At that moment, as Samael habitually pulled open the safety door of a Ferris wheel cabin to rescue the passengers trapped inside, a petite blonde girl in a princess dress crashed into his arms like a swallow returning to its nest.
The frail princess buried her little head deep in the prince's embrace, her hands tightly wrapped around his waist like a koala clinging to a branch, brimming with joy.
"Are you the prince who came to save me? You must be!"
Samael instinctively lowered his head. When his gaze fell upon that familiar fur, familiar figure, and familiar facial contours from his memories, his body stiffened, and his hands had nowhere to go.
A moment later, seemingly realizing that her overly enthusiastic actions had probably frightened her prince, the blonde girl with a bowl cut spoke in a weak, childish voice, letting out a pitiful cry for comfort.
"I'm so scared..."
Yet her tone was almost like she was reading from a script. It was difficult to hear any emotion in it, and she seemed more delighted than frightened.
I'm scared too...
Samael forced a smile onto his stiff face, one uglier than crying. His heart, facing the girl in his arms, beat wildly as though in fibrillation.
Root Princess Sayo Ayaka had been born in the modern era, where ether was scarce, with the aptitude of a god. She possessed overwhelming magical energy and talent, along with power equal to—or even greater than—that of a Magus.
She could wield the barrier known as the "Monster Princess," materializing the authority of the primordial goddess Hundred Beast Womb, as well as the oldest forms of magecraft, such as "Holy Capital Inferno" and "Holy Capital Fall," which revived the power of the Ten Crowns of the Beast of Revelation in the