The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

134 Visit to Zanalpadna

Note from the translator:

Was busy with house-moving, I'm back now. Enjoy the chapter~

Yoshi

It took about ten minutes for Princess Kurnelia to calm down.

"I am terribly sorry for losing my composure in front of you, honored guests. I am the ninth child of Queen Donaneris of Zanalpadna, First Princess Kurnelia. From now on, let us ensure our relations are..."

Though there were some subtle differences in her etiquette from ordinary noble ladies, she bent her eight legs and bowed gracefully. There was indeed elegance in her movements.

"Princess, I believe that this is impossible to smooth over," Myuze said.

"... Is it~?" Princess Kurnelia said in a miserable-sounding voice as she slumped onto the ground helplessly.

Indeed, even though her younger sister who had become bait for the Noble Orcs and left to an unknown fate in order to allow everyone else to escape had returned, she had performed a flying body attack with her body whose lower half alone weighed easily over a hundred kilograms, embracing her younger sister so powerfully that any person caught up in it would have been seriously injured.

It was quite difficult to smooth that over.

Though none of Vandalieu's companions said anything.

"Princess... Even though it has been delayed due to the war and should have already happened by now, you will be married, so you must be more calm," said Myuze.

"But since our negotiations with the Lizardmen were obstructed, Mother said that we have no choice but to continue the negotiations or pray for Zanalpadna's descent... And just as I was persuading Darling that we cannot afford to lose Mother, I heard that Gizania-chan had come home, and I couldn't help myself... but I'm glad you're safe! Without any missing arms, legs or compound eyes!" said Princess Kurnelia, touching Gizania here and there to make sure she wasn't wounded.

"Princess, please stop!" said Gizania, seeming embarrassed, but in the end, she couldn't do anything about it.

"It seems that Princess Kurnelia gets along well with Gizania," said Basdia, nodding in approval at how close the sisters were.

"I get the feeling that they get along too well, but... I knew that what is common sense here would be different from the common sense that I know," said Eleanora, almost groaning as she kept her eyebrows from rising.

Eleanora seemed to have thought of what a relationship between a normal princess and her younger sister with no right to the throne would have been like in a human society, causing an uncomfortable feeling that she couldn't shake off.

In human societies, neither individual would show their true feelings like this in front of the other, and nobody would have expected it to be possible for Princess Kurnelia and Gizania to have a good relationship with each other.

After all, one was a princess who would marry the first prince who was supposed to have become the king of an important allied nation, while the other was someone who would never be called princess due to the fact that she was born later than her sibling.

"That's probably because there has never been diplomacy and war of the kind that you and I have in mind, Eleanora. Not until the coup d'état in the Noble Orc empire, that is," said Vandalieu.

The Noble Orcs and Arachne had both originally been races that worshipped Vida, and the sense of companionship and union had continued long after the 'Wise Emperor' Buugih's rule.

This was probably completely different to the tragic, complicated and mysterious diplomacies, wars and power struggles that occurred in human societies.