Chapter 118: A day’s Incompetence Will Lead to an Everlasting Misfortune

[Sophia's POV]

After the very successful negotiation with King Roselle, the two of us continued eating, well, at least I continued eating as King Roselle seemed to become ashen white, his shamelessness plan backfired so heavily that he lost all of his appetite, well, my plan reaped 'em apart real good and a very interesting explosion inside this city one of these days is bound to happen, also, they will enter a Konoha after Konoha Crush situation because their prince died, so I am quite happy and has a lot of tanks left to eat.

[How can you eat the food of the man you just humiliated?]

Huh, how can I not eat on this occasion? It is a good time to celebrate! And there is no greater way to celebrate than to eat the cake owned by the man you have just defeated, also, I want to educate Roselle about what shamelessness is because it seems like his level of shamelessness is not at the level that can contend against any monarch of this world, I bet in his mind he subconsciously thinks that he will also do the things that I have done to him if he was as powerful as me.

[Well, you are the type of person who thinks everything she is doing is right, but when other people do those things to you, it's wrong.]

Yes, that is shamelessness.

[That's hypocrisy, little miss genius.]

I already ate two whole cakes worth of slices whilst the two of us were talking like that all the while enjoying the look of Roselle directed towards me, and while doing all of that, a female voice suddenly rang out of my head, it was Bakunawa who seem to finally complete her mission.

"Sophia, I have already killed Noir."

I looked at the King in front of me, even when I was the youngest child in the orphanage I was in in my previous life, I cannot imagine myself forgiving a brother/sister of mine who will ever try to take what is mine and endanger those who are around me in the process, maybe because I never had a real brother and even a real family to begin with, but still, I found such actions unimaginable.

No actually, if I think about it, I can understand it, it's just like what I am doing right now, but in reverse.

"So, what's his story?"

I asked, I was feeling quite bad because I am the only person recognized by Bakunawa to be her worthy opponent, so she cannot have fun with weaker ones, also her animalistic nature made it so that she would be sure to befriend any individual stronger than her, unless otherwise they go against me too. So I made her interrogate Noir in any way that she found necessary and given that it was her, Bakunawa resorted to torture immediately.

"Apparently, Roselle made it so that all of his lives which he substitute from all the prisoners they have in the Kingdom run out, after that, he was officially exiled and is not allowed anywhere near Kamatayan and half of Gjallarhorn that is facing us, Noir was in a very dazed state that he seem to forget a simple inference of you figuring out his brother's thought process."

I sighed whilst I drank my 10th cup of matcha, such an ability is very much similar to Kabuto, one can even say that it is a downgraded version of the undead's undying trait, so I cannot make him an undead, getting two undeads with a very same skill set is like when a collector buys two leather shoes of the same design, that is stupid.

I cannot also candy crush (fuse) them because the undeads had to be very identical when I do that to complex-minded organisms unlike the goblins I used to create Kabuto, meaning Noir has to have a mask that causes potent optical illusions, and he doesn't have that.

_Now that I think about it, I cannot use that on the beings I will be turning into undeads in the future, given that they will be more complex as I go on. What a useless ability._

Anyway, I am not resurrecting him, I think two undeads are enough, not like I need more because I have millions of them now. I was contemplating such things when I realized that I was full already, so I left the dining area and just asked for the gold coins to be delivered to my room, I also said that I would not repair the forest if they did not give me the 4,000 gold coins as fast as possible.

While I kept giving King Roselle displays of superiority, I received another report from Kabuto.

"My Lady, the nobles you wanted to monitor have successfully hired actors to act like them as they escape the exile that will be given to them by Roselle if they fail to buy their nobility, I believe that they will be escaping at midnight, however, they seem to be extremely terrified of you... and though that is normal because of your majestic display of power just last night, I can feel that their terror came from something deeper than that..."

Kabuto's report was always sumptuous, but this time, he seemed to be more curious about what I was trying to do.

"...My Lady, I know that this is invasive considering my rank, but... who are these people?"

Whilst I heard that question, I reached the room in which Eleanor was waiting for me, it seemed like she was ready to leave from this place.

"Don't worry about it."

While observing my wife who smiled at me whilst starting to put on her clothes after taking a bath, I replied.

I did not worry myself about the question of my subordinate as I also started to get ready, we didn't have any luggage so I just took a bath and then went back to my filipiniana clothes, in that time, the 4,000 gold coins arrived and after seeing that it doesn't have any problems with it whatsoever I used the 4th dimension to go back to the battlefield and use earth magic to fix it, King Roselle did not even want and go with me, not like I care in particular.

_I knew he wouldn't enjoy my stay._

After that, I went and said goodbye to Roselle who still did not recover because of all the things that happened to him in these times, he lost his wife, and his brother, and his coffers were sucked dry by me so I did not take any offense to that.

I once again used the 4th dimension to transfer all of my crew to Bulawan City, Eleanor wanted to tell her mother something so I transferred her there and said that I would pick her up at midnight.

I then went and cloaked myself with the illusion of dark magic, why you ask?

Well, I have to do some more secretive one final business in Heimdall and they have a sensoring-like spell, so I have to do this to avoid detection. (that's how Hebi did it.)

