I don't want to be a heroic spirit

When "Alice" said this, "Nero"'s eyes lit up.

"No, no, no, isn't this a bit bad?"

"... I almost forgot that Youyou is also a well-behaved child who follows the rules too much."

"Alice" turned her head to look at Youyou who was in a panic and said, "To me, one of the reasons why you can't make friends is that you are too well-behaved."

"Huh?!"

Youyou heard for the first time that "well-behaved" can also be a mistake.

"No, being well-behaved is certainly not wrong." As if she had heard the inner voice of Youyou, "Alice" said: "The mistake you made was being 'different from others'. After all, humans are notoriously repulsive. The slightest difference will be infinitely magnified by them, and then they will exclude, belittle, and laugh at you, creating a false status of superiority for themselves and enjoying it. When everyone is gray, only you are pure white, then your existence becomes a mistake and a sin."

"Your Highness Alice?"

An urging voice came from outside the door.

"That's it. I'll go to class for Alice, and Alice will go out with Youyou. Although you guys often play together in Axel, this is your first time in the capital, right? Enjoy it, opportunities like this are rare."

"Alice" said, "This is also the first time for me to take someone else's class. I'm suddenly a little excited and looking forward to it."

"Since... Sister said so." "Nero" grabbed the hem of her skirt and whispered, "But...but! Sister, don't do anything weird with my body!"

"Alice" didn't care about this.

We are all girls, what weird things can she do?

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"What's wrong? Claire, your eyes are weird."

Walking on the corridor of the castle with Claire.

Everyone they met on the road would bow to her and Claire, and "Alice" would nod in response one by one in a very graceful manner.

"No, how should I put it... I just feel that Her Highness Alice has changed a little bit."

Claire's cheeks flushed slightly as she stared at Alice's smile that seemed to show that she could handle everything with ease.

"I always feel that... Her Highness has become more dazzling."

"Alice" nodded, and smiled brightly as if she was very satisfied with Claire's evaluation.

"Hmm! Isn't this a good thing?"

Chapter 315 Alice's fiancé?

"... Her Highness Alice, you seem very happy."

"Yes, after all... I can see Sister Nero and Youyou again... And Mr. Sato Kazuma and Miss Aqua are also very interesting. It's really strange that Lalatina, who has always been calm and reliable, would show such a panicked side in front of so many people."

"That's right, I didn't expect that Sir Dustinis would also show that kind of little girl's appearance... It seems that she also met a good teammate."

Her performance seems to be quite perfect.

Even Claire, who was Alice's personal guard, only noticed a little abnormality, but she didn't doubt it.

Originally, she wanted to avoid embarrassing Alice, so she tried to be perfect in everything she said and did... But Claire was confused because she was too perfect.

This is probably because she was acting too hard, right?

In addition, there is one more thing...

"... Alice, I know that you have admiration or longing for Nero. After all, he is a powerful warrior who can defeat four Demon King's army cadres. I have heard many people say that Nero may become a brave warrior who defeats the Demon King in the future. There are many people who admire her even in the capital."

With a complicated tone, Claire seemed to be holding back something and said, "It's okay to learn from such a person. Even I can't find fault with it, but... but... Your Highness, you can't even learn Nero's habit of speaking, right?"

"Hmm?"

Claire's advice is extremely pertinent, but... this is really a bit too much to ask.

Even Alice didn't expect that even after exchanging bodies, her habit of "Mmm" would still exist.

What a strange thing...

When Alice raised her hand, she suddenly touched the necklace on her neck.

It was this thing that caused the current situation...

Should I say it is worthy of being a divine weapon? Her [Anti-Magic] skill is completely useless.

She was planning to destroy it directly before, but Alice stopped her, and then Claire suddenly appeared to interrupt.

Speaking of which...

"Claire, do you remember who gave this necklace to my brother?"

"Alice" looked up at Claire. "Nero" couldn't answer this question before, which made her inexplicably concerned, so she asked Claire the same question this time.

"Hmm? Why is Your Highness Alice asking this?" Claire was stunned for a moment, "The person who presented this necklace is... Eh? Strange?"

Claire showed the same confused expression as "Nero" before, but "Alice" was not surprised.

Sure enough, something is wrong...

Thinking carefully, this kind of suspicious magic item with unknown function was handed over to the royal family, but no one thought it was wrong, so the necklace was handed over to Alice so smoothly, and she wore it without any suspicion.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness Alice... I'll go back and check. There should be records of magic items like this presented to the royal family."

