Chapter 35. (Volume 2 Prologue)

(POV crown prince, Ten Jo)

When I opened my eyes what came into sight was her. It was as if in this instance in time my world only contained her and I.

She left me utterly breathless. I could not believe my eyes; the fact that a beauty as perfect as her could possibly exist completely blew my understanding of the world straight out the window. Such divinely crafted curves could not possibly be real, could they? Her sense of color coordination left me completely captivated and starstruck. I found it excruciatingly difficult to breathe from looking at her for even just a moment and I thought I would pass on into the afterlife if I stared at her for too long.

Can gods truly create such an unbearable otherworldly existence like this? She was so beautiful; to the point I could hardly stop the lemonade that I accidentally spilled on my eyes that inevitably slid down my cheeks in all it's yellow glory.

Yeah, I spilled lemonade on my eyes. Got a problem with that? I'm a crown prince, we naturally do some freaky shit in the royal palace. Yellow showers aren't unheard of either. Also as a man, I naturally don't cry, so you must accept that it's just some unbearably sour lemonade.

Her shape was truly mystical and I would certainly be left captivated for uncountable sleepless nights in the future wondering how one could be crafted so exquisitely. I couldn't help but wonder if I would lose my soul and never be able to return to my original world.

If I did, perhaps it would not be so bad, after all, I could still die content and be happy. This pocket realm truly was such a mysterious place, hiding such a wondrous existence like her.

"Crown prince, why are you staring so stupidly at that thing?"

How rude! How can you call her a thing? She is clearly a living being! Can you not hear the sexy moans that originate from her body? The nearly orgasm inducing hum she purrs out? If she were not alive, how could she make such a bewitching and seductive moans?

Unfortunately for me, I had to keep up my act as the arrogant, domineering, and disdainful crown prince of the Celestial Empire.

"Hmmp, who is staring stupidly you fool? I was merely examining a beauty is all. Can you not even tell such a simple thing? Are your eyes just for decorations you erectile defunct baboon!"

"Oh now that you mention it, that woman was quite the beauty. My mistake crown prince, you were just lost in thought after bearing witness to that goddess."

Hmmp, of course she's a beauty! Alas, why hath I been cursed to forever put up this stupid arrogant crown prince act? It's such a bother. Why can I not just be like all my other brothers and sisters? Damnit, why was bestowed the accursed fate of thou who hath been born first?!

They all scatter like rats whenever I even muse to bequeath upon and yield to them the allegedly blessed position of the throne like I'm some sort of cursed plague. I just want to slack off and goof around like you guys too! I don't want to be the crown prince who has to be burdened by an entire empire's worries!

Why do I have to get beat to death everytime I bring it up with our royal father? Can't you guys show some sibling rivalry and fight me to the death for the throne like in every other normal empire?

Do you guys really enjoy going to brothels and having tea parties that much? Do you have no sense of responsibility towards the empire?!

Haaah, I give up. I don't want to leave this pocket realm. Can I just stay here forever? I just want to be together with the beauty before my eyes for the rest of my life. This box like shape really is far too divine. Those rubber wheels on the bottom were fitted so perfectly, like glass slippers to Cinderella that gave her an elegant air of majesty.

I wanted her so badly that every fiber in my body screamed out in desperation. I was unable to contain my emotions that spun out of control and I was left in complete turmoil. How do I win her heart? I really didn't know, but I suppose there was only one thing I could do.

I walked up to her and bent down on one knee and demanded, "please be mine!"

Unfortunately, silence returned my request for her to belong to me. It looked like she had too much pride to answer my overly forward approach. It was only natural, she must be the goddess of this pocket realm. She cannot possibly belong to any man that asks her so willy nilly. She surely got requests like this all the time and had grown used to her fate to be chased after night and day by countless suitors.

Just when I was about to stand up and leave like a defeated dog, I heard another peculiar sound that originated from her direction. When I looked up, I saw the tinted transparent segment on her body move downwards. My goddess revealed two individuals inside her. There was a man and a woman sitting on what looked to be an alien chair of some sort. It was a rather strange chair covered in leather, but it was very attractive in my eyes.

The woman suddenly asked, "what do you like about me?"

Eh? Who are you? Did I say I like you?

