58 The day of the wedding part 5
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Woah!
Be patient, man. I'm trembling right now. Give me time to gain my courage back. What are you guys looking at me for?
Amanda is already standing at the end of the building looking at me. She is trying hard not to laugh. The longer I stand there, the tenser the atmosphere becomes. The king starts the frown. He might be thinking that I have the last minute change of mind.
Sigh* before anything weird happens I should just walk ahead and hope for the best. I close my eyes for a second before taking a deep breath. As I count down three, two, one. I breathe out loudly and immediately start to take steps towards Amanda.
It feels like a never-ending path where the longer I walk, the further away the goal goes. Without hesitation, I start to run towards Amanda. She starts to laugh while holding on to her stomach.
"W-Why did you run… Pfft… Hahaha..."
"Sorry, I that you are getting further away from me the longer I take."
"Dear…. Okay, enough of your sneak attack. Priest, he is ready to start."
"Of course, Princess."
The priest gives both of us another look before he starts to read off from the book that he is holding on.
"We gather here to unite these two people in marriage. Their decision to marry may and may not be forced, and today they publicly declare their private devotion to each other. The essence of this commitment is the acceptance of each other in entirety, as lover, companion, and friend. A good and balanced relationship is one in which neither person is overpowered nor absorbed by the other, one in which neither person is possessive of the other, one in which both give their love freely and without jealousy. Marriage, ideally, is a sharing of responsibilities, hopes, and dreams. It takes a special effort to grow together, survive hard times, and be loving and unselfish. There are various acceptance in I would like to add on to. Sir Raul as you may, no matter how much guys you may have…."
Ah… Amanda is glaring at him. It seems to have said something that triggers her emotions at the end. Oh come on, why do you have to bring out the rumor about me being gay.
"Ahem* Cough* Now that their persona has been established I will move on."
What persona? Is this priest too embarrassed about the mistake that he had made?
"Do you both pledge to share your lives openly with one another, and to speak the truth in love? Do you promise to honor and tenderly care for one another, cherish and encourage each other, stand together even though he would have another milady, through sorrows and joys, hardships and triumphs for all the days of your lives?"
This priest is asking to get killed. Did he hate his life too much or did someone force him to do this? Amanda is literally gripping her knuckles hard enough that her hand becomes pure white.
"YOU MEAN HE HAS AN AFFAIR EVEN BEFORE MARRIAGE!?"
Someone suddenly yells among the crowds. The words of the men allow the rest of the people in the crowd to mutter to each other and it doesn't take a long time before I am being glared at.
Whose idea is this?
Did I even offend someone? I didn't even come out of the palace all this while. In the first place, why do they have to do it on the day of the wedding? Can't they just insult me straight on during my trip outside?
Why?
Amanda balloon of anger is at the peak of exploding. I push myself forward and try to comfort her at the same time someone among the crowds starts shouting to get away from the princess.
"You man-whore get the f*ck away from the Princess!"
"Yea!!"
"Dear, calm down and ignore their catcalls."
"But… But this is our wedding day. How could they do that to you, my dear husband."
"Remember to try not to involve the array of your magic circle."
"Ehh?"
I nod my head to indirectly tell her that she can do anything she can as long as the magic circle that is pulling away my aura do not get destroyed.
Amanda smiles at me while she laughs at herself.
"Fufufufu..."
Wife, please give them hell...
It doesn't 't take long before Amanda turn her head to Emelia that is currently in disguise as Anderson and Eliza her dear sister that would do anything to support herself.
Amanda nods her head and gives them a thumbs up.
What can I say, this is not a modern world where we try our best to negotiate through words. What do we do? Beat them until they learn or die so that they do not have the chance to make another mistake.
In the midst of the confusion, Emelia lunges herself forward and punch the man that started the problem. Upon contact, his body flies up at a forty-five degree and slam on the building wall. Before his body falls down, there are already multiple royal guards surrounding waiting to butcher him to death.
Eliza does her weird stance and mutter 'windsnipe'. A short burst of sound is created, each last half a second long. There are a total of five of these and without noticing, the priest that was beside me all along fall to his death. The sound of gasp is resounded all over the room.
Why did you have to kill him?
Now I don't have a way to get married to Amanda.
Ladies screams while the man all race to the door. I can't believe that it only takes two death to create such havoc. Meanwhile, the sister father is sighing continuously.
"DEMON! This kingdom has been…. CHUKKKK….ERGGH…."
Emelia did not even allow the man to finish his sentence as she threw the saber that she was holding straight to the man chest. Unfortunately, it triggers the appearance of the crusader knights to rush inside the big hall.
As soon as they see the priest that is dead lying on the ground with a few holes in his body. The commander of the squad calls it without hesitation.
"Formation white block!"
It's hilarious how the magic caster within the crusader knight immediately put up their holy barriers. You mean to say that only demon wants to kill your members?
Eliza calls up all of the royal knights and they immediately run back to the king so that the crusader knight does not have the chance to do a sneak attack. The king is most important after all.
Emelia slowly takes her time and approach the crusader knights that is currently held up in their defensive formation.
"What are you all waiting for? Take away that demon away."
Emelia point at the priest and the man that has been beaten up. I would be surprised if anyone could recognize the man.
The crusader commander looks stunned as he can't believe that his own priest is a demon.
"How do you know?"
"What else if he is the one that messed up the wedding day of the princess of the Gwendal kingdom."
"Y-You kill him for that?"
"You dare make an enemy of our holy alliance because of his disturbance of your puny little wedding?"
The arrogant commander is obviously showing off how powerful they are within the world. They can't believe that this puny kingdom is getting over their head. Don't they know that the holy alliance is able to instantly bring down this kingdom without even making use of their own manpower?
"Fine… Man, bring that two individual. We're going home."
Everyone watch as the crusader knight drag the bodies with them and travel back to where they come from. There wasn't any delay, no buying of supplies, no goodbyes towards the representation that has helped and escorted them within the Gwendal Kingdom.
Meanwhile, the king sighs to himself while placing the palm on his cheek. He looked up toward everyone within the room and give out his order without any hesitation.
"Abandon and demolish all four of our borders. Especially the ones located near the Henson Kingdom."
"Yes, your highness!"
The royal knights immediately raise their voice together in sync. The captains within their squad start to give out orders internally, and within less than five minutes all of them has already moved out to do their various task.
"Eliza, sent out instructions to all the surrounding villages to evacuate back to the kingdom."
"Right away father. Sis take care I'll be out for a while. Raul takes care of her."
With everything that is happening how could anyone not understand what is going to happen.
War…
That's right the day of my supposed wedding day is the day where the world will declare war on us. This is not a time to take any chances.
I immediately went up to Eliza and pass her one of the swords that are overpowered. It is one of those Amanda has enchanted to be able to kill anyone that is against her except any innocent people but knowing Eliza, she is not the type to kill those that do not know anything the place. Oh, wait!
"Eliza wait."
"?"
"If you meet any of those people that do not attack and would like to either passerby or join your army. Place the sword near them. The sword will repel those that are really innocent while will attract those that have evil intentions."
"Such convenience, do you have any more of these?"
"I have but need to do a ceremony, and I need to give them manually one by one."
"Alright, I will send my trusted aids to you when we have done the evacuation."
Emelia also goes out of the room after patting me on the back. She mutters that she will gather a vast amount of monster bones so that I can create more of the swords.
It's not exactly required of her as Sara is easily able to gather all of the monsters but if I take away her strength from her, she will feel that she couldn't do anything to help and it might even cause internal turmoil within her.
Now, it's my turn to do my part.