"Well, I'll leave it to you, Claire."

Although she said so... but "Alice" didn't actually have any expectations for this.

It was like a pair of big hands were controlling everything, moving all the anomalies away from people's eyes.

Super-large-scale mental control... It always felt like it was not so simple, so superficial, but it was plucking the strings of fate and manipulating the established reality.

There is no doubt that it is beyond the realm of magic, that is, it belongs to the scope of [concept] and [power], that is, it belongs to the realm of God.

It is hard to imagine that this incident would involve God... or the Great Devil.

"Your Highness Alice?"

"Alice" came back to her senses after hearing the gentle call, and looked up and met Claire's eyes.

"...Ah, Claire...I'm sorry, I was thinking about something just now, and I was a little distracted...What did you say just now?"

Raising her hand, she massaged her swollen head, and relaxed her nervousness a little, and then "Alice" heard Claire speak.

"It's like this, I was just talking about the neighboring country Elrod suddenly refusing to provide support funds, and your fiancé."

"...What did you say just now?"

"Alice" looked at Claire with an expression of "What the hell are you talking about?"

"What's wrong with you? Princess Alice? Didn't I talk to you about this before? Regarding the issue of Elrod suddenly refusing to continue to provide financial support to our country, and showing a particularly firm attitude, Princess, you also said that you would come to ask about the relevant situation in person. Part of the reason for inviting Mr. Nero and Miss Youyou to come this time is to let them be responsible for protecting your safety in the process..."

"This is the first time I have heard of this... No, although this issue is also very important, after all, I also know that war is a gluttonous thing that burns money, resources and manpower. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is an endless pit that can never be filled... But! Um! Compared to this, I seem to have heard something more worrying."

Her eyes became deep, and her expression was extremely serious. "Alice" exuded an aura that was hard to ignore.

"Fiancé... Tell me in detail."

She didn't care if she would be exposed... Now she couldn't wait to know what this so-called "fiancé" was.

"Alice... Your Highness?" The processor in Claire's brain worked rapidly, and it took about three seconds before she said, "No... Your Excellency Nero?"

"Let's put aside who I am."

"Alice" took two steps to Claire and grabbed Claire's collar, forcing her to bend down and look at her.

"Tell me, what's the situation with the fiancé? Alice is only 12 years old, right? Where did such a fiancé come from?"

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The country where Nero is currently located is the Ancient Kingdom of Belzer, which has the highest military power among all countries and is also the closest to the Demon King's Castle.

Due to the geographical situation, the war between the Ancient Kingdom of Belzer and the Demon King's Army has never stopped. Once the Ancient Kingdom of Belzer cannot resist the invasion of the Demon King's Army and its defense line is broken, the other fragile countries basically have no resistance.

Therefore, although other countries do not have strong combat power, their support for the Ancient Kingdom of Belzer has always existed, because they all know the truth that the lips and teeth are cold.

The Kingdom of Elrod, a neighboring country of the Ancient Kingdom of Belzer, is known as a gambling power. The entire country can be said to be supported by the gambling industry. It is not wrong to describe the national conditions of the Kingdom of Elrod as "poor with only money left".

For a long time, the Ancient Kingdom of Belzer and the Kingdom of Elrod have maintained friendly relations. The Kingdom of Elrod provides financial support to the Ancient Kingdom of Belzer, and the Ancient Kingdom of Belzer will provide military assistance to the Kingdom of Elrod, maintaining a friendly atmosphere of "you are good, I am good, and everyone is good".

Until some time ago, the Kingdom of Elrod suddenly announced that it would cut off its financial support to the Ancient Kingdom of Belzer.

The reason given was "the treasury is empty and the finances are tight", which made people feel that the speech was insincere.

Then there is Alice's fiancé... Actually, he is the first prince of the Kingdom of Elrod and the current ruler of the Kingdom of Elrod.

Chapter 316 Political Marriage

"To put it bluntly...isn't this a political marriage?"

Thanks to Claire's detailed explanation, "Alice" also understood the basic situation...and then made such an evaluation.

"Hmm! If it was just a political marriage, it would be fine. After all, there are examples in the world where even political marriages can bring happiness...but Alice and the prince have never even met once, right? How old are Alice's brother and father? They just threw away Alice's future and happiness so easily?"

