The Daughter of Evil - Volume 1 - Chapter 1.21

Chapter 1: Section 2: Scene 1 
♦Allen ~Lucifenia Kingdom’s “Hall of Sounds”~

“Off with his head!”

Riliane’s voice echoed throughout the whole Hall of Sounds.

The poor shackled criminal was sent to the execution station. Although he was a criminal, he didn’t commit murder, robbery, or any of such crimes. He was only guilty for contradicting our Great Highness Riliane. As a politician, he had a very good reputation, which might be the reason why he can’t tolerate the tyranny of the queen. He was filled with anger he couldn’t vent out.

Riliane and the ministers held a meeting in the Hall of Sounds. And the princess personally issued judgement on the criminal, who met with foreign guests at the ball held at the Hall of Mirrors a few days ago.

If “Contradicting princess Riliane is a crime.” was written on the law, I’m afraid Leonhart’s head would have been beheaded hundreds of times. The sole reason why he’s still alive, comes entirely from the the great glory of being one of the “Three Heroes”.

As the trial ended, Riliane and the ministers began to leave the Hall of Sounds. And that’s where I come in. Me, and another servant named Asan, was responsible for the cleaning today.

The Hall of Sounds was used to commemorate the loyal soldiers who participated in times of War. As a memorial, a lot of decorations, swords, rifles, and a full set of armor class equipment were placed inside the hall.

I cleaned all of them carefully. Although the weapons were easy to clean, there are some high class goods here that we, servants, could never afford in our whole lifetime. That’s why we should be careful not to break them. That’s also why this kind of work could never be handed down to Chartette.

On the other side of the room, Asan, like me, was also cleaning carefully. The majority of the palace servants are female and Asan was one of the few male members.

“Minis! Minis, where the hell are you?!”

A loud shout suddenly sounded at the Hall. I looked up and saw Riliane, who came back to the Hall of Sounds with a grim expression and looked around the hall. 

Minis called out and quickly ran to the princess. His appearance reminded me of a puppy named Chubby, Germaine raised long ago.

“I’m here! Does the Royal Highness want anything?”

“Minis, don’t you think my food is getting shabby?”

“Ah? I…… I think…… it doesn’t seem right.”

Asking the Prime Minister about lunch is useless, because this man’s only job is handling the State. Well, even I, a servant, thinks he won’t come in handy.

Riliane continued to curse:

“This is not only about the food, I also lacked one knife! I specifically ordered that I need FIVE knives when I eat!”

“I……. I’m extremely sorry, Milady. I’ll inform Mariam about the meal soon enough.”

Come to think of it, she could always look for Mariam instead of Minis. But compared to the adamant Mariam, yelling at this always-trembling little man feels much more comfortable.

So to say, it seems that Asan was the one in charge for sending the lunch today. I hope she doesn’t point a finger on him. I’m beginning to worry about narrow-minded Asan, who seems to be looking at his past right now.

…….. Asan looked very weird, his gaze was randomly changing focus point. He seems to be holding something in his hands…….. Ah! A knife!

“WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Asan roared and dashed towards Riliane. As this happened, Riliane and Minis suddenly froze in place. I saw as Asan’s knife was moving towards Riliane’s abdomen.

Riliane!

I hit Asan at once. And Riliane? Oh, she was all right.

Asan was knocked to the ground, but immediately got up, and aimed his knife towards Riliane once again. Leonhart and his professional guards were far away from the situation, so this would certainly be a calamity. By her side, Minis did the only thing he knew to do in this kind of situation: tremble.

——It seems that only I…… could protect Princess Riliane.——

I paid close attention to the situation and realized that I was cleaning a sword. I held on it tightly but found bad news——the sword, didn’t have an edge!

I suddenly became anxious, but I took a deep breath and turned to Asan. I calmly convinced myself that this isn’t happening. Asan’s posture, he’s obviously not familiar with the use of cutting tools. He’s just a layman. Moreover, it’s just a knife. I couldn’t possibly lose against him.

I went from the sword rack to the middle of the room and gazed eyes at Asan. I immediately got his attention and he was overwhelmed to see me. That moment——

——Clang——

I swung my sword horizontally and sent the knife flying from Asan’s hands. The knife fell on the floor and Asan apparently became flustered for being unarmed. But he immediately realized that the wall behind him was placed with guns. So he turned around and wanted to take a gun for a weapon.

——Until——

I threw the sword to Asan’s ventral area and Asan’s face quickly changed color from the severe pain. Although this non-edged sword didn’t hack him to death, I resorted a lot of strength so a few of his ribs were likely dislocated.

Riliane was so scared that she didn’t even speak one word, but instead foolishly watched us at one side. When she finally came back to her old self, her always arrogant voice said:

“Quick! Seize him, quickly!”

I heard the late riot of soldiers coming to the Hall of Sounds, and dragged Asan out of the palace.

After some investigation, it was discovered that Asan was the brother of the politician who was sentenced to death earlier. It seems that he wanted to avenge him.

The next day, Asan was also sent to the guillotine.