Why are you sitting inside the beautiful being who rules over this realm? Is this some kind of rebellion against the goddess? Is the reason behind my goddess' lack of response due to these two clowns that have enslaved and forced her to do their bidding?

When I failed to respond, the man next to her said, "kid, you have some real guts proposing to my daughter in front of me. But I will only accept someone who is stronger than me. If you can't even protect her, what right do you have to propose to her?"

Your daughter? So you are not actually rebelling against the goddess? The goddess is actually your daughter? When I realized he was doubting my strength I couldn't help but narrow my eyes and scrutinize the man's prowess more closely. It was then that I came to a world shaking revelation that could confuse all gods in existence. This man… he's so weak! How could a goddess have such a weak father?!

Are you telling me if I beat you I can have the divine being you are sitting in?

"Bring it on." I smirked sinisterly and welcomed the fight with wide open arms.

When he heard my provocative words, the man got out from the divine being and walked around the otherworldly goddess to stand before the mighty crown prince of the Celestial Empire.

Puny little mortal, you dare challenge me? Is what I would normally say as the crown prince, but I actually couldn't care less. Inside, I was delighted at the chance to capture the apple of my eye, or in other words, the true object of my desires.

Before he had a chance to say another word I'd already lunged towards him like a vicious lion who'd pounced on a little rabbit. I sent him flying off into the distance faster than the rogue hero of the Celestial Empire, Celestialman, himself. It actually took less than a second. Wasn't he a bit too weak though? I felt a bit too guilty to kill the poor guy, I was already scamming him to snatch his daughter away from right under his nose. Besides, he clearly didn't understand his opponents true strength, he was just an ignorant little mortal so I naturally held back in our confrontation just now. In addition, he might become my father in law in the future, it wouldn't do my future wife justice if I killed her father right before her eyes.

When he hit the wall and came to a stop he was already unconscious. The woman who sat next to him hurriedly got out of the car slack jawed and ran over to the man to check on his condition. While she busied herself with the man, I entered the body of the box from the side the man came out from.

When I sat down inside her body, there was a strange circular wheel like object in front of me that rotated to the right and left. I also felt two levers at my feet. I cautiously pressed down on the left lever with my foot the lever lowered, but nothing happened. When I pressed down on the right lever with my foot it lowered much more and my future wife emitted a loud moan that startled me. I nearly had a heart attack there. How can my future wife be so lewd out in the open like this? It seemed like I'd found the legendary G spot I'd heard so many unfounded rumors of from all my brothers and sisters who liked to fool about all day.

Hahaha! Isn't this rather interesting through? What do these two levers beside me do?

"What are you doing you thief?!"

That strange woman ran back while dragging the man towards the box shaped compartment I was in. Her eyes were watery when she looked towards me and said, "what did you do to my father you jerk?"

Father? Is this girl brain dead? This man clearly said this divine being was his daughter. Oh! I get it now, you are actually saying you are the little sister of this divine being. That makes more sense I guess.

"He should be fine. I made sure to hold back. More importantly, this divine being is my spoils of war, you better not be thinking of trying to go back on your words by taking her from me."

"You, you, you petty bully! Thief! Brute!"

Eh? Am I bullying? Well, I guess I did sort of scam them... I am also forcefully snatching her sister away abruptly like this after all as well. But she is not a thing, she has her own free will. She hasn't rejected me yet, so if you want to take her away from me you should at the very least be stronger than me. The one with the biggest fist is the one with the right to speak after all.

"Hmmp, it's your own fault for being too weak young lady."

I did have a bit of a guilty conscience over being so forceful about everything, but I must always retain my air of arrogance.

"Fine little lady, if you serve this great crown prince well I will consider compensating you. Get in."

"Hmmp what do you mean get in? It's our car!"

Oh! So this divine being is called a car? My eyes lit up when I finally discovered the name of the divine being and I couldn't help but argue back, "she's my car now. Also, she is not a thing! Even she has feelings too you know!"

She grit her teeth and looked towards me hatefully like she wanted to eat me alive. She grumbled, "shameless, crazy, psychotic villain" under her breath before tossing the unconscious man into the back.

She sat down beside me and said, "if you're robbing us can you at least take us to the nearest hospital?"

"Hospital? What's that?"

She looked at me like I asked the dumbest question in the world before she hesitantly questioned my manhood, "can you even drive? Do you actually have a driver's license?"

