allââââ!!!
As I sit down on âThe Throne of Supreme Rulerâ (A showy thing that was decorated with gold and gems, which was a furniture billing item), cold sweat drips down from my head. While I view rows of monster forces that stand side by side before my eyes, Iâm screaming inside.
And then, there a small repeated upper arm sound at my side sending me a signal. When I take a look, Tengai gives me a faint wink.
Aah, I have to make some kind of speech here.
âŚWhat should I do? I wonder what kind of good important sounding speech I should give. I donât know any type of speech like that.. oh well, from the beginning I had wanted to finish this fast and go to bed to sleep.
No, I have to do it properlyâŚ
âââEveryone, this is such a big ceremony!!â
Hmm? I didnât make a mistake in my speech right???
âMILADYââââââââ!!!!!â
All monsters bow their head all at once. Among them, there were some who put so much strength in their heads that they hit the floor, making a crack on it.
âŚThis building was supposed to be an item that is impossible to break, I wonder if it is repairable now.
I try to keep thinking those trivial things, however, Tengai looks over all those monsters and then opens his mouth in satisfaction.
âHer highness, the princess, has granted you the honor to bow to her. Everyone, raise your faces!â
At that moment without a single mistake, all the monsters rose their faces up.
Uwawawawawawah. S-scaryď˝ď˝ď˝ď˝ď˝!!!
Well, I do see that thereâs some familiarity from their faces. After all, those monsters were the pets that I had captured.
There also a nostalgic feeling from their faces, but well⌠the front of the grizzly bear that faced me now with the bear doll back then is different?
On the game screen, they were cutely following *chokochoko* behind Hiyuki. But now, if I meet any of them when walking along the streets at night, I will faint from the fright.
To make the matter worseââ
For testing, I try to look on the status of Demon Eye High Priest who had relatively low stats back then among them.
Race: Demon Eye High Priest
Name: Kokonoe
Owner: Hiyuki
HPďź6,255,000
MPďź7,780,000
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Even though it appears that way, he was a small fish type. The rest are mostly nothing but boss class monsters.
It seems the ones that are part of this round table all have no pet limiter on them.
Even if I wasnât present right now, it shouldnât be a problem rightâŚ?
That is what I am thinking, but maybe I just donât know. They were staring me with a deep emotion feeling, âOooh, its Hime-samaâ âShe really has returnedâ âHer beauty is unchangingâ âHow shiningâ âIâm able to meet her againâ, there were even those among them who had burst into tears.
Then, to the left side of the throne, stood the dark knight, Kokuyou. *Shan!* â He dropped the rod shaped spear that he held onto the floor. Next to him stood the nine tail fox, Utsuho, holding a folding fan in her hand. While pointing her fan to everyone there, she made a rebuke.
âAll of you in here should be Demon Commanders of this glorious round table, and yet you are all undisciplined like children. You stand before Hime-sama! Can you not dignify your appearances just a bit?â
That dialogue raises the tension in the room again.
âŚNo no, I am fine with that warm and fuzzy from before. That was relieving a bit of my tension you see!
âWell then gentleman, our supreme ruler of this glorious round table has returned. With this, our long time of uncertainty has ended. The glory and honor of our kingdom âThe Imperial Crimsonâ will once again be known throughout the entire world even to the ignorant plebs!!â
Everyone cheered from that extreme speech from Tengai, the shock made me fall down from the throne so I placed my arm on the armrest. Due to the recoil I have stepped down to the floor.
At that moment, everyone concentrated their gazes on me with a fully amaâŚâŚzing expectation.
âŚT-this means, if I am not able to perform something here, itâs going to cause an outrage right?
I canât just stay still like this, I guess I canât quitâŚeh.
Oh⌠well whatever, I will just imitate Tengaiâs speech.
âââStand, all of you! Be with me; raise your voice of triumph to victory!!â
In that moment, the kneeling monsters raise up all at once,
Just now they yelled at twice their normal volume.
ââââââââââ
âŚâGasp, I suddenly came back to myself. Somehow for several seconds, I fainted while standing with my eyes open.
Of course when my consciousness returned, I was unable to stand up and dropped my hips at once back onto the throne.
End
Author Notes
By the way, dark knight Kokuyou was a boss drop item (low %chance) from the limited event of âThe Revival of Dark Emperorâ.
Also for the nine tail fox Utsuho, she was a limited pet presented for the holder of 1st rank in weekly seasonal event.
Those two, in total with Tengai and Mikoto, composed the 4 evil heavenly kings.
As for what special of those four? they were all an extremely rare pet, almost not even one could be obtained again. For that reason, assuming if their name will be like âSoraâ or âJikanâ, it didnât really have a visual from the name theme.
TL Notes
Billing = IM or CashBalse! Balse! They want the castle to fell after it was finished hahaha, it was incantation for collapse of Laputa. (Refer to castle in the sky)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_in_the_SkyDevil mod, an article may give you some descriptionhttp://kotaku.com/5914183/why-the-japanese-cops-will-arrest-you-for-selling-sexy-one-piece-knock-offsItâs a big ceremony, on the original, its other way to say âYou have been in a great troubleâ, actually, the protag intend to do the latter one, but it seems it work out well after all.a visual from the name theme, assuming from TL perspective like Hiyuki = Scarlet Snow, scarlet for the vampire, snow for the skin, Mikoto (centre of life) refer to angel, Tengai (Skyline) refer to a dragon in the sky, In short, author want its character name DEEP.