Infinite Dendrogram - Volume 11 - Chapter SS3

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A Story for Another Time
August, 2043, Noz Forest
It happened on a certain day, in a certain forest. There was an adorable little princess. Her name was Theresia. She was the third princess of the kingdom, so she was very much a princess. She was now in a forest because she’d been kidnapped by an evil slime.
“I will now commit serious crimes in the kingdom to become a villain. I thought about what would be a ‘serious crime’ and chose to kidnap you,” the evil slime spoke pure insanity as he committed the crime and kidnapped the princess.
But there was a scary monster in the forest many would call an “UBM.” She was in big trouble. The princess prepared for the worst, but it turned out that she didn’t have to. A man in a costume and a hamster showed up to save her.
The details made it an intense, breathtaking adventure, but that was a story for another time. The chaotic battle ended with the monster’s defeat and the evil slime’s retreat after he fixed his sights on the man in the costume. Since this event, the man in the costume would be targeted by the evil slime many times. Slimes sure were sticky, huh?

The incident had been resolved, and the princess was now riding a big hamster while a man in a wolf costume was walking next to her.
If you ignored certain factors, this would be like a page straight out of a fairytale. However, it might actually be a psycho-horror scene. After all, the man in the costume walking next to her was in an awful state.
The fight against the evil slime and the monster left him without an ear, made his right eye dangle out, and opened a hole next to the left eye that showed the man inside. There was also blood in many places on him. Some of it wasn’t his, some was. Honestly, he looked like a slasher straight out of a horror game, and the mere sight of him could make children cry.
However, the princess, who was quite tough for a few reasons, didn’t show much of a reaction. The problem now was that, even though she was okay, if he was to take her to the city, they would think that he was responsible. In fact, they would probably arrest him even without the princess.

“Hrmm...”
Despite acting like a goof most of the time, the man in the costume was actually perceptive enough to know that himself, so he did something to fix it.
“Lemme change. Woof,” he said before changing into a store-bought bear costume.
It had a bow tie on it, making him look like an amusement park mascot.
“...”
The princess looked unexpressive, but upon closer look, you could see a faint smile on her face. She wasn’t bothered by a costume straight out of a horror flick, but she couldn’t hide her preference for cuteness.
Maybe I should ask, she thought, deciding to ask her father for similar costumes.
The princess would go on to do exactly that, and since it was extremely rare for her to request for things, it affected not only her father, but sisters, as well. She received a huge number of costumes, but that was a story for another time.

At any rate, the princess was safely brought back to the castle. This was how the fates of the princess, the man in the costume, and the evil slime began to intertwine. As for what it would eventually bring... that, too, was a story for another time.