What was with all these strange terms? Drive? Did she actually mean ride? Of course I can ride a horse. I am a crown prince! Since I felt like she was questioning my ability as a man I responded with confidence, , "naturally I know how to, you country hick."

"You… who's the hick?!"

She bit me. No, do you think I'm joking? She literally bit my neck like a mad dog who wanted to eat me alive. First she glares then she acts on it; surprisingly she's actually quite decisive if I do say so myself. For a mortal, I do need to admire her a bit, she's got quite a good bite to her. If her cultivation was a bit higher it might actually feel like a fire ant was biting me.

Since I felt slightly bad about the passed out man in the back, I ignored her biting me and decided to treat her like she was just a mosquito trying to have her revenge for her mosquito like father. Naturally, it was also because I wanted to find out how to move the heart of the divine being known as the car as well.

"Young lady, how do you move the heart of this divine car?"

"Damn it you stinking liar! Like hell you know how to drive!"

"Oh, by the way, what are these two levers for?"

"Eh? It's nothing. Don't worry about it."

She leaned her body over the two levers and covered it with a serious expression like her life depended on it. You're making it too obvious young lady. I'll have you know, I am a crown prince who has spent his entire life scheming. Do you really think I would not notice such an obvious attempt to hide the truth? The "P" and "D" written beside it was far too conspicuous my dear young lady.

With my godlike detective prowess, I put the pieces of the puzzle together. She'd asked if I knew how to drive and if I had that thing called a driver's license. That "D" was definitely the "D" in drive. Hahaha! I'm definitely a genius! The heavens have truly gifted this brain of mine with unforetold bigness.

When I realized this, I moved in for the kill. My hand extended outwards and brushed against the chest that hung over the lever. Did you really believe I would be afraid of a chest blocking my path young lady? Nothing shall stand in my way when I want to do something. Not even the most bountiful of melons can block my advances, forget about yours that don't even slightly interest me.

"Tch. You really are too lacking." I couldn't stop myself from staring directly at her chest when I said that and accidentally let my true thoughts slip out.

"You rude mother…"

"Everybody was kung-fu fighting…"

I accidentally pressed a button when she hit my hand away. Just as she was about to say something, loud music sounded out from the sides of the chair like structure I was seated on top of. How did they manage to fit singers there? Were there actually sub dimensional spaces within this pocket realm? Wasn't it a bit too cruel to stuff people in there and have them slave away as your own personal singers?

"What? Sorry, I can't hear you. Could you repeat that?"

"Those cats were fast as lightning..."

Her lips were moving while the song continued to play on full blast, but I still heard nothing. For some reason, by reading her lips, it felt like I was being cursed out; but as I was a suave crown prince whom no man or woman could ever bear to curse out, I was doubtful she would curse me out for a simple slip of the tongue.

It may have just been my imagination, but I really didn't understand a single word that I read from her lips. Perhaps it was an entirely new language she created just for me. I felt a bit honored and moved when I thought about it; she was quite the dedicated person to berate her future brother in law with such civility when he makes a little mistake. They were surely very classy and sophisticated words. Her rage fueled eyes told me so.

It's a sign that she cares for her future brother in law, right? After a while, she likely noticed that her words clearly had no effect and that they had fallen on deaf ears. She pressed the button I previously pressed by accident and stopped the music.

She panted in exhaustion, completely out of breath. She really must have been pretty incensed by that small slip of the tongue.

Let's forget about that for now though, I really didn't want to wait any more to court my goddess and move her heart. I pressed the button on the lever then pulled it downwards from the "P" and positioned it beside the "D." Ah wait, could "P" actually mean puss… then "D" would be THAT right? Thus she is lowering her P onto my D?

When her sister noticed what I had done her eyes filled with horror. Oh? Could I perhaps be correct? I'd definitely penetrated to the core to find the true solution with this deduction of mine. I cocky grin filled with boundless confidence floated onto my face.

I don't know what it was that told me what to do next, but something within me clicked. Something screamed inside me and told me to mash the pedal that made the loud moan earlier. She would surely moan endlessly when the P lowered to the D.

The moment I did, a girl's loud scream rang out as a sudden burst of acceleration assaulted us. To me it was nothing much, but the young lady was screaming with eyes filled with horror like she was on the verge of death.

