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Twenty-Fifth Wish:
Help (2)

"The real target is not the barracks but the princess! They plan to kidnap the princess!"

What!?

Erza immediately grabbed the shoulders of Juvia. "What do you mean!? Which princess!?"

Juvia looked at her seriously. "They wanted to draw away the attention of the military from the second princess!" she told them the plan.

"What!?"

Right now, because of the outbreak of plague, Princess Lisanna had wanted to do a volunteer work and help the citizens in delivering the medicines! Bora thought it was the perfect chance for him to kidnap the princess.

A heavy boulder seemed to drop down Erza's heart. She really had a bad feeling of Lisanna insisting about personally helping the citizens. She had wanted to send out a legion to escort her but she insisted on only having a small group for protection as it was too much of a bother. She even offered to personally protect her. Unfortunately, Erza also has her own duties in the palace and she has to protect princess Mira so she had no choice but to only send out her best men to protect princess Lisanna.

She had never imagined . . . there would be bastards that would dare use this opportunity!

No, she should have expected that. Actually, she did expect that possibility which was the reason why she sent out her best men. But she got a bad feeling those people weren't enough for the situation at hand right now.

Worse come to worst, she was ready to immediately deploy the army. But who would have thought they would strike at the army, while attacking the princess at the same time?

She immediately turned to her people. "Change of plans! Gray! You go secure princess Mirajane! I'm entrusting her to you! Meanwhile, I will go and personally rescue princess Lisanna! Her situation is more urgent!"

Although she was the main subject of Mirajane and should have her as main priority as the first princess, but Erza knew she couldn't send out Gray with the other troops to rescue the princess. As the more people, the slower the movement, Erza could only send herself to quickly rescue the princess who was outside the palace walls. Erza may be a woman, but even if she went out alone, she had the strength of more than fifty men.

To put it simply, she alone, was enough to rescue the princess.

Juvia nodded, satisfied. She much preferred her to go against the group that was kidnapping the princess than deal with the attack at the barracks. That was because the leader who was commanding was none other than Bora!

She doesn't want to send Gray to fight against Bora! He would be much safer if he stayed within the palace walls.

"Please be careful . . . those people . . . their leader, Bora, is very strong . . . he has unimaginable power right now . . ." she warned her.

At that, the guard beside her laughed. "No matter how strong the opponent is, they are nothing against the Great General, Erza Scarlet! Her reputation alone is enough to send any man shivering and crying away home!"

Juvia bit her lip. What she was talking about wasn't a simple "power". However, even if she explained, she doubted they would believe her. It could even backfire and have them see her words as less credible. This was why she decided not to further explain and let them witness it their selves.

After all, her only concern was Gray-sama.

"Erza, you sure you don't want me to accompany you?" Gray looked worriedly at Erza.

She looked at him seriously. "Are you looking down on me? I don't need help for a mere ragtag group of bandits. Our priority is rescuing the princesses. Just focus on your own task and protect princess Mira!"

After saying those words, she immediately galloped away.

Juvia looked at the distant figure and lamented a bit. No matter how strong she was, she couldn't fight against Bora. No one could do anything against him as long as the ring was with him. . .

She shook away the thought. She couldn't care less about others. Her main priority was protecting her precious person.

What they don't know was that . . . there was a much stronger entity with unfathomable power that was with princess right now.

Lucy yawned as she sat at the roof of a grand and luxurious carriage.

Surrounded by strong knights riding gallantly on their steeds, four beautiful white horses was pulling the large carriage made of white and silver. A blue cloth with a glittering white star at its center covered the windows. The roof and wheels were the color of deep blue. Behind her was a pole with a blue flag that bear the insignia of the royalty.

It was the royal carriage of the Second Princess.

As for how Lucy ended up here . . .

. . . It was actually because of her encounter earlier.

That's right. It was the blue-haired maiden who was locked in a room with seals that ward off spirits. Luckily, she wasn't an ordinary spirit and was able to break her free.

Although the method wasn't really her intention . . .

She didn't mean for those beads to explode, okay!?

She was merely asking for back-up! Who would have thought that those beads would actually explode!? Loki's items were dropping in quality! How come it would easily break after inserting a bit of power!? (What she didn't know was that was actually made of rare stones and spells of highest quality).

Anyway, since the situation had turned into this, she had no choice but to go alone and protect the person inside. Since she didn't know when they would attack, she could only sit here all day and wait for the time they would attack.

She had been sitting here for some time. The attack would have come sooner or later, right?

She had never guarded someone before, at least, for as long as she could remember. This would be her first time. Strangely, she felt a bit excited. Since she had always been living peacefully in the Celestial Realm, no one had ever dared to fight with her. She had never learned any offensive attacks. Actually, even if it wasn't offensive, she really had lack of knowledge when it comes to spell. To put it simply, it had never caught her interest before so she didn't bother learning it (even though she had read books about them). No one also ever bothered to teach her. This was why her knowledge when it comes to this stuff was very few (but at least it wasn't "zero"!).

But today was different. She had an interest in things like "fighting" right now.

That was because in the books, she always read about The Prince or The Hero fighting against villains to "save" the Princess!

Finally, she was about to witness a princess-in-distress in a real life situation!

As for the villains . . . to be honest, she doesn't understand them.

To clarify, she doesn't understand their motivation. From what the woman earlier said, it seemed to be about marriage or ruling or something. She doesn't get how one can marry by kidnapping. From what she knew, marriage happens after The Hero show his True Love by rescuing The Princess and they would live happily ever after.

Kidnapping was for villains, and they usually receive a very bad ending.

If that was the case, why would there be people who were willing to become the villains? She really doesn't understand that.

Oh well, she'll just let those bandits be the villains for this event.

Yes, for Lucy, this situation was nothing more than an "event". It was just like a field trip. She never really understood that the situation may actually be critical or dangerous.

This was just the perfect time for her to test her powers and watch the play. She wanted to see if she could control her spirit energy now that she has a contractor, as well as save the princess-in-distress.

The only problem was. . .

"Does this mean that I have to 'marry' the princess later on?"

She sweated at the thought.

She still had not even known what love was yet! She only knew that marriage was done with their True Love! How could one expect her to take responsibility!?

Should she just not help the princess after all?

At that, the carriage suddenly came to a sudden halt and almost threw off Lucy. The horses neighed loudly and anxiously tried to get away. The knights surrounding the carriage suddenly raise their guards and drew out their swords.

Cruel laughter could be heard. Men appeared from behind the trees and revealed their selves. They all held weapon in their hands. Their faces were vicious with no hint of warmness as they came and mercilessly attacked the knights.

Immediately, a fight broke out.

Due to the sudden ambush, the "villains" had gotten the advantage and pressed down hard on the imperial guards who were caught off-guard. The momentum was in favour of the bandits and any moment longer, the imperial guards would eventually wear out without any chance for retaliation. They were really about to lose the battle!

In the end, Lucy couldn't stand to change the script. No matter what, she wanted to "save the princess"! She could not let 'the villains' win!

As for the "marriage" thing . . .

"Whatever! I'll just escape and make a run for it afterwards!"

She has no plans to take any responsibility!

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End of Chapter

Lucy playing The Hero! For an inexperienced person, she was rather confident! Where will her 'not-so-responsible' actions lead her to?

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