"That's right! What on earth are His Majesty the King and His Royal Highness thinking! The First Prince of the Elrod Kingdom is obviously a spoiled brat who has become willful since childhood! His innate fighting talent is very poor, and his appearance is not even a hair of the cutest, most beautiful and most well-behaved Princess Alice in the world! It is absolutely impossible for Princess Alice to be happy if she marries that kind of brat!"

Claire was also furious, and she even dared to make up stories about the royal family.

When she introduced the First Prince of the Elrod Kingdom to "Alice" before, she also brought a lot of personal emotions in the process of introduction.

If there was no third person in the place where the two were talking, Claire might have lost her life.

"Hey, Nero!" Claire said to "Alice" excitedly: "You think so too? You think Princess Alice should not marry that kind of brat at all!"

"Alice" did not speak, but stood up from the chair silently.

"Claire, the king and prince of this country should be fighting the demon army in the frontline fortress, right?"

"That's right... Where are you going, Lord Nero?"

Looking at the back of "Alice", Claire subconsciously asked the doubts in her heart.

"Do I need to ask? Of course, I will give some surprises to those two idiots who exchanged Alice's happiness for the support of the country... For example, lock them up and use the stereo surround sound to play the heavenly music that I carefully prepared for three days and three nights!"

"No! Lord Nero! It will kill people! Although I can't remember anything and don't know why listening to music will kill people, and I don't know what that stereo is, but I am sure that this will really kill people!!"

Claire's face was frighteningly ugly. It seemed that the "singing" mentioned by "Alice" evoked some bad memories that were buried in her mind. Every cell in her body refused to recall that cruel nightmare.

Holding Alice's waist, Claire frantically stopped her, saying, "His Majesty the King is the backbone of this country. This country cannot do without His Majesty the King, and His Royal Highness the Prince is the future king, so he is also very important. Nothing can happen to them! If you really want to do it... In fact, you only need to kill the first prince of the Elrod Kingdom!"

"How rude! I don't plan to kill anyone, I just want to invite people to listen to my singing!"

It's better to die than to listen to you singing, anyway, it's just a matter of a moment... Claire couldn't help but complain in her heart.

"Political marriage... It's a familiar, yet complicated term."

"Alice" showed a disappointed expression.

"You only need to sacrifice one person's happiness and future to gain benefits for a country, earn welfare for the people, and bring peace to the future... If you think about it carefully, it is indeed a sure-win business. If you put a person and a country on both ends of the scale to measure, compare, and choose, it may be clear at a glance which one is lighter and which one is heavier? This is based on rational thinking."

Political marriage, this is certainly not unfamiliar to Nero.

In order to make Nero the emperor, Nero's mother Agrippina the Younger did a lot of things that seemed extremely absurd to ordinary people.

Nero's mother poisoned her second husband and then married the emperor at the time, that is, his uncle Claudius. After obtaining the status of empress, she continued to accumulate power for Nero, forcing Claudius to make Nero the heir to the throne, while constantly assassinating other heirs, and even in order to consolidate Nero's power, let Nero marry Claudius' daughter, that is, Nero's sister Octavia.

Octavia was Nero's wife, but Nero did not love her. However, Nero could do nothing because she was very aware of her identity at that time. She was just a chess piece of her mother.

In a simple theater, a puppet danced, with countless tiny strings wrapped around her body. Her words and deeds never showed her self, because for a puppet, the self was the most redundant thing.

The other end of the string was under the control of her mother. The performance of the theater was only performed by her and for her alone. She was the only director of the performance and also the only audience.

Behind the curtain, the piled-up bones had already stank, and the blood soaked through the wooden floor had already dried up.

It was not until Nero, using the strategy that her mother had used countless times - assassinating her mother with poison, that she got rid of her identity as a "puppet" and "chess piece", and then... she burned down the rotten theater that buried countless corpses without hesitation... together with the body of her mother, Agrippina the Younger.

"... I recalled some bad memories."

"Alice" came back to her senses... She was using Alice's body, but she still felt that her head was aching... Maybe it was an illusion?

She subconsciously wanted to raise her hand. When she had a headache before, she would always massage her head. Although it didn't have any effect, it was... at least it was a little psychological comfort, right?

But... she didn't raise it.

"... Claire."

"Hmm? What's the matter, Mr. Nero."

"... Don't you think you've been holding her for a little too long?"