Episode 16: The Blood-Stained Princess⑤ – The World as Seen by the Eyes of the Divine Bow III – Massacre

　Why? Why must my sister die like this?
　Not together with the man whom she had been in love with all her life, but with the vile and barbaric people who made her suffer so much that she wished to die from being defiled by them.
　I don't understand. I can't understand it, but I know exactly what I need to do right now. From here on out, it is payback time, and that means making the people here pay the price with their lives by my hand.

　The soldiers who could move gathered around me and said something. What are they talking about? I have no idea because I don't understand what animals…… or rather, what insects say.

"Bitch, you're an elf! I will not allow you to do this to my fortress!!"

　A man in fine clothing, escorted by soldiers, was shouting something at me. Ah, but it's embroidered with the Principality's coat of arms in plain sight, so that's the prince of this fortress. He smells like a sister especially intensely. It was you, bastard……!!

"Hmph, just a brat. I will torture you to death like that elf over there."

　The prince shouted orders to his soldiers, and they surrounded me at a distance with swords and spears in their hands. By “that elf over there,” you mean my sister……Oh, God, I can't. I cannot allow these lowlifes to exist.

"I'm sorry, Al. I――― will kill humans."

　With that, I held up my Sovereign Lunar Bow. With a light pull of the string and a release, dozens of tracking magic arrows were released, shooting through the hearts of the soldiers or popping off their necks and taking their lives.
　There was no need to even see the target, it would automatically track and kill anyone within its detection range.
　These half-baked soldiers would be unable to see the arrow and would be completely obliterated by its impact.

"Since you had fun with my sister―――There is absolutely, totally, no problem if I have fun with you guys, right? It's okay, right? "

　Smiling with a shaken fury and howling as she walked lightly on her feet, she continued to shoot arrows and kill, slay, and murder people.
　With people of this caliber, it was not necessary to pull the string of a bow with all her might, even just flicking her fingertips like a stringed musical instrument was enough to release a magic arrow.

"Ahhhhh?! "

　In an instant, the prince cried out as he saw dozens of soldiers turned into exploding blood bags, escaping the scene as fast as a hare. ……I'll kill you last; I'll kill all of you and then I'll take my time. So, you can go now.

"You monster! Surround and kill her―――"

"Prince, you must run――――"

"I don't want to die―――"

　They all had many things to say, but the one thing they all had in common was that they died in an explosion without ever finishing their sentences. I can't waste any time because there are so many people I have to kill. I need to be crisp and move on to the next one.

　Some of them tried to escape from the half-destroyed fort as fast as they could, but no, no, no, no, I wouldn't let them escape, would I? Shooting an arrow toward the sky, beyond the hole in the ceiling, the unleashed arrow scattered and rained down as a hail of magic power. The horses tethered outside the fort and the people who were trying to escape all died instantly with multiple strikes to their entire bodies. I am sure that there are dead bodies lying around outside that are worse than minced meat. I sent a few more arrows overhead to stay in the air just in case and set up a trap that would rain down on them the moment they tried to leave the fort. No one is allowed to escape.

　　Strolling in a manner not unlike walking through the forest in the early morning when the birds are chirping, I pulled the string of my Sovereign Lunar Bow and went around slaughtering soldiers while nimbly dancing.
　Sometimes there were people who were covered in my sister's magic and scent, but those people were shot between the legs and then shot all over the body with arrows to kill them with as much suffering as possible.
　I'm already completely drenched in blood from the carnage, but I don't care right now.
　The ground, walls, and ceiling of the fort are stained red with the blood of the people spilled by me.

　After carefully killing every last person, I detected the presence of the prince who had fled earlier as a last little treat and found him quivering in a corner of a hidden room in the fortress. ……Silly you, a hidden room is meaningless in front of my detection.
　I knew there was a room behind the wall, so I pulled the string lightly to make a little hole and peek inside through it.

"I. FOUND. YOU."

　When I laughed and called out to him like that, the prince was frightened and crying at the back of the hidden room. He seemed to be unable to sit up or even stand up.

"Hiiiii, hiii, s-stop! D-do you know w-what will happen if you dare d-douch even a strand of mah hair!?! I-I am de dirt prince!! "

　The commander, his face twisting with tears and snot, pointed the tip of his sword at me. The Dirt Prince? Ah, the Third Prince.
　How utterly wretched, miserable, and insignificant he is for all that. When I think that my sister was humiliated by such a mite, robbed of her dignity, and tortured to the point of wishing for death, a dark mass began to well up in the depths of my heart endlessly.

"……What if I do? "

　When I asked him the question with a small tilt of my head as if I had no idea what he was talking about, the prince looked dumbfounded and surprised.