Hoho, this speed is not bad. When I glanced into the mirror I saw everything behind us. That idiot who couldn't appreciate the beauty of the car ran at full speed trying to keep up with us.

"Hello, police? Please hurry! He's absolutely insane! It's exactly like you have heard. This psychopath assaulted my father, kidnapped us and has stolen our car. You've heard everything, right? He's even driving without a license. KyaAaAaaAaa!"

I was so excited I didn't have the mind to pay attention to the lunatic talking to herself beside me. What are these red and green lights I keep passing by? Why do all these fools stop at red lights?

"Don't these amateurs know how to drive?"

Of course, I only learned a few seconds ago, so who am I to judge?

"It's you who doesn't know! Those are red lights! Red lights dammit! That means stop you psychotic freak! It doesn't mean mash the pedal down as hard as you can! Two hundred miles per hour?! What are you doing you moron?!"

How fast can this goddess of speed go? For my future wife she was really quite impressive, even I wouldn't be able to keep up at this speed. That aide of mine was definitely eating my dust right now.

Weeeeeeewoooooo. Weeeeeeewoooooo. Weeeeeeewoooooo. Weeeeeeewoooooo.

What's with that annoying sound?

"Finally, the police! Holy crap, that car! Watch out!"

A car that looked different to my goddess dashed by an intersection we were about to pass through. My heart leapt slightly and I felt the adrenaline flow through my veins. Something within me screamed and told me to slam on the second pedal and pull on that lever once again and put it into the "P" position. She would surely go wild if I pounded my D into her P, that was what my intuition told me. While I did that, I rotated the wheel in front of me to the right and then left shortly after. Thanks to my lightning reflexes, she drew a beautiful arc and swerved narrowly but cleanly around the other car in our path when I took her by the reigns. The distinct black curve she drew out on the ground reminded me of a woman's lovely contour. Once we were in the clear I pulled that lever back into the drive position and once again burst into motion like I was possessed. It felt so good when the sudden burst of acceleration hit us. It was as if we were joined together when I violently pulled her P down to my D.

"How have we not crashed yet? This is crazy? Are you trying to get us killed?! I don't want to die so young, I'm just a pitiful virgin who hasn't even had a boyfriend yet!"

Fortunately for me I heard nothing of what the young lady beside me had cried about. My mind was completely engrossed in some sort of trance. It was certainly the high one felt before they reached the peak. It felt so much better than being cooped up in the palace being forced to eat pills non stop and cultivate like a monkey on drugs.

This was the best! While I thought such things, the loud sounds from outside drew closer. In my ears the noises got slower and slower with each passing second. Eventually a few strange cars with lights that flashed red and blue closed in from behind us. I felt disdainful when I looked into the mirror and saw them try to decrease the distance between us. I was convinced they were relatives of the goddess who objected to us eloping together. Hahaha! You'll never catch us you fools. When the goddess and I combine our powers we are invincible.

I took it that those flashing lights were a signal of challenge in this world. They wanted to race me to see whether I was worthy to elope with the goddess? You foolish little mortals! Dream on amateurs! I kicked it up a notch further and our speed easily surpassed the maximum speed we travelled at earlier. It was far faster than the top speed we reached when we'd swerved around the last car that dashed through the earlier intersection not long ago.

We passed by a few more intersections at high speed and the cars that tried so desperately to catch up with all their might only increased in distance relative to us. They were completely unable to close the distance and instead they quickly fell further and further behind.

Just when they were about to become insignificantly small in the mirror, that was when it happened. I was too busy looking back that I didn't notice the intersection I was about to enter. When I reached the middle of the intersection…

"OH MY GOD KYaAaAaAaAaA!!!"

My vision turned black.

A heavy collision assaulted my left side, opposite to the woman on my right. A deafening crash sound rang out loudly and violently echoed in my ears. Shortly after I heard it, it permeated throughout my entire body and brought my mind to the verge of a mental collapse.

The divine car flew up from the impact and spun in the air while my brain rattled about uncontrollably in all directions inside my skull.

...

My goddess, are you okay? Please tell me you are fine.

Those were the last words I thought before I fell into unconsciousness.

When I eventually woke up, my goddess was long gone and the only thing in front of me were cold metal bars. Initially I couldn't quite understand my situation when I woke up.

The only thought on my mind now was, 'Where am I?'