Artoria felt that this was definitely the happiest moment of her short life in more than ten years. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

For she is not for anyone else, for anyone, for anything tall, heavy, extremely far away from her.

She's just for herself.

Run.

On a road covered with heavy snow.

That's the road to freedom.

The guards were yelling and screaming in the back, terrified, for fear that if she really ran away, then each of them would die.

The maid chief lamented and collapsed to the ground, she couldn't understand why her princess had become like this.

How should she be?

Obediently obey their wishes and go to the imperial capital?

Not saying a word, like everything that happens is fair?

I really want to thank them for making her strong in martial arts when she becomes a prince in the future, and they specially found many teachers to train her for a long time.

They all seemed to have forgotten that her martial arts cultivation was excellent.

Just put her in the carriage like that, and she really wouldn't run away.

Now that she's running away, she's running so fast that she even wants to laugh out loud.

She didn't dare to do this before, and in the etiquette of the nobility, this was not allowed.

She ran back to her lodgings and sped towards the place where she had met the man who had come on the phoenix that day.

The appointed time is coming.

Still, I can't help but want to see what's in the distance.

Even if it seems very selfish to do so.

But, since she was born, she doesn't seem to have been selfish, and in everything, someone has told her that you have to do that, because you are the heir of this empire, and you have to live for many people.

So, what's the point of being selfish once in a while?

She finally came to the agreed place.

Standing still, she looked towards the sky.

The snow had already covered the sky, and the agreed time was only a few minutes away.

With such a heavy snowfall, can he still come in time?

Or rather, it's actually a lie.

In the end, she could only go to the imperial capital with the guards who were chasing her.

No different.

Time passes minute by minute.

Just when she was already in absolute disappointment.

The sky, broken, was pierced by a pitch-black bird.

The bird burned in a pitch-black flame, and on the flame stood a man.

He came, as promised.

The blackbird landed in front of her.

The man stepped down from the blackbird, walked up to her, and said to her, "Then, please tell me your choice." ”

"I'm ......," Artoria looked at the man's outstretched hands again.

Coming here to see him is already a matter of extreme selfishness, almost, just enough to stop.

Originally, in her expectation, she also came here to fulfill the agreement between them, not to be a dishonest person, and by the way, let those guards and the maid have a false alarm.

Let them try it too, that feeling of being oppressed to the extreme.

Then, she chooses the pill in her right hand, eats it, forgets about this man, forgets about the distance, and is safe to be her king, live for many years, or die soon.

In short, it's a predetermined fate.

However, when she really saw the man's outstretched hand, she hesitated.

Is it really going to be missed, the only moment that could reverse an absolute fate?

"Your Highness...... Her Royal Highness !! Princess, "The shouts of the guards are getting closer and closer.

"You're running out of time. The man reminded her unhurriedly.

"I'm ......" Artoria held out her hand and slowly raised it to ......

Left.

"Your Highness!!" At this time, suddenly, the head maid didn't know how to appear behind her, and said hoarsely, "Your Highness, what are you doing?!"

"Get out of that guy!"

"That man is a demon!"

"He's riding an ominous bird!"

"I ......" Artoria did not retreat, but moved her hand, from the left, to the right.

For the Empire......

"Won't you feel sorry?" the man said suddenly.

Artoria scolded him 10,000 times in her heart, don't you make a sound, okay?

Why do you want to speak up?

Why are you showing up?

"Your Highness, danger, get out of there quickly!" At this time, the guards also arrived, and they all looked at the unknown man, and they all showed an absolutely offensive look.

The man didn't mean to be scared at all, just waiting for Artoria to make a choice.

And at this moment, the mutation is reborn.

Those guards who were waiting for them were suddenly knocked down by a huge force.

Immediately afterward, a group of silver-colored, human-like and non-human things swept in from all directions.

"What is this......" Artoria was completely stunned.

"Hurry up!! Your Highness!! but the head maid screamed and rushed up, pushed Artoria, protected her behind her, and said, "Your Highness, these silver things are the enemies who killed your father, they must be with this man, they want to destroy the hope of the empire, you go quickly." ”

Artoria looked at the man suspiciously, and asked, "Are you guys in a group?"

The silver monsters are already slaughtering the guards.

Soon, they will kill them completely.

"Would you believe me if I said I was here to save you?" the man said, shaking his head.

"I ......," Artoria hesitated.

"Hurry up !!" The head maid burst out at this time with absolutely no strength that she usually had, she was just an ordinary woman, she was so desperate, just to protect Artoria.

For the Empire.

At this moment, Artoria was really moved, and she was shaken.

"I'm leaving. She said.

The man didn't stop her, just looked at her lightly.

Step by step, she stepped backwards.

The silver monsters were pressing in step by step.

More and more people are dying, and soon it will be the turn of the chief maid.

Although she is very desperate, she is just an ordinary person, and she will die too.

"You...... You said you were here to save me, so why don't you do it now?" Artoria asked.

"I'm just here to let you know the truth about this world, and the only one who can save you in the end is yourself. As he spoke, he held out his hand again.

This time, however, he only stretched out his left hand.

Meaning, you can only gain something if you eat this pill and lose something.

"No...... No, Your Highness...... "The head maid has been impaled by the silver monster, but she still desperately tries to block it.

Artoria only needs to take a few more steps back, and she will be able to enter the magic circle prepared in advance and leave here.

She......

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