_I wonder what my aunties will say if they finally get to see the most successful illegitimate daughter of their dead husband._

[3rd Person POV]

10 years ago, on the northern coast of the Gjallarhorn Kingdom, a slave boy was saved by the Kingdom from the hands of a backward tribe inhabiting an island in the borders of Gjallarhornian waters, the primitive tribe alongside the island was sunk by Urduja, successfully killing the last bastion of slavery in Genesis, the man who was estimated to be in his early adulthood has white hair and eyes alongside a tan skin and a very fit musculature and according to Urduja, he has 1/10th incubus bloodline, an eradicated race from Leviticus continent, alongside him was a woman with a child and because Urduja doesn't have interests in men lest she saw potential on him and adopted him, she took the woman and the child, this duo is named Aoi and Momoiro Dodomeki.

The King of Gjallarhorn looked at the boy and wondered why is he deemed not interesting by the world's mightiest human, the King was well educated and knew that the man named Shiro Seiyoku had in fact, a lot of potential from the fact that he came from the humanoid continent alone, and looking at the boy who is exuding a floral scented pheromone, the then less mature Roselle made a very, very wrong assumption about Urduja's reason of disinterest.

_According to what I know, the sucu/incu race is a race that has a passive skill that releases pheromones that are effective to the opposite sex, it is also said that even the most lesbian of lesbians or gayest of gays will be as straight as a stick if subjected to the said pheromones..._

Upon inferring such knowledge, the King's smile turned into a large V smile whilst continuing to look at the kneeling man in front of him, all his life, he was fed with propaganda against Urduja, on how she is a tarnish to the pride of the royal family and also how she had stolen numerous concubines from the previous Kings and upon laying his eyes on this boy, all of the anger he has accumulated by absorbing baseless information suddenly blossomed up once again as he thought of a very good idea.

_It is probably impossible to deprave Urduja herself, but I can at least destroy her image and damage her pride if I use this man to steal some of her wives and children._

Normally, he would have an adviser to listen to his thoughts, however, he is obviously alone right now, and, it's not like the adviser will disagree with such a proponent of shaming Urduja... right? For him, it was the perfect plan and he found no reason for someone to reject it.

Such an occurrence makes no one wonder why he was easily been toyed around by Sophia despite maturing a lot in this 10-year span.

Going back, having decided his first and only move against Urduja, he immediately went back to his palace and gave a very passionate speech to the man glorifying his role in saving him as well as giving Shiro empty promises of adoption and a shot at becoming the next king if he became strong enough, and because his plan has to be made as discreetly as possible, he made it so that the slave will presumably choose to be in the military and reject the goodwill of the King but in the back of everyone, the resources of the King was poured towards him.

At first, Shiro was enamored in the prospect of becoming a KIng, his experience of being a slave made it so that he is sensitive to lies and thus he made use of the resources of the King to create his saga, a saga of his rise from slavery to kingdom, and of course as his race's nature implied, a saga of him sinking in flower buds.

Well, the key word is "At first."

At first, he strived to be a king, at first, he just used his power to get his hands on military women, he also trained himself in combat, and because of his humanoid physique, he became one of the best in such regard only below the numerous children of Urduja, seeing that some women are above him, he who is used to seeing women's vanquished faces below him felt his pride to crumble a little and held a little grudge, this little flame slowly grew until it became an uncontrollable hellfire that slowly burned through his reason, his once mighty ambition to carve a section of history for himself was replaced with pure greed and lust.

The straw that broke the camel's back was when the oh-so-brilliant King Roselle made him the deputy captain of an expedition to annihilate a certain cult who was amassing little children for a sacrificial ritual, Shiro did not even wait for the expedition to end and immediately attempted the seduction of the captain, well of course, at that time, before his face was pounded by the captain, who is in fact, one of the daughters of Urduja, he thought that he will succeed like he always does.

In his defeat, he was even befell with more misfortune because the daughter of Urduja in question just so happened to hate men due to being a female slave too, so the pitiful pawn of Roselle ended up being left alone, bruised and battered without even being given medical attention, only when one of the loyal soldiers of Roselle in patrol saw Shiro did he got saved, and yet, such humiliation made his once headstrong and confident personality to become that of passiveness and privilege reliance.

Shiro gave up on his dream, after all, if someone who was just called the daughter of the strongest individual in the Kingdom could make him approach the shadow of death, what's more Urduja herself, or better yet, if he can't contend to a mere soldier, how can he contend against a King? He became insecure and his insecurity was suppressed only by his reckless harem-seeking, it has gotten to a point that his knight peerage cannot sustain for him and his multitudes of illegitimate children that he has to stop sustaining for them and only take his two original wives and 4 children.

He went from a stemmed rookie noble to an arrogant douchebag, yet Shiro did not care, he kept grinding and pounding until his depraved life was finally ended by Urduja, of course, his supposed to be patron did not claim any custody of him and instead put pressure on his wives by making them pay for their permanent nobility or exiling them, that, alongside the fact that they are related to Shiro, Sophia's prodigal father gave them this night's misfortune.

In an office where 12 people were present, a green-haired woman is sitting on a chair whilst another woman of smaller stature than her is hugging her in the waist whilst a dagger is placed 1 micrometer away from her carotid.

"Auntie Midori, I think you already know who I am, but I will still introduce myself, I am Sophia Demiurge, the founder of Kamatayan, the hero of the undeads, but most importantly, one of Shiro Seiyoku's illegitimate child."