Chapter 135 - 135: A Kiss for Sherry
It was late at night. Steve was at Crown Prince Karl's detached palace in the Kingdom of Meizack. Of course, it was to rescue his sister Sherry. Just as usual, he used insects and small animals to pinpoint the location where she was being held under house arrest, cast illusions on the guards to make them oblivious, and entered the room without being noticed.
"Big Sister, I have come to save you."
"You're late."
Sherry had predicted Steve would come, so she was not surprised. She had complained about the delay, but she was grateful to her younger brother who had come to save her.
"Have they done anything to you?"
"Except making me talk to the Crown Prince every day, nothing in particular."
"Really? Are you holding back?"
"It's fine. Besides, persistently asking a young lady such things is annoying."
"I do that when the other party is a young lady."
Steve answered like that, and Sherry threw the teacup in her hand at him. Steve caught it.
"Be quiet."
"Whose fault do you think this is?"
When Sherry got angry, Steve bowed his head.
"A woman is a young lady no matter how old she gets."
"I have carved it into my chest."
"Very well."
Steve proposed escaping once Sherry's anger had subsided.
"Everyone is worried, so let's go back immediately."
"Wait a moment. Help the members of the diplomatic corps too."
"Since it's on the way anyway, we will help them. However, they will become witnesses of history."
Since an uneasy word came out of Steve's mouth, Sherry became anxious.
"Witnesses of history?"
"I exaggerated. I mean to give them an experience so that the Kingdom of Meizack never touches the Kingdom of Merda or the Kingdom of Cascade again."
"Steve, I'm getting very anxious now. Can I stay with you?"
"No. Your brother-in-law is very worried, so I will take only you back right now."
"I see. But I am also worried about being a witness of history just as much."
Sherry was serious. Her sixth sense was telling her that something very bad would happen.
However, Steve did not listen to Sherry's wish and teleported with her to the Merda Kingdom's royal palace. There, despite the late hour, King Abel was awake, worrying about Sherry.
"Abel, I made you worry."
"Sherry, have they done nothing to you? Are you injured?"
Abel did not have the courage to ask if Sherry had been defiled by the Crown Prince, so he asked about injuries.
"Don't worry, nothing has been done to me. If you are worried, shall we not have children for the next two months?"
"No, I trust you. You don't need to do that."
Since the sister and brother-in-law were about to start being lovey-dovey, Steve decided to return.
"Then, Brother-in-law, I will return to the Kingdom of Meizack. I will settle this matter."
"I'm counting on you, Brother-in-law."
Thus, Steve returned to the Kingdom of Meizack.
And first, what Steve did was to transform into Sherry. It was not an illusion, but a transformation. The logic is simple: first turn oneself into mercury, then color that mercury. This coloring is also done with magic power.
While looking at the standard work manual made by Mercury, Steve thought he might be able to color mercury, so he tried it, and that is how he succeeded in coloring it.
As a result, he became able to transform into the person he wanted.
Steve, transformed into Sherry, destroyed the door of the room where she was being held under house arrest. He used magic to blow the door off.
Naturally, the guarding soldiers noticed that.
"Your Majesty the Queen, you must not go further. Stop!"
Soldiers pointing swords at Sherry. But inside was Steve.
"Do you really think you can stop me with people like you?"
Steve said that and kicked the nearest soldier. The soldier could not react to the kick and took a direct hit, flying backward.
Although Crown Prince Karl had said not to touch her, the soldiers thought it would be bad if they did not stop the Queen in front of them here, so they all attacked Steve at once.
Steve did not try to dodge those attacks. Why? Because he was mercury now, and physical attacks were ineffective. Although he was in Sherry's shape, if hit, that shape would easily deform. The soldiers were shown that.
Pushing an arm against a noren, striking mercury. Swords hitting Steve were swallowed into his body as they were. And there was no resistance.
"Monster."
"How terrible. There is no way to call someone a monster against a queen of another country."
Steve made Sherry's angry face.
"Call your comrades!"
The soldier shouted that and ran away. Not chasing him, Steve headed to rescue the diplomatic corps of the Kingdom of Merda and the Kingdom of Cascade. He broke the door of the room where the diplomatic corps was being held under house arrest and entered.
"I have come to save you."
"Your Majesty the Queen!"
The exhausted group saw Sherry's face and their exhaustion blew away. And, overwhelmed with joy, they did not notice the discomfort that Sherry did not call anyone by their name. After all, the inside was Steve, so he did not know the names of the diplomatic corps who came with him.
And Prince Alex was also being held under house arrest with the diplomatic corps, and he was saved by Steve disguised as Sherry. Alex felt something was off about Sherry blowing the door off and immediately guessed that the inside was Steve. He did not say it out loud, though.
Before long after rejoicing at the reunion, soldiers from the Kingdom of Meizack gathered in the room. Steve jumped into those soldiers with his bare hands and beat them down one after another. The soldiers forgot Crown Prince Karl's orders and attacked the threat in front of them. However, none of those attacks could deal damage.
"Call a mage!"
A soldier who seemed to be the guard captain shouted that. Several soldiers ran somewhere and brought back a mage.
By that time, the soldiers had already been neutralized by Steve.
Facing the guard captain tied with iron chains, Steve smiled fearlessly.
"Do you really think you can do anything to me with a mere mage?"
"Well, it would be impossible. However, this is also my duty."
