Escaping with princess (2)

I Run, we run , sorry I meant to say I was running in direction of Demon King castel with knight who is I was talking while ago.

A few minutes earlier.

Perhaps because of the credibility that came with these clothes I wore or my urgent look, the unknown officer immediately put me on a horse without saying anything.

Initially, this was a garrison, so it was far from the Demon King's Castle.

How did it come to this? I had worked so hard to get out of there not too long ago and now I was already rushing back to the castle.

I've never sat on a horse before, however the officer sitting behind me held my body tightly, so I was able to endure the shaking somehow.

"Can't you tell me the details? The castle has already been captured, so why is a knight's life in danger!?"

I didn't know if this person was one of Andras' minions or not, but this guy was pretty young.

Did Andras reach out his grubby fingers even down to the level of junior officers?

I thought about that for a little while, but this guy was helping me for now.

"I'll tell you when we find Sir Isaac!"

"Understood!"

I didn't need to persuade him any more, as he was still helping me right now.

The Demon King's Castle was a mess as a result of this war and on the surrounding plains, demons who seemed to have been taken captive were being dragged along looking like dried corvinas.

Not all of them were dead. Some of the Demons surrendered and became prisoners.

I felt relieved that not all of them died, however, at the same time I felt guilty for betraying them in the end despite being their prince.

"What will happen to those Demons?"

Despite the urgency of the situation, I posed such a random question.

"If it were a war between humans, we'd take a ransom for them, but they're demons."

He talked as if I asked something strange.

"We've taken them prisoner for now, but what else would we do other than kill them?"

was only natural that they were trying to destroy all seeds before they grow.

It made my heart heavy. Even though I was an ordinary man who just suddenly entered the body of the demon prince, I couldn't easily shake off this dirty feeling.

The officer and I dashed past the endless procession of prisoners.

We'll that's what happened.

* * *

The wide, open walls were destroyed everywhere and filled with numerous bodies. It felt terrible just seeing the sight of demon and human corpses being lined up next to each other.

"It's not something a kid should see."

it's not like I want to be here you idot.

The Demon Realm was destroyed in this Demon World War, and this long-standing conflict was finally resolved by the humans..

But the most important was still the material aspect.

All countries that participated in the Demon World War would gain enormous wealth from selling the goods of the Demon Realm. So it was set up that a long golden age would start for the land of humans. It's said that they gained a long peaceful period in exchange for all the blood.

However, I would have never imagined I'd get to see this scene from the perspective of the demons. In the end, as if they were treating war as just a simple reason to plunder, numerous military forces swept up all of the Demon King's Castle's wealth.

As I was thinking about it all this stuff we entered entrance of castel. We walked for while before a slodir come towards us

"What is it?"

The officer, who seemed to be a very high-ranking officer, frowned while he looked alternately between me and the junior officer. He seemed like he would severely reprimand him if he couldn't give a proper explanation why he brought someone who wasn't even a soldier to this place.

"I brought this boy here because he said he had to deliver an urgent message from the Commander-in-chief to Sir Isaac. I presumed it to be confidential, so I didn't ask him what it was."

"Hm?"

Seeing my small lie growing bigger, I felt a chill run down my spine. However, he didn't ask him why the commander had sent an urgent message through someone like me.

"Ah…."

His face slightly stiffened. He seemed to know something.

"Sir Issac…. I just received a report that he was killed in an altercation with onne of the demon remnants during the search of the Castle.."

Andres was the first to use his hand. Not only my, but also Lieutenant Neol' expression hardened.

"Is the message something I should know about?"

"N, no! I was meant to deliver it to Sir Isaac directly!"

"What a pity. Those damn demons should just curl up and die."

"How did this happen? How did the HQ know that Sir Isaac was in danger?"

I said Sir Isaac' life was in danger, and he actually died. I looked at the lieutenant in front of me. It was clear that he had very little authority here.

However, now that Sir Isaac got already killed, I needed someone else to help me.

"It wasn't the HQ."

"What?"

Hoping that it wasn't a mistake to bring this person in.

"Her Highness sent me."

I told him the truth.

* * *

I explained the whole story to him in a secluded area of the castle where soldiers didn't pass by. I started from the point where the princess was still imprisoned and got rescued.

"So Sir Isaac was killed by someone from our army and not the demons?"

"Yes, maybe…."

"Shit. I can't even imagine how painful it must have been, but they were even trying to harm Her Highness the Princess as soon as she got rescued?"

He clenched his teeth, seeming shocked to hear that there were people who planned such things.

"Then you're trying to rescue the Princess, right?"

"Yes."

"Alright, I admire your courage."

He patted me on the shoulder as if he was proud of me, who tried to save the princess even though I was powerless.