"Hey, enlighten me.
Tell me what will happen if I lay my hands on you.
Will it stop this anger of having my beloved sister killed and turned into that messed state? ……Hey, don't keep your mouth shut, TELL ME!!!!! "

"Byaaaaaaaaaaahh?! Hurry up and do something about this bastard!"

　The prince shouted in horror at my yelling.

"――――Too bad there's no one alive in this fort anymore except you and me. You are going to be tortured and killed like you did to my sister."

　The Sovereign Lunar Bow needs no arrows. If you pull the string, an arrow generated by magic power appears, and if you release it, it flies to the target. Understanding that he was being targeted by such a Sovereign Lunar Bow, the prince threw down his sword and rubbed his forehead on the ground as he pleaded.

"Hiiiiiiiii, h-help me, please! Please, just my life! Ahhhhhh!! I don't want to die; I don't want to die! Please don't do this!!! Please don't shoot!!! "

　The sight of him rattling and shaking in the corner of the room, begging for his life, quickly sobered the emotions that had been soaring from the carnage of revenge killing.

　――――This, this piece of shit, did that to my sister……

　Perhaps my cold gaze had pushed his fear beyond its limits, the prince, who had been looking up at me with his head bowed, jumped back and cried out as he clung to the wall, trying to get as much distance from me as possible.
　The prince's crotch was covered with a fresh stain. It's hilarious to see grown men pissing themselves and begging for help.

"Okay, I'll refrain from shooting you."

　The prince looked relieved when I lowered the bow with a sigh, and then instead snapped my fingers, and a magical rough rope bound and restrained his limbs. The prince was surprised, but soon understood something and started nodding and blabbering.

"Ah, yes, a hostage!! A hostage, right?! R-right, my father would pay a lot of money for me! All you need is to treat me decently as a prisoner of war――――"

　The prince expressed his relief, and I smiled in place of a reply and pulled out the machete that was hanging behind my waist.

"What are you misunderstanding? Your torture hasn't even started yet."

"Hyo? "

　The prince's eyes widened at my words, and he froze.

"I'll refrain from shooting you. In exchange, I will do to you what you did to my sister."

　At these words, the prince's face turned pale with despair.　

"N-nooo! Stop! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Don't kill me, please!! Why is this happening to me?!! Aaahhhh! Ahh!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO."
　
　I kicked and crushed the prince's crotch as hard as I could with a grin, wondering if he was begging for his life or screaming for his death.
　With the sensation of something squishy being crushed, the prince peeled his eyes and fainted, so I immediately slashed down his left arm with the machete to awaken him from the pain.

"NGH-AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!! "

　I grabbed the prince by the hair when he woke up with a very silly scream and held his face close to mine as I explained the situation to him.

"How can you beg for your life now after all you've done? I know from my detection that you were the first one to defile her from the residue that was left on her body…… I would never kill you so easily, would I?
　You are the only one left alive in this fortress. Let's not worry about time――― Let's savor every little moment."

　The prince's face paled at my words, his teeth chattering and trembling, and his eyes reflected my smiling face.

―――After spending plenty of time torturing him to the same state as my sister, I then left his corpse in that place.

　The foul screams and pleas were unpleasant, and although torturing the garbage prince for karmic retribution did not bring my sister back…… As Roger said, it is better to take revenge than not to, so I'll take this as a good thing.
　Toward the end, he looked like a broken doll who repeatedly called out to his mother for help, and since he was the commander of an army and a prince, it is quite amusing that his death cry was something pathetic like that.
　I don't know if this Third Prince-kun understood what it meant to torture and kill the royalty of an enemy country, but I put my hands on him with an understanding of what it meant.
　……I have no intention of going back.

　After that, I again checked the fort and its surroundings for survivors, and made sure that I had definitely killed them all…… The day was already over because I had spent more time taking my revenge on the prince instead of killing him. Father and Mother must be worried.
　I wrapped my sister's corpse in cloth and carried it back to our country.
　My sister's body is not in a condition to be shown to others, but the elves who have passed away are to be buried under the great tree in the Elven Forest.

　As I watched my parents lament over my sister's miserable condition after bringing her home, I vowed once again to take revenge on humans. And this anger shall be shared by everyone in the country as this deed spreads to the rest of the country. ……Elves will not tolerate their brethren being killed.
　
　Even after the demon king is dead, the power of the divine bow is still alive and well, and the Sovereign Lunar Bow is also in my possession, yet people go out of their way to step on the tiger's tail, they are really stupid.
　That is why this war that is about to happen will not stop.
　……Until either nation perishes.

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