The guard team had already given up. They had been shown overwhelming strength and could not think that anyone in the country could stop this Queen. Although sword and spear attacks were invalidated, they could not hold out hope that magic might work. After all, the iron chains tying themselves were made by magic. They could not think that such a person could be dealt with by magic.
And what arrived was a fire attribute mage. He fired a fireball at Steve. It was an attack regardless of friendly casualties. However, all of them were intercepted by Steve's fireballs. He counterattacked with fireballs of the same power to cancel them out.
The mage desperately fired fireballs, but all of them were intercepted and disappeared.
Seeing the color of anxiety appear on the mage, Steve forcibly issued an order.
"Do not use magic."
When the effect of that magic was exerted, the mage who tried to use magic began to suffer. And thus, he stopped using magic.
With no new soldiers appearing, Steve ordered the guard captain.
"Well, let's have you guide me to the Crown Prince."
"The Prince is not here."
"Then, where is he?"
"I have no intention of talking about that."
"Oh, I see. Then let's make you want to talk."
Steve forcibly ordered the guard captain to reveal the Crown Prince's location. Immediately, the guard captain broke his silence.
"The Prince has taken refuge in the royal palace."
"If you had spoken honestly from the beginning, you wouldn't have suffered."
Steve looked at the guard captain with a look of pity. The guard captain, in a lapse of judgment, found that face beautiful. Well, it was an impression of Sherry's face, though.
"Alright, let's storm the royal palace."
When Steve said that, the diplomatic corps was surprised.
"Your Majesty the Queen, isn't this the chance to escape now?"
"No. With people like this, unless we clearly show the hierarchy with force once, they will repeat the same thing again. If we do it, we must do it thoroughly."
There was no way to disobey what the Queen said, so the group headed for the royal palace. Of course, they did not walk; they moved to the royal palace in an instant with Steve's teleportation magic.
It was late at night, but the story of Sherry causing havoc at the detached palace had reached the royal palace, and the soldiers were on high alert. Sherry did not have such power, so they thought Steve had stormed in. And that was correct. However, they did not recognize Steve.
"Sherry, Queen of the Kingdom of Merda. I have come to pay you a visit."
Steve did not hide and advanced loudly. His target was the King. He used nocturnal insects and small animals to pinpoint the King's location and headed there.
Coincidentally, Crown Prince Karl was there too.
It was the throne room.
Steve, who had stormed in, declared loudly.
"Let me atone for the crime of restraining my body!"
At this stage, Crown Prince Karl could not say not to touch her, and he watched the soldiers attack Sherry. Swords and spears pierced Sherry's body, but blood did not splash at all; instead, the soldiers were blown away.
Soldiers frightened and fleeing appeared. The Royal Guard Knights Captain cut down the fleeing soldiers.
"Don't run! Fight!"
The cut soldier fell to the floor, but immediately his wounds closed and he stood up by Steve's healing magic.
"How foolish to attack your own comrades. The pitiful soldier was healed by my magic."
"Huh? Am I alive?"
The cut soldier had a dazed face as if being tricked by a fox. The throne room, which had been murmuring, fell silent upon seeing that scene.
There were also soldiers who tried to escape and were cut down by the Royal Guard Knights, but their wounds were healed in the same way.
The Royal Guard Knights Captain glared at Steve and ground his teeth.
"Monster."
"Really, why does this country want to treat me like a monster?"
Steve, in Sherry's form, shrugged his shoulders. Then, he used magic to create a block of steel and shot it, breaking the wall. A large hole opened in the wall, and the royal palace garden was clearly visible.
He used a growth magic on a single tree there and made the tree grow rapidly.
Seeing the miracle of growing before one's eyes, no one could utter a word.
"Healing magic, plant cultivation. If you call me a goddess, that's one thing, but calling me a monster makes me cry."
Saying that, he pretended to cry. Everyone was starting to think Sherry might be an incarnation of a god, but that was ruined.
While everyone was stunned, Crown Prince Karl, with an ecstatic expression, stepped forward.
"Beautiful. You are truly a goddess. Please, grant me that kiss."
Hearing that, Steve stopped his fake crying and slapped Crown Prince Karl's cheek. Crown Prince Karl fell to the floor, unable to withstand the momentum. Steve stepped on the unconscious Crown Prince Karl's body and glared at the King.
"Well, how will you settle this matter?"
"With the disinheritance of the Crown Prince."
"Just that?"
The King had brought up the disinheritance of the Crown Prince, but upon seeing Sherry's extremely dissatisfied face, he immediately presented additional conditions.
"We will also offer cession of territory and compensation. However, since the ministers are not here today, we will hold a meeting tomorrow and report to you immediately."
"If you present half-hearted conditions, your head and body will cry parting ways, so think about that well."
"Yes."
That was a line that ruined the goddess vibe.
But everyone present thought that.
(If she gets angry, this country will really disappear from the map.)
While talking like that, the soldiers healed by Steve began to worship.
"Thank you, Goddess-sama."
"We will never forget today."
"If the King points a sword at the Goddess, we will point swords at the King."
It was the moment of the birth of a new religion.
Steve had not intended to go this far. He only intended to show the overwhelming difference in power so they would never have such insolent thoughts again, but by showing the power of healing and abundance, he was recognized as a goddess. Partly because he himself got carried away in the middle and said, "If you call me a goddess, that's one thing," it also had an effect.
Thinking he might have gone a bit too far, Steve decided to teleport with the diplomatic corps to the Kingdom of Merda.
And then, he would tell Sherry what he did and get angrily scolded in a grand manner.
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