"Alright I can't let Princess to die . I'll help you.

I have to go to her soon as possible . I know I'm not strong as sir Isaac but its better then nothing."

"so what's the plan?"

I stared at him, he talks all mighty like some sort of Hero and now he is asking for me if I have plan.

'Alright control yourself Kali control'.

I took deep breath in and out. now I'm came I cane think stret.

"give me some moment to think plan"

"Ok"

So I have two choices

First is simple, I take Lieutenant Neol' with me where princess is currently and fight head on knights over there take chances while Lieutenant Neol' distract them and runaway with Princess on horse.

while this plan sounded easy in Thory it's very hard in practical life. and there's also few holes in a plan like 'while me princess running away they will catch us soon and kill us ' and The second error is 'Lieutenant Neol' have to sacrifice himself to save us and the by the time we are running away.'

it's no good I can't go with this plan.

the second plan is dangerous but has a high rate of success. we go to Demon castles storage room and take [ mass Teleportation spell ] and to Teleport all of us in one go somewhere. but in this plan, we have to fight against knights in Castel as well back where Princess is currently.

I decided we'll go with the second plan.

"Lieutenant Neol' I have a plan but you have to trust me or we can't save Princess Life."

"I don't know what plan you have and in this kind of situation I can't trust you but I'll trust you for once because Princess Life is on the line."

While I can't blame him we are practically stranger's after all but that's fine I'll use him now so he can be useful.

"thank you, so here's the plan we will be going to Demon King Castel Store room so We can get Teleport magic scroll that will help us save the Princess."

Using that spell, the princess could be taken out of this dangerous place right away. I hoped that the scroll vault hadn't been plundered yet.

If so, then the teleport scroll I was trying to use was still there.

We couldn't attempt asking a wizard to teleport us. They'd surely trap us.

"I don't know how you know Demon King storage but like I said I will trust you for now so let's go"

"ok"

***

The Demon King's Castle was very spacious and the prison I was in and the magic item storage were located deep inside, so there was a very good chance that it hadn't been plundered yet.

"This is ridiculously huge!"

Eventually, I got tired and ended up riding his back. I rummaged through my memory and pointed out the directions I remembered. Fortunately, we were able to reach it without getting lost.

"It's still fine!"

Fortunately, it was still in good condition. It looked like no one had come here yet.

"…It doesn't look that fine to me though. I think someone was here already, you know?"

Oh.

That was me.

"Ah, that, that... I, I meant that the scrolls were still looking fine!"

"Okay. Let's look for it."

I immediately picked up the teleport scroll that was spread out on the floor.

"I found it!"

"Already?"

"Yes, look."

He looked while thinking something like this 'How did he find so easily suspicious'

I don't care what he felt I will do anything to survive.

"I'll need a few more. We don't know what might happen. We should also get some scrolls that might help us as well."

"Little boy, take this."

"Thi, this is…?"

"A Scroll Book, is this the first time you've seen one? It was over there."

He handed me an empty book.

"N, no, that's not it. I know what this is."

"Good then. Let's use it."

I knew what a scroll book was. It wasn't even a magic item, just a book one could put scrolls into and organize in a way that one could rip out the pages one needed whenever one wanted.

It was an object used by people who weren't wizards but still needed to use magic in battle. Since it was an item I came up with, there was no way I wouldn't know about it.

"The Demon King's Castle sure is amazing. I heard that even low-level scrolls were more expensive than my salary."

He seemed to genuinely admire the vast stock of scrolls.

"I heard they've almost used up all the scrolls in this war, but if we'd take all the ones here it would be more than enough to make up for the lower-level scrolls we've used."

Lieutenant Neol rummaged through the scrolls while saying things like that.

There were no aoe attack spells, but we've swept up all the scrolls that might be helpful to us. I couldn't take them with me earlier because I had to throw everything away, but now I could pack them up.

Useful Scrolls GET. Go, me.

Then I opened my eyes wide at a sudden discovery.

"Wait!"

"Wha, what?"

[Mass Teleportation]

it's the same scroll that I had with me.

There was no more need to find teleportation scrolls.

"Let's go, Lieutenant!"

"Yes. Let's hurry."

Then, as soon as we stepped out the door, we couldn't help but stiffen.

"Huh?"

"Huh."

Our eyes met with a soldier who was carrying some bundles. Neals, I and the soldier were looking at each other in silence.

He clenched his teeth. Perhaps he was prepared for this extreme situation.

In the face of his new mission to protect the princess, he seemed prepared to do anything. Even if it meant having to subdue his allies right on the spot.

"That. Lieutenant."

The soldier cautiously opened his mouth after checking Neol's rank.

"How about we'll just turn a blind eye to each other?"

…..… You too?